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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1918)
HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items.' COMPILED FOR YOU Event! of Noted People, Government! and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. The Salvation Army's campaign for a war iunu 01 ji,uuu,uuu nas exceeded its nnofn with A tnt.nl nf S2.2B7.334. according to a statement made in New York by Commander Evangeline Booth After a long interval the Germans again began to bombard Pans with long-range guns Wednesday morning. Two persons were killed. The firBt was a workman, fetching milk for breakfast, and the other was a woman. A wireless message received in Se attle announced the position of the con crete steamship Faith as 40 miles south of Cape Flattery and bucking an 80-mile northwest gale, against which she was making about four miles per hour. The British riveting record has re turned to the Clyde, according to a dispatch to the London Mail from Glasgow. William Smith, of Scots- toun, on Saturday, in the yards of John Brown & Co., at Clyde Bank, hammered in 6783 rivets in nine hours. Secretary McAdoo plans to leave Washington for a week s rest at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Since a re cent attack of tonsilitis Mr. McAdoo's throat has not entirely recovered and his physician ordered him to abandon conferences necessitating the use of his voice. Captain de Ullin, it is announced, lias won his 20th aerial victory. The captain was a partner of the late Cap tain Guynemer, the famous French Ace. Lieutenant Kiss, reputed to be the leading Austrian aviator, has been killed in an aerial battle, according to a dispatch from Berne. Living in such poverty that, at her death, her furniture and personal elfectB were valued at but $150, Bertha Toadteberg, of Brooklyn, N. Y., man aged to save enough so her brother Ed ward, of Yakima, receives $10,923 as his half of the estate. A like sum goes to another brother. The anniversary of Italy's entrance into the world war was solemnly cele brated all along the Italian front. The American Aug was hoisted beside the Italian colors amid the warmest en thusiasm of the troops. President Wilson's message to Italians was dis tributed to the soldiers in the trenches and it created a most satisfactory im pression. The Mexican governmen has notified American mining companies operating in Mexico of its intention to double the amount of bullion they are re quired to reimport against the ore ex ported. Under the present arrange ment the companies send back into Mexico in bullion 25 per cent of the value of gold and silver contained in the ores they ship. More than 600 men were taken into custody by a posae acting under the direction of United States Marshal Dillon in rounding up alleged draft evaders in Phoenix, Arizona. Squads of deputies invaded motion picture shows and billiard rooms, restaurants and cigar stores, arresting all men of draft age who were unable to show classification cards. As fast as arrest ed the men were placed in a stockade. Taeoma shipyards will not entice boys from the fields this summer, for they will not hire lads between the ages of 13 and 17. The shipyard man agers say they have no use for boys and believe it better for the young sters to work in the fields in the sum mer. The labor in the yards is heavy and dangerous, they say, and only suit ed to men of brawn. Many boys had failed to enroll in the reserve because they looked for big money in the ship yards during the vacation period. Physicians attending Charles W. Fairbanks, ex-Vice President, who is ill at bis home in Indianapolis, say that there Is slight improvement in Mr. Fairbank's condition, although his condition is still causing much anxiety. The railroad administration has be gun looking for the most able operat ing ollioer of each of the 200 roads under government control to become federal director of his line to replace the president as chief executive for operations. Eight bottles of whisky, a portion of which angry women jurors aver was consumed by men jurors while they were deliberating, was not returned with the exhibits when Nick Penoff was found not guilty in Judge Web ster's court Tuesday at Spokane. Mrs. Pauline O'Neill, member cf the Arizona lower house from Phoenix, offered a joint resolution soon after the legislature convened Wednesday denouncing the I. W. W. as a menace, and calling upon every state official to work to rid the state of the organization. CURRENT WEEK RAIL WAGE RAISE ORDERED Two Million Men To Get $300,000,000 at Once-Half la Back Pay. Washington, D. C. General pay In creases for nearly 2,000,000 railroad employes were announced Monday by Director General McAdoo, effective next Saturday and retroactive to last January 1, carrying out substantially the recommendations of the Railway Wage commission. The aggregate of the increases prob ably will be more than $300,000,000 a year, half of which will be distributed within a few weeks as back pay in lump sums ranging from about $100 to nearly $200 each. The director general departed from the wage commission's recommenda tions in the following particulars; The principle of the basic eight-hour day 1b recognized, but owing to exigen cies of the war situation, hours of em ployment are not actually reduced and overtime is to be paid pro rata; future adjustments of pay are to be made on the basis of eight hours. In addition to the ordinary scale of increase, day laborers, employed main ly on track work, are to get at least 2 cents an hour more than they re ceived last December 31. A minimum of 55 cents an hour is established for the shop trades, includ ing machinists, boilermakers and blacksmiths, and women are to receive the same pay as men for the same work, and negroes are to get the same as white men for similar employment. To work out a multitude of inequal ities of pay among employes doing similar work in different localities and other injustices caused by varying rules of employment and condition of organization, the director general cre ated a new board of railroad wages and working conditions, consisting of three labor representatives and three railway executives, which will conduct extensive investigations and recom mend wage and other . employment changes. ALL RAILWAY RATES ADVANCED IN JUNE New Revenue To Be Over $800,000,000 Yearly Freight Rates Increased 25 Per Cent Over Present. Washington, D. C. To meet wage increases just announced, and higher costs of coal and other supplies this year, Director General McAdoo has or dered railroad freight rates in the United States raised 25 per cent and passenger fares increased to three cents a mile from the present basis of about 2J cents. It is estimated that the program will bring between $800,000,000 and $900,000,000 more revenues to the railroads within the next year. It represents far the biggest rate in crease in the history of railroads. Director General McAdoo tele graphed chairmen of state railroad commissions, notifying them of the increased rates and asking them to co operate by suggesting readjustments or changei. The director general does not expect state authorities to over rule any of his rate orders, however. Mr. McAdoo explained that the rail road act does not permit him to "share with the state commissions the re sponsibility which rests upon the rail road administration for the financing results to the United States govern ment of the operation of the rail roads." The Interstate Commerce Commis sion ordered increased railroad rates, announced Tuesday by Director Gen eral McAdoo, approved without hear ing, and at the same time modified all outstanding previous commission or ders which might interfere with the establishment of the new rates. The new freight charges, which cover both class and commodity rates, become effective June 25, and the pas senger increase will go into effect June 10. $144,000,000 Mercy Fund. Washington, D. C. Germany's chal lenge of frightfulness in France has been answered by the American people with an outpouring of $144,000,000 for the second war mercy fund of the Red Cross. This was an oversubscription of $44,000,000, with returns still coming. Every division except the central and every state in the Union except Illinois went over its quota. The central di vision lacks $300,000. Oversubscrip tions of Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Michigan could not offset the $2, 800,000 by which Illinois failed. Huns Kill 63,042 Babies. London Figures from a Serbian source show a terrible loss sustained by the Serbian population of Bosnia. In three years, 1915-6-7, there were 150,314 deaths, of which 65,042 were children under 10 years of, age. Of these 12,867 were infants under 1 year. Before the war there were from 25,000 to 30,000 births annually, the birth rate has been so reduced that in 1915 there were 4648 more deaths than birhts. In 1916 the excess of deaths over births amounted to 17,711 and in the first half of 1917 to 7566. Ilindenburg Has Typhoid. Geneva, Switzerland Field Marshal von Hindenburg, chief of the German general staff, is in a hospital at Strass burg, suffering from typhoid fever, ac cording to reports from that city Mon day. These advices state that the re port of von Hindenburg's death is in correct, but that his condition is crit ical. Typhoid fever is said to be spread ing rapidly in the German army and causing great alarm. Ell I'll ! Yankees Sweep Thru' Cantigny and Take Prisoners. TANKS ARE GREAT AID U. S. Forces Daringly Advance Along Front One and a Quarter Miles in Length Losses Light. Paris The Fernch war office Tues day night announced: ""West of Montdidier the Americans, supported by tanks, brilliantly occu pied a salient along a front of two kilometers and strongly fortified vil lage of Cantigny, capturing 170 prisoners and war material. They re pulsed counter attacks." With the British Army in France The American troops on the French front near Montdidier delivered an at tack against the German positions, fought their way through all objec tives, including the village of Can tigny, and captured 140 prisoners. The American attack was along a two kilometer front, and it seems to have taken the hard-hitting Americans just about three-quarters of an hour to complete their conquest, which includ ed that amount of territory, as well as the village of Cantigny an exception ally short time for such an operation. This remarkably fine showing comes as a fitting companion piece to the bril liant work done by the United States soldiers in repulsing an enemy assault made against them in the same region Tuesday morning. One American di vision was attacked at that time, and the gray coats met with a complete reversal at all points. This enemy attack was not a heavy one, however, and as easily dealt with by the Americans who had the situa tion well in hand at all times. Word of these two victories has added much to the very favorable im pression which the American troops have already created along the British front. It was a foregone conclusion that the Germans would make the newest of the allies along this front the object of an attack in an attempt to push them back and thereby create a feeling that they formed a weak line in the defending chain. The general opinion of the way in which these American troops have handled themselves in the last two days seems to be summed up in a com ment made to the correspondent by a French liaison officer: "Magnificent!" he exclaimed with delight. "That is the sort of stuff we will give the Boche." FRENCH CHECK HUNS ALONG BOTH WINGS Paris The situation on Tuesday night was more reassuring. The latest advices from the front show that, while the violence of the enemy's ef fort as yet is unabated, he is only making headway on the center, and that even there the German momen tum is giving signs of slackening. The allies are beignning to react with effect on the wings. Paris Heavy counter attacks by the French troops stopped the German ad vance on the heights of Neuville-sur-Marigval and Vregny, northeast of Soissons, and other heights dominating the valley of the Vesle river, accord ing to the War office statement Tues day night. The Germans, however, succeeded in crossing the Vesle in the region of Bazoches and Fismes. Paris The Germans are trying to force a passage tf the Vesle at Fismes, which is the center of most important communications, according to the Liberte correspondent at the front, who adds: "The battle is being fiercely con tested with alternating fortunes. Our reserves are commencing to arrive south of the Vesle, and their effect is already felt at Fismes." Spain Stricken With Grip. Madrid Virtually all of Spain is in the grasp of a grippe epidemic, which is spreading with great virulence and has claimed many victims. The public services are exceedingly limited, as a multitude of the employes are ill ; some commercial houses are closed for lack of help, and the tramways have cut their service by two-thirds. King Al fonso is believed to be suffering from a mild form of the disease, as are also the foreign minister, Eduardo Dato, and the minister of public instruc tion. Temblor Rocks Santa Fe. Santa Fe, N. M. The third earth quake shock felt in Santa Fe since 1874 occurred here at 5:30 o'clock Wednesday morning and was heavy enough to shake plaster off walls of houses. The shock lasted about five seconds and was accompanied by plain ly audible rumbling. Reports from nearby towns indcate the quake generally was the same strength and duration. No serious damage has been reported. PICARD 56 U. S. BOYS ARE MISSING British Transport Moldavia Sunk by Enemy Submarine. The British mercantile cruiser ' Mol davia, carrying American troops from America to Europe, has been torpedoed and 66 American soldiers are reported missing. The liner was sunk Thurs day morning, according to an official statement by the British admiralty. The Moldavia is the third transport carrying American troops to be tor pedoed and the 15th troop ship sunk by the Germans. That German submarines are operat ing off the South coast of Ireland is evidenced by the sinking of the steamer Inniscarra of Cork, with loss of life. David Lloyd George, speaking at Edinburg, said that the submarine is still unconquered, but that it is no longera vital menace to the entente allies. He said that the U-boats are being destroyed faster than they can be built by Germany, while the allies are building ships faster than the sub marines are sinking them. London' The British armed mer chant troop ship Moldavia, with Amer ican troops on board, has been torpe doed and sunk, according to an official bulletin issued by the admiralty. The text of the admiralty statement follows: "The armed mercantile cruiser Mol davia was torpedoed and sunk Saur day morning. "There were no casualties among the crew, but of the American troops on board 56 up to the present have not been accounted for. It is feared they were killed in one compa-'ment by the explosion." " MEXICO AND CUBA SEVER RELATIONS Ministers Are Recalled From Various Posts Washington Sees Indirect Aggression Towards U. S. Mexico City Mexico has severed diplomatic relations with Cuba. This was learned officially late Sat urday after a report that Mexican Charge d'Affaires at Havana and the Cuban minister here had been recalled from their respective posts had been confirmed at the foreign office. Washington, D. C. In Mexico's sudden breaking off of diplomatic re lations with Cuba is seen an indirect action against the United States. Those here most familiar with Latin-American affairs profess to see in it the forerunner of more direct ac tion, possibly an interruption of inter course between the United States and Mexico. Although without official informa tion of a detailed character, it is un derstood here that Mexico's real grievance against Cuba is the recent incident in which the Mexican minis ter to Argentina, Senor Ysidor Fabela, was delayed in Havana while some official, ostensibly a Cuban customs in spector, searched his baggage and probably removed some papers said to be of an international character. This incident is believed here to be the real cause of the break and those who entertain this belief are firm in the conviction that Mexico was con vinced that the United States was re sponsible for the incident. When Senor Fabela's luggage was searched it was maintained by some that the person who did it was not a Cuban official at all, but some other agent in disguise of a Cuban inspector or gendarme. - Later, however, j it is seemed to have been satisfactorily es tablished that the man really was a Cuban inspector. A break between Cuba and Mexico, it is felt, disrupts practically nothing but a long-standing friendly relation. In the opinion of those in close touch with the subject it may actually give Cuba a free hand, as the Mexican foreign minister says in is announce ment, but perhaps not in the manner suggested. American agents for some time have been reporting Gearmn agents operat ing in Cuba, some of them crossing frequently to the United States as Cuban citizens or Mexican citizens. A severance of diplomatic relations probably would leave the Cuban gov ernment feeling more at liberty to in vestigate their activities. Cent a Mile Ride for Soldiers. Washington, D. C. Soldiers and sailors on furlough and traveling at their own expense will receive special passenger rates of about one cent a mile under an order issued by Director General McAdoo, to become effective as soon as necessary forms are printed and distributed, probably within two weeks. This fare will be allowed by ticket agents on presentation of a cer tificate from the commanding officer. The plan, arranged to make it easier for soldiers and sailors to visit their homes before going overseas. Noted Tenor Passes Away. Akron, Ohio. Evan H. Williams, noted tenor, died Saturday morning at the city hospital after an illness of one week. The death of Mr. Williams means the passing of a national figure in the musical world. Recently his work has been among the soldiers, who will remember him for the way he sang "Tim Rooney's at the Fightin'." Mr. Williams was born September 7, 1867, at Mission Ridge, and lived in Akron most of his life. Our Army and What it Costs Most People Figure Expansion Much Less and Cost Much Greater Than Facts Warrant Most people understand that the United States army has been tremen dously expanded in the year America has been at war. All have seen the army grow, in one sense they have watched the men go away, have written letters and sent packages to the boys. Few realize, however, that the army has Increased 700 per cent, In round numbers, In that one year. Official figures from Washington show that It has. When America entered the war on April 6, 1917, the total strength of all branches of the service (Regular army, National Guard and reserves) was 212,0349,524 officers and 202,510 men. On April 6, 1918, the grand total strength of the American army (all branches) was 1,652,725123,801 officers and 1,528,924 men. The detailed figures of the old and the new armies, which are worth pre serving, are as follows : , April, 1917 April, 1918 Officers Men Officers Men Regular army 5,971 121,797 10,698 603,142 National Guard 3,733 76,713 16,893 431,583 Reserve corps (In service) 0 4,000 98,210 77,380 National army 0 0 0 616,839 Total 9,524 202,510 123,801 1,528,924 The cost of the army during the first year of the war Is a thing that Is generally overestimated. People are prone to think of the billions that have been appropriated Instead of the actual amounts that have been expended. Official figures from Washington show that the total expenditures on the army for the year America has been In the war Including everything from new cantonments to shoe laces and a good many things not properly chargeable to the war were $3,006,701,907.15. That sum does not Include, of course, the obligations of the war depart mentcontracts made for the billions of dollars' worth of supplies that will be furnished this year ; It Is the sum actually paid out for materials already de livered and pay of the men for the time they have already served. There are Included river and harbor and civil establishment expenditures that would have been made had there been no war. The detailed official figures of war depart ment appropriations and expenditures for the year are as follows: Since the declaration of war congress has made the following appropria tions for the war department : Civil establishment Military establishment Rivers and harbors Total ; $7,404,771,756.48 Withdrawals from the treasury have been made under these appropria tions during the period from June 15, 1917, to March 9, 1918, as follows : Civil establishment ..$ 6,517,918.70 Military establishment 2,891,606,885.85 I Rivers and harbors 18,037,102.60 ; Manager George Stallings Is in the Game Heart and Soul on the Ball Diamond Fred Mitchell, manager of the Chi cago Cubs, delights to tell stories of his former boss, Miracle Man Stallings of the Braves. When Mitch was Stall lng's assistant In Boston he had many a run-in with the manager, and he ad mits now that Stallings thinks more of a man who will answer him back on occasion. Stallings is a firebrand In baseball; never laughs, rarely smiles, doesn't jest, and roasts the daylight out of a George T. Stallings. man who makes a slip. He Is also a nervous person, and becomes enrap tured on the bench while he Is watch ing a game, and plays the whole con test over, solo, as he sits on the play ers' coop. Stallings is merciless In calling down a player and criticizing his work. "A fellow made a bobble once while Stallings was watching from the bench," said Mitchell. " 'Look at that boob,' said Stallings. 'What a bone head I No, he Isn't a bonehead; his head Is made of Krupp steel.' " Another German Atrocity. Weird and wonderful are"tha mix tures that pass as tobacco In Germany now that the government has decreed that anything Is tobacco that contains not less than 5 per cent of that weed. The rest may be dried leaves of beech, cherry, chicory, hops, beetroot, sorrel, potato, rhubarb or coltsfoot One Ger man writer says that the result Is "a rank offense, it smells to heaven." Cigars made from this "tobacco" go by the appropriate popular name of "In famla Scandalosa." England to Grow Sunflowers. The production of sunflowers Is being encouraged in England. The ministry of food and production de partment has Issued instructions on how to grow sunflowers and advises all persons to grow them, explaining that the seed is rich In oil and makes an excellent chicken food. 7 3 $ 16,205,148.00 7,413,835,403.48 34,731,150.00 $3,008,761,907.15 PLAN AHEAD FOR BETTER POULTRY One must plan ahead In order to be successful in any line of endeavor. Poultry keeping is no exception, writes an authority. If you do not have the breeding birds you need for the seas on of 1918, now Is a good time to get them. There is a country-wide scarc ity of good birds for breeding purposes, and one must expect to pay somewhat higher prices than in past years. It will not pay to get Inferior birds In or der to save a little of the purchase price. If you are just starting, or If you want new blood, you can buy either stock or eggs for hatching. Men are more likely to buy stock because they do not usually handle eggs so care fully as women and also because usu ally they have more money to spend. To buy stock Is the safer plan, of course, and on the whole Is better, but It costs more money. For both stock and eggs prices are high and will con tinue so. One cannot expect to buy eggs for hatching In 1918 In quantities, at $5 per hundred. Such low prices are now absurd for eggs from stock of any decent quality at all. Most poultry breeders, except those who have a large number of birds of superior quality, are compelled to re plenish their flock with new blood al most every year. Our flocks either go up or go down. Just because prices are higher than normal we must be careful to get good quality In what we buy. This is a time when poor y stuff will not pay. There never was a time when It was so true that "the best Is none too good." It does not pay to keep inferior fowls now. Why They Are Called Tumblers. About 1,500 years ago the Saxons In England used drinking vessels that were made of horns of cattle or oxen. They were shaped like cones. As their bottoms were pointed they would not stand erect When a man had his drink ing horn filled he disposed of Its con tents at a single draught and did not lay It down until he had drained It. These horns were tumblers in the sense that they would not stand upright Al though our modern glasses do not have this objectionable quality, the name that originated In early Saxon times still persists. Twenty Years Ago. Bicycles were as common as legs. Automobiles and millionaires were rare. Table board was $3 a week, or $5 a week with the "best room In the house." Hotels had a "bill of fare," and the "menu" with prices marked opposite was almost unknown. Appendicitis had just been discovered. Nobody wore white shoes, and palm beach suits were In the "alpaca stage." Jules Verne had a monopoly on the submarine. Washington Times.