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Show f the SPANISH FORK. UTAI FORK PRESS- SPANISH lew - II TO FREE SERBIA FOREST FIFTY MILLIONS A MONTH TOLL PAID TO SPECULATORS, -- DECLARES HOOVER. Accepts Celt to' Explain Food Bill and .Makea Powerful Speech. Favoring .Legislation to Control Prices of Necessaries of Life. . liuvc Wushlugtoo. Food spcetitators Im'"i taking $50,nmi,hmi a i mouth fur the Inst .Jlve months u Infill of n qunrter of, a lllllnn dours from the American people, Herbert l Hoover total Helmin' nil Juno, 111, In explaining tlio nirHiiaia of llio f noil" out rol Mil now bofnri congress, Alt. Hoover, who In Prchlent Wilson's fond mJoiliiltrnioi', wont to the eiipltol Tuesday ly Invitation to ex I'ln In personally to Monitors the food-roirul hill iiinlor consideration .In hoili Iioiiki's eif congress. The jwd question, lie. said, In a to juopnroil ntlntoinoiit , preliminary t scmilnrluJ lolling, "In whether the shortage will eoutinun next year mid wliiit will he .the needs Of the til I Ion .nod America. Iiesplte the reduced s'onsiiniptjoii of the ullles, they will require larger iinioiints of errenls next , . Tie ullles ure year thus luore Isolated .In fond .sources. It tnkes three times the touting! nlld sloulde the troulde to pet . Aiistriillun wtsuiL Prop .full arcs In tlie Argentine jrlve o hojie of relief from there he-- t fore lies t spring. "The shies ore' i1eMiident upon North Ausirieu .for the vast iniijorlty he of their fond imports. iilde to xnpply till per rent of the win at they retinlre. The other 40 per rent must to made up hy further on their part and saving on otirs. We ran Increase our surplus. The situ-- a t ion for them next year menus Without mi adeprivation. quate food supply nd Kuropeun population will roiitluiie to fight and we shall find ourselves alone against Ger. many. The Itusshm revolution was n food riot and even yet that ally Is temporal il.v paralysed. Responsibility rests on our government for failure of de-- . nasTury through ji shortage if food." Turning to domestic conditions, Mr. Hoover said this country had been experiencing 'unprecedented prices and rampant spcculutJou," citing how middlemen and all the? persons in the distribution processes have been purchasing Increasing supplies to avert Individual shortages. Mr. Hoover cited the caunlng trade os ait example, where the entire output of vegetables and fish for 1017 has been disposed of already before It has He preeven readied the cuuuers. dicted further high prices. Thousands of men, he suld, who heretofore have never owned a dollar's worth of foodstuff ure now sis'cuhitiug in necessities. The average prices to tin eonsuin-erIn countries where food odmluls t rat Ion Is now In effect ure lower than those now prevailing In the United Stales," he said. "In England the price of bread Is even 25 per cent below the price we pay. I believe that unless some administration of our food Is taken we w ill look bnck at these rices as being moderate." . ijtia-w- ever-hefore- . We-shoul- ile-iil- ui - SIMS COMMANDS . - River Position. London. The massing of .entente troops In Thessaly seemingly Is an In dleution that big events ure In the making' in the Macedonian theatre In an attempt to retake Sorbin, or at lenst that portion of It os far os Nish, through which runs the famous Her railway. Xo Impediment Is being placed In the way of the troops that have been landed In' Thessaly, and with the departure of former King Constantine from The country the people are declared to have become more friendly to the entente allied enuse by placing their adherence In the provisional gov. ernrnent of E. Vcnlzelos. Although an the eastern wing the British ' have given np numerous vll la gee, w hich they previously burned they are holding tightly to the bridgehead position on the left hank of the River Struma In the Lake Tahlnos-Rutkov- a sector, northeast of Salonlkl. Ihe British was That the retirement voluntary Is Indicated hy the Bulgarian official report dealing with the the maneuver, which does not mention any lighting ns having tnken place. There has, however, already been some activity on the part of the British In Dolran sector, hut the Tnrdur-Lnk- e Sofia reports that the attempt made by them to ndvunce neur Pautll was repulsed. To the east of Arras on the front In France the British troops have been compelled to fall bnck from ad vnncod positions before an attack delivered hy the Germans, which was covered hy a heavy bombardment. Otli erwi.se there has been no fighting anywhere In France or Belgium, except by raiding parties and hy the artillery wings of the opposing forces. In the Austro-Itnllu- n theutre the first fighting for more than a week on the Carso plateau, where recently the Italians attempted to break through toward Trlest, Is chronicled by Rome. Xortheast of Jumlano tlio Italians In an attack hare been able to advance and atralghteo out their line. In the Trcntlno zone Austrian attacks against Italian positions on the Aslngo plateau and In the Vodlce district were repulsed. , ' Again Japanese torpedo boat destroyers In the Mediterranean have been In combat with an enemy subma rlne. According to the Japanese aaval attache In London, the underwater boat probably was sunk. . Forces Cut In Price of Steel. Washington. A tentative price of $56 a ton was obtained by the govern ment on June 13 on steel for tlie great fleet of merchant ships to be built by the shlpplug board's emergency fleet Previous contracts, let corporation. before congress gave the president power for commandeer supplies, called for steel at $05. JASPER J. MAYEB ALLIED SHIPS. American Admiral In Chargs of Naval Operations in Irish Waters. Izmdon. Vice Admiral William S. Slim, U. 8. X., has been appointed to take general charge of the operations of the ullled naval force In Irish Watters. - Admiral Sims will act In this rapacity while the British naval com umndcr In chief Is absent from his post for a period,' the off'lelal an nniiucenieut of Ids appointment explains. The American admiral's Hag meanwhile has been hoisted aa the allied senior officer In them wuters. Express Robbery In Chlcsgo. Chicago, Two armed men, their faces hidden hy handkerchiefs, entered the Adams Express cur of a Chicago, Ilurllngton & Quincy passenger train ns it stood In the railroad ynrds, hound Wurd It. Smiley, the messenger, and A. It. Andrews, Ills assistant, and escaped with between f.5,000 and $.10,000, according to the story told hy Smiley, Mexicans See Great Light Mexico City, El Universal, which Is prolnihly (he most prominent newspaper In Mexico, has printed statements imminent civilians from tweuty-thre- e Jasper J. Mayer, a graduate of the of Mexico advocating severance hy University of Kansas and for several Mexico of relations with Germany and years a student of language and conasserting that Mexico's place in the ditions In Rusela, was the only Ameriwar Is on the side of the entente can wounded In the Russian revolution. He has come home, and (topped In nliles. Washington long enough to tell a Raising Red Cross Funds. graphic story of his experiences. Washington. Incomplete reports to Dublin Welcome Freed Prisoner. American lied Crons headipiartera Dublin. Large crowds gathered In more showed than $.'15,n0.(K)0 here subscribed during the tlrsf two days Dublin Monday morning to welcome the released Irish prisoners, all of of the week's cumpulgn to raise whom, with the exception of Countess (or war relief. Marklevlcz. arrived at 8 o'clock. There Canada Alone Exempt to Passports. were no disorders. Washington. Under the new order Threaten Strike on Range. requiring applications for passports to IndusVirginia, Minn. A general he made at least it week III advance of WoNd strike of of Workers the trial their Issue, It Is announced that pass- Uestihn Iron range miners was threatports will he required for travel to ened Monday iu an nppeul "to workers every place except Canada. In the Iron Industry," made In $HM,-Oofl.tx- AS and Few IsoOnly Business Section Town Left One In lated Dwellings Villas Country Many Standing, and Winter Homes Burned. British Give' Up Numerous Villages' on Eastern Wing Which They Had Burned,' But Hold Tightly to- made RESULT OF HOMELESS BLAZE IN CALIFORNIA. OF ENTENTE TROOPS MASSING IN THESSALY FORESHADOWS ATTEMPT TO RETAKE SERBIA, .(Copyright.) ET PROPOSAL LIBERTY LOAN PEACE SEPARATE MANY SUBSCRIPTIONS COMING COMES THROUGH MEMBER OF IN TOO LATE. SWISS FEDERAL COUNCIL. Council of Workmen and Soldiers Delegates Adopt Proclamation Opposing Separte Settlement of Difficulty with Teutons. In the Country Ringing Answer to Call for Funds, the Dominant Note was the Voice of the Small Investor, Who Responded Nobly Washington. The American people have responded to the government's call for funds to finance the war with an oversubscription to the two billion dollar liberty' loan. In the countrys ringing answer to the call, the dominant note was the voice of the small investor. Ills money talked the last day of the campaign In eloquent terms. The hope for a widespread response of the average man with the average Income was more than realized In the multitudes that flocked to the hanks on June 15. Kstimntcs from the twelve, reserve tion: Germany will not undertake an districts Indicate that the subscripoffensive so long ns an arrangement tions will roach the total of $2, 'JO 1,000.-00with Russia seems possible. After conversations with an Important perSecretary McAdoo announced the sonage I am convinced that Gertnuny oversubscription shortly after the alms at a peace wtlh Russia lionorah'e closing of the books in the east. The Liberty loan has been over to both purtlcs, with Intimute econoIt Is Imposmic and commercial relations and suhscritied," he said. financial support to place Russia again sible to state the amount of the overon her feet. Xo Interference In Ihe subscription, but the exact figures will domestic affairs of Russia. An entente he given out as rapidly as the returns eordlale on Boland, Lithuania and are received ut the treasury departCourluud In view of the relationship ment. Thousands of subscript ions mine between the peoples. Restitution of the occupied provinces, und Russia, on too lute to the federal reserve hanks. Ihe other hand, to give back to Aus- These, hy Secretary MeAdoo's instructria the provinces which she has been tions, will he tabulated separately and the total forwarded to Washington. uhle to take.'" A Pctrogrud dispatch says a stirring Just wimt disposition will he made of proclamation placing the council of them has yet to he determined. It Is workmen and soldiers' delegates on possible that where It can he shown record as Irrevocably opposed to u that their failure to reach the reserve separate peace was adopted hy the hank in time was due to no fault of council Saturday, The prochiiiuitlou tne subscriber or the forwarding hank was promoted by Austrian efforts to some of them may be aeeiq.ted. lure Russia into a separate pence, and Whether the subscriptions are alexhorts Iltisslans to rally around the lowed or not. It is felt that they manibanner of revolution and Increase the fest the willingness of the subscribers energy of the military power for the to answer the governments call and defense of freedom." should be shown In the totul of what The proclamation cites the receipt the American people offered to take. of a wireless telegram from Prince Leopold of Bavaria, commander of the COUNT JULIUS ANDRASSY Germ a a armies on the Russian front, asserting that the central powers are ready to conclude peace with Russia, and asking Russia to send delegates to confer with them. The reply of the council is a declaration of Its and Minister of War Kerensky has caused it to he sent to all troops on land and sen, and It has been widely circulated throughout the country. Stockholm. The Social Demokraten says Germany has made un offer of peace to Russia through a member of the Swiss federal council. the The Demokraten publishes translation of a telegram suld to have been sent la cipher from the political department of the Swiss federal council to E. Adler, the Swiss minister at I'etrograd. It Is dated at Berne, June 5, and says: Hoffman, a moiuher of the federal council, authorizes you to make to Grfiuin the following oral communica- 0. Los Angeles. Ax the result rf the In the Santa starling of two brush fires Barbara National forest, three women are dead, the residence section of one town Inis been wiped out, crops over a wide urea have been destroyed, about loot) persons have been made homeless ami several settlements and resorts were placed In great peril. The dead ure Mrs. John Wurdcr, Mrs. Frances Murroquln and ft Miss sucSwnyer, a nurse, all of whom cumbed to shock und prostration due to the fire. The greatest damage was done in the OJnl valley, ninety miles northwest of Los Angeles. Only the business section and a few isolated dwellings In the town of OJal were left standing hy a fire which swept through the valley Sunday night. Many large and expensive country villus, the winter homes of custom business anil professional men, were burned To the ground. The second fire, which started near Carplnterla, Cal., on the Santa Barbara coast, and for a time threatened the town, changed its course and swept towurd Stanley Iurk and Sheppard's Inn, two summer resorts. After burning over fifty sugar mills and cu using damage estimated to be in excess of $500,000, tlie flames were reported burning fiercely on tlie high ridges north of town and still beyond control of the 500 fire fighters. DIRECTED TO ACT. HOOVER NElfllf FIBES have been Thousand EXTEND UNITED STATES EVERY WAY PL or new WOULD iSffi 5 Alms of the American Mima. By Elihu Root Set Forth Ml .. . J! PM..,,,, bassador Fr,neli I'etrograd. I in vli p. American ambassador, km ' press on June 14 a plaining the aims nf,"M? mission headed hy Klll.q It,,,, arrived in Ietrograd on j,mMl statement Is thus siiiinimrla4 V offldul news age, ay; Tlie communique mt,t tl), functions of the mlsMon nretl). In accord with the liUWaB ment, effective means to nld U, her efforts to defeat the (,., pher enemy of democracy. Cm, la the German stumlMnt srm, kmeil est foes to the bleu 01 Hill cherished hy Ainerha und IU; jrke common. iobta 'The mission will eliicidat t,nun slu the alms followed by yi lunklng It clear that Aimr!rB cuna spired hy Idealistic Motives: i,;. L cott she Is devoting to the strugjlnl material resources, the Imllcau lues juiced which are tlie facts tlmt tlie fleet now Is operating Jointly vit Iff J entente allies fleets; that 10 n I irrylt also Amerlcuns are registered und d jcurdli nomlc support which Amwh lend. Realizing that IEiin1u w I'Jeut the only fight, hut live, A merit i; to reduce the burdens und prr. It to I 1 In tb borne hy the Russian people iche Among the nicmlicrs of the rj, continues the cotmmmlquO, It v lor of ithlst person who pursues any pc town liimtuiul or commercial alms. I I desires to lnfiuetn e l!usiun hardy is affairs. Ut lie Will Proceed With Immediate OrganiThe provisional government h on ha zation of New Food Administration. Ition sued a decree declaring all delay in military disorder to lie IuvjV Washington. Congress' pl passing the administration's food bills thin. Including refusal to fight a I city drew from President Wilson, on June Incitement to tight against the ; j (kraa Herbert C. ment. Such 10, an order directing Hon I ucts, says the Hoover to proceed Immediately with B. long sentence m t by organization of tlie new food administude In the penitentiary and tk Inning tration in so fur us it contemplates of rights to pmi"V jiiM, In food conservation and elimination of privation also the right to receive hind : oped oC volwaste through the tlie coining land redistribution. Lief C unteer forces. count While it would In innny ways be PRESIDENT GREETS BEIG rence desirable to await complete legislation Id ton establishing tlie food administration, Declares That Restoration of tlie president wrote, It atqieur to me Pledge of United States he co tlmt so far as volunteer effort can be In greeting I Washington. face assembled we should wult no longer. war mission on June 18th, ir en expressed America's k thr Will Stop Pood Speculation. deiermiuution that on the iw err of London. Invited to make a stateof victory Belgium shall m ment ns to his intended policy as food day stored to the place she hassu Iiespoii Burou controller, Dhondda, president won s among the i. Lou of the loeul government board, told earth.'' of Ihe nations mpted the press the government had given speeted The commissioners spent W bom Mm ample lowers, even should it be ' in Washington paying '' ke, bi day to the extent of taking over necessary er. tlie food supplies of the country nni calls. Secretary to the White Him, ' That the adoption of strong measures to Monclicur, head of IIS' red In check all sjieeulatlon in the neceshanded to President Wilson SI' "it c saries of life. y and letter from King Albert gar c r In Belgium! a short nddrss m Missing Girl Murdered. petit Americas aid. New York. Discovery Suturdny of ptejub' SlW the body of Boy Ruth Cruger, FOOD BILLS STRIKE the missing Wndlelgn high school stu Ogder led mu dent, who had been murdered and then Flllibuster Threatened Agai ! hurled under the cellar of a shop, oc"ly ap Government Supervision c more of cupied hy u bicycle denier who fled to penim: Washington. More Ituly nfter she disnnncurcd. cleared a ln both brunches oft"' In tin mystery which had baffled the police on the second administration i'1" for months. The girl's skull Imd been of .mted control for government crushed. red 30 and other necessities disci' icant partleuhir'J mined opposition, Boys to Work In Canneries. senators, which thwj of group Washington. Next to agriculture, Iff The i the canning Industry is making the prevent its enactment IT"1' hy requested heaviest demand on the hoys working urgently 'KlOta reserve, organized hy the labor de- son. iMlc partment. Maryland dinners have Ousted by kj of Kaiser's Spy asked for (1500 hoys, those In Michiact ft wi Ietrograd. The first gan went lotto und those In New York of allfl'f Cwrgc RukrIuii congress and other stales have Indicated that hnty J, workmen's and oIillr they will send In similar culls soon. ' that j1' ital a uivin which depends r,,::iirU in Mott Russia of destiny Duma Favors Quick Offensive. a 6, international nnd domestic I etrogrud. The ) (ltinui In secret sesexpulsion the irks was to ratify sion has passed n resolution un of TV Immediate offensive by the Russian visional government .( Grimm. Robert Wu dallst, troops. The resolution declares a sept if been I'llty. ported to have arate pe,.e with Germany or ,Jff bn which the German" through on Inactivity the battle front to to fOjoy arrange tt separate peticr he Ignoble treuson towurd Russias sla. Teil fo allies. . ; i t accoR-tlici- 'jn-u- p ' Rancher Flee from Water. Casper, Wyo. Flood waters from the 1nthflnder dam caused the Platte river to overflow Sunday and homes along the lower levels neur here have been Inundated. The people in the flooded district are moving their belongings to higher ground. 1 fr pro-long- Coal Combine on Trial. The government's ease Individuals and 108 coal orporntlons in regions In Virginia and West Virginia was brought to trial here in the United States court Monday. The defendants are being prosecuted tinder the Sherman nutl-trus- t law. Xew York. against sixty-fou- r Ccrdov Miners on Strike. Cordova, Alasku.-T- vvo hundred miners In the Ronunzu and Juuiho mines, the property of the Kennocott ( opper company, walked out Saturduy. They demand wage Increases of 15 to Raise $149,356 In Half an Hour, Salt Lake City. Raising $1 1!,:t5G In minutes was the puce set twenty-fiv- e for the rest of the state Monday night hy Salt Lake toward Utah's contribuCount Julius Andrsrsy, the new pre. tion for $550, MX for the American Red mler of Hungary, Is liberal and has Cross. The sum was raised at u ban- been a determined opponent of Count quet of Red Cross workers. Tisza, the former premier. Woman Assailant Hanged. Eight French Ships Sunk. Oklahoma City, Oklu.llenry Conly, Parts. Four French ships of more n negro, was hanged hy n nmh of l.ooo than 1000 tons, one under that sir., men and women near Hohlcnvllle, after and three fishing bouts were sunk bv he had been positively Identified by mines or submarines the week Mr. Jesse L. Harford us the man who ending June 11, It 'during Is officially assault ed her. Pershing Hard at Work. Paris. After three days us the guest of France, Major General Pershing on Saturday dunged Into the work of making preparations for the arrival and disposition of the American mill. try forces vldch Ao Is tf command. bending on the market price of copper. Soldier Shot Scuttle. -Th- lrt.v-scve' Workers of the WorBL their hull following rl"'' soldier was shot In the leased by Seattle twelve Iver ordered ne Investigation Another Plan for Copenhagen. tbaneell"r tnaun-Hollwe- ''"t" g j cw Vlvin ' Major Bourke Ends Life, Washington. Major Jumes Rourke uml corps, shot and Illndeiiburg urb emlcuvm Ml ;7'r,,,y at Ms homo here Sun-d.- v of un armistice during night, lb had been from suffering to Induce the c election a mental breakdown. s separate peuce. Riots In German Towns. Station Army Training Amsterdam. Rumors have Four reached Wimhlngtton. ' G,r,m,n divisional cantonment Hi r of Holland, that grave riots broke W Thursday, completing ,! which nt teen polut '"tterdamsche are to be built by Sep Ti; I In I. W. 'It j M to ' barn i it,, first ,)Ulit, ufhr' ,l( , "Wunii ii'ld. . ,,)r Pul "tfor , ( '5 boBP "'riiiii'r first "Nnlo, j , ( Fifth Fire In Navy Yard Submarine Chaser The firth fr ln th The sub'' Washington here yard since this country en- " ft, program building 81 of mouth alieiul ,'JlUn , department anmiuneed tin , nearly three times AUher will be delivered New York. J) t totl.i, Ting, the first draft tiwpa Germans Suffer Heavy Loss:. Isimlon. The British forces 0 j.rI. day captured further portions of the Illndeiiburg tin? northwest of Pmi.u court, notwit.Htanieng the s'rong resistance Of the Cl'l'MilUR, Who suffer ..I heavy cnsunLkcA In ,, Jne l, :jt !k "Usoi, hi , sis i '"liiil |