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WORLD HAPPEN NS SCHOOL LAW IS HELD VOID OF CURRENT WEEK I :i i ti net ion Apainst Knfnrrmnt fiivpn By Federal Judges. MID-WES Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Six hundred houses were burned Wednesday in a fire which swept Zoshigaya, a suburb of Tokio. Twenty persons wore injured. Three thousand are homeless. Successful experiments were made Monday in carrying on conversation by radio botween air mail pilots in flight and the Omaha air mail station, it is announced. Fifty persons have been killed in a landslide in the seaport of Amalii, 23 miles southeast of Naples, accord ing tu a dispatch from Ainalt'i to the Giornale d'ltalia at Homo. President Coolldge's sons, John and Calvin, Jr., have applied for enroll ment In the citizens' training camp to be held at Camp Devens next Aug ust, it was learned Wednesday. Ed Bockhart, last of a trio of notor ious Oklahoma outlaws, was killed Wednesday near Sporry, Okla., as he attempted to flee from a farmhouse whore he had been trapped by a posse. Tho rank and file of the United Mine Workers of America ratified the new wage scale agreement, assuring peace In the bituminous industry for three years by an overwhelming vote, it was announced in Indianapolis Tuesday afternoon. Tho voto was 161,808 to 26,253. Tho Austrian and Hungarian gov ernments have approved in "principle" an agreement proposed by tho United StatoB for tho creation of mixed com missions to settle claims with the United Statos arising out of tho world war. Directors of tho American Beet Sugar company Tuesday declared four quarterly dividends of $1 each on Un common stock. This was tho first dividend action since January II, 11)21. when 2 per cont was paid. Officials explained that tho company's earnings in tho fiscal year ending March 31 had Justified tho action. Hlshop Manning of tho Protestant Episcopal dlocoso of Now York Wed nosday informed Itev. William Nor man Cuthrio, rector of St.-Marks In tho-Bowerio, that his church would re main "without eplscopul visitation or ministration" for its rector's refusal to discontinue eurythmic dancing In connection with services at the church. Orovor Cleveland Ilergdoll, the American draft evader, left Eberbach, Hadeii Tuesday morning for an un announced destination. As he carried considerable luggage, It was generally assumed he was quitting Germany, lie made other preparations prior to his departuro which seemingly indicated that ho did not contemplate returning to Haden. Four mall bandits, in the first big postal robbery in or near Chicago In two years, slugged a postoffico mcs senger in Harvey, III., a suburb, early Wednesday and escaped with two pouches of registered mall known to have contained at least fl3.ri,000 in currency. Tho bandits wore heavily armed with revolvers and sawed of: shotguns. A volcano on Babuyan Island, sltuat ed between tin- Phtlipp.'-.cs and Japan, was in eruption early this month and It Is feared Inhabitants have perished, stated advices Wednesday to coustab ulary officials in Manila. Although records here indicate the Inland win not Inhabited, officials believe a nam bor of fishermen receutly established headquarters there. That the Washington state eight hour law for women applies to all women employed In any mercantile or mechanical establishment, laundry, hotol or restaurant, "irrespective ef tho class of work she may be doing," Is the opinion rendered by Attorney Cenerul Uunbar to the department el labor and industries. The query os pocially referred to stenographers. French archaeologists working in Syria have discovered nt Sallveh, In the Euphrates region, a Greek city, founded Just after tho death of kh ander tho Great, 2216 years ago, and ubandoned in 273 A. I)., when the desert sands covered It. Among the objects found are parchments, cue of which, written In 189, II. C. is said to be the oldest Greek manuscript extant. Portland, Or. Governor Pierce, At torney-General Van Winkle and Vis trict Attorney Myers were restrained from enforcing the Oregon compulsory school law and the law was declared unconstitutional and invalid in a de clsion handed down by federal judges Monday. The law was declared to violate the 1 -1th amendment of the federal con stitution and to deprive the school corporations and parents of children of their natural and inherent rights. The court said it might well have been called "an act to prevent parochial and private schools from teaching the grammar grades." Before a packed courtroom, C. E. Wolverton, federal district judge, read the decision which he had written for the court. Sitting with him on the bench was W. B. Gilbert, circuit judge. District Judge Bean, who also heard tho arguments in the case, was not present, as he was holding court at Pendleton. The crowd in tho courtroom was tense all through the reading of the decision. Many leaned froward, eager to grasp every word. Judge Wolver ton spoko quietly and carefully, but distinctly, as ho went through the many pages of the decision Judge Gil bert sat beside him in silence and then left tho bench alter tho decision was announced. As the court declared tho law might have been entitled an act to prevent tho teaching of tho grammar grades by parochial schools many in the audience were plainly pleased and smiled. At each point where the court held against tho contentions of the state officers smiles ran around a large section of tho audience, while other sections appeared to be in deep si udy. Prominent Catholics, priests and other clergymen wero in tho audience that Jammed all of the available space in the courtroom and that filled the aisles and even up around tho clerk's bench at the very feet of tho judges. There wore school officials there public, privato and parochial. There were others who were known to favor the law that the court declared In valid, but In spite of tho fact that the decision wns going against them they leaned forward eagerly and llstoned intently to every word. No actual Injunction will ho issued against the Btato officers. It Is ex pected that tho officers will accept the decision of the court as final until another court passes upon tho ques tions, if an appeal should bo taken. Unless there is some attempt on the part of tho stato officers to enforce the law despite tho decision, the court will not Issue one. Should such an attempt bo made, which, of course, would be beyQnd tho realm of possibil ity, the injunction would bo Issued. Governor Pierce, it was reported from Salem, refused to comment on tho decision, but it was indicated that tho case would bo carried to the apreme court for final decision. It had also been announced here before tho decision wns handed down that whatever tho result an appeal would be taken to tho supreme court Ot the United States to havo tho mat ter di-terinlned finally. Wallace Mr Cainant, as attorney for tho Scottish Kite bodies and for tho state officers, said "I have nothing to say" when asked what would bo the next step, and P. S. Malcom, a member of the lodge committee, said conferences would have to lie held before It would bo determined whether tho Scottish Kite would take tho caso up to the highest court in the land. The court held that tho Hill Military nccttdemy and the Society of tho Sis ters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, which brought the suits testing the law, had an absolute right to teach in the grammar grades and the par ents an absolute right to employ them to teach their children. Anti-Fat Serum Found. Paris. A serum to make persons thin with a few simple and painless Injections is believed to havo been dllOWftd by two French scientists. M. Carnot and M. Terrlg. They sub mitted results of exhaustive experi ments upon animals to the French Bio logical society Sunday. The serum, whereof the principal ingredient is plain liver, when injected Into ani mals produced a remarkable loss of weight In the shortest time. The in ventors hope to abolish fatness in nu n and women next. De La Huerta is Safe. New Orleans. Adolfo de la Huerta. Mexican rebel leader, now is in the state ef Chiapas, Mexico, according to a statement by A, E. Hedeswlch, rebel agent here, who said he received a wireless message late Monday in a code which could have been sent only by 1'e hi Huerta. Hegeswich said 1H la Huerta. was forced to pass through ' "a certain danger zone" and that be cause of this all mention of his where abouts had been suppressed. VISITED T BY FIERCE STORM Twenty Dead, 100 Injured in Dozen States. CTflTC TVTCTT TG STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. FLOODS HAMPER EAST Two West Virginia Towns Under Wa ter; Bridges Swept Away Prop erty Damage Large. Chicago, 111. March prepared to roar out of the middle west like the proverbial lion following general storms Saturday extending from the Ohio to the Mississippi valeys which cost upward of a scoro o lives, more than 100 injuries and property tfain age estimated at hundreds of thou sands of dollars. Dead- in the wake of the storm in cluded eight killed in a tornado at Shawnee, Okla., four known dead In southern Missouri as the result of a wind storm and reports that four others had perished, a boy killed by lightning in Kansas, two flood casual ties at Pittsburg, three men reported killed when a railroad bridge at Cum berland, Md., collapsed after being in undated by flood waters and four trainmen reported killed when a freight train went through a bridge weakened by high water near New ark, Ohio. Tho storm in various sections as sumed tho proportions of a tornado, and elsewhere manifested itself by driving snow and hail. High winds with falling temperatures marked its progress. Damago was widespread wherever tho storm struck. In southeastern Missouri livestock valued at thousands of dollars was killed, while three little towns in Kentucky were reported to tally destroyed by wind. Damago to crops was feared in some sections ol South Dakota and Minnesota because of the low temperatures. With the Hood stage expected throughout tin upper Ohio valley indications were that property damage there might be heavy. Pittsburg, Pa. Floods in Pennsyl vania, West Virginia and Maryland caused by warm rains and melting snows had devastated a wide area Sun day night, taken a toll of 13 lives and property. After having flooded an area of 175 miles extending from its headwaters at Gorman, Md., to Harpers Ferry, W. Va., with the greatest damage done at Cumberland, Md., tho Potomac river was rapidly returning to its channel. In tho western Pennsylvania district the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, mooting hero to form the Ohio, swept over the lower sections of their val leys, aud tho Youghiogheny river, com ing down the Allegheny mountains, flooded a section extending from Con nellsville, to McKeesport, a distance of 40 miles. Tho Ohio river hero reached a stage of 29.2 feet, seven feet above the flood stage, but was receding Sunday night at the rate of one-tenth of a foot an hour. Tho cities along the Ohio river, how ever, were preparing for flood waters. An entire family of five was drown ed at Kitzmlller, Md., three children lost their lives at Melcroft, Pa., and another child was drowned at Johns town, l'a., while a father and mother were drowned rescuing their children at Pittsburgh. Other flood casualties occurred at Connellsville and Newcastle. Bailroad traffic throughout the flooded area was demoralized when bridges were destroyed and many miles of track washed away. Boy Scalped by Lion. Los Angeles. Shubert Hellgren, eight years old, was scalped and other wise seriously injured hero Saturday by a lion in a small itinerant clrcls. The Uttlo fellow, circus attendants said, weut too close to the king of tin- jungles' cage. The animal reach ed through the bars and clawed him before he could escape. Receiving hopsital doctors said the boy would recover. Auto Sales Take Slump. Chicago. Total February sales of new automobiles and motorcycles for the entire country aggregated $136.- 780.000, a decrease of 40.3 per cent compared with the previous month and on Increase of 16.2 per cent compared with a year ago. The seventh federal reserve bank announced the figures Saturday night. North Powder. The recent bond is sue voted by the North Powder dis trict was sold to the Farmers State bank here, the highest bidder. The bonds bear Interest at 5 per cent and will mature In 20 years. Haines. Plans are maturing here for the formation of an association of lettuce growers to be patterned after the locals of the farmers' union. The principal object will be to promote co operative marketing of lettuce and celery grown here. Roseburg. C. II. Hendricks of Rid dle paid a fine of $50 in the local justice court Saturday when he plead ed guilty to feeding venison to the men in his logging camp. A sack containing a large quantity of deer meat was found in the camp by Deputy Warden Walker. Roseburg. The Douglas County Broccoli Protective association of the United States is the name to be given a new organization being formed by broccoli producers of the Umpqua val ley to protect themselves In future against inferior seed. Pendleton. Market roads having.an aggregate mileage of 36 miles were designated Saturday by the county court for the 1924 programme In Uma tilla county. Special road districts re ceived preference, since special levies of 10 mills were levied to aid in con structing the roads they want. Salem. The Oregon Growers' Co operative association has reported the sale of 1000 boxes of prunes for do mestic consumption in the eastern markets at 9j cents. ' The prunes wero classified as 30s. Eugene. The root knot nematode, said to be one of the worst crop pests in existence, is gaining a foothold in the Willamette valley, according to C. E. Stewart, county fruit inspector, who has taken the matter up with the Lane county court, asking that steps be taken to prevent its spread. Salem. In anticipation of the is suance of a proclamation within the next few days setting aside the period April 21 to 27 as forest protection week, F. A. Elliott, state forester, has announced that he had appointed a committee of prominent Oregon men to arrange an appropriate programme. Salem. James Linn, upon his re turn from Chicago, reported the sale of 350 bales of Oregon hops from the 1921, 1922 and 1923 crops. It was said that the sale was at a price slight ly lower than demanded here a month ago. Mr. Linn is one of the promin ent growers of the Willamette valley. Salem. There were three fatalities in Oregon duo to industrial accidents during the week ending March 27, ac cording to a report prepared here by the state Industrial accident commis sion. The victims were: William Hay man, Knappa, logger; Sam Strizic, Reedsport, rockman, and James Al bert Dunn, Baker, hooker. Salem. Approximately $250,000 col lected by the state tax commission under the state Income tax law enacted at the last session of the legislature has been turned over to the state treas urer. This was announced Saturday by Earl Fisher, state tax commission er, who is In charge of the adminis tration of the state income tax act. Salem. I. II. VanWinkle, attorney general, has sent to the secretary of state a legal opinion in which he held that a state treasurer is to be elected In Oregon this year. The opin ion was sought by Secretary of State Kozer, who, under the existing laws, must certify to all candidates at both the primary and general elections. Port Orford. Port Orford is laying plans for a white cedar carnival and pioneers' reunion to be held here in August of this year. The first day of the carnival will be devoted ex clusively to the pioneers, of whom there are many, Curry county being one of the oldest counties In the state. Blnger Hermann, ex-member of con gress, will make the address of the day. Dayton. Voters of Dayton at a spe cial election Friday authorized the is suance and sale of refunding bonds amounting to $18,000 for the purpose of redeeming and retiring a similar amount of city water and street im provement bonds which mature this year and next. In addition they pro vided for a special tax levy to create a sinking fund to take care of prin cipal and Interest on the new bond issue. Salem. The North Coast Power company, operating at Hlllsboro and Rainier, had operating income aggre gating $n0,075.59 during 1923, accord ing to the annual report of the cor poration filed with the public service commission here. Operating revenues of the company totaled $612,2S1.15. while operating expenses were $378, 009.13. The corporation's receipts for 1923 showed an Increase of $74,S35.60 over 1922. CONCRETE "FORDS" OR "DIPS" ON HIGHWAYS High water conditions In various parts of the country have resulted often in the building of concrete "fords" or "dips" on highways in places where the roads are over flowed In the high water season by the water of a stream or seasonal freshet Many mistakes have been made In the construction of these "fords," ac cording to George E. Duren, former state highway engineer of Texas, who has superintended the building of many of these crossings in his own states. "Dips" shouldi not be con tracted, he contends, In places where the funds will permit improvement of the highway with a bridge or culvert, as a flow of water over a road is boi.nd to obstruct traffic to some ex tent and will therefore hold the effl- Sloping Shoulders Carry Water Grad ually Over Road. clency of the road below what It would be If there were a bridge or culvert. Only where saving of the cost of a bridge Is necessary should "fords" be built. One of the great mistakes In con structing "fords," he says, has been to make their approaches too steep, with the result that vehicles are un able to maintain a reasonable rate of speed In crossing. Some of them have been made with approaches so steep that a speed of more than ten miles an hour would wreck a car. Great care should be taken to build these structures so that erosion of the streum or freshet cannot wash away the earth foundation of Uie "dip." To accomplish this, sloping concrete shoulders are built on each side of the road in the course of the stream to carry the water up gradual ly over the road as showu in the Illustration. In places where the flow of water over the highway Is likely to become so swift or heavy as to be dangerous at any time, large signs should be posted to wurn those using the road. Knock Misleading Signs Found Along Many Roads Branding unnecessary danger signs nnd "stop" signals used for advertis ing purposes along public highways as dangerous, many automobile clubs af filiated with the American Automobile association with the co-operation of the state highway departments are campaigning for their removal. In some Eastern states, where the traffic on main highways Is heavy, In stances are reported where automatic flash "stop railroad crossing" signs have been put up by national adver tisers 300 feet In advance of a spur track crossing the highway, where the tracks are used once or twice a month, Just because the location was ideal from an advertising standpoint. On the same highways where these signs were needed, they were often found missing. In New Jersey at a wide place in the road, a cut-out painted figure rep resenting a traffic officer and sema phore on the arms of which are paint ed the words "stop" with the name of the tea house underneath, blocks traffic. The figure of the traffic officer Is so realistic under the glare of head lights that motorists who are not ac quainted with the deception will In stinctively obey the semaplmne. The danger of the use of warning signs or "stop" signals on the high ways where they are not required makes the motorist who has been "fooled" by unnecessary signs care less when he approaches a warning slgnnl which Is properly placed for his protection, points out the touring the transportation bureau of the A. A. A. It Is the purpose of the A. A. A. clubs to check up on the use of warn ing signals on the highways In their territory and take such steps as may be necessary to have misleading signs removed. PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. ALEXANDER REID I'hysician and Surgeon UMATILLA OREGON G. L. 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