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THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, JAN. 21, 1918. iiVIBARGO ON SHIPPING OF NON-ESSENTIALS NEXT MOVE IN GETTING COAL TO SHIPS MCo, The ATHO "This is the Life" A charming wife, a cooing baby, a warm, cozy homewhat more could a man want? How cheerless the home, though, without the warmth from a Radiant Gas Room Heater warmth to to suit the fancy as much as needed just when and where you want it. A Gas Room Heater Brings You Warm Comfort Despite the advancing cost of other fuels, Gas continues to furnish the same dependable heat for same economical price, and minus the work, ; smoke, soot, or fumes : of - other methods of heating, " ' " Get your Gas Room Heater today before real cold weather catches you unprepared. THE GAS CO. SENATOR STOKE (Contimiod from page one) Xews-Boe and another from tho Kansas City Post, charging Ronlovelt wVh necking to fi'Jior Jjis own politico Ambitions, under "patriotic camou flage." "Of all moil, Uooscvolt is most re sponsible for what ho denounced, " n.-iiil Stone, "lie does his work cunningly. In the front of his propaganda ho. throws a deceptive political camouflage. 1 k'lmrpo that Theodore Roosevelt wheth er willingly or out of sheer madness, I do not know, is the most potent agent of the kaiser in America. J can not escape the belief that this excep tional colonel, who has played so many Farmers' Butchers, Dealers and Trappers ATTENTIO ' The Fur market is booming daily and very scarce on the present business fields of today. We are the. largest buyers of RAW FURS, HIDES and TAL LOW in the SECTION. That merchandise is High in Price way sell them as near as a person might say give them away for HALF NOTHING. We pay you the very best Market Prices; we treat you fair and square. And it don't make a bit of difference whether you are present here personally oV not, you get the same service, the very same deals. No con fidential prices, one to all. That's how we gain our reputation, that's how we grow. Same that middleman's deals, get the profits yourself. TRY US. Our present quotations on Raw Hides is: COW HIDES 17c to 22c per lb. HULL HIDES 16c to 19 2c per lb. CALF HIDES 24c to 34c per lb. HORSE HIDES $0.50 to $7.25 for full lengths. TALLOW 13 Vzc to 17c per lb. MUSK RATS FURS ARE WORTH ... .45c to $1.60 SKUNKS $2.25 to $6.50 MINKS $3.50 to $11.00 WEASELS 35c to $2.00 RED FOX $9.00 to $30.00 WOLF $6.50 to $17.00 We also buy many other kinds of Raw Furs such as Beaver, Bear, Racoon, etc. Prices range accord ing to colors and the different Grades of Furs. Sheep pelts as to the value of wool and size of pelts The best way to ship raw hides and tallow is by freight. The best way to ship raw furs and sheep pelts is by express or insured P. P.. Save this Advertisement, have this address ready and handy at all times and ship them to us. Get the price, get that value for them. Prices subject to change without notice. HfE f NORTHWESTERN HIDE & FUR CO. OF HANCOCK, MICHIGAN games of questionable polities is now playing another game of his particu lar brand for a very great stake. " I Calls Republican Witnesses I Stone's speech was directed primar ily, ho said, at the republicans "in t uikL out of congress, actinc in mani fest concert to make politics out or. the war." "Thero is no need for us to bo over fastidious about this, or to try to fool ourselves or fool the country. There is to bo an election next full. A new house of representatives and one third of the senate are to be chosen. Two Ivears Inter, a new president, a new lliouse and again ono third of the sen ate, are to bo elected. Here is present led 'a chance to the dominating repub lican politicians of the country, one ) of them, perhaps not more than, one, N By Robert 3. Bender (XTnited Press staff correspondent) Washington, ,Jan. 21. America's first "heatless hot)id,ayV found the national railroad fighting zero weath er, snows and freight jams to reach the seaboard with coal. Business except food - and v drug stores, shivered behind closed doors and great industries continued idle through their fourth dav of suspen sion, to facilitate coal shipment- By special request of iuel Administrator (iarfield last night, department stores and retail establishments throughout the east today not only are not burn iritr coal, but they are closed. Klevators iri office buildings are supposed to run only for those exempted. But. despite the general close down of business, the government is having a violent fight to koep-coal moving-! At both northern and southern ports loading of vessels is continuing on a twenty four hour schedule. . T tis now believed certain that dras tic, measure to continue movement af ter the present five day suspension or-1 der ends tomorrow night, will have to bo revoked. Officials statu that pri ority orders now in effect will be con tinued after tomorrow unless there is a marked rise in temperature through out the east, making transportation easier. This would mean that after to morrow night only such industries as have coal on hand eoubi operate, aside from the vital war works now exempt ed from Garfield's regulations. Some Improvement Shown Pressure is beini? brouirht to bear on Director deueral McAdoo to declare an embargo on shipment of all non-essential freight until the tracks and seaboard are cleared. It is stated that with rails jammed by delayed freight shipments, coal traffic to ports and Consumers and movement of "emp ties" back to- the mines will continue blocked despite the close down of bus iness and trade. . Garfield said today that he expected the next 48 hours to show t'- real re sults of his recent order. Both Gar field and McAdoo are hoping for warm er weather throughout the east . and south. - ' eking to promote his immediate po litical glorification and others seek to promote a party advantage. That fight is on. Stone declared he would not mane the charge without definite proof. As his witnesses he "summoned" Senator L-oies Penrose of Pennsylvania, Chair man Wilcox of the republican nation al committed and Roosevelt, whom he termed " my , star , witness. " yiioting trom a recent, luierview with Penrose, Stone sought to show that ' ' tho great republican leader ot tho greatest republican state in tne union," had iranluy set forth tho re publican intention- to use mistakes of tlio administration in conducting tho war, as campaign material. Stone's sneeeli drew a full attend ance to tho senate and as he made his charges ef republican partisanship, Senators Borah, Penrose, Gallinger., Johnson of California, and liodge, 'mis'ily took notes. The prospect was that "Stone's speech would open the whole subject of the Wilson adminis tration's conduct of tho war to the 'drum fire of the republican orators. CIVIL WAR MAY BE (Ooutiuuod from page one) Ipletely control the situation and will I undoubtedly carry through their pro grum complete. " What happened to constituent as sembly represents the strugglo now go ling on everywhere," said the Bolsheviki j minister of agriculture, M. Kalegiyeff, ! iu an interview with the United Previa ! today! "Th3 light parties cannot ro- main alone and exercise power in tlu constituent usseml ly for the people who do not recognize them. The people :aro behind the a(.icts. Should the par ties of the right challenge the author ity and power of tho Soviets it simply ; means au exteusioi if the civil war now Uagiug." j Feeling Is Bitter. It was reported that the peop.e's com- inissari.es desire to take the Brest-Lit-lovsk negotiations out of tho hands of ;tho present dolcjfiit.'f.n, although they assert their adherence to tho conditions ! of the avui stiv-e. On Sunday i:ij;ht. Former Cidet Min isters Kako.ia'.ia and Shinga'Cif Alio I were rjceiitiy trvistc.irert to a :al ; from the Fortress of St. Peter and i Paul, were killed by a band of soldiers i and workmen. Their assassination to gether with the animosities aroused by forcible closing down of the constituent assembly, has brought about the most intensely bitter feeling between the right and left parties. ! A delegation of the constituent as sembly leaders who called on Nicholai Lenine today to protest against, the Bol sheviki action -were told by the Bolshe I ""j' auu. 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I The best showing thus far has been jmado at southern iAtlantic ports where 107,700 tons of bunker coal has been I delivered and is ready for loading with 200,000 more tons en route. At ono port more than 35,000 tons were delivered over Sunday. Northern Atlantic ports are expect ing 150,000 tons during the next few days and a 24 hour loading schedule will be continued during the period of industrial suspension in the east- Deep snows, zero temperatures and promise of only slightly warmer weath er came in reports to the fuel and rail road administrations as a discourag ing factor in movement of trains dur ing the next 48 hours. Depends on the Weather "Industrial America has done her part it's now up to the weather and the national railroad," it wa stii-e.i at. the fuel administration- All ener gies "are centralized on the tremendous transportation problem- To learn what are exact results of the Garfield or der, the senate Interstate commerce committee (today summoned Director General McAdoo to reappear on the stand. Committee members promise a complete airing of the present trans portation crisis, which McAdoo Satur day admitted had been little relieved since control went into effect. It is the claim of many that Mc Adoo sought to relieve the freight jam by shutting industries instead of us ing a more direct route placing an embargo on non-essentials in freight, shipments, advocated by the fuel ad ministration. Now officials say that the close down order will result in only moder ate relief, from the coal tieup and the embargo will be necessary, in addition five days later. There is little need for or likelihood of the present Garfield orders being extended to include territory west of the Mississippi, it was stated at the fuel administration today. There is lit tle traffic congestion on tho Pacific coast, it was said, and many locomo tives are now being rushed to the east from the west. viki leader that permission would be withheld for them to assemble anywhere and that instead of their conference, a national convention would be formed by the forthcoming soviet congress. All the newspapers containing de tailed accounts of trie constituent meet ings were confiscated. The soviet of tho workmen and the soldiers today formally approved the dissolution of -the assemoly alter a speech by inovieff, declaring tne confer ence brought together two elements which could not be congenial. Means War to a Finish. In the opinion of many leaders the dissolution means war to a finish be tween the -two elements. The members of tho right who dominated the constit uent assembly are planning to go to Kieff or Is'ovocherkask. A widely circulated report today that Tseretelli and Chernoff, leaders of the social revolutionaries in the anti-Bolshe-viki movement, had been killed, was de clared false by the authorities. The cen tral executive committee of the Bolshe viki, however, named a commission to investigate other shootings in the city. The Bed Guards, who participated in laat week's attack on groups in the city, blamed the paraders for the rioting. A city-wide hunt was in progress for M. Saviukof, one of Kcrensky 's staunch supporters, who has been reported in hiding. In the opinion of politicians there is little chance of the constituent assem bly leaders overcoming tho Bolsheviki. A few of the lied Guards, however, for mally tendered their resignations today, declaring they were being used to sup press liberty in the attacks on the con stituent assembly, Lenine himself introduced the disso lution decree in the assembly and in a ninety minute spoeeh lauded the soviet deputies as representing the highest power of democracy in the world. He said he considered the most resolute ac tion which the decree proposed as the only means remaining the Kussiau peo ple otherwise wore doomed. Leuine frankly declared that ho rec ognised the "impossibility of accom plishing a socialistic state except by civil war." "But this does not deter us," he con cluded. Mrs, Franklin Receives Letter From Soldier Son l The following etter was recently re ceived by Airs. Belle f ranklin, Hazel Green, Ore., from her son John: Dear Mother and Boys: The 4th Engineers left Vancouver De comber Slst, in three sections, two bat talions and the keaduarters, I was in the first battalion of three companies with about 600 men in fourteen coaches and eight box ears. We pulled out at 6:30 p. m. and went up the Columbia river. When we woke up Saturday morning we were on top of theBlue mountains between Pendleton and La Grande. Had three engines on the train and were making good time. Beached Huntington, Oregon at 3 p. m. This was our first stop, staved two hours and the boys almost bought the town out. Went from there to Vtei ser, Idaho. The town met us at the train and gave ns fifteen sacks of apples. Beached Pocatello in th-evening and had another run around town. A nice place, weather fine, and everybody down town to see us. - From there on about all we saw was sage brush and sand. Snow only on the mountain tops and weather warm. Got off at a little town in Wyoming for exercise, but th wind was blowing so hard that we couldn't stay out long. Arrived at Denver about Monday noon and was turned loose till 5 p, m. Went up town and took in all I could. Nice pluee but looks- like it ae-eded a littl FEATURING THE PACIFIC COAST'S MOST POPULAR ACTRESS. MISS EFFIE JOHNSON IN THE GREATEST PLAY EVER WRITTEN in Favor of UNION LABOR -..The Power of Gold LIGH THEATRE Oregon rain to wash off some of the dirt. Went to the Y. M. C. A. and had a good bath. About 300 of the boys did likewise. Left Denver about 6 p. m. and got in Goodland Kansas, at 4 a ,m, Christmas morning. Spent the day here and had a good time. The people opened up the town hall for us and brought out town talent to entertain us and had something doing from 10 a. m. until 7 p. m. They provided oranges, candy, smokes and a big dance all day. Everybody went out for dinner and had a good time One of the girls told me that that was the first time the town was ever woke up." Another said that tho 4th En gineers was sure some bunch. I imagine the place after we left it looked like a church after preaehing. The second battalion got in Goodland about 7 p. m. and ran around us there. Kansas was the best section of country that we crossed and Missouri was about the same. There was lots of corn raised there this year. Crossed .the river at Kansas City, Mo. The city on that side .was about the dirtiest place I ever saw From there we went to Memphis, Tcnn. The boys thought that was some town, The Bed Cross gave us sweaters, socks and gloves. The next stop was Birming ham, Ala. That sure was a cold place, wind from the north and like ice. From there we went to Atlanta, Ga. Didn't get to see this place, because I am on K. P. duty, which is Sunday. We expected to get into Camp Greene North Carolina today but will write more when we get there. Tuesday, January 1st, we got to Camp Greene after nine days on the road. This is surely a cold place. The snow was falling fast when we got here Monday aoon. Camped in tents ast night, but didn't get much sleep on account of the cold. There are 45,000 men in this camp and they all live in tents. You. can hear them chopping wood at all times of the night and running up and down the road to keep warm. I got up at mid night to build a fire and heard the Js'ew Year whistles in Charlotte, which is two miles away. After the noise of the whistles was over, I heard some one come running down the road. Just then a guard called out "Halt, who goes there?" "A frozen trooper," was the answer. Then tho guard said, "Advance froz en trooper, and let me look you over," Everybody heard them and it was a good joke in camp this morning. All the men are working on their tents, so as to keep the cold out to night. The sun is shining this morning, nice and warm, expect to have milder weather. There are eight'of us boys in the tent, fixed up warm with a stove and lots of wood. I have three blankets, poncho, mattress and shelter half and an over coat. Think I can keep warm nights. With love, JOHN. Co. B, 4th Engineers. Camp Greene, N. C. McAD0 NOT IN (Continued from page one) arbitrarily to set aside local control. Freight movement through the tun nel is very restricted' under the nuo lic service commission, he said. "TT I had to file an application to move this froiht and wait decision of tne com mission, Long Island people would have frizen to death," he said. "That means, th';n," said Senator Kellogg, "that the. rate fixing during the war and until congress acts would bo up to one man?1' "He has the power to do so- He may not use it," said McAdoo. "He has a great many powers he doesn 't exer cise. " "T haven't heard of any he hasn't exercised," said Kellogg.' McAdoo was asked how long, in his opinion, it would be necessary for the government to retain control of the lines. "That all depends on the length of the war, ' replied McAdoo. "If it lasts six months or a year, the period required to liquidate the roads' affairs and turn them bRck will be comparatively short. But if it lasts three to five years the period of li quidation naturally will be longer. No body can tell definitely; that's why congress should not put a hard and fast limit on the period of government control. Must Not Be TJnju.t The fact that the government is guaranteeing compensation. McAdoo added, makes it unwise to leave to state commissions the right to deter mine to any degree what the roads earn. Arguing that the three year compen sation basis is "a fair and reasonable one," McAdoo said: "In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, the net railroad earnings were !. 035.000.000. The average for the past three years is about $!3o.001.000 "If the government with $100,000.- 000 advantage han 't made a fair deal. 1 am frank to say I do not know what fair dealing is- "You gentlemen most bear in mind that what yoa rropose,-ya can't im lust Cut Use of Flour Further Says Hoover San Francisco, Jan. 21. Use of wheat flour should- be cut to $ a minimum by housewives and hotels and restaurants should s)e $ stop serving white ktread except- iug on special demand, to pave the way for a more stringent wheat conservation rules now s(s being prepared in Washington. This word was brought to Cal- $ ifornia today by Statu Food Ad- ministrator Balph P. Merritt, af: after three weeks in Washington conferring with Food Adniinis- trator Hoover. Because the allies already He have taken the reserve of the 1917 crop and will need one- third of tho American produc- tion of flour, between now and next fall, the food administra- tion, Merritt declared, is soon se to announce sweeping flour con- servation measures. - H jje 9c jjc sjs 5 "1 le Hfi "fi K "1 pose. Your proposal is merely a sug gested basis of reaching a compensa tion agreement. '"The government must not do a de liberate injustice to the railroads or anybody else." McAdoo had no direct hand in the composition of the Garfield shutdown to save fuel, he told the committee to day. "Was "the Garfield order issued to help the director general of rail roads?" asked Senator Watson. "It was issued, in my opinion, to help the railroad to deliver coal and also to help save fuel," saidr McAdoo. "Did you help in its composition?" May End In February "I had no hand in its composition'' said McAdoo. "though I approved it in principle." McAdoo also expressed the hope that it may not be necessary to con tinuo tho Monday holidays beyond the middle of February. McAdoo said "every once in a while we have to submit to' surgery, you know" and declared in his opinion the order "will result in more good and less confusion and trouble than anticipated." 'The order says it is designed to aid fhe director general," said Wat son. "It doesn't much matter what the order says," responded McAdoo, "or whe,ther it was to help the director general personally or not. So long as wo attain the results, which I believe will be infinitely beneficial than ex pected.The order was justified. "I am very much in the hope and I do not say this merely out of optim ism with reasonable weather within 30 days conditions, may be such that we may not need to continue the or der as long as it was issued for." McAdoo said harbor conditions and transportation situations are both im proving and will continue to improve "unless the weather again ties things up" Senator Cummins questioned Mc Adoo at great length on his statement that the old competitive order of things could never be restored and tried to set McAdoo 's idea' how com- Inct.itirm could be eliminated under Dri- i vate management. Old System is Done For ' You sasid thtv old" Jvstvtm (could never return," said Cummins- "Inas much as competition is the essential principle of private ownership why should the roads ever go back to their private owners?" "I said I thought the return to the old competitive basis would be impos sible if government control lasted long enough. To restore the pre-existing status, congress would have to leg islate; it will have to legislate with regard to tho new conditions which will confront us -on the return ot peace, said McAdoo. "I believe that," said tjumrmns "But we can't turn the Toads back and allow private owners to operate them without competition, can we?" "I don't know," replied McAdoo. "I think eongrefs can establish the conditions under which the roads are to be returned." "It is the spectre of government ownership that is feared," continued the director general. Smith assured it was, but Senator Cummins said that was not his fear. "Wo shouldn't let that fear influ ence us in working out a wise course in this matter," said McAdoo. "Let me cite an instance of the ef fect of such a fear," he continued. "Back in 1914 a bill to create a mer chant marine was filibustered to death in congress for that reason. As a re sult we have no ships now when our need for them is critical." "That's not the reason we haven't produced any ships the past year," Sen- iStor Watson interrupted, j "If we had started building them 'three years ago we'd have them today" insisted McAdoo. I When the discussion - grew warm, Chairman Smith announced a recess. To-Day S3 COMMISSION MUST ADVERTISE FOR BIDS BEFORE jTCAN BUILD Can Only Do the Work Itself If Bids Are Lacking or Are The State Hignway Commission can perform work on highways only avoir Having received bids and rejected them, or of having failed to receive bids af ter advertising for them. This opinion was in reply to a rouest of State High way Engineer Nunn, says Attorney Gen eral Brown. The attorney general quotes among other statutory provisions bear ing on the subject Section 13, chapter 423, laws of 1917, adopted by the people on referendum Juno 4, 1917, as fol lows: ' ' The State Highway Commisison is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into contracts for the purpose of constructing the roads provided in this Act; provided, however, that all con tracts shall be let according to law and in open and public session of said com mission; provided further, that if in tho opinion of a majority of the members of said commission, the lowest bid for the construction of any of the roads or parts of roads herein authorized to bo constructed, shall be excessive, then and in that event, Baid commission shall have the right and it is hereby empow ered and authorized to reject all bids and to construct under its own direc tion and supervision, all of such roads or any part thereof, and to this end afld to accomplish this purpose said com mission is hereby authorized and em powered to purchase or lease all neces sary machinery, equipment, tools and appliances and to employ all necessary help and labor and to do all things nec essary and convenient to carry out the provisions of this Act." Then he says: "All these provisions would seem to require, as a necessary precedent for performing the work without letting contracts, that the State Highway Com- . mission should first call for competitive bids for the construction of any work under its supervision. We find it further provided in said section that if, in the opinion of tha majority of the members of the Com mission, the lowest bid for the construc tion of any road or parts of roads authorized by said act shall be exces sive, 'then and ir that event, said com mission shall have the' right and it is hereby empowered and authorized to reject all bids and to construct under its own direction and supervision, all of such roads or any part thereof,' This language clearly predicates the power to proceed without contract upon the condition of having asked for bids and the opinion of a mojority of the mem bers of the Commission being that the lowest bid is excessive, because it is only in that event that it is authorized to construct under its own direction and supervision." Ho announced a little later that the director general would not be recalled, but committee members leaving the room demanded that McAdoo be return ed for further questioning and their demands were agreed to. McAdoo was asked twice during the ' morning ses sion why he favored repeal of the anti-pooling and anti-trust laws as applied to railroads, and each time refused a specific answer. " I do not know what conditions will be when we get ready to turn the roads back," he answered each time. ,v- ilik':! -U,'' Everr helpful influence that may bfl rendered the ex taut mother should be promptly given ner. All excitement, fear 4 or m-ead enouid be avoided. Too mnch cannot be said of the 1 wonderful maasasa known to f thousands of mothers as "Moth- rs Friend". It la one of the t greatest of all helpful Influences. izv There ts - no nervousness and fr the tendency to morning sickness "T. or nausea Is avoided. It makes SSjV- tne muscles elastic wnicn nature lk- ' Is expand lug- and soothes the in- fiW Bam ma tion of breast glands. The pain at the crisis la infinitely less when "Mother's Friend" Is used for the muscles expand easier and with less rtrmln when, baby is born. 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