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And Otoseif vejr The New . WEATHER. Gaaerally fair Saturday aad Saaday, except shower aionf the coast Satsrdsy. VOL CX. NO. 40. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH, N. G, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1919. TWELVE PAGES TODAY. PRICE i FIVE CEinS WATCH M sea -. IVM WMl jantatw iawh an a PRESIDENT SPECIFIC REMEDIES FOR CHECKING LIVING COSTS Present High Prices Not Justi fied. Shortage. Supplies EithlrTfesenTorTufure RETAILERS RESPONSIBLE TO LARGE DEGREE, HE SAYS Strikei, Wilson Warns, Would Only Hake Matters Worse; Chief Executive f Character ' lies As Illegal and Criminal Some Methods Used To Boost Prices ; , Recommend. That Pood Control Act Be Extend ed To Peace Times And That Profiteering Be Penalized; 'Present Laws To Be En forced . Washington, Aug. 8. President Wil soa laid several specific proposals be fore Congress today for checking the high cost of living, but at the same tune declared permanent results could not be expected until peace time bases w-re fully restated by ratification of the peace treaty. High prices, the President told Con gress, were not justified by shortage of applies either present or prospective but were created in many eases "arti ficially and deliberately" by "vicious practices." Betailcrs, he said, were re sponsible in large part for extortionate prices. Strikes No Remedy. Strikes, the President warned the labor world, would only make matters worse and those who sought to employ threats or coercion were only "prepar ing their own destruction." Leaders of organized labor the President said, he was sure would presently yield to sceoud ' tober Hi light. 'Illegal" and- "criminal' were the words the President used in character lilng the methods by which some present day pritoi have beea brought 1 about. ". "Present laws, he said, would be ener getically employed to the limit to force out food hoards and meet the situation to far. I 'possible, but to supplement the existing statutes he tpeeincaiiy urged the following: Licensing of all corporations en '. gsg'd in interstate commerce, with I specific regulstions designed to seeure competitive telling and prevent un- eonteiontDi pronis in me mciuou u marketing. Extend Food Control. Extension vt the food control act to peace timet snd the application of Its provisions against hoarding to fuel, clothing and other necessities of life, as well as food. A penalty in the food control act for profiteering. A law regulating cold storage, limit ing the time during which goods may be held; prescribing a method of dis posing of them if held beyond the pcr . mittrd period and requiring that when re'eased, goods bear the aate or Mor as. udws requiring that goods released from storage for interstate commerce bear the selling prices nt which they went into storage and requiring that all goods destined for interstate com merce bear the prices at which they left the hands of the producer. ' Enactment of the pending bill for the control of security issues. Additional appropriations for govern ment agencies which ean supply the pnblle with full information as to prices at which rettilers buy. Treaty Ratification Urged. Early ratification of the peace treaty so that the "free processes of supply and demand" ean operate. ' Immediate steps by executive agencies of the government promised by the President included: The limiting and controlling of wheat shipments and credits to ricimite me Durcbsse of wheat shipments in such a wav as not to raise, but rather to Uiwer tha nriee of flonr at home. Sale of surplus stocks of food snd clothing in the bands of the govern ment. The foreed withdrawal from storage and sale of surplus stocks in private hands. Reconsmeadstlons Made. General Ttfoninnndntions included Increase of production. Careful buying by housewives. Fair dealing with the people on the part of producers, middlemen and mer ' chants. That here be no threats snd undue i .tUtene upon the interest of a single ei'.s. .f Correction of "many things" in the ' relation between capital snd labor in rniMt to wage and conditions cf tabor. Ia concluding the President made a nlea for deliberate, intelligent action. reminding Congress that an unbalanced ' world was looking to the United States. ."We and we slone." he ssid, "now hold the world stesdy. Upon our stead fastness and self-possession depend the affairs of nations everywhere. It is in this (uprose crisis thU crisis for all, -. mankind that Amtrica, must prove her - mettle." t . Dlatarbtne In Caribbean. I ' " Washington, r Aug. -8tTong lndlei tions st the present time of a tropical disturbing ever the Eattcra Caribbean flea was reported tonight by the wMther hurean. It is probable, the re Bert said, that the disturbance would move westward. . . , , POINTS 001 mmm PAPER BY WILSON Senators Simmons And Over man Praise President's Ad dress To Congress TARHEEL CONGRESSMEN SAY IT WAS TO POINT Correctly Diagnosed Evils of Situation, Simmons 8 a y s, While Making It Clear That There Can Be No Permanent Readjustment Until World Peace Is Restored The News and Observer Bureau, 03 District National Bank Bldg. By 8. R. WINTERS. (By Special Learcd Wire.) Washington, D. C, Aug. 8. To his statesmanlike documents relating to the world war, the aftermath of the gigantic cataclysm and the subjects of the Peace Conference and international readjust ment, President Wilson today, gave to America one of his most practical state papers. Fresh eggs, the price of to matoes and the iniquities of cold storage were household words not foreign to the contents of the admirable deliverance of the Presidct on the subject of "The Cost c" Living iu America." Re gardless of the topie discussed, Presi dent Wilson always draws an immense audience. Democrats applaud frequent ly, while Republicans who forego tho opportunity to sanction his utterances sre none tho less interested in his every sentence. The Republican member of Congress who held up his small child on his 'shoulders in the rear of the House of Representatives that he might view the President wts nons the less eager in his suppressed admiration than was "Senator Henry Cabot Ledge who sst on the front sett and somewhat, ia appearance, begrudgingly listened at tentively to his masterly address. Although four members ef the North Carolina delegation Representatives Godwin, Robinson, Doughton and Wells were absent from the city, the Tnr Heel 8tato was conspicuous in its rep resentation st the joint sssenibly of the two houses of Congress. Representa tive Claude Kitchin and Senator F. M. Simmons were selected1 as two mem bers of the committee to escort Presi dent Wilson into the House of Repre sentatives. North Carolina had the distinction of being the only tjiate to have two rep scntatives n this committee. Senator Bimmons Approves. Somewhat chary of applause, at least one utterance of President Wilson choked an unanimity of approval. When the distinguished world citiivn declar ed, "threats and undue insistence upon the interest of a single' class make set tlement impossible." His remark drew forth vociferous applause Republicans and Democrats aliko giving hearty ap proval to the sentiment, J "The address of the President was of practical character, said Senator Simmon in commenting on the speech. ' He dealt largely with domestic ques tions. He correctly diagnosed the evils of the situation and pointed out possi ble remedies through legislation and executive actions. He formulated auch additional legislation at he deemed necessary tnd promised vigorous and energetic action in the application of tdministrative and judicial methods to overcome the evils which are now so tcute. "He made it clear that there could be no permuncnt readjustment which would idcquateiy reach the evils of the situa tion and restore economy aud indus trial conditions uptil world peace was restored. He made it clear that this was a condition precedent to the restor ation of orderly and normal conditions not only throughout the world, but in this country at well, and that as long at there was delay in doing the things necessary to restore peace we might ue confronted with the serious eonltions which now obtain. The Tresident also msde it very clear that nothing could be accomplished through threats and that there could not he and would be so action except such ss based upon i consideration of merit. I Senator Overman Talks. "He arose to the occasion as he al ways does," ssys 8enator Lee 8. Over man, ia commenting on the speech of President Wilson. "It was eloquent and full of common sense and measures were recommended. thst will bring relief to th critical situation. Referring to the utterance of President Wilson .n which he stated that threats, wonld be power leu, Senator Overman said, "He had the courage to do his duty snd be cannot be moved by sny threats." He appealed to the better judgment of the railroad mea and tine they are true Americans they will yield to his sppeals, I think it is necessary for CongTes to continue in fore th Food Control set, at lesst until th crisis hss passed." Cogrssssasn Pleased. "The President-Aa4al4-out-n task which Congress can easily perform," said Bepreteatativ E. W, Pou. "His reeommendttlons are entirely practi cable. I have been opposed to any sum mer recess and am now morel firmly con vinced that Congress should remain con stantly in session natlt th recommen dations of th President tr made a law (Coatlnted m rag Two.) , Wilson's Message to Congress On High Cost of Living Gives Complete Review of Situation Washington, Aug. 8. Th text off the President s address follows: Gentlemen oC th Congress: I have sought this opportunity to ad dress you because it it clearly my duty to eall yoar attention to the, present cost of living and to urge upon yon Aran tM "persuasive force ot which I am capable th legislative measures which would be most effective in con trolling it and bringing it down. The prices the people of this country are paying for everything that it is neces sary for them to use lu order to live are not justified by a shortage in sup ply, either present or prospective, snd ars in many eases artifically and de liberately created by vicious practices which ought immediately to be cheek ed by law. They constitute burden upon us which is the more unbearable because we know that it Is wilfully im posed by those who have the power, and that it can by vigorous publie ac tion be greatly lightened and made to square with th actual condition of supply and demand. Some of the methods by which these prices are pro duced are already illegal, some of them criminal, and those who employ them will be energetically proceeded agninst; but others have not yet been brought under the law, and should be dealt with at once by legislation. A Never-Endlag Cycle. I need not recite the particulars of thia critical matter; the prices de manded and paid at the sources ot supply, st the factory, ia the food mar kets, at the shops, in the restaurants aud hotels, alike in the city and in the village. They are famaliar to you. They are the talk of every domestic circle and of every group of casual acquaint ances even, it is a matter of familiar knowledge,' also, that a process has set in which is 'likely, unless something is done, to push prices and rents and the whole cost of living higher and yet higher, in a vicious cycle to which there is no logical or natural end. With the increase in the prices of the neces saries of life come demands for in creases in wages deniauds which are justified if there be no other means of enabling men to live. I'pon the increase of wag?t there follows close an increase in the price of the product whose producers have accorded the in crease not a proportionate increase, for the manufacturer does not content himself with that, but an increase con tiderably greater that the added wage eott and for which the added wage cost is oftentimes hardly more than an excuse. The laborers who" do not get an increase ia pay when they de mand it are likely to strike, and the strike only make natters worse. It cheeks production, if it affects the rail ways, it preventa distribution and strips the markets, so that there is presently nothing to buy, and there is another excessive addition to prices resulting from the scarcity. These are facts and forces with which we have become only too familiar: but wo arc not justified because of our familiarity with them because of any hs'ty and shallow conclusion that they are ''natural" and inevitable ia sitting inactively by and letting the work take fatal results, if there is anything that we ean do to check, eorreet or reverse them. I htve sought this opportunity to inform the Congress what the exec utive is doing by way of remedy and control, and to suggest where effective legal remedies are lacking and may be supplied. World on Operating Table We must, I think, frankly admit that there is no complete immediate remedy to be bad from legislation and exec utive act ion. The free processes of supply snd doniand will not operate, of themselves and no legislative or eier utive action can force them into full and natural operation until there peace. There is now neither peace aor war. All the world is waiting with what unnerving fears snd haunting doubts who esn adequately any f wait iug to know when it shall have peace and what kind of peace it will be when it comes a peace in which each na tion shall make ehift for itself as it ean, or a peace buttressed and eup ported by the will and concert of the nations that have the purpose and the power to do and to enforce what I right. Politically, economically, soei ally the world is on the operating table and it has not beea possible to admin istcr any anesthetic. It is conscious. It even watches the capital operation upon winch it knows that its hope of health ful life depends. It cannot thinkitw business out or make plant or give in telligent and provident direction to it affairs while ia such a ease. Where there, ie no peace of mind there can lie no energy ia endeavor. There ca be no confidence in industry, no calcu table basis for credits, no confident buying or systematic selling, no cer tsin prospect of employment, no nor mal restoration of business, no hope ful attempt at reconstruction or the proper reassembling of the dislocated elements, of enterprise until peace has been established and, so far as nicy be, guaranteed Our national life has ao doubt been less radically disturbed snd dismcm bered then the national life of other peoples whom the war more directly affected, with all its terrible ravaging and destructive force, but it hat been nevertheless, profoundly sffeeted sad disarranged, and our industries, onr credits oar productive espseity, our eco nomie process arc inextricably . inter woven with those of other nations snd peoples, most intimately of all with the nations and peoples upoa whom the chief burden and confusion of the war fell and who are now most dependent upon : th co-operative, action ef . the world. Fatar Exports Uscertaln. W are just now shipping' mor goods out of our ports to foreign govern ments than we vr shipped before not food stuff merely, but stuffs and materials of every tort; bat this is no indei ot wbst oar foreign talcs will ton tin u to b or of th ffeet th volnm of ur export will ktv oa ii i t5v- - SXOOPRCTW. WILSON supplies and prices. It is impossible yet to predict how far or how long foreign purchasers will be able to find the money or the credit to pay for or sustain such purchases on such a scale; how soon or to what extent foreign manufacturers ean resume their former production, foreign farmers get their accustomed crops from their own fields, foreign mines resume their former out put, foreign merchants set up again their old machinery ot trade with the ends of the earth. All these things must remain uncer tain until peace is established and the nations of the world have concerted the methods by which normal life and industry are to be restored. All thst we shall do, in the meantime to restrain profiteering snd put the life of our peo pie upon a tolerable footing will be makeshift and provisional. There can bo no settled conditions here or else where until the treaty of peace is out of the nay and the work of liquidating the war has become the chief concern of our government and of Hie other governments of the world. I ntil then business will inevitably remain speeu lative and swny now this way and again that, with heavy losses or heavy pains as it may chance, and the consumer must take care of both the gains and the losses. There etn be no peace prieet so long as our wholo financial and economic system it on a war basil, Europe will not. cannot recoup her capital or put her restless, distracted people' to work until she. know ctly whtr th stands in re pact of peace; snd what w will d is for her the chief qnestion upon which her quiet ude of mind snd confidence of purport depends. While there is any possi bility thst the peace terms nay be chsnged or may be "held long in nbey anc or may not be enforced bocaure of divisions of opinion tmong tho powers associated sgsinst Germany, it is idle to look for permanent relief. What Can Be Don. But what we can do we should do, and should do 'at once. And thero is a great deal that we ean do, provisional though It be. Wheat shipments and credits to facilitate the purchase of our wheat esn nnd will he limited and controlled in such a way as not to raise but rather to lower the price of flour here. The gov ernment has the power, within certain limits, to regulate that. V.'c cannot deny wheat to foreign peoples who are in dire need of it, and we do not wiah to do so; but, fortunately though the wheat crop is not what we hoped it would lie it is abundant if handled with providen care. The price of wheat is lower in the United Htatea than in Europe, and ean with proper management be kept so. By way of immediate relief, surplus stocks of both food and clothing in the hands of the government will be sold and of course sold at prices nt which there is no profit. And by way of more permanent correction of prices, surplus stocks in private hands will be drawn out of storage and put upon the market. Fortunately, under tho terms of the food control set the hoard in 3 of foodstuffs can be checked and pre vented i and they will be, with the great est energy. Foodstuffs can be drawn out of storage and sold by legal action which tho Department of Justice will institute wherever necessary; hut anon as the sitnntion is systematiesll dealt with, it is not likely that the eo.irts wiil often have to be rerorted to. Much of the accumulating of stocks has nn doubt been due to the sort of specula tion which alwnys results from uncer tainty. Great surpluses were aecumu Isied because it was impossible to fore see what the market would disclose and dealers were determined Jo be resdy for whatever might happen, as well as eager to reap the full advantage of rising prices. They will now see. the disadvantage, as we'l as tie danger, of holding off from the new process of distribution. Some very interesting snd significant facts with regard to stocks on hand and the rise of prices in the face of abundance have been disclosed by the inquiries of the Department ef Agri culture, the Department of labor and the Federal Trade Commission. They seem to justify the statement that in the ease' of many necessary commodi ties effective means have been found to prvent the normal operation of the law of supply snd demand. Disregard ing the surplus stocks In the hands of the government, there was a greater supply of foodstuffs in this country ot June first ef this year thsn at the aamr date last year. Ia the combined total of a number of tha mnat imoortant foods 1 dry tndeold ttorase the excets is quit nineteen per cent. And yet price nsv risen. The supply of fresh cam on hand la Ju of thieyetf) for example, was greater ny nearly tea per. cent, than the supply en hand at th same time last year, tnd yet tb wholesale price was forty cents a doxen as against thirty cents a year tgo. Th stock of f roser fowls had increased more than two, hundred and ninety-eight per cent., ana yet ins pries bad risen also, from thirty-four and a half cents per pound to thirty-evea. and a half coat. Th supply of creamery butter had in creased a hundred and twenty-nine per eent. and th price from forty-one to fifty-three cents per pound. The tup ply of salt beet had been augmented three per eent. and tha price had gone up from Uiirty-four dollars, barrel !Vrry-1 .. TavV-- ft , f- . wi-pi -I'll-'"! tjf ' 't - tothirty-six dollars a barrel. Canned corn had increased in stock nearly ninety-two per eent, and had remained substantially the tame in price. Ia a few foodstuffs the prices had declined, but in nothing like the proportion in which the supply had increased. For example, the stok of rsnned tomstoes had increased one hundred snd, two per cent, and yet the price bad declined only twenty-fire cents per doxen eans. In some esses there had been the usual reault of an increase of price following a decreaae of supply, but in almost every instance the Increase of price had been disproportionate to the decrease in stocks. The Attorney-General has been making a careful study ot the situation aa a whole and of the laws that can be applied to better it and is convinced that, under the stimu lation and temptation of exceptional circumstances, combinations of pro ducers and combinations of traders have been formed for the control of supplies snd of prices which are clear ly in restraint of trade, snd against these prosecutions will be promptly instituted and actively pushed which will in all liklihood have a prompt cor rective effect. There is reason to be lieve that the prices of leather, of roal, of lumber and of textilea have been materially affected by forms of eon cert and eo-operation among the pro ducers and marketers of these and other universally necessary commodities which it will be possible to redress, jso watchful or energetic effort will be spared to accomplish this necessary re sult. I trust that there will not be many cases in which prosecution will be necesssry. Public action will no doubt cause many who have perhaps unwittingly adopted illegal methods to abandon them promptly and of their own motion. And publicity can accomplish great deal. The purchaser can often take care of himself, if he knows the fa'-ti and influences he is dealing with; aud purchasers are not disinclined to do anytluug, either tmgly or collect ively that msy be necessary for their self-protection. Tho Department of Commerce, th Department of Agricul ture, th Department of Labor nnd the Federal Trade Commission can do a Ertat deal towardt supplying th pub- systematically and at shork inter vals, with Information regarding the actual supply of particular commodi ties that is in existence, but not avail tbl beeiust of hoarding and with re gard to the methods Of price fixing which are being used by dealers ia certain foodstuffs and other necessar ies. There ean be little doubt that re tailers are in part sometimes in large part responsible for exorbitant prices; tnd it is quite practicable for the gov ernment, through the agencies I have mentioned, to supply the public with full information ss to the prices at which retailers buy and as to the costs of transportation they pay, in order that 't may be known just what mar gin of profit they are demanding. Opin ion and concerted action on the part of purchasers can probably do the rest. That is, these agencies may perform this indispensable service provided the Congress will supply them with the necessary fund to prosecute their in quiries and keep their price lists up to date. Hitherto the appropriation com mittees of the House have not always, I fear, seen tho full value of these in quiries, and the departments and com missions have been very much itrait ened for means to render this service. That ndenunte funds be provided bv sppropriation for this purpose and pro- The Department emphasized that no vided as promptly as possible, is one I rlinlt ' 'he policy of sales to muni of the means of greatly ameliorating j 'ipalitiea had been msde, the only al the present distressing conditions 0f ,rr,,on hln' ' Prll,- " mn' livelihood that I have come to urge, in I ''P!" f """'.''e to buy or soil food this attempt to concert with you the i " uff ' ln toitofhartci 'or local laws, u. . "i .l:. i the Department will shin to it upon eon- emergency. It is one of the absolutely necessary means, underlying many others, and it can be supplied at once. There nre many other ways. Existing law is inadequate. There ire many perfectly legitimate methods by which the government etn exercise restraint and guidince. Extend Food Control Act. Let me urge, in the first place, that th present food control act thould be extended both it to the period of time during which it shall remain in opera tion and as to the commodities to which it shall apply. Ita provisions against hoarding should bo mad to apply not only to food but also to feed stuffs, to fuel, to clothing, and to many Other commodities which ire indisputtbly necessaries of life. As its stands now it is limited in operation to the period of the war tnd becomes inoperative upon the formal proelamatiou of peace. Hut I should judge that it was clearly within the constitutional power of the Congress to make similar permanent provisions tnd regulations with regard to ill goods destined for intersttte com merce and to exclude them from inter state shipment if the requirements of the law are not complied with. Borne such regulatiou is imperatively neces sary. The tbuset tbtt htv growa up in the maniptlation of price by the withholding of foodstuffs and tither necessaries of life cannot otherwise be effectively prevented. There can be no doubt of either the necessity or the legitimacy of such measures. Mty I not eall attention to th fact, also that although ths present act prohibits profiteering, th prohibition I accom panied by no penalty. It is clearly in the publie interest that a penalty should be provided which will be per suasive. Regalst Cold ' Storage, ' T th ttm end I earnestly rscom- (Coatiaasd a Ftas Thr.) MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTH NG ADMIRAL RODMAN SA"1 AFTEE DANIELS EXPLAINS San Diego, CaL, Asg. 8. Secretary of tho Navy Daniel aathorised a statement today In .which a told brlefiy of tho etreassotaaco that led to Admiral Rodwta's annonncesseat last night at a baaaaet that a speech he had pre tared in' advance woald have to remain In his pocket, ss Secretary Daalels had cmaorod It and told him Bat U as It. Secre tary Daalels Bald: "Admiral Rodmaa showed at copy of a speech thst he had writ ten and I commented bbob It and advised that a certain paragraph b omitted. 1 did not knew that I was acting In any official rapacity a a eeaeor at this time, aor did I know then that th speech had been eent broadcast In advance. Had I kaewn that copies were In the hand ef th newspapers, I weald have mad no obiectlon to the se of the speech. "The speech was shown as and I commented upon It In an Informal manner." A paragraph la Ike Admiral's speech which the Secretary thoaght ahoald be eliminated, referred to poealble futere war. Admiral Rod mat. laat-hinglyVsald today that th whole affair amoaated to nothing and "It did not bother me a hit." UNCLE SAM READY TO SELL GROCERIES War Department Makes Public Complete Price List On Sub- sistence Stores Washington, Aug. 8. The War De partment made publie today a com plete price list on all subsistence ttorei available for aale to the publie through the parcels post or through municipal selling agencies. Costs of the commo dities to the government, the Depart ment said, had beea disregarded en tirely in fixing the prieet of tale which are materially lower than prevailing market rates. The prieet quoted ire f. o.b., tnd from storsge points in each of the Vi districti into which the country it di vided for War Department subsistence purposes. Tho department now is re distributing th food supplies in the 13 treat in order that each may hav it proportion per population ot th T3 article offered for public sal. Can Bay At Feet flic. Th price tablet include th prie per can or individual unit in each cat and also th price per case or larger contsiner. It also shows the gross weight per ean and per ease ia order thst the publie msy arrive at the price they will have to pay by adding parcel post rate from the nearest distribu tion point to the home of the eanramer to the fo. o. b. prices quoted. Municipal selling agencies will com pute freight eharges on these shipments to be sdded to the priee quoted by the War Department. On the parcel post distribution, no orders will be received direct by the War Deportment, but only through the postoffic department which will requisition th supplies by esse or larger package, th postmasters in turn breaking these shipmests np into unit packages of a single ean or several cans. Towns Csn Bay Now. Hales to municipalities st the new prices will liegin ss soon as the surplus property officers st the various tone supply offices snd depots have received the quotations made public todsy. Sales to individuals through the parcel post will ho inaugurated Auguat 18, and be fore that time all postmasters will have price quotation list from which the 1 consumer msy order. j ' walssirtenc. store, in not less than case or carton lots, the goods to be paid for or returned within 30 days from date of receipt. Shipments of this character, however, will be mad only when th mayor or head of th ! local government either acta as th Federal government's agent nnd super vises tho distribution of the food, or appoints some one to so set. Here Are Quotation. Although only 72 food staples are enumerated in the price list, the ite mised quotations owing to the variety of packing, are quite lengthy. Quota tions on some of the leading commo dities are: Bacon, $4.15 per ean of 17 pounds: corned beef, 55 cents for ean of 1JI8 pounds; baked beans, 8 cents per fn of 11-4 pounds; sweet corn, 10 cents per t 1-4 pound eans; dry beans, UI per 100 pounds; crackers, 5 and 8 cents a pound; army flour, 16 per 100 pounds; msesroni, 7 cents per 1 1-2 pounds; rolled oats, 12 eets per 2 pounds; seeded raisins, 10 cents per pound; rice, 84.74 per hundreds; tomatoes, 0 cents per 2 pound eans, snd white, corn mesL 3.50 per hundred pounds. MANAGERS OF THEATRES TO FIGHT ACTORS' STRIKE New York, Aug. 8. Deeis!on to fight the strike called "by the Actors' Equity Atsoeitftion, which last night closed thirteen of New York's leading theatres and to bring suits sgainst th assoeisvi tion and actors alleged to have broke their contract was retched tt t meet ing Of the PfiJduelng Managers' Pro tective Association lata todsy. The dsy wit spent by the managers in fraati efforts t recruit actor and actresses who would sign iron-bouad, non-strlks contracts. Many a mediocre player has met with scsnt courtesy la managerial office hitherto tuddenly found himself or herself cordially urged over : th telephone to com around and talk tonu, x - SHOPMEN GO BACK TO RAILROAD JOBS Railroad Administration Re ceives Reports From AH i r Over Country " ; l Basil am i i n isi '' r' i Y, NECESSITY OF GOING " TO WORK IS EXPLAINED Officials of Railroad Adminis- tration Go-Operating With' Union Chairmen; Union Headquarters Confident There Will Be One Hundred Per Cent Return - (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Aug. 8. Reports begat to arrive at th Bail road Admlnlttra tion late today from all over th country; saying that ttriking shopmen wer ra turning to work pending th tdjatU . ment of their wig demand by Dim tor General Bines. " tit sll plsces where men lr at, local officials of the Bailroad Admin istratioa are eo -ope rating with anion chairmen ia explaining th necessity for going bock to th job nt ones, which President Wilson mad a pre requisite to the opening of negotiation, Union headquarter! were .confident that the shopmen would mat it ! most a one-hundred per cent, return. About 40,000 oat of tho estiautod 300,000 mea in the thop crafts hav walked out to dste, according to anion estimates. Union officials woald not discuss the possibility which tho r ginie laws of th association gr for disciplining recaleitraata who trike without authorization of tha central bodies, but it was pointed oat that the single fietor of stria benefit , woald influence a quick ret m. The) sre not msde svsiUble for payment to unlawful strikers. SHOPMEN IN SOUTHEAST ABE STILL HOLDING OTJf Atlsnta, Ga., Aug. S. Striking thop men generally in the Southeast n mained away from their job today, d tpite the appeals of President Wilson and their grand lodge officers that they return work and await the outcome of wag ncgntiatioai in Washington. Boanoke, Va was aa exception, th men having returned to th shop ther today. Notwithstanding this situation, which hat had th effect f continuing embargoes on freight, both Bailroad Administration ffleial and anion lead ers believed that a day or two would at th resumption of work In r ease, gad In eonaequenee tb re-establishment of normsl conditions. Ia sharp coatrast to the ontimlati views, however, came report from va, riout place that tb men would TO fuse to call off their strike. Th At lanta, Memphis and Charleston striker llatly rejected the President' appoal until assured their demand woald tie met, while at Macon and Montgomery action was held in abeyance, pending de velopments. , In eonseqneaee of embargo:, the freight situstion tonight was rapidly he coming more serious. Rome traiu had been cancelled, and it was aaid th suspension would inereace oa inlet the situation showed a i.ecided ins provement. .. i j CHICAGO REPORTS SEVERAL ' THOUSAND BACK AT WORK. Chicago, Aug. 8. A break earn today in the strike of railway shopmen, when several thousand strikers returned to work in response to President Wilton a request mad yesterday and th ap- , peal today of international reprewea- ranres or tne six craft involved. Dt rectors R. H. Aisbtoa. of tho North western region, snd Hsl Hnlden, f tUm CIhIu... J - I J . t L there wss much encouragement In the sitnation. Spokesmen of th Chicago District Council of th Federated Railway Phlp men's Union, which called the atrik a week ago, announced a decision woald tie reached by tomorrow to direct tho strikers to return. , Although seventeen pn wager trslnl oa the Chicago and Northwesteni line wer tnnulled lat night, regional di rectors said tonight no further d'teon tinusnces hsd been found necessary.,- TO FIND OUT ALL ABOUT ' RECENT MEXICAN OUTRAGES Washington, Aug. 8. Blaaket au thority to bring cut all th facta about Mexican outrages on Americans aad American property, aad to fortnulat a remedial program, was given to th Foreign Relations Committee today by the Soante. ,J Without debate and by naaahaow vote resolution directing th inquiry was adnptrd after it provision had been stiffened in committee so a to . L . .k;u : ..a v . j-y . iv inimiiiii, m m J mmm sll sets of th governments of Mexico snd its citizens in derogation of th rights of th United State or f it citizens. " Later Chairman Lodge named tab committee headed by Senator Fall, Re publican, of New Mexico, who haa beea one or ine Ditterest opponents ot rr. ident Wilson' Mexican policy, to do ' the actual work of examiaing w Unease and collecting information. Th sub committee will begin its task within few dsys, though it pfbbabiy wilt deal only with preliminary features ant if the peace treaty it out f th way. - Garrison Natsod a Mediator. ' New York, Aug. 8. Pnbli atrtieo commissioner Lewis Nixon t a sou need late today that Liadley - M. Garrison, receiver of the Brooklyn Bapid Transit Company, had accented kia S)vice a mediator la the strike, which for three days hss paralysed traffic a th sur face, sub-way nnd elevated lino p ratal by the company, Mr. Garriea, according to Mr. Nixon, also ha acrtci to meet a conuitt ef hie tmpj