THE
WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
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Events of Noted People, Governments
and Pacific Northwest and Other
Things Worth Knowing.
Every jitney bus operating in Spo
kane was ordered off the streets by
Mayor Fleming Tuesday.
Rear Admiral Sims, in charge of
American naval operations in Euro
pean waters, was formally appointed
Wednesday a vice admiral by Presi
dent Wilson.
Two employes of the Giant Powder
company at Oakland, Cal., were killed
Tuesday afternoon, when the nitro
glycerine house at the company’s plant
near Richmond, blew up.
Panama has proposed that the Unit
ed States advance $10,000,000 for im
mediate construction of strategic roads
and railways as a step in proper de
fense of the Panama Canal Zone in the
world war.
“Keep up local charities,” is the
message sent by the women’s commit
tee of the Council of National defense
to women of the country. “Our poor
and helpless must not suffer because of
the war,” it says.
The evening newspapers of New
York City did not publish any editions
on Memorial Day.
The purpose of
this step was the conserving of white
paper. It is estimated that it resulted
in a saving of 250 tons.
An official statement issued in Lon
don recently says that counting the
Americans serving in the British and
French armies and the additional units
ordered to France, there shortly will
be 100,000 Americans in France.
A mob estimated to number 3000
persons, shouting threats to rid East
St. Louis, Ill., of negroes imported to
work in factories and munitions plants,
swept through the streets Wednesday
night, attacking and beating negroes
wherever found.
Several negroes
were injured so severely they probably
will die.
Resolutions adopted at the great
mass meeting in favor of the entente
allies held in Madrid Tuesday were
presented to the Spanish minister of
the interior. The resolutions were to
the effect that “Spain should break
diplomatic relations with Germany and
should acept all the consequences from
the action which she is compelled to
adopt for the defense of her dignity.”
Hundreds of business men of El
Paso, Texas, wept Sunday when Dr.
Newell Dwight Hillis, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., pictured conditions in Belgium,
Northern France and Serbia under Ger
man rule, and cheered wildly when Dr.
Hillis said: "The Kaiser sent a mes
sage to the Sultan of Turkey saying:
‘God bless you, my friend,’ “If 1 were
a layman I should say, without being
sacrilegious, ‘God damn the Sultan.’ ”
HERALD,
BORDER TOWN RAIDED PPRRRRRPRPRPE 23
Villistas Capture Ojinaga in Surprise
Attack — Soldiers and Civilians
Escape to American Side.
Presidio, Tex.—Francisco Villa now
holds a border port opposite an Amer
ican town, and again United States
troops are patrolling the border, while
Villa cavalrymen are silhouetted
against the night sky on the Southern
bank of the Rio Grande.
At 5 o’clock Thursday morning ap
proximately 200 Villa followers dashed
into the little border town of Ojinaga,
opposite here, shouting “Vive Villa,”
and shooting right and left as they
rode. Only a handful of Mexican gov
ernment forces occupied the town,
General G. Figueroa, General Garcia
and Colonel Riojas having gone out
Sunday night to engage the Villa com
mand, which was encamped in La Mula
pass, 35 miles south of the border.
These forces were expected to return
and make a desperate effort to drive
the Villa troops from the town.
Fifty of the government force of 75
men left in Ojinaga were killed in es
caping across the river to Presidio.
Women and children followed behind
their men, carrying babies and bun
dles. Of the 25 government soldiers
remaining 16 were killed during the
fighting, six were taken prisoner and
the remainder were wounded.
The battle lasted two hours, after
which the shops and homes of the
Ojinaga residents were looted.
Chico Lano led the Villa forces into
the plaza. Martin Lopez, Jose Ynez
Slazaar and Carlos Montoya were re
ported to have been with him in the
attack.
Reports of a fight Wednesday be
tween the government troops in com
mand of Generals Garcia and Fig
ueroa, 15 miles southeast of La Mula
pass and 50 miles below the border,
were brought here by refugee Mexi
cans.
They said the government
forces were divided into two com
mands, and both were said to have
suffered heavy losses and were forced
to retire to the foothills. Seven hun
dred Villa troops were said to have
been engaged in this battle, and were
opposed by about 600 government
troops. The Villa force was said to
have been Villa’s main command, and
he was reported to have been present
in person.
GOVERNMENT EXPENSES UP
Total More Than $150,000, Compared
With $8,000,000 Last Year.
Washington, D. C.—The govern
ment’s expenditures for the fiscal year
so far reached $1,600,000,000 Thurs
day, more than $900,000,000 in excess
of last year’s expenditures up to the
present date, and a new high record in
American history.
The chief item of the increase,
$607,500,000, was purchase of the ob
ligations of foreign governments in
exchange for loans to the allies.
An
increase of approximately $245,000,-
000 in the ordinary disbursements of
the government, ¡chiefly due to mili
tary and naval needs, also is recorded,
and another item going to swell the
grand total of expenditures was the
payment of $25,000,000 for purchase
of the Danish West Indies.
Ordinary receipts also shew an in
crease over last year, the total to date
being $818,000,000.
The chief item
of increase is the income tax, payment
so far this year having reached the to
tal of $155,000,000, as compared with
$28,000,000 last year.
Income tax
receipts are flowing into the treasury
at the rate of nearly $4,500,000 a day.
Enlistments in the Naval Reserve They have reached a total of nearly
forces since the war began have $100,000,000 this month, as compared
brought the personnel of all branches with less than $5,000,000 last May.
up to about 25,000, or almost half the
size of the regular Navy a year ago. NAVY GETS FIRST DIRIGIBLE
This includes the fleet reserve, the
naval auxiliary, volunteer coast de
fense and flying corps reserves and wo Aiaahip Makes Long Flight With Great
Success; 16 to Be Delivered.
men enlisted for special duty.
Bos
ton, New York, Philadelphia and Nor
Washington, D. C. — Navy officials,
folk, in the order named, have led in
encouraged over the successful build
enlistments.
ers’ trial of the first 16 non-rigid di
Marshal Joffre and ex-Minister Vi rigible balloons ordered by the depart
viani arrived at Brest
Wednesday ment two months ago, said Thursday
night on their return from the United night that the dirigible program now
States. They proceeded at once to was assured of completion much sooner
Paris.
than had been expected.
The airship left Chicago at midnight
Fire Thurdsay night in the Norfolk
navy yard is said by officials there to Monday night and arrived without ac
have done “negligible damage. ” Pub- cident Tuesday afternoon at Akron, O.
lished reports of an explosion in the The contract called for delivery within
four months, but the builders will turn
city power plant were denied.
over the first ship for active duty in
Because of lack of sufficient surgical coast patrol work within less than 90
dressings, newspapers are being used days of the date of the contract, and
on the battle fields of France to stop thereafter one or more will be deliv
the wounds of many soldiers, according ered every week.
to a cable message received by the
American Red Croes.
Eastern Youths Migrate.
The Roman Catholic newspaper Tyd
Laredo, Tex.—Federal officials here
says it understands on good authority Thursday disclosed the fact that from
that the Austrian court is initiating a
new peace effort. The action is in ac 15 to 20 young Americans, with little
cordance with the wishes of Pope Ben baggage but carrying plenty of money,
are crossing into Mexico daily, osten
edict.
sibly to mine, prospect for oil or pur
The first detachment of United sue other occupations for which they
States army engineers, under command apparently are not trained. It is be-
of Major Parsons, arrvied in London lieved by officials that they are leaving
Thursday evening. The second unit the United States to avoid conscrip
of the American Hospital corps has tion. Most of the young men are from
reached Great Britain.
Eastern states, some being from
The government has obtained op points as far East as Maine and New
Hampshire.
tions, it is announced, on large quan
tities of leather for the Army and
More Wages Are Raised.
Navy at prices in effect at the begin
Louisville — Wage increases involv
ning of the war.
No figures were
ing approximately $1,920,000 a year
given out, but it was said this repre-
have been granted to over 8000 shop-
senta a considerable saving.
men and foremen in the employ of the
The war revenue bill, framed to
bring into the treasury $1,800,000,000
through new taxation during the com
ing year, passed the house by a vote of
329 to 76 late Thursday in almost the
same form that it was presented by
the ways and means committee two
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Appropriation of $1.200,000 is Asked;
$60,000 Limit for Tongue Point
Site—Protect Coast Ports.
Washington, D. C.—The secretary
of the navy Wednesday sent to con
gress the report of the Helm board
recommending the appropriation of
$1,200,000 to establish and equip a
submarine and aviation base near the
mouth of the Columbia river.
The board recommends the purchase
of the Tongue Point site, at a cost not
exceeding $60,000, and in eyent the
property cannot be acquired at that
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figure, advises condemnation,
owners are asking $75,000.
The remainder of the appropriation,
it is recommended, should be expended
in preparing the site, and in the con
struction of wharves, storehouses,
shops and equipment, an electric
charging plant, temporary barracks for
men, with such other equipment as
may be necessary to meet the necessi
ties of at least 12 submarines.
In addition, provision is to be made
for hangars, launching ways and equip
ment for aeroplanes and other aircraft.
The submarine base, it is recom
mended, should be so installed as to be
able to care for at least 24 submarines
in time of war.
In its report the board states that
during its visits to the Columbia river
it was impressed with the importance
of adequately defending this region
from attack, and the base is recom
mended largely as a defense measure,
to afford naval protection to the Co
lumbia river country in time of war.
None of the sites near the mouth of
the river was regarded as ideal for
submarine and aviation work, and it is
said the region is not suitable for
training aviators.
"But,” says the report, “in time of
war the necessity for protection of the
Columbia river region is imperative,
and a well-equipped submarine base in
the Columbia river from which sub
marines could operate for a distance of
150 miles to the north and south would
meet the major requirements of de
fense at Willapa Bay and Grays Har
bor and the coast north and south of
the Columbia.”
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it is proposed to expend $900,000 on
the submarine base and $300,000 on
the aviation base.
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Democracy.
Anti-War Mob and Police in Battle.
Cleveland—Police attempting to pre
vent anti-war speeches by Socialists in
the public square were attacked by a
crowd of about 300 late Monday and a
pitched battle ensued.
Just previous
to the trouble, the recruiting station
Louisville & Nashville railroad, whose erected in the public square registered
nine-hour day was reduced to eight, 211 recruits.
The police dragged one of the So-
according to an announcement Thurs
day. The pay of machinists and boiler ciaist orators off the stone rostrum
makers was increased from 42 to 48 and the crowd attacked the police.
cents an hour. Car repair men, help- Reserves rushed to the scene, clubbed
en and apprentices shared in the in , the crowd back and half a dozen men
crease.
i were arrested.
UNCOVER CONSPIRACY PLAN
German Intrigue Pronounced Against
Selective Draft Registration.
Washington, D. C.—Attorney Gen
eral Gregory Wednesday instructed
United States attorneys and marshals
throughout the country to use their ut
most efforts to arrest and prosecute all
persons responsible for the agitation
which has manifested itself in locali
ties from New England to Texas
against the registration June 5 of men
subject to selective draft.
This agitation has made itself felt
somewhat in many sections, but thus
far there apparently is little connec
tion between the outbreaks. Officials
have undertaken an exhaustive investi
gation to determine if the whole anti
draft sentiment is not rooted in exten
sive machinations of German propa
gandists having a central headquarters
in this country.
Color to this theory is lent in some
degree by the marked similarity in the
methods of procedure in the widely
separated communities. Some officials
believe that the entire agitation is
manufactured by German agents, who,
baffled in their original program call
ing for an armed uprising of German
reservists in this country upon Ameri
ca’s entry into the war, have truned
their energies to this method of hin-
dering the military plans of the gov-
ernment.
Petrograd, via London — The indus
trial crisis in Russia is so acute that,
according to a recent utterance of the
minister of finance, M. Shingaroff,
only a miracle can save the country
from economic ruin. The demands of
the workmen were so enormous, he
declared, that it seemed impossible to
keep the industrial wheels going for
any great length of time.
The Socialist ministers at a recent
ministrial council said that the only
possibility they saw of settling the
difficulties was to bring the war to a
close.
Neither the coalition cabinet nor the
newly appointed commission to regu
late the difficulties between capital
and labor has yet found a way to settle
the industrial crisis. The commission
is composed of the minister of finance,
trade and industry and labor, but since
there is a wide divergence of views
between the ministers of finance and
the new Socialist minister of labor, it
seems probable that this commission
will be confronted with the same diffi
culties that attended previous efforts
at reconciliation.
An investigation of factory condi
tions in Petrograd leads to the alarm
ing but inevitable conclusion that un
less the government finds a means of
adjusting the present difficulties, most
of industrial enterprises working for
national defense will be compelled to
close within a few months.
The outstanding features of the la-
bor situation are as follows: An in
vestigation shows that virtually the
same difficulties prevail in all the big
factories in Petrograd, and apparently
authenticated reports from the Mos
cow, Donets and Ural districts indicate
general disorganization.
In many of
the factories demands of the working-
men for increased wages are actually
greater than the entire profits of the
factories under the best conditions of
production.
The workmen, through their com
mittees, are virtually in command of
the factories and business has to be
submitted to them for approval.
INDUSTRIAL PEACE IS PLAN
National Council Hopes to Eliminate
Strife Among Workers.
Washington, D. C.—Labor strife is
to be abolished for the period of the
war if a plan under consideration by
the labor committee of the Council of
National Defense should be adopted.
Up to this time the committee work
ing in conjunction with Secretary of
Labor Wilson has arranged disputes
between employes and employers. The
machinery available is inadequate and
cumbersome, however, and it is sure to
break down under the stress of the
conditions which the war is producing.
If the war is to be won it is appar
ent there must be industrial peace.
Secretary Wilson is understood to be
drafting a .bill for consideration by
congress under which compulsory in
vestigation shall be required. A bill
of this kind could not possibly get
through congress. The matter, there
fore, must be settled in another way.
The plan under consideration con
templates the insertion in every gov
ernment contract for supplies of a pro
vision under which arbitration must be
resorted to in case of industrial differ
ences. The arbitration board would
consist of seven members, two repre
senting labor, two representing capital
and three representing the public.
It would tie the duty of this board to
receive and investigate all complaints
regarding conditions of labor in the
plants having government contracts.
The findings of the board would be ob-
ligatory upon the employers, and pub-
lie opinion, it is believed, would have
the effect of causing the men to con-
tinue work.
.
Property Loss in Middle State:
Will Reach $5,000,000.
MANY SECTIONS HIT
Three Days’ Storm Sweep Destruction
Through Kansas, Illinois, Indi
ana, Kentucky, Tennessee.
Chicago — More than 200 persons
were killed, 2400 or more injured, and
millions of dollars’ worth of property
destroyed by tornadoes which swept
through Kansas on Friday, Illinois and
Indiana on Saturday, and parts of Ten
nessee, Arkansas, Kentucky and South
ern Illinois, Sunday.
Reports indicate that a large amount
of farm implements, needed to produce
the bumper crop desired this year,
were ruined, although the spasmodic
wind struck only here and there in its
frightful play through the rural re
gions. Crop damage is said to be not
heavy in grains.
The heaviest toll of life was taken
at Mattoon, Ill., a city of 10,000 popu
lation in the broom corn country of
Central Illinois, where 54 are known
to be dead and 500 injured, with a
property loss of $2,000,000.
Charleston, Ill., 10 miles east of
Mattoon, was also partly wrecked Sat
urday night with a loss of 38 lives and
150 injured. The property loss there
is $1,000,000.
The next most serious loss was at
Andale, Kan., where 26 were killed
and a score injured on Friday.
Dublin, Ky., suffered three dead and
17 injured Sunday. South Dyersburg,
Tenn., was reported to have lost two
killed and 15 injured in a tornado that
swept Dyer county. Near Blytheville,
Ark., nine persons were reported killed
and a dozen hurt.
Reports from Indiana show at least
seven persons killed at Hebron, Kouts
and other places, and the death list
may reach 20. More than 200 were
injured in the Indian Territory swept
by the storm.
Smaller towns in Illinois lost a dozen
dead on Saturday with two score in
jured, while in the Southern point of
Illinois windstorms killed a half dozen
and injured a score.
GOETHALS WILL VISIT COAST
Federal Shipbuilder to Inspect Work-
on Government Contracts.
Washington, D. C.—General George
W. Goethals, head of the Federal
Ship-building corporation, is planning
to visit the Pacific Coast at an early
day, primarily to inspect the steel
shipyards, but incidentally to look over
yards which have taken or will take
contracts for wooden ships.
It is General Goethals’ intention to
call upon every shipyard on the coast
capable of building 4000 and 5000-ton
steel ships, to take Government con
tracts and to concentrate on the orders
to the exclusion of all other business,
between now and December 31, 1918.
Under the arrangement which Gen
eral Goehtals has made with the big
steel plants of the East there will be
no difficulty in supplying the West
coast yards with steel for government
ships; rather it is anticipated the only
handicaps will be labor and yard facil
ities.
Established yards will be urged to
increase their number of ways, and en
couragement will be given to legiti
mate enterprise which is ready to es
tablish new yards for the building of
these ships.
It is largely with a view to bring
about an expansion of the steel ship
building industry on the Pacific Coast
that General Geohtals will go West.
Such expansion, he believes, is entire
ly justified, not alone by the govern-
ment contracts in contemplation, but
by the enormous demand that will
arise for shipe after the close of the
war.
Troops Will Be Amused.
Washington, D. C.—American troops
would take rest and recreation centers
along with them to France under plans
worked out by the training camp ac
tivities committee appointed by Secre
tary Baker.
The committee already
has received many offers of aid from
actors and other entertainers.
Major General Bell, commanding the
Eastern department, has urged the
Vienna Cabinet Shaky.
Giant Explosive is Found.
committee to lay great stress on sing-
London—A vacancy in the Austrian
New York—Dr. D. DeWaltoff, vice ing and an effort will be made to
president of the American Medico- get soldier choruses going in the premierhsip may soon follow the Hun
garian premiership vacancy, according
Pharmaceutical league, announced at camps.
to reports through Amsterdam Monday.
the annual meeting of the league here
150 Engineers Called Out
Messages from Vienna, says the Cen
that he and his son, Mortimer, had dis
San Francisco — Orders went out tral News correspondent at Amster
covered an explosive so powerful that
a five-grain tablet would suffice to Tuesday to 150 enlisted men of the dam, indicate that the rumors of the
wreck the tallest building in New Eighth Regiment, reserve engineers, resignation of Count Clam-Martinio,
York. The discovery, he said result to report next Friday for duty, They the Austrian premier, are so persistent
that developments in this connection
ed from an experiment to find a cheap are to be sent to American
Wash., for a month of drill and train- are expected shortly.
substitute for gasoline.
Count von Coudenhove. the governor
Dr. DeWaltoff claimed that his ex- ing before going to France.
of Bohemia, is mentioned as successor
Lieutenant Colonel James B.
plosive was “10,000 times more pow
naugh, commander of the regiment, to the premier.
erful than dynamite. ”
left Tuesday for American Lake to
Ship Sunk; 52 Missing.
superintend the construction of the
Allied Experts Arrive.
training
camp.
New
York — The British steamship
New York — A French and British
Feltria, a 5254-ton freighter belonging
scientific commission, which will work
Shipyard Strike Called.
to the Cunard line, was sunk May 5 off
with American scientists on war prob
Newport News, Va.—Machinists em the Irish const and her captain and 52
lems, arrived Wednesday.
The com-
mission consists of Commandant Fa ployed by the Newport News Ship of hie crew, including two Americans,
bry, Commandant Henri Abraham. building & Drydock company gave no are missing. This report, current in
Captain de Grammant de Guiches, Cap tice Tuedsay night that they would marine circles Monday, was confirmed
tain Duxouey and Lieutenant Peterno, strike because yard officials rejected by the Cunard line. The Feltria was
The formerly known as the Uranium, and
all of France, and Sir Ernest Ruther demands for wage increases.
ford and Commander Bridge, of the plant is building about $80,000,000 her last appearance in American wa
British navy. There also arrived on worth of naval ships, including two ters was on February 18, when she
sailed for Liverpool with cargo.
dreadnaughts.
the four officers of the Italian army.