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?wheat, la order to stimulate produc-i Tbi* means thflt th* government would hat* to luppo-rt whflfll flt that ?rice. ahould an unusually big crop tor,d i down. so that every farmer can be BUI*fl, ifl plnntmg more ncres than usual. that a bumper crop will not prevent his reeeiving a ifooci , , M for V . a l ea'.. Authority is given tn,- Prflflidflnl tfl ehflflffl tantT sched l;!e, on wheat should the world price drop and wheat start to pour lfl to take adrantage of thi "ru'c in tne I'nited Statea. DiflllHaUflfl lorbidden The mu.' '? HqaOf section of the bill fo th* use of '\ooda. fruits, food materiala and feeds tor making ..cept for "?. fortificatioi ? ' **????? "nd l.n than l.nrorut.oi, of diatllled alao pn-hib.ted. minaa, the President is rlvan authority, whenever he considers order tfl flafljirfl aa adfl quate and cor.tinuous supply of loou. or that the national seeurity and, dfl will be aub?*nr*d thereby. to ? t the further u,o of loods. fruits itr.d food and feed materials for them. A. . :' distilled hquors al readv made. whethflt in bond or in dent is authorized to commande-r them to be r.distilled, in t.of?ra.s vuch rediatillation may be nec essar-. ilrfllflflflt ?t the ?ment in the manufacture of mu other military and hospita, . in bo far aa such rodiatil lation would diap*n*? with the neces ?' utilizing products and materials r fooda and f??dfl ln thfl future manufflcturfl of distilled tpitita for the purposes herein enumcrat"d. Thus leaves it strictly to the PrfflBl dent. He can cominandeer if h* tninKs . and to the best interests defence; or he can Iflflfl* th* itflCflfltabfl sold to the public. CflflJ Pri.es To Hfl Fixed The President \3 authorized to fix thp p] and coke. if he deems it necessary. This applies wherever the l0al . be ?old and whether by producer or dealer. The President is further authorized "to establish rules foi thfl rofulntlon of the produc? tion. sale. shipment. distribution. ap lgt thereof among ! ar.d consumers. dotne=tic or ? v and powermay b(. , ??? him in each case through tho agency of the Federal Trade Commiaaion. durinir the war, or ? h parl of aaid time as in his judgment may be nec***fl*f*f. . Thi" section contiflUflS' "That it, in the opinion of the Prflaidflflt, any such producer or dealer fmls or ncglects to rm to such prices or regulations, or to conduct his buainesa etnciently under the regulations and control or thp p, aforeaaid, or conducts it in n manner prejuriicial to the public ,. Preaid?nt la hereby authorized i erred ln every such Cflfla to requisition and take over the plant busines. and all appurtenances thereof belonging to such producer or dealer as a going concern ai d to oper? ate or cause to be opflntfld lfl such manner and through such agency as he (tha President i may direct during the period of tho war or for such part of aaid tim* aa ln his judgment may be necessary." I'. S. May Buy Coal Or, the bill gives the President the option. if he should think that plan better, of forcing all producers of coa and coke, either ln any special coa tield. or in the entire country. to sell nll their product! to the Cnited Stfltfll or to some agency which the President aaa* deaignate, ar.d then let the l.nited y distribute the coal and . , The President is authorized to flC nuire such stocks of mtrates us may be necessary for fertilizer, and to d;s po?e of them to consumer* at cost plus expense. A special section of the bill provideB that no one employed in any of the agencies which may be crflfltfld under lt shall be exempt from the selective draft. The entire b ill is automatically , atatute book* with the coming of DflflCfl. The Hou ;' 'une ?%. 36S to ,r>. after a week's debate. Opposition led bj Senator Keed and othera and the fight over the prohibl lion provisions delayed the Senato vote, R1 to 0, until July II. Further confere-res reqnirtng a woek, ourir.g ?which the Prflflioflnl caused el.rr.inat.on ,.t - nmendments for a. food board of three members and a con onal committee to supervWe war Coal Prices To Be lower Sharp reduetion iti coal eoata wai prfldicted by officials to-night us a m suit of th. I'.issa}-.' to-dav of food control bill. carrying a pro? vision for government tixmg of fuel prices. The Federal Tradfl Commission, which the iflflaflUl"* authorized the Pres? ident to designate as an agency to enforce thi '?? la ready to make oUt ? ? I at short flOtlCfl. For months the commission has gathered facts as lo production costs. and in a Right off the bat! 5,350 bat ties and 2,560 wash four-in-hands. A spet ini purchase. 50c quality. 35c. The time to plunge! 506 men's bathing suits. Were $4.00 and $4.50. $3.15. 11 44 for l-.ye' ba'hina flflMfl that ware lios s : < affl ?' '? II i tkam *riat <t 14 While you're in, look at the extra values in men's suits at $20 and $25. iaflflf, II t-''. 110 19 anfl |lt 10. for HnMlara! Armr OPOflaV untforana. ftO. ?'%% e?l|??inlrr" ah?iea, a7.SO. ttj.trr. I'ret < sjiid ( __?. aj t?. Army hala. M a-fl ?*. I -pe. M K'H P ('l)MPANV Broa'i at 131 l Pour Broadway Corner*' it Warren Broadway at 34th St. Fifth Ave. ?t41itSt recent report to Congress pointed out that prices are too hign. Bituminous prices to the genera public were fixed at $3 in a recent agreement among producers. members of the commission and other govern? ment officials. Thia price was to hold until a final price was determined on Investigation has convinced members of the commission that this price >s too high and that coal can be sold Bi a much lower figure and still leave a handsome profit for the producer. President Wilson probably Will issite an executive order at the time BS ligai tho bill. authorizmg the com m to proceed with price-fixing. a-? Federal Food Control A Great Experiment In National Economy By C W. Gilbert WASHINGTON, Aug. S. lf the war lasts long enough we shall know wha the statd can do to better the system of food distribution. That is what the passage of the food bill to-day means The nation begins a great experiment. ; the purpose of which is to promote , the cquitable distribution of food at a fair prico while the war continue*. but the practical effect will be. if success- j ful. to end once and for all the chaos i of the unregulated individual control , ,f the nation's food. One of tha things which "the peoplo will never, go back to" there are many -Is the costly, wnsteful method of distributmg food'that has prcvailcd in the past, if the state can build a better one. For years we have crled out against the exactions of the middleman and food speculator-cried out and done nothing. The one gain of war is that it compcls the doing of something. If there is waste the state must try to stop it. The food administration of Mr Hoover and the food control bill | passed to-day are the state's attempt to end the waste Incident to an unnrgan- i ized nnd unregulated method of food distribution, an outgrown surv.val frora the simpler conditions of the past. Testing a Device That May Change Thought We are providing a mechanism that it is hoped will carry us better through (he war than unaided and uncontrolled , individual effort would and at the same | time testing a device that may change all our ways of thinking when peace comes, if the period of stress lasts long enough to give this thing a thorough trial and to make it n par'. cf the lives of the people. Hithcrjo we have thought of the laws of sup-, ply and demand as something that or ganized society could interfr-re with only Bt its peril. New, likee-ren | countn' that has been drawn into this Tvar we conclude that in the disturbed condition of both supply and demand it i? necessary for the slate to inter- - vene. . Sheer necessity has ghrea organize<-l s-ociety a new courage or a new hardi hood. and new laatltntions are being created to meet emergencies. W e are emboldened to trv to make it less cost ly to gc-t food from producer U> con- | sumer, to cut down tht- profits th;,t ftick to the various hands that inter \ene between the farmer and the table. profits ko extravagant that bread from American wheat i? now costmg Amer ,cnns more right herp at home than bread from American when' shipped abroad eeete Knglishmer. or French men. Power of Measure To Prevent Hoarding Bv this I do not m.an that Mr. I r intends any radical oveiturn of our distributing system at once. I am ipaaktag of the possible ultimate of l'ects of this stcond stage of food aa ministratioa which beg'ns with the signing of the bill and for vhich Mr. Hoover has prepared by creating' a complete \oluntary organization. Mr. Ucover means to go slowly and eare fullv solicitir.tr the eoo^erRtion of ex .- aaeneiei of distribution wher* ever possible. The waste and iBJOl tie of the present system will be ended voluntariljr, if possible. But if there is rcaiataaee the law give* the ,ood ad trator all the power he needs to reach the "nds he has in view. Ihe leetiOBi of the law against hoardiBg nnd mor.opolizing are the teeth of th, measnre, and in spite of all the re- . luctance of Congress on other POiBM thev remain a? sharp as when the bnl wa-. drawB. ..? .. With the paaaagl of this bill th? vork of food"contiol goes forward to ?erritorv. Hitherto all attention has been dire-ted toward eliminatini: 'V^e waste in consumption. Ihis re qirred no legal authonty. The work cor.sisted in enlisting the cnthusiasm ol the housewivis, a pleasing and prof itable task, which must be carried oa aloag with the bigger one now to bc rogun T>f tliminating the waste of dis? tribution. Hitherto, when the high co't of living caused complaint, tlie conaumcr has pointed his finger at the middleman and said. "Your waste ll the cause," aad the middleman hai eountered by sajrlag, "No. the waste ii ll your OWB table." The country stop* the dispute B) sajrlng, "Both are right. Stop your waste. both of you.' I hc advantage is that before long we shall know where the truth lies and what may be dono to mako things better for the future, even when peace comes. Patriotism and Courage Of Mr. Hoover The experiment begins under the auspices of a sir.gularly QOalifled man. raroly courageous and dismterested, gifted in B marked degree with com HOB Seaas and with almost religious ct, for public feeling. He ll not rasn He know* better than any man tho difficulties of his task and tha dan? ger' that beset him. He has surround ed himself vrith an unusually high type of volunteer asaiiunta. perhaps thi beit body of men the war has brought to Washington. He knows what has happened to foreign food eontrollors, how Lord Davenport failed because of lack of flrmness with middlemen. an I ho-.v I*ord Khondda i? succeeding so well that essmtial food is cheaper |n Kngland with the l'-boat "starvir.g' her than it il in fertila America^ Man. who has harneisod the physical forces of nature to aerve his ends, is now trying, under the stresi of war. to harneaa th?? eeonomlo forcei. That is what th?? foed control bill mear.i. Taft's Condition Improves Physicians, Hcmiww, Keep For? mer Preisd?*mt tn Hia Room CIsAY CENTRE, Kan., Aui;. 8. -The rondition oi former Preside.v. William H Taft. who became suddenly ill here | Monday night, wai imorove 1 to-day, j according to phyiiciani, who decided, howavar, *-hat it would be advuabla for him to remain ln his room again to day. Ha probably will leav* for Lincoln. .Veb to-morrow. Mr. Taft became tli IL^^K**^^,.^^..-!'^ . j Whitman Blames Speculators for Food Bill Fight He Denounces Gamblers for Efforts to Thwart State Legislation Appeals to Farmers Governor Aaaerts He Has No Intention of Injuring Producers SODUS, \. Y., Aug. s. Governor Whitman, in an address before the State Fruit Growers' Association here i to-day, made his first public appeal for j support of his state food control pro- : granime. Ha outlined in detail his viowa of the legislation he wishe3 to see enacted at the pr?scnt extraordi aarjr session of the Legislature, an BOBneed that hr had no intention of in- : juring tho individual producers, but j was only after "unscrupulous speeula- j tors and gamblers," nnd nnswcred some : of tho critics of his position, both \ within and without the I.egislaturp. The Governor charged that the mi apprehension in the BSifldi of the up state farmers regarding his food con- , trol aims "is due to the work of un- j scrupulous and greedy food gamblers, ' who hav* sparcd neither time nor money m doinp all they could by every means, fair or unfair, to thwart any attempt to pass proper food legislation I both at Washington and Albany. "They have been suceessful." the CJovernor continued, "in blocking food i legislation in Washington for one ! hundred and twenty days, and I do not ? intend, if I can prevent it, that they i shall succeed in delaving it that long ? in the State of New York." The (iovernor announced for the first time his reason for wishing to appoint the three proposed food commissioners. The appointing power was denied him in the legtllatlVI war committee'* bill, which named Theodore Roosevelt, ' who since hai declined to serve: James W. Wadsworth, sr., and Morgan J. t I'T'iiin. He wished to appoint as the i-tate commissioners, he said, three ? members of the proposed State Farms and Marketa Council, BBthorised by the ? Wickl farmg and markets law passed at the regular legisl.itive session. Thi? council has not been named yet. ; ln tnis connection the (iovernor prom ised that one ef the three food com- ! miiiioaers vould be ? practieal fnrmer. The FIxecutive pointed out that a j food con?rol bill, which he had pre- j pared but which had been largely \g Bored by the war eoamitti 1, made pro vision lor errpow-.-ring the COBIBbIbbIo*! ' to buy, storo and sell food product* and also included as necessar.es seed-, ft.rtilizers and auriculturul implement*. v hich BTe not included in the commit- , tee measure. He reiterated iiis aver-' sion to the fixing of maximum and1 minimum prices by state authorities and promised to veto any measure' v.hich came to him with such provisions, Bttached. The committee uill has no price fixing clause. The (iovernor rhararterize 1 a* "ab- ; sunl" the charKe by ?the men who are I oppoaing me of beiag BCtaate I by po-1 litiral motives." "I have come here for th" expreea purpose of talkmg *o the farmer," said Governor Whitman. "N'o oae appre ciates more than I do the importanee of the task which has fallen i.pon the. hhoulders of the fHrmer at this time-, By his efforts the ctiltivated area has been increased from 20 to 2"> per cent in the State of New- York. lt would be ' treachery to allow him to suffer' through hia patriotic action. \o ma' ter how large the crop, he mu-t be able. to market it in its entirety. He must receive a generous profit, so thal he will be gratifled and stimulate.l lo greater eifiirt ui the future." Whitman Aida Perkins Asks Legislature to Permit Him to Hold Two Jobs ALBANY, Aug. B. In compliance with his announced intention, (iovernor Whitman, in a special message trana mitted to the Legislature to eight, re* qoeated the immediate passage of a meaaure whiefa would permit George W. Perkini to rptam his preaideney of theT'alisades Interstate Part I 0 sion and aho accept Mayor Mitehel's Offl r of appointment as Xew fort (ity Market Commissioner. The Bieaaage, after quoting Mayor Mitehel's letter asking for a upecial recommendatlon by the Governor to permit Mr. Perkins to accept the city commissionershio, says: "I most urgently recommend that this request of the Mayor be given im? mediate and favorabll consideration, as it i = ln my opinion allogether in th? public intete-t." ln the Assembly Majority Leader Adler introduced ? bill which would carry out the prov.sions asked in the Governor's message. and it was ad? vanced to the onicr of linal pasiage. The Senate heard the message without taking action. Both branches adjourned until 5> p. m. to-morrow. Harlemites Rout Soapbox Pacifist Several Hundred Attack Orator When He Objects to Guards men's Recruiting Concert Guardsmen of the 71st Regiment joined with several hundred Harlem? ites last night in an attack upon a speaker, Smith by nam*\ who was hold? ing forth on Harlem's "crazy corner," 12Bth Stsget and Lenoi Avenue, on socialism IB general and pacifism in particular. A motor truck full of (iuardsmen lumbered up to the corner. As part of a leciaitiag scheme of the1 71?t Regi? ment to raise men for itl depot bat? talion, the machine hacked up to a ?pot a few feet away from Mr. Stn.th and went into action. Four husky Gtiards men began to proclaim, more or leis in unison: "Goodby, Broadway; Hello, p'rance." When tne last barber ?hop chord had died away and Lieutenant liarrell arosa to speak, Mr. Sqrnth began to make harsh remarks about the wearers of khaki 1 "They do crazy thing* like that for HO h month," he shouted. "They try to drown tne out, when I'm doing my best to keep them from going te France to be killed." Suddenly there wa* no soapbox un? der Mr. Smith, and he eai being hauled, pulled and euffed by the crowd until several policemen arrived Mr. Smith hopped through a jeering mob > a ona foot and clamberej aboard a *XBa%?tM*2?* - ???*?-.-?? -n_ ADVERTISEMENT Brtarrltff iLotigc ll a:i ideal spot for your fimily tor August. Thcre's golf. ten? nis, swimming pnol, children's rlavground. shadv walks, and ipacioill porches?and for the husines-. man there is 50 min. elflCtrk service to Grand Central. BRIARCLIFF LODGE BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N. Y N. Y. Office-402 Mad. Are. Phone 7070 Murray Hill Miss Rankin Says She Faces Attack Says Copper Company Will Do Everything Possible to Discredit Her WA8HINGT0N, Aug. 8.- Miaa JeBn nette Rankin believes vengeance is po ing to be visited upon her. by the Amal? gamated Copper Company as a result of her initial speech in the House yes-, teirlay. "I think 1 know perfectly well what the Amalgamated will try to do to me," Raid Mifl* P.ankin to-day. "They'll try to do to me just whpt they have done to pvery one who ever tried to oppose them, in and out of Montana. They own the state. They own the i government. They own the press. "Eirst, 1*11 be roa?ted from one end of the state to the other. Every news pnper will pr.nt my shortcomings. rrnl or fancied, in the largest type in the composing room. All the mud and all the bricks in the state will come hurl ing in my direction. "I know their methods perfectly. Years ajjo they used to do desperate thing* to pfloplfl who fought them. Their methods fllfl gradually becoming more refined. Now they use political ruin. social flfltl-flfliflflB. rinanoal ruin." Posing as Assassin Gainful in Russia False Slayers of Despots Acclaimed as Martyrs on Return Home ?-.-* of Tt,* AiSTiJa'..! I PETROGRAD, July 6.~-Among th novelties which Russia's revolution has peresented to the wrold is the profes sion of fake aaaflflflin. In other coun? tries only persons sufTering fiom bfll lucination claim to have commi'ted murders of wliK-h they are innocent. Here, au a result of Nicholas's over throwul, posing us an assassin is a higlily protitable, if tran.sitory, busi-, ness. Terrorist* reieased from Siberian . convict Jail.* and exile villages ar. naturally regarded r.s heroes. They receive free train accomnio.lation. flflfl clinners, free. clothes nnd ?/ilts of money. When they reach their flratil I tflflma they are accluimed ns inailyrs, and thfljf IflCfliflfl proposals of BfllTtflg* from fltrti-aetiv* aaa arflfllthi young women. Aa r. result of this novc.1 coii dition many ent"i prismg citizens. whflflfl hands ara innocent of anything grimmer thati mud or ink, are pflaiflg as murderers of despolic orhoals Women a* well as men are doing it. In Minek hfl* been arrested Cather? ine SmirotT, who announced that she I had murdeied M. Ivnnoff, Governor of Odflaaa, aad d?eribfld w-ith pflthoa her siirTcrings in the Arrtic wastes of Yakutsk. Hut an iir.kindiy iaqoilflr discovered that Odessa i.ever had a Governor named Ivanoff and, further, that t atlienne Smirott' had poaed in Oilessa as ;. Si^t.r of Mercy. and. after swindling afl-a-oata etaaritablfl citizen* had been expe^ed by t'ne military flfl* thoritiflfl. In the same city, n Iiealthy young mnn, who described himself as a sol diflf volunteer, arrested in the street tho i ti val id ex-Governor. General Pilliu. Before n aympflthisiag crowd he de nounced the general. "I am the inno eenf and unlwippy man whom you .-!'cd," he exclaimed; "the pflflCflfnl citizen whom you sent lo a convict prison without trial. Our committee Bfll flldfllfld you to be sent to th,? front; but in view of your bad health we shall show some mercy." [? vain General Pilliu explained tha*. ho had never seized any innocent man. He was hnuled by the mob to tho M i it ia Office. The young man mean time collected money and fled. The mili'.ia flt once reieased the general. Scheidemann Urges Ousting of Michaelis Both Socialists and Catholics Oppose New German Ministry A.MSTERDAM, Aug. h.?Philipp , Scheidemann, Socialist member of tho | ?ierman Reichstag, in a speech deliv ered at Mannhelm, Baden, Hefore S.OnO persons, demanded in the interest of peace the speedy substitution for the pr-'-ent jroverrfrr.er.t of Chancellor ? Michaelis b government really repre aentinp the will of thfl German people. COPFNHAGFN. Aug. I. German So eiflllflta "ill oppoBe the newly consti- I tutcd government at Berlin on princi ple, the Socialist newspaper "Vor warta" dcclares ln ita comment on the ministerial appointments. "Peraona bo foollah aa to expect a gjeat gain in the direction of a parlla men'arv rcr-inie." says the Catholic newspaper "<;?rniania," "will naturally be (iisappointed." but it expresses the | opinion thflt the preaenco of Catholic r. prflflflfltfltiflfla in the government gfflfltly imprnvrs the system. lt apflflfll thflt D. Spahn, leader of the Catholic Centre party in the Reich.s tag, flrUl be forced to retire from par liamentnry life on account of hia ap? pointment as Prussian Minister of Jus? tice. He muat resign his seat owing to the sonstitutlonal proviso upon ac eepting the portfollo, Dut it is aaserted there is nothing to prevent his stand? ing for rcelection. Ho will occordingly dc this, thourh he cannot become a niembei nf the Bundesrat. Aiij-u.' I idflr flf the Fleni ith pin. .ment ifl Belgium, said ifl an n t.rview m the Bflrlifl Tflgflhlfltt" the aim of the movement wa.s the recatab lishment of Belgium aa a dual mon? archy of Flanders and Walloonla, un? der King Aibert. Herr Worms took AustriB-Hungary as an eiample for tha movement for free Flanders in free Belgjum. i I Women Force Drastic Change in State Food Bill Legislators Plan to Tighten Up Brown Measure After Hearing Graft Charge Is Made Woman Physician Withdraws Statement After Senators Call It an Insult rBr?<-la! ClIMaeBaaB***** ALRAN'Y, Aug. B. The dematd made by a big rjelegatiea ef Kew Tork women to-day on the War Committee of the Legislature for food control legislation "to relieve thousands of hungry peo? ple" made a deep imprpssion upon the lawmakers. As a result the commistee, when it meets to-morrow, will f o a long way toward tightening up the Brown bill now before it, even lliough its changes probably will not meet the radical demands of Governor Whitman. The New York women, after graphi cally picturing a ntarving East Bsda, ?for which they declared immediate re? lief is needed, succeeded in getting the committee to agrce to an imendment to the bill by which relief can be given to a community before actual famine conditions exist. The bill now enables a community to purchase food and sell it to its in habltantg only in case of "famine or when deprivation of neces-aries 'or any part of its inhabitants cicates an emergeney therefor." The amendment Bgreed upon would strike the word "famine" from this section. Another amendment agreed upon wou' 1 permit an agreement between the stcte and Federnl authorities for the control of cold storage hotises and .varchouses where food is kept. This, it is ex p?ctcd, will prevent conflict between the state and Federal authorities. l.etrislature Marklng Time In the meantime the Legislature is marking time until after th_> passage of the food bill at Washington. A per functory session of both 'louses w.is held to-night. Adjournment was taken until 5 o'cloek to-morrow aiternoon, when it is expected that another ad? journment will be taken until next week. At Umei the hearing to-day resem Mad a joint debate between the women ' on th.' one hand and Senate Leader ElOB K. llrown on the other. Miai Dorothy Beaaa, New York so-i cial worker, declared that she was sus pieiou of 'he bil! becmiso tlie middle- , men arere not oppoiing iti paeaage. "De you want to Ivar them holler?" ? ked soaator Brewa. "I do," siie declared essphatlcally. Miss Mollie Gold, appearing for the ? Hrooklyn branch of th? woman's sutf- . rage partv, favored niving the munici- , pa] anthoriUee leore power, arguing; tiiat feed control was a local rather than a *tate question. Charges Money I'sed [BainnatioBI that money was beiri^ ?i ;piI to prevent the ennctment of ? "i <aeioim food control legislation wai made bv Dr. Mary IHinnmg Kose, of N<". Vork, but were withdrawn by the ipeaker after Senator Brown had re baked bei for what he termed an "in? sult to the chief legillati-ri body of the .s'ate." After telling the committee that the poor people of N'ew York are practical- : iy held up by the middlemen in the! purchaso of milk, Bophio Irene Loeb | asked that the food control eommisaion be given power to ade'iuat?'ly d.'al Wlth' tho N'ew York (;fy milk problem. ktoel of the speakers at to-day's hearing were women from N'ew Vork who COnteaded that the committee'* bill was not sufficitntly drastic to rneet the needs of the people of that city.. Those who appeared in opposition to the bill included Dorothy Zenun, Sailie I 'ir.i Jeaa, of the Peeple'l Institute; | Sophie Irene Loeb, in behalf of the i Housewives' Protective League; Mrs. Winfleid Townsend. ol' the Jaeob A. Rill Settlemeat House; Mrs. IL K. Cox, i for tho New York City Food Commit- | tea and the Brooklyn Schoo! Lunch As? sociation; I.ouise K'dgar Feters, of the: National Service Committee of the1 Woman'i UniToraity Club; Jeeslc M. Corvin, repreaeBtiag the Domestic, Lcono&r. League; i-irc Raaaall, ? New York newspaper writer; Dr. Malcolm ?'. Roae, of the legjslativo committee ef the Washiagtofl Heighti Medieal Soci ety, and Laura K. Cauble, who said she represented 400,000 people in New York. a U. S. and Allies Adopt Standards for Aeros1 Committee Agrees on Uni? form Specifications for Metal Parts Hcpresentatives of moit of the Allied governments mot yesterday at 113 Fine Street and took tho first steps j toward the stundardiietion of aircraft, parta and materlala. This action wasj taken so that the output may be in- [ creasod as rapidly and efficiently as possible. The International Aircraft Standard ization Committee. as the body is' known. iaSBCd aftef it' meeting a re? port deieribing th ? work which it had uceomplished. "The committee," this says, "arrived Bt a def.nite decision as to the kind of steel to be used in the making of air? craft parts. The dctails regarding this cannot be made public. "An agreement was reached which will lead to an ultlmate agreement to adopt uniform ipeclfleatlons for metals used by different countries for specifle purposes." Cattle Price Tops Record Hundred Pounds Brings $14.35 in Chicago Market (Sv'ai*' rorrsapnr'lanflBl CHICAGO. Aug. B. -High prices for corn and the coniequent scarcity of corn-fed cattle have sent up the price of choice beef, a new high racord being establlihed at the stockyards to-day. Two loads of what the llvestock trada charaeterlzed "New York Kosher" sold to-day for JU.3*> per 100 pounds, and the stecrs avcraged 1,660 pounds. This price ll ||JH above the previous max IflaBB* ftgure. Hotel mea "re mainly rcspeaslble, a, the} deelari th?y aro wtlllag to meet any advanc* I'.y Chn.stmas timo a tigure around %-0 is BBpoitod. Cnlve* am even icarcer than ateeri. Fourteen dollari was paid for corn fed yearllngi in tha opan market to dajr, which ia an advance ot $4 par 100 poundi over previoui high record jrlciBt _ Buying Out the Goth (Lloyd fi?orrj? nt Olatiotc, June 29.) Well. you can have peace at that price. but do you know what it would be? The old policy of buying out the Goth. who event ually destroyed the Rom*?,n Em? pire and threw Europe into the ages of barbarous cruelties. Be? lieve me. that policy had its un doubted advantages. I can hear the echoes of the pacifists of the day in the Roman Forum dwell ing on the fact that if they only buy out the Goths at a small price compared with the war. a little territory and a little cash, the Roman youth would be spared the terrors of war and their parents the anxieties of war. People of all ranks and classes would avoid 'he hardships of war. and be able to continue thr-ir lives of comfort and luxury and ease. The pacifists of the day, when they made their bargain, thought that they avoided blood shed. They had only transmitte-d itto the children. . You can have peace to-day, but it would be on a basis that history has demonstrated to be fatal to the live.* of any great common wealth that purchased tran quillity upon it. -o Nansen Confers With Lansing Norwegian Envoy Discusses Question of Embargo on Suppiies th* Trlr>un? flaraaB] \VAS:tI\'GTO\, Aug. I. Ur. Kridtjof Xansen, head of the Norwegian mission to the Unitfld States, conferred at the State Department to-day on the subject nf suppiies, principally foodstuffs. for Vorway. Aftor the conference it was stnted that projrress was being made. Hoiland's negotiations also are making h>flil*frflr All tho Northern Furopean neutrals were said to be showing every evidence of acting in good l'aith with the Ameri? can governnieiit so as to> facilitate the task of thts Exports Council in obtain iflg f.ccurate stfltiaUea showing the amount of suppiies each of thosecoun tries now has on hand and also figures r. ?-eu'.ing the extent of their trade with Germany. This government, it was asserted authoritittively to-day, has no official information indicating thnt the situa? tion is desperate in any of the neutral countries Bflf fatflflflfltilflg a disastrous winter for them, with conditions bor d?ring on food and fuel taaainfl*. Both foodstuffs and fuel undoubtedly will be eensiderflblj* below the normal amount.', ir was declared, but there will be ^ enough for them. *o Btlhfliflt on. The flfltttral countries of Europe now fullv appreciate, it was said. that the TJllitfld States has no intention of en? tirely piflhibitlng American suppiies from reaching them, but reali/.e that this countrv ;s dcteimitud not to per mit them to obtain certain commo.lit tea from this country if they are at th* aama tlflM ?*lllng others **hieh th. American goods displace to Germany. Thi,, it was declared, will be the sim? ple principlo upon which ihe exports lieensing system will be operated rather than as ?: iev.-r t'or forcmg special coti eessions from the neutrals. In addition to foodstutfs and materials it was considered probable to-day that other commodities SOOD would be put under eonditional em bar-ro bv the President. Further ex tension of the list, however. will de pend lfl?fll| on information to be ob? tained by the Kxports Council s special agent* ill Kurope and on reports to bfl furnisbed by the Allied gflVfll-fll concerning the neutrals' trade witli (iermany. It was intimated to-day tnut to re lievo the shipping situation IB the I'nited Statea Dutch and Norwegian vessels mav be permitted to engage m coastwise traffic. This. it was said, would be especially valuable assi?tance< in the movement of coal and iron ore on the Great Lakes._ New Corporation for Comrnandeered Ships Federal Corporation May Give U. S. and Allies Equal Ocean Freight Rate* ifrom Ttw Trlbiir.* Bureiul WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. -The Ship? ping Board to-day voted to organize a new corporation to tidminister the com mandeering and chartering of vessels on the seis and to regulate ocean frflight rates. The prooosed corpora : on, it is believed. wiil be organized along tho lines of the Emergency Flflflt Corporation, which has charge of the new ship construction. Commissioner Raymond B. Stevens, of the Shippping Board, it is stated, wil! be president of the new corpora? tion. Whether or not a general man? ager will be appointed to act as a chief executive offieer, ns is the case in the j fleet corpo'.atlon, has not yet been de t?rmined. it is reported. The chief question to be taken up by the new corporation is thnt of ocean carrying rates. There will be a con? ference of the Shipping Board with Connop Guthrie, representing the Brit? ish commission, here to-morrow, at which the question of fixing identical rates for all cargov's shipped over the same routea by both the l.'nitod States and the Allies will be diacussed. and an effort made to formulate a workable plan acceptable to both this govern? ment and the Fr.tente. Charles Thanks Kaiser Emperor Consjratulates Wilhelm on Capture of Czernowitz VIFNNA, Aug. fi. Fmperor Charles of Austria has sent from C-ernowitz, the canital of Bukowina, recently car tured oy the Austro-German forces, a mesaage to tha German Emperor con gratulating him on the Buecess of th*| "brave troopa which, with the aid ofl tho Almighty," effected the deliverence j of the Austrian crownland of Buko- j wina. The Austrian Emperor added: "May the Lord continue to aid lf faithful cooperstion m the future with the fulnesa of Hia blesaings." Fmperor William replied that the joy of the people of Bukowina would be echoed in Uermany, and he added his prayera that God would help the Teutonic allied troops in the future, General von Koeveaa, who com manded the Austrian forces ln Buko wir.a, hss been apppintrd a field mar ahal by Emperor Cfcarlcs, Illinois Governor Orders Coal Men To Cut Price Now Short Shrift for Operator* Suggested at Conference at Springneld i Delay Is Requested Eight States Agree to Join in Meeting to Discuss the Fuel Situation [Sp?-isi Oanaaflai :? CHICAGO, Aug. B. Short shrift is all that Illinois coal mine owners will J gat after their conference with Go\ i ernor Lowden in Springfield to-day unless they promise to reduce prices. ; They will have to cut the price of coal | if they want to keep the Governor I from sudden seizure of ths coal mines, ; a step recomjnended yesterday by the , State Council of Defence. Governor Lowden is in thorough ac j cord with the drastic demands of the j State Council, it was learned to-day. ! He has known its ideas for several days and so have high officials in j Washington-even the President, it is I said. Wha-, the coal operators want mora than anything else right now, aecord inp to inside information, Is a handy lir-htni'ig rod which they can shin down to safety. Confronted '.vith the knowledge that they can expect no mercy unless they consent to a llflflh in coal prices sufficient to satisfy an indignant public, backed by an equally indignant state council and a thor oughly aroused Governor, the little handful of men who have been running Illinois coal mines for tho last ye:ir to suit themselves are now snid to be willing to run them to suit other peo? ple, too, if only they may be permitted to run them at all. "The Governor will not yield to the coal operators," detlered one of his eloa* friends. "A statement of his int.n tions can be looked for at any time ? now, esnecially if the coal operators in ? conference with him to-day are unwise enough to show themselves atill de fiant. They are not treating with the State Council now. They are facing the I Governor of this state, who has full power urder the constitution to take i over the minei in the interest of the state. The Governor and tho people : are the state- not a tiny group of coal mine owners." F. C Honnold, H. C. Adams and | other coal operators conferred with the Governor. They are anxious, it is said, i to have the Governor wait a while ( Ionger and see what the Federal gov? ernment is going to do before he does anything. The Governor is reported un willing to jrrant further time. "The coal operators do not dispute j the right of the state to seize the mines," said Herbert H. Taylor, of th< Taylor Coal Company and a member flf the operators' committee meeting wjth the council. "We claim, however, that t the council has" not ascertained condi-: tions within tho coa! industry and its , reeommendations are not made on thorough investigation." Nomination of Colby Confirmed by Senate Appointment to Shipping Board Stands Despite New York Senators' Opposition WASHINGTON, Aug. ls.- The Senatt j late to-day confirmed the nomination j of I'ainbridge Colby, of New York, to be n member flf the government Ship? ping Board. The confirmation was voted 34 to 16 after a spirited executive session, which i lasted Bflflrly ?n hour. The opposition waa led by BflRfltfltrfl Wadsworth an I ! Ca'ler. of New York, who are under stood to have .ibjected to Mr. Colby's political activities. Senator Johnson, of California, Republican, and Sen? ators Lewis and Fletcher, Democrats, rpoke for confhmation. All tha Senators known as Progrev sivos are said to have voted in favor of Mr. Colby, while th? only Democrats to oppose him, it is understood, wero Senators Reed and Hitchcock. Urganized Kevolt Threatened by Pole, Riots Renewed and Maiiy Law Is Declared in Warsaw Martial law, the correipondint ad* has bern declared at Warsaw n|T other Polish centres. Riots whicb. iaJ been suppressed with much bloodiB*. in the mining area have been rtnea-H President Orders Strike Inquiry He Also Receives Assuranc? That Mine Workers Will Not Embarrass Him I Br-* ? al Cnrrosr-vi \. -. WASHINGTON, Aug. & Pr*iid*-rt Wilson took two important stepi te day to end lahor troublei whieh threatefl interference wi'h war pwpiri. tions. At the President's sohritation. Chief Justice J. Harry Corington, of thi Si. preme Court of the Distn-t of Colun bia, will investigat?? the labor situitiaj in the West and Southwest, eipeeiaU the activities of tha I. W. W. on tbe Paciflc Coast. Justice Covington and Secretary *i l.abor Wilson have conferred with tht President regnrd^t.* the entire latVo situation The conference was miinrj on the strikes that have occurred ind those threatened throughout the com try as the outgrowth of labor trouble said to have been fomented by tbe members of the I. W. W During his service in the House ?ni tice CovTngton was regarded as h friend of labor, and while a member of thi Judiciary Committee had much to de with drafting the provision in thi Ciayton act exemnting labor unioni from the provisions of the Shermn law. While he will be the perional up. reaeatative ef tho President m Un work he is to undertake. he likea-lu will act for the Department of Juitie*. During his visit to tho Paciiic t oait Justice Covington will pay speeial at tention to conditions in the shipbuild? ing industry. At the request of the Secretary ef Labor the President had in conferenei with him to-day William Diamond, i! the Council of'National Defence, aad James Lord, af the I'nited Mine Work? ers of America. The President was 11 lured at, thia meeting that the mini workers are in hearty aeeord with hii war policies, and !iat not.hinj- will h? done by them to "mbarrass him in thi slightest degree during the war. The discussion also turned to efforti of the government to effect a Hire scale which will be aatisfactory to both operator* and coal miners in ordei tt preclude possibility of any tie-up in munitioni plants, navy yard< and othir institutions depenl'.ng upon a supply of coal. _ _ Four Americans Lost One Was Rescued When U-Boat Sank Belgian Prince LONDON, Aag i Four Amerieam were lost on the British steamer Bel? gian Prince, which v,a, sunk July 31 br a German submarine. One American U among'the survivors. Thirty-eight of the crew of thi s'eamer were drowned and three othin were rescued by a patrol boil and taken to a British port. The survivor! fcay the submarine shelied the viiiel. after which the commanoer ordered the crew to take to tho boats and go alonr side the submarine Accordng to thi survivora, the Germans removed the lifebelts nnd clothingr from all the ?**? except eight, smashed the lifeboiu with axei. then reentered the lubmi nn-- and closed the hatchei. leavinfthi men on deck. After travelling on the ?ttrface for several miles the I'-boit submerj-ed. V-/ 564 **65 sea irTjflh -Api?nuc ARE NOW HOLDING Final Clearance Sales of Smart Fashions for immediate wear?including styles that will serve well into the Autumn?thus prc senting a unique opportunity to replenish the Summer wardrobe?and to procure fashionable apparel which will tide one over until Fall Fashions are thoroughly launched. 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