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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Ercnts of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. As a result of representations of American officials, tho British govern ment lias consented to tho removal of all censorship on husiness, commercial and all other messages. At least threo towns in southern Alabama wero swopt lato Wednesday by a tornado. Great property damage and some loss of life have been re ported. The towns struck were Eufala, Pollard and Flomaton. At tho request of the postofflco de partment the geographic board has changed tho official abbreviation for California from "Cal." to "Calif." The change was made because of confusion with the abbreviation for Colorado. The arrival of the British prime minister, David Lloyd George, In Paris Wednesday night is tho prelude to the discussion of the main question of the peace treaty by the council of the great powers, which will begin tomorrow and continue during President Wil son's stay. The International Harvester com pany's branch establishment at Arta vir, Russia, has been looted and dam aged by bolshevik troops with the ex press approval of the bolshevik So viets, according to advices from Russia received by the state department The damage was said to amount to about $400,000. The government has determined to retain control of the railroads despite failure of congress to provide funds for the railroad administration and to have the roads finance themselves for the next few months through pri vate loans on open market or through advances by the war finance corpora tion. Selection of a jury in the manslaugh ter case of Thomas F. Blewltt, first of four officials of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company to be tried as the result of a wreck on one of the com pany's lines last year which cost the lives of more than 85 persons, is com pleted in the state supreme court at Mlneola, N. Y. Six women, members of the national woman's party, were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct after a battle Wednesday night with police men In front of the Metropolitan Opera house, New York, where thoy had in tended to stage a demonstration against President Wilson. Soon after they had been locked up at the West Thirtieth street station all of them were released without explanation. A strike of 9000 telephone operators and 3000 linemen In California, Wash ington, Oregon and Nevada has been ordered by the executive committee of the International Brootherhood of Electrical Workers in the eve.nt that Postmaster-General Burleson does not speedily grant wage demands of the brotherhood, it was announced in San Francisco Wednesday by T. C. Rob bins, personal representative of L. C. Crasser, vlceprehldent of the or ganization. Francis P. Garvan of Now York city is appointed by President Wilson as alien property custodian to succeed A. Mltchel Palmer, who becamo attorney-general. Dr. Haroutyoum Tlryaklan, known as tho "grand old man of tho Arme nians," leaders of many Armenian movements in this country, died in New York Sunday, The high license law which went Into effect March 1st reduced the num ber of saloons In Panama from C80 to 100, Under tho now law, licenses cost f 150 a month. At ft mooting ot tho ultra-nationalist Irish Bocloty In London Monday n latter from Kdward do Vuloru, the Hln ti J'eln leader, who recently escaped from Lincoln prison, written In cipher, vUH read, DAILY DEATHS THOUSANDS Famine and Disease Ravage Bolshevik Population Ccntcrsl London.-Stnrvntlon pro vails) through out bolshevik Russia ami Is killing oft the population by thousands. DIr cases duo to under nourishment nro rampant and food is so scarco In Po trograd and Moscow that cats sell readily for $3 each. Tho undertakers cannot cope with conditions, as there is not enough wood for coffins. Tho British governmont recolved thoso re ports within tho last wcok from Brit ish subjects recently returned from Russia. Their evidence is unanimous that It means nro not found to nllovlnto tho food situation tho inhabitants of bol shcvlk Russia may starve to death, The Britishers say that tho plight ot Russia is a direct result of tho rolgn ot anarchy and terror instituted by Lenlno and Trotzky. Thoy dcclaro that tho Russian problem has become a question of common humanity. Thousands aro dying dally in Potro grad, Moscow, Kiev and Odessa. In Pctrograd alouo tho deaths from fam Ine threo weeks ago numbered 200 dally. Typhoid, or "hunger typhus," Is carrying oft young and old ovory where, and in Moscow glanders Is cpl demlc. There Is no fuel for lighting and mil lions live In darkness after nightfall. The troubles of tho Russians aro fur ther aggravated by lack ot coal and wood, which can bo obtained only by tho very rich or by tho favorites and parasites of the bolshevik government. There is a great lack of medicines and doctors. The bolshevik paper money has no value In the country districts, and tho peasants refuse to exchange It for food. Warning Sent to Italy. Washington, D. C. Italy has been warned by the American government that unless she puts an end' to delays in movements ot relief supplies to the newly-established Jugo-Slnvlc and Czo-cho-SlavIc states, steps will bo taken to cut off the flow of American food stuffs to Italy. It was stated In an authoritative quarter that the Italian government had caused intolerable conditions by the blockade she has imposed against the Jugo-Slavlo countries and which operates also against the Czecho Slavs. The blockade has not been -wholly effective, but many delays have been caused, resulting often in holding up supplies, the need of which was des perate. No reply has yet been made by the Italian government. Few Shell Shocks Fatal. New York. Nlnety-nlno per cent of all shell shock cases in tho American array In France completely recovered, according to Dr. Thomas Salmon of New York, chief medical officer In charge of such soldiers, who returned on the Leviathan. "There was less Insanity In the American army than In any of tho other allied armies," said Colonel Salmon. Poles Seek For Peace. Posen. Several members of tho inter-allied mission are to proceed to Paris to inform the peace conferenco as to the exact situation existing be tween tho Poles and Ukrainians In eastern Gallcla. It is thought probahlo that tho mission will propose extreme ly severe steps In order to compel the Ukrainians to cease hostilities. Postal Grants Increase. San Francisco. Tho headquarters for tho Postal Telegraph company In California, Montana, Idaho, Washing ton, Oregon, Arizona, Utah, Now Mexi co and Nevada, which ure located hore, received word Saturday of a 10 per cent Increase of employes' wages, re troactive to January 1, About 100 aro affected In Han Francisco. Want Blockade Raited. Basle. Tho Gorman nutlonal assem bly nt Weimar Monduy ununlinously udopted uh resolution Introduced by 37 women members demanding tho Immediate raining of tint hunger block iido mid repatriation of prisoners or war, CONGRESS LEAVES TASK UNFINISHED Adjournment Sees Half of Ap propriation Unmade. 'FILIBUSTER' CHARGED Thlrty-Nlnc Senators Sign Resolution Opposing League of Nations Charter as It Now Stands. Washington, 1). C A bitter contro versy between President Wilson and tho sonato over the league ot nations and a filibuster by a few republican senators, seeking to forco an Imme diate extra session, marked tho pass ing at noon Tuesday of the CSth or war congress. Callod in April. 191", to throw Amer ica's weight Into the conflict overseas, tho congress held three momentous and historic sessions. Partisanship lay dormunt during tho wnr, but It broke forth In the last ses sion to culminate In n final filibuster, which successfully blocked passago of halt ot tho 1-1 regular appropriation bills, Including tho $750,000,000 rail road revolving fund and tho hugo army, navy and merchant marine bud gets. Although unsuccessful In thoir ef forts to record tho senate In favor of an amendment of tho constitution of tho Icaguo ot nations, as now drawn, tho republican senators left In tho record a resolution approved by 39 of them opposing acceptance of the char tor in its present form. Republican Leader Lodge and other spokesmen said this was notlco to tho president and the peace conferenco that tho nec essary two-thirds majority In tho now sonato for ratification of tho present plnn could not bo obtained. Demo cratic leaders privately expressed tho bollof that amendments would bo made soon after the president reached Paris. President Wilson spent an hour nt tho capltol beforo adjournment. Later ho formally announced that dosplte tho death In tho filibuster of tho rail road and other bills ho would adhere to his refusal to call the new congress beforo his return from Franco and criticized "a group of men" for their obstruction. As a result of tho fili buster, which held tho sonato In con tinuous session for 26 hours, tho presi dent had little to do at tho capltol ex cept sign tho 11,000,000,000 wheat guarantee bill and exchange leave takings with members and friends. Tho long list of measures that failed Included all reconstruction legislation, Including the general railroad legis lation and bills defining a shipping policy and dealing with unemploy ment, labor and illiteracy problems; the oil, gas and coal land leasing and water power development hills; tho compromise woman suffrago resolu tion; legislation to enforco wartlmo prohibition; meat Industry legislation; immigration exclusion and alien do portutlon bills; resolutions to termin ate government control of telegraph, telephone and other wiro utilities De cember 31; tho sedition bill, aimed nt unlawful acts and propaganda; the resolution to repeal tho 10 per cent tax on semi-luxuries in tho war rov onuo bill, and Secretary Lano's bill appropriating $100,000,000 for reclam ation of waste lands to bo allotted to soldiers and sailors. German U-Boats Divided. London. A number of Gorman sub marines, lying In a British port, aro to be handed over to tho allied gov ernments, somo being sent to Ituly, Japan and other countries. Forty seven submarines, of all sizes, have been sold under tho condition that thoy bo broken up. Thoir cnglnos will bo removed. 82,639 Sick and Injured. WuHhlngton, D. C Fobruury 13, statistics niudo public Wednesday by tlm Wur department showed, there worn 82,539 hick und Injured soldiers remaining overseas, Of thoso 10,900 worn listed us Buffering from Injury und 63,553 from disease, This wus u reduction of ubout CO per cent uh com pared wllli Ilio figure of November H, I STATE NEWS I IN BRIEF. Ouo hundred and forty-six bills of tho recent legislative session, which wore loft In tho hands of Governor Wlthycombo undisposed of when ho died last week, wero filed In the of. flee of tho secretary of Htnto by Ches ter A. Moore, private secretary to tho lato Governor Wlthycombo. Open war waH declared on tho loyal legion of loggers and lumbermen nt Bend lust week, when the loyal tlm borworkern' union passed a resolution declaring that membership In the four L's would constitute an effective bar to admission Into the union, uml that any union man Joining the loyal legion would automatically cancel his union card. y Twelvo days wero spent In covering a distance of 33 miles by state em ployes who arrived Wednesday In Bend from Klk lake, bringing with them 640,000 freshly gathered brook trout eggs which wero Immediately taken to the new hatchery as tho first to bo placed In tho troughs nt tho now plant. Pendleton carpenters who hnvo been Idle since Saturday morning, when they refused to work for lens than 80 cents an hour, went bnck to their Jobs Wedncsdny morning under a tentative agreement with their employers, pend ing tt final settlement ot the question this week. In tho meantime they nro to recolvo tho SOcenl wage. While health authority reports In dicate an end ot Its attack on humans, Influenza Is fatally affecting horses ot tho Hood River valley. C. D. Hoyt. Hast Sldo orchurdlst, lost u valuable horso last week. The animal's team mate Is thought to bo fatally 111. The horses dlipluy all symptoms by which the disease is Identified In humans. As n result of the suspension of work on two hulls nt tho MclSachorn and two nt tho Rodgers yard at Astoria, 160 menworo laid off ot each plant Wed nesday morning. Tho former has 3G0 men working on three hulls nnd tho latter about 200 men employed on two hulls. Work at tho Wilson ynrd has not been Interfered with. That plant has 450 men working on three hulls. Ninety per cent of tho votes cast at Wednesday's special election In Uma tilla county favored tho Issuanco by the county of $1,050,000 In rond bonds. Less than 5000 votes were cast against the proposal and only four of tho 64 precincts, nil small ones, returned un favorable majorities. Several pre cincts cast a unanimous voto for tho bonds. Lincoln county's patriotic postmast or, J. J. Gnlthor, at Toledo, Oregon, lust year sold War Savings Stamps to twontyflvo peoplo who proudly dls piny the limit button. Newport mado ono of tho greatest over-subscriptions In tho Liberty Bond campaign, popu lation considered, of any town In tho state. Mr. Gnlthor Is director of tho thrift campaign In Lincoln county this year anil Ills ambition is to muko Lincoln county tho first division to complete tho raising of Its shuro of Investment in tho government securi ties for payment of wur hills. Tho now celebrated Alleghany dog enso at Murshfleld bids fnlr to rival other slmllur contested lawsuits Hint have been brought to notice In cer tain sections of tho country. Mrs. W. II. Stull obtnluod a verdict ot $250 in Justice court for killing of her two dogs by Roscoo Bunch and T. F. Por ter, and when tho defondents appealed to tho county district court tho Judg ment wns affirmed. Tho men now do elaro they will qualify for a hearing In tho state supremo court and from there It may go on to tho higher tribunal. It has definitely been decided by tho Graves Canning company to erect u $16,000 cannery at Woodburn. A musing meeting of tho borry growors Jin that city lust Saturday added Im petus to tho project, Tho slto hau been purchased mid building will begin next month. Many growers have contracted uereuge. It Is proposed eventually to have ouo of the largest cunnorloH In the stale. Thin will bo In addition to tho Juice factory now established lit lliut point. Both plunlu will consume Iho products of ii lurgit number of acres und renewed fo has been given to (hut Mellon, IS Fall of Government Soon Ap pears Imminent. MANIFESTO ISISSUED Strike Arc Drawing Nation Dally Nearer 'Destruction; Thou sands Reported Starving. Loudon. Tho possible fall of tho German government Is reported lit nu merous special dispatches received Sunday from Berlin. Members of tho governmont hnvo arrived at Berlin to consult with the workmen's council, and a manifesto has boon Issued. All tho correspondents represent tho situ ation us grave. Berlin, via Copenhagen. Tho gov. eminent has Issued u long manifesto from Weimar denouncing tho terrorist attempts to get rid of tho national as sembly. It proclaims faithfulness to tho principles of democracy. "Greater than tho political danger Is tho economic distress," says tho manifesto. "Wo cannot feed oursolves from our own supplies until tho next harvest. Tho blockade Is eating away tho vitals of our people. Thousands perish dally from 111 uourlstmont." The manifesto deuouueos strikes, saying: "F.vory strike brings us a step near er to tho abyss. Only work can save us." Tho manifesto promises tho social ization of suitable industries and es tablishment ot Industrial councils rep resentative of alt the workers and freely elected. It cIoh$l with a strong note, asserting the determination ot tho government to wage relentless wnr against terrorism, concluding: "Whoever nssalls tho life of tho na tion Is our enemy." Tho greater Borlln Soviets have adopted and telegraphod to tho assem bly at Weimar a resolution protesting against efforts to abolish tho soldiers' nnd workmen's council and tho gonor al hostility encountered by the revolu tionary boards among tho state, mili tary and municipal authorities. Tho resolution calls for tho Soviets everywhere to fight for existence At tho meeting tho convocation of n na tional soviet congress on March 18 was demanded. That tho political situation In Wei mar and llerlln In anything but assur ing Is amply reflected In tho editorial comments of the newspnpers, which are stimulated by n significant com munication In tho Vorwnorts. This newspnper prints prominently and frankly a warning to tho soclnllst ele ments of the Scheldomnnn cnbluottliat unless they aro ablo to produce some thing better than negative results they had better "withdraw unconditionally, leaving tho political wreck as n legacy to thu bourgeolso party." These socialists aro charged with having grossly disappointed tho hopes of tho workers by neglect to ennct even the most olomentnry emergency legislation bearing on promised social reforms. Hoover Director of American Relief. Washington, D. C Ilorbcrt Hoover has been appointed by President Wil son as dlrector-gonoral of tho Ameri can relief administration croatod un der tho new $100,000,000 Kuropean famlno relief bill, with full authority to direct tho furnishing of foodstuffs nnd other urgont supplies purchusod out of relief funds and to nrrnngo for their transportation, distribution nnd administration. Mr, Hoover, who already hud been mado director of the allied relief un der tho commission sitting in Purls, ulso wuh given full power by the pres ident lo determine to which of tlm populutloiiH named In Iho relief bill lliu supplies hIiuII ho furnished und In wliut quunlltloH, Ho ulso Is lo urmiign for reimbursement m fur hi possible us provided In Iho roller uat, GERMAN NATION EDGE OF ABYSS
