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T he San F rancisco board of super­v isors has adopted a reso lu tion invi­ting the M ystic S hrine to hold its next annual conclave here.

T h e census fo r Bend, Or., w as an ­nounced T uesday as 5414. an increase in population of 4879 persons, or 910.3 p er cen t over th a t of 1910.

Two new cases of bubonic plague w ere repo rted a t V era Cruz M onday and two dea th s am ong those prev ious­ly stricken . F rid ay th e re w ere no new cases.

T he P e tit P a ris ien says i t learn s th a t tihe R ussian sov ie t governm ent a t Moscow has decided to send a m ission to E ngland to s tudy the s itua tion of the p ro le ta ria t.

U kra in ian troops, ac ting in conjunc­tion w ith Polish forces, have occupied O dessa, according to a Ilav as d ispatch from C onstantinople, quoting repo rts c u r re n t th e re Saturday .

D ublin railw ay m en refuse to aban­don th e ir s trik e , although ordered to do so by th e N ational R ailw ay union. T he s tr ik e w as an outcom e of the m en 's refusal to handle m unition tra in s .

C arl T rim born, lead e r of the cen te r p arty in G erm any, h a^ accepted the ta sk of form ing a new m in istry to succeed th a t of P rem ier Braun, which resigned Ju n e 8, i t w as announced Tuesday.

A posse of m ore th an 500 m en and boys spen t S unday com bing a large tim ber tra c t n ea r Red Oak, la., for a nude “ wild m an,” who has been ter- orizlng fa rm ers’ w ives for the la st two weeks. T hey did n o t find him.

An unsuccessful a ttem p t w as m ade Sunday n igh t to assn ssin a te P rem ier l la r a of Japan , accord ing to cablo ad ­vices received by N lppu J1J1, a Ja p a n ­ese language new spaper In Honolulu.

Lynn Mellndy, San F rancisco av ia­tor, and C larence and W allace Jo h n ­son of Inglenook, Cal., w ere killed a t F o rt Bragg, Cal., T uesday w hen the a irp lan e in w hich they w ere rid ing collided w ith an o th e r m achine a t an a ltitu d e of 1000 fee t and crashed to th e ground in flam es.

F our youthful explorers, aged 3, 6, 9 and 12 years, who se t sail from L akeside, Mloh., S a tu rday in a frail row boat to search for trea su re Islands In L ake E rie , wore picked up Monday 30 m iles off shore a f te r having been ad r if t for 25 hours. T he children , th roe boys and a girl, ail of Toledo, w ere rescued by a passenger steam er.

A larm ing confidential repo rts of an in tended uprising in India in the au ­tum n are reach ing the B ritish govern­m ent, according to the London S tar, w hich says th a t bolshevik lite ra tu re is known to bo behind the m ovem ent. T he India office when questioned with regard to tho S ta r rep o rts declared th a t it had received no such in form a­tion.

Following the announcem ent by the s ta te laboratory experts th a t the death of George G urdlna a t Pensacola, Flu., F riday was undoubtedly duo to bu­bonic plague, s tep s w ere inaugura ted by the city au th o ritie s for an Imme­d ia te cleanup cam paign in an effort to p reven t a spread of the disease. T he G ardtna case Is the only one re ­ported.

W hen a man In a crow d view ing a s n a i l gas well n ea r L ittle Rock, Ark., Monday a ttem p ted to light a cigar, the m atch flam e se t th e well a fire and caused th e In jury of eigh t persons, severa l of whom are repo rted in a c ritica l condition. T he gas Ignited w ith a roar and the flam es sh o t out over the crowd. Six of the Injured a re women w hose o leth ing took fire.

A pproxim ately five billion dollars w as ap p rop ria ted by the 65th con­gress. said a s ta te m en t prepared T ues­day by C hairm an Good of the house ap p ro p ria tio n s com m ittee for the final issu e of the congressional record. The ex ac t to ta l as given by Mr. Good was 14,859,890,327. Of th is , 34.373.395.279 is fo r governm en t expenses In the fis­ca l y ea r beg inn ing Ju ly 1, and $4M,- 495,048 is to m eet defic iencies for the fiscal yea r ending w ith th is m onth.

Salem .—C harles H. Record of Union has filed application w ith th e s ta te en ­g ineer for the app rop ria tion of w ater from Goose creek for p lacer m in ing purposes.

N orth Bend.—The Coos Bay F ish & C anning com pany of th is c ity is en ­gaged in m ak ing extensive Im prove­m ents on its p lan t p repara to ry to the opening of the fish ing season.

Am ong the candidates for adm ission to W est P o in t m ilita ry academ y on Ju ly 1 are P riv a te Alonso P. R enton and P riv a te Malcolm B. Caldwell, both of Oregon A gricu ltu ra l college, Cor­vallis.

B aker.—Not in several years has the prospect been so favorable for crops in th e dry-land d is tric ts of B aker coun­ty as i t is th is year. U nless th e un­foreseen happens the county will tu rn in a big grain production.

Hood River.—T he f irs t m otor truck of s traw b errie s to go over the Colum­bia r iv e r highw ay to P o rtland th is season w as one S atu rd ay which deliv­ered to the S ta rr C anning com pany a load ca rry in g 3000 pounds of fru it, for w hich more th an $450 was paid.

A lbany— A carload of 27 heavy d ra ft horses was shipped out of A lbany by express F riday , billed to Coeurd’Alene, Idaho. The expressageam ounted to alm ost 3500, b u t the sh ip ­pers estim ated tha t, considering the feed bill and tim e lost, it would cost alm ost as much to send the horses by fre igh t.

A storia.—The g rea t dem and for s tan d in g fir tim ber In Clatsop county aguln w as illu stra ted by a deed filed in the county clerk ’s office T hursday afternoon. By It W illiam F raze r sells to th e Y errek Logging com pany a claim of 160 acres of tim ber in the sou th east tow nship of tho county for 340,000.

Itoseburg.—The p rune m ark e t re­m ains qu ie t here and no a ttem p ts have so fa r been m ade by buyers to negoti­a te co n trac ts for th is y ea r’s crop. U su­ally by th is tim e the g rea te r portion of tho product Is con tracted by the packers. Some of the com panies are s till holding a p a r t of la s t y ea r’s crop in w arehouses.

Albany.—From the tim e they en ter the c ity lim its u n til they leave, to u r­ists may puss th rough Albany w ithout leaving the pavem ent a t any point. The work of paving s tree ts which connect w ith tlie Pacific highw ay a t each end of th e city lias been com pleted and all o th e r im portan t roads connect w ith paved Btreets also.

Baker.—Local wool sellers are w ear­ing u m ost d istressed countenance. Much wool was purchased some tim e ago for us high as 54 cents a pound, and a t present the m arket Is about 15 cents lower. As n resu lt the m ajority of the dealers a re an y th in g but happy and all are hoping for a sudden rise in tlie wool m arket.

Medford.—The force of w orkm en de­ta iled by S uperin tenden t Sparrow of C rater Nationnl park to open up the roud to C rater L ake lms th e road open now w ith in four m iles of the lake and by Sunday probably will have it open all tlie way to th e lake rim , giving S h rlne rs re tu rn in g from the P ortland convention un opportun ity to v isit thelake.

Salem.—The secre ta ry of s ta te lias received two checks aggregating $ 10,- 193.82, covering the sales of gasoline and d istilla te in Oregon for the month of May by the Associated Oil Company of C alifornia and th e Shell OH com­pany of C alifornia. The Associated Oil com pany tax for th e m onth was $7.- 066.65 and the Shell Oil com pany $3,- LIT.17.

Salem. F. A. E llio tt, stn te forester, re tu rned th is week from Bend, where he obtained an em ergency landing field to be used by av ia to rs engaged In patro lling the forest of cen tra l Oregon du ring the approaching fire season. The field con tains several hundred acres and is located near C rane p rairie . A nother em ergency field will be locat­ed a sho rt d istance south of Mount Jefferson , according to Mr. E llio tt.

Bend.—U nder the d irection of a cltl- l e n t ' com m ittee headed by Mayor E astes, W. R. Speck, S tandard OH m anager. F riday suspended deliveries of gasoliue to all garages and serv ice sta tions. W ith only 3000 gallons of m otor fuel on hand, and no shipm ents promised, sale of gasoline will be con­fined to the pine m illing com panies, m ail stages, physicians and p roprie tors of m ilk routes.

Albany.—A supply of gasoline to re­lieve the serious shortage which has existed here th e last few w eeks is now ivssured for Albany. A ca r of 12,500 gallons which the Albany Auto­m obile 1 V alera ' associa tion ordered from Bakersfield, C a l . arrived Ft I- day and th ree m ore cars a re on the way to a rr iv e a t In tervals of four daya T he dealers say they will have enough now to supply not only the local trad e bu t to u ris ts also.

MONDELE EXPECTS

Way Declared Open for Lifting of Burdens.

FISCAL YEAR WAITED

Disapproval o f Adm inistration Pro­

gram Indicated —Proposed Law

Changes Not Revealed.

W ashington, D. C.— Hope fo r a re­duction in taxes is held out by R epre­sen ta tive Mondell of W yom ing, rep u b ­lican lead e r of the house, in a s ta te ­m ent p repared for the final issue Mon­day of the C ongressional R ecord and m ade public Saturday .

”We sha ll e n te r the new session of congress in D ecem ber and th e new congress in M arch,” sa id Mr. Mon- dell’s s ta tem en t, “ w ith the way opened for a su b stan tia l reduction of the tax burdens.”

T he republican lead e r said red u c­tions would no t be possib le un til a f te r the close of the fiscal y ea r w hich be­gins nex t m onth.

T he proposed changes in the tax laws also w ere no t revealed by Mr. Mondell, a lthough h e ind icated his disapproval of the ad m in is tra tio n pro­gram m e fo r the d iscard of the excess p ro fit levies.

He contended th a t such ac tion at th is tim e would m ean a “sh iftin g of burdens from large incom es and prof­its to th e sm all and norm al incom es and p ro fits .”

No hope for a re tu rn to pre-w ar ex­pend itu res and app rop ria tions w as ex­pressed by the repub lican leader, a l­though he pred ic ted th a t for th e fiscal year beginning Ju ly 1, 1921, a reduc­tion “by upw ards of 31,000,000,000” would be effected , m ak ing th e annual governm ent expenses approxim ately 33,250,000,000. F ew er governm ent em ­ployes and sm alle r app rop ria tions for the arm y and navy w ere cited by Mr. Mondell a s possib ilities for reductions a f te r Ju ly 1, 1921.

Five Killed in Irish Riot. *L ondonderry .— Five persons w ere

killed, ten o thers seriously wounded, several of them probably fata lly , and about 100 o thers w ere less seriously Injured during despera te r io ting here S a tu rday night.

T he figh ting w as accom panied by several a ttem p ts a t incendiarism , one of which resu lted in the burn ing of a la rge store.

T he rio ting w as a continuation of F riday n ig h t's d isorders, w hen nation­alis ts and un ion ists engaged in clashes for severa l hours, and the m ilita ry had to be called out.

An unrecorded num ber of persons su ffering from m inor w ounds went hom e w ithout receiv ing trea tm en t. Among th e wounded are several sh ip­yard w orkers w ith bad gunshot wounds.

T he m ilitary , fully equipped, had taken position a t the head and foot of Bridge s tree t, which is the na­tio n a lis t quarte r, and on Fountain s tree t, the unionist quarte r. An arm ored c a r was draw n up a t C arlisle road, betw een these localities. N ever­the less an o th er n igh t of te rro r fol­lowed.

From shortly a f te r 9 un til 11 o ’clock pandem onium reigned, a shot fired from one party in to a crowd of rival p artisan s developed w ith om inous speed Into v iolent rioting.

G erm any P lans Big Loan.Berlin. — Approval of a c red it

am ounting to 3.000,000.000 m arks will he asked of the new ro iehstag next week, accord ing to an official new s bulletin issued Monday. T his money to be used to m eet u rgent em ergency expenditures.

The m in istry of finance will also be called upon to mobilize a c red it of 5.000,000.000 m arks to m eet cu rren t obligations growing out of the V er­sailles pence treaty .

F arts .—T he Grand N ational S teep le­chase of F rance, run Sunday on the A uteutl trac k was won by Ooq Gaulbls, w ith H eros X ll finishing second. Troy- town th ird and Poethlyn fourth. The stakes a re valued a t 150.000 francs.

N ever since racing cam e Into ex is t­ence in F ranca has a la rger crowd gathered a t a race track. The m agni­ficent w eather a ttrac ted 70.000 p e rRon*,

S eattle .— M ayor Caldwell S aturday signed an ordinance recen tly passed by th e city council providing for 10- cen t cash and 6 V c e n t " token" ca r fares on S eattle 's m unicipal s tree t ra il­way system . The Increased fares be­come effective Ju ly 19. P re sen t fares a re 5 cen ts. U nder the new ordinance, tokens w ill be sold in 25 cen t lots.

Field Museum, Chicago, Moving Into New Home

Tills is the new building of the Field Museum of Chicago, to which all the vast collections of the m useum are being moved from the ir tem porary home in Jackson park.

HundredsfofMillions Saved

War Unscrambling Almost Fin­ished, Technical Committee

Will Be Dissolved.

FROM POWER TO CASTOR OILIncidentally the Com mittee A djusted

the G reat K ansas Rabbit Meat Claim Along W ith Some 200,.

000 O thers.

W ashington.—A fter assisting in sav­ing tlie country several millions of dol­lars through ad justing more than 24,- 000 w ar con tracts which w ere ab ru p t­ly term inated by the arm istice, the technical advisory com m ittee of the w ar claim s board of the w ar d ep a rt­ment is about to be dissolved, accord­ing to Campbell Scott, who organized the com m ittee under the d irection of Benedict Crowell, nssistun t secretary of w ar and d irec to r of m unitions. The committee, which w as composed of ex­perts In practically every branch of engineering and m anufacturing, was organized to m eet tlie critica l s itu a ­tion which developed as soon as the war claim s board a ttem pted to se ttle tlie 30,000 con tracts in existence a t the close of the war.

The g rea te r num ber of these con­trac ts involved questions of a highly technical nature , and it was to se ttle these th a t the technical com m ittee was organized. Many of the con tracts in-, vdlved had been le ‘ on a basis of the w ar lasting four or five years m o re ; the g rea t m ajority had been placed during the last six m onths of tlie con­flict. An Idea of the ir scope is ob­tained when it is understood th a t there were m ore than 20.000 contractors who, in turn , had let sub-eontrnets to more than 200,000 others. In fact, to

the con tracts w ere well under way a serious power shortage developed. Only 40 per cent of the necessary pow­er w as available and the m unitions com panies w ere forced to arrange th e ir shops so th a t they could use the power In rotation .

This cut down the possible ou tput practically 60 per cent and the gov­ernm ent Im m ediately undertook to pro. vide the additional power needed. Con­trac ts w ere m ade w ith th ree com pa­nies to supply 1,900,000,000 k ilow att hours of electric power, which a t the ord inary New York ra te would be worth about $165,000,000. This m eant an increase of 1,900,000 horse power, and the governm ent agreed to assist in financing the construction of the new power p lan ts.

W hen the arm istice cam e these p lan ts w ere not com pleted, and there w as a clause in the con tracts w here­by the governm ent agreed to use pow­e r fo r a certa in length of time. In ad ­dition, the con tracts bound the gov­ernm ent to pay its proportion of the cost of the p lants on a basis of the ir value th ree years a f te r the signing of pence. In se ttling these power con­tra c ts all these fac to rs had to be con­sidered. The technical com m ittee solved the problem s in a m anner which w as considered fa ir to all con­cerned.

Rabbit Meat Problem.In con trast to the pow er con tracts

w as tlie settlement, of the rabbit-m eat claim s. These arose from an excess of patrio tism and w ere not covered by contracts . W hen food conservation was being advertised a s generally nec­essary, a public-spirited citizen of H utchinson, Kan., received inform a­tion th a t tlie w ar departm ent would be glad to obtain a supply of rabbit m eat fo r the men in trn in ing camps. H istory does not s ta te ju s t w here the H utchinson man obtained th is infor-

have finished the w ar con tracts for I motion, but he m ade all speed for th ism unitions and supplies of every con­ceivable n a tu re which w ere in ex ist­ence on A rm istice day would have m eant the tying up of practically 00 per cent of the m anufactu ring re ­sources of th is country.

An outstand ing fea tu re of the grent work of the investigations which were com pleted by the technical com m ittee Is the fact, con trary to general belief, m ore thnn 99 per cent of the contrac­tors w ere found to be scrupulously honest in the ir dealings w ith Uncle Sam.

“W e found th a t the great m ajority of the con tracto rs,” said Chairm an Scott yesterday, “had undertaken the ir work w ith the prim e idea of assisting th e ir country in n tim e of peril. W hile they did not forget th a t business 's business, ninny of them might hnve

city and here obtained the financial backing lie needed.

Shortly a fte rw ard th e re began a wholesale slau g h te r of rabbits in the vicinity of H utchinson, Knn.. T hree carloads of am m unition arrived there and w as d istribu ted to nil those who agreed to procure rabbits. A packing p lant wns erected, nnd there ensued a perfect deluge of rabb its of all kinds, from the dom esticated Belginn hares to the fleet-footed jack rabb its of tlie w estern prairies.

As soon as a carload of cold-stor­age rabb it m eat w as ready it was shipped to a near-by tra in ing camp. To the dism ay of the rabbit man, the q u arte rm aste r refused to accept it, holding th a t “it w as not an artic le of issue,” ns governm ent regulations have It. It then developed th a t tlie w ar de-

W hen the w ar ended the re were more than 300,000 rabb it carcasses in storage. These w ere finally sold as fertilizer to tlie farm ers in the vi­cinity of Hutchinson. T he prom oters of the rabbit m eat “w ar baby” appeal­ed to the w ar claim s board and the technical com m ittee passed on the ir claim. A settlem ent resu lted which the claim ant accepted as satisfactory , desp ite the fact th a t it represen ted only a small fraction of ’the am ount claimed.

An in teresting clulm advised on by the technical com m ittee w as th a t a ris­ing from the unprecedented dem and for casto r oil which tlie L iberty m otors developed. C astor oil w as then the only oil these m otors could use, and when it w as decided to produce Lib­erty m otors by the tens of thousands the governm ent set out procuring an adequate supply of th is lubricant. All the castor oil beans in the world would not have made a sufficient quan tity of oil, even if the allied a irp lanes had not needed the ir supply. Tlie govern­m ent sen t out scouts all over the South to induce th e farm ers to p lan t casto r oil beans, and m ore than 8,000 ag ricu ltu ris ts put in crops.

Probably the g rea test casto r oil acreage In the world wns p lan ted In the southern s ta tes during th a t peri­od, the seed being supplied by the de­partm en t of agriculture. F arm ers plowed up o ther crops to put in casto r oil beans, and the governm ent scouts did everything possible to insure a tre ­mendous supply of castor oil. In some cases men w ere even exem pted from m ilitary service to grow the beans, be­cause the need w as so vital.

However, there followed a sad aw ak­ening. The bean vines grew luxuri­an tly bu t the re was less than one bean pod per plant, and the re w as p rac ti­cally no crop. Investigation showed th a t while the seed had been success­fully im ported, the sm all insect which fertilizes the p lant had been forgotten.

As the resu lt of th is fu tile castor oil cu ltu re the re wns lodged w ith the w ar claim s board claim s aggregating sev­eral m illions of dollars, and additional claim s a re still coming in. So fa t no basis of se ttlem ent has been a r­rived at, but the fa rm ers seem sa tis­fied th a t they will get a “square deal.”

The Men Who Dici It.O ther claim s of nil kinds w ere ad­

ju sted through the advice of tlie tech­nical com mittee, and it is sta ted th a t not more thnn 1 per cent of the $3,500,- 000.000 w orth of claim s w ent through w ithout change, although a sa tisfac­tory settlem ent w as reached in all but a score of cases. Among the experts prom inently concerned in th is work w ere Campbell Scott of New York, chairm an of the com m ittee; W. D. Ennis, who handled the pow er nnd me­chanical con trac ts ; E rnest P. Good­rich of New York, who placed valua­tions on p lan ts nnd s truc tu res built for w ar co n trn c ts ; Colonel F ran k B. Mnlt- by of Philadelphia, who acted as ex­pert on construction and contracts in­volving civil engineering; A rthur W. Hixon of New York, who advised on chemical nnd m etallurgical co n trac ts ; F red E. Rogers of New York, whose work concerned m echanical nnd m a­chine equipm ent, nnd George R. F rank- fo rte r of M inneapolis, who investigated chemical and explosive contracts.

All told there were nearly a score of the lending engineers and industria l experts of the country, who spent p ractically n year of the ir tim e in as­sisting the w ar claim s board in clos­ing up Its contracts.

Revival of Mississippi Traffic

m ade much more money thnn they did. : partm en t could not use the rabbit m eat“Of course, it Is tru e th a t the sinnll ! nnd the carload w as shipped to th is

m inority took the viewpoint th a t t h e ' city. The m arkets here refused to governm ent hnd m ade the w ar and absorb tt. nnd in despnlr it was therefo re should be made to pay for It. ! shipped to England, the Impression bu t when It cam e to ad justing th e 'r j being th a t the B ritish were qu ite hun- clnlm s even these w ere found to be gry enough by th a t tim e to relish Kan- fn ir nnd reasonable. Indicative of the mm rabb it. However, fa te Intervened, good sp irit which prevailed. Only 20 the ship wns set on fire by shells from out of 24.000 con tracto rs hnve ap- , a German U-boat nnd the ruhblt m eat pealed to the court of clnlms from was entirely destroyed.the nw nrds m ade to them. This ______________________________________shows the pninstnklng w ork done by the technical com m ittee of the w ar ! claim s board .”

Claims Big and Little.Some of the claim s ad justed w ere

d istinctly of an ex trao rd inary natu re .They ranged from the ad justm en t of the g rea t pow er con tracts in the P itts ­burgh d istric t, which Involved 1.900,- 000,000 horse power, to the re-arrnnge- nient of the rabbit m eat Industry which had sprung up In K ansas, in ­cidentally , the casto r oil con tracts— the oil to be used for L iberty m otors— have come up before the technical com m ittee. The fac t th a t the entire am ount o f m ore thnn $3,500.000.000 w orth of w ar contrncts w as settled at 12 per cent of th e ir to tal face value shows th a t real Americanism pervades the Industries of th is country.

“ It Is the biggest Job of arb itra tion the world has ever known,” is the way in which a prom inent m em ber of the adm inistra tion characterized the w ork of “unscram bling the w ar.”

One of the most highly technical contract*, and one which required deep Investigation, wtfs thnt nfrectlng the pow er supply of the P ittsburgh d is tric t. This d istric t, the chief prod­ucts o f which w ere m unitions and steel o f every kind, was practically , Revival of traffic on the 3Ilsslssippl river on a large scale is not very fa r tied up In governm ent work during the distant, iudgtng by the recent launching, in one day. of two self-propelledlast y ea r of the war. Additions wer>- steam barges, constructed for the United S tates governm ent a t a cost of $500built to plants, thousands of new tm 0ta> each. This is a scene a t the shipyard in S t Louis during tlie christeningployees w ere added, and as soon as I of the Birm ingham . *