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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. The engagement of Miss Margaret Watson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas S. Watson of San Francisco, and Herbert Hoover Jr., was announc ed Tuesday. President Coolidge does not feel that an extra session of congress was made necessary by the failure of the senate to pass the deficiency appro priation bill. Isaburo Yoshida, formerly coun sellor of the legation at Pekin, has been named counsellor of the em bassy at Washington, the Japanese foreign office announced Saturday. General Archibald Jack, general manager of the United Railways of Havana, the employes of which are on strike, was shot and wounded late Monday as he left his office in the central station. Second Lieutenant Harold D. Hail and Corpora! Ralph W. Lehman of the marine corps were killed Tuesday in an airplane accident in Stafford coun ty. Virginia. Hail was from Crockett, Tex. Lehman was - from Mayodan, N. C. The Rome chamber of deputies Sat urday by a vote of 361 to 187 adopted a resolution expressing full confidence in the government of Premier Musso lini "for the work it has accomplish ed and in its program for the future." The speech from the throne was also approved. Belief that the peak of the agitation in Japan against American enactment of an immigration law barring Jap anese had passed, was expressed in well informed circles in Tokio, Mon day. The active phase of the agita tion, it was agreed, cannot continue more than two or three weeks. The house of delegates of the Amer ican Medical association in conven tion in Chicago, Tuesday adopted a resolution calling for the repeal of "those sections of the national prohi bition act which interfere with the proper relations between the physician and his patient in prescribing alcohol medicinally." The first of a dozen or more in vestigations to be conducted during the recess of congress opened in Washington, D. C. Tuesday with the resumption of hearings by the house committee investigating the shipping board. There will be practically no let-up in the committee's delibera tions during the entire summer and fall. Plans for expenditure during lU2.r, of 4,500,000 for new construction and repairs on the Great Northern rail road between the Rocky mountains and the Pacific coast were announced in Spokane Tuesday by Ralph Build president of the railroad. He said it would include rebuilding of the Colum bia river bridge at Wenatcbee at a cost of $1,000,000. Immediate conversion of an initial group of 12 shipping board cargo ves sels to Diesel-propelled types is plan ned by the board whose experts have been studying for several months a program which eventually will involve an expenditure of 125,000,000, author ized by congress for this purpose. President Coolidge has signed the Ml providing the means. EXPECT VALUATION REPORTS Commerce Body Likely to Act This Summer on Railroad Values. COOLIDGE AND Washington. D. C -- Valuation re ports fixing the final values of Import ant railway systems of the Uuited States are expected to be issued by the interstate commerce commission ibis summer. The valuation work has progressed to the stage where a mini her of reports on large systems may be completed in the next few month! The field work of the bureau of valuation. involving investigations made in the field by engineers, land appraisers and accountants, has been practically completed. Records of the bureau of valuation show that the underlying reports which are made the basis for tenta tive final valuations have boon com pleted as to approximately 95 per cent of the total steam railway mile age in the country. Tentative valuation reports, have been completed as to 22 per cent of the mileage. Valuation of railroads began in HIS, when congress mado an initial appro priation of $100,000. In that year the commission tiad 31 employes in lis bureau of valuation and expended M, 3T2.91 for valuation work. By 1915 the expenditures had in creased to $2.1S3,296, and the num ber of employes had increased to 1291. i:p. iuiitures and the number of em ployes increased until 1919. when ex penditures totaled $3. 560. 098 and the number of employes totaled 1530. in 1920 expenditures decreased to $2,989,021 and the number of employes dropped to 990. The following year the expenditures were $2,733,000 and the number of employes 926. in 1922 expenditures further decreased to $1. 595.000 and the number of employes declined to 5S5. At present the bureau of valuation has approximately IM I n ployes and congress has authorized an appropriation of $647,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925. Valuation of the railroads was start ed in 1913 with the general expe' ta tion that It would be completed In about three years. The magnitude ot the undertaking was not realized si that time. The work is now In its tenth year and it Is estimated that two or three more years will elapsi before final valuations have been madi on all the railways of the country, al though officials directly In charge of the work decline to give an estimatt at this time as to Just how much long er it will be before final valuation re ports have been completed. When the reports have been issued the final values found will have to b brought up to date, the final values being fixed as of June 30, 1915, 1916 or 1917. Many of the final values fixed by the commission will be contested In the courts by the railroads and liti gation will delay the final establish ment of value as a basis for rate mak Ing. Japanese Seek Entry. Seattle, Wash. Immigration in spectors examining 238 Japanese Who arrived here Monday aboard the Ad miral oriental liner President McKiu ley with passports from Japan, found scores who claimed long years of resi dence In this country could not, speak a word of Kngllsh, according to of ficers of the Immigration station. Advices received by the department In Seattle asserted that 2700 Japan ese will seek entrance to the United States through this port before July 1, when the Japanese exclusion act be eomes effective. Dozens of brides and bridegrooms were among the pas sengers. w HE Republican National Convention Comes to End. Lowden Declines to Run. Convention Hall, Cleveland, O. President Coolldgo was nominated Thursday by the republican national convention lu a proceeding which was actually a ratification meeting. Duly dissentlug votes from Wis cousin and North Dakota prevented l.owden, ex governor of Illinois, and he had refused to accept tho place. The convention wan later adjourned. President Coolldgo'a nomination was accomplished with only a ripple of dissent from Wisconsin and North Kiikotu. tuil the nomination of his run the president's nomination by acclatu niug mate came only utter the con atlon and making it unanimous. I vent ion hud once chosen Lowden and Nominated by his personal friend, hud been forced by his declination to Or. Marlon Leroy Burton, president choose another the "Hell and Maria" of tho University of Michigan, the I general. president received ' solid blocks of Aft0I. ft 8lu,rt nu,0 wltn Herbert votes from all the states on the final Hoover, who canto into the ballottinl rollcall except from those mentioned. fur , declination of Lowden, Before the first and only rolleull i ptt woa galloped off with tho nomlna was halt completed tho story of his j tmn victory had been told, as state In state tho votes of solid delegations from east, west, north and south were thrown to his support. CALVIN COOLIDGE Motions to miike it unanimous and by acclamation were disturbed only hy the dissent from Wisconsin and North Dakota. In u brief and spectacular fight In which William ltutler, President Cool idge's campaign malinger, bad said to Si ttator Kced of Pennsylvania, "It Renee Adorec 4 41 1) 4) 4 4. f 4) f Warship Hits; Floated. Norfolk, Va.--The battleship West Virginia, which went aground soon after leaving Hampton roads for Prance Monday, was pulled off the mud bank, where she had held fast at high water and proceeded to Lynn Haven roads to anchor for minor re pairs. Mine sweepers and tugs pulled the ship free. Aboard were members of the navy contingent of the American Olympic team, whose departure tuu now been delayed through the no k ing of a condenser head and the los ing of a tower when the West Virginia 'Treaaure" Lead. Nine persons are reported to have been killed and a score of houses struck In a dredge channel washed away in Mercer and McDowell counties, West Virginia, Monday by a flood following a heavy rain storm that reached the proportions of a cloudburst. Sections of Norfolk & Western railroad branch lines and sidetracks to a number of mining operations were washed out. Following the unanimous passage of an emergency resolution presented by the New York delegation to the Gen eral Federation of Women's clubs' 17th biennial convention in Los Ang eles, Cal., Monday, telegrams were sent to chairman of all political con ventions urging them to Include in their platforms a plank indorsing America's adherence to the world court and further urging all parties to provide for all possible co-operation with other nations for world peace. Stolen Reno, Nev. Six bars of bullion, stolen last Friday from a railroad at Gerlach, Washoe county, Nevada, and supposed to be worth $6000, were really 97 per cent lead, according to a dispatch received from a print agent by Chief Kirkley of the Reno police. One man, under arrest here, confessed the theft of the "treusure" and It was being searched for in San Francisco, Sacramento and other places. The value of the bars Is $60. St. Paul, Minn. - Magnus Johnson, Minnesota's "dirt, farmer" senator, was renominated on the farmer-labor ticket, by an overwhelming plurality In Mon day's statewide primary, returns avail able at 10:30 P. M. showed. He de feated two opponents. 1 (J tTNnrrinniignpxa charles g I m PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. ALEXANDER REID I'll) nil Ian and Surgeon II.V .'I'll. I. A OIUMION G. L McLELLAN, M. D. I'liyslclan ami Hurgnun I ratorual Building Mtniiflvld, Oregon DR. F. V. PRIME II i : N T I H T II Y Denial X-ray ami llnguoNln IIICHMIHTOV, OIIK. Bank Hulldlug Phones: Office 93. Residence TIL Now Ion Painless Dentists Dr. H, A. Newton, Mgr. fur. .Main and Webb Nta. I'oiidleton BUSINESS CARDS One of the acraen's moit beautiful and talented aetreaaes, Renee Adorce. Is not only well known In this country among the "movie" etara, hut It famed abroad for her Interpretive dancing. She la a brilliant mualclan and a clever song writer. She haa a fair complex Ion, soft brown hair and blue eyas. 0 Have You This Habit? By Margaret Morison Umatilla Pharmacy J W. li. smith, lrl. Mall order given -" lul atten tion. Quick Service Snl Ufact Ion QimrmittMHl I null ilia, Oregon JOHN VAN TRIM, JR. DAWES mutt bo Hoover." and Senator Heed had replied, "I can't be done, it must he Dawes." the linwes supporters, Convention Hall. Cleveland, O. -Charles (!. Dawes of Illinois, the "Hell and Maria" general, was nominated for after the declination of ex Governor the vice-presidency by the republican j l.owden of Illinois, marshuled their national convention Thursday night I forces and put the general across for after It once had nominated Frank O the nomination. 48 MEN KILLED BY SHIP BLAST be given any theater showing Amer lean films and have warned "patriots." as the most active supporters of th boycott term themselves, not to use intimidation as a weapon for gaining the assent of tho theater owners to plans to bar American plcturos. Tho leudlng Toklo theaters plan to continue using the American films. San Pedro, Cal. Two premature plosions killed three officers and 45 j men of the battleship Mississippi 1 Thursday and injured a score of others, and the menace of death still hounded the crippled dreadnaught as she left her dead and Injured behind j Tax Refund tO Be Prompt. and headed out to sea to protect har- Washington, D. C Taxpayers who h,ir t(ff nnfl hiiit.!n, from Ihrt noril ....1.1 .,. ..... ..... "" - 1 puiu me inn amount ot tlielr Income of a third and Imminently axpected blast. The first explosion occurred at 1 P. M. while the Mississippi was en gaged in target practice off San Clem ente island, 45 miles from here, spread -Ing death among the 88 men In No. 'I turret. Officers said the premature blast might have been due to a sailor giving the signal for the electric flash Igniting the charge in one of the tur ret's 14-Inch rifles before the breech was properly closed, or it may have resulted from a "flare back" caused when a fresh charge was being loaded into the breecb. As the stricken ship reached the goal ot its race for surgical assist IBM I he hospital ihlS Heli, r, jn j U side the breakwater here a second blast rocked the vessel. The charge In the damaged turret's second 14-inch rifle exploded, hurling the steel pro jectile out to sea. Embassy in Japan Acts on American Boycott Tokio. The boycott on Ann i e n made motion picture films, due to re sentment because of the recently en acted exclusion of Japanese lmml grants from America, has been brought to the attention of the Japanese gov ernment by the American embassy here. Tho direct cause of the embassy's action was a complaint from repre sentatives of tho American film com panics at Kobe, who reported that the boycott movement was progressing In western Japan and asked assistance In combating It. At the same time the boycott here was breaking down. The police hav announced that full protection wl tax on March 15 will not have to wait until December for the refund of one fourth of the amount, aa seemed like ly as tho result of the failure of the de ficiency appropriation bill lu the re cent session of congress. Director of the Iludgot Lord has ap proved an arrangement by which the treasury will pay the refund out of another appropriation. The deficiency bill carried an appropriation of Ilfi. 140,000 for refunds to those who puld the entire amount of their tax on March 15 In advance of the union of congress In the new tux law granting a 25 per cent cut on taxes on Incomes of 1923. Congress In the unnual treasury department appropriation bill appropriated $105,000,000 for tax re funds In connection with the settle ment of disputed tax cases. Under tho arrangement which has now been made the treusury will draw upon the $105,000,000 fund In refunding amounts due to taxpayers who paid In full on March 16. Baby Drowna in Pail. Albany, Or. The nine-months old baby of Mr. and Mrs. J. FItzwater of Stayton was drowned Saturday after noon when It fell Into a pall of water setting on the porch. Mrs. FItzwater left tho house to attend to some duties In tho yard. rhe child crawled after her until It was attracted by tho pall. The Infant fell head first into tho con tainer and was dead when Its mother returned to the house, Two Bombs Shake City. Harrisburg, III. Two dynamite bombs exploded early Sunday, shaking the entire city, and causing tho partial destruction of two houses and break Ing the windows of several other ad jacent homes. No persons were Injur ed by the explosions. Tho bombs were thought to have been sent by persons opposing re cent liquor raids in Saline county, III Isabel, S. D. A tornado which struck (Had valley, In Ziebach county, west of here, lute Kuturduy, caused probably a score of Injuries. Property damage may run over $100,000, ac cording to word received hero today. Storm Leaves 12 Dead. Johnson City, Tenn. Twelve known dead, four seriously injured, more than dozen Iiousoh, burns and mills de molished mid thousands of acres of farm crops ruined, constitute tho toll of the most disastrous cloudburst ever recalled In this section. It appeared to have Its center near Hunter, on Little Sloney creek and ISIuo Springs croon, where a house, In which two families lived, went t'o pieces, taking nine lives. JOHN VAN T1UM, Jit. U IMtatOntl business muntigcr In the nig oltlce, j and. when Ida chief learned thai JobO'll wife was expei tlng her tlr-t l.al.y he asked the Van Trims lo spend a week-1 end out of town with him ami hla sis ter. The night of their arrival WMl hot nml breuthless. Mrs. Van Trim appeared for dinner In s simple, treat looking dress, open becomingly ut the neck, that set off her pretty fulr bulr. j Her husband, win. hud arrived freta the city on the sume train, cume In wearing his business suit, hla collar wilted, his trousers needing praattof, his hnlr disheveled. Afterward the chief spei.,. ,,f , harm Ing Mrs. Van Trim, but when hi nlxter suggested unking out the young COtaJJktol again, be was silent. She unni-r-d bis unspoken nfimmanl 1 "It wasn't very worldly wis of the boy to come In so dragged looking, mv dear; but there wasn't much time, a.id he must have been hot and tired." "That's Just my objection." replied the chief. "If by this time fa Trim can't munnge. In spite of olntucles, , be preventable on a vlalt to hU boas, he hasn't the bruins I'm looking for." vertheless, the chiefs hliter kepi In touch with the Van Trim CM &, Ave years Inter, whpn her brother asked her what she knew of their for tunes, she had to admit thai John had gone down hill, for she whs renieiu berlng his baggy knees, his QapeUahed ahoes. his frayed cravat aid lolled ,,, lar and neglected nails. What Blfhl have bee.1 explained as "mere" laI ness five years before was actual slovenllneaa now. Then the chief retired and he ami hi alster went abroad to live. Years later they returned for a hlt One day the new president of the old CM cern came out to we them. He was 11 distinguished, energetic, courteous ,-en tleman of forty-five or fifty. They to membercd him a a clerk working un der John Van Trim, and they nuki'M him what he knew of the Van Trims He hesitated. "A sad thlru:." he said, finally. "Van Trim simply didn't make good. 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