world happenings
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resurre Most Important
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TAX SLASH IN PROSPECT
Half Billion Reduction Forecast -Extra
Session Held Unnecessary.
Events oNoted People, Governments
und Pacific Northwest, amf Other
Things Worth Knowing.
A sharp earthquake shock was felt
throughout the Suu Francisco bay re
gion ut 11:26 A. M. Sunday. No dam
age was reported.
Cardinal Begin, Roman Catholic
primate of Canada, died in Quebec
Sunday morning. Death occurred at
13:30 A. M at the archbishop's
palace.
Vancouver, Wash. Mrs. Ellen
Adams, 80, 505 Ingals street, was
burned to death Sunday morning in a
fire which she Is believed by her hus
band, J. T. Adams, to havo set.
Girls stood pre-eminent in tho na
tional prize essay contests for ytmng
BtUdenU of chemistry, winnlg four of
the six scholarships offered by the
American ChemiBtry society, Herbert
Hoover, secretary of commerce, an
nounced. Reception arrangements for tho
American fleet in Melbourne, Austra
lia, continued energetically Monday.
A school holiday has been proclaimed
for July 24, tho day tho floet arrives.
Zetb Lane, reputed wealthy lumber
mill owner of Colvillo, Wash., died
Saturday night at his summer home
in the Valley of tho Moon, near Sono
ma, Cal. Death was due to a heart
attack. He was (it! years old and Is
survived by his widow, a son and a
daughter,
The Rumanian government probably
will Bend no note to Washington re
garding payment of Rumania's debt to
the United states until Premier Brat
iauo has discussed tho general debt
Bit nation with the French and British
governments.
New evidence of corruption in the
enforcement or prohibition has been
disclosed to federal authorities in
numerous instances as a result of the
efforts of Asslstunt Secretary And
rews of the treasury to rebuild the en
forcement system.
A special dispatch from Bucharest
states that tho Rumanian government
lias consented to the export of tio.ooo
carloads of wheat In the final harvest.
A reduction of the export tax also is
granted becauso of tho prevalent low
prices of wheat In tho world markets.
A conference of trade union execu
tives In London Friday approved a
plan for a great alliance embracing
millions of British workers, including
miners, railway men, engineers, ship
builders and transport laborers. The
question then was referred to the var
ious unions to consult their members
and report to a further conference.
Harold (I. Bretherton, American
Vice-consul at Aguuscallentos, Mexico,
was shot in the back and slightly
wounded on the night of July Hi. The
American embassy at Mexico City has
I n Instructed by the state depart
ment to take up the case with tho
Mexican foreign office for Investiga
tion and punishment of tho assailant.
For the first time in Its history, the
commonwealth of Australia has turn
ed from London to New York for Its
external financing. J. 1". Morgan &
Co. announced Friday the purchase of
a 175.000,000 Australian loan, which
will bo offered for public subscription
next Monday. Simultaneous offering
of a i 5,000.000 loun will bo made in
London.
Montana farmers Saturday present
ed their side of the export wheat rate
controversy before Examiner Jewell of
the interstate commerce commission.
These witnesses declared themselves
as unalterably opposed to cancellation
of the export rate to North l'aclflc
terminals, insisted that tho rate hns
brought better prices and more com
petition and demanded that the farm
er and the state be given opportunity
for agricultural development.
A Minneapolis engineer. H. J. Smith.
Saturday declared be had discovered
a mysterious new force, "black rays"
of the sun. which exert a pushing in
stead of the pulling power hitherto
supposed to Iw oue of the influences
keeping (lie earth in its orbit, and he
has so far demonstrated the truth of
his claim that Dr. Henry A. Erlkson,
head of the physics department of the
Fnlverslty of Minnesota, has aband
oned plan for a vacation and shut
himself up in hi laboratory to see it
the law of Newtou must be scrapped
or amended.
Swampscott, Mass. President Cool
iflge, plunging into his first real con
sideration of the administration's leg
islative program for next session, Mon
day received an encouraging report
from Senator Curtis of Kansas, the
republican leader, on the prospect for
a heavy tax cut.
A reduction of at least $300,000,000
is in prospect on the basis of treas
ury reports hd has gone over, Sen
ator Curtis told the executive. He
emphasized, however, that should the
program for reorganization of the gov
ernment departments be enacted, a
cut of half a billion dollars seemed
possible. He presented no specific
plan for tax reduction.
Senator Curtis, who came here as
the house guest of the president, also
gave encouraging reports on tho farm
outlook. He confirmed Mr. Coolidge's
view t hat no special session of con
gress was necessary now. He declar
ed against an extended fight to revise
the senate rules at the next session,
lest It impede the passage of import
ant legislation.
(iood prices and good crops were
making for satisfaction among the
farmers generally, the Kansas senator,
who has just visited in the middle
west, reported. He believed, however,
legislation to aid the co-operative mar
keting system should be enacted.
Inning the day tho president also
recevled Senator Hale, republican,
Maine, chairman of the naval com
mittee, who has just returned from
B trip of Inspection of the Pacific
const naval defenses. Senator Hale
again urged that a naval base be es
tablished on the Pacific coast, men
tioning Alameda, Cal., as one location
and suggested tho government go
through witli its proposed Improve
ment in Pearl harbor, Hawaii.
U.S. FOREIGN LOANS
EXCEED 9 BILLIONS
$551,591,000 of Securities Of
fered in Six Months.
DOUBLE NEW CAPITAL
Europe Biggest Borrower in First
Half of Year; Latin America
and Canada Follow.
Malady Under Control.
San Francisco. The Pacific branch
offices of the American Red Cross
Monday received from Dorothy Sleich-
ter, Red Cross nurse at Fort. Yukon,
Alaska, word that the influenza epi
demic there was well in hand and
that there was no need for additional
doctors or nurses at present. Mrs.
Blelcbter went to Fort Yulutn Satur
day by airplane from Fairbanks. The
message said that up to Sunday night
I here had been but eight deaths out
Of some 200 cases.
The Red Cross has established an
emergency kitchen at the fort for ac
commodation of those who are ill in
their cabins.
Giant Sturgeon Caught
Hood River, Or. -F. L. Wright Co
lumbia river fisherman, Monday broke
tho record of several yenrs when he
lauded from a salmon net a sturgeon
thai weighed, when dressed, 202
pounds. The huge fisli measured 7
feet and 7 Inches in length. It was
exhibited in the show window of a
meal market with a 50-pound Chinook
salmon and scores of bluehncks and
was viewed by hundreds of motor
tourists.
Shooting to be Probed.
Mexico City. The department of
the Interior has ordered an Investiga
tion of the shooting of Harold G.
Hrelherton, United States vice-consul
at Aguascalientes. Information here
Is that Hrelherton was only slightly
wounded. Washington was advised
Saturday that Mr. Bretherton was shot
nt Aguascalientes July 16. The cause
was not explained, Irut belief was ex
pressed that tho shot was intended
for someone else.
Fort Yukon to Get Aid.
Washington, I). O. The American
lied Cross announced an appropriation
Monday night to cover expenses of
sending drugs, food and aid to Fort
Yukon, Alaska.
Reports received said 200 cases of
Influenza with eight deaths had been
listed thVro, but that the situation
was under control.
$600,000 Refund Atked.
New York. Mrs. Mary Copley
Thaw, mother of Harry K. Thaw, filed
suit Monday In federal court against
Lawrence C. Thaw, her grandson, for
the return of $600,000. She alleges
she gave him this money on his repre
sentation that be had been unjustly
discriminated ngulust in his father's
will.
Australia Loan Taken.
New York. The $75,000,000 Com
monwealth of Australia 5 per cent ex
ternal loan, floated by a banking
group headed by J. P. Morgan & Co.,
was sold Monday.
The loan was over subscribed with
in one hour ufter the books were opened.
Load of Marks Stolen.
Cherokee, la. - Three Cherokee
youths were arrested Sunday while
hliilug In an out field, dividing the
loot from an alleged farm house rob
bery. The loot Included 103,256,000
Herman marks.
Washington, D. C. The nation's
total foreign investment, inclusive of
amounts owed the United States by
foreign governments, Is estimated by
the department of commerce at a little
more than $9,500,000,000.
The par value of foreign securities
publicly offered in this country dur
ing the first half of 1925 amounted to
$551,591,000 as compared to $379,700,
000 for the corresponding period last
year, according to Theodore R. Gold
smith, chief of the finance and invest
ment division of the department of
commerce. The amount of new capi
tal, arrived at by deducting refunding
issues from the total, amounted to
$437,2GG,000, or more than double that
for the first six months of 1924.
There was also a large increase in
the number of issues. Sixty-three for
eign issues had been brought out up
to July 1, as compared with 40 is
sues for tho first half of last year.
Tho volume was below that of the
latter half of 1924, however, when the
investment totaled $830,077,000, of
which $652,087,000 represented new
capital.
Europe was the largest borrower
during the first half of the present
year, the gross volume of loans
amounting to $237,600,000. Latin
America was second with 8151,081,000
and Canada third with $131,910,000.
Asia, which led last year with one
loan to the Japanese government of
$125,000,000, comes fourth this year
with only $31,000,000.
Tho total of loans to governments
nnd enterprises enjoying government
guarantees amounted to $415,G71,000,
of which $312,171,000 was new capital.
Of the total corporate issues, amount
ing to $134,986,000, new loans account
ed for $125,095,000. During the year
1924 corporate loans amounted to
only $150,000,000 or less than one
seventh of the total, while for the first
part of this year they represnted
ubout one-fourth. The actual amount
of Increase for the first six months of
1925 was about $85,000,000. European
corporations received 48,100,000, most
of which will be used as working cap
ital, while for the same purpose Ger
many alone received $36,000,000.
At the end of 1924 this nation's
foreign Investment exclusive of money
owed the United States government
amounted to $9,090,000,000 and It is
safe to assume, according to depart
ment of commerce figures, that this
has been increased at least $437,000,
000, giving a total of about $9,527,000,-000.
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Man Imitates Monkey.
Paris. "I'm the man thnt descend
ed from the monkey," chattered a man
walking on all fours in a crowded
business street of Paris Saturday
when a policeman questioned him.
He refused to walk normally and
was taken in a taxlcab to a police
station where it was found he was
the chief administrative officer of an
insane asylum in the Orne depart
ment. Too close association with his
charges, and not the reading of the
daily reports from tho evolution trial
at Dayton, Tenn., was believed to be
the cause of his condition.
City Reported Flooded.
Tokio. Dispatches from Korea say
a lurge part of the city of Seoul Is
Inundated by a flood, which caused
the Seoul river to overrun its banks.
A special dispatch received here
from Osaka reports all lines of com
munication from that city to Korea
have been severed.
Asahl, a newspaper, says the Seoul
power house has been destroyed and
the city is in darkness und there are
numerous casualties.
Western Pacific Buys.
Washington. 1). C. The Western
Pacific railroad was authorized Satur
day by tho interstate commerce com
mission to acquire control of the
Sucramento Northern railroad ut an
approximate cost of $4,450,000.
The Sacramento Northern will
trausfer both stocks and bonds to
the Western Pacific. An Issue of se
curities, if necessary, was also ap
proved by the commission.
Salem. There were three fatalities
in Oregon due to industrial accidents
during the week ending July 16, ac
cording to announcement made at the
offices of the state industrial accident
commission.
St. Helens. Fishermen made good
t . A 0 1 ... i , i mi e . 1 .
Liti-iicB ui auiiiiuu iusi w ee, i no nsn
came in spurts and it is believed that
the late run is on the way. -The heavy
catch for the week was delivered Wed
nesday, amounting to ZV2 tons.
Hillsboro. Fire, supposedly from a
lantern, destroyed a garage and four
automobiles at the farm of M. Waka
sugi and K. Shigeno near Rosedale
Thursday night. The loss was about
$1000, with about but one machine In
sured. Salem. Frank Griffin of Kerby has
filed application in the office of the
state engineer covering the appropria
tion of water from Josephine creek
for mining purposes in Josephine
county. The estimated cost of the
proposed development is $3000.
Silverton. Appearand of gape
among the birds on the Benson pheas
ant farm has made necessary the mov
ing of all pens. Some of the pens
have been in use since the farm was
started 10 or 12 years ago, while
others were erected during the last
two or three years.
Hlarshfield. A movemnet is on to
have Mr3. C. B. Mulkey appointed
county school superintendent to suc
ceed her husband, who was killed Fri
day at North Bend, when a spruce
tree two feet in diameter fell upon
his automobile, as he was driving
through Simpson park.
Salem. State officials and em
ployes, who in the past have collect
ed 10 cents a mile for the .use of
their private automobiles while en
gaged in official business, hereafter
will be allowed only actual rail or !
stage faires, where these transporta
tion facilities are available.
Salem. Despite the large number
of added law-enforcement agencies
and the crime prevention campaign,
more arrests were made in Salem in
the first six months of 1925 than in the
corresponding period in 1915. This
was set fortli In a report prepared ,
here by Mark Poulson, city recorder.!
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Salem. Jesus Torres, Mexican, who
escaped from the state penitentiary;
here Thursday, is suspected by the of-'
ficers of stealing an automobile be-:
longing to C. D. Benningar. The ma
chine was parked a few miles east of
Salem and in the vicinity of where
Torres was last seen after his escape. !
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SOMETHING TO
THINK ABOUT
By F. A. WALKER
LOVE AND SACRIFICE
TF YOU exhibit a continuous willlng-
ness to love and sacrifice when all
humans about you seem resentful and
unappreclatlve, you have within jour
soul the essence of true nobility.
In wars between nations, in do
mestic turmoils, in the breaking of
home ties, In the struggles for exis
tence, love nnd , sacrifice ultimately
become the final nrbiters.
What more beautiful than the love
and sacrifice of a mother, who re
gardless of the unihitlfulness and
snubs of her children keeps on loving
and making sacrifices for their com
fort and advancement, still smiling
complacently while in ber breast she
is carrying a burden causing aches
and pains from which she would glad
ly be relieved, but refuses to be, be
cause of her spiritual nobility and
simple faith.
The world Is full of such love and
sacrifice, perhaps saving it and its
peoples from divine wrath, but cer
tainly making it better in manifold
ways which we do not in our blind
ness and apathy perceive or consider.
When all men say "impossible,"
when the waters are sparling and
the storms are heating against a
wanton boy or girl, love and sacrifice
stoop down and rescue him or her
from peril.
There Is no depth to which love
and sacrifice Will not descend; no
height to which they will not scale
to accomplish their object.
We may turn In lofty disdain from
the little old woman with dimmed
eyes, gnarled fingers nnd a limp in
her walk, but If we could look Into
her heart and see its every recess the
symbol of love and sacrifice, we might
realize that we have snubbed an angel.
Every first of January we open a
new book with high resolves.
On the first page tlfere are profuse
promises of love and sacrifice, then
follow a few blushing leaves contain
ing hasty scrawls; with the rest of
the volume a blank.
We forget our vows ere January
is done. Just as we forget to pay
homage to the little old woman with
the dimmed eyes and gnarled fingers,
who never falls from the beginning of
the year to the end to remember love
and sacrifice, when she may be count
ed upon faithfully to do until the end
of her days.
( by McClure Npwapappr Syndicate.)
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THE YOUNG LADY
ACROSS THE WAY
Eugene. Timber holdings of the
Anderson & Middleton Lumber com-'
puny and timber along Culp creek,, in
the Cottage Grove district, were ser
lOUSly threatened by a fire which '
started Saturday afternoon when a
charge of dynamite ignited dry slash
ings, according to word received here.
Salem. The Standard Oil company
of Portland hns increased its capital
Stock from $5000 to $100,000, accord
ing ot notice filed In the office of the
state corporation department Satur- j
day. Permission to operate in Ore-i
gonwas granted to the Nelson Steam-
ship company, a California corpora
tion. The corporation has capital
stock of $io;ooo.
Baker. Four assays showing the
high average ore value at ton of $72.90
have just been completed for the
Mother Lode Copper company by W. 1
W. flibbs, assayor. The assays are as t
follows: Gilkison tunnel, copper
value $7.96, gold $20,80, silver $.33.
total $29.09; Balm creek vein, copper
$45.84, silver $.16. total $78.68; South
Halm creek, copper. $11.36, gold $1S.40,
silver $.28. total $130.04.
Salem. Since 1907, when the law
went into effect providing state rev
MM from the licensing of motor ve
hldM, to July 1. 1925, the state has '
collected the immense sum of $26,
815.950.66 from this source of revenue.
Of this total $141. 2S0 was turned into
the general fund of the state treas
ury to and including the year 1912.
and the balance, or $25,341,937.16, has
been expended in the construction,
improvement and repair of state and
county highways, according to a state
ment made public by Sam A. Kozer,
secretary of state.
Salem. Oregon's per capita indebt-.
edness for the year 1923 was lnrger j
than that of any other state in the1
union, according to a report issued
by the executive department. The
large per capita indebtedness in Ore-
gon is due to bonds issued for high
way construction, which, if deducted
from the total, would make the obli
gation similar to those of other states.
W-l.,1.. liof.l -l,li tit., atatd
'. . . . . .. , . . . . The young lady across the wav savs
as indebtedness, the highway bonds notln iliful tlum
will be liquidated through motor ve- cnll(j wlu,se fatntr uud
hide fees and gasoline taxes, and are both dead and to be an orphan with
not a lien on tho property of the state. J one parent Is bad enough.
(A by llcaurt Nawipaper Syndicate)
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IOTABLES
NICHOLAS BIDDLE
TVTICIIOLAS BIDDLE was born Sep
teniher 10, 175X), with a taste
for adventure. So when lie was four
teen, he ran away from his home In
Philadelphia, where lie was born, and,
as tlie expression goes, "went to sea."
He soon got plenty of adventure.
He sailed to Quebec, then to the
West Indies, where the ship was
wrecked, and those of the crew who
survived, were cast ashore on a desert
Island. As there was only one small
life boat, they cast lots to see who
should stay nnd drown or who should
leave ttie ship. After some two
months, the men were rescued and
Biddle's wealthy family secured him
an appointment in the British navy.
He was twenty, then, nnd as he was
considered too young to be allowed to
accompany Musgrave on an nrctlc
cruise, he deserted and shipped with
the explorer as a common seaman, and
went. Nelson, later to become the
world famous admiral, was bis mess
mate. When the War of Independence
broke out, Biddle came home to enlist
nnd stiowed such ability that he was
given charge of ships that went out
and captured enemy vessels, bringing
supplies for their troops. He was the
naval hero of the country. Then one
day he got Into a fight with an enemy
ship and wns wounded. Ignoring his
hurt, lie ordered an armchair nnd,
supported on it, continued to direct
the battle. Ills ship blew up nnd he
perished along with the whole crew,
a mere lad of twenty-seven. Yet he
bad accomplished more than most old
men, during his brief lifetime.
( by Georffe Matthew A. lama.)
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1DHO SAID
"Methods are the
master of masters"
Hp HE man who uttered these words
owed Ids success In life to his
methodical way of doing tilings.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Pert-gord
better known as Talleyrand
was a man of methods and a man who
so thoroughly studied the problems
thnt presented themselves before him
for solution that be became one of the
leading statesmen in the France of his
day. He was born In Paris, February
13, 1704, and died there May 17. 183S.
In the year 170'J Talleyrand was
sent to London on a diplomatic mis
sion. Wliile there bis enemies at home
brought charges against him of being
involved In royalist intrigues and he
was proscribed. In 17'.)4 h had re
mained In England because of the pro
scription awaiting him In France
England passed the famous alien act
nnd Talleyrand was forced to seek
asylum in America. After two years
spent In the new republic. Talleyrand
returned to France.
On his return to bis native land ho
was appointed minister of foreign af
fairs, but being suspected of being In
communication with the agents of
Louis XVHI he was forced to resign
in 1709.
Tuileyrand was one of the first to
recognize In Napoleon Bonaparte one
of the great leaders of the time, and
from this time forward for some years
he devoted himself untiringly to the
service of the "Little Corporal."
In 1S07, following the peace of Til
sit, a coolness arose between Talley
rand and the emperor and In the fol
lowing year Talleyrand secretly Joined
a royalist committee. The year 1814
saw him active In procuring the abdi
cation of Napoleon and working to
place Louis XVIII again on the throne.
After holding numerous positions un
der the government, he retired In 1S34
and died in 1S3S In private life.
Wayne D. McMurray.
fi by Qwni atattbaw idtma)