WOHLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
LUXURY
Imponi
TAX
10 PER CERT
o f 'JO Percent
Proponed on
Clothing o f Various Kind«.
Washington, D. C.— A luxury tax
______________ schedule was adopted, an official tax
advisory board for the treasury cre-
Brief Resume Most Important
« O E VESSELS
SUNK HI U-BOATS
_ _ _ _ _ _
A UT O MAK ING O R D E R E D CUT
Plants Advised to Equip for
100 l'«r
te n t War Work.
Washington, D. C.— Manufacturers
of passenger automobiles wero advised
by the War Industries board Saturday
Survivor of Kate Palmer Tells
Submarine Raids.
¡ i ' S .B S j V r ¡ ¡ H K 7 S British and French Continue
$110.000.000 and a provision was accept
to place them on that basis not later
ed making liberty bonds security for
i than January 1, 1919, In a letter ad­
all government contracts by, the house
dressed to the National Automobile
ways and means committee Saturday
j Chamber of Commerce. In no other
in framing the $8,000,000,000 revenue
way, the letter stated, could they be
bill.
assured of the continuance of their In
The luxury proposal was submitted
dustry or the preservation of their or­
by a sub-committee. It levies 10 per
ganisations.
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cent tax on all jewelry, to be paid by
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The Id ler »a s in response to a pro­
the manufacturer, producer or import-
posal made by Hugh Chalmers on the
n t Mn»«t
p n v .m m «it> er Covering approximately 1200 items
them suufscturers voluntarily
Events o f .Noted I eople, Governments Qf Jewelry tt supplants the present low Six Atlantic Coast Guard »men Over- part
to curtail the passenger car Industry
and Pacific Northwest and Other
3 per cent on the manufacturer.
M) per cent. The War Industries board
come Administration Fears Fish
producer or importer.
declared that the present situation re
Things Worth Knowing.
The 10 per cent tax is also to be
Supply is Keduced.
gardlng steel and other materiata need
levied on art objects, pianos and plpe-
<>d for war work gave little assurance
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organs, furs, cash registers, typewrit­
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of material required for the manufact
ers, photographs and tapestries.
ure of passenger automobiles, even
American expeditionary forces in
In view of the wide public demand
An Atlantic Port.— The number of lifter providing for war requirements
France have ordered 1,000,000 watches for a tax on the price paid for certain fishing vessels destroyed by a Oertnan
Pending receipt by the board of
from Swiss firms.
other articles, not deemed luxuries by
-I,.., in it- nn i.i
» i . . . „# sworn inventories of materials on hand
submarine
in
its
raid
on
the
fleet
of
requeaU,d
,M t Ju,y 16 no materlatlI
reason of their nature, above a cer-
Oswald Kunhardt. ex-German consul- tain price, the subcommittee propos-.“!
George s Hanks last Saturday night W(H be permitted passenger car manu
ordered interned
*nterned°at
and ited
,he number
ful* commtttee
accepted
u was nearer a score than the nine al- facturers
ordered
at Fort
hort Oglethorpe
Ogietnorpe. lim
of other groups
of Both
ready reported, according to men from
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articles, with suggested basic prices
After burning over 65 square miles paid for them by the consumer, above one of the vessels brought here Tues-
of grazing and brush land, the Cohas- which a 20 per cent tax is to be as­
set ridge fire in the Lassen national sessed against the seller to the con-
Andrew St. Croix, mate of the Kate
forest. 35 miles northwest of Chico, sumer or user or to a person not for
Palmer, says from the crosstrees of
Cal., has been finally extinguished.
'Te-sale."
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This second, group and the amount b,s veasel he saw the sinking of seven ,
London.— The passing of tho Hoi
Three aviators attached to the train excess over which will be taxed fol- other schooners by bombs and that
Ins school at Pensacola. Fla., were lows:
before the submarine came into view shcvlk government into history ap
pears
to be
near. aionuay
Monday's s uuvices
advices
killed late Monday in a collision of
Men's and voung men’s suits or over- . , ,
, ,,
.
. .
pours io
t>e near,
their planes above the clouds.
A coats. $50; men's and women s hats, 1,6 had coun,ed 11 other «“«Plosions at tend to confirm previous reports that
fourth student in the plane escaped bonnets and hoods. $25; women's and intervals of 15 minutes or half an the fantastic structure with Lenlne
death.
misses' dresses, $40; women's and hour. Reckoning tlyat one bomb was and Trotsky balancing on its summit
Daily News Items.
COMPILED
FOR
YOU
SPREAD POISON GAS
BOLSHEVIK REGIME
IN RUSSIA TOPPLES
f°r “aih V“8Se'- th* n,at° ^
ENEMT IH FLIGHT:
Tl
SSSS
Advancing on Somme.
TAKE GUNS.
STORES
Transports snd Men Streaming
ward^ln Full Krtrrat
Faat-
High Ger­
man Officer Is Killed.
With the British Army in France —
The British and French divisions have
gained mure ground Saturday In the
great battle raging in the Amiens-
Somme district.
The latest reports
appear to show that the Germans are
retiring in great haste.
The scenes on the battleground over
ik lt h (lie ullies already have passed
gave evidence of this haste in aban­
doned guns, stores, snd even regi­
mental and artillery maps and papers.
Aerial
observers
report
large
streams of transports and men hurry­
ing euHtwurd in full retreat.
Beaucourt fell to the allied forces
and Lequesnel also was taken after
hot all night fighting.
The cavalry Is working far back to­
ward tbe Somme and is still rounding
up villages, while tanks and armored
cars are running over the country
clearing a way for tho troops or kill­
ing horses drawing heavy enemy sup­
plies.
The drivers of motor trucks
and lorries are chasing parties of Oer-
mans and either scattering them or
running them to earth.
The details of some of the work of
these armored cars show dial they
hu\e performed valiant nervlces. One
of them ran Into a town while a Ger­
man corps wns having lunch. It turn­
ed Ita guns through the corps' quarter
windows, killed some of the staff and
theif chased others who escaped from
the house. At Rosieres another car
set an enemy train on fire.
A group of cars met, far Inside the
enemy lines, a German supply column
and halted it. Four mounted German
officers came up to see what the trou­
ble was and were shot from the cars,
which then proceeded to make quick
work of the column.
At Framervilie the cars engaged a
train loaded with tho enemy and final­
ly set it afire.
Tanks entered this
town soon afterwards, helped the ar­
mored cars clean It up and then hoist­
ed flags on the roof of the building
which had been German corps head­
quarters One car mot a high German
officer riding In an automobile along
the road. The officer was 4tlllod and
his machine captured.
Alt along the line snipers and iso­
lated machine gun billets were ex­
tremely busy, but these were being
silenced one by one as the advance
proceeded.
It Is reported lhat two regimental
commanders have been captured in
one sector.
“ ^ V e o ^ b o o t s °s^o’e s^ V m T a n ^ sV p 1 u8ed
in d ° T r S t l y a?e“ ported to
o v e r o fo r m e n f wo°menand chltdrem
‘ h* 11 explosions represented have fled Moscow.
Ifelfferlch. the
»10= men’s and boy s hats. $5: men's the sinking of that many vessels. T h e German am* ssa d o r-to
«*»•
and bo>'8 caP8- * 2 ; picture frames, submarine did not use its guns as far likewise round the Kusstan capital to
m en ’s w aist m m » sold us he ohserved
be an unsuitable place for his embassy
*?°\ Ian8- **• rnen s watsl coats, sold
as ne observed.
p_k _
distinct from suits, $5; silk undercloth- According to the mate there were 11,1,1 nJ * 1,1 ,
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Mrs. F. Sbeehy Skeffington, who, ing and hosiery, pure and mixed. $10; from 25 to 30 swordfishing vessels op-
Lenlne and Trotsky have fled to
since her deportation from Ireland, men's and boys' neckware, $2; trunks, crating on the banks and the greater Kronstadt, the naval base near I etro
had been detained in Holloway prison, $50; valises, traveling bags, suitcases number were sunk. He estimated that Krad, according to a dispatch sent out
has been released. The English au and hat boxes, $25; ladies’ purses, at least 40 boatloads of men were set by ,
semiofficial >Voirf Hurcau of
thorities informed her that she must pocketbooks, shopping and handbags, adrift as a result of the raid. S t Croix
l1*. ani* printed In Zurich news
not return to Ireland without their $7.50; carnets and rugs, fiber. $5 per and his two companions were picked j,alM'r*. says a lluvas report from
permission.
square yard; umbrellas, parasols and up by a motorboat after they had
“-l!*'
sunshades, $4; men’s shirts. $3; house rowed and sailed about 150 miles.
1 b® Bolshevik
government
will
A 10 per cent tax on all soft drinks or smoking jackets and bathrobes, $10.
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shortly follow the two leaders to
sold- by manufacturer, producer, bot­
The luxury schedule provides that
Boston.— Intimation that the fish Kronstadt, tho Berlin I*okal Anzelger
tler or importer and a tax of from 1
articles taxed under one of these gen- supply might be reduced because of s,a J®8
to 2 cents on soda fountain drinks eral groups shall not be taxed under the operations of a German submarine
Officers ami counter revolutionists
were written into the $8.000.000.000 the*other*^o'up"
off George's Hank was sent to the » ho are under Imprisonment also will
revenue bill by the house ways and
fisheries division of the food admin- b® taken to Kronstadt, according to
means committee.
istratlon at Washington by James J. *"ls p*an-
Phelan, assistant food administrator
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The long range cannon with which
of this state
Amsterdam. — Dr. Helfferlch, the
the Germans have intermittently bom­
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German ambassador to Russia, has In-
barded Paris, has now been silent for
Washington. D. C — Gas from oil formed the Soviet government that he
two days. This may be explained by
discharged on the water by the Ger- w,n move the embassy from Moscow
the allied advance toward Noyon and
Guiscard. whence the recent firing is
I ondon— An official communiaue is- man submarine operating off the mid lo ,,Hkov- b* f aU8? Jj* ff ara for ,hc
said to have been proceeding.
toH Saturday
QohiPrTa v nvnni n cr cava that 17 ’ die Atlantic Coast overcame six men
P ?"*?® *1. ’!,lfe ,y
hl" " taf.f ' ,a y * an
sued
evening says that 1 7 ,-,.
..
.
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. „ . . official
telegram from Herlln. Condi
000
prisoners
and
between
200
and
*n
tbe
coaf
t
,K
)*arii
8tatlop
a,1v
i!*
ht
Canada will be represented by a
house” on Smith's "island."Ñorth Caro-1t,ona at, P* trOKrad “ re almost as bad
mi.itar>- unit of .a p p r o x im a te 4000
W tU re d ° D
a8 al Moscow.
Somme-Ancre
front
men in the expeditionary force which
The Canadians, the advices state. partment was advised by the com-
the allied governments will send to
uketa the t< w
f B ^u fo rt Two m*nd*nt of the sixth naval district.
thi * was announced
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. have taken
the town of Beaufort, two
]f {hp Rag attark wag de„ b€>rate> aa
Siberia. This
by ik
the
and
a
half
miles
soutLwest
of Ro-
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Dominion government, which promised
sieres. The Australians are fighting most off,« la11» Relieved, it constitutes
a more detailed statement within a
a new and ingenious form of “ fright-
farther north, along the Somme.
short time.
Small parties of Germans are re- ’ fulness,” and, so far as has been re-
The next drive for war funds In
Recent orders of the war and navy ported to be still in Rosieres, three
w£ 8 the first direct effort of
departments suspending voluntary en- and one-half miles west of Chaulnes, ,be G erman raiders to harm persons Oregon will take place September 15th
listment and applications of civilians but the British are all around them or Pr°Perty on American shores.
to 21st, 1918, and will be for the Uur
for officers' training camps do
not and their life as fighting men probab-
Th® Kas was Bai'1 by the command- Service work of the Salvation Army,
apply to the enrollment of physicians ly will be short.
an*
coafif Kuarfi station to have The Oregon State Council of Defense
In the Medical Reserve corps of
the
The figure of 17,000 prisoners taken mucb tbe 8am<‘ effect as the mustard haH approved the quota for the state
army and the reserve force of
the embraces the number that had been ‘?a8 “ “ c’1 by the 0erra* n8 on the west for H fty Thousand dollars, half of
navy, it is announced by Secretaries counted. Of these the French report ern front.
The men were laid out which amount Is to be raised outside
Baker and Daniels.
ed that thev had taken more than 4000 for more than haIf an hour- but ap of Portland.
Portland s quota was
w hile th e B ritish
total at noon was paren tly su ffered n o
seriou s after- raised last sp rin g
T h e su prem e cou rt was asked W ed
m ore than
13 000. T h e F rench h ave e ffe c ts
T h e com m ittee in ch a rg e ha« head*
need a y to review fed era l cou rt d e cre e s been doin g good w ork on the south o f
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quarters in 228 C ham ber o f C om m erce
c o n v ic tin g Johann K la tte n h o ff *nd tbo new d rive and p rob a b ly h ave taken
Po^tlaní,. a ,' d co n sists o f the
Paul A\ierse on ch a rg es g row in g ou t many additional p rison ers there.
n tn n oi a
rnrt.no
o n n n t u fo llo w in g m em b ers; I)r. W illiam Wal
lace
Youngson,
General; O. C. Bortz-
o f the sin k in g o f the G erm an stea m er
M ost o f the p rison ers and guns cap-
o f San Francisco w y e - Office Manager; Mayor Geo
L ie b e n fe ls in the h arbor o f C harles- tured by B ritish troop s h ave been University
Club
Washington, D. C.— Voluntary enlist­
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L. Baker of Portland, Chairman of the
ton, S. C\, when the United States ta.ken in the narrow triangle between
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i nanimous in Iiecision.
Executive Committee;
William
M. ment in the army and navy will be
broke relations with Germany. Klat- the Roye and Peronne roads. British
juspended completely to prevent dis­
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I.add, Treasurer, and John M. Lln-
tenhoff was master of the steamer.
tanks advanced with great rapidity
ruption of industry pending disposition
San Francisco— By unanimous vote de!l; ['»mpalgn Manager
4 of the bill proposing to extend draft
Lewis B. Franklin, national director “ p tbe8e hlSb* ay8- They were fol-
the directors of the University Club,
F,eId representatives for this fund ages to Include all men between 18
of the government war loan organiza ,owed proraPtly by lnfantry. and ‘ bpp
Hon * sD olie* to ' 2*50 7oûrth™ fed"erai**rë sands o f G erm ans w ithin the tria n gle o f San F ran csco, h ave barred H ea rst’s are now bu sily at w ork.
P rof K. 8. and 45 y€>ars.
Orders were Issued by Secretaries
serve district Liberty loan chairmen
Kxamin? r and al\ bl8 ptber dai,y neW8f w . ^ n 'O re g o n ' and Mr ï n d M «
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ish line when the attack reached them , papers from the in stitu tion b ecau se of w,Ml” rn u r e *o n , a,lu Wlr- Hn(1 m ra- Baker and Daniels directing that no
at Cleveland, O.. Saturday. “ Of every
Wiiliam
8.
Dixon
of
Chicago
have
so laid down their arms.
alleged disloyalty both before and af-
voluntary enlistments be accepted af­
$5 earned in this country this year
$2.30 will be needed by the United , J . hV /r m s * 1® contal" ed 80rae. of ‘ be ter the United States entered the war
thVt ^ “ I S h ^ n t y ter August 8 until further orders.
S
t a l e s government
g o v e r n m e n t t to
o pay
n a v it
w a r hill
lo De nopen
,n tacn county
The orders also exclude civilians
States
its « war
bill, be8t German gun positions in the against Germany.
whole front facing Amiens.
The club has a membership of over the Councils of Defense and kindred from appointment to officers' training
and the government has got to get it,”
700 college graduates and is one of organizations will put on the drive camps until further notice.
Mr. Franklin said.
Paris.— The official communication the most widely recognized organiza- an< ra,s® «“aeh county quota, and al
The orders were-Issued after a con­
The method by which the federal from the war office says that the Brit- tions of Its ldnd in the United States. jTady ma" y responses have come to
ference between Secretary Baker and
government plans to aid drouth-strick- ish and French troops continued their
It is said that the members have
,
6Xecu*‘Jre office, stat ng that as Secretary Daniels and were made pub­
en farmers in MorAina to the extent advance Saturday and won new vie- long felt aggrieved over Hearst's al- " ,H*a,,f'e w‘ ‘ ‘ b® freely given by
the lic after President Wilson had visited
of $3 an acre, was not satisfactory to tories after breaking the enemy s re- leged pro Germanism, and the formal war fund committees of the various the offices of both secretaries.
the farm bureau presidents and bank- sistance.
The French troops took edict of throwing out the Hearst pa- communities,
It is not known whether his visit
ers who attended a conference in Hel- 4000 prisoners besides a great quan- pers by the management is the cul­
had to do with the enlistment situa­
ena, Mont., Tuesday, at which G. H. tity of war materials, and captured mination of general anger and dissat-
Allies’ Envoys Arrested,
tion, but Just before he conferred with
Christie, assistant secretary of agri- several important towns on the south- isfaction over that newspaper owner’s
London.— Robert I!. B. Ixickhart, tho cabinet offleres there was no indi­
culture, and D. G. O'Shea, president ern end of the battle zone.
conduct since the great war began in acting consul-general in Moscow, and cation that a Btep of such drastic na
of the Spokane land bank, explained
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July of 1914.
six Britons attached to his staff and ture was anticipated.
the plan.
With the British Army in France.—
The University Club is the second several French diplomatic agents have
It was explained that the view of
« 7 «).. m____________________It is reported that a German divisional
big institution of its kind in San Fran- been arrested In Moscow by the Bol- the government Is that many of the
Fire Thursday afternoon destroyed
j h
b
cantured in the
older men are indispensable in their
six small buildings and two powder dHye
captured in the cisco to bar the Hearst publications, shevikf, says the Dally Mall.
The Pacific Union Club, by unanimous
The newspaper attributes to the present occupations, but the natural
magazines at the Western Cartridge ‘
Allied airmen have blown up many vote of its directors, took similar ac- foreign office a statement that there result of the debated draft age ques­
company, in East Alton, III., with
PHtimatPd at tlOOOOft N o one of the brid£es over the Somme river tion several months ago.
is no reason to believe it is true that tion is certain to lead to a rush to tho
damage estin
»1UU.UUU- « 0 one and the enemy's retreat Is seriously
The action of these two clubs is of the British at Archangel shot repre- recruiting offices.
was injured.
embarrassed. The British cavalry has especial significance. San Francisco sentatives of the Soviet and adds:
It is regarded as essential that men
Marco Fidel Suarez was
inaugurat- rounded up many prisoners, but the is Hearst's home city. He began his
“ There was some shooting before greatly needed at home should be pre­
ed president of Colombia
Thursday, larger part taken were captured by newspaper career here with the Ex- Archangel incidental to the landing vented from rushing Into the army
with imposing ceremonies.
It is re- Australians and Canadians.
aminer. In addition Hearst is a uni- operations but this could not have under the mistaken Idea that they aro
ported that there is an increasingly
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verslty rnan.
Harvard Is his Alma been in reply to shots fired at our certain to be drafted anyhow and pre­
favorable sentiment toward the allies
Pasaporta Are Denied.
Mater.
forces by the Bolshevik forces. The fer to Join the service voluntarily.
throughout Colombia.
n.— Arthur Henderson, Charles
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arrest of Lockhart Is, of course, an
Knitting Needles Halted.
act of hostility In international law
Big Gun Plant Ordered.
S4ck and wounded soldiers landed W . Bowerman, secretary of the Trade
Union Congress, and other members
Washington, D. C.— Hand knitting and will be so regarded by us. It Is
Washington, D. C.— Approval of
ean ^ x D ed m o n a i^ 1 force^and6 sen T to of the House of Commons have applied for the soldiers and sailors is to be possibly a reprisal for our landing at plans for a big gun relinlng plant to
v.,rl. „ . annv hnaniiiia during th«» for passports to Switzerland to confer checked until the war Industries board AFchangel
and In the Murmansk re-
be built in FYsnce at a cost of from
$25,000,000 to $30,000.000 was an­
l U v ! „ hph
9
159 wlth Pleter Troelstra, the Dutch So- can survey stocks and ascertain gion.”
nounced Saturday by the war depart­
L n n Z rZ
’ clall8t ,eader’
letters ro whether there is enough woolen and
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celved from Socialists in enemy coun- worsted in the country for winter uni-
London.— The Evening News says ment. It is said engineering work for
A call for men not registered in the tries. The W ar Cabinet declined to forms and overcoats. The hoard Mon- that J. O. Wardrop, the British consul the great project, which will compare
draft, and draft
men who have been grant them passports.
The pariia- day directed spinners to discontinue at Moscow, was arrested with R. H. B. in size to the Krupp works at Essen,
given deferred classifications, to en- mentary committee of the Trade Union manufacturing woolen and
worsted , Lockhart.
Messrs.
Lockhart and Germany, were completed and orders
list in the 472d Engineers, was sent Congress and the executives of the yarns for hand knitting and the ship- Wardrop remained in Moscow when for equipment actually Issued within
out by the western department of the labor party protested
this refusal ment of yarns or wool until further no- the diplomatic staff went to Archan- 30 days after conception of the plan
arm y at San Francisco Thursday.
strongly.
I tlce.
I gel.
by the ordnance officers.
D ire cto rs o f the Canadian P a cific
d iv id en d ^on*3 p re ferred
h a lf-y e a r en d in g June 30, and a divt-
den d o f *>ti Der cent to com m on stock-
a e n a or
per cent io com m on siock
h old ers fo r the qu arter ending June 30.
MANY PRISONERS
AND GUNS TAKEN
START SALVATION
ARMY WAR FUND
HEARST'S
PAPERS
BARRED
ENLISTM ENTS IN
ARMY SHUT OFF