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THREE KILLED
IN EXPLOSION
• TARGET GUN
CAMP LEWIS, Wash., July 17 (by
Associated Press).—Corporals Edward
Scott and Clyde Dundinger of Marsh
field, Private'Ralph Fraley of Ashland,
members of the Oregon national guard
in encampment here, were killed, ancl
six others slighty wounded, by the ex
plosion of a six-inch gun during target
practice yesterday. It is believed the
shell exploded in the barrel of the gun,
which was demolished and splinters
thrown hundreds of feet. Governor
Olcott of Oregon was present with his
staff and assisted in caring for the
« injured.
Governor Olcott and Adjutant Gen
eral White of Oregon, with their
wives, and Colonel Davis, commanding
the artillery brigade, were standing
behind the gun a few minutes before
the accident.
BRITISH SORRY
FOR INSULT TO
' FLAG OF U. S.
WASHINGTON, July 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—British officials at Ber
muda have expressed regret for the
insult offered the American flag by
British sailors on July 4. It is stated
the postmaster who advised the sailors
who participated in the trampling of
the flag was heavily fined and sen
tenced to imprisonment.
GERMAN WARSHIPS
ON WAY TO AMERICA
WASHINGTON, July 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Five German surface
warships allocated to the United
States haye left Brest and are due in
New Yore- on August 3, it was an
nounced today.
PERSIANlOVERNMENT
TO DEAL WITH SOVIETS
LONDON, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—A dispatch to the Times says
the Persian government has instructed
its minister to Rome to direct negotia
tion with the soviet government of
Russia.
TWO AMERICA
AVIATORS
-BROUGHT
WARSAW, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—Lieut. Harman C. Rorison of
Wilmington, N. C., a pilot in the Kos
cuiszko squadron of American flyers
with the Polish, shot down within the
Bolsheviki lines, managed to escape
by posing as an Austrian on his way
home after imprisonment in Siberia.
Lieut. Rorison was 30 miles from the
Polish lines when he attacked a Bol
shevik infantry detachment, the reds
replying with rifles and machine guns,
one bullet piercing the gasoline tank
of his airplane. Realizing that it
would be impossible to reach the
Polish front, he flew as far as possible,
making a safe landing, but near Bol
shevik troops. He escaped into the
^leavy underbrush and after two days
and night reached the headquarters of
^ -4*is squadron. The airplane was recov
ered later by a Polish cavalry unit and
' mechanics of the squadron.
m.
ALLIES TO HELP
GERMANY WITH
ITS WAR LOA S
SPA, July 17 (by Associated Press).
—The allied governments will take ap
propriate measures to assist Germany
in floating loans to meet her interna
tional requirements and assist her in
the discharge of her debts to the allies
according to an agreement signed Fri
day by representatives of Great Bri
tain, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium and
Portugal. Belgium is given priority
in the payment of 2,500,000,000 francs.
The cost of the occupation armies will
not be fixed until after discussion
with the United States.
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DRIVE
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LONDON, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—A threat to drive the Turk
from Europe once and for all is con
tained in the alles’ reply to Turkish
objections to the peace treaty, made
public today. Such action might fol
low Turkey’s refusal to sign the treaty
or failure to give it effect. The time
limit for acceptance of the allied
! terms expired -at midnight on June 27.
awardofr’r. board
WILL BE EFFECTIVE ON
THE LINES OF CANADA
CINCINNATI, July 17 (by Associ
ated Press).—Although the railroad
labor board has no jurisdiction over
Canada, the decision of the board*will
be operative through an agreement be
tween the Canadian Pacific and their
railroad clerks, A. C. Hay of Winnipeg,
who is attending the conference of
the heads of brotherhoods, announced
here today.
COMMUNISTS MAKE
ESCAPE FROM TRAIN
BERLIN, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—Belakun and a number of
other Communists being transported
from Vienna to Russia by way of Ger
many escaped from a train near Oder
berg, according to a Breslau dispatch
to the Berlin German Zeitung.
COLORADO MINERS
■ GO OUT ON A STRIKE
CANON CITY, Colo., July 17 (by
Associated Press).—Six hundred coal
miners employed by the Colorado Fuel
& Iron Company struck today follow
ing an order installing electric safety
lamps.
YANKS DEFEAT TWO
ENGLISHMEN IN SERIES
WIMBLEDEN, July 17 (by Associ
ated Press).—Johnston and Tilden de
feated Parke and Kingscote of Eng
land today in the doubles match of
the Davis cup serie§.
i ALASKAN SQUADRON
MAKES SLOW PROGRESS
SCRANTON, Pa., July 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Captain Street, com
mander of the Alaska flyers, got away
this morning from Elmhurst, Pa., for
Erie, where the three other planes
await him.
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ADMIRAL EVANS LEFT
SEATTLE THIS MORNING
SEATTLE, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—The steamer Admiral Evans
sailed at 10 o’clock this morning, the
passengers booked for Cordova being
as follows: Mrs. Grace Garner, Albert
Zeiph, A. F. Zeiph, Mrs. Dan Young,
E. C. Jacks, Leona Schapp, George M.
Culpa and wife, and one steerage.
ADMIRAL ATTACKS
NAVY DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON, July 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Assistant Secretary of
the Navy Roosevelt announced today
that Admiral Decker’s recent attack
on Secretary Daniels and himself prob
ably would be passed over as “not
worth bothering about,” and no disci
plinary action taken.
SANDY HOOK, July 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—At 11:30 a fitful three
knot wind was blowing and the regatta
committee decided to postpone the
second of the America’s cup races
until later in the day.
At 1:06 the committee hoisted the
signal for a triangular course of 30
miles, 10 miles to each leg.
The-racers started at 1:45, the Res
olute leading.
At 3:25 the Resolute led by a quar
ter of a mile. The wind was freshen
ing and the defender was clearly out
doing the challenger. She was riding
higher and sailing on her very edge
in the increasing wind.
SIDELIGHTS ON PREVIOUS
ATTEMPTS TO LIFT CUP
NEW YORK, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—The yacht races which com
menced Thursday off Sandy Hook are
the first in 17 years for the America’s
cup. It may be interesting both to
yachtsmen and to a great many who
are not acquainted with this form of
i sports to read a fed facts in connec
tion with his historic yachting trophy.
To begin with the America’s cup at
first was not an international trophy.
In fact it had no significance other
than being a prize offered by the
Royal Yacht Squadron for a race
around the Isle of Wight, England,
which was open to all nations. In
August, 1851, the schooner yacht
America, owned by Commodore John
L. Stevens and four other members of
the New York Yacht Club, won this
race and the cup became their prop
erty. Six years later, Commodore
Stevens and his associates conveyed
the prize to the New York Yacht Club
in trust as a perpetual international
trophy which has since been known as
i the America’s cup, taking its name
from the schooner yacht which won it
in British waters.
The first race for the America’s cup,
as an international prize, was held on
August 8, 1870, over the regular course
of the New York Yacht Club in New
York’s lower harbor. The challenging
boat was Cambria, owned by James
Ashbury of the Royal Yacht Squadron,
England, and the cup was defended by
practically the whole fleet of the New
York Yacht Club. That, however, was
j the only race in which the challenger
! ever had to sail against a fleet and
| the only contest in which the issue
| was decided by a single race. Cam
bria. by the way, finished tenth in that
event while the old America finished
fourth, the race being won by Magic,
the yacht Idler finishing second.
Previous to the present races, in all
there have been twelve contests for
the cup, in the second of which Mr.
Ashbury challenged with the schooner
Livonia and the New York Yacht Club
agreed to defend the trophy with only
one boat in the race. The 1871 contest
was the best four out of seven races.
Livonia won a single race, owing to
the steering gear of the defender
Columbia breaking down. Outside of
the Shamrock IV’s victory Thursday,
only twice since that day, October 19,
1871, has a challenging yacht crossed
the finish line ahead of the defending
boat. On September 10, 1895, Valkyrie
III, after following the defender, fin
ished 1 minutes and 16 seconds ahead
of the American boat, and on October
4, 1901, the Shamrock II finished two
seconds ahead of the Columbia but
lost to the defender by virtue of con
ceding 42 seconds times allowance.
In the races of 1876, 1881, 1885, 1886
and 1887, the contests were decided on
the basis of the besf two out of three
races. From 1893 to the last race in
1903 the agreement was for the best
three out of five races.
On only four occasions has one of
the competing yachts for the Amer
ica’s cup failed to finish. In the last
race of the 1895 contest, Valkyrie III
withdrew immediately after crossing
the starting line. On October 17, 1899,
the Shamrock lost her topmast and
withdrew in the second race of that
year, and on September 3, 1903, the
Shamrock III did not finish in the final
race of the series as she was already
beaten and had nothing to gain by con
tinuing. On Thursday last the Reso
lute was forced to withdraw after the
accident to her halyards.
Just once in the history of the cup
races has a competing yacht been dis
qualified. This was in the second
race of the series of 1895 when Lord
Dunraven’s Valkyrie III was disqual
ified for fouling the Defender.
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DENIES HE HANDLED
ANY PALMER MONEY
ST. LOUIS, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—Edward H. Goltra, Demo
cratic national committee, today flatly
denied having handled any of Attor
ney General Palmer’s funds, and said
he did not know whether any Palnjer
money was spent in Missouri.
LIBERTY PARTY IS
NOW TO BE [INCHED
CHICAGO, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—Allen McCurmy, a forty-eight
committee leader, and Judge Arthur
Fray of Nebraska, annd other bolting
forty-eighters, have launched the Lib
erty party.
BIG RECEPTION IS
TENDERED ROOSEVELT
WASHINGTON, July 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Amid the blaring of
navy bands and cheering from em
ployees, Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Roosevelt returned to Washing
ton today and was given a formal wel
come. He made a brief address, pledg
ing a continuation of his friendship for
the laboring men.
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FRENCH ARE MOVING
TO ALLEPE DAMASCUS
LONDON, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—The Seventeenth French divi
sion has been the operation of moving
to Aleppe Damascus, according to a
report to the Times.
COX PLEDGES
SUPPORT FOR
S CAUSE WO N
I —
COLUMBUS. O., July 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—“I give without reser
vation the assurance that my time,
strength and influence will be dedi
cated to your case with the view of
procuring favorable action by the Ten
nessee legislature,” Governor Cox told
delegates from the National Women’s
party.
Suffrage leaders later declared
the women’s vote of the country will
go to the party securing ratification of
the suffrage amendment by the thirty
sixth state.
STOCKTON, Cal., July 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The possibility of Jap
anese assimilation into the American
population was argued before the con
gressional committee here today.
“America is the melting pot, and we
are ready to be melted,” declared Yos
uzuki, president of the Stockton Jap
anese Association.
W. R. Jacobs, a lawryer, said that
95 per cent of the California popula
j tion would vote against inter marriage.
STILL DEMAND FOR A
REAL NEW PARTY, ONE
OF THE BOLTERS SAYS
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CHICAGO. July 17 (by Associated
Press).—James Hopkins, chairman of
the committee of forty-eight, issued a
statement today attacking the new
Farmer Labor party and announcing
that there was still a demand “for
a real new party.” He said the pur
pose to meet in common convention
in Chicago had been obliterated by the
few labor leaders who dominated the
actions of the meeting.
CAMPS KEARNEY AND
DODGE ABANDONED
WASHINGTON, July 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The war department
today issued orders for the abandon
ment of Camps Kearney, California,
and Dodge, Iowa. The Fourth divi
sion at Camp Dodge is ordered to
Camp Lewis, Wash.
DECISION OF RAILWAY
BOARD AFFECTS MANY
CHICAGO, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—Only 2,500 employes of the
American Railway Express Company
will be affected by the decision next
Tuesday of the railway board. The
railroad clerks’ (headquarters an
nounced today that tliese will include
blacksmiths, machinists, electrical
workers and apprentice helpers.
SISLER STILL LEADS
AMERICAN BATTERS
CHICAGO, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—Sisler of St. Louis leads the
American league batters with .404,
“Babe” Ruth being second with .382.
Ruth made his 29th home-run this
week, equalling last year’s record for
the entire season. Hornsby of St..
Louis leads the National league slug
gers with a percentage of .360.
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ANOTHER QUAKE
IN LOS ANGELES
DURING NIGHT
.—
LOS ANGELES, July 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Another sharp earth
quake was felt here at 6:30 o’clock last
evening, but no damage was reported.
Several people were injured in the
quakes yesterday afternoon, but none
seriously. People flocked into vacant
lots and street intersections. Hospi
tals in the big department stores were
overflowing with fainting and hysteri
cal women shoppers.
Cracks in the fronts of a few build
ings were reported after the second
and third quakes, and one water main
was broken in the business district.
Mayor Snyder asked the Associated
Press to make it clear the city and
its citizens suffered no material dam
age through the earthquakes.
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THE MOSLEMS
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 17 (by J *
sociated Press). — Afghanistan is
claiming to be the greatest Moslem
country and Emir is working to suc
ceed the sultan of Turkey as^ com
mander of the faithful Moslems, ac
cording to rumers reaching here from
Angora, where a series of pan-Islamic
conferences have been in session for
several months. Syria, Afghanistan,
Turkey, Arabia, India, Persia, Azer
Bai Jan, Crimea. Egypt and Tripoli
are participating in an effort to unify
the Moslems of the world.
GERMANS ACCEDE TO
ALLIES’ COAL DEMAND
SPA, July 17 (by Associated Press).
—The Germans signed the agreement
for the delivery of 2,000,000 tons a
month, as demanded by the allies, last
evening.
JAPSDISCLAIM
INTERFERENCE
K FIGHTING
PEKING, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—Fighting between troops and
rival factions occurred Friday thirty
miles south of Peking. A number of
the wounded arrived here today. The
city is quiet but wire and rail com
munication to Tientsin is interrupted.
Mediators failed in an effort to recon
cile the contending parties.
AMERICANS SENT TO PEKING
TIENTSIN, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—The foreign military com
manders today dispatched a train with
American, Japanese and French de
tachments at Yang Tsun to Peking to
investigate the situation caused by
hostilities between Manfu and Chi Li
parties. The Japanese, it is said, are
anxious to occupy the railway and
save Anfun troops from attack by
Chi Li and Manchurian armies. Other
foreign military heads failed to agree
with the Japanese.
DENY JAPANESE INTERFERENCE
TOKIO, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—The foreign office denies that
Japanese are interfering in the pres
ent Chinese troubles, saying they are
strictly neutral.
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