The Polk County post., March 21, 1919, Image 2

RAILR OADS TO G E T
OF CURRENT WEEK
M ONEY
Needed Funds Assured by Director-
General Hines.
Washington, D. C.—Means of com-
pensating equipment companies for
locomotives, cars and,other materials
Brief Resume Most important furnished the railroad administration
were provided Saturday by a ruling of
Daily News Items.
the federal reserve board that federal
reserve banks might properly redis­
count for their member banks drafts
drawn by the companies on the direct­
or-general of railroads and acceptable
to him. Such drafts could not have a
maturity of more than 90 days and
Events of Noted People, Governments would be rediscounted at the prevail­
ing rates of discount for trade accept­
and Pacific Northwest and Other
ances.
Things Worth Knowing.
After a conference with representa­
tives of the war finance corporation,
the reserve board, the advisory fi­
The first reinforced concrete freight nance committee of the railroad ad­
car ever built is delivered to the Illi­ ministration and the equipment com-
nois Central railroad for operafion in [ p a n j eSi Railroad Director Hines an
its coal service.
nounced that he was considering giv-
The budget commission of the i ing the companies permission to issue
French chamber of deputies has de- drafts or acceptances on^ him for
cided to introduce a civil budget oT amounts due on equipment. The ac-
$520,000,000 for the first three months ' ceptances would bear Interest at a
rate yet to be determined.
of 1919.
“In view of the ruling of the federal
The senate resolution asking the reserve board, making this paper eli­
peace conference to grant Ireland the gible for discount," said Mr. Hines,
right of self-dotermination was adopt­ “the director-general today assured
ed by the house of representatives of the representatives of equipment com­
the Colorado legislature Tuesday.
panies of his belief that the way ap-
JAPANESE ATTACK JAPANESE BLAMED
E
IN TIEN TSIN RIOTS
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COMPILED
FOR
YOU
U. S. Corean Consul, Seeking Americans and Orientals Clash
Apology, Arrested.
in Theater.
FREEDOM MOVE GAINS SITUATION IS T E N S E
Children Beaten and Aged Men Ejected Report to State Department Indicates
from Homea-Soldiers Close
Regulars Were Confused With
Churches.
Yankee Marines.
STA TE N E W S
IN B R IE F.
Í CHILD MUST SLEEP
IF IT IS TO GROW
Extradition for Frederick Parks,
wanted In California on an Embezzle­
ment charge, was granted by Governor
Oicott last week. It is alleged Parks
embezzled $65 while employed in con­
nection with the Sunset Magazine. f
Going to Bed on Time Best Way
to Insure Health.
Captain James P. Shaw of Jdilwau- ]
kie is appointed by the board of con­
trol as commandant of the soldiers’
home at Roseburg to succeed Com- i
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mandant Markee, whose resignation I
as head of the home was received last
of Repose Said to Be Part I > Re-
week.
sponsible for Overflowing
James F. Stuart addressed a meet­
Asylums for Insane
ing of the Heppner commercial club
last wfcek in the interest of the Oregon
state chamber of commerce. At the
( P r e p a r e d b y O reg o n A g r ic u ltu ra l C o lleg e)
close of the address Morrow county’s
“How many hours of sleep did your
total of membership attendance fees
child
have last night?” asks Mrs. Sara
were fully pledged.
Word has been received by his w ife! Prentiss, instructor in mothercratt in
at Adams, of the death of Clark! the school of home economics.
Maxey, former Umatilla county farm­
Mrs. Prentiss' says that the home
er. Word that he had been wonnded economic girls are learning that plen­
on September 29 came in a note on
the back of one of Mr. Maxey’s letters ty of good refreshing sleep is as es­
sential to the child’s development as
which was returned from France.
«
A. B. Chadbourne, who for the past right food, fresh air and sunshino.
sixteen years has been In the confec­ They are told that the mother can
tionery business at Drain, has sold insure a fine physique and healthy,
out to C. G. Peebler of Shedd. Mr. active brain more easily by seeing
and Mrs. Chadbourne have been active
in lodge circles. Mrs. Chadbourne has that he gets to bed on time than in
been chairman of the Red Cross since any other way.
its organization.
In sleep, which is limited to the
In communications sent out last higher forms of life, the body stores
week by Secretary of State Olcctt, energy for use in activity. Also body
members of the committees that are tissues are repaired ancj growth pro­
to prepare and file arguments in con- moted, nerves revivified and nervous
nectlpn with the various measures control favored.
The child’s brain increases in size
submitted to the people at the special
election of June 3 are notified of their two and a half times in the first year,
and continues to grow more rapidly
duties in that respect.
during
infancy and childhood than at
Simon A. Simonson, Deschutes coun­
ty’s only representative in the ranks any later period. Knowing this, every
of the 65th artillery, returned to Bend mother will appreciate the importance
last week, after 15 months in the of providing conditions most favorable
service. He was unwounded, but his to its normal growth.
“Why,” she asks, “are there more
discharge showed that he had seen
action at St. Mihiel, the Argonne, Pon- patients in the insane asylums than
students -in the colleges and univer­
tamousson and Verdun.
sities of the United States? Partly
Commercial and farming interests
because children do not get enough
of Deschutes county are lined up in
sleep to make them mentally stable.”
support of a bond issue to the fu ll.
The hours of sleep required out of
amount of the 2 per cent state limit |
each 24 by children at different ages
as a means of providing co-operation
are as follows:
with the state highway commission in
First month, 22; second and third,
the construction of the proposed The
20 to 22 ; sixth, 6 afternoon to 6 morn­
Dalles-California highway.
ing, with 2 -hour nap in forenoon and
Astoria bank statements published afternoon; one year, same except 1 -
last week show that the four banks hour naps; two years, morning nap
and postal savings had deposits at the j given up, afternoon nap continued up
close of business, March 4, amounting to seven or eight years; four years,
to an aggregate total of $6,910,729.26. 15 to 16; four and a half;'14; five and
This represents an increase of nearly a half, 13; seven, 12%; ten, 12; eleven,
$130,000 Bince December 31, 1918, |H%; after sixteen, at least 9.
when deposits aggregated $6,781,034.08.
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HOURS REQUIRED VARY
Pekin. — An American missionary
Pekin.—While^ early reports from
who has just returned from Corea de­ Tien Tsin suggested that American
scribes the independence movement marines were to blame for the recent
there as the most wonderful passive
disorders there, later reports would
resistance movement in history.
The missionaries were taken by sur­ seem to show that the Japanese were
prise when the movement began, but also at fault.
after realizing that their churches had
It is claimed that Japanese military
been closed by order of the police and guards entered the French concession
that most of their pastors were in jail,
and there seized two Americans, and
they concluded that the time had come
to break the silence regarding the bru­ when American officials inquired of
talities witnessed in the last decade. the Japanese police authorities if any
They had seen children beaten, old Americans were being detained they
men ejected from their houses and were given a negative answer, accord­
About 16,000,000 pounds of wool, pears open to care for the situation in women struck with swords, and they ing to a report. Later the American
representing a part of the surplus such, a way as to protect the equip- could not keep quiet for humanity's
stocks held by the war department, ment'companies and thus avoid any sake, whatever the cost to their mis­ officials found two Americans in a
police station, one of them lying al­
sionary work and themselves.
is offered for sale at Philadelphia, industrial disturbance.
They determined, said this mission­ most naked in the yard calling for
Another auction is to be held at Bos­ “The question of meeting obliga­
tions to railroad corporations for rent- ary daring an interview with the As­ water.
ton March 25 to 29.
sociated Press, that the truth should
„ Twenty-eight
. ,
i
a
has . not yet , been
The Japanese were induced to' send
dead, several score in- l due , ^
, , finally . deter-
. .
mined, but a conclusion is expected to be known. They appointed a commit­ the injured man to a hospital and an
Jured and property damage estimated
tee to proceed to Seoul and confer American consul refused to leave the
ut $ 2 , 000,000 was the result of torna­ be reached within a few days.”
with the American consul and present­ station until the other man, a corporal,
The
railroad
administration
has
an­
does which swept portions of Missis­
ed signed documents to the effect that had been released. This demand was
nounced
that
it
will
need
$183,681,965
sippi and Louisiana Sunday, reports
| to June 30 to meet amounts due equip­ two American women missionaries had finally granted. The American consul
from the two states showed.
ment companies on account of loco- been beaten by Japanese soldiers with was stoned by Japanese as he drove
Hundreds of homes, factories, mills motives and cars delivered or yet to guns and that other American mis­ away from the station, it is said. When
and lumber yards are flooded and thou- be delivered,
sionaries had been subjected to indig­ the marines entered the Japanese con­
sands of dollars' worth of property de-'
nities.
sulate they are reported to have at­
stroyed by the Oconto (Wis.) rijjer
The American consul is declared to tacked a visitor.
overflowing its banks. It is estimated
have said that if an apology was not
On Thursday evening American ma­
that 500 persons are homeless.
forthcoming within a week's time, rines who were entering a moving-
something would happen.
picture theater in the French conces­
United States Senator Miles Poin­
The American consul himself, the sion were attacked by a crowd of Jap­
dexter will make a speaking tour down
Washington, D. C. — Preliminary missionary said, had been arrested by anese armed with sticks. They man­
the Pacific coast after delivering an
address in Spokane early in April on plaps for the formation of. a national Japanese soldiers at Seofcl, but an in­ aged to enter the theater, the propri­
the league of nations, according to a non-partisan organization designed to teresting development was spoiled by etor of which telephoned for the
his companion—also an American— French police, who dispersed the Jap­
special dispatch from Washington.
keep the American people better in­ who asked the Japanese if they knew anese.
A new line of steamers from Port­ formed as to events at the peace con­ this man and informed them that he
The situation at Tien Tsin is said to
land, Or., to Honolulu and the South
ference and to oppose acceptance of was the American consul. The consul be tense. The matter has been re­
seas was declared a possibility by Dr.
ferred to the French legation here.
the constitution of the league of na­ was immediately released.
C. J. O'Day of Honolulu, formerly of
The Japanese charge the mission­
tions as now drawn were made at a
Portland, a^a luncheon a few days ago
Washington, D. C.—Colonel Theo­
conference Saturday between Senators aries with teaching the Coreans doc­
at the Pan-Pacific tourist bureau.
Reed of Missouri, democrat, and Bor- trines of liberty and personal right dore P. Kane, commanding the Ameri
It is reported among airmen that a ah 0f Idaho and Poindexter of Wash- Every Christian Corean was associa can legation marine guard at Pekin,
flight across the Atlantic ocean Is be (ngton, republicans, and George Whar- ted in the movement, the missionary reported Monday that marines were
ing attempted by a French lieutenant ton Pepper, a lawyer, of Philadelphia. added, because every Corean was in not involved in the disturbance at
named Fontan. He is reported to have
After the conference it was an­ it, Corean Christians and non-Chris­ Tien Tsin which the American minis­
Child Should Sleep Alone.
That John Erasmy of Bend has been
started from the French African port nounced that Henry Watterson, for­ tians being equally prepared to suffer ter is investigating. He said the trou­ adding to the variety of his daily bill
Frequently the mother finds it in-
of Dakar, Senegambia, for Pernam­ mer publisher of the Louisville Cour­ to advance the cause of their country. ble was between soldiers and Japan­ of fare by killing large numbers of convenient to give the child his after­
The visit of John J. Abbott of the ese, which accords with the assump­ robins for his larder, was the com- noon naP and excuses herself by say-
buco, Brazil, by way of the Capo Verde ier Journal, would be president of the
islands and the St. Paul rocks.
organization, with Mr. Pepper as di­ Continental & Commercial Trust & tion in official quarters here that mem­ plaint made in justice court by Deputy *n 6 , "Oh well, I’ll put him to bed an
Savings bank of Chicago, to Corea, led bers of the 15th regular infantry sta­ Game Warden W. O. Hadley, who hour earlier this evening and that-will
The Chinese government is alarmed recting supervisor. It was said that
Coreaas to believe that he was the tioned at Tien Tsin were confused charged Arasmy with violating the do Just as well.” .Experience teaches
many
senators
who
have
been
active
over a report from Petrograd relative
representative of the peace confer­ with marines in early accounts of the state law'prohibiting the killing of that the child is overtired by night and
in
opposition
to
approval
of
the
league
to formation of a Chinese working­
ence, and this accelerated the inde­ affair.
constitution
would
support
th.e
organ-
frequently his sleep is restless and
song birds.
men’s organization, with 60,000 mem
pendence movement.
The state department is awaiting
broken.
bers, for the object of carrying on rev-, Nation.
The fall wheat crop in the east end
further advices from Minister Rethsch
olutlonary propaganda and establish­ Senator Reed announced that a
of Washington county is making ex -1 The saying that one hour of sleeif-
before taking any step in regard to the cellent progress. On the ranches of ! before midnight is worth two after, is
i n g soviets in China. Inquiries are statement outlining the purposes pf E X P L O S IO N O F BOMB
report that the Japanese consulate
being made by the authorities as to the organization would be issued with­
Robert Hocken, A. A. Pike and George 1 for most children. Sldep from nine
K IL L S B A N K ER 'S W IF E was raided. The minister cabled that Davis
in
a
few
days.
One
purpose,
it
was
fall sown wheat is now from in,tbe evening until eight or nirie the
measures to check such activities.
Oakland, Cal.—Mrs. George Green he had sent First Secretary Spencer four to eight inches high. With a next morning is not so beneficial as
explained, would be the co-ordination
The lager beer brewers’ board of of various local bodies that have been wood, wife of the vice-president of the to Tien Tsin to report.
guarantee of $2.26 a bushel for the the same number of hours begun at
trade of New 'York, representing
, formed over the country in opposition Savings Union Bank & Trust company
1919 crop Washington county farmers seven or seven-thirty.
brewing concerns in New York and j
t|l0 ie a g Ue Present plans call for of San Francisco, was killed instantly
“Where should the child sleep?”
are optimistic.
New Jersey, announced I uesday that publishm ent of a speakers’ bureau by a bomb explosion Tuesday night at
Mrs. Prentiss inquires. “Always in a
In response to a call issued by the
on advice of counsel its members and the conducting of an extonsive the family home overlooking Lake
basket or crib alone, preferably in a
North Fork grange for a community
would resume at once the sale of beer campaign of publicity. Senators said Merritt in the residential district of
quiet, darkened room. Not in a cor-
meeting to discuss the matter of start-
containing 2 % per cent alcoholic con j tbo organ|zati0n would be supported the city.
,
. ..
. 1 ner of the room close to the mother’»
ing a co-operative fruit cannery on the . . .
.,
,
.
,
tent. This was forbidden by a ruling by voluntary contributions,
The police have announced that in­
Archangel.—Bolshevik forces made .
v -
bed, where there is not good circu
...
,
.
of the internal revenue department
suggestions were made at the con- vestigation has failed to disclose a determined attempt Friday to cut lower Siuslaw rivir, about 150 per- lation
of air. Dress him warmly, use
wliicli Interpreted President '\ ilson 8 , |erfnPe that representatives be sent whether the bomb was hurled at Mrs. the communications between the sons assembled last Saturday at the plenty of light weight woolen blan­
proclamation effective December 1 to Paris while the peace negotiations Greenwood or whether she picked it American and allied columns on the North Fork grange hall, a few miles kets, and open the windows wide.”
from Florence, and a great deal of
last.
are in progress but no agreement was up while walking about the garden. Dvina and Vaga rivers, but their at­
interest was manifested in the project.
Greenwood
was
ill
in
bed
at
his
home
tack
was
repulsed
with
heavy
losses.
W. B. Ayer Presents Cattle
A credit of $5,000,000 in favor of reached.
at the time. No one else was in the The enemy lost 57 dead and four pris­ The final details were consummated
A fine herd of 26 registered Guern-
Roumania was announced recently by
house except the servants.
Filipinos on Way to U. 8 .
oners. The allied casualties were one last Wednesday for the erection of a j sey dairy cattle has been given by W.
the treasury department. This in­
According to the police a letter de­ soldier wounded.
40-room apartment house at Astoria B. Ayer, former federal food admin-
creased Houmania's credits to $15,-
Monolulu—The special Filipino com-
to cost approximately $85,000. T h e! istrator for Oregon, to the dairy de­
000.000 and those for all the allies to mission seeking closer relations with manding $5000 and threatening to de­
stroy
his
home
with
dynamite
unless
structure
is to be of hollow tile, five partment of the college. The head of
Vladivostok.—American
troops
have
$8,841,657,000.
the United States has arrived here en
the
amount
was
paid
was
sent
to
stories
in
height and the project is the heard is Katonah’s Sequel's Mash-
begun
to
move
to
strategic
points
on
Jack nell of Fairbanks, Alaska, who ro,ltt ,0 Washington. It is understood
the Trans-Siberian railway west of to be a community affair, being fi-; er, who has the longest line of reg-
enlisted in the United States army at tbe Hirpose of the commission Is to Greenwood in January. 1918.
This letter, the police said, was Vladivostok to aid John F. Stevens nanced by the business and profession- j istered descendants of any Guernsey 1
the age of 15 and lays claim to being 1 |,rom'>le ,be cau9e
Filipino inde-
probably the youngest soldier in th e ! Pendent», but the spokesmen declined signed “C. C. of C." The initials, they and his staff of American railway men al men of the city. Practically all the j bull in America. Two other noted
pointed out, are similar to those af­ in the technical operation of the rail­ material used in the construction is to 1 bulls are Governor Gree and Osseo’s
army during the war, arrived in Se a statement on this point, saying that
fixed to threatening letters sent to way.
be "Oregon made.”
j Marterpiece. Among the cows are
at t ie last week with the 63d coast | M»nuel <i uelon- * member of the
Governor William D. Stephens before
The
first
contingent
is
now
at
Har-
Man?
¿calls
from
farmers
in
Des-!
such well-known animals as Little NelL
commission,
now
in
the
United
States,
artillery regiment. He is just hack
his residence in Sacramento was dy- bin. while the second will entrain chutes county for help on the ranches Maliett’s Sunbeam, Donnington’s Marie
was
the
only
one
authorized
to
from overseas.
«
uamited last year.
within a few days for Chita, the farth- in this section are being received at IV', and Donnington's Fawn V. The
talk.
The American government may not
The body of Mrs. Greenwood appar­ est point west to which the Americans Bend, and to aid in meeting the de- addition of the Guernsey herd balances
accept the 100,000 or more tons of
ently had been hurled 10 feet by the
111 be sent.
mand for labor of this kind the county up the college herds with the four
Yukon May Open Early,
Uerman shipping in Chilean waters,
It is proposed to place additional de- farm employment bureau is being re- major dairy breeds—Guernseys. Jer-
Seattle, Wash. — Travelers from explosion of the bomb. A brick wall'
allocated to It by the allied shipping
Alaska report that all indications point in the garden was marked by a deep tachments at Verkhnl Udinsk, Man- organized under the direction of R. A ., seys, Holsteins and Ayershirs. “The
commission. Chairman Hurley of the
< to an early break-up of ice in the indentation and was badly damaged. churian station, and Nokolsk. T he: Ward, formerly county agriculturist, value of this herd given to the people
shipping board said recently final ac­
Yukon river and that navigation may This led tho police to believe that It Ussuri branch American troops al- Returned soldiers, sailors and marines of Oregon through their college is
tion would depend upon both the con
open June 1. Freight is already mov­ was on or near the wall that the bomb ready are stationed at Spasske and will be given preference over other from $7500 to $10,000,” says L. W.
dttion of the grant and the ships.
Khabarovsk.
applicants, he states.
,King, of the dairy department.
ing from Seattle for lower La Barge exploded.
German propaganda in Egypt U via Skngway, where it tfill be trans­
The war savings drive is being con­
Army Property For Sale.
Lithuanians Fight to End.
Farmers Get Squirrel Poison.
ducted in Oregon as earnestly as in
blamed for recent disturbances at ferred to river boats and later be
taken
to
Iditarod
and
Fairbanks.
Paris.—Docks,
railroads,
warehouses
Stockholm.—A Lithuanian scout de- war time days. The keynote of the
The Benton County Farm Bureau
Cairo, which resulted in the deporta­
and barracks built by the American tachment of 18 men surrounded at campaign Is to save for one's personal has ordered 130 ounces of strychnine
tion of a number of political agitators.
Palestine Influx Curbed.
expeditionary forces, to the value of Jerge by 100 boisheviki. refused to interest The experience of European for this year's squirrel poison cam-
New Yo»k police, secret service men
New York.—Restriction of immigra­ $165,000.000 will be sold t(j France for
rrender and fought to the last, the countries warns America that her peo paign. The poison will be put up in
and immigration officials raided a tion Into Palestine to 50,000 a year the best figures the liquidation com­ Lithuanian press bureau announced pie should become more thrifty in or- bags and delivered through some cen­
building on East FJfteenth street early during the first period of development mission can obtain. The liquidation last week. Fifty
to he reirtented. The national, tral point in each community. Every
-e he
Saturday morning and arretted 198 of the new Jewish commonwealth set commission is negotiating for disposal were killed.
< --e-rrnen't V*x ten million dollars farmer is called upon to get his share
men and two women. Ten patrol up under British trusteeship, has been of various surplus properties belong­
The enemy, arc —I t u I lY - I .■v-ur In
¡p
a - savings stamps this ¡and pay cash for it. reports Geo. W.
wagons were required to take the pris decided upon by the inter allied Zion- ing to the expeditionary forces. Hun­ threw the Lithua" a:>s. many of th'-n. y ae I" O-«* r* a s. This will be ac- ; Kable, county agent. New legislation
oners to the criminal court's building. 1 1st conference in London, according to dreds of thousands of uniforms have still alive, into ore big gra>e. The eomnlished th ouch the organisation [ looking to community control of these
where they are being questioned. All cable advices to the Zionist organlza- been dyed, so they may serve other bodies were dug out ty their coos try of thousands of Thrift clubs consist-, destructive rodents in Oregon was
gre supposed to be radicals.
i tion of America.
armies, Belgian. Polish, etc.
I men next day.
ing of ten members and upwards.
I most welcome in Benton countv.
ORG AN IZE TO OPPOSE
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
B0LSHEVIK ATTACK
STOPPED BY A L L IE S