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King Victor Emmanuel has confer
red on General Pershing the grand
cross of the military order of Savoy,
the highest Italian military honor.
MEXICANS HOLD
AVIATORS
Bandits Demand $15,000 Ransom for
Release o f Men.
Marfa, Tex.—A message from a for
mer Villa follower, now a member of
the bandit band, has been received at
the border threatening to kill the
American aviators if any evidences of
military movements to search for the
Americans were seen on the American
side of the border.
El Paso, Tex.—In an official state
ment issued at military headquarters
Sunday night and signed by Brigadier
General James B. Erwin, district com
mander, It was announced that Major
L. A. Walter, commander of the aero
unit at Fort Bliss, had received a mes
sage from Lieutenants Paul H. Davis
and Harold G. Peterson, saying they
had been captured by Mexicans and
were being held for $15,000 ransom,
which must be paid by August 18, ac
cording to the message.
Arrangements were being made here
to obtain $15,000 gold coin and to send
it to Marfa for the payment of the
ransom, as it is feared the men will
be killed by the bandits unless the
ransom is paid Immediately.
Lieutenant Peterson, the pilot of
the biplane which has been missing
since August 10, is 25 years old and
is from Hutchinson, Minn. Lieutenant
Davis is 23 years old and is from
Strathmore, Cal., but has relatives in
Berkeley, Cal.
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PRESIDENT PLEADS p STATE
IN BRIEF.
TOR LEAGUE PACT *■
Interpretations Welcomed if Not
in Formal Act.
Salem.—The Salem school board has
gone on record as the first in the
state to comply with the law passed
by the last legislature, providing for
part-time schools. Decision to this
effect was reached at the regular meet
ing of the board held here recently.
Salem.—Donations by Andrew Car
negie, who died last week, totaling
approximately $485,000, made possible
the erection of 23 public libraries in
Oregon, exclusive of Portland, accord
President Tells Committee He Expects ing to records in the state library
These donations are in addition to
Japan to Give Up Shantung-
$20,000 given to Pacific university at
Other Questions Clarified.
Forest Grove.
M EET AT W HITE HOUSE
Salem.—The statement of the Union
Oil company of California of sales of
motor vehicle fuel in Oregon during
the month of July, 1919, shows a total
of 650,426.50 gallons of gasoline and
86,809.50 gallons of distillate, on which
the tax of 1 cent per gallon of gaso
line and one-half cent on distillate
totals $5,938.31.
V A LLEY RED WHEAT NOT LOW
Kinney Uufairiy Classed as Red Walla,
Cheapest Grade.
(Prepared by Oregon Agricultural College)
Unless Willamette Valley farmers
unite in a protest to the federal bu
reau of markets, Washington, against
the classification of Kinney wheat as
red Walla, the lowest grade and cheap
est wheat, they will have to stand the
loss entailed by the present classifies
tion, points out G. R. Hyslop, pro
fessor of farm crops at the college
No other growers are interested, he
says, and the only hope of change is in
the concerted action of Kinney grow
ers.
A still greater error is the state
ment recently spread through the val
ley that all red wheats are to be put
into the red Walla class. There is not
such authorization by the federal grain
corporation, says H. M. Houser, Port
land member of the board.
“ No farmer or dealer should accept
a discount of five cents a bushel on
valley red wheats below the price fix
ed for the various grades of red
Walla," Professor Hyslop declares.
Some of the valley red wheat—Hus
ton, grass red fife, Minnesota 163 and
169, and preston—are hard red spring
and entitled to the prices prevailing
for these grades. Other valley red
wheats—such as big English, Jones
fife, and red chaffed Odessa—should
be in the soft red winter sub class,
All bring higher prices than red Walla.
HER TRADE PDLICY
Limitation of Imports to End
September 1st.
ADOPT
8-HOUR
DAY
Partial Government Control o f Coal Is
Scheduled — Joint Industrial
Council Projected.
Washington, D. C.—President Wil
London.—In a three hours' speech
son, interpreting the league of nations
In the house of commons in which he
covenant Tuesday for the senate for
dealt with Great Britain’s domestic
eign relations committee, declared it
affairs generally, Premier Lloyd
imposed no legal obligations for the
Reports from Budapest state that
use of American military force in pro
George Tuesday disclosed three im
the Roumanians have presented new
tecting the territory or Independence
portant decisions of the government.
of
any
other
nation.
armistice conditions to the Hungarian
Two of these had been widely discuss
But he added that the covenant
government, which has forwarded
Oregon City.—Among those having
might involve, in certain circum
ed and the government’s purpose with
them to the allies.
stances "an absolutely compelling bumper crops in wheat and oats this
regard to them was anxiously awaited.
moral
obligation”
which
might
be
year are Ellis Brown of New Era
The bolshoviki have been driven
One of the decisions was that the
even stronger than a legal promise.
from Odessa by the populace of the
post-war plan of ultra protection, un
Pressed for a more exact definition whose 18 acres of oats yielded 100
city, according to reports received by
by committee members who insisted bushels an acre, and his father, George
der which imports were limited to
that the whole arrangement was “a Brown, the potato king of Clackamas
the British war office. It is reported
those granted special licenses by the
rope
of
sand,”
he
asserted
that
on
the
county, whose farm adjoins that of
also the soviet forces are evacuating
board of trade, will be abandoned Sep
contrary he considered it as placing
Kiev and the entire Ukraine.
tember 1, and that measures to pre
the nations in “an attitude of comrade his son, harvested 300 bushels of
ship and protection,” which would wheat. The potato crop will be light
vent "dumping” would be put into
College M akes W heat Survey.
A 100-bed memorial ward has just
compel respect for the principles of
Presence of much mixed wheat and effect.
been presented to the Warsaw univer
Pendleton. — Seven deputies and
justice and liberty.
The second was the rejection of the
a
relatively small amount of pure
sity clinic at Child Jesus hospital in
The president, in a prepared state stenographers in various county of
ment which he read to the senators, fices Saturday got increases in salaries wheats suitable for seed have been majority report of Justice Sankey’s
the Polish capital, as a permanent con Strike Halts New York
said he had no objection to interpre
Transportation Lines tations,
found in Umatilla county in the wheat coal commission, which provided for
tribution by the American people to
provided they are not a part amounting in most instances to $10
the educational and health welfare of
a month. Last month they petitioned survey just concluded by G. R. Hys the gradual nationalization of coal
New York.—The vast subway and of the formal act of ratification.
free Poland.
Meeting the committee in a round the county court for a 15 per cent lop, chief of farm crops at the college, mines and in its stead launching a
elevated system of the Interborough
table
discussion in the East room of raise, which would have brought and Fred Bennion, county agent. plan for partial government control by
Rapid
Transit
company,
operating
in
Repeal of the daylight-saving law
the White house in contradiction to raises amounting to about $15. The Field after field of red chaff club is which the government will buy out
was passed Tuesday over President Manhattan, the Bronx and parts of the precedents of more than a cen
the owners of coal lands who receive
Wilson's veto by the house on a vote Brooklyn and Queens, was completely tury, and with the whole nation listen court, however, declined to grant the so badly mixed, they report, that it
royalties
from mining companies, give
will probably grade number 2 club or
of 223 to 101, seven more than the paralyzed Sunday by a strike called ing through the medium of a relay of petition in full.
the miners a share in the control of
public
stenographers,
the
president
mixed,
with
a
corresponding
cut
of
3
necessary two-thirds. The repeal now Saturday night by P. J. Connolly, act
Salem.—Pulling flax on the state to 9 cents per bushel. The superiority the mines, organize the mines into
went into many of the details of the
goes to the senate, where its support ing president of the Brotherhood of peace negotiations and touched on all
farm is practically completed and the x>t Turkey red for the hot, dry light districts and establish a fund for im
Interborough Rapid Transit company the hotly-debated questions which
ers claim victory.
work of threshing will begin within districts is shown to be as great as proving the living conditions of the
The day passed without have divided the senate in its con
A trans-Pacific flight is to be at employes.
the next few days. The yield is indicated by D. E. Stephens, superin miners.
sideration
of
the
peace
treaty.
tempted soon by D. Isobe, a Japanese any violence.
Article Ten of the covenant, guar heavier than for several years past tendent of the Moro branch station
Under the third dicision the gov
The tie-up became absolute at 6 A. anteeing the integrity of league mem
army aviator, according to a cable re
and the quality of the crop is said to Stand and yield of red chaff and Jen ernment will embody in a bill recom
ceived from Japan by the Japanese- M., when the last of the trains sent bers against aggression, he declared be above the average. Most of the kin club were cut down by winter kill mendations for a joint industrial coun
leave to each nation “complete
American News of San Francisco. out before 4 o’clock completed their would
freedom of choice as to the application work connected with harvesting the while the Turkey red is going strong cil of employers and employes and a
rounds
and
were
shunted
into
the
This will be the first attempt at the
flax has been done by crews from the and will grade as dark winter. Some 48-hour week and a living wage apply
of force.
barns and abandoned.
aerial conquest of the Pacific.
Even if the American represents penitentiary and state hospital
of the certified seed last year was ing to nearly all industries.
At that hour strikers in the Inter- tives on the council joined in a rec
The premier placed responsibility
Crown Prince Charles of Roumania borough power house shut off the ommendation for military action, final
Echo. — The 75,000-foot sawmill planted on tracts where volunteer
has written a letter to his father, King power, causing a temporary stoppage declaration for peace or war must rest which cut timber for construction stalks came so thick that the crop this for the delay in making peace with
Ferdinand, renouncing for himself and of traffic on the surface lines of the so far as concerned the United States work on the new extension of the Teel year will not go as certified seed Turkey upon the United States. Great
Lists of seed giving varieties and Britain, he said, desired to know how
his heirs his rights and privileges as New York railways and the Manhat with congress, he said.
Whatever advice the council gave project is ready for operation and will
heir-apparent to the Roumanian throne. tan spurs of the Brooklyn Rapid Tran under its authority to take such ac start next week on flume timbers. The amounts are on file in the county far the United States was prepared to
The news was contained in a dispatch sit company, which use Interborough tion as is “deemed appropriate” must mill is eight miles east of Albee and agents’ offices in Umatilla, Sherman assume her share in guaranteeing the
also be deemed appropriate by the a new road has been built to It from Wasco and Union counties. Farmers protection of the people under the for
to the Journal from Bucharest.
power.
United States to be binding on this
Three power houses resumed opera government, he argued, though in the that town. Lumber for camp build interested may get the lists on appli mer Turkish yoke and while awaiting
Plans for a transcontinental aerial
this information Great Britain had oc
derby from New York to San Francis tion an hour later, however, permit background would be such a potential ings now is being sawed and half a cation.
cupied
Turkish territory.
co with more than 3100,000 in prizes. ting resumption of traffic on these moral force that he doubted if the dozen houses for men already have
nation would decline to act.
Disease
H
its
Canada
Thistle.
lines,
which
were
jammed
throughout
been
erected.
Including a first prize of $20,000, were
The president revealed that Japan’s
A fungus disease that attacks and
announced Tuesday in New York by the day, as were the steam railroads, promise to return Shantung province
Hood River.—J. P. Naumes, of the kills Canada thistle has been reported
automobile
trucks,
sightseeing
buses
to China was reduced to written form
Captain Charles J. Qllddon, chairman
local headquarters of a British import from Polk and Lane counties and is
of the aerial touring league committee and boat lines which tried to take in the minutes of the peace confer
ing
concern, left Saturday for Sheri being investigated by the college sta
ence.
He
asserted
he
had
“
every
con
care of the crowds.
of the Aero Club of America.
fidence” that the promise would be
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With every prospect for a continua carried out, and told the senators it dan, Newberg and other Willamette tion plant pathologists to learn wheth
A tragedy that created a sensation
New York.—The strike which has
tion of an absolute tie-up, city officials was the best “ that could be got” out valley orchard districts to arrange for er it cannot be successfully employed
at Glenns Ferry, Idaho, was enacted
and the public service commission are of the negotiations, Japan having given shipments of apples previously pur in control of this pest plant in Oregon. for two days paralyzed the subway and
Tuesday when Howard Belmire, 19. a
bending every effort toward providing notice she would withdraw from the chased. The British shippers have ar Cultures have been made and will be elevated system of the Interborough
conference if her demands were re ranged to open a warehouse at New
resident of Ontario, Or., was killed by
emergency transportation for the near fused.
used to inoculate healthy thistle plants Rapid Transit company in Manhattan,
C. C. Smith, a rancher, when Belmire
berg. Allen Hart, identified with local to see if an epidemic cannot be spread the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, was
ly 2,500,000 persons who will swarm
The
American
delegates,
he
said
was in Smith’s watermelon patch.
the thoroughfares leading into Man had tried to keep the nation free from shipping concerns for several years, among them under field and range formally called off Monday night by a
Smith is said to have emptied two
obligations in European affairs “ so will hqve charge.
conditions by starting the disease vote of the strikers to accept a com
hattan.
barrels from a shotgun into Belmire.
far as it was honorably possible to do
The strike was declared by the po so,” but he asserted that it might be
Salem.—Sam Kozer, assistant secre among them. Before the question of promise offered them at a conference
General chairmen of the United lice to be, so far, one of the most or necessary to keep some American tary of state, and R. H. Goodin, secre the possible use of the fungus in ar of city and state officials in the after
Brotherhood of Railway Employes and derly large strikes ever called In New troops on the Rhine district under the tary of the state board of control, con tificial propagation can be answered noon.
treaty for the next 15 years.
Under the terms of the settlement,
Railway Shop Laborers, Tuesday ap York.
it must be shown to be effective, ca
He declared the nation would be its ferred Friday preparatory to placing pable of doing the work at practicable the men will receive a wage increase
proved a new wage and working agree
Heavy details of patrolmen were own
sole judge whether its obligations orders for supplies for the next pri
ment already submitted to the railroad stationed at all barns, power houses had been fulfilled under the disputed mary and general elections. Lead cost, and uninjurious to field and pas of 25 per cent, and it is provided that
administration, calling for an increase and station houses to prevent any pos withdrawal clause of the league cov pencils, which before the war cost in ture crops. Farmers can assist in the question of whether they shall
enant; that purely domestic questions the neighborhood of $3.50 a gross, now answering the question by sending in receive the additional 25 per cent de
in pay of approximately $1 a day per sible outbreak.
were safe from the league's Interfer
man, time and a half for overtime and
the diseased parts of some plants new manded by them shall be submitted
ence, and that the Monroe doctrina are held at $6. About 30,000 pencils
promotion by seniority.
Skeleton« M ay Prove Murders.
are required for the two elections, in ly attacked, if they find any, and giv to arbitration. Resumption of service
was clearly preserved.
ing a brief account of the character was ordered to take effect at midnight.
Maple Hill, Kan.—A third skeleton
The league, the president explained, addition to other supplies.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Lawler, both of
was built on the plan of General
The 25 per cent wage increase was
and
extent of the attack. No cultures
was
dug
up
here
Sunday
by
the
state
whom were severely burned by the
Smuts of South Africa.
Bend.—Deschutes county offices will be sent out until the problem is made retroactive to August 1 and, ac
officials
investigating
the
mysterious
fire and explosion which destroyed
Mr. Wilson revealed that hq had were run by women last week, and
solved and announcements made by cording to Interborough officials,
their homo in Los Angeles recently, disappearance of four men here dur suggested the United States take no
ing
the
last
eight
years.
part of the German reparation but had will continue under feminine manage Prof. H. P. Barss, chief of station plant means an annual Increase In the pay
will both recover.
roll of $5,000,000.
The skeleton was found within 50 asked that the conference reserve dis ment until next week, when Sheriff pathology.
8weden, Norway and Denmark are
position
of
the
German
Pacific
island
S.
E.
Roberts,
Clerk
J.
H.
Haner
and
The agreement also provided for re
feet of the one dug up last week near
of Yap on a suggestion that it was
sending a collective note to the en
instatement of all strikers with their
Lim e Plant M ay Close.
a livery barn, it was announced by needed for an American naval station. Treasurer Clyde M. McKay will have
tente relative to the league of nations.
Unless orders for agricultural lime old seniority ratings and for arbitra
Maurice McNeill, state attorney, who
Some of the senators' questions the returned from attending the Elks’ con
The Frankfort Gazette made this an
president declined to answer on the vention at Klamath Falls. In place are lodged with the state lime plant in tion of ail other differences which
is in charge of the investigation.
nouncement Saturday.
Dawson Woody Identified the skele ground of international policy. How of the regular incumbents are: Sheriff, sufficient numbers to keep the plant cannot be adjusted by negotiation.
the American delegates voted on Ja
The "first hundred thousand" of re
Settlement of the strike came at the
ton by fillings in the teeth as that of | pan-8 proposal for a racial equality Mrs. Hazel Manion; clerk, Miss Helen going, it will have to close by Septem
cruits have been secured for the per bis son.
, clause in the league covenant he said Foley; treasurer, Mrs. Clyde McKay. ber 1 to 15, says Dr. A. B. Cordley, end of a chaotic day in which the In
manent regular army, General March,
Salem.—Ben W. Lol, Chinese soldier secretary. No official board action terborough's 2,500,000 dally patrons
The skeleton was found buried un-! 1»« could not disclose “ in the interest
chief of staff, announced Saturday. Of der six inches of soil in the yard of a of international good understanding, who served in the United States forces to this effect has been taken, but lack plodded to work In a driving rain
these more than 68,000 were re-enlist livery barn formerly operated by Ru and for the same reason he said he in France, was brought to Salem re of storage capacity makes it necessary through crowded streets, rode jftih-
could not go into the negotiations over
ments.
fus King, who is held In jail at Topeka the French frontier or give the com- cently from Fort Des Moines and com that at least 30 tons of ground lime med surface cars, steam trains and
Plans for old-age pensions for per on a charge of first degree murder in | mlttee a copy of the record of Japan's mitted to the state hospital for the stone be sold every day. Farmers of steamboats or auto busses.
sons more than 65 years of age were connection with the disappearance of Shantung promise.
insane. Lol is the first of 10 de fer to buy lime If the experiment sta
Early action on the treaty was urged mented soldiers to be received at the
proposed in a bill introduced Saturday Reuben Gutshall here five years ago.
W ife Sues Vanderbilt.
tion recommends it, but this the sta
In a statement by the president at the
by Senator McNary, republican, Ore
Newport, R. I.—Mrs. Cathleen (Neil-
outset of the conference. This was asylum from different military forts tion cannot do in any individual case.
gon, and referred to the pension com
necessary, he held, so that a peace throughout the United States. It has More than half of the hundreds of son) Vanderbilt began divorce pro
Graft Suspects Listed.
basis might be reached, and the other been agreed between the state and farmers reporting say that they got ceedings against her husband, Regi
mittee.
Chicago-Assistants of the federal ^ c a t iè s u n d e 7 nV^dUUon'now'a^V'eV
The Independent mill at Victor, Col., district attorney were engaged Sunday ?ailles were being delayed until the federal government that $40 a month good results from use of lime, but nald C. Vanderbilt of New York, Tues
one of the largest In this section of [in preparing evidence against alleged world learned what would happen to shall be paid for the support of sol only by trials can the value be deter day, by haring service made on him
the west, was robbed Saturday night profiteers and hoarders. 13 of whom
_ with Germany, He said diers committed to the Oregon insti mined. The station does recommend at his farm at Portsmouth. Mrs. Van
he saw no reasonable objection to sen tution.
that several farmers get together and derbilt alleges desertion and will ask
The bandits overpowered two watch have been listed for arrest.
ate reservations, but thought it unwise
men and escaped with a quantity of
Only two warrants have been is to incorporate them in the ratification
Salem.—Reports reaching Salem place a trial order to learn the effects for the custody of their only child, a
daughter, Cathleen.
gold concentrate.
sued thus far, and counsel for the two, | itself.
that the air service on the Pacific of liming the soil.
Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt were mar
J. F. Campbell and John E. Bunker,
coast
may
be
demobilized
in
the
near
Changes in the nation's immigration
Soil Survey Finished.
News W rite rs on Strike.
ried 16 years ago. He is the youngest
officials of a sugar brokerage concern,
future
have
caused
Governor
Olcott
policy were proposed in a bill intro
said they would surrender Monday.
Omaha. Neb.—Twenty members of to send letters to Governor Hart, of
The soil survey of Multnomah coun son of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt.
duced Saturday by 8enator Dilling
They
are
charged
under
the
Lever
act
i
the
staff
of
the
Omaha
Bee
went
on
ty
by the federal bureau of soils and
Washington,
and
Senators
McNary
and
ham. republican, of Vermont, and re
Wooden Leg Scares Thief.
strike late Tuesday, demanding an in- Chamberlain of Oregon, asking that i the soils department of the college has
ferred to the immigration committee. with profiteering.
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j crease in pay and shorter working they Intercede and prevail upon the been completed. The field work was
Medford, Or.—A wooden leg left In
Lieutenant James Stewart of Park
Pershing to Sail Sept. 1.
hours. After walking out the report- government to continue the depart- j done by C. V. Ruzek of the soils de a pair of trousers saved several occu
Field, Memphis, and S. Reed Camp
Paris.—Before leaving for Italy Sun-1 ers met at the labor temple and organ- ment because of the excellent work pn tm^nt and E. J. Carpenter of the pants in a local lodging house from
bell, reporter employed by the Com- day night General John J. Pershing ised the American News Writers' un- being done by the airplane forest fire feieral so ls bureau. The various soil being robbed early Tuesday.
The
merclal Appeal. Paducah, Ky.. were told correspondents that he expected ion. affiliating themselves with the patrol. The governor also has written types have been listed and described thief had obtained $37 in cash and sev
killed when the army airplane
In to sail for America about September American Federation of Labor. They to Colonel H. H. Arnold, department to determine what crops are best suit- eral gold watches, but when he came
tvhich they were giving exhibition 1. He said that shortly after his arri- have applied for a charter and are go- air service officer at San Francisco, ed to each type. A s soon as the infor- to the pair of trousers with the wooden
flights fell near the Country club Sat val he would visit his old home in Mis- ing to attempt to call out the other informing him of his efforts to have mation is tabulated and inspected It leg protruding he dropped the loot and
souri and also go to Cheyenne, Wyo. crafts on the paper in sympathy.
the patrol service continued.
will be made available to the farmers. made his getaway.
urday.
CAR STR IK E ENDS
IN COM PROM ISE
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