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THE WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Government* and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. To Twohy Bros., of Portland, has been awarded a contract for immediate construction of 300 freight cars for the Southern Pacific. The scarcity of bread and potatoes has caused an outbreak of rioting in Lisbon. Mobs attacked several stores, but order was restored by the police. A German airplane dropped bombs on the railroad station at Kishinev, capital of the province of Bessarabia, Russia. A soldier and two children were killed and five workmen injured. Mrs. Mary Louise Hull, wife of Rep resentative Harry E. Hull, of Iowa, died in Washington Tuesday night after taking poison tablets which she thought were headache pills. She was 46 years old. Secretary Daniels has addressed a letter to Speaker Clark urging that legislation prohibiting the sale of in toxicating beverages to soldiers, incor porated in the army bill, be extended to cover the navy. A considerable number of mine sweepers are to be added at once to the naval establishment. Secretary Daniels conferred with private build ers on plans for getting the craft turned out without delay. The $22,000 gold brick stolen two months ago from the Chichagoff Island Mining cómpany, which operates a mine on Chichagoff Island, Alaska, has been discovered hidden near the com pany store from which it was taken. A Copenhagen dispatch to London says that since the beginning of the war Denmark has lost 150 ships through submarines or mines. The destruction of the ships has been ac companied by the deaths of 210 Danish seamen. Berlin now is feeling the potato shortage. The residents of the capital have been warned that it may be im possible to supply five pounds to every body this week, but that those who are unable to obtain the full ration will re ceive cakes. President Wilson has expressed his approval of the daylight saving plan. The delegation to the White House was headed by Representative Borland, of Missouri, and, Marcus Marks, of New York, president of the National Daylight Saving association. “Doing their bit” to help the gov ernment increase the food supply, the Utah Wool Growers' association issued a proclamation ordering that all fe male sheep be conserved for another year. By this action, it was said, the sheep flocks will be increased one- third. The Italian commission to the Unit ed States, headed by Prince Udine and including William Marconi and several other distinguished Italians, has safely crossed the Atlantic and soon will be in Washington to begin conferences with American officials and the Italian ambassador. - A brass attachment of the powder charge, striking the water and return ing boomerang-fashion back nearly 200 feet after the firing of a naval gun in the target practice, killed Mrs. Edith Ayres and Miss Helen Burnett Wood, Red Cross nurses of Chicago, who lost their lives Monday aboard the American steamship Mongolia. Presiding Judge Martin, of Common Pleas court of Philadelphia, signed a decree authorising the removal of Harry K. Thaw to the Pennsylvania hospital for the insane. To allay apprehension of Mexicans in this country near the border that they might be drafted into the United States army, the government has is- sued a denial of any such intention. According to the beet information obtainable, Preaident Wilson, follow ing the signing of the conscription army bill, will offer Colonel Roosevelt a commission as brigadier general in the army. H. J. Herrin, of Wolf Creek, Mon tana. and Philip Chevalier, near Johns, have contracted to sell their 1917 wool clips for 52 cents a pound. This is as high as any price ever received for wool in this district. Assuranes of the closest co-operation by the military forces of the United States with those of Cuba will be car ried to Havana by the Cuban commis sioners, who have concluded their work at Washington and left for home. The British prime minister has sent a letter to John Redmond, leader of the Irish Nationalist party, outlining the government’s project for the set- tlement of the home rule question. He asked Mr. Redmond to state his views on the government’s suggestions, that the government may be able to con sider th* matter at once. ENGINEERS MOBILIZE American Lake to Be Scene of Gath ering and Perfecting of Eighth Reserve Regiment of Coast. San Francisco—The Eighth Reserve Engineer Regiment, now organizing on the Pacific Coast, will mobilize at American Lake, near Tacoma, Wash., about June 1, it was announced here Wednesday by Lieutenant Colonel James B. Cavanaugh, its commander. The Eighth Engineers will be one of nine regiments of railroad experts and workers which will be among the first American military organizations to go to France. They will aid in the opera tion and rehabilitation of existing French roads and the building of others. Notification that American Lake had been selected as the mobilization camp came from Washington. Immediately afterward Lieutenant Colonel Cava naugh announced that he would call the men June 1. If the regiment is not recruited to its required strength by then, others will be enlisted later. It is the only volunteer organization now forming on this coast. The Eighth regiment will consist of two battalions of three companies each. It will number more than 1000 men. One battalion is being organ ized in the Northwest and another in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The southern battalion lacks about 300 men of being full now. Track and bridge foremen, bridge carpenters and track laborers are most needed now, it was said. A few stenographers also are wanted. U-BOAT PROBLEM IS SOLVED HERMISTON HERALD, OREGONS JUNIOR SENATOR PASSES HIGH BRAZILIAN FAVORS WAR Traditional Policy is Declared to Be Complete Unity With U. S. Rio de Janerio—President Braz has sent a message to congress recom mending the revocation of the decree of neutrality in the war between the United States and Germany. Con gress is expected to accept the recom mendation by a large majority. The message declares that the order to the Brazilian authorities enjoining the observance of neutrality was only intended to have effect until congress met. It continues: "Today, in consideration of the fact that the United States is an integral part of the American Union; in con sideration also of the traditional policy of Brazil, which has always been gov erned by a complete unity of view with the United States, and, finally, in consideration of the sympathies of a great majority of the Brazilian nation, the administration invites congress to resvoke the decree of neutrality.” Relief Ship Chartered. New York—The American Museum of Natural History announced Wednes day that it would send out a third re lief ship in search of the Crockerland expedition, which has been marooned in the Arctic since 1913. The steamship Neptune has been chartered for the purpose and will be commanded by Captain Robert A. Bartlett, who was with Peary on his Arctic exploration. The Neptune, now in the service of the British govern ment as a coal carrier, is expected to sail northward about July 1. Signal Units Proposed. Chicago — Forty representatives of railroads operating in the Middle Western states are in convention here and conferring with signal corp* offi- cers of the Central department of the United States army on plans to organ ize railway telegraphers into signal units. There is a possibility, it was said Wednesday night, that some of the railroads may be obliged to sub stitute the troops’ service for that of the telegraph. OREGON: WAR CENSUS FACTS Important Information for Guidance of Public in Registration on War Census Day, Tuesday, June 5. (From Office of Adjutant General, O. N. G.) Death Comes to Harry Lane as Result of Breakdown. ILL ONLY SHORT TIME Two Terms Served as Mayor of Port land, One as Su pt. of Insane and One as U. S. Senator. San Francisco—United States Sen ator Harry Lane, of Oregon, died at a hospital here Wednesday night, from a nervous disorganization produced by a blood clot on the brain. Senator Lane was stricken while in Washington. He stopped here on his way to his home in Portalnd, to re- cuperate. Last Thursday he was taken to a hospital, and on Monday the doc tors pronounced the case hopeless. Senator Lane was 62 years old. He is survived by his widow and two daughters, Mrs. Nina Lane McBride, of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Har riet Lane Hicks, of Norfolk, Va. Senator Lane was a native of Ore gon, the son of a pioneer family of the state. His grandfather, General Jo- Hudson Maxim Declares Appliance for Protection of Vessels is invented. New York — Hudson Maxim an nounced Wednesday that he had in vented and perfected a device which will make ships immune from the dan gers of the submarine. He said that torpedoes, even when fired at close range and striking their tragets, would explode harmlessly against the hulls of their intended victims. The inventor made the announce ment at a luncheon given in Brooklyn. He asserted that the invention soon will be demonstrated by the govern ment which already had been advised of the details. “The invention is practical for every type of vessel,” he said. “It can be applied within a few months at a com paratively cheap price to the hulls of ships already constructed. The only change necessary in vessels already built will be a slight enlargement in their beams. “My device is solid material and en circles the entire ship from the bow to the stern. It in no sense or manner resembles either a serene or net.” HERMISTON, SENATOR LANE. OF OREGON, WHO DIED IN SAN FRANCISCO. seph Lane, was the first territorial governor of the state, its first United States senator, and candidate for vice president on the Democratic ticket with Breckenridge in the memorable 'campaign of 1860. His father, Nat H. Lane, was pio neer merchant, establishing the first store on the East Side, Portland. Senator Lane was born at Corvallis, on August 28, 1855, and was, there fore, in his 62d year. As a youth he was employed on a farm and for a time worked as a laborer on a mining property operated by an uncle in Curry county. He was compelled to leave school at the age of 13 to help support the family. But he studied in his spare hours and by the time he was 20 was able to enter Willamette univer sity at Salem. He was graduated from the medical department there on May 30, 1876. Most of his active life was passed in the practice of his profession as a physician. In 1887 Governor Pennoyer appiont- ed him superintendent of the State In sane hospital and he served through the first Pennoyer term. In 1905 he was elected mayor of Portland and also served a second term. Through his first term of mayor he displayed a passionate interest in the welfare of the “plain people” as he was wont to refer to them, and it was largely through their vote that he was re-elected in 1907. As mayor he gave close attention to detail—a characteristic that manifest ed itself, it is said, in conducting his office as United States senator. And it is this insistence of doing himself many things that could have been left to subordinates that hastened his un timely collapse. Senator Lane was the last man elect ed to the senate from Oregon by the legislature under the old law but the legislature merely acted to carry out the wishes of the people as expressed at the polls in the election of Novem ber. 1912. At that election he was the nominee of the Democratic party, having defeated a field of other candi dates in the preceding primary. Austria to Be Generous. Amsterdam, via London—It is the Austrian emperor's idea to offer very generous peace conditions to Russia, according to a German correspondent of the Tijd. These will include the integral re-establishment of Poland, free passage through the Dardanelle* and even a loan to Russia. The proposals were discussed at the recent meeting between Count Czernin, the Austro-Hungarian foreign minis Berlin Uste 10.000 Dead. London — German official lists of ter, and Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, killed, wounded and missing, issued the imperial German chancellor, at during the the month of April but not headquarters. necessarily referring to the casualties Spy Facce New Charges. occurring in April, show : Killed or New York-Fran i Rintelen, the Ger died of wounds or sickness, 10,979; prisoners and missing, 4308; severely man navy captain convicted recently and sentenced to one year in prison for or badly wounded. 9744. conspiring to disrupt the munitions 13 Ships Shell Kavala. trade in this country, pleaded not Sofia, via London—Thursday’s Bul guilty Thursday to two other indict- garian war office statement, after re menta. Thee* accuse him of perjury porting artillery action in various sec and of illegally obtaining a passport tion* of the Macedonian front, an which enabled him to get to England, nounced that 13 enemy warships bom where he was arrested and sent back barded Kavala, while 12 airplanes to this country. The government plana to place Rintelen on trial again. dropped bombs on the town. War Census Day—Tuesday, June 5, as named by President Wilson in his official proclamation. Who Must Register—Every male res ident between the ages of 21 and 30 years, inclusive. This includes aliens as well as Americans. Japanese, Chi nese, Italians, Germans, English, Americans and men of any other na tionality who are of the designated ages, must register. Aliens will not be dafted for war duty, of course, but a complete record of them is desired. Who is Exempt—No male resident between the ages of 21 and 30 years, inclusive, is exempt from registering. Those to be exempted from military service will be determined later, but first all must register. Men with physical disabilities, no matter how serious, must register if they are of the designated ages. Where to Register — Registration must be made in the home precinct of the man registering. Register at your regular voting place. Hours for Registration — Booths at regular voting place in each precinct will be open on War Census Day from 7 o’clock a. m. to 9 o’clock p. m. Don’t wait until the last moment. Register early. Registration of Absentees—If you find you will be unavoidably absent from your home precinct on War Cen sus Day, you should apply at the ear liest possible date to the county clerk of the county in which you may be at the time, whether in Oregon, Wash ington, Idaho, or elsewhere, who will fill out your registration card. He will then give you the card, which you must mail to the registrar of your home precinct, in care of the sheriff of your home county, in time to reach the registrar by War Census Day. If you live in Portland, or a city of over 30,- 000 population in another state, mail the card to the registrar in care of the mayor. But remember, the burden of having your car reach the registrar of your home precinct by War Census Day is on YOU. Registration of the Sick — Men of military age who are too ill to go to the voting booth to register must send a competent person before War Census Day to the county clerk to explain the circumstances, and secure instructions from the Federal regulations which these offiicals will receive from the government. Penalties—The penalty for failing to appear to register, or for giving false, misleading or incorrect answers, is imprisonment. There is no alterna tive of a fine. ATLANTA, GA., HAS BIG FIRE Loss Estimated at $2,000.000, Mostly in Residential Section. Atlanta, Ga. — Fire that started Monday afternoon in an obscure negro section swept a broad path through the residential section of Atlanta, devas tating scores of blocks and destroying many of the ctiy’s finest homes and hundreds of negro houses. Fire Chief Cody announced late Monday night that the fire had been brought under control. First estimates of the damage placed it at between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000. So far as could be learned the only life lost was that of a woman who died from shock. The fire was confined to the North western part of the city, and the only business houses burned were several warehouses. A high wind carried the flames northeastward with a speed which soon outran the efforts of the fire de partment. Within an hour after the first alarm the blaze began to assume the propor- tions of a conflagration and fire offi cials called in several hundred men from the Fort McPherson officers’ training camp to aid in the fight. Ap peals for help also brought fire equip ment from a half dozen neighboring cities. The thousands of homeless were be ing cared for by a citizens’ committee and by the Atlanta Red Cross chapter. Most of them were quartered in public buildings. The fire started in a storage house on Decatur street and swept unob structed into the better residence sec tions. A large part of the devasta tion, however, was in neighborhoods composed largely of homes ranging in value from $2500 to $6000. 5911841211225 STATE NEWS IN BR I 5 Contracts for 14 wooden ships to cost in the neighborhood of $500,000 each were let on the Pacific Coast Tuesday, 12 of them going to Oregon yards and involving an expenditure of about $6,000,000 in Oregon alone. If no par bids are received by the State Land Board on the $500,000 is sue of rural credits bonds now being advertised, it was intimated by the members of the Board, bonds in the future may be sold at par to any who desire to invest. Owing to conflict in dates with hear ings before the Interstate commerce commission, the Public Service com mission has postponed hearings on four cases to investigate the advance in rates on diversion and reconsignment of carload freight from May 29 to June 26. , The city of Eugene is meca for the Oddfellows of Oregon. Every train brought large delegations to the grand lodge meeting and the Rebekah as sembly, which convened Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock. The streets were crowded with visitors and gay with decorations. James Sturgis has purchased the re maining 825 acres of the Barnhart ranch, west of Pendleton, from the J. E. Smith Livestock company, at a re ported price of $30,000. The part of the ranch on the south side of the river was sold some months ago to the Uma tilla Sheep company. C. E. Cotton, who is associated with the Empire Lumber company, of Pitts burg, Pa., one of the largest lumber firms in the country, has opened a branch office of the company in Klam ath Falls. He is in the market for all kinds of lumber in wholesale quan tities, either mill cuts or upper grades. COUNTRY’S FOODS Volunteer Plan Outlined by Wil son as War Policy. NEED CURB ONLY FEW Absolute Authority is Declared Neces sary and Government Asks All to Help While War Lasts. Washington, D. C.—President Wil son in a statement Sunday outlining the administration’s food control pol icy, announced he had asked Herbert C. Hoover to become American food administrator and that Mr. Hoover would accept the offer. A statement given out by Mr. Hoover after the White House an nouncement was made, gave his plans for food administration and called on the country to render voluntary assist ance in carrying it out. Explaining that it is absolutely nec essary to vest unquestionable powers in the government, the President de clared he is confident that exercise of the authority granted will be necessary only “in the few cases where some small and selfish minority proves un willing to put the nation’s interests above personal advantage.” He makes it clear that the food ad ministration is only for an emergency situation and that since it will be com posed for the most part of volunteers “there need be no fear of the possi bility of a permanent bureaucracy arising out of it.” Mr. Hoover proposed that the food administraiton be divided into four great branches, whose duties he de fined in detail. Most of the work would be carred out by men and wom en of the country on a voluntary basis. “If this cannot be done,” Mr. Hoov er’s statement says, “I shall certainly and willingly surrender the task to some other method of emergency. I hold that democracy can yield to dis cipline, and that we can solve this food problem for our own people and our al lies in this way, and that to have done so will have been a greater service than our immediate objective, for we will have demonstrated the rightness of our faith and our ability to defend ourselves without being Prussianized.” June 25 has been named as the date of the wool sale to be held in Bend this summer, according to a message re ceived from J. N. Burgess, of Pendle ton, member of the executive commit tee of the Oregon Woolgrowers’ asso ciation. A sale will be held at Red mond on the same day, the buyers go ing from Bend by automobile. Little Letha Harness, of Roseburg, 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Harness, died late Sunday as a result of injuries sustained by being run down by an automobile earlier in the day. Eyewitnesses to the accident said the child was playing on what is known as the Brown bridge and did not notice the approaching car, which was driven by Charles Fields, an em ploye of the Roseburg postoffice. The American Poland China Record association, the Chester White Swine Record association, the American Duroc-Jersey Swine Breeders’ associa tion, the American Yorkshire club and the National Duroc-Jersey Record asso ciation have offered prizes to the swine department of the Oregon State Fair this year aggregating $1140, which are to be special prizes offered in addi tion to the prizes hung up by the State Portland Rose Festival Will Celebrate National Flag Day Second Day Fair board itself. of Yearly Spring Carnival. The referendum petition directed against the Gill bill of the last legis lative session has been filed with Sec Portland—Between 35,000 and 50,- retary of State Olcott by the Clack 000 men and women will participate in amas Fishermen’s union. The petition the huge patriotic pageant on National contains 16,160 names. Flag Day, the second day of the 1917 Rose Festival, June 13, 14 and 15, The past week has seen several mad while 20,000 school children will take dogs in Lakeview, and it is feared that part in the children’s parade, June 13. an epidemic is about to break out. A Oregon’s great floral event will this dog belonging to F. M. Duke went mad year have patriotism for its theme, a short time ago and had to be killed. and the flag will be entwined with the It is feared that this dog ran at large rose. The eight Italian societies rep during one night and infected a num resented in Portland, the Italian Red ber of dogs throughout the town. Cross, -the Girls’ National Honor Governor Withycombe has appointed Guards, the Spanish-American War the men who will serve on the State veterans, the Grand Army of the Re Lime board under the provisions of public, the Woman’s Relief Corps, and chapter 397, enacted at the last session other semi-military organizations have of the legislature. The appointees signified their desire to take part in Other entries are: Benton Bowers, Ashland, recom the military pageant. The Festival mended by the Taxpayers’ League; are pouring in daily. B. G. Leedy, Corvallis, recommended Center this year will also be the Court by the State Grange; John Simanek, of Patriotism. The heart will be a Crabtree, recommended by the Farm replica of the Statue of Liberty, tow ering 50 feet in the air and composed ers’ union. of roses and myriad electric lights. With the business streets of Rose President Wilson has endorsed the burg gaily decorated with carnival col Rose Festival as a demonstration of ors and patriotic emblems, the citizens patriotism and of loyalty to the Oregon entertained several thousand people at rose, and at the White House on the the festivities attendant on the open evening of June 13 he will press the ing of the Ninth Annual Strawberry buttons which will set the lights of the Festival Thursday. Although a "straw statue aglow and mark the formal berryless” Strawberry Festival, there opening of the Festival. was no lack of enthusiasm on the part June 15 will be given over to the of the visitors, and the first day’s pro annual floral parade and in the evening gram was pronounced the best ever the spirit of the ruse will blend with witnessed in Roseburg. the spirit of patriotic America. PATRIOTISM TO RULE A number of farmers are making ap plication to come under the Workmen’s Compensation act, since the recent ruling of the Supreme court, which de clared farm hands were* protected un der the Employers' Liability act when engaged in hazardous occupations. At the present time, a statement issued by the commission recently says, an average of 11 employers are daily bringing their operations under the act, and during the last 20 days 215 additional employers have been listed. High Food Price* Hit. Seattle, Wash. — Robert Bridges, president of the Port Commission an nounced Saturday that he is working on a plan by which the commission will engage in the commission and whole sale business in food products, acting as a selling agency for the farmers who store their products in the public warehouses. The object, he declared, is to regulate the price of food prod ucts brought here for local consump tion. The commission will not enter E. B. MacNaughton, an architect of the retail business, but will leave that field to the grocery stores. Portland, has been named by Governor Withycombe as a member of the In Streetcar Men Receive Raise. Munition* Ship Wrecked. dustrial Welfare Commission to suc Tacoma, Wash.—The Tacoma Rail Boston—The Leyland liner CoIonian. ceed Father E. V. O’Hara, of Port 6440 tons, was wrecked Tuesday on land, who has resigned. The appoint- way 4 Power company and Pacific Traction company voluntarily have in the south eoast of England, according ment becomes effective June 1. creased wages of all motormen and to a cablegram received by the agent The State Highway commission will conductor* in their employ effective of the line. The message said that th* steamer, which was carrying a hold a joint session on June 1 at Fossil June 1 the increase ranging from 5 to cargo of munitions, grain, lumber and with the Wheeler County court and 10 per cent. This is the second vt luntary increase cotton from this port, probably would award a contract for six miles of im be a total loss. The cause of the acci- provements between Fossil and the that has been made in six month* to dent and the fate of the crew were not Wheeler County line on the John Day trainmen the last increase being made mentioned. The steamer with her highway. It is expected the improve December 1, 1916. About 300 men are affected by the increase. ment will cost about $10,000. cargo was valued at $2,000,000. Pari* Meat $1 a Pound. Pari*—With the inauguration of the regime of two meatless days a week, beef went to $1 a pound Tuesday, and vegetables and fish followed the up ward tendency. The rush for meat supplies to carry over until Friday swamped the butchers, although' they had laid in ex tra amounts. There was a good deal of crowding and some sharp talk was heard against rich buyers who paid any price the dealers asked, sending the quotation* too high for modest purchasers.
