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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1916)
WORLD'S DOINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHQ1 Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. The city of Portland has 337 jitneye. Intense heat in Chicago Sunday claims eleven victims. General Funston is in favor of with drawing the American troops from Mexico. The daily death toll from Infantile paralysis in New York City is reported decreasing. The railroad presidents are reported against the eight-hour day proposed by President WiUon. Two Eskimos have been captured at Nome, Alaska, who are charged with the murder of a prieBt in 1913. President Wilson signs the navy building bill and the work of carrying out the program will begin at once. Roumania is thought about ready to join the allies, as the situation be tween that country and Germany is re ported serious. Eight persons were killed and 16 in jured when three boilers in the Harlan Morris Stave Manufacturing Co., at Jackson, Tenn., exploded. American supervision of Dominican finances soon is to be extended to in ternal revenue as well as customs re ceipts. A budget syBtem also Is to be arranged. Swiss dispatches to the Overseas News Agency report that the French have removed the civil population from towns and villages behind the front in the districts of Nancy, Lune vllle, Baccarat and Saint Die. A masked robber held up and re lieved W. H. EBtabrook, manager of the Boston-Idaho Gold Dredge Mining company, of gold dust and nuggets valued at $2180 near Boise City in the Boise basin. The desperado made good his escape. One man was killed and several wounded early Sunday at Cienfuegos in a political riot between partisans of Santiago Iteye and Juan Florencio Cabrera, rival candidates for mayor. Many shots were fired and knives and machettes were used. One man was arrested. The National Guard will be retained on the Mexican border until it can be withdrawn without again endangering American lives and property. Secre tary Baker so declared the administra tion's policy in answering a score of letters from many parts of the country complaining that the Btate troops were ' being held in service after the emer gency for which they were called out apparently had passed. The list of securities furnished as collateral for the $250,000,000 new British loan, which J. P. Morgan & Co., syndicate managers, have pre pared, showB more than 600 issues of Blocks and bonds, representing virtu ally every important railroad and in dustrial company in the United States. The list has been classified into groups, all railroad stocks and bondB having been placed in one group, industrial corporations in another and miscel laneous in a third. The conference in Washington to settle the impending railroad strike has not accomplished anything and the President has sent for the presidents of the roads Involved, in the hope that an adjustment can be made. ' The. new German war usury bu reau has justified its existence by revealing surprising details of widely ramified food frauds, according o re ports received at The Hague. The frauds are said to involve a half dozen leaders and 100 accomplices. Plans for a more vigorous campaign to prevent the Bpread of infantile par alysis were made in Washington, D, C, at a conference of health authori ties Friday of most of the state with officials of the Federal Public Health Service. Resolutions will be adopted by the conference, In which eminent plague experts, scientists and bacteri ologists are participating, outlining definite proposals for checking dissem ination of the disease. While few of those present expressed alarm that the epidemic might assume country-wide proportions, they uniformly declared measures were necessary to guard gainst a widespread outbreak. Candidate Hughes is greeted with the second largest crowd of the West ern tour at Portland. Miss Grace Arnold, Portland sten ograher, has been admitted to practice in the United Sates District court. She is the third woman thus honored in Oregon. A bill providing that the sheriff of any Georgia county in which a lynch ing occurs be removed by the governor was tabled 113 to 29 by the Georgia house Saturday few minutes before the close of the legislative session, after it had been passed by the house. VAST ALLIED ARMY IS PUSHING TOWARD NISH; BULGARS PRESSED London The battle for Serbia grows in fury. While the allied forces are breaking a way slowly up the Vardar, along the railway to Nish, the Bulgars are pressing hard on both flanks, in an effort to prevent this movement from the center. The struggle continues along the whole front north of Sa lonika General Sarrail's troops gained on both sides of the Vardar Wednesday. This stroke, which halted after the Doiran station had been won more than a week ago, was resumed with some success. East of the river the allied infantry won the southern spurs of the Veles mountains, while to the west a line of heights near Ljumnica was taken. Heavy Bulgar assaults failed to re win the positions. An indication of the scope of the al lied plan in the Balkans is given in the announcement that since August 1 Russian troops have been landing at Saloniki. The censor until now has not disclosed their presence in the Balkan army. Reports from the Greek line estimate their number at more than 60,000. Thus, with the exception of the Japanese, the Belgians and the Portu guese, all the allies are now represent ed in General Sarrail's army. The Balkan force is beginning to compare favorably in size even with the huge armies gathered on the eastern and western fronts. The presence of the Italians at Sa loniki shows that real unity finally ex ists among the allies. Although Italy is not actually at wa with Germany, nor one of the powers protecting Greece, nevertheless she has consented td send an expeditionary force to aid the Serbs. Because of the heavy drain on al lied shipping and unwillingness among the higher commands to scatter their forces in an unhealthy climate, it is no secret that the Saloniki expedition was not always looked on with favor in all quarters. But the latest developments indicate that the advocates of a big campaign in the Balkans finally have won the day. Railroad Presidents fail to Solve Problem of Averting Big Strike Washington, D. C. Eight presidents of important railway systems who have been designated to draft the rail roads' reply to President Wilson's ap peal that they accept his plan for averting a Nation-wide strike were in almost continuous session Tuesday without solving their problem. Late Tuesday night three of the committeemen, Hale Holden, of the Burlington; R. S. Lovett, of the Union Pacific, and Daniel Willard, of the Baltimore & Ohio, dicusssed the situation with President Wilson. They were at the White House for more than an hour and on leaving de clined to talk about their visit further than to say they had "asked for the conference to discuss the general situ ation" and expected to see the Presi dent again. Although some of the 60 or more presidents are showing a disposition to prolong the negotiations in the hope that the sentiment of business men of the country will be shown to be op posed to the idea of an eight-hour day, there was a general feeling that a defi nite answer to President Wilson's de mand cannot be much longer post poned. living 25 Per Cent Higher Than 1915 Chicago The high cost of living this year equals the cost of high living last year. Higher prices and smaller portions at restaurants are the baro meter of food conditions. Food prices have advanced 25 per cent over last year. The soaring cost of meats, flour and vegetables limits their use by many people and the cheaper foods, rice and molasses, are coming into their own. The wholesale price of the beat grade of flour per barrel is $8.90 and last year it was $5.50. Beef is now selling at from 11 to 20 cents per pound wholesale, an increase of 25 per cent. The greatest rise occurs in im ported canned goods, which have ad vanced 100 per cent. Live hogs sold at $11.30 a hundred pounds at the Btockyards Wednesday, the highest price since the Civil war, when they went to $12.75 a hundred. Preacher Repays Theft. Washington, D. C With a $4 con tribution to the treasury's conscience fund Wednesday came the following letter signed by a Texas preacher: "You will find inclosed four $1 bills. The person that is sending them has got to God, and doing his best to get to heaven. This is what he beat the government out of several years ago, so please make some disposition of them, as the one sending them doesn't want them." Candy Barred From Camp. Lake Geneva, Wis. Candy has been barred from the National Service School camp, where 150 women are re ceiving military instruction, in an offi cial ruling. More than 100 pounds has been returned to its senders. The women have asked for a camp manicurist and hairdresser. Barbers Are on Strike. New York Two thousand barbers In 800 shops went on strike Wednes day. Before the end of the week, the majority of the 20,000 barbers in the greater city will join the strike. ALLIES START BIG DRIVE IN BALKANS Strong Offensive Begins Along Entire Greek-Serbian frontier. FRENCH CAPTURE FIVE VILLAGES Austrians Retire From Gateway Into Pass of Carpathians British Busy on Western Front. London The long-expected general offensive on the Saloniki front has opened and the grand assault againt thee forces of the central powers now is in progress in every theater of the world-war. General Sarrail is attack-, ing the Bulgar-German forces along the entire Greek-Serbian frontier, a distance of more than 150 miles. Reports from both Berlin and Paris indicate that the entente allies are fol lowing the same tactics in the Balkans that signalized the opening of the great offensive on the Somme. Small bodies of troops are attacking at nu merous points along the Bulgarian line, apparently with the intention: of feeling out their opponent's positions before the real battle opens. The French report the capture of five villages in the initial phases of the offensive, while Berlin reports the capture of Fiorina, a Greek town 15 miles southeast of Monastir, from the Serbians. On the eastern front the Russians have forced their way into the heart of the great mountain barrier between Galicia and the Hungarian plains. The AuBtrians admit a retirement west of Jablonitza, the gateway to one of the most important passes through the mountains, which was seized by the Russians last week. In this district the Austrians are retreating toward the Chronahora ridge, the highest point in the Carpathians in that re gion. From this ridge the ground falls rapidly to the plains of Hungary. Farther to the south, on the Buko wina end of the battle line, the Aus trians have been forced back in their advance on Kirlibaba, the next pass south of Jablonitza and about 50 miles from that point. Daily attacks by the British against the German lines north of the Somme in France are having their reward, and Sunday was reported the most notable gain in some days in the region of Guillemont. After withstanding Ger man counter-attacks, the troops of General Haig again assaulted the op posing trenches and gained from 200 to 600 yards along a front of 11 miles. German Submarines Sink Two British Cruisers in North Sea London Two British light cruisers, the Nottingham and Falmouth, were sunk Saturday in the North Sea by German submarines, while the vessels were searching for the German high seas fleet, according to an official an nouncement issued by the admiralty shortly before mid-night. One Ger man submarine was struck, while an other was rammed and possibly sunk. The statement says : "Reports from our lookout squad rons and other units showed that there was considerable activity on the part of the enemy in the North Sea Satur day, the 19th." London A German squadron of some 15 warships, including large cruisers, is reported in the North Sea by trawlers arriving at Ymuiden, Hol land, a Reuter dispatch says. The squadron was sighted early Sun day in the region of Whitebank, and was accompanied by two Zeppelins, it was announced, on a northerly cruise. Paris Bulgarian troops are advanc ing toward the Greek seaport of Ka rala, it was announced Monday. They have seized two Greek forts. At sev eral points along the front new en gagements have been fought. London The British troops on the Saloniki front have advanced and re pulsed Bulgarian counter - attacks. British cavalry have been in touch with the enemy. Troops' Condition Good. Houston, Tex. Governor Dunne, of Illinois, who arrived in Houston after an inspection of the military condi tions along the border, said: "I came to Texas to satisfy myself as to the conditions of the soldiers on the border because of some of the newspaper ac counts which we received. 1 I found that the most scrupulous care was be ing taken of the soldiers, that their physical condition was excellent and that their surroundings were good. Everything that possibly can be done for their comfort is being done." Shark Breaks Up Race. Boston Henry F. Sullivan, of Low ell, was declared the winner over Charles Toth, of Boston, Sunday in a swimming race between Race Point, Provincetown, and Nantasket Beach. Toth was taken from the water by his trainers when a shark circled about him after he had covered 17 miles in a little more than 14 hours. Sullivan covered 25 miles. His followers said he was in the water 20 hours and 20 minutes. WILSON VETOES ARMY MEASURE Objection Made to Exempting Retired Officers from Discipline. MAY POSTPONE ADJOURNMENT Bill is Reintroduced With Entire Sec tion Eliminated Fight is Be tween Congress and Hay. Washington, D. C. The army ap propriation bill was unexpectedly ve toed Friday by President Wilson be cause he would not accept certain pro visions in the revision of the articles of war, forced into the bill by the house conferees and commonly said in army circles to be in the interest of certain retired officers "at outs with the army." Chairman Hay, of the house military committee, at once reintroduced the bill with the entire section revising the articles of war stricken out, and the declaration that no revision at all would go through with the bill in this congress. Chairman Chamberlain, of the sen ate military committee, announced that the Benate would re-insert the re vised draft approved by the President and the War department, but stricken out in the house, and that the situation had reBolved itself into a contest be tween the senate and house on one hand and Mr. Hay on the other. The tangle threatens to delay the adjournment of congress, and inciden tally the completion of the prepared ness program, as well as to hold up ap propriations for the army increases and all the extra expenses involved in the Mexican service. The bill as reintroduced now is in the house military committee and there is an agreement to take it up and expedite the continental army and universal training plans, and the sub stitution of National Guard reorgan ization, which it opposed. Army officers also say certain fea tures of the bill were injected in con ference and never were debated on the floor of either house of congress. The articles of war have not been revised in 100 years and are said to be Badly deficient for dealing with the conditions which growth of the army and development of the nation require. The War department is especially anxious for changes to enable army officers to deal adequately with prob lems arising during the present Mexi can service. Included in the revision worked out by congress, over the objection of the President and the War department, waB a provision which exempted re tired officers from court-martials and army discipline, if not actually from army control, and placed them under the jurisdiction of the civil courts. It is common understanding among army officers that the section covered the case of a certain retired officer, formerly regarded as a power in shap ing military legislation, who was pre paring to write a book and hesitated to do it while liable to discipline. While Chicago Bakes, Baker freezes. Chicago Just as the morgue was cleared of the last of the unidentified dead stricken down by the terrible heat wave, the streets were cleaned of dead horses and the wilted and emaciated public was beginning to take a fresh grip on life, the hot spell returned for another engagement Saturday. It will find the poeple with far less resisting power than before and if it continues many days ' the death list will be heavy. Baker, Or. Winter dropped plump into the lap of summer in the last 24 hours and overcoats and umbrellas are all the rage here. The thermometer went down to 37 early Saturday morn ing and stayed in that neighborhood practically all day. Snow was report ed in the high mountains. Funston Will Not Talk. San Antonio, Texas General Fun ston Saturday declined to discuss a re port that he had recommended the withdrawal of the American troops in Mexico. Aaked if he had made any such recommendation in the matter, he said: "I will not even say whether any communication whatever concern ing the subject has passed between myself and Washington." Asked if he cared to deny the re port, the general said: "I do not It is a matter that concerns only the War department, and I won't discuss it" Price Not Manipulated. Washington, D. C. Preliminary in vestigation in Chicago of the recent rises in wheat and flour prices and threatened rise in price of bread, by Chairman Hurley, of the Federal Trade commission, is understood to have disclosed no evidence of Illegal manipulations. As the matter stands now the com mission is not expected to take any action. Mr. Hurley returned from Chicago to make his report. SOLUTION Of IMPENDING RAILROAD STRIKE SEEMS LIKELY THIS WEEK Washington, D. C President Wil son's week of conferences with rank ing officials of the railroads and lead ers of their employes threatening a nation-wide strike are believed by all parties to the controversy to have brought the situation to a point where decisive developments may be expected within a few days. While negotiations took no actual step Monday, the President replied in directly to the contentions of the road officials that the principle of arbitra tion would be endangered by his plan for putting the eight-hour basic day into effect while a commission investi gates its practicability and passes upon other points at issue. In a tele gram made public at the White House the President declared he held firmly to arbitration as a principle, and that hiB plan strengthened rather than weakened it. He also said that some British Sea Captain Who Was Executed by Germans CAPT, CHARLES -f., FRYATT. - This is the first photograph of Cap tain Charles A. Fryatt, British captain of the steamship Brussels, who was shot to death by the Germans at BrugeB, to reach the United States. He tried to sink a German submarine and was captured. The British gov ernment has recommended the grant ing of an extra penion of $500 annual ly to Captain Fryatt's widow, besides the sum to which she is entitled under England's compensation scheme. The Great Eastern railroad, of one of whose ships Captain Fryatt was the master, is also granting hiB widow a $1250 annuity. means must be found to prevent the existing situation from ever arising again. Meantime the railroad officials who have tentatively refused to accept Wil son's proposal, continued conferences among themselves. The labor leaders, who already have approved the pro posal, marked time awaiting a definite decision from the employers. Tropical Storm Loss in Texas Over $2,000,000; Thirteen Are Dead Corpus Christi, Tex. The loss of life from the tropical Btorm which struck Corpus Christi and 10 adjacent South Texas counties on Friday night was placed at 13. Monday, including nine members of the crew of the small freighter Pilot Boy, which foundered off the Aransas Pass jetties. Two Mexican women ware killed at Kath erine, a settlement on the King ranch near Alice, Tex., and one Mexican was reported killed at San Diego. Both towns are from 50 to 60 miles inland. The total damage in this region, of which Corpus Christi bore the heaviest part, was estimated at over $2,000, 000. This includes devastation of a large portion of the tower coast's cot ton crop, which was ready to be picked. Damage at Corpus Christi was estimated conservatively at $500, 000. Old Settlers in Battle. Springfield, Mo. Three men are dead and eight wounded, three serious ly, as a result of a series of fights which marked the recent Old Settlers' reunion at Rocky Comfort in McDon ald county, Missouri. Belated news of the tragedies was brought here Monday by William L. Crow, a local editor. Larrimore, Crow related, was slain in a brawl by Vanslack, who killed himself with a shotgun follow ing Larrimore's death. West's throat was cut in a fight with an unidentified man. The fighting continued two days. Old Songs in Litigation. New York A suit contesting the ownership of copyright on "Silver Threads Among the Gold," and other old songs written by Hart P. Danks, who died in 1903, has been begun in the Federal court by his widow against Elizabeth Adair Gordon and others, song publishers, under the name of the estate of Hamilton Gordon. The de fendants are accused of publishing Danks' songs without authority, and thereby to have made $100, 00 profits. PH1LIPPINEMEASURE PASSED BY SENATE Amendment for Independence in four Years is Eliminated. MAY REMAIN PART OF U. S. House Expected to Approve Senate Action Reorganization of Na tive Government Likely. Washington, D. C The Philippine bill, as reported from conference, with the Clarke amendment providing for independence of the islands within four years eliminated, but containing a promise of freedom whenever the Fili pinos have demonstrated their ability to maintain a stable government, fin ally was approved Thursday by the senate. The vote was 37 to 22. Senator Borah, Republican, declared the elimination of the amendment after it had passed the senate was an index of public sentiment against re linquishing the islands, and meant the United States had decided to keep the islands for all time. ' "Public opinion has been so clear, " said he, "that we may conclude and the Philippine people Bhould decide that the independence question has been settled for all time unless the fortunes of war should change the American policy." The house is expected to approve the conference measure within a few days and send it to the President. It pro vides for reorganization of the island government sg as to materially extend native control. A senate amendment for prohibition in the islands was stricken out. Senator Hitchcock, chairman of the Philippine committee, told the senate that the independence and prohibition features had to be eliminated in order to get an agreement for approval of the bill at this session. Danish Senators Are Not Ready to Sell Islands to United States Copenhagen The Landsthing, the upper house of the Danish parliament, met Thursday as a committee of the whole to consider the treaty providing far the sale of the Danish WeBt Indies to the United States, and 47 of the 61 memberB present placed themselves in favor of the order of the day declaring1 that the sale cannot be settled before elections for both houses of Parlia ment have been held. The situation has been further com plicated by a proposal from Premier Zahe that the government resign and help in the formation of a cabinet rep resenting the various parties. This proposal, if carried out, would avoid the holding of elections as advocated by the Conservatives and the Left. Native Vote Favors Sale. St. Thomas, Danish West Indies Apparently the inhabitants of the is land of St. Croix are in favor of the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. Unofficial balloting was held there Thursday and of the votes cast 5000 were in favor of the proposition and only 11 against it One Hundred Mexicans field to Courtmartial in Chihuahua City Chihuahua City Preparations are under way here for the greatest series, of courtmartials ever held in Mexico, in an effort to stamp out disloyalty in Northern Mexico. One hundred prom inent figures in Mexican politics are held awaiting trial here in connection with the discovery of recent revolu tionary plots and hunrdeds of witnesses have been summoned from all over the republic. El Paso, Tex. General Francisco Gonzales, commnading the Mexican army of Northern Chihuahua, left Juarez Thursday for Chihuahua City, where he will appear as a witness against Jose Ynez Salazar the noted revolutionist, held for trial on a charge of treason. Concord to Be Repaired. Astoria, Or. Quarantine Officer Ebert has been notified by the depart ment that congress has set aside $5000 for repairing and improving the old gunboat Concord and has been asked to recommend what alterations shall be made to the vessel. Since the Concord was brought here approximately $2000 has been spent on her in constructing bunks, installing a galley, a water sys tem, driving dolphins and making minor alterations. It is probable that the additional $5000 will be expended in a heating and lighting system. Seattle Pier Dynamited. Seattle, Wash. The timbers in the southeast corner of Pier D, at the foot of King street were blown down and a shack built alongside the pier was en tirely destroyed Thursday morning, when a bomb placed near the street end of the pier exploded. Thomas Mc Laughlin, a night watchman, saw the sparks from the fuse, and thinking it was a fire, routed from the shack three dock workers who were sleeping there. None were injured.