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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEN Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COM PILED FOR YOU Event« of Noted People, Government« •nd Pacific Northwest, and Other Thins« Worth K no wins- King Victor Emmanuel has confer red on General Pershing the grand cross of the military order of Savoy, the highest Italian military honor. MEXICANS HOLD AVIATORS Bandits Demand $15,000 Ransom for Release o f Men. Marfa, Tex.—A message from a for mer Villa follower, now a member of the bandit band, has been received at the border threatening to kill the American aviators if any evidences of military movements to search for the Americans were seen on the American side of the border. El Paso, Tex.—In an official state ment issued at military headquarters Sunday night and signed by Brigadier General James B. Erwin, district com mander, It was announced that Major L. A. Walter, commander of the aero unit at Fort Bliss, had received a mes sage from Lieutenants Paul H. Davis and Harold G. Peterson, saying they had been captured by Mexicans and were being held for $15,000 ransom, which must be paid by August 18, ac cording to the message. Arrangements were being made here to obtain $15,000 gold coin and to send it to Marfa for the payment of the ransom, as it is feared the men will be killed by the bandits unless the ransom is paid Immediately. Lieutenant Peterson, the pilot of the biplane which has been missing since August 10, is 25 years old and is from Hutchinson, Minn. Lieutenant Davis is 23 years old and is from Strathmore, Cal., but has relatives in Berkeley, Cal. A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A ì W ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ l N EW S * PRESIDENT PLEADS p STATE IN BRIEF. TOR LEAGUE PACT *■ Interpretations Welcomed if Not in Formal Act. Salem.—The Salem school board has gone on record as the first in the state to comply with the law passed by the last legislature, providing for part-time schools. Decision to this effect was reached at the regular meet ing of the board held here recently. Salem.—Donations by Andrew Car negie, who died last week, totaling approximately $485,000, made possible the erection of 23 public libraries in Oregon, exclusive of Portland, accord President Tells Committee He Expects ing to records in the state library These donations are in addition to Japan to Give Up Shantung- $20,000 given to Pacific university at Other Questions Clarified. Forest Grove. M EET AT W HITE HOUSE Salem.—The statement of the Union Oil company of California of sales of motor vehicle fuel in Oregon during the month of July, 1919, shows a total of 650,426.50 gallons of gasoline and 86,809.50 gallons of distillate, on which the tax of 1 cent per gallon of gaso line and one-half cent on distillate totals $5,938.31. V A LLEY RED WHEAT NOT LOW Kinney Uufairiy Classed as Red Walla, Cheapest Grade. (Prepared by Oregon Agricultural College) Unless Willamette Valley farmers unite in a protest to the federal bu reau of markets, Washington, against the classification of Kinney wheat as red Walla, the lowest grade and cheap est wheat, they will have to stand the loss entailed by the present classifies tion, points out G. R. Hyslop, pro fessor of farm crops at the college No other growers are interested, he says, and the only hope of change is in the concerted action of Kinney grow ers. A still greater error is the state ment recently spread through the val ley that all red wheats are to be put into the red Walla class. There is not such authorization by the federal grain corporation, says H. M. Houser, Port land member of the board. “ No farmer or dealer should accept a discount of five cents a bushel on valley red wheats below the price fix ed for the various grades of red Walla," Professor Hyslop declares. Some of the valley red wheat—Hus ton, grass red fife, Minnesota 163 and 169, and preston—are hard red spring and entitled to the prices prevailing for these grades. Other valley red wheats—such as big English, Jones fife, and red chaffed Odessa—should be in the soft red winter sub class, All bring higher prices than red Walla. HER TRADE PDLICY Limitation of Imports to End September 1st. ADOPT 8-HOUR DAY Partial Government Control o f Coal Is Scheduled — Joint Industrial Council Projected. Washington, D. C.—President Wil London.—In a three hours' speech son, interpreting the league of nations In the house of commons in which he covenant Tuesday for the senate for dealt with Great Britain’s domestic eign relations committee, declared it affairs generally, Premier Lloyd imposed no legal obligations for the Reports from Budapest state that use of American military force in pro George Tuesday disclosed three im the Roumanians have presented new tecting the territory or Independence portant decisions of the government. of any other nation. armistice conditions to the Hungarian Two of these had been widely discuss But he added that the covenant government, which has forwarded Oregon City.—Among those having might involve, in certain circum ed and the government’s purpose with them to the allies. stances "an absolutely compelling bumper crops in wheat and oats this regard to them was anxiously awaited. moral obligation” which might be year are Ellis Brown of New Era The bolshoviki have been driven One of the decisions was that the even stronger than a legal promise. from Odessa by the populace of the post-war plan of ultra protection, un Pressed for a more exact definition whose 18 acres of oats yielded 100 city, according to reports received by by committee members who insisted bushels an acre, and his father, George der which imports were limited to that the whole arrangement was “a Brown, the potato king of Clackamas the British war office. It is reported those granted special licenses by the rope of sand,” he asserted that on the county, whose farm adjoins that of also the soviet forces are evacuating board of trade, will be abandoned Sep contrary he considered it as placing Kiev and the entire Ukraine. tember 1, and that measures to pre the nations in “an attitude of comrade his son, harvested 300 bushels of ship and protection,” which would wheat. The potato crop will be light vent "dumping” would be put into College M akes W heat Survey. A 100-bed memorial ward has just compel respect for the principles of Presence of much mixed wheat and effect. been presented to the Warsaw univer Pendleton. — Seven deputies and justice and liberty. The second was the rejection of the a relatively small amount of pure sity clinic at Child Jesus hospital in The president, in a prepared state stenographers in various county of ment which he read to the senators, fices Saturday got increases in salaries wheats suitable for seed have been majority report of Justice Sankey’s the Polish capital, as a permanent con Strike Halts New York said he had no objection to interpre Transportation Lines tations, found in Umatilla county in the wheat coal commission, which provided for tribution by the American people to provided they are not a part amounting in most instances to $10 the educational and health welfare of a month. Last month they petitioned survey just concluded by G. R. Hys the gradual nationalization of coal New York.—The vast subway and of the formal act of ratification. free Poland. Meeting the committee in a round the county court for a 15 per cent lop, chief of farm crops at the college, mines and in its stead launching a elevated system of the Interborough table discussion in the East room of raise, which would have brought and Fred Bennion, county agent. plan for partial government control by Rapid Transit company, operating in Repeal of the daylight-saving law the White house in contradiction to raises amounting to about $15. The Field after field of red chaff club is which the government will buy out was passed Tuesday over President Manhattan, the Bronx and parts of the precedents of more than a cen the owners of coal lands who receive Wilson's veto by the house on a vote Brooklyn and Queens, was completely tury, and with the whole nation listen court, however, declined to grant the so badly mixed, they report, that it royalties from mining companies, give will probably grade number 2 club or of 223 to 101, seven more than the paralyzed Sunday by a strike called ing through the medium of a relay of petition in full. the miners a share in the control of public stenographers, the president mixed, with a corresponding cut of 3 necessary two-thirds. The repeal now Saturday night by P. J. Connolly, act Salem.—Pulling flax on the state to 9 cents per bushel. The superiority the mines, organize the mines into went into many of the details of the goes to the senate, where its support ing president of the Brotherhood of peace negotiations and touched on all farm is practically completed and the x>t Turkey red for the hot, dry light districts and establish a fund for im Interborough Rapid Transit company the hotly-debated questions which ers claim victory. work of threshing will begin within districts is shown to be as great as proving the living conditions of the The day passed without have divided the senate in its con A trans-Pacific flight is to be at employes. the next few days. The yield is indicated by D. E. Stephens, superin miners. sideration of the peace treaty. tempted soon by D. Isobe, a Japanese any violence. Article Ten of the covenant, guar heavier than for several years past tendent of the Moro branch station Under the third dicision the gov The tie-up became absolute at 6 A. anteeing the integrity of league mem army aviator, according to a cable re and the quality of the crop is said to Stand and yield of red chaff and Jen ernment will embody in a bill recom ceived from Japan by the Japanese- M., when the last of the trains sent bers against aggression, he declared be above the average. Most of the kin club were cut down by winter kill mendations for a joint industrial coun leave to each nation “complete American News of San Francisco. out before 4 o’clock completed their would freedom of choice as to the application work connected with harvesting the while the Turkey red is going strong cil of employers and employes and a rounds and were shunted into the This will be the first attempt at the flax has been done by crews from the and will grade as dark winter. Some 48-hour week and a living wage apply of force. barns and abandoned. aerial conquest of the Pacific. Even if the American represents penitentiary and state hospital of the certified seed last year was ing to nearly all industries. At that hour strikers in the Inter- tives on the council joined in a rec The premier placed responsibility Crown Prince Charles of Roumania borough power house shut off the ommendation for military action, final Echo. — The 75,000-foot sawmill planted on tracts where volunteer has written a letter to his father, King power, causing a temporary stoppage declaration for peace or war must rest which cut timber for construction stalks came so thick that the crop this for the delay in making peace with Ferdinand, renouncing for himself and of traffic on the surface lines of the so far as concerned the United States work on the new extension of the Teel year will not go as certified seed Turkey upon the United States. Great Lists of seed giving varieties and Britain, he said, desired to know how his heirs his rights and privileges as New York railways and the Manhat with congress, he said. Whatever advice the council gave project is ready for operation and will heir-apparent to the Roumanian throne. tan spurs of the Brooklyn Rapid Tran under its authority to take such ac start next week on flume timbers. The amounts are on file in the county far the United States was prepared to The news was contained in a dispatch sit company, which use Interborough tion as is “deemed appropriate” must mill is eight miles east of Albee and agents’ offices in Umatilla, Sherman assume her share in guaranteeing the also be deemed appropriate by the a new road has been built to It from Wasco and Union counties. Farmers protection of the people under the for to the Journal from Bucharest. power. United States to be binding on this Three power houses resumed opera government, he argued, though in the that town. Lumber for camp build interested may get the lists on appli mer Turkish yoke and while awaiting Plans for a transcontinental aerial this information Great Britain had oc derby from New York to San Francis tion an hour later, however, permit background would be such a potential ings now is being sawed and half a cation. cupied Turkish territory. co with more than 3100,000 in prizes. ting resumption of traffic on these moral force that he doubted if the dozen houses for men already have nation would decline to act. Disease H its Canada Thistle. lines, which were jammed throughout been erected. Including a first prize of $20,000, were The president revealed that Japan’s A fungus disease that attacks and announced Tuesday in New York by the day, as were the steam railroads, promise to return Shantung province Hood River.—J. P. Naumes, of the kills Canada thistle has been reported automobile trucks, sightseeing buses to China was reduced to written form Captain Charles J. Qllddon, chairman local headquarters of a British import from Polk and Lane counties and is of the aerial touring league committee and boat lines which tried to take in the minutes of the peace confer ing concern, left Saturday for Sheri being investigated by the college sta ence. He asserted he had “ every con care of the crowds. of the Aero Club of America. fidence” that the promise would be .------------------- % With every prospect for a continua carried out, and told the senators it dan, Newberg and other Willamette tion plant pathologists to learn wheth A tragedy that created a sensation New York.—The strike which has tion of an absolute tie-up, city officials was the best “ that could be got” out valley orchard districts to arrange for er it cannot be successfully employed at Glenns Ferry, Idaho, was enacted and the public service commission are of the negotiations, Japan having given shipments of apples previously pur in control of this pest plant in Oregon. for two days paralyzed the subway and Tuesday when Howard Belmire, 19. a bending every effort toward providing notice she would withdraw from the chased. The British shippers have ar Cultures have been made and will be elevated system of the Interborough conference if her demands were re ranged to open a warehouse at New resident of Ontario, Or., was killed by emergency transportation for the near fused. used to inoculate healthy thistle plants Rapid Transit company in Manhattan, C. C. Smith, a rancher, when Belmire berg. Allen Hart, identified with local to see if an epidemic cannot be spread the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, was ly 2,500,000 persons who will swarm The American delegates, he said was in Smith’s watermelon patch. the thoroughfares leading into Man had tried to keep the nation free from shipping concerns for several years, among them under field and range formally called off Monday night by a Smith is said to have emptied two obligations in European affairs “ so will hqve charge. conditions by starting the disease vote of the strikers to accept a com hattan. barrels from a shotgun into Belmire. far as it was honorably possible to do The strike was declared by the po so,” but he asserted that it might be Salem.—Sam Kozer, assistant secre among them. Before the question of promise offered them at a conference General chairmen of the United lice to be, so far, one of the most or necessary to keep some American tary of state, and R. H. Goodin, secre the possible use of the fungus in ar of city and state officials in the after Brotherhood of Railway Employes and derly large strikes ever called In New troops on the Rhine district under the tary of the state board of control, con tificial propagation can be answered noon. treaty for the next 15 years. Under the terms of the settlement, Railway Shop Laborers, Tuesday ap York. it must be shown to be effective, ca He declared the nation would be its ferred Friday preparatory to placing pable of doing the work at practicable the men will receive a wage increase proved a new wage and working agree Heavy details of patrolmen were own sole judge whether its obligations orders for supplies for the next pri ment already submitted to the railroad stationed at all barns, power houses had been fulfilled under the disputed mary and general elections. Lead cost, and uninjurious to field and pas of 25 per cent, and it is provided that administration, calling for an increase and station houses to prevent any pos withdrawal clause of the league cov pencils, which before the war cost in ture crops. Farmers can assist in the question of whether they shall enant; that purely domestic questions the neighborhood of $3.50 a gross, now answering the question by sending in receive the additional 25 per cent de in pay of approximately $1 a day per sible outbreak. were safe from the league's Interfer man, time and a half for overtime and the diseased parts of some plants new manded by them shall be submitted ence, and that the Monroe doctrina are held at $6. About 30,000 pencils promotion by seniority. Skeleton« M ay Prove Murders. are required for the two elections, in ly attacked, if they find any, and giv to arbitration. Resumption of service was clearly preserved. ing a brief account of the character was ordered to take effect at midnight. Maple Hill, Kan.—A third skeleton The league, the president explained, addition to other supplies. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Lawler, both of was built on the plan of General The 25 per cent wage increase was and extent of the attack. No cultures was dug up here Sunday by the state whom were severely burned by the Smuts of South Africa. Bend.—Deschutes county offices will be sent out until the problem is made retroactive to August 1 and, ac officials investigating the mysterious fire and explosion which destroyed Mr. Wilson revealed that hq had were run by women last week, and solved and announcements made by cording to Interborough officials, their homo in Los Angeles recently, disappearance of four men here dur suggested the United States take no ing the last eight years. part of the German reparation but had will continue under feminine manage Prof. H. P. Barss, chief of station plant means an annual Increase In the pay will both recover. roll of $5,000,000. The skeleton was found within 50 asked that the conference reserve dis ment until next week, when Sheriff pathology. 8weden, Norway and Denmark are position of the German Pacific island S. E. Roberts, Clerk J. H. Haner and The agreement also provided for re feet of the one dug up last week near of Yap on a suggestion that it was sending a collective note to the en instatement of all strikers with their Lim e Plant M ay Close. a livery barn, it was announced by needed for an American naval station. Treasurer Clyde M. McKay will have tente relative to the league of nations. Unless orders for agricultural lime old seniority ratings and for arbitra Maurice McNeill, state attorney, who Some of the senators' questions the returned from attending the Elks’ con The Frankfort Gazette made this an president declined to answer on the vention at Klamath Falls. In place are lodged with the state lime plant in tion of ail other differences which is in charge of the investigation. nouncement Saturday. Dawson Woody Identified the skele ground of international policy. How of the regular incumbents are: Sheriff, sufficient numbers to keep the plant cannot be adjusted by negotiation. the American delegates voted on Ja The "first hundred thousand" of re Settlement of the strike came at the ton by fillings in the teeth as that of | pan-8 proposal for a racial equality Mrs. Hazel Manion; clerk, Miss Helen going, it will have to close by Septem cruits have been secured for the per bis son. , clause in the league covenant he said Foley; treasurer, Mrs. Clyde McKay. ber 1 to 15, says Dr. A. B. Cordley, end of a chaotic day in which the In manent regular army, General March, Salem.—Ben W. Lol, Chinese soldier secretary. No official board action terborough's 2,500,000 dally patrons The skeleton was found buried un-! 1»« could not disclose “ in the interest chief of staff, announced Saturday. Of der six inches of soil in the yard of a of international good understanding, who served in the United States forces to this effect has been taken, but lack plodded to work In a driving rain these more than 68,000 were re-enlist livery barn formerly operated by Ru and for the same reason he said he in France, was brought to Salem re of storage capacity makes it necessary through crowded streets, rode jftih- could not go into the negotiations over ments. fus King, who is held In jail at Topeka the French frontier or give the com- cently from Fort Des Moines and com that at least 30 tons of ground lime med surface cars, steam trains and Plans for old-age pensions for per on a charge of first degree murder in | mlttee a copy of the record of Japan's mitted to the state hospital for the stone be sold every day. Farmers of steamboats or auto busses. sons more than 65 years of age were connection with the disappearance of Shantung promise. insane. Lol is the first of 10 de fer to buy lime If the experiment sta Early action on the treaty was urged mented soldiers to be received at the proposed in a bill introduced Saturday Reuben Gutshall here five years ago. W ife Sues Vanderbilt. tion recommends it, but this the sta In a statement by the president at the by Senator McNary, republican, Ore Newport, R. I.—Mrs. Cathleen (Neil- outset of the conference. This was asylum from different military forts tion cannot do in any individual case. gon, and referred to the pension com necessary, he held, so that a peace throughout the United States. It has More than half of the hundreds of son) Vanderbilt began divorce pro Graft Suspects Listed. basis might be reached, and the other been agreed between the state and farmers reporting say that they got ceedings against her husband, Regi mittee. Chicago-Assistants of the federal ^ c a t iè s u n d e 7 nV^dUUon'now'a^V'eV The Independent mill at Victor, Col., district attorney were engaged Sunday ?ailles were being delayed until the federal government that $40 a month good results from use of lime, but nald C. Vanderbilt of New York, Tues one of the largest In this section of [in preparing evidence against alleged world learned what would happen to shall be paid for the support of sol only by trials can the value be deter day, by haring service made on him the west, was robbed Saturday night profiteers and hoarders. 13 of whom _ with Germany, He said diers committed to the Oregon insti mined. The station does recommend at his farm at Portsmouth. Mrs. Van he saw no reasonable objection to sen tution. that several farmers get together and derbilt alleges desertion and will ask The bandits overpowered two watch have been listed for arrest. ate reservations, but thought it unwise men and escaped with a quantity of Only two warrants have been is to incorporate them in the ratification Salem.—Reports reaching Salem place a trial order to learn the effects for the custody of their only child, a daughter, Cathleen. gold concentrate. sued thus far, and counsel for the two, | itself. that the air service on the Pacific of liming the soil. Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt were mar J. F. Campbell and John E. Bunker, coast may be demobilized in the near Changes in the nation's immigration Soil Survey Finished. News W rite rs on Strike. ried 16 years ago. He is the youngest officials of a sugar brokerage concern, future have caused Governor Olcott policy were proposed in a bill intro said they would surrender Monday. Omaha. Neb.—Twenty members of to send letters to Governor Hart, of The soil survey of Multnomah coun son of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt. duced Saturday by 8enator Dilling They are charged under the Lever act i the staff of the Omaha Bee went on ty by the federal bureau of soils and Washington, and Senators McNary and ham. republican, of Vermont, and re Wooden Leg Scares Thief. strike late Tuesday, demanding an in- Chamberlain of Oregon, asking that i the soils department of the college has ferred to the immigration committee. with profiteering. ------------------------------ j crease in pay and shorter working they Intercede and prevail upon the been completed. The field work was Medford, Or.—A wooden leg left In Lieutenant James Stewart of Park Pershing to Sail Sept. 1. hours. After walking out the report- government to continue the depart- j done by C. V. Ruzek of the soils de a pair of trousers saved several occu Field, Memphis, and S. Reed Camp Paris.—Before leaving for Italy Sun-1 ers met at the labor temple and organ- ment because of the excellent work pn tm^nt and E. J. Carpenter of the pants in a local lodging house from bell, reporter employed by the Com- day night General John J. Pershing ised the American News Writers' un- being done by the airplane forest fire feieral so ls bureau. The various soil being robbed early Tuesday. The merclal Appeal. Paducah, Ky.. were told correspondents that he expected ion. affiliating themselves with the patrol. The governor also has written types have been listed and described thief had obtained $37 in cash and sev killed when the army airplane In to sail for America about September American Federation of Labor. They to Colonel H. H. Arnold, department to determine what crops are best suit- eral gold watches, but when he came tvhich they were giving exhibition 1. He said that shortly after his arri- have applied for a charter and are go- air service officer at San Francisco, ed to each type. A s soon as the infor- to the pair of trousers with the wooden flights fell near the Country club Sat val he would visit his old home in Mis- ing to attempt to call out the other informing him of his efforts to have mation is tabulated and inspected It leg protruding he dropped the loot and souri and also go to Cheyenne, Wyo. crafts on the paper in sympathy. the patrol service continued. will be made available to the farmers. made his getaway. urday. CAR STR IK E ENDS IN COM PROM ISE j