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till-: WT5AT1IKH. Fair: except showers in southwest portion; warmer in ea?t; cooler in .west portion; moderate winds be coming southwesterly. 1 : ' nf f ........ .v,, ,..t ; SIXTV-XIXTII YEAR : ' . ' ' " ' f SALKM. ORWiHX, SATI KDA V MOKMX4I. AlGtST !, 1019. ' PIUCEl tlVH CH7 OREGON MAN CAUGHT IN FOOD PROBE William Reed, Portland, is Found Guilty of Selling Sal mon Unfit for Human Con sumption at Big Profit OHIO FIRM IS CHARGED WITH TRANSFER DODGE Federal and State Authorities Unite in Hoarding Prose cution PORTLAND. Or.. Ang. 15. Sen tence will be passed next Tuesday on William Reed, found guilty here today in the federal district court Of having unwholesome food in vi olation of the state law. A maximum penalty of fire years imprisonment or 1000 fine fine is possible under the law. " Reed was found guilty of having purchased 10 case of canned sal mon from the t.urko Fish compahp in June, for the expressed pui pose of using the fish for chicken feed. Keed paid two cent a can for the salmon, but instead of feeding it to his chickens be sold it at the rat cf fire cants a can to Fst K'-nch. an expressman, t-laimlnsr. Roach testi fied, that it was fit for curian use. LEVER ACT SUIT FILED .TO f COXIMSMX SVGAU SUPPLY CLEVEL.T, Ohio. AUg. IS. J. C. Brletensietn, assistant United States attorney for northern Ohio, late toda announced that a libel has-been filed under the Lever act. for seizure Mid condemnation of 200,000 pounds of suaa- belonging to he C. 11. Kenney company at Cantou, Olii . Dcpu'v Ptlr-rff TV y. Wlsh rf Cleveland iud the sugar tonight. U. S. Vrvn United St-te district fcjlUn ley will ?.sk Jud e Westenha vtr in fedtxitu.rt b to adjudge it sugar In ti ded ana jrder it con demned. !l r-uh ordei is made tco s.-vdi will toll to tha government and the prutfds, lei the cost of yvure, tur'id over to tb owners- COMPANY SHIPS ME.1T TO AVOID PROBE IS CHARGE COLUMBUS. O.. Aug. 15. Gov ernor James M. Cox late today wired Assistant "United States Attorney General Frank Davis at -Washington that the Sheriff Street Warehouse and Storage company, Cleveland, to avoid federal penalty, la moving its meals products to Chicago '" ware houses and lhat records as to pre vious st erase in Cleveiant. are bt ing dest'Ojed. 8TATK AXD GOVERNMENT ' CO-OPKltATK IX 1 U'lSKCUTlOX WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. Close co-operation between state authori ties, who possesses detailed informa tion of food and price conditions, and the attorney general and his x staff or assistants, empowered to en force the food control law is being established as part of the govern ment's fight to reduce the cost of living. Instructions went out today from Attorney General Palmer to two dis trict attorneys in Ohio to proceed immediately to assist Governor, Cox In the seizure or large quantities of meat, butter and eggs alleged to have been held in storage in that state lor more than six to , ten months, the legal HmlL Criminal prosecutions will be instituted. It was said, if it can be shown that the foods were held from the market for the purpose of boosting prices Officials here were inclined to think that the long period of storage indl- (Continued on Page 2) MRS. FREEMAN, PRISON fOiUCERlURDEREDAND ROBBED: GLUE LACKING PORTLAND, Aug. 15. Mrs. Eu ?k W. Freeman, 5, was found slain this afternoon. The woman's skull nt1;been crushed by blows from a Ms pipe. The body, was found by jr son. Cecil F:e1nan, lyin gon the "itchoa floor of the Freeman hoiflc The murdor apparently was commit ted this mvrni,ig. Motive for th crime was robltery, according to th Police. Mrs. Freeman's purse was '"Wind lying empty on the tureau of oer bedroom. It was known to have contained $40, her watch and a stock P'a. all if which were raiseing. Irs. Freeman was press represent 5 DIE ON PILGRIMAGE STREET CAR HITS AUTO BOY CHAUFFEUR ESCAPES LIMA. O., Aug. in' Five per sons were instantly killed near here tonight when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Western Ohio Traction car. The victims had been at tending a Catholic pilgrimage at Carey. O. The dead are all residents of Lima. The machine was driven by a 15 year old son of Mrs. Douglas Cor wln, who was one of the victims. He was the sole occupant to es cape. All the bodies were badly mangled. . . MRS.BRUMMETT KILLED BY AUTO Astoria Woman Run Oyer by Mr. Lauritson in Front of Public Library Mrs. L. M. Brummett of Astorai was almost instantly killed yester day when she was run down at State and Winter streets by an automobile driven by Arthur Lauritson who lives oa rural route No. 6. Mrs.- Hrummet was a widow 45 year; old and had been in Salem several weeks. Mrs. BrumsTtott was identified by V. Brneck, a local business man, wno had made her acquaintance, and through a c!ue given by a letter she had written to a local newspaper in reply to an advertisement. Prior to living in Astoria Mrs. Brummett is said to have lived fa Tacon.a, and Chief of Police Varney has wired the police departments of those two cities to obtain more in formation. No attempt has yet been made r- place responsibility for the accident, and Lauritson was not held oy tne police. The accident vraa witnessed by Mark McCallisler. V. A. Liston and Miss Ethel Liston. It appear from information cleaned from the wit nesses that Mrs. Brummett was go ing east on State street and when in front of the Salem Pnblic library her hat blew off. In attempting to re cover it she went into the street and was struck by the antomobile arhich Knocked her to the pavement, and it is believed that the front and rear wheels of the car ran over her head. MUCH MARRIED MAN CONVICTED . . ... -. ; i r- Wilson, Evangelist. Salesman and Y Worker Has Seven Wives NEW YORK. Aug. 15. Convicted of bigamy on his confession that he has seven living wives, one of whom he married twice, Charles Hugh Wril uin 4R vMrs old. former Y. M. C. A- secretary, evangelist and traveling salesman, was sentenced today to d six months in Sing at v- Sing prison, where, he announced, na will take, up prison reform work. Wilson commenced his matrimon ial career on January 22. 1900. when ha marHori Elizabeth May Stanton. of Davenport, la. After three chil dren were born he lert ner ana m Jul 1 90S. married May Bailey at Wyatsvillc, W. Va. In less than a yeaV he embarked on his inira n tnm : iwatur. Ala where he mar tA Ftwi c xtnore. Four years lat er he married Louise Davis at De troit, and a year afterward he went ihrni?:i a jwond ceremony with Mis Davis at Pittsburgh. The following year he souglit a New one onae and married Caroline H. Morris. He tried Philadelphia next and took WI1 helmina C. Jaggard. of that city, for his sixth bride in August. m final venture was in New York, when he married May Jeanette Ziff, in November, 1916. ative of the Wr.C.T.U. of Oregoa. She also was prominent in prison rescue u-Arlr an A in this nnrk halt beCOme acquainted with many convicts whom she aided after their reuese from nricnii Tim rnl iff sdvanpvt the the. ory that the crime may have been committed by one or tneso ex-con Besides a son, Cecil living here, the murdered woman is survived by a so.i, Roy K. F:i?entan or uaiuana rQ l i f and a. danehter. Mrs. A. A nnrrin of Olvmtnia: Wash. A di vorced husband resides at- Richland Wash. HARMONY ON PACT IS NOW CERTAINTY President and Foreign Rela tions Committee Get To gether to Give Public De tails of White House Meet RATIFICATION WITH RESERVATION LIKELY Report to Senate May Be Ex pected in About 1 0 Days Says Hitchcock WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. Nego tiations between Democratic and Re publican senators looking to ratifi cation of the peace treaty with res ervations reached a more definite stage today while President Wilson and the foreign relations committee were getting together- on unprece dented measures to give the publlit all the detail of their discussion of the treaty next Tuesday at the White House. Democratic leaders, feeling onlj sentiment on the. Republican side were told that the treaty never could be ratified without qualification but that more than 20 Republican want ed to see it accepted in the near fu ture with reservations along the line of those agreed on by seven sen ators or that party some days ago. White Hon. e Apprised This information came from mem bers of the group of seven after com pletion of a poll begun Wednesday on receipt of the first Democratic overtures. The twenty, needed by the Democrats to make the neces sary ratification majority of 64, had not accepted the proposed reserva tion program in exact form, it was as serted, but had given their assent to its general provisions. Afterward Senator Hitchcock. the Democratic leader, went to the White Honse and is understood to have laid the whole senate situation before the president. He indicated that the administration (stand for unreserved ratification remained un changed. Some of the seven reser vation Republicans, however, insist that they have had information as suring Democratic assent to their program. New Draft Prepared A new draft of reservations was shown to several Republicans durinjr the day by Senator Lodge. It is un derstood to cover the four points em braced in the program agreed on by the seven senators and to include al so a provision that appointment of American representatives on the league council must have senate ap proval. The other four provisions relate to the Monroe doctrine, with drawal from membership, jurisdic tion over purely domestic questions and the right of congress to declare war under article ten of the league covenant. Plans for the White House confer ence Tuesday were virtually com- pleted with an agreement that both White House and committee stenog raphers should be present and that a transcript of the discussions should be Issued to the press. The proposal that stenographers be present came from the president in reply to a request that the com mittee members should not be re strained to secrecy. Mr. Wilson said he would provide a stenographer and suggested that the committee also bring one. Chairman Lodge said it would be done. Although it began discussion of proposed amendments to the treaty today, the committee decided to vote on none of them until it had talked with the president. The question of how soon the com mittee would report to the senate was one of the subjects most earnest ly discussed in the many conferences held by the senators during the day. When the Democratic leaders said they believed 20 Republicans would exert their influence for early com mittee action, it was made clear by the reservation Republicans that they had not promised and Republi can votes for a motion to take the treaty out of the committee's hands. After his White House conference. Senator Hitchcock said the commit tee might report within ten days or two weeks. Demand of Allies lor Von der Goltz Recall Rejected BERLIN, Aug. 15. (Associated Press) The German government has rejected the demand of the allies for the recall i of General von Der Colts, commander in chief or German forces in the Baltic provinces. Scandinavian Countries Send 1 tlbte to Allies on League PARIS, Aug. 15. Sweden, Norway and Denmark are sending a collective note to the entente relative to the league of nations, according to the Frankfort Gazette. . Strike by Congressmen is Suggested Strike Remedy . WASHINGTON. Aug. 15. Deplor ing the "contagion of strike disease" which he said had apparently spread throughout the world, Senator Thom as, Democrat of Colorado, in the sen ate late tonight suggested that the "disease" be brought into congress, its members organize a union and refuse to legislate until conditions have been changed or at least until the members have been assured of re-election in 1920. Mrs, Niemeyer Injures Eye and Is Taken to Hospital Mrs. Blanche Liston Niemeyer. well known Salem reader and teacher suffered a severe Injury to her left eye while cutting kindling at her home last ni;;bt. A lar-o sliver struck her in the eye. rarttally penetrating the eyeball. Mrs. Niemeyer was talc en to the Salem hospital. She is the wife of C. W. Niemeyer. the real estate dealer. Million Eggs Are Seized in Raid on Cold Storage Plant NASHVILLE. Tenn.. Aug. 15. Nearly a million eggs were seized by the federal authorities here toda at the cold storage plant of Noel and company. EDITORS SEND TRIBUNE CHECK TO PAY H. FORD Oregon Delegation Passes Hat and Secures Required Six Cents MUCH COPY IS MAILED Newspaper People at Conven tion Settle Down to Business SEATTLE. Wash., Aug. 15 News paper men and women attending the 1919 convention of the National Ed itorial Association today, for the first time in about a weeVi. passed a day without running tor boats and trains. The convention got down to work before noon and spent the en tire day at labor. Tonight the del egates were guests at a banquet giv en by the Seattle dally newspapers. Tomorrow the chase for boats and trains will be resumed, as the dele gates are going on a trip around Se attle's waterfront after attending the launching of the steamship 'Editor". Sunday the convention goes to the Puget Sound Navy -Yard at Bremer ton and Sunday night leaves Seattle for' Victoria. . Election Monday. Election of officers will take place at Victoria Monday. This election will be the first the association has ever held outside of the United States. Edward Albright of Falla ten. Tenn., vice president of the as sociation, is being mentioned as a candidate for president.. Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle today urged the editors to keep up their fight against Bolshevism . In an ad dress at the convention, he asked that they work for higher pay for school teachers. Dr. Henry Suzzallo. pres ident of the University of Washing, ton. another speaker, declared the American Dress had done more in the last three months to educate American minds in international af fairs than the schools and colleges had done In thirty years. 1.1 Million IJnes fio Out. Mails out of Seattle are crowded during the editors' stay with "copy going home for publication. One con vention official today, estimated 000.000 lines of front page matter had been published In America re garding the northwest convention. Oregon's delegates today mailed he Phlcaeo Tribune a check for six cents In paymeut of the Judgment given Henry Ford in nis suit against the paper. GERMANS WANT COAST EXPORTS Hamburg Finn Writes Port- land Asking Re-Opening of Trade PORTLAND. Or., Aug. 15. A bid from a large import firm In Ham burg. Germany, for Immediate re sumption of trade relations with Portland export firms, was received today by the Portland chamber of commerce. The communication de clares that Germany is desirous of receiving imports of certain raw ma terials that her home industries may be put on a producing basis. "The past war." reads the comma, niration. "having caused the great est changes and revolutions in for eign and home trade, has also shown much Influence on the Import and expdrt of Germany. We Intend to take up the Importation from Ameri. ca as soon as prifcsible and to get good agencies of American factories of all industries. Up to now we haT not had the right business relations." EJECTORS OF I.W.W.WANT QUIOTRIAL Forty-Nine Defendants in Bis bee Case Demand to Et Bound Over to Superior1 Court Bail Is $2000 200 TAKEN ON BLANKET CHARGE WANT ACTION Theater To Be Used for Pre liminary Hearing Court Is Too Small DOUGLAS. Ariz.. Aug. 15. Uuon their own request. 49 residents of Bisbee, Ariz., were this morning in the local justice court bound over to the superior court for trial on charg es or kidnapping, growing out of al leged participation in the deporta tions that rollowed the I. W. W. trou ble in tjie Warren mining district in July. 1917. No objections were or rered by the county attorney and all "r" immediately releaced under $2000 bond. JtHt Demand Seedy Ileariajr. Another surprise was when coun sel for 200 additional Bisbee and Douglas citizens, arrested several weeks ago on a blanket warrant charging kidnapping, announced that the defendants were ready for their hearings and demanded that, under the law, the cases be called at once. County Attorney Robert M. French objected on the ground that ho was having trouble getting witnesses from points outside the state and that he needed more time to prepare the state's case. After a brief, bnt vigorous argument, the question of time was compromised. Justice W. C. Jack setting August 25 as the date for starting the joint hearing. The court stated that if the state could not produce its evidence cm that dae the entire complaint would be dis missed. Theatre fued for Court Because Judge Jack's court room Is too small to accommodate' the many defendants and witnesses, a local theatre will be engaged to hold .t.e preliminaries. Rotary Club for Salem is Current Rumor Here Ther U a rumor that Salem Is to have a branch organization of I ho Rota-y club and that members of the Rotary club of Portland will lie here fom tine next weeH u effect the organization. A Rotary club for Sa lent was first mentioned several months ago. and It Is now evident that an organization bere is certa'n. German Troops Fire on Mobs Protesting High Food Price BKRL1N. Thursday. Ang. 14. A serious riot occurrd in Ka'towltr. Silesia. o:day and many p rscns were wounded when troos fired on a crowd of demanstrant. The ctowd was protesting agalast th hlh price of food. Many market dealers were maltreatrd. nhops wen plundered and windows smashed. MEREDITH DIES IN FALL ON PEAK Young Mazama Plunges to Death from Trail on Mount Rainier TACOMA. Wash.. Aug. 15. Jack Meredith. 25 years old. of Portland. Ore., was killed last night when be plunged from a trail on Little Ta coma Peak on Mount Ranier and fell about 60 feet. .Meredith was a neroer of the Mazaram clnb of Portland a mo;maln cUmbing cganization which was cn Campel on Mazama Ridge. Iu com pany with Lee Benedict, also of Port land. Meredith set out to climb the peak early in the evening. While standing on a ridge the rock gave way beneath them, ani Meredith was plunged from aixht. A eearhln2 party several ho-irs later found lb body la a ravine. Lovassy Hungarian Cabinet ' Fails Says London Dispatch , LONDON. Aug. 13. Dispatches re eived In lndon by way of llerlin say that tv new Hungarian cabinet headed by Herr Lf-vasy has failed. One dispatch credited to the Muda pcit correspondent of the IVerll.i Vls sische Zeitung. declares thai another Icaulntt. which Is ultra-conservative, I has been formed. PLANE SMASHED IN LOOP PILOT AND REPORTER DIE ' z ' BODIES BADLY MANGLED PADUCAH. Ky.. Aug. 15 Lieu tenant Jatiles Stewart of Park Field. Memphis and S. Keed Camp bell, reporter employed by the Commercial Appeal, were killed when the army airplane In which they were giving exhibition flights f-U jear the Country club bere to night. The pilot was attempting to make a third loop wbea he lost control of the machine. Both bodies were horribly battered. LANDON SLAIN IN NEWYORKHOTE Former University of Oregon Man Found id Room " Murder Indicated NEW YORK. Aug. 15. The body of a man found dead in a room at the Hotel McAlpin late yesterday ol der circumstances tndlcatiag that be might have been slain was identi fied today as that of Cecil E. Lao don of Portland. Or., a former sta dent of the University of Oregon, tna authorities announced tonight PUBUC DOMAIN CHANGE SOUGHT , 5.. Plan Submitted to Governors to Give States Full Control SALT LAKE CfTT, Aug. 15. At a conference here two of the gover nors of pnblie domain states, called by Governor O. A. Larraxolo of New Mexico, executives of all the western states will consider measures for tab. mission to congress that all pnblie lands should be tarned over to state control. The idea is that each state having the restrictions contained In the fed eral constitution which may be said to be specified grants of power and sovereignty were surrendered for the common welfare and protection of all. la an Individual sovereignty and should have the Individual control of all the lands within Its boundaries, except such as it may be proper for It to surrender to the national gov ernment for public uses. PHONE RATES AROUSE TOWNS Warm Meeting is Expected Monday Nigbt at City Coun cil Chambers As a special" order of business the municipal telephone question will come np at the city council meeting Monday night, and In addition to what the members of the council have to say several citizens of the city outside or the council have signi fied their Intention to appear and voice their sentiments. The council- is making wide In quiry on the subject and City Attor ney Macy is in receipt of letters from the mayors and city attorneys of nu merous Oregon cities and towns. Al most Invariably they favor municipal systems. Mayor Stupp of Klamath Falls Is particularly torrid In his let ter and considers the Increased rates utterly unjust. About the same at titude Is taken by the mayors of Springfield and The Dalles. The city attorney of Albany bas asked for a conference with City At torney Macy. Most of the cities from whom Mr. Macy has heard expect to be represented at the rate hearing in Portland August 27 when the pub ic service commission will begin its inquiry into the increased rates. Should there be a general expres sion of sentiment on the part of the people of Salem for a special election on the question of a municipal plant. It is believed the council would call the election without delay. Should matters come to the pass that a mu nicipal system is assured steps would be taken to get rid of the Paeirie Tel ephone ft. Telegraph system, since two systems in say town cause much Inconvenience and unnecessary expense. I SERVICE MEN WANT LEAGUE, AMERICAN GIRLS,' PROHIBITION, SUFFRAGE, UNIVERSAL TRAINING. AND DEATH FOR KAISER, SHOWS STRAW BALLOT PORTLAND. Or.. Aug lS.A straw ballot conducted by the Port, land army recruiting ofticcrs among ( x-servire men upon questions of pub lic Interest, closed here today with more than 2.000 votes cast. The te. suit of the voting on various Us tions was announced as follows: Leagne of nations, yes 1.(01; no. 486. Universal military training, yes. 1.567; no. 582. Tbe Slates maa e4 v. 1rs report of the a. oelated Press, the greatest sad most reliable press as ooelatloa U the world. IDAHO FIRE r SITUATION IS or WORSE Condition So Bad No Definite Check Possible" Says Su pervisor of Sehray Forest Vast Areas Menaced CROWN'BLAZES REACH FOR OVER 40 MILES Fighters' Efforts Futile Conflagrations Spread-' Many Sheep Burn LEWISTON. Ida-. Aug. 15. "Ths situation is so bad I can get no definite check on It. said Supervisor Charles Howell, of the Selway forest reserve at his headquarter la Koos kia at S o'clock tonight, Tber la no Improvement over yesterday. . It Is on this reserve that crown fires developed yesterday and were sweep ing along the Loeksaw branch ef tb Clearwater river for a distance of 40 miles, the efforts of 230 men prov Ins futile to check the flame. Su pervisor Howell, had no reports to confirm statements that ten fire fighters had perished hi that section, of the fire zone. . . . . , . . Superintendent Fall way of tbe Nes Perce reserve, with headquarters at Graagevllle. reported that Gospel creek and Mallard creek fires are still uncontrolled and are spreading Two expert fir fighters from .Mis soula headquarters have gone to the . former fire to direct the 75 men fighting the blaze. There are 25 fires burning on this reserve which has an area of 1.700,004 acres. Dar ing the day when a wind develop these fires reach the erown stage and for that reason trencalag Is previa g, of little effect. 1330 She Darned Today Charles Duahesd of Lewla toa reached CrangevUle. eootlraicx the report that be had loot, 1.220 sheep la the Gospel creek fire,- , . j At $ o'clock tonight Superinten dent A. II. Hamilton ef the Clearwa ter forest reserve reported from Oro Fino that he had received no advleew from the Larson creek fire. 45 miles frlm Pierce City, which jumped the North Fork river Wednesday -night and was devastating timber en ' the' south side of that stream trough. . Vans Ar4 Affected -t . The Clearwater federal, reserve embraces 017.000 acres. It la. con-: tignous to the state of Idaho hold ings reaching over 200.000- . acres while company owned and Individual ly owned timber will reach 200.000 acres. Government estimates show, this belt to contain over thirty bil lion feet of high grade white pin alone. The only belt in the world' closely approximating this stand ol white pine la located la-Patagonia. South America, but the latter Is ot Inferior quality. The belt starts at Alaska. 40 miles east of Lewlston ad extends to the Montana line, -a-' distance of about 100 miles. Forest Supervisor Hamilton - reports that since the summer feJoa opened. 1000 fires have started oa the Clear water reserve. At this time eight are still burning. He was advised today that the Goose creek fire near the Montana line had been checked. Forty-seven more fire fighters left, Oro Flno today for the Larson creek tone." , . - . i- - llendqsuirtere Anxtoae At headquarters of all three re serves great ankiefy is expressed. With a wind and the dry condition there Is momentary prospect of tbe fires breaking all bounds. , Women Demand Return of German Prisoneri of ')Yar I Df.nu., Aug. i . i uj me As sociated Press) A woman r demon stratloa for the speedy return of German prisoners of war held la Philharmonic Hall yesterday ended when tbe women were dispersed by the police after they had marched to the chancellory where they gave the soldiers a tongue lashing. The meeting was noisy. Women screamed, some tore at their hair and others fainted. . Woman suffrage, yea. 1.474; no. 947. r National prohibition, yea. 1.12?; bo. 1.083. Death penalty for kaiser, yes. 1. 004; exile. 70S; freedom 157; 40t refust'd to vote. ' Tbe American girl was favored over the French S7S to 151. but 140 doughboy found , them equal t at tractiveness and 922 hesitated to ex press any opinion. . , MU