THE
WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
COMPILED
FOR YOU
Events of Noted People, Governments
and Pacific Northwest and Other
Things Worth Knowing.
General Michael V. Alexief has
been definitely appointed commander-
in-chief of the Russian armies.
He
was appointed acting commander-in-
chief few weeks ago.
Eight men of undetermined nation
ality were arrested by San Bernardino
County, Cal., authorities charged with
having damaged a United States U-
boat chaser that was being shipped by
freight.
John D. Rockefeller’s Pocantico
Hills estate of 6000 acres is to be
transformed into a vegetable garden
for the benefit of the residents of Tar
rytown, it is announced by Mrs. John
D. Rockefeller, Jr.
The senate adopted a resolution
Tuesday by Senator Owen expressing
its approval of President Wilson’s
proclamation to the people calling on
all for war service. This action was
taken without debate.
The government has saved $850,000
on cartridge cases bought for the navy
under the new agreement made with
copper producers by Bernard Baruch,
of the advisory commission of the
Council of National defense.
A British steamer reports that she
engaged in a running fight with a sub-
marine while off the coast of Ireland
on a westbound trans-Atlantic trip re
cently.
The steamer escaped in a
smoke screen which she threw out
when the chase started.
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A special service will be held in
Manchester, England, Cathedral Fri
day “to invoke a divine benediction on
the strengthened ties between Great
Britain and the United States.” The
Lord Mayor will attend in his official
capacity as representative of the city.
President Menocal, of Cuba, has an
nounced ‘ in Havana that the entire
Cuban army of 25,000 men will be
placed at the orders of the United
States government for service through-
out the war with Germany, according
to Eduardo R. Mendez, a Cuban sugar
planter.
Representative Britten, of Illinois,
has introduced a resolution that ex
emption of married men from military
duty under any future compulsory serv
ice legislation shall not apply to those
married after April 1 this year, except
under a special order by the secretary
of War.
The German legation and consulate
at Buenos Ayres, have been attacked
by a mob, as have the newspapers
Deutsche La Plata Zeitung and La
Union. The windows of the buildings
were broken. The police dispersed the
manifestants, making numerous ar
rests. The editor of the German news
paper was wounded, as were several of
the demonstrators.
WARNS OF TREASON
President Wilson Makes Proclamation
Defining Offenses Against United
States—Penalties are Severe.
Washington, D. C.—All persons in
the United States, citizens and aliens,
are warned in a proclamation issued
Tuesday by President Wilson that
treasonable acts or attempts to shield
those committing such acts will be
vigorously prosecuted by the govern
ment.
The proclamation defines treason,
citing statutes, provisions of the con
stitution and decisions of the courts,
and declares that the acts described
will be regarded as treasonable
whether committed within the borders
of the United States or elsewhere.
Far-reaching importance attaches to
the direction of the warning to aliens
and the declaration that resident
aliens, as well as citizens, owe alleg
iance to the United States, “and there
fore are equally subject to the laws
against treason and like crimes.”
At war, the United States is in a
very different position from a neutral.
Bomb plotters may now be gripped
with an iron hand. Not only are con
spirators themselves subject to heavy
penalties, but anyone, even a German
resident, who has knowledge of trea
sonable acts and fails to make known
the facts to the authorities, may be
sent to prison for seven years and fined
$1000 for concealment of treason.
100 Cars of Wheat to Leave
Northwest Warehouses Daily
For a time about 100 carloads of
wheat will leave the Northwest each
day for the Atlantic seaboard, destined
for the allies in Europe, the initial
railroad lines having agreed to give
foodstuffs right of way and the quick
est possible dispatch.
It is said the unprecedented action
on the part of the railroads was
brought about by influence of the Brit
ish and American governments, the
former having demonstrated to author
ities at Washington the imperative
need of hurrying wheat supplies with
out delay. They in turn enlisted the
aid of the railroad heads.
Purchases by the British government
have been exceptionally heavy of late,
and while they bought in large amounts
before, much wheat remained stored in
warehouses in the interior because of
the inability of shippers to obtain cars.
Furthermore, because of the conges
tion in the East, cars have been block
ed en route and it has proved difficult
to keep the movement regular so that
vessels held at Atlantic Coast ports
could be loaded for Europe.
Germans Lose 4,180,966.
London—German casualties, as re
ported in the German official lists for
the month of March, total 54,803 men,
according to a statement made public
here.
The statement says that the March
casualties, added to those reported
previously, bring the total given in the
German official lists since the begin
ning of the war to 4,180,966, as fol
lows: Killed or died of wounds, 960,-
760; died of sickness, 63,920; prison-
ers or missing, 512,858; wounded, 2,-
643,428. ________________
Carranza Forces Near Border.
Calexico, Cal. — Two hundred Car
ranza soldiers, with an airplane and
machine guns, are encamped at the
mouth of the Colorado river, opposite
La Bolsa, Lower California, 60 miles
southeast of here, according to a man
who arrived Sunday. He reported the
Mexican gunboat Guerrero had re
turned to Guaymas, after being in the
The Uruguayan government has is- upper part of the Gulf of California
ued a decree of neutrality in the war several days, but it was not known
between the United States and Ger- whether the mission of the vessel was
to bring in reinforcements as had been
many.
It is decided in Paris that the, Laf
ayette flying squadron, composed of
Americans who have distinguished
themselves at the front, will change
from the French to the American mili
tary uniform.
Hereafter they will
carry the American flag at the French
front.
The Norwegian Shipping Gazette
gives the total Norwegian losses to
March 24 as 312 steamers of a tonnage
of 493,143 and 80 ships of a tonnage
of 65,357, as a result of submarines
and mines. The number of men and
women who perished is given as 312
and the missing as 25.
Lady Walnut Hill, of Lexington,
Ky., a pullet in the Federal egg-laying
contest, failed Friday to continue her
remarkable cycle.
The pullet the day
before laid her 94th consecutive egg.
Thia is 12 eggs more than the previous
known world's record of 82 eggs made
in a Missouri egg-laying contest.
Villa Again Disappears.
Juarez—Francisco Villa, with his
characteristic cunning, is believed to
have slipped out of the trap carefully
laid by General Francisco Murguia to
capture him in Western Chihuahua
General Murguia was at El Valle,
south of Casas Grandes, Monday, and
his scouts have been unable to locate
Villa and his forces in the Namiquipa
district, where he was reported to save
gone following the fight at San Andres
on April 3.
John D.'s Brother Dies.
Cleveland, Ohio—Frank Rockefeller,
72, youngest brother of John D. Rock
efeller, died Sunday. He was not on
speaking terms with his brother, John
D., as a result of a quarrel they had
years ago.
Frank Rockefeller was a brother
of John D. and William A. Rocke
feller, and was for many years asso-
elated with them in the oil busi
ness, but was not as widely known as
they.
HERMISTON
HERALD,
HERMISTON,
OREGON.
NO MEALTICKETS FOR AMERICA"
Is Slogan of National League for Women’s Service,
Which Urges Food Production by Women.
Oregon, Washington and Idaho
to Help Meet Great Needs.
With the food supply problem be-
coming serious, the National League
for Woman’s Service is appealing to
every woman to enter the service of
her country by practising economy in
her home. Further, through its agri
cultural division, the league is laying
plans to increase the crops by organ
izing home-garden efforts wherever
women can be taught to utilize avail
able space for growing the most needed
of foodstuffs.
“No meal tickets for America” is
the slogan, and the league is prepared
to send out printed suggestions as to
how women can help to obviate any
need of putting our population on gov-
erhment-ordered rations.
“The woman in the home can help,
for example, by saving the water in
which she boils her vegetables,” said
Miss Grace Parker, national command
ant of the league. “This water con
tains nutritious juices and makes very
good soups and sauces—only a slight
economy, but very worth while when
we consider what the women of other
countries have done to solve their food
problems.
“She can help still further by pre
serving and canning more than for
merly, so helping to save the general
stock of food, which will be depleted
as a result of the reduction of food
producing activities by service at the
front or in the industries.”
The National League for Woman’s
Service, with headquarters in New
York City, now has hundreds of thou
sands of women enrolled through scores
of co-operating organizations in 34
states, and is working in conjunction
with the National Council of Defense
and the department of Labor in urging
the women of the country to increase
and conserve the nation’s food supply.
Here are some of the striking points
emphasized by the league:
Bread and bullets are equally essen
tial.
A nation fights on its stomach.
Victory depends on the food supply.
Every woman can serve her country
effectively by helping to solve the
food supply problem, which is already
becoming acute.
Plant a kitchen garden; encourage
your neighbors to do likewise.
Avoid waste in buying, preparing,
cooking, and serving.
Do without food that you don’t need.
Observance of these simple rules on
the part of American housewives will
obviate the necessity of government-
issued meal tickets.
Call at the local branch of the Na
tional League for Woman’s Service for
directions as to how you can co-
operate.
State of Idaho to Raise
Crops—Idle Acres Bloom
Boise — Governor Alexander has
asked B. Harvey Allred, director of
the farm markets bureau, to direct the
planting of vacant grounds owned by
the state in the vicinity of state char
itable and penal institutions to crops
this spring.
The asylum at Blackfoot has 4000
acres of land that can be cultivated;
the state penitentiary has 1000 acres
of uncleared and in the Gem district
farm, and the institution for the
feeble-minded at Nampa and the state
sanitarium at Orofino both have large
tracts of land that the governor wants
cropped.
If necessary, said the governor in
his letter to the head of the farm mar
kets bureau, the state should provide
seed for planting purposes and the
teams with which to cultivate its va
cant lands at the institutions.
Washington Urged by Secre
tary to Plant More Wheat
Farmers of the spring wheat belt of
Washington, Montana and Idaho are
called upon by Secretary Houston to
plant more wheat immediately to
make up the serious shortage threat
ened by the unpromising condition of
the winter wheat crop. ‘
Action at once is imperative, said
the secretary, and the best opportun
ities will be found in the regions in
which spring wheat already is pro
duced extensively.
“Attempts to increase the acreage
of spring wheat outside the present
spring wheat belt, on the other hand,
might prove less successful, because of
a lack of familiarity by farmers with
the crop,” continued the statement,
"and especially because of the diffi-1
cuity of obtaining harvesting machin- |
A letter from Miss Pauline Jordan,
of Haverhill, Mass, who went with a
Red Cross party to Bucharest last No-
vember, brought the information that
6000 Canadians is Cost.
she had been imprisoned by the Ger
Ottawa, Ont.—Estimates of Cana
mans. She wrote that she had been
placed in a basement, which was bit dian losses around Vimy, based on
terly cold, and was provided with only good authority, place the casualties
from the commencement of the Vimy
a little food.
offensive until Tuesday night at be
The strike that recently was de- tween 500C and 6000. Three hundred
Wilson Behind the Hoe.
dared in 60 vaudeville theaters and thirty Canadian officers fell last
Washington, D. C.—The White house
throughout the country by the White week on Vimy ridge, according to the is about to join the increased food pro
Rata Actors' union and Associated Ac- information. The totals include killed duction movement with a garden, in
tresses of America, has been suspend and wounded, with the latter dominat- which Presdient Wilson may wield a
ing.________________
ed by the unions.
hoe when he finds a spare moment.
Farmers Are Summoned.
With the approval of Secretary Tu
Rioting in several towns in Bulgaria
is reported in a dispatch from the
Sacramento, Cat—At the recom multy Whitehouse employes obtained
French headquarters on the Macedon mendation of the state council of de permission to use for gardening pur
ian front. In Sofia German cavalry is fense, Governor Stephens haa issued a poses a half acre of vacant land in
said to have charged the rioters, caus proclamation celling upon producers down town Washington. The assist
ing many casualties.
In some cases, and distributors of foodstuffs to set ance of the department of Agriculture
the dispatch reports Bulgarian troops aside their usual occupations and at will be asked in selecting seed for the
have taken aides with the manifest- tend a aeries of conferences to be held land, and there will be a formal break
ing of ground.
ants.
April 28.
ery and the added likelihood of the
crop suffering for a lack of labor at
harvest time.
“A concentration of large crop pro
duction will make possible the more
effective utility of labor, whether the
laborers assemble individually or un
der a directing agency.
“The bulk of spring wheat of the
United States is grown in five states,
North Dakota, Minnesota, South , Da
kota, Washington and Montana. While
production is relatively small in the
remaining states, a number of com
munities exist in each of these states
in which the growing of spring wheat
is well established.
Such communi
ties, like those in the principal spring
wheat growing states, offer good fields
for the extension of the spring wheat
acreage.
“Seeding is already under way
throughout the greater portion of the
spring wheat belt, but in many sec
tions it should be possible to increase
appreciably the area seeded to wheat
during the next few weeks.
Where
such increase would interfere with the
conduct of an established industry,
such as dairying, it would of course be
inadvisable.”
Oregon Leagues Busy For
More Food—Railroads Help
Oregon is going to do its share to
meet President Wilson’s appeal for
bigger crops, more food, thrift and
economy.
The Oregon Patriotic Service League
has taken official cognizance of the
President’s message to the people of
the nation and will endeavor to spread
the doctrine broadcast through the
state.
Orders were issued to have 5000
copies of the special message, together
with the same number of copies of
President Wilson’s classic war mes
sage, printed and distributed to the
farmers.
They will be sent to the
head of every grange in Oregon.
In addition to this, people in the cit
ies and small rural communities will
be asked to turn their back yards and
idle acres into gardens.
The season is late and immediate
action is necessary. Every piece of
land that can be farmed must be
farmed this year, says H. H. Ward,
president of the league, who is pushing
the campaign with vigor.
Governor Withycombe has issued a
personal appeal to residents of the
state asking them to join in the move
ment.
He wants every boy and girl in Ore
gon to do something in the patriotic
cause of increasing the state’s food
production.
The children should be
employed, during vacation season, in
cultivating back yards and gardens, he
says.
The government reports on the win
ter wheat crop show it to be far below
normal — only 63 per cent. Unless
conditions improve in the next few
weeks this means that the country will
be short millions of bushels this year.
Even if the spring wheat crop is above
normal the price will be distressingly
high.
The high price of wheat is expected
to stimulate the farmers to increased
energy. They will sow bigger acre
ages of spring wheat, but the total
crop of the Northwest threatens to be
exceedingly short.
The railroads have come to the sup
port of the campaign by offering free
use of their right of way and other
lands, not otherwise utilized, by people
who want to farm them in accordance
with the President’s appeal.
The O.-W. R. & N. company, the
North Bank system, and the Portland
Railway, Light & Power company have
offered their property to their own
respective employes, but if it is not
taken up by employes it will.be offered
to the general public.
The Laurehurst district in Portland
has been particularly active in this
connection. Some time ago officials of
the Laurelhurst Club opened a “clear
ing house” for lot owners and persons
desiring to use the lota. As a result
more than 1200 lots will be cultivated.
A few more are available and can be
procured by deserving persons who are
willing to use them.
So that there will be no conflict of
purpose in the conservation work of
the state, efforts are being made to
direct all such activity through the
offices of the Oregon Patriotic Service
League, which maintains branches in
many cities and towns of Oregon and
which hopes to organize in others.
ALL ASKED TO HELP
President Wilson Appeals to Every
Man, Woman and Child, to Aid
U. S. Increase Production.
Washington, D. C. — In a personal
appeal addressed Sunday night to his
fellow countrymen, President Wilson
calls on every American citizen—man,
woman and child, to join together to
make the Nation a unit for the preser
vation of its ideals and for triumph of
democracy in the world war.
“The supreme test of the Nation haa
come,” says the address. “We must
all speak, act and serve together.”
Putting the Navy on a war footing
and raising a great Army are the sim
plest parts of the great task ahead,
the President declares. - .
He urges all the people, with par
ticular emphasis on his words to the
farmers, to concentrate their energies,
practice economy, prove unselfishness
and demonstrate efficiency.
The ad
dress in part follows :
“My fellow countrymen:
“The entrance of our beloved coun
try into the grim and terrible war for
democracy and human rights which
had shaken the world, creates so many
problems of National life and action
which call for immediate consideration
and settlement that I hope you will
permit me to address to you a few
words of earnest counsel and appeal
with regard to them.
“We are fighting for what we be
lieve and wish to be the rights of
mankind and for the future peace and
security of the world.
“To do this great thing worthily and
successfully, we must devote ourselves
to the service without regard to profit
or material advantage and with an en
ergy and intelligence that will rise to
the level of the enterprise itself. We
must realize to the full how great the
task and how many things, how many
kinds and elements of capacity and
service and self-sacrifice it involves.
“We must supply abundant food for
ourselves and for our armies and our
seamen not only, but also for a large
part of the nations with whom we
have now made common cause, in
whose support and by whose sides we
shall be fighting.
“Thousands, nay, hundreds of thou
sands of men otherwise liable to mili
tary service will of right and necessity
be excused from that service and as
signed to the fundamental, sustaining
work of the fields and factories and
mines, and they will be as much a part
of the great patriotic forces of the na
tion as the men under fire.
“I take the liberty, therefore, of
addressing this word to the farmers of
the country and to all who work bn the
farms : The supreme need of our own
nation and the nations with which we
are co-operating is an abundance of
supplies, and especially of foodstuffs.
The importance of an adequate food
supply, especially for the present year,
is superlative.
Without abundant
food, alike for the armies and the peo
ples at war, the whole great enterpise
upon which we have embarked will
break down and fail. The world’s food
reserves are low.
“This let me say to the middlemen
of every sort, whether they are hand
ling our foodstuffs or our raw mater
ials of manufacture or the products of
our mills and factories: The eyes of
the country will be especially upon
you. This is your opportunity for sig
nal service, efficient and disinterested.
The country expects you, as it expects
all others, to forego unusual profits, to
organize and expedite shipments of
supplies of every kind, but especially
of food, with an eye to the service you
are rendering and in the spirit of those
who enlist in the ranks, for their peo
ple, not for themselves, I shall confi
dently expect you to deserve and win
the confidence of people of every sort
and station.”
German Attack on Hindenburg
Line Fails; 1500 Dead on Field
London — Fifteen hundred German
dead were left in front of the British
positions after the unsuccessful attack
delivered early Sunday morning by
strong German forces along a six-mile
front, on the Bapaume-Cambrai road,
according to the official report from
Field Marshal Haig.
The British gained further ground
in their advance upon both St. Quentin
and Lens.
“The the enemy is still in his ma
chine gun redoubts in some places,
these are only rear guards, for the
main body has retreated,” says a dis
patch.
RUSSIA PROMISES
NEVER TO YIELD
Dispels All Fear That Socialists
May Force Separate Peace.
WASHINGTON EASIER
Workingmen Are Going Baek to Shops
and Soldiers Falling in Line to
Renew Campaign in Field.
Washington, D. C. — Assurances
reached Washington Thursday that un
der no conditions that are now con
ceivable will the provincial govern
ment of Russia yield to the overtures
from German and Austrian socialistic
representatives to negotiate a separate
peace.
The entente embassies with this as
surance before them, frankly confessed
great relief. The gathering of social
ists at Stockholm, known to be fo
mented by Germans and Austrians,
was looked upon with dread and sus
picion, and it was feared that cunning
appeals to the altruistic principles of
socialism, the universal brotherhood of
working men and such considerations,
might force the provisional govern
ment to consent to a separate peace to
terminate the war.
It is now learned from an authorita
tive source that these apprehensions
and misgivings were based on misun
derstanding of the aims of the extreme
socialist element in Russia and of the
real strength of the provisional gov
ernment. So far from contemplating
any peace on the basis of existing gov
ernments, the advanced Russian social
ists want to carry their democratizing
ideas by force into the enemy coun
tries, and to appeal to their brother
socialists in Austria and Germany to
rise in revolt, overturn the monarchies
and establish true socialistic republics
in their places.
This movement is reported gather
ing strength rapidly in Russia among
the soldiers and workingmen.
The
former are falling in line again to re
new the campaign in the East and the
workingmen are going back to their
shops to turn out shot and shell and
powder on the greatest possible scale.
From every quarter comes assurances
of support for the provisional govern
ment.
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Rehabilitation of the crippled Rus
sian railways by a corps of more than
500 trained American railroad men
will be the early result of an appal to
the President from several of Russia’s
ablset engineers.
The new govern
ment thus will be strengthened against
the pressure to make a separate pace
with Germany.
Plans to lend the Russian govern
ment some $2,000,000,000 out of the
new $5,000,000,000 war bond issue
have already been formulated, but
American aid is to go still further and
make effective the expenditure of the
great sums of money the new Russian
democracy is to receive from the Unit
ed States.
T. R. May Become General.
Oyster Bay, N. Y. — Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt in a statement Thurs
day night declared that in furtherance
of his plan to lead an army division to
France “it may be that conditions will
become such as to make it wise” for
him to accept a commission as major
general of the National Guard of New
York offered by Governor Whitman.
His preference, however, he said,
would be to raise a division of United
States volunteers similar to the troops
he commanded in Cuba during the
Spanish-American war.
America Censors Letters.
San Francisco—Uncle Sam’s censor
ship of mail has begun.
The first
American censored letter to arrive in
San Francisco came to a local news
paper accompanied by 50 cents for a
month’s subscription. It was written
aboard a government warship.
The
envelope bore the imprint, “Passed by
censor,” and the postmark on the out
side of the envelope, as well as the
date line indicating the whereabouts
of his ship, were blotted out.
U-Boat Carries Disguise.
New York—A German submarine
disguised as a sailing ship, carrying
three masts, was sighted by the Brit
ish steamship Southern Down on April
3 when about 300 miles west of Lis-
bon.
For two hours the British
freighter was chased, escaping capture
or destruction through her superior
speed, according to officers of the
Southern Down on arrival of the vessel
Thursday at an American port.
Tree Kills Youth Walking With Giri.
Eugene, Or.—Sidney Leroy Barnes,
aged 18, while gathering wild flowers
in company with a girl companion at
Pingree, near Lowell, Lane county,
was instantly killed by a falling snag
from a dead tree Sunday. The young
man was employed at the Gibson saw
mill. Barnes and Miss Neva Grace
Gibson, aged 17, daughter of the own
er of the mill, had gone but a short
Railway May Offer Land.
distance in the woods when the top of
San Francisco—The Southern Pacific
the tree came crashing down. The railroad, it has become known, is con
trunk of the tree, 14 inches thick, sidering a plan to aid the campaign to
Forest Reserves Add to Food Supply. struck Barnes squarely on the head.
increase the country’s food supply by
North Yakima. Wash.—G. F. Allen,
which it would permit farmers, rent
supervisor of the Rainier national for
Anti-Plot Bill Favored.
free, to use its agricutural lands.
Washington, D. C.—The senate bill Many millions of acres are held by the
est, is organizing co-operative cattle
associations among stockmen with the imposing a maximum penalty of $10,- railroad along its right of way.
object of making the grass in the for 000 fine, 30 years’ imprisonment, or
Britain to Fly U. S. Flag.
est reserves available to the greatest both, on “whoever in the United
London—The American flag will fly
extent possible and by that means in States, during time of war, shall wil-
creasing the number of cattle which fuly injure or destroy by fire, or by from the great Victoria tower of the
will be fatenod for market.
Stock- use of explosives, or by other violent Houses of Parliament on Friday, this
men with only a few animals are join means, or shall attempt to injure or being the first time in history that any
ing these associations and their stock destroy any war material, war prem but the British flag has flown there.
will be sent to the reserves, the gov ises or any war utilities, building or The sale of American flags in Lon
ernment dealing in all matters of busi- other United States prope rty ," was don has been enormous, many dealers
ness with the association officers.
being sold out.
favorably reported to the house.