: . : FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES ; :, CIRCULATION IS ' OVER 4C00 DAILY ft m II flM II I III I 1 THIRTY-NINTH YEAR 70,000 PRISOHUS MANY DEADORl VOUNDED : This Is German Statement of Losses by Rumanians 184 Cannon and 120 Machine Guns Captured "Amount of p Booty and War Material Incalcu!ab!ew-Russians Make : Slight Gains in CarpathiansQuiet On Other Fronts : Berlin, via Sayville wireless, Dec. 9. The Rumanians are in complete retreat before the advancing Danube and : right German army wings in Rumania, today's official -statement asserted. Since December 1, the Rumanians . lost over 70,000 men taken prisoner by those two armies, - with 184 cannon and 120 machine guns. Several thousands of these included a force of Ruman ians which endeavored to make their way from the passes northeast of Sinaya toward the southeast Many cannon were aiso captured irom tnem. Discussing the number of prisoners and canrTBh taken, ; the official statement declares: "The size of these figures admits of a clear conclusion : as to the importance of the success obtained by our troops and shows to what degree the Rumanian army is in con fusion. .. ( . "The losses in dead and wounded correspond to the plumber of -prisoners. The amount of booty and war material is incalculable." v I Petrograd, Dee. 9. Russian troops ltave dislodged the enemy from two heights west and south of Valepntna, taking J00 . prisoners, today's official Btatcinentsnid. Six machine guns, one cannon and two bomb mortar were also captured. ." On both banks of the TcKebeniach the -statement said the Russian advance con Jlinued. " Southwest of Sulfa repeated enemy fettacks forced abandonment , of the .height occupied yesterday. ' . In the wooded Carpathians the state ment said the struggle for a height Bouth of Jakornika' died down and the .Eussians retired to their own entrench ments. Houth of Pomorwin, in the region c Konimkhi scouts, broke through, the enemy's entanglements and captured an . enemy ambuscade. . . .. Greece is Blockaded. London, Dec, 9. The Greek situation reached its most critical stage today. Mobilization of King Constantino's roy alist forces, reports of Teutonic neog tiatious with the monarch, departure of allied subjects from the capital and of 'concentration of allied fortes near Ath . eiis were -the elements which gave con cern here. AH dispatches from the cap ital were greatly delayed. One dispatch dated early in the week declared that adherents of former Pre mier Venizclos, now head of the pro visional government established at Sa lonika, were sufefring persecution from the Koyalist 'forces and were fleeing in terror from Athena. Atrocities were charged against the Greek troops. Meanwhile the alilied. blockade of Greece went formally into effect, main tained by British and French warships. Attacks Are Vain. . Rerlin, via Sayville wireless, Doc. 9. Vain attacks by Russian forces t gainst German positions north of Jfar ocz Lake and iSkorynarrow, preceded by fire preparation, were unsuccessful, to day's war office statement asserted. A majority of other strong Russian attacks, aimed at German- positions, oa the front between Kirlibaba and the Blstritza valley were likewise repulsed. ' 1 North of Doruavatra we lost ground dearly paid for by the aggressors." the 'ftatement continued. "Also in attacks "tr. the south Trotusul valley, which prac tically failed, the Russians onh- obtain Good' road J lead t'' good towns. What's become o' th'o1e tune family drutor that amassed a fortune duliu' eutjilour and sodyt 5 Lr Aiy .''ill. NO. 263 ed small local success, while wasting a considerable force." . All Are Retiring. Petrograd, Dec- 9. Both Rumanian and Russian forces in Waliaehia con tinue to retire in the face of "unceas ing; hostile pressure,'' the war office announced today. '.'. The' Rumanians are retiring eastward, it wag stated, and n consequence the Russian left flank is also retiring. '' Teutons Hold Ground. Berlin via Sayville wireless, Dec. 9. Kasy repulse of enemy attacks in the Cerna bend following a violent shelling of height positions north of Monastir aad northeast of l'arlovo, on the Mace donian front, was announced by the war office today. In the east upper Tuhiuo Lake the Bulgarian vanguards repulsed a British company 'b attacks. Just Exchange Shells. Berlin via Sayville wireless, Dec. 9. Artillery duels, approaching great violence during some hours, were report ed from the western front in today's of ficial statement. Enemy patrols advancing against German positions near Letransloy were repulsed in hand to hand fighting and artillery and a number of prisoners were captured. An Artillery Duel. Pnria, Dec. 9. Hill 304. on the left bank of the Meuse was still the center of active artillery fighting last night, today's French official statement de cuared. Elsewhere along the front the night wns quiet. Says Nothing Doing. London, Dec. 9. Sir Douglas Haig had nothing to report today concerning the situation on the British west front last night. TAX LIMITATION AND STAWMCE Will Conditions Compel State to Insure All Its Buildings?, In a letter from L. H. Johnson, secre tary of tho board of resents of the TTni versity of Oregon to Governor Withy-i coniDe, a big, new question relative to the administration of -the state educa tional institution tinder the six per cent tax limitation, L raised. It is this: bhall institutions carry fire insurance on their ow-n vraildings, and if so, will ,7' ?b,!Bed t0 PV he premiums out of their own funds, or will some new state enactment care for this new ex pense! ' . , In the past the state has in effect carried its own fire insurance. No prem iums have been paid, and where losses have occurred, they have been replaced with legislative enactment. Under the tax limitation law, however, funds will not be avadable for any gnch emergency expenditure. This Terv phase of the problems brought up by the tax limita tion meesure. wag dwelt upon bv Gov. ernor.VVithycombe, in his discussions of what he believed would be disadvantag eous results of the amendment Below is Mr. Johnson's letter relative to the subject: ! '.Since, the enactment of thfTlaw pro SALEM, Big Companies v Give Raise ia Wages Chicago, Dec. 9. Wage increases of 1300 employes of the Corn Products Kefiuing company, effective December 16, were announced here today. Mini mum pay for men will be 25 cents an hour, for women 18 1-2 cents. Powder Workers Get Raise. Wilmington, Del. Dec. 0. A bonus on annunl salaries, representing monthly payroll increase of about $32,000, was announced today by the Arlington com pany, a subsidiary of the Dul'ont De Mours company. . About two thousand employes are" effected.' increase wages. Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 9. An increase in: the wages of the Willys-Overland Auto mobile company employes in Toledo, Ely ria, Ohio, tind Elmira, N. Y. was an nounced today. Twenty one thousand men are effected. The increase amounts to $1,925,000 a year. El This Is Done In Kindly Spirit and Not of Friendship to Germany Washington, Dee.- 9. The, American protest to Germany against the deport tntion of Belgian citizens transmitted by Charge Crew at Berlin was made public by the state department late yes terday. The text follows: "The government of the United Sta tes has learned with greatest concern and regret of the policy of the German government to deport from Belgium a portion of the civilian population for the purpose of forcing them to labor in Germany and is constrained to protest in a friendly spirit but must solemly against this action which is in contra vention of all precedents and of those principles of international ' practice practice which have long been accepted and followed by civilized -nations ia, their, treatment of non-com batants in conquered territory. '.. , .;.-- " Furthermore, the government of the United States is convinced that the effect of this policy, if pursued, will in all probability be fatal to. the Bel gian relief work so humanely planned and so successfully carried out, a re sult which would be generally deplored uud which, is is assumed, would serious ly embarrass the German government-" Holsieiii Bull Sells af Record Price Portland, Ore.,- Dec. 9. Finden.e Mutual Fayne Valdessa, a junior jrear liug Holstein bull, consigned by Bernard Meyer, of Finderne, N. J,( yesterday sold in the ring at the axth Pacific International Livestock Show for $21, 500, the highest price ever paid on- the const for a single animal. He was bought by John von Herberg, part own er of the Columbia theatre, of this city; of the Liberty theatre, of Seattle, and owner of 90 head of purebred Holsteins at Kent, Wash. The yearling was bid on by at least six breeders of high-grade dairy cat tle, all of them passing the 410,000 mark in their effort to get what is considered the best animal of the Hol stein breed in this country, if not in the entireworld. His dam, Finderne Mutual Fayne, was the world's rec ord junior two-year-old, giving 200 pounds more milk than any other cow in her class. 1 His grandsire was the famous Spring Farm Pontiae Comiwopla, best known as the $13,000 bull. Valdessa was the center o? attrac tion at the annual sale of pure-bred Holsteins yesterday and many breed-, ers came with the express purpasc of going their limit to purchase the ani- ( mal. j viding for the reconstruction, of state buildings and replacement of fixtures destroyed by fire, the university has carried no insurance on its buildings, relying on the authority of the emerg ency board to replace property destroy ed by fire. Now that the six per cent tax limitation is to become operative the question arises as to what should be' the future policy of the university board of regent relative to carrying insur ance on buildings. ' "Will -you please advise this depart ment at your . earliest convenience so that the matter-may bo considered at the next board meeting!" The board of regents undoubtedly will wrestle with the new problem at its next meeting. Governor Withy combe has not yet determined whafr course he will advocate, although he says that ualess the coming legislature evolves some method of -general insur ance for all state buildings, business precaution will of course compel each institution to buy its own insurance. Just, how the premiums can be paid is the problem. Data which the governor has already partially assembled, shows that the in come of the various educational institu tions has declined during the last few years under the millage tax, while at tendance U constantly on the increase and promises to grow faster than ever. OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1916 FEDERAL JURIES TO INVESTIGATE HIGH FQO Grand Juries Summoned in New York and Other Large Cities HARVEY SAYS STATE CONTROL IS SOLUTION . . j "Each Community Must Take Charge of Its People's Food Supply" Washington, Dee. 9---8pecial grand jury investigations into high cost of liv ing will be begug in Detroit, Chicago and New York the middle of next week, Special Assistant Attorney General An derson, in chareg of the probe-an-nounced today. ' Attorney General Gregory gave offi cial approval of this plan. It is high ly probable that grand juries also will be called in the immediate future at Cleveland, Kansas City and Minneap olis. , Following the "go ahead" orders of Gregory, telegrams were dispatched im mediately to those points where grand juries will be summoned,, ordering the work to be started at once.- Anderson said today the-grand jury work in New-York probably will be di rected by Assistant Attorney General Frank M. Swacker, principally gainst alleged coal price conspiracies. . Anderson, will confer this -afternoon with Secretary of Agriculture Houston regarding crop and food product outpats for the year. President Wilson rs scheduled to pass personally upon. AlSjrsn 's (Xaa Mon day. It 'Was anticipated he will o. k. them. The food crisis Is bringing forth a large number of the threatening letters from cranks in different ports of the country, it was disclosed today. Several senators and representatives have re ceived through the mail threats of bod ily harm if they fail to support an em bargo measure or any other legislation designed to curb soaring prices. The most rabid lettew have come from the south, Dr. Harvey's Remedy. ' Washington, Dec. B. Dr. Hnrvey W. Wiley, "the man who purified the Am erican table" came out today with a plan to save it from the clutches of the food speculators. He wants municipal and state control of all food supplies. "The people must take the thing into their own hands," Dr. Wiley declared to the United Press. "Federal control has failed so far to answer the pur pose. Food supply is too vital a matter to be bandied about by unscrupulous speculators and laxity of federal ad ministration. f "The total disregard by food dealers of the existing cold storage and other federal food laws and the criminal lax ity in administering these laws indi cates the people must look to other mea sures for their protection," Decrying the widespread misrepresen tation of cold storaee for fresh eggs in open market. Dr. Wiley exclaimed: "Why, I, myself could run this thing down. Where are the federal food in spectors? And where are the 'men high er up' who are supposed to administer these laws for the people's protection?" Dr. "Wiley's plan, which he "would submit to congress except they know I can tell them too much" contemplates the taking over by municipal authori ties of all food supplies and the dispens ing of them to the consumer at reason able prices. "Each community," he explained, "would provide itself with a sort of clearing house for its daily food. The price manipulator would not- have a look-in- And it's coming to just this thing." Dr. Wiley also took a fling at the American cook, declaring her "the mest wasteful domestic on the face of the earth." He urged stricter economy in the kitchen if the cost of living is to be reduced. ' Prioes Rise Again Chicago, Dec. 9. Produce prices started up again today despite the in creased activities of government offi cials in pushing the food probe here. Kerrigerator eggs were is to 2 cents higher , wholesale than yesterday. The recent decline in butter was checked and a rise was expected by market ex perts. It 'appeared today that onlv a boy cott by housewives could remedy the food situation nnless federal authority is effective. Lower trices expected from the railroad embargoes have so far fail ed to appear and produce dealers said markets would be little affected, here. Perishable good, are exempted by all embargo orders. - ' . . ' Feredal officials today' continued their investigations and were to issue subpoenas for from 15 to 0 wholesale grocers and jobbers to appear before the grand jury next week. Among the D PRICES (Ooatianed oa nag VILLA'S BANDITS DE FACTO JROOPS Cavalry Sent In Pursuit of Bandit Are Led Into a Trap REINFORCEMENTS ARE SENT FROM CHIHUAHUA Villa Sends Word He Will Come Back After Balance of Ransom By Webb Miller (United Press staff correspondent) El TniM, Texas, Dec. 9. Fighting be tween -Villistas and Mexican gover nment troops was in progress early to day near iFresno, only ten miles from Chihuahua City. During the night Gen eral Murgia, Carrauzista commander, hurried reinforcements to the relief of General Ozuna 's column of . cavalry which had started in pursuit of the ban dits after the evacuation of Chihuahua City and had fallen into a Villista trap, according to information received here by mining men and United States de partment officials; ' . , Ozuna was enticed into a trap early yesterday near Santa Ysabel, by the Vnlistas, His forces' were attacked and driven back toward the capital. Near Fresno, Ozuna halted to make a stand against the baadits, meantime asking Alurgia to hurry renei. f Only the rear guard of Villistag en gaged In the attempt to halt the pur suit of Ozuna 's column. Refugees from the Cusihuiriachie say Villa men wore scattered in heavy bodies all along the Mexican Nortn western railway from Santa Ysabel westward. Villa himself is making his headquarters at Bustil los, they say. - - The present engagement is not tak en by military men to mean that Villa intends to make another assault upon the northern capital but merely to ham per Berious pursuit by government troops.' In military quarters here there is much speculation over -Villa's next move. ' x Another report reached United States department agents early today that the column of Carranzistas sent in pursuit of the bandits has returned to Chihua hau City after marching out eight miles New lines of trenches and wire en tanglements are beinc added to the de fensive works around Chihuahua City by General Murgia in preparation for another attack, ,-ila is said to have announced he would return for the- re mainder of tho 200,000 pesos ransom hT had demanded of the city's merchants. Ho obtained about 30,0u0 pesos, it was reported. Since the disposition of General Tra vino as commauder of the Carranza forces in the north, many rumors are extant that he is to be court martial ed. " " LAST TRIBUTE IS PAID iTO J0HNA. CARSON Supreme Court Bar Associa . tion and Sorrowing Friends, at Funeral . The funeral services of John A. Car son, who dieNi Thursday evening were held this afternoon at the home, 923 j South High street, attended by mem-1 bers of the supreme court, the Marion County Bar association and sorrowing' friends who were associated with him, j during the past 27 years in his many lodge affiliations. At the home the services were con ducted by the Key. Carl H. Elliott of the First Presbyterian church while at the Mount Crest Abbey Mausoleum' the services were according to the ritual of the Masonic lodge of which he was a prominent member. De Molay 1 Com mandery, No. 5, Knight Templars acted as escort. - . At the home a quartette choir com posed, of Mrs. W." Carlton Smith, Mrs. Etta Squire Seelev, F. G. Deckebach and William McGilchrist sane Mr. CaH son's favorite hymns, "Lead Kindly Light" and "My Own lear country." Mrs. W. Carlton Smith sang, "Sweet Hour of Prayer," and Mr. Deckebach, another favorite of Mr. Carson, "eras ing the Bar." - The active pall bearers were Dr. B. Cart wright D. J. Fry, John Bayne, G. O. Bingham, R. J. Hendricks and F. A. Turner. The honorary pall bearers were Frank A. Moore, chief justice of the supreme court, and associate justices Thomas A. McBride, Henry J. Bean, Henry I- Benson,- Lawrence T, Harris i . The Scottish Bite midnight service PRICE TWO SIX MINUTES PLENTY Mustache a Handicap 'and Whiskers Fatal Says Heart . Smasher New York. Dec. 9. "You can win a woman in six minutes Just as easily as m six years, was'the statoment today of "Oliver Osborne" Wax who in the past few days has been quailfy ing as an authority on such matters. "Whv snenil nix veara nn iH" k A a manded. " 1 'v k nMn man n nut in six years conrtinv n crirl-nnH tl,a n separate in less than a month. A man can tell in six minutes whether he can love a woman or not. And tts the same with the cirl ' A mustache is a handicap in" the game or oreaamg hearts, according to "Oliver" and whiskers almost put a man out of the running. He was tell ing some of the secrets of women. ""' "A man has to be well dressed to interest womeir," he said. 'He must be elejinlv almven 1 'va hail womah ell me that she hates a mus tache. Whiskers are worse. A man to win a woman must have a good opin ion of himself " "Be vain?'.' he was asked. " Xo. I'm not voin Trt Ka .: : nride yourself on something you do not possess." ' - ... "Do VOU nrpfer Vilnrwlnn nv hrun. ettes?" "Both." Summinff bimaelf nn "CV,var" m,t the whole thing this way: io oe a man among women, you must be a an along with men.'" SHIPPING WARNED OF SEA RAIDER Two Submarines and Raider Rumored Off Nova Scotian Coast v Halifax, N. S.t Dec B. Warninc of a possible German sea raider has been given allied shipping by . British naval authorities here, in addition to the con tinued warnings concerning two fight ing submarines believed to be some where off the Atlantic coast. The strictest watch against the vessel sus pected of being a raider, was being maintained today,- since from the posi tion where she was last sighted she could reach the waters in this vicinity with a day or two. , The naval authorities in their warn ing relate that the suspected craft was allowed to pass by the patrol off the southwestern coast of Scotland Jast Sundav under the impression that she was the Dutch steamer Gamma. Later it was learned that the latter "was at Kirkwol at the time. The vessel is described as of 1200 tons, black hull with red bottom, white upper works, One funnel, thought to be plain black. Naval officers believe the vessel may have mines intended to be sown off this port, the most important on this coast to the British navy, or to endang er the travel lanes out of here, taken by all Canadian troop Bhips. Eeports reached h'ere today from St. Johns, N. B-, that following reports of the sighting of -a submarine a short distance outside' the harbor Friday morning the city ordered all lights ex tinguished last night and spread the warning to -.nearby cities and towns.J rl. -..1 ' . . . I ua Buuiuanne 8 presence was reported by three fishing vessels, " held at the Masonic temple were a rare tribute to the memory of Mr. Carson. As the clock struck midnight, a bugler sounded taps, and officers in black robes, each bearing a candle, filed past the casket. Nine lighted candles were about the body. The eminent command re read a service to which the warden officers responded. Those participat ing in the midnight ceremony were George H. Burnett, eminent command er; M. L. Meyers, senior warden; W. H. Byrd, junior warden; George G. Bing ham, chancellor; Frank J. Wrightman, treasurer; Frank K. Lovell, secretary; George G. Brown, lieutenant of the guard, and Hal D. Patton, marshal- At the meeting of the Marion County Bar association held at the court house yesterday afternoon, Judge G. G. Bing ham, Judge William ballon-ay and Judge Percy E. Kelly were appointed to draft, resolutions expressing the sym pathy of the bar. ..; f ollowing the business session of the bar, President MeNary called on Jus tice McBride who paid a tribute to Mr. Carson and his standing among his as sociates. Justice Harri-s, Justice Bean, Judge Galloway and Judge Moreland each paid his tribute to the memory or Mr. Carson. ' LEATHER GOES HIGH : Portland, Ore., Dec. 9. Tramp, tramp, tramp the boys are marching over in Europe, and as a result Americans may have to wear saada) Hides -went np to 35 cents a pound, in Portland today. The normal price is 15 cents. Shoes Te due to 4oom. , The big demand for sol diers' boots .is responsible, say - the manufacturers. , : CENTS aSSS 10 OF 11 Of AWES i - t England's Greatest News paper Man Analyses the Situation IF ALLIES ARE BEATEN I AMERICA'S TURN NEXT Predicts That He Will Win War, and Retain Friendship v of America (Note. Following is th. most re markable' story that-has come out of tho great crisis in British-politics an a side analysis of the. amazing eituatiea which has suddenly changed the whole government, written by the man who made it possible Lord Northcliffe. - In it Northcliffe predicts that Lloyd George will direct the winning of the war; settle the crisis and maintain good will between Great Britain and tho United States. It is something . aMrr than an official statement, Editor.) By Lord Nor-hcliffe. ; (Written for the United Press.'! - (Copyright 1916 by the United Press.) (Copyright in Great Britain.) (Copyrighted a! the Department of Ag- ncuuuru in utiawa, tanaua,; London, Dec. 9. As a nersonatitv. LLOYD GEORGE Oil I'llllll!! David Lloyd-George is for many reasons, interesting and important to the Waited States. Ho is one of the new Britfltt statesmen understanding that difficult and intangible psychology of the Amer- ican temperament. ' He is important to America for an other reason. . He is now the head of the five British nations engaged in war Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zea- land and South Africa, together with India. 1 ' , Winning of the war primarily de volves on these nations. . - If they and the allies are beaten, it will be America's turn next, for tier many 's plans in South America and Ger many's hatred of the United States should be known to .every American who rends the anti:American propagan da of the German government. Lloyd-George is also interesting to your hundred millions because his life has been very much similar to any of you. He began simply, without other assets of life than a good father and mother. He had the sumo kind of educa tion that an American boy gets. There are millions of American homes lihe the little home in Wales, wherein he spent his early childhood. His father was tcacher of a -school in Liverpool, managed by a committee of Unitarians including Dr. Harris Martineau. His mother was a dauhtegr of a Baptist minister in the Welsh village of Llanys tumdwy. A Frank Admission. I do not know Lloyd-George in priv ate life; I am not in agreement with him on many political affairs. We hav been publicly antagonistic on waay matters during 2ft years. He adopted a line in the Boer war that was not mine, incurring the hatred, even contempt af millions o'f his fellow subjects. It was i a brave line, for it demanded nor - 1 courage to be or the 'side of the min ority opposing the war, than to shout with the majority supporting it. Since then Lloyd-George has led all sorts of movements at variance with " the tenets of the political party to which I belong. Sometimes he has been right i and proved right; sometimes he ha -been wrong and proved wrong bnt in all he has undertaken he has evineedl the same courage shown throughout this one momentous week's history. The British people's fear of herpinfj German propaganda in the United States prevented English writers from saying how dissatisfied the British peo ple have been with the politicians who have managed our share in . the war since 1914. - Lloyd-George was the only memhe ef the government with the courage to ex hibit discontent over our feeble and vacillating conduct , of the war. Occa sionally in parliament and on tho plat form he attempted to tell the people a little cf the truth, but on these occa sions he was always howled dowa by (Continued on page cix.i m THE WEATHER . Oregon: Fair tonight aad (Sun day; westerly . winds. ' ' , (Tmco'u to i