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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
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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
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REACH
INTO
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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.