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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. William Howard Taft will return to Yaye university next fall as Kent professor of law, It was announced at the university Saturday. Contracts have just been concluded by which Canada will furnish credits of $25,000,000 each to France and Houmania, the credits to be expended In the purchase of Important neces sities in Canada. The house has adopted by a vote of 232 to 109 the conferees' report on the oil and mineral land leasing bill which opens up for development vast areas of western lands. Action by the senate is now awaited. The Cuban government has placed a 60-day embargo on all importations of wheat flour, the war trade board an nounced Friday for the information of American exporters. The board said it had not received the particulars regarding the embargo. The house adopts the conference re port on the new $600,000,000 postoffice appropriation bill, after refusing to instruct Its conferees not to accept the senate amendment providing $200,000, 000 federal co-operation with the states in road construction. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, accom panied by her son, Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Jr., visited the grave of Lieutenant Quentin Roose velt near Fere-en-Tardenols Wednes day and placed flowers on the simple monument which marks her son's last resting place. Harry A. Wheeler, president of the United States chamber of commerce, Washington, D. C, told 2000 delegates to the trans-Mississippi readjustment congress, which opened its sessions in Omaha Friday, that better railroad service Is obtainable under prlvat ownership of the railway lines than under public ownership. Resolutions asking the government to deport all aliens classed as enemies or who were eligible for naturalization during the war and failed to declare their Intentions of becoming citizens, were adopted Wednesday by the dele gations of the Montana Federation of Women's clubs at the close of their convention In Butte. Enactment of legislation designed to maintain the liberty bond price was suggested in the senate Wednesday by Senator Jones, of Washington, who was joined by several other senators in deploring the fact that bonds are now selling far below par. No agreement was reached, however, as to what measures should be taken. Captain Walter Gherardl of the United States navy, who has been in Germany studying economic and gen' oral conditions, has returned to Paris and reports that he found much un employment throughout the country, He says Germany's food supplies are limited to nearly exhausted reserves, which cannot last longer than next month. The Gormans have accepted the new armistice terms, which, It is under stood, provide for the continuation of the blockade during the armistice. The 91st. or "Wild West division," lias been designated for return with the latest date for embarkation set as March 1, according to word conveyed in a letter to Governor Wlthycombo Just received from Major-General Wil liam II. Johnston, In command of the division. Eighteen of the CC members of tho crow of tho United States gunboat Scorpion, Interned at Constantinople from April 11, 1917, until last Novem ber, married Turkish women and liavo been left behind there, according to Lieutenant Commander Herbert H, JJubbltt of Houghton, N. V., former commander of tho Scorpion. HUN STATESMEN ARE SLAIN Premier nnd Ministers of Interior nnd War Shot Down. London. A Gorman wireless mes sage received hero quotes Phlllpp Scheldemann, German chancellor, as saying that llcrr Rooshaupter, Davnr lan minister of war, has boon killed. Bavarian Secretary of tho Interior Aucr also Is reported slain. Herr Scheldemann, speaking In tho national assembly at Weimar, Is quot ed as saying: "With tho greatest sorrow and In dignation, I have to inform you that tho Bavarian premier, Kurt Eisner, champion of tho rovolutton, has boon shot by a fanatic. Munich Is tho scene of a bloody civil war, and my friends Rooshaupter and Auer aro said to bo dead. "The government expresses the deepest sorrow and condemnation of these shameful acts of murder. Noth ing shows the breakdown of order more clearly than whon murdor be comes a political weapon. If tho sacri ficial death of Herr Eisner has good results they will bo bringing us all together to do away with evil con ditions. It would mean the ruin of Germany if all did not tako this view and Join in tills condemnation. "The young German republic will, In a very sort time, bo faced by a so vero upheaval, if not a breakdown. "The state and tho nation aro men aced as to food supplies and tho con duct of industries, not only by our enemies, but our compatriots, who aro now threatening our most Important industries in tho Rhineland and West phallan regions," ho continued. "The ground upon which we aro standing shakes, and perhaps will sink if wo are unsuccessful In ending this mad ness and crime in the Ruhr region." The house stood while Chancellor Scheldemann spoke. NEW YORK WORKERS TO STRIKE FOR BEER New York. Strikes on July 1 to make effective the slogan "no beer, no work" have been voted by the New York Iron workers, shipbuilders, long shoremen, hatters, stationary firemen, pavers and rammers' unions, it was announced at a meeting of the Central Federated union here tonight. Erbest Cohm, secretary, who an nounced the striko votes, said that the strike would affect about 166,000 men. The letter carriers' association, he added, while unable to go on strike, had voted to lend their moral support to the fight against prohibition. One speaker declared the prohlbl tion amendment appeared to bo a "scheme of a ring to do the liquor, wine and beer business out of busi ness, so that their own may be In creased." "Coffee," he added, "Is tho natural recourse when prohibition Is In force, and that, of course, means the price of coffee would bo greatly advanced." INDUSTRIAL STRIKE IN GERMANY GAINS Berlin. The strike In the Ruhr Industrial region is still spreading, but it Is increasingly evident that only a small minority of the strikers are In sympathy with the Spartacans, Marshal Foch Is reported to have consented to tho sending by the gov ernment of troops against Dusseldorf, which Is In the neutral zone fixed by the armistice. Tho majority of the Spartacan recruits come from Dussel dorf and tho cleaning up of that city by the government forces would bo a heavy blow for the communists, who aro roported to have 15,000 armed ad herents there. There aro said to bo 3000 armed Spartacans at Essen and considerable numbers also at Ham born, In the Dusseldorf district. Tho Spartacans are occupying all roads by which soldiers could come to tho region. Army of 500,000 Favored. Washington, D. C. Establishment of a temporary army of G00.000 men Instead of 176,000 as provided for In a bill agreed upon Saturday by sonate and house conferees was urged before tho sonato military commltteo by Sec retary Baker and General Murch, chief of staff. Tho committee Is consider ing tho bllllondollur army appropria tion meusuro recently passed by tho house, . 1 1 PLOT SAD 10 14 Members Spanish Branch Taken in New York. ANARCHISTS IN JAIL Prisoners Detained Without Hall While Searching Inquiry by Govern ment Is Being .Made. New York. Fourteen members of tho Spanish branch of the 1. W. W. woro arrested by secret service men nnd members of tho police bomb squad In two raids horo late Sunday. While they aro charged formally with having seditious literature In their posses sion, government agents claimed to havo evldonco they were hatching a terrorist plot. Frank Francisco and Edward J. Dowd of tho secret service, as well as Now York detectives, who assisted them In tho raids, declared they had obtained ovldenco which would bo used In an attempt to prove the pris oners had planned to assassinate Pres ident Wilson in Boston, but this as sertion was discredited by Captain Peter Rubino of tho secret service, who directed the raids. According to the police, two Phila delphia men who frankly admitted they were anarchists, stopped hero on tholr way to Boston. The gravo nature of the alleged plot and the Imminence of the attempt to carry It Into execution It was declared, made it essential tho men bo Impris oned at onco. After being questioned at police headquarters, where their fingerprints were taken, tho prisoners wore locked up without ball pending nrralgnmont before a United States commissioner. Meanwhile mechanical experts have been assigned to assemble a compli cated machine found dismantled In one of the rooms raided. Tho secret service agents said thoy were at a loss to explain its purpose. Translat ors wero put to work on a mass of papers and pamphlots seized. Ono of the houses raided had been under police surveillance for several days as a result of meetings held there, It was said. All the men, It was said, are Span ish aliens, who have come to tho United States during the past three years. According to tho sccrot service men, a youth of 25, who gave tho iiamo of Jose Grand. Is tho chief organizer of the Spanish I. W. W. here, and Is tho editor of a radical Spanish newspaper published in Now York. In tho I. W. W. organization, it was said, ho Is known as Armolodo Sapatena. Tho prisoners wero questioned for several hours at police headquarters, but for the most part maintained a sullen silence. Sixteen Perish at Sea. New York. Tho French bark Hel ena was sunk In a collision- with the Norwegian freighter Gansfjord, off Winter Quartor light, Virginia, and 10 of her crow perished. Eight sur vivors, Including her skipper, Captain Malsonouve, woro brought hero Sun day. Tho survivors wero brought here on tho Gansfjord, with her bows stove In and her fore peak full of water. Tho Holene, bound from Baltlmoro'to Nan tes, was loaded chiefly with steel, and went down llko a plummet. Tho Norweglunfrom Cabanas, Cuba, for New York, registered only 1087 tons gross, compared with 3450 for the sailing vessel, Tho collision occurred at 2 A, 'M. during heavy weather. Ten Taken In Philadelphia. Philadelphia. Ton Cubuns and Spaniards woro arrostod horo early Sunday by agents of tho dopartmout of justice on Information received from New York. A quantity of nllogod se ditious literature was seized and tho authorities say tho inun arrested hud some connection with those taken Into oustody In Now York. AM AI WILSON r STATE NEWS X IN BRIEF. Bend sportsmen, protesting against tho proposed draining of Malheur lake, havo started u petition advocating leg islation to protect thu eastern Oregon game reserve. W. W. Poland of Shedd, woh elected president of tho Linn county farm bu reau In tho annual meeting hold In Albany last week. Archie C. Miller, of Albany, woa elected vice-president and Miss Bertha Beck, of Albany, sec rotary. A mother nnd son are opposing pnrtles In n case now on trial In the state circuit court In Albany before Judge Bingham. John II. Schneider, Is suing his mother, Mlnnlo M. Schneider, over tho title to n tract of land near that city. Tho senate has passed the bill In creasing tho salaries of the district Judges of Multnomah county from 2I00 to 3000 a year. Senator Karrell of Multnomah was thu only member of the delegation which opposed pass age of tho measure. A campaign to clean up all trees and shrubs In Tho Dalles will be Inaugu rated at unco by Carl F. Galllgau, county fruit Inspector, who states that pests which are Infesting the city trees are proving a serious mcuuee to tho fruit Industry of tho county. Forty-three tracts of newly reclaimed land on tho northern edge of Tulo hike In the southeastern part of Klnmath county will bo offered for lenso to tho highest bidder on the fith of next month, according to announce ment mado by the reclamation service. Captain Charles Barrett of Dallas, who is a member of the U. S, signal service, left San Francisco this week for Siberia, where he will bo stationed with the American forces. Captain Bar rett recently returned from Frnnee, where he spent several months on tho fighting front. The crusade started In Bend against proprietors of poolrooms nnd cigar stores that are said to number minora among tholr patrons has resulted In tho conviction of C. A. Stevenson, charged with allowing boys under ngg In his billiard parlor, and of George A. I.utos, who pleaded guilty to selling cigarettes to minors. The question of the disposition nnd use of the block owned by the city of Albany lying east of tho block on which the I. Inn county courthouse Is situated Is again beforo tho council. The project proposed now Is to 're move the old central school building which stands on tho block and uso the site as a city park. Marslifleld citizens are waking up to tho probability that the armory may not be secured, according to tho terms Imposed by the state law governing Its construction. An unusual effort has been mado of late to enlist the local company to tho required 100 members, but Information Indicates that but 6! men are signed. Tho farmerH and dairymen of the Ilermlston part of Umatilla county held an Institute In tho Carnegie li brary, at Ilermlston last week. Lectures and demonstrations were given by E. B. Fills and E. L. West over, of the Oregon Agricultural col lege; II. K. Dean, of the local experi ment station, and R. W. Allen, of the government reclamation service. While tho peoplo of Bend aro en Joying the greatest prosperity In years, with a building programme outlined for the coming season which will total several hundred thousand dollars, thu city Is virtually bankrupt, Mayor J. A, Eastes declared, Nineteen thousand dollars In unredeemed warrants have been Issued, nnd a local bank with $0000 of this paper In Its possession has declined to take more at any dis count. That there Is a chance tho sheepmen and cattlemen will get togolhor over tho controversy on tho range lands of Klamath county Is Indicated In tho oi for from both sides to hold a meeting with thu aim of reaching an adjust ment, The feeling over tho bill Intro duced by Kopresenlntlva George Merrymuu last week, which provided that no sheep could ho lawfully ranged within a inllo of u homestead, has been at tho highest pitch, Y Militarists Declare New Terms Extremely Degrading. CRITICISE ERZBERGER SupervUion'of Control of Ammunition Factories Gulls Party Mended by Marshal lllndrnburg. London. Advices received fronv Berlin, by way of Basel, Wednesday are to thu effect that the pouGurman military party, huadod by Field Mar shal von llluduuburg, bitterly resents thu new clauses In thu armistice, es pecially thoso limiting thu German army to thu hIzo of a simple police force, tho supervision of control of ammunition factories and thu demand that Germany pay thu expenses of thu allied, armies of occupation on the Ithltio. Theso conditions, it Is complained, will throw out of work thousands of German officers, from generals down ward, whllo tho army of 000,000 vol unteers reported by thu German press to havu been organized must be dis banded. Thu udvlcos add that Indignation against Mathlas Erzburger on thu part of the military authorities Is Increas ing. HOUSE ELIMINATES ARMYJLEGISLATION Washington, D. C. Legislation pro viding for a temporary military es tablishment of about 510,000 officers and men during thu fiscal year begin ning next July 1 was eliminated from thu annual army appropriation bill Tuesday night In thu house, uftur pas sagu of tho sonato bill for resumption of voluntary eullstmunts In thu peace time army, which would bu restricted to tho maximum of 175,000 men au thorized In thu national defense act or 1910. Tho senate measuro now goes to conference and will becomo cffcctlvo upon Its approval by President Wilson. Thu army bill also was adopted by thu house without a rocord vote and now goes to thu suuato with Its com pletion there nt this session regarded by many leaders ns doubtful. It car ries a total or $1,070,000,000 for tho war department for tho 12 months after Junu 30. It was explained by members of tho house that tho senate bill did not af fect the present wartime army, which, under the selective service act, must bu demobilized within four months after peace formally Is declared by presidential proclamation. Labor Council Lays Plans to Combat Bolshevism Now York, Resumption of all gov ernment work suspouded because of the war, payment of soldiers' wagu until thoy obtain employment, devel opment of government lands with fi nancial asslstancu provided to the ten ants and prohibition of Immigration for four years aro recommended In tho draft of a legislative reform pro gramme adopted and made public by tho executivo council of tho American Federation of Labor, "If those measures are carried Into effect," says u statement mado by Frank Morrison, secrotary, "It will prevent a critical situation and do stroy a fruitful fluid which tho ropru soutatlvoB of thu I, W. W. and tho Dolshovlkl will havo for furthering tholr propaganda." Tho council expects to present theso roforms to congress within a tow. days. Roosevelt Hlonway Proposed. Dtilulh, Minn. "Theodore Hooso volt Memorial Hlghwuy," a routo from Portland, Me., to Portland, Or., spon sored by Diiluth interests, was pro jected at a meeting of good roads men of thu northwest hero Tuesday night. Nino cities of four states wero rupro Hunted, and telegrams of acquiescence wero received from dozens of clvlo and commercial organizations, IMA ENRAGED VE ARMISTICE