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Senator McDonald's bill providing
for a 10-hour day for women in domes
tic service in California passed the
assembly, 43 to 23.
Herbert Hoover, chairman of the
inter-allied food commission, arrived
in Berlin Saturday in company with a
large staff.
A telegram from Washington to
Grand Rapids, Mich., Thursday night
announced that Michigan was official
ly the first state to reach its victory
loan quota.
Germany has instructed the Argen
tine government to deliver interned
German steamers to the United States
and the American embassy has an
nounced its readiness to take over the
vessels.
Marked Improvement in labor condi
tions on the Pacific coast is reported
by the department of labor in Its week
ly bulletin. Portland's unemployed are
shown to have decreased from 4000 to
2400 since last week.
A healthy building boom in Chicago
steadily increasing, Is reported by
Building Commissioner Bostrom, who
announced that thus far in April per
mits for $6,000,000 in new buildings In
Chicago have been Issued.
On April 21 an official announce
ment by the war department said 120,
278 from the army overseas were at
sea en route to this country. A total
of 731,889 men had been landed In this
country up to and including that date.
Another Antarctic expedition is be
ing planned, according to a statement
printed In London newspapers. John
Cope, biologist with the British Ant
arctic expeditions of 1914-1917, will be
leader and expects the expedition to
start in June, 1920.
Higher prices and better quality of
canned goods for this season and the
coming winter were predicted by
Frank E. Gorrell of New York, secre
tary of the National Canners' associa
tion, speaking at the meeting of the
AVestern Canners' association in Chi-1
cago.
The soviet government in Hungary
has asked for a suspension of the Rou
manian offensive and the arrange
ment of an armistice, according to VI
enna reports received in Berlin. It is
said that the government of Bela Kun
has announced its readiness to retire
in favor of a socialist cabinet.
Federal Judge R. E. Lewis of Den
ver sustained a demurrer to an indict
ment against E. L. Simpson, who was
charged with violating the Reed pro
hibition amendment by bringing five
quarts of liquor into Colorado from
Wyoming In a motor car which he
owned. By his ruling Judge Lewis
held that Simpson was not engaged in
interstate transportation.
The Walloons of Prussia have sent
a dispatch to M. Clemenceau, chair
man of the peace conference, request
ing that their annexation to Prussia be
canceled.
Germany has notified the allies that
she accepts all the allied conditions
respecting the Versailles congress.
This official announcement was made
Monday night. ,
nela Kun, Hungarian foreign minis
ter, accompanied by other members of
tho government, has left for tho front,
uccordlng to a Budapest dispatch to
tho London Exchange Telegraph com
pany, to take command.
Tlio American Hteumor Luolla, In tho
United States transport service, bound
from fit. Nuzulro for New York, put In
ut Hurry, England, Tuesday, with tho
drew of I lio British Hteumor JloBodulo
on bounl, Tho Konedulo wub sunk in
u collision wllli (ho Luollu,
CURRENT
LEAGUE HAS 32 MEMBERS
Revised Covenant Presented to Confer
ence With Iany Changes.
Washington, D. C Tho revised
covenant of tho leaguo of nnttons, ns
it was presented nt Paris Monday to
tho peace conferonco-ln plenary ses
sion was made public Sunday night by
tho 8tato department. Its ossontial
features already had been disclosed
through an official summary issued
two weoks ago.
Attached to tho toxt. howover, Is
tho hitherto unpublished "annox" re
ferred to in tho covonant, in which nro
named tho 32 states, including tho
self-governing British dominions,
which aro to be tho original members
of tho league of nations, and 13 states
to bo invited to acccdo to tho covo
nant.
Tho original members aro all tho
nations which declared war on Ger
many, and in addition . tho ,now states
of Czecho-Slovnkla and Poland.
Those invited to becomo members
by acceding to tho covonant aro the
three Scandinavian countries, The
Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain and
Persia and tho American republics of
Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay,
Salvador and Venezuela. Mexico does
not appear In tho list. Provision Is
mndo In tho covonant, however, for
tho admission to tho league of any
fully (Self-governing country which will
glvo required guarantees, upon a two-
thirds vote of tho assombly.
s in tho original document, tho
covenant provides that tho leaguo
shall act through an assombly, in
which each stato shall have ono vote
and not moro than three delegates,
and a council, comprising for tho pros
ent one representative of each of the
five great powers and each of four
other powers to bo selected from tlmo
to time by the assembly. Members of
each class represented on tho council
may be Increased by unanimous con
sent of the council and a majority of
the assembly.
The text provides that nothing In
tho covenant shall bo deemed "to af
fect the validity of international en
gagements such as treaties of arbi
tration or regional understandings
like the Monroe doctrine for securing
the maintenance of peace." This was
the amendment for which President
Wilson made a successful fight at tho
same time tho Japanese delegation to
the peace conference sought vainly to
have a race equality provision inserted
in the covenant.
Changes suggested In criticisms In
tno United states senate add pro
visions for tho withdrawal of a mem
ber after two years' notice and fulfill
ment of league obligations; exempt
domestic questions from the lcaguo's
Jurisdiction; provide that mandatories
over German polonies or former Otto
man dominions shall bo given only to
nations willing to accept them; leave
to member states to decide what
armed force, If any, they will con
tribute to tho force required by the
league to enforce its mandates, and
make it clear that member states in
divldually will pass upon proposed
limitations upon their armaments.
With modifications, tho now draft
Includes all the provisions for tho sub
mission to tho council of international
disputes, for inviting no member na
Hons to accept tho obligations of mem
hers for the purpose of adjusting dis
putes and for breaking economic re
Iatlons or the uso of armed force In
dealing with a state which has broken
the covenant.
Except In certain specified Instan
ces, unanimous agreement is required
for all decisions.
Camouflage May Be Kept.
Washington, D.C. Ship camouflage,
an art developed during tho great war,
may bo retained permanently as a
means of reducing tho dangers of col
lisions botween vessels. In war the
camoufleurB sought a design that
would puzzle German suhmarlno com
manders, but now they must seek tho
opposite extreme, a uniform design
which will empliaalzo and accentuate
tho truo courso of tho ship.
Paris, An appeal has bean mado by
tho French academy that tho official
toxt of tho peace treaties to bo nego
tiated and tho covonants to bo Hlgned
shall bo drafted In tho Fronch lan
guage. Paris, -A project for un ulllunoo be
tween Frunco and America actually In
under way, tho Uoho do Purls my,
Prosldont Wilson, tho nnwupupor uddH,
Im withholding notion until ho nun
Hugo tho jnuttor, hvfoni tho AmgrJomi
ITALY QUITS PARIS
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Wilson Edict on Fiume Angers
Italian Delegation.
ORLANDO GIVES WORD
Entire Delegation Returns Home as
Result of President's Stand
No Demands Yielded.
Paris. (By tho Associated Press.)
Premier Orlando of Italy Wednosday
evening addressed an official com
munication to Premier Clomeiicoau,
president of tho peace conference say
ing that as a result of tho declaration
by President Wilson tho Italian dele
gation had decided to leave Paris.
It was learned at Italian headquar
ters that tho Italian delegates wuro
first apprised of President Wllsou's
statement when it appeared In tho
afternoon papors. Premier Orlando
at once sent a note to Premiers Lloyd
Gcorgo and Clemenceau asking them
if they thought It possible, after tho
publication of this document, that tho
Italians could remain In tho peace con
ference. Paris. It is said that Premier Lloyd
Gcorgo of Great Britain approved of
President Wilson's statement without
reserve and that Premier Clomenccau
has described It as "admlrablo" and
has said that ho "would not change a
word."
'It is explained that tho reason Mr.
Lloyd Georgo and M. Clemenceau did
not Join tho statement wus tho fact
that they wcro parties to tho treaty
of London.
Paris. President Wilson emphati
cally declared Wednesday that ho
would not ylold on tho Adriatic ques
tion. His declaration has created tho
most profound sensation In tho peace
conference. Ho has thrown down tho
gauntlet to tho supporters of secret
treaties In a manner which almost
took away the breath of the delegates
who have been urging compromises on
points covered by many sccrot docu
ments and at varianco with the presi
dent's 14 points.
President Wilson's sweeping decla
ration, while aimed directly at tho
Adriatic problem, also reaches the
Kfau-Chau controversy, in which Ja
pan relies on secret agreements mado
with Great Britain, Franco and Italy
In 1917 to support her In her claim to
tho concessions hold by Germany in
Shantung.
Tho peaco delegates generally re
gard President Wilson's statements as
a challenge which onco for all will dls
poso of tho question whether secret
documents, of which many nations
participating in the war wero Ignorant,
are to figure in tjio peaco following
an armistice In which all tho allies
pledged gave no regard to secret
treaties. .
NATIONAL GUARD TO
FORM ON NEW BASIS
Washington, D. C. Reconstruction
of the national guard wus actually
started Thursday when tho war do
partment, through tho bureau of mill
tary affairs, authorized tho organlza
tlon of seven regiments and ono extra
battalion of Infantry, ono squadron of
cavalry and 18 companies of coast ar
tillery.
Tho stato of Now York was author
ized to rulso four roglmenta of infan
try, ono squadron of cavalry and 12
companies of coast artlllory. Now
Jersey was authorized to organlzo ono
regiment of Infantry und two compa
nies of coast artlllory, Ohio two rogl-
rnonts of Infantry and Oregon ono bat
talion of Infantry and four companies
of coast artlllory.
Those now units aro Intended to ro-
pluoo Htuto troops, which, under sec
tion 01 of tho nutlonul dofoiiHo not,
cannot bo legally rnulntalnod by tho
HtutoH In tlmo of peaco, Thut miction
prohibits iho jiiulntununco of any
troop oxoopl IIioho pnmgrlbod In Iho
uot rogulurs and imllonulijunl,
PEA
CONFERENC
STATE NEWS
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Artldos of Incorporation of tho
Bank of Commerce, Astoria's proposed
now financial Institution, liuvo been
filed In tho county elork'B office.
A wedding ceremony by long dls
tnnco telephone wub n unique occur
renco lu AbIiIuhiI Sunday, when MIbh
Roso Thomas, a popular teochor of tho
Ashland schools, became tho wlfo of
Robert Throne, who Is located nt Den
ver, Colo.
Judge Kakln or tho St. Helens Judl
clnl district has handed down n dcel
sioii awarding tho office of county
Judgo of Columbia county to Martin
White, who contested tho election of
W. J. Ftillorton, his opponent at tho
November election.
Commencement plans for tho Ore
gou normal scnooi nt .Monmouth aro
rapidly being perfected. Dr. W. W
Wlllard of Chicago, who Is supplying
tho pulpit of tho First Congregational
church of Portland, has been secured
as baccalaureate speaker.
Tho numerous Inqulrlea received by
Hood River saloa agencies Indlcuto ono
of tho most actlvo strawberry markets
In years. Tho Apple Growers' aso
elation lias received offers of pur
chases from Ontario, Canada, and Chi
cago offers to tako a part of tho crop,
His chest crushed by a log which fell
from the top of a pllo at Shovlln-lllx
on camp No. 10, Jacob Nybaek, 32, nn
employe of tho company, died Thuru
uay afternoon oeroro tno train on
which ho was bolng carried reached
Bend. He Is survived by n wlfo and
two children.
Preparation of n ballot title for n
constitutional amendment providing
for tho single tax Is sought lu a poll
tlon filed with tho secretary of stato
by tho Oregon Single Tax league. Tho
petition was signed by Harry A. Rice
president, and Mrs. i'hrlstlnn II. Mock
secretary of tho organization.
R. V. Wright, director of tho agrl
cultural department of tho Hood River
high school, has termed tho members
of dairymen's herds formerly dubbed
"star boarders" as "I. W. W. cowb."
"They eat their heads off and do not
glvo any milk," says Mr. Wright,
"They arc as undesirable as bolshe-
vlsts."
Equipped with a letter of Introduc
tlon to Harney county stockmen and
aided by a very slight knowledge of
tho English languuge, Plerro Forgeron
17-year-old veteran of tho world war,
arrived In Bend last week on his way
to Burns, where ho has decided to try
"cow punching" as a means of oarnlng
u livelihood.
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With tho nwardlng of a contract by
the Astoria council for tho widening
nnd paving of Astor street, tho port
commission decided to proceed lmmo
dlately with tho extension of tho Belt
Lino railroad along that street so far
east as Tenth street. Tho commission
also Is securing rights of way for ex
tension to tho slto of tho proposed
naval station.
At tho meeting of tho southern Ore
gon Presbytery In Medford last week,
Rev. Boudlnot Scoly of Portland pro
sonted an encouraging financial report
and the announcement wns made by
tho home commission's commlttco thut
every minister Is to be assured a sal
ary of $1200 a year with freo manse,
this being lu Increase of $200 over tho
previous figure.
W. J. Patterson, a Portland hrokor,
with offices at 209 Selling building,
was arrested In Eugeno by Sheriff
Stlckels Thursday ufternoon on a war
rant charging him with arson. It Is
alleged that ho set flro to GO tons of
hay which ho owned and which was
stored In a largo warehouso at Alva
dore. Tho hay was destroyed by flro
on the night of April 8.
Tho high cost nnd seurclty of sugar
last year set C. U, Rush and sons of
Brownsville thinking, und they rornein
bored tho good, old-fushloued Masses
which they used to mako buck cast,
Accordingly, tho Brownsville fanner
and IiIh two hoys thought It worth
while to try an experiment nnd hco If
sorghum cuno would not grow In Ore
gon, Tho experiment was inoro than
HiiccfHHful, jim from their lltllo pal oh
of enno (hoy inuiiufwiturod ,'IG gallons
of iiioIunnch, whhili wuh mo lusty that
Iho neighbor bought all (hut Iho mult.
urn would noil and culled for moro,
NEW BUTTER SCORING
PLAN FAVORS OREGON
Contest Opons nt Stato Collogo,
Runs Six Months.
Both Commercial nnd Compaction
TcU Will lie Made-Prizes for
Vint and Second dent.
(Prepared hy Orrcon Agilculltiral ColltRO)
Oregon butter Ih expected to shluo
lu tho composition and commercial
butter-scoring contest nt tho stato ag
ricultural college, which begins April
28.
"Thin system of scoring Is favorable
to Oregon conditions," says V. I).
Chappoll, of tho dairy department and
lu charge ot tho contest, "as It really
gives a butter maker an opportunity
to show his abllltyr Workmanship
has a good deal to do with making
good butter, especially Htorago butter.
The Hyslom used last year muvu tho
butter makers receiving tho best
cream an advantage over thono who
found it practically Impossible to got
cream in good clean flavored condi
tion." Butler will bo scored commercially
by three Judges, tho average of tho
three making up tho final score.
Three tests will bo mado for the
composition score. A Cinch cube ot
butter, Inside measurement, and a :!
ounce sample taken from Iho same
churning, and one 3-ouuco sample
from tho preceding churning must bo
sent, tho two oampluH In air Unlit bot
tles to prevent loss of moisture. A
teat of tho cube will be modo and
compared with tho sample from tho
same churning, to determine loss duo
to leaky butter.
To tho butter maker receiving tho
highest commercial and composition
score, tho college dairy department
will glvo n silver cup. Special prizes
aro offered by dairy supply Iiouhos for
first, second nnd third lu tho commer
cial tests, and for first lu composition.
Tho prizes will bo announced next
month.
Tho contest will run six months nnd
contestants must have tho three sam
ples In each month In order to com
pote for tho prizes. Those who want
only a ncoro occasionally to see how
their product runs may enter slnglo
contests.
A certificate of merit will ho given
each butter muker who gets n score
of 90 or moro. All butter will bo sold
and a refund allowed for each cube
when reports nro sent out.
All samples and cubes must ho
mailed on or before April 28, and tho
products will be Judged May 1. Send
to O. A. C. Dairy Department, Corval
lis, Oregon.
Unllko tho star of empire tho snrny-
Ing practice lakes Its way eastward.
V. R. Gardner, for many years nrofos-
sor of pomology at tho Oregon Agri
cultural College, Is now nt tho Univer
sity of Missouri, and Is advocating
thorough spraying of orchard troos,
with tho same ardor that characterized
his work In Oregon.
"No ono with a small homo orchard.
or oven 12 or 15 trees," ho l quoted as
saying, "can afford to bo without a
barrel spray outfit. Tho fruit from
tho small orchard would In an avorauo
season moro than pay tho cost of tho
outfit."
Oregon Baby Chicks Best.
Poultrymon nro advised against
ordering buby chicks from California
hy tho Ronton County Farm Bureau
News. Information Is nt hand to show
that the stock does not compare fav
orably with Oregon stock nnd that
but very Ilttlo of it Is trnpnosted.
Callo For Farm Help Met.
No difficulty in mooting all calls
for farm help nt $00 a month and
board Iiob ho far boon oxporloncod by
J, W, Browor, farm holp specialist of
tho federal department of agrlculttiro
and tho Htuto agricultural college.
Many requests nro coming In,
Pimm and HpoclflentlniiH for Hownr
Improvements in tl0 VitrUir Hill resi
dence diHlrlot of North Bond amount.
lug lo moro lliuu 130,000 worn upprov.
od und adopted nt u mooting of Iho
lly (jouikiII rooonlly. 'J'olul street lm.
provoinynlM lliuro will uxecod flCO.dOO,
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