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ft - FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES CIRCULATION IS OVER 4400 DAILY A ON TRAINS AND NTTWB STANDS FIVB CENT FORTIETH YEAR NO. 14(5 SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS & .stem- d am WTfl FOOD ABU WANT PRICES BR Hoover Addresses Senate On Situation Points Out That Prices Are Higher Here Than In European Countries That Have Adopted Food ControlTo Stop Speculation ; and Eliminate Waste the Object Must Conserve Our Food Supply or Accept Germany's Terms By Robert J. Bender, (United .Press Staff Correspondent.) Washington June 19. Warning that food control alone can prevent further tremendous increase in food prices, Herbert Hoover addressed members of the senate today. "We now have a range of living cost in this country," he said, "that is beyond the ability of thousands to meet. We are threatened, as a result, by a loss of national efficiency and labor. "Yet, it is my belief unless some control be inaugurated that we shall look back at this moment as one of com paratively moderate prices." Hoover read this statement while fifty senators, many of them those who are vigorously opposing the food con trol bill, listened. His explanation of the measure and the situation facing the country ws designed to hasten action on the food bill. "We are facing the amazing situation in this country," he said, "of having a great and sufficient supply and yet the highest prices in our history. The average prices to consumers in those countries where they have food con tori are much lower than prices in the United States." . Hoover dissipated the "illusion" that the food control bill is directed against the producer, provides fixing of prices and authorizes a food dictator. ; .- i Regulation a.Necesaity. " "The bill merely is a means o regu latiug the distribution machinery to a war basis," he said. "It is designed and it is our purpose to mobilize the spirit of self denial, to eliminate waste in the country. We ean do this by -self Bacrif ice on a patriotic, . volunteer basis. "If we can't do this, we might, bet ter accept German domination." But there: is always, Hoover said, soma who refuse to co-operate and it is to force these giving.. support to the pa triots who fall into line that legisla tion is necessary. "It, is the intention to work the whole program on a voluntary patriotic basis if possible." The paramount necessities facing the country now, according to Hoover, are: Control of exports, instrumentalities net up to regulate legitimate as well as illegitimate speculation in foods, mobil izing the housewives of the country to aid in national cnnsorvniTn,, nnri iro,.. tion in every state of food administra- inn i1or,,-t,r,.nta 1 " rr.iw fko-o s 4..,ti c nr.. Hoover said, "the tremendous null of this vacuum in Eurone iav leave this country next spring without supplies." To Control Speculators. To show the need of control of spec ulators, he offered wheat and flour as an example. Forward , selling of flour should be eliminated because that necessitates 'for ward buying and selling of wheat. Hoover explained. "This could be stop ped by setting up volunteer co-operation in the various links from producer to consumer. '.'A vast majority of these men are moved by patriotism and are ready to. ao tniB. 1 navejieara or no grear uis tributioa agencies against the food con- ABE MARTIN It's all right t' be poetie if yoo kia apare ta' time, a momcr is institution, but a faiher nearly alius liss t' interfere when she buys clothas Jer a little boy. EI RECORD trol we propose- But, he added, these agencies them selves are helpless in many cases to help themselves, - " . ' we nave rank speculation," he said, "by people not actually engaged in dis tribution." Ho said the entire 1917 output of American tanners had been sold to job bers before the product left the farm end these "are already in the ha Ada of speculators. " . Control of Elevators. "We noed regulation of wheat elevat ors in order to facilitate the movement of the 1917 grain crop. "Kvery elevator should carry 100 per cent of grain," Hoover said. He protested against the present prac tice permitting of elevators to be leased by individuals, frequently leaving the elevators half full of grain while "near b' yards are congested with wheat lad en ""g"" cars- Hoover advocated the formation of a wheat commission to regulate exports and imports and also regulate prices He expects a long era of high prices. "We must maintain high priced wheat and encourage production," he said, "but the price must not be pro hibitive to the consumer. Regulation of the transportation of wheat was also taken up. Hoover tavor ed ascertaining the amounts needed at seaboard for export and assigning this quantity to railroad operators who would be expected to haul the amounts required. To Control Sugar. Hoover also advocated forming a sugar commission to act along virtual ly the same ln.es as the wheat coniuiis sion. Hoover said that the entire Cuban cr0P might be contracted for in his scheme to stabilize the sugar market. All trade groups interested in the sugar business have been heard from and have agreed to co-operate with the food ad ministrators. Hoover said he will need 6150,000,000 ft a working capital for his . food administration. "This may be enough money to start on and. it may prove too small an amount," Hoover stated. I Women will have direct charge of 90 per cent of the work of food conserva I American housewife in tbe movement, tion. Hoover wants to ennst every Women will te asked to sign pledges to save food and they will be given "com mon sense" lessons in home economies. "We must demonstrate democracy can riser and save itself in the emerg-t-ncy of war," Hoover concluded. Logging tepasies toe Under the Law Practically every big logging com pany in the state is now under the workmen's compensation aet. wliieh pro vides accident insurance for the em , i: - - M- t r i, 11 - pioyes, sccuruiug iu n. .-v. 'member of the state industrial accident f commission. I I Tha last two big logging companies to 'come onder the aet, he said, were the Smith-Powers Logging company or Ta.atif ial.l nnA th RnAn Timber ram- Ttc Smith-Powers company came, the aet within the last few weeks, while the Benson Timber company has just no tified the conmiasioa of its desire to coo under. " WHERE WAR MAKES NEED-THE RED GIRL IS MTACie U1UUHYL0LULIU CRUGER MURDER Consuelo Larue Found Hyster ica! and Maimed in Vacant Lot JUMPED FROM WINDOW TO ESCAPE ASSAILANTS Chauffeur Who Drove Cocchi Night of Murder Caught and Identified , By George Martin (United Press staff correspondent) New York, June 19. Deeper chan nels of crime apparently opened' today as police, private detectives and the district attorney's office delved into the sordid pools of lust and murder which swept the pretty school girl, Ruth Cruger, to her death. Shortly af ter midnight this morning Consuelo La rue, a young woman, who said she has furnished Mrs. Grace Humiston with the information which led to the find ing of the Cruger girl's body, was found, hysterical and maimed in a va cant lot beside an apartment building at 115 West Eightieth street. Screams brought a policeman run ning to the spot. Miss Larue was half clad. Her left leg was broken in two places. She bad jumped from a second story window. "He's tip there," she moaned. Asked what she meant, she said: "Tbe men. Two men came aod said they had telegram for me- One grabbed me by iuh mrui anir shiu: guess yuu u nui tell any more. ' I jumped out of the dining- loom -window. 1 preferred that death to the kind they gave Ruth Cru der." t She Tipped Of f Crime Then the young woman asked that lira. .Hamilton - be aotified thai the "girl who gave her the" tip on- where Kuth Cruger ' body would be foaad, wasted her." Mrs. Humiston was no tified. One report is that the lawyer went to the hospital where Miss Larue was taken but was ordered from the at once by the police, fane is said to have declared she had known Miss Larne ror some time, at me noi -inital all information wj ital all information was refused ear- ij.. todav and from poiic ice sources came the suirtrestion that the Larne eirl mind had been unbalanced by reading 0f the Cruger crime. la addition to this glimpse of 'he; Viom tWa irttila alnv rintr which Mrs. Ifumiston asserts is trapping, de - bauehing and murdering girls like Kuth!; n0 limit except the bright and beau-1 Cruffer in New York every day, strong ififui blue skv and even that might be! (Continued oa Page Two.) Report Found on Officer -Describes Helplessness , Caused By By William Philip Slmms 1 ' (United Frew staff corrcspQiideiitr unit T " a ' l. A : U VYll-U UltS- UriLlBU AIIUICB 111 tuo A iw June 19. Wing officers iout here are more thaa ever convinced that the war will be decided largely in the air. For that reason news of the American pro ject to build and man a huge sky ar mada was enthusiastically received to day. The airmen were agreed that the United States is capable of an enorm ous and rapid output of machines. More over, they hold Americans are natural ly fitted to be topnotchers as fliers oulv needing two or three weeks' ac tual battlefield experience to mako them hcadliuers in the fighting game. That the Germans are keenly alive to the importance of the air branch to military science is revealed in a report found on a German offiecr captured re cently. It covered tho poriod of tho Somme battle. Admits Air Control The report frankly admitted that tho British and French hold mastery of the air. The Germans, it was asserted, were unable to fly over the enemy lines and German balloons were forced to remain hidden on the ground. Thus, at decis ive moments in thd fighting, the Ger mans artillery was blinded, while the Prussian infantry was harrassed by war planes constantly soowping low and machine gunning the men in the trenches. Makes a Suggestion As To Subscriptions and Basis of Giving How much ought I to give to the Red Cross war fundi is a question so often asked the members of tho com mittee, that campaign manager O. B. Gingrich, dug deep into the gray mat ter, commonly presumed to reside be hind the cranium, and evolved the fol lowing schedule of "probable expect tion. It is to be understood of course, that .the amounts are merely suggestive, and represent 'neither the maximum nor the minimum. It is up to the con xeience and the loyalty of every indi vidual subscriber. A hundred dollars income may mean to one man, a con siderable "edge," and to another rep resent only a bare living for himself and family; much depending on the de mands which the income must supply. But "Ginre's" schedule (Ginger be ing a nieknarae Mr. Gingrich has earn- - . i i : l. e(j jB the last few days, by his invul- ; nerable effervescence) is as lonows: Wage earners, such as day laborers .nd men solely dependent on wage iMnino ahilitv. one dav ' income. Sal ariel clerks, stenographers, craftsmen, receiving from -0 to 100 a month. o to t"20. Salaried men receiving from .inn ... mnnili fmn fHl trt 40. y men of income' bevond this, there "Jcxceeded, if anyone gets txeitea. i CROSS SERVES Control of Air The German helplessness, the report continued, was aggravated by knowl- that tiftillftrv wm minhlft trt flitn- vmju w,uv - -- port thorn. The document continued that tho allied fliers eo outnumbered and out maneuvered the German air planes that the latter were even unable to hold the air above their own artil lery positions. The British and French machines constantly hovered overhead, dropping bombs or giving their own ar tillery accurate ranges. The German report also admitted that bases, ammunition depots, supply columns, cavalry supporting the troops, divisions in Tcservc everything and everybody, had been harrassed by the allied airmen, often completely frus trating the . defense at critical junc tures. bnowa Airship Necessity In short, the German report was a confession that an army is powerless unless something approaching equality is maintained in the air. Thus the experts here agree that with prompt action .America can throw the balance so completely to the allies that the Prussian airmen will be unable to cross the lino from the sea to Hwitzcr-land--totally blinding the enemy and placing hiin at uch a diadvantagc that a deciive blow can be truck on the ground. Other German data recently taken ad mits the allies outnumbered the Ger mans in aeroplanes by ten to one, in the battle of the Homme. This ratio, airmen here agreed, ought to be main tained hereafter. The Germans evidently have an ink ling of what tho future has in store lor them- They are straining every means to increase tho aeroplane output, tro hastily arc their machines built now adays that they tend to fall to pieces as soon as the strain of acrobatics is put upon them. And acrobatics are now essential to aerial figh ing. If America strikes whilo the iron is hot. Germany will be driven from the sky. , CRISIS IN AUSTRIA ' London, June 19. Affairs In Austria have reached an acute crisis through a formal break by the Poles with the government, according to dispatches received here today via Switzerland. Fall of the ministry and possibly area mora far reaching results may come, it was reported. One dispatch described a ta multoug scene in the Vienna reichsta" when a Polish deputy openly denounced Germany for mistreatment of the Poles, charging that hundreds had been executed. The Poles have formally an nounced they will not deal with the present eabinet. ' 1 4e ON RUSSIAN SOLDIERS Despite All Efforts to Stop Communication Between Trenches Much German Liquor Finds Its Way to Russians and With It Piles of LettersFighting On Western Frcst Is Negligible Russian Prisoners Returned By William G. Shepherd, (United Press Staff Corespondent) Petrograii, June 19. Germany is using alcohol and ink instead of powder on the east front. The propaganda . of booze and notes is relied upon more than bullets just now to undermine the strength of the Russian army. Despite all efforts to stop communication between the two sets of trenches, German liquor seems to appear on , the Russian side and every morning there are hundreds of neatly printed or carefully written notes and letters deposited near the Russian trenches. Reports from the front detailed today an increasing betterment of morale among the Russian soldiers. Gen eral Brusiloff, commander in chief of the army who is on a tour of the battle lines to stir his soldiers up to fighting spirit and to restore rigid discipline again, is meeting with enthusastic receptions everywhere. The congress of the old Greek church party, at Mos cow today, adopted resolutions firmly insisting that Rus sia should make war to the bitter end against Germany. The meeting telegraphed Minister of War Kerensky: "You are Russia's foremost outpost in the field of -liberty." Ukranian delegates in the Balada iron and coal mines have, met and adopted resolutions declaring their inde pendence and repudiation of - - ' American Mission BugV. ' : Members of rthc American mission have been ex- dinsly . bu,v in confer- j-tnes with various provisional govern ment neaas. Major Ueneral Hcott the mHifary chief of the mission, was to leave today for a visit to the Russian" front. :,Itar Admiral Glennori was with the Russian battle fleet in the Black sea- The members of the railroad coin- m'rsison, headed by John F. Stevens, have been in almost uninterrupted con ference with Russian transportation ex- perts. (Stevens himself has - been -ill from ear trouble and unable. to 'partici pate but was expected to be up and about again within a few days. - : Former- Senator Boot and the other civilian members of the diplomatic com mission have been engaged in a series of conferences with various members of the ministry. Withdrawal for Health. London, June 19. A new allied of fensive on the Macedonia front may be in the making, according to the view in certain circles here today, of radical re arrangements of French and British forces in northern Greece atfd Mace donia. " It now develops that the British with drawal from ubove the Btruma was mainly from a health standpoint, the) Ttrifiuh dfdiv otiial. nnt A .iut ri n tr ' hazard the fitness of the troops by a summer in that section. It was pointed out here, however, that the withdrawal might also be part of a general scheme to shorten the front and increase the strength of General Sen-ail ' 'forces at the foremost point of contact with the enemy. Abdication of King Constautine of Greece, and installation of a successor of pro-ally sympathies leaves the "back door" to the Macedonian front safely open1 to the allies. Heretofore the al lies have hesitated to throw great forces of men into the Macedonian theatre because there was always the possibil ity that the pro-German king of Greece would scheme some movement thnt would perhaps bottle up that army. The Bulgarian official statements of the past two days have indicated a re newal of active" fighting between the Vardar and Lake Dorian on the Mace donian front. . Strong Attack Repulsed Parii?; June 19 A violent German at tack ou French positlon taken Monday between Mont Blond and Mont Caruillet (Champagne sector), was brokn,down in the French defensive fire, today 's official report asserted. The war office described the prelim-1. . .-ii i . j i - as "most violent" ana tne enemy as sault as a strong one. The German waves were thrown back with heavy I Oakland Will Build Sixteen Steel Vessels Oakland, Cel., Jnne 19. The Moore and Scott Iron Works has been award ed contracts for building 10 steel car go ahips of the new United States emer geny fleet, it was announced today. The work involves between $25,000, OOO and $30,000,000- Within sixty days five thousand men will be working on the ships. la order to handle the con tracts the number of slips will be don- bled and new boiler and machine shops will be built immediately. Russia s war debts. losses and the French defenders took a numbor of prisoners. a "North pf fit, J(entin toward Vi'i ne, enemy 'attacks on smell pwts vco' stopped," the statement continued."" la the forest of rarroix, iff patrol engage- -incuts, we took several prisoners.'? '. Jusfrs Little Balding. " ; " ' London, Juno 19. Fighting on tha British front was confined to raiding operations, according to Field Marshal Hnig's report today. Southeaat of LeVorgnie and in the neighborhood of Bapaume-Cambrai. we raided enemy positions at' night, " he said. "Several of the enemy were kill ed; dugouts were destroyed-and 11 were taken prisonor. " Returning Prisoners. Stockholm, June 19. Germany ia planning shortly to return a large num ber of Russian prisoners, in -the hope of increasing the separate peace senti ment in Russia, according to word re- -ceived hern today. BKAlWlilOW SCHOOLDIRECTORS But Little Interest Shown and Vote Very Light, the Total BeingJ241 fftchool olection .yesterday eveked com paratively little interest,, a light vote being polled- K. T. Barnes was re flected to succeed himself and Walter Winslow to succeed A. A. Lee, who te clined to become a candidate again. Samuel A. Hughes, the third candidate, was defeated, "receiving., 235 votes. The total vote cast follows: : , - Ward No. 1 Winslow, 80; Barnes, 09: Hugbes, 23; vote cast, 88. Ward No. 3 Winslow, 171; Barnes, 165: Hughes, 40; vote cast, lflti. Ward No. 3 Winslow, 42; BaeMs, 40; Hughes, 14; vote east, 49. Ward No. 4 Winslow, fiCj Barnea, 63: Hughes, 44; vote cast, 91- Ward No. 5 Winslow, 52; Barnes, 4: Hughes, 18; vote cast, 118. ' ' Ward No. 6 Winslow, 54; Barnes, 46; Hughes, 28: vote cast, 58. Ward No. 7 Winslow, 75; Barnes, 38; Hughes, 68; vots eaat, 100. i The totals were: Barnes, (, vi ow, 539; Hughes, 233. " THE WEATKH ' Or.esoa: Fsir tonight SJld Wed-nc-Mtay; . axwtk wesferljr windsu Mow irs THE) ' .