The Hermiston herald., August 18, 1917, Image 3

THE
WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
OREGON IN FIRST CALL
Plans for Sending National Guard to
France Announced by War De­
partment-26 States Share.
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HILL 70, NEAR LENS
INCLINE
Decrease in Acreage Due to Prohibi­
tion Wave Causes High Prices—
Foreign Buyers Look Here.
Washington, D. C.—Plans for send­
ing the first National Guard troops to
France have been perfected by the
War department with the organisation
of a division which will include troops
from 26 states and the District of Col­
umbia. Word to this effect was sent
ou Tuesday.
The states from which the National
Guard troops are to be assembled are :
Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
Events of Noted People, Governments
New York, Ohio, Georgia, Alabama, Barrage Fire Clears Way Up Hill and
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota,
and Pacific Northwest and Other
Liquid Fire Illuminates Trenches
Maryland, South Carolina, California,
Things Worth Knowing.
and Low-Lying Rain Clouds.
Missouri, Virginia, North Carolina,
Kansas, Texas, Michigan, New Jersey,
Tennessee, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Colo­
rado and Oregon.
The Canadian casualty list issued
British Front in France and Belgium
The others come from the District
Tuesday night contains the following of Columba.
— After the brilliant advance Thurs­
names of Americans killed in action:
day morning, in which the Canadians
W. H. Bland, Black Bear, Idaho.
captured Hill 70 and then swept on
JAPANESE MISSION ARRIVES northwest of Lens, the attackers were
Nineteen Portuguese fishermen of
in close grips with the Germans in the
Provincetown were drowned when the
dories in which they were fishing off “We Are With You, Heart and Soul,” western part of Lens late in the day.
Their losses were slight.
Says Ambassador Extraordinary.
Cape Cod were swamped by a gale that
The attack began at 4:25 o’clock,
came up suddenly Friday afternoon.
A Pacific Port—A Japanese mission just as the first streaks of dawn were
The first three bales of Georgia’s to the United States arrived here appearing. All night the British big
new cotton crop to arrive in New York
Tuesday, and proclaimed, almost at guns had been pouring a steady stream
were auctioned from the steps of the
of high explosive shells into the Ger­
Cotton Exchange Wednesday for $700. the moment of landing, that its mem­ man position, the detonations overlap­
Nearly 50 cents a pound. The money bers came officially “as comrades in a ping one another by the rapid crack­
was given to the Red Cross war fund. gigantic struggle, which involves the ling of a machine gunfire and swelling
Liberty bonds for the first time liberties and the sacred rights of man­ into a mighty volume of thunder that
shook the earth and stunned the senses.
since the second or third day’s trading kind.”
Then, a short time before the hour
in them on the New York Stock Ex­
“We are here,” declared Viscount
change, sold at par Tuesday. Last K. Ishii, ambassador extraordinary, of offensive arrived, the batteries
week they sold as low as 99.52, which and plenipotentiary, responding to an ceased abruptly, and a strange, almost
represented a depreciation of $4.80 per address of welcome from the mayor, oppressive stillness, fraught with the
portending cataclysm which must fol­
$1000.
“as the representatives of Japan on a low, crept over the country, which un­
The medical corps of the United mission of friendship and good will.
til then had been an inferno of death.
“We come as allies in a common
States Army in France announced Fri­
It had been raining, the gray clouds
day that the French had turned over to cause. We are with you, heart and still hung low over the trenches, where
it two large military hospitals and also soul.”'
crouched the Canadian infantrymen,
He referred to the Nation’s war waiting eagerly for the arrival of the
a large medical depot. American base
panoply,
and
its
meaning
to
Japan.
hospital units are manning these insti­
moment which would summon them to
“ We are particularly glad to be here the attack.
tutions.
just at this time,” he said, “when all
Suddenly, 10 minutes before the
Sinking of the American steamer America is showing courage, patriot­
time set for the attack, every British
Campana, a Standad Oil tanker, with ism, energy and whole-hearted zeal.
gun within range broke out with a
the probable capture of her captain
“Naturally, Japan is interested in
and four members of the naval guard your preparations. We are glad to hurricane of shelling, and solid lines of
by the attacking German submarine, see them. Not a single sensible per­ crimson lightning belched from the
was announced Tuesday by the Navy son in Japan sees anything in your German trenches as the explosives
broke about them.
department.
preparations but great benefit to both
To this lurid picture was added the
After visiting practically every sec­ countries in the future.
unforgettable spectacle of the burning
“We have always had confidence in oil which the British threw cn the
tion of Oregon of any consequence
agriculturally, Governor Withycombe the fundamental justice, sound sense enemy lines. Great clouds of pinkish­
made the statement that Oregon is and broad vision of Americans. We colored smoke rolled across the country
facing the nearest approach to a crop are glad of your preparations on land from the flaming liquid, and the murky
failure of anything he has seen in his and sea, because we believe they sky threw back myriad colors from the
46 years’ experience in watching crop mean an earlier peace.”
conflagration below.
condtions.
The moment of attack arrived, and
Sunburned Western ranges, with the SUMPTER, OR., IS IN RUINS as the British guns dropped their pro­
tecting barrage in front of the Cana­
price of imported hay and feed almost
prohibitive, are likely to cause a de­ Fire Completely Sweeps Town Off the dian trenches, the clouds parted, and
the yellow crescent moon appeared.
cided drop in the price of beef before
Map-Loss Said to be $200,000.
Under the light of this beacon, the
December 1, in the opinion of St.
Paul live stock men. Shortage of feed
Baker, Ore. — Sumpter, once the Canadians leaped over the parapet and
already has resulted in an influx of Babylon of Eastern Oregon, is now a began their methodical advance behind
their barrage fire.
cattle from the West at the South St.
smoking mass of ruins.
The British barrage was without a
Paul market.
The flames Monday night were eat- flaw. Behind it the Canadians mounted
Nine hundred and thirty-three Scan­
Hill 70, and swept along the rest of
dinavian ships have been destroyed by ing their way to the woods at the edge the line.
On the crest of the hill,
of
the
city
and
the
hundreds
of
fire-
torpedoes or mines since the beginning
where so much blood had been spilled
of the war, according to the Copen­ fighters were trying desperately to before, heavy fighting might have been
hagen Aftenbladet.
Of this number subdue them before the blaze could get
expected, for the position was well
Norway lost 600, Denmark 187 and such a start in the dry timber that a manned with machine guns.
Sweden 146. The number of Scandi­ forest fire might result.
The resistance here, however, was
navian seamen lost in these disasters
The loss is estimated as high as not strong, and it was not until the
was about 500.
$200,000 and it is known that the in­ dwellings in the outskirts of the sub­
Placed so that it would have de­ surance carried is comparatively small, urbs were reached that vigorious fight­
stroyed a 36-inch water supply main so that the once mighty metropolis, of ing occurred. The ground over which
to the Ogden city reservoir and the this part of the country never may be the infantry advanced was honey­
embankment of the reservoir, thus al­ rebuilt, at least it is certain that only combed with British shellholes, and
lowing the impounded water to rush a small part ever will rise from the the barbed wire defenses had been lev­
down upon the city, a dynamite bomb flames.
eled so that they gave little trouble.
Every business house and nearly
with two feet of its four-foot fuse
The first serious resistance from the
burned, was found early Tuesday night every residence, church and hall have Germans was met at a point where the
been leveled by the flames. More than enemy was entrenched strongly in con­
by the police.
300 persons are without homes and
In a statement Tuesday, Secretary every effort to relieve the suffering is nected cellars, and here sanguinary
fighting occurred.
McAdoo said prompt passage of the being made.
The place is a sample of other sub­
Army and Navy insurance bill would
urbs with colliery communities, which
“immeasurably increase America’s
National 8-Hour Bill Drafted.
are so close together and so near the
chance of winning the war,” and ex­
Washington,
D.
C.
—
As
a
solution
in
city
proper that they really form one
pressed the hope that the bill would be
Lens, before the
enacted “before the first soldier of the part of the labor trouble in Western large metropolis.
new National Army begins active mil­ Oregon and Washington, Senator Poin­ war, had a.’population of 30,000, but
dexter has proposed the enactment by now it is a mass of ruins.
itary duty,” about September 1.
congress of a law providing that eight
The Butte streetcar men’s strike hours shall constitute a standard day's
Patriot Adds Nine Pounds,
was settled Friday afternoon, the com­ work for all lumber mills, logging
Seattle
—Lloyd Melvin Hatfield, who
pany agreeing to pay the men a flat camps or other wood-working estab­
scale. Operation of cars has been re­ lishments whose products enter into enlisted in the Washington National
Guard 10 years ago, but resigned two
sumed.
interstate or foreign trade.
His bill
Seven Norwegian sailing vessels and imposes a penalty of $1000 for each years ago when he became a benedict,
was certified into the National Army
90 men were lost in a heavy gale near violation.
Thursday, but not until he had partak­
Greenland, according to a dispatch to
Senator Poindexter drafted and in- en of eight pounds of beefsteak and
the London Central News from Chris­ troducted this bill at the suggestion
several quarts of milk in order to make
tiana Thursday.
of mill men and mill laborers, both the required weight.
First examina­
sides
to
the
controversy,
according
to
The first one-third of the quota of
tion showed him to weight 113}
687,000 men drafted for army service his advices, being favorable to the pounds. Several hours later he ap­
under the selection bill will be called legal eight-hour day in the lumber bus­ peared for a second examination and
to the colors September 1 and sent to iness if it can be made National.
tipped the scales at 1211, just suffi­
training camps between September 1
cient to permit his entrance.
Agitator is Deported.
and September 5.
This information
haa been communicated to the govern­
Reno, Nev. — Fifty armed business
Raided I. W. W. Send Bill.
ors of all states by Provost Marshal men of Lovelock went to Rochester
Sacramento, Cal.—State Controller
General Crowder.
mining camp at midnight Tuesday, John S. Chambers was asked by the
Wool contracts calling for more than seized C. W. McKinnon, brother-in-law Oakland branch of the Industrial
$18,000,000 worth of wool have been of W. D. Haywood and an I. W. W. Workers of the World to reimburse
let at Washington, according to an­ organizer, took him to Lovelock and them for damage done when their
nouncements. The Red Cross has pur­ shipped him away to Ogden on an headquarters was raided by “soldiers
chased 1,000,000 pounds for knitting early train.
Residents of Lovelock of the state,” last Friday. The dam­
purposes and the Navy has let con­ and Rochester are forming a Citizens’ age was estimated at about $2000. The
tracts for 4,500,000 yards of uniform League.
John Gilbert, resident of union’s itemized account included $74
cloth at an aggregate cost of more Rochester, also was deported.
for canary birds and a parrot and $200
than $16,000,000.
McKinnon, ten days ago, was driven for potted plants. The controller has
That a special session of the Utah out of ths Yerington copper district by no authority to settle such claims.
citizens.
legislature will be called to act on the
Germany Takes Potatoes.
high prices of coal was indicated Fri­
Railroads Save Mileage.
Copenhagen—The new German food
day by Governor Bamberger, when he
Chicago — Extensive reductions in dictator, Herr von Waldow, according
declared that, if necessary, he would passenger train service in addition to to a Berlin dispatch, plans to expro­
urge the enactment of a measure to those already made are soon to go into priate this year’s entire harvest of po­
make coal a public utility.
effect in the Middle West.
Between tatoes. He will also conserve all food
Damage which may mount into hun­ March 1 and July 15, the railroads in necessary for human consumption.
dreds of thousands of dollars was this territory effected a saving at the
Cardboard Coffins Used.
caused to property and crops by a se­ rate of almost seven million psssenger
Amsterdam—Coffins of waterproof
vere hail and wind storm which swept miles s year in passenger train serv­
The total reductions already cardboard are now being made in
a path four to ten miles wide and more ice.
than 100 miles long over nine counties made and those soon to be put into Germany, according to the Tagliehe
The lids are
of Eastern Central Nebraska Thursday effect in this territory amount to over Runschau, of Berlin.
glued instead of being nailed down.
12,000,000 passenger miles.
afternoon.
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
Dominating Point Easily Taken
From Teutonic Defenders.
FOR YOU
LOSSES ARE SLIGHT
COMPILED
HERMISTON, OREGON.
R. B. Godin, secretary of the Board
of Control, is at the The Dalles to re­
ceive bids on the equipment of the
Portage railway, owned by the state.
Cull apples have taken an advance
of $2 per ton over the former seasons.
The Hood River Apple Vinegar com­
pany, operating one of the largest
plants in the state, has announced that
it will pay $8 per ton for orchard-run
sound culls.
Wood procured from stumpage will
be used as fuel at the State Hoepital
for the Insane at least for the next
two years, and at the State Peniten­
tiary for the next three years. This
arrangement has been made by the
State Board of Control.
J. M. Johnson is to be the new su­
perintendent of Klamath Indian reser­
vation, with headquarters at Klamath
Agency. Mr. Johnson came from the
Colville Indian reservation, Washing­
ton. C. H. Asbury, special agent in
charge, has left for Reno, Nev.
Bears are inflicting heavy losses on
the sheep herds in the Eagle Moun­
tains in Eastern Oregon, according to
Senator and Mrs. W. H. Strayer, of
Baker. George Jones, of Richland, is
said to have lost 23 head from hie herd
and others have suffered severe dam­
age.
Advertising for bids on the first
three units of the Pacific Highway
improvement to be undertaken in
Douglas county began at Roseburg
Wednesday. The units are located in
the northern part of Douglas county
and will eliminate the Pass Creek
canyon.
County Agent S. B. Hall has estab­
lished the fact that many deaths among
cattle in the Gresham section is due to
a disease called hemorrhagic septice­
mia, and measures are being taken to
put an end to its ravages. Farmers in
Multnomah and Clackamas counties
have lost more than 100 animals.
The Balderree logging camp near
Black Rock, in Polk county, belonging
to the Willamette Valley Lumber com­
pany, is a total loss, and losses of the
company since the fires started Satur­
day are estimated at more than $200,-
000. The fire is the worst since 1910,
when a million feet of timber burned
in the Siletz basin.
A peddler, said to be German, and
selling courtplaster and medicine and
saying he has the sanction of B. F.
Elgin, a Sherwood druggist, is going
through that community.
Mr. Elgin
denies any knowledge of the man.
He is insistent on selling to everyone.
One of the plasters is now in the hands
of the chemists of the State board of
health.
W. M. Round, president of the
Washington Cranberry Growers’ asso­
ciation, with headquarters at Long
Beach, Wash., has issued an invitation
to all cranberry growers o Oregon and
Washington to attend a meeting to be
held at Long Beach, Saturday, August
25. An invitation has been extended
Governor Lister, of Washington, to
attend the meeting.
The Marine Guard at the Englewood
radio station at Marshfield has been
increased by the arrival of 13 men from
Mare Island, under Sergeant W. S.
Hamilton.
Within the past two
weeks another contingent of six men
who had served at Cape Blanco also
was sent there. The force, including
the original guard, now numbers 25
marines, besides the five operators.
The skin of a gray wolf was turned
in at the county clerk’s office at Al­
bany Monday for bounty. Charles E.
Clark, of Lacomb, related a story of
its capture showing that Clyde Rucker,
of Lacomb, had a narrow escape from
a deer which was pursued by the
predatory beast.
The State Highway commission has
opened bids and awarded contracts for
road and bridge construction projects
and accepted the bid of the Lumber­
mens Trust company, of Portland, on
the $500,000 bond issue, the first sale
of bonds under the $6,000,000 bonding
enactment.
The bid was $471,300
with accrued interest, the bonds dated
August 1.
The Springfield Planing Mill com­
pany has called for bids for a large
amount of hardwood lumber.
The
company has accepted a contract for
the manufacture of 1,000,000 tent
stakes for the United States govern­
ment, according to an announcement
made by H. E. Pitts, manager of the
company.
The work of making the
stakes will begin August 15.
The body of Mrs. Katherine Osgood,
age 83 years, was found floating in
the Walluski river near Astoria Friday
night. She had been missing for sev­
eral days and is supposed to have fal­
len while crossing the bridge.
One hundred Curry county hogs, de­
livered for J. E. Ford, at Bandon,
brought 18 cents a pound, live weight.
The consignment was bought for the
Ford market in Marshfield and it was
said the price was the hightest record­
ed in the county for such a large herd.
As one of the direct results of the
United States becoming involved in
the world wsr, the Astoria board of
school directors has
voted to
French to the course of study in the
high school.
add
Car shortage on the Southern Pacific
lines in Oregon Thursday was 751.
While the number is small compared
with the more than 3000 shortage some
months ago, the Public Service com-
mission considers the shortage ex­
tremely serious because of the early
season and the demand for cars due to
causes created by the war.
Puyallup—Hops can’t be bought in
the valley this week, according to
James Pincus, hop broker, who has
been trying to keep up with the boosts
in the hop market lately. No prices
are being quoted under 30 cents, and it
is reported that 32c cents has been
offered. At that, though, the farmers
are expecting still more, and as a re­
sult no options can be bought at any
price. Buyers from Oregon interested
in the local crop are adding to the
speculation.
An example of the
change in the market is the price
quoted on last year’s crops, a little of
which is still unsold. Two months ago
it was quoted at 6 cents, and now the
offer is 20 cents. Alderton farmers
are expecting the market to reach 25
cents.
“The acreage is decreasing faster
than the demand, ” says Hugh Herren
in explanation of the recent soar in
prices. With only 50 per cent of the
acreage and 70 per cent of the normal
crop ready, the shortage in the valley
is apparent This is true of Oregon,
California and the Eastern hop fields.
Mr. Pincus says that the brewing of
beer has not been on the decrease all
over the country, and in addition, for­
eign breweries, who depended on Ger­
man and English hops, are now forced
to come to America for them.
This adds to the market and is help­
ing the farmer who has grown hops
this year to make a good price for his
crop. In spite of the recent advances,
Mr. Pincus reports, that probably 50
per cent of the valley crop has already
been sold at less than 11 cents.
Farmers who have already plowed
up their hop fields are not likely to put
them in again, due largely to the un­
certainty of the market and the spread
of the prohibition movement.
The
difference is apparent when figures
quoted show that Oregon raised 110,-
000 bales last year and this year it is
estimated at 40,000. Washington can
only expect about 30,000 bales this
year and California is 37,000 bales be­
hind previous years.
Make Survey of Seed Wheat.
Pullman, Wash.—A seed survey of
all the counties of Eastern Washington
is being made by Professor E. G.
Shafer, of the farm crops division of
the school of agriculture of the State
College. The purpose of the survey is
to ascertain approximately how much
seed wheat will be available in the
counties this fall, so that the college
will be in a position to answer queries
directed to it as to where seed wheat
may be procured. The high prices for
grain are expected to tend to reduce
the amount of seed wheat. ,
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT
Portland—Wheat — Bluestem, new,
$2.28; fortyfold, $2.25; club, $2.23;
red Russian, $2.21.
Oats—No. 1 white feed, $50 per ton.
Barley — No. 1 white feed, $48 per
ton.
Flour—Patents, $11.60.
Millfeed—Spot prices Bran, $37 per
ton; shorts, $40; middlings, $47; rol­
led barley, $52; rolled oats, $56.
Corn—White, $92 ton; cracked, $93.
Hay — Producers’ prices Timothy,
Eastern Oregon, $28 per ton; valley
timothy, $26; alfalfa, $23; valley
grain hay, $16.
Vegetables—Tomatoes, 35@75c per
crate; cabbage, 2@2±c per pound; let­
tuce, $1.5001.75 per crate; cucum­
bers, 40060c per dozen ; peppers, 8@
10c per pound; beans, 6@7c; corn, 30
@35e per dozen.
Potatoes—New Oregon, 21@3±c per
pound.
Onions — Walla Walla, $1.35@ 1.50;
red, $L25 per sack.
Green Fruits — Cantaloupes, 85 @
$2.40 per crate; peaches, 40c@$1.25
per box; watermelons, $1.25@$1.50
per hundred; apples, $1.3502.25 per
box; plums, 65c@ $1.60; pears, $2.25
@2.50; grapes, $1.75; casabas, 2c
pound.
Butter—Cubes, extras, 40@ 402c per
pound; prime firsts, 391c.
Jobbing
prices: Prints, extras, 44c; cartons,
1c extra; butterfat, No. 1, 44c; No.
2, 42c.
Eggs — Oregon ranch, current re­
ceipts, 35036c per dozen; Oregon
ranch, candled, 372038e; selects, 4 0c.
Poultry—Hens, 15@16}c per pound;
broilers, 17@18e; turkeys, 18@21c;
ducks, old, 13@15c; young, 17@18]c;
geese, old, 80 9c.
Veal—Fancy, 14)@ 15c per pound.
-Pork—Fancy, 1910 20c per pound.
Hops—1916 crop, 18@.20c per pound;
1917 contracts, 30c per pound.
Wool — Eastern Oregon, fine, 58@
61c per pound; coarse, 58@61e; val­
ley, 60070c; mohair, 58@60c.
Cascara Bark—New, 7}c per pound;
old, 8c.
Grain Bags—In car lota, 132c.
Cattle—
Beat beef steers
$ 8.25@) 8.75
7.254t 8.25
Good beef steers
6.000 7.00
Best beef cows
4.000 6.00
Ordinary to good
6.254/ 7.25
Best heifers
4.50@ 6.00
Bulls
8.50@ 9.50
Calves
Stockers and feeders.... 4.50, 0.75
Hogs—
Prime light hogs
Prime heavy hogs
16.50016.65
Pigs..................................... 14.75@15.25
Bulk ...................................
16.75
• Sheep—
Western lambs.................. $12.00^12.75
Valley lambs...................... 11.500 12.00
Yearlings............................
8.750 9.50
Wethers..............................
8.000 8.50
Ewes................................... 3.50@ 7.00
NEW PEACE OFFER
COMES VIA ROME
Pope Benedict Asks Nations to
Return to Status Quo.
ALLIES'REFUSAL SEEN
Diplomats Believe Move Hao German
Origin, but Faith of Vatican is
Not Doubted—To Consider.
Washintgon, D. C.—Pope Benedict
made peace proposals Tuesday which
were not unexpected to the United
States, nor to any of the entente al­
lies.
The possibilities of a peace move
was discussed with British Foreign
Minister Balfour and Vice Premier
Viviani, when the British and French
official missions were in Washington,
and it was agreed that all the allies,
including the United States, should re­
fuse to discuss peace terms while Ger­
many occupied the territories she had
taken by force, and thereby avoid
what the allied statesment considered
a German trap.
Now the Pontiff’s proposal presents
the question in a somewhat different
light, difficult to meet, perhaps, but it
offers a war-weary world a hope for
peace.
Germany and her allies are expected
to promptly accept the Pope's pro­
posals.
American officials acknowledge that
the Vatican’s proffer is of a nature
calling for a reply. Diplomats of the
entente circle express nothing but
unanimous opinion that it would be re­
jected. American officials realize that
a convincing reply is required for the
world’s page of history. That the
proposals cannot be accepted as they
stand is certain. That they will not
be accepted at all is probable.
The Pope suggests restoration of
Belgium, Serbia and Roumania and
peaceful solution of the problems of
Alsace-Lorraine, Trent, Trietse and
Poland, according to reports received
from Vatican sources.
The Pope’s peace appeal proposes
that there be no annexation and no in­
demnities, except in special cases,
such as Belgium and Serbia, the re­
turn of Germany of her colonies in ex­
change for the occupied departments
of France, freedom of the seas, dis­
armament and the formation of a su­
preme court of arbitration for the set­
tlement of future international dis­
putes.
An official outline of the Pope’s com­
munication was received here Tuesday
morning. Members of the President’s
cabinet said it had not been discussed
at the afternoon meeting, but some of
the President’s official family gave
signs of the difficulty which it has
presented.
The first appraisal of the proposal
by officials and diplomats was that it
was another attempt by Germany, this
time working through Austria, because
of the latter’s close relation to the
Vatican, to accomplish what she failed
in her first offer of peace—the assem­
bling of peace delegates at a round-
table conference, where the interests
of one ally could be played off against
the other with the disruption of the
grand alliance as the stake.
In no quarter is there any disposi­
tion to question in any way the good
faith of the Vatican, although the
peace activities of the Roman Catholic
elements in Germany and Austria have
been prominent for several months.
RUSSIA CALLS BIG MEETING
1000 Persons Invited to Help Formu­
late Plans for New Government.
Petrograd—More than 1000 persons
have been invited by the government
to attend the conference which is to be
held at Moscow August 25 to 27 to
consider in their broadest aspects the
situation of the nation and the plans
for the new national government.
Those who have been asked to attend
include all members of the four dumas,
other persons prominent in public life
and repesen tati ves of all important or­
ganizations, whether political, eco­
nomic, commercial or scientific.
Pope’s Plan Hits Market.
New York—The announcement of
the Pope’s peace proposals, coming af­
ter the strong opening Tuesday, gave
the stock market a severe setback.
Early gains of one to two points in
steels, equipments and other war is­
sues and as much as one to five points
in motors, shippings, oils and miscel­
laneous shares were largely surren­
dered before midday. The only issues
to retain their gains in part were the
active stocks in tobacco. In the after­
noon the market became dull with
small net reactions in the active shares.
Railway Clerks in Union.
Spokane, Wash.—The railway clerks
of Spokane are organizing a union, and
are ready to apply to the Central La­
bor Council for affiliation. Represent-
atives of the new organization ap­
peared before the council Tuesday
night and reported that a membership
of more than 100 had been enrolled.
The union will include employee of
the railroad companies engaged in
clerical work in both freight and pass-
enger departments.