Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, February 21, 1917, DAILY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text''2 i. DAILY EDITION VIM VII., No. 1'iU. 0 HANTS PAM, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, WKIINKMOAY, FKURl'AHY 21, 117 WHOLE NUMBER IMS. Xo Other Town in the World the Size of Grants Pass Has a Paper With Full Leased Wire Telegraph Service. , lite ADD MILLIONS TO IN THE SENATE JI.MIMHTRAtVN' MKAHlltK IM ltKIOllTK Ol'T WITH MANY ITK.MH AIlKlt IS NOW HEIRLY HALF A BILLION Provides fur Immediate 'inipMIti (if Wamliip ami HtlbiiMriiira l'mlir ConolruilliNi Washington, Feb. 2 1. -Increased liy l2S.O(io,0(Hi niitco u iuuwoiI (ha house, I lie administration's nun! Itlll Hid biggest In the 4ilMrv of Hip country was reported to the senate thin afternoon by Senator Tillman, halrmsn or the naval committee. Th bill, as revised, carries total vt nearly a halMtllllon dollars and authorise the president to com mandeer private alilpyarda and mu nitions plants In lime of war. The naval committee struck from the hill the Mann amendment, re affirming II tit l tho policy of the Vnlted States to settle International disputes by arbitration or mediation. The $I2M0,000 Increases- a lant appropriation In Itself - wan ad dled after greatest pressure from b evy department and aifter President Wilson and Secretary Daniels ap peared In person at the rapllol while the bill waa In committee. The hlggeat Hem of Increase In $115,000,000 for the Immediate com pletion of war vessela now under ronatrurtion. Thla Is a reduction of $35,000,000 from that asked by Ihe navy department. It la atlpttlated that $35,000,000 be expended tor completion of the submarines. SUNK BY GERMANS lierlln, via SayvllUt. Feb. 21. 8lnklng In the Mediterranean of a "crowded Italian transport steamer" two armed steamers of 3,000 tons nd 4,r00 lona, tho Italian steamer Oceana, 4,200 tone, the Krench learn er Moventnux, 3,200 tons nml the French kmIIIiik ship Aplirodtte, (100 tons, was announced In nn official press bureau statement today. The statement also milled: 'Tapera observe that real suhnutr lne successes .are undoubtedly much lat-Ker, since n majority of the tirh marines have not yet reported, be tides the imralysli of neutral navi gation must be taken Into considera tion." Accord Inn to the prom bureau, the two armed steamers were loaded "with an Jmportuiit cargo for Sal onjkl," and tho Krench tailing ship with Iron for Italy, - Lloyd's doea not list an Italian steamship named Oceana, but there In a steamship Oceanic of 4,217 tons, owned by b, Plttnlugun of (ionoa, which probably Is the one specified In the Berlin statement, Neither of thn other ships are listed, nor Is thoro any name In 'Lloyd's register which mlRht be mistaken for them. MOVH Alt I' THUASl ItUHH FROM ALH.N'N AMI lOltUAIXK The llaKiio, Fob, 21. Many art treasures In Alsace and Lorraine have suddenly been removed to the Gor man cities or Stuttgart and Munich, on order from German military head quarters, according to German newt papers received here today, The rea sons were not stated. NVt li PHILANDER CHASE KNOX. Former Beoretary of State Elected fUpublioan Senator From Penn, i .v:v;?ivrf.: Phoio by Aintrli-un Pru Association HOUSEWIVES WILL E 8an Krsnclaco, Feb. 21 Agitation by housewives of los Aniteles In favor of a boycott against vegetables which, some alleRe, have been held for a rising market, may spread to ottoer Pacific coast cities, It was be lieved today. Although prices of per ishable foodstuffs In San Francisco and elsewhere In California do not compare with those In the oast, they have still reached unprecedented figures. Potatoes today were selling at five cents a pound, retail, and some fancy grades at that figure wholesale. On ions sold at from 1 2 Vfc to 15 cents a pound, wholesale and lima beans at 10 to ll cents. Wholesale po tato prices have advanced 50 rents a hundred pounds In 36 hours. Rggs are among the few articles showing a decline and are now telling it 3'J cents. Butter was unchanged at 85 rents. Other prices are: String beans, 80 to 35; peas, I2i; sweet potutoeRk $4 per rwt.; Rusih, 3 cents a pound. Iximlon, Feb. 21. An order-In-council, nnnouhced today, provides that vessels carrying goods to and from enemy ports, nre liable fo rap ture and condemnation, unless they call at na allied ort en route to permit examination of their cargoes, The blockade of Germany Is ap parently mad o complete by the, ordei-In-councl), which Is evidently direct ed at shipping In tho tlnltlc sea and the North sea, where commerce Ijc tween Scandinavian nations and Ger many lias been more or loss unre stricted In the iiast. From now on such shipping must put Into British or 'Russian ports for examination. It was explained that the order was Issued it result of the German blockade, which the order Itself char acterlted at a "flagrant contradiction of International-law." L i ii ' .r,' ' .t. 51 HENEY IM BE IN HE OF INVESTIGATION KKIKllAI. Tlt.VIlK CO.UMIHKIOX NOT TO AWAIT AI'I'ltOPWATlOV TO HTAItT I'ltOIlK ' IS GRAVEST PROBLEM OF DAI large Packers Announce Willingness to Co-operat, and Will (fcwn , llwnks to (Commission Washington, Feb. 21. Declaring the food situation constitutes "one of the gravest problems of the day," the federal trade commission an nounced today It will not wait for the $400,000 appropriation from con gress to probe charges of extortion ate food orlces. The commission began today the actual preliminaries of the probe., It is said Francis J. Heney, who forced the newt print paper manufacturers Into line, will have charge of the commission's Investigation. Golncldentally with the facts com ing to light, the commission today received "assurances" from many, targe packers of tb country that taH "are willing to co-operate In' every way with the commission." The psckers wrote the commission Hist their books would be thrown open to that body. Portland, Feb. 21. Potatoes, once known as the poor man's staple food, were up to the highest prices on record in the Portland market to day. On account of a great demand from the east, the growers in tome instances received as high ss $3.25 to $3.40 per cental, an Increase ot ten to twelve cents over recent prices. This rate was paid for the spuds In the fields. Purchasers are shipping potatoes to Stockton, Cal In ordin ary freight cart and sacking them In refrigerator cars there. Hogs were up to record-smashing flights In the North Portland yards. The high price for the week was $12.60, the stiffest ever known here. AN UNMANAGEABLE INFANT. MEETS FAVOR IN IlKKI) A.MKMMKNT TO THK POST OFFIfK MKA81RK COXtTB. KiCl) IN V Would Fotfbid Hendlng Liquor Into lry WlHtes fur Any Hut Medical Purposes Washington, Fett. 21. The house, 321 to 72, today concurred In the Senator Reed "bone dry" amendment to the post office appropriation bill. Six members voted "present." The house previously hsd defeated an amendment by Congressman Small wolch wquld have stricken out all of the Reed amendments apply ing to Individual orders for whiskey sent through the mails. Many wet men and many members from wet atatea voted for the Reed amendment. Many wets claimed the Reed amendment waa to stringent that It would retard the cause of prohibition. In this view some, Brp - nibttlonlsU concurred. The Reed amendment forbids the tending of liquor Into dry states for any but medical purposes. The effect is, according to"" the congressional view, to make ' impossible a "near dry" atate. With the Reed amendment there waa also adopted the Bankhead am endment, which forbids the use of malls for solicitation of liquor by mail in such ststes as prohibit liquor advertising. Although the Columbia river sal mon catch is unusually small, prac tically all the Bsh are going east, Packers offer to pay almost any price demanded and are willing to take salmon In any quantities, on account of the east's demand, A short time ago salmon told In Portland at 10 to 12 cents a pound. Now It costs IS cents. RO ORDERS THROUGH MIS ' Fitiastriok In St. Louis Pest-Dispatoh. ADMIRAL BENSON. Suaeoodo Dow as Hood of Oonoral Board of Nsvy. liJ Photo by American Proas Aasocatioo. PUZZLES GERMANS Amsterdam, Feb. 21. German of ficialdom Is Intensely Intereted and puttied by the conference at Vien na between American Ambassador Pen field and the Austrian foreign minister, according to Berlin reports today. Astonishment la expressed that there shbuld be any doubt In the United States that Austria-Hungary does not fully approve and support Germany's declaration of relentless submarine warfare. On the contrary, It Is seml-of nclally declared that Emperor Carl's deter mination It to accord the most em phatto support to hit allies. Participation of Austrian officials In the conference which decided upon the submarine warfare was also cited as evidencing Austria's full sympathy with the use of a weapon demanded by the allies' starvation blockade of the central powers. Semi-official Vienna dlspatclies re ceived today, In detailing the text of the note presented iby Ambassador I'enflold, holds the American Inquiry whether Austria still affirms her promises In the Ancona and Persia cases "as vague." Officials tske the position that the statements made In the notes mentioned, were Intended to cover those specific cases only, and not to mark out a future course. CHlCAtJO lORK PRICE 8MASHKS ALL RKCORIW Chicago, Feb. SI. Hogs smashed all previous high prlcet by nearly a quarter of a dollar today, when the market opened at $12.95 per hundred pounds. Pigs sold at $11.00 per hun dred weight. The prices are the high est since the civil war. HAVH THE HTAItM PREDICT WAR WITH GERMANY Portland, Feb. 21. Dr. C. Hotline, Fellow of tho iRoyal Society of Ox ford, who has made a study or as trology, declared today that the stars Indicated war between Ger many and the United 8tatcs would be Inevitable by tonight. i f S f i 4-I BEET GROWERS HUNT ACREAGE FOR PLfllr COMPANY ORGANIZED AMONG CITIZENS NOW GETTING LAND READY FOR SEED ACREAGE IN VALLEY IS.UL! Farmers Are Readily Signing ap Con. tracts, and Are Increasing Own Planting The board of directors of the Grants Past Boat Growing company met In tba Commercial dun room , last night, and transacted such boa lness as there -was upon the table. Manaxer Wlnetmnt mnortMl nn tha pro (rraea of the campaign for acre age, stating that there 'waa sot the amount of acreage available for tatt ing that had appeared Hkely earlier . In the season, as the land ownerm were Increasing their plantings, tad would farm their own lands aa far as possible. Mr. Wlnetront Has ar- jw tor a sumner oi tracts, saw -ever, of the beat lands to he fontd, and these -will he added to later. Some land waa being leased in the Apple gate valley, and the planting there Mld tnrntte uttmh ' "'.. e Work Is In progress spoa the lands now under lease. One tract of It . acres upon the Eismann ranch down the river will be ready tot planting In a few days, having been plowed during the week. It will ibe the aim or the company to get its beets plant ed as early as possible. Seed for the season la available at the sugar company offices. The secretary of the Beet Growing company waa in ttructed to notify all delinquent sub scribers to stock of the call for the 20 per cent assessment, 'and to pro ceed to get it collected In at once. Only about a third ot the subscrib ers responded voluntarily to the pub lished call, and under the law It la necessary that payments be made up on til the stock without delay. The cash is also needed to cover the costs of leasing the lands and getting the crop in the ground. 'Parties hav ing lands for lease are requested to notify 'Manager Winetront. when the offerings will be examined and leases made where the lands are found suit able. OF Berlin. Feb. 2L '"We are sure of success and shall allow nothing and nobody to wrest this tuocets from us," declared Secretary or the Trea sury Helffrlch to the' German agri cultural council, discussing the tub marine war. "(Already the navigation which links the British Islet with the rest of the world, has been depressed to the danger point," he continued, ac cording to the official press agency report. , The tonnage which arrived in Brit ish ports," Helffrlch continued, "was In December last only 2,200,000 toni, net, while the monthly average of the last year of peace were 4,200, 000 tons. "Already England's reserve stocks ot the most Important things needed for life and warfare are reduced to such a point that England, more than ever before,, realises the necessity for replenishment of her stores. "This sapping of England will con tinue until the day dawnt for which every German heart ardently waltt. "But already today we art close to knowledge that England more than ever hat to rely upon her own toll.' German toll It now fighting English toll."