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THE WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK BANNER CAUSES RIOT “Silent Sentinels' ” Sign Denouncing Government and Shown Before Russian Mission, Destroyed. HEBMISTON HERALD, FOOD CONTROL BILL MEETS OPPOSITION HERMISTON, OREGON. FRUIT TO HAVE PLACE Food Controller Says President Must Have Full Authority to Regulate Prices and Freight Service. STATE NEWS I 5 Washington, D. C. — While both branches of congress continued desul tory debate on the government’s food control bill Tuesday, Herbert C. Hoo ver, food administrator, spent four hours at the capitol emphasizing to a score of senators gathered informally to hear him, the vital importance of the legislation to success in the war. Under sharp and argumentative ques tioning by a group headed by Senators Gore, Reed and Vardaman, opposing the legislation, Mr. Hoover outlined his plans, increasing production and cutting off the excessive profits of speculators. He did not conclude but will return to the captial soon, for further examination in an effort to clear up congressional and public mis conceptions and hasten action. The senate had only a brief discus sion of the bill and took a recess. Food conditions which face the allies and this country were explained by Mr. Hoover. Without government food control, he said, success in the war may be imperiled. Such control, to a’ great degree in actual administration, he explained, will be voluntary and not enforced—a “mobilization of the spirit of self-denial and self-sacrifice” in preventing waste of foodstuffs. That the rationing or other enforced regulations of the American dinner table is proposed was denied by Mr. Hoover. Also he said requistioning of factories or regulation of wages is not contemplated and that distribution of food largely by voluntary co-operation of business interests involved is the prime object of the bill. Four basic measures of food control planned, Mr. Hoover said, are export regulation, control of distribution, in cluding speculation, mobilization of America’s women and men in a cam paign for economy, and participation of the states in administration work. Asserting that the allies’ food sup ply will be 40 per cent deficient even with America’s food surplus assiting, Mr. Hoover said the deficiency must be made up by sacrifice abroad and econo my here. Saving of 6 cents a day per capita in this country, he declared, would save $2,000,000,000, while a 20 per cent saving in flour would give 100,000,000 bushels more to the allies. In this connection he told the sena tors that speculators in flour alone have taken $50,000,000 a month from the Amreican public during the last five months. Representative Graham, of Illinois, speaking in favor of the measure, sub mitted a comparative list of American and British prices on staples received by him from Ambassador Spring-Rice on last May 19. Some of the English prices were lower than the American prices, despite the fact, as Mr. Gra ham said, “that England is surrounded by submarines.” The prices follow: English—Beef, 44 cents a pound; butter, 40 to 56 cents a pound; potatoes, $2.10 a bushel ; bacon, 48 cents a pound, and flour, $8.20 a barrel. The American prices on the same day were: Beef, 42 cents a pound; butter, 42} cents a pound; potatoes, $3.75 a bushel; bacon, 45 cents a pound, and flour, $17.60 a barrel. Chairman Gore, of the senate argi- culture committee, and Senator Reed, of Missouri, leading the opposition to the bill, took a leading part in ques tioning Mr. Hoover. “The resort to these extraordinary powers is only because of the war?” asked Senator Gore. "To provide not only more food for the allies but for ourselves," Mr. Hoover replied. “Even if we had not gotten into the war, we would have been up against this termendous de mand from Europe and probably driven to some legislation to protect our own people.” Former President Theodore Roose velt has responded to a request from Washington, D. C. — “I feel confi the Eugene High School for his pic dent the fruit and vegetables of the ture by sending a large photograph of Northwest, when ready for shipment, himself upon which is written : “Good will be moved promptly,” said Senator luck to the Eugene High School, 1917. Theodore Roosevelt.” McNary Monday night, after dining Eleven dollars and thirty-two cents with Herbert C. Hoover, prospective was the average profit last month for Federal Food administrator. “From my talk with Mr. Hoover I each cow in a herd of 16 head owned learned that after congress passes the by A. S. Mobry, operating a farm near pending food control bill, the President Eugene, according to a report made by and Mr. Hoover, working together, un L. N. Ross, tester for the Junction der that law and under the recently City Cow Testing association. enacted preferential shipment law, The State Board of Control has offi will have absolute authority to compel cially sanctioned the plan for state in the railroads to carry perishable food stitutions to care for at least 100 of products, and it is their purpose, so those who may return to this state Mr. Hoover assured me, to see that suffering from nervous or mental dis these products are moved without de eases as a result of war conditions. lay.” The Social Hygiene society has been so Years ago when Mr. Hoover went to notified. Oregon to assist in planting the first The cranberry growers of Clatsop prune orchard in the state, he became acquainted with Charley McNary, and county are making preparations to en the two later met at college, but until gage in bee culture as a side line. This Monday they had not seen each other not so much on account of the honey, but rather for the help the insects for 20 years. Mr. Hoover invited Senator McNary would give the grower during the blos to dine with him, and this afforded the soming season in the pollenization of senator opportunity to learn much of the blossoms. Mr. Hoover’s plans. He first inquired Evan Owens, aged 16, son of a rural about the outlook for marketing the route mail carrier, John Owens, work perishable products of Oregon and the ing out of the Sherwood postoffice, and Northwest, and was fully reassured by Will Christensen, aged 20, son of what he learned. Mr. Hoover said he Louis Christensen, a farmer living not only appreciated the food value of near Cipole, were drowned while tak fruits and vegetables and the impor ing a swim Saturday afternoon in the tant part they play in the diet, but he Tualatin river. knew the importance of shipping A jury in the Lane County Circuit these products promptly when they court Monday returned a verdict ripen. Senator McNary showed Mr. against the Southern Pacific company Hoover telegrams indicating that the for damages in the sum of $10,000 for fruitgrowers are much disturbed, and the heirs of William Framhein, who their prices affected by the prevailing was killed in tunnel No. 4, on the Coos uncertainty, but Mr. Hoover gave pos Bay line of the Southern Pacific sys itive assurance that this apprehension will be groundless if congress grants tem June 16, 1916. A severe drop is being reported by the President authority which he has all Lower Valley orchardists, and from asked to regulate food distribution. present indications the crop of the fall will be far below estimates FOOD SAVING PLAN IS BEGUN coming made at the time of the heavy bloom. The total crop for the season will prob To Enlist Housewiqes of Country in ably fall below 750,000 boxes of fruit, Science of Conservation. says a dispatch from Hood River. The Heppner wool market showed Washington, D. C. — Preliminary work of organizing the country’s strong bullish tendencies at the public housewives into a great food conserva wool sale held Saturday. Bids ranging tion army was started by Herbert C. from 42 to 552 cents for fine wool and 58 cents for coarse grades were freely Hoover Tuesday. Morrow Actual registration of the women offered, with no takers. will not begin until July 1, but Mr. county sheep men are standing pat, Hoover is now organizing his staff to and at this time seem to have the best carry out the work. Operation of the of the situation. plan will be in the hands of four main With the disposition of $1,000,000 divisions—an advisory council of wo worth of road bonds, out of the $6,- men, an advisory council of househosld 000,000 voted by the people, facing the economy experts, a committee on vol state, it seems safe to assert that untary service and the women’s section when the present $240,000 or so of of the Council of National Defense and rural credits money on hand is loaned state defense councils. out, that no more attempts will be Actual administration will be along made to sell further rural credits five lines—domestic science instruc bonds until the first batch of the road tion, publicity, supervision of member bond money is disposed of. ship, development of state relations A 10 per cent dividend was declared and co-operation of organizations. Motion pictures will be used, Mr. by the Farmers’ Union Grain agency Hoover announced, to teach food con at the annual meeting at Pendleton. servation measures and the elimination The agency is the owner of the big of food waste. Voluntary offers of elevator which will be in operation for service have been accepted from the the first time this season. A con national association of the motion pict servative estimate is that one-third of ure industry and from its allied organ the Umatilla county farmers will use izations, the Associated Motion Pict the bulk grain handling system this year, including Sam Thompson, David ure Advertisers. Mr. Hoover announced plans for en H. Nelson and Jesse Hales. listing the aid of the country’s summer A lot in the central part of Pendle schools in teaching household econom ton was purchased recently by the ics. Through the schools Mr. Hoover building committee of the Presbyterian expects to reach some 200,000 teach church for the erection during the ers, who will return in the autumn to summer of a $25,000 church. about 125,000 communities. Later The Public Service commission Sat the plan contemplates the teaching of urday was flooded with letters from food conservation in every public merchants and business men of various school in the nation and in most of the parts of the state declaring in favor colleges. of the 15 per cent increase in rates asked by the railroads. Forest Fire Under Control. Sherman Wehrley was arrested 15 Ojai, Cal.—Devastating brush fires which swept an area of about 50 square miles east of Arlington and brought by miles the first three days of this week Deputy United States Marshal Harr- were reported under control Wednes mam to Condon, where he was ar day night, after property damage es raigned before United States Commis He waived his timated at $300,000 had been done and sioner J. D. Weed. three had died from shock or exhaus right to a hearing and was bound over tion. The dead : E. Velenzuela, Mrs. to appear before the United States grand jury for refusing to register on Frances Maroquin and Miss Sawyer. A boy and a woman each suffered a June 5. Everett, 19-year-old son of Mr. and broken leg while trying'to escape from Mrs. William Green, of Haines, died the flames. One of the heroic actions of the fire Saturday afternoon from injuries was the dash made by four men in an caused by the kick of a horse. The automobile through five miles of burn youth was working near Haines and ing brush to Wheeler Hot Springs, 18 the scraper which the team was pull miles from Ojai, to learn whether ing became caught and threw him be more than 100 visitors at the resort hind one of the horses. The freight- were safe. All communication with ened animal kicked him in the abdo men. the resort had been cut off. German language instruction, ex Crops Are Unparalleled. cept to students of chemistry, has been St. Paul—An unparalleled crop con abandoned for the period of the war by the faculty of the Cleveland, 0., Case dition in the Northwest at this season School of Applied Science. French | now exists, according to W. P. Kenney, will be substituted. vice president of the Great Northern railway, who returned from a trip The Spanish torpedo-boat No. 6 ! through Montana, North Dakota and Wednesday morning discovered the Minnesota. “It is a long way to crops German submarine U-62 disabled from yet, but things have never been so gunshots which had struck her en promising in the Northwest as at pres- gines. The submarine was towed into ent,” said Mr. Kenney. “The North Cadiz and stripped of her wireless ap west this year seems certain to be a paratus. big factor in feeding the world and in Student aviators training for the helping to bring victory to the United army air service at various colleges States in the war.” U. S. Issues War Booklet. Washington, D. C.—A pamphlet, en titled “How the War Came to Amer ica,” and intended as an answer to the question “ Why did the United States go to war?” is to be published soon by the government. It will be bound in the national colors and will contain among other things three notable war addresses of President Wilson. It will be the forerunner of a series of “Red, White and Blue books” to be put out as the war progresses. The pamphlet will be translated into many languages and circulated broadcast. Laundry Strike Growing. Seattle—The laundry wagon drivers struck Tuesday, adding 200 men to the 1000 inside workers who struck last week for higher wages The drivers are fully organised. Several laundries which signed the union scale are working 24 hours a day in three shifts, but hotels are anxious over the impending shortage of linen. The business agent of the strikers •aid the laundries had twice increased prices for work since last November without adding to the wages of em ployes. have been joined by a number of young Bulgaria Fears Greece. officer candidates detached from the 16 Geneva, via Paris—The semi-official officers’ training camps. Hereafter a further detachment will be sent every Balkan News Agency says that King Ferdinand of Bulgaria has been im- week from each training camp. pressed deeply by the abdication of Another installment of the vanguard King Constantine and considers it cer of the American army has arrived in tain former Premier Venjzelos will France in the form of 150 ambulance take office at the head of the govern drivers and 75 nurses. Preceded by a ment and that Greece will enter the British military band, they marched war against Bulgaria. King Ferdi- through the streets of Boulogne to nand therefore, intends to go shortly their quarters amid the enthusiastic to Germany great headquarters to de cheers of the population. mand assistance for his nation. Americans to Be Aided. Washington. D. C.—Henry Morgen thau, ex-ambassador to Turkey, and Felix Frankfurter, now attached to the War department, will go to Egypt to care for about 2000 Americana still marooned in Palestine, and to look after other American interests in that section. A large amount of supplies sent on the cruiser Des Moines have been waiting at Alexandria ever since the United States entered the war, for distribution to refugees. Paris—Two hundred and seventy vol unteers left the headquarters of the American Field Service for the front during last week, making altogether 1500 men actually serving with the French or American ambulances or in training camps within the army zone. Three hundred Americans are in the newly organised transport branch. The field service has 700 cars and hundreds more have been ordered. Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Government» and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. Sixty-nine alleged slackers from Western Washington are taken before the Federal grand jury at Seattle to an wer to a charge of failure to regis ter for conscription. All meetings of the National Ger man-American Alliance and of the Wisconsin and Milwaukee branches have been indefinitely suspended be cause of the war with Germany. More than $30,000,000 is involved in a first mortgage filed with County Re corder E. T. Stewart at Globe, Ariz., this week by representatives of the American Smelting & Refining com pany. Vessels arriving at Seattle from Japan report an enormous amount of shipbuilding there. The three largest shipyards in Japan have received enough orders to keep them busy for three years at least. Fifty Salt Lake idlers are seized by local police and sent to Garfield, where they were compelled to accept work at $2.60 a day with a construction com pany which is engaged in mining work for the government. The Geneva correspondent of the Paris Journal Des Debats telegraphs that former King Constantine, of Greece, may not stop at Lugano, as it had been reported he would do, but go direct to Baden, the famous health re sort in Germany. Employes St the East Helena, Mont., smelter of the American Smelting & Refining company were notified re cently of a voluntary increase in pay of 26 cents per day, to prevail as long as the sale price of lead is $11 a hun dredweight or over. Gold amounting to $22,000,000 was received by J. P. Morgan & Co. at New York Wednesday for the account of Great Britain from Ottawa, Canada. This is the first gold importation since the interruption of the movement al most two months ago. The British transport Cameronian, with a small number of troops on board, was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine in the Eastern Medi terranean on June 2. it was officially announced at London. Sixty-three persons, including the captain of the transport, are presumed to have been drowned. The British ministry of shipping has issued a warning to possible charterers of shipping after the war that .“they can have no assurance that national re quirements will permit such arrange ments.” This warning is interpreted as indicating that the government an ticipates being obliged to continue to control shipping after the war. King Victor Emmanuel, of Italy, has accepted the resignations of General Alfieri, under-secretary of state for war, and Signor Canepa, under-secretary for agriculture. He has appointed General Alfieri under secretary for arms and munitions; General Montanari under-secretary for war, and Deputy Mario Cermenati under-secretary for agriculture. The decree ordering the shutting off of gas for 13 hours daily has caused consternation in Paris, where many industries are dependent on gas for light and power. The United States Steel Corporation Wednesday announced it had taken an additional $25,000,000 of the liberty bonds, making a total of $50,000,000 subscribed by this corporation. Arthur W. Copp, superintendent of the Souhtern division of the Associat ed Press, died ili Washington, D. C., Monday of a complication of diseases, after a lingering illness. He was 49 years old. Washington, D. C.—Russia’s diplo matic mission completed its official calls of courtesy Thursday and cleared the way for conferences with Ameri can officials. Woman suffragists seized on the vis it of the mission to the White House to broaden their “silent picketing” in to a denunciation of the United States government for failure to grant the franchise to all women. Large ban ners, prepared by the women, were torn from them by a crowd of angry men. The banners were inscribed: “President Wilson and Envoy Root are deceiving Russia. They say 'We are a democracy. Help us win a world war so that democracy may sur vive. ’ “We, the women of America, tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. President Wilson is the chief opponent of their national en franchisement. Help us make this na tion really free. Tell our government that it must liberate its people before it can free Russia as an ally.” The banners attracted groups of men passing, who stopped and discussed them. Finally disgust gave way to action. Cries of “traitors,” “treason,” and “they are the enemies of their coun try” were shouted at the two women holding the banner, and after one man yelled “Let’s tear it down,” the crowd jumped forward. The canvas was torn from its fastenings, leaving the suf fragists holding the frames and poles. One of the White House police pur sued a man who, he said, was leading in the crowd. The man was Walter S. Timmins of New York, an electrical engineer. The policeman recovered a banner from Timmins, but it was be yond repair, so the suffragists con tented themselves with holding the damaged frame aloft* in evidence of their “martyrdom,” as one of them expressed it. The torn banner was carried by Miss Lucy Burns, of New York, and Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, of Philadelphia, of the executive board of the National Woman’s party. 700 GOTHAM GIRLS MISSING Disappearances This Year Arouse City to Searching Inquiry. New York — Sensational allegations of a widespread traffic in girls in this city resulted in Police Commissioner Woods ordering a rigid investigation of the charges Thursday. His action fol lowed the announcement that between 700 and 800 girls have disappeared from their homes here since January 1. This was the most important re sult thus far of the belated discovery by a woman lawyer and a private de tective of the murder of Ruth Cruger, 18-year-old high school student, months after the police had ended a superficial search for her. “Spare no one,” was the order given by Commissioner Woods to Inspector J. A. Faurot, who was placed in charge of the inquiry, which is expect ed to shake the police department from top to bottom. Faurot was di rected to sift thoroughly the avowal of Mrs. Grace Humiston, the lawyer in the Cruger case, that white slave trad ers are responsible for the heavy toll of missing girls and to place responsi bility on those in the police depart ment whose duty it was to find Miss Cruger’s body. Pitfalls Before Sailors Exposed. Washington, D. C.—Charges that naval recruits at the Newport, R. L, training station are exposed to open gambling-houses, immoral resorts and illegal sales of liquor were made by Secretary Daniels Thursday in an nouncing that he had appealed to Gov ernor Beeck man. In response to a preliminary com plaint, the mayor of Newport made a general denial and declared there was no unusual degree of immorality in the fashionable city. The Navy depeartment, with the as sistance of agents of the department of Justice, thereupon made a separate investigation, and as a result Secre tary Daniela renewed his complaint to the governor. Administrator Hoover Spends 4 Hours Explaining Measure. CONTROL IS OUTLINED Flour Almost Twice As Expensive in America as in England — Other Staples Stay About Even. Americans Go to Front. RUSSIA TO START NEW OFFENSIVE ----- — Duma Orders Troops to Attack On Eastern Front at Once. TO STAND BY ALLIES Prolonged Inactivity Along Firing Line is Considered Treason—Expelling of German Agent Ratified. Petrograd, via London—The Duma, in secret session, has adopted a resolu tion for an immediate offensive by the Russian troops. The resolution declares a separate peace or prolonged inactivity on the battle front to be ignoble tr son to ward Russia’s allies. The first meeting of the Pan-Russian congress of all councils of workmen and soldiers’ delegates, upon the vote of which depends the immediate des tiny of Russia, both international and domestic questions, was held here Sunday. Councils throughout the empire and the armies at the front have sent dele gates. The congress will organize a large number of sections on the special ques tions of labor, peasantry, finance, in dustry, food, nationalities, the local government, which will draft reports for the consideration of the whole con gress. The vital questions are the na tional attitude toward the war and the relation of the revolutionary demo cracy to the coalition government. It is expected the congress will em phasize a demand for the cessation of the war, but will declare against a separate peace. The newspapers of the Bolsheviki extremist wing are clamoring for the congress to condemn the government and proclaim for the immediate transfer of all power to workmen and peasants. The first act of the Pan-Russian con gress was to ratify the expulsion by the provisional government of the Swiss Socialist, Robert Grimm, who is reported to have been the medium through which the Germans attempted to arrange a separate peace with Rus sia. Grimm’s case was taken up imme diately after the delegates had elected as their president N. C. Tcheidse, president of the Petrograd council of workmen’s and soldiers’ delegates. Members of the American commis sion devoted Saturday to informal con ferences with prominent Russians. Elihu Root, head of the mission, met Alexander J. Guchkoff, chief of the munition bureau. CAN WIN WAR WITH FLYERS Marconi Says 100,000 American Aero planes Would Mean Victory. Chicago—An immortal entered the reception room of the McCormick resi dence Sunday and genially inquired: “ Which is the gentleman with whom I am to have the pleasure of an inter view?” A reporter answered the call, thrilled at standing face to face with Marconi, despite the effort of the illus trious scientist to place him at his ease. Signor Marconi was not well, and it was possible that he might not be able to continue through the whole tour of the Italian committee. Tall, slender, more French in appearance than lattian, the inventor of wireless telegraphy stood straight as an arrow. Speaking officially on the part that science has played in the war, he said: "The airplane is an enormous factor in this conflict and will, I believe, grow even more decisive. The United States will be looked to for this con tribution in a great measure. It, will require an hundred thousand flying ma chines to subordinate the other meth ods of war to the air fighting; 10,000 would help mightily, but they could not settle the war; 100,000, I think, would. "If an overwhelming force of air- planees could be mustered so that the enemy fliers would be driven from the air, they would be helpless in ranging and directing artillery, and would, of course, be at an incalculable disadvan tage. ’ ‘ ________________ Oregon's Liberty loan bond require Tokio Situation Clears. ments were $10,560,000, but a grand Washington, D. C.—Ai maro Sato, total of $13,820,500 was subscribed, or Japanese ambassador, discussed with an excess of $3,260,300. In the future, with the funds now Secretary Lansing Monday the scope available, inspection and examination and prupose of the coming Japanese of all insurance companies operating diplomatic mission, which is expected in the state will be made where it is to place the relations of the two coun deemed advisable by the insurance de tries on a better basis. All the com partment, states the annual report of plex diplomatic questions concerning Insurance Commissioner Harvey the revolutionarized Far East will be The recent Wells, which has just come from the gone into, it was said. misunderstanding in Japan over Amer press. ica’s note urging the Chinese factions In a few days the government to restore order was stated afterward dredge will be at work deepening and to have been cleared up. widening the channel approach to the Mine Hero is Buried. Bay City dock that was not quite fin Butte, Mont.—Manus Duggan, called ished by the dredge Oregon last fall. When completed vessels drawing 22 the hero of the North Butte Mining feet can lie at the wharf. company's disaster of last week, be The University of Oregon ambu cause through his efforts the lives of lance corps, which has been officially 25 miners were saved, was buried here designated as the Fourteenth Red Saturday. The funeral was one of the Cross’ambulance corps, is ready to an largest ever held in Butte. swer the call which is expected to take Duggan, after bulkheading an entry the organization to Allentown, Pa., which resulted in the saving of the for a period of training, and thence to lives of his companions, became lost France. and was overcome with gas.
