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WORLD HAPPENINGS STRIKE ON OF CURRENT WEEK K lim Disturbed Situation Affected IN BERLIN at U. S. GOES ON NEW BASII_ Criais in labor Many War Factories Trouble Spreads. No lesi than three firms and individ- us la are now securing options on land London — Dispatches from Switxei- SU|>|K>S0d to lie oil-bearing in Coon land and Holland tell o f a general Brief Resume Most Important strike in Berlin and other parts o f Ger Menace of Revolution Gaining S. Army in France Soon to county. President Wilson Gives Out Food many. The Springfield Mill A Elevator com Daily News Items. According to Central News advices pany resumed business Wadneaday and Force Over Empire. Be 500,000 Men. Regulations for Nation. from Amsterdam, nearly all workmen began grinding (lour and feed after a o f the Daimler, Hoersig, Ludwig and shut down o f six months. j General Electrical Works are on strike. Uppor Hood R iver valley residents Trades unions are not at the head o f express the fear that a water shortage the movement, but several trades are will prevail this summer unlesa heavy almost completely at a standstill. snows occur in tho mountains before The Independent Socialists have car the winter is over. ried on an active propaganda during Events o f Noted People, Governments Secretary L ifts Veil o f Secrecy From the last few days, the dispatch says. Kiel Shipyards. Vulcan Works at Has Governor Withycombe stated Wed Food Need o f Fighting Allies Abroad The movement appears to be very seri and Pacific Northwest and Other nesday that he had ordered about CO burg and Great Mining Districts War Preparations - Inefficiency to Be Met by Self-Denial Hero ous, and in industrial centers meetings more guarda from the Portland m ilitia Things Worth Knowing. Charges Fully Answered. Scenes o f Many Walkouts. are prohibited. to be used for |<atrol duty on public Extensive Havings Urged. It is particularly grave in the sub and private property In Portland dur urbs o f Lichterfelde, Heringsdorf and ing the coming week. Johanisthal, where electric works and Secretary Baker denies reports that Reporta from three architects on the Washington, D. C.— Am erica w ill airplane factories are situated. Washington, D. C .- The American 200,000 gas masks made in America Demands Made by Berlin Strikers hive an army o f 500,000 in France estimated coat o f completing the new people went on a war bread diet Mon Strikes also have broken out in had been rejected by General Pershing. courthouse at Klamath Falls were in Their Ultimatum to Im , Rhineland and Westphalia. early this year, with 1,000,000 more made public at a meeting o f the perial Government. day aa a part o f a war rationing sys- A fte r pillaging the Spanish steamer The Frankfurter Zeitung says the trained atnd’equipped ready to follow County court recently. The estimates trm prescribed by President Wlleon Zurich The Socialist paper Vor Giralda Tuesday a Geramn submarine 1 movement is directed against the de- as quickly as ships can be provided to range from $120,000 to $280,000. and the food administration. “ Vic waerts announces that the Berlin sank the vessel, which was o f 4400 i lays in passing the Prussian reform strikers have now become more nu carry them — and the outlook for ships tons. The crew was saved. j bill and the agitation conducted by the Cattle thieves have hern operating tory bread,’ ’ the food administration merous and threatening. They have in Lane county on a wholesale scale, calls It. The same paper Is not unpromising. Part o f the big zoological exhibit at fatherland party. The reduced rations are asked for addressed to the government an ul Secretary Baker gave this informa according to an announcement by Sher the purpose o f creating a larger export the Tacoma Point Defiance Park will adds that the strike has spread to the timatum, of which the following are iff J. C. Barker, who will offer a re Bochum mining district, nine miles be abolished this winter by the City tion to the world Monday in a state ward o f $500 for information leading aurpue o f food for the allies. Curtail the principal demands: Park board as a means o f helping in from Essen. ment before the senate m ilitary com to the arrest and conviction o f the ment o f consumption w ill be accom First— Accelerated conclusions o f A dispatch to the Exchange T ele the Hoover conservation program. plished largely by voluntary effort, but a general peace without indemnities mittee. He bared much that until rustlers. graph company under date o f January force w ill be employed wherever per Appointment o f Mrs. Ellen O’Grady, 28 says that a thoroughly trustworthy or annexations. now has been carefully guarded with The dwelling occupied by Dr. L. L. mitted under the food control art. a widow with three daughters, as fifth report from K iel declares the workers Second — Participation of work Hoy, o f Tillamook, together with ita the army'a m ilitary secrets, in answer The rationing system, aa presented deputy police commissioner o f New , in the torpedo factory at Friedricha- men's delegates o f sll the countries ing charges that the government has contents, was destroyed by fire Wed by the President In a proclamation and York, was announced Tuesday. She is port went on strike Friday afternoon. in the peace pourparlers. nesday afternoon. The fire ignited by Food Administrator Hoover in a list the first woman ever to hold such an In consequence o f this a number o f the broken down preparing for war. Third Immediate abolition o f the from a stove in the sitting room and o f regulations, forms the food adminis office in t tat city. state o f siege and restoration o f the men’s leaders are being called to join From early morning until late after spread rapidly. The contents were tration's 1918 food conservation pro right o f public meeting, suspended noon the Secretary addressed the com insured In the sum o f $3000, Mjaor General Leonard Wood, in the army. gram, o f which the chief features are: by the military authorities. The employes at the Germania dock mittee and a crowd, including many France on an observation tour, was A baker's bread o f mixed flours, be Twin brothers, who look so much F ifth — Abolition o f militarization yards struck Friday, the dispatch adds. members o f both houses o f congr< sightly wounded Monday by an acci ginning Monday, with a S per cent sub alike that the members o f the board o f war factories. gathered in a big hearing room of the dental explosion which killed five could not tell them apart, appeared be stitution o f other cereals for wheat un Sixth — Immediate release o f all Amsterdam — Up until evening o f senate office building. French soldiers and hurt two other la fore the Albany exemption board of til a 20 per cent substitution political prisoners. * Monday, according to a Berlin dis He spoke extemporaneously, begin American officers. inn county in the physical examina reached, February 24. patch, not a single incident connected Seventh— Fundamental democra ning the details o f the mammoth task Sale by retailers to ho'jaehuldera o f artillery duel that assumed in with the strike was reported. tization o f state institutions. of building an army o f 1,500,000, an tion o f draft registrants Wednesday. an equal amount o f subtstitute Hours violence Tuesday morning, has The twins are W ilfred t’ o ehran and In Berlin and environs the total Eighth— The institution o f equal swering such complaints o f inefficiency for every pound o f wheat flour pur been in progress on the Italian front number o f those who failed to appear electoral suffrage by direct ballot. as were cited by Senator Chamberlain Willard Cochran, o f Holley, chased at the time the wheat flour ia since Monday afternoon on the plateau for work was 90,000, most o f them in his recent speech and declaring that The boys and girls o f Grants I’aaa bought. o f the Setti Communi, the Berlin army youthful workers o f both sexes. such instances were isolated and not w ill strive to make the city the first Sale by millers to wholesalers and headquarters announced. The German government has decided London— Strikes by half a million or general. city in the state to become wholly or whoesalcrs to retailers o f only 70 per upon arrest o f six Independent Social Some questions were asked, and Mr. ganized aa Junior Red Cross auxiliar cent o f the amount o f wheat flour sold Two thousand Mexican federal cav more workers in Germany and the pre alry will leave Juarez overland for the ist leaders. The Fast School was the first last year. sentation o f an ultimatum to the gov Baker, from time to time, had assist It is reported that Adolph Hoffman, ants go to the telephone for reports on school in the state to be organized and state o f Sonora to participate in the Two wheatleas days a week— Mon ernment demanding immediate negoti specific questions. campaign against the Yaqui Indians, editor o f Vorwaerts, an Independent now the Fourth Ward and the Junior day and Wednesday and one wheat- ations for a general peace on the basis Socialist leader in the Prussian Diet, Then, toward the close o f the day, High scholars have all signed the leas meal a day. it was announced at El Paso at the o f no annexations and no indemnities, the Secretary delivered a dramatic has been arrested. Mexican general consulate. pledge. One meatless day a w eek- Tuesday better food and a number o f liberal de Vorwaerts, under the heading “ Ger general statement o f the American A Berlin dispatch to the Weser Z ei many, Take H eed,” says: According to a communication re — and one meatless meal a day. mands, indicate clearly that the move war plan, telling o f the coming o f the Two porkless days a week tung says that the government desired “ The movement going through the ment is o f such importance as to cause allied missions, o f the day and night ceived by the State Highway commis a vote o f confidence by the reichstag, masses rests on deep moral grounds; the government disquietude. This is conferences with men from the scene sion from Cheater L. Chambers, o f the and Saturday. Manufacturers o f macaroni, spa but at a joint meeting o f the various it is bom o f the fear that they have proved by the suppression o f newspa o f battle, in which the plans now Eagle Creek grange, in Clackamas parties on Friday the proposal was been misled. pers and Field Marshal von Hinden- being executed were adopted, and of county, the Farmers’ Union intends to ghetti, noodes, crackers and breakfast foods, pie, cake and pastry w ill be per wrecked by Socialist opposition. They want food and peace, and Ger burg’s warning that the strike must success beyond the moat sanguine ex attack further sale o f road bonds through an initiative vote at the elec mitted to buy only 70 |>er cent o f their stop. many free outwardly and inwardly. pectations in building the army, and The Cunard line steamer Andania tion in the fall and to annul the vote last year’s purchases, and are asked to The strike movement embraces gov was torpedoed but not sunk off the And any attempt to hold them by force ernment and private shipbuilding yards, its industrial supports at home, trans o f last spring, by which tho highway perform a patriotic service by using Ulster coast Monday morning, says the is dangerous. A ll thoughts o f an at the mining centers and numerous im porting men across the ocean, cons bonds were provided. substitute Hours. Belfast Irish Daily Telegraph. The tempt to force on the people aims portant factories in the Berlin district. tructing railroads in France and pre Flour w ill be sold through the regu which prolong the war, aims for which paring to strike the enemy with every About 100 fathers o f Yamhill county newspaper adds it is believed that no lar channels and in auch a manner that There also is news o f the formation resources at the country’s command. they never fought, or to keep from the boys in the service o f their country deaths resulted from the explosion. each community w ill receive ita equiv people their promised rights, can only o f a workmen’s council on the model When Mr. Baker closed it was ap- met at the court house in McMinnville Railroads were ordered by Director work as disintergating factors. That o f the workmen and soldiers’ councils p ,rcnt he had cre. ted a profound Im- Saturday and formed an organization alent share. The food administration w ill pur General McAdoo Tuesday to dispense today is our greatest danger.” in Russia. Herr Walraff, the minister urf,N Hlon Chairman chairman Chamberlain Chamberlain said .aid under the name o f Fathers o f Soldiers pression. o f the Interior, has been asked to sanc- so before he le ft the stand. There was and Sailors o f Yamhill County. Frank chase for the army and for the allies, with the services o f legislative and po as announced recently, 30 per cent of tion the meetings o f the workmen's no attempt at cross-examination. litical agents and all attorneys not en Holmes was elected president and the flour output, and out o f this store gaged in the performance o f necessary U. S. A H E A D O F S U B M A R I N E S council, but so far haa given no reply The chairman proposed that the Sec George Shirely. aecretary. Vice pres and is consulting the minister o f War. retary be given a rest, and it virtually idents are to be appointed for each o f will fill emergency requirements if legal work and to observe strictly the stocks run low in any part o f the coun According to some reports the strike was agreed to recall him for further the other towns o f the county. law regulating free passes. Gross Tons on Credit Side is 515,433- try. involves a number o f munitions fac examination later, after thecom im ttee Attacks by enemy a im n on London Loss, 69 Vessels. Wheat millers are required to pro According to the statement o f En tories and some submarine wharves, haa completed ita hearings o f officers and Essex Monday n i g l ' and early gineer Clark A. La Barge, o f Warren duce one barrel o f flour o f 196 pounds but up to this time the railway and N ew York— In the 12 months o f Tuesday lasted inten tently for o f the medical corps, aviation section Bros., contractors, o f Boston, Mass., from 264 pounds o f wheat, which rep nearly five hours, and for two hours in unrestricted w arfare launched against transportation services have not been and other branches o f the service. with headquarters at Portland, who resent* a 74 per cent flour. No patent involved. London there was a heavy and almost American and allied shipping by Ger W hile many things disclosed were It is not clear whether it is a strike impressive, the committee was frankly was at Toledo Thursday, there is a or special flours may be manufactured, continuous gunfire. One o f the invad many one year ago Friday, there have probability that his firm will build a although whole wheat flout may be ing aircraft was brought down in Es been sunk by submarines, mines and o f demonstration for only a few days amazed when told that the men o f 32 standard-guage railroad from South made aa usual. or an actual cessation o f work. raiders 69 American vessels, totaling sex. National guard and National army di Hotels and restaurants w ill be The Vorwaerts, in a scathing arti visional camps are ready to go today Beach, across the bay from Newport, Forty lives were lost through the 171,061 gross tons, according to a care to Waldport, on Alsea bay, a distance classed as bakeries and w ill lie re cle, asks whether the Germans ought fully compiled report o f sinkings at call. sinking o f the French freight trans o f about 12} miles, to the 1000-acre quired to serve the new victory bread. to laugh or cry over the fact that hun When members wanted to know why port Drome, and the trawler Kerbihan, which have been made public during dreds o f thousands o f workers have such things had not been given pub tract o f spruce belonging to the Blod the period. which struck mines January 23, within O ffsetting this loss of American ves le ft the factories while the Prussian licity before, Mr. Baker spoke o f the g ett Timber company. L I D C L A M P E D ON A R M Y N E W S sight o f Marseilles. The Drome first diet should be discussing such unim reluctance o f m ilita-y men to reveal Tum-a-I.um Lumber company mana came into contact with a mine, and the sels, most o f which were sailing ships, portant matters as whether the Crown their war plan, and quoted German gers and their wives from different Officers and Men Forbidden to Art aa Kerbihan shortly afterwards struck the United States since February 1 has added to her merchant marine by the Prince and other princes should be life remarks about Am erica’s advertise points in Central Oregon are attending another near the same place. Correspondents for Newspapers. seizure o f form er German and Aus members o f the upper house. the annual meet o f the company, at ment o f her preparations. Austria-Hufigary is fooling America trian owned ships, a total o f 107 ves The German Union of Labor, and Walla Walla. Washington, D. C.— A War depart with peace talk inspired from Berlin, sels, having a gross tonnage o f 686,- exchange Telegraph from Amsterdam ment order forbidding offic-era and men in the opinion o f Dr. Milenko Vesnitch, 494, leaving on the credit side o f the says, has issued an anti-strike leaflet, T E U T O N S C A L L E D TO R E V O L T The Hood R iver city council has ap | in the army to publish books on mill- head o f the Serbian war mission, who American ledger in the account with declaring that England and America pointed Mrs. Edna C. Henderson, city , ___ tactics wimoui without . , . . ... lary instructions ira iru n im « or zanies is in Chicago. Dr. Vesnitch said that the central powers a net gain o f 515,- only await the moment when Germany treasurer, to succeed her husband Cap- fi„ t aubmittin„ them tbe Kcnerill Sensational Appeal Published for Rise any hope America may have o f sepa 433 gross tons. U .n L. A Henderson, Eng.neers Re Matr was WM amended s Saturday „ tlmlny to ----- ia weakened by internal strife to fall pro- o f Nation Against Kaiser. serve corps, now at Camp Lewis. rating Austria from Germany iB a mis The loss o f life caused by the sink upon Germany and ruin her trade and hibit alao persona in the m ilitary serv take, as the control o f the kaiser over ing o f the 69 vessels was more than smash German competition. The ap London— A dispatch to the Exchange Car shortage on the lines o f the ice from serving as correspondents for the central powers is supreme. peal says: Telegraph from Amsterdam says Southern Pacific company in Oregon any newspa|ier or other publications. 300 persons, however. The resignation of Count Hadik, the " W e want no ‘ hunger peace,’ there Deutsche Tages Zeitung openly calls Thursday totaled 579, a shortage o f Publication o f personal correspondence The percentage o f sinkings o f Am er Hungarian food minister, has been ac ican ships compared with the number fore down with mass strikes. Our fu upon the German people to revolt 289 closed and 290 open cars. The S. even w ill be prohibited. cepted, according to a dispatch from o f vessels which have sailed through ture is a stake.” against the present regime. The War department adds, however, P. & S. reported a shortage o f 190 Budapest. " W e . too,” says this pan-German cars. the war zone successfully is small. that no objection is held to the publi organ, “ have a Judas among ua today. General Wood Improved. Stories o f labor unrest, agitation by Records o f the department o f Com cation o f a soldier’s private corre Advertisements for bids on $500,000 spondence, with his consent, providing radicals and shortage o f workers in the merce show that for the period begin Paris — Major General Leonard" R e appears in the red coat and mantle Who will worth o f the $6,000,4)00 State road the letters are sent through the regu Northwest were declared Friday by ning with February 1, 1917, and end Wood, U. S. A., who was wounded re o f Germany’s hangman. save Germany from these traitors but bond issue were sent to Eastern bond lar censorship machinery. the United States Employment Service ing with December 1, there were Militnry censors are at the same to be greatly exaggerated and mis cleared from American ports in the cently while visiting the French front, the German people? It Is now ‘ Ger papers Tuesday by G. Ed Roaa, auditor The commission time ordered to delete “ criticisms o f leading. Workingmen in other sec foreign trade ships aggregating 17,- is confined to the R itz Carlton Ilospi mans help yourself and God w ill help’. ” o f the commission. tal, where he ia reported to be doing Although Emperor W illiam is not may sell $2,000,000 worth o f bonds superiors or o f policy, scandal o f any tions o f the country were warned par 738,900 net, or approximately 24,834,- ticularly against going to the North 460 gross tons. The number o f ships well. He expecta to be out in a week named in the article the expression, this year under the act, but whether sort, injurious reports concerning com west without first ascertaining what making up the total o f tons was not He ia reported to be suffering from a "G rem any’s hangman, ” ia meant for the balance o f the bonds wilt be sold rades or anything likely to arouse con flesh wound o f the arm, which ia pain the kaiser, says the correspondent. troversy.” or not remains to be seen. jobs are in sight. made public. ful, but not dangerous. Lieutenant Henry Bacher, a painter who has Colonel Charles E. Kilboume, chief of “ Uncle Joe” Cannon reappeared at Railroads Seek Relief. N avy ia N ot Frightened. Bolsheviki Seize Gold. lived at Grants Pass for many years, the Capitol Friday in a wheel chair General Wood’s staff, who was wound Washington, D. C.— Tha public must Washington, D. C.— N avy officials, Petrograd— The people’s commission was arrestel this week by Sheriff with a knee disabled and an arm frac ed in the face, may lose his right eye. tured at the shoulder from his recent er« have decreed a state o f monopoly Major Kenyon A. Joyce, who was it was learned Tuesday, believe the Lewis, accused o f seditious utterances. expect a radical curtailment o f public utilities, munition factories and all in fall. of gold. Gold articles weighing more wounded, ia improving. imminent German submarine offensive, The town o f H alfw ay ia lighted with dustrial nativities dependent upon oil than 16 zolotnik, 96 o f which go to predicted by the War department, to Guy E. W aite, o f East Ottawa, Ont., new electric street lights, the first shipments, unless immediate relief can make up the Russian pound, belonging be only the usual activities which have Expert Linguist ia Dead. is an independent man in these days of having been turned on Saturday even be had from the embargoes the rail to private persons or shops, must be always succeeded a lull in submarine Tacoma, Wash. — Instructor In the coal shortage. Some months ago he ing, The power is supplied by the handed over to the state at fixed prices. household o f Queen Victoria in 1869, warfare. Secretary Daniels, in reply roads have placed against the move discovered a two-foot vein o f high- They will be confiscated unless deliv teacher o f languages to the daughter to questions, said that the navy ex Payette Power company from ita Ox- ment o f tank cart, both loaded and grade coal beneath his house. Now he ered within a month. Informers will o f Lady Mary Nisbet Hamilton, in pects a “ continuing fight,” with the Bow power plant on the Snake river. empty, according to a statement issued digs coal and shovels it direct to the A power line runs on from Halfway by the petroleum war service commit- receive one-third o f the value o f the Edinburgh, when but 19 years o f age, submarines, with losses to both sides. furnace, regardless o f snow-blocked to Cornucopia to furnish power to the The petroleum Industry has made articles. Churches, museums and oth translator on the staff o f the “ North He expressed the belief, however, that railroads or heatless days. mines. an urgent appeal to the director gen er public institutions are requested to British R eview ,” snd for the last 25 new weapons now in use will make Warm spring wind is blowing across place their gold articles at the dispos years o f his life a private teacher of such operations increasingly costly to John Paul W illiam Schwinger, a eral to order the railroads to give pre ferred movement to tank cars. al o f the state. the German admiralty. languages in Tacoma, Bertel Hogne the plains country o f Nebraska and the German enemy alien, was arrested Fri Gunlogsen, said to be one o f the most snow is everywhere disappearinng un Reclamation Heads Study Food Work. day at Astoria, by Federal officers, Goethale Finds No Wrong. Labor Drive is Started. distinguished linguists and scholars in der a bright sun. As the chinook and is being held in the county jail cn Washington, D. C. — Major General Denver— Managers o f the 32 reclam the world, is dead here. Washington, D. C.— Reports to the reaches further eastward warm weath two charges. Schwinger has been in Goethals, acting quartermaster gen ation projects under government con United States employment service at er in that direction is developing. this county since 1912, but has never eral, after personal investigation, has Threaten U. 8. Ambassador. trol here met Thursday for an annual the end o f the first day o f the drive to secured citizenship papers. endorsed the action o f Charles Eiaen- An upheaval in the N ew York police conference with A. P. Davis, director Washington, D. C. — Ambassador enroll 250,000 shipyard workers, said department, the most sensational in o f the reclamation service, and other Francis at Petrograd cabled the State state directors o f the public service Assisted by Raker school teachers, man, chairman o f the supplies commit Increased food pro department Thursday that a group of reserve now are established in 42 2C o f Baker’s prominent business men tee o f the Council o f National Defense. years, was caused by Mayor John F. service officials. Hylan Thursday when he demanded the duction through bringing into cultiva Russian anarchists had notified him states and that 25 states have com l.ave formed a knitting elass and ex- Mr. Eisenman negotaited the army resignation as commissioner o f Fred tion lands on the projects for which he would be held personally respon pleted reserve organizations. W i'liam ict to n c e iv e their first instructions cloth at rap-sorting contract with the erick H. Bugher, whom he appointed water is now available, conservation o f sible for the safety o f Alexander Berk- E. Hall, National director o f the ptibUr] knitfest w ill be Base Sorting company, o f New York, Mr. water, improved distribution systems man and Emma Goldman, under pris service reserve, called a meeting to the office on January 1. hall, Mayor Palmer which haa l)een so vigorously criticised Bugher promptly complied with the and general irrigatiop and drainage on sentence in the United States for Friday of state directors o f all states | line o f one o f the in the senate m ilitary committee’s war violating the draft law. problems made up the program. Inquiry. east and south o f North Dakota. that purpose. demand. u. COMPILED FOR YOU DEWANDS SET FORTH BAKER MAKES REPLY VICTORY BREAD’ NOW i j Hj t i « J