The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 3, 1918, Page 2

| i | i oa WEEKS DECLARES KAPLAN I$ MOST IMPUDENT OF MER Witnesses Before Senate Investi- gation in Lively Tilt with Members. CONTRACT WITH THEMSELVES “As Good or Better Garments” From Shoddy as From Wool, Eisenman Says. Washington, .D. C., Jan. 3.—Army supply contracts given through the supplies committee of the Council of National Defense to concerns in which committee members. are interested, were: investigated Wednesday by the senate military committee. Charles Hisenman, the sup clothing mannfacturer of Ch and Samuel M. Naplan of Nv York, one of the dollar a year volunteer members, were the principal witness- es. The latter's testimony was con- fined almost entirely to. a contract with the Base Sorting Plant, Inc., of New York,.in which his brother, Ira nd a retired vice chairman of} Yand, | | orship, but ft is expected that this in-; formation will not be long deferred. In the: meantime Colville Barclay, coun-! r of the embassy, probably will! ve as charge d’ affairs. Sir Cecil me to Washington to succeed Am- bassador Bryce, who was retired on) account of age, in conformity of the} practice of, the British diplomatic: ser-| vice. HOOVER ADVISES SUGAR MONOPOLY AND FOOD POOLS Administrator Examined by Sen- ator Lodge for Senate Investigatofs. HOOVER CLASHES WITH REED | Sugar Supply Three Hundred Thousand Tons Short of the Estimated Demand. | ; Washington, Jan. %.—Government | Purchase and sale to consumers of all, sugar used in the United States and‘ control of the amounts and kinds of; food to be served in public eating places, were advocated to meet the rai I. Kaplan, has a third interest, for; abnormal war conditions by Food Ad- sorting army clothing scraps, which was said to promise profits of $400,000 annually. The contract recently was cancelled, Work Highly Praised. ministrator ‘Hoover in testimony before senate committee investigating sugar. He said additional legislation conferring upon the food administra- tion such powers should be enacted Work of the supplies committee was’ by congress. highly praised by Mr. Wisenman, who said it had negotiated orders for sup- plies worth $800,000,000 for the quar- termaster general's office. He defend- ed the committee's practice of approv-| ceryation plans formulated for hote ing contracts with firms of member: explaining that in such cases interest- ed committeemen were excluded from the negotiations. Senator McKellar wanted ‘to know if this was not an evasion of the law, but Mr. Fisenman insisted that the committée’s practice was followed to conform to the law. The committee members, Eisenman stated, were se- lected from men in the business who had proved succ tracts with their firms were made be- cause of the full use of the country’s manufacturing facilities was necess- ary. Clash With Members. Both Eisenman and Kaplan had lively clashes with committee mem- bers. Senator McKellar admonished the latter, who emphatically resented having his motives impugned, to speak respectfully, and Senator Weeks heat- edly declared he was “about as im- pudent a man” as he had ever seen. Statements of Quartermaster Gen- eral Sharpe regarding shortages of army clothing, aud failure to receive cloth ordered through ‘the supplies committee were contradicted. by Eisen- ‘sy; man. He asserted that supplies of cloth were delivered on time and fas- ter than it could ‘be manufactured by the factories under General Sharpe. Shoddy for Wool. Eisenman told the committee he had:recommended and the quarter- master-general had approved reduc- ing the wool content in overcoats, blankets and other clothing and sub- stitution of wool s ubstitutes, or “shoddy,” saying the quality was not impaired: and that as good or better garments were secured. The scrap sorting contract, both Eisenman and Kaplan asserted was intended to give the contractors a profit bf only a half cent a pound, ell over that to be returned to the gov- ernment. He protested against its re- cent annulment by General Sharpe, who said the price of six cents a pound for sorting was excessive. Eisenman, Kaplan and other mem- bers of the supplies committee will be recalled later. Tomorrow the com- mittee will hear Michael E. Driscoll, superintendent of the Raritan (New Jersey) Woolen mills, regarding cloth contract negotiations with the com- mittee: GRCIL SPRING-RICE RETIRES FROM HEAD OF BRITISH MISSION London Ambassador at Washing- ton Granted Permanent Leave. HIS SUCCESSOR NOT YET NAMED | cane sugars at pr Washington, ~ Jan... 3.. — Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, who has been British ambassador.in Washington since May 6, 1913, called at, the state department ; Wednésday to say he was going home on leave of absence.-That was as far | as the: official statement on the sub- ject, went, but ft 4s'known that fur- ther information to be given out from! London will confirm the reports that ‘ come through English newspapers of a Beneral’and sweeping change in the British diplomatic representation - in! most of the larger capitals. The purpose of the reorganization, it is -learned,-:touches ‘the. personnel | of the embassies rather than the pol- icies\of the British government in its relatiotis with its allies, and it is ex- Preaaly,.stated in an authoritative quarter that there isto be no change in-the policies connected with the Prosecution of. the.war. s Sir Cecil has desired for, some-time tox‘be relieved ‘of the heavy. duties of the> Washington :embassy.as jsoon as such avchange could: be:mate without detriment. ta. the: service.’ }t’is known: now! that when Foreign: Minister Bal- foar.came to the United States last spring thé ambassador tendered: his resignation to take effect at the con- venténce of the foreigh offite;and his been awaiting its aecepiance since’ that time. be BAe ‘No statement can be made as to the time the‘ichange will take effect or ssful and that con-} | mmistration’s action in naming the j Food conservation came up only! casually during an all day examina- tion of Mr. Hoover, but the admin trator revealed that results from con- and restaurants had been disappoir ing because of the deliberate failu of some to co-operate with the admin- istration. Those seeking to help had been forced to abandon their efforts, Mr. Hoover said, in order to meet competition. The witness believed housewives generally were conform-: ing to the conservation recommenda- ‘tions. i Questioned by Lodge. | Chairman Reed, of the committee, | who has been the chief critic of the food administration in the senate, did {not question Mr. Hoover Senator: {Lodge conducting the examination | most of the day. Late in the session, however, Senator Reed and Mr. Hoov- er engaged in a rather heated discus: sion when the witness asked to have admitted to the committee records the {statement on the sugar situation which Mr. Hoover sought to submit j fore the holidays and which later; befo | Was made public at the white house. | Chairman Reed said he wanted to} ‘examine the statement overnight, ani! ‘that the question of admitting it to the }records would be determined _later.! Noover finally declared with an apparent show of heat that he did not! “care whether it was introduced or | not.” Hoover and Reed Clash. Mr. Hoover said the sugar supply for next year promised to be thres hundred thousand tons short of the estimated demand, but it was hoped jto solve the shortage by conservation ; and limitation of supplies to manufac- | turers of’ non-essential foodstuffs, While he thought it might be necess- ary to limit the per capita consump- tion to three pounds a month, the wit- , ness eald he did not consider the prin- |ciple of limitation of Personal con- ;Sumption sound because it tendéd to cause discontent among the people. | The administrator explained his de- | sire to ‘have the food administration’s view of the sugar situation presented early in the investigation by saying} that testimony before the committee that there was plenty of sugar in the country was not proved by.the facts as he knew them and tended to offset the administration’s campaign for con- | servation. He satd he regarded as vit- ‘al that his statement should counter- act the testimony as quickly as pos- aibie and thought his own. Statement on the situation would be more convincing than that of Geo. | M. Rolph, head of the administration’s sugar division in urging government purchase of sugar. Huge Profits, Mr. Hoover explained to the com- mittee that through that method alone could refiners be paid an equitable price. We said some beet factories are making huge profits at the 7.25 cents a pound agreed upon for beet sugar, but on the other hand a factory. in Michigan and “one or two” in Col- orado actually are losing money at that price. His plan, he said, is for the government to ‘purchase from} beet factories at different prices based on: the cost of production, buy es on the same basis, pool the entire lot and sell to the consumer at oné price. The witness denied that the Cuban price had: been fixed by a committee formed of refiners at a price advant-} ageous to. them. fhe prices, 4.60 cents a. pound;he said, was fixed by the state department. and the Cuban government. ‘ Defends Food Board. Mr. Hoover défended the ‘food ad- president of-the American Sugar P fining company,-an officer of the Ar buckle Refining company and Mr. Rolph as the. American members - of | the committee saying this country) could be. represented properly only by | refiners. “We are primarily dependent ! in these times on patriotic men who} understand their businesses,” said the | administrator. Much was said today of economic soundness of price fixing: Sen: Lodge cited authorities to show, that it had failed and read some of Hoover's tes- timony at the hearing on the food Dill, in’ which he ‘was quoted. as~ saying: price fixing had been‘a failure in Eng: | land: oe 5 Price Fixing. % The witness explained that when he so’ testified’ England. did ‘not’ control commodities on which it attempted to fix prices. He argued that ‘price fix- ing of government controlled commod- ities was: advisable to meet. an emer- gency. Mr. Hoover ‘maintained that as’to the succession to the ambassad-; the food’ administration’s attion” on ‘ sugar has prevented prices from dcub- at congested terminals now is under BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE JPHURSDAY,.. JAN. ..3, CHICKEN FANCIERS PROPOSE DOUBLE SHIFT AS WAR Bit OF PREREESS AERIGAN TEN inneapplis, Minn., Jan. 3.---A pro: posal to withhold s from the mar-{ of ¢ ket during the spring period and to} bor divert them to hatching purposes in,” an effort to double the 1918 poultry | °° output was taken under consideration here today by poultry breeders from parts of United States andi Canada who are attending the Minne sota state poultry jiation show} use th and the national meeting of the Rhode | poult Island Red Club. i secretary of th ers pointed to the n ituting poultry for bee nd declared t ution of ege | consideration, and some thought even ling. i been given to the possibility of Replying to the testimony of Claus} ues pidiers a sned to these A. Spreckles, president of the Federal the civilian organization Refining company, that raw! sractible, h New York! nsfer of Locomotives, fer of Jocomitives from the uth, where congestion is 18 and weather less ned hy Directe eAdoo and his staff. with t it will come a number of ¢ stricis to a An immediate nt of 5 throu w er said four or five thousand tot go through to a y who wi lian govern matter, the and the manu ments were ¢ turer dealt w agreement. Mr. Hoover amined further tomorrow, will be s faster, than before the umed management, ac- s from interstate ted switch yards are being cleared hout regard to old priority orders. COAL INY AL AT : McAdoo in Consultation. PREFERRED LIST entrscccrtane'ite, rest most his ¢ ation with members of advis- board and Fuel Adminisirator | Garfield. Tomorrow he will discuss Blizzard Harried Sections Sooni| the labor situation under government operation with heads of the four rail- Relieved of Pending Fuel f *Sheriage. | ARMY OF LABOR TO UNLOAD | vice, ana for sustaming a high order McAdoo Discusses the Labor Sit-| operation pan uation with Bretherhood =| confer h him. They will be told of the pressing n ity not only for re- taining all present workmen, but for drawing new employes into the ser- ly will not be discuss- the conference except in a gen- 1 way, but the brotherhood heads Men Today. may be told that the entire problem — of readjusting wages will be taken up Washington, Jan. $.—Solid coal! by the railroad administration as soon trains were ordered easiward ahead/as the more important operating and, of all other freight after con-| traffic questions are disposed of. ferences between the director general Jobs Will Continue. | of railroads and the fuel administrator ere anxious that railroad | on farther plans for speeding coal to hall not get the impression | New England and other sections short holesale curtailment ef jobs of coal in the midst of a blizzard. in prospect. Although a The organization of a great army oi which laborers loaned. by cities and 1 now that ations to unload coal and other 5 been: abolished may be eliminated, it is con- Officia employes that an; or sala num) & a number ‘ y brotherhoods who were invited to ° of? YANKEE # : 2 LOOKING SUBMARINES ON A WINTER VOYAGE. — the employes will be tran: s of the s particularly to tr fie solicitor: legal advisers, EXPEDITION ORDERED, Garfield Rushes Coal to New England. Washington, Jan. ders fo expedite the movement of coal into New Eng) ednesday by Fuel Admini: Shivering rator G be affected by the new instructions. GOTHAM SCHOOLS CLOSE. Lack of Heat Gives Children a Va-/ Severe cold weather. cation. New York, Jan. 3.—Lack of heat sed the closing of more than fifty schools in the greater city Wedn day. It s believed most of them be able to resume their class sched- ule today, Hast side residents who have been dependent for fuel on yards where coal is sold in bucketful quantities, to- nitacked truck drivers at four of fter being told no coal fer forced their way through the and carried away five tons of nts, Idings. Steam heating is to be entirely lim- ited during certain hours. TRAINS CUT HEAVILY, Pennsylvania Cancels 104 Weekday 7 s--51 Sunday. Philadelphia, Tex Jan. 2 clear tracks, conserve fue! d locomotives fc ment of neces: ight, munitions, government sup s and troc the Pennsylvania railr ed that on Janu CANADIANS—YOUNG AND OLD—NOW WELCOME WINTER SPORTS ‘ 3. Further or- nd were agreed upon; | Fort hr i H id and the director-geacral of rail- Forty Three. Schools {n_ Philadelphia roads. Both mines and railroads will there | GUNNERS effect a general reduction of passen- to other branches | ger train schedules on the lines east; This rear-j of Pittsburgh, -' total of 104 weck day trains and 51 publicity bureaus and, Sunday trains will be withdrawn and the schedules of other trains will be altered. < The Pennsylvania and the Balti- +more & Ohio have agrecd to consoli- date their service between New York jand Washington and operate their trains on alternate schedules. COAL RUNS OUT. Short of Fuel. Philadelphia, Penn., Jan. 3.—Vorty- three public schools in this city fail- ed to open after the Christmas recess as a result of the continued About 25,000 pupils are affected. Lack of coal forc- i ed the closing of most of the schools. LAPGLLETTE HIT IN A TEST VOTE ON LOYALTY PLEA Combination of Parties “ Beats Candidate of Socialists ard Pacifists, WISCONSIN'S FIRST EXPRESSION ON WAR an ated Kd- mund ial ete dstrict. fill the seat e senate by Frank , Reguse, who was expelled last spring iby the legislature for an alleged dis- | loyal remark. ons was elected by a majority of 37 voto: cluding the soldiers’ vote. =| ons’ viclory was brought about by }a combination of loyalists in the Re- publican, democratic and socialist | parties against Melms, who ran on the Vanti-wvar st platform adopted in ¢ Fighting Wons up to the close of, {the nolls the Victor Berger-La ,Jollette combination, which counted Yon most of the socialists, pacifists and lyed in, the wool La¥ollette men to ¢ Melms. ec brought forward in a hot ign extending over two weeks s loyalty. . Fons’ victory is con od astate wide victory for American- It was the first opportunity that I come to the electors in any dis- trict of Wisconsin to stand by Presi- dent Wilson since the declaration of Yhe outcome has a hearing, it is believed on the United States senator- | ial situation in nsin. ‘FOOD EXPORTS OVER BILLION IN EXTENT DURING YEAR 1947 ‘Washington, Jan. 3.—lixports of foodstuffs in 1917 were valued at nearly $1,000,000,000, an increase of $207,000,000 over 1916. Statistics an- nounced by the department, of commerce show, however, that there was 4 decrease in actual quantity, higher prices accounting for the in- j creased valuation. | Breadstufis. exports were valued at ; $590,000,000; meat and dairy products 009,000, and cottonseed oil $17,- | ¢00,000. Shipments of wheat, flour, corn, oats, coiton and cotonseed oil all decreased. Exports of beef and lard increased. Brie and Buffalo. A| UNCLE SAM SERDS MEN TO REPLACE DEFECTED ALLY Troops Rushed Forward as Fast as Trains and Ships Can be Sunplied. ALLIES TO FURNISH HELP \Great Decision Reached in Paris Conference of Inter-Allied Nations. Washington. Jan, 3.--General reor- ganization of the ordnance bureau | wjth experienced business men at the | head of important divisions under the chief of ordnance, s announced | Wednesday by ar department. Washington, . — An engage- ; Meni by tne United States to send a | great army against the Germans in ‘time to offset the defection of Russia Was disciosed throug the publication ary Lansing of a review of recommendation of the on which r ly par- terallied war con- hiing men are to cross | the Atlantic as rapidly as they can |.be mustered and trained. France and at Eritain oa their part undertake nly to join in providing ships to y them, but to sce that any de- in arms and equipment are made up on the other side. Pcol Fighting Resources. This was one of the great decisions hr d at the conferences through | Which the co-belligerents planned to fighting resources and move «driving the Germans out of conquered ter iritory and shing the Teutoni! world domi ion scheme. There is to ke co-ordinated efforts not only ia j fighting on land and sea, but in pro- ‘duction at home and in the vast ship- , building projects upon which depends ine vital problem of maintaining un- dd transportation in spite of nes. Machinery Speeds Up. Even before Col. House and his as- }sociates on the American mission reached home the machinery to again i speed up war preparations here had ‘been set in motion. In toi | nouncement is seen the legi ced in the formation of the new war council of gencral of- ficers, of renewed efforts to speed up the shiping board’s merchant build- ing program, and possibly of the decis- sion of the administration to take over all the nation’s railroads without waiting for action by congress. Other indications of the new pressure ap- | plied since the House mission returned are manifest about the navy and war departments, but most of the things being done cannot be discussed pub- licly for military reasons. It can be stated authoriatatively that detinite steps to make good the pledges giv- j en to the allied leaders hy Col. House have already been taken. Unified Ship Tonnage. Under a resolution adopted by the inter allied conference a unified use of ship tonnage was agreed upon control emb: | which would permit “the liberating of the greatest amount of. tonnage pos- sible for the transportation of Amer- ican troops.” A policy to govern the use of neutral tonnage was agreed upon. Port facilities at debarkation points for American forces were in- spected and steps taken to permit the return of vessels to ‘their home ports with the least possible delay. Move in Steady Stream. The decision to keep American troops moving to Europe in a steady stream marks another advance in the government’s war plans. Originally it was proposed to use all available ton- nage for the transportation of supplies and muintions, and to send no soldiers over until they had been given. a year's training. This was changed when 1 al Joffre came to the United. States with word that France ited at once any number of Americ- ans who could come to put the Stars and Stripes on the firing line and hearten the French soldiers, wearied by their long battle against the in- Washington, —Con- ss, in hecess ver 18, embled noon today,. after its; holiday vacation prepared to proceed with a big legislative pro- gram. Both houses will adjourn af- ter brief sessions tomorrow out of re- spect of Senator Newlands of Nevada, and Representative Rathrick of Ohio, who diced during the recess, and the. first important business is scheduled for friday, when President Wilson is exnected to address a joint session to outline legislation for the government operation of railroads. BLOOD POISONING Harntin’s Wizard Oil a Safe First Aid Treatment How often lockjaw and blood poisoning result from the neglect ofa slight scratch or little cut! Ham- lin’s Wizard Oil is a safe and effec- tive first aid treatment. It.is a pow- erful antiseptic and. should. be ap- plied immediately to wounds of this kind to prevent danger of infection. It. is soothing and liealing and quickly drives out pain and inflam- mation in cases of sprains, bruises, cuts, burns, bites and stings. Just as reliable, too, for stiff neck, sore feet, cold sores, canker sores, earache and toothache, _Get it ftom druggists for 30 cents. 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