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
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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.
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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
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—
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. ’ ‘
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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.