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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. U. S. IS VIRTUALLY AT WAR RAILROAD STRIKE WORLD HAPPENINGS Preparation for Aggressive Action by ADAMSON LAW IS EXIRA SESSION IS President Considers Extra Session; "Overt Act" Committed. Navy Ordered by President. IS DECLARED Off CONSTITUTIONAL __ RIL 2ND OF CURRENT WEEK TO CLEAR SEA OF Ú BOATS 00 Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR BUSY READERS Eventa of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. Premier Lloyd George has announced in the house of commons that on Thursday he would move a motion of congratulation to the Russian Duma. The Farm Loan board has announced that the interest rate on all loans made to farmers throughout the country by Federal land banks would be 5 per cent. An emergency appropriation of $1,- 000,000 for the defense of the com monwealth in the event of war was passed by the Massachusetts legisla ture. Elden, the 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mahood, of Fairdale, Ore gon, fell from his high chair at the Mahood home Saturday night and was killed. His neck was broken. Washington, D. C.- Preparation for aggressive action by the navy against the German submarine menace began Tuesday at the direction of President Wilson. The President authorized the expenditure of the $115,000,000 emer gency fund, provided by congress to speed up naval construction and pay for special additional war craft, and the suspension of the eight-hour labor law in plants engaged in navy work. Immediately afterward, Secretary Daniels ordered the New York navy yard to begin building 60 submarine chasers of the 110-foot type, to be completed in from 60 to 80 days. It was said 40 of these could be laid down at once. With the President’s approval, the secretary also ordered the graduation of the first and second classes at the naval academy. The first class will go out March 29, releasing 212 junior offi cers to fill existing vacancies, and the second in September, furnishing 202 more, a full year before they other wise would be available. While the energies of the navy will be concentrated for the present on efforts to get into commission craft de signed particulary to destroy submar ines and guard the coast, warship building generally will be speeded up under the recent agreement with pri vate builders and with the funds now made available. Ambassador Francis, at Petrograd, has cabled the State department that Allies Pressing Enemy Hard; no Americans had been reported in Large Territory Being Regained jured during the revolution, and that the embassy and staff were undis Paris—The French troops have oc turbed. cupied about 20 additional villages and The tinplate shortage threatening to small towns in their advance on the re cripple the country’s food canning in treating Germans. They have gone dustry is taken up by government beyond Ham on the Somme river and agencies with the aim to insuring a supply sufficient to keep all canning Chauney on the ' Oise, which brings them appreciably nearer to the St. plants going. Quentin-Laon line. At one point the Yale’s senior class has voted to dis advance Tuesday penetrated German pense with the use of intoxicating lines to a depth of 22 miles. liquors at its class dinner in June. The same vote will govern future reunion London—The British advance still is gatherings of this class unless the vote being pushed rapidly, further large should be rescinded. gains being recorded in the official re Captain Jack Bonavita, nationally- known animal trainer, died in Los An port from British headquarters in geles Wednesday night as the result of France Tuesday night. a fractured jaw and severe lacerations “The pursuit of the enemy,” says received in a struggle with a polar the report, “continued Tuesday, our bear at a moving picture studio. cavalry and advance guards driving Patriotic students in Central High back the enemy’s rear guards. The school in Washington, D. C., tore from ground gained extends for a depth of the walls of a classroom a picture of from two to eight miles and 40 more Emperor William of Germany, and villages have fallen into our hands.” hung in its place a photograph of Pres London—The following official com ident Wilson, decorated with two munication is issued regarding the op American flags. The council of workingmen’s dele eration of the British troops against gates in Petrograd has prescribed the the Turks in Mesopotamia: immediate resumption of work in all “During Saturday night General factories, according to a dispatch from Maude’s troops effected a crossing of the Russian capital. Factories will pay full wages for the days in which the Diala river and occupied the vil work was prevented by the revolution. lage of Bahriz and a part of the town of Bakubah on the left bank of the In an epochal decision holding con river. The enemy retired hastily to gress to be clothed with any and all ward Khanikan.” powers necessary to keep open the Bakubah lies about 25 miles north channels of interstate commerce, the east of Bagdad on the Diala. Supreme court, dividing five to four, sustained the Adamson law as consti Fifteen of Crew of Torpedoed tutional and enforceable in every feat Vigilancia Are Drowned ure. Representative Sherwood, of Ohio, one of the most openly-expressed pac ificists in the house, declared in a pub lic statement recently that the latest sinking of American ships by German submarines had converted him in favor of an immediate declaration of war. At the same time he offered his serv ices to the army at the age of 82. Immediate nationalization of rail road control was urged by Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the board of the Union Pacific, in testifying before the congressional committee investigating all phases of the railway problem. Final disposition of the control ques tion, he declared, would prove a great factor in the grave problem of obtain ing new capital with which to continue railroad development. A sentence of imprisonment for three months is reported by Reuter’s correspondent at The Hague to have been imposed on Herr Schroeder, editor of the Amsterdam Telegraaf, on the charge of having endangered the neutrality of the state through the publication of an editorial. Plymouth, via London — Fifteen members of the crew of the American steamer Vigilancia lost their lives when the steamer was torpedoed by a German submarine. The survivors were in lifeboats from Friday morning until Sunday afternoon. Among those drowned were several American citizens, including Third Officer Neils P. North and Third En gineer Carl Adeholde. This informa tion was given out by Captain Frank A. Middleton, of New York, who, with the survivors of the Vigilancia, has reached the mainland, and probably will make affidavits before the Ameri can consul. Captain Middleton said that his ves sel was sunk without warning. Two lifeboats were lowered from the Vigil ancia and the crew of 43 men got into them. Owing to the swell of the ocean, however, 25 men were thrown into the water. The boats of the Cap tain and the mates picked up ten of the men, but the other 15 were drowned. The capture by the Russians of the Shells Lifeboat; Kills Eight Men. Persian town of Kermanshah is report London —A boat containing the first, ed in an unofficial dispatch received in second and third mates and five sea London. men of the Dutch steamer Selien char “Enemy aviators again bombarded tered by the Belgian Relief commis our hospital at Vertekop,’’ says a sion, has been shelled by a submarine Serbian official statement, “causing and all the occupants killed, according heavy loss of life among both patients to a dispatch from Stavanger. “The and personnel. Two English nurses Dutch steamer Selien." says the dis were among those killed. The hos patch, “has reached here bound for pitals are completely separated from New York in ballast. She left Rotter any other buildings and are distinc dam Friday, bearing the usual desig tively marked with a red cross.’’ nations of the Belgian Relief com- General Louis Hubert Gonzalve mission, and was attacked at 5 o’clock Lyautey, minister of war in the French Saturday afternoon. cabinet, has resigned, as the result of Seaplanes Save Ship. incidents in the chamber of deputies. New York — The British freight Rumors of a plot to dynamite the steamer Eastgate, which arrived here 7,000,000,000-gallon reservoir at Boon Tuesday from La Pallise, was recently ton, N. J., thereby flooding the Passaic attacked by a German submarine and valley, where many large munition escaped destruction only through plants ars situated, caused Jersey City prompt aid rendered by two French to provide a military guard for the seaplanes. The incident was related works. Meanwhile, 30 policemen, all by members of the crow, who pointed of whom have served in the regular to holos in the ship’s ventilators made army, were hastened to the reservoir by shells in support of their story. and supplied with rifles and ammuni The place of the attack and the date tion. were not divulged. Washintgon, D. C.—The eight-hour standard for railroad wages, provided in the Adamson law, was held consti tutional Monday by the Supreme court. The Supreme court’s decision, hold ing the entire Adamson act constitu tional, was announced by Chief Justice White. In announcing the opinion, the Chief justice reviewed the negotiations lead ing to enactment of the law. He did not read from a prepared opinion, giv ing it apparently from memory. He told of the President’s efforts to avert the strike last September. “He suggested arbitration. The employes accepted and the employes refused, ” said the Chief justice. “He then suggested a basic eight-hour-day standard. The employers rejected that and the employes accepted.” How the President went to congress was then recited. “Congress passed the law that is be fore us and the carriers refused to re cognize it, ” he recited. He said the agreement to expedite the case was “very laudable.” In the early course of the opinion the Chief justice said that the law was both an eight-hour day act and also a wage-fixing statute. He said it “strips the parties of power of con tract” as to wages. He said the eight-hour provision was the para mount feature. As to whether the law fixes the hours of labor or fixes wages, the Chief justice said it did both. He said the right to fix hours of labor by congress was out of the cases unqestioned. Wilson Sees Way Clear in Strike Decision to Urge Arbitration Law Declaration That State of War Exists Is Expected. TO PROTECT U. S. INTERESTS President’s Call Concerns “Grave Mat ters of National Policy” Which Need Immediate Attention. Washintgon, D. C.—President Wil son, recognizing that Germany practi cally is making war on the United States on the seas, Wednesday called congress to assemble in extraordinary session on April 2 to deal with the sit uation. The purpose of the session, now called two weeks earlier than the Pres ident’s proclamation, is to receive a communication from the chief execu tive concerning “grave matters of na tional policy which should be taken im mediately under consideration.” The President in his address to con gress will detail how Germany practi cally has been making war on the United States by the ruthless destruc tion of American lives and ships on the high seas in contravention of all the laws of nations and humanity. Congress then is expected to pass a resolution declaring that a state of war has existed between the United States and Germany for some time. Such a resolution in itself will not be a declaration of war in a technical sense, although practically it will amount to the same thing. As a consequence the United States will take further steps to protect its interests on the high seas and else where against the warlike acts of Ger many and whether an actual state of war will come to exist in its full sense will depend on the future acts of the imperial German government. Since last Sunday, when three American ships were sunk off the Bri tish isles in quick succession with loss of American lives—bringing the total number of Americans lost through German submarine operations to more than 200—the President and all his advisers have recognized that a state of war existed. From all parts of the country have come calls for the imme diate summoning of congress in extra session. Washington, D. C.—President Wil son, it is learned on good authority Wednesday, will strongly urge upon congress, in special session, the en actment of a complusory arbitration act, basing his demand on the decision of the Supreme court in the Adamson case, which foretells that such a law will be held constitutional. The President, according to those who have seen him since the decision, will be more vigorous in his demand than in the past two sessions, and will use the full power of the administra tion in favor of a law similar to that of Canada. One feature which the President probably will insist upon will make it. unlawful for employes of interstate railroads to strike pending the arbitration of differences. It is also learned from authentic sources that the leaders of the Amer- ican Federaton of Labor are deeply alarmed over the ruling of the Su Safe Conduct Not Given. preme court as to compulsory arbitra tion, and fear that if this principle is Washington, D. C.—Turkey again rigidly applied by congress labor un notified the State department that ions will be deprived of an important neither Germany nor Austria-Hungary and hitherto effective weapon. had indicated a willingness to give as surances for the safe passage of the Ex-Czar of Russia May Quit American cruiser Des Moines and the Native Land for Switzerland American naval collier Caesar from Petrograd, via London—The former Alexandria, Egypt, to Beirut to de Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna liver relief supplies to the destitute who was at Kiev, went to meet her Syrians and to bring out 1000 or more son, former Emperor Nicholas, as he American refugees. The plight of the was returning after his abdication. Americans is causing increasing con She had long resented the influence cern here, for officials have exhausted over Nicholas wielded by the Empress every resource to reach them. Alexandra, Gregory Rasputin, the Clocks to Be Set Ahead. mystic monk, and Mademoiselle Gru- Paris—In accordance with the re bava, lady-in-waiting to the Empress and Alexandra’s best friend, who had cent decision to return this year to the daylight saving system, which was put introduced Rasputin to the Empress. Marie Feodorovna saw Alexandra into operation last year for the first only when court functions required. time, the Journal Official has published Since early in January she had been at a decree advancing the legal time by Kiev and had refused to come to the one hour at 11 o’clock on the night of capital. Her meeting with Nicholas March 24. The decree provides that normal time shall be re-established at was said to have been affecting. The object of her visit to him was 11 p m. October 7. to advise with him as to her future U-Boats Lurk Off Maine. residence. It is reported that she in tends to go to Denmark, her native Rockland, Me.—A statement that country. German submarines are known to be It is expected that Nicholas Roman not far from these shores and that an off, as the former Emperor is now attack on Maine ports is by no means known, will eventually go to Switzer unlikely was made by Lieutenant land or France, his stay in the Crimea James O. Porter, United States navy, being temporary. Most of the mem at the naval recruiting meeting here bers of his suite have acknowledge the Thursday. The port, according to new government. Lieutenant Porter, is to be the base for 70 patrol boats operating in and New Peace Move Hinted. about the mouth of the Penobscot river London—A dispatch from The Hague and bay. asserts that a new German peace move Maryland Troops Called. is on foot. Prominent Germans have Baltimore, Md.—Governor Harring recently visited Holland and Switzer land under instructions to ascertain ton Thursday ordered out two com what the present attitude of Great panies of the First Regiment Mary Britain is toward a possible cessation land National guard to guard the Penn of hostilities. The emissary to Hol sylvania and Baltimore & Ohio rail land, disclaiming authority to speak road bridges over the Susquehanna for the German government, is quoted river at Havre de Grace. All the north as saying the Russian revolution has and south traffic of these two roads changed the situation, since Germany passes over these bridges. could no longer claim that she wished Vassar Girls "Mobilized." to free the Russian Baltic provinces. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. — Announce ment was made here that Vassar Col Four Die From Greens. Boise, Idaho—Claude Richards, aged lege is in a state of “practical mobil 22, member of the Richards family, of ization” with nearly all of its 1120 Carey, poisoned last week by eating girl students signed up for war service canned greens, died Wednesday. He in the National league for women’s is the fourth victim to succumb, his services as nurses, wireless operators mother and two sisters having died and clerks. Sunday and Monday. The father, CallMade on RedCross. Samuel P. Richards, is very low, but New York—The first naval base hos- his physician now entertains hope for his recovery. A hired man, who also pital of the American Red Croes, sta ate some of the poisoned herbs, is con tioned in Brooklyn, has received word to hold itself in readiness for active siderably improved and will recover. service, it was announced late Thurs Slayer of Judge is Killed. day. Its equipment is stored at the New York navy yard. Birmingham, Ala_David D. Over- ton, the ex-county court clerk under Girl’Enlists inENavy. death sentence for the murder of Philadelphia — Miss Loretta Walsh, Judge W. T. Lawler, was shot to death in a Birmingham suburb Wednesday of this city, said to be the first woman night by a sheriff’s posse sent out to to enlist in the United States navy capture him and six other prisoners under the new order of Secretary Dan who had escaped from the county jail iels admitting women to the navy, en rolled here Thursday. early in the day. Washintgon, D. C.—With the an nouncement of the ruthless destruction of three unarmed American merchant ships by submarines, it was unofficially admitted here Monday night that vir tually a state of war exists between the United States and Germany. Technically the United States re mains in a position of armed neutral ity. Whether this shall be changed before April 16, the date fixed for a special session of congress, the war- makng branch of the government, President Wilson has not decided. Concession Made Regardless of Forth One step the President is contem coming Action by Supreme Court plating is a call for an immediate ses sion of congress to hear an address Chairman Issues Statement. asking for authority to adopt aggres sive measures against the submarine menace. Already American ships are being armed to defend themselves, the New York—The conference commit next move must be to send warships tee of railroad managers early Monday with orders to seek out submarines morning authorized President Wilson’s mediators to make whatever arrange ments were necessary with the rail road brotherhoods to call off the strike. The formal letter in which this au thorization was made was signed by Elisha Lee, chairman of the managers’ committee, and was as follows: “In the national crisis precipitated by events of which we heard this (Sunday) afteroon, the national conference committee of railroads join with you in the conviction that neither at home nor abroad should there be fear or hope that the efficient opera tion of the railroads of the country will be hampered or impaired. “Therefore, you are authorized to assure the nation there will be no strike, and as a basis for such assur ance we hereby authorize the commit tee of the Council of National Defense to grant to the employes who are about to strike’whatever adjustment your committee deems necessary to guaran tee the uninterrupted and efficient operation of the railroads as an indis pensable arm of national defense.” The announcement of the managers that they had yielded apparently came as a surpise to the brotherhood chiefs, for they were in bed when summoned Czar Nicholas, of Russia. again to the conference room. Earlier The house of Romanoff is descended in the evening there had been a dis from Andrei Romanoff, who is said to tinctly pessimistic feeling as to the have gone to Moscow from Prussia in prospect for averting a strike. the 14th eentury. Mikhail Feodorovitch Up to that hour the railroads had re Romanoff was the first of the family to fused to make the concessions granted, ascend the throne. This was in 1613, and the brotherhoods had stood fast to when he was 17 years old. their determination to strike unless The direct line of the Romanoffs they won their demands either by the terminated in 1730 and the female line Supreme court declaring the Adamson in 1762, when the Holstein-Gottorp law valid or by their employers grant branch came into power and has since ing them the eight-hour day. ruled. The men will get their present pay The members of the family in the for 10 hours for eight hours’ work un past two centuries have married so der the agreement. These concessions generously into the German royal on the part of the managers are vir houses that the Romanoffs are often tually what the employes contended said to be as much German, by blood, they would gain under the Adamson as their kinsman, the German emperor. law if it were declared constitutional. Immediately after Secretary Lane had made his announcement the broth and clear the trans-Atlantic lanes. Some of the highest officials of the erhood leaders sent telegrams to all government hold that the executive the general chairmen informing them has the power to declare that a state that the strike had been called off. of war exists and to proceed with ag- gressive protective steps pending the assembling of congress. There is no Submarines Sink Three Amer indication, however, that the President ican Ships Without Warning will follow that course. London—The sinking of the Ameri can steamships City of Memphis, Illin United States of Russia Being ois and Vigilancia was announced Mon Fourteen men from the Vigilan Formed by Victorious Duma day. cia are missing, as are some of the New York—The Empress and Crown men from the City of Memphis. The Prince are now safe in Finland and crew of the Illinois landed safely. the Emperor is at the Snetogorsky The City of Memphis, in ballast monastery in Pskoff, according to a from Cardiff for New York was sunk cablegram made public here Sunday by by gunfire. The second officer and 15 the Russian-American-Asiatic corpor men of the crew have been landed. A ation. patrol boat has gone in search of the According to Ivan Norodny, head of other members of the crew. the corporation, the cablegram was The Illinois, from London for Port from their representatives in Petro Arthur, Tex., was in ballast. grad and was transmitted through the The Vigilancia was torpedoed with Belgian minister. out warning. Mr. Norodny announced the receipt ■ ----- - -- II.. • of dispatches also saying that the Du ma is promulgating orders for the Allies Gain on 82-Mile Front; formation of a government to be Sixty Villages Are Occupied known as the United States of Russia, London — British troops, continuing with Prince Lvoff as President. their rapid advance on the heels of the Petrograd — After his abdication, retiring Germans, have occupied the Emperor Nicholas returned to general important towns of Nesle, Chaulnes and Peronne. staff headquarters. Along a front of about 45 miles they The attitude of the armies at the front in the face of the new develop have entered the German positions to ment is not yet known in Petrorgad. a depth of 10 miles in places. In ad It is generally believed that the ap dition the British have taken more pointment of Grand Duke Nicholas as thna 60 villages. The announcement of these gains commnder in chief will be received en thusiastically by the troops, with was contained in the official report Monday from British headquarters. whom he is extremely popular. Basic Eight-Hour Day to Be Put Into Effect by Managers. NATIONAL CRISIS MAIN FACTOR Abdicates Throne. * A e . ‘,‘ Flag-Raising is imposed. New York—Bouck White, pastor of the Church of the Social Revolution, who is serving a 30-day sentence in the Tombs for burning an American flag at a "melting pot” ceremony in the courtyard of the church last June, will raise the flag on the new flagpole in the Tombs yard each morning and haul it down at night. To Edward R. Ames, and August Henkel, serving sentences for the same offense, will fall the duty of carrying the flag to and from the warden’s office daily. _________________ Ranchers to Build Ships. Seattle, Wash. — Through R. W. Michael, of Seattle and Portland, a number of ranchers of the Pendleton district in Oregon are seeking to in vest a large amount of money in the motorship industry at Seattle, Michael said Monday. “The construction of wooden ships is logical the means of putting to use the money received for the wheat crops,” he said. “It is apparent that the industry is only in ita infancy. " Yarrowdale Men on Way. Berne — The 59 American seamen who were taken to Germany on the prize ship Yarrowdale stopped for lunch in Berne Monday and left at 3 o’clock for Lyons, en route to the United States by way of Spain. The men were met at the railroad station by Pleasant A. Stovall, the American minister, the entire legation staff and virtually all the members of the Amer ican colony. Mrs. Harold McCormick had given each one of the party $50. Some bought little souvenirs, while oth ers invested in suitcases and clothing. Funeral Warship Named. Washintgon, D. C.—Japan has as signed the armored cruiser Azuma to bring home the body of Ambassador Guthrie. Mrs. Guthrie will return on the same ship. Day is Quiet in Dublin. Dublin— St. Patrick’s day passed quietly in Dublin. Many country peo ple came into town but there were no processions. The church services were leargely attended.
