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WORLD 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. REJECTS MELLON TAX PLAN Entire Democratic Substitute Adopted -Smoot Plans Compromise. cussed Mellon tax plan was rest Monday with adoption John Levandowsky, said to be near ly 103 years old, the county's oldest resident, committed suicide at a hos pital in Manitowoc, Wis. Disaffection long smouldering in Santa Clara province, Cuba, came to a head Tuesday when a detachment of the rural guard revolted and fled from their post near Santa Clara. The house has adopted the confer ence report on the bill which would authorize deferment of reclamation charges. The senate must concur be fore the measuro can go to the presi dent. Lieutenant K. A. Musk, aviator at tached to the North island naval air squadron at San Diego, Cal., was kill ed Tuesday when the plane he was piloting tumbled 2300 feet into San Diego bay. Communist hecklers broke up a political meeting addrossed by Andre Tardieu, doputy, in a Paris suburb Monday night after repeatedly drag ging him off tho platform. M. Tardieu was badly bruised. Trustees of the Spokane chamber of commerce have adopted a resolution to be forwarded to members of tho Wash ington delegation in congress oppos ing tho change in name of Mount Rainier to Mount Tacoina. Flotation of a 110,000,000 loan to tike Kingdom of Netherlands has been arranged by an American banking syndicate, It was learned Tuesday. Offering of the bonds, which will bear 8 per cent Interest Is expected soon. One hundred thousand persons, high and low, rich and poor, Monday paid their final tribute of respect to Charles 1 Murphy, for two decades chlef tuln of Tammany Hall. Not In many yrars has New York witnessed a fun oral of such magnitude. Cloneral Julian S. Curr, ex-commnnd-er-ln-ehlef of tho United Confederate Veterans, died In Chicago Tuesday I In contracted pneumonia as tho re sult of an Illness suffered while on his way to Chicago from his home at Dur ham, N. C, last Saturday. Tho first budget ever prepared for .the government of Oreat Ilritain by a socialist was presented In tho house of commons Tuesday afternoon by Philip Snowden, chancellor of tho ox chequer. There wus very little ob vious socialism In It, if uny. The auuual navul supply bill, carry ing 175,000,000, was passed Tues day by tho senate without a record vote. Tho Benato added ubout $700, 000 to the bill as it cume from the house. Tho bill was sent to confer once wilh the house but with few major differences to bo Ironed out. (iovernor Warren T. McCray of In diana was found guilty late Tuesduy of using the mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud by a Jury in fed erul court after less than ID minutes deliberation and was placed in tlx Marion county Jail to await sentence by United States District Judge A. It Anderson. A five year moratorium In the pay ments of constructive charges for all Mtttafl on western reclamation pro jects with 35 years thereafter ) which to liquidate all indebtedness Is pro posed in a bill Introduced Jointly in tho senate and house by Senator Jones and Representative Summers of Wash liigtoii. The hill amends the reclama tion law of August 13. 11)13. The war department has made answer to numerous inquiries from Oregon and Washington as to condl tions under which copra und cocoa nut oil were prepared in the Philip pine islands. Tho inquiries were In st igateil by voters In the two states by whom It will be decided In forth coming elections whether oocoanut oil may be utilized In tho preparation of certain food products. Postponement of operation of the Japanese exclusion provision of the Immigration bill until July 1 is under stood to have been suggested by Presi dent Coolidge to aeuate and house conferees on the measure. This sug gestlon was said to have been con sidered by the conferees at a meet ing Tuesduy and afterwards word was sent to the White House that an agree ment on this basis might be readied within 24 hours. Washington, D. C The much-dis- laid to by the senate of the entire democratic income tax substitute. The minority's schedule of surtax rates was approved, 43 to 40, and its revision of normal rates was adopted, 44 to 37. The republican insurgents joined with tho democrats in support ing the entire program. Chairman Smoot of the finance com mittee said that when the bill came up on final passage he would propose a compromise as was done in the house after the democratic program had been approved there. He is hope ful that ' the senate will accept the compromise as tho house did. The surtax rates written into the bill provided for a reduction of the present maximum of 50 per cent to 40 per cent and for corresponding re visions all along the line. They are almost similar to those adopted by the house. Tho normal rates accepted were 2 per cent on tho first $4000 of income, 4 per cent on the second $4000 and C per cent on all above $8000. This com pares with tne present rates oi 4 per cent on the first S 1000 and 8 per cent above that amount. In adopting the democratic substi tute, which was offered by Senator Simmons, North Carolina, the senate moved, with startling rapidity. The first vote came within a little more than an hour after consideration of tin! lax bill had been resumed. The others followed rapidly. Discussion of this, the heart of the bill, had proceeded in only desultory fashion for about an hour, when Sena tor Jones, democrat, New Mexico, de manded a vote. There were less than a score of senators present and lead ers on both sides held hurried confer ences. Announcement then was made that both sides were ready for the test of strength. TRUST CHARGED TO DOOR FIRMS W TO SPEED MAILS New York-San Francisco Trans it Starts July 1. 35 HOURS FOR TRIP Something to Think About by F. A. WALKER Every Twenty-five Miles to Have Emer gency Landing Field With Poweful Searchlight. Portland Seven door manufactur ing companies were named in a suit tiled Monday by John S. Coke, United States attorney, to break up an alleg- d trust, which tho government charg ed had been operating in Oregon and Washington and suggests has been holding up prices for their products. i'he defendants were: Tho Wheeler- Osgood company, Tacoma; Henry Mc Cleary Timber company, McCleary, Wash.; Nicolai Door Manufacturing company, Portland; Buffelen Manu facturing company, Tacoina; Robinson Manufacturing company, Everett; American Door & Manufacturing com pany, Hoquiatn; Peterman Manufact uring company, Tacoma. Tho complaint was filed In the fed eral court by Judgo Coke at the direc tion of Harlan F. Stone, attorney-general; A. T. Seymour, assistant to the attorney general ; J. A. fowler, Henry A. Culler, Stanley Thompson, spe cial assistants, all of whom nppear with Judgo Coke as attorneys for the government. The government asked that the com panies and their employes be perman ently enjoined from any acts that were charged in tho petition to have been committed under the alleged conspir acy in restraint of trade. It was charged (hat the companies named produce more than 90 per cent of the doors manufactured In tho Uni ted States and that more than 0 per cent of them were produced by tin McCleary, Huf felon and The government further charged that tho companies have operated under a common price list "pursuant to an agreement be tween them to establish and maintain a uniform system for the conduct of their Individual business anil to elim inate competition among themselves as to grades, as to sizes, as to terms and conditions of sales, as to freight charges ami as to prices." The government contended that on August 19, 1916, tho defendant com panies caused the door nnd factory products committee of tho West Coast Lumbermen's association to adopt an Official west c .ist door list known as "the single list." It was held that the purpose of this list was to estab lish a uniform price on all doors of a given slie. regardless of the kind, style and grade, leaving those matters to be determined by a group of fixed dis count differentials. Wheeler, Nicolai companies. Washington, D. C. Daily air mail service between New York and San Francisco, with deliveries within 35 hours, or from one morning to the fol lowing evening, will begin July 1, it was announced Sunday by Postmaster General New. The time of transit will be cut to 24 hours probably within a few months, the postmaster-general believes. Not only will people on the two coasts benefit by the rapid deliveries, but those of the country generally will be enabled to transmit their let ters moro swiftly, as special air mail stamps will carry them from any city for transmission from coast to coast or from intermediate cities for further despatch by train. Special air mail postage has been arranged and special stamps in three denominations, 8-cont, lG-cent and 24 cent, will be distributed to the prin cipal cities of the country for use in specially designating letters to go by plane. Three zones have been desig nated for postage purposes; New York and Chicago; Chicago and Cheyenne, and Cheyenno and San Francisco. An 8-cent air mail stamp will carry an ounce letter anywhere within one zone, a 16-cent stamp anywhere within two adjoining zones, and a 24-cent stamp anywhere within the three zones. Letters from points not on the air mail route, if bearing proper air mail stamps, will be transmitted to the nearost air mail field for dispatch without additional postage. Any class of mail, including parcel post pack ages, may be sent by air mail but only at regular air mail rates. Special air mail letter boxes are being in stalled in tho larger cities along the route to expedite handling. Regular landing fields, where changes of planes will be made on both eastbound and westbound trips, are locatod at New York, Belfonte, Pa.,; Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha, North Platte, Neb.; Cheyenne, Rock Springs, Wyo.; Salt Lake City, Elko, Nev.; Reno, Nev., and San Francisco. Eleven planes will bo required for the single trip each way. New planes, with slower landing speeds, deemed necessary for night flying, have been advertised for and bids will be open ed June 10. 1he mull planes will fly by night over 1000 miles of lighted airway be tween Chicago and Cheyenne, the pilots being guided . by automatic acotylene lights placed every three miles. Every 25 miles of the night air lane has an emergency landing field provided with powerful search lights, und at about every 250 miles there Is a regular landing field with searchlights visible from 100 to 150 miles when flashed In the air. The ex isting daylight coast to coast air mail, which has been In operation six years and which has been merely an ad vancing service to speed up letter mail, will be merged with the new service. After July 1 no mail will be carried on planes except that bearing special ulr mail postage stumps. RUINOUS WEALTH PARADOXICAL as It may seem at first blush, the declaration made so frequently by psychologists and economists that but few people can bear prosperity. Is nevertheless true. "When I come into the fortune which Is to be mine on the day of my ma jority," says the youth who Is looking forward to what he considers Is to be the crowning event of his life, "I shall show my set how a gentleman of wealth and fine tastes should live and enjoy himself." So when the riches come In showers and floods, the prodigal youngster starts off at a rapid pace on a care free career which In .an incredibly short time ends In broken manhood and humiliating disaster. It Is the story which is so often told of the sowing of wild oats and the reaping of tares and dishonor of the sellSig of a soul for a rag and a bone. The handling of large properties and great sums of money by the inexperi enced, Is usually fraught with Just such peril. And In quite the same manner the newly rich, forgetful of their limited means of the past, start off In their new adventure with a brazen blure of trumpets. It Is their first taste of the golden f?ast, and they have resolved to gorge themselves to repletion. In a dozen years or so, with noth ing to show for their folly except a lot of worthless geegaws and a bur densome load of experience, they are glad to get back In the homely little corner of the staid old world which they so grandiloquently abandoned. The scene of their defeat they would gladly close to their mind's eye, but they cannot do so. The happiness which was theirs In the simple life is gone. Their substantial friends In the bare days are no more. Instead of triumph, the wealth they quickly got and wantonly spent, brought them nothing but derision und sorrow. The same poor sort of humans are everywhere about us, gazing with en vious, greedy eyes upon the rich, often cowed by fear and burdened with eun cerous care. And all the while these hapless creatures seem unaware that hard work and high thinking give peace and pleasure that wealth cannot buy I ((J) by McClure Newppaper Syndicate.) O 4.l''' Elinor Fair he Younrf Lady Across the Way Fat Men Hold Up Best. Washington, D. C. Fat men stand the heal better than lean ones, the bureau of mines has established. Fat ue n. lost more weight when subjected to uncomfortably hot temperatures, but they were less exhausted when thev were relieved. In a state et rest and in still air, the human body cannot endure indefinitely a temper at ure higher thun 90 degrees Fahren heit with 100 per cent relative humid Ry.. Potato Gas Is Fatal. Chicago.--Carbon monoxide, gener ated by burning potatoes, was declar ed by a coroner's jury to have caused the death of Mrs. Caroline Shower man, 73 years old, who was found dead in the kitchen of her home. Neighbors who discovered the body said a pot of potatoes which had boil ed dry was burning on the stove. At the inquest It was explained that, ordinarily, potatoes in carbonizing would give off carbon dioxide gas, but If the oxygen In a tightly closed room had been greatly exhausted this gas would be changed to carbon monoxide. The room was tightly closed and it was decided this was what had hap pened to the aged woman. St The young lady across the way says he doesn't believe In going to ex tremes and she thinks earrings four Inches long are nearly long enough for any girl. ($ by McCiura Newspaper Syndicate.) O CHS 0HKHiKJCKOO-aOOHKKJOKK THE MOOD Bogus BilU Destroyed. Washington, D. C. The handiwork of a thousand counterfeiters went up in smoke Saturday at the treasury. Treasury officials, following tho regu lar procedure, solemnly carried bundle after bundle of bogus bills to the great macerators and incinerators of the treasury. The fact value of the paper amounted to about $250,000, but it worth was nil In the eyes of the law. It was the day for tho annual destruc tion of all counterfeit money. By DOUGLAS M ALLOC H OOWOOO0O-CHKiKOQKlCKKiOO-IO SOMETIME, when we're In the mood. In some day to come. We shall break our solitude, We who art" net dumb ; When the mow) the moment brings On some quiet day Von and I shall say the things That we have to gay. Now we part and now we meet. Yet we seem to wait. Leaving something incomplete. Inarticulate There are dreams we long to share. Dreamers I and you. There are wounds we long to bare. But we never do. But some hour will set us free. When, we never know ; But some moment suddenly Hearts will overflow. For the thirsty 'twill be drink, For the hungry food Maybe soouer than we think We shall feel The Mood. 10 by HaOin iarppar SjoUlcAta.) PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. ALEXANDER REID Physician and Surgeon UMATILLA - - OREGON Handsome Elinor Fair, the screen star, was brought up in the midst of motion-picture production. Although born in Richmond, Va., she went to the coast when but a small child. She studied the violin In Germany until the war broke out, when she returned to this country. Her first theatrical work was in a Los Angeles theater. Her beauty and talents brought her a good opportunity to enter the "movies," in which she has been seen to good advantage. Miss Fairis favor ite hobbles are dancing and playing the piano. O 3 Have You This Habit? By Margaret Morison JOHN STARK npHE habit of regret Is four-fifths luzlness and one-fifth self-Indulgence," was John Stark's slogan. John knew something about the habit of re gret. Up to the time he was twenty two years old, he had lived at home in his father's house. His father's regret was the good old times. John was brought up to feel that the best thing! the world would know had passed be fore he was born. With them lived a maiden aunt who kept house. She was a kind of personilication of re gret, but what she had lost John never knew until he was a big boy of six teen or so. Then he learned that she had been disappointed in love. Final ly it turned out that Mr. Smith, who lived in the next town and had ten children, was the living symbol of this regret. Then the boy's father died, and he started In upon li Is career as an un derclerk in the big real estate' com pany where, had his father lived, tie would have begun as a Junior part ner. Some one remarked one day that It was a shame he should have to re gret all this when he was so young, and John replied that he had no time to regret It. Eventually he worked up very near to the top and then he was tuken Into the firm. A month later the firm failed. Other big companies had no Interest In John Stark, and he could find no opening with any one of them. Then John Stark decided to make his own opening. It was ubout this time that some oue suggested that life had dealt him a very hard hand; his answer was that he couldn't be bothered about that because he had a Job to put through. In his real estate experience he had noticed the need for a firm to handle small and Inexpensive, but up-to-dute, dwellings, and such a company lie now started out to organize. Little by little he not only Increased his own Income, but also was granted the realization that he had made a crowded city more liveable for hun dreds of families. On the day when he was fifty years of age, a group of very old acquaintances had dinner with Mm. Naturally they tulked of the past. One was sure that if he hud had the money to go to college he would have achieved his ambition to become a doctor. If another had been one inch taller he would have gone to West Point and risen In the army ; barred that career, the world held nothing for him. So one after mother round the circle presented his IXfuses and his regrets. But all the time John Stark knew that, if the would-be doc tor had been endowed, or If the would be general had been a giant, the one would never have been awarded the Nobel prize nor the other the Congres sional medal. For the man who has the habit of regret Is not the stuff of which heroes are made. HAVE YOU THIS HABIT? l by Metropolitan Nawapapar Sarvtca i o G. L. McLELLAN, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Fraternal Building Stanfleld, Oregon DR. F. V. PRIME DENTISTRY Dental X-ray and Diagnosis HEBM1STON, ORE. Bank Building 'Phones: Offiee 93. Residence 751. Newton Painless Dentists Dr. H. A. Newton, Mgr. Cor. Main and Webb Sts. Pendleton BUSINESS CARDS Umatilla Pharmacy W. E. Smith, Prop. Mail orders given special atten tion. Quick Service Satisfaction Quaranteed Umatilla, Oregon eMHMinimtMHMii I J. L. V AUGHAN I 206 E. Court Street J PENDLETON, - OREGON X i X Electrical Fixtures and $ Supplies Electric Contracting HMMMIMtllftMIIIMMil ; Eat and Drink at Tins -NEW FRENCH CAFE ! I E. J. 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