WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
OREGON IN FIRST CALL
AEROPLANES KILL 23
Plans for Sending National (.unni to
Franc? Announced by W ar De
partm ent—26 States Share.
Score of German Fliers Visit England
Taking Toll Mostly of Women
and Children Driven Off.
HOOVER OICTATOfi
As one of the direct results of the
United S tates becoming involved in
1-otidon
Tw enty-three persons, in
W ashington, D. C.—Plans for send- the world war, the Astoria board of
i ing the first National Guard troops to school directors has voted to add cluding nine women and six children,
Brief Resume Most Important France have been perfected by the French to the course of study in the were killed, and 50 persons were in President Signs Food Control
War departm ent with the organization high school.
jured at South End, in Essex, 40 miles
Bill at Same Time.
Daily News Items.
The body of Mrs. K atherine Osgood, east of l-ondon, by bombs drop|*?d
of a division which will include troops
from 26 states and the D istrict of Col age 88 years, was found floating in from German raiders Sunday, says an
the Walluski river near A storia Friday
umbia. Word to this effect was sent
night. She had been missing for sev official statem ent.
Considerable damage to pro|>erty
ou Tuesday.
eral days and is supposed to have fal
was
caused a t South End by the nearly
The states from which the National len while crossing the bridge.
40 bombs drop|>ed u | h > ii the town.
Guard troops are to be assembled are:
LeRoy Childs, of the Hood River
Two men were injured at Rochford,
Louisiana, Pennsylvania. Wisconsin,
Event« of Noted People, Government« New York, Ohio, Georgia, Alabama, branch of the Oregon experim ent s ta but four bombs dropped on Margate, in Food and A griculture D epartm ents
tion, who devotes a large portion of Kent, did little damage. The latest
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, his tim e at this season of the year to statem ent follows:
Long Iteady for Work Federal
and Pacific N orth« eat and Other
Maryland, South Carolina, California, the study of codling moth, has made
“
Enemy
raiders
caused
considerable
Trade Commission llusy.
Thing« W orth Knowing.
Missouri, Virginia, North Carolina, recommendations to spray.
dam age at South End, where they
Kansas, Texas, Michigan, New Jersey,
One hundred Curry county hogs, de dropped a!>out 40 bombs. The casual
Tennessee, Oklahoma. Nebraska, Colo
livered
for J. E. Ford, at Bandon, ties thus far riqx*rted are:
rado and Oregon.
women, 6
"K illed
Eight men.
The Canadian casualtiy list issued
W ashington, I>. (’;
The American
The others come from the D istrict brought 13 cents a pound, live weight. children
About 60 |>eople were in- government Saturday unsullied control
Tuesday night contains the following of Columba.
The consignment was bought for the
names of Americans killed in action:
Ford m arket in Marshfield and it was jured.
of the country’s food supply with the
“ At Rochford, two men were in signing by President Wilson of the ad-
W. H. Bland, Black Bear, Idaho.
said the price was the hightest record
J A P A N E S E MISSION A R R I V E S ed in th e county for such a large hen). jured, but no dam age is reported. At ! m in istratio n ’s food survey and regula-
Nineteen Portuguese fishermen of
M argate, four bomba were dropped.
Provincetown were drowned when the
The skin of a gray wolf was turned One uninhabited house was demolished, : lory bills.
••We
Are
With
You.
Heart
and
S
oul.”
Formal announcement of H erbert
dories in which they were fishing off
in a t the county clerk’s office at Al but there were no casualties.”
j Hoover’s ap|>ointment as food adm in
Says Ambassador E xtraordinary.
Cape Cod were swamped by a gale that
bany Monday for bounty. Charles E.
The tex t of the first official s ta te istrato r was made at the W hite House
came up suddenly Friday afternoon.
A Pacific Port—A Japanese mission Clark, of Lacomb, related a story of m ent says:
soon a fte r the m easures were ap
“ About 5:15 o'clock Sunday a fte r proved, and Mr. Hoover set forth the
The first three bales of G eorgia’s to the U nited S tates arrived here its capture showing th at Clyde Rucker,
of
Lacomb,
had
a
narrow
escape
from
noon a squadron of about 20 enemy
new cotton crop to arrive in New York Tuesday, and proclaimed, almost at
a deer which was pursued by the airplanes were reported off Felix aims of the food adm inistration in a
were auctioned from the steps of the
statem ent, declaring its purpose will
stowe, in Suffolk.
They skirted the ! be to stabilize and not to disturb con-
Cotton Exchange Wednesday for $700. the moment of landing, th at its mem predatory beast.
coast
to
Clacton,
in
Essex,
where
they
bers
came
officially
"
a
s
comrades
in
a
Nearly 50 cents a pound. The money
George Stephenson, m anager of the
| ditions.
was given to the Red Cross war fund. gigantic struggle, which involves the N orth Bend Mill & Lumber company, apparently divided, a part going south
Every effort will be made to correct
to M nrgate, in Kent. The rem ainder
Liberty bonds for the first tim e liberties and the sacred rights of man has been appointed a member of the creased the coast and went southwest price abuses, made |Hsisible by abnor
spruce board for th at d istrict by
mal times, Mr. Hoover raid, but dras-
since the second or third day’s trading kind.”
Charles R. Sligh, of the W ar A ircraft toward Wick ford, near which place i tic m easures will not be attem pted
in them on the New York Stock E x
are
“ We
h ere,” declared Viscount ProducUon board to represent the they turned southeast and dropi>ed
until it is seen the purposes of the ad-
change, sold at par Tuesday. Last K. Ishii, ambassador extraordinary,
bombs in the neighborhood of South
week they sold as low as 99.52, which and plenipotentiary, responding to an U nited States and allied nations in ob End, in Essex. Some bombs also were ; m inistration cannot be accomplished
through constructive co-operstion with
represented a depreciation of $4.80 per address of welcome from the mayor, tain in g m aterial for aircraft construc dropped on M argate.
tion.
food producing snd distrib u tin g indus
$ 1000 .
“ as the representatives of Japan on a
Our airc raft were very quickly in
tries.
Car shortage on the Southern Pacific the air, and they pursued the enemy
The medical corps of the United mission of friendship and good will.
The very existence of corrective
“ We come as allies in a common lines in Oregon Thursday was 751. out to sea. ’ ’
S tates Army in France announced F ri
fwwers,
Mr. Hoover declared, will tend
day th a t the French had turned over to cause. We are w ith you, heart and While the number is small compared
to check speculation and price infia-
w
ith
the
more
than
3000
shortage
some
soul.”
it two large m ilitary hospitals and also
He referred to the N ation’s war months ago, the Public Service com N E W Y O R K E R S DIE O F H E A T i tion.
a large medical depot. American base
“ The business men of the country, I
panoply,
and its m eaning to Japan. mission considers the shortage ex
hospital units are manning these in sti
urn
convinced,” says Mr. Hoover's
trem
ely
serious
because
of
the
early
" We are particularly glad to be here
Five Days' Wave Hrokrn A fter 878 Go
tutions.
statem ent, “ as a result of many hun
just at this tim e ,” he said, "w hen all season and the demand for cars due to
Down in S treets and Factories.
Sinking of the American steam er America is showing courage, p atrio t causes created by the war.
dreds of conferences w ith representa
Campana, a Standad Oil tanker, w ith ism, energy and whole-hearted zeal.
New York — Monday, New York tives of the great sources of food sup
The S tate Highway commission has struggled through the worst heat wave ply, realize th eir own patriotic obliga
the probable capture of her captain
“ N aturally, Japan is interested in
and four members of the naval guard your preparations. We are glad to opened bids and awarded contracts for th at has struck the city in 40 years. tion, and the solemnity of the situ a
by the attacking German subm arine, see them. Not a single sensible per road and bridge construction projects For five days the sun appeared to be tion, an<l will fairly and generously co-
was announced Tuesday by the Navy son in Japan sees anything in your and accepted the bid of the Lum ber occupying a new |>osition somewhere operate in m eeting the national em er
mens T rust company, of Portland, on
departm ent.
preparations but g re at benefit to both the $500,000 bond issue, the first sale near the back of a m an's neck and the gencies. ”
The two measures as signed give to
street therm om eters registered 105
A fter visiting practically every sec countries in the future.
of bonds under the $6,000,000 bonding and 107 degrees Fahrenheit with a the government sweeping w ar-tim e
tion of Oregon of any consequence
“ We have always had confidence in enactm ent.
The bid was $471,S00 painful regularity.
powers. The regulatory bill is de
agriculturally, Governor Withycombe the fundam ental justice, sound sense j
with accrued interest, the bonds dated
People succumbed in appalling num signed to put food distribution under
made the statem ent th a t Oregon is and broad vision of Americans. We August 1.
bers—an old lady here, an infant direct government supervision, snd a
facing the nearest approach to a crop are glad of your preparations on land
failure of anything he has seen in his and sea, because we believe they | The Springfield Planing Mill com there, and factory workers by the doz 1 provision added as an amendm ent ex
tends an even more drastic government
46 y ea rs’ experience in watching crop mean an earlier peace. ”
pany has called for bids for a large ens in various places—until by the end
the
control
over coal and o ther fuels, in-
of
the
fourth
day
878
deaths
from
condtions.
amount of hardwood lumber.
The
i
eluding the power to fix prices, and au
heat
were
recorded.
Sunburned W estern ranges, w ith the S U M P T E R . OR.. IS IN RUINS company has accepted a contract for
operation of
Several of these were suicides. | thorizing government
the m anufacture of 1,000,000 ten t
price of imported hay and feed almost
mines.
Maddened
by
th
eir
futile
attem
pts
to
[
prohibitive, are likely to cause a de Fire Completely Sweeps Town Off the stakes for the United S tates govern get cool, a few Bought a more com for
The survey bill is intended to en
ment, according to an announcement
cided drop in the price of beef before
courage
production, and gives the gov
table
end
in
the
river,
while
others,
in
M ap—Loss Said to be $200,000.
made by H. E. P itts, m anager of the
December 1, in the opinion of St.
ernm ent authority to keep up a contin
delirium
,
leaped
from
th
eir
windows.
The work of m aking the
Paul live stock men. Shortage of feed
Baker, Ore. — Sumpter, once the company.
For the most part New Yorkers ac uous census of the am ount of food
already has resulted in an influx of Babylon of Eastern Oregon, is now a stakes will begin August 15.
cepted the heat calm ity with the same j stuffs in the United S tates. It will be
cattle from the West at the South St.
So serious has the car shortage situ- sophisticated urbanity th at they accept 1 adm inistered by the departm ent of
smoking mass of ruins.
Paul m arket.
ation
become th a t the Public Service any and every event.
Where life is Agriculture.
The flames Monday night were ea t
Both the Focal A dm inistration and
commission is sending out circulars to plentiful it is not valued very highly,
Nine hundred and th irty -th ree Scan
dinavian ships have been destroyed by ing th eir way to the woods a t the edge commercial clubs and o th er commercial The first day a slight interest was ex- ! A griculture departm ents have been
torpedoes or mines since the beginning of the city and the hundreds of fire bodies of the sta te asking co-operation hibited in persona who flopped over in ready since long before the bills were
of the war, according to the Copen fighters were trying desperately to in m eeting it. The commission asks the streets. A crowd usually gathered passed to go ahead with the work.
hagen A ftenbladet.
Of this number subdue them before the blaze could get th at these circulars be placed in the and occasionally one heard a sympa- i The Focal Adm inistration has as
Norway lost 600, Denmark 187 and such a s ta rt in the dry tim ber th a t a hands fo shippers or receivers of car thetic rem ark if it happened to be a sembled a staff and already is enlisting
load lots of freig h t, such as coal and fairly p retty girl or a feeble old lady, the country's women in a household
Sweden 146. The num ber of Scandi forest fire m ight result.
foundries, machine but by the end of the second day a man saving campaign.
navian seamen lost in these disasters
The loss is estim ated as high as wood dealers,
shops,
g
rist
mills
and lumber yards. could lie face forward on the pavement \ Meanwhile the Federal Trade com
was about 500.
$200,000 and it is known th a t the in
Service to the nation is the reason for for five minutes w ithout a ttra ctin g the mission, authorized some tim e ago to
surance
carried
is
com
paratively
small,
Placed so th a t it would have de
attention or assistance of the hurried conduct an investigation into food
stroyed a 36-inch w ater supply main so th a t the once m ighty metropolis, of the request.
pedestrian. Then some one would SHy: prices with special reference to a n ti
this
p
art
of
the
country
never
may
be
to the Ogden city reservoir and the
Explaining his reason for appointing
“ T here’s another poor nut—send for tru st law violations, is gath erin g in
em bankm ent of the reservoir, thus al rebuilt, a t least it is certain th at only an even number of members on the
form ation which it will turn over to
a
cop.
”
a
small
p
art
ever
will
rise
from
the
lowing the impounded w ater to rush
S tate board of Conciliation and Media
the
two agences and to the departm ent
down upon the city, a dynam ite bomb flames.
tion, Governor W ithycombe said the
of Justice.
Every
business
house
and
nearly
w ith two fe et of its four-foot fuse
function of the board is conciliation R U SSIA NS S T O P P IN G E N E M Y
The first move of the Food Adminis
burned, was found early Tuesday night every residence, church and hall have and not arb itratio n .
tration will be to bring about changes
been leveled by the flames. More than
by the police.
George H. Stevenson of North Bend, Teuton Offensive on Eastern Front is in the system of d istrib u tin g w heat
300 persons are w ithout homes and
In a statem ent Tuesday, Secretary
and in the m anufacture and sale of
member of the war spruce council for
Declared W eakening in Intensity.
every
effort
to
relieve
the
suffering
is
McAdoo said prom pt passage of the
flour and bread. It will tak e up next
Oregon, has forwarded a telegraphic
being made.
Petrograd — In consequence of the the production of m eat and dairy
Army and Navy insurance bill would
invitation to the National Defense
“ im m easurably increase A m erica’s
commission now in th e N orthw est to heavy losses inflicted on the Austro- foods. The Trade commission has in
N ational 8-Hour Bill Drafted.
German forces and the desperate re vestigators now in the flour mills and
chance of winning the w a r,” and ex- !
W ashington, D. C.— As a solution in visit Coos county and look over the six sistance of the Russians, says a tele in the m eat-packing houses.
pressed the hope th a t the bill would be
mills
which
are
m
anufacturing
aero-
gram received here from Odessa, the
enacted “ before the first soldier of the p art of the labor trouble in W estern ¡ plane stock in th a t locality.
In his statem ent Mr. Hoover em
Teuton offensive on the Roumanian phasizes the obligation the U nited
new National Army begins active m il Oregon and W ashington, Senator Poin
dexter has proposed the enactm ent by
itary d u ty ,” about Septem ber 1.
A hay shortage is threatened in the front is dim inishing in intensity.
States owes to its allies in supplying
Desperate engagem ents are being an abundance of food and urges re
The B utte stree tc ar m en’s strike congress of a law providing th at eight Long Creek section and farm ers are
was settled Friday afternoon, the com hours shall constitute a standard day’s even cutting the grow th in fence cor fought by the Kusso-Roumanian forces duced consumption by the American
pany agreeing to pay the men a flat work for all lumber mills, logging ners and other places where mowers and Austro-German arm ies along the people,
In the center of
“ We have in our abundance and in
scale. Operation of cars has been re camps or other wood-working estab cannot operate. Some are cutting rye Roumanian front.
lishm ents whose products enter into grass to feed w ith w hat hay they have. this battle line, according to Monday’s our w aste,” he says, “ an ample supply
sumed.
in te rsta te or foreign trade.
His bill
Seven Norwegian sailing vessels and imposes a penalty of $1000 for each The Baker crop is coming up to th at of Russian official statem ent, the Rus to carry them as well as ourselves over
last season, but sales are being made sians and Roumanians repulsed strong this next w inter w ithout suffering. If
90 men were lost in a heavy gale near violation.
Teuton attacks along the Fokshani- we fail, it is because in dividual
a
Greenland, according to a dispatch to j Senator Poindexter drafted and in- t $15 and $16 a ton in the stack.
Marsechti railroad, then counter a t American citizens have failed to see
the London Central News from C hris troducted this bill a t the suggestion
An increase of 15 per cent in all
tacked and raptured 1200 Germans, and do this loyal National duty.
tian a Thursday.
of mill men and mill laborers, both freight rates was granted to the G reat only to re tire later.
We shall invite all classes and all
The first one-third of the quota of sides to the controversy, according to Southern Railroad company by the
In Southw estern Moldavia the Rus trades to sign a volunteer pledge to
One hun
687,000 men drafted for army service his advices, being favorable to the Public Service commission.
sians took the offensive, smashed the co-operate with us in the undertaking,
under the selection bill will be called legal eight-hour day in the lumber bus dred farm ers and m erchants appeared Teuton lines and captured a number of
and so become members of the food
a t the hearing a t The Dalles and prisoners and four guns.
to the colors Septem ber 1 and sent to iness if it can be made National.
adm inistration as we ourselves a rc .”
prayed the commission to extend the
train in g camps between Septem ber 1
increase asked or more if necessary.
and Septem ber 5.
This inform ation
Railroads Save Mileage.
Reckless Prince Curbed.
National Holiday Likely.
The road runs from The Dalles to
has been communicated to the govern
Chicago — Extensive reductions in Friend.
Berlin,
via
London—According
to
an
W
ashington,
D. C.—A National hol
ors of all states by Provost Marshal passenger train service in addition to
announcement
in
the
Official
Gazette,
iday
may
be
declared
Septem ber 3 In
General Crowder.
those already made are soon to go into
Larry M. Sullivan, of Oregon City, the youngest son of Prince Friedrich celebration of the entrainm ent of the
Wool contracts calling for more than effect in the Middle West.
Between one of the owners of the F ria r’s Club, Leopold, of Prussia, who bears the d ra ft levies for the train in g canton
$18,000,000 worth of wool have been March 1 and July 15, the railroads in at Milwaukie, has been pardoned by same name as his father, has been
ments. No step to this end has been
let at W ashington, according to an this territo ry effected a saving a t the Governor Withycombe, according to a placed under interdiction by the Count
made as yet, but officials a t the Pro
nouncements. The Red Cross has pur ra te of alm ost seven million passenger telegram from the governor to Gilbert von Eulenburg, m inister of the royal
vost Marshal G eneral's office regard It
chased 1,000,000 pounds for k n ittin g miles a year in passenger train serv L. Hedges, d istrict attorney. Sullivan house.
The prince, who is 22 years as probable.
Conferences were had
purposes and the Navy has let con ice.
The total reductions already had been convicted and sentenced for of age, is charged with
ex trav a with rialw ay officials on mobilization
trac ts for 4,500,000 yards of uniform made and those soon to be put into numerous violations of the liquor law. gance, and has been placed under the
cloth at an aggregate cost of more effect in this territo ry am ount to over He was at liberty on bond pending ap guardianship of Captain von Heyden, details. T ransportation lines face the
problem of collecting the first 230,000
than $16,000,000.
12 , 000,000 passenger miles.
peal. He had not s e r v e r s day in jail. his m ilitary escort.
men from 4570 districts.
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