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WORLD HAPPEN! 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:. The establishment of wireless tele phony between Ireland and Canada was announced Saturday by the Mar coni company. The employes of the beef packing plant of Armour & Co. nt Santa Ana have gone on strike. Operations at the plant are at n standstill. Nearly 1200 of the 4000 garment workers who went on strike Friday morning returned to work next morn ing on a 30 per cent wage Increase and a -14-hour work week basis. The former residence of Princess Clementine is being fitted up to re ceive President Wilson and Mrs. Wil son, who are expected to visit Brus sels before the end of the present month. There are unconfirmed reports that a revolution of the monshevik, or mod erate element of the social democratic party, against the soviet government, has broken out in Petrograd, accord ing to a German government wireless dispatch. Through several large donations to a "gift fund" authorized by congress the federal board for vocational edu cation announced recently it was now able to offer vocational retraining to American citizens who were disabled while serving in the armies of the allied nations. Considerable excitement was creat ed at Araerongen castle, where former Emperor William is staying, when six airplanes appeared suddenly at noon from behind a bank of clouds. They came from the east and after oncircl- ing the castle twice, disappeared in a northerly direction. Instructions issued Thursday by the railroad administration will result in the temporary suspension or postpone ment of millions of dollars of railroad improvement work, because of the fi nancial predicament caused by failure of congress to pass appropriations for the administration's revolving fund. Flat increase to 3 cents a mile of all passenger rates on and after April 1 was announced by the officers of the United States railroad administra tion of San Francisco Saturday. The increase was provided in general order No.' 28, issued June 10 last. With San Francisco as a terminus the fare to Portland is increased from $20 to 122.51. Senator Pomerene of Ohio, a demo cratic member of the senate inter state commerce committee, speaking in Chicago last week before the Ameri can Railway Engineers' society, op posed extending the period of govern ment control over railroads beyond the 21 months provided by congress. He asserted that the proposed five year extension was urged only for the purpose of experimentation. Twenty-eight dead, several score in jured and property damage estimated at ?2,000,000 was the result of torna does which swept portions of Missis sippi and Louisiana Sunday, roports from the two states showed. Hundreds of homes, factories, mills and lumber yards are flooded and thou sands of dollars' worth of property de stroyed by the Oconto (Wis,) river overflowing Its banks. It Is estimated that C00 persons are homeless. United States Senator Miles Poln dexter will make a speaking tour down the Pacific coast after delivering an address In Spokano early In April on tlio leaguo of nations, according to a vpcolal dlHpatch from Washington. A now lino of HtoumorH from Port land, Or., to Honolulu and tho Houth ecus woo doclorod a possibility by )T, (& J, O'Doy of Honolulu, lormurly of ft At ..I ......I. ...... . Portland, nt i luiiolioon a fow davit ugo ut tlio Paii'Pflclflc tourUt burouu, TO TEST FEDERAL DRY LAW Brewers rinn Suit After Wnr Is Do clnrcd to He Over. New York. Tho committee of dis tillers of the United Stntt3 represent ing tho ontlro distilling Industry, hns announced that steps wore being ta ken to attack tho constitutionality of the federal prohibition amendment and tho wnr-tinio prohibition net. Levy Mayor of Chicago, counsel for the organization, was instructed to arrange for n suit to test tho enter gency prohibition law after tho treaty of peace had been signed. Action to bring about n Judicial review of tho tSth amendment, it was stated, would await tho outcome of referendum eloc Hons In 13 states where petitions call ing for a popular vote on tho "bono dry enactment Imvo been filed or are In circulation. Mr. Mayer advised tho commltteo that In states having referendum laws and whose legislatures have ratified the amendment the ratification would have no effect unless a mnjorlty of tho votes cast in the elections favored tho amendment. The attorney also gave an opinion that If tho war-time prohibition act Is unconstitutional, manufacture of dls tilled spirits, forblddou by the pros I dent under tho food conservation lnws could be lawfully resumed as soon as the war Is ended. In their discussion of mensures to nullify the federal nmoudmcnt, tho distillers named California, Washing ton. Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, Utnh New Mexico, Colorado, Michigan, Ohio, .Missouri, -Maine ana .Nebraska as states where referendum petitions have been circulated. As 45 state legislatures ratified tho nmendiuent nine more than tho necessary three fourths, the distillers' announced plan of action could not be carried out It the people of moro than four states approved tho decisions of their legls latlve bodies. Reds Would Buy Supplies. New York. As tho first stop toward obtaining recognition by tho United States, the Russian soviet government Js prepared to deposit J200.000.000 In gold with American and European banks for the purchaso of supplies needed in reconstruction work, accord ing to a formal statement issued here by L. C. A. K. Martens, American representative of the Demldoff iron and steel workers in Moscow, through "the bureau of representatives of tlio Russian socialist federal soviet repub lic." Asserting that he had received this weok his appointment as official representative of the sovlot govern ment In the United States, Mr. Mar tens said he had forwarded his credon Hals to the state department and meanwhile has opened temporary headquarters in tills city. Treaties Are Published. Pekln. The military convention made between China and Japan In 1918 with a hitherto undisclosed ex tension signed last month providing for the termination of tho agreement on tho signing of tho peace treaty, wbb made public simultaneously Friday in Pekln and Toklo. More than 12 treat les are to be published In the Chinese and Japanese capitals. Theso lncludo two agreements be tween the Chinese government and tho British Marconi company and two with the Slems Carey company of tho United States regarding railways and canals. There are no French agree ments to be rnado public. Butte Editor Arrested. Butte, Mont. James H. Fisher, edi torial writer of the Dutto Dally Bulle tin, was arrested Saturday on a fed eral warrant by officers of tho depart ment of Immigration. Ho was given a preliminary Hearing on a charge of advocating the overthrow by forco of the United States government and ad inltted to bail on bonds of $1000. U. 8, to Rebuild Forests. New York. Tho American Forestry association will uld In restoring tho forests of Great Britain, Franco and Belgium, which wore sacrificed to tlio allied cause in tho war, according to Charles Lnthrop Pack, retiring presi dent of tho World Court Leaguo, Pershing Highway Is Aim. Lincoln, Nob. A "Pershing high way" oxtomllng from Han Franolsco to Now York, will bo permanently or gunlzod lioro noxt month, according to plaim of a tonijiorury organization formed liuro recently to carry out tint J'roject, JAPANESE ATTACK E U. S. Corean Consul, Seeking Apology, Arrested. FREEDOM MOVE GAINS Children Beaten nmi;.gcd Men PJcctcd from Home Soldiers Close Churches. Pekln. An American missionary who has just returned from Coreiv de scribes tho Independence movement thoru n tho most wonderful passlvo resistance movement In history. Tlio missionaries wore taken by sur prise when tho movement begun, but after realizing that their churches had been closed by order of tho police ami that most of their pastors wore In Jail, they concluded that the time had como to break tho Bllenco regarding tho bru talkies witnessed in tho last decade. Thoy had seen chlldrou beaten, old men ejected from their houses and women struck with swords, and they could not keep quiet for humanity's sake, whatever the cost to their mis slonnry work and themselves. Thoy determined, said this mission ary during an Interview with tho As soclated Pross, that tho truth should bo known. They appointed u commit teo to proceed to Seoul and confer with tho Amorican consul and present cd signed documents to tho effect Hint two American women missionaries had been beaton by Japanese soldiers with guns and that other American mis sionarlcs had been subjected to Indlg nltleu. Tho American consul Is declared to have said that If uu apology was not forthcoming within a weok's time, something would happen. Tho American consul himself, tho missionary snld, had been nrrested by Japancso soldiers nt Seoul, but an In terestlng development was spoiled by his companion also an American who asked tho Japanese If they know this man and informed them that ho was the American consul. The consul was Immediately released. Tho Japanese charge tho mission nrles with teaching tho Coroans doc trlnos of liberty and personal right Every Christian Corean wns nssocla ted In the movemont, tho missionary added, because every Corean was In It, Corean Christians and non-Chris Hans being equally prepared to suffer to advance tho cause of their country, The visit of John J. Abbott of tho Continental & Commercial Trust & Savings bank of Chicago, to Corea, led Coreans to bellovo that ho was tho representative of tho peace confer ence, anil this accelerated tho Indo pendence movement. EXPLOSION OF BOMB KILLS BANKER'S WIFE Oakland, Cal. Mrs. George Green wood, wife of tho vice-president of tho Savings I'nlon Bank & Trust company of San Francisco, was killed Instantly by a bomb explosion Tuesdny night ut tho family home overlooking Lako Merrltt In tho residential district of tho city. The police have announced that in vcstlguHou has failed to dlucloso whether tho bomb was hurled at Mrs Greenwood or whother sho picked It up whllo walking about tho garden Greenwood was 111 in bed at his homo at tho time. No ono elso was In tho liouso except tho servants. According to tho police a letter do- inandlng $5000 and threatening to de stroy his homo with dynamlto unless tho amount wbb paid was scut to Greenwood In January, 1918, This letter, tho pollco said, was signed "C. C. of C." Tho Initials, thoy pointed out, aro similar to those af fixed to threatening letters sent to Governor William D, Stephens boforo his residence In Sacramonto wub dy namited last your. Tlio body of Mrs, Greenwood appar ently had boon hurled 10 foot by tlio oxploslon of Iho bomb, A brick wall In tho garden was marked by u (loop Indentation umj wuh budly damaged, This Iwl tliu pollco to bellovo that It wuh on or imur Iho wall f hut Die bomb WIN oxplodod, STATE NEWS I Ttvr tamcc Following thu failure of congress to make an appropriation for tho main teuauco of tho Astoria federal employ ment office thu city council has ap propriated $228.25 a month to cover tho oxpeiiBii of operating the offlco during thu coming CO days, or until congress Ih convened again. Tho state fairgrounds will be the lauding place of n fleet of airplanes nn they fly northward early In Juno to participate In the Portland Itoso Festival. Tho war department Is ox pected to contribute about ti dozen planes to tho entertainment ut Port land. 1 Tho first step toward endeavoring to apply tho referendum to tho Joint resolution of tho recent legislature, which ratified tho national prohibition amendment, was taken hint Friday, when Dan J. Malarkoy of Portland filed In tho offlco of tho secretary of statu the forth of petition for approval, nud for thu preparation of u ballot title. Discharged soldiers may keep their uniforms and other equipment which they took homo with thorn after be ing mustered out and all poHtuiastors hnvo rucelved orders from tho war de partment not to accept parcels con taining those articles for return to tho department, according to Information given out at tho Eugene postofflco Inst wook. That assessed valuations In Don chute county nuiKe from 11 to 48 pur rent of tho true values, was the report of n committee appointed by tho Bond commercial club to Investigate thu tax problem In that county. It. was reo ommended that valuations be raised 50 per cent. W. T. Mullarky, county assessor. Is In favor of un advance of even more, ho stated. A national guard company has been enlisted nt Marshflohl and tho muster ing will take place Wednesday night nt tho Mllllcoma club. Tho staff offi cers will bo there to take charge of the proceedings. It wns announced that bills for construction of thu ar mory will bo called for Immediately after tho company bus been formed and mnde ready for service. A starch factory Is soon to be open-1 ed In Gresham In tho building owned by Mrs. Ollvo Kkstrom. butter known as the old cheese factory, which Ikih been purchased by tho now company. Some machinery, enough to handle tho leftover potatoes from last year's crop, will bo Installed Immediately, nud thu growers will bo saved tho oth erwise total loss of thu remainder of their crops. Dealers In gold-tinted wildcat oil stock and other fraudulent corpora tions have reaped a rich harvest In recent months among tho well-paid, gullible Hhlpyurd workors of Oregon, according to Corporation Commission er Scliuldermnn, who lias sunt printed warnings broadcast about tho state, advising tho public generally to be ware of tho salesmen for these out of-tho-stato stock companion. Tlio Uiigono chamber of commerce hns appointed committees to cooper ate with the peoplu of Klamath Falls to work for thu extension of tho Na tron cut-off of tho Southern Pacific from Onkrhlgo, In Lane county, to tho point In Klamath county whore thu northern extension ends, nud for tho extension of tho uppor Willamette highway In Lane county over tho sum mit of tho CuscudcH In Klamath coun ty. Charges that thu Hazel wood com pany of Portland and Butto, nn well uh other concerns owned by the Ha zolwood, togother with A. P. Ilonnlng sen and W. Honnliigsou, tho latter of llutto, had oporatcd tholr business In violation of tho Sherman anti-trust Inw uud hud sought to cripple com petitors to Hiich an extent that thoy would bo put out of business, have fulled to bo proved, Theso concerns and their owners wero Indicted In tho federal court of Idaho a long time ago, When tlio case camo to trial Federal Judge Frank H, Dietrich throw out of court ull procuodlngB against tlio var ious concerns ami hold tlio Donning- sons alone to trial, Tlio cuso wont lo tlio Jury uud a vordlot of not guilty was returned, Tlilu tjluurtf Hid com pany uud ownorH of ull huhjiIoIoii, JAPANESE BLAMED TIEN RIOTS Americans and Orientals Clash in Theater. SITUATION IS TENSE Report to Stale Department Indicate Regular Were Confused With Ynnkeo Marine. Pekln.- Whllo early reports from Tien Tain suggested that American marlnoB wore to bhunu for the recent disorders thure, later reports would seem to show that the Japanese wore also at fault. It Ih claimed Hint Japanese military guards entered Iho French concession and there seized two American, mid when Amorican official Inquired of tho Japanese pollco authorities If any AnmrlciuiM wore being detained thoy wore glvuu a negative answer, Hccord lug to ii report. Later the American officials found two American! In u police station, otio of them lying al most naked In Iho yard calling for water. Thu Japanese wore Induced to send the Injured man to u hospital and an Amorican consul refused to Iohvw tho station until tho other man, a corporal, bud been released. This demand wiih finally granted. Tho American consul wiih stoned by Japanese as ho drove ' away from tho station, It Is said. When thu marines entered the Japanese com sulato they aro reported to have at tacked n visitor. On Thursdny evening American ma rines who wero entering a moving picture thentor In tho French concert mIoii wore attacked by n crowd of Jap anese armed with sticks. They man aged to enter tho theater, tho propri etor of which telephoned for tho French police, who dispersed tho Jap ancso. The situation at Tien Tslu Ih mild to be tense. Tho matter hns boon r- j urrv'1 ,0 11,0 ,"r"";1' lusnUoii hero, ' ' j Washington. I). (.'.-Colonel Then- iloro P. Kane, commanding the Ameri can legation marine guard at I'eklu, reported Monday Hint marines wero not Involved In tho disturbance ut Tien Tsln which tho Amorlcnn minis ter Is Investigating. Ho said tho trou ble wiih between soldlerH uud Japan ese, which nccordH with tho assump tion In official quarters hero that moui bum of tho ir,th regular infantry Htn tloned nt Tien ThIh wero confused with marines In early accounts of tho affair. Tho state department Ih awaiting further advices from Minister Iteliisch boforo taking any Htop In regard to tho report tlirft tho Jnpaneso consulate wuh raided. Tho minister coblod (hat ho had sent First Secretory Spencer to Tien Tsln to report. BOLSHEVIK ATTACK STOPPED BY ALLIES Archangel. Bolahovlk forcea mado n determined attempt Friday to cut the communications between tho Amorlcnn and allied columns an tho Dvliia and Vngn rlvorH, but tholr at tack wuh repulsed with hoavy losses. Tho enemy lout 07 dead and four pris oners. Tho allied casualties were ono soldier wounded. Vladivostok. Amorican troops havo begun to movo to strnteglc points on tho Trans-Siberian railway west or VladlvoHtok to nld John F. StovonB und IiIh Htuff of American railway men In tlio technical operation of tho rail way, Tho flmt contlngont Ih now at Har bin, whllo tho second will entrain within a fow days for Chita, tho furlh- oHt point west to which tho Aiuorlcaim will bo Hunt, It Ih propoHod to plicn additional do (uoliiiioiitH ut Vorklml IJillnsk, Man iihuiUn KtatUn, nud NoIioIhIc. Tlio llHHiirl brunch American troops nl roudy uro Htutlonud ut Hjmwiko uud Kliuhurovtik,