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FORTIETH YEAH NO. 207
SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1917
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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
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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
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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
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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
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