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THE WORLD HAPPENINGS U. S. OF CURRENT WEEK BUYING LUMBER Will Build One Hundred Wooden Ship* on Coast at Once—Deal Calls for 168,000,000 Feet, Assorted. Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Government* and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. Theodore Roosevelt will give an ad dress in Lincoln, Neb., on “Ameri canism,” Thursday, June 14, the clos ing day of the Nebraska semi-centen nial celebration. Ambassador Sharp at Paris has noti fied the State department that he has transferred to Spanish diplomats Turk ish interests in France for which he has been caring since early in the war. So great had the crowd of persons receiving liquor shipments become around the Wells, Fargo express office at Tacoma, Wash., Wednesday, that the police were called to preserve order. Santos Dumont, the Brazilian avi ator, has invented a powerful type of seaplane for fighting submarines, ac cording to a Turin dispatch, which says that the new machine will be manufac tured in the United States. A New York Federal grand jury has indicted 14 individuals and four cor porations on a charge of conspiring to defraud through the mails investors of the Emerson Motors company, a Dela ware corporation with a stock of $10,- 000,000. Roumania will establish a legation in Washington. Roumania recently asked this government if the establish ment of a legation here would be agreeable and has just been told that the United States would be glad to receive a charge d’affaires. Ruth Law, aviatrix, circled over Cleveland, Ohio, environs Wednesday, dropping "Liberty Loan bombs.” Miss Law has started on a 10-days’ trip in the interest of the Liberty Bond cam paign, dropping literature on several Middle West and Southwestern cities. Frank C. Webb, of New York, and J. E. Munsey, of Salt Lake City, are en route to their homes following their release from the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan'., where they had served six-year sentences imposed after conviction in the Indianapolis dynamite cases. The Petrograd provisions committee has decided to reduce the sugar allow ance to one-half a Russian pound monthly. Only black or brown bread may be baked hereafter, according to an announcement, under penalty of 18 months’ imprisonment, or a fine of $10,000 rubles. Applications for admittance to the second reserve officers’ training camp at the Presidio will be accepted on and after June 15, according to orders re ceived in San Francisco June 4 from the War department by Lieutenant Colonel Albert Laden, commanding the military camp. The Chicago Board of Trade direc tors have fixed a minimum price for corn, as was done with wheat several weeks ago. The price fixed was $1.65 on all contracts of corn for future de livery. There was less excitement among the brokers than on the occa sion of the similar action taken on wheat some weeks ago. President Wilson’s communication to the Russian government on the war aims of the United States has been de- livered at Petrograd by American Am bassador Francis. It will not be pub lished in this country or Russia for a day or two, while the State depart ment is clearing up what are officially characterized as “matters of detail.” The Fashion Art League of America has decreed that a woman must spend $653 for clothes if she's to be properly dressed this year. Memorial Day celebrations were held at both ends of the Panama Canal, with speeches by Wiliam J. Price, the American minister to Panama, and Major Herbert White, of the United States Army. Washington, D. C.—That the Pacific Coast is to build 100 wooden steamers for the Federal Shipping Board was established Thursday when the Council of National Defense, through its lum ber committee, signed a contract with the West Coast Lumbermen’s associa- toin for 168,423,300 feet of lumber at an average cost of $35 per thousand. This quantity of lumber, according to the Shipping Board estimates, consti tutes 100 ship units. While the contract was made with the West Coast Lumbermen’s associa tion, that association in this instance is acting for all the lumber mills in Western Oregon and Western Wash ington, by their authority. The government is to buy its lumber at mills located convenient to yards where the wooden ships are to be built. The total cost of this contract is $5,880,000. By this form of agreement with the Oregon and Washington lumber mills the government will save $900,000 on the lumber going into the 100 ships, but accomplishes this saving solely by reason of the special price quoted by the lumber manufacturers. The Shipping Board is to turn over this lumber to the shipbuilders at cost, and will derive no profit from mere handling of the lumber, as an inter mediate party. In fact, save as to bookkeeping, the shipyards will buy from the mills, at the price named in the contract. The Shipping Board will at once place specific contracts for lumber for 60 ships and will close deals for the remaining 40 ship units within 30 days. First deliveries will begin within 30 days, and the whole contract is to be filled within a year. AMERICA’S DELAY WORRIES Food Situation is Cause of Much Un easiness in England. London — In the house of commons Thursday, in reply to a question on the food situation, Captain Charles Bath urst, parliamentary secretary to the food control department, said it was not in the pubilc interest to give any information regarding food supplies, but that it was of the greatest import ance to the success of the allies’ cause that food exports from America should be on the highest possible scale for the remainder of the war. Captain Bathurst’s statement is somewhat disquieting to the public and the press. The Daily Chronicle, in an editorial on the subject, thinks there is more in it than meets the eye, and proceeds to refer to the delay in the execution by the Washington ad ministration of the food plans, owing to the disagreement in congress. “It is not for us,” says the paper, “to criticise the course of American legislation, but in this case we may be pardoned for feeling considerable anx iety at delays which, if extended fur ther, might entail most serious conse quences for the allied countries.” AMERICAN DESTROYS U-BOAT Battle Lasts Hour and a Half, Sixty Shots Being Exchanged, Washington, D. C.—A German sub- marine is believed to have been sunk by an armed American steamer Thurs day in a running fight lasting an hour and a half, in which 35 shots were fired by the submarine and 25 by the steamer. An official announcement by the State department says the steam er’s final shot “apparently struck the submarine, which raised clear out of the water and stood stern-end up a few seconds. She then disappeared. “Upon sight of the submarine, the steamer hoisted the American flag and waited for about 10 mintues. As the submarine approached the steamer fired. The submarine responded. The steamer kept a speed that would per mit the submarine to come within range. Then followed a fight lasting for an hour and a half. The submar ine came to within a distance of 2300 yards. By that time the submarine had fired 35 shots and the steamer 25. The last shot of the steamer apparent ly struck the submarine, which raised clear out of the water and stood stern up for a few seconds. Then she dis- appeared. The captain of the steamer and the commander of the guard be lieve that the submarine was sunk. The steamer suffered no damage.” Troops to Deal With Striker*. Helena, Mont. — Troops have been Ideas embodied in Rear Admiral stationed in Whitefish by the Western Bradley A. Fiske’s invention of a tor- department of the army, according to pedo-launching seaplane have been word received here, to handle an ugly "appropriated” by the Germans, and strike situation. were used by them in torpedoing the Governor Stewart was appealed to by 3000-ton British steamship Gena off Great Northern officials, who repre- Aldeburgh, on May 1, according to a sented that a big program of construc statement given out in New York by tion work was under way there and the Aero Club of America. Two sea that its speedy completion is necessary planes participated in the attack and to handle traffic effectively. The men one was brought down by the British. at work struck. The Great Northern Hans Suher, who has been appointed brought in new men, but the strikers Swiss minister to the United States, । refused to permit them to work. is on hi* way to Washington. His ap-1 Skipper is Sent to Jail. pointment has been approved by the | Charleston, S. C.—Captain J. R. American government. Klattenhoff, former master of the Ger Lieutenant Colonel Fred W. Sladen, man steamer Liebenfels, now the Uni commander of the military training I ted State* ship Houston, was sentenced camp, reserve corps officer*, has or to a year in the Atlanta prison in Fed dered the dismissal of the unfit men eral District court after pleading guil from the Presidio camp. ty to sinking the ship in Charleston On Memorial Day the flood water* harbor on order* of the German gov of the Clearwater river, Idaho, claimed ernment. Klattenhoff testified that he two victims, Eleanor, IS years old, and got hi* order* from Dr. Muller, for Uretta, 8 year* old. daughter* of Mr. merly the German consul in Atlanta, who was also indicted. and Mrs. Calvin Boyer, of Lewiston. HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. 10,000,000 MEN GERMAN WARSHIP ENROLL FOR DUTY SENT TO BOTTOM America’s First Military Census Kaiser’s Naval Base on Belgian Coast Bombarded by British. Taken “Without Murmur.” GERMAN PLOTS FAIL SECOND SHIP INJURED Thousands Disclaim Right of Exemp English Force of Light Cruiser* At tion Registration 100 Per Cent tack Six German Destroyers in —Few Attempt Evasion. Hot Fight—Capture Men. • 410999), Washington, D. C.—More than 10,- 000,000 young Americans enrolled themselves Tuesday for war service. Registration day, with but a few weeks of preparation, saw the first military census ever taken in the United States completed without a single untoward event of consequence. The manhood of the Nation obeyed the President’s call and volunteered in mass, setting at naught all the schemes and plottings of German sympathizers and the few cranks who have agitated against registration. It remains but to select the men who are to go to the front. From virtually every state reassur ing messages came through to Briga dier General Crowder, Provost Marshal General, Federal supervising officer of the great enterprise. While no com plete returns from any state were transmitted up to a late hour, the gov ernors were unanimous in reporting that complete quiet had prevailed through the day and that a full regis tration was indicated. In some precincts the late-comers forced officials to keep the polls open until long after the 9 p. m. closing hour set in the regulations. General Crowder authorized them to keep open as long as men wished to enroll them selves. The result will be further to delay the transmission of returns, how ever. Early reports, showing a full turnout all over the country, indicated that the estimates of the census bureau as to the number of men within the specified age limits would be verified by the count. Wherever partial figures were available, the estimates checked closely. A typical message was that from Idaho. “Registration will be 100 per cent,” it said. “Spontaneous and without murmur or incident.” The situation was so clear and the response so ready that governors of 46 of the 48 states had sent similar assur ances long before registration had closed, and the other two were close on their heels. A feature of the registration was the refusal of hundreds of thousands of men to make any reply to the question : “Do you claim exmeption?” Even men who reported that they had de pendent families, men with obvious physical disabilities and those whose occupations are certain to keep them at home, declined to make such a claim. Apparently they have entered fully into the very spirit of the law. They are content to leave the question of exemption to the exemption boards. With the closing of each registra tion precinct officials went at once to the task of sorting and classifying the cards. There is much work to be done in order that the brief synopsis which each governor will make to General Crowder of the registration office in his state may go forward promptly. It will take some hours, in many cases, to do the work, and no figures for any state will come to Washington until every precinct has reported. 3000 Chase Anti-Draft Talker. Omaha, Neb.—E. F. Ensign, a young Socialist and anti-draft exponent, was chased by a mob of 3000 down the prin cipal business street of Omaha Tues day and is now held by Federal author ities on a charge of opposing registra tion. Ensign was near a registration booth, talking against conscription. White Eagle, a patriotic Indian, drag ged Ensign to a naval recruiting sta tion and insisted that he enlist. . Ensign refused and started a tirade. He was knocked down by a corporal and took to his heels, followed by a mob of 3000. Women Going to Russia. London - The government has prom- ised facilities to a deputation from the Women’s Social and Political Union, headed by Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, to proceed to Russia to explain their views on the war. Mrs. Pankhurst last week requested passports from Premier Lloyd George for her party. In her letter she said that if the gov ernment let James MacDonald, the la bor leader, and his party go to Russia to preach "their unpatriotic doctrine,” there could be no excuse for "hinder ing patriotic women from going.” Socialist Leaves Party. Omaha, Neb. — G. C. Porter, state secretary for Nebraska of the Socialist party, has resigned hi* position, de claring he could not sympathise with certain elementa within the party who oppose the selective draft. Porter last Saturday tore down a red flag from the wall* of Socialist headquarters and substituted the Stars and Stripes, which had been removed on th* declaration of war against Ger- many. London—A German destroyer has been sunk and another damaged in a running fight between six German de-, stroyers and Commodore Tyrwhitt’s sqaudron, the admiralty announces. The German naval base at Ostend, on the Belgian coast, has been bom barded by British warships. The Brit ish forces were undamaged. The text of the admiralty announce ment reads: "The vice admiral at Dover reports that the enemy naval base and work ships at Ostend were heavily bom barded in the early hours Tuesday morning. A large number of rounds were fired with good results. The enemy shore batteries returned our fire, but our bombardment forces suf fered no damage. "Commodore Tyrwhitt also reports that early Tuesday morning a force of light cruisers and destroyers under his command sighted six German destroy ers and engaged them at long range in a running fight. One of the enemy destroyers, the S-20, was sunk by our gun fire and another severely damaged. Seven survivors from the S-20 have been picked up and made prisoners. There were no casualties on our side ” United States Trade to Get Ten Billion in Year New York—Ten billion dollars to be spent during the coming year by the United States and the allied govern ments for the products of American farms, mines and factories, Secretary McAdoo declared here Tuesday night, will bring to the country the greatest prosperity in its history. "Some people profess apprehension about the future of business,” said Mr. McAdoo. "Why, gentlemen, prosper ity in the next 12 months will be greater than it ever has been in our history. You cannot prevent it if you try. “The only thing that could stop prosperity would be the refusal of the people to support the reasonable meas ures of taxation that are needed and to buy the bonds of the government.” The secretary addressed a great mass meeting at Carnegie hall in behalf of the Libery Loan, which, he warns, would succeed as it must succeed, only if everyone did his duty. He appeal ed to those who cannot fight on the battle front to supply the means that will enable the government to provide for the soldiers who go to the front. DRAFT IN TWO WEEKS First Call Will Be for From 900.000 to 1,500,000 Men Under New Plan— 625,000 WiU Be Selected. Washington, D. C. — Plans of the War department to draft from 900,000 to 1,500,000 men of the 10,000,000 who, it is expected, will be registered for the new army, were disclosed Tues day by Provost Marshal General Crow der to the senate military affairs com mittee. Exemptions, he said, prob ably would result in reducing the num ber to 625,000 men for immediate service. While the War department had or iginally planned to select 500,000 men first, General Crowder told the com mittee the plans have been revised and it now is proposed to require 625,000. To secure this number he said it probably will be necessary to draft at least 900,000 and possibly 1,500,000 cause of expected exemptions. General Crowder told the committee the additional 125,000 would be needed to fill up vacancies in the army of 500,- 000 and to keep training camps in con tinuous operation. When the original plans for service for 500,000 men were made, he said, the department had not planned to send American forces abroad so soon. Casualties from foreign service, he believed, sickness, etc., make neces sary a reserve of 125,000 men, in ad dition to the duty at training camps. General Crowder told the committee he favored immediate drafting of men registering, rather than postponement of the draft for several weeks after registration. He regards it desirable that men drafted may know and have a few weeks to make their personal arrangements before called to the col ors. Details of making exemptions also were explained to the committee by the provost marshal general. He said the government does not contemplate any class exemptions, but that all will be personal. Farmers, factory opera tors and other special classes would not be exempted as such, nor territor ially, but all exemptions will be made individually. The men drafted probably will be in training camps by September 1, Gen eral Crowder said, and added that he favored beginning selections within two weeks after registration so that exemption work may be expedited and notifications of final selections may be made as soon thereafter as possible. BABY PLAGUE BEING TRACED Committe Declares Infantile Paralysis Communicated by Contact. New- York—Infantile paralysis • is communicated by personal contact, and not from contaminated sources of milk nor from lower animals, insects or by clothing and other extraneous objects, says a report made public Tuesday by the special committee of physicians appointed last summer to conduct an inquiry financed by the Rockefeller Foundation. The report made to Mayor Mitchel gives the record of a study of 5496 cases. It asserts that slight and non paralytic cases are the most frequent sources of infection, “as these cases arouse no suspicion and other persons come in contact with them; “that the disease usually develops from three to ten days after exposure, and that “previous good health does not give immunity from attack.” The report says that males apparent ly are more susceptible than females. Parents are urged to isolate sick chil dren. ________________ Judge Lindsey Attacked. Denver—Judge J. B. Lindsey, of the Juvenile court, and a nationally-known figure in child delinquency study cir-, cles, was attacked in his court room here Wednesday by Bennie Huffman, 14 years old, and Mrs. Huffman, the boy’s mother, after he had sentenced the youth to the reform school for highway robbery. Both Mrs. Huffman and her son Warning Given Bankers. grasped the judge around the neck. Washington, D. C.—At the request Slight wounds were inflicted by the boy’s fingers as officers removed the of the State department, the Federal pair. Reserve Board has warned member banks of the reserve system that Ger Slacker* Rush to Altar. man interests in Latin-America are New York—On the eve of registra seeking to secure American funds for tion day hundreds of men and women fomenting trouble in this hemisphere, gathered in the municipal building to and that all transfers of money to neu obtain marriage licenses, which were tral countries on both sides of the At being issued at the rate of one every lantic must be scrutinized carefully. minute and a half. Before noon 125 The board suggests that bankers scru licenses had been handed out and 50 tinize accounts of any resident alien couples had been married in the chapel. enemy and report to the board any sus City officials in charge of the license picious transactions. bureau declared the majority of the prospective bridegrooms were taking Gains Lost by Austrians. wives in the hope draft. Rome—Railan troops Tuesday with stood a heavy attack by the Austrians Russians Win Positions. on the western slopes of San Marco in Petrograd, via London — Russian the Gorizia area. The war office an scouts Tuesday broke through four nounced that at the points where the rows of wire entanglements in front of Austrians had been able to penetrate lines leveled by their artillery they the German position near Kovel and had been promptly driven out again dispersed the Teuton barrier guards. and back to their own positions with Farther south in the Carpathian severe losses. Austrian attacks else mountains Russian scouts penetrated where between Vertoibizza and the the German wire entanglements near coast were stopped in their incipiency. Pnevi, drove the Germans from their trenches and captured a machine gun, Spain Sends Sharp Note. the War office announced. Madrid—The Spanish government, it is announced in the newspapers, has Brussiloff in Command. instructed ita representatives in Ber Petrograd—General Michael V. Ale- lin, Vienna and Constantinople to pre gieff, commander in chief of the Rus sent an urgent note demanding that sian armies, has resigned. General there be an end to the persecutions, Alexis Brussiloff, commander in chief deportation* and lootings practiced of the armies on the southwestern against the Jews in Palestine. - King front, has been appointed to. succeed Alfonso, it is said, has intervened di him. Genreal Gurko, commander of rectly in this question. the western front, replaces Brussiloff on the southwestern front. Britons to Be Retried. 141 Alien Enemies Taken. New York—The government’s activ- ities against alien enemies, it was learned here Wednesday, have resulted in arrests of 141 persons in recent week* in this district, which includes part* of Northern New Jersey and Western Connecticut. The specific charge in each case ha* not been made public. Washington, D. C.—Ralph K. Blair and Dr. Thomas Addis, British citiz- ens, by a Supreme court ruling Tues day, must undergo a second trial at San Francisco on a charge of conspir acy to violate American neutrality in recruiting Englishmen in thia country for service in the British army. The court refused to interfere with a sec ond trial ordered. AMERICANS SAID TO BE GERMAN SPIES Military News Sent to Berlin by Mexican Wireless. FLEET’S MOVE IS TOLD Arrest of Three Men in New York May Explain How Naval Secrets Reached Kaiser’s U-Boats. New York — With three men under arrest who are alleged to be only minor figures in a conspiracy to trans mit information of military value to Germany through regular mail chan nels, the Federal authorities Monday indicated further arrests which they said might result in disclosures of a German spy system. Apparently the government officers hoped they could uncover an explana tion of how Germany knew in advance of the approach of the American de stroyers to the British coast so that an Irish port could be mined. Two of the men, whose names were kept secret, are said to be American born, and the third a naturalized citi zen of Switzerland. Examination of a quantity of mail seized by federal agents indicated transmission of in formation on steamships to Mexico and thence possibly by wireless to Ger many. '_____________ MOON SHINES OVER BATTLE Long Lull Broken by British Armies in Desperate Fighting. London—The infantry lull of several weeks was broken Sunday night, when under the light of a nearly full moon, the British made an attack southwest of Lens and in the direction of that besieged city. The point of attack was due west of Avion, which is one of the southern suburbs of Lens, the latter being the center of a mining district which sprawls for miles along the valley of the Souchez river. Most of Sunday night’s fighting was south of the river although an advance post was established north of that stream. The British by early dawn had captured all the intended positions and were still fighting Tuesday along the Lens-Arras road. They had captured the electric power station just south of the river where the Germans had been established for many months and which was fairly stiff with machine guns. The station had been pretty well blown about by artillery fire, but was still a formida ble fortification. Further south the British captured some brick chimneys which had been transformed into a strong point. These objectives sound rather strange, but most of the bitterest fighting in the world-war on a vast front has, from time to time, swirled about sugar factories, windmills, farm buildings, cemeteries, breweries, slag heaps, unimposing mounds like the Butte Warlencourt, churches, monas teries and even asylums for the insane. Socialist Paper Raided. ’ Minneapolis—Agents of the depart- ment of Justice Saturday night raided the offices of Alexis Georgian, editor of a Socialist publication, and seized more than 25,000 leaflets said to con tain anti-conscription matter. Accord ing to the government officials, the circulars were to have been distributed Sunday and Monday throughout Minne apolis. It was the first direct action taken by Federal authorities in Minne apolis as a result of the announcement by Minneapolis Socialists that they would oppose conscription. Law Suspension Disliked. Washington, D. C.—The section of the immigration law under which Sec retary Wilson has been suspending the rules and permitting Mexican farm la borers to enter the United States would be repealed by a resolution in troduced by Chairman Burnett, of the house immigration committee. The committee contends that if the secretary can make suspensions for Mexicans he can do likewise for Asi atics. Lumber Bought by Goethals. Washington, D. C.—Lumber for 100 wooden ships has been ordered from members of the Southern Pine associ ation by Major General George W. Goethals, general manager of the ship ping board’s emergency fleet corpora tion. The price is $35 a thousand feet at the mills. The order* call for approximately 140,000,000 feet and delivery will be made as fast as the mills can cut the timber. Mexicans Rob American Ship. Galveston, Tex.—The American fish ing schooner Areas, was boarded by the crew of a Mexican gunboat off the coast of Tehauntepec, Mexico, on the high seas on May 31 and looted of clothing, fishing gear and medicine chest. This news was brought here by Captain S. A. Macdonald, of the Areas, who arrived in port directly from the scene of the robbery.
