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TODAY'S WEATHER 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS (22.000 TVF.ADF.R.S) DAILY Only Circulation la Salom Guar anteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE YAI LEY NEWS BEtfVICB Oregon: Tonight and Sunday fair east, probably rain weat portion moderate . south erly winds. 3 -. " ollpiffiiDiteUrir FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 29 SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1918 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEW STANDS FIVE (TENTS How DO oil Like my nevJI Mir J m u k u ; bp w 's- tjt xr' v "er jr jrr PLAN TISTRIKE DIRECTLfo HIGH PRICES OOD Government Asks Confess to Pass Drashc Food Con trol Measure FOOD PRICE ADVANCE HAS BEEN UNREASONABLE Retail Profiteering Said To Be Responsible For High Cost of Living Washington, i'eb. 2. Tho govern ment plans to strike directly at high re fail prices it congress will pass the drastic food bill soon to be introduced in congress. Following labor bureau statistics to tiny, showing living'cosfs from fifty to seventy-five per cent higher than when the war broke out, it was learned the new administration bill asks plenary powers to fix prices on whatever products are deemed nrcr-ssary. It promises direct relief to the farmer -v.ho has complained that fixing prices on wheat has wrought injustice in that ofEer products for which he has had to jiay more than ever farm implements included have not been affected. The measure, provisions of which have been kept carefully secret, is Rimed at retailers the food adminis tration already having the wholesale end fairly well in hand through its gen eral licensing system, it 'is officially stated. " At the same time, where it is neces sary to guarantee producers fixed profit to stimulate production, the ad ministration would be empowered to es tablish original prices. Power to fix prices on agricultural implements and other commodities necessary to food production and dis tribution also was deemed certain to be embodied in the measure. Leather is considered sure to be one of the by-products brought under price control. The administration is known to be determined to apply the check to ram pant retail profiteering. This determ ination was forecast by President Wil son's declaration before congress "that the law of greed" had seemed to have already supplanted the "law of supply and demand," The new bill drawn after weeks of consultation between food administra t:,pn and agricultural officials, Pres ident Wilson and members of congress is to be introduced in the house by Representative Lever within a few i lys, it is expected. Violent opposition already has shown itself in both houses and administra tion leaders, it is believed, have so far delayed ' springing" the measuro until they round up support. Milk Boycott Pinches. Chicago, Feb. 2. Hunger and suffer ing began its pinch of Chicago's poor today when the first grip of the milk boycott by Illinois producers began strangling the supply. The shortage had not reached alarm ing proportions today, although many families were unable to get milk. But the general boycott scheduled for to morrow, will mean a milk famine with starvation for poor children, distrib utors predicted. No district is immediately available to make up the threatened shortage, distributors say, and no relief is ex pected until the boycott Is lifted. Producers were incensed over the 4c Abe Martin "Take a good, denatured German an' you've got as good a citizen as any lmddy'd want", said Kev. Viley Tan ker, t'day. What's become o' th feller tliat used t cay, "Oh, blame it, I've g:ie an' et too much agin!" judge j. c. mm, CLERK SUPREME COURT, DIED EARLy TODAY End Came Suddenly As Re sult of Heart Attack, at Age of Seventy-Three Judge J. C. Moreland, clerk of the Oregon supremo court for the last 10 years and one of the oldest members of the Oregon bar, died very suddenly at 3.20 o'clock this moraine from heart trouble. His death came as a great sur prise and shock to his friends, but the memlbers of his family, who knew of the tremble he was having with his heart were expecting the end to come suddenly. While he had been in poor health for several months, he had been attending to his supreme court work and was in h,i office as usual yesterday. When the final stroke came a few minutes after 3 o'clock this morning, he died before members of his family in Sa lom could be summoned to his bedside. Hj leaves a widow and three sons and two daughters. The children arc H. L. Moreland and E. W. Moreland of Portland, J, I. Moreland of Hood Riv er, Airs. Mark W. Gill of Portland and rs. Chester A. Moores of Salem. Judge Moreland was born 73 years atro last June in Tennessee, and came to Oregon in 1852, or when he was sev en years old. He took an active part in the legal profession of the state and public affaire, and in late years has given many addresses on the pioneer history of the state. He has also writ ten much on this subject. He lived with his parents on a farm in Clackamas county until 1800, when he went to Portland to learn the prin ter's trade. He was employed on the old "Oregon Farmer." He began read ing law and was admitted to the bar in 1808. He was a member of the Portland city council from 1872 to 1875, and in 1877 was appointed city attorney, which office he held until he resigned in 1882. Since then he also held the oifice of county judge for Multnomah county. He practiced law in Portland until his appointment as clerk of the supreme court 10 years ago. Judge Moreland was a past grand master of the Masonic lodge. Last July he and Mrs. Moreland celebrated their fiftieth weddin" anniversary. - Funeral In Portland. Arrangements have been made for the fnneral to be held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon from the Masonic Temple in Portland. Dr. E. N. Avison, pastor of the First Methodist church of Salem, will preach the sermon, fol lowing which Portland lodge No. 55, A. F. k A. M., of which Judge More land was a member, will take charge t-of the services. Interment will be in Lone Fir cemetery, Portland. federal milk commission s report advis-j ing an average price of $2.4o a hundred pounds. They ask for a price of f 3.4-1 . and have been receiving $5.22. Price to the consumer were un-j changed 12 cents quart or seven j cents a pint. ' : ,if,,i, fi i 'vTv-j' rw AMIDST STORM AND STRESS PRESIDENT'S APPEAL FOR TALKLESS SESSION MEETS OPPOSITION Stirs Up Artillery In Camp of Advocates of War Cabinet and Other BOIs Washington, Feb. 2. President Wil son's appeal for a "talkless congress" met with Bharp opposition today. It appeared possible that instead of quieting the drumfire in some quar ters for the "war cabinet" bill, the president may have stirred up the artillery. Senator Hitchcock, democrat, Ne braska, and Senator Wadsworth, repub lican, Now York, members of the mili tary committee, were prepared to loose their bombardment Monday and Tuesday, respectively in spite of the president's attitude. Senator Weeks, republican, Massachusetts, also may speak later. "It's a case like that of the ancient gentleman who commanded the tide t6 ond wife being taken in Boston, !Feb recede," declared Senator Hitchcock. TUary 8, 1910. She was Miss Kate Hnr "We have been getting increasing evi-jkins of Eoxbury, Mass., a sweetheart oences even auring past lew days or the lack of co-ordination and central responsibility in the war department and we propose to present these as well as tlio mass of othrs to tho sen ate." Senator Chamberlain, director gen oral of attack, declined to discuss the president's order to administrator senators. He declared that the military affairs committee would continue its investi gation, however. The war cabinet measure will not be voted on in committee for several days, it was indicated. ..l-r utwu8 ,u r.: uu! WM ai.,moi champion, with !w ?Wwn-V"' n.e C d hari1'7 K w disputes, when he won from Cor that the bill was losing any ground, !hett doctored Chamberlain. The committee todav tresumed its hearings with Howard Coffin, head of j me aircraii pruuucuoii uoara, s ueiore it. Coffin was to be questioned as to the shortage of spruce which, it was-rds. declared, was materially interfering with the aviation program. Next week the committee will take up the subject of army cantonments. This will complete the investigation, it was declared. The railroad control bill, radically changed in two particulars from that submitted by the adminiS' tration, will be reported to the senate earlv next week by the interstate com merce committee. Its presentation to the house probably will be delayed another week. Early agreement of tfie measure was , . . ., . i field, 2 rds. Knockout Al Marx, 1 rd. le compromise on the twoir. , . n, lr , '. , . . . ,:Dan Henry, 1 rd- William Fleming, 1 the period of control andjr(j " B airing power which wj aar. ir. i n :.u , -J., forecast by the vital point the rte making power which was reached onlv after a sub-committoe had been callelTupon. This compromise, which received aj two-thirds vote in eomm.ttee, lim.ts.h 2 r,,8 XoT. 13Paddv Rvan K the period ofeontrol to 18 months San iTanPico, 3 rds. Dee. 28 Duncan after the war and vests the rate fixing jMconald D Denver, Col., 4 rds. power in the president, with the inter- state commerce commission, which, after hearing, may set aside the rate orders, from the chief executive. JOHN L SULLIVAN DEAD FROM SODDEN STROKE HEART DISEASE TODAY Famous Ring Hero, Once Greatest Fighter In World, Goes Without Warning Abui-eton, Mass., Feb. 2. John L. Sullivan, iforniar ihjoiavyweight cham pion of the world, dropped dead in his home here today.. Sullivan, in his- 60th year, was one of the most pieturosque figures in the history of pugilism. His death is the third of importance in pugilistic cir cles within a short time. Les Darcy and Bob Fitzsinwnons, the best boxers vor sent to this country from Aus tralia, died recently within a short time of each other. iSullivan was tho first of the Ameri can world's heavyweight champions, taking his title in Mississippi through a. victory over Jake Kilrain, winning a bolt emblematic of the champion ship, Sullivan was married twice, his sec "of his youth. Hi first wile was Aliss Annie Bates of Ccnterville, R. I. He obtained a divorce from her in Chi cago in 1908. They had lived together only 18 months of the 26 years they had been married. Sullivan's claim to a world's cham pionship always has been a subject of much dispute, but he gained general recognition by his defeat of Kilrain, after first winning decisively over Paddy Ryan, who claimed the Ameri can championship. When James Cor 'bott dofeated Suilivan the title still was in some doubt, but Sullivan's claim to have held tho world 's title TTin TUntf ItAmM TWn Oct I.T 1.W R.,tnn Viu. Height 5 ft. 10V. in. Heavyweight. Color, white. 1880: Knockrut Georeo Rooke. 2 J. Donaldson, 10 rds. Exhibition Joe Gons, 3 rds. 1881: Won Steve Taylor, 2 rds. John Flood, 8 rdsv Kockout Fred Crossley, 1 nl. James Dalton, 4 rds Jack Burns, 2 rds. 1882: Won Paddy Ryan. 9 rds. John MTermott, 3 rds. Knockout Jimmy Elliott. 3 rds. Exhibition Tuir Col- !liD - 4 r,1- j0 Vobnrn. 1883: Won Charlie Mitchell, 3 rds. Herbert A. Slade, 3 rds. 1884: Won Fred Robinson rds. Geo. M. Robinson, 4 rds. Enos Phillips 4 rds. John M. Laflin, 3 rds. Alf Green Jack Blirke 3 H. McCaffrey, 6 pi;. :tr,P,i,i ,, HH6. f,ut igprank Herald W Al 18S7: Jan. 18 Patsy Cardiff D Min- neapolis, 6 rds. Tereschenko shared with the former provisional minister of finance. Par ( Continued on pe three) nadtsky. We found Kcrensky's former GRIM PETER AND PAUL MYSTERY PRISON OF OLD, PETROGRAD'S BEST HOTEL Some of Its Inmates Grant teeroling Interviews to United Press , By Joseph Shaplen ' (United Press staff correspondent) PetrogTad, Jan. 3V - (Delayed) Grim Peter and Paul fortress, mystery prison of the old departed days . of ezarism, today is alleged "tho. beat hotel, in Pntrograd . Some of its inmates themselves told tho United Press staff correspondent this in interviews which the Bolshe viki government permitted three Swed ish socialists Messrs. Grimhnid. Nie.t- sen and Hoegland and myself to have in their prison cells today. Czar's Particular "Prison The Fortress of Sts. Peter and Paul was the czar's own particular prison spot. Only the most important politic al prisoners entered there. Few emer ged. The place was shrouded in mys tery. . But tho Bolshevik! government s po litical prisoners sixty in ail find tho prison well lighted by electricity, tho cells largo and kept scrupulously clean with plenty of .windows and air. Not only that, but the prisoners of the new regime are given many liberties. They rise and retire as they please. They wear their own clothes, aro permitted to receive visitors and allowed to send letters and books ' without censorship restrictions. Old General Is There General 8ukhomlinof, former min ister of war under the czar, was the first of tho prisonors to whom our, par- tv was introduced. It was Sukhomlin- off who was called not long ago one of the men whoi caused the world war. He was sentenced under tho regimo of Ke rensky for treachery, having already passed three j'cars behind tho bars at Saints Peter and Paul. ' Paul Sukhemlinoff is a very small man with ' gray hair and moustache. We found him well preserved despite ltis imprisonment and his age 75. "How do you find conditions in Pe ter and Paul' tinder tho present re gime?" ha wasosked. "Better than under tne czar, - ne repliod instantly. "It is as good as a man like myself, who has spent 50 years in the saddle, could expect. "Conditions here were worse while Kerensky was in power. Then wo were unable to receive letters ' from our friends. Now I see my wife daily- I have papers and books. Formerly 1 contributed 150 books to the prison li brary; now I am here using those same books." Food Is Excellent The former minister declared the food served -him was satisfactory. He exhihit.ftd bread which was really bet tor than that served to the general public. Besides good meats, he ex plained he and other prisoners got tea three times daily and were permitted to smoke and choose their own worn. As a politician, I am a conserva Cvn iwnlint." ho added, "but per sonally I thank the day when the Bol aheviki came into power. I am the goat of others, of the entire system of czansm. Uo.spitH my monarcnim -euii- vic.tions, I do not think czansm has 4 chnne.e of beinff revived." Then, after a pensive moment, he continued: An Old Man's Opinion "The entire world is perishing. Man kind and culture arc being destroyed. Where will salvation come from. One of my co-visitors interjected: "Why not trr socialism?" "PerhsT." Sukhomlinoff answered laughingly. "I do not know. I am un able to follow the world situation in prison. ' ' Despite his crimes, the spcetaelo of Sukhomlinoff repentant was one to create sympathy- The former minister offered us ciifaretes and then return ed to his work table.. He hesitated a moment nnd then volunteered, with a faint smile. "I am now also of the proletariat. Mv entire property has been confis cated." We bade the poneral pood bye. Another Monarchist Visited Tho cell of Schenur, another of the monarchists accused with 'lukhomlin rff was next visited. He, was excited and downhearted, apprehensive over the ordeal of his trial which is due very soon. While in tho cell a soldier ausrd brought us an invitation to vis it M. Kolikoff, who: is suspected of Havincr engineered the murder of Kokhskin and Shinfaroff, two former Kerenskv ministers shot down a fort- night s?o We fonnd Kolikoff a man of gieantic size with deep set, pierc ing eyes. Absolutely illiterate he pnve the im pression of s Htronir. healthy animal. - OthT Interesting Prisoners "I c!ll"d tou to say that I am in nocent." he explained. As we stood in the corridor we met, the Mensheviki minamalist lender) Voisinski out tak ing bis constitutional. He passed ns proudly bv. rcfniniT to talk. As we wnt on dawn the corridor we met Avskentieff. former provisional gov ernment leader rf the social revolution ary party. He shook hands cheerfully and talked in Gorman. As he left he "Adieu until I meet von at the i .tertionalist socialist contrre-s." Next w entered the cell of Form ailed back n er Foreitrn Minister Tereschenko which foreign minister a tall, polished man, with statesmanlike attitude and proud, clear eves. He immediately launched in to a political discussion. He had just read Trotsky's second speech to tho Russian pan-soviot, in which the Bol sheviki foreign minister revealed tho possibility of a separate peace.-Tores-chonko attacked Trotsky's viewpoint. Opposed to Trotsky's Policy "His (policy is absolutely against Russian interests," ho declared. ''It is illogical and impractical. A separate peace would be a misfortune for Rus sia and for the entire world. I tried my hardest to prevent this." Both ' Tereschenkb. (and Bernadtsky were very pessimistic over tho future for Russia. Man Who Slew Rasputin In the next cell we found M. PurLsh kevitch, a noted anti-semitic leader and reputed to be the actual slayer of the mad monk, Rasputin. Ho is a small, well set man with piercing eyes and apparently about fifty- He groe't-1 ed us in the corridor and cheerfully in vited ua inside his cell to discuss eag erly the political situation. ' "Which do you consider the most important cause of ' the revolution' f " tho United Press correspondent asked. "I will put it in ono word Raspu tin',?' he replied. "Tho complete over throw of the old regime was necessary The czar was surrounded by women and children and mad nion- I was the first openly to attack Rasputin in the duma for corruption wider the old re gime. But, alas, my warnings came too late." Pessimistic Views Purishkevitch was likewise very pes simistic over the peace situation. "Poace with Germany now will mean the betrayal of Russia," he declared. "It will mean a new war five or ten years hence. Tho Slavs and the Ger - ans cannot rulo side bv side. One or the ether must yield." Ho expressed . his personal respect for the German kaiser, remarking the man is a devil but he s a man in comparison with Czar Nicholas." "Russia." ho concluded, mournful- Iv. "i beiiur split and ruiued. Our power is lost." He laughed bitterly as we left . t ... .......... . 'Btranre Canric of Tate . Darkness had como over Poter and Paul as we stepped out into the dim prison ehurc. where a lonely sister knelt over the marble eraves of for mer czirs. Hor prayers for their souls went np from the prison they built to perpetuate tneir power tne prison now by strange caprice of fate oecu nind mostlv bv those who fought the czar in the name of the people, but who are now themselves called tho en emies of tho people. SIM-SIX ar'e dead AS RESULT OF RAIDS OVER GREAT BRITAIN Total Casualties Have Been Compiled Other News from War Zone Today London, Feb. 2. Sixty-six persons were killed and 183 injured in the two German raids over London on Tuesday and Wednesday, . Lord French, com mander of home defonse announced to day. Tuesday's raid killed 56 and injured 173; Wednesday's killed 10 and wounded 10. In Tuesday's raid 30 of the killed and 91 of the injured were all in a sin gle air raid shelter. Four persons are still mis-sing and it is believed possible additional bodies may be found in the shelter where the greatest number of casualties occur red. The removal of debris is very slow, owing to the complete demolition of the places. Steamer Is Sunk. London, Feb. 2. The steamer Mon treal was sunk in a collision Wednes day, it was announced today. The crew was saved. All aboard the Montreal were res cued, it was stated. There are four Bteamers named Mon treal, listed by Lloyds. One is a steel vessel of 8.044 tons, owned by the Canadian Pacific railway ocean lines of Liverpool and built at New Castle in 1900. One is a steel packet of 4, 282 tons, built at Sorel in 1904 and owned by the Canadian Steamship lines, Limited, of Montreal. One is a French steamer of 3,42 tons, owned by the General Trans-Atlantic company, of navre, and built in Glasgow in 1886. The other is a small craft of 196 tons, registered at Hull. French Take Prisoners. Paris, Feb. 2. A French raid direct ed against German positions in Mortier wood resulted in the taking of several enemy prisoners, the war office an nounced today. In the vicinity of (Continued oa page six) IARTIAL LAW III BERLIN TO QUELL POPULARUNREST Strikers Ordered to Return to Work Monday or Face "Military Punishment" CIVIL AUTHORITIES NO LONGER IN POWER Starvation Is Also Potent Weapon In Bringing Dissat isfied People to Terms Amsterdam, Feb. 2. Germany's mil itary machine is in complote control in Berlin today. Imperial Chancellor Hertling is pow erless to invoke civil processes. Muni tions factories aro under martial. ' Thousands of strikers aro fooling the weight of the military power's attempt to crush tho great general strike thru hunger and a threat to shoot down any who resist. Independent socialists are organizing a national protest against the arrest of Hcrr Dittmann, independent socialist and a membor of tho reichstag. This news came from Amsterdam to day in dispatches from the Gorman cap ital. Meanwhile Berlin isued semi official statement declaring that strike jing disturbances and intimating that tne trims nud passed. Chancellor Hertling admitted his lack of power to interfere with the mailed fist in Berlin when he informed .Herr Haase, independent socialist- reichstag leader, that he could not secure Ite re lease of Dittmann after the military hud seized him. Tho order 'reducing rations to strikers is in effect today This means hunger to thousands. Citizens are forbidden to assemble in public meetings or join street crowds un der threat of being shot. Martial law was proclaimed formally in Berlin, the proclamation being read in the schlossplatz, following the roll ing of drums. Extraordinary court-martial was announced. The strike in Lemburg was reported to be growing. The Frankfurter Zeitung demands that the government find some solution to end the strike. During a riot Thursday at Spandau, a railroad running to a factory was cut by strikers. A policeman was dragged from his horse there and badly beaten, accord ing to reports hero. Unions Sljort of Funds. Washington, Feb. 2. Shortage of funds and the heavy hand of the Teu ton government on supplies will serve to block a general unu effective strike movement in Germany, government of ficials believed today, Only desperation stirred by hunger and a widespread spirit of revolution will bring about suf nciuut chaos in tha kaiser's empire seriously to affect tho war, it is now believed. Long years of domination by military rulo will servo to subdue the public mind now, it is felt, but nevertheless this government is watching closely tha outcome of the "showdown" between German labor and the military leaders. Through the closely censored dis patchesand the lid has again been shut down tighter on news out of Gor uiauy officials sought to learn wheth er tho strikes reported sweeping the great industrial centers of tho kaiser's empire have been subdued as expected by the Teuton mailed fist. No hope is held hero for a German ri.voliitiiiii now. It is regarded as pos sible, however, that the increasing bold ness of the socialists and workers may lead to graver events for the kaiser. Meantime the" situation in Austria, blanketed by censorship, may be serious, officials believe. By aeroplane and other means this government is distrib uting news of German developments ,.r thn Austrian lines. The real sit uation, however, may not be fully known until the war is over. Hunger Helps Kaiser. Loudon, Feb. 2. Hunger will stalk, through Germany today the kaiser's ally is bending his striking subjects to his will. iv, Thousands of men, women end chil dren, innocent victims of tho Gorman militarists' determination to starve pro testing workers into submission, will come under the governmental order to reduce strikers' rations, effective to- The order was contained in Berlin dis patches, received through Zurich. Back of this kaiserist famine is the supreme war council's poorly veiled threat to massacre German citizens, in discriminately, if other methods fail to put down the strike. The threat, in forbidding public meetings or gather ing of crowds, was couched in the words: ' If necessary to resort to arms. no distinction will be made between strik- (Continued on page seven) .u i