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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.