4,400 SUBSCRIBERS MFfi ffti Vrf ffrfS d d a Jftft I FULL LEASED WIRE (22,000 BEADEBS) DAILY. DISPATCHES Only Olrcnlatioa In Salem mw anteed by 'tis Aadlt Bare f Circulation gPEOTAL WnXAMETTH YAL LET KEWS 8E&VZC9 FORTIETH YEAH NO. 207 SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS ASS WEV STANDS JTVB CENTS. WOMEN MAY HAVE MUCH TO DO WITH BRMGOF PEACE Suffering From Hunger, Sor rowing Over Losses, They Weary of War EXPECT COMING WINTER WILL BE WORST OF ALL Ksksr Sees Signs of Trouble and Orders Name Kept ; r Out of Papers (By Carl D. Groat) (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, Aug. 31, Germany's women are likely to have much to do in remolding Teuton peace opinion. Suf fering from short rations, torn with Borrow over their losses, they are be ginning to sulk at continuance of the war. This spirit, coupled with a gener al war weariness and a stirring desire for governmental liberalism, are ele ments upon which authorities here count largely in beliefs that peace is not far distant. State department advices today indi cate that tno coming winter will be the worst Germany has experienced since the great strugglo started. Some crops are short. Fats are scarce, smaller ra tions are In force. The kaiser himself begins to see the signs of trouble, for he has ordered the newspapers not to print his name so much. Hence the German people are no longer fed on fulsome praise of a lead er whose authority is being assailed. , Revolution May Come. One evillerie.fi nf fnnii stinvtmra is tlinf prisoners, always scantily fed, are low'"1'"'0111 -on even lower rations. Turnip and beet soups, sometimes flavored with nettles, with now and then a potato, constitute the bulk of their diet. To make their lost worse, Germany is forcing them tc work on the west front, frequently in direct line of fire. All this is 'found in official reports showing that a revolution may be near er than surface indications show. Con fidential messages indicate the liberals are growing bolder. Officials believe when the full force of President Wil son's message strikes them they will force a governmental reform that wiL place power in the people's hands rath er than with the kaiser and his wi. lords. This government will see that actual translations of the president's reply to the pope reach Germany to correct im pressions that America's spirit is one of Ixitchery and conquest. Wilson has held out the first ray of hope to the German people by show ing clearly that peace negotiations can be undertaken once the plotting, mur derous Hohenzollern regime is side tracked. This government will promptly un dertake peace proceedings when . this comes about. It will notify the allies that the reforms have been accomplish ed and that they must fall in line with the peace negotiations. DENOUNCES WOMEN PACIFISTS. Washington, Aug. 31. Women pa cifists were denounced as cowards and inmo.s .uuay uv v . ....... .g j rnury nonora.y . genera, o, we Daughters of the American Revolution. , ine women who preacus j.ae,wn when her country is at war is a cow ard and a traitor and she is playing into the hands of the enemy," declared Mrs. Story. "Other women should be quick to repudiate her." 5 ABE MARTIN 7',. I ) f iner namt notnm- as good for a: 4 ' i! 1 Lome as a little company occasionally; Munched a Lunch. ea socialist leader recently convicted evea if th - dishes do pile up. Miss Fawn i Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 31. The special in federal court of conspiring to pcr Lippmcut's class in succotash meets train carrying 300 delegates to the Peo- suade a man not to register for select J'day, jle's Peace Council convention "some- ive service. Hindenburg Plan of Defense Explained (By Henry Wood) (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the French Armies, July 9. By Mail The much-vaunted "Hinden burg Plan" is no longer a closed se cret. Tne nature of this "plan" was long ago fully guessed and understood ty the French military authorities, who preferred however, not to talk about it at that time. In short, from attempting to hold the western front by defensive lineS; Hind ' g will hereafter try to hold it byu.r' stem of successive de fensive zorgo duos that continue back to the Bhi" d into Germany. By retre 5 P from one zone, when he can no Ion!-! old it, to the next one prepared ii cr rear, Hindenburg hopes to save hie 3 ! from ever being pierc ed, and at "'M tame time convince the German pi that his "stragetic re treat" is t m r great victory. Hindcnb plan became operative as a mattj " fact last March when he retreat his first "zone of de fense ' ' L . , ambrai, St. Quentin and LaFere when he could no longer stand the pressure that had been created by the Battle of the Somme. Work on these successive retreat zones has now been under way for months and little effort is made now to conceal either their existence or pur pose. The supreme confidence which German and Swiss military critics have in - Hindenburg 's plan" is such that in recent articles they boast of the fact that Hindenburg will be able to retreat for 50 kilometers without having his front pierced. Whether a fifty-kilometer retreat can be forced onto the -German public as another "stragetic victory" remains to be seen. MONEY ROLLING INTO I0NAL Last Installment of Liberty Loan 5415,000,000 being Paid It Washington, Aug. 31. Money by the rolling into the treasury and Hb branches today-vhe final In stallment of the first Liberty loan of $2,000,000,000. The $415,000,000 repre sented will not be rounded up complete ly for several days. Meantime government engravers are hastening the, task . of finishing the fancy bonds which will replace the in terim certificates now held by purchas ers. The vast sum represented by the loan has gone to domestic war uses and into foreign loans. About $80,000,000 is in volved in navy work. Congress has ap propriated $040,000,000 for aeroplane work and an additional $45,000,000 is sought. Upkeep of military forces, pur chases of guns, orders for every pos sible naval and commercial ship these and many other expenses are drawing heavily on the nation's resources, while hundreds of millions have been furnish ed by the allies in loans. COUNCIL IS LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO LIGHT Shut Iut of Three Slates Will Seek Roost on Steps of National Capitol Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 31. The or ,mn p Council, disavowed bv the lmime ' win . ' it itse,f (- the fr(mt gf flf the nntional capitol. Louis V. bo. hner, executive secretary of the council, made this known today when he announced that an effort will be made to hold the proposed icaco con ference in Washington on Sunday. Denied a home in Minneapolis, North Dakota and Wisconsin, the council has determined to assemble on federal soil. Officials of the organization will leave for Washington tonight to make ar rangements. The special train bearing eastern del egates, which left New York yesterday afternoon, will be turned back at Elk hart, Indiana. Press Agent "Sees Things." New York, Aug. 31, Reports from the "front" as the eastern delegates to the People's Peace Council proceed westward today show that they think they are going to Hudson, Wis., the lat est town to prohibit the peace assembly originally scheduled to start in Minnea polis tomorrow. The press agent filed a thrilling ac count (paid) to the United Tress from Buffalo telling of enthusiastic crowds that greeted the peace special at Syra cuse and Rochester. At Rochester, it was stated, "SjflO to 5000 people had waited until mid night," The Young People 's Social League of K,lche?tor presented the peace delegates! , , "IZl T I TV .7 '"V Wend "Thm. Shalt not kill" was at- :hpil. the council ' rtrpss niront. re-1 , - GERMANYTO MAKE SUBMARINE WAR E RUTHLESS This It Is Relieved Will Be Concentrated Against American Shipping POPE IS DISAPPOINTED AND KAISER IS ANGERED .Rumored Emperor Karl and the Kaiser Ottered to Dem ocratize Governments By John H. Hearley (United Press staff correspondent) Eome, Aug. 31. Intense and con centrated warfare against the United States, as well as England, may bo one of the results of President Wilson's declination of the pope's peace appeal, in which the Amorican executive clear ly showed he was not impressed by the steps toward democratization Germany has taken to date Diplomatic circles here today re vealed their belief that the Central empires have been aiming, through so- cauea democratic decrees and discus sions, to influence American . public opinion. m The reply of President Wilson is evidence that they have failed in this. uermanys next step, then, diplomats nere Believe, may be expected in the form of a new outbreak of terror from her U-boats. Pope Benedict, it was learned today, has expressed himself as greatly dis appointed over the rejection of his peace plan by the American president. Will not Abandon Hope At the Vatican today it was stated that when, replies of all belligerents are received Pope Benedict proposes to issue a statement pointing out the questions of peace on which all agree and separating those on which there are differences. These latter he pro poses to make a matter of discussion. In this way he hopes gradually, by sifting ont the agreed sections, to make peaeT a matter of practical politics. According to rumors here, Emperor Karl of Austria and even the kaiser, have written the pontiff indicating pledges of the widest democratization within their empires. (This dispatch does not indicate whether theso letters were written be fore or after Pope Benedict issued his anneal, but it is reasonable to assume they preceded the pontiffs note.) In spite of the decrees and discus sion within the central empires and the letters to the Vatican, diplomats here believe the "democratic" moves are designed for American consumption rather than for the Teutonic peoples themselves. Failure of this plan of au tocracy then leaves but one altsrnativo new mruives to itusu us jue, wuicu through renewed attempts to starve out England and prevent supplies reaching the American army from the United States- Not Afraid 01 U-boats Washington, Aug. 31. Any Gorman attempt to increase submarine fright fulness against the United States bo-i-ause of President Wilson's reply to the pope will meet new and vigorous measures from this country. Defensive and offensive measures against the kaiser's sea pirates recent ly invented by America's men of gen ius are responsible for confidence ex pressed at the navy department today that the U-boats will fail. Some believe Germany may plan to launch larger submarines than tho 800 ton type. This would give the patrol stiffer work, but would not make the situation much worse than it has been for months, said 'one of the experts. A secret device lor .leiecung rmes, use or smoKe,ess, of .ouflaef d.eP inventions will check; real, a scheme bombs and other inv the k-iisir's revenffef illness thev bc - Kaisi r B re-tengoiuiuiss, uuy ul OR The allies and the United States will Thc tt?1 in, J,!'-v. of TSf'll turn out standardized cargo vessels by.cd, wounded and missing was 228 In the hundreds. FTVE ACES CAUSED DEATH Chicago, Aug. 31. Michael Santo died of five aces todav. He is said to have held them in a poker game in which his brother in-law Dominiek I'asrnola. was a participant. ; I'aenrda is alleped to have shot him. Pagnola escaped. BELIEF SHIP AGEOTJND Kev est, r la. Aug. 31. The Bet- iiian relief ship r.lizabeth van Heigia en route to New Orleans, is aground' off the Florida kevs. The crew is safe. where - passed the United States' "rough "ere very quietly at 7:30 a. m. 4..i ' ' " T.tl 1..... I. - J ' j'icguiv-a u.Mijjni raiii-c aim a iHuu-'j,on wich apiece and the train pulled out iw;n m-;th it iifr,t 1... You'll Get the Best and Plenty of It ' Three Times a Day By George Martin (United Press staff correspondent) Washington, Aug. 31 Having out lined in the two foregoing stories some of the less pleasant features you may encounter at your cantonment camp dining hall this fall, hero goes for gome pleasant news No hardtack or embalmed beef for yours. You'll get the best of everything and plentv of it three times a day. To prove it, here's the sample ten day menu to be used as a general guide in the preparation of your meals at the training camps. It will be varied from this according to the fresh ruits and vegetables available in the particular part of the country your camp ig located: First dav CSiindavi breakfast: Can taloupes, y-i each; oatmeal, sugar, milk fried pork sausaee: hot biscuits, coffee Dinner fresh vegetable soup, croutons iwcea orcaa loasieai; veal a la Creole boiled rice, string beans (fresh: let tuce salad; ice cream, cake, bread, ice water, cupper (cold) potato salnd bread, jam, iced tea. Second day breakfast corn flakes, sugar, milk beef stew, boiled potatoes; toast, bread cotfee. inner Boiled beef, with dump hnss; spinach, young beets, pickles, apple and peach pie. iced tea. bread. Supper Beefsteak, breaded; scalloped potatoes, hot Parker House rolls, iced rea. Third day, breakfast Stewed prunes oatmeal, sugar and milk, Hamburser stcbk, oaiced potatoes, Dread, toast, cof- tee. Dinner Kiec ana tomato soup croutons, boiled bacon and cabbage, Macaroni with cheese, lettuce and rad ishes or young onions, brown Botty with raisins or currants, caramel sauce sauce, hot corn bread, iced tea. Supper not rous, Duttcr, jam, iced tea Fourth day, breakfast Cantaloupes, corn flakes, sugar and milk, fried liv er and bacon, fried onions, toast, bread coffee. Dinner Beef a la mode, boil ed potatoes, creamed cauliflower, pick les, tapioca pudding, Vanilla sauco iced tea, bread- Bupper emu con came, hot biscuits, stewed peaches. iced tea. Fifth dav, breakfast Milk toast fresh apple sauce, beefsteak and onions baked potatoes, bread, coffee. Dinner Cream of potato soup, croutons, beef pot pie, boiled potatoes, boiled beets, lettuce salad, cottage pudding, choco late sauce, iced tea, bread. Supper .iTied ham, hen; J ft ker House rolls, ap pie sauce, iced tea. Sixth day,, breakfast Oatmeal, au gar and milk, fried pork sausage, lvon- naise potatoes, bread, toast, coffee. Dinner Vegetable soup, croutons, soft roast beef, mashed potatoes, stewed corn, piccalilli, lemon inee, spiced cake, bread, ice water. Hupper Mot lea, buns, jam, butter, iced tea. Sevonth day, breakfast Bananas, corn flakes, sugar and milk, beefstcw !aked potatoes, toast, bread, coffee. Dinner Roast ribs of beef, browned potatoes, spaghetti, Italian style, pick les, apple dumplings, plain sauce, bread ico water. Supper veal cutlets. Dread ed, hot biscuits, jelly or jam, iced tea. Eighth day, breakfast Cantaloues, oatmeal, Bugar and milk, hot cakes. butter, B.vrup, coffee. Dinner Fresh vegetable soup, croutons, fricasse of chicken, green peas, creamed potatoes, sliced tomatoes 'and cucumbers, jelly cake, .lemonade, bread. Supper Cold roast beef, potato salad, bread, apple sauce, iced tea- Ninth dav, breakfast Hot milk toast, fresh rhubarb sauce, fried spare rji)8 baked potatoes, toast, oread cof fee. Dinner Boiled Vienna sausage anbbage, boiled potatoes, hot corn bread, piccalilli, plum duff, caramel sauce, iced tea. Supper Scrambled brains, Jenny Linds, apple or peach sauce, iced tea. Tenth day, breakfast Bananas, 1 each, oatmeal, sugar and milk, beef hash, lyonnaise potatoes, toast, bread, coffee.' Dinner Biked pork and beans, spinach, piccalli, hot corn bread, rice pudiiir,- caramel sauce, iced tea. Supper cold sliced bologna sausage, French fried potatoes, pickled beets, hot rolls or buns, pumpkin pic, iced tea. England's Casualties for Month of August London, Aug. 31 In the fearful fight ing of the r landers oriensive or tne past month England has had 60,373 cas- p-;uaties in killcd wounded and missing, (. 0OI11,,ilations announced to- daT. The figures are below that of last ; ,?, ,, , .,, ;monIn w""" in , n . vptv mud. trront- ".p , "-"J""'!" "' taueu ricures ior auijuni wcrv; Kill Wound. Missing Officer's .... 1.317 3,70fi 307 To. 4H) Men 11,364 40,373 2036 54,K.1 441fi9 3323 fill.373 iTotals 12,SS1 - HEARST WILL NOT BUN. New York. Aug. 31. William Ran dolph Hearst will not be caudidatei for the New Y'ork mayoralty nomina tion. A formal declination to stand for nomination at the coming primaries, signed by Hearst at San Francisco un-,, dcr date of August J.i was f ilea witn; the hoard of elections here this after noon. Petitions to have his name on tho ti(.),pt bad beeu filed, and Hearst had til mi(lll;gilt tonight to file "'"""B" ,:i :.i.,:i,4- n,,!,.l,l fil. 1.1a ni. . ' ' board RUSSIAN EXCHANGE "DROPS New York, Aug. 31. Rubles fell to a new low record on the money market today, cables selling down to 17 30. ARMYOFLABORERS HEEDED TO ASSIST BEHIND THE LINES Soldiers Are Ready But Sup ply Departments Are Wo fully Deficient FRENCH WOMEN DOING THE STEVEDORE WORK Washington Stirred fcy United Press Correspondent Wm Remedy Defect J. W. Pcgler (United Press staff correspondent) On the Lino of Communications of the American Army in France, Aug. 31 The army behind America's fighting army neeas men ana supplies. It is tackling the stupendous job of supply ing the fighting forces with scanty doles of labor and material. Throughout a trip along tho "line of communications," concluded today, tne most rrequent assertion encounter ed from army men was: "Some ono is asleep at home. The army needs masses of labor especial ly carpenters and joiners and vast supplies of all descriptions. Now is the time to Bend them, when transport of troops is not occupying the bulk of .the tonnage. After six months, the rear organiza tion of the American army is a more framework. Tho United Press correspondent has lived tor a month with the American troops in tho training camp. Tho mem are physically and mentally almost ready to fight. But a tour of hundreds of miles of the American bases gives the. striking impression that the rear oreanizations are far behind their com batant brothers- Makeshift Arrangements For instance, a cortain base bakery is of makeshift appearance. It shows a couple rows of field ovens. Tho bakers until a few days ago lived in tents. Tho flour supply looks big to the cas ual observer, but the towering flour sacks dwindle into mole bills in com parison with the amount every army officer knows must be constantly forth coming. A hard working reserve captain show cd me over the food magazine from which he is constantly drawing. The building is only fair sized and yet it is less than halt filled. French female labor is doing stevo dore work for this American army in the rear, trundling crates of canned food and supplies, because of tho short age of American milirnry labor. The American medical base is ap parently the only ono which has bene fitted to tho fullest possiblitics since the war. They have sufficient supplies and forces to cope with extraordinary asualties and illness for three months. nowever, shortage and cramping even hero is causing the storage of ft big portion of valuable medical supplies in unwalled and untloored sheds. I found the aviation center grimly amusing to leisurely German prisoners thereabouts. Scores of alert Americans arc training at French air schools, hop ing to obtain repatriation and join the American forces when they attain pro ficiency in the air- Wi!l Send 10,000 Washington, Aug. 31. To keep pace ,h demands for more labor units, the war department proposes to send regi ments of engineers and laborers to rrance. This developed today follow- ng reports from J. w. I'egior, umtcu Press staff correspondent with Per iling, that the American expeditionary torce needs Inbnr ana supplies. Tho authorization at present is for ten thousand engineers, including four thousand laborers, but it is understood tnat tnese numbers wui ue co.iaiuur ably increased soon. General Pershing has urgently rec ommended these, though he has not complained of supply conditions. Equipment for the new units is a per plexing problem. Fixing Wheat Prices Gives Corn a Boost i.liicago. An". I he trade assum ed today I hut the government's basic price of $2.20 per bushel for wheat iitade corn, worth more than the pre- vailinK I'"-" for thc '.iew ""I' !''' v , en. n a rcHun, nuving wan siunu late.l and corn went up 1 I s to 1 3-4 iover yesterday's closing prices. 1 ...... .1 i-t O A , t , H ',; ' , 3.8 st $10- )au.r ainin2 3-4. Oats followed the trend of corn. September opened 3-K hijjhcr later :; 5.8 to 36 1-8. December ooen- , . --, n u i V - ar --Y4, " ". su, qucnuy rea.-u- ing ii.-i'a. May opened Vt uj later gaining another to .i - Provisions were unsettled despite strong and higher hog market- The . vacant lot gardner may well pproa.h the digging of his ix rith, "Lord, how I dread it,'' otatocs Work Goes On Again at Camp Fremont; San Francisco, Aug. 31. Construc tion work at Camp Fremont was in progress again today, despite the war department's announcement that the camp had been finally abandoned Late yesterdav captain J. W. Jack son, quartermaster for the remount station, received telegraphic orders to hire 100 men and clear the site for tBo station. Simultaneously the civilian commissary was ordered to prepare to feed from 500 to 800 workmen by Tues day of next week and the big trench digging machines resumed the excava tions for the water mains. Nearly 200 men went to work at the camp this morning. No direct indication of the purpose of this resumption of activity has been given. Destroyers Checking Submarine Activities Washington, Aug. 81. American do stroyers are doing satisfactory work against submarines in the North Sea, navy officials said today and condi tions will continue to improve as more destroyers aro sent to European waters- The ironeral submarine situation, it was said, "is satisfactory." JNo Amer ican destroyers have been sunk. Sever. al allied destroyers at various times have been sunk by submarines. Admiral Sims is understood to have reported great faith in the destroyer to cnock tno U-boat menace. t m ITALY ATTACKING 0 THREE FRONTS AT ONCE Austrians Powerfully Rein forcedTrieste Only 12 Miles Away London, Aug. 31. Italy continued her attacks on three Austrian fronts today, but otherwise there was a lull In the European fighting zones. " The Austrians on the Bainsizza plateau -have bees, powerfully rein forced, Borne reported. Strong coun ter attacks have been constantly thrown at the new Italian positions. The Home official statement had lit tle to say of the fighting in the sector before Trieste, but unofficial dis patches indicated today a redoubling of artillory fire and of aerial recon naissance, indicating preparations for renewed offensive action there. Trieste is now not more than twelve miles distant from the battlo line. Petrograd and Berlin both reported local fighting on various Russian and Rumanian fronts, but no concerted German offensive was apparent. Suppressing Revolution. New York, Aug. 31. "Tho militia of Petrograd is busy today, suppreRsing anti-government and counter revolu tionary activities," a special cable to the Jewish Daily Forward, received to day from the Kussian capital asserted. "Posters calling the population to an armed uprising against the govern nient were torn down and attempts to start street demonstrations, were vig orously quelled. The main reason for the strength of the anti-government propaganda is the shortage of food, which is very keenly felt all over the country." The cable added that at Chernigov Jews were malt rented under pretext that they were concealing provisions. Twenty persons are dead at Moscow and many more are dying, it was stated, as a result of overdrinking. The liquor was stolen from a nearby railway station. Took 635 Prisoners. Rome, Aug. 31. Six hundred and thirtv-five more Austrian prisoners were taken in yesterday's fighting, the official statement declared today. "Yesterday we obtained advantages on the northern slopes of Mount St. Cabrielle," the war office asserted. Artillery Fighting. Paris, Aug. 31. Artillery duelling on both banks of the Mouse (Verdun) sector and rcpul-tc of German r-.iida east of ferny and south of H-.irtmanns-Weilerkopf, was all the fighting ac tivity reported by tho war office to day from the western front. Attacks Repulsed. London, Aug. 31. Hepulse of an enemy raid north of Arleuz En Forelle, following a heavy bombardment of British forward positions, naq report ed today by Field Marshal llaig. The German Version. Berlin, via London, Aug. 31. "Southwest of I.eCalilette wc wrested from tho enemy a portion of the recent English gains there," today's official statement asserted. "We took numer ous prisoners." FORTY SUSPECTS ARRESTED. Chicago, Aug. 30. Forty suspects were held by the police today in connec tion with the murder of two employes of Winslow Brothers' steel plant and tho theft of a $9,100 payroll Tuesday. The police declared they had obtained a confession from the leader of the five ! motor bandits, but were arresting every man in the city with, a "record." FIVE CENT LOAF OF FOURTEEH OUNCES IS IN SIGHT AGAIN This As Result of Board Fix ing Price of 1917 Wheat at $2.20 a Bushel FARMERS WILL GET THIS SPECULATORS CUT OUT Average Price for Ten Years Is $126 Lowest Was 91 Cents in 1913 WANTS HIGHER PRICE St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 31. The National Non Partisan League issued an invitation to day to representatives of wheat growing states to meet in St. Paul within two weeks to dis jirice of 2.20 for wheat. The league wants a higher price- i Washington, Autr. 31. The five cent loaf containing fourteen ounces is in sight today as a result of governmental wheat price fixing at (2.20 a bushel for the 1917 crop. . The wheat administration believes that while farmers may be displeased to sumo extent by a price lower than they expected, the new system will make their profits sure; will prevent speculation, give millers and bakers a, lair margin and assure the working man fair priced bread. Tho price fixing committee said to dav it believed the farmers, as a pa triotic duty, should bo willing, tOf. linquish some profits for the good of tho whole war cause. The new prices will provail not alone) for the United States but also for tho allies, for whom purchases will bo mada through the national wneai corpora t on. President Wilson expressoa Him self as confident the prieo fixing will stabilize the wheat business and work for the general good- It Was a Compromise Tho price fixing committee Btartcil with two extremes, tho consumers' de sire for $1.K4 and tho producers' de sire for $2.50. Compromises, however, wero mado with the resultant fz.u fixed on the basis of number ono north ern spring wheat delivered at Chicago. That the js.au wneai price , to the farmers is indicated bv a state ment issued todav bv the department of agriculture, which shows that 2.4 was tho highest average price paid to producers during tho last ten years. This price was reacnea nisi dune. The average yearly price of number one northern spring wheat on the Chi cago market during the last ten years was $l-2(i, ranging from 91 cents in 1U13 to $2.37 this year- The average price paid to producers during this per iod was $1.07, ranging from 7tf cents in 1913 to $2 this year. Congressmen Kick Congressmen representing some) wheat states, however, denounced as a monstrous injustice the 2-20 price set for wheat. For the North Dakota del egation, Congressman Baer, nonparti san, said: . . "The price sot is a monstrous injus tice to, ami disiwimiuation against the growers of the northwest. Producers in tho south have sold their crops at tho market price.' Gamblers have been re ceiving $3.00 a bushel in Chicago for imaginary wheat. ' Now the farmer comes along with high grade grain and is penalized by tho beneficent food administration. The government has broken faith with tho northwest pro ducers." Other congressmen said that not ono farmer in twenty raised the number one northern grade wheat, which alone commands the price thc government set. Much wheat, they said, will Bell below the 2 mark. " liner said that limiting middlemen profits would do the consumer more good than any price imposed on the producer. 'On the open market," said Sena tor Johnson, Eolith Dakota, "the far mer could get $3 to $3.00 a bushel for his wheat- The government, i,,rilV. is taking close to 80 per cent of nia (Continued on Page Two.) THE WEATHER fCK ToToivM) Oregon: Tonight and Satruday fair; warmer east portion Saturday; uuloerate norther ly wiuda,