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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Importan Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Event« of Noted People, Governments and Pacific N orthw est, and O ther Things W orth Knowing. SEA W ALL SAVES GALVESTON Hurricane Hits Many Gulf Cities But Little Damage Done. Dallas, Tex.—Driving furiously into the Texas coast, principally In the section southw est of Galveston, the tropical hurricane th a t has skirted the United S tates gulf coast for nearly week, apparently has sw ept inland near the Mexican border. W ire com m unication was Interrupt ed in m ost of the affected area and the ex ten t of the storm ’s dam age could not be learned accurately Sunday, but th ere w ere no reports of fatalities. Brownsville and Corpus Christ! ap parently felt the b ru n t of the storm which w eather bureau officials believe has passed on into Mexico w here it will be dissipated in the Mexican m ountains. Galveston, w here considerable anx iety had been felt, apparently was struck by the edge of the storm area and again the city was saved from any considerable dam age by the pow erful sea wall, constructed after the 1900 disaster. W ater was reported to a depth of six feet in sections of Cor pus Christi and inform ation received by the w eather bureau from San An tonio said w ater was three feet deep in the lobby of the Corpus Christi ho tel. E arly reports from Corpus Christi told of considerable damage done by a 65 miles an hour gale which sw ept away signs and aw nings and drove residents of outlying d istricts to the g rea ter security of brick and stone buildings downtown. Isolation of Brownsville was com plete Sunday night, so far as wire com m unication was concerned, the only inform ation coming from th a t city being contained in a brief w ire less dispatch from F o rt Brown to southern departm ent h eadquarters at San Antonio reporting a 75-mile wind a t 4 P. M. PRESIDENT m i s FOR il l MANKIND Firm Stand Is Explained Forci bly to Big Audience. FIGHT NOT PARTISAN Senate Contest Involves Only Inter pretation, With Phraseology of Little Import. state n e w s ! IN BRI Salem.—R. B. Goodin, secretary of the state board of control, was in P o rt land recently obtaining prices on sup plies to be purchased by th e state. Astoria.—W ith high prices prevail ing, a fair am ount of fish known to be in th e river, and every packing plant in operation, the fall fishing sea son, which opened a t noon Wednesday, promises to be one of the m ost suc cessful In years. Salem.—Total losses from fires in Oregon, exclusive of Portland, for Au gust were $453,190, according to the monthly report of S tate F ire M arshal Barber. LO WERING COST OF FEED IS IMPORTANT Buying In Car Lots Through Cooperation Lowers Cost Ma terially—Bids Should Be Obtained Says Specialist. ( P r e p a r e d b y O reg o n A g r ic u ltu ra l C ollege) Low ering the cost of handling is the big problem in the cooperative pur chase of feed, points out E. L. Potter, professor of anim al husbandry a t the Oregon A gricultural college. “In th e cooperative purchase of feed ju st as in the cooperative purchaso of other com m odities the popular idea among cooperators,” says Professor P otter, " it th a t of saving th e profit which the dealer m ight otherw ise make. T his is all very well but it always m ust be rem em bered th at if the cooperative purchasers are to save th e profit w hich the dealer m ight oth er wise m ake they m ust also m eet the expenses w hich the dealer would incur. These expenses are not necessarily lessened by handling the purchase co operatively. “T he real advantage and practically the only advantage of cooperative pur chasing of feed are obtaining feed in carload lots. This cuts down the ex pense m aterially from buying the feed in lesB th an carload lots. W here the feed is purchased in less than carload lots the large dealers generally charge at least $1 a ton more for the less than carload lots. In addition there are practically always some charges and then com es the question of local freight which is much higher than the carload rate. By the tim e th e feed reaches the consum er it costs the con sum er anyw here from $5 to $10 a ton more than it would have cost had he purchased in carload lots. “The big opportunity, therefore, in front of all the farm ers in the way of cooperative purchasing is to so com bine th eir orders th at an en tire carload can be purchased. T here is, however, little advantage in com bining to pur chase more th an one carload. “A fter a com bination has been made which will handle an en tire carload the place w here purchased becomes of som ew hat less im portance. It is gen erally proper to obtain bids from the various dealers. In obtaining them it is well to bear in mind th a t prices fluctuate from day to day and dealers do not like to m ake a bid today which would be subject to acceptance w ithin a week or 10 days, because they have no idea w hat the m ark et conditions wiir be. It is proper in requesting a bid on any feed to specify the tim e a t which the bid is desired and the tim e at which it would be subject to accept ance. All bids, for example, th a t are requested by the feeds com m ittee of the agricultural college are asked to be furnished by noon of a certain day and subject to acceptance generally at 3 or 4 o'lock of th a t afternoon. U nless some provision of this so rt is made many dealers will not m ake bids at all.” The big advantage of obtaining bids, believes Professor P otter, lies in the fact th a t dealers vary in th eir position to m ake good prices. The dealer, who has a surplus of barley today will m ake a reasonable price, while if he happens to be sh o rt and would have to go out and buy in order to fill the order, his bid will be som ew hat higher. T he feeds com m ittee of the agricultural college has bought feed from nearly all the leading dealers of Portland and has found th a t no one of them can be depended upon to m ake the low est bid a t all tim es. Bids should usually be obtained not only from th e P ortland dealers, but also from the local dealers in the home town. These men are often in a position to m ake a better price th an the dealers a t a distance. “P urchasers of feed who expect to m ake a big saving merely on the net profit which the dealer m akes,” says Professor P otter, “will be doomed to disappointm ent, but they can m ake su b stan tial saving by so handling their feed as to put it in carlots and elimin ate the expensive cost of handling the sm all lot shipm ents.” Salem.—George E. Saunders, indict Portland.—Sanely and directly, with ed in th e Josephine county courts on but infrequent recourse to eloquence, a charge of embezzlement of $2281 Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of from the Rogue riv er public service the United S tates, spoke to 7000 citi corporation, was acquitted a t G rants zens of Oregon Monday night a t the Pass Saturday, according to word re The steam er Barnstable, coal laden uditorium , bringing im m ediately home ceived a t the offices of the sta te en from Savannah to a Cuban port, w ent to them his uncom prom ising advocacy gineer. down off St. C atherines F riday night Monmoutn. — The Oregon norm al of the league of nations and his plea It is reported th a t 14 of the crew are th a t they as A m ericans stand with school opened for th e 1919-20 season missing. • him for the redem ption of ideals root Monday m orning, Septem ber 15. The The miners, by a vote of 5 to 1, de ed deep in the trad itio n s of America. attendance is considerably increased cided to end the strik e th a t has for He spoke as one speaks to his over last year. There w ill also be a several weeks halted production in the neighbors and friends, confident of num ber of boys among th e incoming Tonopah district, and an order was is th eir appraisal of th e justice of bis students, a contrast to th e w ar years sued Saturday night to resum e work position and of th e ir judgm ent of the when young men in the norm al were at once. task th a t rem ains unfinished, ere peace decidedly lacking. may come in perm anency. He spoke The application of George L. and J. Several villages in the province of as one friend to another, of th e tru st A. M cPherson for au th o rity to con Siena, Italy, were severely shaken Sun th a t troubled nations of the old world stru ct a logging spur railroad over and day night by an earthquake. H ouses place in Am erica in the - d ark hour, across h county road in Columbia coun were badly damaged. One person Is a tru st born of unselfish and valiant ty was granted in an order of the Ore dead and several injured at Piancas- en try into the w ar for hum an liberty gon public service commission issued tagnajo. Ten were Injured a t Celle. —and one th a t is not fulfilled in en tire Saturday. Under the order the appli A dispatch received in P aris from ty until a covenant of nations shall cants m ust bear the expense of the Sosnowice in the governm ent of Piotr- render futile all fu tu re attem p ts to crossing, as well as in stall standard kow, Poland, asserts th a t a German m ar the happiness of the race. danger signs. army, com prising a minimum of 200,- Should senatorial opposition m ar the Eugene.—The m in t growers of the 000 men, is concentrated on the fron m eaning of the covenant m aterially, W illam ette valley have pooled th eir then, w arned the president, the giant tier of Silesia ready to be throw n task to which th e nations of the league m int oil for 30 days and are holding against Poland. addressed them selves in P aris m ust be out for $8 a pound. The W illam ette again attem p ted ; the dictated peace Valley M int Growers’ association held The bureau of internal revenue an th a t G erm any was forced to sign m ust a meeting here, 15 members, including nounces that virtually all federal taxes, be resubm itted for quibbling, and the even the 2 cents paid for the privilege turmoil th a t the world has endured E. B. Wallace, president, of Albany, of an ice cream soda, may be deducted being present. Two thousand pounds New York.—W ith more than 50 per m ust inevitably reaw aken. from gross income in com puting in sons injured and the dam age already In his address, w ithout th e vestige of th is y ear’s output of oil was repre come taxes. Only Income and excess done estim ated a t from $5,000,000 to of hesitancy, P resid en t W ilson charged sented a t th e meeting. that the inference of politics in his profits taxes may not be deducted. $10,000,000 w eary firem en Sunday advocacy of the league, the h in t th at Salem.—Marion county book dealers The railroad adm inistration will un night still were fighting a th re a t of he may be looking forw ard to 1920, is are refusing to handle textbooks th e other hand, recognizes th e great utterly unw arranted and unw orthy. If reservedly accept the proposal of the fu rth er explosions of oil tanks a t the any in the audience, he declared, im through the state agency of J. K. Gill im portance of the American farm er in United Brotherhood of M aintenance of fire which practically wiped o ut the puted such a motive, he desired to & Co. of P o rtland un til th e m argin of the stability and developm ent of the profit is increased from 15 to 20 per Way Employes and Railway Shop La Stone & Flem ing Oil com pany's plant separate him self from th a t man. country. And th e president m ade it clear, cent. H al D. Patton, Salem book deal borers for a new w orking schedule, ac In Long Island City Saturday. “The bank can help in establishing Five tanks of crude oil w ere burn with em phasis, th a t the m ost sincere er, has suggested th a t th e state or cording to a m essage read before a “A relation exists between the bank a g reater degree of credit,” says Mr. ill-wisher of the league is the German closed session of the organization's ing late Monday. Should th e re be a propagandist, whose hope is th a t the county school au th o rities establish an e r and the farm er th a t isn 't found be Gunn. “If the farm er obtains the con convention in D etroit Sunday morning. sudden shift of the wind from north United S tates may re je c t the covenant independent exchange and thereby pro fidence of the bank he can secure the to northeast, m any additional tanks and thus alienate h erself from the vide a considerable saving for school tw een the farm er and any other class w ider known reputation of the bank of men,” says F. V. Gunn, farm m an "Radical ideas, bolshevism and I. W. in plants nearby would be threatened, friendship of her form er allies and th e pupils. to assist his lim ited reputation. The tru st of sister nations—w eakening the agem ent dem onstrator a t the college. W.ism are corrupting the universities as well as thousands of tons of coal strength of the alliance for lasting St. Helens.—The M ilton Creek Log The banker usually is a confidential farm er who cannot increase his profits of America,” declared Colonel David The 20 acres of fire-swept territo ry peace and leaving open th e path for by investing more capital is the excep P. Barrows, form er dean of the Uni looked like a scene in w ar-devastated such a course as G erm any took when ging company resumed full operations advisor to the farm er and generally F riday morning. Several weeks ago a has no hesitancy in revealing to the tion ra th e r than the rule. A banker versity of California, at a banquet in France or Belgium. T anks were crum she sought to dom inate the world. “My co n test with them is a contest num ber of the employes w ent out on a banker anything concerning his farm is in the business principally to loan Oakland, Cal., Sunday night, given in pled up; huge steel girders lay in a money to the m em bers of a community. of in terp retatio n ,” declared P resident honor of Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore tangled mass, few w alls w ere left Wilson, speaking of the opponents and strike, b ut the company continued to business. T he successful banker also Before m aking a loan he m ust be sure run one side of the camp or about 50 has the confidence and respect of the Roosevelt by American Legion posts standing, and burning oil continued to the opposition to the league covenant, th e money will be returned. It is nec per cent of its norm al capacity. Re farm er who thinks his advice is worth assertin g th a t m ere phraseology is a of Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley and flow along the surface of Newton essary th a t he take little or no risk cently m any of the men who w ent out m atter of little moment, providing th a t hearing. Richmond. creek. if his business is to succeed.” the substance of the docum ent rem ains on the strik e have retu rn ed to work “The b anker is very much interested A Dawson, Y. T. dispatch says sev unmeddled with. and asked to be reinstated and the in the farm er’s financial welfare. As Plane Up 34,000 Feet. From first to last the address was an eral thousand tons of silver ore will be Bulk Grain Handling Grows. Mineola, N. Y. — A new unofficial appeal for the support of Am ericans company agreed to take on such men his whole financial success depends shipped "outside" next spring from Bulk handling of grains is holding as it could use. world's altitude record, it was learned in retaining the fru its of peace and upon the farm er’s prosperity, he is in Yukon and Alaska, according to Vol- its own in m ost of the eastern Oregon was established here Saturday, when assuring “ the safety and honor of Salem.—A representative of the state terested in aiding the farm er. As a ney Richmond, superintendent of the fu tu re generations.” He dealt but Roland Rohlens, testin g pilot for the slightly with critics of the covenant, highway commission w ent to Roseburg first aid he can assist th e farm er to d istricts and in some places is m aking N orthern Commercial company. Half a d istin ct growth, says Paul Mehl, fed Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor corpora though at one period he upbraided F rid ay to investigate the case brought install business m ethods.” of this am ount, he said, would come tion, climbed to a height of 34,000 feet them as men, in some instances, for against the commission, Governor 01- Farm record and account is a basis eral and college agent in m arketing, from Nixon Fork, near Iditarod, and afte r com pleting a field survey of —more than six m ites—beating the whom he had no vestige of respect. cott and S tate T reasu rer Hoff to en of a profitable and perm anent agricul half from K antishna, near Fairbanks. previous w orld's unofficial record of ture, believes Mr. Gunn. The farm er grain handling in the eastern Oregon join th e sta te from proceeding with I’he S tew art river country is expected w heat belts. The increase is g rea test A djutant Casale of the French arm y th e construction of the so-called Can- is or at least should be a business man. to ship possibly 1000 or 2000 tons. in d istricts w here thresherm en charge The work on the farm depends not a t Vallacoubley last Ju n e by 864 feet. yonville cut-off highway. In case the two cents less per bushel for th resh By a vote of 244 to 7 the bill confer Rohlens explained th a t he took the road is built under present plans the only on scientific and practical knowl ing grain to be bulk handled, due to ring the rank of perm anent adm iral air intending only to m ake a test edge of the farm itself, but upon the town of Riddle, about 30 m iles south paying the expense of jigger and sack- on Admiral Benson and Rear-Admiral flight, but he found conditions so sa tis of Roseburg, will be elim inated from ability and willingness of the farm er sewer. Portland.—Two men were killed and Sims was passed W ednesday by the factory th a t he decided to keep clim b to m ake th e best use of b e tte r business th e m ain highway. E levator m anagers are urged to house. The m easure now goes to the ing until his air ap p aratu s showed the three others were injured when a high- m achinery. T he use of a checking Salem.—Robert E. Downing and A. powered Packard touring car attached senate. new record altitude. systpm a t th e bank is a m a tte r of w atch th eir term inal grades m ore I. Eoff, who own a 37-acre o: hops im portance and is to be encouraged, closely and when desirable file ap The m achine Rohlens used was the to President W ilson's automobile high The governm ent has so much "coin way party swerved into a ditch and in the A merican bottom country, south not because the bank is a safe place peals, whicl^ often resu lt in a raising same C urtiss wasp, equipped w ith a of the realm ” th a t it actually bulges overturned on the Powell Valley road, of Independence, has refused a cash to keep th e money, b ut because the of the grade. L ast year only one man out the walls of the vaults containing 400-horsepower motor, in which last mile and a half w est of Gresham, offer of 65 cents a pound for th e ir checks them selves are an excellent re ager in th e en tire d istric t filed an July he flew to a height of 30,700 feet. it. The treasury has asked congress shortly before 12 o'clock, noon, Mon product or a 24-hour option a t 70 cents cord and proof of any transaction. This appeal. to appropriate $1,500,000 to m ake the He said he found th a t he was com fort day. a pound. The tra c t will produce about able in his w arm garm ents a t the The two men killed were Ben F. 10,000 pounds of hops, it is estim ated gives a detailed record of all farm ex vaults secure and provide additional Silage Trouble Due to Greenest ones. T he trea su ry ’s gold and silver 34.000-foot level, w here the therm om Allen, aged 39, W ashington correspond by the owners. Mr. Downing said he penses, and if the farm er, when de ent for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Trouble w ith silage in some of th e positing his money, will fill out dupli eter registered 44 degrees below zero. accum ulated during the war. and a m em ber of the new spaper party has g reat faith in the fu tu re of hops dairy d istricts of Oregon is due to cate deposit slips and indicate what attached to the p resid en t’s special and th a t he is in no h u rry to dispose All mem bers of the W isconsin dele each am ount is for, a com plete record im m aturity of the silage crops and Deaths Now Total 13. train. gation in the house introduced identi im perfect m ethods of ensiling, say Jam es R. Patterson, aged 66, a re of his crop. of all farm receipts will thus be had. K ansas City, Mo.—W ith the death cal bills W ednesday proposing bonus Monday of four m ore em ployes of the tired real estate dealer of 444 C arter Eugene.— A iarge num ber of sheep In this m an n er the banker is assist specialists in dairying and crops at es a t the rate of $30 a month for each Murray grain elevator here, which was ane, Portland. have been brought into Lane county ing the farm er to keep his record. The the college. Most of the difficulties Mr. P atterson, ow ner and driver of m onth's service of soldiers, sailors, wrecked Saturday by a spontaneous the machine, lost control and w ent into th is year and the num ber now in the object is not to get the b anker to do reported are w ith oats and vetch, m arines and Red Cross nurses. It sm all ditch when he was compelled county is clim bing back to w hat It was th e work for th e farm er, b u t to m ake which should not be ensiled until they com bustion explosion and fire, the list was estim ated $1,400,000.000 would be of fatalities in connection w ith the to swerve sharply to th e rig h t to avoid four or five years ago, according to he may have attained, as a good farm reach the hay stage. The hard seeds required to make the paym ents. striking a m achine driven by C. H. N. S. Robb, county ag ricu ltu ral a g e n t accident reached 13. er, may be lo st by poor business man- of th e vetch is modified in ferm enta Barnett of Wasco, Or. The B arnett One hundred and twenty-one women Four bodies w ere taken from the m achine had been parked by the road Wool prices look good for another year, the farm er realize th a t w hat success tion in change to silage. T he crops teachers in the public schools in Yak ruins Monday. Five persons were side until the presidential party had says the agent, and w ith the num ber agem ent, and th a t the rem edy is busi should be cu t ra th e r fine and packed ima, Wash., have so far been able, killed outright by th e explosion or passed by on its way into the city. of sheep 25 per cent below normal ness methods. A half dozen years ago very tig h t in the silos. Thinking, he asserts, th a t the long in all of the large w estern sheep states a banking system was n ot thought with the help of City Superintendent died early Monday. line of automobiles had passed. Mr. Two hundred thousand pounds of Davis, to find only 11 suitable rooms Officials of the com pany said the B arnett sta rted his m achine back into sheep raisin g looks as If it will rem ain necessary by many farm ers. Today for r e n t The situation is causing the loss would be in the neighborhood of the road, but had stopped squarely in profitable for several years, is the the successful farm er realizes th at a gunpow der m anufactured in this coun school authorities em b arra ssm e n t as $3,500.000. They said th ere w ere ap the roadway when Mr. P atterso n ap opinion of Mr. Robb. bank is as much an aid to financial try, sold to England, then to R ussia the opening of school Is only about a proximately 1,000,000.000 bushels of proached in his big ca r traveling about progress as a good farm and good and finally resold to the U nited S tates, Salem.—Acting on a le tte r sent out 40 miles an hour, according to w it week d is ta n t turned out to be useless. grain in the elevator. m nesses. by Fred O. Buchtel of the Oregon pub ethods of farming. The bank, on lic service commission, J. P. O’Brien, Four hundred thousand German Milk Testers' Exams. Monthly. Japan Demands Shantung. A ppointm ent of J. W. Severy of St. Sugar Crop is Largest. federal m anager of the United States w orkers have volunteered for the work Milk te ste rs’ exam ination will be New York.—Japan will refuse to r a t Louis, as in stru cto r in botany is an Honolulu, T. H.—The sugar crop of railroad adm inistration, has called a of restoration In northern France, ac ify the peace trea ty if the Shantung the territo ry of H aw aii th is year will m eeting in P ortland for Monday, when nounced. Severy was recently dis held a t the sta te ag ricu ltu ral college cording to Vorwaerts. Large scale re clause is excluded, in the opinion of reach 605,000 tons. T his is above any a com m ittee sim ilar to the national charged from a hospital u n it in the a t Corvallis the first T hursday in each construction operations are contem Baron Shtmpel Goto, m em ber of the previous estim ate by several thousand board of defense will be organized to American E xpeditionary forces and month, and a t Portland. 611 W orces plated. Japanese national commission for dis tons and is based upon the latest cal deal w ith th e threatened car shortage since then has served as a chem ist in te r building, a t such dates as may be P e te r Lynch, said to be an organizer cussion of foreign policies and form er culations on “cleanups" at several fn Oregon. All railroad heads in the a com m ercial plant. He is a graduate announced by the sta te dairy and food fo r th e I. W. W., who was arrested foreign m inister, who arrived here on plantation«. The factories have ship northw est, together with yard m asters of Oberlin college w here he obtained com m issioner. A pplicants for the col S atu rd ay and placed In the city Jail his way home afte r a three-m onths’ ped 446,000 tons and 31,000 tons more and m any o th er officials, have been final honors in botany and spent two lege exam inations m ust notify the a t C alip atiia, C a l, was released from visit to England and France. Baron will be sen t to San Francisco prior to urged to attend. The committee, when years as a g raduate student and t each- dairy departm ent in tim e to allow Jail, escorted to the city lim its by a Goto said he spoke as a private citizen October 15. The total output from organized ill proceed along the lin e slin g fellow stu d en ts in th e Shaw school preparations for all who may enter, •'citizens’ " com m ittee and ordered and was expressing only his personal original m ills will be 585.000 tons of adopted by the railroads of the country of botany, W ashington university, S t says P. M. B randt, chief. All te ste rs never to return. views. m ust be licensed. Louis. raw sugar and 20,000 tons of refined. during the war. Demobilization of the navy demoral ized the A tlantic fleet so fa r as man power is concerned, it was said S atur day a t the navy departm ent. 50 HURT IN FIRE; LOSS IN MILLIONS FARM ER AND BANKER WORK HAND IN HAND AUTO WRECK KILLS 2 OF WILSON PARTY