U. S. IS VIRTUALLY AT WAR
CLEAR SEA OF U-BOATS
WORLD HAPPENINGS
ADAMSON
LAW
IS
RAILROAD STRIKE TO Preparation
for Aggressive Action by
President Considers Extra Session;
Navy Ordered by President.
Of CURRENT WEEK
CONSTITUTIONAL “ Overt Act” Committed.
IS DECLARED Off Washington,
I). C.—Preparation for
Washintgon, I). C. With the an
aggressive action by the navy against Washintgon, D. C.—The eight-hour nouncement of the ruthless destruction
three unarmed American merchant
for railroad wages, provided of
Basic Eight-Hour Day to Be Put the German submarine menace beg**'1 standard
shi|M
by submarines, it wus unofficially Brief Resume Most Important
in
the
Adamson
law,
was
held
consti
Tuesday at the direction of President tutional Monday by the Supreme court. admitted
here Monday night that vir
Into Effect by Managers.
Daily News Items.
Wilson. The President authorized the The Supremo court’s decision, hold tually a state of war exists between
expenditure of the $115,000,000 em er ing the entire Adamson act constitu the United States and Germany.
gency fund, provided by congress to tional, was announced by Chief Justice Technically the United States re
mains in a position of armed neutral
speed up naval construction and pay White.
ity.
this shall be chnngtal
In
announcing
the
opinion,
the
Chief
NATIONAL CRISIS MAIN FACTOR for special additional war craft, and justice reviewed the negotiations lead before Whether
April 16, the date fixed for a COMPILED EOR BUSY READERS
the suspension of the eight-hour labor ing to enactm ent of the law. He did special session of congress, the war-
law in plants engaged in navy work. not read from a prepared opinion, giv makng branch of the government,
Concession Made Regardless of Forth Immediately afterw ard, Secretary ing it apparently from memory. He President W’ilson has not decided.
Events of Noted People, Governments
One
step
the
President
is
contem
told
of
the
President’s
efforts
to
avert
Daniels ordered the New York navy the strike last September.
coming Action by Supreme Court
plating is a call for an immediate ses and I’arifie Northwest and Other
yard
to
begin
building
60
submarine
sion
of congress to hear an address
“ He suggested arbitration. The
Chairman Issues Statement.
Tilinga Worth Knowing.
chasers of the 110-foot type, to be employes accepted and the employes asking for authority to adopt aggres
completed in from 60 to 80 days. It refused,” said the Chief justice. “ He sive measures against the submarine
menace. Already American shi|»s are
was said 40 of these could be laid down then suggested a basic eight-hour-day being
armed to defend themselves, the Premier Lloyd George has announrtMl
New York—The conference commit at
standard. The employers rejected
once.
next move must be to send warshi|>s in the house of commons that on
that
and
the
employes
accepted.”
tee of railroad managers early Monday With
approval, the How the President went to congress with orders to seek out submarines Thursday he would move a motion of
morning authorized President Wilson’s secretary the also President's
ordered
the
graduation was then recited.
congratulation to the Russian Duma.
m ediators to make whatever arrange of the first and second classes
"Congress passed the law that is be
at
the
The Farm Loan board has announced
m ents were necessary w ith the rail naval academy. The first class will go fore us and the carriers refused to re
that the interest rate on all loana made
cognize
it,”
he
recited,
road brotherhoods to call off the strike. out
said
the
He
March 29, releasing 212 junior offi
to farmers throughout the country by
The formal letter in which this au cers to fill existing vacancies, and the agreem ent to expedite the case was
Federal land banks would lie 5 ja r
laudable.”
thorization was made was signed by second in September, furnishing 202 “ very
cent.
the early course of the opinion
more, a full year before they other the In Chief
Elisha Lee, chairman of the m anagers’ wise
An emergency appropriation of $1,-
justice said that the law was
would
be
available.
000,000
for the defenae of the com
com m ittee, and was as follows:
both
an
eight-hour
day
act
and
also
a
While the energies of the navy will wage-fixing statute.
monwealth
in the event of war was
He
said
it
“ In the national crisis precipitated be concentrated for the present on
passed
by
the
Massachusetts legisla
“
strips
the
parties
of
jHjwer
of
con
by events of which we heard this efforts to get into commission craft de- tra c t” as to wages ile said the
ture.
(Sunday) afteroon, the national I signed particulary to destroy submar
provision was the para-
Klden, the 4-year-old son of Mr. and
conference committee of railroads join ines and guard the coast, warship eight-hour
mount
feature.
Mrs.
Frank Mahood, of Kairdale, Ore
building
generally
will
be
speeded
up
w ith you in the conviction that neither
As to whether the law fixes the
gon,
fell
from his high chair at the
a t home nor abroad should there be under the recent agreement with pri hours
labor or fixes wages, the Chief
Mahood
home
Saturday night and was
fear or hope that the efficient opera vate builders and with the funds now | justice of said
it did both. He said the
killed.
His
neck
was broken.
tion of the railroads of the country made available.
right to fix hours of labor by congress
will be hampered or impaired.
Ambassador Francis, at Petrograd,
was out of the cases unqestioned.
“ Therefore, you are authorized to Allies Pressing Eliemy Hard;
has cabled the State departm ent that
assure the nation there will be no
no Americans had been re|x>rt«l in
Large Territory Being Regained War With United States
strike, and as a basis for such assur
jured during the revolution, and that
ance we hereby authorize the commit Paris—The French troops have oc
the embassy and staff were uadis-
Depends on Acts of U-Boats
tee of the Council of National Defense cupied about 20 additional villages and \ London—In
! turbed.
an
interview
granted
to
to grant to the employes who are about
Copenhagen correspondent of the
The tinplate shortage threatening to
to strike whatever adjustm ent your small towns in their advance on the re- ! the
Berlin Tageblatt, says an Exchange j
cripple the country's fisxl canning in
com m ittee deems necessary to guaran treating Germans. They have gone I Telegraph
dispatch. Count von Bern-
dustry is taken up by government
tee the uninterrupted and efficient beyond Ham on the Somme river and
interrogated as to whether he
agencies with the aim to insuring a
operation of the railroads as an indis Chauney on the Oise, which brings storff,
thought
there
would
be
war
between
1
supply
sufficient to keep all canning
pensable arm of national defense.”
appreciably nearer to the St. Germany and the United States, re
plants going.
The announcement of the managers Them
line. At one point the plied:
th a t they had yielded apparently came Quentin-Laon
Yale's senior class has votes! to dis
Tuesday penetrated G erm an1 “ That depends on our U-boat war
as a surpise to the brotherhood chiefs, advance
pense
with the use of intoxicating
fare. If we sink an American ship we
for they were in bed when summoned lines to a depth of 22 miles.
liquors
at its class dinner in June. The
Czar
Nicholas,
of
Russia.
get war. If not, I suppose we
again to the conference room. Earlier London—The British advance still is shall
same
vote
govern future reunion
The house of Romanoff is descended gatherings of will
can avoid it.”
in the evening there had been a dis-
this
from Andrei Romanoff, who is said to should be rescind«!. class unless the vote
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tinctly pessimistic feeling as to the being pushed rapidly, further large
have gone to Moscow from Prussia in
gains being recorded in the official re-
FsmiflG Declared Near,
prospect for averting a strike.
14th century. Mikhail Feodorovitch Captain Jack Bonavita, nationally-
Up to th at hour the railroads had re port from British headquarters in The Hague —A fter the debate in the the
Romanoff
was the first of the family to known animal trainer, died in Is« An
fused to make the concessions granted, France Tuesday night.
Prussian
house
of
deputies
March
6,
on
ascend
the
This was in 1613, geles Wednesday night as the result of
and the brotherhoods had stood fast to "The pursuit of the enem y,” says| ‘J» ^ crisi8* Dr- Heim- leader of when he was throne.
a fractured jaw and severe lacerations
17
years
old.
th eir determ ination to strike unless ..
.
..
..
,
_
,
the
Bavarian
peasant
party,
published
received in a struggle with a polar
The
direct
line
of
the
Romanoffs
the
report,
continued
Tuesday,
our
..
,
r
,.
..
they won their demands either by the
, e” and
> advance guards driving
j \ . 1 an
article concerning the situation, term inated in 1730 and the female line hear
at a moving picture studio.
frr
Supreme court declaring the Adamson cavalry
from
which
the
Vorwaerts
prints
the
in
1762,
when
the
Holstein-Gottorp
back
the
enemy’s
rear
guards.
The
law valid or by their employers grant
Patriotic students in Central High
extract:
branch came into power and has since school
ground gained extends for a depth of following
ing them the eight-hour day.
in Washington, I). C., tore from
“
It
is
high
tim
e
that
facts
which
The men will get their present pay from two to eight miles and 40 more ' up to the present are known to but few ruled.
the
walls
of a classroom a picture of
The members of the family in the Emperor William
for 10 hours for eight hours’ work un villages have fallen into our hands.” ! of the uninitiated should be pub past
of Germany, and
two centuries have married so hung in its place a photograph
der the agreement. These concessions
of Prca-
lished.
It
is
better
to
tell
the
pieople
into the German royal ident Wilson, decorated with
are vir- London—The following official corn- | the truth squarely than to continue to generously
on the part of the managers
mana>
two
houses that the Romanoffs are often American flags.
tually what the employes contended munication is issued regarding the op- . work on a system which has hopelessly said
to be as much German, by blood,
they would gain under the Adamson eration of the British troops ag ain st; broken down through its own faults. as their
kinsman, the German emperor. The council of workingmen’s dele
law if it were declared constitutional. the Turks in M esopotamia:
We must hold out 120 days longer
gates in Petrograd has prescribed the
Immediately after Secretary Lane
the new crop«; but even if to and clear the trans-A tlantic lanes.
immediate resumption of work in all
had made his announcement the broth "D uring Saturday night General until
morrow
brought
‘hunger
peace’
we
factories,
according to a dispatch from
erhood leaders sent telegram s to all Maude’s troop« effected a crossing of would be unable for months to get a Some of the highest officials of the the Russian
Factories will
the general chairmen inform ing them the Diala river and occupied the vil px>und more of bread grain, owing to government hold that the executive pay full wages capital.
for
the
days
in which
th a t the strike had been called off.
lage of Bahriz and a part of the town the lack of tonnage and the world’s has the power to declare that a state work was prevent«! by the revolution.
of
war
exists
and
to
proceed
with
ag
of Bakubah on the left bank of the crop failure.”
gressive protective steps {lending the In an epochal decision holding con
river. The enemy retired hastily to
.Submarines Sink Three Amer
assembling of congress. There is no gress to be clothed with any and all
ward Khanikan. ”
Colom bian T re a ty M odified.
ican Ships Without Warning Bakubah lies about 25 miles north Washintgon, D. C.— Modifications indication, however, that the President {lowers necessary to keep open the
channels of interstate commerce, the
in the Colombian treaty were agreed will follow that course.
London—The sinking of the Ameri- east of Bagdad on the Diala.
Supreme court, dividing five to four,
upon
by the senate foreign relations
can steamships City of Memphis, Illin
sustain«! the Adamson law as consti
committee
in
an
effort
to
meet
Repub
United
States
of
Russia
Being
Fifteen
of
Crew
of
Torpedoed
ois and Vigilancia was announced Mon
tutional and enforceable in every feat
lican objections, and Chairman Stone
day. Fourteen men from the Vigilan
Formed
by
Victorious
Duma
Vigilancia
Are
Drowned
ure.
will
lay
the
new
draft
before
the
sen
cia are missing, as are some of the
New
York—The
Empress
and
Crown
ate
with
a
view
to
pressing
for
ratifi
men from the City of Memphis. The Plymouth, via London — Fifteen cation before the end of the present Prince are now safe in Finland and Representative Sherwood, of Ohio,
crew of the Illinois landed safely.
members of the crew of the American
of the most openly-expressed pac
session. Republican leaders, the Emperor is at the Snetogorsky one
The City of Memphis, in ballast steam er Vigilancia lost their lives extra
ificists
in the house, declared in a pub
still hostile in spite of the changes, monastery in Pskoff, according to a lic statem
from Cardiff for New York was sunk when the steam er was torpedoed by a said
ent recently that the latest
cablegram
made
public
here
Sunday
by
there
would
be
no
filibuster
to
by gunfire. The second officer and 15
sinking
of
ships by German
prevent action, but more than 30 sen the Russian-American-Asiatic corpor- submarines American
men of the crew have been landed. A German submarine. The survivors ators
had converted him in favor
ation.
were
pledged
to
vote
against
the
patrol boat has gone in search of the were in lifeboats from Friday morning treaty.
an immediate declaration of war.
According to Ivan Norodny, head of of
other members of the crew.
At the same time he offered his serv
until
Sunday
afternoon.
the
corporation,
the
cablegram
was
The Illinois, from London for Port Among those drowned were several
England A sk s fo r M ore C re d it.
from their representatives in Petro- ices to the army at the age of 82.
A rthur, Tex., was in ballast.
London—It is understood th at the grad and was transm itted through the Immediate nationalization of rail
The Vigilancia was torpedoed with American citizens, including Third supplementary
vote of credit which Belgian minister.
road control was urged by Robert S.
Officer Neils P. North and Third En
out warning.
will be moved Thursday will be for Mr. Norodny announced the receipt Lovett, chairman of the board of the
gineer Carl Adeholde. This informa £50,000,000
($250,000,000). The an of dispatches also saying that the I)u- Union Pacific, in testifying before the
Allies Gain on 82-Mile Front;
tion was given out by Captain Frank nouncement created a mild sensation in ma is promulgating orders for the congressional
investigating
A. Middleton, of New York, who, with the house of commons, in view of the formation of a government to be all phases of committee
railway problem.
Sixty Villages Are Occupied the
survivors of the Vigilancia, has granting of the huge sum of £550,000,- known as the United States of Russi Final disposition the
of the control ques
London—British troops, continuing reached the mainland, and probably 000 as recently as February 12. An with Prince Lvoff as President.
tion, he declared, would prove a great
th e ir rapid advance on the heels of the will make affidavits before the Ameri explanation unofficially offered is that
factor in the grave problem of obtain
retirin g Germans, have occupied the can consul.
the new government departm ents have Petrograd — A fter his abdication, ing new capital with which to continue
im portant towns of Nesle, Chaulnes Captain Middleton said that his ves been spending more largely than was Emperor Nicholas returned to general railroad
development.
sel was sunk without warning. Two anticipated in connection with the war. staff headquarters.
and Peronne.
Along a front of about 45 miles they lifeboats were lowered from the Vigil
The attitude of the armies at the A sentence of imprisonment for
have entered the German positions to ancia and the crew of 43 men got into
front in the face of the new develop three months is reported by R euter’s
New Malady B e se ts C ity.
a depth of 10 miles in places. In ad them. Owing to the swell of the Galesvilie, Wis.—Four persons have ment is not yet known in Petrorgad. correspondent at The Hague to have
dition the British have taken more ocean, however, 25 men were thrown died here and scores are ill, some crit It is generally believed that the ap been imposed on Herr Schroeder,
into the water. The boats of the Cap ically, from a disease which has baffled pointment of Grand Duke Nicholas as editor of the Amsterdam Telegraaf, on
thna 60 villages.
The announcement of these gains tain and the mates picked up ten of physicians. The city officials have ap commnder in chief will lie received en the charge of having endangered the
w as contained in the official report the men, but the other 15 were pealed to physicians in other cities for thusiastically by the troops, with neutrality of the Htate through the
drowned.
Monday from British headquarters.
publication of an editorial.
assistance. Little difficulty is exper whom he is extremely popular.
ienced in detecting the symptoms,
The capture by the Russians of the
Funeral W arship Named.
Seaplanes Save Ship.
Ranchers to Build Ships.
swollen glands and high tem perature,
Persian
of Kermanshah is report
W ashintgon, D. C.—Japan has as- New York — The British freight but the proper treatm ent has not been Seattle, Wash. — Through R. W. ed in an town
unofficial
dispatch received in
-signed the armored cruiser Azuma to steamer Eastgate, which arrived here developed.
Michael, of Seattle and Portland, a London. ^
bring home the body of Ambassador Tuesday from La Pallise, was recently
number of ranchers of the Pendleton
Mine Exp lo sio n K ills 8.
G uthrie. Mrs. Guthrie will return on attacked by a German submarine and
district in Oregon are seeking to in “ Enemy aviators again bombarded
escaped destruction only through Canonsburg, P a.—Eight miners are vest a large amount of money in the our hospital at Vertekop,” says a
th e same ship.
prompt aid rendered by two French known to have been killed their bodies motorship industry at Seattle, Michael Serbian official statem ent, “ causing
Day is Quiet in Dublin.
seaplanes. The incident was related having be recovered, and five others said Monday.
heavy loss of life among both patients
Dublin— St. Patrick's day passed by members of the crew, who pointed are missing as a result of two explos “ The construction of wooden ships and personnel. Two English nurses
quietly in Dublin. Many country peo to holes in the ship’s ventilators made ions which early Thursday wrecked the is logical the means of putting to use were among those killed. The hos
ple came into town but there were no by shells in support of their story. interior of Hendersonville mine No. 1, the money received for the wheat pitals are completely separated from
processions. The church services were The place of the attack and the date of the Henderson Coal company three crops,” he said. “ It iB apparent that any other buildings and are distinc
were not divulged.
leargely attended.
miles north of here.
the industry is only in its infancy.”
tively marked with a red cross. ”
Abdicates Throne.