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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS PAGE TWO WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted Teople, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. King Peter of Serbia died in Bel grade Tuesday. Prohibition has been abolished in soviet Russia and the country now is on a light wine basis. Brigadier-General R. M. Blatchford. now with -the fourth division, has been ordered to the command at Vancouver barracks. Washington. The senate has passed a bill mak ing it possible for the president to ap point Major-General Leonard Wood governor-general of the Philippines. Although the Inland Empire and Spokane were struck Saturday night with one of the worst dust, wind and electric storms since 1913, little dam age was reported. Cuts ranging from about 2 cents to 8 cents a 1000 cubic feet in the price of gas to California consumers were made effective on meter readings of September 3 by an order Tuesday of the state railroad commission. A resolution introduced by Senator Calder, republican. New York, felici tating the people of Italy, who will celebrate the 600th anniversary of the birth of Dante, the poet, on September 14, is adopted by the senate. The senate claim to a share of responsibility for the foreign affairs of the nation was recognized by Presl- dent Harding Tuesday by the designa tion of Senator Lodge of Massachu setts, chairman of the foreign relations committee, as a member of the Amer ican delegation to the disarmament conference. Curtailment of naval building, due to decreased appropriations, will ma terially slow up work on new battle chips and battle cruisers, it is said at the navy department. There is $53, 000,000 available for the work, against $113,000,000 requested. A partial sua pension of work at plants fabricating material for the ships already has taken place, it is said. Russian relief negotiations, as they Involve the question of American con trol of food distribution, were discuss ed in some detail Tuesday by Presi dent Hardin? and his cabinet. Con siderable difficulty has arisen from the disposition of the Russian soviet government to impose restrictions con flicting with the American relief ad ministration's determination that re lief supplies must be under American control throughout. Any householder could have home brew under interpretations placed up on an amendment to the Willis-Campbell beer bill, approved Tuesday by the house. The amendment, adopted 68 a substitute for a senate provision, would require federal agents to have warrants before entering homes in search of liquor. It provides, however, that no warrants shall be issued for search of a home "unless there is rea son to believe such dwelling is used as a place in which liquor is manu factured for sale, or sold." Governor Harding of the federal re serve board telegraphed the San Fran cisco federal reserve bank Tuesday to investigate a complaint of Dr. C. J. Smith of Portland, Or., that the North western Wheat Growers' association is in danger of losing heavily on 2a, 000,000 bushels of w heat because of re fusal of local banks to advance need ed money. He said local banks took the view that wheat should be actually sold before money could be advanced. Dr. Smith's telegram, received by Sen ator McNary, requested government aid to the extent' of $5,000,000 to be used as a revolving fund, the security to be given to consist of wheat re ceipts' covered by mortgage and in turance. TAX MEASURE UP TO HOUSE Reductions to Aggregate $330,000,000- DecUion Due Soon. Washington, D. C The administra tion tax revision bill was laid before the house of representatives Monday after the republican membership of that body in conference had changed It so as to make repeal of the excess profits tax and the Income surtax rates in excess of 32 per cent effective next January 1 Instead of last January 1. This change, on the basis of pre vious treasury estimates, would re sult In the corporations ana indi viduals with large incomes paying to the government In the next calendar year something like $200,000,000 more than they would have paid had the administration plan of making the re peals retroactive prevailed. Total tax reductions for this fiscal year under the bill as revised were estimated by some majority members of the ways and means committee at $350,000,000. as against approximately $550,000,000, planned by committee re publicans, and the total tax yield at about $3,200,000. As a result of the changes made by the republican con ference, majority committee members further amended the bill before Us presentation In the house so as to make the corporation income tax 12 ft per cent after next January 1 Instead of 15 per cent, as originally planned, and the manufacturers' tax on cereal beverages 6 cents a gallon Instead of 12 cents. The bill proposes repeal of all of the transportation taxes effective next January 1, increased exemptions to heads of families and married men having Incomes of less than $5000, de creases in the levies on candy, sport ing goods, furs and art and art works; the substitution of manufacturers' taxes for the so-called nuisance and luxury levies, and other changes, de tails of which have been given In pre vious Associated Press dispatches. Additional revisions Include exemp tion from taxation of the salaries of the president of the United States and the judges of the supreme and inferior federal courts and also amounts re ceived by individuals as compensa tion, family allotments and allowances under provisions of the war risk in surance and vocational rehabilitation acts. Farmers' Rights Avowed. Washington, D. C American pro ducers must "oppose any effort on the part of the interests to place farm pro ducts on the tariff free list," said a telegram sent Monday by five sena tors from western states to the South era Tariff association, meeting at Greensboro, N. C. The telegram was signed by Senators Gooding, Idaho; McNary, Oregon; Capper, Kansas; Johnson, California, and Nicholson, Colorado, and said it must be made clear to leaders of both political parties "that agriculture and its af filiated Industries are entitled to the same consideration as the manu facturers." Mexico's Case Debated. Washington, D. C Advisability of recognition of the Obregon govern ment in Mexico was debated in the senate Monday. Senator King, demo crat, Utah, declared that no such step should be taken while American rights in Mexico were ignored, and Senator Ashurst, democrat, Arizona, asserted that if any state had suffered at the hands of Mexico it was Arizona, whose legislature bad unanimously petition ed for recognition. Juarez, Mexico. The chamber of commerce has received a telegram from the state department saying that Alberto PanI, secretary of state, would pass through here on bis way to Wash lngton, D. C. The message also said the secretary was going as a personal representative of President Obregon on business for the government, which was being kept secret. Train Wrecker Curious. Des Moines, la. "I have always wanted to wreck a train just to see how the cars would pile up," was the startling confession of Frank Walters 16 year old boy, now in the county Jail charged with attempting to wreck a Rock Island passenger train. RUSSIANS TO BET FOOD SOPH amine Relief Agreement Is Formally Signed. SOVIET WILL ASSIST Orders Already Placed for Loading Ships With Food and Medicine for Suffering Thousands. Riga. The agreement between the United States and Russia providing for American relief for the famine- stricken district was signed at 11:30 o'clock Saturday morning by Walter Lyman Brown, European represcnta tlve of the American relief admlnls tratlon, and Maxim Lltvlnoff, repre sentative of the Russian famine com mlttee. Philip Carroll of Portland, Or., will at least temporarily head the work of feeding the starving people of Bus sla, a task the American relief admin Is tratlon considers the greatest it has yet faced. Walter I Brown, Euro pean director of the administration, announced that Mr. Carroll would lead the first party of relief workers, which probubly will leave here for Moscow Thursday. Mr. Carroll, who has been with the administration two years, made an excellent record by his work In Germany, South Russia and Serbia Hope that the signing of the agree ment would lead to further relations between Russia and America was ex pressed in speeches made by M. Lltvin off and M. Melrovltz, the Letvlan pre mler. Russia Is, by the terms of the con tract, made the beneficiary of a far- reaching program, which Includes not only providing food for the people of the famine-stricken Volga region, but the combatting of epidemics. It Is understood that orders already have gone to Hamburg, Danzig and New York directing that relief ships be loaded with food and medicines for Russia. Actual work In Russia possibly may commence in a little more than a week. Political and commercial activities will be outside the realm of the work ers' duties and any violation of this clause of the agreement may be cause for expulsion from Russia, upon proofs being submitted to the directors of the relief work. All Americans engaged In feeding and caring for the famine sufferers will enjoy diplomatic rights. All relief shipments will be trans ported free of charge to points se lected by the Americans, who will have absolute control of distribution It Is the plan to restrict relief meas ures to those people who are in ac tual distress and to prevent govern ment employes and men in the army and navy from coming into possession of supplies. Hospital Is Whiskyless. New York. James McArdle, a keep er in the Bronx zoo, was reported re covering Saturday from the effects of a bite by a copperhead snake. Mc Ardle asked for a drink of whiskey, which he declared was the best rem edy for snake-bite, but the doctors at the hospital where he was taken told him there was no whiskey in the in stitution. Tbey gave him a serum in stead. Much Wheat Is Shipped. Spokane, Wash. More than 600,000 bushels 'of the 1921 wheat crop have been received and shipped already this season by the Northwest' Wheat Grow ers' association, according to George A Jewett, general manager. "Most of the grain," be said, "has been shipped to Portland and Seattle for export and for delivery to private grain' dealers." Alleged Whisky Ship Tied Up. Stevenson, B. C. Provincial author ities Saturday tied up at New West minster, B. C, the five-ton American cruising steamf r Yankee as the re suit of an alleged attempt to smuggl aboard whisky valued at $2000. The vessel is said to have started for the International boundary under cover of darkness. Customs officers seized It t St ATE NEWS J : IN BRIEF, Heppner. Fire storting from threshing engine spread, into me wheat field at John Plcper's farm near Lexington Thursday and destroyed 60 acres of fine wheat entailing a loss of around $2000. HaUey. J. A. McWlllIams, while at tempting to move an extension ladder In painting the W. II. McMahan resi dence Saturday, was struck across the forearm by the ladder, which broke both arm bones. He happened to be lucky enough to carry a Utile accl dent insurance. Salem. Polk county will have a larger tonnage of dried prunes this ear than Marlon county, and Yamhill more than Polk, according to the esti mates of the United States bureau of markets. The report was prcpurod by K. I Kent, statistician for the market and crop department Scappoose. At a special election held here Saturday to vote on the ac ceptance or rejection of the proposed charter for the city, a section provld Ing for $30,000 bond issue for a water system was carried by vote of 85 for, 38 against The city has a voting population of about 147. Salem. The" state of Oregon has power to assess and collect taxes on stock of merchandise owned and kept by a trader doing business on an Indian reservation, according to I. H Van Winkle, attorncy-goneral. The opinion was asked by Bert C. Boylun district attorney of Jefferson county Salem. Marlon county farmers this year will harvest approximately 20 bushels of wheat to the acre, while Polk county ranchers will harvest 21 bushels from the same acreage, ac cording to reports received from F, L. Kent, statistician with the bureau of markets and crop estimates, with offices In Portland Medford. At the receivers' sale of the Oregon Gas & Electric company's plant, held here Saturday, the proper ty was bought by the Anglo-California Trust company of San Francisco for $55,666.50. The bondholders were represented by Thomas D. Patch, re ceiver, and the trust company by its vice-president and cashier, Louis Sut ter, Salem. The first gun In the cam palgn to organize the non-partisan league in Oregon was fired at Union vllle, Yamhill county, Friday night The meeting was addressed by II. H Steallard, national organizer for the league, and a number of persons were signed up. Meetings In other section of Marlon county are now being ar ranged. Prlnevllle. Crook county Is sched uled to have a livestock meeting Sep tember 8 and 9. The first day's meet Ing will be held In Prlnevllle and the second day at Powell Butte. Topic under discussion will be "Newer Meth ods of Fattening Steers," and "Feeds for Wintering Cattle." Several of the foremost authorities on stock Industry will speak. Albany. More rattlesnakes hav been killed in Linn county this sum mer than in any single summer for many years. Some have been killed near Plalnvlew, some near Browns vllle, several In the Calapoola valley between Brownsville, Crawfordsvllle and Holley, and three were slaughter ed at a county rock crusher In the Charity grange neighborhood east of Harrlsburg, Salem. One of the outstanding fea tures of the Oregon state fair this year will be the displays of the boys' and girls' clubs. Interest In these Indus trial contests has grown yearly during the six seasons that they have been held, and with the Increased premium fund through the classifying of stock projects this year, it was anticipated that the big educational building on the state fair ground In Salem will house an exhibit the like pf which has not heretofore been made. The club work is directed from the state department of education, co-operating with the Oregon Agricultural college and the United States department of agriculture. J. 12. Calavan, Industrial field worker, has just returned to Salem from a trip which Included several counties, and which was taken to arouse Interest among the juveniles In the coming state fair. The counties Included in the itinerary were: Polk, Yamhill, Washington, Columbia, Clat sop, Jackson and Klamath SCOUTS (CeniiurUd Nations! Council l th Boy Mull el America. I LEAD W0RLDMN NUMBER. Tli Boy Scouts of Atnrrlrn Is at present sliowliitf the highest mcmoer ship record since the orgittilxatloii of the movement ' eleven niid oiie-hair ears ago. It numbers nt present al most Imlf a million men ami boys actively engaged In ei-outing. a number larger, according to the latest flKiires available from the International Scout bureau nt Ioiidon, tlmn the total membership of scout In all the rest of the world put together. The International Scout bureuu at London hit compiled the following stotlstlnil record of scout membership throughout the world, among countries which are afllllnted with the bureau. There are eernl other active ao-la- tlous which are not yet affiliated and whott number ore therefore not at present available. These unaffiliated countries are Armenia, Argentine, Ilroxll, Chile. China. Greece. Japan, Panama, Itouiniinlit and Uruguay. . Nam of Organisation Number Iloy Broule if America WMIt Austria ! ity Hcout d Ilelglo I-11 I!. I. Helglan Iti.y ekouta li.i'o Ilrazlllan Olhullo Scout ' liriil.h Fim.lre K.V Ciei ho Hluvakla tienmark Ksthutila Kclnlreur 1 Frame .No re F-dalreur t'tilunlste U Flanc.... rVouta da Franc t Holland v Hungary -un Italian National Fcouts !". Italian Catholic B. otjl ." lAtvl, i IJherl Luxembourg Hcouts I.uiembourg Catholic Hoiua Norway 6-' aru No report foUnd " fortugal Kerbla ' '" Bpaln " ftweden a gltsrland ." , A SCOUT 18 BRAVE. Ho has the courage to faro dancer In spite of fear, mid to stand up for the right against the coaxings of friends or the Jeers or threute of enemies, and defeut does not down him. and somebody has expressed pretty much the same Idea In the fol lowing poem. The test of a man Is the fight ha make. Th grit that ha dally ahow; Th way ha atanda on Ma feet and takas Fat numrrout bump and iiiowe; A coward can amll whan there naught to fear. When nothing tils progress bara. flut It lakra a man to stand tip and cheer While aonta other fellow alara. It tan't th victory, after all. Hut the fight that a hrothrr make; Th man who. driven galnst th wall, HUH aland ud erect and takea Th blows of fat with hla head held high. Klredlng, and ibrulaed. and pale, la th man who'll win In th by and by. For he Isn't afraid to fall. It th bump you get. arul th Jolt you get, And th ahock tht your courage tanda. Th hour of sorrow and vain regret, Th prlx that escape your hand,. That test your mettle and prov your worth; It Isn't th blow you deal. Dut th blow you tak on th good old earth That show If your stuff I real. From th Thre fartner. BOY SCOUT CAMP UNDER WAY. The big scout rump In the Inter state park In New York and New Jer sey Is opened again for the season. It Is expected thut approximately 2.000 scouts will be the dully count In this enormous camp. There will be a nine weeks' camp ing season which will probably ac commodate more than 0,000 boys. One of the moHt Interesting features of the camp will be the museum In charge of "Uncle Benny," Hyde who will og:iln mnnuge the Museum, nuture study work of the entire camp. A friend of the movement bos contributed a thousand dollars to further the nature Instruc tlon In order to "coux, hire or trans port bodily" the host avullable scien tific experts. The boys privileged to participate In this huge and happy camp, whose law Is scout luw and whose program Is the scout program, will hnve- a never-to-bo-forgotten ex perience. TEACH ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION Governor Grousbeck of Michigan re cently recommended that every child In Detroit should be taught how to Induco arllflclul respiration. Boy scouts, who wero already expert In the Kchnefer methods and others who were given thorough special Instruc tion, were In turn, placed In chnrge of clasxes In artificial respiration held in the different ached, of. the city.