Eagle Valley news., June 26, 1919, Image 6

WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Most Important
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Events of Noted People, Governments
;and PacJGc Northwest, and Other
Things Worth Knowing.
Fuchow, China reports 6000 students
arrested and held by the Chinese and
Japanese military authorities.
The Italian government resigned
Friday evening following an adverse
vote against it in tho chamber of
deputies.
A copy of an extra newspaper bear
ing the head lino "Tho Days of Car
ranza Aro Numbered," wa3 brought to
El Paso, Tex., Thursday by an Amer
ican who said the edition was sup
pressed soon after It appeared on' tho
streets in Mexico City.
More than S0.000 soldiers, many still
overseas, havo notified Secretary
Lane of their desire to obtain farms
under the plan Indorsed by him. The
plan Is now being considered by the
house public lands committee.
Governor Thomas Itiggs Jr., of
Alaska has received a cable stating
the epidemic of influenza at Bristol
bay and other western Alaska points
has been suppressed. A government
expedition is now on Its way from
the states to fight the epidemic.
Steps to protect American citizens
in the Mexican state of Chihuahua
from possible rebel attacks have been
taken by the Mexican government,
General Candldo Aguilar, confidential
ambassador from Mexico to the United
States, informed the state department
Saturday.
Representative Galllvan, democrat,
of Massachusetts, in an attack on the
administration of Postmaster-General
Burleson, declared it would be a great
relief to the people of the United
States if President Wilson "would
hurry home and clean house in his
official family."
A comprehensive reconstruction
programme designed "to bring to all
people greater hope for a better day,
a brighter life, greater liberty and a
larger degree of happiness," was
adopted by the American Federation
of Labor at Thursday's session of Its
annual convention.
With 747 Canadian-Siberian troops
on board, tho steamer Monteagle ar
' rived at Victoria Friday from the
orient and Vladivostok. Eight Russian
stoways were discovered on the vessel.
The soldiers landed at Victoria in
cluded F. Atkinson, San Francisco,
Cal and E. A. Franklin, Alturas, Cai.
Appearing before the senate naval
committee to urge an increase in the
appropriation for naval aviation from
S15.000.000, fixed by the house, to $35,
000,000, Secretary Daniels vigorously
opposed proposals that the air serv
ices of the army, navy and postoffice
department bo consolidated under a
cabinet officer.
Provision In the army appropriation
bill for maintenance of an army of 400,
000 officers and men during tho next
fiscal year Is tentatively agreed on
by the senato military sub-committee.
Tho house bill, which was boforo tho
committee, reduced tho size of tho
temporary army of 09,000 officers and
men requested by tho war department
to 300,000.
Indictments charging them with
conspiring to trade with tho onemy
during tho war period woro returned
at San Francisco Tuesday against
Henry A. Wostphal, C. O, Swanberg
and It. It, Russ, prominent San Fran
cisco merchants.
Under a resolution introduced by
ItoproBuntutlvo Nolan, republican of
California, congress would docluro that
President Wilson may "permit tho
manufacture and production of Unlit
wlncn iid beers," now prohibited
under llio wur-tlmo prohibition not,
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STATE NEWS I
IN BRIEF. I
Six out of seven school districts In
Washington county voted, 227 to 117,
to build tho first union high school
In that county In Hunks.
Voters of Bend will bo called on to
cast their ballots In n special election
Juno 2S, to vote on tho proposed $51,000
city budget, tho city council decided
recently. Tho budgot represents tho
largest estimate of expenses over pro
posed. Wnyuo Jackson, 21, was drowned
Wednesday when tho car which ho was
driving was thrown into Little Nes
tucca river after striking loose broken
planks In tho road north of the draw
bridge across tho river in tho southern
part of Tillamook county.
A county organization for tho pro
motion of the pure-bred dairy stock In
dustry Is being planned by tho direct
ors of the Lnno County Fair associa
tion In connection with tho fair. Tho
question was raised at a meeting of
the fair board Friday night. Details
will be worked out later.
The big packing plant of tho D. E.
Nebergall Meat company nt Albany,
which wns destroyed by flro Sunday,
will bo rebuilt at once. JJcforo tho
ruins had stopped smouldering offi
cials of the company said they would
rebuild and they are now going ahead
with plans for Immediate reconstruc
tion. Hood Hlver county roads were never
better. Is the declaration of County
Judge L. N. Blowers, who, with County
Itoadmaster W. L. Nichols nnd Com
missioner F. H. Blnckman, motored to
the Upper East Fork last week to In
spect a steel bridge just placed there
on the trunkllne highway to Mount
Hood.
Plans for a new flouring mill to bo
operated by the Portland flouring mills
were filed last week with City Building
Inspector Plummer by the Hurley
Mason Construction company. Tho
estimated cost of the new structure Is
$60,000 and It will be erected at tho
foot of Skldmore street In the north
east section of the city.
Reversal of the conviction of William
Z. Moss, wealthy Harney county cattle
man, on a charge of cattle (stealing wns
ordered by the supreme court last week
in an opinion handed down by Justice
Bennett. The court held that the con
viction of Moss was not warranted by
the evidence produced at his prosecu
tion. Shooting of fireworks, Including fire
crackers, torpedoes, Roman rockets,
etc., will be prohibited within the busi
ness district by the mayor of Dallas
during the Fourth of July celebration.
The mayor has the support of tlio en
tire council and extra policemen will
be employed to see that the order Is
carried out.
The claim is made In Marshfleld by
fishermen that the low prices are driv
ing away men who "bring halibut, salm
on, ling and other deep-sea fish into
that port to other points. This Is de
nied by Charles Feller, who buys the
J catches, and he states his prices are
equal to those paid In other places,
according to comparative transporta
tion charges.
A meeting of the guarantors of the
Dallas Chautauqua was held recently
with President Oscar Hayter presiding.
Plans for selling season tickets were
adopted. The Ellison-White Chautau
qua company promise that this year's
programme will bo tho best ever pre
sented to the people of this locality,
several of tho speakers being of na
tionwide prominence.
Tho Standard Oil company recently
announced tho purchase of a block in
tho St. Helens outskirts whore It will
construct a $20,000 distributing station.
On a trip to inspect tho ranches of
central Oregon In search of evidence
of wheat rust Godfrey Horner of the
bureau of plant industry, Washington,
D. C, was In Bend Thursday. Prnctl
cully no traces of rust woro found.
Harvest will start In Umatilla coun
ty Immediately uftor tho Fourth of
July. In tho west und northwest sec
tions of tho county grain Is already
far udvanccd. Whllo farmers uro Htlll
uixIouh for rain, prospect! aro good
for a flno crop, In tho reservation sec
tion, whoro tlio heavy producing land
Iks, there has been no dumugo. Cool
ii I flits' und days recently have Im
proved roieMtlomi much, Furnew aro
Informed Hint llioy will rftrolvo Vt
:onU premium on sucked Kruln,
HUNS SINK TEUTON
FLEET IN HARBOR
Red Flag Hoisted as Order for
Scuttling Ships.
CREWS FIRED UPON
All Capital Ships Hut One Arc Sent
to llottoni. Act Is Declared
Breach of Armistice.
London. Tho Herman officers and
sailors forming the complements of tho
German ships Interned at Scapa Flow
sank most of their fleet Saturday. All
the big ships, tho battleships and battlo
cruisers, except tho linden, and nu
merous smaller craft were sunk, while
others wont ashore in a half-sunken
condition.
Eighteen destroyers wore benched by
tugs, four remained afloat, while tho
romnlntlor wont under. Tho wholesale
sinking of tho Germnn ships which
were surrendered under tho terms of
the armistice, was carefully arranged
by officers and crews. All explosives
had been removed and therefore tho
only means of destroying tho fleet was
by opening tho seacocks. Tho ships
went down slowly, with tho Gorman
flag, which the crews had hoisted,
showing at tho mast heads.
The crows, composed entirely of Ger
mans, under the terms of tho nrmlstleo
which did not permit of Ilrlttsh guards
aboard, took to the boats when tho ves
sels began to settle. While making for
the shore tho boats wero challenged
and called upon to surrender. Some of
them Ignored the summons and wero
fired upon, a few casualties resulting.
The stroke apparently was an entire
surprise nnd the first news reached
London through a correspondent, who
was Informed by farmers In tho neigh
borhood that they had scon tho German
ships sinking with their flags aloft.
The admlrallty at first denied the re
port, but later confirmed It nnd Issued
an official statement. The Germnn offi
cers and crews havo been made prison
ers. None of tho officials would offer
an opinion as to how they are to be
dealt with.
WINNIPEG TURNED
OVER TO MILITARY
Winnipeg. Winnipeg, strike-torn
since May lli, Is now under martial
law. After fighting Sntnrdaj after
noon fetv.-ccii thousands of strikers and
the city and provincial police, In which
one man was killed, another Injured,
probably fatally, and more than a score
hurt, Mayor OharlcB F. Gray formnlly
turned over tho city to the possession
of the military forces.
General II. I). II. Ketchen announced
that he has taken full charge of the
situation. At 7 o'clock rioting had
ceased and the victims of the fighting
were In hospitals. Scores of alleged
rioters aro In custody.
Armored curs are now in position In
front of the city hall. Tho situation Is
believed Jo be under control.
Three Incidents In quick succession
in mid-afternoon precipitated the most
turbulent scenes In tho history of Win
nipeg. Several thousand strikers nnd
strike sympathizers, Including some re
turned soldiers, wero participating In
a "silent" parade. A street car at
tempted to get through tho crowd on
Main street. Some of tho paraders be
came openly hostile and when mounted
police camo down tho street to clear
tho thoroughfare tho parado quickly
was turned Into a rioting mob.
It was announced that .".00 alleged
rioters are In tho pnllcp cells.
Tho street car service, In part, re
sumed during the past thrco doys, au
tomatically stopped,
Warship to Quell Natives,
Juneau, Alasku, Submarine chaser
No. 310 whh ordered by Governor
Thomas lllggs In tho vicinity of Yulat
tut village to quell a reported nnllvo
uprising thorn Sunday, Tlio governor
itlso ordered llio gunboat VIclcsburK to
Kodluk und Port Althrop, where can
mirymun urn ulrlklnK und wJmrn ro
porU of iilluKti'l tiOlwhuvlHI act I vl I ha
liu (1 mn umriij,
VILLA PURSUERS RETURN
American Punitive Kxpcdltlon Into
Mexico Slays Muny,
HI Pnso, Toxns. American troops
Hint participated in tho punltlvo ex
pedition ngnlnat tho Villa rebels In
and near Juarez Sunday night and
Monday nro bllluted in barracks and
camps on tho Amurlcnn aldo.
As n renr-guard to thu cavalry, ar
tillery and engineers' columns which
wound over tho mesa from tho river,
seven ragged, high-hatted Mexican
prisoners woro horded toward tho Fort
miss stockade by a detachment of tho
Fifth cavalry, whllo another cavalry
detachment drove a hurd of 100 Mexi
can horses nnd ponies captured from
tho Villa forces to tho remount station.
Whllo no official report of tho cav
airy operations has yet been prepared,
It Is officially stated at Fort Bliss that
approximately CO Villa followers woro
killed and prisoners, horses nnd mules
captured.'
Ono American, of tho 7th cnvalry,
Corporal Chlgas, was shot through thu
lung by n Moxlcal rebel.
After crossing during tho night, thu
cavnlry column, supported by a bat
talion of tho 62d artillery, advanced
nnd at daybreak started scouting over
tho low, marshy fields in tho olbow
of thu Klo Grnndo south of Yslctn,
Tex.
Capturing tho soven prisoners bo
foro reaching tho Villa camp, tho cav
alry 'was onnbled to proceed, dis
mounted,, to n short distance of the
adobo headquarters, when fighting
was begun by the Americans, standing
In water to their knees, according to
cavnlry officers. Four Villa men wero
killed In tho first assault and tho en
tire force, numbering approximately
200 men, mounted nnd escaped toward
tho southwest, with tho cavalry troops
In pursuit.
Tho seven Muxlcnu prisoners pro
fessed to bo olther farmers In tho val
ley or Cnrrauzn soldiers, none admit
ting having been with Villa.
HOPES OF KEYMEN
REST ON BURLESON
Chicago Termination of tho nation
wide strike of commercial telegraph
ers, union officials declared Tuesday,
now rests almost wholly In tho hands
of Postmaster-General llurleson. They
said a definite statement from Mr.
llurleson concerning tho scope of thu
order to elecjtrlcnl workers would ho
awaited boforo any move Is made.
Officers of tho Commercial Telog
raphcrs' Union of America said If tho
postmaster-general's order granting
tho right of collective bargaining to
olectrlcnl workers uctually covered tho
striking tolegraphors, stops probably
would bo taken to end tho walkout
uur asBurunces of no unfair dlscrlm
Inatlon against thorn had been obtain
ed. "In tho meantime wo shall con
tinue pluns for a fresh fight, n fight
for tho sama rights that havo been
oxtended electrical workers." 8. J.
Kononkatnp, International president of
tho union, said at n meeting of thu
strikers.
Ho reiterated that tho strike Is
spreading nnd now Includes nearly 25,
000 persons, nnd declared tho ordor
for railroad telegraphers to rofuso to
handle commercial hijslnoss had clog
ged channels to scores of smaller
towns throughout thu country.
Newspapers Are Tied Up.
Vancouver, H. C, Tho Vancouver
World wns tho only newspaper In this
city to appear with usual editions
Tuesday as n result of tho publishers'
refusing to submit to a censorship of
strlko nows matter by tho printers.
Upon refusal of men In tho Province
chapel to Hot an ndvortlsoment ob
jected to by them, tho management
called on tho men to observe their
contract and asked thoso who refused
to leave. Tho chapel wlthdrow. Tho
Sun, morning, has not published since
Bntuniuy. Projddont M. a. Scott of
tho International Typographical union
telegraphed that hfi had ordered tho
men back to work.
House Pasoes Naval Dill,
Washington, I). O, With nuthorlza
tlon for it now thrco-your building pro
gniinino eliminated und tho fund for
naval uvlutlon reduced to $10,000,000,
tho 1920 iiavul appropriation .bill was
puHsnd Monday by thu house und( Hunt
to thu hoiiuIo, The ineuHuro curries
approximately 1000,000,000 arid wum
panned In virtually llio form It cumo
from tho nuvui commltteo,
GO CAUTIOUSLY ON
LEAGUE, SAYS KNOX
Senator Sees Great Danger in
Hasty Acceptance.
FEAR LOSS OF POWER
Speech Marks Beginning in Senate of
Debate on Peace Pad New !
siirs Look Onilnoiu.
Washington. I). O. A plea against
hasty acceptance of tho league of
nations was madu to tho senate Tues
day by Senator Knox, republican of
Pennsylvania, In a carefully prepared
address analysing features of tlio
luaguo covenant and cautioning that
Its ratification would mean a far de
parture from Amerlcon traditions.
Tho league, declared thu former sec
rotary of state, would Inevitably result
In a Hiipor-govoriuuout empowered to
act even In tho domestic affairs of
member untlous nnd to preserve for all
time tho territorial boundaries shortly
to ho fixed by tho peace treaty. Ho
asserted tho new Monroe doctrine pro
vided would efface that policy from in
ternational affairs and argued that
tho amendment adopted to cover with
drawal of league members would make
such "withdrawal absolutely Impossi
ble." Tho speech marked beginning of do
hatu on Mr, Knox' resolution de
claring tho treaty should bu ratified
without delay and thu lengtio of na
tions proposal left for later considera
tion. "I ask for time," said tho senator,
"merely to consider whether or not,
under tho covenant, ns drawn, tho
(lower to put us at war will still rest
with us or bu placed In a body outside
our own government, nnd if placed out
side, whether or not such lodging of
tho sovereign power Is desirable.
"I ask only for time to deliberate
whether or not wo shall put It beyond
our power to Increase tho sire of our
army and our navy In times of dlro
emergency without first consulting tho
wishes or desires of other countries."
Tho Knox resolution did not come
technically before tho senate and tho
senator made his address In tho midst
of an appropriation bill debate.
Labor Federation Denoun
ces Soviet Regime
Atlantic City, N. J. Amid general
uproar, delegates ateudlug tho con
vention of tho American Federation of
Labor Tuesday refused to Indorse
recognition of soviet Itussla, although
urging recognition by tho United
States of the "existing Irish republic,"
ami voted against tho general strlko
proposed for July 4 in behalf of
"Tom" Moonoy, convicted In connec
tion with the prupnrodnvss day bomb
explosion In San Francisco,
Discussion of bolshovlsm dovolopcd
when tho resolution committee ronort-
eil a resolution asking withdrawal
from Itussla of American soldlors, but
refused to report others demanding
recognition of soviet, Itussla and lift
ing of tho hlockndo of Ilussian ports.
Tho committee refused to indorse rec
ognition of thu "soviet or any other
form of government in Itussla until
tho people of that country by consti
tuent or other form of national as
sembly shall havo established a truly
democratic form of government."
California Has Grasshopper Plaaue.
Santa Ilarbnra, Cu!. Great clnudn
of grasshoppers, which havo damaged
grain crops In the Cuynmn district
and orchards in I'iiro Hoblos, havo
traveled to the Foxon cuuyon bean
fields, Hunchem are poisoning them
with n mlxtiiro of bran, syrup and
purls groou and tho dead Insects niiin
bar 10 or in ore to tho square foot,
hut now hordes confliino to arrive,
County horticultural commissioner
Kiikoiio KoIIokk Is directing tho fight
iiguliml tint pest, which liu believes
will ho overcome If ull tho ran (hers
over llio IlO'inllo front will uHMUt by
usliitf (liu poison,