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Six THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, JAN. 21, 1918. EMBARGO ON SHIPPING Of NON-ESSENTIALS NEXT MOVE IN GETTING COAL TO SHIPS .2? Hie AT NCo, 'TSSSS Jm 11 "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 STONE ' (Continued from page one) News-Bee aud another from tlio Katun City 1'ost, charging Roosevelt wVh pocking to fiJicr Jji own politick miliitions, under "patriotic eamou- llllgO." "Of nil men, Uoosovelt is most re sponsible for what lio denounced," nnid Ktone. "Hp does his work cunningly. In Hie front nf hid propaganda ho throws a deceptive political camouflage. 1 khari'o that Theodore Uoosovelt wheth er willingly or out of sheer mndnoss, J do not know, is the most potent figent of the kniHer in America. I can not. escape the belief thnt this excep tional colonel, who has played so many Farmers' Butchers, Dealers and Trappers ATTENTION ' 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 or 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 192c per lb. CALF HIDES 24c to 34c per lb. HORSE HIDES $6.50 to $7.25 for full lengths. TALLOW 13 V2c to 17c per lb. MUSKRATS 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. Tf fE NORTHWESTERN HIDE & FUR CO. OF HANCOCK, MICHIGAN games of questionable politics is now playing another game of his particu lar brand for a very grout stake." Calls Republican Witnesses Stone's speech was directed primar ily, he said, at the republicans "in and out of congress, acting in mani fest concert to make politics out of the war " "There is no need for us to bo over fastidious about this, or to try to fool ourselves or fool the country. There is to be an election next fall. A new house of representatives and one third of the senate are to be chosen. Two Ivears later, a new president, a new i'nouse and again one third of the sen nte, are to be elected. Hero is present led ji chance to the dominating repub lican politicians of the country, one I of them, perhaps not more than, one, By Robert J. Bender (United I'ress staff correspondent) Washington, ,Jan. 1. America's (first '"heatless honirVty'' found the national railroad fighting zero weath er, snows and freight jams to reach the seaboard with coal. Business except food- and. drug stores, shivered behind closed doors and great industries continued idle through their fourth day of suspen sion, to facilitate coal shipment- By special request of Fuel Administrator Garfield last night, department stores and retail establishments throughout the east today not only are not burn ing coal, but they are closed. Elevators in' office buildings are supposed to run only for those exempted- But. Ilesmte the eeneral close down of business, tho government is having a violent fight to keep "coal moving At both northern and southern ports loading of vessels is continuing on a 1 ' twenty io-ir nour m-ueuuie. . ( I tis now believed certain that dras tic measure to continue movement af ter the present five day suspension or der ends tomorrow night, will have to be revoked. Officials state that pri ority orders now in effect will be con tinued after tomorrow unless there is a marked rise in temperature through out tho east, making transportation easier. This would mean that after to morrow night only such industries as have coal on hand could operate, aside from the vital war works now exempt ed from Garfield's regulations. Some Improvement Shown Pressure is being brought to bear on Director General McAdoo to declare an embargo on shipment of all non-essential freight until tho tracks and seaboard aro cleared. It is stated that with rails jammed by delayed freight shipments, coal traffic to ports and (onsumers and movement of "emp ties" back to tho 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 homing for warm er weather throughout the cast and south. seeking to promote his immediate po litical glorification and others seek to promote a party advantage. That fight is on. Stiuin declared ho would not mane the charge without definite proof. As his witnesses he summoned senator Loies Penrose of Pennsylvania, Chair man Wilcox nf the republican nation al committee and Koosevelt, whom he termed "my star : witness. " (Quoting from a recent interview with 1 'imrntae. StnilA HOllL'ht. to show that "tho great republican leader of tho greatest republican state in tne union." hud trankiv set forth tho re publican intention to use mistakes of the administration in conducting the war, as campaign nuiioi , Ktnue'u Hiieei-li drew a full attend ance to tho senate and as he made his hnriios of republican partisanship, .Senators Borah, Penrose, Gullinger., Johnson ot l antenna, ana ijouge, mwilv 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 tho drum fire of the republican orators. CIVIL WAR MAY BE (Continued from page one) pletely control the situation and will undoubtedly carry through their pro gram complete, "What happened to constituent as sembly represents the struggle now go ing on everywhere," said tho Bolsheviki 'minister of agriculture, M. Kalegiyeff, in an interview with the United Press today. "Tlu light parties cannot ro main alone and exercise power in th-J constituent usse.nl ly for the peopk who do not recognize them. The people are behind the so'iets. Should the par ties of the light challenge tho author ity and power of the Soviets it simply : means mi extousio.i 'f the civil war now raging." Faellnj Io Bitter, j It was reported that the peop.e's com linissarics deire to take the lirest-Lit-ovsk negotiations out of tho hands of the present dcl(tu..Vn, although tbey assert their adherence to the conditions of the arji'stU-e. On Sunday night ormor Cidet Min listers Kok.v.n'in aud Phinga-Oif who were recently triusrcired to a Uv :al from tho Portress of St. Peter and Paul, were killed by a band of soldiers and workmen. Their assassination to gether with tho 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 Lenino today to protest against the Bol sheviki action were told by tho Bolshe Be Better Looking Take Olive Tablets If your skin Is yellow complexion pallid tongue coated appetite poor you have a b. J tnste in your mouth a lazy, no-good ic'.:.i you should take Olive Tablets. L'r. LJ wards' Olive Tablets a substitute fsrcalomel were prepared by Dr. Edwards ritcr 17 years of study with his patients. Pr. Edwards'Olive Tablets are a purely vegetable compound mixed with olive oil. Ycu will know them by their olive color. To have a clear, pink akin, bright eyes, no pimples, a feeling of buoyancy like childhood days you must get at the cause. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets act on the liver and bowels like calomel yet have no dangerous af ter effects. They start the bile and overcome consti pation. That's why millions of boxes are sold annually at 10c and 25c per box. All druggists. Take one or two nightly and note the pleasing results. I The best showing thus far has been mado at southern .Atlantic ports where 107,700 tons of bunker coal has been 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. Beep snows, zero temperatures and promise of only slightly warmer weath or 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 tho Weather "Industrial America has dene her part it's now up to the weather and the national railroad, it wa stn'eil at tho fuel administration. AU ener gies "are centralized on the tremendous transportation problem. To learn what are exact results of the Garfield or der, the sonate interstate commerce committee today summoned Director General McAdoo to reappear on the stand. Committee members promise a completo airing of the present trans portation crisis, which McAdoo Satur day admitted had been little relieved since control went into effect. It is tho claim of many that Mc Adoo sought to relieve the freight jam by shutting industries instead of us ing a more direct routes placing an ombargo on non-essentials in freight shipments, advocated by the fuel ad ministration. Now officials say that tho close down order will result in only moder ato 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 tc include territory west of the Mississippi, it was stated at the fuel administration today. There is lit tlo traffic congestion on tho Pacific coast, it was said, and many locomo tives ere now being rushed to tho east from the west. viki leader that pormtssion 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 do tailed accounts of tne constituent meet ings were confiscated. The sonet of tho workmen and the soldiers today formally approved the dissolution of the assemoly after a speech by Inovicff, declaring the confer ence brought together two elements which, could not be congenial. Means War to a Finish. In tho opinion of many leaders the dissolution means war to a finish be tween the -two elements. The members of tho right who dominated tho constit uent assembly are planning to go to Kieff or .Novocherkask. 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 Red Guards, who participated in last week's attack on groups in the city, blamed the pnradors for the rioting. A city-wide hunt was in progress for M. Saviukof, one of Kcreusky's staunch supporters, who has been reported in hiding. Iu the opinion of politicians there is little chance of the constituent assem bly leaders overcoming the 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 speech 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 tho only means remaining the Bussian peo ple otherwise were doomed. Lenino frankly declared that he rec ognized 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 i l The following etter was recently re ceived by Mrs. Belle f rankun, Hazel Green, Ore., from her son John: Dear Mother and Boys: The 4th Kngineers left Vancouver De comber lst, in three sections, two bat talions and tho headuarters, I was in the first battalion of three companies with about 000 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 theSBlne mountains between Pendleton and La Grande. Uad three engines on the train and were making good time. Beached Huntington, Oregon at 3 p. m. This was our first stop, stayed two hours and the boys almost bought the town out. Went from there to W ei ser, Idaho. The town met us at the train and gave ns fifteen sacks of apples. Reached Pocatello in thevening and had another run around town. A nice j place, weather fine, and everybody down town to see ns. - 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 place but looks- like it needed a little FEATURING THE PACIFIC COAST'S MOST POPULAR ACTRESS. MISS EFFIE JOHNSON IN THE GREATEST PLAY EVER WRITTEN in Favor of UNION LABOR "The P BLIGH THEATRE Wff'-iinV mi.i Tttmiiiii-iiaftiiir iwiiina 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 tjnwn 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 tho town was ever woke up.Anothcr Baid that tho 4th En gineers was sure some bunch. I imagino the place after wo left it looked like a church after preaching. 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, Tenn. 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, becauso 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 N'cw Year whistles in Charlotte, which is two miles away. After the noise of the whistles was over, I heard Borne 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. McAIKK) 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. "Tf I had to file an application to move this freight, nnd wait decision of the com mission, Long Island people would have frozen to death," he said. "That means, thjn," said Senator Kellogg, "that the .rate fixing during the war and until congress acts would be up to one mant" "He has the power to do so- He may not use it," said McAdoo. "He has a great many powers he doesn't exercise-" "T haven't heard of any he hasn't exercised," said Kollogg. McAdoo was sked how long, in his opinion, it would be necessary for the 1 . . . . . i 1 u government to rorain coinroi m j lines. I "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 back 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 Icontrol. Must Not Be TJnjnt I " The fact that the government is 'guaranteeing compensation. McAdoo I added, makes it nnwise to leave to ! state commissions the right to deter jmias to any degree what the roads I earn. Arguing that the three year compen sation basis is "a fair and reasonable one. AieAiioo said: "In the fiscal vear ending June 30. ilJ17, the net railroad earnings were it 1. 035.ooo.000. The average for the past three years is about i35.00O.Oi0 j "If the government with 100,000.- 000 advantage hasn't made a fair deal. ,1 am frank to say I do not know what fair dealing is. "You gentlemen mnst bear in mind that what' yon propose,- yea can 't im ower Must Cut Use of Flour Further Says Hoover San Francisco, Jan. 21. Use ' of wheat flour should- be cut to 4s a minimum by housewives and $ $ hotels and restaurants should sft stop serving white wread except- iug on special demand, to pave the way for a more stringent $ wheat conservation rules now $ being prepared in Washington. This word was brought to Cal- $ ifornia today by State Food Ad- ministrator Balph P. Merritt, after three weeks in Washington conferring with Food Adminis- trator Hoover. Because the allies already sc have taken the reserve of the 1917 crop aud will need one- third of the American produc- tion of flour. between now and H next fall, the food adiuinistra- $ tion, Merritt declared, is soon to announce sweeping flour con- scrvation measures. - 4 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 tho railroads or anybody else." McAdoo had no direct hand in the composition of the Garfield shutdown tu 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 tho railroad to deliver coal and also to help save fuel," saidr McAdoo. "Did you help in its composition f" 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 tinue the Monday holidays beyond the middlo of February. McAdoo said "every once in a while ' we have to submit to surgery, you know" and declared in his opinion I the order "will result in more good and less confusion and trouble than anticipated." '. j The order says it is designed to, aid Che director general," said Wat son. "H doesn't much matter what the order says," responded McAdoo, "orj whether "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. j "I am very mueh in the hcpe 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- j der as long as it was issued for." j McAdoo said harbor conditions and transportation situations are both im-; proving and will continue to improve unless tne weatner again lies mings up" Senator Cummins questioned Mc Adoo at great length on his statement that the old competitive order of things could never bo restored and tried to cet McAdoo 's idea' how com- 'petition could be eliminated uuder pri vate lUHiiageiiit-iifc. Old System is Done For '"You salid thn olil s;vtAn (could never return," said Cummins- "Inns much as competition is the essential principle of private ownership why should the roads ever go back; io tneir private owners?" j "I said I thought the return to the old competitive basis would bo impos sible if government control lasted long enough. To restore the pre-exist- ing status, congress would have to leg islate; it will have to legislate with .regard to the new conditions which will confront us -on tho return ot Ipeaee," said McAdoo. "1 believe that." said Cummins "But we can't turn the roads back and allow private owners to operate them without competition, can wef ' "I don t know, ' replied McAdoo. "I think conereps can esiablish 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. ' ' We 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 ator atson interrupted. I "If we had started building them 'three years aeo we'd have them today" (insisted McAdoo. I When the discussion grew warm, Chairman Smith announced a recess. f Gold To-Day COMMISSION MUST BEFORE JUAN BUILD , Can Only Do the Work Itself If Bids Are Lacking or Are Unsatisfactory The State Hignway Commission can perform work on highways only atter 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 reuest of State High way Engineer Nuiin, 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 poopla on referendum June 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, said 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 affd to accomplish this purposo said com- J, mission is hereby authorized and em powered to purchase or lease all neces sary machinory, equipment, tools and appliances and to employ all necessary help and labor and to do all things nec essary and convenient to carry out tho provisions of this Act." 1 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 tho 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 aud 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,' Thi3 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 tne lowest bid is excessive, because it is only in that event that it is authorized to construct under its own direction and supervision." He announced a little lator that tho director general would not be recalled, but committee members leaving tho 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 tho roads back," he answered each time. n Every helpful influence mat may t rendered tne taut mother should be promptly gtvei) br. All excitement, fear j or dread should ba avoided. Too much cannot be said of the J wonderful masse.? known tor thousands of mothers as "Moth- ir" Friend'. It is one of the t greatest of all hslpful Influences, tctf Tbsrs to no Barrousnesa and pyr! , the tendency to morning- sickness - 3 or nausea is avoided. It makes the muscles elastic which nature iJeJtfx Is expanding and soothes the la-2&'f . oam m tion of breast glands. j Tho pain at tho crisis Is infinitely lest when 'Mother's Friend" Is used for the muscles expand easier and with lea train when baby is born. "Mother's Friend" Is entirely safe and may be bad of your druggist. Writs the Bradfleld Regulator Co., Dept. A, 340 La mar Building. Atlanta, Ga., for their fab teresticg book. "Motherhood 'and the Baby". Tbey will send it to you without charge, and you will find It Very helpful. Tears of uss by thousands of women proves beyond all doubt that "Mother's Friend Is the greatest aid to nature. It certainty should be ased by every expect, ant mother for shs should do sverythtnc la bar -power to b!p nature, la bar worlt. 3l eTB