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DAILY EDITION VOL, VII.; No, fAfcy GRANTS PMC, JOSEPHIWE OQUJITV, OREGON, nnna. aifg W( WHOLE .Tt'MBEB V F00DkiM BILL IN SENATE RKIMIKHKNTATIVK8 OK t'KIUCAL UltOWKIlM PITTING I I' HTHIIV VOl'S tM'POMTION IE Many Prima Are Higher In the I'nlt ed Utatca Thaa In KagUiid Hur roeiioVd by Bubanarince Washington, June 20. The Mi ld started on what promises to be a heated debate of Hi Lever food control bill today. Senators Reed and Gore employ ed amy trick and resource to block lb ptmi of the hill. Gore de clared that If the measure was adopt ed It would moan a food (amine Id llll. Ha alao aald that lha bUI would cost wheat growers a quarter of a billion and com growers a half bil lion, dollars. There la leu opposition In ihe house where the bill la being con sidered at lha aama time. Tonight Representative tlaugen, of Iowa, the only mwrtryflh. culture eoaimltteeS3"7ii ri report against the MM, said , there would not be SO negative rotee en final passage. Ha said he would vote for ft himself, although he would make an effort to restore the flat of necessities and shoes rod clothing as originally proposed -" Representative Graham, Illinois, speaking In favor of the measure submitted a comparative list on American and British prices on sta ples. Some of the English prices were lower than the American prices, despite the fsct, ss Mr. Graham aald. "that England Is surrounded by submarines." The prices follow: English beef, 44 cents a pound: butter, 40 to 50 cents a pound: pota toes. $2.10 a bushel: bacon. 4H cents a pound and flour. IH.20 a barrel. The American prices on the same day were: Href 44 rents a pound: butter 4H4 cents a pound: potatoes, $2.85 a bushel; baron, 44 cents a pound and flour. I1T.0 albarrol. RE OF BREAD LOAVES Salem, June SO. Mrs. Millie Trumbull, representing the womens' division of the sUte defense oouncll, today asked the public service com mission to regulete the Use of a loaf of bread. She aakod that the com mission regulate prices ss It does now those of light and telephone companies. , COAL-COKE SUPPLY Washington, June 20. A drastic j war-time control of all coal and coke transportation by the govern ment Is urged by the federal trade . commission as the only ' adequate remedy for the alarming situation In the iprlce and supply of these staples, ' The recommendations nre the most revolutionary the commission has ever submitted. The commission dednres that the, coal situation threatens all Industry aa well as the supply to Individuals. It recommends that the supply and distribution of these two articles bo placed 1n the hands of pools con trolod by governmental agencies, and that the transportation agencies of the United States, both rail and water, Ibe pooled and operated as a unit on government account. SUFFRAGISTS RAIDED BY MOB Pickets About White House Display Banners Attacking Wilson and ' Root and faun Nr lUot Washington, June 20. Incensed at suffrage pickets who flaunted de nunciatory banners before the White Houae gates as the Russian com mission entered, an angry mob of about 100 men and women, mostly government clerks, charged the suf fragists and tore the banners Into breads. The banners read; "President Wil son and Envoy Root are deceiving Russia. They say we are a dem ocracy and ask that' they help us wla the world war so that democra cies may survive. We, the women of America, tell you that America Is not a democracy. Twenty million woman are denied the right to vote. President Wilson Is the chief oppon ent of their national enfranchise ment , Help us make this nation really free. Tell our government It nraet liberate Its own people before It can claim free Russia as aa ally." The department of Justice has started an Investigation to determine whether there Is anything treason able in the first line of the women's placard accusing President Wilson aad Envoy Root or deceiving Russia. The state department la Inclined to believe the banner constitutes a ser- jusjneddHng In a delicate negotia te nr government affairs. GPfAT TO BOOM Mwm car Parts, Juns 20. A titanic artil lery struggle Is progressing along the greater part of the French front. according to the official statement Is sued today. Between Allelic and Houlln La faut and In the section east of Chev reaua woods and north of Rhelms Mte fire Is heaviest from the German batteries. A most violent bombardment of French positions wss kept up all through last night and the French returned the fire. There waa an un ceasing roar of large caliber guns every minute of the night. A Germsn attack was repulsed nesr Mont Teton. The silence of Germsn batteries st this point sug gests thst it Is Impossible thst Htn- denburg Is planning a strong coun ter-offensive against the French. The Germsn fire has been Intense for throe days. The positions under fire are mainly those commanding tne valleys leading to Loan, taken by the French in their April offensive. Artillery duels of great Intensity are known to have been in progress between Boeslnghe and Frellnghlen, and In the regions of Steenstraete and Het-Sas, while to the south In France, In the vicinity of the Ba paumeOambrai road, the British have resumed their trench raiding operations, destroying Germsn dug outs and taking prisoners. In the Champagne the Germans have made an attempt to recapture positions between Mont Blond and Mont Carnlllet, taken by the Frencn Monday, 'but met with repulse, suf fering heavy casualties. To the northwest around Craonne, heavy ar tillery duets are being fought E QUICK ME DASH With the American Destroyer Flotilla, June 20. After a .record- breaking dash hv response to a wire less call, two American destroyers ar rived today at an English port with 80 survivors or two torpedoed nice chantmen. . Tha rescues iwere made further from land than any torpedoing here tofore reported, Kveretta Bailey went to Lystul this morning to visit his aunt, lie will also visit at Myrtle Creek. HONOR THE RED S Tke Red Cress Ccsfrcsts Any Ecgtatjliaa ga faru. "pi i i I it i i i si n r rziV The Red Cross confronts the great emergency of this national and world-wide crisis with a record at home and under alien skies that makes up a noble epic. : , Though our armies are not ready to voice with fullness of prepared power America's appeal to the God of Battles, the Red Cross Is ready. ! It la organised. It Is prepared, it needs only the enlargement of Its ranks and of the provision for the support of Its work required by the enormous enlargement of the de mands for Its service that has com without country's entrance Into the world war for liberty aad humea- liy against their ruthless and 1 scrupulous foes. The Red Cross confronts that em ergency with an appeal that con vinces' heart and mind with a call that must and will be answered swiftly end with unstinting generos ity by all who love their country and humanity. Motherhood, wrttea Its signature with trembling hand at the bottom of tha noble commission the Red Cross carries to the field of war. Wifehood and sisterhood, the other members of that human trin ity Obat watches, waits tad. hapee. have set their brave seals. Child hood's mark Is there aa well. And all womanhood that "kisses the cross with lips that quiver" has blessed end sanctified the scroll. Its love follows In the Red Cross Its men whom it sends forth to fight snd If need be to die. knowing that they will dle.most nobly for women's honor and for all other men's free dom. Above the lurid lights of the bat tlefield horror the Red Cross lifts the flag of love snd hope. The n wounded soldi ( Ul knows thtiwnwWw()1 fwm fcalf a -worU if. Its mlkim-tto Krr, M4 save. iUoirwB a lumuvn. When thsWU.dwot-comWt fins.' It HHlttottM mUrirnr, It takes tt. an nan, Ktu a th, 4y. lag. Kb i IWn.muiry .nlTersal womanhood ftnda , prwtrTlD, work, dlvMreonn,,, nm beginning o( Ita. h- wi. In. The ReJ Crosi tsi todlf ,B s woM divided 'rHlMw to coau tion betwrn Wisest tlnlT tight end Wr,Itjri Ithews no oounoarTWimmsci,,,,, ftlttIon or creed. ?...- ; Thue t!1UWiCw( seems to nk4!N " stija that, wfty of ha- manlty ttit tfc.. ui the hells thattttlilwy,,. of ruler siri i es-s, lh Mrtt and wtw M not, nm n ritBt. .eousness bu PMv,I)el,,a vtekedness to peace. 1 ThelWOrMibd,,,,,,,,, to ,ta hl,h mlaaloa wpstalM eB. thnslasm. WtM e , ,BltOTiti reHdon iM It t ik, wtBml Joined lltlmJ,lrtUl Tha n (br M M c,, Mrrlot has W(rtiTl.linil0BU w"T ew a pwia v-i tnooeaads sthiffoat-tha nun dreds of ttouamssk mty since in till nr , n0 end aantirfejyfOT(te, rlghteoci , cause wnirmHrewi,, MrriM. go -will their dp.lEi,nlllB,w ,t nom,. The Red CnM haetl het ftummo&t and calls spon Ml O ij, American peo ple to hear II, In thli hoar of k j ,i aH the world's tea lwJi wry Ameri. can who lorn Ms .'4 tl, waMjy tpd bl, (Cm."k7mP.w) Oa in Errand ol kj-rj-nt ReJ Cress LOYAL FRIENDS RED CROSS WORK ClUsens of Jowphine Coewty Who Are Responding to Appeal of Ha asanlty and Mercy ' Joseohlna county subscriptions to the Red Cross drive, reported up to this morning, follow. Additional subscriptions win be reported later. 91M ftebsCTtpuoM J. T. Logan, Geo. M. Esterly. Frank Mashburn. Dr. W. H. Flaaa- gan, Sr. B. Lough ridge. $50 MbeerlptioM J. T. Tuffs, S. I Calvert. John D. Fry. Or. W. W. Walker. Dr. U O. Clement, R. W. Clarke, Dr. Ed. By water, 8am H. Baker, J. T. Burke k Ben. L A. Route. E. firth A Co-, Geo. E. Lcndbunc Ookonda Mining Co.. C. ft O. ft Ry.. Dr. A. A. 'Wltk- am, T. B. ComeM, Kinney ft Traax, John HamMhire. Frank C. Bram- welL A. C. Hougk, O. . Blaaehard, Dr. K. C. Macy. $40 Mbecrtpt D. J. MaaoeL Claoe Sckmldt. E. H. Barbeck. C. C Presley. , $30, BaDtwriptioaks - K. O. Clark. . . fjs tabecrtptiOBSi ' . Oolden Rata Lodge, 10.0. P.. Geo. W. Lewis, C. U.Cole. A. . Vooilea, Mrs. Edith Rehkopf. J. A. Wharton, Geo. p. Cramer, Jean L. Cramer. H. N. Starr. Amos Myers, A. B. Cornell. Mrs. R. W. Clarke. M. aemens. O. T. Braeger. D. R. Mor rison. Geo. C. Sabin. C. L. Hobart Co.. Letcher A 8on. 8. W. Phillips, F. W. Streets. J. R Otrbert. W. P. Qulntsn, John B. Burrow. A. 9. Content. CrwrOray. Frank Met- ecbaa, J. D. MacVlcar, W. T. Millar. Mr. and Mrs.' T. 'T. Cramer. Mr' and Mrs. H. A. Dillingham, W U Ireland, J. F. Uoyd. E. B. Dun bar. Josephine Grocery Co., F. B. (Mdlng, Fred A. WllMams. C. A. Wlnetrout. Dr. M., R. Brit'On, Dr. J. O. NTbley. Bert Barnes. ' , $18 SabecrlptkiiM Geo. M. Flint. Ales G. and W. L. Hood, M. Clyde Morrow T. M. Btott, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Slover. ' $10J SobecrtptloBS, James Martin. '' (Continued on Page 4) Responds LOCAL DRiVE OF RED CROSS BHCGESS J08KPHIXK OOUNTT HAJUS GOOD Df MAJIJfEB THAT BBOS PRIDE TO ALL TOlfu.TTaffiCOL'i Great OalpowiBg of Help to oa Part of of AB Classes Fired -with tha enthusiasm that cornea from a splendid success tha 60 Red Croat "drivers" mat at the) Chamber of Commerce rooms for lunch today aad to make a report at their second day's work. Tha city had been covered so thoroughly em Tuesday that H was not expected tha reports today would show aaeh of aa baeraaea, vat aa cantata after cap tain stated results of this moraiajfr work. It was seen that tha work waa bringing IJna results. Two features of the campeigaV stand oat plainly: The teams are all doing good work and running pretty nearly ea par each with aha ether. The donations are la a large number -of moderate amounts, with , only a few subscriptions that exceed tff. ' Tomorrow and Friday' wfli he da voted to the country districts. Sat urday will Ike 'a'general rounding up of those that hava been arlsssd dar ing the week, and at next Monday luncheon a final report wltt bemad ': Word received from Portland is te the effect that the entire state Is re s ponding very liberally. Report from 1( counties outside of Portlaad show a total of 127,0 raised up to noon today. ' . . . Washington. June 10. Incomplete reports to American Red Cross head quarters here tonight showed mora than IS5.000.000 subscribed during the first two days of the week's cam paign to raise $100,000,000 for war relief. Hundreds of ' communities had not been heard or,' but ' from others, returns poured In so rapidly that tabulators could not keep pace with them.. - New York City's total waa nearlnc the f 10.000,000 mark, with f 1,000. 000 contributions from J.' P. Morgan and O. F. Baker. " - - A single pledge of $10,000,000 has been given the war council ten tatively tor use In fighting tubercu losis In France. The name or th contributor waa not made public SUBMARINE LOSSES WWII1ME London, June 20. Twenty-aeve British vessels of more than 1,10$ tons were submarined this " week the admiralty announced. Of those leu than 1,600 tons, there were I destroyed. There were no fishing vessels lost The report shows as Increase la lost tonnage. " ' Submarine Inroads on trans-Atlantic shipping probably will . draw Japanese vessels Into the trans-Atlantic trade. The American govern ment, it was learned today, already Is negotiating with Japan for femor al of tonnage from the Pacific to th Atlantic. BIG ATLANTIC USER FIGHTS WITH U-BOATS ,Am American Port, June 20. piiiftkiiv withstanding the attack of a German submarine after a torpedo1 railed to eiDtode against her side a big Atlantic liner eventually drove the U-boat away, according to tha story told when the vessel arrived here from France, i The runnina battle occurred em f tha liner's outward voyage from, Am erica.