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X VOU IX, No. 109 GERMANYTO BE U 5 DAYS FOR SIGNING IIOHTII.ITIKK MAY UK ItFHI'.MKIt IK TIIKATY .NOT MUNKI AF. TKH it lAVK (JltAi: BELIEVED GERMANY Will SIGN II lilt ml urn lly KimIi Ihin lo flopping of Troop Transferring From Prance to Poland Paris, June 14 ll 1h reixirtoil that Germany will Iw given only two days to consider und reply to tli -allied riat ternia, whlrh will prob ably bo invented Monday. Throe days of grace would follow lief ore the armlHtk-e would lie eutipendnd, should the Germans refuas to sign. In the event the Oonnana do not .iKn, hoatllitle between Germany - and tlio allied iKiwor might be re eumed next Saturday. Tlin original plan to Rive Ormnny five days In which to sign changed. There may ibe some tteluy In pre senting tho treaty. Smaller nation want to consider It In plenary ae Ion. The head of tho great pow. era think (rcrniuny will accept. The lulMir covenant has been mod ified In aome respects. The 'Poles; are an Id to be consider liiK the promised ploblnclte In Silesia with wore favor. General pch'a ultimatum to Oer many waa no to the fact that Oer many atoped the utoveiuont of (Ion. ira nailers trooiw from France to Poland, whloh hnd been going on , for six weeks. Germany's ctlon l aid to lie due to the alleged fart that tho Pole intended to distribute aome men along the German fron tier. Content, June 14. An iillliiiatum demanding the Immediate continua tion , of the movement of Pollen troopi uaroHs Germany hna lNen sent to the German irovernment ibv Mar shal Pooh, according to dispatches from Spa. t MAY GIVE UP OFFICE Peking, June 14. Duo to differ ences created by the popular move ment against pro-Jaimnene 'members of the government, the cabinet baa 'resigned and Prealdent Hau Shir Chang has Intimated hta intention to quit office. DAREDEVIL ENGLISH WOMAN At the "hollilny flying" ill (Vickie wond, KiiKlimd, recently Mis Sylvu Borden ilemoiiNtrnled Mint women have twenty of nerve mid grit. Who went up In n Hundley-Page ulrplime mill dropped to eurth In a pnrni hute. I GOV. LISTER OF VASHINGTG1 DIE W Flnt Foreign Horn Man to IWoiimi tiovcrnor of the State of Wnhinictoii Heubtlo, Wah., June 14. Gover nor Mater died today. J Kritest lister roae from a' poet aa Taroimi Iron nnoudur to the office of governor of the elate of Waahlng ton. He waa elected governor In 1912 and 1910, Kmth time biting the only winning Demix rat on the atate ticket. (iovernor Mater wua lorn at Ha1 I fax, Knglaml, June K., 1870. Hei- orda ahow that he -wua the only for- elgn-tborn man to be elentod gover nor of Washington alnce U ibeeame a state. 0 ' Ait the age of 23 Meter waa elected to the Tayaia council. In 1897 Governor John It. Ilogera named Wm chairman of the Waahlngton late 1ord of control. When hto term expired tie esUUIIahed the Ma- tor Conntruotlon compujiy aj Ta no ma and 4bK in lumber and finished wood producta. At one time Meter ran for congreHa lint waa defeated. During the war Governor Lister took un aotlve band In the activ ities of the atitto council of defense Ho waa ajleo prominent In the na flonal organlwitlon of etale govern- ore. In Waahlngon he urgod econ omy In imbllc ajffaira. advocated ru ml credila and waa a aupiKwier of good roada. Governor Mater haa been described aa a very eotlve man with rugxod neea of mentait prncceaea. When he waa chairman of the atate board of control his frienda pointed out that he broke at custom bjr always refuwing to accent iaaaes from the railroads. Governor "Meter waa married on rVbruary 28, 1919, to iMias Alma Thornton of Tacoma. They have two children. Washington. June 14. So a not to Interfere, with the transportation of soUUera returning from France In ever Increasing niiDibera, Director General Hlnea ordered that railroad equipment for excuralon and recre ation imrposos ibe limited to the ab aolute imlnlmum. Among the per mlta cancelled waa one for siieclal cars to the Wlllard-Dempeey fight. GENERAL VILLA HAS I Kl Iaao, Tex., June 14. Doer eklne at tlO.fiOO a hide 1a the top price for these souvenirs of the hunt, yet it waa what an American man claimed to have -paid for two he has In his 'possession. He was captured 'by, FrcCnelttco Villa's men and ran somed for 121,000 in currency and merchandise. When he was liberat ed noair the border VHla 'presented him with the two deer hides 'he had skinned from the deer killed 'by 'himself the same morning, Baying these were In return for the ransom money paid. WILLAMETTE VALLEY CROPS ARE PROMISING Portland, June 14. Willamette valley grain crous are in good con dition, an la irrigated girain ,ln all flections of Oregon und conditions have Iboen generally favorable tor fruit, according to the weekly crop Bind weather summary Issued 'by the locttil weather 'bureau. The temper atnre, says the report, averaged a little above normal but there were sovoral cool nights during the past week, with frost in elevated dis tricts. . ' OnAW PAflg, JOBBPHIHB COUXTT, AIRPLANES TO DEHUD BE IN GRANTS GOES DIRECT PASS SUNDAY SACRAMENTO KIVK PltAMtf hl'KM) MUHT AT tXITTAGK OltOVK AXI) MAKE THIS t'lTV FIltST KTOP RULES FOR PARKING AUTOS Hi.T U Ul lie PreM nted WltU llogue I liver Trout and Served With Hot Coffee , t Aa announced in the Courier on Wednesday and Friday, the airplanes from .Mather Field will be In Grants I'tuw Bunduy. As yet there (haa been no definite hour set for their arriv al, but Inasmuch as they spnd the night at Cottaee Grove, which Is about 150 miles from this city, It is probable they will reach here about 11 a. tn., provided tbey leave Cottage Grove at 9, the usual st&tt Ing time. There are to be five ma chines. ' It haa (been arranged that locomo tive - hint lea will be blown about an hour 'before the planes are expected to arrive. The public is requested to observe the following rules before and during the flight of the alrplanea: Autos w ill line up on the east side of the field aa close to the fence as IKMwIble. On the west side automo biles are to line up four rods from the field Una. All autos should face the field. Both ends of the field nvuet be keit open. The imbUc, and especially chil dren, must be kept away from the planes X all times. Sheriff lwls has arranged to have a force of dep uties on the field to insist on proper parking and order. The Grants Pass chamber of com merce has arranged for hot coffee and sandwiches for the aviators and will present each of them with mess of fresh Rogue River trout, and will also send some to the gov ernor of California with the compli ments of Grants Pass end Southern Oregon The aviation field Is at the city limits north from "Lawn ridge ave nue. WHford Allen Here , Wllford lAHen of Salem, chairman of the state industrial accident com mission, and C. G. Elgin, one' of the auditors, were In Grants Pass for a few hours this afternoon. They were enrotite to Klamath Falls 'by au tomobile. Mr. Allen expeota to re turn to Grants Pass , Wednesday or Thursday and will meet his son, Wllford. student at Stanford. They will both send aday or two here. AMERICAN ...... ' .- V I 3 f f . w JL..yg&,t mm, VTM mmm. m.mt.,mm kmim -mmmp-- 'mmmmiimimmmi! B. 1 ..Jt l I J lull view of the American trnnsnllnntlc senplune, nnd lihotoamphs of her crewT left to right : .Commander Jiihii H. rowers, coinmnndliig ofilcer: Comtnander H. C. RtclmrdMon, pilot; Lieut. D. H. McCullough. pilot ; Lleuiennnt (.nimiuider It. A. Lavender, radio operator j Machinist U R. Moore, engineer; and Lieut. B. R. Rhodes. OKBOOX, HATIIUAY, JTXE Ht'KKIaS FHOM lOItTL.AM TO AM1AXV, HO MIliKH, IX HOIH ' ; A.VI 10 MIXITK8 GOV, FLIES TO COTTAGE GROVE One Gov't Plane to Make Flight to WahliiiiKtou Points and Home By Reno Portland, June 14. Five alrnlanea started back to Sacramento making stoi at Albany and Cottage Grove today, and at Grants Pass and Ash-! land Sunday. The big De Haviland plane start ed for Sacramento direct, leaving at 9:30 and hoping to arrive at 6:00 o'clock tonight. On plane left here to male a. flight to Tacoma, Seattle, Yellow stone Park, Ogden and lie no. Governor Olcott flew to Albany in one of the planes today. Albany. June 14. FIva a.lrnlai. arrived, one of them brlneina Gov-1 ernor OlcoU, who decided to con tinue the Qlgbt to Cottage Grove. The De Haviland iplane, en route to Sacramento, passed over the city at 11:10, flying the 80 miles between PorthOid and Albany in 'one hour and 10 minutes. . i Hough Family Returns A. C. Hough and family, who left Grants Pass a year ago for Seattle, have returned to this city, driving their oar, and accompanied by Miss Jessie Afasttn and Master Harland Shank of Portland, who will spend some weeks, here. The Houghs have moved into their home on West A street, but Mr. Hough has not yet decided upon an office location. Tl T St. Johns, June 14. The Vickers Vlmy 1)1 plane started on Its trans AthOitte flight this morning at 4:13. The Vlckers-Vlmy machine carried two men. Captain Jack Alcock, Britisher, pUot, and Lieutenant Ar thur Whltton Brown, American nav igator. This machine haa a wing spread of only 67 feet, is equipped with two 350-horse power Rolls 'Royce motors, and is said to be cap able of developing a speed of over 100 miles an hour. SEAPLANE NC-1 AND 14, 191 STRIKE EFFECT FELT III Itefiuul of Kttilroad Operators Piles , t'p Mcwuagea at the Relay Point Chicago, June 14. 'Leaders of the nation-wide strike or commercial telegraphers declared today thaC re ports have need received showing that heavy files of Western Union telegrams aje piling up at relay points, due to the refusal of rail road telegraphers to handle com mercial business. Portland, June 14. Telegraph business in Oregon felt the effects of the strike heavily today when the railroad telegraphers refused to handle commercial messages. Many messages had to be mailed to many towns from ihe nearest operating office. AUTO SPEED RECORD New York, June 14. Tom Milton made a new 10-mile automobile rec ord today of five minutes and 21 1-5 seconds in the first beat of the 110 mile race at the Sheepshead Bay speedway. HUN RULES HIS WIFE WITH AN IRON FIST London, June 14. Henry de Hal- aalle, author of a work on Germany, told an ajudience at Holburn that ''wife beating" la quite common among the German middle' classes and that the law of Prussia sanc tioned It. "I once stayed in the house of a Berlin merchant," said the speaker, "and one evening heard issuing from a room upstairs a woman's cries and he sound of blows. . Presently my host appeared and I asked him the cause of the commotion. ' "I have Just been giving my wife her Sunday thrashing,' he said. He added that he administered the pun ishment regularly every week end whether ehe deserved it or not ' "You must' never let your wife forget that you are iher lord and master,' declared the German, rub bing ill Is hands with evident satis faction." llath House Open Monday ' The bath house at the city park will be opened for the season on Monday afternoon, June 16. Mrs. Myers wHl be In charge. HER CREW Q Wwni n.mhhi Union s OREGON whom: xohjkr aoo-j TWO KILLED IN PORWiEN PLANE FALLS WAIXA WALLA RAXCHER LOSES LIFE IX PRIVATV. n'RTI a " I AITil'LAXK Plane Was Intended for I'ae Between Two Hntcliinsosl Ranches in f Rastern Washington Portland, June 14. W. B. Hutch inson, wealthy Walla Walla rancher. and Sergeant John Milkowekl, army mechanician of Sacramento, were killed last night when a plane own ed by Hutchinson fell. The machine was a private air plane driven by Hutchinson, in which Sergeant Milkpwskl was a passenger, and crashed into the con crete sidewalk of East 29th street following sensational fall of sev eral hundred feet. Hutchinson was a former army air service lieutenant. He bought the machine recenty in San Fran cisco. It .was one of the Canadian Cnrttss type. Ha shipped K to Portland and completed assembling t yesterday. It was his intention to drive It to Walla Walla to use for co mm imitation between his two ranches. ' ALL CAL. REPUBLICANS . i San Francisco, June 14. A con ference of all branches of the repub lican party accepted a resolution ask ing the republican - national conven tion to nominate Hiram Johnson for president, , 1 Miles City, Mont.. June 13. The thirsty residents of Moorehead re cently had he unique experience of being bombarded Iby quart bottles filled with whisky fcy he bootlegger whom they were trying to overlain on horseback and whose a'utomoblla stalled in the middle of Powder river while he wan endeavoring to cross It at a ford. Before the bootlegger learned that his pursuers were mere ly thirsty horsemen instead of dep uty sheriffs, he had thrown 28 quarts at them, ail of whloh went in to the rtver. A salvage party was organized and much diving was done until a large part of the liquor was rescued. T NO. 7 The regular annual school meet ing of School .District No. 7 will be held at the Junior High school building on 'Monday moraine at 10 o'olock for the purpose of nominat ing la director for three years to suc ceed George E. ILundburg. whose term of office expires. The election wHl ibe held in the same Piece in the afternoon, the .polls being open from z to 7 o'clock. This meeting Is of great import-1 ance and shold 'be attended by elec- tors of th district. Ordinarily the vote of the district at elections Is less tihan a dozen, when there should 'be several hundred. serg. mwski nmm AiUALSCHOO