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ton r Leader ' , WES A -1 v' y VOL. XXX VI. WORLD'S DOIIIGS -OF CURRQff Vffli Brief tee cf General Kews Frcia All Arcund the Earth. IMMEAPPDCSniKUTSlOl Uve News Items of AH Nations and pacific Northwest Condense! . " , for Our Busy Readers. Oregon troop on the border bev Juat received their first peyment fur Service. 'J Cajsdldate llugbe, apeak Ing tow J men only In 8pokana, addreeaad them T a 'fallow eJlUana.'' Secretary Bake be mapped outer " Jfumente to ba used in tba campaign .for in r-letlon of Prescient Wllaon. ! Owing to wort dtitlaa. Jostle Bran d.ls will not aceopt appolotmant on )h eommlMlon to MtU th If xlean 'problem. , i! Human blood from recovered victims pt Infantlla paralysis, la balng used m 'nim to combat th dtaaaa In Nw York City., TbU. 8. forestry rvporta practi cally no damaga by Area In tba na tional foraata la tba Northwest, tbua Jar thla seaeon. A San Francisco eontreetlng firm Is 'iipected to gat tba Job of building .Portland's mllllorwioller poatoflWra, ba csus of IU low bid. "!" An inaana fugitive from tba Oregon .asylum, tarroriiaa citiiana of Salem, jand It la feared ba may raaeb bla noma 4nd do bodily barm to bla family. I ror tba flrat tim alnea July S heavy rain fall In th battln area, breaking th long drought and on of in longest neat wave in wwi year. X Tb British torpedo boat deetroyer i a.an unk Sundae off tba Dutch 'coast, having struck a mine or bean torpedoed. Sis of th crew are miss- " ' ; f A California fanner la eultlvaUng Simpson weed, eonaldared a peat in thla country, but which ia need aa a Weehold remedy In China, and prlo elpeJIy tit asthma. Oregon shipper ar facing ruin b mum of the car ahortag. A deficit of 978 care on th Southern Pacific In Oregon la shown by the Public Service commlaalon Investigation. Tb wheat and PP erop of the Pa. elfie Northwest will be materially larger than heretofore estimated, ac cording to the crop report f th de partment of Agriculture. Preeldent Wllaon la conferring with th railroad offlclala and employe in th bop of finding amicable adjust ment of their difference. Tb Im preesion grows that arbitration in soma form will ba agreed upon. . The prle of milk by the pint was raised in New York City, retailers as serting the advance waa necessary ow ing to the increased coat of supplies, principally boltlee. Th price of milk by the quart remains unchanged. The Italian dreadnought Leonardo da Vinci caught fire and blew up In the harbor of Trent, Italy, and 400 of her crew were drowned, says Turin die paten to tha Petit Journal. Th dat of tha disaster is given only aa day In August. Chines troops hav attacked th Japanese garrison at Chengchlatun, between Mukden and Cheoyangfu, and .... kmi nr wounded IT JaDanee ''nMiura and killed one officer. Ac cording to official advice from Cheng chlatun, th Japanese barracks now is being besieged by th Chlneae soldier. . -1 Heavy advances In th price of flour ' are announced In Chicago, , The Bartlett pear picking season Is ; now in full swing in me rogue jvivw ' valley, Oregon, and ail Indications f point to a 11,000,000 pear and apple crop. , :. . . :'' " Us of a special train to enable J. evanV Hinlw nnmlnaa for President, and Dr. Ira Landrlth, candidate lor vice president, to reach th ntir na tion, his been authorised by the Pro- hlhltlnn National camnaift-n committee. It ia understood the train will start about September 12. O T -n.il. dalrtaa affactad bv the atrlke and lockout of union milk drlv- jij ..mnt hntiaahnld dallvar V I UU I IUI - tttfw lea Friday, but considered plana for resuming service. Many strikers were arrested. There waa considerable In terference with grocery and bakery wagons that went to the dairlea to get milk to retail. Russian forces are now within bom barding distance of Stanislaus, Austria. Political Influence i being brought to bear on the Treasury department to compel the us of Bedford limestone from Indiana on the new Portland, Or., postofBce. v ; The National Association of Master Bakers, in session In Salt iaie iut, adopted a resolution to President Wll- un and to oonnTesg. asking that an embargo be placed on the present wheat crop in order to prevent any further advance in the market price of crass nuii! mm kavai EH 157 WAHKAfT AUTUOIoZlD Waahlna-ton. D. C Congress virtu ally completed the national defense program Wedneeday by finally approv ing tha rraat inereaaee In naval Con struction and personnel written Into th naval bill ana urgently upponea t. ,L. .,l,n.,l.t.tln Tka kill ear- rlee appropriations aggregating ISIS,- QOO,UW. Tha houae aceeDted tha building pro gram, to which Its eonfereea on the measur had refused to agree, by a vote of t8I to tl, with seven of the member present not voting, ins nareonnal Increase, on which there al to was S dlssgreement In conference. were approved without a recora vote, f mmmI and eonatnictlon eee- Uona, which already have tha approval 01 tne Sensie, autnoriia an mw im enlisted men to 74,700 and th build ing of 1ST war vessels within th nest . ku .ik Kattla eniiaers and four batUaehipa Included among the ships lor ii I. rrevi7 house bed refused to adopt a continu ing building program, had authorised only flv capital ships, all of them bat tU milun and had Drovkled for a pereonnel of only 65,000. - w ' ' un several wee impwvan pwv.w, .vltlniui ttm Imnrove- ment of navy yarda, th house Insisted m It. disarmament to senate Increases and voted to send tha bill back to con ference for setUement or loea pomve. a. ...la j4lnrnmnt I aiDacted. however, and th measor may be sent U th rreeioeni lor nia Bignai.iu within week, ' - f s Kgbcst Karl f Scsca-Cerd nigssr Chicago Wheat quotations Tues- day: September. 1.42f; December, 11.4815 May, . . amid tvadlna-that bordered on the spectacular, wheat went soaring in the pits of th Chicago board of trade Tueeday, hitting the hlgh-water mark of th aaaaon. . . . Sentember wheat, which bad jumped cent by noon, closed at 11.42, a irgln or 41 cenu over monumj close. '- The blgh-water mark waa IL431. December bit th top mark at 11.461. eloalng at 11.46, an advance of ( cents over Monday'a eloaa. May wheat soared to $l.60. dropping to 11.60 at the ekteo. Th rise was sejv satlonaJ and unexpected. It cam in th face of a pending investigation oi ,k. tradlnaaa tha board for th pur pose of ascertaining whether or not tha last skyrocket advance waa oue u unlawful manipulation. t Again erop report waa blamed for the sensational turn. Traders said the advances were traced directly to the reoort of th Canadian minieter of ag riculture, which said conditions in Canada were much wore man nao been previoualy Indicated. Thar were also reporta in r (wared to show crop conditions In Western parte or tn united ciawe a being mora pessimistic than shown by tha United States reoort which waa made to bear the blame for th sky ward advance of a few days ago, ana huh atirrad tha inveetifstion bu reaus of tb government to activity. Numerous buyer of enormous quan tities of cash wheat for foreign govt ernmenta war also reported to have v.u utiH in tha wheat nita and trad- era pointed to thla as proof against any charge or manipulation, iw which the officials ar inquiring Iritisl EasHicss Output Qste Suffedcst for Self asi Allies r A-uin-i Ravtawinr the work of the -.n-iltlnna dunartmant In the hoUS Of commons recently, Edwin Samuel Montagu, minister or munitions, aiur taiiinir of tha Immense increase in ouv puta of all kinda of guns and muni- tlona, informed tb nous tnat an rmee and machine guns for the armies In .. a.id vara halntr aunnlied entirely from home resources. The quality of. th guns and munitions, h said, was ...i n k nnantitv. Thla atatement he added, waa particularly true of the heavy guns ana nowiwere. r. n tm.ni nnintad ant that half of the en- geering resources of the country were required ror in navy oui oociarnu .Uav .... .knvtlv Rraat Britain . will have provided for her own requirement and . . . . . . i . i i i . be able to oevote nmu aaciuii.oij tha wanta of her allies In regard to machine guns. Already, he aaid, she waa sending large amounta or suns anu munitions to her alliea. '! Many Bergs In Inside Passsge. ' Saattle The captains of th steam- era Humboldt and City of Seattle, which arrived her Monday from Southeastern Aiaaaa pone, miwrt. steaming through an unusully large number of Icebergs In the Inside pas ssge, a snort msiance souui m onmu. T H r.nn. maater of the CltV of SssttK said that tha great amount of ice forced mm to ancnor nie tossm . . tim. ml TaWh A hlaainv aun has caused the Taku glacier to crumble away with great rapidity, ana oergi as large aa office buildings ar adrift. , Maeaewaaeaaaawaaaava--aa Qomper Denlea He Bosies tabor. Washington, D. C Samuel Gom pera made reply to Senator Sherman who recently denounced him in the senate as a "public nuisance" during a characterisation of certain labor lead ers aa arbitrary and tyrannical. "It is Impossible for me to be arbitrary or tyrannical," said Gompera, "for there ar no such powers vested in the presi dent of tha American Federation -of Tjthnr. I have not the Dower to deliver the vote of any man or group of men." WESTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1916. They Will Lend ( ' : i - - " - --' t . . . i V. -.' .aVii klANSAi W.VA SMtlH lOtVA These srs tha men nominated for membera of tba Perm Loan Board by Preeldent Wileon. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo will b a member s-ofiida " , ru.rmm B Lnbdall la a atudent of farm problems and has had extensive experience lu I arm loana. am reared on a farm, which he left to etudy law, being admitted to the bar In Kansas In 188S. rl repreeenun Lane county In th Kaneaa legislstur ton year, and was speaker of th Kansas house In 1896. In 1902 he waa elected Judge of th Thirty-third judl- .i.i t!.,.l Urn aarvad nn the bench ciw - until 1911, when he resigned to accept the presidency m im f trai nauonw k.nb r Rraat Rand. In 1914 h Was preeident of the Kansas Bar associa- . . .... u . .L. IT.. tlon, and in IXIO preaiamn w " aaa Bankers' association. He Is a Re publican. ' '' ' George W. Norrts ia a atudent of economic and social question. He waa graduated from th University of of Pennsylvania, oia newspaper ww from 1880 to 1886. and then began the practice of law. In 1894 he took charge of . the bond Investment bus!- neaa or the privet banning nrm oi w ..rd R Rmlth A Co.. of Philadelphia, serving as member of that firm until 191L At the requeet or mayor Diana- anburg he accepted. In December, I01 1 tha dlraMnrahln of the mUnlciDal department of wharves, docks and far- Congress Breaks Washington, D, C Th importance of tha $200,000,000 revenue bill, to hih tha aanata ha devoted many hours of deliberation in caucus, ia be ing Impressed on leader by ma xact that appropriation now hearing com pletion have broken ail record. With passage this week of th 660, 000,000 ship-purchase bill and probable a rinMtf all hv tha honaa of the senate'a gigantic naval bill, th appropriations - . . . 1 llt laiaaaak of tne Hixty-xourtn congrwa wm exceeded the previous high record by at leaet f 600,000.000. , ; While exact figure cannot be com puted until th gaval has fallen on the last supply bill of the session, the ag gregate appropriations by congress for all purposes probably will approximate 11,700,000,000 aa against $1,114,000, 000 for the Sixty-third congresa. ? Besides regular supply bills, which total, as they now stand, $1,887,208, 680, congress will have added, when th shipping bill is approved, more than $90,000,000 for special purpose There also hav been contract author isations amounting to about $270,000, 000, all of which would bring the grand aggregate to $l,68o,ouu,uuu. with th uncertain ' " general defic iency appropriation pill, still In the making, to be added at the end of the session. Constable Kill Two Mexicans. Tuesori.'Aris.--Afterhaa bora had haan hnt from under him by two Mex ican suspected of having perpetrated a and ha htmaalf had been shot through the hip, Constable John Bright of Courtlana, erawing nia gun lay prone on the ground beside the body of his horse, killed the two Mexicans Saturday. After emptying nia revol ver at the Mexicans, who had ambush i kin. nih vawled a diatanee of two miles on bis hands and reported to a ranch house that ne naa oeen am bushed by the suspected burglars. Angry Editor Apologize. - Birmingham, Ala. SetUement of iUffmiin. hatwaan EL W. Barrett and W. H. Jeffries, of tha Age-Herald, and V. H. Hanson, of th News, was an nounced Monday by a committee of the Birmingham Rotary club. Both pa nam will nub Huh anolocies and re tractions of personal chargea made durinr a rarent disnute over business mathnda. Tha Rotarv club intervened when it waa reported that Barrett and Hanson were going to fight a duel. Money to Farmers. I' l v. A - L , M . . . r . ,. . .V. 1 0O. W N0lS,vPA. rlea."'.' ' . , '" .'; . - He U a director and deputy chair man of the Federal Reserve bank of Philadelphia. He is preeident of the rif v rinh and tha Fhitadelnhia Houa- ing association, and a ia Democrat. Captain Smith la a farmer ana now la an axnart in farm nractica In the de partment of Agriculture at Washing ton. Me Das oeen a aiuoanw u raa credits for many year and is aa au thority on farm loan. When a young man be followed th aea, and at an early ag became a shipmaster. He quit the sea to engage in farming. For many years captain . smiui waa a director of tb Stockyards National bank of Sioux City, Iowa, which trans acts millions of oVlarx of. buainea an nually with raroera. He ia a Repub lican. 1 - - Herbert Quick is a student of rural Aitm and arldal known to farmer. Unit! a few months ago b waa editor of Farm and rireataa. n. .. vaarad on a farm, an- UV, ww - . gaged in teaching; and later practiced r . n. n, . M anA iaia law in Sioux wty irom ow w v. it. - - Mm.,.1 minmr . of the Ne braska Clark Automatic Telephone company and th Iowa Clark Auto matla Tslanhnna com oan v. 1902 to 1908. and waa nominated three times r. if Sions Citv. and elected once, serving from 1898 to 1900. He waa nominated for judge of th Su preme court of Iowa In 1908. Expense Record SnaoLI annronriationa include $20. noo ooo for a government s nitrate Ma Tl r- ia ono ooo for rood roasd: em nnn nnn fnr rural credits.' and $50. 100.000 for tb government enipping project;- ;" ' : ' v-v-- . with Preaident Wilson and a major ity of the party leader urgently sup porting the naval butming ana penon .i inMOMa It ia believed the house a,itl aM to them after advocates of a amall navv have made tneir last a.h Tn anHil nation of a eloo vote. fthaont MDrensUtivtt was Dotl- fied mora than a wees ago oi uw ap proaching contest, which will mark tha climax of the national defenae- HUpUH H. " Appropriations lor prepareana .in. will airmvirata annroximatelT wvitu n ... aa--o . $840,000,000 unless unforseen develop ments should fore a curtailment. While the bouse this week Is bringing kn.inii tn a eloaa. tha senate will pass the ahlpplng bill, workmen' com- nensation bill ana conierence ropon nmnaratnrv for the revenue bill, on .hioh a atubborn assault will be waged by the Republicans. wnen tne ..,vri.H Mvanna hill mts throush con ference, it is expected congresa will be ready to adjourn. Leaaera m ww nartiaa are hoDinff adjournment will come by September 1. Printers Fssr Idleness, Baltimore The danger that thoo- aanda of printers may ba thrown out of work because of the bigh cost of white paper waa said to be a question seri ously concerning the delegates to the 6 2d annual convention of the Interna tional Tonnoranhieal union here. John W. Hays, secretary, aaia me snorwie of print paper la making it difficult for many newspapers to seep in dw neaa. . . In aome cities, he said, there was talk of eoneolldating plants to reduce working force and expensea. Hers Bring SIO Psr Hundred. Seattle Hogs on the hoof sold at tha Union Stoekvards Saturday at the highest price since the opening of the yards. $10 per UHl pounaa. i. Preeton. of Midvale, Idaho, waa the shipper, with 90 bead averaging 194 n..nda Rnn aold her one day in 1909 at 111 cents, but the city had no e.rdi Parkara exnresa a willingness to pay 11 cents next week for similar n and flnian unless a serioua break In Eastern price intervene. xttm iro TTl7TyfC Of Ccneral Interest About Oregon Government August Crop ; Report lor Oregon of tha Anenet eroo re port for th stat of Oregon, a eom- puaa DJ tne Duroaa oi crop aaumw, U. a department of Agriculture, Is aa follows: ... - I Winter wheat Preliminary esti mate, 12.600,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 16.200,000 bushels. Spring wheat August 1 forecast. 4,460,000 bushels; production Isst year, final estimate, 2,826,000 bushels. Anmmt 1 fvaaat la.a00.000 bushels; production last year, final asv ... A.. l I ttmate, ie,vou,vvu diuhh. Barley August 1 forecast. a,euu.- 000 busbeU: Broduetion last year. final estimate, 4,680.000 bushels. Potatoes August 1 forecast, 6,780, 000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 6,620,000 buahela. Hay August 1 forecast, i,bzo.uuu tone; production last year, final esti mate, 1,870,000 tone. -. P. .-. Ananat 1 condition 99. compared with tb ten-year average of 9Z. Apples August 1 forecast, L210, 000 barrels; production last year, final estlmste, 1,043,000 barrels. Prices Tne Bret price given neiow ia tb average on August 1 this year, and tb second, tb average on August 1 last years - Wheat. 90 and 87 cent per bushel. Corn, 80 and 86. Oats, 42 and 42. Potatoes, 80 and 68. Hay, $10.20 and 8.70 per ton. Egg. 24 and 23 cents per dosen. Nearly One-Fourth of County's Students Attend High School If Benton county had had eight mora students in the bigh school but year, one-fourth of all the aenooi chil dren a that county would have been attending high school. That is to say. nraiallv ana imnil In everv four who attended school in Benton county Isst year, wsa a high school student, saia Superintendent of Publie Instruction, J. A. Churchill, recently. This in formation is contained in the annual reoort of County Superintendent Roy E. Cannon, which waa recently filed with tb state department oi educa tion, '"w 'v- J ". The fact that any county in Oregon has one-fourth of its pupils enrolled in tha hiirh arhnola ia considered a re markable abowine. in view of the fact that tb United State aa a whole, less than 1 nw aant nf tha children eet into the high school, according to the last report of toe united staiee commia Unar of adncatlon. Th attend ance report from many other counties are almost equally encouraging. . sar. rhnn-hlll heliavaa that the Increased attendance in the high schools ia dne to a considerable extent to their atano- ardivatinn. and to the new hi eh School tuition fund law which provides free tuition to Bign scnooi aiuaenis, """ " e St5ttlers to Get S92.648.13 for - Forfeited Land Grant Lands aVfA Th hill vwutflntlv introduced , a vsa W a. aaw w-aaai - Kn 4Ka hnfUs atu. fMnatA. which HOW awaits th President's signature, ap- uw wsw aama w. ' nmnriatea a total or sax.04B.ie w xv Imhnraa aattlara who entered noon the land of The Dalles Military Road com pany in 1867, and subsequently ic tha land and i mnmvementa. The grant was declared forfeited by tbe governmeni, ana urn cwuria muw mienUv vested the title in the Eastern Oregon Land company, successor to the road company, ine dih conuina a proviso tnat not more man o yei wi gtaff engagea naa own lans'j -of the amounta recovered shall be paid creased and had become accustomed to as attorney's fees. them, to select on any fixed principle Tk. total' nnmhar of claims allowed ia 67-and the amounta range from $300 to $2000 each. Thirteen oi tne ciaim ante are dead and 27 have removed to parte unknown. , : Forest "Test" Fire Set. Baker Setting fires' in the Mi nam National foreet to keep hie lookout man In traininir is the unique method inaugurated by r oresi ouperviuor &pu raimBamea. A brush fir waa set m Ranrar. at a noint visible to look ... . . n , 1U outs but to none of the other fighting force. Precautions were taken to keep rangers and lookout men ignorant of the real cause of tne nre, ana wnen u moke was first sighted word wss fl.ahad hv tha nearest lookout to the fire-chaser at Eagle Forks, bringing a man to the scene within two hours. ' Widows to Gst $13,611. S.lam Nineteen widow of Marion eonty will be paid $18,611 due them under the Widowa' rension act oi 1918. aa a result of a recent decision of the Oregon Supreme court sustain ing the Circuit court's ruling that the 1 Q annliranta wera entitled to relief. The County court ordered the pensions paid after withholding payment ior three veaxa. Mra. Eva Maud Wolfe, one of the applicants, will receive a total of $1716 in back pension. Car Shortage is Serious. Saiem Convinced that business in terests in Oregon tributary to the Southern Pacific company face disas ter and ultimate bankruptcy unless im mediate measures to relieve the grow ing freight car ehortage are adopted, the Oregon Publie Service commission hsa demanded that the company fur nish needed facilitiee to Oregon pro ducers and shippers. GTIAT mm Wm !0 U. i Washington, D. CAn explanatory statement of bovr Great Britain's ex amination of mail la being conducted was presented Tueeday to Secretary Lanelng by the British mbaasy. It Is preparatory to tha more eomprehonelve ranlv to American repreeentaUon now being prepared jointly by tb London - - . nd Paris foreign offie-. mt .lu. tk.t IK. rieure show that th average time for examination of Intercepted mail ia from on to three days, Th minimum delay to mail between tb United States and Holland Is given at two day and th maximum at seven. Danish mails have been delayed from to ten daya, when It baa been Mceesary to remove them from ship; otherwise only four day. 'It ia admitted," says th state ment, "that at th outset neutral Leads Russians to Vkfcry. General Brusiloff is the new hero of the Russians. He took the place of Grand Duke Nicholas in command of the armies of Russia on the Eastern front, and baa succeeded in smashing tbe armiea of Austria. Mme. Brusuon ia the sister of MrsCbarlea Jobneton, wife of the New York author. resDondenca in which enemy interests .aw, in nn wav concerned was sub jected to a delay, which ia greatly re gretted and which ha ainc been re duced to a minimum. All preparation i.;.h u.mal namuurT were made. but unfortunately those responsible for them were not aware ox aome m u diffirnittiaa. .' ' "For instance, there waa no reason .nnnnaa that aa imnd tO DO the case) mail baga marked aa dispatched from one neutral country to another would contain nothing but maila for or fni. an anamv eountrv. that bagS marked as containing printed matter would contain rubber, coilee, jeweiry, etc, sometimes disguised as newspa pers, as well aa eorrsepondenee of all kinds, registered and unregistered, or that persona writing to or from enemy countries would already have adopted tbe practice of aending their lettters under cover to intermediaries in neu tal Mimtriaa. or that ereat numbers of complete sacks appearing to contain m.nl. hn.tnaaa etreniara I rum nuuirai eountriee would contain in reality noth ing but propaganda from Germany un der covers bearing neutral postage stamps. "These and similar unforseqn pecu liarities made it impossible until the .t.fr amracred had been largely in- them, to select on any fixed principle tiua. mail ham which, when all could not be examined within a reasoneble time, -should ba forwarded without ex amination." j.- . Italian Boys on Duty. Rome, via Paris Italy's Boy Scouts are to have their share in th war. The minister of War have called out all the boys belonging to the organisa tion for service until school opens in October. These scouts will be divided into two classes. Boys over 15, with their parenta' consent will do duty in the war son as guards at railroad sta tions and depots. Those younger will be enrolled in the territorial service to be stationed at hospitals, mobilisation centers, munitions factories, aeroplane stations and hangara. Liquor Destruction Ends. Glrard, Ala. Destruction of whisky tta hii.h had haen seised from alleged violators of tha prohibition law ceased here luesaay on oruer vn. euit Judge Alston, when counsel for the owners filed bond for appeal to the state Supreme court from Judge Al aton'a former decision ordering the li quor's destruction. v.i a - AF'AAA It Is estimated tna. izo,uw haa been poured out by the sheriff the last few days. - - Turkish Reply Rejected. Wsahintgon, D. C New represen tations to Turkey in behalf of starving Syrian will be taken to the Porte by AbramL Elkus, the new American ambassador, who received his final in structions Tueeday from Preeident Wilson and Secretary Lansing before fn CnnatantinoDla. Tbe U7 rw -",S ' itnitad Ktatea doea not accept aa suffi cient Turkey's statement that the Sy rian harvest ia ample. V;.:: ij 'a-V, in P v1 y NO. i. UOUR PRICK RISE; BREAD TO fOLLO'. f i ftdoal brestinlioa Being Cs a a . FilS feferc.ee to Ers. LONDON am AS DENIED Members of Chicago Board of Trade Say Farmers Hard Hit-Must Recover Weather Losses. Chicago The Federal Trsde com mission may take a hand in the prob lem of America's breadstuffs supply if bakers made good their threat to in crease the price of bread on account Of the advance in wheat and flour. This possibility loomed Saturday with the arrival from Washington of Edward N. Hurley, chairman of the commis sion. Prospects that bread will soon feel the effect of the soaring market were increased when millers announced an increase of another 20 cents a bar rel in advertised brands of 'spring wheat flour. This brings the price to $3.30, an increase of 70 cents in three days. ,. .., . , ,. . During his three or four dsys stay in Chicago Mr. Hurley will make an informal inauirv Into soaring wheat and flour prices, as well aa the threat ened advance in the price of bread. The results of his findings will be em bodied in a report wmcn ne win su li mit to the commission on his return to Washington. "Bafore leaving- Washington I wsa asked by the commission to look ' into this matter, particularly aa vmcagw i a grain and flour center," Mr. Hurley aaid. ' " District Attorney Clyne began Bat- nrHav tn chaek un fiirures on tbe rise' in the price of flour and wheat. ' 2 Replying to a uoaaaa aispattu, quoting the Daily Express, which. said that the rise in bread which goea into effect in London snonaay. ib-oub. w mani Dotation in Chicago : members of tbe Chicago board of trade declared that such statements snowea lgnoranw. "The article in the London paper," aaid Caleb H. Can by, ex-president of the board of trade, J 'shows lacx or n actual conditions. " Ad justment in prices and conditions come together, ana tne biumuiuu w uiuu. different from last year." Our sharp advance in me pnw . wheat, ".said Robert McDougaL "ia .ir i. fMnnms to-American crop conditions and the world supply situa tion. Europe is in a ternoie preui La ment for supplies of wheat and natur ally is much concerned over price bulges." . V laccsie Tax lir.it Kof ta Ganged by Operatic hit 'Washington, D. C. Yielding.. Jo. a flood of protests from the-.country and from senate and hcae - members -of their own party, Democrats of th sen ate finance committee reconsidered Saturday their decision to lower the exemption in the income tax Jaw from $4000 to $3000 for" married, end single persons to $3000 and $2000, respec tively, but voted to make the rate of tax on the lowest taxable class, of. in comes 2 per cent instead of 1 per cent. This action was approveu. uiw wj m eaueue. : " ' .. 7 , , Had the coramitte declined, to yiew on the amendment the Democratic -senate caucus probsbly would have re versed it. The amendment increaemg the surtax on incomes exceeding 000,000 from 10 to 13 .per cent is re tained. The caucus voted down pro posals to make the surtax as, mga aa m SO and even 25 per .cent, .as some senators advocated. , r The Democratic caucua comiaueu ennaideration of - committee amend ments and had before it the proposal agreed on by the committee, sinKing . .k. .n.in axpise taxes1 on imflii- UUb "P"-' " ..... tiom manufacturers and substituting a 10 per cent net pront on tne prouw i .ii .n.miractTirera of munitions and wares that enter into munitions'1. . . Big Motorhip in,Potf i San Francisco The ' Danish .' ski p Chile,' said to be the largest jifoW ship afloat, arrived here bunosy a days from Copenhagen - and 87 days from Christiana, aciuki runums according to the captain, was 31 days. This, he said, was a record for-a freighter. The Chile brought' 1OT10 ton of cargo for this port and 9oW tons for the Orient. She is one o'f Zl new vessels ordered oy ice .nnlT.ans tnr tramDinor trade. The Chile is 450 feet long and, with 10,000 tons of cargo on board, draws i.t iew Austria to Get New Note. Washington. D. C. The State d rfm.nt ha assembied for. transmis sion to the Austrian foreign office ad ditional date regarding tr.e Au.cr.an submarine attack on the .American Unker Petrolite, supporting the chstge of the Petroiite's captain that lnht tack was made in violation of inte"v tional law. ITie United SUt-r;riy ha demanded an spolopy, pii;?f.w,!tt of th submarine eomm-K3--- P aratioa. . - wheat.