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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Brent« o f Noted People, Government* and Pacific Northwest and Other Thins* W orth Knowins. Rear-Admiral W alter Cleveland Cowles died at his home in Redlands, Cal.. Monday, a fter an illness o f week. Abesence o f senators on the sub committee appointed to investigate Senator La Follete's St. Paul speech last September caused a postponment Tuesday o f the inquiry until a fter con gress convenes. According to an Amsterdam dis patch. Maximilian Harden has been permitted to republish his newspaper. Die Zukunft Herr Harden also w ill be allowed to continue his lectures, forbidden a month ago. A t a meeting in Lancaster, Pa., o f the board o f trustees o f Franklin and Marshall College, Count Bem storff’s name was stricken from the rolls. The degree o f doctors o f laws was con ferred upon him in 1912. A. L. Carpenter, I. W. W. agent, was arraigned in the Moscow, Idaho, probate court Tuesady charged with felony, attempting to corrupt and in timidate jurors called in the I. W. W. cases. He was held under $5000 bonds. Employment o f special watchmen to guard every warehouse, pumping plant, mill or other place in Spokane, where foodstuffs o f the value o f $50,000 or more are stored is required in an ordi nance passed Tuesday by the city council. Miss Margaret Fotheringham, a teacher in the Buffalo, N. Y ., public schools, was dismissed by the school board fo r being absent without leave. She had picketed the W hite House and had been imprisoned in Occoquan workhouse. Canada may soon be invited to be come a member o f the Pan-American Union, the official organization main tained in Washington by the 21 Am er ican republics for the development o f commerce and friendship and the preservation o f peace among them. F ifty Italians were arrested in M il waukee, and are held for investigation in connection with the bomb outrage Saturday in which nine members o f the police force were killed and two were injured. It is understood the action followed a confession by a man arrested earlier in the day. Orders for placing m ilitary guards at the Chelsea and Southern Pacific piers in N ew York harbor went to the commander o f the Eastern department Monday from Secretary Baker. This is in line with the plan fo r using troops to enforce the alien enemy proc lamation along important waterfronts. HUNGER GETS TROOPS Russian Commanders at Front Con tinue to Send Ominous Reports on Conditions STATE N E W S IN BRIEF. Many Die. Car shortage on the lines of the Southern Pacific company in Oregon London— A belated dispatch to Reu has been showing a steady decrease for ter's, Ltd., from Petrograd, dated No the last week. The total shortage Wednesday was 1903. The shortage vember 21, say*: "T h e commandery at the front con o f closed oarsVas 785 and open cars 1118. tinue to send in most ominous dis Sparks from the engine in the plant patches concerning the exhaustion o f supplies and reports o f forthcoming o f the E. H. Pruett sawmill near Bend, are believed to have caused the fire hungry hordes o f soldiers invading the which Tuesday completely destroyed center o f population.” the property. The m ill had a daily A dispatch to the Exchange Tele- output o f 150,000 feet and was one of grah from Copenhagen gives similar the oldest o f the sawmill plants ini Central Oregon. reports. It says advices received from A chance pressure on the trigger of Russia describe the situation as more desperate than ever and assert that a 22-caliber rifle which he was clean ing caused 16-yead-old Robert lnge- the country is on the verge o f a bloody mann o f Bend, to fire a bullet point civil war. blank at his 11-y ear-okl brother, According to this dispatch, the] Rus George, Tuesday afternoon while the sian newspaper Volka Narudna asserts two were shooting rabbits a short dis that the Russian armies on the north tance from Bend. The leaden pellet lodged in the boy’s spine, completely ern front have for several days been paralysing both legs. without food and that soldeirs daily Entertaining the driver o f the Cres are leaving the front in hundreds or cent City stage with the strongest are dying in the trenches from cold kind o f condemnation o f the govern and hunger. ment proved the undoing o f Archie The newspaper adds that mutinies Gerrells, who is in the Josephine due to hunger have broken out on sev county ja il on a charge o f treasonable utterances. He promptly destroyed eral parts o f the line. his I. W. W. membership card. Ger General Kaledines, hetman o f the rells w ill be held pending receipt of Don Cassocks, according to the Petro advices from United States Attorney grad correspondent o f the Morning Reames. Poet, is the master o f the Russian sit The State Lime board, at a meeting uation. W ith a trustworthy and disci plined army he is reported to control in Salem Wednesday, decided to pur the bulk o f the grain-growing terri chase an aerial tram from the Green tory, and is rapidly capturing the re back Mining company, of Grants Pass, mainder. The Russian gold reserve, to transport lime products from the which the correspondent says was re Beeman lime quarry, by the state, to The tram w ill cost moved to the interior o f Russia in the railroad. 1913, is now held by General K ale $3000. New trams would cost between $15,000 and $20,000. About 4000 feet dines. ______ o f rough gully land lies between the London— Grand Duke Michael Alex- quarry and the railroad and the coun androvitch, brother o f the former em try to be traversed is in such condition peror, according to a Petrograd dis that the construction o f a road would patch has been imprisoned in Smolny be impractical. Institute, the headquarters o f the Bol- John Shinanek, member o f the State sheviki. Lim e board, and also a member o f the Farmers’ Union at Scio, reported to State Labor Commissioner Hoff Wed nesday a plan for cheap flour and high- Daughter o f Ex-Czar Escapes and W ill priced wheat for farmers, which farm ers in the section o f Scio plan to se Land at Pacific Port. cure. The scheme w ill be placed by Denver— Mrs. Margaret Barry Car Mr. Shimanek before the state meet ver, w ife o f an American banker with ing o f the Farmers’ Unior, to be held at Pendleton next month. Mr. Shim Petrograd interests, was here Tuesday anek states that farmers are arranging on her way to a Pacific port, where, with a miller at Scio to grind their she admitted, she is to meet Miss Ta wheat for 20 cents a bushel flat. By tiana Romanoff, daughter o f the de this means the farmers get the flour, bran and shorts and they estimate they posed emperor o f Russia. w ill get $2.13 for their flour, 17 cents Tatiana Nicolaevna Romanoff es for the bran and 18 cents for the caped from Siberia and w ill arrive at shorts, or a total o f $2.28, after the a Pacific port in a few days to make 20 cents for the miller is deducted. her home in America, according to an On this basis they will sell the flour at announcement made here by the Rus cost, or at $2.13 for a $2.65 sack and sian Civilian R e lie f society, o f New still receive $2.28 for their wheat, as York, with whom the form er grand compared to $1.90, the base price. At duchess w ill become connected. the same time the consumer w ill re The story o f the young woman’s es ceive a $2.65 sack o f flour for $2.13. cape reads like a fa iry tale. She ex The m iller at Scio is satisfied with this ecuted her plan by first going through profit and efforts w ill be made to make with a mock marriage, after which she similar arrangements throughout the made her way from Tobolsk, where the state. exiled form er imperial fam ily is held, A t a meeting o f the Oregon State to Harbin, Manchuria and thence to Japan, whence she sailed fo r America fair board in Portland this week, Sec under the chaperonage o f an English retary Lea filed his annual report and woman. Her guardian in this country turned over to the board $19,297.44, as cash on hand after payng all ex w ill be Mrs. Carver. penses o f the 1917 fair. This repre sents twice the amount o f cash turned over after the 1916 fair, and the turn over at that time exceeded any in the Juarez M ilitary Authorities Uneasy previous history o f the institution. MISS ROMANOFF IS FLEEING W ith the assent of the government the News Print Manufacturers’ associ ation, which represented about 85 per cent o f the print paper production of Over Move o f Bandit. the United States and Canada, was dissolved in N ew York Tuesday as an Juarez— A train le ft here late Tues unlawful combination in restraint of trade in violation o f the Sherman anti day carrying the 500 troops from the Ojinaga garrison who w ill be incor trust act. British cavalry have captured B ittir porated into General Eduardo Hernan station, about six miles southwest, and dez’ forces as "shock troops,” in the Ain Karim , 3J miles west o f Jerusa campaign against V illa in the north lem, according to a British official eastern zone o f Chihuahua state. communication issued Tuesday even These troops were brought here Satur ing. Strong bodies o f Turks are hold day from Marfa, Tex., having been in ing the high ground west o f Jerusalem terned there a fter escaping across the and covering the Jerusalem-Schechem Rio Grande from Ojinaga when Villa road to the north. captured the town November 14. They Reports to the Postoffice department were equipped with new uniforms and o f the amount o f parcel post matter were reissued their rifles, ammunition going to th * American army in France and field equipment, which were taken indicate that Americans there will en from them by American soldiers when jo y a bountiful Christmas. The de they were interned and sent here in partment announced that it is practi bond. cally certain that every package No reports were received regarding mailed before November 13 w ill reach the persent whereabouts o f V illa ’s its destination by Christmas morning main column and this is causing the and possibly some mailed later w ill local military authorities much uneasi g e t there in time. • ness. ___________________ VILLA MAIN FORCE IN HIDING Governor Withycombe, o f Oregon, 3 U. S. Airmen Lost at Sea 60 Hours. announces that each prisoner paroled A French Port— Suffering with cold, from the state penitentiary who has enlisted fo r service in the war w ill be exhaustion and hunger, three American naval airmen were picked up by a granted restoration o f citizenship. French patrol-boat Monday night after Constitutional prohibition was de having been lost at sea for 60 hours. feated in the October 15 election in The men, in a huge hydroairplane, left Iow a by a m ajority o f 932 votes, ac a French base Friday in search o f four cording to the official canvass made by enemy submarines which were report the state executive council. The can ed operating off the coast. When the vass, made on the initial count o f the men failed to return within the usual ballots, showed 214,693 for the amend time other machines were sent out to ment and 215,625 against it. search for them. They returned after several hours and reported that they German is still the most widely had seen no trace o f the missing men. taught foreign language in New York C ity high schools, with Latin and Seattle Clean-Up Likely. French dividing honor* for second Seattle, Wash.— A fte r a prolonged place, according to a report compiled conference between the executive com from the records o f the board o f edu m ittee o f the Seattle Minute Men, a cation. patriotic organization, and Mayor Gill, Sinking o f the American destroyer Sunday, It was announced by the Min Chauncey in collision in the war zone ute Men that a plan had been agreed early Wednesday morning, with a upon for a clean-up o f Seattle that probable loss o f 21 lives, w a, an would undoubtedly remove the ban nounced by the N a vy department. No placed on this city by Major-General further details were given in a brief Greene, commander o f Camp Lewis, report to the department from Vice who has forbidden soldiers to visit here because o f alleged vice conditions. A dm iral Sim*. Actual construction o f the state ma chinery for the second draft got under way Wednesday when Governor W ithy combe appointed the members o f the central advisory board to handle the legal phases o f the conscription act. The personnel of the board includes George M. Brown, attorney general, chairman; J. N. Teal, Portland; Colo nel Sam White, Portland, and Richard W. Montague, Portland. An oil excitement is reported at Powers, in Coos county. In some o f the wells there oil has been ¡found, and it is believed it may mean a big dis covery. There w ill be an investiga tion to ascertain whether there is oil in commercial quantities. Powers is the headquarters o f the Smith-Powers Logging company, and is located in the southern part o f the county on the South Fork of the Coquille river. Blackleg and rabies among cattle are still making their appearance on the ranges o f Crook and Deschutes counties. The past week 20 head of range cattle died from blackleg and rabies. The latter disease is being disseminated among livestock by dogs and coyotes. Practically all stockmen having stock on the range where black leg is prevalent are vaccinating young cattle against the disease. In co-oper ation with the United States biological survey, federal predatory-animal hunt ers are being placed in sections where coyotes are most numerous in order to destroy rabies carriers. The first shipment o f lime from the Portland Beaver Cement company’s Gold H ill] plantj'was made recently, which consisted o f a 40-ton shipment consigned to Medford. Large ship ments will be made to other point* as soon as cars are available. W ith this year's business building just coming to an end at Bend, an nouncement is made o f new construc tion to be started in the spring. W. P. Downing has just purchased a 50x140 business site and will erect a pressed brick building at an estimated cots o f $10,000. Hoosier Sends the First “K flir U-BOAT U. S. Shot Into Germany CHIEF IS I0KER South Bend Man Is Hero of Initial Action by the Americans. GEORGIAN GIVES THE ORDER Indiana Sergeant Pulls the Lanyard Which 8tart* Perehlng’s Attack on th* Kaiser's Arm lee— Americans All Eager for Action. American Field Headquarter* In France.— Indlanu und Georgia divide the honor o f huvlng Inaugurated Amer ica’s land w arfare agulust the Ger mans. A sergeant from South Bend., Ind., pulled the lanyard to send the first shell tearing ucross the valley In the direction o f the German positions. A Georgia lieutenant gave the order “fire !“ The facts were established during th* first visit paid by a correspond ent to the first American battle front. The correspondent reached the American position after a loug motor ride through shell-battered towns. Leaving the motor In one o f the towns, he walked the rest of the way. The first American battery was al most walked upon before It was dis covered. It was so well hidden under the tree* and with foliage about It on a low-hung wire netting. Gun o f .75 Caliber Used. Through the folluge In every direc tion the ground was undulating. At that moment there wus a flush of flame hrough the mist. It wus the crack >f a .75 gun, and following it closely came the noise o f the shell rushing through the air, becoming fulnter und fainter as the projectile went on its way to the German position over the crest o f a hill farther away. The tuud- dlgglng artillerists continued their work without even looking up. A lieutenant from Georgia emerged. He was the officer who directed the first shot. H e led the way down the slippery, muddy hill to a dugout cov ered over with sandbags and logs. There was met a lieutenant from Indi ana o f the same battery who directed the first 18 shots o f the war agnlnst Germany from an observation point On the other side of the hill was found the first gun fired. The tnndd.v gunners were hard at work cleaning their gun. ‘T h is was the first gun fired In the wnr,” the Jaunty lieutenant said. "The sergeant inside the pit there fired It.” Looking into the p it the lieutenant said: “ Sergeant where are you from?” He’s From South Bend. A husky voice replied: “ I’m from South Bend. Ind.” "A re you Irish7” asked the lieuten ant. "No. sir." the sergeant laughingly replied. A t this time orders came fo r this gun and others o f the battery placed In nearby hills In sight and soand of each other to commence firing. The gun on the farthest hill went off with a roar and a faint stream o f smoke was blown backward from the p it Inside the pit In which the corre spondent stood a voice shouted ont the range figures and the lieutenant repeated them. A voice inside the pit a moment later yelled that the gunner was ready to fire. The lieutenant gave the command to the gunners; “ Watch your bubble.” The lieutenant, who was standing on a pile o f mud which had been re moved from the pit, cautioned those about him to place their fingers in their ears. This was done and the lieutenant shouted the word " F lr e l” The gun barked quickly, the noise being followed by a metallic clank and the shell ense was ejected and the gun made ready fo r the next load. The lieutenant told the correspondent the story o f the first shot o f the wnr, punc tuating the narrative throughout with the orders “ ready to fire,” and “ fire,” which each time was followed by the report o f the gun und the whizz of the shell. "W e came up the night before,” the lieutenant said, “ and got Into poaltlon In a driving rain. No horaes had ar rived. I was anxious to get off the first gun and so were my men. I asked them If they were willing to haul the gun by hand to this place so that we could get the first crack at the Germana. They agreed unanimously, so we set out across the fields until we got over there at the bnse o f that hill you can Jnst see In the haze. Hour* to Prepare Gun. "W e had a hard time getting the gun, which we have not named yet, over those shell crater*. But we la bored fo r many boura and finally reached the spot. Then I got permis sion to fire. Strictly speaking, the first shot, which was in the nature o f a tryout for the gun, simply went Into Ger many. The sergeant put a high explo sive shell there at 6:16 o’clock In the morning.” Another officer here took up the nar rative. " I was In an observation point,” be said. “There was a fog as the first shot went singing over. Suddenly the fog lifted and I saw a group o f Ger mans. I directed my gun at them. The shrapnel burst overhead and they took a dive into the ground like so many rabbits.” The lieutenant grinned broadly, shook the water off bis shrnpnel hel met, and using both clinched flat* to punct'iute hi* remarks, said expres sively; “ It was great.” From the artillery llnea to the In fantry trenches waa u considerable dlstauce over more muddy hills. The correspondent found the Infantry In side the trenches. There also were many wires which ran Into switch- hoards, and American uud French op erators were alttlug side by side di recting operations. Bell for Gas Attack. A guide la necessary to reach the first line, especially when some o f the tronchea re-amble Irrigation ditches. The trenches the Americans are occu pying begin from a screened position. On the way there ahuvola and tool* were plied high below a hill on which there was a great bell for giving the alarm In case of a gas attack. There under cover were the company cook* busy warming up food that had been brought up in wagona. Following the guide, the wny wind* In and out from left to right for many yurda between Interwoven branches that have been placed on the sides of the trenches. The American privates In the front splashed through without hesitating, sometimes getting a footing on step ping stones In the muddy water und sometimes not. The trench turns sharply to the right amt a voice warns, "Keep your head down," and the rest o f the way the walking la difficult Hailing near a machine gun. the Ger man positions directly opposite on a hill could be seen across the barbed wire o f No Man's land. Lights a|>- pen rod In a little town to the left. There ts a sort o f a gentleman's agreement In this sector that towns over the line are not to he shelled. If one side violates the agreement the other aide promptly fires shell for shell Into a hostile town. General Hlbert, who has Just com pleted a tour o f the trenches, was asked how the morale o f the Ameri cans In the trenches was. He replied: “ Morale? How could the morale of Americans be anything hut good?” PARENTS SHOULD HAVE TWO NAMES FOR BABIES Indianapolis, Ind. — Because parents haven't always got a name for their hnhy when It la born, the state o f Indlnnn Is spending $150 n month more than necessary, according to Dr. J. N. Ilurty of the state board o f health. "Th e state Is spending shout $150 a month In writing to homes, from which physicians have sent In report* o f births without the numes o f the babies attached. “ Parents ought to have two names ready, one for a boy and one for a girl. Sometimes both can be used.” Commander of German Subma rine Shows Vein of Un- German Humor. IS HERO OF MANY STORIES When Not Laying Mine* He Pull* Pranks That Amu** American tea men— Pay* Two-Daye* Visit at Dublin Hotel. Base of American Flotilla In British Water*.—There Is a German submarine commander who Is knowu throughout the American flotilla a* "K elly ." Ill» real name Is something quite differ ent, but the American sailor* promptly dubbed him "K elly o f the Emerald Isle," and the name will slick lu the songs and stories of the navy as loug us the great wur Is talked about. "K e lly ” earned hi* name by hi* dis play on various ocenslona of a rich vein o f quite un-German humor. He has become the hero of numberless sto ries told In forecastle and on quarter deck, Not all of these storlea are true, and probably most of them have grown In the telllug. “ K elly" Pranks Tantalizing. “ K elly” commands n mine-laying U< boat which pay* frequent visit* to the district patrolled by the American de stroyers. When he has finished hi* apiMiluted task o f distributing bis mines where they will do the moat harm lie generally devote* a few min utes to a prank o f some kind. Home time* he contents himself with leaving u note flying from u buoy scribbled In schoolboy English und addressed to hi* Amerlcuti enemy. On other occasion* he pleks out a deserted hit of roast line at night and goes ashore with a squad o f his men for a suunter on the bench, leaving behind u placard or a bit o f German bunting na a reminder o f his presence. III* most audacious exploit, how ever— If the legends o f the forecr* are to he believed— was a trip w { lie made several months ago to Du' i where he stayed two days ut a leer | hotel, afterward Joining his U somewhere up the west coust. said to have Informed the Itrltlii Ills exploit by leaving his receipt*« attached to one o f their buoy*. * Still another o f "K e lly 's " more re cent stunts was to plant the German flag on an eminence on the coast line, li * U th* flm time that th* British nnd American* knew Just where ti* and his men had set foot nnd they shared the excitement o f the village folk, who awoke one morning to find a new kind of flag flying from their aa- five soli. Fishermen Burn German Flag. But when they mude sure that It was the German colors they were furious, for It so happened, *<> the story goes, that the flsberiimn along this partic ular strip of coust had suffered much from submarine raids. U-boata bad shelled tliclr boats, Gorninns had sto len their flsh -their only means o f llvo- llhood— and left them empty handed after u week’s hard catch o f inackcreL These poor fisher folk were In no mood for this latest display o f German hu mor, so they, uccordlng to report., promptly burned the flag und set a watch for “ Kelly." Robber Takes Only Potatoes. Hunbury, I ’a.— A highwayman, mask ed nnd carrying n big revolver, held up J. C. House o f Low er Augusta town ship, Northumberland county, here re cently and demanded that he throw up his hnnds. “ I don't want your mon ey, but give me a bushel o f potatoes,” commanded the thief. House com plied, dumping them on the roadside, Snake Fell From Belfry. and was allowed to go without being Laurel, Del.— A six-foot blaeksnnke further molested. Ho had more than $1(X> on his person, he said nfterwurd. fell from the belfry o f the Rlvc-tou (M il.) Methodist church onto the shoul ders o f Sexton Benjamin F. Keunerly, England Need* Road*. London.— It will require approxi j while the latter was ringing the bell. mately $150,000,000 to reconstruct or After a lively clinse the snake was strengthen 15,000 miles of roads In cornered In the church auditorium nnd Great Britain niter the war In order killed. It evidently had made Ita home to enable them to carry the growing In the belfry und fed on birds which motor traffic, says an otnrlal estimate. roost there. DEMONSTRATING USE OF NEW “STORAGE VAULT” Mrs. Schuyler F. Herron o f Boston showing how to bank away potatoes In the food conservation bureau's new “ cold storage va u lt” The vault Is built o f layers o f straw or rubbish and earth nnd covers the tubers a a fe lj from the fro s t