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CIRCULATION IS
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FORTIETH YEAR NO. 46
SALEM, OREGON. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1917
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"V lO STANDS rrVF. fTENTfl
BREAK WITH AIL
GERMANY'S ALLIES
SEEMS CERTAINTY
Austria-Hungary It Is Be
lieved Will Sland Firmly
by Her Ally
TURKEY AND BULGARIA
WILL ALSO STAND FIRM
This Means Diplomatic Rela
tions With All of Them
Will Be Severed
By Robert J Bender.
( l'uitil Press
Washington. F
Americas situat
tin1 international
tuff correspondent.)
b. 22. The Austro
jn held the center of
va r stage.
Tin r.linmx of
which has been
United States bro
this silent drama,
going On since Ri
se with Germany ap
ars to be at hand.
Within 48 hours, it
now generally
dieved, this
government will know
whether llu SCO
joatie relations
of its severed diplo-
to be extended to
Austria-Hungary.
The state department and White
House say nothing as to what is going
on behind the scenes. When the cur
tain falls, however, one of the most
dramatic and interesting stories in the
world's history will be written the
story of a great nation struggling to
restrict the extension of the great war
and another nation trying at once to
please a powerful friend and at the
same time support an ally.
01 what has transpired between the
United States and Austria-Hungary dur
ing the last IS days, the stale depart
ment: will not say. It will not even!
admit the authenticity of the aide'
memoir made public in Vienna, asking
Austria to clear up her position on
Germany's U-boat decree and her own
pledges to this government on U-boat j
warfare.
The Austrian government is portray
ed lis struggling hard to prevent the'
threatened break. That she must and!
will support the German decree is the
official fear here. Should she do this,;
it is taken for granted President Wilson j
will immediately order passports to Aus-'
trill n representatives here and request!
the withdrawal of . United States Am-j
bassador Penfield from his post in
Vienna,
It is felt certain that a break with j
The other Uermarur allies would short
ly follow. While the great pantomime
goes forward, it is allowing time for
movement of thousands of Americans
from central power countries.
Sugar Refinery Strike
Stirs Up Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Feb, 22. The whoie
section of Philadelphia in the vicinity
if the Franklin Sugar Refining com
lany was under heavy police guard to-
day following a riot that uncounted to
practically, a pitched battle last night.
One man was killed,, several others so'
severely injured that they may die
and many were hurt.
Mrs. Florence Sholde, age ;!2, was ar
rested and is held under $1500 bail on
the charge of inciting a riot.
The section of the city where the
fighting occurred is guarded today by
reserve police and mounted police front
all parts of the city are concentrated
there to prevent further outbreaks.
Trouble was anticipated when the ne
gro strikebreakers in the sugar refin
ery returned to work today.
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ABE MARTIN
edded t ' ther
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hide vou?
Titer's lots 0 ' fellers
art that ought I ' split U
bctd waiter nllns trv t '
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FOfibUPPLlES
Congressman Fess Will Intro
duce Resolution to Ac
complish This
THESE ARE NOT RIOTS
BUT CRIES FOR RELIEF
"Greed Has Closed the Chan
nels of Distribution"
His Assertion
Washington, Feb. 22. Determl
foroe some action from congrcs
will nt least temporarily relieve tl
serious food shortage that has canst
bread riots in New York and w
federal trade commission pr
will spread to every large city
the
I81
111 1" 1 ' i
sentative Fuss. Ohio, todav informed
Representative Meyer London he will j
introduce a resolution providing at least
temporary food control.
London, explaining that lie believes
inianu 1.1 ;,,,, I l .- .,f ..
permanent eovernment food control law.
anuounced he would support such n
measure as absolutely necessary to get
over the present emergency.
Fess intimated he would introduce Ms
resolution today, despite apparent dis
interestedness shown by many mem
bers of congress.
j Such a resolution will have the sup
port of Representative Bolaud, who an-
jnouneed he would press his provision
appropriating $400,000 for a federal
trade commission investigation of the
I food shortage by tacking as amendment
on the sundry civil bill when it reaches
the house floor.
In the meantime, the federal trade
commission, the interstate commerce
commission, the department of agricul
ture and the commerce department have
been called in to aid in affording some
kind of temporary relief.
Due to Food Speculators.
The American Railways association
will work with the interstate commerce
commission in an effort to do what ir
can to remedy any conditiou a car short
age may have caused.
Discussing the situation today. Repre
sentative London bitterly assailed food
speculators as the chief cause.
"I. call on the house to lake up the
food control question now," Loudon
said. "We are giving hundreds of mil
lions of dollars for preparedness and
preparodne
programs for the future.
j on we are disregarding an exigency
.already. created by the European war.
"If these starving people in New
! York have any fault, it is not that they
j do not work, but because they work
too hard beyond human endurance
and cannot make a living.
"Prices of food have risen so high
as to become inaccessible to the masses.
"These nre not. riots, but outcries
to heaven for relief.
"These people want bread not in
Berlin or Petrograd, or Vienna, or Lon
don, or Paris, but in New York, the
richest citv in the country, eaiovinff the
highest
"Thi
degree of prosperity.
More Gold Than Bread.
i country is surfeited with Euro
pean gold, but shows a lack of bread.
j for its workers. Having given so much
time to a leak investigation, it is time
congress gave some attention to the
leak in the country's prosperity."
I Representative Borland today blamed
the appropriations committee for smoth
ering the 6400,006 appropriation resolu
tion, which would afford the federal
trade commission money to carry on a
nation-wide probe.
j "The president is behind the pan,"
'said Borland. "The trade commission
has sufficient facts now to warrant
such an investigation; but the appro
printions committee still says no.
j "It is imperative for eongr
"propriate the full amount at o
inal prosecutions are merely t
! although they may be usefi
0 ap
('rim irarv,
1 the
j present emergency.
j "However, the real remedy is to find
'the basic causes. This country hag on
j limited facilities for food production.
We can feed all of our millions unit
more. I am one of those that believe
'that greed has closed the channels of
distribution.
j "It is a lasting disgrace to think of
j food riots in this time of peace and
I great prosperity in the metropolis of the
(richest and most productive country on
the globe. ' '
I Thinks Submarines
Will Win for Germany
Be
rlin, via Sayville wireless, Feb. 22
MUTON fit
UI1MIUL U!
I (Delayed-) "Firm confidence!
I that by use of the submarine weapon
J Germany will reach her aim." was ex-
pressed by Foreign Secretary Zimmer-1
I man before a meeting of the main com-1
mittee of the reichstag, according to. a :
press bureau statement today.
1 The pres bureau 's statemew ut was as
follows :
"In a meeting of the reichstag's main j
(Continued on page two.)
SALEM CELEBRATES WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY
Junior High and Willamette
Have Appropriate
Exercises
The Washington Junior high school
honored its namesake this morning and
the anniversary of Washington's birth
by appropriate exercises. The follow
ing program was rendered:
Song ' ' America. ' '
Reading Myrtle 1'elker.
Solo Harriett Griffith.
Reading Theodore Howard.
Solo Beatrice Uilley.
Address Dr. Avisos.
Selection Ukulele club.
Song "Star Spnngled Banner."
Rev. Porter of the First Christian
church delivered an address on "George'
Washington" this morning at the as-:
sembly at the Grant Junior high school
in honor of Washington's birthday. He!
told of our responsibility to our conn-1
try, how the citizens should have faith I
in the country as Washington did, hbw j
each should love it and work for its nd-
vanccmeut, and not to forget that God I
! controls the destinies of the nation.'
d toj"Amerca" closed the program,
that The English department of the Lin-!
j coin Junior high school celebrate, I the
day with a discussion as to the relative'
greatness of Washington and Lincoln.,
In the elementary eludes tin- teachers'
of the various rooms held individual!'
nrotrrams m honor of the ,i in
justice Benson Speaks.
Impressive, instructive, and entire);
in keeping with the purpose that makes
I this day a national holiday was the pro-;
presented ly the Washington club'
of Willamette
university, this morn-i
nig.
Opening the progr
Dr. Frank W.I
orsra a prelude.
Chace played a beaut
Tl.:
Phis was followed bv sino-ino- TIolv
Holy, and Dr. Doney gave the invoea j
Won. A musical program was -,hcn
presented, which was:
"The Sky." Hill i
(Continued on page three.
Expected This Will Relieve
Situation, and Other Sup
plies Will Follow Soon
New York, Feb.
cars of foodstuffs
expected to reach
2J. Five hundred
'from the west are
New York todav.
The cars contain meats, poultry and po
tatoes, mostly.
I Railroad men declare congestion in
! railroad yards is gradually being broken
j up and that food shortage soon will be
dispelled. In the meantime, Mayor
' Mitchell will start the city machinery
I working in an investigation of food
prices on the Last Side.
Frank Jamieson of the New York and
I New Jersey Retailers' association, in a
1 statement declared there is plenty of
food and that with the advent of the
! half thousand cars, prices should be
! forced down immediately, He declared
; meat prices should be the first to tum
' ble. Word from packers, he said, is all
t hat is required.
It has been 'found, according to of
ficial reports, that 100,000 pounds of
meats have been sent into cold storage
here Avithin the last 10 days.
Many tons of onions and notatoes
, are lying at. shipping piers to await
shipment to foreign countries and an
appeal to the interstate commerce com
mission to enforce the law as to the lim
its of time they ay be so held is con
templated. i The New York health department has
started the issuance of daily food bul
letins, showing how foods that have in-:
creased greatly in price may be elimin
ated from daily diet. Rice is urged
as a substitute for potatoes and in
structions for cooking in order to get
the greatest food value are given.
Newspaper Boys Say
Good Bye to Salem
Newspaper men who followed the ses-
sion of the recent legislature for vari-
ous papers throughout the state paid
(their farewells ysterday to Governor
I Witbycombe. The newspaper men on
j duty here were Ralph Watson of the
Oregon Journal, Shad O. Kraut, and
i 1 .e , . Gregory of the Oregonian, Ted i
Lansing and Harry Critchlow, of the;
j Telegram, William E. Lowell of the
I Pendleton Evtening Tribune, ('. ('. Teng- i
j wald of the Medford-Tribune, Mr.
; Jones of the Oswego Times, and Mr.
; Sweeney of the Portland News.
Harry Oritcblow, formerly a Wil- 1
! lamette student, will cover the Salem I
i field for the Telegram, while Henry ;
j Hanzen, Salem correspondent, takes
j his vacation. During the legislative
I session W. T. Kirk, Salem correspond
I ent for the Oregon Journal, was en-
tirely engaged with the work of the
session and the city was covered for
that paper by Perry Reigelman, of the
Evening Capital Journal.
t'losely allied with the newspaper
(Continued on page two.)
HRST W4R, FIRST PBflCB, 1
FJR5TTHE HMRTSfHilS COUNTRYMEN
WASHINGTON'S MTHRflY
FEBRUARY 22
1.;
DESCENDANT SAYS
STORY .,,! A MYTH
Philadelphia, Feb. 22. "That
cherry tree yarn is nothing but
a harmless myth that's done a
lot of good," said George La
i'nvcttc Washington, great
great grand nephew of the
''Father rlf his country,'' here
today. "George Washington
was probably too clever to be
caught in a lie," he explained,
"but he was too human to have
never told a lie. Therein lie:; his
strength." ,
George Lai'ayette Washington
lives in Woodbury, N. II., and
is a bask clerk there. He is the
son of Richard 11. Washington.
VIEWS ON IB' WAR;
GERMAN HOPES FUTILE
s .!; , . y.
OPINIONS VARY WIDELY
What naval heads of three
belligerent nations think of the
submarine warfare:
Admiral I.aCaze, French min
ister, French minister of marine:
"If the German people are
looking to the submarines for
peace, let them take cognizance
of the fact that sincethe begin
ning of the blockade
about the same number of
French mercantile ships have
been arriving at our ports as
heretofore . The block
ade will never succeed."
Vice Admiral Von Cappelle.
German minister of marine, de
clared to the reichstag that the
submarine warfare had not only
realized, but surpassed expecta
tions, and that the rationing of
England had approached a dan
ger point.
Mir Edward Carson, first
lord of the British admiririty,
estimated there are continuously
three thousand allied merchant
men in the danger zone, during
the first 1H days of the Ger
man submarine war, 8,076 vcs
sels arrived and 5,5H.l deparred
from British ports. He added:
"The submarine menace is
grave and serious and is grow
ing. "It is not yet solved, but I
am confident measures now be
ing devised will gradually miti
gate its seriousness."
(The following Lotted Prci
view with Admiral La Caze,
minister of marine, brings the
ficial expression of France's
French
first of
view of
the German submarine campaign.
It is especially significant, follow
(Continued or oage two.)
FLAGS Iff HALF MAST
1
Two Regiments infantry, 18
Companies or Artillery
Will Be In Line
San Francisco, Feb. Flags which
ordinarily would be floating over pub
lic buildings and warships in San Fran
cisco bay in honor of the birthday of
the first commander In chief of the
American army, were at half mast to
day in memory of another American
general.
Tomorrow the bodv o
Frederick Funston will
burial ill the Presidio
Mi
eneral
re for
ceine-
nal lona
(cry.
While hundreds of telegrams of con
dolence poured in to, lav on Mrs, l-'un-ston
and her three, children,, the mother
ftnd brother of General Funston were
en route from Kansas.
At the funeral Saturday morning two
full regiments oi' infantry, commanded
in person by Major General .1. Frank
lin Hell, 18 companies of artillery, ma
rines and naval training school cadets
;e Spanish war veterai
Stl
of
for
J6 ; eign wars, several cor
tioual guard, and city
j The solemn boom o
will begin as the it
Presidio. After the in
es of the na
R, will march
minute gun
enters the
till
i tegi
errnent and taps,
ubite nt thirteen
rs will be tired
the ii
r general
three V
grave.
i hi
T
Towed Back to Port and Wil
Start For New York
Again Today
New V'ork, Fel
riving here today
Passengers ar
the liner Phil
of the White
reported sunk
boar
stoi
adelphia brought a
Star liner Celtic b
by a mine, while tw
I.iver)Kol, en route
The passengers
nig
lve hours out
froi
to this country,
declared, however
that the Philadelphia left Liverpool
with the C'-ltic and Canada. The form
cr disappeared and they heard she had
hit a mine. Whether the Celtic put
back into port or went down, some were
not certain, but the prevailing report
was that she had sunk.
. I.ater one of the officers of the Phil
adelphia confirmed that the Celtic had
hit a mine, but stated that she had bees
towed safely back to Liverpool, it was
also learned at the White Star offices
that the Celtic was scheduled to again
start for i'ew York today.
The Celtic was the first ship to car
(Continued on page two.)
even CHICAGO IS
GETTING UNEASY
Has Wheat and Meat Enough
For the Whole United
States
BUT HIGH PRICES MAKE !
HER POOR DESPERATE'
Speculators Jump Prices Over j
Night-Philadelphia Has
Food Riots
Chicago, I
eb. 22. Outwardly. Chi
eago with In
wheat stored
r 70,000,000 bushels of
in elevators and packing
industries turning out
feed a uatiua, is not
enough meat to!
n the throes of '
food panics, but in the tenement dis
tricts and the congested factory centers,
a spirit of unrest is 'orewing. Ho incline
ing has this become th at officials, fear
ing an outburst similar to the one in
New York, are doing their utmost to se
cure relief from rapidly soaring prices
before it becomes too late.
Denouncing railroads and the inter
state commerce commission for their
hesitancy, board of trade officials are
clamoring for action.
"I have no hesitancy in declaring
that both the railroads and the commis
sion are completely overwhelmed and
lost grasp of the situation," President
Griffin of the board of trade said to
day. "As a matter of fact, the inter
vention of the interstate commerce com
mission has been harmful rather than
beneficial. Their relief suggestions nre
faucii'ul, not practical.
"Within less than 30 days, uiiIcbs re
life conies, the commerce of this country
will be prostrated. A power more in
fluential than the commerce commission
should be placed in control of the Situa
tion." Prices Increasing.
Foodstuffs which havo advanced
gradually every dav this week, con-
j tinned t heir
toes, yesteri
peck, today
boosted to :
1 advance be
Live hogs i
npward trend today. Pota
ay selling for 1)0 cents per
went to $1- Pork chops,
j cents per pound, also will
ore night, butchers state,
old at $12.05 per hundred
pounds, highest ever
known, and $-1-50
higher than last yenr.
Fro. Aurora, 111., the center of milk
j distribution, today came the announce-
ment that the Milk Producers' nssoeia
! tion has voted to raise the price to $2.25
I per hundred for summer milk. It has
been $1.S5. This means 10 cent milk,
lice also will be higher this summer,
j Fred I'pham, president of the Consum
ers' company, announced today.
"Personally and confidentially I
i can see absolutely no justification for
j any further advances in prices of
! meats," a vice president of one of Chi
icago's largest packing companies -stated
tod a
that
For obvious reasons he asked
his name be withheld.
A Flimsy Excuse.
1 "He
city ol
ation.
j count
r as we know, there is no sear
ttle that would affect the situ-
Demand
! the win
has increased on ac
but the same has been
odstuffs anil products
j t rue with othe
f(
used iiv ftUfope,
"Speculators, retailers and others
! are using the war argument as a flimsy
excuse tor pinching the consumer. And,
i of course, everybody has to get his
fingers in the pie.
j "America, money mad, and running
j iiniuck amid the deluge of gold from
! Europe, is robbing herself to quench
' an insatiable greed for profit.
I "Like Frankenstein '( super-man, we
are creating a being or class wnnoui
a soul. And once created the inevit
able food riots and a social revolu
tion." Riots in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Feb. 22. Food rioting
broke out in Philadelphia this after
noon. Shouting "it's robbery, rob
bery," several hundred Jewish women
attacked dealers who had advanced
prices.
J ush carts were overturned and
several shops on Seventh
street were
entered by the women.
Intermittent fighting continued
be
I ween the women and dealers until po
lice reserves were rushed to the scene.
The trouble started when women discov
ered that price- bad been advanced over
night. Carp, which sold at 10 cents a
pound yesterday, was 18 cents today.
The police nre watching every corner of
rhiiadctphiu tor otner demonstrations.
Another outbreak of the sugar refinery
strikers, who engaged in a general
fight with strikebreakers last night, re
sulting in the death of one man, was ex
pected momentarily.
May Have Public Market.
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 22. High food
stuff price! have resulted in a campaign
of street speeches by 40 labor leaders
endorsing the tOOO.OOO municipal mar
ket system which will be submitted to
voters here March (. If it passes, the
city will contract for large amounts of
perishable foodstuffs from farmers, and
sell them at a minimu cost. The plan
was worked out by a committee of labor
men with the co-operation of l.'nrver
sity of Washington faculty members.
OVER FOOD SUPPLY
NINE INCENDIARY
FIRES LAST NIGHT
IN NEW YORK CITY
Mitida Called Out and City Is
Placed Under Martial
Law Today
ATTEMPTS) TO DESTROY
MUNITION FACTORIES
Town and Plants Saved by
Quick Response of Nearby
Cities To Aid Calls
New Britain
Conn., Feb. 22. New
martial law today with
of state guardsmen pn-
Britain is undc
.two companies
trolling ts streets
multnneous fires ii
following nine si
different parts of
fivn men are under
of having started
the city last night.
)U suspir.uu
the fires.
Repairs arc being rushed to the elec
tric fire alarm system, wdiieh broke
down when several persons rushed to
boxes anil turned in simultaneous
alarms as the fires began to light up
the skies.
All local fire departments are still
at work early today, quenching smould
erling embers that threatened to start
nil over again. Volunteer engine com
panies from Hartford, Bristol, Water
bury and Plainfield, however, have been
sent home.
New Britain has many manufacturing;
plants, which have been making muni
tions for the entente allies. The belief
was expressed that some fanatic, hop
jiug to stop their manufacture set the
fires by means of time incendiary
bombs, but no evidence of bombs liu.i
1 been found-
I A tenement house, three residences, a
igurage, a synagogue- and a business
block were raked by the flumes. Tha
I damage is roughly estimated at about
' 50,!KX).
The fire first started early in the
night in a tenement house, eontaising
ninny families. Built of wood, it was
'rapidly consumed. Inhabitants poured
down the single stairway in the house.
Everyone left safely, but firemen took
'several from upper windows and by
' menus of ladders.
While they were working other alarms
began to come in and soon all apparatus;
was working. Police and fire depart'
incuts were totally unable to cope eilh
the situation and appeals were sent to
i nearby cities for assistance.
Crowds began to march up and down
I the steret. Mob hysteria was growing
in the air and Police Chief Rawlings
asked Mayor Quigley for militia. Com.
I patties I and L, First infantry, were
called out and soon had the crowds un
' der control.
I By midnight all blazes were out. and
the city quiet. No further outbreaks,
it was said, are expected, but the troops
are kept on guard as a matter of prccitu
tiott. Newspaper Reporters
Were Spies for Germany
New York, Feb
llncon, American i
22. George Vaux
'porter, whose de
revealed an alleged
tention nt hnglnnd i
plot whereby Amerit
newspaper men
were sent to Ku
million for thi
land to obtain infor
Uermun government,
photographed forts in th
ountry with
before ho
a moving picture compi
'sailed for England.
federal
ut hori tics
learned today.
This revelation and the publication of
! the names of two other reporters in
volved, came today it was announced
that the federal grand jury hud been
! ealled to meet tomorrow instead of
i Tuesday as scheduled to probe the plots.
J Churles W. AVunnenbcrg and Albert
A. Sander, now under arrest, here as
organizations of the band of American
"observers" in Britain will be the
starting point of the grand jury action.
It is understood Bacon will be sent hero
to testify against the two as it is re
ported he revealed to British authori-
ties the operations of the spy system.
Charles E. Hastings and litttflieDgS
; Rutherford are said to be under obser-
jvation in Holland. The names of four
! other men now said to be in England,
have not been reveaeld. An eighth
"agent," federal authorities report, is
tinder observation in Copenhagen, vhi!
an alleged assistant of Sanders' is be-
i ing siraght in New York.
THE WEATHER :
Oregon: Tonight
rain vest, snow
east portion,
warmer southwest,
portion; Thursday
rain or -now east
portion; southerly
windn increasing
along the coast.