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Reduction i nprices for necessities of life, particularly
food, today has become the greatest world problem.
Attorney General Palmer at Washington said that
federal laws would be employed in curbing profiteers and
that new laws probably would be asked, if necessary.
ine supreme economic council, sitting
in London, began consideration of the
establishment of an international eco
nomic council to -control this world's
food anil to fight "trusts."
Senator Kenyon in no interview dc-
manded immediate action to meet tha
hiKh coot of living pointing to the fact
tuat tne Home is aloutto take a
month's recess, with scores of bills and
resolutions aimed at profiteering pend
ing. States Tak Action. v
President Wilson and members of his
cabinet hare interested themselves in
the situation mid are expected to luke
the lead in the campaign ngaiiust high
prices.
States throughout the country are tak
ing stpps to insure distribution in their
SHOE PROBE ASKED
Washington, Aug. 1. The
resolution of Representative
Igoe, Missouri, ordering the fed
ernl trade commission to investi
gate the high cost of shoes, wus
reported to the house fuvmably
todny by tho committee on irtcr
stntc commerce.
It will be called up tomorrow
and an effort mivde to pass it be
fore the recess.
territories of army food purchased from
the government.
Mrs. J nl iu Heath, president of the
Housewives league, suggested creation
of a food portfolio in the cabinet.
Tho French govcr uncut foimuiuted
plans for nle of necessities i.t cost, in
eluding the entire stock of supplies re
cently purchased from the American
nrniv.
DEALERS MAKING EXCESSIVE mpftl., to b, disposed of will be sold at
PROFITS WILL BE EXPOSED Lbout the following figures:
j Corned Beef.
Washington, Aug. 1. (United Press.) i K0 l Fsns (containing about 12 os ),
Beating down living costs by showing' 30 cents.
the large profits ileulers are now be
lieved to be muking, has been deter
mined upon ns the p!nn of nction during
the house recess of the special sub com
mittee Investigating the war depart
ment's surplus food, Chairman Bcavis
said today.
Reavis announced that the federal
trade commission will be called on for
its figures, carefully compiled during
the war, On practically all tiie neccssi
ties of life.
Innocuous Reservations To
Treaty Being Prepared For
Emergency In Senate Fight
By L. C. Martin
(United Press Stuff Correspondent.)
Washington, Aug. I. -Reservations to
the peace treaty, to innocuous they will
ot place it in any danger of being sent
hak to the other powers, ore being
drawn by international law experts
close to the administration for ubmis
aion to President Wilson, it was learned
today.
There was no intimation tiiat tht v
perts were writing the reservations at
the president's request or with his
knowledge. But it was stntid on reli
able authority that should President
Wilson decide finallv that aiceotsnea
nf reservations must precede ratifica
tion of the treaty, thin particular series
would be ready for presentation of the
President Ptvinc Way.
This presentation, it was hinted,
ni'mh! lie aFepiplihed through sena
tors who. while urging refer ations, ire
friendly to the league of nstiona
they are svers. to seeing reservations
.cartiinger it.
The piesident is pnving the way fl
reservations by hi rrsuniptioj of daily
OF THE WHOLE WORLD
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Publication of the present cost and
selling prices, Rcavii believes, wilt
show food dealers are still collecting
largo war profit. The investigation la
nls, wvoal the exact prof-
its of the packers during the war.
FLANS TOR SALE OF SURPLUS
ARMY FOODS NEARLY COMPLETE
Washington, Aug. 1. (United Press,)
Complete plans for the sale of sur
plus army food by parcel post, as au
thorized by a houso resolution, will prob
ably be complete early next week, offi
cials In chargo of the work said today.
Assistant Postmaster General Bluko
lee, in ehiirge of the work fur the post
office department, conferred today with
Postmaster General Burleson and war
department officials.
The food distribution will work like
this:
The price list, when completed, with
description of tho food for sale, will
lid put into the hands of the housewives
by the postoffice through postmasters
&nd carriers. With the list will go an
order blank.
The housewife who wants some of the
army food will fill out the blank and
jhand it to the carrier. She w ill pay tlie
carrier.
The postmaster will bulk nil the or
ders and send them to the sales division
of the war department hero. In large
cities these orders in a single day may
total a carload or more, officials here
beliee.
Prices to B Fixed.
The war department will ship the food
consigned to the postmaster, who will
distribute it through the locui curriers.
While the official price list will not
be completed until Monday, an unoffi
cial list obtained toduv shovv tlint the
No. 2 cans (co'itr.ining about 24 or..),
"A cents; six pound cans, $2.
Roast Beef.
Xo. 1 cans, 29 cents; 1 pound cans, 41
cents; 5 pound cans, 6(1 cents; six pound
cans, 2.i0.
CotPOA Beef Haah.
One pound cans, 23 cents; 2 pound
cms, 4i) cents.
Kxcon, in crates, 34 cents a pound.
Baeoa in 12 pound tins, SO cents a
pound.
conferences with republican senators at
the White House, In the belief of oppo
nents of the league. Nearly every ra
pubiicuu senator who hss Called, hss
later announced to the press, that he
told the president he favors reurva
tlons. By the time Wilson has received
similar statements from 33 or more re
publicans, league opponents asserted, he
ian without loss of dignity, say to the
eountrv that he is forced to accept res
crvatio:! to stve the treaty.
The foreign relations committee to
day resumed its quizzing of Bernard
M. Maruch and Bradley Pnlmer, eco
nomic, experts on the treaty.
Protocol Before Senate.
Washington, Aug. 1. (United Press.)
A protocol drawn to accompany the
treaty of peace, providing that tiie trea
ty ithsll go into effect when ratified by
tlirfe major powers, was before the sea
ate todav.
President Wilson sent the document
to the senate late yesterday. It had not
b'-en o;jened this morning and it de
tails were sot available. The senate
n ex'M-f-teJ to mate it public shortly.
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iWILL ASK CONGRESS
TO LIMIT PROFITS
Senator Kenyon Demands b
mediate Action 0a High
By Raymond Clapper
(United Press staff correspondent)
Washington, Aug. 1, Congress will
be asked to limit profits- ou necessities
Senator Kii'b)'. Arkansas, announced
during heatod climate today on the
high cost of living.
.Demand for actios in meeting the
high cost of living crisis was niado by
Senator Kenyon, Iowa, in on interview.
.Hooded with nearly fifty resolutions
and bills seeking relief from high
prices, congress is stalled and plans no
iinmcuiaie action on any of the meas
ures, he pointed out. v
Kcnyou declared congress could pass
one or more of these ponding measures
ana votain iparual relief, in the race
of this resolution, the house plana to
tune a mourn s vacation, -beginning to
morrow.
Out of the mass of resolution and
bills only one aimed directly at the
high cost of living has .paused the
resolution requiring the secretary of
war to sedl surplus food nt once, it was
emphasized.
"Wo have had enough talk. It is
time for action. This question is more
tin,ort-int now than the league of na
tions," he said.
Pending bills would prohibit export
of certain foodstuffs, Including sugar,
halt .stock speculation, abolish the gov
erning guarantee ou wheat, in the
hope, or lowttnsz 'Price, attempt to re
ducc tho amount of aum-aev in circu
Union, prevent escnsaiv prices of fuel
prohibit cold storage bourn to hold
rood more toss ten months. .
Resolution introduced would investl
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sugar, clothing and coffee, ascertain
why flour .prices have increased, and
ask I'reaideut Wilson to toll congress
i what additional powers he needs to
onng down prices.
LOCI HEN PURCHASE
HUBBARDEU!LDING
Harry HI. Hawkins And T. A.
Roberts New Owners; Name
To Be Changed Soon.
The Hubbard building In Salem and
the 202 acre farm formerly owned by
Mrs. Funnie F.. Hubbnrd have been pur
chased by Ir. W. I). McNaiy of I'endlc-
ion from the Alliance Trust company.
Harry M. Hawkins and T. A. Roberts.
of the local firm of Hawkins i. Roberts,
farm loan securities, bsve purchased the
Hubbard building of Dr. Me.Vary.
The new awners of the Hubbard
building are now in possession and have
decided to change the iiame to "The
Urenon Buildinir." Kept. 1 the firm
will move its offices from the Masonic
Temple and tuke personal chnige of the
building. l)iirni(f the month of August
W. H. N'orri, who has servod as re
ceiver for the past two years, wiil have
charge.
The firm of Hawkins I Roberts has
been in the fsrm loan and farm security
business in .Salem since 1 Wl . when (in
office was opened in the United States
tttiunu.l bank. They announce thut the
building now to be known as ''The Ore
gon" will be conducted as a first clss
office building. There are 93 rooms, all
of which are tented with the exception
of one. The 03 robins are in audition to
the ground floor occupied by the Oregon
theatre, the Oregon Kleetric depot and
the Kapphahn Transfer Co.
The proceedings of forclosuie se'iinst
the building were commenced in the full
of 1B17 and it was on July 11 of this
year that by sheriff's deed, the title
passed to the Alliance Trust company.
The 02 acre farm just a few miles
cast of the city is known as the old
Hubbard farm. It wss offered to the
state during the last legislature by Mrs,
Hubbard for '.'00 an acre. It ii regard
ed as one of the finest farmi. ia th
countr. It now beeomes the property of
Dr. JlcNary, a son-in-law of Mrs. Hub
bard. FLAKES BOMB KROX8TADT
Helsingfors, July 31. Eight British
a:TThltte todsr ar.-tt frnm euiu.r
'stationed ia the Baltic sa and bomb
ed Kronflailt, tha olhevik nsval base
for forty mmoWx Bolshevik batteries
replied. The airplane returned safely.
Salens a Good Place to Trade
SA1SER KNW CERSIANY
HAD BEEN DEFEATED 0,
AUGUST CT LAST YEAR
Berlin, July St. (United Presa)
The former kaiser first learned a mil
itary victory for Germany waa invpo
sible on August 1, 1918, during a coun
cil at Spa, it was revealed Unlay ia
the new German White Book.
Members of the council, who appear
ed to be nervous over the situation,
strongly urged proposals be made to
President Wilson after Wilson's sec
ond note, which waj regarded a sharp
er thnn the fiiat.
General Ludendorff pointed out it
was not likely the tlliea would pene
trate the western tfront and favored
further fighting. Kven if Germany lost,
he argued, she could not get haraher
terms than the allies already had plan
ned. Ludendonff was overruled by the
council, which decided to accept the
allied terms.
On November 10, J918, wireless mes
sages were ent to tho allies with re
gard to modifications of the temns
and the following day the armistice
was concluded.
OHIO BATTLING KID
TO CUTH1GH PRICES
Counties, Cities 'And Villages
U-0peratE In Fistt
Oa Dealers.
i
Cleveland, Ohio, Aug, 1. (United
Press.) Ohio was at grip with the
ginnt uf high prices today. .
In every county,, city and village of
the stale a vigorous campaign 'was un
der way o determine the causo of what
the officials claim are unnecessary high
prinos for foodstuffs, i
Governor Cox and Attorney General
Price believe the next few days will de
velop a number of prosecutions. Evi
dence wus sought against food specula
tors and cold storage men, suspected oi
illegally combining.
At the conference o Ohio prosecutors
U Columbus, Cox served notice that he
would accept no excuses for lack of na
tion against for manipulators. Froscuu
tors announced their determination to
prosecute regardless of laws and allow
the trial courts to decide Whetarr rut:
laws are inadequate.
Huch keen outside interest was mani
fested, ia the Columbus gathering that
newspaper representatives from many
cities were present, while official rep
resentatives from several tate were
reported o" the ground and from others
letters were received asking for de
tailed account of how Ohio proposes to
tackle the problem.
The principal points in the offensive
are:
To prosecuto to the limit wherever
possible; to organize a new branch of
the state government, entirely devoted
to mutters of food raising, distribution
and marketing.
IOWA FOLLOWS LEAD OF OniO
IN BATTLE ON PROFITEERS
Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 1 Immediate
action aguinst profiteers in Iowa was
announced today by Governor W. v
Harding. Instructions will be sent at once to all
county attorneys tn Investigate any
combination agreements between busi
ness concerns for maintenance of pres
ent high prices, the governor said. He
announced he has also under considera
tion the culling of a conference of prose
culm s to devise ways and means of se
curing relief for the consumer.
ABE MARTIN
"Who remembers th' ole time holiday
when we'd dress up sn' spend tn' whole
forenoon huntin' th' side doorf" askec
I Pinky Kerr t-iUy. Mrs. I.afc Bud hns
(struck fer a twenty per cent increase on
'her weekly s 'lows ace an' th' abolition
u' breakfast.
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690,000 RAIL
MS 111
FOR INCREASE
H$er Pay To Meet 85 Per
CeiH Raise In Cost Gf
Living Demanded.
ATTITUDE OF RAILROAD
ADMINISTRATION SECRET
Brotherhoods To Meet In
Geyeland August 12 To
Frame Demands.
WaahUgtoa, Aug. 1 President
Wilson today recommended creation
of body to "investigate and de
termine ail questions concerning the
wages) of railway employes." Its
decision would be mandatory.
The president also indorsed
Hlnes" suggestion that the wage
problem cannot be fairly met with
out recognising that the cost of liv
ing is rapidly rising and the dollar
rapidly shrinking.
By Ralph F. Couch
(Uaited Tress Bluff Correspondent.)
Washington, Aug. 1. Wage demands
to cover e 83 per cent increase In the
cost of living have been presented to
the railroad administration by repre
sentativea of 090,000 conductois, biake
men, trainmen and railway shopmen, ac
cording to announcements made here to
day by officials of the four big railroad
brotherhoods and allied unions.
HimiUir demands, to bo presonted
within a few days by other railroad
craft, officials said today, will bring to
nearly one million the pujubur.of work
men eoucerned. ,,
Time and one-half for overtime is
a.skod by all the unions.
Illnee Is Silent.
Rail Director Hines refused to indi
cate wha,t the attitude of the rnliroad
odtniniMrctlon will be.
"The demands will be forwarded to
me by the railroad wage adjustment
board," he said. "Then I'll aci."
"We have asked increases averaging
35 per cenit," said President D. K. tihep
herd, speaking for 52,000 members of
the Brotherhood of Rnilrond Conductors.
"The Brotherhood of T'ainmcn has
put in a demand for increases averaging
43 per cent," said President W. G. Lee.
"Officials representing 4"i0,f,00 shop
workers have demanded an increase of
approximately 23 per cent," said John
Hcott, of the American Federation of
U.ulmr.
Meeting Is Called.
"I have called a meeting of brother
hoods for August 42 nt Cleveland to
frame our cleinnmls," said Timothy
Shea, president of the Brotherhood of
.ocemotlve Firemen nnd Knginciiicn.
President Warren 8. Stone said the
Brotherhood of Locomotive I.ngineers
hns made elear to President Wilson they
must have government actios to cut the
rost of living or his men will insist on
substuntiul wage increases.
The shop workers hnve given Hines
until Tuesday to reply to their demands,
it was said todny. This ultimatum was
served on Hines following conferences
that began weeks ago. The shopmen
three times postponed threatened strike
nction, officials said todny. The first
ilnte set for direct action was June 13.
This was postponed to August 1, when
the workers received encouragement
that their demands would be considered
carefully.
Profiteers Must Oo.
" Profiteering must be eliminated or
there will be a revolution In tiie United
Mate," said lrsideiit Hhea. "Profi
teers ia necessities of life arc tn'.lng
away the wage increases as inst as they
are grunted the workers.
" Wsge of the firemen has been in
creased 43 per cent since 1913. In that
time the eont of living hss been boost
ed more thaa 80 per cent.
"Kiremea got a substantial wage
increase after the government took over
the roads. Thia was completely absorbed
by the profiteers within fiO days."
Pridnt bbepheid of the conductors
Ud:
"Uongrrns hss power to reJure the
cost of living by setting up a maximum
profit law, beyond which dealers in ne
cessities should not be permitted to
g"."
BoUhevisin is likely to get firm
hold ia America unless the government
arts to stop profiteering, according to
President Lee.
Lee today denied that railroad men
are "geting rich" on wage advances
made by the rail administration.
SEE BIAS CABINET TO RESIGN
B-lgrade, July 30.- (D? laved) The
Hertnaa cabinet decided today to re
si ia t body. 4 IS
NEW YOM AMERICANS TO
CARRY FIGHT FOR FLAYS
INTO COWITJS REPORT
New York, Aug. 1. Owners of th
.Vw York American league . baseball
club may ask aa injunction from the
courts to protect thorn against any ac
tion by Ban Johnson in deal:ng with
the case of ORrl Mays, star pitcher who
joined the club yesterday.
This was intimated by Colonel Jacob
Ruppert, president of the Yanks, fol
lowing receipt of word hero that John
son had suspended Mays.
Contending thst Johnson could not
have escaped knowing that negotia
tions for the purchase were undor way,
it was declared that he should have im
posed the suspension some time ago.
The pitcher jumped the Boston Ked
8ox on July 12 in Chicago, where John
son has his offices.
The local chrb opens critical ser
ies -today with the Detroit Tigers,
whk'h have been advancing through
good pitching and hitting. The Yanks
need gyiod pitching if they are to recov
er whilo meeting the strong western
ers and the season is so near a close
that unless they slage their come back
at once, it i vory likely they will be
unable to stage it at nit.
JAIL TERM FOLLOWS
ATTACK OR COURTS
Memphis Editor To Serve Ten
Days; Ccntmpt Is
Alleged. "
Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 1. Kdward T.
Leech, editor of the Memphis Press, will
go to jail next Monday to begin strving
a sentence of ten days for alleged con
tempt of court. Leech refused to apol
ogize and stated that he stood on the
right of a free press.
Loech was convicted as the result of
an editorial entitled "Tho Hhame Of It
All," in which ho discussed general po
liticnl conditions in the city administra
tion and courts of Memphis, without,
however, making specific reference to
any particular judge or court.
On the ground that the cdUoital was
directed at Chancellor Israel Peres, wao
had decided an important local ease the
day before, Loech Wa summoned oa a
chargo of contempt. He filed an nnswer
admitting the authorship of the editor
ial and refusing to retract or qualify
it. Ho denied its statements regarding
the ovlls of corrupt politics rcierred to
any specific individual and asserted
they referred to a general pad condi
tion. He swore he intentionally wrote
the editorial along general lines so that
"all persons whom the shoe fitted
might put it on.
I.rech was given the maximum penal
ty in Tennessee for contempt of court
outside tha courtroom, ten days in jail
and a fine of 30. The decision whs
sustained in the enurt of civil appeal.
The Tennessee supreme court refused t
review the case nnd yesterday issue! a
memorandum containing its reasons,
stating:
"That th editorial or pnit nf the
some was intended to, nnd did, in fact,
refer to one of the judges of Shelby
county, is evidenced from the article it
self; that the same was written bectuse
of the approaching election and prompt
ed bv a desire to Influence the same."
President Submits Protocol
To Accompany German Treaty
To Senators This Morning
Washington, Aug. I. President Wil-
jsoii louay stii'imium 10 ine srnmc a pro
tocol to nceoinpsny the treaty with tier
many.
The protocol was accompanied by a
letter from President Wi'son in which
he stilted that It originated iu written
inerehnnges of views between America
and allied delegates and representatives
of Germany during peace negotiations
l Paris. It contuins explanation of
certain fentures of the pence tresis;
which the (lerman delegates requested
to be put in writing to form a "defi
nite and binding memorandum," Presi
dent Wilson's letter stated.
The protocol was laid before the sen
ate in mien session shortly after 154
o'clock. Following presentation of the
protocol and Its reference to tue roreign
relations committee, Senator Lodge put
into the record the speeiul peace treaty
between the great powers and Poland
and the agremcnt wigned by the United
Htates, France and Great Biitain to
shorten the period of occupation of the
Rhine provinces, if Germany proves
faithful in carrying out her repaiattion
promises.
The text of the protocol follows:
"With a view to indicating precisely
tho conditions in which certain provis
ions of the treaty of even date arc to be
curried out, it is agreed by the 'high
contracting parties':
"1A commission will be sppointed
bv the principle allied and associated
powers to supervise the destruction M
DESTRUCTIVE
iCEItlOTIIIG
OK ID DID
ITurty-Fcur Deaths Recorded
la Chicago's Rye Days
Of Disorder.
TOTAL INJURED PLACED
AT 500 IN ESTIMATES
City Qukt Today And Officials
Torn Efforts To Relief
Work.
TOLL OF THE RIO I S
Dead: .
.-Monday, 1; Tuesday, . 10;
Wednesday, Hi; Thursday, 5;
Friday, 2.' i . 'V
Totul - 34 nineteen negroes
and 13 whites. .
&' Number injured, including
those stabbed, shot and beaten,
500.
Damage by fire to property,
between .")0,000 and 130,000. ',
Damage by bullets, clubs and 4c
pillage, 130,000.
Area of district affected, $40 ,
s. ' city blocks or 10 square mile.
Loss in time, food, work, esti- 4
mated nt $1,000,000.
-Population of black belt, asd
environs 200,000. , ..a
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Chicnge, Aug. 1. (United Pre.)
Race rioting ia Chicago hr.d ceased to
day.. The city wss ciJhi. .Officials and
civis IcosVrs set about le task of rosh
hg food supplies Into the stricken ej;re
districts, where, during' the four day oC
arson, slaying, looting and wrscking, bi
hnbitants were reduced almo.t to star
vation. Holdiers were In complete control of
tho situation, patrolling the strcela in
the black belt where most nf tho fight
ing took place, and manning maehin
guns placed nt stragetlc points on tha
edge of the belt facing white residi stinl
districts.
The death list todny stood at 34. Two
white died early today from injuries.
')ni negro was killed, yesterday white .
nnothef died from wounds.
Adjutant Gcnornl Diikman and Folic
Cli'cf 'inrrity, after tour of tho af
cetMl district enrlv today, reported th
treulde hnd eome to an end and issv
little else was to be done exeept keep
watch to prvent mobs of hoodlums sara-
jCcing the negroes, who have grown tm
(Continued on page three)
the fortifications of Heliro'asd w ac
cordance with the treaty. This commis
sion will Ire authorized to desido what
portion of the works protecting t
roast from sea erosion are to be main
tained aud what portion mast be dc
stroycy. "3 Hums reimbursed by (krmany t
(lerman nationals to Indemnify t'aent in
respect to the interests which thy suy
1m- found to possess in the railways asl
mines referred to in the svtond para
graph of Article 130 shall lie credited be
Germany against the sums duo by way
of reparation.
"3 The list of persons to be handed
over to the allied and associated gov
ernments by Germany under tha seeoad
paragraph of article 228 shsil be com
municated to the Oerinss government
within a month from the roniiag isto
force of the treaty.
"4 The reparation eommisoioa refer
red to in Article 240 and paragraphs
two, three and four of annex four eaa
not require trade secrets or other ea
eidential information to be divulged.
"5 From the signature of toe treaty
and within the ensuing four months Ger
many will be entitled to submit for ex
amination by the allied and Mwociatat
powers documents and proposals ia or
der to expediate the work roaaettsvf
with reparation, and thus to shsrtea th
investigation and to accelerate the de
cisions. (Continued on page tea)