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WORLD HAPPENINGS LABOR'S DUTY TOLD SECOND DRAFT SOON DRIVE IN President Wilson Addresses American Federation of Labor and Appeals for Unity in All War Work. OF CURRENT WEEK BEATEN AT CAPITAL IS KERENSKY REPORTED GERMAN DRUGS EXCITE YOUR CHECKED KIDNEYS USE SALTS Brief Resume Most Important ' Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Government! and Pacific Northwest and Other Thing! Worth Knowing. With every county in Ohio having reported officially, prohibition in Ohio has been defeated by a majority of 1723 on the face of returns. . A United States patrol boat which went ashore on the sand flats in the harbor of a Pacific port during a heavy fog, was floated a few hours later. The ship was not damaged. San Diego's city council has passed a resolution granting to the United States Marine Corps the use of about 30,000 acres of city lands in the north western part of the city for maneuver ing grounds. The German emperor arrived Sunday at the Italian war theater, where he met Emperor Charles and King Ferdinand, according to a Gorizia dispatch. He congratulated Emperor Charles on hiB escape from drowning. In the month of October the entente powers lost 244 airplanes and nine balloons, according to the official state ment iBBUed by the German war office. The German losses in battle were 57 airplanes and one balloon in this period. At a meeting of the new Fatherland party in Mnuich Monday, Admiral von Tirpitz, former German minister of marine, made a violent annexationist speech. He said the question whether Germany or England became the pro tector of Belgium would be the de cisive isBue of the war. The latest rise in the price of food in New York will affect pet dogs at several leading hotels. Announcement was made Tuesday that the price of dog food has been raised to equal that charged for guests, shinbones 60 cents apiece and chopped meats from 20 cents a pound to 75 cents. The group of American aviators comprising the Lafayette Flying Corps soon will be incorporated into the American army, a majority of the men receiving officers' commissions. The formal transfer by the French govern ment, which already had expressed ap proval of the action, is expected daily. Resolutions urging the appropriation by congress of not less than $1,000. 000,000 to build "an emergency air fleet of huge war planes" to offset the mobility of German forces on their in terior lines of communication were adopted at the annual meeting of the Aero Club of America in New York Tuesday, An attempt to hold a meeting of the People's Council of America for De mocracy and Terms of Peace in Du luth, Minn., Tuesday night, resulted in the arrest of Professor Scott Nearing, of Toledo, chairman of the executive committee of the council. Nearing was turned over to the Federal author ities. In an open letter to "all men work ing in and around the copper mines, mills and smelters of the United States and Canada, " made public in Denver, Colo., Charles H. Moyer, pres ident of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, ap peals to the loyalty of working men to assure a maximum production and thorough co-operation with the govern ment in fulfilling the country's needs. The Australian government has de cided to hold another referendum on the question of conscription. Venice, Italy, is not alarmed over the invasion of the Austro-Germans and the shops are kept open for busi ness as usual. West Texas cattle raisers and bank ers have sought government interven tion as a result of the long drouth which threatens the lives of thousands of cattle, sheep and goats. The run of silverBides at Gardiner, which has been exceedingly light the past two weeks, is increasing and the fishing fleet is out in full force. The old saying about the shoemak er's children going barefooted is well illustrated in the case of J. H. Cham bers, of Cottage Grove, who has sold thousands of cords of wood during the past year, but now finds himself with out a dry Btick of wood for his own use, owing to a fire that recently de stroyed his mill. Fifteen years In a Federal peniten tiary was the sentence handed out Thursday to E. Wangerin, of St Paul, in the first conivction by a general eourtmartial at the Camp Dodge, la., cantonment Wangerin refused to obey orders. The quotas from various Western universities and colleges designated to enter the third series of training camps for commissions as second Lieu tenants were announed it headquarters of the Western department of the army in San Francisco Friday. The camps open January 6, 1918. Buffalo, N. Y. President Wilson in a forceful address here Monday before the American Federation of Labor ap pealing to the working men of the United States for co-operation in the conduct of the war made it clear that he opposes peace until the war against Germany has been won. The President, declared that his heart was with "the feeling of the pacifists," but that "my mind has a contempt for them." "I want peace but I know how to get it and they do not," he declared. Colonel E. M. House head of the American delegaiton to the allied war conference, the President said, had been sent to take part in a conference as to how the war was to be won, "and he knows, as I know, that that is the way to get peace if you want it for more than a few minutes." ' The 450 delegates to the convention and the several thousand persons ad mitted to the hall to hear the Presi dent speak arose and applauded this declaration with a tremendous burst of cheers. Another demonstration of ap roval came when he said: "We must stand together, night and day, until this job ie finished." The President, while devoting his address to problems for the people of the United States, laid emphasis upon the broader phases of the world's con flict in a way that seemed that his speech was possibly intended as a mes sage to the people of Germany, of Aus tria and of Russia, as well as of the United States. He declared his belief that were it not for the Pan-Germans the spirit of freedom would find "as fine a welcome in the hearts of the Germans as it can find in any other heart." The President directly asserted that Germany had started the war and said he would leave confirmation of this statement to the verdict of history. He referred to Germany's growth to a "place in the sun" and asked why she was not satisfied when she gained that position. FORCE BREAD PRICES DOWN Size and Contents of Loaves Will Be Standardized After Dec. 10. Washington, D. C. Definite steps to standardize bread and lower its price were taken Monday, when Presi dent Wilson issued a proclamation placing all bakeries under government license December 10 and subjecting them to food administration rules pre scribing ingredients and weights of loaves. Prices will not be fixed, but with the standardization it is expected that competition and simplification of distribution will force down prices for pound loaves to 7 or 8 cents. Fancy breads will be eliminated, and the multitude of sizes now pro duced will be reduced to four with standard ingredients. The weights will be one pound, one and one-half, two and four pounds. The loaves will have creases in the middle to permit their sale in halves. In baking only three pounds of sugar will be allowed for a barrel of flour in stead of an average of six pounds now used, and two pounds of vegetable oil shortening must be used instead of six pounds of lard or oil. The food ad ministration expects to save 100,000, 000 pounds of sugar and the same amount of lard in .this way. Bakers may use only skimmed milk for bread, and rolls will be permitted only if made in standard sizes, and of regula tion bread dough. Through the co-operation of the baking industry and also with the bak ing of the licensing system, Food Ad ministrator Hoover hopes to work re forms in the present methods of dis tribution from wholesale bakeries to retailers and from retailers to cus tomers. He will urge grocers, for in stance to buy regular quantities of bread, limiting their purchases to a single bakery instead of buying from four or five, as at present, and to make lower charges to customers who pay cash and carry their goods home than to those insisting on delivery and cred it On the cash-and-carry basis, he says, bread can be sold at a profit of one cent a pound loaf. In addition, an at tempt will be made to persuade whole sale bakeries to sell their products di rect to customers who will pay cash and carry their purchases. Spruce Fires Set, ia Theory. Marshfield, Or. Fighters who were engaged in subduing forest fires in the vicinity of Empire declared they found evidence of incendiarism in several places. The fires were found chiefly at the roots of spruce trees, where it was discovered the Are had eaten deep into the mold among the tree roots. All indications pointed to the theory that oil had been poured on the trees to insure a good "catch." The fires were in the district where the Southern Oregon company owns a fine body of spruce timber. Boys Get Taste of Gas. With the American Army in France The American infantrymen in the trenches and artillerists in the gunpits have had their first real experience with gas shells. The Germans have let loose many during the past two days, making the use of gas masks necessary. Shrapnel also has been freely used by both sides. During a recent night the enemy machine guns were again turned on the American trenches, the Americana replying. Battle of Tsarskoe-Selo Fought November 12. FIGHT REPORTS VARY Copenhagen and Stockholm Newspa pers Have News of Victory by Kerensky and Korniloff. London The complete defeat of Premier Kerensky and General Korni loff is announced in a Russian com munication received here by wireless (which is in the hands of the rebels). "Monday, after bitter fighting near Tsarskoe-Selo," says the statement, "the revolutionary army completely defeated the counter-revolutionary forces of Kerensky and Korniloff. "In the name of the revolutionary government, I order opposition to all enemies of the revolutionary democ racy and the taking of all measures necessary to effect the capture of Ker ensky. I also forbid similar adven tures which are endangering the suc cess of the revolution and the triumph of the revolutionary army. "MAURAVIEFF, "Commander-in-chief of the Forces Acting Against Korensky." The communication goes on to say history will record the night of , No vember 12. "The attempt of Kerensky to move counter-revolutionary forces against the capital of the revolution has re ceived a decisive reply," it adds. "Kerensky is retiring and we are taking the offensive. The soldiers, sailors and workmen in Petrograd know how to impose and will impose with arms in their hands their will and the power of the democracy. "The Bourgeoise has endeavored to separate the army from the revolution. Kerensky has attempted to break it by the violence of Cossackdom. Both efforts have failed. The workmen's and peasants' great conception of the supremacy of the democracy has united the ranks of the army and has steeled its will." Copenhagen Premier Kerensky's troops are in control of part of Petro grad, especially the Nevsky Prospekt, accordng to a telegram received by the Stockholm News Agency and forward ed to Copenhagen. The Bolsheviki are said to have taken refuge in the Smolny Institute. London A report that loyal troops had occupied the Smolny Institute, the headquarters of the Bolsheviki, is de nied in a dispatch by the Petrograd correspondent of the Daily Mail, dated Sunday noon. On the contrary, he says the place is being prepared to withstand a siege. ITALIANS DRIVE HUNS BACK Battle Line Established and Defensive Warfare Begun. Rome Attacks by the Teutonic al lies along the Asiago plateau front have been repulsed by the Italian ac cording to the official communication issued Tuesday. The communication adds that the enemy, with the aid of large boats, crossed the river at Zenson and estab lished a bridgehead, but that they were repulsed by the Italians toward the river bank. Italian headquarters in Northern Italy A heavy and continuous bom bardment is proceeding along the Low er Piave river, marking the opening stages of extensive operations on this new line. Whether a general engage ment is imminent depends largely upon the enemy, as the Italians are now en trenched behind the river and fighting defensive tactics, with the stream and their re-established forces checking the further extension of the Austro German offensive. No longer is a secret made of the fact that the Piave is the line of de fense to which the supreme command has been bending its energies steadily for the past ten days. Luxburg to Go Home. Buenos Aires The Argentine gov ernment has sent a torpedo-boat de stroyer to the Island of Martin Garcia to bring to this port Count von Lux burg, the expelled German minister to Argentina so that he may embark on a Dutch steamship for Amsterdam. The ex-minister will be kept under strict surveilance by the Beunos Aires authorities until he leaves the country. Count Luxburg, after being handed his passports, was taken to the Martin Garcia detention camp on October 12. Whitman Advisee Women. Albany, N. Y. Governor Whitman, addressing the annual meeting of the New York State Federation of Wo men's clubs Tuesday, told the women they would be unworthy of the fran chise if their opposition to candidates for public office was based on the fact that such candidates had worked against the suffrage amendment or if they supported other candidates simply because the latter had aided the suffrage cause. Machinery Ready and Foreword Writ ten to Law by President Plan Provides for Five Classes. Washington President Wilson for mally started the new machinery for carrying out the selective draft bill into operation Monday with the publi cation of the foreword he has written to'the regulations under which the sec ond call will be made. The regulations themselves and the questionaries which more than 9,000, 000 registrants will be required to fill out are being forwarded to local boards, but have not yet been made public. War department officials estimate that the whole process can be com pleted within 60 days. This means that no second call will be made on the draft forces before the middle of next February, as the period for classifica tion will not begin until Decebmer 15. The President describes the new plan of dividing all registered men not already mobilized into five classes, subject to military service by classes, as bjing intended to produce "a more perfect organization of our man power." "The selective principle must be carried to its logical conclusion," the President said, and he added that there must be made a complete inventory of the qualifications of each registrant in order to determine "the place in the miiltary, industrial or agricultural ranks of the Nation in which his ex perience and training can best be made to serve the common good." The inquiry projected in the ques tionaire will go deep into the qualifica tions of each of nearly 10,000,000 men. The success of the plan and its completion within the estimated time rests on the whole-hearted support given by the people, especially by the doctors and lawyers of each commun ity, and the President calls upon them for that unstinted aid. TROOP TRAINS ARE WRECKED; 3 DEAD Canon City, Colo. Three soldiers were killed and a number, probably 16, were injured in a rear end collision be tween two troop trains on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, about a mile west of Cotopaxi, a station near the Royal gorge, at 5:50 o'clock Monday morning. Th dead are: Chester P. Preston, first sergeant; Fred T. Whitehouse, musician; Guy B. Alexander, band leader. All lived in Utah. It is believed all the injured will recover. REVOLT NEARING COLLAPSE Kerensky is Returning to Petrograd at Head of Loyal Troops. London The Bolsheviki revolution in Petrograd iB reported to be ap proaching collapse. Regiments loyal to Premier Kerensky are marching on the capital and fighting is under way in the city, according to reports from Petrograd. An organization, which has adopted the name of All-Russian Committee for Saving the Country and the Revolution, announced that the de feat of the Bolsheviki movement was a matter of days or hours only. The town of Tsarskoe-Selo, 15 miles south of Petrograd, where ex-Emperor Nichoals lived much of the time, is said to have been captured by loyal forces, after which the rebels retired to Petrograd in disorderly mobs. Petrograd Steert fighting is pro ceeding constantly. Junkers loyal to the Kerensky government regained possession of the telephone station Monday morning. The exact where abouts of the Kerensky army, which is reported to be approaching the city, is unknown. Finland in State of War. Helsingfors, Finland A state of war has been declared in Finland. The provisional soldiers' committee has appointed a sailor named Schiecks as commissary of Finland in place of Governor General Nekraskoff. The diet is in session and Russian repre sentation in it has been completely ig nored. Professor von Wendt, a dele gate of the diet, has telegraphed Pres ident Wilson that owing to the poor harvest the country faces starvation unless food can be obtained in the United States. Deserters Resist Arrest. Nashville, Tenn. One man was killed and two were wounded at Hunt ington Sunday when a sheriff's posse went to the home of Charles Whittak er to arrest one of his sons and Joseph Baker, charged with being deserters from the 144th Field artillery. One of the Whittaker boys, the alleged de serter, was wounded and the sheriff was shot in the hand. The other al leged deserter escaped. Cleave Whit taker was killed. War Plant Destroyed. New York New York City's water front was the scene of a disasterous fire when the factory of the Washburn Wire company, which was working on large war orders for the U. S. govern ment was destroyed Monday, with an estimated loss of nearly $2,000,000. The patrolmen who discovered the fire declared they found three separate blazes at different places in the factory. Italian Army Makes Stand On Lower Piave River. ALLIED AID PROMPT Generals Foch, Wilson and Cadorna, Are Confirmed as Permanent War Council to Sit at Versailles. Berlin The Austro - Hungarian troops which are carrying out the new offensive on the Trentino front were attacked Sunday by strong Italian de tachments, which pressed them back at one point, the war office announces. The Italians have made a stand on the lower Piave river. ' The city of Belluno, on the upper Piave, has been captured by Austro German troops. Paris Premier Painleve returned Sunday from his visit with French and British officials to the Italian front, and expressed confidence in the victory of the forces of freedom. A meeting of the war council was held in the afternoon. After the cab inet meeting a semi-official note was issued confirming the new establish ment of a permanent inter-allied staff under Generals Foch, Wilson, and Ca dorna, to sit at Versailles. The note adds that nothing has im pressed the Italian government and people more than the extraordinary celerity with which their allies arrived at this decision. "It is the first time that unity of ac tion on a united front has been truly realized," says the note. "Nothing will do so much to heighten the pres tige of France." The Matin says it was decided at the conference in Italy that France and Great Britain would increase the armed support already given to Italy, the effort to be shared equally by the two powers. The United States also has been considered, the newspaper BayB, in planning for future co-operation. A Havas dispatch from Rome re ports large number of troops and great quantities of war materials continue to arrive in the Trentino and Tyrol (The Tyrol being in Austria, this evi dently refers to Austro-German rein forcements). QUEEN LIUUOKALANI IS DEAD Last Hawaiian Sovereign Succumbs After Leng Illness. Honolulu, T. H. Queen Liliuoka lani, of Hawaii, whoBe death had been expected for several days, passed away Sunday morning.Jafter a long illness. In recent weeks Queen Lilioukalani had shown striking patriotism for the United States. She subscribed liber ally for the Red Cross fund and the Liberty Loan. When news first came that a state ef war had been declared. she hoisted the Stars and Stripes over her residence in Washington Place, ad vising her former subjects to support the government of the United States to the fullest. Wtih the death of Queen Liloukalani has passed the last vestige of royalty in tne Hawaiian Islands. The eighth and last monarch to hold sway over the entire insular group, she reigned for only two years and that brief flicker of sovereignty was extinguished more than 20 years ago in a revolution which led to the annexation of the is lands to the United States. But not withstanding her effacement from pub lie affairs, Queen Liliuokalani never abandoned her regal pose nor lost the affection of her former subjects, and continued to her death a most interest ing personality. "Wet" Majority Grows. Cincinnati, O. The close of election week for Ohio left the anti-prohibition forces with a lead of 1816 votes. The totals, which had waxed and waned for either side, Saturday stood: For pro hibition, 622,226; against, 624,042. The official vote of Cuyahoga county (Cleveland), which showed a net gain of 819 wet votes over the unofficial figures, carried the anti-prohibition majority within hailing distance of 2000 and gave the wets what, they as serted was ample proof that prohibi tion was defeated in Ohio. German Air Pilet Killed. San Jose, Cal. Emil C. Jahnsen,of aanu uara, was tne nrst American air pilot to bring down a hostile raid ing airplane over London according to letters received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Jahnsen. Young Jahnsen said he was wounded. three times and his machine was struck 500 times by shots from the enemy's machine gun. He is recovering. The German pilot was killed and his ob server captured. American Wemen Loyal. Washington, D. C More than 10, 000,000 American housewives, it was announced Saturday, now have pledged themselves to follow the food admin istrator's conservation directions. The pledges were obtained in a two weeks' inteniive campaign. The exact num ber ef pledges reported signed was 10, 215,249, with returns iaeemplete. If your Back hurts or Bladder bothers, drink lots of water. When your kidneys hurt and your back feels sore, don't get scared and proceed to load your stomach with a lot of drugs that excite the kidneys and Irritate the entire urinary tract Keep your kidneys clean like you keep your bowels clean, by flushing them with a mild, harmless salts which re moves the body's urinous waste and stimulates them to their normal activ ity. The function of the kidneys Is to filter the blood. In 24 hours they strain from It 600 grains of acid and waste, 'so wa can readily understand the vital Importance of keeping the kidneys active. Drink lots of water you can't drink too much; also get from any pharma cist about four ounces of Jad Salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast each morning for a few days and your kidneys will act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithla, and has been used for generations to clean and stimulate clogged kidneys; also to neutralize the acids in urine so It no longer is a source of irritation, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in jure; makes a delightful effervescent lithia-water drink which everyone should take now and then to keep their kidneys clean and active. Try this, also, keep up the water drinking, and no doubt you will wonder what became of your kidney trouble and backache. The Bird Being an Ostrich. "Out of mere curiosity," says an exchange, "we would like to read Mr. Hoover's own dally menu." Judging from Herbert's lantern jaws and emaciated physique, he does not eat any more tnan a bird, Ex change. Cheering. "I understand the weather prophets are predicting an unusually cold win ter." "That's good news. I never yet knew a weather prophecy dated three months ahead to come out right" Washington Star. Fine Conformity. "That penmanship teacher is very consistent in the way she arranges her face veil." "How do you mean?" "Don't you notice that in putting it on she always dots her eyes?" Ex change. ..."..-................ Laugh When People Step On Your Feet Try this yourself then pas It along to others. It works! Ouch 1 T I T 1 I Tfcta Irtnil nf rniiirti talk will be heard less 1 ere in town If people troubled with corns will follow the simple advice of this Cincinnati authority, who claims that a few drops of a drug called freezone when applied to a tender, aching corn or hardened callous Btops soreness at once, and soon the corn or callous dries up and lifts right off without pain. He says freezone dries Immediately and never inflames or even Irritates the surrounding skin. A small bottle of freezone will cost very little at any drug store, but will positively remove every hard or soft corn or callous from one's feet Millions of American women will welcome this announce ment since the Inauguration of the high heels. If your druggist doesn't have freezone tell him to order a small bottle for you. Salted With Fine Words. "Where did you get that gold mine you are promoting? Who did the pros pecting?" "No one; but we have a first-class man doing the prospectusing." 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