MID HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People. Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. With only a little more than three weeks left of this session of congress, the fate of many important executive measures is hanging in the balance. Weather records for February S were broken in Chattanooga, Tenn.. Sunday when the temperature reached 72.2, an excess over normal of 19 de­ grees. Henry H. Gilfey. parliamentary clerk of the senate for 42 years, died at his home in Washington, D. C., Sun­ day. aged 81 years. He was an ex­ resident of Oregon. The Pacific Salvage company’s boat Salvage Chief is ashore on Mary's island, off Vancouver. B. C., according to word received Sunday afternoon. The crew landed safely. Election of Urey Woodson as exec­ utive vice-chairman was announced in Washington. D. C.. Sunday by the American Publishers' conference. He is publisher of the Owensboro (Ky.) Messenger. Denominational and color lines were crossed in Chicago Sunday when sev­ eral Christian ministers exchanged pulpits with negro brethren in ob­ servance of the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The only solution of the Philippine problem ‘‘is immediate and absolute independence,” Manuel Quezon, presi­ dent of the Philippine senate, declared Saturday in an address before the University of the Philippines. SENATE ORDERS 2 PROBES Federal Trade Body to Act on General Electric and Tobacco Co. Washington. D, C. — The federal trade' commission was directed Mon day by the senate to investigate alleg ed monopolies in the electrical power and the tobacco industries and to in- quire into the existence of a national propaganda to discourage public own ership of utilities. A resolution by Senator Norris, re publican. Nebraska, calling for investi­ gation of the "extent to which the General Electric company” or its sub­ sidiaries monopolize production and distribution of electrical energy was attached, by a vote of 55 to 25. to the tobacco investigation resolution of Senator Ernst, republican. Kentucky, after practically the entire day's ses­ sion had been spent in debate. The Ernst resolution, which pro­ vides for inquiry into reported agree­ ments between the Imperial Tobacco company of Great Britain and the American Tobacco company by which, it was alleged, co-operative organiza­ tions in the United States were boy­ cotted and each concern was given a monopoly in its own country, was then adopted without a record vote. The inquiry into propaganda against public ownership of utilities was directed in an amendment attached to the Norris resolution before it was adopted as a rider to the Ernst pro­ posal. It was advanced by Senator Norris himself, who. in bringing forth his power investigation proposal as an amendment to the tobacco inquiry resolution, asserted that he had de­ cided upon this course to obtain ac­ tion because of repeated failures to get consideration for it in the routine manner. The Norris resolution recited that during the Muscle Shoals debate it was alleged that "a corporation known as the General Electric company, either directly or through subsidiary companies, had acquired a monopoly and exercised a control in restraint of trade in violation of law.” It not only directed the federal trade commission to investigate and report upon such charges, but requested the president, as a means of assisting in this in­ quiry. to have all pertinent treasury records thrown open to the commis­ sion. FARM BOOTS DATA ! WRONG, IS CHARGE Thomas W. Lawson, financier, auth­ or and sportsman, died at a hospital in Boston, Mass., early Friday. He was operated on three weeks ago for Coffee Methods Are Hit. a bladder complaint and had been gaining steadily until he suffered a Washington, D. C.—Immediate dis­ relapse early Friday night. continuance of certain practices pur­ Scores of followers of the Rowenist ported to be unfair methods of compet­ cult who believed the world’s end was ition in connection with maintaining coming, sadly returned to their homes a standard resale price system at Saturday, weary from loss of sleep which its products shall be sold was after waiting throughout the night for ordered Monday of Hills Brothers, San the great ray of light shining from the Francisco corporation, by the federal constellation Orlon that they believed trade commission. The order deals specifically with was to herald the end. Eleven Japanese, including five the Hills company's methods of mar petty officers and six seamen, mem­ keting coffee, which it imports and bers of the crew of the cruiser Id- then sells in this country, primarily in zuma, met death in the harbor at Van­ western states. couver, B. C„ early Sunday when the Paris Less Heated On Note. pinnace in which they were return­ ing to the Idzuma, after enjoying shore Paris. — Twen’y-four hours’ reflec­ leave, collided with the Canadian Pa­ tion has somewhat toned down the warmth with which the British note cific tug Nanoose. Seven soviet government officials on debts was received in Paris. The were sentenced Sunday to death for sincere good will and conciliatory mismanagement and corruption in the spirit shown in the Churchill note still state leather monopoly. Three other is fully recognized and its acceptabil­ directors were condemned for from ity as a basis for discussion is not five to eight years. They were charg­ questioned, but various passages were ed with having made contracts with found to be vague and obscure, re- private traders whereby they obtain­ ouiring elucidation before a reply can be made. ed large personal profits. The forecasts had assured the coun­ Baron Hermann Augustus Adelbert try that Germany’s failure to fulfill the De Buderus Von Carlshausen Sunday Dawes obligations would have a bear­ night officially began his duties as a ing on the amount France was call­ special member of the Bridgeport, ed upon to pay, but the realization that Conn., fire department in the capacity France is asked to pay fixed annui­ of "door slammer.” His duties are to ties, irrespective of her reparation re­ close the doors of the engine house ceipts, comes as somewhat of a shock after the apparatus leaves, in return to French opinion. for which he gets his lodging. There were signs Sunday that an­ other drive might be made in the senate against the participation of the United States in the recent Paris agreement by which the allied and associated powers allocated German annuities paid under the Dawes plan to the liquidation of the claims of the victorious powers against the German government. Jack Dempsey, world’s champion heavyweight pugilist, and Ida Estelle Taylor, motion picture actress, who obtained a license to be married in San Diego, Cal., Saturday, were mar­ ried Saturday night. Dempsey and Miss Taylor, after obtaining their license from the county clerk’s office, shortly before noon, went down to the racetrack at Tijuana for the after­ noon. Soon after their return to the city they went to the First Presbyter­ ian church, where they were married by Rev. Wallace M. Hamilton. Giant Combine Charged. Ottawa, Ont.—A combination of 25 steamship companies holds absolute and menacing sway over the north Atlantic commerce of Canada, Great Britain and Europe, asserted W. T. R. Preston, in summarizing to the house of commons Monday the results of an investigation he had made for the government. “The moving spirits of this gigantic world wide organization have conspir­ ed, agreed and arranged unduly to limit the facilities of ocean transporta­ tion,” said the report. Food Prices Going Up. Washington, D. C. — Continued in­ crease in retail food prices during the month ended January 15 was shown in 20 out of 22 cities for which figures were announced Monday by the bureau of statistics of the department of labor. The maximum increase of 4 per cent, was reported at Cincinnati Enjoyment at Our Expense. Kansas City and Savannah. A 3 per Some people’s idea of taking life cent increase was shown at Butte, easy seems to be making it hard for Mont ; Little Rock, Ark. and Louis ville, Omaha and Peoria, 111. the rest of us. Coolidge Gets Letters From Mellon and Aitchison. FLAREBACKS BEGUN U. S. Treasury Head and Interstate Commerce Chairman Stirred by Proposals. SCHOOL DAIJS STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. Salem. There wore two fatalities In Oregon duo to industrial accidents during the week ending February 5. according to a report issued by the state industrial accident commission MUI City. The A A Shepherd log ging camp at Gates has resumed oper at ions. The camp has boon dosed since Christmas. Logs uro shipped to the Hammond Lumber company at Mill City. Roseburg By a vote of 630 to 497 the voters of school district 4, which takes in this city. Friday selected the West Roseburg location for the |I65,- 000 high school building to bo con strueted this year Washington, D. C. Flarebacks on Cascade Locks. —- Because of high some of the recommendations of the water Charles Olin. Lester Sprague president's agricultural commission ami Erick Hagglebloom have suspend emanated Saturday from the heads of | «d salmon fishing temporarily. Thur* two main branches of the government j day they caught a sturgeon weighing in letters forwarded to President Cool­ 124 pounds, which was shipped to Portland. idge. Secretary Mellon, advising the McMinnville. The commercial club president that Commissioner Cooper, here vote«! approval of the suggestion executive officer of the farm loan emanating from Hillsboro Commer board, was leaving Washington itu dal dub. asking for higher license mediately to obtain first-hand informa­ fees on sommerdal trucks and auto tion as to the credit needs of livestock busses. Other legislation was discuss and other farm producers, said ho was ed. but no action taken. not entirely clear as to what the Cascade Locks The planer of the commission meant by recommending Wind River Lumber company, located that the board "should take some ag­ gressive steps" to open up credit chan­ at Cascade Locks, which has operated all w inter, closed for the first time । nels to agriculture. By F. A. BALK ER Chairman Aitchison of the inter- । Friday for repairs. It will reopen I state commerce commission, thank- ; next week. The main part of th«* , mill has been closed since early In I THE GREAT HEARTED ing the president for forwarding him the agricultural commission's recent December. NLY the great hen rt ed enn lie true criticism of its operation, said “we feel Pendleton.—A recommendation that । friends. that some of the seeming misappre­ the Indian school at the Umatilla In All «long the shallowed ways of life, hension” of the commission's mem­ dian reservation be reopened by the ths great-hearted «re constantly send bers "could have been cleared away government to give training for Indian | Ing out sunlight and cheer, which hu­ by inquiry from us thereon, or by children in a school for Indians only mans of Inferior natures cun never reference to our annual reports.” was made by a special commitee from know or bwtow. To do good. without having their Both the letters of Secretary Mel­ the Exchange dub which spent sev ! motives suspected. Is their grand In­ lon and Commissioner Aitchison set eral weeks investigating. tention. They seek no praise. out in detail the commission's criti­ Hood River. — President Fredercy They move «bout with a quiet of cisms and denied they- Justification. and Secretary Day of the Homi River summer breezes, leaving In their trail The farm loan board. Mr. Mellon Game Protective association Saturday I the delicious scent of gardens and the said, had always been ready to meet distributed through tho valley 48 Hun­ pence of tranquil skies. legitimate demands of agricultural co­ In the happiness they give to oth­ garian partridges received from the operatives, and the intermediate Pendleton state game farm. They | ers, they find a gratification rich b«*- credit banks had lent more than 844,- yond price. If but once In your life were the first game birds ever receiv­ you should be fortunate enough to 000,000 to co-operative marketing asso­ ed from the eastern Oregon farm. meet a great-hearted mun or woman, ciations. The internal revenue Salem.—The public service com in is ; the remembrance of It «¡11 linger In bureau, he added, was prepared to extend to co-operatives the fullest sion has authorized short time publics iyour mind until the end -f your «lavs. Great hearts often «¡well In lowly benefits of tax exemption to which tlon of special intrastate carload rates places. they are entitled by law, and he said on seed wheat for reseeding purposes Sometimes they urn found In frail he had asked the bureau's law officer which has been made necessary as bodies poorly clad, ut there Is about to render an opinion as to whether a result of the recent cold weather them a radiancy of spirit brighter than the commission's proposal for exempt­ The rates apply to those counties east ia thousand stars and clear as the ing co-operatives would meet the legal of Hood River and south to Snake I beaming of the noonday sun. river. Great hearts blow to flame the requirements. Eugene.—The annual outing of the spark that blazes with love; they Regarding the commerce commis­ sion. the commission reported to the Cascadlans, a mountain-climbing club espouse Truth and Mercy; they sing from morn till night of kindness and president that it had been unfair to of Yakima. Wash., will be held in good will, when their days are lonely shippers and that its methods of pro­ the vicinity of the Threes Sisters moun ■nd their tables are bare tain at the summit of the Cascades cedure were dilatory and expensive. They are neither silent nor neglect­ < ast of Eugene, according to word re­ ful when the 111 and the discouraged Big Lake Dam Goes Out. ceived by the Eugene chamber of com­ need succor or sympathy. Spokane, Wash. — Several houses | merce Saturday. The chamber is ask । Meek or lowly they are the inln were wiped out and winter-sown crops ed to give information on packers and j isterlng angels from heaven, currying were ruined when Moses lake dam, 20 guides, also camping places and spots | to the sorrowing "good tidings of great Joy." miles north of Othello, In Grant coun­ for parking cars. From idle slumbers, they call youth ty, burst shortly before noon Satur­ Molalla.—A bond Issue for 180,000 ■ an«! point the way to honor an«l fnme; day, reports received here by the Chi­ to construct a building for the Molalla ‘ from the valley of gloom, they bld the cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad union high school district was carried . despondent to look up to the glorious stated. at a special election Saturday, 333 : heavens. The tracks of the railroad were not to 65. A contract for the structure, They sin as we nil Sin, but unlike endangered by the break, officials which will be modern in every detail, most of us. they are charitable to­ said. The area below the dam is is expected to be let at an early date, wards all mankind, prayerful, watch­ sparsely settled, and it is reported and the building is slated to be com­ ful, faithful. When the chlm«s In the belfry chant that all of the families were warned pleted in time for use at the next term their evening hymns, no souls on in time to get to higher land. Rail­ of school in the fall. A site has been earth are more serenely peaceful than road dispatchers at Beverly, Corfu and purchased in Molalla. the great hearted; when at the setting Othello sent men in automobiles down Haines.—While no material damage sun of their life the streams of ll^ht Crab creek valley to warn settlers to fall wheat will occur in Baker coun­ grow- dim In the golden west, and the somber shadows full all about them, of the water rushihg down the valley, i ty on account of the recent severe no souls on earth are happier than The entire dam, which was 80 feet ' winter weather, it is reported that they, or more eager to go. wide, was wiped out at 4 o’clock, and deep freezing before snow fell will by MeClur» Newapspsr Svndlcal» 1 the water had spread out to a width --------------()--------- result in considerable damage to th«1 of 160 feet. The dam supplied irri- ' alfalfa hay crop this year. In many gatlon water for about 50 orchards in instances growers will plow their al­ Young Lady the district. Rain, followed by warm falfa fields and reseed. On account Across the Way weather and melting snow, brought of extreme dry weather of last fall the waters of the lake to a high level. there was but a small acreage of wheat planted. Poison Still Mystery. Klamath Falls. — Snow at Crater Columbus, O.—Solution of the mys­ tery of the presence of poison in park was reported to be drifting seven medicine prescribed for Ohio State and eight feet high following th«! bllz university students Friday night ap­ zard which struck the Klamath coun­ parently was no nearer than when the try Saturday afternoon and constinued In intensity. Throughout the night Investigation began. Questioning of 18 additional stu­ five inches of snow had fallen here. dents yielded little save identification All bus lines reported delayed sched­ of two who were on duty in the dis­ ules with the exception of the Klam­ pensary when the capsules containing ath-Ashland line, where state high­ poison were issued to two of the five way officials announced an extra victims. Inquiry also cleared up the crew was at work with snow plows on mysterious appearance of a bottle of Green Springs mountain. Telephone the poison previously unaccounted for lines to the south were down. on the dispensary shelf. McMinnville.—Religious instruction classes have started here as a result Grain Hearings Called. of efforts of the newly organized coun Washington, D. C. — Dates for a cil of religious Instruction, working series of hearings over the country on in co-operation with the school board proposals for revision of the official of the city. One day each week some grain standards of the United States of the students of the grade schools for oats were announced Saturday by are excused from their regular school the department of agriculture. Much work and permitted to atten«! the re­ of the oats In interstat«! business, the ligious training sessions, held In four department said, falls to meet mini­ of the churches and church schools. mum requirements. The hearings In­ The attendance at these schools is op The young lady m rows the way says clude: Seattle, Washington, February tlonal with the pupils or their parents. she sometimes almost wishes we'd 16; Portland, Oregon, February 17, and Non sectarian religious and moral never gone into the League of Nations, training is the alm of the council. Chicago, February 26. the way Europe acts and everything. Something to Think .About O I dun t Ilk» to talk lo p»u|>l» who al­ ways agre» with «n» It I» «muallig lu uuqustt» with an echo for a while, but «ne suun tires ut I« Mi'arlyl» GOOD THINGS WE LIKE of us sluff peppers when M -’OST they urr plentiful und In Ihr markets, «nd when they ure sc«re* and high use them as a garnish and flavor for various dishes; that Is about the usual use; as u vegetable lbby are not well known. Green Pepper Soup. Wash «nd remove the seeds front flame eight medium sixed peppera plecea, tben cook In bolllng water, add Ing sait at the last Irvivin reaervlng a plnt of the pepper Itquor. Put lhe peppera thmugh a puree «leve und a«M to the pepper stock. Melt flve tuble- spoonfuls of butter in a kettle, ndd flve tableapoonfuis of tlour and stir untll well blended. A«l«i the puree wlth t II ree cupfuls of milk, two te« spoonfuls of suit nnd oneelghth of a teaspoonful of pepper, stlrrlng eon- stantly. When amooth nnd «>a«tny Sprinkle wlth paprika snr ■yndlcat», luc. >