THE
WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
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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.
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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.