BERLIN PIANS SIEGE
OF BRITAIN BY SEA
LONDON ROCKED BY BLAST SCHOOL WORK SHOWS W ELL APPLES IN STORAGE SCARCE
Huge Munitions Plant Wiped Out by Oregon Pupils Rank First in U. S. in Of 2000 Carloads for 1916 Season
Explosion, Killing Many.
Regularity of Attendance.
350 Remain Unshipped.
London — A portion of the area of
I»ndon was shaken severely Saturday
night when a chemical plant in which
munitions were manufactured was the
center of a series of exploaiona, scat
tering death and destruction over a
considerable section of the district in
which the works were located.
There is no evidence that the explo
sion was other than the result of a
fire, such as that to which any factory
is sbuject. Between 60 and GO bodies
have been recovered.
In 10 hospitals on Sunday 21 persons
died, and there were 112 patients re
ceiving treatment, Lloyd’s Weekly
says. In addition, 205 persons suffer
ing from injuries were treated.
The central point of the volcano-like
upheaval was in the heart of the work
ing district of a suburban town.
At
6:45 p. m. a series of explosions sud-
That the public schools of Oregon
Hood River—Out of 2000 carloads of
have made much progress during the apples produced by Hood River valley
past two years ia shown by the bien last season, a yield almost twice the
Formal Notice to Be Given to
nial report which has just been issued tonnage of any former year, only
Neutrals; Feb, 1 is Date.
by Superintendent o f I'ublic Instruc about 360 carloads remain unshipped.
tion, J. A. Churchill. The report con
The Fruit Growers' Exchange has
tains nearly one hundred pages and practically cleaned out its holdings,
deals with many phases of school having shipped 150 carloads.
A. E.
work.
Superintendent Churchill has Woolpert, of White Salmon, Wash.,
briefly noted the principal lines of who represents in the mid-Columbia
district the Dan Wuille Co., an Eng
progress, in the following words:
lish importing firm, says that he has
All Hhipa to It** Mulled, and Hunk if
“ A summary o f the work of the handled a tonnage o f 176 carloads from
Contraband la Found on Hoard -
public schools o f Oregon during the ; mid-Columbia points, all but two of
past two years shows that substantial which have rolled to Eastern seaports
To Hink All Armed Veaaela.
progress is being made. Every year for export.
The Apple Growers’ association re
the attendance o f the pupils has be- ! ported that approximately 350 car
come more regular until Oregon now loads of extra fancy and fancy New-
New York -Germany will declare a
ranks first in the United States in reg- towns and Spitzenbergs, chiefly the
deep aea barrier around the Iiritiah
ularity o f attendance in the rural former variety, remain in local stor
lalea, begi fining February 1.
Thi*
________
newa ia brought to New York by four
schools. There is a growing interest age.
panaengura arriving from Iiritiah and Kussia’s “ Sacred Devil,"
1 in the industrial club work, and the ;
Has 500 Cars Fruit.
Baltic porta on the Philadelphia, of
Who Was Assassinated number o f children who carry their j Wenatchee— Shippers and dealers
the American, and the Keltic, of the
projects through to a successful ter-1
White Star line, Monday, gave the
agree that there are in storage about
»»mu veraiona of the new plana of the
j mination is increasing each year. To 500 cars o f apples in the valley.
German admiralty.
use the words of a county superintend AEx>ut 50 cars leave this district week
Thu deep aea barrier will be pa
ent: 'The pupils are not only learn - 1 ly for Eastern points, m ost. of them
trolled by 30 aubmarinea of the latent
Demand now is at a
ing to do things and acquire right back orders.
tyjm, all of which have been launched
standstill. The holdings in the valley
habits, but they are learning to pro- i
in the peat two montha and are cap
are well divided among the shipping
duce and make things at a profit.’ 1
able o f a GOOO-milo cruising radiua, ac
agencies. It is not thought that any
The standardization of the country
cording to three Americana, travelera
one has more than 75 cars.
schools is doing much to improve the
from Germany.
It is thought that the movement to
work o f that institution, and w hile;
A note will be Bent by the central
market will not t>e less than 50 cars a
there
are
still
many
rural
schools
that
powern to all neutral nationa, warning
week, and on this basis the cleanup
have not yet met all of the require
them o f Germnay’a deciaion, aimilar to
will be made by the latter part of
ments
for
standardization,
the
number
the note aent on February 18, 1915,
April.
that have done so is increasing from 1
which received Mr. Wilaon’a farnoua
year to year. The work of the high
reply in return demanding atrict ac
Collier Judges Poultry.
schools has been greatly strengthened
countability, from Germany for any
North Yakima — Yakima county’s
through meeting the requirements of
American life placed in jeojiardy.
annual poultry show is well under way
the State Board of Education relative
Thia neweat “ danger zone” la the I
and Chief Judge Harry F. Collier, of
to
libraries
and
other
equipment.
This
North Channel, which aeparatea Ire-
Tacoma, says the showing, both in
true of the smaller high
i s especially
land and Scotland; St. George‘a chan
quantity and quality, is equal to any
schools, many of which have hereto
nel, between England and Ireland, 1
which has been held in the county.
fore had almost no equipment or ap
and the entrance to the English chan
He is especially pleased with the en
paratus with which to do their work.
nel.
tries in the White Leghorn and Black
The high school tuition fund law,
Ail allied vcHaela, whether carrying j
Minorca classes.
which was passed in 1915, is making
contraband or not, will be stopped,
it possible for thousands of pupils to
their crewa ordered to take to the
S86.0O0 for 5 5 .0 0 0 Bushels Wheat.
attend high school who would other-1
ahip’ a boat« and the vessel immediate
Spokane—Thomas F. Wren, who
wise be denied the opportunity.
That
ly sunk.
The aubmarinea which will patrol ! Gregory Rasputin, railed the "S a the increase in attendance due directly owns a wheat ranch near Fenn, Idaho,
thia newest zone have a speed of 18 cred Devil of Russia.’ ’ whose influence to this law has been phenomenal, is Thursday sold 55,000 bushels of wheat
Four grain companies
knots on the surface and 12 knots sub over the royal family, particularly the shown by the fact that in some high for $85,000.
participated
in
the transaction.
merged, it was aaid by the Americans, czarina, became obnoxious, was quietly schools the number of students has
The county superintendent
who asserted that they had the highest assassinated by several relatives o f the doubled.
He was one o f one of the large counties o f West
German authority on thia statement. ! czar and high officials.
Each submarine will operate in a 10- of those strange mystical characters ern Oregon reports that the high
mile radiua, and will be held reaponsi- who have floated through all Russian school attendance in his county has in
Rasputin had gained such creased 128 per cent since the passage
hie for any allied merchant vessel history.
power over the royal family that it o f the high school tuition fund law.
which slips past into an allied port.
Each submarine ia to be equipped was feared he would interfere serious Among the other features of progress
Portland— Wheat— Bluestem, $1.86
with six torpedo tubes, two rapid-fire ly with the conduct of the war. At should be mentioned the gradual in- j per bushel; club, $1.65; fortyfold,
guns mounted fore and aft, bomE>- lay any rate he interfered with officials of crease in the requirements for certifi- i $1.65; red Russian, $1.62.
ing chambers and a large supply of such im|>ortance that the Russian po- cation. which mean more thorough
Oats— No. 1 white feed, $36.50.
bomba, minea and grenades. They will lice fear to prosecute the men who preparation on the part of teachers
Barley— No. 1 feed, $38.50.
and t>etter teaching; the stimulated
Flour — Patents, $8.40; straights,
carry sufficient provisions to laBt five killed him.
interest in supervised recreational ac $7.60 @ 7 .8 0 ; valley, $7.90; whole
weeks without revictualing.
In the case of neutral vessels’ pass denly transformed the works into a tivities, which has led to the improve wheat, $8.60; graham, $8.40.
ing through the war zone their cargoes fiery furnace and great masses of ment of playgrounds and the installa
Millfeed—Spot prices: Bran. $26.50
will E>e examined as previously and, if burning liquid and timbers and red-hot tion o f play apparatus; an improve per ton; shorts, $30.60; roiled barley,
they are carrying contraband, they, iron were hurled high in the air. ment in the style o f school architec $41@42.
Corn— Whole, $46 per ton; cracked,
too, will be sunk, their crewa ttrst Mingled with the deafening crash of ture, embodying both utility and
having taken to the lifeE>oats.
beams and girders were cries from the beauty: and, finally, a better commun $47.
It ia understood that Germany is working people.
An adjoining flour ity spirit, due to the work o f the i Hay— Producers’ prices: Timothy,
preparing a new list of contraband ar mill, in which a number of women and Parent-Teacher association and kindred Eastern Oregon, $19@21 per ton; val
organizations.’ ’
ley, $16@17; alfalfa, $17@18; valley
ticles, which will be in effect as soon girls were employed, was engulfed.
grain hay, $13@15; clover, $12.50.
as the new note ia sent to neutrals. It
The explosions were only the centers
Butter — Cubes, extras, 35@35§c;
is believed that large quantities of o f a succession of widespread series of Would Make Every Oregon
prime firsts, 34|c; firsts, 33i@34c.
foodstuffs, as well as other necessities fires, as the masses of firebrands from
o f life, will appear on this new con the affected quarter settled down on
School House a Civic Center Jobbing prices: Prime extras, 38c;
cartons, 1 cent extra; butterfat. No.
traband list.
surrounding areas. Added to the ter
In his biennial report to the legisla
Allied merchantmen similar to the ror of this upheaval was the sudden
1, 38c; No. 2, 36c, Portland.
Eggs — Oregon ranch, current re
British steamer Aberleau, which sailed darkness in which the entire quarter ture Superintendent o f Public Instruc
tion J. A. Churchill highly commends ceipts, 38@40c per dozen; Oregon
Friday for Southampton viH Halifax, was plunged.
with a steel gun turret, to have a six-
the law making every Oregon school- ranch, candled, 41c; selects, 43c.
Poultry — Hens, 15@17c per pound;
inch gun mounted for offensive, as Blizzard in East is Worst in
house a civic center.
In discussing
springs, 16@17c; turkeys, live, 20@
well as defensive, warfare, will be
Years; All Traffic is Hindered this subject Mr. Churchill says:
considered as an armed cruiser and
22c; dressed, 25@26c; ducks, 16(320c;
“ In 1915, the state legislature en geese, 12@14c.
will be sunk on sight, it is said.
St. Paul—The worst blizzard since
acted a law making every public
Veal— Fancy, 14T@15c per pound.
1908 raged over Southern Minnesota,
schoolhouse a civic center, under the
Pork— 12J@13c per pound.
Western
Wisconsin,
North
and
South
Twenty-Fve Thousand Guards
control of the district school board,
Vegetables—Artichokes, 90c@$1.10
Dakota and Northern Iowa Sunday,
men on Border Ordered Home with slight signs of abatement. No where the citizens o f the district may per dozen; tomatoes, nominal; cab
’engage in supervised recreational ac bage, $3.25 per hundred;, eggplant, 25c
Washington, D. C.— More then 26.- loss o f life has been reported.
tivities, and where they may discuss per pound; lettuce, $2.50 per box; cu
Fifteen inches o f snow fell here dur
000 National guardsmen, now on the
any and all subjects which in their cumbers, $1.50@2.00 per dozen; cel
Mexican border, have been designated ing the day. All railroads running in judgment pertain to the educational, ery, $5.60 per crate;
cauliflower,
by Major General Funston for return to St. Paul report trains many hours economic, artistic and moral interests $2.50, squash, l j c per pound; pep
home and muster out of the Federal late, and on trains from the South Da of the citizens.’
Lighting, heating, pers, 25c; sack vegetables, $1.25;
service. All these organizations will kota district indefinite reports are giv janitor service and the services of the sprouts. 10c per pound.
be started homeward as soon as trans en. Pierre, South Dakota, reports all j supervising officer when needed, may
Potatoes — Oregon buying prices,
trains have been cancelled until th e '
portation facilities can be provided.
be paid from the public school funds $1.76@2.00 per hundred; sweet, $4.
Their departure will leave E>etween storm abates.
of the district.
Onions—Oregon buying prices, $5
Information received here indicate
46,000 and 60,000 men of the guard
“ The passage o f this law has done per sack, country points.
still in the Federal service doing bor the storm was the heaviest in the much to open the doors of our country
Green Fruits— Apples, 60c@$1.59
South Dakota territory, where tele
der patrol.
schoolhouses to the church, the Grange, per box; pears, $1.50@2.50; cranber
War department officials continue to phone and telegraphic communications the Farmers’ Union, and the Parent- ries, $11@12 per barrel.
withhold comment on reports that the have been seriously hampered.
Teacher association.
Because these
Hops— 1916 crop, 5@9c per pound.
movement o f General Pershing’s regu
buildings were erected primarily for
Wool— Eastern Oregon, fine, 24@
lars out o f Mexico soon will be under British Propose to Lease
the use of the schools, their use has 30c per pound; coarse, 33@36c; val
way and the statement announcing the
been refused for any other ley, 33@35c; mohair, nominal.
Merchant Ships of Greece frequently
guardsmen designated for relief does
purposes, in spite of the fact that a
Cascara Bark— Old and new, 5c per
not connect these orders with the
Athens — The cabinet Monday dis building for public meetings is greatly pound.
withdrawal plans in any way.
cussed at length a British proposal to needed in every rural community, and
Cattle— Steers, prime, $8.25@8.60;
lease the Greek merchant marine. It the schoolhouses are used for school fair to good,
cows,
$7.00@8.00;
Kiss Rewards Governor.
w bb decided to take measures to assure purposes’ only five days in the week, choice. $6.75@ 7.60; medium to good,
Cheyenne, W yo.— A resounding kiss the retention o f the number of ships and then for not more than from six $6.25@ 6.75; ordinary to fair, $5.60@
Thus 6.00;
implanted on the executive lips in full necessary to provide the foodstuffs to nine months in the year.
heifers. $6.00@7.00;
bulls,
many thousands o f dollars’ worth of $2.76@5.25; calves, $3.00(<i.7.00.
view of a number of persons assembled which Greece requires.
According to a high official, two public property has been standing idle
Hogs — Heavy packing, 215-250
to witness the governor’ s action was
the reward Mrs. John B. Kendrick considerations already have put Greek a large part of the year and many peo pounds. $10.20@10.55; light butchers,
gave Governor Kendrick Saturday for shipowners in the hands of the entente, ple have been denied the social and in $10.00@10.35; light packing, 170-190
tellectual pleasures
which are so pounds, $10.00@. 10.16; rough heavy,
signing the bill submitting prohibition namely, coal and insurance.
The latter, it was pointed out, might greaty enjoyed in the country districts. $9.00@9.25; pigs and skips, $8.50@
to the people of Wyoming.
The bill provides for a vote to be secured in the United States, but This economic waste will be largely 8.75; stock hogs, $8.60@8,75.
Sheep— Lambs, $9.25@11.25; year
be taken in 1918 on the adoption of the former, according to this authority, done away with through the passage of
prohibition amendments to the state was sufficient to induce owners to ac this law providing for the use of ling wethers, $8.76@10.00; old weth
cede to the proposals o f Great Britain. schoolhouses as civic centers.
ers, $8.60@9.00; ewes, $6.75@8.25.
constitution.
THIRTY NEW SUBMARINES READY
J
LOST ARMY AIRMEN
RESCUED IN MEXICO
Officers in Desert Four Days
Without Nourishment.
FOUND FAR SOUTH OF BORDER
Men Tramp 200 Miles Over Mountains
in Search o f Habitation Before
Rescuing Party is Found
Wellton, Ariz.— Human endurance
triumphed in a gruelling battle with
the desert of Sonora when Lieutenant
W. A. Robertson, brought here late
Friday by a rescue party, overtook
Thursday a party searching for the
two missing army aviators in the des
olate region and directed them to a
mountain pass where his fellow officer,
Liutenant Colonel Harry G. Bishp, lay
weak and exhausted.
The searchers, obeying the aviator’s
directions and following his tracks 30
miles along tlw base of the Gila moun
tains, found Colonel Bishop lying in
the sand, unable to walk farther, and
brought to an end a search which army
aviators, civilians and Mexican sol
diers have been conducting in Lower
California and Sonora for the two
missing men.
Robertson had been four days with
out food or water when he came upon
the searching party from Wellton,
composed of E. L. Gamble, W. Proeb-
stel and S. Hovatter.
Almost ex
hausted, his clothing burned from close
contact with a camp fire he had made
on the desert to keep him warm when
he was not walking, Robertson was
able to talk, and soon had members of
the searching party following hiB trail
back to where he had left Colonel Bis
hop.
The latter was found in the sand
dunes near the Rosario mountains, and
carried out to a place where a fire was
built. He was made as comfortable as
possible after something to eat was
given him, while other members of the
party brought Robertson to Wellton
and sent to Yuma for assistance for
Bishop.
The men had tramped together al
most 200 miles over desert and moun
tain country from a point on the east
coast of the Gulf of California, sharing
water which they carried in an oil can
taken taken from their abandoned air
plane and subsisting on four sand
wiches and four oranges.
Their supplies o f food and water be
came exhausted, and nowhere had the
men been able to find human habita
tion or shelter from the biting cold and
drenching rain of the desert country.
They continued their tramp together
until Wednesday, a week after they
had started from North Island aviation
base at San Diego on a flight to Calex
ico, Cal., on which they were carried
out of their course by a strong wind
and failure of their compass to regis
ter properly, and then Colonel Bishop
became too weak to continue further.
Public Buildings Bill Passes
House; President Will Veto
Washington, D. C.— An omnibus
public buildings bill, which President
Wilson has given notice he will veto,
was passed by the house, 234 to 92
late Friday.
It carries $38,000,000
for buildings, improvements or sites
in cities and towns all over the coun
try.
The bill now goes to the senate,
where it will encounter determined op
position.
Action in the house followed a long
and bitter debate, in which advocates
of the measure defended it and oppon
ents denounced it as “ pork barrel”
legislation. The final vote was not
along party lines, althought there
were more Republican than Demo
cratic nagatives.
While the bill carries a total of
$38,000,000, Chairman Clark, of the
public buildings committee, told the
house this amount would be reduced
about $6,000,000 by money returned to
the treasury through sales o f old sites
and buildings.
Briand Defends Wilson.
Paris— By a vote of 437 to 67, the
chamber o f deputies has supported the
government in its refusal to reply to
an interpellation presented by Adrien
Pressemane and 34 other extreme So
cialist deputies as to why the govern
ment replied to President Wilson’ s
note. Premier Briand took the oppor
tunity to speak in the most cordial
terms of Mr. Wilson’s motives and the
attitude of the Americans.