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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CORRER! WEEK LENINE ROCKS SOCIALISM Radical’ s Hammer o f Red Revolution Brings P arty to Crisis. 50 RIELEIS H U N T STATE GERMANY MUST PAY L * New York.—Nicolai Lenine’s ulti matum to the socialists of the world, | giving them the “ 21 conditions” to which they must subscribe before they * Brief Resume Most Important can be received into the third or com Agreement by Allies Calls for munist Internationale of Moscow, has met with a widespread, if in many Daily News Items. Forty-two Installments. cases negative, response. It indicates a decided split in the ranks of the so cialist party in many countries, judg ing by reports from abroad. In the 15 nations which such opin- ions have been expressed, four have been unqualifiedly against entering Events o f N oted People, Governments the third intemationale, one is unde Full Agreem ent on Reparations Is cided, three are divided and seven in and Pacific Northwest, and Other Reached by Premiers— France favor are opposed by determined mi Things W orth Knowing. Held F ully Satisfied. norities. c Lenine demanded, among other things, that socialist organizations The house voted Monday to appro must purge themselves of a ll, moder Paris.— Full agreement on repara priate $360,000 for the free distribu ates, defy all national laws, undermine tions, German disarmament and all tion of seeds by members of congress. armies,, gain control of the press, other important questions before it Stephen D. Engle, aged 83, inventor throw off the allied “ yoke,” promote had been reached by the supreme and builder of the famous Engle as a world economic crisis, condemn any council when it adjourned Saturday tronomical, musical and apostolic league of nation's, aid the soviet gov clock, famous a generation ago as a ernment and abandon for the blood evening to meet in London February theatrical attraction, died at his home and fire of “ red revolution” all con- 21 . servative social democratic programs. The greatest result obtained was, in Hazelton, Pa., Sunday night. as Premier Briand expressed it “ main House republican leaders Monday tenance by the allies of a, front as approved a program which calls for united in making peace as in waging appropriations of $13,000,000 for con war.” The conference has resulted stru ction of five hospitals for war to the satisfaction of all concerned. veterans suffering from mental and A protocol was signed approving nervous disorders and tuberculosis. the reparations scheme as agreed on A decisive step toward pre-war con Attorney-General Palmer has charg by the special committee and also the ditions has been taken by the Great ed Samuel Untermyer, New York at Northern railway in announcing that report on the disarmament of Ger torney, with acting “ in the German many as presented by the military com it will restore homeseekers’ rates to interests” and “ with simply serving mittee. Germany- must disarm by Pacific northwest^ points along its his old clients” in his criticisms of July 1, disbanding all her civic guards lines from St. Paul. These rates have Mr. Palmer’s conduct of the offices not provided for in the peace treaty. not been in effect on any road since of alien property custodian and at Germany will be called on to pay in they were abolished as an economy torney-general. 42 annuities on a sliding scale 226,- measure during the war, and the Great 090,000,000 gold marks. Her exports, William H. Taft and Mrs. Taft sail Northern is the first to resume. in addition, bear an export duty of ed for home Tuesday after a visit in Announcement of the rate restora 12 per cent for the allies. On the Hamilton, Bermuda, o f almost a tion, received in Portland Monday in a basis of last year’s exports this would month. Mr. Taft was called home to special message from St. Paul, de resume work on arbitrating the value clared that it will mean the resump give the allies 1,250,000,000 gold marks, the export tax being paid in cash. of the shares of the Grand Trunk tion of the influx of homeseekers from It is pointed out that besides being railway, which is being taken over by the middle west to the northwest. a sure method of collection, it will Great Northern traveling lecturers, the Canadian government. act as a protective tariff in countriqg J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Guaranty working under the direction of E. C. near Germany which are likely to be Trust company announced recently Leedy, general supervisor of agricul flooded with goods made in Germany that subscription books fpr the $13,- ture for the railway, have been telling at low cost. 000,000 Belgian loan were opened at the farmers and others in the middle ^Penalties agreed on for violations 10 o’clock and immediately closed. Thé West of the opportunities in> the north will apply to all agreements alike— west, it is explained, and now that low announcement was taken to mean that reparations, disarmament and coal de fares have been re-established, the the loan had been successfully floated liveries. A feature of the reparation prospective settlers will be able to and that it was over-subscribed. plan, from the French point of view, make the trip out this way to see for it that it associates the allies in the Telephone and telegraph facilities themselves what is here. benefits of Germany’s prosperity. were crippled in Nebraska Tuesday by For a little less than a one-way fare Seizure of German customs was snow and sleet. It was estimated, that travelers may visit the northwest 2000 telephone poles had been leveled points included in the rates restora added as fourth of the penalties adopt by the weight of sleet on the wires tion order and return to their original ed. The' other three are : Extension of the area of occupation; occupation of and that the damage would reach $75,- starting station. the Ruhr district, refusal to admit 000. Snow was falling, in eastern The rates will be effective the first Nebraska following a heavy fall in the and third Tuesdays of each month, Germany to the league of nations. The proposal to apply penalties was western part during the last 24 hours. from April to October of this year. presented by Premier Lloyd George. Alameda, on San Francisco bay, is According to the arrangement the an Coal Bill is Denounced. understood to have been selected by nuities and export taxes are payable Washington, D. C.—Because of its semi-annually. Discount for advance the joint congressional committee as the site for the main naval fleet base provisions taxing coal brokerage com payments will be 8 per cent the first on the Pacific coast. -San Diego is the missions as high as 90 per cent the two years, 6 the third and fourth years committee’s choice, for the principal Calder bill to regulate the coal in and 5 thereafter. Germany is forbid aviation base and San Pedro for the dustry is “ the most stupendous aid to den to establish foreign credits with submarine base. Establishment of an profiteering ever devised,” former Gov out approval of the reparations com other aviation base on the north coast ernor Curtis of Maine declared before mission. at Sand Point, Wash., also will bei? the senate committee considering the The decisions were communicated measure. recommended. to Germany Saturday night. As to “ I’m just explaining why the coal Steps are to be taken shortly by fed men are anxious to see this bill go Austria it was agreed that the allies eral prohibition officers to block dis through,” he said. “ It amounts to a should forego reparations, the cost of tribution of intoxicating beverages conspiracy between ; the government the army of occupation and detain masquerading as patent medicines. and the profiteers to raise the price other Austrian debts to enable Austria Prohibition officials say that permits fo coal. It tempts men to profiteer. to obtain aid more easily. It was also for the manufacture of medicinal As a coal man I’ve no objection, but decided to convene a conference of preparations in which alcohol is used as a citizen I’m telling you what it Austria and adjoining countries to en deavor to improve relations between would be limited to the minimum. will do.” central European states. The bureau of internal revenue, one Approval was given M. Loucheur’s official said, is determined to curb Tobacco Threat is Made. “ the well-known abuse of patent me . Lexington, Ky.—Night riders Satur proposal for a 200,000,000 franc cor poration to assist Austrian industries, dicine permits.” day night visited farmers in Bath and in which the different governments Herman Prey of Myrtle Point, Or., Fleming counties and warned them may participate. A commission will received a price of $520.50 a thousand not to haul any more tobacco to mar be appointed to inquire into the con for a seasoned Myrtle plank 16 feet ket until prices were higher, accord duct of the Austrian administration. long, three feet wide and two inches ing to reports. The reports said that Great résistance is expected from thick. Myrtle lumber, particular the growers were told that their barns Germany over reparations. The allies when seasoned, of attractive ' grain, would be'burned and that they would .will hear the Germans at a conference and sound, brings about $250 a thou be dealt with severely unless they in London,5 February 28. sand on Coos bay and throughout the complied. country where there are factories util 6171 Commit Suicide in 1920. Court Upholds Seizures. izing it for novelties, such as pin New York.— Suicides in the Uhited Washington, D. C.—The supreme trays, napkin rings, nut bowls, serving States in 1920 numbered 6171, includ court Monday upheld the authority of trays and for other uses. the alien property custodian to seize ing 707 children, members of the Earnings of the United States Steel' securities deposited in this country Save-a-Life league were told Sunday corporation for the final quarter of by German insurance companies to by Dr. H. M. Warren, president This 1920, made public after Tuesday’s protect American policy holders. The exceeded the figures of 1919 by more meeting of the executive committee court said there could be no doubt than 1000, he said. During the year and board of directors, totaled $43,- that the trading with the enemy act 2604 women, a large increase, died through self-destruction. 877,882, against $48,051,540 in the pre authorized such a seizure. The increased percentage among ceding quarter. Net income of $31,- women was ascribed to their entry in 702,810, compared with $35,739,137, and War Wool To Be Sold. surplus of $14,401,446 showed a de Washington, D. C.—Approximately commercial and political life. The youngest suicide was 5 years of crease of $3,388,493. For the year 4,00,000 pounds of wool will be offered earnings totaled $177,174,126, against for sale at auction by the war depart age, while the oldest was 103. More $152,290,639 in 1919, and $208,281,104 ment it was announced Monday. The than 300 soldiers have taken their in 1918. sale will be held at Boston, February 3. lives, the report stated. COMPILED FOR YOU TEUTONS TO DISARM H0MESEEKERS’ RATES TO NORTHWEST BACK r £ in u r t S i ♦ N EW . Doings of the b r ie f : ! Legislature AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA a X V f V ? Philomath.—Fire, believed to have State House, Salem.—By one vote* been started by the hot air pipe lead the house pledged itself Tuesday to ing to the "chapel, was discovered Sun day morning. The damage will not take up reapportionment of the legisla ture at this session. The skirmish in exceed $300 or $400. the house Was as lively as when the Willamina. — The Willamina high ! same subject was threshed out in the school student body is planning to vis senate last week. Upton’s joint resolu it the legislature soon. The students tion calling for a committee of ten to expect to visit several state buildings handle all reapportionment legislation should time permit. Few students has been adopted by both branches and have seen, the capitol buildings and all President Ritner and Speaker Bean look forward to the excursion. are now authorized to select the ten men who will work out the scheme of Astoria. — R, Bruce McPherson of redistricting. Howell, Mich., has sold to the William McPherson Estate, Inc., of the same The ax fell on two house bills Tues place, a tract of several hundred acres day, both of which related to hunting of timberland located in the southern of game. The bills were introduced tier of townships of Clatsop county. by Representative Belknap. One The consideration was $54,000. amended the present game law so as Stanfield.—Work has started on the to permit the killing of one doe and drainage ditch through the city which buck or two bucks in a single season will drain the whole of Stage gulch, in and the other prohibited the use of which Stanfield is located. The dis dogs in hunting China pheasants. trict has been bonded for $30,000, Turning over to Herbert Hoover, which will be sufficient to construct chairman of the European relief coun a ditCh of such proportions that there cil, all surplus food and clothing now will never need be alarm of flood water in the hands of the war department, again. to be used in relieving the starving Salem.—Receipts of the Oregon state people of Europe, is proposed in a board of barber examiners for the per senate joint memorial introduced by iod June 30, 1920, to December 31, Senator H are.. Copies of the memorial 1920, aggregated $4729.36, while the ex were transmitted to Oregon’s represen penses for the same term totaled $2,- tatives in congress by telegraph. 525.35. The report was filed with Gov Twenty-two new bills were intro ernor Olcott and will be submitted to duced in the senate Tuesday, making a the ways and means committee' later total of 172 since the session convened. in the legislative session. Exemption o f Oregon road bonds The Dalles.—The Oregon State Grain from taxation as property is provided Growers’ association, a co-operative for in a bill introduced in the house non-profit organization, designed to by Representative Sheldon. control the marketing o f the major The house has passed the bill pro portion of wheat grown: in the state, viding for completing and furnishing was formed Saturday at a meeting in the babies’ dormitory at the state The Dalles of representatives from feeble-minded institution. The bill Wasco, Sherman, Moro, Gilliam, Uma carried an appropriation of $11,357.85 tilla and Wallowa counties. and was introduced by the joint ways Salem. — County warrants are * not and means committee. proper security in lieu of United States By a vote of 28 to 27 the bill de bonds, school district bonds, county fining methods of determining circula bonds, school district bonds, municipal tion on newspapers published in Ore bonds and securities accepted by the gon was tabled on motion of Represen-... government for savings banks, accord tative Kay of Marion county, wko r4* ing to a ifegal opinion given by Attor quested time in which to check up ney-General Van Winkle. The opinion possible defects in the bill. was asked by the district attorney of Curry county. The" senate passed senate"bill^No? 13, approved at the special session of Salem. 7 —The 1919-1920 edition of the the legislature last January, over the Oregon Blue Book has been exhausted, veto of Governor Olcott. This bill and many requests for the book re provides that county courts may fix main unfilled, according to Sam A. the salaries of county assessors and Kozer, secretary of state. Approxi their assistants. mately 2200 copies of the book were printed. Mr. Kozer said that he prob Two bills carrying an appropriation ably would appeal to the legislature of $40,000 and vesting in the state for additional funds in order that the board of control authority to establish next edition of the book may be in an Oregon employment institution for creased by several thousand copies. the blind were introduced in the sen ate by Senator Moser of Multnomah Eugene. — The Lane county^ grand county. jury will investigate the report that Representatives Egbert and Roberts moonshine has been manufactured on the state game farm near this city, introduced a joint house memorial urg according to Clyde N. Johnston, dis ing congress to pass a law compelling trict attorney. The district attorney every manufacturer, handler or seller questioned one of the employes of the of woolen goods to place a tag on farm suspected of making the illicit such goods showing the exact percent liquor and he ifs reported as having ages of "wool and other materials in told that the alleged mash found bu such cloth. ried was a- mixture that he used to Members of the legislature who vis feed the chickens on the place but that ited the state penitentiary during the it had soured and he had buried it to last two weeks have expressed them get rid of it. selves as well pleased with the man Pendleton.—Umatilla county’s great agement and. will support a bill pro est expenditures for the year 1920 viding for installation in the prison went •for roads and highways and road of some industrial plant whereby the bonding, according to a summary of prisoners may assist in defraying the expenditures completed by the county cost of operating the institution. clerk’s office. r Total expenses for the year were $799,265.72. Of this amount $673,318.77 went for roads and road bonding, while the balance, or $125,- 946.95, went fo r the various: depart ments of county government. The gen eral highway expense is divided into $193,872.57 for highway* work in the county proper and $489,446.20 for road bonding. Pendleton.—Fire of undetermined or igin Sunday destroyed the Pilot Rock Elevator company’s warehouse, con taining more than 100,000 bushels of grain and .several carloads of salt, mill feed and similar merchandise, at an estimated total damage of $140,000. The warehouse and its contents were owned by the Pilot Rock Elevator com pany, a co-operative organization com- l>osed of practically all the farmers of the Pilot Rock district. The grain, part of which may be'salvaged, was valued at $125,000; the warehouse, to tally destroyed, at $10,000, and the other destroyed merchandise at $4000 to $5000. When Senator Smith Tuesday after noon attempted to smother a bill in troduced by Senators Staples, Farrell and Hume providing for the regulation of drugless doctors and creating the Oregon board of drugless examiners, by requesting' the adoption of the mi nority rather than the majority report of the committee on medicine, phar macy and dentistry, he started a bar rage of oratory in which more-than half o f the senators participated. The majority report favored the passage of the' bill and was signed by Senators Ilume, Staples and Farrell. The mi nority report was adverse to passing the proposed law and was signed by Senators Ellis and Smith. Charles Clifford, at the head of the Oregon branch of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, arrived here Monday from La Grande to confer with the legislators with regard to passing a bill providing that drivers of motor vehicles shall bring their machines to a full stop before crossing railroad tracks.