WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resurre Most Important
Daily Nfews Item?.
'DRY' HEAD TO DROP SOON
Haynes to Be Stripped of All Author
ity New Regulations Loom.
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Events of Noted People, Governments
and Pacific Northwest, and Other
Things Worth Knowing.
A forest fire blaze in tho Pine
creek district, 20 miles east of Wal
lace. Idaho, broke beyond control line!
early Sunday and Is burning over
more tlian 1000 acre.
The return In 1921 by the alien prop
art custodian of several million dol
Inra iii seized funds to the American
Metal company is under investigation
by department of Justice agents here
und abroad.
Greater Taconia's population lias in
( reused almost 6000 in Hie last, year
and is now estimated at 1 :i5,2G7. These
figures were compiled for the R. L.
Polk & Co., 1025 directory and an
nounced recently.
William J. Coobran, prominent
Washington correspondent, died in
Washington, 1. 0 Saturday nigbt
after a long illness. He bad charge
of publicity work for thfl democratic
party In tho 1U20 campagin.
The Canadian Pacific steamer Prin
cess Beatrice went ashore Saturday
south of Skldgate, 500 mileB north
wchI of Victoria, B. 0., In tho Queen
Charlotte islands. Pacific ocean. The
passengers were taken ashore.
The celebrated art collection r the
late Senator William A. Clark, refus
ed by tho Metropolitan museum of
New York, lias been accepted by the
Corcoran art gallery of Washington.
The price Of bread lias fallen again
In Sofia, Bulgaria, as a result of the
bumper wheat crop throughout Hui
garta and it is officially stated that
a further reduction may be expected,
it i expected that the export of wheal
will be five times tbut of any pre
vious year.
Baron Kato, who resigned with the
Toklo cabinet after a split over new
taxation propoaals, was reappointed
premier Saturday, ltaron Kato lias
reorganised bis cabinet by restoring
to their places all mllnsters with the
exception of three recalcitrant solyu
kal party members.
Assistant Secretary Andrews of the
treasury depart incut in Ills efforts to
rebuild the prohibition enforcement
organization, has mapped out a plan
to draw Into bis new corps a dozen or
more big business executives. Indica
tions Saturday night were that tho
plan would be successful.
The Wellington, New Zealand, labor
soclallsls have urgeil publicly that the
American fleet iiH a fleet bo boycot
ted. The Dunedln labor representa
Hon committee hus adopted a resolu
lion urging all workers to refrain from
participating in celebrations being ar
ranged for the forthcoming visit.
('buries C. Hart of Spokane, Wash.,
the new American minister to Albania,
Saturday presented bis credentials to
President Ahmed Zogu. Ho was es-
oorted to tiie government bouse by of
ficials of the American office and a
company of Albanian soldiers with a
bund playing "Tho Star Spangled
Banner.
lien II Hawkins, M years old, Is
near death in a hospital In Seattle,
Wash, after being stabbed with a
knife by IiIh brother ut the home of
their mother. The fight between the
two brothers ending la the stabbing
affray is said (o be the culmination of
ill feeling that existed between them
for several years.
The MacMillan Arctic expedition
reached Klah, Greenland, at il o'clock
Saturday night, after Its long struggle
with Hie lei' in Melville bay. The Na
tional Geographic society received this
Information !n a wireless message
which kuvo no Information further
than that the party found five Ksklmo
families on their arrival.
A 50 year search by Mrs. Ida Heed
of Hdwiirtlsvlllo. III. for her child has
ended successfully with the receipt
of word from Mrs. Nettle May Fuller
of Tacomn. Wash. Thirty years ago,
when her husband died, while they
were residing In Wooster. O, Mrs.
Heed placet! her two children in an
Institution, after which all trace of
them was lost. Recently, Kdward
Heed, the woman's son, found n man
who knew of the case und informed
hliu where his sister could be found
Washington, D. C, Prohibition Com
missioner Haynes will be stripped of
all authority over prohibition enforce
ment September 1.
His duties will be lodged in the 24
prohibition administrators to be ap
pointed under the reorganization of
the enforcement forces effective the
first of next month, and he will act
merely in an advisory capacity to As
sistant Secretary Andrews of thf
treasury.
An order authorizing the transfer
of authority was issued Monday by In
ternal Revenue Commissioner Blair
who, under the law, retains nominal
jurisdiction over the prohibition unit
Actual direction of administration will
In- in the hands of Mr. Andrews, who
was appointed to the treasury with
that end In view.
While the order had been forecast,
it was much more sweeping than ex
pected. It. takes away from the com
missioner all authority he had with
respect to any matters relating to in
toxicating liquors, as well as all auth
ority he has had in approving or dis
approving acts of prohibition agents
in the field.
Moreover, there no longer will be
any requirements that copies of per
mits, bonds or other documents relat
ing to the withdrawal, manufacture or
olher handling of liquors be forward
ed to the commission. These will re
main in the possession of the prohibi
tion administrators, who will be sta
tioned at 22 points in the United
States and in Porto Rico and Hawaii.
While the full effect of the order will
not be felt until September 1, control
or I lie manufacture, sale and use of
specially denatured alcohol is to be
transferred immediately from col
lectors of internal revenue to the pres-
nt prohibition directors, who will act
in Hie respect as administrators until
i lie regular administrators can be appointed.
Commissioner Haynes was absent
from Washington, but it was said at
the prohibition unit that he would re
main in his present place, and that as
idviser to Mr. Andrews and active
le ad of whatever force is retained in
Hie prohibition headquarters after the
reorganisation becomes fully effective,
he will have as many duties as he
can attend to.
Millions Made Quickly.
New York. Kockaway took on the
appearance of a frontier town in the
midst of a I tic gold rush Monday
Then thousands of men and women,
mostly speculators bent on the acquis
ition of easy wealth, crowded the
ocean front to lake part in Hie land
boom fostered by the proposed erec
tion of a new board walk.
hots that a year ago could have
been bought for $40 a front foot sold
on paper Monday for as high as $10,-
000, Stories of fabulous wealth amass-
1 overnight were whispered among
the crowds.
Assemblyman llrunner, real estate
operator who is credited with getting
I lie measure for the board walk nass-
d. said ho turned over more than
$1,000,000 worth of property, lie Is
Credited with having done $(i. 500,000
business last week and he did not
deny this.
AMERICAN ENTRY
IN COURT SIGHTED
Favorable Senate Vote Fore
cast by Pepper-
i
PRESIDENT INFORMED
James H. Sheffield, Envoy, Makes Re
port on Harmony Due to Ex
change of Notes.
Evolution War Revived.
Chattanooga, Tenn. John Itandolph
Neal of counsel for John '1'. Scopes,
recently convicted of violating Ten
nessee's ant I evolution law, in a state
ment given the Chattanooga Times,
loclurod that he would file in United
States district court here a taxpayers'
petition to enjoin enforcement of tho
slate law.
Dr. Neal said that after filing- the
petition he would leave for New York
o confer with Dudley Field Malone.
Arthur Carfield Hays and other at
torneys Interested In the case.
Chicago. Chicago conversed with
Hie Arctic circle by radio earlv M on
lay when newspaper men asked and
ecelved answers to five questions put
to the MacMillan arctic navy expedi
Hon through tin- Zenith Itadio corpora
Hon on a wave length of 140 meters.
I'wenty minutes elapsed between the
propounding of (he first question and
Its answer.
Faint music, apparently of a phono
graph, was heard from the expedition
before the questions were asked.
Boots Save Glrl'i Life.
Ueno, N'o lie, uuse she ore rub
her boots on her father's farm, the
11 year-old daughter of A. Aeschelman
of NeriiiRton. Nov , Is alive after being
strut k by a lightning bolt Saturday
night. It took 20 minutes for n phy
sician to revive her when the bolt laid
er unconscious. The doctor says the
boots prevented her receiving the full
strength of the bolt.
Try to conceive a woman with throe
eulliireu that thorn Is any unemployment.
Two Die In Air Crash.
Oklahoma City. Okls. Karl Wheel
er, Oklahoma City aviator, nnd an un
identified passenger were burned to
Swampscott, Mass. Confidence
that the senate at its next session will
agree to America's entrance into the
world court with reservations accept
able to the other powers, was express
ed by Senator Pepper, republican,
Pennsylvania, on his arrival here late
Saturday to be a week end guest of
President Coolidge.
The senator made this prediction
to newspaper men after he had paid
his respects at White Court. He said
that while his visit was purely social,
lie undoubtedly would exchange views
with the executive before continuing
his journey to bis summer home in
Maine, on the world court and other
issues, Including the anthracite situa
tion, although be had not done so
when interviewed.
Prior to the arrival of Senator and
Mrs. Pepper at the summer White
House, the president had James H.
Sheffield, ambassador to Mexico, as
a luncheon guest and had received
Representative Underbill, republican,
Massachusetts, who reported on his
trip to Hie orient.
It is understood that the president
has been informed that relations be
tween the United States and Mexico
have improved since the recent ex
change of notes between the two governments.
Mr. Underhill said the Philippines
would not be ready for independence
for another 200 years, advocated
strengthening the hand of Govemor-
deneral Wood and removal of the Ju
dicial system from politics and assert
ed that America should encourage de
velopment of industrial projects In the
islands. Enough rubber can be pro
duced there, he said, to supply the
world.
The Massachusetts representative
ilso urged strengthening of the Ha
waii defense and cril Icised condil ions
at t hit- army post on the island, as
serting that the barracks were in u
disgraceful state.
Senator Pepper was of the opinion
i bat the senate in reaching a com
promise on the world court would ap
prove a resolution different in its
terms from any yet proposed. He
said ho believed the slate had been
wiped clean, opening the way for a
new proposal that would avoid en
tangling alliances, receive senate ap
proval and prove acceptable to other
mil ions.
King Grants Amnesty.
Home. An amnesty decree of far
reaching proportions, freeing all po
litical offenders except murderers and
releasing from the JuHs prisoners of
all kinds, has been granted as an act
of royal clemency and a contribution
to national pacification on the occa
sion of the completion of the quarter
cent tlry reign of King Victor Emman
uel. It is estimated between 10,000
and 12,000 persons will be affected.
. Under the decree those guilty of
political crimes will ho freed, except
when the motives were purely person
at and when murder, even unintention
al, was committed. Thus, those ac
cused of Implication in the Matteottl
murder are excluded. The decree ulso
releases criminal offenders In many
mlnor categories, except when death
resulted from the crimes. Those re
leased will include men and women
serving one year or less.
Couple Wed In Hospital.
hongvlew, Wash.- Despite loss of n
leg in a railway accident Friday. I, eon
urd Davis, 31, married Sarah Staukey.
31. of Ostrander, Saturday night The
ceremony was performed by Rev. E.
H. Ciobnrt. pastor of the Longview
Communlty church. In the hospital
where Davis Is now a patient. Mothers
of the bride ami bridegroom and the
nurses were the attendants. Davis
plans to go to school again aud take
up a new vocation.
Fire Hits Texas Town.
Houston, Tex. Telephone reports
at 1 o'tlock said a fire Saturday at
l ib. rty. Tex., had caused a properly
loss of $100,000. In addition to a
block of stores, the Southern Pacific
frame depot was reported to have
been burned. Liberty Is an oil town
death Monday. Their airplane fell a the county seat of Liberty county, 44
few miles north of here. I miles west of Beaumont.
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DA AlEi J.TIJC. W e
IN BRIEF.
Hood River. While no sales of any
consequence have yet been made,
apple dealers here report more in
quiries than usual for this season.
Salem. When the state land board
closed its doors for the week end Sat
urday, George G. Brown, clerk of the
department, had served the state con
tinuously for 30 years.
Salem. James Speirs of Tangent,
who gave his occupation as a laborer,
was issued the first certificate of mo
tor vehicle title under the new title
registration law enacted at the last
session of the state legislature.
Pendleton. Considerable damage
has been caused to Umatilla county
trees and shrubs by red spiders, ac
cording to P. C. Parr, local florist, who
has received reports from many prop
erty owners that the leaves are falling
from trees and bushes.
Salem. The United States depart
ment of agriculture, Mount Hood na
tional forest, Portland, has filed ap
plication with Hie state engineer for
appropriation of water from an un
named stream for domestic purposes
in Hood River county.
Salem. Three boys at the state
training school were reported by
Superintendent L. M. Gilbert Friday
as critically ill witli typhoid fever as
a result of drinking water from con
taminated wells at the site of the new
training school near Woodburn.
St. Helens. Edwin Mattson, 17, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Mattson, of War
ren, was drowned about noon Satur
day at Columbia beach, near Columbia
City, while swimming in view of a
party of Warren Sunday school pupils
who were picnicking at the resort.
St. Helens. The new Rotger build
ing on Columbia street is practically
completed ami will be ready for occu
pancy within a few days. The struc
ture is 47x100, one story high and
built of concrete. It has two store
rooms, one of which will be occupied
by the J. C. Penny company.
Salem. The Oregon state peniten
tiary, with 24 machines in operation
and a crew of more than 50 convicts
at work, now has the largest and best
equipped flax scutching mill in the
world. Oregon's nearest competitor in
the flax industry is in Ireland, where
tjiere is a mill with 23 machines.
Molalla. Harvey Robbins, 92, an
early Oregon settler and a resident of
Hood River, died here Sunday at the
home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Levi
Robbins. He bad come here to attend
a reunion of the Robbins family a
week ago. Mr. Robbins made his
home with his daughter, Mrs. Charles
Carlson, at Hood River.
Vernonia. Fire which started early
Saturday in the logging operations of
the East Side Mill & Lumber com
pany, near Koasey, Or., had traveled
approximately three miles Sunday and
had destroyed one donkey engine and
iome green timber. Most of the area
covered by the fire was an old burn.
Toledo. Threshing began Monday
in upper Y'aquina and Siletz valley.
Prospects are good for bumper yields,
especially oats and rye. In the high
land districts farmers are enthusiastic
over giant rye feed which was import
ed here several years ago. Hay crops
were harvested in fine shape and most
barns were filled to capacity with hay.
Hood River.--Next week a crew of
county road builders will start con
struction of a road about three-fourths
of a mile long around the north end
of Lost lake. A 70-foot wooden bridge
will be built across the outlet can
yon. The new road will penetrate a
timbered area ami open to campers
some of the best locations on the lake.
Salem. -Penitentiary sentences for
persons convicted of operating stills
apparently is having a beneficial ef
fect in the conduct of this class of law
violators, according to William Lev
BB9, state prohibition commissioner.
Mr. Levens reports that within the
Inst two weeks as many as a dozen
abnndned stills have been found in
various sections of the state.
Salem. J. W. Timpson, Washington
manager for the Utah-Idaho Sugar
company, arrived here Friday to in
spect the various soils in the Willam
ette valley to determine their adapta
bility for the growing of sugar beets.
Mr. Timpson said that tests made
here previously indicated that much
of the land in the Willamette valley
would produce sugar beets on a com
mercial scale.
Eugene. The Harrisburg Junction
City section of the Pacific highway,
recently paved, will be opened to traf
fic August 7, It has been definitely
announced. Several small bridges re
main to be surfaced, but this work
will not alter plans for the opening of
the paved section. The stretch of
highway Is the last to be paved and
provides unbroken pavement on the
highway from Canada to California.
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LJ Last Name
SOMETHING TO
THINK ABOUT
By F. A. WALKER
IS IT WAGNER?
THERE Is a big and nourishing fam
ily named Wagner In tills country.
Germany, of course, Is Where the orig
inal Wagners came from and there It
Is a very usual and very distinguished
name, for besides the celebrated op
eratic composer and poet, there have
been noted men of the name In many
of the professions and arts.
The name became popular because
It was an occupational name of an
occupation that was tremendously Im
portant. For It is Hie equivalent of
cartwrlght or wheelwright some one
who made and repaired the wheels of
wagons. And of course this was a
vital trade when almost all transpor
tation was effected in wagons and
coaches and carriages.
It Is an Interesting thing that the
English name Cartwrlght with the
same signification, is also usual In
England, and numbers among Its
bearers many men of distinction. The
most-known man of the name here,
perhaps, was Peter Cartwrlght of Vir
ginia, a famous circuit' rider and
preacher of the Methodist church.
To get back to the Wagners. Heln
rich Wagner of Schwaver, Wurtem
burg, had a son Michael, born In
MIcbelfeld, Wurtemburg, In 1723, who
was a first settler In the New world.
In 1744 he married Maris Elizabeth
Scllne, and five years later removed
with his wife to Gennnntown, Pa.
Two years after that' they settled per
manently In Frederick county, Mary
land, where they bad land direct from
Lord Baltimore. Henry Wagner was
a fighter in the Indian wars, and he
established a big and flourishing fam
ily. (ffi by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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MORE PRETENDERS
1PHO SAID
"The grave is the
cradle of trans
3 formation."
YXfDAN Giuseppe Maszlni, the great
Italian patriot, uttered these
words, death was staring him in the
face and he knew not but that In a
short time he would he forced to lie
In the "cradle of transformation."
In 1870 Mazzini engaged in an Insur
rection against the Italian government
at Palermo, and together with many of
bis comrades he was arrested. Fate
looked dark for a time for the patriots,
but they did not despair and the threat
of death aroused no fear In their
hearts nor did It make them lessen
their resolve that Italy should be free
and an Independent European state.
After languishing In Jail for a few
months Rome was occupied and the
patriots were freed. Mazzini lived
but two years longer, his death occur
ring in Pisn. Karen to, i7-j.
Of the long list of men who have
buttled for Italian freedom. Ma.zinl's
name stands well toward the top.
patriot was born in Genoa In lfift
was graduated from the University of
Genoa and was admitted to the bar of
that city. Shortly after his gradua
tion Mazzini Joined the Carbonari.
This was a revolutionary party who
disguised themselves Hs charcoal mak
ers or wood burners, nnd took their
name from the trade they affected to
follow.
Mazzini had not long been a mem
ber of this revolutionary purty when
he became Involved In a dispute with
me autnonttes at Piedmont and
marge or conspiracy to wreck
government, he was IrnnrianM
At the outbreak of the revolution in
1848 he became a member of the trium
virate in the republic of Home, but
was again exiled when the papal power
was restored. lteins unwilling to take
the oath of allegiance, he remained
sway from Italy until shortly before
his death. Wayne D McMurray.
(S by Sm Matthew Alum.)
TN ALL communities there Is a class
of men and women who cannot
stand up straight and put a name
upon their actions. If you will take
time to scrutinize them closely, you
will find that they lloat through life
like chips on the waters, governed in
their movements by the whims of the
tides and winds.
They nod an Indifferent good-day
to failures, which in their lives have
a habit of coming often, and quite
as supinely put out a listless hand
to welcome opportunity, not concerned
In the least whether it shall remain or
soar away.
To these people nothing assumes
Importance but their pretentious selves
and their unsought opinions, which
usually are as threadbare as the tat
tered garments of a mendicant.
Being the mere pretenders that they
are, they are their own court, Judge
and Jury, oblivious to criticism and
strangely Indifferent to the scorn of
good society.
From acquired habit they puff out
their breasts, disregard all accepted
laws of propriety and go parading
through life as If they were specially
privileged to embarrass and humiliate
t heir fellow-beings.
Their behavior forms a sort of hack
ground which Is recognized at first
glance by the unassuming, well-educated
and cultured as supremely arti
ficial and brazen.
So thinking and so acting they con
taminate everything they touch.
No man or woman of earnest Inten
tions can come in contact with these
pretenders without experiencing a
feeling of disgust which sometimes is
tinged witli genuine sorrow.
If kindly suggestions should be
proffered, these wretched hypocrites
turn on their heels In mock civility,
bow themselves out and continue
their foolish course In proud disdain.
Like dolls stuffed with sawdust,
they make excellent playthings for
children, but are of no material use
to men and women who are waging
the serious battle of life, performing
nobly their role In the affairs of the
world, humble In their attitude to
wards one another, encouraging nnd
consoling the true-hearted, but con
stantly frowning upon sham.
( by McCture Newspaper Syndicate.)
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THE YOUNG LADY
ACROSS THE WAY
The
He
on a
the
Ihe young lady across the way says
the quiet victims of melancholia are
the ones to be watched and she doesn't
believe there's a person living who
threatened to - commit suicide and
really did.
( by McClur N'.w.pap.r Syo3lcatk