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WORLD HAPPENINGS I Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, .Government! and PadflNorthw.est and Other Things Worth Knowing. The Dutch cabinet has placed tho resignation of Its workers in tho hands of Queen Wllhelmlna, says tho Nlouwo Rotterdamacho Courant, of Rotterdam. A telegram from Berlin says that a bill for a fresh war credit of 15,000, 000,000 marks, to bo covered by loans, was introduced Friday in tho Reich stag. A credit of $100,000,000 was granted to France Thursday by tho treasury, making tho total advanced to Franco to date $1,765,000,000 and tho total Credits of the allies $0,081,500,000. t.o firot rnnflnrrpnt nf American troops to arrive in Italy, within 4S . T 1. a hours, estauusneu uscu in camy. m m ai n -n olnnnlnr iiml or thotr OWIl 111 VII UIVVI'IMQ - tents and feeding from their own kitchens. Necessity for stricter economy in news print paper is emphasized in a letter addressed by tho War Industries board to all newspaper publishers, who are asked to put Into effect njiumber of economies. Tho Arkansas constitutional con vention has voted to incorporate into tho proposed new stato constitution a clause giving women all civil and political rights, including suffrage and serving on juries. When a 3400-ton ship was launched at Manitowoc, Wis., July 4th the honor of christening tho vessel was given to the wife of tho boss of tho riveting gang that made the best record from June 11 to July 1. Vancouver, B. C, police officers have voted to form an officers' union and to affiliate with tho Trades and Labor council. Recently tho Vancouver city council asked tho policemen not to affiliate with the council. A Bucharest dispatch to a Dutch newspaper says that in tho new con stitutional law of Roumania the rights of tho crown will be so changed as to affect the crown's power of concluding an alliance or in declaring war. Promlpr T.lnvd flpnrno sent tho fol lowing message July 4 to President Wilson: I nave jusi neara mai a hundred ships have been launched in iha TTnitpd Stntpa. Heartfelt congratu lations on this magnificent perform ance. An earthquake of considerable sever ity Wednesday morning at 3:11 A. f nml nnnttnnlriL' until 5:20 A. M.. was recorded on the seismographs of nwirroimni TTnlvprHltv observatory. Its center was estimated at about 3900 miles from Washington. Three negro soldiers, convicted by nniirt.Tnnrtlnl nf nttackini! a 17-year- old white girl after slugging her escort on tho cantonment grounus on mo night of May 24, were nangea ai wamp nnJuo Tn nt 1 A M. Friday. The avwuow, - - - - negroes are selective service men from Alabama. Representative Japanese business man nf iho Pnplfln Count. from "San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland and Vancouver, B. C, in conference with Seattle Japanese Thursday sent a telegram to i'resmeni wuson pieuB Ing support to the government In the prosecution of the war. rn AflrVinol AlfiTamlrovitch brother of tho former Emperor Nicho las, lias ueen proclaimed zar ui Russia, according to tho Ukrainian ininirronh tutronn nf Ktp.v. Hn In march ing with tho Czecho-Slava against .Moscow, urana uuko juiciiutsi, unci tho abdication of Emperor Nicholas, was named regent. Th'roA Mlnnniinnlln naners. the Jour nal, tho Evening Tribuno and Daily News, have Increased tneir pneo oi the paper from ono to two cents. The xdnnoanniia MnrniiM? Tribuno recently increased its price from ono to two cents. Furnishing of liquor to officers and mnn nt ttin nrmv within nrlvnto homds is prohibited under new regulations formulated uy i'resmeni yvhouu oi.u danmtnrv Rllfdr ntlfl mttdO DUbliC by tho commission on training camp ac tivities. President Wilson lias issued an or- .1.. irranMni' Innvn nf nllHpnfn with Day to all Civil war veterans in tho service of tho government who desire 10 w tend tho 52d national encampment of tho Grand Army of tho Republic at Portland, Or., August is to l. Twonty-two Gorman airplanes were shot down, 10 were driven down out . .nntl ond ttun Clnrmnn balloons were destroyed during tho air fighting Sunday, according to an ornciai biiu ment ou aerial operations Issued by the London rar office Tuesday night WEEK TROUBLE IN SOUTH AFRICA Enemy Agencies Suspected of Intrlu- luff to inusc uisturoancc... Pretoria, July 5. Political troublo Is browing in South Africa, Is suggested by a statement Just lssuod by Promlor Botha, of tho Union of South Africa. Vigorous measures Involving co-operation of troops and police nro being taken. Premier Botha said that had not prompt and offoctlvo military stops boon taken tho situation would have culminated In a gravo disturbance and probably serious loss of llfo. Tho Boor leader added that tho gov ernment had luforamUon pointing to tho oxlstcnco of a movement having for its object tho submersion of tho constitution by violent methods. London. July 6. South African troubles havo been tho subject of ru mors in London for somo days. It hna boon Vnnwn that serious strikes havo been In progress in tho Trans vaal mines and It lias boon reported that theso had an anti-government purposo and had been stirred up by German agents or lrreconcllablo Boors. A messago from Johannesburg yes terday to Router's Limited, says that all tho natives who had refused to work on Wednesday lator had resumed their duties. NEW U. S. TONNAGE BEYOND EXPECTI0N Objectives of Shipbuilders Exceeded on Fourth Seventeen War Ves 'sels Arc Lauchcd. Washington American shipbuilders went boyond their objectives in tho Independence day drive tor now ton nace. Tho shipping board announced that tho workmen started out with tho exnectntlon of launching 439.SSG dead weight tons, but lator reports to tho board show that 474,404 tons had been cotton ready to put ovorboard. Seventeen American war vessels were launched on Independence day, the navy department announced, and the keels of eight others wcro laid. Tho craft nut overboard Included 14 destroyers,, a gunboat and two mlno sweepers. The actual number or snips iauncncu was 82. The launching of 11 others was held up by a freshet in tho Colum bia river, while two others stuck on the ways. They aro expected to bo ro leased without great delay. As' a result of tho Independence day launchlngs July and August deliveries are expected to show tremendous in creases, as compared with preceding months. Machinery is beginning to come through for tho wooden hulls, many of which havo been delayed at ter launching by tho lack of engines SHIPYARD BURNS; LOSS $1,500,000 Orange, Tex. Federal and Texas and Louisiana officers aro investigat ing tho fire which early Friday morn ing destroyed tho entire plant of tho Orange Maritime Corporation on tho Louisiana side of tho Sabtno river, valued at $1,000,000. and threo half completed 2200-ton schooners -alued at $225,000 each. Two men, ono said to bo a Swedish subject, aro under arrest Their names aro withheld. Charred bodies of two men, ono be Heved to bo a contractor of New York, and one, that of an old man, an civ ploye, have been found. B0LSHEVIKI ON RUN; IRKUTSK IS GIVEN UP London. Victory of Czechoslovak forces over tho Bolshevikl near Ir kutsk is reported in advices Monday from tho Siberian city. Tho Boisnovl ki are said to havo been overwhelmed west of Irkutsk and to havo been driven out of tho region to tho east of Lake Baikal. There was a battlo at Nerkhnlo Udlnsk, a town on tho Siberian rail way 80 miles east of Lako Baikal, and It resulted In tho Russian government troops being driven out of tho place, The Bolshevikl, In abandoning Ir kutsk, took with them great quantl ties of food. High Rank Is Spurned. Washington, D. C At tho sugges tlon of Provost Marshal General Crow dor, tho amendment to the army bill, which tho senate had adopted, author IzinK tho president to promoto General Crowder to bo a lieutenant general, was dropped from tho bill. General Crowder wroto a letter saying that credit for administration of tho draft law belonged not to him alono and urged that ho bo not singled out for recognition. Sultan's Death Mystery. T.rmilnn TlnnnrtH havo reached Lon don from Dutch sources that tho death nf Mm Riillnn nf TurkoV. Mohammed V, which took place on Wednesday night, was nol duo to natural causes and presumably was part or a revolu tionary movement in the Ottoman empire. STATE NEWS 1 IN BRIEF. Th ftltv nf rtlntlilnln. fir.. hflM niir. chaBcd with civic funds 600 war sav ings stamps. n-lm rtnt fi in tlm nliilnv fnriMt 1IIU IllOb AI4U III ...V " .v.. Ifilu nnnnti n-na rnnnrlnil In thn l'l!Otlft office Friday. It occurred near I-oon lako Monday and was extinguished without scriouB damage to tho timber. Fish at tho Btato salmon egg stations are found In larger numborn than In any year since operations were started according to a report which hns Just been filed with Governor Wlthycombo by Master Fish Warden It. E, Clnnton. Until further notlco all insano pa tlenta committed from Multnomah comity will bo Bent to tho eastern Ore gon hospital nt Pondloton, rattier mail to tho main Institution In Salem. This was ordered by tho stato board of con trol. Miss Mcrlo Hamilton, of RoBcburg. tho popular and charming daughter of Judge J. W. Hamilton, or tno circuit court, has arrived In Newport and will occupy tho position of baggago solici tor for tho Crowdls Transfer company on tho Newport train this summer. Tho Pcavoy. official organ of tho SlloU, Yaqulna and Alsca divisions of tho snruco production division, bureau of aircraft production, made Its np- pearanco Saturday. It is puuusnoii weekly by tho men engaged In tho work nnd distributed frco to all In tho camps. Ocorgo W. Sperry. aged 7G years, n rcsldont of Gold Hill 25 years and a veteran of tho Civil War, serving as a nrlvato In Company G. r.lghth cavalry. Now York volunteers, was adjudged Insano and taken to tho Oregon Insane asylum Tuesday. Infirmities of ago nnd recent loss of his wife were causes of tho breakdown. A vnnnr !nnr U'ltlt tliri-n IPCS WAS captured by John Pitney, a North Bend tobacco dealer, Thursday, wnuo no was driving through tho timber near Sun- ant tinv 1i 111 1 1 no wi'Kt nf Ihn pIlV. TllO deor, which is about six weeks old, has only ono hind leg, it is, nowovor, ac- tlvo and nnturai in appearance nnu farm nilinrwlnn mill tlll loRB Of the lei! tlirnneli friMiklahnoHH of nnturo does not appear seriously to handicap tho animal. - Vlck Bros, of Salem havo just pur chased 1000 of tho now "Fordson" Ford tractors for uso in Oregon. Georgo F. Vlck. of tho firm, left for Detroit re cently and his brother Charles has re ceived a wire from him of tho pur chase. It Is understood $75,000 cash was paid as earnest money for tho purchase.-wi Ich represents a total out lay of about $750,000. Tho first car load of tho big shipment is oxpected to arrive about August 1. With harvest commenced in some parts of nearly every district in tho Umatilla country grain prospects still look very good. It is principally bar ley that Is being cut nt this time but wheat harvest will follow immediate ly, and, in somo districts it Is already under way. Tho farmers aro finding their yields better, as they go into the fields, than they expected a few weeks ago, tho grain apparently having filled well within tho past week or so. G. B. VIets, Lupcrintcndcnt for tho American Railway Express company at Portland, has mado personal appii cation for a 10 per cent incrcaso In In tcrstnto express rates, u bMng under stood that as to all comralsslon-mado rates hearings will bo held, with ail Interested given a chanco to bo heard before tho rates becomo oirectlvo. As to other than commlsslon-mado rates, following tho statutory provisions, they will bo subject to nttack nt any time on tho part of tho commission or of any shipper. Anysono having a complaint will bo privileged to take tho question up. John L. RIsloy, who received tho democratic nomination as ono of tho representatives from Clackamas coun ty, has notified Secretary Olcott that ho refuses to accept Tho stato examining board started work at Salem Wednesday examining several thousand papers from several hundred applicants who took examina tions for teachers' certificates last week. Miss Margaret Tallman of Corvallls was Instantly killed Tuesday morning, and her cousin, Miss Mnbol Morso, of Portland, sovcroly injured when tho former's car turned over a few mllos north of that city. County Acont J. L. Smith, of Marsh field, who has opportunities to observo crop conditions in-all parts of tho county, dec ares that tno nay ana grain crops will bo less than half tho avorngo of ordinary years, owing to continued dry weather. Tho situation Is causing much anxloty among ranch ers, who must feed their dairy horas during tho winter. Entire dopondonco now Is hoing placed on tho corn crop, which Is usod almost altogether for silago, .Tnnknnn rnnntv f fir PR tho most SOrl ous forest firo situation slnco 1010, according to officials of tho fodoral forest service. Federal Forest- mipor vlnnr Itnnlrln nrrlvcd in Mcdford Sun day from tho Crator Lako region, whoro a firo that has burned over 20,000 acres Is sllll raging, leaving after a few hours' preparations with 25 mon for Woodruff Meadows, in tho Prospect district, wnero anomer sen ous blaze 1b reported. NEW WHEAT PRICES OUT Minimum, Price of $2 Is Fixed for Number Ono Product. Now York.-Now wheat pricoa neces sitated by advanced freight rates. woro announced hero Monday night by tho Food Administration Grain corpor ation. It was assorted that a mini mum prica nf $2 a bushel for No. l wheat aboard cars In tho intormoun tain territory will bo inndo offoctlvo. Details of tho plan will ho mado pub Mo aoon. Tho corporation b announcement said that No. 1 wheat of tho northern spring, hard winter, rod wlntor. durum and red wlntor grades would ua soia lu various markets at tho following basic pricoa: Now York, $2.39 tf: Philadelphia, $2.39: Baltimore and Nowport Nows, $2,389;; Duluth and Minneapolis, $2.21 Vi! Chicago, $3.20; 8t Louis, $2.24; Kansas City and Omaha, $3.18; Now Orleans and Qalvoston. $2.28; Tncoma, Seattle, Portland, Astoria, Or.. Sail Francisco and Lob AiiboIob, $2.20. Tho prlco basis for No. 2 wheat will be 3 cents bulow No. 1 and for No. 3 4 cents bolow No. 2. Grndos below No. 3 will bo dealt In on sample Special claasoB of wheat, tho com mission said, will bo sold on tno roi lowing Bcheduto: Dark hard wlntor, 2 cents above hard winter: dark northern spring, 2 cents nbavo northern spring; amber durum. 2 cents abovo durum: yellow hard winter, 2 cents under hard win ter; rod spring, 5 cents undor northern spring; red Walla, 7 cents undor rod wlntor; red durum, 7 cents undor durv mu; soft white, 2 conts under nam white; whlto club, 4 cents undor hard white. ChniiRos in fodoral grading stand nrds previously tiled with tho trade, It was declared, aro expected to result in production of rooro htgh-grnde wheat than In 1917. HUNS WANT HUGE PRICE FOR PEACE .Member of Prussian House Demands England's Fleet and 45 Billion as Indemnity U. S. to Pay. Paris. Great Britain must turn over Its war fleet to Germany, return Gib raltar to Spain and restore Egypt and the Suez canal to Turkoy. Qreat Brit ain. Franco nnd tho United States must pay Germany an Indemnity of at least $45,000,000,000. Belgium ana French territory must bo surrendered to Germany. Theso are among tho conditions In eluded In tho Qorman peaco program published In the Nachrlchton of Qoor- lltz, Prussia, by Count noon, a mem ber of tho Prussian houso of lords, according to a Havas dispatch from Basel, Switzerland. Count Boon says Germany Is enti tled to tho following terms bocause of its strength, nnd until thoy aro realized there should bo no armistlco and no cessation of submarlno war- faro: Annexation of Belgium, with ad ministrative autonomy in tho Interior. Indenondenco of Flandors. Annexation of tho entire Flandors coast, including Calais. Annexation of tho Brloy nnd Longwy basins and tho Toul, Bolfort and Ver dun regions eastward. Restitution to Germany of all hor colonics, including Kalo Chau. Great Britain to codo to Germany such naval bases and coaling stations as Gormany designates. Great Britain must return Gibraltar to Spain, codo Its war fleet to Gnr many, restore Egypt to Turkoy nnd tho Suez canal to Turkey. Greece must bo re-established undor former King Constantino with fron tiers as beforo tho war. Austria and Bulgaria will dlvldo Sorbin and Montenegro. Great Britain, France and tho Unl ted States must pay all of Germany's war costa, tho Indemnity bolng a minimum of $45,000,000,000. Thoy also must agrco to deliver raw materials Immediately. Franco and Belgium are to remain occupied at (heir exponso until theso conditions nro carried out. U. 8. Force Arrives In Italy. Washington, D. C Safo arrival In Italy of tho first contingent of military forco which will represent tho United States was announced Monday by Gonoral March, chief of staff. Sent direct from thin country, tho troops landed Sunday, to supplement others ordered from Franco by General Pershing. Sanitary units composo tho greater part of tho first arrivals, but "other bpcclal units" also wcro Included. Gon oral Marsh reiterated tho statomont that tho hulk of tho combatant Amorl can troops going to Italy will bo sent from tho western front, tholr places bolng Immediately taken by now rogjk mums iruiu iiiu uiuiuu niuico. Girl Falls From Train. San Bernardino, Cal. Moado Boldon, 0-year-old daughter of Mrs. M. W Bolden, of Woodlawn, Penn rollod out of a berth and through tho window of a sleeping car of a Santa Fo train on tho Mojavo dosort at 3 o'clock Saturday morning and was not missed until tho train had travolod 35 miles Tliroo nours later tno crow of a freight train found tho child, who was unconscious, and took her to a hos pital at Vlctorvillo. Bho will recover. BATTLE FRONT il REACH INTO 111 War Conference is Held at Washington, D. C. DECISION IS REACHED Wilson's Watchful Waiting Seems at Knd -Vladivostok and Koln Ap pear to He Storm Centers. Washington. D. a Developments Saturday tended to indicate that a now battlefrout may ooon bo established In Russia. Tho German menace, steady advance of which has been re ported for somo tlmo In dispatches, appears at Inst 4o havo reached a point where tho watchful waiting nt titudo of tho American administration has been challenged. Tho Russian situation la understood to have boon the aubjuct nt a confer ence at tho whlto houso between Pres ident Wilson, ami Secretaries Lansing, Baker and Daniels. Admiral Benson, chief of naval operation, and General March, chief of staff. There was no announcement after the conference and probably will bo none for tho present, but it was said unofficially that an Important decision iiad boon reached. Urgent appeals from tho allied gov ernments for American approval of nnd co-operation In Joint mensuroN to meet tho Gorman menace through Russia, havo been before President Wilson for several days. Until now, howuvor, there has been no Intimation that ho had changed his position, based upon recommendations of his military- advisers, that a successful military effort In Russia was not feas ible. For military reasons, Btrlctest secre cy Is observed concerning (ho exact nature of stops proposed by the allies. American and allied naval forces now are guarding war supplies both nt Vladivostok, terminal or thu Trans Siberian railroad and Kola, terminal of the railroad on Uio Arctic coast, which Is reported threatened by Gor man forces In tho Interior. In some quartcrs.it has been Bald that slnco tho United States regarded Intervention purely ns n military prob lorn, tho president, heretofore nn op ponent of military action on tho ground of Impracticability, would bo guided by tho decision of thu supreme war council at Versailles and Goncrnl Foch. Reports Saturday that tho supremo war council had given n decision woro not confirmed lu official circles. Fuel Rationing Started. Washington. Rationing of coal to householders was announced Sunday night by thu Fuel administration as among plans designed to prevent a threatened shortage of coal next win ted. Knch domestic consumer will bo allowed only ns much coal as Is neces sary to heat his houso to 08 degrees, provided every conservation rule hns been oboyed. Tho allowance, tho an nouncement said, will bo sufficient for comfort, but "tho thoughtless and wuatoful consumer who finds tils al lowance gone beforo tho end of tho wlntor, will have only hlmsolf to thnuk It ho hns no fuol with which to heat his house." Tho plan involves a department of allotments In connection with ench local fuol administrator's office. Thq system will bo put Into operation nt once. ICach order for coal will bo cen sored by comparison with tiio rating of the iiouso where the coal Is to bo used. Kx-Mayor Mftchcl, Aviator, Killed. Lako Charles, Ln. Major John Pur roy Mltchcl, killed Saturday when ho fell COO feet from the nlrpiuno in which ho was riding, dropped from the pilot's scat nnd plunged downward while hln piano skimmed on without n pilot for nearly half ti mllo, according to state ments by officers nt Gorstncr aviation field near hero. An examination of tho wrcckod ma chine developed that tho safety bolt was unritHtcned nt tho tlmo of tho accldont, canning Major Mltchcl to fall from tils sent ns the piano wont Into a hobo dlvo. Major Kirby, commnndant of tho field, declined to iipcculuto as to tho causo for tho belt being unfnstenod. It is it rule that nil filers fasten them selves into placo with tho holt boforo ascondlng. U. 8. Duys Flylno Field. Honolulu, T. II. With tho transfer to tho United States government on Juno 24 of Ford island, ln tho wntoru of Pearl harbor, prospects for early development of nviatlon on Oahu on nn oxtonslvo scale woro given n docid od impotus. Tho amount paid by tho govornmont for tho proporty to tho John LI estate and tho Oahu Sugar company, ownora of tho lBlnnd, wnu $235,000. Tho island will bo im by both tho army nnd navy for aviation purposes.