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THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM. OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1919. Climax In Unpi-ccedcn ted SituatiiMi facing Co untry ' ; Is Expected To Break Soon ' " tw IVAil ft Taranianm . I r r A j j puphcpn. majority ? starting point, . at .(United Press starr corresponucui, ,, .lea9ti. ig tog0 the Umit in menima(a wasiimgion,, -r UUUu.. . , . ... . . .Augi 30.. . ment tnai tu , idcilt Bredicl that h will not. . iu tour or ""4'- tensively With' the amendments the lively lew ' committee- is starting out to make, Federation ofliabor start-" . . I '..:.r . I. .. . . 1 . . . J. 1 . : .. t Umax may soon oe ei- ' i ing American ing totnorrow, . convinces .. Washington . tutav that a e peCted 1" Iflo uupicccuiuuu buuhuvu , gripping the country. ' ". in addition to his fight lor the trea 1 ty and league of nations, the trip will ' afford the president an opportunity to ' put squarely- before the country his po ' sitioii-on the-matter of wage increases while attempts at lowering the cost of i living are' just getting under way. The shopmen, wuose smite woum ay therefore, that no irie issue can be de feated .on its details, they expect the president . to make his fight , of the league covenant as an instrument that will prevent wars, relying on what the 'believe to be the popular demand for the league" to guarantee defeat of the senate's detailed objections. piucn, num umo nuura i-1 . . . IT . . n, - uroaeh a tieup of the railroads ot the ' Imfta! I flltS lit First ; country, are uoi saunirou wuu mo jico , ident's disposition of their case. But one of 'the big questions that will be ' answered before the president starts "his trip, is whether the American Fed-1 'eration of labor wtll get .behind him ' or bark of the' shopmen." The president's friends are confident : of A. F. of L. support in view of the stabilizing position the labor organiza tion has taken throughout the war : emergency. Should the executive coun cil aivc the shopmen its support in re- ; fusing to. accept the terms submitted, .however, it is pointed out that the cn ,t;re labor situation would be thrown nido open, with innumerable strike pos sibilities., -t ' Uncertainty during the last few wocks as to whether the president, would actually make Ms trip is attrib uted to the fact that tho treaty situa tion had not so crystallized as to indi cate exactly -what the .president would have to. flight.-His friends, point out -that the president really-hasn't fought at all to date. He has merely waited ,to see. how far the opposition would The action of the foreign relations eommittee has determined that the re; Division Back Saturday New York, Aug. 30. The first troops of the' First division will arrive Satui doy on the transport Pastorcs, it was fmiouuced today ' at. the port of em barkation, Hoboken. Nineteen' officers and thirty enlisted men will comprise the units; - - The- Pastores, which left Brest Au gust 21, bringing 1473 officers and men including a number of casual compan ies ... Spokane Refuses Increased Pay To Employes Of City iSpokaijie,- 'Wash.-. Aug. -30. At the election -Tuesday, voters refused wage increases of : 15 percent .to all city em ployes, and turned, down, proposed, in creases of 25 percent to firemen and police. Firemen and the police nact ini tiated the increase petitions which re sulted in the election. The vote was light... -' - . - , DO YOU KNOW THIS ? jTRADE MARK o It represents the i i the battery that by hard, sturdy, powerful and persistent service in motor cars, all over the country has earned itself the title of "the Giant that Lives in a Box." . The "ExlCe" Battery is a gi'ant of the most dependable sort. Every ounce of it represents strength and endurance; - ' 'every detail of its construction has been proved right in many years of practical performance. It was designed and is manufactured by the largest maker of storage batteries in the world. Put an "ExiOe" Giant's power behind your starting and lighting system and have done with guesswork. Inch for inch and pound for pound, there is more power and punch in the "BXi&e" Giant than in any other starting battery R. D. BARTON ' Starter Service Battery Service t 171 South Commercial Street DISTILLERS REALIZE DAMAGE OF SALOONS Booze Barons Want Return Of Whiskey But Not Ot Former System. -New York, Aug. 30. (United Press) Distiilorsare wondering what they are going .to do with the huge stocks of liq uor left on their hands when the nation went into its prohibition period. They believe, 'according to O. H. Via then, who is head of Kentucky 's largest whiskey manufacturing plant, that whis key will come back some of these days, but even they are firm against allowing it to come back in tho old way. "We don't want saloons," .VVathcn said today. "W-e would have liquor take its place as a commodity, to be disposed of at the grocery or the department store." We have no patience with the saloon. It got us into all our tiouDla A man used to drop into a saloon, begin consumine whiskey, and walk out a staggering drunk. He went home and annoyed his wife, the neighbors saw him and pitied him. The drys pointed to him as a horrible exumple, and whis key took all tho blame. We believe whiskey can be handled right in this country, and we are going to make a fight to that end. Abolish the saloon and let the householder buy his whiskey and take it home. That's whet we want to happen, and wo want to do away with the bad whiskey that mtido physical wrecks of people. Good whiskey won't hurt any one unless he makes a pig of himself." Wathcn estimated that there is $77, 000,000 in whiskey tied up in govern ment warehouses. The government agents hold the key to this stock, not the distillers. A great deal of it repre sents the capital of distillers. They want a chance to get rid of it, and are Roping that congress will in some way declaro war prohibition at an end and give them a chance to sell off the accumulation. "If congress will allow us to start in September to got rid of our-stocks," said Wathen, "we will come near dis posing of it by the time the national prohibition law goes into effect. I think we are. entitled to some consideration, ... "We can't get insurance on stock un less politicoB had been issued before pro hibition went into effect. . Insurance companies fear destruction of the liquor by some fanatic, so we aro facing more than merely a loss through confiscation. If a fire were to start in some of these plants it wuld wipe out the men who are holding the stocks." Wathen said that when the govern ment banned tho use of corn, barley and rye in the manufacture of whiskey, it was with the understanding that war time prohibition would be lifted in timo to allow the dealers' to' dispose ot then stocks. This promise, ho declared, has not been kept. Asked if export business was reliev ing the situation any, the distiller said the effect was hardly noticeable. . "They don't care for American whis key in England, Ireland and Scotland, he said. "They prefer Irish and Scotch- whiskies. We are shipping some abroad, but not a gret deal and within a short time that avenue will bo cut off. In France they prefer wines. " STARTS TOMORROW GRAPHIC STORY OF THE DATS OF THE GOLD BUSH AND EMIGRANT TRAINS I. ' - Ill " rf", f ,1 WHERE DO THEY LEAD TO? WHAT'S AT THE END OF THE TRAIL? IN CARL LORRAINE "OLE OLESON" VAUDEVILLE GUY SISTERS CLEVER JUVENILES "TheW in Economy" II -mm 11" rnei " i PATHE NEWS . PICTORIAL LOIR FOOD PRICES IMS LILY Ames Says Material Drop Due Soon As Result Of Fed eral Action. P9 QUA ..FOR... Tires, Accessories and Vulcanizing Phone 66 219 North Commercial Street S By Ralph E. Couch (United Press staff correspondent) Washington, Aug. 29. Very mater ial decreases in food prices will occur within 90 days, Judge Ames, assistant attorney general in charge of the gov ernment 's price jjcampaign, predicted today. A general reduction of 25 per cent will finally result from the govern ment's ef forts, "ifcrtos suid. Aims statement followed a letter by the shopmen s leaders advising their men to withhold striking for 90 daya to give the government time to make good in its fight to bring down prices. Ames went into conference with gov ernors of seven states and Attorney General Palmer. The governors are here to offer state aid in cutting pric es. "Reductions," Ames said "already have been forced in many localities in cluding New York, Tennessee and Ida ho. A big drop in hog prices, whicn occurred yesterday at Chicago, is one effect of the government's campaign.' HOP PICKING TIME COMES . - PICKERS ARE PLENTIFUL as comparatively few inen will go into the hop yards this season as pickers. With few or no actual transactions, hops are still quoted at 50 to 53 cents, for tho season's product. A largo part probably 75 to 80 per cent of the crop is contracted. Henry L. Bents, who visited the Sil-vnrtnn-Mt. Ancel hoo section, states that the crop has been greatly reduced there by the ravages of the red spider. One small fuggle yard of five acres in which picking is already tinisnea, uuu only 106 boxes Aurora Observer. Prince Of Wales Asks No Exclusive Society Stunts Winnipeg, Man., Aug. 30. There will be no-exclusive society functions hold l ero for tho Prince of Wales. U himself put a stop today to plans f-.r receptions where only mvii-j i iiu were to be admitted. TM urn nh i n 1 from ' Toroiuo, ' He Prince's aides asked that the j-, bjic Via invi tofl tn all functions hcli! fur lui" in this city. Invitations had' been issued by Lady Aikin ' Sir James Aikins, (:overn-i-tcba for a garden party. Tfc- e u;icelle(i following rcceij' rincc's telegram. "About two to throe days after our arrival in Baltimore (August, iwiuj came news that tlireo cruiHers were ply- g at the entrance to- Clicsiipeako Bay," he wrote. "A tew (lays inter wo had information that two hnglish. and two French cruisers were operating ut the entrance in the day, but with drew farther out at night. These cruis ers apparently knew the path We toon in und were anxious to eaten us on tne outward journey. We learned, too, that some fishing bouts, that ordinarily, did not remain in the channel, had stopped there and put out a very long net, Jiop- ing to entangle our gears therein, i ascertained, too, that a firm in Bostoi hud supplied a dozen microphones to English account. What a triumph it tion, however notified tho Baltimore au thorities injttolniUthepress bouts. APPLE CROP 13 LARGE iu just coming into bearing. yc;r oniy some four or five acres weiv, unit out :f the Mouioe district, unit u few cuiH out of the Hheriilaii dintni'l, in mi ll- The dry weather has undoubtedly reduced the hop crop-from 5000 to 10, 000 bales. The latest estimates by deal ers, with state wide sources of infor mation, place the crop at one third the normal crop in the days when the in dustry was flourishing. Orowerg report the supply of pickers sufficient. The large yards have -boon ed all they need, and the smaller yards are certain to have all they need. Some of the fuggle yards are beginning to pick this week. Some of the early cluster yards will begin the first, and other, about the eighth of September, Most of the growers are paying $1.BU per 100 pounds. Pew of the yards pick "bv the box" any longer, but "by weight" the fairest method for both nicker and erower. It is estimated that nearly 10,000 pickers will share in the $400,000 to 500.000 that will be paid out for picking the Oregon crop this year. Thisjonl will go mostly to women and children ric CAPTHN TELLS HOW E ::'ti-iiJv .v.r".. of t Maui .nt was of the Konig Explains Evasion Of tieray fatrols ay want Submarine In 1916. By Carl D. Groat. United Press Staff Correspondent.) Berlin, Aug. 30. Though allied war ships lingered outside Norfolk, Va., and fUhing boats with nets sought to en tangle him, Captain Paul Konifl, master of the U-bont Dcutsehliind made Ins es cape safely on his first journey to Amer ica What a would have been for tho English if they could have captured us." Konig declared that ho was a bit skeptical about American neutrality and fearful lest the Americans should not prevent the British from coming within the three mile limit. On tho first of August, tho Deutsch hind took its departure. Konig said that he had hoped to be ablo to avoid press boats but had not been able to do so. However, lie rejuiceci uikv cmm on, and he loxt his press pursuers. How ever when he reached Newport ews he wits lmiled by a press boat. That night he made for the three mile limit, submerging and emerging severul timvs. He spied fishing boats in the dis tance, and altered his course. Also, an Ar'f-'-nn destrover passed overhead, Havlir 'alien a new course when he spied the fiM'!i hoets, he turned on his electrical engine.", ' --.'1 when lie ascer tained that there were no founds of en emy craft, he headed out to ea at some distance from where the fishing hoats ere stationed. "In the little messroom of the Deutsclilnnd, I drank a bottle of wine with the officers nnd engineers, which had been given us by German American friends," he concluded. "Wo drank to a snfo journey; Twenty-two iiny Inter we came into the port of Bremen safely. " Portland, Or. Aug. 30. For the first dition to the fruit raised for tocrl time in Oregon history tho Willamotto nmnption. vnllev this veur will outer the apple ship New i rchards, responsible ta ping class, sending out, in addition to the fruit used in tho valley, between 300 and 400 carloads, according to dnta collected by F. Ij. Kent, state field agent for the federal bureau of crop estimates. The sensational increase, which ap pears almost beyond belief in tho light jf the few scattered cars sent out last year, is .tseribed by Kent to the heavy flu'csngc in nil parts ot tho valley wiucn the ...l present year's increases, cro between ciirht and nine yoms ng have bee-i well cared for. The new commercial orchards, which, will put the valley in the shipping class, are in tho following district: Lor raine, which it is reported will hvo an extraordinarily big yield; Vivadoro and the Fern Ridge country, the Monroe ilts trict, Corvnllis, the Broadmead district, Kheridun and Albany. M Konig's pla-v for outwitting the press boats at Baltimore is believed to have been n attempt to get the Baltimore He has just written an neeount of tlic i eity officials to hold up the boots on the outward voyage in the Bremen Nach-jpipB that the had not hud proper in richten. Isnection. 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