WORLD M IN E S
OF CURRENT WEEK
TEUTON SPIES ACTIVE
TWO WARSHIPS SUNK
Try to I’aralytc Tradir and Hinder
Movement of t'oal Authorities
Alert and tiuarda Doubled.
Kx-German CruUcra Owned by Turkey
Sent to Bottom in Dardanellea
British I,«me Small VcaarU.
WOMAN’S BEST ERA
CHANGE
WROUGHT
BY
IN D E -
P E N D E N C E A8 W A G E E A R N E R .
London In a naval action Sunday She A l w a y s W o r k e d , but U n t il R e c en t­
New York — Definite information
between British ami Turkish forces at ly the Money A ll W e n t In to F a ­
said to have been obtained by the gov­
Brief Resume Most Important ernment that German agents ha^l been Factories East of Mississippi the entrance to the Dardanelles, the
ther's Pocket as H i s La-
gal Right.
instructed
to
use
all
means
to
paralyze
Turkish
cm
iser
Midullu,
formerly
the
Hit by Latest Order.
Daily News Items.
German Breslau, was sunk and the
the effort to move freight and clear
It WIIH Just n unit« piece of luwvs-
shit« is understood here to be responsi­
Sultan Yawuz Selim, formerly the Ger­ puper
published on the editorial
ble for the doubling of guards Tuesday
man Goeben, was beached. The an­ page. poeiry
Doubtless ninny iliouaanila rend
w as well phrnseil. Probably
COMPILED FOR YOU at all piers, shipyards and terminals. F U E LS H O R T A G E A C U T E nouncement was made by the admi­ It, most for of It tlio
men who rend It were
Copies of instructions sent to Ger­
ralty.
pleased, for It was an appeal to m en's
man agents by the headquarters of the
The official statem ent says:
mid protection, it confeanlon
“ The Goeben and Breslau, Turkish chivalry
Eventa of Noted "copie, Governments German spy system are reported to riant* Producing Foods May Continue names
of
fem
inine
w eakness and self Insuf­
Sultan Selim and Midullu, with ficiency.
have been obtained by agents of the
Operations
Ten
Mondny
Holi­
and Pacific Northwest and Other
destroyers
were
in
action
with
the
United States government.
The burden of (lie poem was a faint
British forces at the entrance to the wall
day* Are Also Included.
Thinsrs W orth Knowing.
Ibat women w ere fon*ed to leave
Orders were received here Monday
Dardanelles Sunday morning. The Die Inline
It was alleged they
night to take all precautions to pre­
Breslau was sunk. The Goeben es- all w anted w to here stay,
amt to hccoiuo
caped,
but
has
been
beached,
evidently
vent attem pts to do damage.
wage
earners.
Men
were
to
badly tlamagisl, at Nagara Point in the j to treat the unhappy creatu appealed
The Philharmonic Society of New Guards of all kinds, m ilitary and Washington, I). ( \ America’s man­ narrows
res kindly
of
the
straits.
York has announced that no composi­ private, have been doubled at all ufacturing enterprises with but few
The Goeben now is being attacked anil m ake up to them by politeness
tions of living German composers shall points where shipping and shipping exceptions, in all stateH east of the by “ naval
w bat they find lost wfien lliey ceaaed
aircraft.
be played by the Philharmonic Orches­ interests are concerned.
to be dom estic w orkers.
“
Our
losses
reporte«!
are
the
monitor
Mississippi
river,
were
ordered
by
the
tra for the duration of the war.
It Is a Utile bard on those bravo
In addition to extra guards, it was government Wednesday night to sus­ Raglan and a small monitor, the M pioneer
women who Hindu It posslblo
Letters have been sent by the Treas­ learned that, orders were also issued to pend operations for five days, begin­ 28.”
ury to 124,000 m inisters asking them scrutinize with more than usual care 1 ning Friday morning, ns a drastic The monitor Raglan, reportod lost in for the girl of today to g«'t a Job, who
the action was mmmande<i by Viscount forced open the colleges that women
to impress upon their congregations the credentials of persons seeking to
measure for relieving the fuel famine. Broome, nephew «if the late Earl might isliii-ate thcliisidven for business
that it is their duty to pay their in­ pass the barred zones.
tin' professions, to be thanked In
come taxes cheerfully and willingly.
The orders came from Washington At the same time, as further means Kitchener. Viscount Broome was and
term
s
these.
chief
beneficiary
under
the
will
of
his
To the bill requiring the W ar de­ and were issued by telegraph. It was of relief, it was directed that industry uncle and was heir to the title of Earl Surely like they
expcctvst th a t
learned
they
called
for
prompt
action.
partm ent to furnish Army officers with
and business generally, including all Kitchener of Khartoum. Nothing has when the tim e never
entile
when women
It
is
understood
they
applied
not
only
uniforms at cost, Secretary Daniels
normal
activities
that
require
heated
would
have
their
efiolce,
at good pay,
been
reported
concerning
the
viscount’s
to
New
York,
but
to
every
port
on
the
s
has asked the senate m ilitary commit­
of
the
work
they
should
do,
that lliey
fate.
buildings,
observe
as
a
holiday
every
Atlantic
and
Gulf
coasts.
tee to add a provision for naval offi­
would
sigh
over
the
necessity
of w ork­
Destruction
of
the
two
former
Ger­
General
observance
of
the
first
heat-
;
Monday
for
the
next
ten
weeks.
This
cers.
man cruisers by the British marks the ing.
less
Monday
was
reported
throughout
will
close
down
on
Mondays
not
only
Two persons were killed and 15 seri­
country.
factories, but saloons, stores except end of two warshifis which from the T he trouble w ith the business girl
ously injured at Omaha early Monday the Many
beginning of the war in August, 1914, who thinks she would be b etter off at
railroads
were
assisting
in
the
for the sale of drugs and food, places have
night when a railroad coal car loaded effort to supply homes and trans-A t­ of
been proverbial “ thorns in the home em broidering dollies, Is I tin t she
amusement
and
nearly
all
office
with cinders broke away from a switch lantic shipping with coal, and were buildings.
flesh" of the entente allied nations.
does not know that work lias alw ays
train and crashed into a streetcar load­ moving little general freight.
been the portion of women. l<ong tie-
While
the
order
does
not
mention
ed with passengers.
Coal and food were virtually the shipyards, it is known that they will W ILS O N W I L L F I G H T C O U N C IL fore there was a factory or a typew rit­
er or a |siw«-r driven m achine women
A Christiania dispatch says all poli­ only commodies moving, aside from a be perm itted to continue operations as
tical parties agree that the term s of- j small amount of necessary war sup­ usual, although munitions plants will President Will Use All Power* to Rule w orked for wages. They bad to. Ttio
w orkingm an never supported bis fam ­
be closed.
fered by the United States to Norway j plies.
War Program Alone.
ily. Hu was never uhlu to support
regarding food supplies and shipping I The volume of coal reaching sea­ The governm ent's move came en­
cannot be accepted. Norway will pro- ! board for bunkering ships was steadily tirely without warning in an order is­ Washington, D. (’. President W il­ them.
increasing.
sued by Fuel Administrator Garfield son has served n«>tice on Democratic T he difference betw een then and
pose a new basis for an agreement.
State
Fuel
adm
inistrators
reported
|
with the approval of President Wilson leaders in the senate that he will use now Is ttiut In tin- old days women did
Observance of the Sabbath by all j
collect their own wages. T he m on­
office buildings, although per­ prescribing stringent restrictions gov­ all
his influence and [lower to beat the not
men in m ilitary and naval service was most
m
itted
certain
exemptions,
were
burn­
ey
went
Into fath er's pocket. II«- had
erning
the
distribution
and
use
of
coal.
directed by President Wilson in a ing only enough coal to prevent freez­ It was decided upon hurriedly by the bill to create a war council.
a l«“gnl right to the services of Ills wife
statem ent issued Tuesday at the White ing of pipes.
“
The
President
will
fight
to
the
fin­
President and government heads as a ish,” was the word brought to the Cap­ and children, and thought lie tuid also
House. All Sunday labor, he asked, Department stores and other estab­ desperate
remedy for the fuel crisis itol Monday.
a m oral right to w hatever they earned.
be reduced to the measure of strict ne­ lishments
generally
were
closed.
and
the
transportation
tangle
in
the
has never he«-ii a tim e In his­
Establishment of a war cabinet of tory T here
cessity.
Eastern states.
when women w ere as happily sit­
“
three
distinguished
citizens
of
dem­
The Lokal Anzeiger, of Berlin, says
Even munitions plants are not ex­
uated ns now. And the change has
executive ability,” ia pro­ b«-en
that unless Leon Trotzky, the Bolshe- J P O R T L A N D AUTO SHOW SOON cepted from the closing down orders. onstrative
w rought chiefly by the fact that
vided
in
the
senate
m
ilitary
commit­
vik foreign minister, accepts the de-1
Officials would not discuss the far- tee's bill as introduced by Chairman women are Increasingly hem m ing In­
mand of the central powers when he ; War Emphasizes Economic Importance reaching effects the action would have Chamberlain.
dependent wage earners. T hey a re In
returns to Brest-Litovsk on January j of Automobiles as Never Before.
on the industrial fabric, and questions The war cabinet, the bill provides, a position now to m arry whom they
29,*the central powers will break off Portland — Special rates will be as to how the ordner was to be inter­ shall be appointed by the president, pleas«*, w hether the m an has money or
negotiations.
preted to meet specific problems went with the consent of the senate, and is not. Th«*y can grow and develop to
granted
by
the
railroads
to
the
coming
unanswered.
For assisting three Germans to pass big Portland Automobile, Truck and The order prescribes a preferential to have the following jurisdiction au­ tin* v«*ry lim it of their eiipnclty. They
lire as fr«*e as women have never b«*-
from the United States into Canada, Tractor
:
Show, which will be held in list of consumers in whose interest it thority
been fn*«\
Alphonse Bachelder, road manager for the new City
“
To
consider,
devise
ami
formulate
Auditorium from Febru­ was drawn. These users will get coal plans and policies, general and sjiecial, fore
T he woman who finds tin* business
a New York operatic company, was ary 7 to 13, inclusive.
the following order:
fined $600 and costs by a Windsor, i The war has emphasized the eco­ in Railroads;
for the effectual conduct and vigorous world uncongenial Is fre«* to go Into
houshold consumers, hos­ prosecution
Ont., m agistrate. Bachelder professed ! nomic importance of the automobile as pitals, charitable
of the existing war and to dom estic service, unless sin* Is too
institiutons, and direct and procure
ignorance of the law.
the execution of the nuii'h of a snob. But the chances of
never before. One of the main pur­ army and navy cantonments; public same.
living a p arasitic life of sentim ental
A bill to acquire and maintain a sys­ poses of this automobile show will be utilities, telephone and telegraph “ To supervise, co-ordinate, direct Idleness
now ns In the
tem of national defense and m ilitary to demonstrate the many ways in plants; strictly government enter­ and control the functions and activities earliest V nre ictorian slim
tim
es.
highways and post roads in Washing­ which the passenger automobile the prises, excepting factories and plants of all executive departments, officials
ton, Oregon and California, with later­ truck and the farm tractor can help working on government contracts; and agencies of the government inso­
N o r w a y ’s S h ip p in g To n n a g e .
al roads, to protect the Pacific Coast business and industry and thereby add public buildings and necessary govern­ far as, in the judgment of the war cab­
The
los-es to N orw ay's shipping aris­
against invasion, was introduced Tues­ to the war resources of the nation.
ment, state and municipal require­
it may be necessary or advisable ing from the w ar have been g reater
day by Representative Baker, of Cali­ All the latest passenger car models ments; factories producing perishable inet,
for the effectual conduct and vigorous than those experienced by any o th er
fornia.
will be shown, but the truck and the foods and foods for immediate con­ prosecution
of the existing war.
neutral and stand second to those of
sumption.
farm
tractor
particularly
will
have
a
The $1,000,000,000 aircraft pro­ place of honor at the show. The farm Inclusion of war industries among “ To consider and determine upon its only
G reat B ritain ami France. In
gram, presented first to congress in tractor has added tremendously to the those to which fuel will be denied own motion or upon submission to it, spite of
this gradual reduction In ton­
the regular estim ates last December, agricutlural efficiency of France and caused some surprise, but fuel officials subject to review by the president, all nage, Norwegian
ners have
was explained to the house m ilitary Great Britain. In fact, farm tractors explained that war plants have been differences and questions relating to placed orders for a shipow
large
am ount of
committee Tuesday at a confidential have helped so greatly to defeat the producing so much more m aterial than the conduct and prosecution of the war new tonnage In lioim* and
foreign
session by Major-General Squier, the German submarine campaign by mak­ the transportation systems can handle that may arise between any such de­ yards. T he t«dal am ount Is estim
ated
chief signal officer. The great sum is ing possible the cultivation of in­ that no serious effects will be felt.
partments, officials and agencies of the at about 1,200,mm tons, a large am ount
to be included in the army appropria­ creased acreage for food production, It is estim ated the enforcement of governm ent.”
of which Is to h«* built In A m erican
tion bill.
yar«ls.
that the French and British govern­ the order will save a total of 30,000,-
Government operation of railroads ments have placed huge orders in this 000 tons of bituminous coal, which F I X HOG P R I C E S ON COAST
has eliminated 10 fresh meat trains country for still more of them.
F illin g a W a n t.
probably is about half of the present
between Omaha and Chicago and The United States government is shortage.
"Do
you
know th a t fortunes nre
where formerly 12 meat trains were encouraging the use of tractors and The indications are that at the end Western Packers Agr«‘e to Figure (Con­ m ade by selling soft drinks at baseball
ducive to Large Production.
operated every day between Omaha | trucks to offset the growing shortage of the ten weeks of Monday holidays,
parks?”
and Chicago, but two such trains now of man power and horses and to in­ a permanent policy of restricted con­ San Francisco — A minimum (»rice • “I'm not surprised. The fans appre­
are run. The running time of the crease food production and business sumption will have been determined
hogs in the Pacific Coast states ciate and eneoiirage a business like
trains has been lengthened from 27 efficiency. Added to this is the fact on. This plan will lim it the use of for
was
fixed Monday by a voluntary that. F or a nominal stun they not only
hours to 42 hours per trip.
that they are cheaper to operate than coal to the less essential industries agreem ent between more than 30 get a refreshing drink, hut the em pty
packers representing California, Ore­ bottle serves as an Ideal m issile to
Transportation on the trunk lines horses doing only a small part of the under a self-rationing basis.
Officials who worked out the curtail­ gon and Washington, with the United throw a t th«* umpire.”
east and west of Chicago virtually has work.
recovered from the effects of the re­ A large attendance from outside ment plan came to the conclusion, they States food adm inistration, according
cent blizzard, and all roads are run­ points is expected during Automobile said, that the home must be kept warm to an announcement here by the Feder­
So D o n ’t M ix P la y W it h W o r k .
ning their regular number of trains, Show week. Special arrangem ents at all costs. Reports have poured into al Food commissioner for California.
Injury to an einployee by falling
are being made for the reception of the fuel adm inistration’s offices for sev­ The new miniumm price, fixed at 1 down steps down which In? w as c a rry ­
railroads announce.
dealers
and other visitors from out­ eral days past telling of intense suffer­ cent under the food adm inistration ing a load In the course of Ills em ­
During 1917, 920 saloons in Chicago side of Portland.
ing in many parts of the country.
minimum effective on the Chicago ploym ent, beenus«* of the act of ii pass­
went out of business, involving a loss
m
arket, which now is $15.50 per hun­ ing em ployee In thrusting new spaper
of revenue to the city of $920,000.
Slays Husband.
dred, it was said, was expected to re­ against Ills ribs for the purpose of
School for Blind Named,
This was announced at a meeting of j Boise, Woman
Idaho — George Burke, of Philadelphia — Announcement was sult in pork production in the states tickling him, Is held not to nrls«* out
the finance committee of the council t o ' Mountain Home,
near here, was shot made at a conference here Thursday affectecl by the agreement.
of Ids em ploym ent w ithin the m eaning
frame the annual budget.
and instantlly killed by his wife, Mon­ by Frederick H. Mills, superintendent ] This is the first time in the history of the w orkm en’s com pensation net, In
Oregon carries off first honors for 1 day, as a culmination of a family of the Pennsylvania W orking Home of the Pacific Coast that packers have the C alifornia ease of Coronado Bench
performance of patriotic duty under quarrel. Mrs. Burke accused her hus­ for Blind Men, th at the government agreed to stabilize hog prices in the com
the selective draft law as evidenced by band of anttem pting to beat her. She has selected the institution to be the | interest of the farm er, it was asid, m ent. pany vs. I’lllshury.—Case arid Com­
an elaborate report submitted by Pro­ says he fired the first shot, which went industrial training school for American and to co-operate in an effort to stim u­
vost Marshal-General Crowder to the wide of the mark. Mrs. Burke fired soldiers made sightless during the late production in the face of a threat­
Tommy's Excuse.
Secretary of War. In three particulars two shots, both of which took effect. war.
ened shortage on this Coast.
Tommy
arrived a t the school Into
Oregon led all the other states; in all j Mr. Burke was 55 years old. The cor­ Representatives of sim ilar homes
and
w
as
questioned
by his teach er:
particulars its record is far better than oner’s jury late Monday exonerated throughout
Spanish Rioters Active,
the
East
and
Middle
West
“Tommy,
how
Is
It
th
a
t you’re Inte this
the general average.
Mrs. Burke, who pleaded self-defense. attended the conference.
Madrid—Disorders occurred Sunday m orning?” ”1 didn’t m ean to, hut—
In declaring the regular semi-annual
at Alicante, the chief seaport of Va­ but It w as so slippery th a t when 1 took
Price-Fixing is Sought.
Week’s Sinkings Lower.
dividend of 2i per cent on the common
lencia. They are reported in an offi­ n step tow ard school 1 alw ays slid
stock of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad Washington, D. C.—D raft of a bill London— Another marked decrease cial telegram from Alicante, which hack two, so I turned around and w ent
Friday in face of a deficit for the past giving the President broad powers to in the sinkings of British merchant­ states that a mob forced the factories
year, directors of the road issued a fix prices of foods and other products men by mines or submarines in the to cease work and attacked shops and home.”
statem ent saying they expected that essential to the conduct of the war or past week is noted in the report of the private houses. Women of the middle
The A«8urance of Him.
any basis of compensation which for domestic consumption was laid be­ admiralty issued Thursday night. In class were compelled by the demon­ Betty—The
teller says I am
might be determined upon for the Bal­ fore members of the house agriculture thia period only six merchantmen of strators to join them, it is declared. going to m any fortune
money.
tim ore & Ohio under Federal control committee Tuesday by President Wil­ 1600 tons or over were sunk and in ad­ The civil guard fired on the rioters, Jack—Good I Did she say how I
would prove sufficient for the mainte­ son, with the request that it be pressed dition two merchantmen under 1600 killing three persons and seriously was going to make it?—Boston Eve­
nance of the 5 per cent annual rate.
wounding four others.
for passage.
tons and two fishing vessels.
ning Transcript.
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