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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS E OF CI1EIIT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted Teople, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Several persons were Injured and considerable property damage caused by a tornado at Roseboro and Long Branch. N. C late Friday. King Alfonso and Queen Victoria of Spain escaped injury Friday when their automobile overturned while they were going to the Hippodrome to at tend the races, said a dispatch from Madrid. A 40 per cent Increase of salaries was granted Sunday to the principal cfficers of the United Brethren church by delegates to the quadrennial con ference. Thirty officers will receive the advances. One hundred men employed In the sawmill of the Beardmore Lumber company at Spirit Lake, Idaho, have gone on strike as a result of the com pany's attempted institution of the nine-hour day. A referendum covering IS questions of an agricultural nature pending in congress will be voted upon by ap proximately 2,000,000 farmers, it was announced Tuesday. The call for the national referendum was Issued by the American Farm Bureau federation. From his desk in the White House President Harding Tuesday opened by telephone the first annual California Orange show at Anaheim, Cal. The president spoke a few words of greet ing to the show Officials at the other end of the wire and wished the en terprise success. The senate finance committee was asked Tuesday by James B. Garfield of Cleveland to exempt from federal taxa tion incomes from scientific, chari table, religious and educational trust funds. He also asked legislation which would free bequests to such founda tions from estates taxes. Final statistics placing the total pop ulation of continental United States at 105,710,620, or 27,517 more than was announced last October, when pre liminary figures were given out, were submitted to Speaker Gillett of the house of representatives for appor tionment purposes by the census bureau. Injunction against local branches of six maritime associations and unions, in Seattle, restraining them from picketing or trespassing on shipping board vessels, and from "other acts of violence," has been asked in a suit in equity filed in federal court Tues day by United States District Attorney Saanders. Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll was sen tenced Tuesday to pay a fine of $7000 for the part Bhe was convicted of tak ing in the evasion of the draft laws by her sons, Grover and Erwin Bergdoll. If she refuses or fails to pay by June 13, Federal Judge Dickinson imposed the alternative sentence of one year and one day in federal prison. Senators Borah of Idaho and those associated with him in the senate oh questions of naval policy, virtually won their fight Tuesday for Incorporation in the $500,000,000 naval appropriation bill of the Borah amendment request ing the presidept to call a naval dis armament conference of the United States, Great Britain and Japan. . The United States railroad labor board late Tuesday announced its in' tention of revising downward wages of more than one million unskilled rail workers, effective July 1. The amount of the decrease will be made public on June 1. The board also announced that It would hold bearings June 6 re garding proposals by the roads to de crease the wages of other classes of employes and would also make its de cision in these cases effective on the same date. , A similar decision on skill ed workers would affect approximate ly two million men. I1 MUflNT AURORA CAUSES FLAMES Telephone Exchange Burned and Ca ble Communication Hindered. Brewster, N. Y. A fire which de stroyed the Central New England rail way station here Saturday night was caused by the aurora borealls, in the opinion of railway officials. Telegraph Operator Hatch said he was driven away from his instrument by a flare of flame which enveloped the switchboard and ignited the build ing. London. Telegraph and telephone lines in the British isles aid through out all northern Europe have been ser iously Interrupted by the great mag netic storm which virtually paralysed wire transmission In the United States Saturday night and Sunday. Cables between England and the United States were affected early Monday morning and transmission was badly delayed. The disturbance was believed to have caused a fire which destroyed a telephone exchange at Karlstad, a Swedish town about 160 miles west of Stockholm. The building was de stroyed. New York. Damage to the Western Union Telegraph company's trans Atlantic cables by the electrical dis turbance accompanying the aurora borealls Saturday and Sunday nights may necessitate raising of the cables for repairs, Newcomb Carlton, Its president, announced Monday night Traffic on thacables was inter rupted from time to time during the disturbance, he said, and serious dam age caused by the stray electrical cur rents. "The magnetic disturbance," he said, was much the worst ever experienced. A great many fuses were blown out on our land lines and we had great dif ficulty with the submarine cables. The oceanic currents accompany ing the aurora searched out the weak spots in the cable insulation, aggra vating them and interrupting service." GERMANS OBDURATE, MILLERAND ASSERTS Little, France. With Germany still disclaiming responsibility for the war, there is no other course than to deal with her as one who must be compel! ed to make good her misdeeds, de clared President Millerand In an ad dress delivered Monday in the pres ence of King Albert of Belgium. "If the citizens of Lille and northern France and Belgium are too generous to claim revenge," he aald, "they nevertheless, in accordance with the remainder of the people of France and the allies, demand justice against the government and the nation which brought on the war, and which, throughout the hostilities, pursued a systematic course of ruin and devas tation toward the mines and Indus ries, employing pillage and arson as a means of insuring their own indus trial and economic ascendancy upon the coming of peace. "As long as Germany continues to deny the responsibility which her plenipotentiary acknowledged at Ver sailles there can be no real peace. "It Is not to the democracies, eager for work and peace, that one must look for imperialism. We cherish no ambition other than to assure to fu ture generations liberty, fraternity and peace, in which individual happiness shall be the fruit of disinterested devo tion to the right and the ideals." 12 Die. In Train Wreck. Toulouse, France. Twelve persons were killed and 60 injured when two express trains coming from Paris jump ed the track Saturday night witnln a few miles of one another. The fact that In each case eight coaches were derailed and the locomotives and their tenders remained on the track caused the ordering of an investigation. In each instance the coupling between the tender and the first coach snapped, Collma Is In Eruption. Mexico City. The volcano of Collma in Jalisco, long inactive, was in erup tion Sunday. Smoke and ashes were coming from the crater and the phe nomenon was accompanied by strong rumblings. An earthquake of 20 seconds duration was registered Sat urday night throughout Jalisco. MEXICDTO BETDLD ill Recognition of Obregon Will Depend on Conditions. STATEMENT DEFINITE Americans and Their Interests Must Be Safeguarded Before U. S. Will Resume Relations. Washington, D. C. A definite state ment outlining conditions on which the United States would extend recog nition to the Mexican government has been prepared for submission to Presi dent Obregon. This statement, in the form of a memorandum, It was said Sunday night, will bo delivered to Ob regon by George T. Summerlln, coun selor of the American embassy at Mexi co Ciry. who is expected to leave for Mexico this week. Conditions for recognition, it is understood, are practically identical with recommendations made by Sec retary Fall in his report to congress as chairman of a subcommittee of the senate foreign relations committee. The communication Is said to insist that Obregon must sign a document giving assurances that Americans and their interests will be safeguarded in Mexico before the United States will consider resumption of formal rela tions. If such assurances are given, It is believed Henry P. Fletcher, under secretary of state, who was ambassa dor to Mexico under Wilson until he resigned, will be designated to repre sent the United States in drafting a treaty. The communication contains noth Ing which can justify its being char acterized as an ultimatum, but It is understood Obregon will be left In no doubt as to tho determination of the American administration to see that American Interests are not in definitely discriminated against. It Is said to have been prepared in collab oration with Secretary Fall. Conditions set forth are: Elimination of provisions of articles 27 of the Mexican constitution relat ing to the nationalization of the sub soil rights insofar as they affect tenure of land to which title was obtained prior to the adoption of the constltu tlon in 1917. Elimination of the provisions which deprive Americans of the right of diplomatic appeal in cases where prop erty is acquired. Modification of the provisions which prevent American acquiring and own ing property within a certain zone along the Mexican coasts and interna tional boundaries. along the Mexican coasts and inter national boundaries. Assurance that article 33 providing for the expulsion of "pernicious foreigners" will not be applied to Americans without filing charges and opportunity of a fair trial. Modification of the provisions gov erning religious worship in such man ner that American clergy shall have the right to exercise functions usual In their denominations. It is- also suggested that the two governments agree to the creation of a mixed court for the adjudication of claims. MARINE WORKERS ACCEPT WAGE CUT Washington, D. C Acceptance of the 1$ per cent wage reduction for marine engineers demanded by the shipping board, but with modifications as to working conditions, is understood to be Included in an agreement reach ed here Saturday at conferences be tween Secretary Davis. Chairman Ben son of the board, and representatives of the Marine Engineers' Beneficial association. ' Separate agreements, it is under stood, will be signed by represent tlves of the radio operators and the seamen. The changes in working conditions and overtime, it was. indicated, would bring the actual reduction in wages to somewhat less than 15 per cent IHATQUC M QTnn Mini urn- Miuui uu STATE NEWS J Baker. Advertising for bids for Im provements to be made at the tourist camp grounds will be started soon. Mayor Gardner Is getting specifica tions ready for bidders. Wlllamlna. Miss Freida Yates Is one of the few eighth grade pupils In the county to win the Palmer graduat ing award In penmanship. She Is, In addition, a talented musician. Miss Roxlo Carter won first honors In pen manship In the high school. Albany. An eagle's nest containing two young birds was found on the limb of a large fir tree felled by wood cutters on the farm of William Evans, five miles north of Lebanon. One of the birds was killed when the tree fell but the other was captured. Bend. Petitions filed recently re sulted Thursday morning In designs tlon by the Deschutes county court of June 7 as the date on which a fCO.OOO bond Issue will be voted on. It ap proved, the bonds will finance cooper attve work with the state highway commission. Bend. Snow has been receding rap- Idly In the Deschutes national forest, forest officials report, and scenlo roads Into the mountains will soon be open for use. It will be possible to reach Odell lake, one of the largest bodies of water In central Oregon, In two weeks, it was predicted. Pendleton. The first big sale of wool by Umatilla county growers this season became known last week, when It was announced that Alfred Smith. Tuesday disposed of a clip comprising about 60,000 pounds' for the J. E. Live stock company, to the ' Studley & Emery company of Boston. Astoria. A naval officer Is to arrive here'ln the near future to take formal possession of the Tongue Point naval base site, which will be the first step of the department, leading up to be ginning actual work in the Improve ment of the property and the estab lishment of the naval base. Salem. Road work, already con tracted since January 1, 1921, and pro posed through awards to be made at a meeting of the state highway com mission in Portland May 27, exceeds that for the entire year of 1920 by 20 miles, according to a report prepar ed by Herbert Nunn, state highway engineer. Dallas. The Polk county highway controversy was definitely settled at a meeting here Friday between state highway commissioner Booth and Yeon and the members of the county court By the terms of agreement, the com mission' will resume work at once on the Salem-Dallas highway, Including a mile within the city limits of Dallas, Salem. The California Oregon Pow er company has filed with the state engineer application to appropriate 2100 second feet of water from the Kla math river, for the development of 70,000 horsepower. The site of this water appropriation was investigated by the state several years ago In con junction with the United States recla mation service. North Bend. A. II. Derbyshire, sec retary-trcasurer of the Coos Bay farm loan association, had but (22,000 allot ted here for farm loans In 1921. Rules and regulation of getting loans were given In Mr. Derbyshire's announce ment, and it was stated that the rate of interest had been increased from 6 1-2 to 6 per cent. Since the loan plan went Into effect, the Coos bay associa tion usually has used Its limit yearly, Salem. Thero were six fatalities due to industrial accidents In Oregon In the week ended May 12, according to a report Issued by the state Indus trial accident commission Friday. The victims were: John Johnson, fuller, In dependence; John Anderson, wood splitter, Portland; Lester Goodwin laborer, Buena Vista; Ray Thompson, raftsman, Nehalem; Frederick We gener, longshoreman, Astoria, and Walter Saka, logger, Black Rock. Salem. A big crop of loganberries and strawberries Is promised here this year, according to S. II. Van Trump, county horticultural Inspector, who recently completed a' survey of the berry sections of the county. Peach trees, be Bald, had not yet recovered from the freeze In 1919, but the crop will be much larger than that of last year. The Italian prune crop was somewhat affected by recent rains and Mr, VanTriimp said it was too early to estimate the damage. BOY SCOUTS (Conduct by Niioiml Council of ths Hoy cou of America SCOUTS SOW GOOD HABITS Scouts everywhere art Interested In . gardening and forestry. Iu a went Issue of IlojV Life, the chief scout executive remind the boys of the movement thut there Is another kind of planting going on all the time, whether they are conscious of the process or not, Mr. West nays: "Hoy time Is essentially planting time. The habits you are forming now ore the ones you will reap me nr"' of when you get to manhood. And that Is where scouting comes In as a sort of expert gardener to show you what to plant, ond how and why to .... "One of the accusations mai i sometimes mnl'. H me Justice. cainaf American iteniite, H a whole, Is our luck of thoroughness, our tendency to be 'Jacks of niuny iritucs. expert at none. This charge sitotiKi never be allowed to (It or Ml a scow. Tiinrni!L'liniK Mini the doing of a given taMk, 'pon honor, to the best of our ability should be. mid I nm glad to say usually I. characteristic of boys who are scout. KVeii ir u i a nuu thing In Itself, like learning to tie a certain kind of knot, keep at It until you have the trick completely mus tered, ami enn tie Him knot any Hoe. any plnce. Just right, ns speedily and deftly s possible. "Take the matter of first Sid. when you are learning to make bandages and . tourniquets, studying and prsc- . tlclng what to do In cuse of a certain accident or how to prevent that acd dent from hapitenlng. put your whole mind and skill Into It. I-rn to do It, not 'any old way,' but Just right, so that If the time conn when you are called upon, In the flush of an Instant to put that knowledge to prac tical use, you will not be found want ing. "Be prepared. Sow habits of en ergy, patience, perseverance. Train your mind and body to work together In splendid alliance. Live clean lives, think clean thoughts, read great book, follow true heroes, like Abraham Lin coln and Theodore Roosevelt. Hunt for tomorrow and manhood." MESSAGE FROM SPANISH CHIEF. In connection with the new Interna tional scout magazine representing all the scouts of th world, the chief scout of Spain makes this slntement: "To create an International Journal , which shall be the expression of the common Ideals that flourish hcuenth tjo boy seouts' Hug throughout tho world; and with Unit Journal to currry to the farthest corners of the earth the common desire for physical and moral redemption for which men of goodwill In all climes are striving, will he to endow with u new strength, with the winged and powerful strength of written thought, this gigantic rrusndo of universal brotherhood which alreudy binds with strong links the youth of all countries, without distinction of race or frontier, "The boy Bcouts of Spnln, who are working for their country and for their well-being, follow the Inspiration of Haden-i'oweU'H Immortal doctrine, cannot forget that they are port of Unit enteriTlse, or that In all nations they have brothers with the same de sires and ideals; and for this reason they rally with enthusiasm to the work of their common publication, which will tlnd In us fervent propa gandists If It serves, as we hope, to strengthen and encourage the noble scout alms." ELECTION OF SCOUT OFFICIALS. At its annual meeting, March 7, the National council elected the following new officers: Honorary president, Warren G. Harding; honorary vice preiUdent, Woodrow Wilson ; vice presi dent, Harold McCormlck of Chicago. New members of the national execu tive board are Messrs. Richmond Dean of Chicago, Mr. McCormlck, ond Mr. James J. Phelun of Boston. Former ofllcers re-elected are os follows: Ex ecutive board members, Daniel Car ter Beard, Alfred W. Duter, Lewis b! Gawtry, Walter W. Head, Jeremluh W. Jenks, George D, Pratt ond Mortimer L. Schlffj honorary vice presidents, Hon. Wlllium II. Tuft, Daniel Carter Heard, Hon. W. O. McAdoo; president, Colin II. Livingstone of Washington ; vice presidents, BeJumln Duluncy of Bristol, Tenn., Arthur Letts of Los Angeles, Cul., Milton A. McRae of Do trolt, Mich.; Mortimer L. Bchlff, New York City; Nutlouul scout commission er, Daniel . Carter Beurd; treusurer, George D. Pratt, Brooklyn N. Y. m