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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 $1,000,000,000 government plant to manufacture aircraft is being plan ned, Secretary Daniels has announced. King George has called a special meeting of the privy council for the purpose of proclaiming a change in the title of the royal house. Bo Sweeney, assistant secretary of the Interior, died suddenly at his home in Washington Monday from angina pectoris. He had suffered from the disease for some time. Quentin Roosevelt, a son of the for mer president, was among 40 aviators who received commissions as lieuten ants in the aviation section of the Army Signal Reserve corps. King George has conferred the mili tary medal for bravery on three mem bers of the American Legion of the Canadian forces. The men are Lance Corporal Dick, Sergeant Harlan and Private Porter. The textile shortage now deprives Germany of napkins and tablecloths, the use of which in hotels and restau rants in that country has been forbid den. Hotels are prohibited changing bed linens more often than once a week for guests. It is reported in a London Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Lausanne that no more Zeppelins are being con structed. Thousands of workmen who hitherto have been employed in build ing dirigible airships are now said to be engaged in the construction of a large number of airplanes. Argentina has instructed her minis ter in Berlin to demand of the German government an answer to the Argen tine note calling for satisfaction for the torpedoing of the Argentine steamer Toro and the promise to cease attacks on Argentine ships. A rupture in relations is considered imminent. A speedy passage by the senate of the >640,000,000 aviation bill, passed by the house Saturday, was predicted by Senator Chamberlain, ehairman of the military committee. He had little doubt, he said, that the measure, pro viding for a fleet of 22,000 airplanes, would become a law before August 1. Mrs. Esther Birdsall Darling, of Nome, Alaska, who sold many racing dogs to the French government, has received the Cross of War won by Alaska dogs for service at the front in transporting 90 tons of shells to an isolated post under fire through a bliz zard that raged four days and nights. Four of the largest and most modern German submarines were destroyed by American warships which were con voying the first installment of Ameri can troops to France, according to a report from German sources. A Berne dispatch to a Rome news agency and forwarded from Rome by the Central News carried the information. The Swedish government has in structed its minister at Berlin to pro test sgainat the torpedoing of Swedish fishing boats by German submarines. A Danish inventor, it is announced, has discovered a process for making news print paper from seaweed. The new process is said to entail half the coat of making paper from wood pulp. Bar silver went to 80 cents an ounce in New York Thursday a new high rec ord since the war and for many years before. Heavy coinage demand by European countries is believed the cause. With 1600 street railway employes on strike for higher wages and shorter hours, traffic in Toronto, Canada, is al most paralyzed. Trucks and automo biles had much trouble in moving the crowds. GRAIN CROP IS SHORT Northwest Wheat Cut Almost Half by Drouth—Spring Cereal Hit Hard est—Oats and Barlev Suffer. Portland — The wheat crop of the Pacific Northwest is passing through a critical period this week. The pro longed dry spell has caused much loss and hot winds in the Inland Empire are increasing the damage. Portland grain men, who are keep ing in daily touch with the situation in the interior, fear that the Northwest will not have more than half a crop this year. One of the leading authorities esti mates a yield of 35,000,000 to 40,000,- 000 bushels in the three states as against 65,000,000 bushels produced last year. Another dealer here makes an estimate of 10,000,000 bushels for Oregon, 17,000,000 bushels for Wash ington and 3,000,000 bushels for Northern Idaho, a total of only 30,- 000,000 bushels for this territory. It is the early spring sown grain that is being hurt in the dry sections of Washington, but in the dry sections of Oregon the late spring-sown wheat is suffering most. Winter wheat is generally in good condition, but the winter-sown acreage is not heavy. Rains throughout the wheat belt this week would, of course, be of benefit, but the greater part of the damage al ready done cannot be repaired, in the opinion of crop experts. The oats and barley crops are also needing moisture, but they have not been affected as seriously as wheat. The acreage of both these cereals is larger than usual this year, and in spite of the drouth a crop above the normal is expected. FIRE AND POISON FLOURISH Klamath County Livestock Killed by Hundreds — Attempt Incendiarism. Klamath Falls, Ore. — Attempts to start fires in Klamath Falls and on a stock ranch in the vicinity as well as the poisoning of large numbers of live stock led to more active steps Tuesday to round up the I. W. W. element in this county. Some of those arrested Monday were released upon examina tion, while several new arrests were made. The number of armed deputies is being increased by Sheriff Humphrey and guards at all manufacturing plants are being strengthened. The local fire department answered an alarm Monday night at 11 o’clock at the home of C. A. Bunting, for merly president of the Klamath Falls Water Users’ association here, where a fire was set with kindlings under the north side of the barn near the house. A north wind was blowing, and if the fire had not been discovered before it had gained headway the barn and resi dence undoubtedly would have been destroyed. Mr. Bunting lives in one of the most exclusive residence dis tricts about a mile from the center of the city, and it is thought that the ob ject was to get the department far away so that fires could be set else where and be destructive. Great numbers of livestock have been poisoned in the lava bed country on the Oregon-California line south of here. J. Frank Adams, one of the most prominent and extensive ranchers in Klamath county, last Saturday discov ered 25 head of his horses and 200 cat tle dead. Fifty head of cattle from the "P” and “Pitchfork” ranches, and belonging to various farmers in South ern Klamath county, were also found dead, besides about 40 sheep belonging to Cox Bros., of this county. No clew has been obtained as to how the poison came to be placed. Mr. Adams also reports that about 11 o'clock Monday morning he discov ered an attempt to brun his big barns and other outbuildings on his home ranch near Merrill, south of here. Two small sticks had been set at the south side of the barn, and to them was attached a powerful magnifying glass so placed as to have produced fire and a blaze when the sun arrived at a certain position in the sky. The glass later was proved to have been of suffi cient strength alone for the purpose. Mr. Adams says he has no reason to suspect any of the many laborers he employs for these actions. Mr. Adams has furnished great numbers of horses for the aliles since the war began, and raises great herds of beef cattle every year. Representative Rankin, of Montana, Calumet Is Against I. W. W. announces she would ask the house la Calumet, Mich. — Several thousand bor committee for a general investiga tion of the hours of labor for all wo copper country citisens participated in men in government employ throughout a demonstration against the I. W. W. the country. here Tuesday. Following a massmeet ing at which the alleged attempts of Sergeant Major Antoine Paillard, the I. W. W. to cause dissension among one of the French aviators who partic the miners were denounced as "acts ipated in the bombardment last Friday of treason.” The people marched of the Krupp factory at Essen, Ger through the streets of Calumet and many, and who failed to return, has, Redjacket carrying banners inscribed it is now learned, landed safely in Hol with patriotic slogans. Citizens' Al land. liance pledges, the signers of which March earnings of express compan- agree to rid the copper country of ies, which were $1,202,848 in 1916, strike agitators, were signed by many. dropped to $995,044 in March, 1917, re Plan for Making Nitrate Changed. ports to the Interstate Commerce com- Washington, D. C.- Secretary Baker mission show. announced Tuesday that plants for the Free lunch and large glass of beer production of intrate from atmospheric have been abolished in New York City nitrogen would be constructed immedi- by the Retail Liquor Dealers’ associa ately at a cost of about 34,000,000, and tion. Present high prices were given that water power would not be used. as the reason. Sites have not been selected Further A proclamation summoning the leg discussion by localities desiring to be islature in extra session on July 31 to considered as possible sites is closed enact food-control legislation for the temporarily, the announcement says, state was issued Thursday by Gover while the site committee of cabinet officers is making further studies. nor Whitman, of New York. HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. PROMISES TO PROBE SUFFRAGISTS DRAW FEW FREE IN NORTHWEST SIXTY DAYS IK JAIL NEED BE CALLED Only 717 Men to Be Drafted to Colors in Oregon; 7296 in Washington and 2287 from Idaho. Oregon and Washington Must Option of $25 Fine Declined by Assist Government. Washington Women. EXPERTS MAY COME GIVEN PRISON GARB Senator McNary, After Conference, Prisoners Assigned to Sewing Room Requests Governors to Co-operate for Several Hours’ Work Daily— in Official Investigations. In Quandary Over Appeal. Washington, D. C.—If the state of Oregon will co-operate with the Feder al Trade commission, and if like co- operation can be obtained from the state of Washington, a prompt and thorough Federal investigation will be made of the fuel situation in the Northwest to ascertain the causes for prevailing high prices and for existing or threatened shortages. Information will be gathered at the same time to enable congress or the Federal govern ment to deal with the situation. This assurance was received by Sen ator McNary Thursday from the Trade commission in reply to his recent rec ommendation that the commission ex- tend its coal and oil investigation into the Northwest, where the fuel situa tion is critical and growing worse. Because of the President’s orders to investigate food prices, and on account of the other investigations already or dered into the cost of government sup plies, the commission says it is over burdened with work and short of men, but it is ready and willing to send three of its fuel specialists to the Northwest to work with and direct the activities of state experts if the gov ernors of Oregon and Washington Will detail a sufficient number of competent men to conduct this inquiry. This plan recently was followed in Indiana with good results. That state detailed 18 accountants from the state board, paying their salaries, while they received a status as Federal agents by being carried on the Trade Commission roll at 31 per year. In their temporary capacity as Fed eral investigators they had the same right to examine books, etc., as do the regular experts of the Trade commis sion in the gathering of such informa tion. They gathered complete data on the cost of production and distribution of coal form the mine to the consumer. Senator McNary telegraphed Gover nor Withycombe inquiring if he can detail state accountants or other ex perts to co-operate with the represen tatives of the Trade commission in making a thorough investigation of the Oregon fuel situation, and has asked Senators Jones and Poindexter to make a similar request of the gov ernor of Washington. Washington, D. C.—Sixteen woman suffragists, arrested while participat ing in the woman’s party bastile day demonstration in front of the White House, were sentenced in police court Wednesday to serve 60 days in the District of Columbia workhouse for obstructing the sidewalks. The women were allowed the alter native of paying 325 fines, but they promptly refused the offer and were taken to the workhouse at Occoquan, Va., and turned over to a matron, who saw that each got a shower bath and exchanged her clothes for a heavy one- piece prison dress. They were assigned to the sewing room of the prison, where they will work several hours daily. At the party’s headquarters there was a flurry of uncertainty over the question whether the women should be permitted to serve their sentences without protest or whether their cases should be appealed. Although no one at the headquarters would confirm it, there were indica tions that the course of the women’s friends might be determined finally by the attitude of Dudley Field Malone, collector of customs at New York, who came here to testify for the women, and later asked the court to be per mitted to act as their counsel. The request was granted, but instead of taking any legal steps on behalf of the women, Mr. Malone went to the White house for a long conference with Pres ident Wilson. What happened at the conference was not revealed, but Mr. Malone came away visibly perturbed and there were many rumors that he had re- signed his collectorship and would take up actively the fight of the suffragists, who repeatedly have been in Police Court during recent weeks for their demonstrations at President Wilson's doorstep. These rumors Mr. Malone himself would neither deny nor affirm. The collector spent nearly an hour with Mr. Wilson. When he departed from the executive offices his face and manner showed evidence of great emo tion, and he walked rapidly away. ONE CENT CARRIES MAGAZINE PLANS ARE AGAIN DELAYED Goethals-Denman Breach Over Ship- building Program Widens. Washington, D. C.—Differences be Easy and Cheap Plan Offered to Send tween Chairman Denman, of the ship ping board, and Major General Goeth- Reading Matter to Front. sis, manager of the board’s fleet cor Washington, D. C.—Magazines and poration, which have halted the gov newspapers bearing 1-cent stamps ernment’s ship building program, ap hereafter may be posted, unwrapped parently were far from a settlement and unaddressed, by persons other than Wednesday night. publisher, and will be forwarded by General Goethals, who Monday post postal authorities to American soldiers poned his plans for constructing two and Bailors in Europe. great government shipbuilding plants In announcing plans for gathering and for requisitioning ships now build reading matter conveying home news ing, has made no move toward going and fiction to the boys abroad, Post ahead with his program. master General Burleson suggests that Nor would he add anyhing to his magazines print the following in the statement that Mr. Denman had asked upper right-hand corner of their front for delay to give the shipping board covers: time to go over his plans. “Notice to the reader: When you Chairman Denman put the whole re have finished reading this magazine sponsibility for the delay on General place a one-cent stamp on this notice, Goethals, who, be charged, was slow hand same to any postal employe and in furnishing information asked of him it will be placed in the hands of our concerning his plans. At the same soldiers and sailors at the front. No time he made it clear that the ship wrapping—no address.” ping board, as holder of the stock in the fleet corporation, will study the Liquor Drawn From Bond. general’s program carefully before Washington, D. C.—Liquor dealers, giving it approval. As soon as complete information is alarmed at the prospect of the govern at hand a meeting of the board mem ment seizing, under the terms of the bers and General Goethals will be food bill, the vast quanities of distilled called to go over the situation. Re spirits in bond, are withdrawing whis ports that General Goethals had been ky from bonded warehouses at a rate refused an immediate conference he re never before equaled, approximately quested with Mr. Denman to go over 1,000,000 gallona a day. The whisky all questions involved were not con thus withdrawn is placed largely, reve firmed by the board. nue officials state, in retail establish- menta. Internal revenue receipts have Russians Capture 37,000. risen this month higher than ever be Petrograd — The Russians Tuesday fore. the total for the first 17 days be ing 37,500,000 more than in last July. captured 16 officers and 900 Austro- Germana in the battle in Eastern Ga licia, the War department announces. Man Blown Through Roof. Moscow, Idaho — Joe Blalock, of The Russians also took a number of Cornwall, east of Moscow, is in a Mos machine guns. From July 1 to July cow hospital at the point of death. He 13, the statement says, 834 officers was blown through the roof of his and 35,809 men were captured by the store Wednesday night by the explo Russians. General Brussiloff’s forces sion of a charge of powder or dyna also captured 93 heavy and light guns, mite. and officers are hot on the trail 28 trench mortars, 43 machine guns, of the perpetrators of the crime. The 43 mine throwers, 45 bomb mortars, store building was completely demol three fire throwers, two airplanes and ished. The officers are silent, but sen much equipment. sational developments are expected. I. W. W. Held as Slackers. Blalock can make no statement. Hoquiam, Wash. — Three men were Tesla's Tower Dynamited. arrested in Hoquiam Tuesday and River Head, N. Y.—Destruction of lodged in the county jail at Montesano a wireless tower erected here several on charges of interfering with con- years ago by Nicola Tesla, the inven scription. They are John and Victor tor, for experimental purposes, has Suhonen, brothers, and Eli Hill. All been completed by government order three are Finns. They are said to be to prevent it being used by German Industrial Workers of the World strik spies to transmit information, it be ers, and had been doing a good deal of came known Thursday. Charges of talking in the logging camp against Officers found neither of dynamite were placed under the foun the draft. dations and the tower was blown over. the three men had a registration card. Washington, D. C. — Because Ore gon, in proportion to population, fur nished more volunteers for the Na tional guard and regular army than any other state in the Union, its quota, under the selective draft, is the small est assigned any of the 48 states. The fact only 717 out of the 62,618 young men of Oregon who registered June 5 will be drafted for the Ameri- can army is, on its face, the highest official testimonial that can be paid the manhood and patriotism of the sons of Webfoot state On the basis of her population, Ore gon was required, under the law, to contribute .64 of 1 per cent of the total army of more than a million men. The gross quota of the state was com puted to be 7387 men, but on -April 1 Oregon had in her National guard 2423 men. between April 1 and June 30 she recruited 2259 more for her National guard and in that same time 1974 Ore gon men enlisted in the regular army. The total number of men Oregon con tributed to the army since April 1, therefore, is 6657, and this number is deducted from the gross quota of the state in determining the number of men to be drafted. In the adjustment, however, Oregon is credited with 13 additional men and this number, added to the total number of volunteers deducted from the gross quota, leaves but 717 men subject to draft. The state of Washington, with a larger population, was asked to raise 1.1 per cent of the total army, or a gross quota of 12,768. Washington had in her National guard, April 1, 2240, and from April 1 to June 30, recruited 1764 additional, and also recruited 1446 men for the regular army, a total of 5450. Wash ington got, on adjustment, 22 more, leaving 7296 to be drafted out of 108,- 330 who registered June 5. Out of 41,150 men who registered in Idaho, 2287 will be drafted. Idaho had a National guard of 962, recruited 865 more, and recruited 711 men for the regular army, a total of 2538 to be de ducted from her quota, along with an adjustment of eight. Idaho’s gross quota was 4833. Following are the net and gross to tals for the Western states : State— Alaska.............. California...... Idaho................ Montana.......... Nevada............ North Dakota. Oregon............. South Dakota Utah........... Washington.. Wyoming........ Net. Gross 696 710 23.060 34,846 , 2.287 4.833 , 7,872 10,423 1.061 1.435 5.606 7.737 717 7.387 2.717 6,854 . 2.370 4.945 . 7.296 12,763 . 810 2.683 I. W. W. ARE JAILED AFTER MILL BURNS Large Grain Elevator Destroyed at Klamath Falls, Oregon. GUARD PATROLS CITY Headquarters of Disturbers Raided and Members of Organization Placed in Jail—Damages $150,000. Klamath Falls, Ore.—Klamath Falls is practically under matial law. Armed guards patrol the streets, in dustries of the city are protected by special deputy sheriffs and I. W. W. are being rounded up like cattle as the result of a fire Sunday morning which destroyed the grain elevator and mill of Martin Brothers and 25,000 bushels of grain. The loss is placed at $150,- 000. Incendiarism is suspected. High wind fanned the flames toward the factories and cars of the Ewauna Box company, the Big Lakes Box com pany, the Standard Oil company and the Klamath Iron Works, but heroic efforts of the fire department saved these properties. Immediately alter the fire Sheriff Humphrey communicated with Gover nor Withycombe, swore in 200 depu ties and raided the headquarters of the I. W. W., seizing papers and books and arresting 39, some of whom are thought to be local leaders of the or ganization. Every industry in the city is under guard and armed guards are patrolling every road leading out of the city. The sheriff intends to arrest every I. W. W. found in the county. Henry J. Weeks, of the Weeks Ab stract company, was one of the most prominent of those arrested by the sheriff. He is accused of treasonable remarks before a large crowd asem- bled at the city hall. Carloads of provisions, farm ma chinery and canned goods, destined for the Martin Brothers’ store at Merrill, 23 miles south of here, were burned. The firm suffered a disastrous fire sev eral years ago. The fire Sunday was discovered at the north corner of the building, on the windy side and at a point farthest removed from the office. It was under great headway when first seen. GREECE ENTERS WAR DEPORTED MEN ASK DAMAGE OK SIDE OF ALLIES Arizona I. W. W. Refugees to Demand Reparation for Exile. Washington, D. C.—Uncertainty as to Greece’s status in the world war was cleared away Tuesday with the re ceipt of official information that the Greek government not only has severed relations with all four of the central powers, but is actually in a state of war with them. Information has reached the State department that the Greek minister in Paris has notified the French govern ment Greece considers herself a full belligerent and will act accordingly. He said it was not only necessary to issue a formal declaration of war, as the government feels itself bound by the declarations previously issued at Saloniki by Premier Venzelos, who took with him to Athens all the re- sponsibilities and commitments of the temporary Saloniki government. As a belligerent Greece is expected to lose no time mobilizing her war re sources and joining effectively in the allies’ operations in the Balkans. The strength of the Venizelos army is placed at about 60,000 men, and the remnants of the former regular army, while not over 30,000 now, has at times been mobilized to a total of 200,000 men, and is capable of reach ing 300,000 if munitions are provided. The regulars practically were demo bilized by the allies when former King Constantine held the organization as a threat to the allies’ rear, but can quickly be called to the colors again. Commissioner Jonnart, whom the al lies entrusted with enforcing Constan tine’s abdication, has reported that a Greek army of 250,000 will be raised to add to the 700,000 allied soldiers al ready in the Balkans. Columbus, N. M — Mining compan ies, officials and business men in the Warren copper district of Arizona may be sued for damages by the men who were deported from Bisbee July 12. At the camp of the Arizona exiles here Sunday the men discussed plans for filing a blanket suit against the operators, officials and others who, the men assert, were responsible for the wholesale deportation from Ari zona of those alleged to be members of or sympathizers with the I. W. W. A blanket prayer for their release through writ of habeas corpus was also discussed, but the leaders disapproved of such an action on the ground that it would embarrass the federal govern ment, which is trying to find a solution of the problem involved in the deporta tion of the men. The exiles are anx ious to know what Washington will do in their cases, and messages urging immediate action have been sent to adimnistration officials. The belief is becoming general among the exiles that they will be sent back to Bisbee under heavy mili tary guard and will be protected in what they claim as their rights, even if it becomes necessary to declare mar tial law in the Warren district to at tain this end. The men say they will not be sent elsewhere, will not consent to remain here in a sweltering hot camp, and as they have not been charged with breaking any laws, they say they will stand on their rights and are pinning their hopes of returning to Bisbee upon the federal government. Sunday passed quietly in “Camp Wobbley, ” as the men have named the refugee camp. Bride in Khaki Sent Horne. An Atlantic Port — Somewhere in France is a sergeant in the American army who was married just before he left the United States and ventured to take his bride with him on the trans port which carried his regiment over seas. She went with him as a soldier dressed in regulation khaki and with her hair cut short. Tuesday the young woman returned from France, her effort to pose as a "Sammy” having failed. Her husband, it was said aboard the ship, was a member of a regiment stationed in Arizona. Potatoes and Onions Rot in Ground. Sacramento, Cal.—Several carloads of California surplus potatoes and on ions, large quantities of which are re ported to be rotting in the ground in many parts of the state because of the inability of the growers to dispose of them at a price equal to the cost of production, may be sold to Arizona consumers through Governor Campbell, of that state. The state council of de fense has received inquiry from Gover nor Campbell asking the price at which a large supply of both potatoes and onions could be secured in California. Police Chiefs Suspended. East St. Louis, Ill. — The board of fire and police commissioners, after a meeting Sunday night, announced that Chief of Police Ranson Payne and Night Chief Con Hickey Lad been sus pended pending investigation of the police department. According to W. G. Watkins, chairman of the board, the suspension of the two officials is due to the recent race riots, and is the first step in an investigation that is expect ed to shake up the entire department. War to Rule Hotel Menu. Philadelphia — Philadelphia hotels and restaurants will follow New York’s lead in omitting beef from their menus on at least one day a week in the near future. In addition, there will be no wheat rolls for breakfast and wheat bread will be baked from flour containing 10 per cent of rye, po tato, banana or rice flour. Calves’ liver, brains or sweetbreads, young chickens, spring lambe and suckling piga ateo will be barred.