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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Event of Noted People, Government! and Pacific Northwest and Other Thing Worth Knowing:. Secretary Baker denies reports that 200,000 gas masks made in America had been rejected by General Pershing. After pillaging the Spanish steamer Giralda Tuesday a Geramn submarine sank the vessel, which was of 4400 tons. The crew was saved. Part of the big zoological exhibit at the Tacoma Point Defiance Park will be abolished this winter by the City Park board as a means of helping in the Hoover conservation program. Appointment of Mrs. Ellen O'Grady, a widow with three daughters, as fifth deputy police commissioner of New York, was announced Tuesday. She is the first woman ever to hold such an office in that city. Mjaor General Leonard Wood, in France on an observation tour, was sightly wounded Monday by an acci dental explosion which killed five French soldiers and hurt two other American officers. An artillery duel that assumed in tense violence Tuesday morning, has been in progress on the Italian front since Monday afternoon on the plateau of the Setti Communi, the Berlin army headquarters announced. Two thousand Mexican federal cav alry will leave Juarez overland for the state of Sonora to participate in the campaign against 'the Yaqui Indians, it was announced at El Paso at the Mexican generalconBulute. A Berlin dispatch to the Weser Zei tung says that the government desired a vote of confidence by the reichstag, but at a joint meeting of the various parties on Friday the proposal was wrecked by Socialist opposition. The Cunard line steamer Andania was torpedoed but not sunk off the Ulster coast Monday morning, says the Belfast Irish Daily Telegraph. The newspaper adds it is believed that no deaths resulted from the explosion. Railroads were ordered by Director General McAdoo Tuesday to dispense with the services of legislative and po litical agents and all attorneys not en gaged in the performance of necessary legal work and to observe strictly the law regulating free passes. Attacks by enemy airmen on London and Essex Monday night and early Tuesday lasted intermittently for nearly five hours, and for two hours in London there was a heavy and almost continuous gunfire. One of the invad ing aircraft was brought down in Es sex. Forty lives were lost through the sinking of the French freight trans port Drome, and the trawler Kerbihan, which struck mines January 23, within sight of Marseilles. The Drome first came into contact with a mine, and the Kerbihan shortly afterwards struck another near the same place. Austria-Hungary is fooling America with peace talk inspired from Berlin, in the opinion of Dr. Milenko Vesnitch, head of the Serbian war mission, who is In Chicago. Dr. Vesnitch said that any hope America may have of sepa rating Austria from Germany is a mis take, as the control of the kaiser over the central powers is supreme. The resignation of Count Hadik, the Hungarian food minister, has been ac cepted, according to a dispatch from Budapest. Stories of labor unrest, agitation by radicals and shortage of workers in the Northwest were declared Friday by the United States Employment Service to be greatly exaggerated and mis leading. Workingmen in other sec tions of the country were warned par ticularly against going to the North west without f ft ascertaining what jobs are in sight. "Uncle Joe" Cannon reappeared at the Capitol Friday In a wheel chair with a knee disabled and an arm frac tured at the shoulder from his recent fall. Guy E. Waite, of East Ottawa, Out, is an independent man in these days of coal shortage. Some months ago he discovered a two-foot vein of high grade coal beneath his house. Now he digs coal and shovels it direct to the furnace, regardless of snow-blocked railroads or heatleas days. Warm spring wind is blowing across the plains country of Nebraska and the now is everywhere disappearinng un der a bright sun. As the chinook reaches further eastward warm weath er in that direction is developing. An upheaval in the New York police department, the most sensational in years, was caused by Mayor John F. Hylan Thursday when he demanded the resignation as commissioner of Fred erick H. Bugher, whom he appointed to the office on January 1. Mr. Bugher promptly complied with the demand. STRIKE ON IN BERLIN Kaiser Disturbed at Crisis In Labor Situation Many War Factories Affected -Trouble Spreads. London Dispatches from Switzer land and Holland tell of a general strike in Berlin and other parts of Ger many. According to Central News advices from Amsterdam, nearly all workmen of the Daimler, Boersig, Ludwig and General Electrical Works are on strike. Trades unions are not at the head of the movement, but several trades are almost completely at a standstill. The Independent Socialists have car ried on an active propaganda during the last few days, the dispatch says. The movement appears to be very seri ous, and in industrial centers meetings are prohibited. It is particularly grave in the sub urbs of Lichterfelde, Heringsdorf and Johanisthal, where electric works and airplane factories are situated. Strikes also have broken out in Rhineland and Westphalia. The Frankfurter Zeitung says the movement is directed against the de lays in passing the Prussian reform bill and the agitation conducted by the fatherland party. The same paper adds that the strike has spread to the Bochum mining district, nine miles from Essen. A dispatch to the Exchange Tele graph company under date of January 28 says that a thoroughly trustworthy report from Kiel declares the workers in the torpedo factory at Friedrichs port went on strike Friday afternoon. In consequence of this a number of the men's leaders are being called to join the army. The employes at the Germania dock yards struck Friday, the dispatch adds. Amsterdam Up until evening of Monday, according to a Berlin dis patch, not a single incident connected with the strike was reported. In Berlin and environs the total number of those who failed to appear for work was 90,000, most of them youthful workers of both sexes. The German government has decided upon arrest of six Independent Social ist leaders. It is reported that Adolph Hoffman, editor of Vorwacrts, an Independent Socialist leader in the Prussian Diet, has been arrested. Vorwaerts, under the heading "Ger many, Take Heed," Bays: "The movement going through the masses rests on deep moral grounds; it is born of the fear that they have been misled. They want food and peace, and Ger many free outwardly and inwardly. And any attempt to hold them by force is dangerous. All thoughts of an at tempt to force on the people aims which prolong the war, aims for which they never fought, or to keep from the people their promised rights, can only work as disintergating factors. That today is our greatest danger." U. S. AHEAD OF SUBMARINES Gross Tons on Credit Side is 515,433 Loss, 69 Vessels. New York In the 12 months of unrestricted warfare launched against American and allied shipping by Ger many one year ago Friday, there have been sunk by submarines, mines and raiders 69 American vessels, totaling 171,061 gross tons, according to a care fully compiled report of sinkings which have been made public during the period. Offsetting this loss of American ves sels, most of which were sailing ships, the United States since February 1 has added to her merchant marine by the seizure of former German and Austrian-owned ships a total of 107 ves sels, having a gross tonnage of 686, 494, leaving on the credit side of the American ledger in the account with the central powers a net gain of 615, 433 gross tons. The loss of life caused by the sink ing of the 69 vessels was more than 300 persons, however. The percentage of sinkings of Amer ican ships compared with the number of vessels which have sailed through the war zone successfully is small. Records of the department of Com merce show that for the period begin ning with February 1, 1917, and end ing with December 1, there were cleared from American ports in the foreign trade ships aggregating 17, 738,900 net, or approximately 24,834, 460 gross tons. The number of ships making up the total of tons was not made public. Bolxhevikl Seize Gold, Petrograd The people's commission ers have decreed a state of monopoly of gold. Gold articles weighing more than 16 zolotnik, 96 of which go to make up the Russian pound, belonging to private persons or shops, must be handed over to the state at fixed prices. They will be confiscated unless deliv ered within a month. Informers will receive one-third of the value of the articles. Churches, museums and oth er public institutions are requested to place their gold articles at the dispos al of the state. Reclamation Heads Study Food Work. Denver Managers of the 32 reclam ation projects under government con trol here met Thursday for an annual conference with A. P. Davis, director of the reclamation service, and other service officials. Increased food pro duction through bringing into cultiva tion lands on the projects for which water is now available, conservation of water, improved distribution systems and general irrigation and drainage problems made up the program. MILLION UNO HALF READY FOR SERVICE U. S. Army in France Soon to Be 500,000 Men. BAKER MAKES REPLY Secretary Lifts Veil of Secrecy From War Preparation! Inefficiency Charges Fully Answered. Washington, D. C. America will have an army of 600,000 in France early this year, with 1,000,000 more trained and equipped ready to follow as quickly as ships can be provided to carry them and the outlook for ships is not unpromising. Secretary Baker gave this informa tion to the world Monday in a state ment before the senate military com mittee. He bared much that until now has been carefully guarded with the army's military secrets, in answer ing charges that the government has broken down preparing for war. From early morning until late after noon the Secretary addressed the com mittee and a crowd, including many members of both houses of congress, gathered in a big hearing room of the senate office building. He spoke extemporaneously, begin ning the details of the mammoth task of building an army of 1,500,000, an swering such complaints of inefficiency as were cited by Senator Chamberlain in his recent speech and declaring that such instances were isolated and not general. Some questions were asked, and Mr; Baker, from time to time, had assist ants go to the telephone for reports on specific questions. Then, toward the close of the day, the Secretary delivered a dramatic general statement of the American war plan, telling of the coming of the allied missions, of the day and night conferences with men from the scene of battle, in which the plans now being executed were adopted, and of success beyond the most sanguine ex pectations in building the army, and its industrial supports at home, trans porting men across the ocean, cons tructing railroads in France and pre paring to strike the enemy with every resources at the country's command. When Mr. Baker closed It was ap parent he had created a profound im pression. Chairman Chamberlain said so before he left the stand. There was no attempt at cross-examination. The chairman proposed that the Sec retary be given a rest, and it virtually was agreed to recall him for further examination later, after the comimttee has completed its hearings of officers of the medical corps, aviation section and other branches of the service. While many things disclosed were impressive, the committee was frankly amazed when told that the men of 32 National guard and National army di visional camps are ready to go today at call. When members wanted to know why such things had not been given pub licity before, Mr. Baker spoke of the reluctance of military men to reveal their war plan, and quoted German remarks about America's advertise ment of her preparations. TEUTONS CALLED TO REVOLT Sensational Appeal Published for Rise of Nation Against Kaiser. London A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Amsterdam says Deutsche Tages Zeitung openly calls upon the German people to revolt against the present regime. "We, too," says this pan-German organ, "have a Judas among us today. He appears in the red coat and mantle of Germany's hangman. Who will save Germany from these traitors but the German people? It is now 'Ger mans help yourself and God will help'." Although Emperor William is not named in the article the expression, "Gremany's hangman," is meant for the kaiser, says the correspondent Navy is Not Frightened. Washington, D. C Navy officials, it was learned Tuesday, believe the imminent German submarine offensive, predicted by the War department, to be only the usual activities which have always succeeded a lull in submarine warfare. Secretary Daniels, in reply to questions, said that the navy ex pects a "continuing fight," with the submarines, with losses to both sides. He expressed the belief, however, that new weapons now in use will make such operations increasingly costly to the German admiralty. Labor Drive is Started. Washington, D. C Reports to the United States employment Bervice at the end of the first day of the drive to enroll 250,000 shipyard workers, said state directors of the public service reserve now are established in 42 states and that 25 states have com pleted reserve organizations. William E. Hall, National director of the public service reserve, called a meeting for Friday of state directors of all states east and south of North Dakota. II. S. GOES ON NEW RATIONING BASIS President Wilson Gives Out Food Regulations for Nation. 'VICTORY BREAD' NOW Food Need of Fighting Allies Abroad to Be Met by Self-Denial Here Extensive Savings Urged. Washington, D. C. The American people went oh a war bread diet Mon day as a part of a war-rationing sys tem prescribed by President Wilson and the food administration. "Vic tory bread," the food administration calls it. . The reduced rations are asked for the purpose of creating a larger export surpus of food for the allies. Curtail ment of consumption will be accom plished largely by voluntary effort, but force will be employed wherever per mitted under the food control act. The rationing system, as presented by the President in a proclamation and by Food Administrator Hoover in a list of regulations, forms the food adminis tration's 1918 food conservation pro gram, of which the chief features are: A baker's bread of mixed flours, be ginning Monday, with a 6 per cent sub stitution of other cereals for wheat un til a 20 per cent substitution is reached, February 24. Sale by retailers to householders of an equal amount of subtstitute flours for every pound of wheat flour pur chased at the time the wheat flour is bought. Sale by millers to wholesalers and whoesalers to retailers of only 70 per cent of the amount of wheat flour sold last year. Two wheatleBS days a week Mon day and Wednesday and one wheat less meal a day. One meatless day a week Tuesday and one meatless meal a day. Two porkless days a week Tuesday and Saturday. Manufacturers of macaroni, spa ghetti, noodes, crackers and breakfast foods, pie, cake and pastry will be per mitted to buy only 70 per cent of their last year's purchases, and are asked to perform a patriotic service by using substitute flours. Flour will be sold through the regu lar channels and in such a manner that each community will receive its equiv alent share. The food administration will pur chase for the army and for the allies, as announced recently, 30 per cent of the flour output, and out of this store will fill emergency requirements if stocks run low in any part of the coun try. . Wheat millers are required to pro duce one barrel of flour of 196 pounds from 264 pounds' of wheat, which rep resents a 74 per cent flour. No patent or special flours may be manufactured, although whole wheat flour may be made as usual. Hotels and restaurants will be classed as bakeries and will be re quired to serve the new victory bread. LID CLAMPED ON ARMY NEWS Officers and Men Forbidden to Act as Correspondents for Newspapers. Washington, D. C. A War depart ment order forbidding officers and men in the army to publish books on mili tary instructions or tactics without first submitting them to the general staff was amended Saturday to pro hibit also persons in the military serv ice from serving as correspondents for any newspaper or other publications. Publication of personal correspondence even will be prohibited. The War department adds, however, that no objection is held to the publi cation of a soldier's private corre spondence, with his consent, providing the letters are sent through the regu lar censorship machinery. Military censors are at the same time ordered to delete "criticisms of superiors or of policy, scandal of any sort, injurious reports concerning com rades or anything likely to arouse con troversy." Railroads Seek Relief. Washington, D. C. The public must expect a radical curtailment of public utilities, munition factories and all in dustrial activities dependent upon oil shipments, unless immediate relief can be had from the embargoes the rail roads have placed against the move ment of tank cars, both loaded and empty, according to a statement issued by the petroleum war service commit tee. The petroleum industry has made an urgent appeal to the director gen eral to order the railroads to give pre ferred movement to tank cars. Goethals Finds No Wrong. Washington, D. C. Major General Goethals, acting quartermaster gen eral, after personal investigation, has endorsed the action of Charles Eisen man, chairman of the supplies commit tee of the Council of National Defense. Mr. Eisenman negotaited the army cloth scrap-sorting contract with the Base Sorting company, of New York, which has been so vigorously criticised in the senate military committee's war inquiry. STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. ! No less than three firms and individ uals are now securing options on land supposed to be oil-bearing in Coos county. The Springfield Mill & Elevator com pany resumed business Wednesday and began grinding flour and feed after a shut-down of six months. Upper Hood River valley residents express the fear that a water shortage will prevail this summer unless heavy snows occur in the mountains before the winter is over. Governor Withycombe stated Wed nesday that he had ordered about 50 more guards from the Portland militia to be used for patrol duty on public and private property in Portland dur ing the coming week. Reports from three architects on the estimated cost of completing the new courthouse at Klamath Falls were made public at a meeting of the County court recently. The estimates range from $120,000 to $280,000. Cattle thieves have been operating in Lane county on a wholesale scale, according to an announcement by Sher iff J. C. Parker, who will offer a re ward of $500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the rustlers. The dwelling occupied by Dr. L. L. Hoy, of Tillamook, together with its contents, was destroyed by fire Wed nesday afternoon. The fire ignited from a stove in the sitting room and spread rapidly. The contents were insured in the sum of $3000. Twin brothers, who look so much alike that the members of the board could not tell them apart, appeared be fore the Albany exemption board of Linn county in the physical examina tion of draft registrants Wednesday. The twins are Wilfred Cochran and Willard Cochran, of Holley. The boys and girls of Grants Pass will strive to make the city the first city in the state to become wholly or ganized as Junior Red Cross auxiliar ies. The East School was the first school in the state to be organized and now the Fourth Ward and the Junior High scholars have all signed the pledge. According to a communication re ceived by the State Highway commis sion from Chester L, Chambers, of the Eagle Creek grange, in Clackamas county, the Farmers' Union intends to attack further sale of road bonds through an initiative vote at the elec tion in the fall and to annul the vote of last spring, by which the highway bonds were provided. About 100 fathers of Yamhill county boys in the service of their country met at the court house in McMinnville Saturday and formed an organization under the name of Fathers of Soldiers and Sailors of Yamhill County. Frank Holmes was elected president and George Shirely, secretary. Vice pres idents are to be appointed for each of the other towns of the county. According to the statement of En gineer Clark A. La Barge, of Warren Bros., contractors, of Boston, Mass., with headquarters at Portland, who was at Toledo Thursday, there is a probability that his firm will build a standard-guage railroad from South Beach, across the bay from Newport, to Waldport, on Alsea bay, a distance of about 12J miles, to the 1000-acre tract of spruce belonging to the Blod gett Timber company. Tum-a-Lum Lumber company mana gers and their wives from different points in Central Oregon are attending the annual meet of the company, at Walla Walla. The Hood River city council has ap pointed Mrs. Edna C. Henderson, city treasurer, to succeed her husband, Cap tain L. A. Henderson, Engineers' Re serve corps, now at Camp Lewis. Car shortage on the lines of the Southern Pacific company in Oregon Thursday totaled 579, a shortage of 289 closed and 290 open cars. The S. P. & S. reported a shortage of 190 cars. Advertisements for bids on $500,000 worth of the $6,000,000 State road bond issue were sent to Eastern bond papers Tuesday by G. Ed Ross, auditor of the commission. The commission may sell $2,000,000 worth of bonds this year under the act, but whether the balance of the bonds will be sold or not remains to be seen. Henry Bacher, a painter who has lived at Grants Pass for many years, was arrested this week by Sheriff Lewis, accused of seditious utterances. The town of Halfway is lighted with new electric street lights, the first having been turned on Saturday even ing. The power is supplied by the Payette Power company from its Ox Bow power plant on the Snake river. A power line runs "on from Halfway to Cornucopia to furnish power to the mines. John Paul William Schwinger, a German enemy alien, was arrested Fri day at Astoria, by Federal officers, and is being held in the county jail on two charges. Schwinger has been in this county since 1912, but has never secured citizenship papers. Assisted by Baker school teachers, 2C of Baker's prominent business men have formed a knitting class and ex pect to receive their first instructions this week. The first knitfest will be held in the city hall, Mayor Palmer having offered the use of one of the council chambers for that purpose. WE MUST FIGHT ON SAYS BRITISH LABOR German Attitude Toward Peace Brings Call for Allied Aims. U. S. ACTION PLEASES Loyal Adherence to Policies Outlined by Wilson and Lloyd George In dicated at Toilers' Meeting. Nottingham, England The British Labor Party Thursday declared its po sition as regards war and peace. By a majority of about two-thirds in a viva voce vote the delegates supported the war aims program recently pro mulgated by their executive commit tee, which corresponds generally with the recent utterances of President Wilson and David Lloyd George, the British premier. President Wilson figures as one of the Labor Party's prophets. In the opening session his name was men tioned no less than six times, in each case in connection with his recent war aims speech, which was described as essentially the same point of view as the British Labor Party's. The delegates of the French Social ists gained hearty applause when he said: "President Wilson has declared on behalf of the common people of the whole world the terms which the com mon people want. This statement has now been agreed to by every allied government, including the Russian Bolsheviki. In the face of this unan imity of opinion the central govern ments are silent, but their peoples are restless and disturbed, and before long they, too, may come into the agree ment." All amendments suggested by paci fists were swept aside in favor of a single resolution of moderate length, welcoming the utterances of President Wilson and Mr. Lloyd George, and an invitation was put forward to the cen tral powers to make known their war aims, as the entente allies have done. One amendment, which was downed with scant consideration, was a pro posal to eliminate mention in the reso lution of President Wilson and Mr. Lloyd George, although the backers of it carefully explained that it was offered in no spirit of unfriendliness, but in the belief that the resolution would carry more weight with the German and Austrian Socialists if it avoided the appearance of approving the acts of "representatives of capi talistic governments." At the opening of the conference Frank Purdy, the president, said that if Germany would not accept the terms President Wilson, Premier Lloyd George and the Labor party had laid down as the minimum, "we must fight on." Purdy said Germany could claim no longer that she was fighting a de fensive war. G0MPERS OFFERS 7 HOURS Labor Leader, in Address to Miners, Proposes New War-Time Measure Indianapolis, Ind. After a spirited contest the proposition to give all dis tricts in the coal industry of the coun try representation in conferences where basic wage agreement is made, or a policy formulated that is appli cable to other districts, was defeated in the convention of the United Mine Workers Thursday by a vote of 958 to 654. The proposition had been before the convention for three days and was op posed by district and international offi cers as a menace to the life of the or ganization. The fight was resumed Thursday af ter Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, had made a speech in which he suggested a univer sal seven-hour day during the war to conserve fuel, instead of the present plan of having idle Mondays. Mr. Gompers' speech to the miners was regarded as labor's message to the country on the action of the Fuel ad ministration. American Chinese Slack. Seattle, Wash. What is said to be the first instance in the Northwest of an Oriental being accused of violating the selective draft act was brought to light Wednesday when Tom Wong, aged 25, an American-bom Chinaman, was ordered returned to Portland for investigation. Wong had been taken into custody by the immigration authorities on sus picion of his being in the United States illegally, but it was found that he had been born in Oregon and is liable un der the conscription act. Bolshevik! Busy Looting. Amsterdam According to a Petro grad dispatch to German newspapers which was received by an indirect route, the Bolsheviki have seized a portion of the funds of the Roumanian treasury deposited in Moscow banka and also have taken the Roumanian Crown Jewels at Kishinev. According to the dispatch, Queen Marie of Roumania has fled from Kishinev to J assy, the Roumanian capital.