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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK OREGON IN FIRST CALL Plans for Sending National Guard to France Announced by W ar De partment 26 States Share. HOPS ARE ON INCLINE n e w s ! CAMADIAKS CAPTURE i: STATE NEW PEACE OFFER 1 IN BRIEF. HILL 10, NEAR LENS COMES VIA ROME Decrease in Acreage Due to Prohibi tion Wave Causes High Priree- Washington, D. C. - Plans for send ing the first National Guard troops to Brief Resume Most Important France have been perfected by the Dominating Point Easily Taken War department with the organisation From Teutonic Defenders. Daily News Items. o f a division which w ill include troops from 26 states and the District o f Col umbia. Word to this effect was sent ou Tuesday. The states from which the National Guard troops are to be assembled are: Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Brents o f Noted People, Governments New York, Ohio, Georgia, Alabama, Barrage Fire Clear* Way Up Hill and Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Liquid Fire Illuminate« Trenches siiJ Pacific Northwest and Other Maryland, South Carolina, California, and Low-Lying Rain Cloud*. Things Worth Knowing. Missouri. Virginia. North Carolina, Kansas. Texas, Michigan, N ew Jersey, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Colo rado and Oregon. British Front in France and Belgium The Canadian casualtiy list issued The others come from the District — A fte r the brilliant advance Thurs Tuesday night contains the following o f Columba. day morning, in which the Canadians names o f Americans killed in action: captured H ill 70 and then swept on W. H. Bland, Black Bear, Idaho. J A P A N E S E M ISSION A R R I V E S northwest o f Lens, the attacker« were Nineteen Portuguese fishermen o f in close grips with the Germans in the Provincetown were drowned when the dories in which they were fishing off “ We Are W ith You. Heart and Soul.” western part o f Lens late in the day. Their losses were slight. Says Ambassador Extraordinary. Cape Cod were swamped by a gale that The attack began at 4:25 o'clock, came up suddenly Friday afternoon. A Pacific Port— A Japanese mission just as the first streaks o f dawn were The first three bales o f Georgia's to the United States arrived here appearing. A ll night the British big new cotton crop to arrive in New York Tuesday, and proclaimed, almost at guns had been pouring a steady stream were auctioned from the steps o f the o f high explosive shells into the G er Cotton Exchange Wednesday for $700. the moment o f landing, that its mem man position, the detonations overlap N early 50 cents a pound. The money bers came officially “ as comrades in a ping one another by the rapid crack was given to the Red Cross war fund. gigantic struggle, which involves the ling of a machine gunfire and swelling Liberty bonds fo r the first time liberties and the sacred rights o f man into a mighty volume o f thunder that shook the earth and stunned the senses. since the second or third day's trading kind." Then, a short time before the hour in them on the N ew York Stock Ex “ W e are here,” declared Viscount o f offensive arrived, the batteries change, sold at par Tuesday. Last K. Ishii, ambassador extraordinary, week they sold as low as 99.52, which and plenipotentiary, responding to an ceased abruptly, and a strange, almost represented a depreciation o f $4.80 per address o f welcome from the mayor, oppressive stillness, fraught with the portending cataclysm which must fo l $ 1000 . “ as the representatives o f Japan on a low, crept over the country, which un The medical corps o f the United mission o f friendship and good will. til then had been an inferno o f death. “ W e come as allies in a common States Arm y in France announced F ri It had been raining, the gray clouds day that the French had turned over to cause. We are with you, heart and still hung low over the trenches, where it two large m ilitary hospitals and also souL” crouched the Canadian infantrymen, He referred to the Nation's war waiting eagerly for the arrival o f the a large medical depot. American base panoply, and its meaning to Japan. hospital units are manning these insti moment which would summon them to “ W e are particularly glad to be here the attack. tutions. just at this tim e,” he said, “ when all Suddenly, 10 minutes before the Sinking o f the American steamer America is showing courage, patriot time set for the attack, every British Campana, a Standad Oil tanker, with ism, energy and whole-hearted zeal. gun within range broke out with a the probable capture o f her captain “ Naturally, Japan is interested in hurricane o f shelling, and solid lines of and four members o f the naval guard your preparations. W e are glad to crimson lightning belched from the by the attacking German submarine, see them. Not a single sensible per German trenches as the explosives was announced Tuesday by the Navy son in Japan sees anything in your broke atx>ut them. department. preparations but great benefit to both To this lurid picture was added the A fte r visiting practically every sec countries in the future. unforgettable spectacle o f the burning “ W e have always had confidence in oil which the British threw on the tion of Oregon o f any consequence agriculturally, Governor Withycombe the fundamental justice, sound sense enemy lines. Great clouds o f pinkish- made the statement that Oregon is and broad vision o f Americans. We colored smoke rolled across the country facing the nearest approach to a crop are glad o f your preparations on land from the flaming liquid, and the murky failure o f anything he has seen in his and sea, because we believe they sky threw back myriad colors from the 46 years’ experience in watching crop mean an earlier peace.” conflagration below. condtions. The moment o f attack arrived, and Sunburned Western ranges, with the S U M P T E R . OR ., IS IN RUINS as the British guns dropped their pro tecting barrage in front o f the Cana price o f imported hay and feed almost prohibitive, are likely to cause a de Fire Completely Sweeps Town Off the dian trenches, the clouds parted, and the yellow crescent moon appeared. cided drop in the price o f beef before M a p -L o s s Said to be $200.000. Under the light o f this beacon, the December 1, in the opinion o f St. Paul live stock men. Shortage o f feed Baker, Ore. — Sumpter, once the Canadians leaped over the parapet and already has resulted in an influx o f Babylon o f Eastern Oregon, is now a began their methodical advance behind their barrage fire. cattle from the West at the South St. smoking mass o f ruins. The British barrage was without a Paul market. The flames Monday night were eat flaw. Behind it the Canadians mounted Nine hundred and thirty-three Scan ing their way to the woods at the edge H ill 70, and swept along the rest of dinavian ships have been destroyed by the line. On the crest o f the hill, o f the city and the hundreds o f fire torpedoes or mines since the beginning where so much blood had been spilled o f the war, according to the Copen fighters were trying desperately to before, heavy fighting might have been hagen Aftenbladet. O f this number subdue them before the blaze could get expected, for the position was well Norway lost 600, Denmark 187 and such a start in the dry timber that a manned with machine guns. Sweden 146. The number of Scandi forest fire m ight result. The resistance here, however, was navian seamen lost in these disasters The loss is estimated as high as not strong, and it was not until the was about 500. $200,000 and it is known that the in dwellings in the outskirts o f the sub- Placed so that it would have de surance carried is comparatively small, urbs were reached that vigoriouB fight stroyed a 36-inch water supply main so that the once mighty metropolis, of ing occurred. The ground over which to the Ogden city reservoir and the this part o f the country never may be the infantry advanced was honey embankment o f the reservoir, thus al rebuilt, at least it is certain that only combed with British Bhellholes, and lowing the impounded water to rush a small part ever w ill rise from the the barbed wire defenses had been lev eled so that they gave little trouble. down upon the city, a dynamite bomb flames. E very business house and nearly The first serious resistance from the with two fe e t o f its four-foot fuse burned, was found early Tuesday night every residence, church and hall have Germans was met at a point where the been leveled by the flames. More than enemy was entrenched strongly in con by the police. 300 persons are without homes and nected cellars, and here sanguinary In a statement Tuesday, Secretary every effort to relieve the suffering is fighting occurred. McAdoo said prompt passage o f the being made. The place is a sample o f other sub Arm y and N avy insurance bill would urbs with colliery communities, which “ immeasurably increase Am erica’s National 8-Hour Bill Drafted. are so close together and so near the chance o f winning the w ar,” and ex Washington, D. C.— As a solution in city proper that they really form one pressed the hope that the bill would be large metropolis. Lens, before the enacted “ before the first soldier o f the part o f the labor trouble in Western war, had a population o f 30,000, but new National Arm y begins active mil Oregon and Washington, Senator Poin dexter has proposed the enactment by now it is a mass of'ruins. itary duty,” about September 1. congress o f a law providing that eight The Butte streetcar men’s strike hours shall constitute a standard day's Patriot Adds Nine Pounds, was settled Friday afternoon, the com work for all lumber mills, logging Seattle -Lloyd Melvin Hatfield, who pany agreeing to pay the men a flat camps or other wood-working estab scale. Operation o f cars has been re lishments whose products enter into enlisted in the Washington National Guard 10 years ago, but resigned two sumed. interstate or foreign trade. His bill years ago when he became a benedict, Seven Norwegian sailing vessels and imposes a penalty o f $1000 for each was certified into the National Army 90 men were lost in a heavy gale near violation. Thursday, but not until he had partak Greenland, according to a dispatch to Senator Poindexter drafted and in- en o f eight pounds o f beefsteak and the London Central New s from Chris troducted this bill at the suggestion several quarts o f milk in order to make tiana Thursday. o f mill men and mill laborers, both the required weight. First examina sides to the controversy, according to The first one-third o f the quota o f tion showed him to weight 1134 687,000 men drafted fo r army service his advices, being favorable to the pounds. Several hours later he ap under the selection bill w ill be called legal eight-hour day in the lumber bus peared for a second examination and to the colors September 1 and sent to iness i f it can be made National. tipped the scales at 1214 , just suffi training camps between September 1 cient to permit his entrance. and September 5. This information A gitator is Deported. has been communicated to the govern Reno, N ev. — F ifty armed business Raided I. W. W. Send Bill. ors o f all states by Provost Marshal men o f Lovelock went to Rochester Sacramento. Cal.— State Controller General Crowder. mining camp at midnight Tuesday, John S. Chambers was asked by the Wool contracts calling for more than seized C. W. McKinnon, brother-in-law Oakland branch o f the Industrial $18,000,000 worth o f wool have been o f W. D. Haywood and an I. W . W. Workers o f the World to reimburse let at Washington, according to an organizer, took him to Lovelock and them for damage done when their nouncements. The Red Cross has pur shipped him away to Ogden on an headquarters was raided by “ soldiers chased 1,000,000 pounds for knitting early train. Residents o f Lovelock of the state,” last Friday. The dam purposes and the N avy has let con and Rochester are form ing a Citizens’ age was estimated at about $2000. The tracts fo r 4,500,000 yards o f uniform League. John Gilbert, resident o f union’s itemized account included $74 cloth at an aggregate cost o f more Rochester, also was deported. for canary birds and a parrot and $200 than $16,000,000. McKinnon, ten days ago, was driven for potted plants. The controller has no authority to settle such claims. That a special session o f the Utah out o f the Yerington copper district by citizens. legislature w ill be called to act on the Germany Takes Potatoes. high prices o f coal was indicated F ri Railroads Save Mileage. Copenhagen The new German food day by Governor Bamberger, when he Chicago — Extensive reductions in dictator, Herr von Waldow, according declared that, i f necessary, he would passenger train service in addition to to a Berlin dispatch, plans to expro urge the enactment o f a measure to those already made are soon to go into priate this year’s entire harvest o f po make coal a public utility. effect in the Middle West. Between tatoes. He will also conserve all food Damage which may mount into hun March 1 and July 16, the railroads in necessary for human consumption. dreds o f thousands o f dollars was this territory effected a saving at the Cardboard Coffins Used. caused to property and crops by a se rate o f almost seven million passenger Amsterdam— Coffins o f waterproof vere hail and wind storm which swept miles a year in passenger train serv The total reductions already cardboard are now being made in a path four to ten miles wide and more ice. than 100 miles long over nine counties made and those soon to be put into Germany, according to the Tagliche The lids are o f Eastern Central Nebraska Thursday effect in this territory amount to over Runschau, o f Berlin. glued instead of being nailed down. 12,000,000 passenger miles. afternoon. COMPILED FOR YOU LOSSES ARE SLIGHT Foreign Buyers Look Here. Hoard to re Puyallup--Hops can't be bought in o f the state. the valley this week, according to James Pincus, hop broker, who ha* Cull apple* have taken an advance been trying to keep up w ill} the boosts of $2 per ton over the former «easons. in the hop market lately. No prices The Hood R iver Apple Vinegar com are being quoted under 30 cents, and it pany, operating one o f the largest is reported that 32c cent* has been plants in the state, has announced that offered. A t that, though, the fanners it w ill pay $8 per ton for orchard-run are expecting still more, and as a re sound cull*. sult no option* can be bought at any Wood procured from stumpsge will price. Buyers from Oregon interested be used as fuel at the State Hospital in the local crop are adding to the An example o f the for the Insane at least for the next speculation. (w o years, and at the State Peniten change in the market is the price tiary for the next three year*. This quoted on last year’e crops, a little of arrangement has been made by the which is still unsold. Two months ago it was quoted at 6 cents, and now the State Board o f Control. offer is 20 cents. Alderton farmer» J. M. Johnson is to be the new su- are expecting the market to reach 26 perintendent o f Klamath Indian reser cents. vation, with headquarters at Klamath “ The acreage is decreasing faster Agency. Mr. Johnson came from the than the demand,” say* Hugh Herren Colville Indian reservation, Washing in explanation o f the recent soar in ton. C. H. Asbury, special agent in prices. W ith only 60 per cent o f the charge, has left for Reno, Nev. acreage and 70 per cent o f the normal Hears are inflicting heavy losses on crop ready, the shortage in the valley the sheep herds in the Eagle Moun is apparent. This is true o f Oregon, tains in Eastern Oregon, according to California ami the Eastern hop fields. Senator and Mr*. W. H. Strayer, o f Mr. Pincus says that the brewing of Baker. George Jones, o f Richland, is beer has not been on the decrease all said to have lost 23 head from his herd over the country, and in addition, fo r and others have suffered severe dam- eign breweries, who dc|iended on Ger man and English hops, are now forced age. to come to America for them. Advertising for bids on the first This adds to the market and is help three units o f the Pacific Highway ing the farmer who has grown hops improvement to be undertaken in this year to make a good price for his Douglas county began at Roaeburg crop. In spite o f the recent advances, Wednesday. The units are located in Mr. Pincus reports, that probably 50 the northern part o f Douglas county per cent o f the valley crop ha* already and w ill eliminate the Pass Creek been sold at less than 11 cents. canyon. Farmer* who have already plowed County Agent S. B. Hall has estab up their hop fields are not likely to put lished the fact that many deaths among them in again, due largely to the un cattle in the Gresham section is due to certainty o f the market and the spread The a disease called hemorrhagic septice o f the prohibition movement. mia, and measures are being taken to difference is spparent when figures put an end to its ravages. Farm er» in quoted show that Oregon raised 110,- Multnomah and Clackamas counties 000 bales last year and this year it is estimated at 40,000. Washington ran have lost more than 100 animals. only expect about 30,000 bales this The Balderree logging camp near year ami California is 37,000 bale* be Black Rock, in Polk county, belonging hind previous years. to the W illam ette Valley Lumber com pany, is a total loss, and losses o f the Make Survey o f Seed Wheat. company since the fires started Satur Pullman, Wash.— A seed survey of day are estimated at more than $200,- 000. The fire is the worst since 1910, all the counties o f Eastern Washington when a million feet o f timber burned is being made by Professor E. G. in the Siletz basin. Shafer, o f the farm crops division of A peddler, said to be German, and the school o f agriculture o f the State selling courtplaster and medicine and College. The purpose o f the survey is saying he has the sanction o f B. F. to ascertain approximately how much Elgin, a Sherwood druggist, is going seed wheat w ill be available in the through that community. Mr. Elgin counties this fall, so that the college denies any knowledge o f the man. w ill be in a position to answer queries He is insistent on selling to everyone. directed to it as to where seed wheat One o f the plasters is now in the hands may be procured. The high prices for of the chemists o f the State board o f grain are expected to tend to reduce the amount o f seed wheat. health. W. M. Round, president o f the Washington Cranberry Growers’ asso ciation, with headquarters at Long Beach, Wash., has issued an invitation to all cranberry growenCof Oregon and Washington to attend a meeting to be Portland--W heat — Bluestem, new, held at Long Beach, Saturday, August 25. An invitation has been extended $2.28; forty fold, $2.26; club, $2.23; Governor Lister, o f Washington, to red Russian, $2.21. Oats— No. 1 white feed, $50 per ton. attend the meeting. Barley — No. 1 white feed, $48 per The Marine Guard at the Englewood ton. radio station at Marshfield has E>een Flour— Patents, $11.60. increased by the arrival o f 13 men from M illfeed- Spot prices Bran, $37 per Mare Island, under Sergeant W. S. ton; shorts, $40; middlings, $47; rol Hamilton. W ithin the past two led barley, $52; rolled oats, $56. weeks another contingent o f six men Corn— White, $92 ton; cracked, $93. who had served at Cape Blanco also Hay — Producers’ prices Timothy, was sent there. The force, including Eastern Oregon, $28 per ton; valley the original guard, now numbers 25 timothy, $26; alfalfa, $23; valley marines, besides the five operators. grain hay, $16. The skin o f a gray w olf was turned Vegetables— Tomatoes, 850/ 75c |>er in at the county clerk’s office at A l crate; cabbage, 2o/2fc per |iound; let bany Monday fo r bounty. Charles E. tuce, $1.50ti/1.76 per crate; cucum Clark, o f Lacomb, related a story o f bers, 400/ 60c per dozen; peppers, 80/ its capture showing that Clyde Rucker, 10c per pound; beans, 6(</7c; corn, 30 o f Lacomb, had a narrow escape from (ft 36c per dozen. a deer which was pursued by the Potatoes— New Oregon, 240/ 34c per predatory beast. pound. The State Highway commission has Onions — Walla Walla, $1.350/1.50; opened bids and awarded contracts for red, $1.25 per sack. road and bridge construction projects Green Fruits — Cantaloupes, 85 0/ and accepted the bid o f the Lumber $2.40 per crate; peaches, 40c0/$1.26 mens Trust company, o f Portland, on per box; watermelons, $1.250/$1.60 the $500,000 bond issue, the first sale per hundred; apples, $1.350/2.25 per o f Exmds under the $6,000,000 bonding box; plums, 65c0/$1.60; pears, $2.26 enactment. The bid was $471,300 0/2.50; grapes, $1.75; casabas, 2c with accrued interest, the tx>nds dated pound. August 1. Butter— Cubes, extras, 40o/ 404c per Jobbing The Springfield Planing M ill com pound; prime firsts, 394c. pany has called for bids fo r a large prices: Prints, extras, 44c; cartons, amount o f hardwood lumber. The lc extra; butterfat, No. 1, 44c; No. company has accepted a contract for Eggs — Oregon ranch, current re the manufacture o f 1,000,000 tent stakes for the United States govern ceipts, 350/36c per dozen; Oregon ment, according to an announcement ranch, candled, 374r"3 8 c; selects, 40c. Poultry— Hens, 150/ 164c per pound; made by H. E. Pitts, manager o f the company. The work o f making the broilers, 170018c; turkeys, 18/»/21c; ducks, old, 130/ 15c; young, 1700184c; stakes w ill begin August 15. geese, old, 80 / 9c. The body o f Mrs. Katherine Osgood, V eal— Fancy, 1440/ 15c per pound. age 83 years, was found floating in Pork— Fancy, 1940/ 20c per pound. the Walluski river near Astoria Friday Hops— 1916 crop, 180o20c per pound; night. She had been missing for sev 1917 contracts, 30c per pound. eral days and is supposed to have fa l Wool — Eastern Oregon, fine, 680o len while crossing the bridge. 61c per pound; coarse, 58o/.61c; val ley, 600070c; mohair, 580/60c. One hundred Curry county hogs, de Cascara Bark— New, 74c per pound; livered for J. E. Ford, at Bandon, old, 8c. brought 13 cents a pound, live weight. Grain Bags— In car lots, 134c. The consignment was bought fo r the Cattle— Ford market in Marshfield and it was Best beef steers.......... ..$ 8.250/) 8.75 said the price was the hightest record Good beef steers.......... .. 7.250« 8.25 ed in the county fo r such a large herd. Best beef cows........... .. 6.000 7.00 4.000« 6.00 As one o f the direct results o f the Ordinary to g o o d ........ . . United States becoming involved in Best h e ife r s ............... Bulls............................. .. 4.500® 6.00 the world war, the Astoria board o f 8.600« 9.50 C a lv e s ......................... .. school directors has voted to add Stockers and feeders.. .. 4.500« 6.75 French to the course o f study in the Hogs— high school. Prime light h o g s ........ . .$16.650016.76 Car shortage on the Southern Pacific Prime heavy h o g s ___ . . 16.600016.65 lines in Oregon Thursday was 751. P i f f « ............................. .. 14.7600 1 6.26 16.76 While the number is small compared Bulk ........................... Sheep with the more than 3000 shortage some $12.00001». *5 months ago, the Public Service com Western lambs........... 11.600*12.00 mission considers the shortage ex Valley lambs................ 8.7600 9.50 tremely serious because o f the early Y earlin gs..................... 6.000« 8.60 season and the demand for cars due to W ethers....................... 3.50//0 7.00 E w e s ........................... causes created by the war. R. B. Godin, secretary o f the o f Control, is at the The Dalles ceive bid* on the equipment Portage railway, owned by the j NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT 2, 42c. Pope Benedict Asks Nations to Return to Status Quo. A L L I E S ’ R EFUSAL SEEN Diplomats Heliev* M ors Ils * German Origin, but Faith o f Not Doubted Vatican la To Consider. Wnshintgon, D. C .- Pup« Benedict made peace pru|»>aats Tuesday which were not unexpected to the United Stalea, nor to any of the entente al- The poasibililivs o f a peace move waa diacuaaed with British Forcivii Minister Balfour a/id Vice P r i d ^ Viviani, when the British sml C ^ega official mission* were in W*»hlngton, and it waa agreed that all the allies, including the United Ststrs, should re fuse to discuss pcsce terms while Ger many occupied the territories »he had taken by forco, ami thereby avoid what the allied stateament considered a German trap. Now the Pontiff’s pro|»>*«l present* the question in a somewhat different light, difficult to meet, perhaps, but it offers a war-weary world a hope for peace. Germany and her allies are ex|>ected to promptly accept the Pope's prt>- poaals. American official* acknowledge that the Vatican’s proffer is o f s nature calling for a reply. Diplomats o f the entente circle express nothing hut unanimous opinion that it would be re jected. American official* realize that a convincing reply is required fur the world's page of history. That the pro|>osala cannot tie accepted a* they stand i* certain. That they w ill not be accepted at alt i* probable. The Pope suggest« restoration o f Belgium, Serbia and Roumania and peaceful aolulion o f the problem* o f Alsace-I^irraine, Trent, Trietse ami Poland, according to report* received from Vatican aource*. The Pope'a peace ap|>eal prtqiosea that there be no annexation ami no in demnities, except in special case«, such as Belgium and Serbia, the re turn o f Germany o f her colonies in ex change for the occupied departments o f Francs, freedom o f the seas, dis armament and the formation o f a su preme court o f arbitration for the set tlement o f future international dis putes. An official outline o f the Pope's com munication was received here Tuesday morning. Members o f the President's cabinet said it had not been discussed at the afternoon meeting, but some o f the President's official fam ily gave signs o f the difficulty which it has presented. The first appraisal o f the proposal by officials and diplomats was that it was another attempt by Germany, this time working through Austria, because o f the latter’s close relation to the Vatican, to accomplish what the failed in her first offer o f peace— the asnem- bling o f peace delegates at a round table conference, where the interests o f one ally could be played off against the other with the disruption o f the grand alliance as the stake. In no quarter is there any disposi tion to question in any way the good faith o f the Vatican, although the peace activities o f the Roman Catholic elements in Germany and Austria have been prominent for several months. RU S S I A C A L L S BIG M E E T I N G 1000 Persons Invited to Help Formu late Plan* for New Government. Petrograd— More than 1000 persons have been invited by the government to attend the conference which is to be held at Moscow August 25 to 27 to consider in their broadest as|iects the situation o f the nation and the plans for the new national government. Those who have been asked to attend Include all members o f the four dumaa, other persons prominent in public lifs and repesentatives o f all Important or ganizations, whether political, eco nomic, commercial or scientific. Pope’s Plan Hits Market. New York—The announcement of the Pope’s peace proposals, coming a f ter the strong opening Tuesday, gave the stock market a severe setback. Early gains o f one to two point* in steels, equipments and other war is sues and as much as one to five point* in motors, shippings, oils and miscel laneous shares were largely surren dered hefore midday. The only Issues to retain their gaine In part were the active stocks In tobacco. In the a fter noon the market become dull with small net reactions In the active shares. Railway Clerks in Union. Spoksne, Wash. The railway clerks of Spokane are organizing a union, and are ready to apply to the Central La bor Council for affiliation. Represent atives o f the new organization ap peared hefore the council Tuesday night and reported that a membership o f more than 100 had been enrolled. The union w ill Include employes o f the railroad companies engaged in clerical work in both freight and pass enger departments.