WORLD'S DOINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume of General News
From Ml Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
Ajnoted Hungarian actress hag been
Bhot as a British spy.
Thirty-three gamblers were arrested
in a raid at Aberdeen, Wash.
The county auditor at Tacoma issued
98 permits to buy liquor in one day.
Rear Admiral Charles Eben Fox, U.
S. N.( retired, dies at the age of 65
years.
The plot to poison many prominent
citizens at a banquet in Chicago is laid
to anarchists.
Grahame-White, the noted British
aviator, has been gravely injured by a
fall in his aeroplane.
Brigadier General Benjamin C. Card,
retired, dies at the age of 91, at his
home in Washington, D. C.
Philadelphia's streets were covered
Sunday with a heavy coating of ice
caused by a bad sleet storm.
Six per cent of the fish fry in the
hatcheries at Bonneville were lost be
cause of the recent heavy storm.
Gasoline in Portland is selling for
181 cents a gallon and may go higher.
In New York it sells for 24 cents.
Dr. Sun Yat Sen, ex-president of
China, is reported re-married to his
private secretary at Tokio, Japan.
The value of real estate in New
York City is placed at $8,205,000,000,
an increase of $97,000,000 over a year
ago.
Two wealthy Americans have equip
ped a hospital train of 13 cars and
have presented it to the French gov
ernment. The film pictures of the Columbia
River Highway are to be shown in
Syracuse, N. Y., upon request from
that city.
President Wilson is now declared a
candidate for renomination, regardless
of the one-term plank of the Demo
cratic platform.
Two young men in an automobile
were killed at Sumner, Wash., when
their machine w'as struck by a North
ern Pacific train.
Rear Admiral Grant, the submarine
commander of the U. S. navy, declares
that undersea boats should be at least
800 tonB surface displacement.
Richard L. Metcalfe, ex-governor of
the Panama Canal zone, has invited
W. J. Bryan to debate the question of
preparedness before the voters of Ne
braska. The Congressional Union for Woman
Suffrage sent President Wilson a val
entine on which was inscribed:
"Won't you be our valentine? We
will be your valentines."
Dr. Carlos Mendoza, ex-president of
Panama, died suddenly Tuesday night
from heart trouble, was buried the fol
lowing day, after the body had laid in
state all day in the government build
ing. Dr. Mendoza was the leader of
the Opposition faction of the Liberal
party and was widely regarded as one
of the most able men in Panaman pol
itics. Germans capture large section of
French trenches iri Artois.
Portland citizens have raised a fund
of over $13,000 for the relief of suffer
ing Jews In Europe.
The customs officials at San Fran
cisco have seized a totem pole that
bean nude pictures and is otherwise
lndocent.
According to the decision of the Na
tional Association of Merchant Tailors,
the ideal American's measurement
should be, height, 5 feet 6 inches;
chest, 88 inches; waist, 33 inches;
hips, 39) inches; thigh, 21J inches;
calf, 14 inches; head measure, one
eighth of the full length of the body;
legs straight and feet arched.
Germany and Austria, through their
embassies in Washington, have notified
the United States of their intention
to treat armed merchantmen as war
ships after March 1. That date was
fixed to give the entente allies time to
signify their intentions toward the re
cent note of the United States pro
posing the disarmament of all mer
chantmen. The Willamette river at Portland
reaches a 19-foot stage and floods all
waterfront basements.
A liquid which bursts into flame
when poured on paper is believed to
have been used by incendiaries who
aet fire to the Ottawa, Can., parlia
ment building.
The Navajo Indians are dancing
their war dance and threatening to at
tack white settlers in Northeastern
Arizona, in retaliation for the slaying
of one of their number recently by po
licemen, according to two cowboy
from Utah.
SENATOR LANE'S BILL WOULD
. PUT INDIANSJJMWN RESOURCES
Washington, D. C. Senator Lane
would abolish the Indian service, do
away with Indian reservations make
every Indian a full-fledged American
citizen and give each Indian an allot
ment on which to make his home.
That accomplished, he would withdraw
government support and throw the In
dians on their own responsibility as
citizens. He embodied his ideas in a
bill which he has introduced.
The Lane bill puts an end to the
Indian bureau and provides that a com
mission of three, appointed by the
President at $5000 each shall, under
the exclusive direction of congress,
work out the details of the plan pro
posed. The bill makes no provision for the
disposition of surplus lands in Indian
reservations, nor does it provide for
the disposition of tribal Indian funds
In the treasury.
Senator Lane also introduced a bill
to amend the present law prohibiting
CHILDREN OF AMBASSADOR
Agnes and Stefano Macchl di Col
lere, the children of the Italian am
bassador to the United States, who
aided In the Italian war relief fund
by performing native dancing In na
tive costume. 1
the sale of intoxicating liquor to In
dians. As the law now stands, it is a
felony to carry liquor into an Indian
reservation, even though it is not sold
or given to Indians. The Lane bill
makes it a felony to sell liquor to In
dians, but merely a misdemeanor to
carry liquor into a reservation.
Big Guns Are Roaring Along
Entire Western War Line
London The whole western front
is the scene of engagements. At some
points the big guns have been roaring
incessantly for days, the infantry have
been engaged in hand-to-hand strug
gles; grenade fighting and mining
operations have played a prominent
part in the battles, while airmen have
fought each other above the lines and
have been cannonaded from below by
the anti-aircraft guns.
The Germans followed up their re
cent successes in Champagne by the
capture of an additional half mile of
trenches around Tahure, in that dis
trict, and their artillery bombardments
in the neighborhood of Massiges and
Navarin have been answered in kind
by the French.
To the north of Soissons, around
Terny, and along the river AiBne, the
Germans started an infantry attack
but the French put it down. To the
south of the Somme the Germans en
deavored to Burround outpost trenches,
but desisted under heavy fire of the
French.
Seventeen fights in the air is the
record of Monday and Tuesday re
ported by the British along their lines
in Flanders. In addition there has
been great activity south of La Bassee
canal, where the Germans exploded
seven mines. Heavy bombardments
and an infantry attack in that section
also are reported, the Germans suc
ceeding in entering a British trench.
, Ancona Claim Is Filed.
New York Dr. Cecile L. Greil, the
only American-born citizen among the
survivors of the torpedoed Italian liner
Ancona, announced at her home here
Tuesday that she had filed in Washing
ton claims amounting to $120,000.
From the Austrian government she de
mands $100,000 and from the United
States $20,000, including $5000 cash
which she says was lost with the liner.
Dr. Greil said that she would go
to Washington soon in the hope of ob
taining an interview with Preisdent
Wilson.
Swedish Athletes to Meet Americans.
Stockholm The Swedish football
association has invited the American
Football association to play a match
in Sweden next summer. If this is
possible, a Swedish football team will
go to the United States, accompanied
by an athletic team. Ira Nelson Mor
ris, the American minister to Sweden,
in a statement in the Stockholm news
papers, expressed enthusiasm over the
prospects of an athletic meeting be
tween the teams of Sweden and the
United Statea.
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SUSPECT ANARCHIST
OF BIG POISON PLOT
Two Hundred Banqueters Taken
Sick When Soup Is Served.
CHEF BELIEVED MERE UNIT IN SCHEME
Lives Saved by Custom of Serving
Meager Portions Only Ounce
of Arsenic Used in Food.
Chicago "I do not wish to create a
panic in Chicago," was the cryptic
reply of First Deputy Superintendent
of Police Schuettler, when asked Mon
day to give his views of the plot to
poison several hundred prominent Chi
cagoans. Schuettler spoke testily and ' in the
tone of a man who is harboring the
secret of a great calamity. At the
Bame time he refused to admit that he
believed Jean Crones, missing assist
ant chef at the University Club, who
served the banquet, was the only man
who figured in the plot.
Two hundred of the distinguished
list of 400 banqueters who attended a
dinner given to Chicago's new Catholic
archbishop, Most Reverend George
William Munderlein, were taken ill of
poisoning after the soup course. The
archbishop did not partake of the soup,
nor did Governor Dunne, who was
among those present.
Indications are that Schuettler is
hot on Crones' trail and is gathering
evidence of a plot in which Crones was
only a unit among a gang of anarchists
who planned to kill the distinguished
group of men. This was borne out by
the activities of his staff of detec
tives. Two hours before Health Commis
sioner Robertson gave out the report
of F. O. Tonney, city chemist, that
3.7 grains of white oxide of arsenic
had been found in an analysis of a
pint of the poisoned soup served at the
banquet, two anarchists were taken
into Schuettler'B office.
Both of the anarchists were ques
tioned for more than an hour. When
they had gone Schuettler, in an inter
view, admitted he had reports on
Crones for several months. He knows
the meetings Crones has attended,
what he said at those gatherings. He
admitted Crones was a red hot "dyed-in-the-wool"
anarchist, that he knew
Crones' assiociates, that his detectives
have questioned these men.
Schuettler made known the fact that
Crones at a meetnig of anarchists last
May asked the speaker if his study of
chemistry he is an amateur chemist
would injure his standing in the an
archist movement. The speaker's re
ply throws some light on the motive
of the poison plot. It was this :
"No, a chemist, could do a great
deal in the anarchist movement."
Two Athletes Drowned When
Canoe Hits Eddy in Willamette
Portland, Ore. Two were drowned
and six other narrowly escaped drown
ing when a Salem-to-Portland canoeing
party of the Portland Rowing club
struck the whirling rapids and eddies
off Rock Island in the Willamette
river five miles south of Oregon City
Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
The drowned were Charles Kirk
patrick, 660 East Madison street, 22
years of age, a clerk in the clearing
house at the First National bank, and
Harry Gammie, 33 years of age, pay
ing teller in Ladd & Tilton bank, and
an athlete of considerable repute,
whose residence was 348 East Six
teenth North. Both were athletes of
the Multnomah Amateur Athletic club
and expert canoeists of the Portland
Rowing club.
The accident came at a sudden turn
ing point in a heretofore uneventful
trip down the Willamette from Salem.
About midway through the eddies
the canoe in which Gammie and Kirk
patrick were struggling suddenly
turned over and dumped them into the
river. Both began a desperate strug
gle against the water, but their efforts
seemed to be of little avail, the water
being swift and the undercurrent
tremendous.
Treasure Hunt Renewed.
Los Angeles, Cal. Having obtained
an extended furlough to enable him to
undertake a second treasure hunt on
Cocoa Island, Walter Bunker, a police
patrolman, left Sunday for the little
dot in the Pacific Ocean off the coast
of Peru, where he hopes to unearth a
vast store of gold said to have been
buried on the island 200 years ago.
Bunker has obtained the use of a yacht
belonging to J. Bender, Mexican cap
italist, who accompanies the expedi
tion. Bunker's last expedition failed
on account of trouble with his crew.
296,000 Belgians Shod.
New York The Commission for
Relief in Belgium announced Sunday
that since the beginning of its winter
campaign it had sent 296,000 pairs of
shoes to the destitute of Belgium and
Northern France. Of these 100,000
were for women, 60,000 for children,
48,000 for boys, 48,000 for girls and
40,000 for men. The commission
bought $25,000 worth of leather to be
cut up and tacked onto wooden soles
and to repair old shoes.
ALLIES TO PROTEST
BERLIN'S SEA RULE
Boycott on U.S. Ports Possible
If America Accepts View.
DIPLOMACY WITH GERMANY TANGLED
Teutons to Treat Armed Merchant
Ships as War Vessels and Sink
Them Without Warning.
Washington, D. C. Diplomatic ne
gotiations of various character soon
will confront the United States as the
result of the expected intention of the
German and Austrian governments to
treat armed merchant ships of the en
tente allies as war vessels after Feb
ruary 29.
Apparently it is certain, that any
attempt by the United States to
change the present rule permitting the
use of American ports by merchant
ships armed for defensive purposes
would be met by a strong protest.
Correspondence also is likely to follow
if the United States assumes a posi
tion which coincides with that of Ger
many and Austria regarding the right
of submarines to sink armed ships
without warning.
On the other hand, the United States
itself may take the initiative should
the entente allies impose a virtual
boycott on American ports in the
event that this government decides
that armed merchant, ships entering
American waters are ships of war, and
therefore subject to internment.
The view of at least some of the
representatives of the entente allies
here is that any change made in the
rule bearing on submarine warfare
during the war would be an unneutral
act. The governments are represented
as not being prepared to admit that
there has been any change in the con
ditions of naval warfare which would
warrant characterizing merchant ships
armed for defensive purposes as war
ships. In Teutonic quarters, however, it is
contended that merchant Bhips armed
for defensive purposes are really
armed for resistance and that mer
chant ships have no right to resist.
Moreover, it is contended by Germany
that it is impossible to adhere to the
principle of warning merchant ships,
as, should they be armed, a single
shell of small caliber could sink any
submarine.
American officials seem inclined to
the view that the contentions of the
German and Austrian governments are
well founded, and from several quar
ters came the information that the
United States might warn its nationals
to remain off merchant ships that are
armed. This, it was said in German
quarters, was precisely what the Ger
man and Austrian governments have
been aiming to achieve.
The possibility of the entente allies
putting into effect a practical boycott
of American ports was widely dis
cussed in official circles. The allies
may permit only a sufficient number of
their unarmed ships to enter American
ports to take away merchandise and
goods consigned to themselves. It
was admitted in high official quarters
that should such a plan be put into
effect action might be taken.
Four in Bloody Battle to Finish
In Prominent St. Louis Hotel
St. Louis Locked in a room on the
sixth floor of a popular downtown ho
tel here Saturday night four men
fought with knives, dentists' instru
ments and pistols until all were too
badly wounded to continue. The bat
tle was a sequel to business differences
between two dentists.
When the police and hotel guests
broke into the room they found Dr. A.
F. Johnson, a local dentist, uncon
scious with a bullet wound in the head;
Dr. Charles W. Kennerly, of San An
tonio, Tex., with blood pouring from
knife wound in his arm; another man
who had registered as W. E. Arnold,
of Mobile, Ala., unconscious on the
bed with his throat cut, and Charles
Lody, an assistant to Dr. Johnson, cut,
bruised and dazed.
Robert Dollar Is Sold.
San Francisco The sale to Japanese
owners of the American steamer Rob
ert Dollar was announced here by the
Dollar Steamship company. . It was
said that the price was in excess of
$1,000,000. The Robert Dollar was
built in 1911 in Glasgow at a cost of
$250,000. She was placed under the
American flag at the outbreak of the
war. An offer of $1,000,000 was said
to have been made for her a few
months ago, but refused, as the trip on
which the vessel was then engaged
promised a profit of $250,000.
Spring Arrives on Mars.
Flagstaff, Ariz. What appears to
be the first spring thaw on Mars has
just been detected by the astronomers
of the Lowell observatory. The north
cap itself is in active process of melt
ing, a circular rift having appeared
half way through it which is widening
and which is connected with the border
by radical tributary rifts. The cap is
surrounded by a clear blue band un
like the tintof the vegetation markings.
PROPOSED FEDERAL MILITIA PLAN
mm 200,000 men
Washington, D. C. The proposals
of the National Guard association for
federalization of the state were before
the military committee of congress
Monday In the form of a bill drafted
at the bequest of the senate commit
tee. Force is given the regulations
contemplated by a provision limiting
participation In the Federal pay feat
ure to officers, men or organizations
complying with certain specified re
quirements. The scale of annual pay proposed is
as follows: Major generals, $800;
brigadiers, $700; colonels, $600; lieu
tenant colonels, $550; majors, $525;
captains, $500; first lieutenants, $300;
second lieutenants, $250. Enlisted
men would be paid on the basis of 25
per cent of the pay rates of the regu
lar army, a private receiving approxi
mately $45 a year.
The maximum number of troops pro-
CAPT. MARK L. BRISTOL
Captain Bristol, chief of the U. 8.
navy's aeronautical bureau, Is likely
soon to have under his charge a big
fleet of aeroplanes, for Secretary Dan
iels and the general board of the navy
have adopted his recommendation that
200 of the air craft be obtained for
the service. Congress will be asked
to appropriate $2,200,000 for this pur
'pose.
vided for by the bill is 500 for each
congressional district or a total peace
strength of approximately 200,000, an
increase of 70, 000 over the present
strength of the National Guard. They
would form a separate branch of the
regular army in time of war when
called into the Federal service. The
act would take effect July 1, 1916.
The bill provides also for organiza
tion of a junior guard, composed of
boys between 12 and 18, available for
active service only after every other
class of militia had been called out.
The juniors would be divided into
two classes, cadets, or those of 15 and
above, and cadets of the second class,
those'Iess than 15.
An.enlistment contract would be re
quired under which the soldier would
bind himself to serve the Federal gov
ernment, "within or without the con
tinental limits of the United States,"
for a period of two years or until dis
charged, should the Guard be called
out at any time during his three-year
enlistment period.
Ford Will Spend Millions Against
Program for National Preparedness
Detroit, Mich. It was announced
here that Henry Ford is preparing to
launch a country-wide campaign of
newspaper and magazine advertising
against the program for huge naval
and military expenditures before con
gress. It was said Mr. Ford intends
soon to carry out his announced inten
tion to devote millions of dollars to an
educational campaign against war and
preparedness, which he declared to be
the first step toward actual war.
None of the details of the plan could
be obtained at present except that Mr.
Ford had been considering the cam
pagin for some time and "that all the
people would be reached by it."
Radio to Have Test.
Washington, D. C. A demonstra
tion of radio preparedness will be giv
en by the 25,000 amateur licensed oper
ators in the United States, beginning
Monday night, February 21, at 11
o'clock, central time. At that hour a
message in keeping with with the spir
it of the following day, the anniver
sary of the birth of George Washing
ton, will be flashed from a station
near the Rock Island arsenal, Illinios,
for relay throughout the United States.
This will be left entirely to amateur
operators and wireless associations.
British Lose Two Vessels.
London Loss of the British steam
ships Springfield and Cedarwood were
reported Monday by the admiralty.
The Springfield was torpedoed with
out warning in the Mediterranean on
her way from London to Calcutta. Her
crew of 75 were landed at Malta. She
was a 425-foot vessel of 5593 tons.
Only two of the crew of the Cedar
wood were saved. The place of her
sinking was not given. She was a
vessel of 654 tons.
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GARRISON RESIGNS
POST IN CABINET
Cool Reception of Continental
Army by Wilson Is Cause.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOLLOWS CHIEF
President Accepts Resignations, But
Successors Are Not Chosen
Scott to Act Ad Interim.
Washington, D. C Secretary Lind
ley M. Garrison resigned Friday be
cause President Wilson would not "ir
revocably" support the continental
army plan and because he opposed the
administration's program of setting a
definite time for Philippine independ
ence. President Wilson accepted the resig
nation and has not selected a suc
cessor. The President himself prob
ably will take personal charge of the
administration's national defense plans
in congress.
Assistant Secretary Breckenridge
also resigned as a mark of loyalty to
his chief, whose views he shared. The
President accepted his resignation.
Both take effect immediately. Major
General Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff
of the army, automatically becomes
secretary of war ad interim.
It is known that one of Secretary
Garrison's principal reasons for his
conviction that only a Federal conti
nental army, instead of a reorganized
national guard, could be the main mili
tary dependence of the Union was his
belief that some day the United States
may be called on to defend the Monroe
Doctrine and in that event he foresaw
the national guard might not be avail
able for use outside of the United
States before a declaration of war.
On the contention on the one hand,
that the continental army, or, ulti
mately, universal service, was the na
tion's only reliance, and the position,
on the other, that no one plan could be
forced on congress, President Wilson
and his secretary of war parted com
pany. Mr. Garrison's resignation was a
complete surprise to official Washing
ton generally. He made no personal
explanation. Several hours before the
official announcement he had boarded a
train, with his wife, for New York,
and word had been passed at the de
partment that he had gone for an in
definite stay.
The acute differences of opinion
which led to the break began early in
the year, when opposition to the con
tinental army plan began developing
in congress. There had been indefi
nite rumors of the possibility that the
secretary of war would leave the cabi
net, but they never were countenanced
in official quarters. The secretary
everywhere was regarded as one of the
strong men of the administration, on
whom the President leaned in the diffi
cult situations, both domestic and in
ternational, which have marked his
administration.
The circumstances which led up to
the resignation are detailed in the sec
retary's correspondence with the Pres
ident, which was made public by the
White House.
German Airman Visits Enemy's
Lines To Get Trousers for Captive
Berlin,via London A new illustra
tion of how the amenities of warfare
are observed by hostile airmen is giv
en in a letter from .a Geramn aviator
on the western front.
This aviator was a participator in
an aerial battle in which a British
aerolpane was shot down and one of
the aviators killed. The second was
uninjured, but, in landing, his trousers
had been irreparably damaged.
The aviator thus afflicted was so dis
tressed that the German aviator
mounted an aeroplane and dropped a
note into the British lines. An hour
later an Engilsh flier appeared, re
turning the call, over the German
lines, and dropped a bundle containing
new trousers for his captured compat
riot. Postoffice Floats Away,
Memphis, Tenn. White River,
Ark., a town near the mouth of the
White River, is minus a postoffice on
account of the high waters.
"My postoffice is floating down the
river and unless it lodges against some
trees it will be a total loss," said an
appeal from the postmistress, received
at the office of the railway mail serv
ice. The postoffice was on a raft,
which tore loose from its fastenings,
dumping the mail and postmistress into
the water. Then it was established on
a barge, and again demolished it.
Appam to Give Up Charity.
Norfolk, Va. Lieutenant Berg,
commandant of the German prize ship
Appam, announced he would give to
the American Red Cross the "mite"
boxes found aboard the ship and con
taining $75 contributed for relief of
widows and orphans in England.
The boxes previously had been re
ported confiscated. The raider Moewe,
however, did take about $200,000
worth of gold bars from the ship,
Lieutenant Berg said.