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WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSKEU Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes has been invited to deliver a Fourth of July oration at Salem, Ore. The munitions liner Cymric is re ported torpedoed off the west coast of Ireland, and is in a sinking condition. Four more Irish revolutionary lead erg are shot. Nineteen others sen tenced to death are given prison sen tences. A Rotterdam dispatch declares Ger many is formulating terms upon which to offer peace, which include relin quishment of Belgium and all territory in France. That England is building airships of the Zeppelin type was disclosed in the house of commons. How much such aircraft Great Britain possessed was not revealed. The house rejects the senate amend ment to the army bill wherein it was voted to increase the standing army to 250,000 men. The measure was re turned to conference. Two men were killed in a feud battle at the Jualin mining camp, Juneau, Alaska, on Berner's Bay, recently. Forty men took part in the fight, which resulted from card games. Americans who have enlisted at Toronto for army service to Europe are denied the use of the name "Amer ican Legion," under instructions from the Dominion authorities at Ottawa. Fire destroys the Chicago Grain company elevator and 60,000 bushels of grain, causing a $200,000 loss. Clar ence E. Fox, president of the com pany, intimated that the fire might be attributable to a war plot. President Wilson's approval of the nomination of Louis Brandeis for the Supreme Court bench, in a letter to the senate, declares the charges against Mr. Brandeis are "intrinsi cally incredible to anyone who knows him." The British ship Galgate, from Port land, Or., January 4, for ports in the United Kindgdom, was sunk Saturday, according to LloydB. The Galgate was last reported as having arrived at St. Michaels - April 24. She was 2356 tons gross. Two large buildings of the plant of the Cadillac Chemical company at Cadillac, Mich., were destroyed by fire Tuesday, with a loss estimated at $150,000. The company is under con tract to furnish an ingredient for smokeless powder to the British gov ernment. Dr. Ben L. Reitman la sentenced to 60 days in the New York workhouse for distributing literature, alleged to be improper, relating to birth control Dr. Reitman was arrested at a meet ing held recently to protest against the conviction of Emma Goldman on a similar charge. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, prosi dent of the National American Woman Suffrage association, in an address be fore the Mississippi Valley Suffrage conference at Minneapolis, docliires that the formation of a woman's po litical party would not be necessary this year to obtain national enfran chisement. A robber enters the National bank at Francis, Okla., covers the cashier with a revolver and dud with about $4000. After an exchange of shots with a pursuing posse, the robber forced the driver of one of the posse's automobiles to take him in and, with a revolver held at the driver's head, dis appeared in the hills. With the melting biiows no longer delaying the descent of the Russian Caucasian army from the high Armen ian plateau into the plateaus of Asia Minor, where the TurkB, having gath ered all available reinforcements, are ready at last to make a determined stand, the campaign in Asia Minor has reached a most interesting and pos sibly a decisive stand. An uncensored letter from Mexico declares Carranza 1b the chief obstacle In the way of capturing Villa. The sinking of a French flBhlng ves sel 150 miles from land by a submarine Is reported In an official communica tion Issued in London. The rural credits bill has passed the senate. A body believed to be that of O'Hellly, a loader of the IriBh rebel lion, hat been found. Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent telegraph that information, whleh Is regarded as trustworthy, has been ro celved there that Meti la being evacu ated by the civil population. Baker, Ore., voters decidedly reject ed the proposed change to the city manager form of government by a vote of 80S to 369. The city commissioners won a salary raise by a somewhat smaller margin. Earl Kitchener praises the English troops who surrendered at Kut-el-Amara. The Chehalla Sash and Door Fac tory at McCleary, Wash., la building five new dry kilns, and when complet ed this will increase the output of the door factory from 4000 to 6000 doors every 24 hours. The Brazilian government has noti fied the German legation that it has ordered an urgent Inquiry into the inking of the Brazilian steamship ltlo Branco, In order to be able to act with certainty for the defense of Its neu tral rights. An Irish President if i, ' ; , ' - - , U . - . r V .-r V i ' ' 2 - : f-A ','-,?" tv lib S i.'K ?. T " - y - 0 f J I V W :'' m i '"Ai M V- i' V? 6 Patrick J. H. Pearse. Patrick J. H. Pearse was "provisional president of the Irish republic" for five days. The Sinn Feiners called lution in Dublin. He was executed proclamation calling on all those who BERLIN'S CHARGE Of DISCRIMINATION TO 8E DENIED BY PRESIDENT WILSON Washington, D. C. Study of the Gorman submarine note is convincing President Wilson's advisers that an other reply must be made in order to answer certain charges against the United States made in that document. These charges are : First That the United States had discriminated against Germany and in favor of Great Britain in its demands that international law be obeyed. Second That the United States would have brought freedom of the seas had it insisted on its rights against Great Britain. Third That he United States has aided Germany's enemies by supply ing them with all kinds of war mater ials. The President and his advisers de clare there has been no discrimination for or against any belligerent since the war began. To bring about the adoption of a submarine policy based on the recog nized basis of international law, it was necessary for the United States to con duct negotiations with Germany which have extended over a period of 13 months. For 15 months the United States has been negotiating with Great Britain and her allies to put a stop to violations of international law leveled against neutral commerce. - Mr. Wilson holds, his advisers de clare, that it was far more important to obtain protection for human life than it was to arrange for protection for dollars, and it was for this reason that he proceeded with such vigor gainBt Germany. Attention is called to the representations and protests which have been made to Great Bri tain and France as proof of the effort of the administration to prevent the sefaure of innocent goods by ships of the allied powers. If Germany will give the government here a chance, it is declared, Germany will have no reason to complain of the lack of vigor of the President. London Rejects All Peace Talk; Allies Willing to Wait Better Time London The London morning news papers Monday laid great emphasis on Germany s alleged desire for peace. "If President Wilson accepts the German note as a basis for further dis cussion," says the Daily Chronicle, "his motive nuiHt be Bought, not in the terms which Germany offers, but in the wider suggestion which was ex- Navy Run by Telephone. Washington, D. C A working sys tem of wire and wireless communica tion said by army and navy experts to be unequalled by that of any other na tion was effected Saturday by the Navy department as an adjunct to the preparedness program. It was inaug urated by a wirelesB telephone conver sation, the first ever held, during which Secretary Daniels, in the Navy depart ment, gave instructions to a command er on a warship operating against a theoretical enemy far off the Virginia capes, and received reports from him. Letter to Wilson From Pope. Washington, D. C Monsignor Gio vanni Bonzano, the apostolic delegate, Monday delivered a message to Presi dent Wilson from Pope Benedict. He did not see the President, but left the communication with Secretary Tumul ty. White House officials at first re fused to discuss the message, and so did the apostolic delegate. Later it was said that it bore on the submarine issue between the United States and Germany. It was undertood it reflect ed the apprehenaaion of the Pope at the possibilities of a rupture. Bryanite Threatens Bolt. Boston Formation of a political party to uphold peace principles was advocated by George Fred William, ex-minister to Greece, in an addre at a mass meeting in the interest of peace here Monday night. "I am ready to return to politics to fight the fight for peace and leave my party if necessary to do It, "said Mr. William, who for many year wai prominent In the Democratic party and an ardent supporter of William J. Bryan. for Five Davs. him that when they began their "revo by the British after he had issued a followed him to lay down their arms. pressed by only a hint in the document, but was presumably amplified in verbal communications with the American ambassador. Germany now is at the top of her military achievement. If she can make peace now it would be on terms more favorable than later. If she can strongly enlist American pub lic opinion that is a great step toward the accomplishment of this object. "In such a situation the allies' cause needs a plain declaration by the allied statement that no peace negotiations are admissible at the present stage. Public opinion in the allied and neutral countries needs to be clearly reminded of the essential issues underlying the present Btruggle. " $27,593 a Year to Support Him. John Jacob Astor, Jr. Mrs. John Jacob Astor, last widow of the multi-millionaire land owner, who went down on the Titanic, insists it costs $27,593 a year to Bupport her four-year-old son? John Jacob Astor, Jr. There was allowed from the es tate of his father $20,000 a year for his support. That is not enough says Mrs. Astor, in her last report to the surrogate of New York county. She spent over $7000 additional. The As tor estate was worth between $80, 000,000 and $100,000,000 at the death of John Jacob. The major portion went to his eldest son Vincent Astor. Transport Strike Mine. Beriln The sinking of an allied transport in the Mediterranean late in April with the Iors of nearly all the 600 Russian troops who were on board is reported in advices from Chief Cor fu Monday. The transport was sunk by striking a mine about the same time the British battleship met a similar fate, it is said. "According to relia ble reports from Corfu, in addition to tho battleship Russell, a transport steamer with 000 Russians on board struck a mine and Bank. Only a few were rescued." Draft Bill Championed. London Addressing his constituent at Conway, Wales, David Lloyd George, minister of munitions, defend ed his demands for compulsion, the necessity for which, he said, arose tast September. Compulsion, the muni tions minister said, simply meant that the country was organizing itself in an orderly, consistent and resolute man ner for war, which could not be run as a Sunday school treat. He declared it never had been said that Great Britain could raise as many men in proportion to population as France could. 25.000-Mile Flight Plan. Atlantic City, N. J. Porter Atwell Adams, a Boston millionaire, is going to circumnavigate the globe in a spe cially built aeroplane, with a crew of ix men to help him. The young man expects to fly from San Francisco west ward to San Francisco. Mr. Adams, who is a descendant of John Quincy Adams, is staying at the Hotel Tray more here, making out hi itinerary. His preliminary plan call for 13 stop in his 25,000-mile air journey. I- v.' ,.: : . .x :v:-- NEWS ITEMS Of General Interest About Oregon Equality in Distribution of State School Money Shown That the state and county officials of Oregon are much more zealous in safe guarding the school funds than are Bome of the neighboring states is shown by an investigation started a short time ago by the legislative com mittee of the state of Washington representing the State Federation of Labor, the Farmers' Union and State Grange. The secretary of the commit tee wrote to State Superintendent J. A. Churchill calling attention to the fact that 25 per cent of the moneys derived from the sale of timber and rentals of the forest reserves is paid by the Federal government to various Btates and that the law provides that it shall be by them divided among the counties in which the forest reserves are situated, and the money expended for the benefit of the public schools and the public roads thereof, and not otherwise. A comparison of the way this money is divided in the different states is quite interesting. This committee sent a statement which shows that in many counties of Washington all the money is expended for the benefit of roads, and the schools receive nothing. In some counties a very small sum is spent for roads and Bchools and the balance is "otherwise" expended. Superintendent Churchill sent a let ter to each county of this state asking for a statement as to how the money is expended in Oregon. He has re ceived letters from nearly all the coun ties, and in every instance the money is equally divided between the school fund and the road fund. Government Crop Report for Oregon Washington, D. C A summary of the May crop report for the state of Oregon, as compiled by the Bureau of crop estimates, U. S. department of Agriculture, is as follows: Winter wheat May 1 forecast 12,- 400,000 bushels; production last year (final estimate), 16,200,000; two years ago, 13,684,000; 1909-13 aver age, 12,955,000 bushels. Rye May 1 forecast, 436,000 bush els; production last year (final esti mate), 414,000; two years ago, 336,- 000 bushels. Meadows May 1 condition 93, com pared with the ten-year average of 96, Pasture May 1 condition 93, com pared with the ten-year average of 95, Spring plowing Per cent done to May 1, 1916, estimated 89 per cent, compared with 92 May 1 last year and 84, the ten year average. Spring planting Per cent done to May 1, 1916, estimated 75 per cent, compared with 86 May 1 last year and 80, the ten-year average. Hay Old crop on farms May 1, es timated 75,000 tons, compared with 120,000 a year ago and 173,000 two years ago. Prices The Bret price given below is the average on May 1 this year, and the second, the average on May 1 last year: Wheat, 87 and 116 per bushel. Corn, 85 and 89. Oats, 39 and 51. Pota toes, 77 and 77. Hay, $13.10 and $9.50 per ton. Eggs, 20 and 19 cents per dozen. Timber Sale Approved. Announcement is made by the Forest Service that the district forester, Portland, Ore., has just approved the contract for the sale to Brown Bros., of Hubbard of 3,900,000 feet of timber on the Crater Lake National forest in Southern Oregon. The timber is located on Crystal Creek on the west side of Klamath lake and consists mostly of western yellow pine, although there is some sugar pine and other species. The prices paid for the timber are $3.20 per M feet for the yellow pine and sugar pine, and 60 cents per M feet for the other species. Mill Refuses Business. Marshfield Frank W. Rehfeld, a myrtle wood manufacturer here, has more orders than he can fill and had to turn down a large contract for myrtle bobbins for spinning mills in Calcutta, Myrtle wood novelties have become much sought since they were exhibited at the San Francisco exposition, and orders for the wood are being received from many sections of the United States. The Rehfeld plant is now busy on an order for 1,000,000 auto writers, a contrivance used in teaching children to write. Fruit Pest Fight Planned. Hood River Professor L. F. Hen derson, formerly head of the depart ment of botany of the University of Idaho, who has just been appointed county fruit inspector to succeed H. M. Holbrook, will wage a campaign to keep the orchards of this district free from disease pests. Non-resident ownerB will be made to clean up tracts that have grown to weeds. "It was gratifying to us of the Upper Valley community to meet with such co-operation from Professor Henderson," said Colonel W. F. Tucker. 7000 Acres Reclaimed, Klamath Falls Seven thousand more acres of rich farm lands will soon be added to Klamath county's tillable area, as a result of the recla mation operations carried on by E. P. McCornack, a director of the First Na tional bank of this city. He has been working on this project for two years, using a large dredger in diking. The land just reclaimed is of the same type of soil as the famous McCornack ranch near the scene of the last reclamation work, which has given exceptional yields for several years. Mill Burned; Loss SIS.OOO. Tillamook The Yellow Fir lumber mill, 11 miles south, was destroyed by fire one morning this week. The flames originated in the engine-room from a hot box. There was no insurance. The loss is put at $15,000. Some 30, 000 feet of lumber was burned. The plant will be built immediately to fill big orders ahead, according to Frank Long, owner. RAID U. S. BORDER fliree American Soldiers and 10 Year Old Boy Are Slain. TWO CITIZENS CARRIED Off PRISONERS Three Settlements in Texas County Attacked at Night Troops In Pursuit May Cross Line. El Paso Three American soldiers and a 10-year-old boy have lost their lives and two American "citizens have been kidnapped and carried south of the intenational boundary to almost certain death in another raid of 200 Mexican bandits that takes rank with Francisco Villa's famous attack on Columbus, N. M. Three soldiers were wounded and two soldiers and two cit izens are missing. The bandits' foray, carrying them through the southern limits of Brew ster county, in the Big Bend district of Texas, and taking in three little settlements near the border Glenn Springs, Boquillas and Deemers took place on Friday night and Saturday morning, but news of it did not reach here until Sunday. Within an hour preparations had been made for adequate action. Major General Funston ordered that in all four troops of cavalry should proceed to the raided section to reinforce small detachments already on the scene from Presidio and other convenient points. lhese troops got under way at once. It was said here that if the exigency of the case demands such action they will cross the border in order to run down and disperse the bandits. In a little adobe house nine cavalry men made their fight for life against the 70 or more Villista bandits at Glenn Springs. A hail of Bhot poured for more than two hours into the single window of the mud adobe, but the Americans refused to give up, The cavalrymen kept up a steady rifle hre in defiant answer. Then the Mex ican leader ordered fire balls to be thrown on the roof, thickly thatched with candelaria. The blazing weed tortured the sol diers below and burnt their heads and bodies. Then, smashing the door, the troopers broke for the open, firing as they ran. Two were shot and killed as they fled. One is missing and it is believed he is dead. Another wfts killed as he tried to climb through a window. According to the Btory brought here, the Mexican bandits first attacked a store and one or two houses in Bo quillas, where they made Deemer and Compton prisoners, and then sped 15 miles northward to make their attack on Glenn Springs, which is fringed by rugged hills. At Glenn Springs they wrecked a wax factory belonging to Willaim .1118, his store and residence. besides one or two other small build ings. Mexicans Routed in 11. S. Cavalry Charge and Forty-two Are Killed El Paso, Tex. General Pershing's official report of the defeat of a band of Villa's men at Ojo-Azules Thursday by Major Howze, received here Satur day, discribed the action as a cavalry charge with pistols, the first to occur since operations were begun. The men had ridden 80 miles from San Antonio to Ojo-Azules, 17 miles south west of Cusihuinachic. The pursuit of the scattered Mexi cans is being continued. Information that the band was near Ojo-Azules had been secured by General Pershing two days before. It was said to have at tacked and defeated a Carranza force a few days before that. The commanders were Cruz Dominguez, Antonio Ange les and Julio Acosta. General Pershing reported that the counted dead was 42. Seventy-five horses and mules were taken from the Meixcans and six Carranza prisoners they had been holding for execution. Many wounded are reported, but the number was not given. The Ameri cans had no casualites. Lynching Causes Vacancy. Washington, D. C The postmaster general recently received from Repre sentative Wilson, of Florida, a letter reading as follows: "Dear Sir I have the honor, sir, to inform you, sir, that the postmaster recently appointed by you on my rec ommendation at the town of , Florida, was lynched last night. You will, therefore, take notice that a va cancy exists. I desire that vacancy filled by the appointment of John Doe. Respectfully yours, "EMMET WILSON." Curiosity Is Punished. Leeds, England Albert Bright, 49 years old, an Iron merchant of Shef field, was sentenced to penal servitude for life. Bright was convicted of col lecting and attempting to elicit infor mation from workmen employed at an ammunition plant concerning the de scription of war materials. The pris oner pleaded guilty. The judge in passing sentence (aid if Bright had not so pleaded and a jury had considered whether he intended to help the enemy and had found him guilty he would have been condemned to death. Drugstore Is Despoiled. Seattle The police Saturday raided the drugstore of James J. Kelley who formerly conducted a saloon in the same place. They demolished the fix ture and a large quantity of liquor. Kelley estimate the value of the ar ticle destroyed at $10,000. One mir ror shattered cost $1000. The drug tore has been repeatedly in trouble with the police for alleged violations of the state liquor law. EIGHT THOUSAND MORE TROOPS CO TO REINFORCE BORDER PATROL Washington, D. C With 8000 ad ditional troops under orders for the Mexican border, including 4000 Na tional Guardsmen from Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, administration offi cials felt Wednesday night that neces sary steps had been taken to prevent further raiding of American border towns by bandits. President Wilson and his cabinet discussed the Mexican situation, but the President had authorized the new troop orders before his a&vsiers gath ered. General Scott and General Funston recommended early in the day that additional forces be sent to the border. After an exchange of tele grams General Funston suggested that the National guard from the three states named be called out in addition to the Bending of all the remaining in fantry to join his command. His sug- Canada's Only Woman Recruiting Officer. Cfara Sanderson Laub. Mrs. Clara Sanderson Laub spent more than a year in hospital work in France, and then returned to Canada to do what she could to induce men to enlist. This photograph shows her in her recruiting costume. She is the only woman in Canada engaged wholly in this work, and she has brought many men to the colors. gestion was promptly approved and or ders were dispatched. $10,000 Offered for 100 Seats In Republican National Convention Chicago From the pile of mail that was stacked high all over his office Wednesday, Fred W. Upham, chair man of the Chicago committee that brought the Republican National con vention to this city, extracted a letter. The letter made an offer of $10,000 for 100 seats for the convention that will assemble in Chicago June 7 to name the candidate of the Republican party for President. "The demand for tickets of admis sion to the convention is enormous, " said Mr. Upham, surveying the piles upon piles of letters awaiting his re turn to Chicago. "We are getting at least a bushel of mail a day, and al most every letter asks for seats. "I've been connected with the Chi cago committee that has handled four National Republican conventions, and I never saw anything like the demand for tickets that there is for this year. It is four times as great as ever be fore." Prosperity Due to Stay. Washington, D. C. There will be no industrial depression in the United States at the end of the European war, in the opinion of Secretary of Com merce Redfield, who wrote William P. Malburn, assistant secretary of the tresaury, that the country's so-called war business does not exceed probably 5 per cent of its total industrial and commercial activity. The letter was in reply to a sugges tion by Mr. Malburn that the Ameri can people are in danger of overlook ing preparedness for peace. Women Criticise Church. Minneapolis Churches which fail to extend to women members the right of a voice in their affairs were criticised by delegates to the Mississippi Valley Suffrage conference Wednesday. A Missouri delegate declared that the pastor of her church had gone so far as to talk against woman suffrage al most every Sunday from the pulpit." "What did you do about it?" de manded a score of delegates. "Quit the church," was the reply, and the hall rang with cheers and clap ping of hands. No action was taken. Moonshiner Is Arrested. Davenport, Wash. After lying in wait on a nearby mountainside for sev eral days and through a spyglass watch ing the movements of the moonshiners from their place of concealment. Sher iff John A. Level and two deputies swooped down on Willis Tubb, of the Spokane river country north of here Wednesday, and captured him while he was operatnig one of the most com plete stills ever located in this section of the country. Mrs BERLIN'S ANSWER PUTS OFF BREAK Assurances of Change in Sub marine Methods Acceptable. DIED STATES TO AWAIT FUEflLLMENT German Embassy Declares New Note Gives President Wilson All He Asked Congress Quiet. Washington, D. C. Geimany's note has postponed, if it actually has not averted, a diplomatic break with the United States. President Wilson will make the de cision after he has read the official text, which reached the State Depart ment late Friday night by cable from Ambassador Gerard at Berlin. It was said authoritatively after the cabinet meeting that if the official text bore out the unofficial version transmitted in Berlin's news dispatches, Germany's assurances undoubtedly would be ac cepted, and before taking another step the United States would await the ful fillment of her latest promises. In such case the United States might not reply to the note and would await evidence of the actual abandonment of Germany's present practices of sub marine warfare, which is declared. President Wilson is described by those close about him as being in a position where he cannot question the good faith of Germany's assurances, which must stand or fall by the future conduct of her submarine commanders The Germany embassy's view is that the note gives all President Wilson asked for; that it signalizes a return to "cruiser warfare" the use of sub marines as regular naval cruisers, in tercepting commerce with visit and search, and that inasmuch as it makes no mention of the armed ship question, that perplexing feature of the contro versy is not involved. Congress took the note quietly, and, although members expressed a variety of views, the general sentiment seemed to be in favor of leaving the situation in the hands of the President. On the surface there was no sign of activity in the group which has been working to prevent the President from pressing the situation to the point of a diplomatic rupture. Following are 20 vital points in the German note : 1. Admits "possibility" that Sus sex was torpedoed by a German sub marine. 2. Denies "deliberate method of indiscriminate destruction." 3. Contends it has exercised "far reaching restraints" on submarine operations. 4. Asserts it has issued orders to "visit and search," except as to "enemy freight ships in war zone." 5. Asserts "good faith" in giving and executing these orders. 6. Admits "errors" and pleads for "al lewances" for them. 7. Seeks to shift blame for killing Americans to the United States. Asserts many deaths would not have occurred had United States "accepted German pro posals." 8. Refuses to dispense with its submarine weapon. 9. Offers "a further concession" (see 18, below.) 10. Accuses Britain "beginning" vio lations of international law. 11. Pleads "self defense." 12. Charges United States with "discrimination" against Germany. . 13. Alleges Brit ish violations of international law. 14. Asserts United States has "power to confine war to armed forces." 15. Accuses the United States of partiality to allies. Revives "munitions" ques tion. 16. Discusses plea for human ity. 17. Blames allies for continuing the war. Germany "ready to make peace" on Germany's terms. 18. Offers new pledge to observe interna tional law provided: 19. United States successfully insists that Britain observe, as laid down in notes of De cember 28, 1914, and November 6, 1915, "forthwith." 20. Reserves "complete liberty of decision," should United States not meet this require ment. Raider May Be In Pacific. San Francisco As the schooner W. G. Irwin, from Roche Harbor, Wash ington, was passing Point Reyes, Cal., at midnight Saturday a war ves sel suddenly crossed directly in front of the Irwin and carried away the lat er' fore rigging. This report was made by the master of the sailing ves sel, which arrived here loaded with lime. The steamer Tjikembang, of the Java-Pacific line, which just arrived in port, was warned by wireless three days out from Honolulu to be on the lookout for a German commerce raider. Germans Gaining Ground, Paris In fierce attacks on both banks of the Meuse Sunday the Ger man forces gained ground from the French. They entered the French com municating trenches east of Hill 804 and gained a footing in the first French line between Haudramont wood and Fort Douaumont, over an extent of nearly a third of a mile. General Robert George Nivelle has been ap pointed to direct the local operations at Verdun. General Henri Philippe Petain was promoted to commander-in-chief between Soisson and Verdun. American Flag Stays Up. Columbus, N. M. Thirty Carranza custom guards stopped an American motor supply train at Las Palomas, eight miles south of the border, Satur day, and ordered the commander to re move American flags flying from the cars. The Mexicans, who had been celebrating "Cinco de Mayo," the Mex ican national holiday, informed him American flags could not be allowed on Mexican soil. No attention was paid to the demand and no trouble resulted. Packers Ars Convicted. Chicago Swift & Co., packers, were found guilty by a jury in the federal court on all 29 counts In the Indict ment charging it with violation of the interstate commerce laws.