The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930, January 28, 1916, Image 4

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    WORLD'S DOINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume of General News
from Ail Around the Earth.
BIG INCOMES MAY BE TAXED
10 PAY FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE
Washington. D. C The income tax
was declared constitutional Tuesday by
the Supreme court in an unanimous de
cision which swept aside every objec
tion raised against it, and in the opin
ion of congressional leaders opened tne
way for increasing me tax rate on
great fortunes to help pay for National
defense.
Proposals are pending in congress to
tax incomes of more than 11,000,000
as high as 50 per cent. Leaders on all
sides agree that out of the impetus
which the decision will give such pro
posals is likely to come a definite
movement to levy on the revenues
Live NeWS ItemS Of All NatiOnS and Uni great private fortunes for some
I OI tne muuuns me Kwyoiimreirt iwv
raise to carry out the army and navy
increases.
' 'The Supreme court s decision has
absolutely unfettered the income tax
an a source of revenue," said Repre
sentative Hull, of Tennessee, author of
thi Uw. "All doubt is removed and
PORTLAND RECTOR
CALLS FOR DEFENSE
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NLTSHQ1
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
Slides in the Siskiyou mountains are
delaying traffic.
The illness of Emperor Franz Joseph
is reported grave.
The new fad in ladies' hosiery is the
"lampshade" stocking.
Mexican bandit is executed in the
. Juarez cemetery for killing an Ameri
can.
MISS KATHERINE SEFT0N
degrees in two
at Great Falls,
Mercury drops 70
hours and 20 minutes
Mont.
: Shooting of a Mexican civilian by
an American is charged by that gov
ernment and his punishment is asked.
Mrs. Mean Bear, an Indian aged 106
years, dies at Ponca City, Okla., leav
ing 700 kinfolks in her Immediate
family.
Two hostile aeroplanes visit Kent,
England, dropping nine bombs result
ing in a casualty list of one killed and
six injured.
EftBt St. Louis, 111., stock yards are
under quarantine because of the dis
covery of several cases of foot and
mouth disease.
A. L. Mohler, president of the
Union Pacific railroad, who fell on the
ice at Omaha Sunday and suffered con
cussion of the brain, Is improving,
President Wilson urges congress to
clear its docket of appropriation bills
as soon as possible, so that the prepar
edness program will have full swing,
At a meeting in Chicago of the Re
publican National committee, four
prominent persons were mentioned for
chairman of the convention, Including
Borah, Root, McCall and Osborne.
Senator Newlands, in a speech in
the senate, opposed government own
ership of railroads, declaring that un
der the regulation plan, America has
secured the most perfect railroad sys
tem in the world,
A stenographer in a fit of despond
ency jumps from the 16th story of a
building in Chicago. She alighted on
a truckload of pasteboard boxes,
breaking both arms and several ribs.
She probably will live.
T? nnnlil J to n T.aalaw Mann tnrAr f Via
floor of the house against the Shackle- AHienCail Demand OH WW) 111
iora tzo.uuv.uuu gooa roaas dui on
the ground that the money would have
to come from special taxes, most of
which are paid by cities,
A package of currency containing
$2200 disappeared somewhere between
the Burlington depot and the Adams
Express company office at Mount
Pleasant, la. Another package con
tainlng $500 In silver was undisturbed.
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Dr. Morrison, Episcopalian, Has
No Use for Pacificist
CHRIST'S NON-RESISTANCE IS DENIED
Mother Who Would Keep Her Sons
From Enlisting Declared to Be
"Disgrace to Nation."
Mist Katharine Sefton, daughter of
Or. and Mrs. Frederick Sefton of Au
burn, N. Y., Is to become the bride of
Frank C. Page, son of the ambassador
to Great Britain, according to an an
nouncement made In London.
congress is lett mucn ireer to act. i
believe congress will, take advantage
of the opportunity to amend the law
materially. Without any unusual or
unjust charges it can be made to yield
$186,000,000 to $195,000,000 a year
as against $85,000,000 or $95,000,000
at present."
Lusttania Case Granted by Berlin
The finger of shame was pointed
from the pupit of the Portland Trinity
Episcopal church Sunday morning at
the mother whose love for her son
rises above that for her nation
Ths mothers and "peace at any
price" advocates were denounced as a
"disgrace to the nation," and an ap
peal, based on the teachings of Christ,
for proper national armaments, was
sent forth by Dr. A. A. Morrison, rec
tor of that church, in what was con
sidered perhaps the strongest sermon
in defense of preparedness ever deliv
ered from any pulpit in Portland.
After the sermon members of the
congregation ruBhed forward to con
gratulate the pastor.
"I cannot understand these individ
uals who cry even from the pulpits
'peace at any price,' " he told them.
"I wonder what they would do, if
some one in the night should by force
steal away their wife and daughter.
Would they run after them with their
theory of love? Of course not."
The teaching of Christ, he declared
in answer to those peace advocates
who base their theories on the Bible,
is not against preparedness. And he
cited Christ s scourging of the money
changers in the temple, his chastise
ment of the Scribes and Pharisees and
his advice to sacrifice one's life for a
friend.
"A misapprehension exists," he de
clared, "over the phrase called
'Christian teaching.' There are those
advocating peace under any and all
circumstances who assert that Jesus
taught a doctrine of non-resistance; a
doctrine which would utterly abrogate
the use of force in education or as a
defense against evil-doers. . Many per'
sons believe Christ advocated this, but
I say he did no such thing."
Avalanche of Snow and Earth
Hits Great Northern Train; 8 Dead
NEWS ITEMSl
Of General Interest
About Oregon
All-Oregon Historical Pageant
Commencement Week Feature
University of Oregon, Eugene An
all-Oregon historical pageant, in which
each of the 35 counties will be repre
sented bya "Dauhgter of Oregon,"
will be presented at the State univer
sity during commencement week,
early in June.
The pageant has just been approved
by the board of regents and will be
presented before final examinations so
that the participation of a great por
tion of the student body may be possi
ble.
The pageant will depict the pro
gress of Oregon. The first represen
tation will Bhow the state as it was in
its original primeval condition, prior
to the coming even of the Indian.
Then the epoch of Indian domination
will be depicted, then the coming of
the white man, then the days of the
immigration, then the gold days, and
finally the realization of the present
with a glimpse into the future, I be
pageant will be in five scenes, presided
over by "Mother Oregon." In the last
scene the 35 "Daughters of Oregon"
will bring gifts symbolic of the indus
tries of each county.
The pageant is to be not merely a
University affair. Contribution of
lyrics for the various choruses is invit
ed from the state at large, and any
suggestion for the five scenes will be
appreciated. A large state attendance
is looked for. Persons desiring to
make suggestions for the pageant
should communicate with Dr. E. S.
Bates, professor of English and author
of the scenario, University of Oregon,
Eugene.
BRITISH CYCLE CORPS AT SALONIKI
Members of the British cycle corps are here shown leaving Salonlki in the midst of a snowstorm to make a
reconnoissance. Elaborate preparations for the defense ot tne lireelt city nave oeen maae ay uie union, uu
to their forces there are being made constantly by both the British and tne DTencn.
SURVIVORS OF THEIR RACE'S TRAGEDY
Colonel Goethals, governor of the
Panama Canal zone, and General Clar
ence R. Edwards, commander of the
U. S. troops there, are to report at
Washington to settle differences be
tween them arising from criticism
made by General Edwards.
A new Oregon Republican club is
organized In Portland with 500 mem
bers.
A total of eleven lives were lost
during recent severe storms in South
ern California.
Berlin announces that superior Rus
sian forces were repulsed in hand-to-
band fighting In the Bessarablan fron
tier trenches.
Promises that the English conscrip
tlon measure will be enforced without
severity, brings loud applause in the
house of commons.
War Issues cause hot debate in the
senate, Hoke Smith leading in a severe
arraignment of England's attitude
toward neutral shipping.
Washington, D. C Germany haB
submitted to the United States,
through Ambassador Von Bernstorff,
another written proposal designed to
bring about a settlement of the con
troversy over the sinking of the steam
ship Lusitama. with a Iobs of more
than 100 American lives.
There were indications here that
the document might bring a satisfac
tory termination of negotiations.
Although the greatest secrecy sur
rounds the negotiations, it is said on
excellent authority that Germany final
ly had argeed to eliminate from the
text of the agreement any mention of
the warning issued by the German
embassy the day the Lusitania sailed
on her laBt trip from New York.
Mention of thiB warning is understod
to have been contained in the last pro-
lal, which was rejected after Pres
ident Wilson had considered it.
It is understood alBO that Germany
had left out of her proposal general
reservation of admission of wrong'
doing on the part of the submarine
commander, to which United states
objected.
Mention of the warning is believed
to have been most objectionable to the
administration. In effect, it was re
garded as conveynig the idea that no
American lives would have been loBt
had the warning been heeded.
Seattle Two cars of westbound
Great Northern Cascade Limited train
were swept from the track by an aval
anche near Corea station Saturday
morning, and were hurled 80 feet
down the mountain side, causing death
to four passengers, and four missing.
Fifteen passengers were injured, none
seriously except Earl Smith, of Spo
kane, a small boy.
The train was standing on the track
near Corea, on the west slope of the
Cascade mountains, when the aval
anche struck it near the middle, a day
coach and the diner going over the
bank, while a sleeper behind them was
toppled over on its side, where it hung
in its perilous position over the bank,
but was not taken down.
The dining car stopped when about
half way down the Blope and caught
fire, being destroyed there.
The scene of the accident is but f
few miles east of the scene of a sinv
ilar disaster of February 28, 1910,
when two Great Northern trains were
struck by snowslides and nearly all the
persona on the trains perished.
Villa Sends Messenger to Deny
Implication in Killing of Americans
German Fleet to Battle.
New York President MacMechen,
of the Aeronautical Society of Amer
ica, issued a stateftnent Wednesday in
which he said that a German fleet with
17-lnch guns, far outranging British
naval guns, and escorted by aeroplanes
and Zeppelins armed with a new pneu
matic gun. will soon appear in the
North Sea and give battle to the
British.
The time of the raid will be fixed
mainly by the results of teats of a new
Roosevelt wants Immediate action engine of destruction from the air and
in construction of half a dozen "for- of the pneumatic gun, he said
midable fighting ships. " adeoate army
and universal military service. New Mail Rate Opposed.
TK filr un I. Mtte t..rH llJ Washington, D. C.-Pres.dent Pet
mront. nnwor fnr attmntlnir to force eon, Of the Long Island Kailroad and
his country Into the war. He declares president of the committee of railway
A British submarine has gone ashore
off Holland, according to an announce
ment made by the official press bureau.
There was no loss of life.
An attack by the British with the
use of smoke bombs on the German
positions north of Frelinghein, in
Northern France, is announced in an
official statement by the German army
headquarters. It is declared the at
tack was beaten off with heavy loss to
the British.
the neutrality of his country was vio
lated like that of Belgium.
General Luis Herrera, in supreme
command of the Carranza forces at
Chihuahua City, Mexico, late Friday
night flatly denied the truth of the re
port of the capture of General Villa at
the San Geronimo ranch.
A wealthy Spokane realty dealer
was found guilty of selling intoxicants
in violation of the liquor law and was
fined $250 and ten days in jail.
The house committee favorably re
ports the Spanish-American war pen
sion bill which grants, if passed, $12
per month to every widow of a soldier
either a volunteer or a regular.
Seattle millionaires whose resi
dences were raided by the sheriff for
violations of the Prohibition law, will
turn against him by attacking his
legal status as regards searching pri
vate residences.
presidents opposing the proposal to
have the government pay for trans
portation of mails on the so-called
space basis, laid the railroads' objec
tions before the house postofllce com'
mittee,
He said the railroads had begun to
feel the effects of improved business
conditions and that it would be a blow
to the entire country to have their In
comes cut at this time,
Officials Like Torpedo.
Washington, D. C. Adoption of the
aerial-controlled torpedo invented
John Hays Hammond, Jr., was urged
Wednesday by Secretary Garrison, Ma
jor General Scott and Brigadier Gen
eral Weaver at an executive session of
the house fortifications sub-committee,
Mr. Hammond also was present and
explained the workings' of the torpedo.
The War department estimates contain
a proposed appropriation of $945,000
for putting the torpedo into use.
El Paso, Tex. Tedeore Prieto, who
says he is a major in the Villa army,
appeared Monday and declared that he
had been sent in disguise to the border
by Gen. Villa to say that Villa had
nohting to do with the massacre of 18
foreigners at Santa Isabel January
10.
'Villa did not know of the tragedy
for days afterward," said Prieto.
'He instructed me to say that he will
execute the men responsible, even if
they prove to be his own men, if they
are caught."
Steamer Founders at Sea.
Halifax, N. S. The British freight
steamer Pollentia, which has been re
ported in distress about 700 miles off
Cape Race, foundered Monday, accord
ing to a wireless message received
here. All on board were rescued. An
earlier radiogram said that the Italian
steamer Giuseppe Verdi and two other
steamers were standing Jy the Pollen
tia, waiting for the seas to moderate.
The Pollentia is understood to have
been in the service of the British ad
miralty. The Giuseppe Verdi left
New York January 13 for Genoa.
Painting Brings 8140,000.
New York Hans Memling's "The
Archer," declared to have been the
last work of the great Flemish painter
left in the art markets of the world,
has been bought for $140,000 by
Fifth Avenue jeweler. "The Archer"
is a portrait of a young man painted
on a wooden panel 10 by 12 inches.
Only the head and part of the chest
are shown. The portrait, considered
one of Memling's finest, was painted
in 1473, when the artist was at the
height of his power. It was acquired
in 1912 by Paris art dealers.
Wages 27 Per Cent Higher,
New York One thousand and three
hundred representative manufacturers
in New York state, employing approx
imately 600,000 persons, are paying an
average of 27 per cent more In wages
than a year ago, according to a report
made public here by the bureau of
statistics and information of the State
Industrial commission. About 17 per
cent more workers are employed
now than last year, the statistics
show.
State Joins Fight on Federal
Control of Vacant Public Lands
Salem With other Western states,
Oregon will join with Utah in the bat
tle to determine whether the Federal
government has exclusive control over
vacant public lands in the Western
states.
Believing that the Case now on ap
peal from Utah to the United States
Supreme court, in which the Beaver
River Power company is enjoined from
operating a hydro-electric plant on
lands in the Federal forest reserve, iB
of vital interest to Oregon, Governor
Withycombe has requested Attorney
General Brown to appear in Washing
ton, D. C, as a friend of the court,
and give Oregon's attitude in the ques
tion of government control of water
power resources on Federal lands.
Utah was the first to intervene, and
since then Idaho, Colorado and a num
ber of other Western states have de
cided to be represented.
The question involved in the case,
according to officials here, is whether
the laws of.a state regulating the ap
propriation and use of water within its
boundaries are controlling and exclu
sive of any other control.
ill Drain 60,000 Acres in
Fertile Long Tom District
Eugene A meeting of business men
and landowners has launched plans for
the drainage of bewteen 60,000 and
70,000 acres in the Long Tom district
at an estimated expense of $280,000.
About 20,000 acres of this land is in
Lane county, the rest being in Linn
and Benton counties.
The commercial club at a recent
meeting pledged its support to the
project and will, it has been an
nounced, give $1000 toward getting
the work under way, provided the ma
jority of the landowners vote to create
a drainage district as authorized by
the Oregon law, within which assess
ments may be levied. The district will
be authorized to issue bonds.
This project has been proposed a
number of times by individuals, but
the action of the club, co-operating
with landowners, is the first organized
movement to accomplish the drainage
of this land, which is almost worthless
because it is covered with water a
great part of the time, but which
would be among the most valuable
farm land in the state if the water
was eliminated.
Group of Armenian girls and women who escaped death or worse at the hands of the Turks, the fate ot tens ol
thousands of their sisters.
OUTPOST OF THE ALBANIAN REBELS
A
This is a view of an outpost of the Albanian rebels on a hilltop near Durazzo. Tnese AiDanians, it is beneved,
are ready to join forces with the allies against the Teutonic armies, while Prince William of Wied, who was king
ot Albania for a short time, Is said to be organizing tribesmen to aid the leutons.
MRS. A. J. DREXEL, JR.
Red Boy Mine Is Sold.
Baker H. A. Sonne, cashier of the
Baker Loan & Trust company has an
nounced upon his' return from Canyon
Citv that he bid in for $34,500 the
property of the Red Boy Mines com
pany at a sheriff's sale for the bank,
bolder of a trust mortgage securing a
$137,900 bond issue. The sale was
effected bv canceling a large part of
the bond Issue, at considerable below
par.
Judgment given by the urant county
Circuit court, on which the sale was
based, was $171,835.98, together with
$5000 attorney's fees, to be divided
between Clifford & Correll. of Baker,
and William Jackson of Chicago, $23
costs and $500 for trustees fees.
Africa Gets Oregon Hops.
Salem What is said to be the first
shipment of Oregon hops to South
Africa left Independence recently for
Portland, where it will be Bent by
steamer to its destination.
The shipment was made by Durbin
& Cornoyer, buyers of this city, and
consisted of 178 bales. Of the total
number of bales in the order, 58 are
destined for Johannesburg; 23 for Al
goa; 58 for Natal; 14 for Cape Town;
12 for Bloomfontein and 13 for Pre
toria. The hops were grown by Mad
ison Bros., of Benton county.
More Hops Are Sold.
Salem Reports this week were that
the Oregon Hopgrowers' association
had sold 8000 bales of its holdings to
Louis Lachmund for an average price
of 12 cents, but association officers re
fused to confirm the amount They
admitted, however, the sale of a large
block. M. L. Jones, president, said
another large deal was pending. Pre
diction that the hop market would see
a slump before long was made by Mr.
Horst, who declared that the large
stock on the Pacific Coast yet unsold
did not justify high values.
"
Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel, Jr., ot Pbtl-
adelphla, formerly Miss Marjory
Gould of New York, as she appeared
aboard the steamer on which Bhe re
cently arrived at New York from Eu-
rone. Mr. Drexel accompanied her
and they went to their home" in Phil
adelphia. Mrs. Drexel is sein carry
ing her favorite dog Bella.
KING OF SPAIN GREETS ARMY AVIATORS-
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Where 8h Shone.
"How about your new stenographer!
Is Tme quick and accurate?" "Yes. sir;
she can powder her face, arrange her
bracelets and fix her hair quicker than
any stenographer I ever had. And do
It accurately, too."
Napoleon Wasted No Words.
An interesting Napoleonic rello is
the reply to a long and verbose letter
from the duke of Gaeta asking the em
peror's decision In a confiscation case.
Napoleon's reply was as follows: "Yea
Napoleon." ,
Next to his polo ponies and his speedy motor cars, there is nothing which
holds the interest ot King Alfonso so much as flying machines of every de
scription. He himself iB a capable aviator, with a reputation In the aeronautic
world. The photograph shows Alfonso greeting some of the army air pilots
on their return from a flight during his visit to the aviation school at Jetafe.
He has been quick to recognize the Importance of aviation in warfare.
BITS OF NEWS
European armies normally use up
71,000,000 pairs of shoes yearly.
Dr. D. V. K. Wellington Koo, the
new Chinese minister to the United
States, Is the youngest man who ever
came as a minister to this country.
Slgnor Marconi has still In his pos
session the apparatus with which he
made his first experiments in wireless
telegraphy In the garden ot his fa
ther's house In Italy. He was then
fifteen years old.
It the wind Is In the right direction,
a sort of cold smell gives sailors warn
ing ot the proximity of an Iceberg.
The last harness racing season Is
notable because Peter Scott won more
money than any horse ever before ac
cumulated on the Grand Circuit, $38,
400, from Cleveland to Lexington, and
an additional $11,000 at the Panama
Pacific exposition.
The foreign-born population in the
United States equals the combined
population of Norway, Denmark and
Sweden,