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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
WORLD HAPPEIIIIIGS
OF CUIEIIT WEEK
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Events f Noted People, Government
and Pacific Northwest, and Other
Thine Worth Know inf.
Marked Improvement in conditions
in the building trades. Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty said Tuesday, has beet
evidenced since his "modest but em
phatic warning',' of last week against
illegal practices.
Members of congress who served
with the colors during the world war
Tuesday night formed an organization
with the view of exchanging ideas for
the assistance of ex service men. Fif
teen attended the initial meeting, the
majority of them being new members.
Suggestion of a 5 per cent tax on
corporations to replace the excess
profits tax was made to the American
farm bureau federation conference
Wednesday by T. S. Adams, tax ex
pert of the treasury department He
also expected opposition to a sales
tax.
In the race between an airplane and
three carrier pigeons from Portland,
Oregon., to San Francisco, the first
pigeon, a navy bird called U. S. S.
California, reached its cote in Oakland
at 10:59 A. M. Tuesday, coming in
just 21 hours 19 minutes behind the
machine.
The Bowie line steamship Colonel
Bowie, with 22 men on board, found
ered in the Gulf of Mexico Monday
night, according to wireless advices re
ceived by the home office at Beaumont,
Tex. Three men were picked" up by
the British steamer Cissy; 19 men are
still missing.
A citizens' reserve corps of the army
on the basis of voluntary service in
stead of compulsory training, which it
is hoped will be trained under the
direction of General Pershing is under
formation, army officials announced
Monday. Age limits for enrollment
were placed at 16 to 35.
Francis J. Carey, 19year-okl bank
cashier of Ottawa, 111., whose theft of
about $36,000 last November was fol
lowed by widespread criticism of
Judge Landis when the latter permit
ted the youthful culprit to return home
pending sentence, was Monday sen
tenced by Judge Landis.
While motion picture cameras click
ed on the deck of a tug in the East
river Wednesday, Daniel Carone, 27,
puffing a cigarette, leaped from the
center of Brooklyn bridge and was
picked up in the water 133 feet below
unharmed. It was his second jump,
the first being made in 1915.
Plans for sending to Washington a
distinguished Japanese, who would
take up the entire range of the so
called Pacific problems, including man
dates, California, China, Siberia, Im
migration and armaments, were under
stood to be in the process of formula
tion by the Japanese government.
Archibald Fries, vice-president of
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, in an
address in New York, recently said
private ownership and operation of
railroads under government regula
tions was the accepted formula for the
future. He predicted rates would rise
no higher and soon would be reduced
by economy of operation.
Whereabouts of the official seal of
the confederacy, an unsolved mystery
for more than half a century, probably
will remain unknown. James Jones,
aged negro employe in the senate of
fice building, said to be the only per
son knowing where the seal was
buried, died Sunday without disclosing
the secret.
Declarations that the navy depart
ment is ready to take what congress
will appropriate and keep the fleet
"ready and fit to fight," and that the
war department is pursuing a policy
of retrenchment in an effort to get
down to "normalcy," were made by
Secretaries Denby and Weeks Tues
day night before the American Legion
post of the National Press club.
WORLD IS LITTLE IMPROVED
Unemployment and Unsatisfactory In
duntrial Conditions General.
Washington, D. C Financially and
economically the world situation Ira
proved but Utile In March, according
to cabled summaries received Satur
day by the bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce from Its trade
commissioners and commercial at
tachea.
In Europe tight money, unemploy'
ment and unsatisfactory industrial and
shipping conditions were In evidence,
while some declines in prices and
slight revival of building activities
were noted. In the east the situation
was described as somewhat easier,
while In South America conditions
were reported as practically unchang
ed.
Commercial Attache Lennls report
ed that business depression in Great
Britain has Increased owning to the
prospective failure of an early settle
ment with Germany on reparations.
The Russian trade agreement is not
expected appreciably to benefit busi
ness, he added, and traders are hold
ing off to secure assurance as to the
legality of payment
American imports into France con
tinue to show marked reductions, Com
mercial Attache Huntington at Taris
reported. Refusal of Germany to pay
Installments due on reparations con
tributed to a dull financial market The
situation also was described as influ
enced by the upper Sileslan plebiscite,
the British coal strike and the situa
tion in Hungary.
Ruins of Ancient Temple
on Marquesas lie Found
Honolulu. T. H. Ruins of a gigantic
temple decorated with sculptured
heads and figures in a manner un
known elsewhere in Polynesia, but
practiced by the temple builders of
Indo-Cblna and Central America, have
been discovered on the island of Hlva-
oa, in the Marquesas, by Ralph Linton,
archaeologist and member of the scien
tific exploration party of the Bishop
museum of this city. The expedition
has been in the South seas for 12
months, and will continue there for
another year.
Linton, in his report to Dr. II. E.
Gregory, director of the muesum, de
clares the temple in question "one of
the most impressive" he has ever
seen, those in Central America not
excepted.
Linton Bays that the temple ap
proach is a paved way 400 feet long,
consisting of a series of great ter
races, the lowest being 180 feet long,
12 feet high and 40 feet wide. The
construction is very good and some
of the stones weigh six tons.
Civil War Is Foreseen.
Boston. Europe was described as
preparing for "a civil war of the white
race," in an address Sunday by Bishop
MIcholai of Serbia.
"There is no sign of peace in
Europe," he said. "European civiliza
tion is white outside, but within It is
a black civilization. The third kaiser
of ' Europe is Lenine in Moscow.
Europe is suffering today not from a
kaiser but from kalserlsm."
Dr. G. L. Cady, secretary of the
American missionary society, asked
for broader toleration of the so-called
"inferior peoples," asserting they
"may yet possess the world."
"The time is past," he said, "when
you can maintain the world's peace by
Insulting discriminations against the
yellow men of Asia."
$25,000,000 Debt Due.
Washington, D. C Great Britain's
payment of $25,000,000 in principal and
interest during the funding scheme for
liquidating the debt of $122,000,000 In
curred during the war by the purchase
of $100,000,000 standard silver dollars
for the relief of the silver famine In
India falls due Friday. Payment prob
ably will be made through the federal
reserve bank in New York, treasury of
ficials said.
An additional payment of $47,000,000
also falls due May 15, officials added,
under the agreement making provision
for payment from April 15, 1919.
Heirs Are Out of Luck.
Scranton, Pa. Federal Judge Whlt-
mer Saturday handed down an opinion
in which he held that a beneficiary
named in a war risk insurance policy
was entitled to all installments due up
to the time of his death, but that un
paid Installments could not be banded
on to his heirs as part of his estate.
It was said to be the first opinion
of its nature rendered in the country.
PROFITEERS HIT-BY
II. 5. ME BODY
Retailers Blamed for Keeping
Commodities Up.
BIG CUTS ADVISED
Tendency Declared to lie to Bring
About Uniform Price, at Artl
ficially High Level.
Washington, IX C Legislation to
eliminate unnecessary brokerage trans
actions, to facilitate a wide distribu
tion! of information on market condi
tions and strengthen the powers of
the government In Its prlco Investiga
tions was recommended by the Federal
Trade commission In a report on the
Industrial situation, drawn up at the
request of President Harding and made
public Sunduy night.
"Open price asKoclatlons," which op
erate within the laws to keep their
respective members advised confident
ially of one another's price schedules.
were accused by the commission of
contributing to the maintenance of un
duly high retail prices.
"It was suggested that means must
be found to reduce costs of necessi
ties, such as fuel and housing, before
other commodities can come back to
normal.
"It should be said," the report con
tinued, "that following the disordered
condition of the world's affairs, a
shrinkage In values Is inevitable, and
that normal conditions will be the
more quickly restored If the producer,
the laborer, the manufacturer, and job
ber and the retailer will each share
at once In the unavoidable loss, and
furthermore any effort by any clement
to place its share of the common Iohs
on the shoulders of others, and parti
cularly on the congumer, can be re
sult in a continuation of the condi
tions under which the country Is suf
fering."
Declaring cost of many commodi
ties has not lxen reduced In accord
ance with the decline In raw materials,
the commission gave its belief that
"In general the movement toward the
reduction of prices Is retarded at the
retailing stage, and that relief w6uld
be reflected buck In increased produc
tion, which would reduce the produc
tion cost and relleveMo some extent.
at least, the check on the manufacturer
and by Increasing the demand for raw
materials would react on the pro
ducer."
The report took note of the influ
ence of foreign combinations of capi
tal in determining the price of grain
and added that among domestic com
binations one of the newest was the
"open-price association."
Collection and public dissemination
of statistical data might make the
operation of such associations of bene
fit tb the producer and consumer alike,
it said, but unfortunately the tendency
Is to bring about uniform prices at an
artificially high level by curtailing pro
duction or supply.
STORM DEATH TOLL
IN 6 STATES IS 97
MemphlH, Tenn. Incomplete reports
from the six states swept Friday and
Saturday by storms showed Sunday
night 97 deaths with 43 seriously in
jured and neurly 30 suffering lesser
Injuries. When reports come from iso
lated sections it Is feared that tlfe
death toll will be higher.
As compiled, the death list was:
Texas, 9; Arkansas, 66; Mississippi,
8; Alabama, 14.
In Arkansas the Injured totaled 71
Sunday night.
Extent of property loss cannot be
determined for days. In Arkansas,
on many plantations in Miller and
Hampstead counties, practically every
building was destroyed, newly plant
ed crops washed out, orchards ruined,
roads and bridges badly damaged,
while telephone and telegraph wires
were almost all destroyed. Railroads
report tracks washed out at many
places. Estimates made on the loss in
these counties place the property and
crop loss at over $2,000,000.
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STATE NEWS j
! IN BRIEF. 3
Salem. The Oregon Food Product
company has reduced its capital stock
from $300,000 to $1000 and the Snlem
Kings Products company has reduced
Its capital stock from $50,000 to $1000,
according to notices filed with the
stato corporation commissioner Sat
urday. Albany. The only damage suffered
In this vicinity from tho frosts a few
days ago was to strawberries and
peaches. No other fruits or berries
appear to be Injured to any extent,
so far as growers can discern now,
and very little damage was dono. Early
gardens appear uninjured.
Sulum. Receipts from Oregon mo
tor vehicle license fees go first Into
tho general fund of tho state and do
not become avaltublo for uo on the
roads until apportioned by the secre
tary of state on March and September
15 of each year, according to a legal
opinion given by Attorney General Van
Winkle.
Baker. Frank S. Barton and Grace
Wlt'kam were married Saturday night
on a raft in tho natatorlum swimming
pool as a feature of tho Baker Auto
mobile, show and Merchants' cxposl
tlon. Rev. 11 Tcmpla Starkey officiat
ing. The natatorlum lobby and balcony
were crowded with persons, who ap
plauded the odd spectacle.
Vale. The largest real estate trans-
fur to bo made in Malheur county In
a number of years, Involving spproxl
mately $300,000, was completed In this
city when the deed conveying part of
the holdings of the Mollno Farms com
pany to the Commerces Mortgage Se
curities company of Portland was re
corded In the offlco of the county re
corder. Salem. Any doubt as to what action
will be taken by tho Oregon public
service commission In reconsideration
of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company rato caso, was removed Sat
urday, when H. P. Corey, member of
the commission, said he would Join
with the other two commissioners In
granting tho petition of Portlund for
a rehearing.
Scappoose. A mass meeting was
held in the Watts & Prlco brill' Satur
day night to hear the report of survey
ors for tho proposed water site and to
discuss the advisability kf a new water
system for tho town. Tho meeting
was adjourned with tho understanding
that a caavnss of customers be made
beforo anything deflnlto Is decided.
The system would cost about $38,000.
Salem. Because tho Guarantee Se
curity corporation, with headquarters
In Portland, failed to list with tho state
corporation department United Clgur
Stores, Limited, stock which It had
offered for sale In Oregon, without
qualifying the same under the blue
sky law, T. B. Handley, corporation
commissioner, has revoked the li
cense of tho concern to transact busi
ness in this state.
Salem. A bid of $987,850 for $1,
000,000 of state highway bonds to
match federal aid funds in tho con
struction of forest and post rouds was
received by the state board of con
trol Saturday. Before formally ac
cepting the proposal, the board tele
graphed to the state highway commis
sion to determine whether the offer
was satisfactory to that body and to
ascertain if the Issue should be sold
In its entirety or In part.
Prlnevllle. Under tho supervision of
County Agent Tinker, Crook county la
to experiment this season in the pro
duction of sugar beets. This experi
ment is to be tried out on the Ochoco
project, selecting three acres, one each
on tho farms of Fred Woelncher, O.
W. Slayton and E. T. Slayton. It is
planned to send the product of these
three acres to a refinery for testing,
and should the experiment prove a suc
cess it 1b hoped to obtain a refinery at
this place.
Medford. The farm bureau co-operative
exchanges of Juckson, Josephine
and Douglas counties, through their
respective managers Roland Flaherty
of Medford, 'C. N. Cully of Grants
Pass and C. E. Bannlngs of Roseburg
as the result of a conference just con
cluded here by the managers will
hereafter handle shipments of live
stock to market together, sending only
one man from here to handle the
simultaneous shipments from each exchange.
HARDING CASTS OUT
LEAGUE COMIIT
President Proclaims Rejection
of Versailles League.
EARLY PEACE URGED
America Will Have No Part in Super
Power Government - Message
Given to World.
Washington, I. ('. Final rejection
of tho Versailles league of nations by
tho American government was pro
claimed to tho world Tuesday by Presi
dent Harding In a solemn pronounce
ment of tho fort-Inn policies of hi
administration.
Speaking beforo tho new congress,
tho president declared acceptance of
tho league would bo nothing short
of a betrayal of tho mandate of the
November elections. Instead, he nuk
ed a congressional declaration of peacn
and for reaffirmation of those portions
of the Versailles treaty which protect
American rights and interests lu the
war settlement.
"In tho existing league of nation,
world governing with its superpowers,
this republic will liuvo no purt," ho
said. "It Is only fulr to say to tho
world In general and to our associates
In war In particular that tho league
covenant can have no sanction by us."
A tremendous demonstration fol
lowed this declaration, republican sen
ators and representatives leading,
while most of their democratic col
leagues sat silent. After weighing tho
words of tho president, tho senate Ir
reconcilable wero claiming rumpled
victory, predicting that oven tho por
tions of tho treaty Indorsed by Mr.
Harding never would receive senate
approvul.
In his recommendations for domestic
legislation, tho president gave greatest
attention to tariff and lax revilon and
to tho railway situation, though ho
Indorsed lesser measures which con
gressional leaders declared might, pro
long the special session until the snow
flies. He also declared his faith In a
maintained merchant murine and in
the principle of armament reduction
without asking for legislation.
An emergency tariff was placed at
tho head of tho requests, ami within
un hour after he had finished tho
house wuys and means ronimitteo
agreed to reach tho emergency tneus
uro vetoed by President Wilson. For
tho permanent tariff hill Mr. Harding
mude no specific suggestion! except
that it follow the principle of protec
tion. Similarly ho refrained from detailed
recommendations on taxation, content;
Ing himself with a discussion of tho
situation with a reminder that his
party pledged Itself to repeal the ex
cess profits tux. Ho also recalled the
promise to organize a separate govern
ment department of public welfuro.
Declaring rates and operating ex
penses of the rullroads must 1j low
ered, Mr. Harding asked that congress
Investigate the transportation problem.
He recommended coordination of ull
government agencies dealing with
former service men, strengthening of
tho federal laws affecting hlghwuy con
struction and maintenance, enactment
of budget legislation and a con
gressional inquiry into lynching dnd
ruce relations.
British Miners Reject Proffers
London. Tho conference of the
mine owners, mine workers and gov
ernment offlcluls Tuesday failed to
reuch a settlement in the miners'
strike, miners refusing to accept the
premier's proposals for a national set
tlement of wages without a nutlonul
pool of profits which Mr. Lloyd Georgo
declared impracticable.
Transport workers and railwaymen.
however, suspended their strike no
tices, which would have expired at'
midnight.
The only government proposal which
the miners would consider was one
in which the governmont offered after
the wago question had been settled.
to give temporary assistance to miti
gate the rapid reduction of wages; the
others they brushed aside.