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4." W$ The Climate We're Telling The World Come and Enjoy It' 4 1 VOL. IX, No. iWT GRAND PAHA, JOSEPiflNB OOUNTT, OREGON, ' HATl'RIMY, AUGUST 80, 1010. WHOEE NUMBER 2758 Pilli I - -... ft REHABILITATION iTRAINING FOR DO SOLDIERS f '1 I- MH.lllLKD MKS SCATTERED OVER IT", 'tXHNTRY WITIJOIT KNOW. ' I MilHJK OK PRIVILEGE . 1 . - smm M APPROVEO . Training Ujr Expert U Given In litOit Different Mnea of Commercial Activity Washington. D. C, August 30. liana to more than double tba nuni ' bar of- discharged soldiers, sailors - ud marines receiving rehabilitation training were announced by tba fed- rral board of vocational education. Tba increase will be mad at tba fall opening of schools and .colleges. - Morf than aaven thousand mon are now receiving training. "Thara have been delays In carry- lag out tbe work of vocational re t babllltatlon," aaid tbe board's state i wept, "but most of tbnm have boon duo (o cause which were beyond the control of the board and wtilob It hai made unceasing erfort to remove. 'tdVarly aU niontba elapsed after Uie passage of tbe rehabilitation act Ware tbe axenu of the federal board were admitted to the military anV navy hospitals.. This exclusion wn a necessary war measure, but ' during this period,-as well as during --tp the' II months which elapsed be VJ tween our entering the wsr and June v 27. 1018, when the art became law. discharged and scattered all' over Abe United 8laoa without any know I lodgo of their rights under tbe law. ' Attoxothor, mora than a year and ' half of precious time was lost. "Under tha terms of the rehahlli- tatlon art'tho federal board could i'put no dlsablpd man In training un ' til after he was declared compensa ' bio by the war rink insurance, bu "reau. The amendment curing this ' difficult and allowing prompt ac ' tlon by the federal board did not be- como a law until July It, 1919. "Tho 'board has made excel Ion t progress, for on August 1, It had es tablished contact with 130,000 of 'tha 109,000 men mistered, had " . surveyed neerly 108,000 and had approved over 12.000 canes for train ing and had put 7,192 men In train i'lng. . "Those men, aa of July 26, were In 449 public and private secondary 'schools. In 159 Institutions of col lege grade and In 363 Industrial and other plant. They are being train ed for 1,863. different lines of ac tivity and, by utilising existing 'means of training other than croat- - Ing new schools for rehabilitation, the men are being better trained and millions of dollars saved to the , Vnltcd States. Since legislation giving the board a free hand did . not pass until July, when inoBt of the vchooU and colleges closed, the full 'measure of training activity cannot " lie reached until tha latter part of Bcptomber. M that time -the pres ent number will be much more than doubled." RECEPTION AND BASKET 7 Sunday, September 7,, there will foe hold at Riverside Park a recep tion for the returned soldiers, sail ors and marines of Josephine coun ty, under the auspices of the Hed Cross. . A basket dinner will be served at 1 o'clock, and each family Is expected to bring enough, extra food for one soldier or sailor. There will be a program. in the afternoon, follwed by a cmmunlty sing. Swim ming will be one feature of the day, nd there will be "free bathing . for nil men who have been In the service, 40,000 IIS TO 4 r MimIktuI)' KquliNMl Army is AM'iiib. Ittd to March Into lluoslan Trrltory - Paris, August 10. iA tuodernly equipped German army of 40,000 men la assembled In (Lithuania pre paring to march Iqlo Rus sia . under a . pretense of try ing to aid Admiral Kolcbak, ad vice say. Tha Oermans talk freely of a coming understanding between Oermany, Russia and Japan. Tha real commander of tha atmy la aald to be tha German general. Von der Molts, under the ostensible lead ership of a Russian general. IS TAKEN IN ALASKA Portland. Aug. i 30. Clarence Johnaon, Indicted for the murder of Mrs. Kunlce Freeman, his benefac tress, here three weeks ago, bss been captured at Noma, Alaska, and has confessed to tba murder, ac cording to the police. Johnson waa an ex-eonvlct of San Quentln, out on parole. I Medtord. Ore., Aug. 29. Tha body of an uuldentlflod man waa found In a dump of underbrush near Sterling a' mining village 16 miles from here. die had been murdered, and his body crudoJy covered with earth and leaves by bla slayer or slayers. No motive Is yet known. (Decomposition had sot in, block Ing the work of Identification. Tha stench attracted the attention of a prospector, who investigated and dlncovered the body, parts of which were protruding. Wild beasts had eaten awaythe feet. The man bad been dead about a month. The cor oner, sheriff and prosecutor have gone to Sterling to Investigate. As tar as known, no one la missing from this section. - PORTLAND SEPT. 1 7TH Aboard Dreadnought New York, at Soa, Aug. 80. Secretary Daniels leaves Seattle for Portland by train September 17; will make the trip down the Columbia to Astoria the 18th and will leave for Chicago the evening of the 19th. STREET FIGHTING IN T London, Aug. 80. There has been severe fighting In, the Streets . and public squares of Kronstadt, the bolshevlkl naval base near Petrograd, according to late dispatches. Allied airmen reported seeing 'bodies lying In the streets. ; El SHIP CAST ON BEACH Lorlent, France, .(Aug. 80. The coaat pf Brittany waa strewn with wreckage during a' severe storm now abating. A life boat and wreckage, apparently from an American mer chant ship, vaa washed ashore. The name could not be dlschlpered. A I RUSSIANS LEA DEFENDS E JIKI'IUWVTATIVB TELEGRAPHS SUXORITV RKI'OItT TO SEC ROTARY RAKE11 RYAN CRITICISM UNJUST Sana No Rran to Critic! h Motives of Men Salvaging the Spruce . Properties Portland, Aug. 30. In a minority report telegraphed to Secretary Bak er today, Representative Lea of Cal ifornia, democrat, a member of the spruce Investigation committee, took Issue with tha majority report made by republicans Thursday and defend ed tbe action of the spruce corpor ation in connection with the build Ing of tha Pleasant Creek railroad and sawmills In northwestern Wash- Inton. Representative Lea declared that he believed tha criticism of John D. Ryan, former assistant .secretary of war In charge of aircraft pro duction, not Justified. Representative Lea called atten tion to "Inaccuracies" in the major ity report and aald ha bettered bis collea'guea acted prematurely In passing Judgment. He saw no rea son to question the good Judgment and motives of tbe men now salvag ing spruce properties. GOMPEIS TRY8 TO SETTLE - STEEL WORKERS' TROUBLES Washington, P. C. August 30. Labor Leader Gorapers, It la said la trying to settle the steel work era' controversy. Ha hopes tha nec essity of a strike will be averted. WANT PORT OP PORT ORFORO WELIj ESTABLISHED OR QUIT Salem, Aug. 80. (Attorney John Goes of Marshfield, reresentlng per sons objecting to the organisation of a port at Port Orfdrd, asked. Gover nor Olcott to Institute proceedings to either have the port abolished or firmly established. ACTION SPRUC CORPORATION How The Courier Will Publish Pictures of European Events The Next Day After They Happen Th lplshtiian Telegraphed picture to :ue Courier after September lit, will t,ot pictures from Europe as uull as from different parte of the United States. The European service, how ever, will not Te established until after January 1st. The Courier will bIbo be the only paper in Southern Oregon to get foreign telegraphed pictures. - . It may be interesting to know bow these pictures will reach us all the way from Europe. ' Suppose a pic ture is to toe sent from Paris. The photograph Is first enlarged to about four times Its normal slse and Is then placed Hat on an apparatus that translatts every light and shade, ev ery line, every necessary detail into a peculiar telegram that reads like this:- Magva mfgap mjeup iqldga qkolq qqdaa' qubxa qtbva qtbmp qqbbq qxgp spuaq saeqq tdalq , tjajq tlakq tqanip tsavq esbeq' tmbla tubus tubwq. . " . v ' ' Thai; is part of a picture of a man making a speech. It Is not a code at all, as some people may .think. The arbitrary divisions of five letters each era not words. They express no thoughts; have no meaning. In fact, an expert at the system could read them all day without having the slightest idea of the nature of the picture; ' he would not even ' know whether the photograph was of an airplane or a' beautiful girl. SERVICE MEN TO IHWT OK AMERICAN LEGION TO IIK PERFrXTED NEXT Ti KS , - AY EVKXIXU 100 PER CENT- AMERICANISM lltlM Mumbers to Allotment, lion udcn. Travel Pay, Etc, and Secure Rack Pay . I .A meeting of ex-service men will be held at the chamber of com mere rooms In Grants Pass Tuesday eve ning, September- 2, at 8 o'clock for the purpose of perfecting the organi zation of a post of the American Leg lob. ' ' It Is proposed at that time to elect permanent officers, adopt con stitution and by-laws, and to get the post In working order so that the local organization can be ' of some real help to the ax-service men. Attorney J. N. Johnston returned this morning from a several days' trip to Portland. While there, he vis ited tbe headquarters of the Ameri can Legion. Mr. Johnston says the Legion is very active and doing good work. They maintain an employ ment service that is giving better service than any of the other employ ment agencies. When an ex-service man makes application for work a questionnaire Is filled ont ahowlng Jtist what kind of work be is fitted for and ha ia sent to work where ha can make good, thus bank olerka are not sent to harvest fields or min ers to clerk in stores. Tha American Legion, though young, Is already having a wide In fluence In this country, and the principles of the organization are be ing carried out. It Is not in any way a military organisation and there la no obligation on the part of Its members that would bind them to any military duty. No class es or ranks are known, tbe private has as much voice in the Legion as a major. - The Legion -aot only 'advocates patriotism and 100 per cent Ameri canism, but expects to and is now (Continued on Page 2) In telegraphing a picture from Paris, a queer telegram like this would 'be made mechanically by the machine from the original .picture, and it would be hurriedly telegraphed to a cable office, from whence it would be sent by cable to New York City and wired to all the one centers of the Lelshman Telegraphed Picture Serv ice, which are scattered all over the United States, so, that all papers re ceiving the service are 'within a few hours of a sone center. Here re productions are made and rushed out for publication, reaching all sub scribers in time for the next edition of their papers. ' It seems rather .unbelievable at first, tout pictures can be received from Europe much quicker than from point in. the United States. The rea son lies In the difference In time. A picture leaving Paris or London in the afternoon ' 'will reach New York In the morning and can be tel egraphed to (Portland, the tone center for tha Courier, Iby noon. Jt talces only a few hours then tor the finish ed picture to get to us, Including the time required for the receiving appar atus to be operated according to the peculiar iphotogram to produce the original likeness again, the time re quired tor making the cuts, etc, and for the first train to bring the telephotograph to the Courier for our next issue after the date of hap COMPLETE ORGANIZATION pening. RAILR ST SfiFN VI la I 1 wffnmtmtr i ii a r i 1 1 litbuiilllb UKK Steam Road Workers. Vote to Discon tinue tha Big Strike Trains ' Now Running Los Angeles, Aug. 30. Practically all striking steam road engineers, ya'rdmen and other employes are re porting back to work following a vote last night to discontinue tba strike. Tha first passenger trains since the opening of tha strike have ben aent out. It wlli u soma time, however, before the confusion abates. Los Angeles, Aug. JO. Police had to restore order at the railroad gen eral ticket office when hundreds of patrons struggled for tickets. Strik ers returned to work without losing any ot their rights. AUSTRIA GIVEN FIVE T Paris, Aug. 30. The supreme council is to hand. the peace treaty with Austria to the Austrian dele gation next Tuesday. 'Five days will be given the Austrian to sign tha treaty. ARMY GAS MASKS NOW Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 30. 'Army gas masks will not be abandoned by the Buffalo fire department. At the first fire In which they were used here firemen wearing them were overcome while others without masks were able to stand the smoke. It was declared at that time that masks were useless as fire department equipment. Fire Chief Murphy refused to ac cept this s a conclusive trial and since then, he says, the masks have been used with signal success. - "lAt tbe recent fire at the Cudahy Packing plant where the emoke was very dense, men wearing masks pen etrated to all parts of the building. and suffered no ill efects," Chief Murphy said. "The army mask has come to stay In the "Buffalo depart ment." RETURN FROM SIBERIA Vladivostok, Aug. 30. The Amer ican transport Thomas with 600 re placement troops, has arrived here. The Thomas will sail soon with 540 American .soldiers for San Fran cisco. This is the first large de tachment to return to America. " GERMAN IMMIGRANTS ARRITIXG IV MEXICO Mexico City, Aug. SO. Two nun dred and forty German immigrants arrived on a Spanish steamer at Vera Crux on i Aug. 10, their destination be ing agricultural lands in Chiapas, ac cording to reports from the Vera Cruil correspondents of the Mexico City papers. OWEN SAYS LODGE IS Washington, iT. C, August 30. Replying to Senator Lodge's argu ments against the unreserved ratiti cation of the peace treaty. Senator Owen ot Oklahoma', democrat, aald Senator Lodge Is blinded by a par tisanship distrust of popular tnstitu tlons. He said that Lodge really believes in the ruleof the few ovw the many, WILL IT W E REFVSE9 TO TESTIFY IX COS. GRE88IO.V AIi COST OP WAR INVESTIGATION , Rflireoentative Bland Says "Indiffer ence and Contempt ' is Shown . By War Department Paris, Aug. 3. General Pershinc has refused to testify before the sub committee of three of the congress ional, committee on the expenditures of the war department, which has been conducting an investigation in France. General Pershlg'a refusal caused the Issuance of a! Joint state ment .by Representative Royal C. Johnson and Oscar B. Bland, express ing regret that there should be con flict between the military and eirll authorities of tba government. In a epa'rate statement Representative Bland declared the General's action of "indifference and contempt was shown during tha entire war, by tha war department toward tha wishes of tho people and their representatives. TES RiSH TRADE INTEREST Dublin, Aug. 30. The Cork Indus- cided to send a commission to tha trial Development Association has de- United States to promote Irish trade interests there, and Irish manufactur ers and other buyers or sellors In tha American market are showing keen interest in the enterprise. In this connection the rerjorts .of five Irish banks are made public. They show that the amounts they bold on deposit and credit account total 9,000.000 pounds, being an increase of nearly 25,000,000 pounds over last year. It is estimated that when the results of tha Royal Bank and ot the three Belfast banks are known and added to the total Irish bank deposits will be seen to be about 150,000,000 pounds. The project of making Galway a great trans-Atlantic port has been revived. The scheme proposed would cost 2,000,000 pounds ot which par-. ties interested would put up seven hunderd thousand and ask the gov ernment to supply the balance. A deputation of the government baa been arranged, ROBBERY OF MERLIN STORE NETS BUT $7 The general store of D. W. Mit chell at Merlin was broken into early this morning and robbed of about $7 In small change. The thief gain ed admittance by prylnz ooen a door. The safe door was unlocked but the locked drawers were broken into and the contents scattered. Sheriff Lewis was on the scene early this morning and was able to iouow tne robber's tracks for about 200 yards where they were obliterat ed in the loose gravel of the S. P. railroad tracks. SENATE PREPARES WELCOME . FOR GENERAL PERSHING Washlgton. D. C, August SO. Without debate, the senate unani mously adopted a Joint resolution providing for the appointment of a committee toi arrange for a formal welcome by congress to General Per Mng upon his return to the United 0 OH 1(1 .! i States. . " ..... ' : .. r .IN -