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THE WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. A strike of 9000 coal minera of Western Kentucky was called at a mass meeting in Central City Saturday night. The strike went into effect Tuesday. Higher wages are demanded. Announcement was made Tuesday at the White House that President Wilson does not expect to take a vaca tion this summer, but plans to remain in Washington whether congress ad journs or not. Colonel William S. Barker, of the Salvation Army, left America Tuesday for a port in France, where he will take charge of all Salvation Army operations among the overseas division of American troops. The French steamer Himalaya, of the Messageries Maritimes, with 204 passengers and crew, has been sunk as the result of an explosion in the Medi terranean. One hundred and seventy- six persons were saved. A concerted movement by American composers and dramatists and leaders of national civic and musical organiza tions, for the production of American opera and other native music in the English tongue has been formally launched in New York. Forty-seven deaths from intestinal trouble have occurred in New Madrid county, Missouri, in the last six weeks. At least 100 persons, mostly children, are ill with the disease. The number of known deaths from the disease in Southeastern Missouri now is 118. The German authorities broke the recent strike at the shipyards in Stet tin by the same means they used to crush the April strike. They threat ened to muster the strikers as soldiers and subject them to punishment meted out to mutineers unless the men re sumed work. The Reichstag this week will be called on to approve a measure supple menting the budget for the current fiscal year authorizing the chancellor to mobilize a new war credit of 15,- 000,000,000 marks, bringing the total appropriations for the war to 94,000,- 000,000 marks. Registration of the country's house wives as members of the food admin istration was begun Monday by state defense councils and the women’s com mittee of the National Council. Dr. Ray L. Wilbur, head of the adminis tration’s conservation [section, said it was hoped enrollment would be con- pleted within two weeks. William H. Moody, former associate ■ justice of the Supreme court, died at his home in Haverhill, Mass., at 1 a. m, Monday. Justice Moody retired seven years ago because of ill health. He was secretary of the Navy and at torney general in the cabinet of Presi dent Roosevelt, and was appointed to the supreme bench in December, 1906. 135 HURT ON FOURTH Six Deaths Reported, Compared With Seven Last Year—653 Injured on Corresponding Day in 1916. Chicago—Fourth of July celebra tions seem to have taken another long stride toward absolute sanity. Re ports of casualties received from all parts of the country up to a late hour the Fourth are so far below the num ber received at the same hour last year as to indicate that Independence Day in 1917 will establish a remark- able record. Six deaths have been reported com pared with a total of seven for the first night last year, and while that number may be increased to the record of 1916, it is the decrease in the num ber of injured which stands out as not able. Only 135 persons injuerd, with just a single case in Chicago, was the wonderful answer to the campaign of education for a sane Fourth celebra tion which has been conducted through- out the counrty for a number of years. Last year the injured list numbered 653. Most encouraging are advices from a number of points that during the year ordinances or other regulations against the sale and use of fireworks had been put into effect, with the satisfactory result that no lives were lost and few persons had been hurt. Reports of fatalities came from the following points: Los Angeles, Cal.—Ramon Castro, 10 years old, both arms blown off by explosion of dynmite. Endicott, Wash. — Aivona Schier man, 3 years old, burned to death when firecrackers set fire to her dress. Detroit, Mich.— Dorothy Lewis, 8 yeras old, fatally burned by fireworks. Quincy, Ill.—One death due to pre mature explosion of a bomb. CHINESE PRESIDENT FLEES Refuge Found in Japanese Legation; Was Reported Assassinated. Tien Tsin—Li Yuan Hung, the Chi nese President, with two attendants, escaped from the palace at 9 o’clock Wednesday night and sought refuge in the Japanese legation. The Japanese, conisdering the urgency of the case, granted him refuge. No one is al lowed to interview the President. HERMISTON HERALD, SELECTIVE DRAFT ‘ RULES EXEMPT FEW Power Given Boards to Decide on Each Case. SELECTION MYSTERY System by Which Choice Will Be Made Will Be Made Only a Few Days Before Starting, is Belief. HERMISTON, the members forces. of all OREGON. other military Regulations Based on Need. "The regulations have been drawn with a view to the needs and circum stances of the whole country, and pro vide a system which it is expected will work with the least Inequality and personal hardship. Any system of selecting men for military service whether voluntary or involuntary in Its operation, necessarily selects some men to bear the burden of danger and sacrifice for the whole Nation. The system here provided places all men of military age upon an even plane, and then, by a selection which neither favors the one nor penalizes the other, calls out the requisite number for service. “The successful operation of this law and of these regulations depends necessarily upon the loyalty, patriotism and justice of the members of the boards to whom Its operation la com mitted and I admonish every member of every local board and of every dis trict board of review that their duty to their country requires an Impartial and fearless performance of the deli cate and difficult duties intrusted to them. They should remember as to each individual case presented to them that they are called upon to adjudi cate the most sacred rights of the in dividual and to preserve untarnished the honor of the Nation. “Our armies at the front will be strengthened and sustained if they be composed of men free from any sense of injustice In the mode of selection and they will be Inspired to loftier efforts In behalf of a country In which the citizens called upon to perform high public functions perform them with justice, fearlessness and impartiality.” WASHINGTON, July Ï— Preparation for the mobilization of the first con tingent of 625,000 troops of the new National Army advanced another step today when President Wilson promul gated the regulations to govern ex emptions from military service. Local and appeal exemption boards already have been appointed and the issuance of the regulations will permit Officials Are Exempt. them to organize immediately and pre pare for the concluding phases of the Persons who muat be exempted or task of getting the men under train discharged by the local board include: Officers of the United States, of the ing for duty In France. states, territories and the District of Exemption Is Last Step. Columbia; ministers of religion, stu In the order In which they must come there are three steps in the or dents of divinity, persons in the mili tary or naval service of the United ganization process of the National States, of Germany, all other Army as prescribed by Congress. They aliens, subjects who have not taken out their are registration, selection and exemp first papers; county or municipal offi tion. The first step has been carried cers, custom house clerks, workmen In through and approximately 10,000,000 Federal armories, arsenals . nd navy men between 21 and 31 years of age yards, persons In the Federal service have been registered. The regulations designated by the President for ex issued today cover in detail the opera emption, pilots, ‘ erchant marine sail tion of the third step, exemption. ors, those with a status with respect to Information concerning the second dependents which renders their exclu- step In the series, however, still Is sion desirable (a married man with de lacking and officials are guarding pendent wife or child, son of a de closely the method by which selection pendent widow, son of a de is to be applied. pendent, aged or infirm parent, or brother of dependen, orphan child un Selection May Be by Number. The exemption regulations announced der 16 years of age), those found mor and t.ny member of any that the boards will be advised at the ally deficient, recognized religious sect existing selection process later, although none well May 18, 1917, whose creed forbids par of the steps prescribed except the or ticipation In war and whose religions ganization of the boards can be carried convictions accord with the creed. out until the selection machinery has Claims for exemption because of de finished the names of the men whose pendents may be made by the man fitness and desirability for Army serv himself, hl J wife or other dependents, ice the boards are to judge. There Is or by a third party, who has person one hint, however, as to how the selec ally Investigated the case. The claim tion machinery is to work. made by the husband must be accom The local boards are directed upon panied by supporting affidavits signed organization to take over from the reg by the wife and by the head of a fam istration precincts the cards and lists ily residing in the same territory. A of the men registered on June 5, and claim by the wife or a third party must as their first duty, to provide a serial be accompanied by two supporting af number for each registration card. fidavits signed by heads of families. This has given support to the belief Similar rules govern claims on the that the selection Is to be by number. grounds of other dependents. Reports were current recently that the District boards must decide appeal selection drawing was to be made In cases within five days after the closing Washington. of proofs, and their decisions are final. Presumably the process of selection Certificates of exemption will not will be announced only a short time necessarily be permanent. They may before it Is put Into operation. When be revoked with changing conditions or that will be Is not known. may be granted only for prescribed September 1 has been the tentative periods. date set for calling the 650,000 of the first contingent to the colors for train-’ Ing. Progress with construction of the 16 divisional cantonments for the troops will govern that action, however. It Is now believed there will be no serious Nine Killed When Car Plunges Over delay. The examination process will not Twenty-foot Embankment Into take a great deal of time. It is diffi cult to calculate the time the local Niagara Falls Whirlpool. boards will need In passing on the cases that come before them. San Francisco — A cablegram re ceived here Wednesday by the Chinese World, a newspaper, stated that un confirmed rumors persisting in all sec tions of Pekin were that President Li Yuan Hung had been assassinated and that former high officials of the repub lic had declared allegiance to the mon archy. A battle is in progress between troops of the southern provinces, fight ing for the preservation of the repub lic, and the northern forces of the young emperor, according to cable ad vices received by the Chinese Nation alists league. The first clash occurred Tuesday, the officers of the league announce, who say the source of its in Niagara Falls, N. Y.—A belt-line Speed to Be Required. formation is unquestionable. The regulations provide, however, car on the Great Gorge route left the According to the dispatches, the that decision in any Individual case soldiers of President Li in the capital shall not be delayed more than three rails, plunged down a 20-foot embank days by the local boards. The whole ment and turned over in 10 feet of wa are steadliy gaining ground. process probably can be carried through ter on the edge of the Whirlpool Rap in less than 30 days. Tokio—General Chang Hsun, says a There were no surprises In the exam ids at 3:30 p. m. Sunday. dispatch from Pekin, asked Baron Ha ination regulations. The task of pass Nine persons are known to be dead, yashi, the Japanese minister, on June ing upon the individual cases Is left to the local boards. While the two persons known to have been on the 22, whether Japan would support a entirely President i eserves the right to desig movement for a restoration of the nate industries necessary for the pub car have not been seen since the acci lic good, the question of whether re dent and probably are dead, an indefi monarchy in China. Baron Hayashi replied that Japan tention of any individual engaged in nite number, estimated at from two to these Industries is essential is left to would adhere to its policy of non- the boards. ten, are reported missing and more interference. Should the restoration than a score are in hospitals, suffering Officers Being Trained. appear to succeed, it is believed it may While these steps are being carried from injuries in the accident. precipitai a decisive struggle between out to get together the men of the A washout, due to recent heavy National Army, the War Department rains, was the cause of the disaster the northern and southern provinces. The opinion has been expressed here is making progress with the even more which occurred just below the canti About 250 rioting negroes in East that should serious disorders arise. difficult task of finding officers for the forces. lever bridge, and 60 feet below the St. Louis, Monday morning, every Japan and the allies might be forced to Part of these will come from the 16 point where the smooth water of the man armed either with a rifle or revol take protective action. officers' training camps. The first 10,- 000 of the 40,000 men at the camps upper reaches of the Niagara river ver, virtually took possession of the will be selected for commissions in break into turbulent waters of the “Black Belt,’’ killed one policeman the first increment of the new Army, Whirlpool Rapids. There were more Bank Robbers Captured. and seriously wounded other. With and that la less than half the number than 50 persons on board, according to Conde, S. D.—Two masked bandits, of officers necessary. out a word of warning the negroes The War Department today approved general estimates. one of whom was badly wounded in a opened Are on a police department au recommendations of commanders of The car was running at a speed of tomobile in which the officers were running fight with a posse led by the regular regiments, which will commis 20 miles an hour. Less than half a riding and raked the car with bullets. town marshal, were captured here sion 3000 or more regular non-commis minute elapsed from the time the mo Thursday afternoon, after they had sioned officers to be captains in the torman felt the first sway until the The steamship Humboldt arrived at entered the local bank and obtained first 635,000 contingent of the Na Army. It Is understood that car was bottomside up on the edge of Seattle from Southeastern Alaska between $6000 and $7000. The money tional more than 50 men from each regiment, Thursday with $400,000 of gold bullion was recovered. in addition to those now at the officers' the rushing rapids. As it slipped down the 20-foot in from mining camps along the Yukon. camps, will be commissioned The men are said to be "Mike” Mc training cline from the tracks to the edge of Furs valued at $180,000 also were Bride and Louis Miles, who have lived for the period of the war. Regalar to Be la Command. the river, screaming men and women brought. here about a year. A trained and experienced regular fought to escape and some of them The owner of an automobile which officer will command each regiment of A small contingent of the United | National Army. To aid him he will were able to get free, but were unable States Flying Corps arrived in Eng the bandits had commandeered was the have several other regular officers ex to obtain a footing on the steep bank. found tied to a tree outside of town. land Wednesday wearing civilian perienced In particular lines such as There was a mad scramble in the his adjutant, at least one Major, his shallow water between the wrecked clothes with blue silk armlets, bearing ordance and quartermaster officers, Cossacks Endorse Duma. in white letters "United States Flying From the and some others. The remainder of the car and the river bank. Petrograd The All Russia Congress officers will come from the reserve riverside the bodies of at least two of Corps.’’ of Cossacks has adopted a resolution lists, the training camps, or the ranks the passengers were seen to be caught Two conscientious objectors to con opposing the dissolution of the Duma, of the regular service. The President Issued the following in the swifter waters, and were car scription, Frank J. Otto, Jr., and which it declared would be a violation ried down to the whirlpool. Stephen Stanley, of Philadelphia, have of the fundamental laws of Russia. statement today: ' '"The regulations which I am today Members of the National guard regi been sentenced in the United States | The congress declared that the state of causing to be promulgated, pursuant to ment, who were on guard at the court to serve a year in prison for wil autonomy proclaimed by the inhabit the direction of the selective service covering the remaining steps of bridge, saw the accident and were the fully failing to register on June 5. ants of Ukraine is a menace to the law, the plan for calling into the service of first to the rescue. The soldiers slid union of the Russian state. The con the United States qualified men from down the bank into the river and Admiral Frederick von Tirpitz, for those who have registered: those se worked in water up to their waists mer German minister of marine, has | gress offered its support to the govern lected. as the result of this process, to arrived at St Blaise, in the Black | ment in any action taken relating to constitute, with the regular Army, the getting injured passengers free from the Ukraine. National Guard and the Navy, the the wreckage and passing them up the Forest. He is suffering seriously from fighting forces of the Nation, all of bank, where an emergency car had diabetes. Von Tirpitz has been Ger which forcea are under the terms of Railroad Earnings Gain. many’s chief advocate of unrestricted ¡ the law placed in a position of equal been placed to carry them to the Ni- Washington, D. C.—May reporta to right, dignity and responsibility with agara Falls hospital. submarine warfare. the Interstate Commerce commission Jesse Williamson, of Philadelphia. | from 72 of the 186 principal railroads Greece Calls Two Classes. Mexicans Get Rations. pleaded guilty to the embezzlement of | of the country show an increase in Athena—It is stated in reliable quar Naco, Aris — Some 4000 Mexicans, about $600,000 from the Pennsylvania | earnings for May, 1916. The net rev ters that the classes of 1916 and 1917 former employes of the Cananea Cop enues for May this year were $48,134,- company for the insurance of lives and 746; last year, $46,981,930. have been called to the colors, as they per company at Cananea, Sonora, are granting of annuities to ita clients, I normally would be, and probably will being supplied with free rations from while serving as secretary of the com-1 Aliens’ Guns Confiscated. be tent to Saloniki for training. No the camp store, the stock of which has pany. Salt Lake City—Five hundred guns other classes will be called out at pres- been confiscated by the local authori President Wilson has directed the were confiscated from the alien resi ent. Administrative control by repres ties there. Each man is being given dents of Salt Lake county outside of entatives of the entente allies of var goods to the value of $1.25, Mexican Federal Trade commission to make an Salt Lake City Wednesday by 1S5 ious services will be withdrawn within money, daily. It is estimated the stock investigation into production costs of members of the “home guard." serv the next week, except in cases of tele on hand will last about 10 days. Mex- steel and lumber, the two principal ing as deputy sheriffs. Moot of the graph and censorship, which will be Jess authorities are encouraging the materials that will he required for the guns were taken from the mining continued with the co-operation of idle workmen to leave Cananea, and great merchant fleet to be built for the camps where the population of foreign Greek officers. Colonel Negro posts is circulars have been posted announcing expected to arrive at Saloniki soon. that free transportation. government. ! ers is greatest. TROLLEY INTO RAPIDS PARADE CAUSES RIOT Socialist Marchers’ Ranks Broken by Men in Uniform in Boston—Fist Battles Are Numerous. Boston—Riotous scenes attended a Socialist parade Sunday which was an nounced as a peace demonstration. The ranks of the marchers were broken by self-orgnaized squads of uni formed soldiers and sailors, red flags and banners bearing Socialist mottoes were trampled on, and literature and furnishings in the Socialist headquar ters in Park Square were thrown into the streets and burned. Police reserves stopped the rioting after it had been in progress an hour and a half. Many arrests were made. The police took into custody some of the participants in hundreds of fist fights that were waged on the Common and in the line of the parade, while agents of the Federal department of Justice, under direction of Assistant United States Attorney Goldberg, ar rested a number of persons who were alleged to have made unpatriotic re- marks. None of the soldiers and sail ors who figured in the disturbance was arrested. The procession consisted of hunrdeds of men and women, many of whom carried babies. Most of the marchers carried small red flags with white cen ters, emblematic of the peace demon stration, and there were large banners bearing inscriptions, some of which read: “Russia has a six-hour day. Why not America?” and “Liberty loan, a first mprgtage on labor.” A large American flag was at the head of the procession. Half a hundred men in the uniform of naval reservists, national Guard, ar rested some men. Marines and Cana dian “kilties” intercepted the procès-' sion at the corner of West and Tre mont streets, and again at the corner of Winter and Tremont streets. 23 STATES MADE BONE-DRY Reed Amendment Gives Prohibitionists Greatest Victory in History. Wahintgon, D. C. — Twenty-three states became bone-dry Saturday mid- night, the effective hour of the Reed amendment prohibiting shipment of liquor into dry territory where its manufacture or sale is prohibited. Eleven other states are partially affec ted by the legislation, which has been hailed by temperance advocates as the greatest single step toward abolition of the liquor traffic in the nation’s his tory. The law bars from prohibition areas all mail matter containing advertise ments or solicitations for orders for intoxicants. Justice and postoffice department officials have made extensive prepara tions for enforcement of the statute. No ruling has been made regarding the status of medicines containing alcohol and that question may be among the first to be passed on by the courts un der the legislation. The language of the anti-shipment section is very comprehensive, impos ing a fine of $1000 and imprisonment for six months, or both, on any person who shall “order, purchase or cause intoxicating liquors to be transported in interstate commerce except for sci entific, sacramental or mechanical pur poses into any state or territory, the laws of which state or territory pro hibits the manufacture or sale therein of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes.” The same penalties are prescribed for violations of the anti-advertising section. For a second offense in eith er case the penalty is made one year’s imprisonment. Following are the states wholly affected by the act: Alabama, Ari zona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Missis sippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virgin ia, Washington and West Virginia. Food Bill May Be Delayed. Washington, D. C. — A formidabe midsummer legislative program with food, prohibition and revenue and ma jor measures, still confronts congress in its war session, which began three months ago July 2. With business congested in the sen ate and the house marking time in re cess, senate leaders hoped Saturday to make rapid progress on the food con trol bill, with its provision prohibiting the manufacture of distilled spirits and send it to conference by the end of the week. Two Pro-Germans Expelled. Mexico City—R. Zubaran, former Mexican minister to Germany and former representative of the constitu tional government in Washington, now a leader of the Mexican senate, and Jesus Ureta, best-known orator in the country and one of the leaders in the house of deputies, were expelled from the Constitutional Liberal party, which has a majority in congress. This ac tion was attributed to the pro-German sentiments of the men. $10,000,000 lent Britain. Washington, D. C. — The Treasury department has placed an additional $10,000,000 to it the credit of England, making total loans to Great Britain for war purposes of $560,000,000. This makes a total to the allies of $7,018,000.000. Paris—An official announcement waa made Monday night that the armored cruiser Kleber had struck a mine off Point St. Mathieu on Wednesday and sunk. RUSSIANS START NEW OFFENSIVE War Minister Kerensky Leads to Victory in Person. TAKE 10,000 CAPTIVE I Turks ‘Also Are Defeated and Routed in Caucasus by Cavalry — News is Great Joy to Russians. Petrograd—Russia has resumed the offensive. More than 10,000 prisoners, many guns and other articles of war material and several strongly fortified Austro-German positions in Galicia prove it. They bear testimony to the mighty smash delivered July 1, the precise time set for an offensive by War Minister Kerensky several weeks ago in a communication to the United States government. The Brilliant Russian advance, the news of which has pent a wave of re joicing through the entire country, was led by War Minitser Kerensky in person. For the last four days the war min ister has been continuously at the front, spending every effort to urge the troops to advance. He finally rode to the front-line trenches, and, placing himself at the head of the troops, gave the order to advance. The spectacle of the popular war minister on the firing line accomplish ed what oratory had failed to do, and the Rusisan line swept forward into the German trenches. The heretofore lethargic, monstrous army punished the forces of the enemy kaisers most severely. The attacks were as vicious as the recent frater nizing with the foe had been fool hardy. The Turks, too, felt the strength of the reorganized arms of the revolu tionary army. The Ottomans, in the Caucasus, were routed, and at last reports from headquarters Russian cavalry was pursuing them unmerci fully. The Turkish stronghold of Kalamirivan, southeast of Lake Deri bar, was stormed and the village of Engidja, north of the lake, was occu pied. A NEGROES BUMNEO BY ENRAGED MOB Many Others Shot Fleeing East St. Louis Flames. East St. Louis, Ill. — Fires were burning in five sections of East St. Lious at 1 o’clock Tuesday morning and at least 20 dead negro bodies and crowded hospitals testified to the ter ror that reigned here while mob after mob swept the streets seeking negroes whom they might slay. Five negro sections of the city were fired by mobs, terrorized negroes fled from their burning homes only to meet bullets from guns of the rioters, four other negroes were shot by snipers and two were lynched. One white man was killed by a negro sniper, and before the burning began four nergoes and one white man were killed. This included the detective sergeant, whose death at the hands of a negro mob late Sunday night was the direct cause of the outbreak Monday afternoon and Monday night. Estimates of the number of dead run up to 100 and higher, but these esti mates are purely conjectural. The ex act number slaughtered probably will never be known, as it is thought that many bodies were consumed in the flames. Adjutant General Frank S. Dickson arrived shortly after midnight and took charge of the situation. He said the troops would be distributed in small groups throughout the city and that they would be instructed to dis perse every gathering of persons for any purpose whatever. Body is Found in Basement. Seattle—The body of S. S. Klumph, a painter, aged 40, dead from knife wounds, was found Wednesday morn ing in an unused basement at 112 Bell street. North Seattle. The police ar rested Maud Hallock, 33, who lives nearby. The police say the appearance of the body indicated that Klumph had been killed in a rear room of the Hal lock house, and his body dragged across a courtyard to the basement where it was found. In Mrs. Hallock’s apart ment the police found George Brown, a clerk, aged 39, who was arrested. Dog Gone. Constable Sued. Roseburg, Ore. Constable Howard Church Tuesday had his first roundup with the new state dog license law, when Roy Bellows, a prominent Rose- burg merchant, refused to pay the li cense and sued to replevin his dog and recover $50 damages. The complaint charges that the law is unconstitu tional and provides for double taxation, as doga ars personal property and sub ject to tax. The ease will probably be taken to the Supreme court.
