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FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR NO. 51.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1922.
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BIG PROBLEM IN HARDING'S STAND UPON HARRIETT PHIPP!
SOOTH END ROAD
WORK IS FEARED
State Highway Commission's
Retraction of Agreement
On Surfacing of Portion
Outside of City Puzzles.
Responsibility of State in
Enforcement of Booze Law
Cited by Anti-Saloon Head.
PAYMENT ON BRIDGE
HELD UP BY COUNCIL
IS VICTORIOUS IN
QUEEN CONTEST
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i Oregon City Candidate Wins
By Majority of More Than
1 1 ,000 ; Details of Bridge
Celebration Are Completed.
Installment Due on Span Is
Not Expected to Be Paid
Until Settlement Is Made.
PORTLAND, Dec. 14. "President
Harding's message on -prohibition en
forcement is having a salutary effect
upon, public officials and the friends
of law and order," .according to the
reaction which is being reported to
the Anti-Saloon league headquarters.
W. J. Herwig, superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon league of Oregon, stated:
"A majority of the people are now
and always have been for law and or
der, but it -is confidence inspiring to
have the chief executive voice that Dignitaries of Entire State to
88,000 VOTES CAST
FOR LOCAL ASPIRANT
The payment of the first installment
upon Oregon City's share of the cost
of the new Willamette river bridge,
amounting to over $7,000 was delayed
by the city council last night. Al
though the funds are due the state
highway commission, it is understood
that no payment is to be made until
sue htime as suitable agreement with
the commission upon the , matters
touching the completion of the high
way through the city are reached. j
The final action on the ordinance
providing for the payment of the fund
to the commission, was laid over until
the meeting on the 28th of this month.
Herwig further stated; .
"It will help greatly to call the
chief executives of the states Into
conference for prohibition enforce
ment, as suggested by the president.
Attend; Banquet for 300
Guests Is to Be Given.
ORGANIZATIONS PLAN TO
COOPERATE ON RELIEF
Red Cross, Redmen and Elks
To Work Together to Aid
Needy During Holidays.
COMMERCIAL CLUB
Queen Harriett will rule in Oregon
Forty-six states have state pronmi- rlt an . west Linn on Decemher 28
tion codes. State governments have Tne jguit Qf the contest to make
the same responsibility for enforcing the regal selection was announced
the eighteenth amendment that the Tnursday D- the committee after the
federal government has. It was never conlDiete count 0f all of the bajlot
' That the breaking off of negotia
tions for the completion of the South
End road with the state highway com
mission, more than calls a temporary
halt to the plans of the municipality
but actually leaves a large breach
which the coming year may find dif
ficult to fill, is the indication of the
action taken by the state body in
regard to the local situation.'
N The commission practically with
draws it6 offers for the completion of
the section of the road from the city
limits to Canemah. This, known as
part of . unit B, embodies an expense
of J 49,650. , Under the agreement of
the state 4 highway -commission,'"' as
' listed under "state expense" in the
revised estimates of the total cost of
the south end road, the cost -of the '
grading and the paving of this part
of the road was to be taken care of
by the state.
No Obligation Seen
The action of the commission re
scinds this agreement by the disap
proval of the entire series' ot negotia
tions. It is pointed out by those who
are interested 5n the completion of
the road, that the new state highway
... commission will be under no obliga
tions to repeat this agreement and
that it is probable that, they may
refuse.
Under the pledges made by Governor-elect
Pierce, it is considered prob
able that a commission will be selected
which will operate upon as economical
basis as possible. Under such a pro
gram the bulk of the expense for the
construction of this latter section of
the road would again fall upon the
. county and make a new obstacle in
the ' way of the completion of the
highway in this section.
Federal Funds Fail
, At the session in Portland, members
of the state highway commission
pointed out that road work has about
reached its limit, as nearly all state
money has been allotted and federal
aid is in graye danger of failing. The
secretary of agriculture has advised
congress to cut the $6,500,000 forest
road budget to $3,000,000 and congress
has failed to appropriate the $50,000,
000 pledged for 1922.
It is generally understood that as
far as the matter of financing the
portion of the south end road known
as the first section of unit B, from
the Southern Pacific track undergrade
to the city limits, is still in hand and
that as soon as the new commission
reaches a decision upon the routing,
the offer of the various corporations
for the subscribing of the necessary
$79,404 will be fulfilled. Under the
agreement tiie Southern Pacific will
bear the entire. cost( of constructing
the crossing.
intended that the United States gov
ernment should do all of this work
with a small number of federal
agents. There are more than a hun
dred local and state officers whose
duty it is to enforce prohibition laws
to every one federal officer. The jus
tice department has seCTired law en
forcement conferences between state
and federal officers in many of the
states and the results have been bene
ficial. "We are not disturbed about any
change in the law being demanded
because if is enforced effectively.
If the national and state prohibition
laws are enforced for tie next two or
three years fearlessly and honestly
in the cities where they are now in
adequately enforced, the increased
benefits will be so outstanding that
this question will be settled perma
nently. The opponents of prohibition
know this, and that is the reason they
are opposed to effective enforcement
or the maintenance of enforceable
laws."
CHARLES STRAIGHT TO
ASK FOR STATE PARDON
boxes distributed through the two
cities had been' made.
Miss Harriett 'Phipps, representing
Oregon City, received ,88,170 votes
and Miss Vena Barnes, representing
West Linn, 76,815. Miss Phipps' ma
jority is 11,355. .
Details for the celebration atten
dant upon the opening of the new
Pacific Highway bridge have been
practically completed. -The general
and executive committee headed, by
M. D. Laturette has arranged a fitting
ceremonial including the formal dedi
cation of the new span at noon of the
appointed day.
Dignitaries from over the entire
state are to attend the affair. The
ceremony is to be held in the morn
ing, ending with a banquet for 300 of
the guests at the Crown Willamette
In the afternoon. Members of the
state highway commission, Governor
Olcott, officials from cities throughout
the valley, and captains of industry
are to come here for the event.
--Included ' in "the queen's . entourage
will be Miss Barnes 'as' maid of honor
and the attendants named by the two
girls. The crowning ceremony will
take place upon the east side of the
river.
Clackamas county organizations in
terested in providing for. the poor at
Christmas time will combine their
funds and contributions. ' Plans for
the cooperation of these organizations
were made, last evening at a meet
ing of representatives of ' the Red
Cross and the Redmen and Elks
lodges. Arrangements were m2de for
distributing baskets to those in need
throughout the county, i
A special plea is being made byi
Miss Cis Pratt, secretary of the local
Red Cross, for clothing and for canned
fruits. Merchants of. the city and
county are being urged to contribute
tobacco to the committee for distribu
tion. Contributions may be sent to
Miss Pratt, 706 Water street.
TO TAKE PART IN
BUDGET PROGRAM
Radical Control pf Finances
For County Is ' Decried;
Business Men to Act to
Safeguard Plans for 1923.
CURRENT INDEBTEDNESS
FOB COW $348,743
SOUTH END
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Commutation of Year Term
To Be Requested; Many
Violations of Law Listed.
Overseas Veterans
American Legion
The American Legion met at the
Willamette hall Monday evening, and
features of the evening " were ad
dresses made by John Rayl, overseas
veteran, Professor Leonhardt, Samuel
McDonald, William Aird, Ray Cooper.
Musical selections was also enjoyed.
These were given by a trio composed
o Mrs. William Krassig, piano; John
Egger, cello; Mrs. William Stone,
violin.
During the banquet Mrs. David Cau
field presided as toastmaster. A
.number of prominent members of the
organization, responded to toasts-
Charles Straight, whose violations
of game and liquor statutes have
drawn repeated sentences from both
state and local courts, is applying to
Governor Olcott for a pardon from a
year's term in the Clackamas county
jail for bootlegging.
About three months ago, Judge E. J.
Noble "threw the book'' at Straight
when be banded him the maximum for
the second offense. Unable to pay
his fine. Straight went' to jail for
something like an 18 month's term.
The man's health has been poor ;
and his three children, recently made
motherless by the death of his wife,
have been a charge upon the county.
This is one of the main arguments
advanced by Straight's friends for his
release.
Straight's home on Clackamas
heights for some time gained consid
erable reputation as a liquor ren
dezvous. While Straight was under
parole from the federal court in Port
land on a liquor charge, ostensibly to
raise funds for his fine, he was re
arrested at his home by county and
federal officials for the sale of liquor.
It is this offense for which he has been
incarcerated. '
PORTLAND SCHOOL BOND
E IS HELD LEGAL
Near East Peace
Put In Hands of
Nation's League
EVERYTHING ALL RIGHT
"Willie, did you put your nickel in
the contribution box in the Sabbath
School today?"
Any flapper will frankly admit that
it isn't -petit larceny to steal a kiss
it's grand.
LAUSANNE, Dec. 16. The world
powers atending the Near Eastern
peace conference here plan to "pass
the buck" to the League of Nations.
Events in the parley Thursday made
this apparent.
The biggest question of peace in
Asia Minor are to be decided by the
league, according to indications from
the proceedings of the conference.
Turkey, forced into the league on
the question of christian minorities,
must now, to be consistent, throw the
fate of other questions into the lap
of the international tribunal, Impar
tial observers' point out. .
The question of capitulations, which
has been one of the stumbling blocks
of the conference, will be decided, it
is being suggested by Lord Cruzon,
British foreign minister, and dominant
spirit of the parley, by the interna- his home at the residence
wvsuu miui w. jusuce ax me Hague.
The court, according to the proposed
plan, will delegate jurists to-collaborate
with legal authorities of Turkey
to revise the Moslem civil code, es
tablishing thereby a regime for for
eigners that will render capitulations
unnecessary.'
SALEM, Dec. 19. Portland schools
will not be denied improvements to
taling $3,000,000 provided in the bond
issue voted last June.
The supreme court today upheld the
validity of the issue in an opinion
handed down by Justice Rand in
which the decision of Circuit Judge
Stapleton of Multnomah county cir
cuit court was affirmed.
The decision came in a test suit
brought by E. B- Miller, a taxpayer,
after Wood & Oakley, attorneys for
the Ladd & Tilton bank and Chicago
bond dealers, who had bid in the
bonds, had questioned the validity of
the issue, basing their opinion on an
apparent conflict in Oregon laws Jre
.garding notice of school bonding elec
tions. The supreme court today held that
the act of 1915 repealed the act of
1913 in school districts of more than
20,000 children of school age, and that
notice qf the election by publication
once each week for four consecutive
weeks in two or more daily papers
was sufficient. School district No. 1
had complied with these requirements
but had not posted notices as provided
in the earlier act.
11-Year-Old Boy.
Near Death From
Coasting Mishap
. Edgar Miller, aged 11 and son of
Mrs. Helen, Miller, of this city, is in
a critical condition in Good Samaritan
hospital, Portland, as tue, result of
being hit by an automobile while he
was coasting down Seventh, street
Saturday night Little hopes are held
for his recovery.
In company with a number of his
friends the lad was coasting down
Seventh street when a motorist,
without warning, struck the boy. The
driver made his escape, it is said,
without giving assistance. . The num
ber of the car wast not secured'.
Dr. C. H. Melssner gave first aid
Later it required 27 stitches to close
the deep wound that extended from
the hip to the fleshy part of the body.
On Sunday his temperature grew
higher, and the lad was immediately
rushed to the Portland hospital. Mem
ber8 of the family are at his bedside.
The injured lad has been making
of his
grandparents, Mr. , and Mrs. E. L.
Moore, of 704 Taylor street, this city.
H. E. CROSS IS NAMED
COUNTY JUDGES' HEAD
Clackamas County Official Is
Named President of 'State
Assn.; Worked Is Noted.
H E. Cross, county judge of Clacka
mas county, was unanimously elected
president of the state association of
county judges and commissioners at
its session in Portland.
Since his election to the local po
sition, Judge Cross has been prom
inent in official work throughout tie
state- He is also known throughout
Oregon as one of the pioneer backers
of the now nation-wide , Chautauqua
movements. J " r
.REFUSE .
TO SERVE UPON JURIES
' Sixty-five and a half per cent of the
women called from jury service in
Clackamas County since inauguration
of the statute providing for their serv
ice were exempted from giving their
services, according to figures compiled
by R. Justin Miller, professor of law
at the University of Oregon. Speaking
before the State District Attorney's
convention. Miller advocated the re
peal of the law which provides for
exemption forwomen.
"The bad result of the exemption
system is most pronounced in the
more remote counties where popula
tion is more scattered and the county
seats are more inaccessible," declared
Prof. Miller. "The average of women
who claimed exemption from jurty
service in all counties outside of Mul
tnomah county from January to the
end of November was 77.7 per cent.
The report covers the regular, and nqt
the special, venires of the year."
' In Multnomah county, which shows
the highest percentage of women who
accepted service, the actual number
of women who served in the eleven
months is 25 per cent less than' the
number of men. One thousand and
forty-two men were called in Multno
mah county and nine were exempted,
One thousand and thirty-three women
were called and 538 were exempted
Four hundred and thirteen men served
as against 305 women.
"The argument may fairly be made
as has been done in Multnomah coun
ty, for instance, that as women
become more used to the idea of jury
service, and morei educated to its
need, they will cease claiming exemp
tion," continued Prof. Miller. "This
may have proved true in some cases,
although the figures are by no means
conslusive in the case of any county,
not even exception Multnomah coun
ty and in others no progressive devel
opment has occurred at all.
"We hesitate to think of what
would happen to the institution of
trial by jury, if men should demand
equality with women in the right to
claim exemption from service."
AGRICULTURAL AGENT
ANt NURSE APPROVED
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Call for All Warrants
January 3, 1922
Treasurer; DebtLtsing,
I t- o r outstanding without any taj
Live Wires Propose Evening for retirement The call i
Meet to Discuss Items and
To Make Recommendations yet be made.
A call for' county warrants, aggre
gating $25,503.51 was issued Tuesday
by County Treasurer W. W. Everhart.
The call includes all outstanding road
warrants endorsed prior to January
3 of this year. . .
The total indebtedness of the
county as of December 1, subtracting
the call just made, is $348,743.36; This
amount represents approximately the
indebtedness of the county which is
outstanding without any tax provision
is expected
to be the last this year though one
for a small amount of warrants may j
IS UP
TO COUNTY JUDGE
Negotiations by Live Wires
Ended ; Offer of Official
To Take Up Work to Get
Road Complete, Accepted.
ALL COMMITTEES ON
PROJECT DISCHARGED
The Oregon (City Commercial
club will be hosts on the evening
of Wednesday, December 27, to
all of the citizens of Clackamas
county for the purpose of discus
sing the county budget, Plans for
the meeting, which was the out
growth of the Live Wire session
Tuesday, were made last night
by Elbert Charma", secretary to
the board of governors. The ses
sion is to be held at 7:30 o'clock
and is to entail a complete airing
of the county's financial program
for the coming- year.
In an
"radical"
The total indebtedness is about
$30,000 below .the amount for last
year according to figures in the
treasurer's office. A still larger re
duction is expected next year, because
of the fact that the indebtedness this
year represents some district over
drafts which are to be paid back out
of the tax receipts charged against the
coming year and it is probable that
further overdrafts will not be permit
ted. ,
The call of $25,503.51 does not in
clude an additional amount to be paid
out in interest amounting to $1553.95
upon the warrants called.
Business Men Agree to Quit
And Let Court Finish Job;
Situation Is Said Acute.
BODY OF DROWNED LAD
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effort to curb the so-called
control of the county budget
program and to prevent mal-content
rejection of items which are declared i
to make for better government, the
Live Wires of the Commercial club
will this year take more than a pas
sive part in the discussion and vot-!
ing of the county budget. , Cornse of Donald Kirk Mav
1113 seniimem, logetaer wuu ui
recommendation of the retention in i
the budget of the items for the county
agent and the assistant loader and the
addition of an appropriation for the j
health nurse, developed at the forum j . .
session Tuesday. ;-- " " i Search in' the Willamette river for
' Night Session Sought 3 " - I the Dotty Ql uonaid iira, oir ie cfcnje
Not only are the Live Wires to in which he was riding when he is
take a hand in the matter but at the ' believed to have been drowned, is to
suggestion of District Attorney Livy ( be started over tne Willamette river
Stipp, the Commercial club is to be near Oregon City, according to word
asked to call a nieht- meetine before received yesieraay irom me uuj s
the 30th for a full discussion of the 1 parents by J. C. McNeil of this city.
Be Found in Willamette
Near Oregon City, Theory.
budget. Cooperation of the Qlacka
mas County Business Men's associa
tion is to be asked and the commercial
club machinery utilized in an attempt
to secure a representative gathering
at the budget meeting. The evening
session arrangements were placed in
the hands of Elbert Charman, secre
tary to the commercial club gover
nors. Practically every speaker on the
floor urged the necessity for atten
dance at the session, pointing out that
radical changes- were often made by J
a few non-progressives, much to the
detriment of the" bounty. Arrange-
Kirk, 21, .was drowned in the Wil
lamette river near St. Paxils, Ore., latje.
Wednesday when he fell into the
stream while hunting with three other,
youths.. His companions were a little
distance away when they heard him
shout, and before they reached the
spot he was gone. Twenty-five men
are aiding in dragging the stream in
an effort to recover the body.
The drowned youth was a son , of
Emmett Kirk, St, Paul merchant. A
brother was killed in an accident at
Celilo a year ago. His mother is dead
and the father and a sister are the
j only survivuio.
TRACTION COMPANY I!
TO SPEND $5,000,000
Hhe day's mile can be shortened
by prefixing and "a" to it
There are 136 miles of towpaths
beside the River Thames in England.
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Extension and betterments to the
properties of the Portland Railway,
Light & Power company during the
coming year will mean the expen
diture of $,5,000,000, according to
Franklin T. Griffith, president of the
corporation, who has just returned
from a three weeks' trip east Half
of this amount will go into the new
powetrf project on the Oak 3rove
branch of the Clackamas river, which
it is expected to complete by July,
1924. The remainder of the expendi
tures will be distributed among num
erous improvements that win keep the
properties thoroughly modern.
The average depth of the English
Channel is 180 feet.
and perhaps the body, may have drift
ed down the river as far as Oregon
City. It has been requested that any
information be reported to the author
ities. N ,
HEALTH ESSAY WINNERS
IN COUNIY ANNOUNCED
ments are to be made to have a large : St. Paul is in Marion county and it
number of business men present in an j i3 believed possible that the canoe.
effort to safe guard the items in tne
budget program which the organiza
tion has backed.
Nurse Is Backed
The matter of the county nurse
was urged by Rev. H. G. Edgar, chair
man of the Clackamas County Public j
Health association and backed by M. !
D. Latourette. " who moved for the j
inclusion of the item of $2500 upon
the Live Wires' recommendation. The
county agent and agricultural agent
secured enthusiastic support from a
number of speakers including Don
Skene, E. L. Pope, W. W. Woodbeck
and O- D. Eby.
The curtailing of the road levy from
9 to 8 mills this year was the subject
of a question by L. L. Porter, city
recorder of West Linn. He pointed
out that the west side had made a
number of road improvements in the
expectation of securing certain funds
from the county and if the levy was
cut they would be short. The explana
tion 'was offered by Stipp and Judge
Cross that the levy was made in dol
lars and the actual millage change
could not be definitely determined
until the assessor had computed it
Judgment of $5,000
On Mortgage Asked
Suit in the circuit court was insti
tuted Saturday by John G. Pringle
against H. W. Reynolds to collect
$5,000 in connection with which fore
closure of a mortgage is asked.
H. Brooks, charged with non-sup
port was bound over to the circuit
court grand jury under $500 bail
furnished by Frank and Birdie Zoll-
ner.
Decrees of divorce: Ethel B.
against Jesse E. Moore. . Earl A.
against Kathryn Dean, Veneta against
Floyd Hogan, Beulah M. against
Emol Blackburn.
Probate , court: Elizabeth Aman
estate, letters of administration
granted to Spencer lAman; Alphonso
L. Adams estate, letters of adminis
tration granted to Walter R. Adams;
George Green estate, letters of ad
ministration granted to Abbie Green:
Winners in the contest for the best
essays upon the subject of "The value
of a health program to' school chil
dren," were announced yesterday by
County School Superintendent Bren
ton Vedder and H. G. Edgar, chairman
of the Clatekamas County Public
Health association which offered the
$25 in prizes for the essay work.
The winners in Division One, com
posed of the' seventh and eighth
grades throughout the county were:
First prize, Carol W. Johnson,
Springbrook school; second prize,
Marjorie Heacock, Union school;
third prize, Lois Mathews, Milwaukie
school; fourth prize, Charlotte Lyle,
Rural Dell school; fifth prize, Char
lotte Mullenhoff, Damascus school.
The winners in Division Two, com
posed of the fifth and sixth grades
throughout the county were:
First prize, Newell Ford, Jennings
Lodge school; second prize, Cleone
Manthe, Springbrook school ; third
prize, Frank Ferlan, Maple Grove
school; fourth prize, Elnora Hulander,
Needy school; fifth prize, Rudolph
Bohrer, Tracy school.
The prizes were $3.50, $3, $2.50, $2,
and $1.50 for from first to fifth in
each division. One best essay from
each division was selected by the
teachers and - sent . to the judging
committee headed from Rev. Edgar
and the winners were picked from the
representative .work, of the students
from over the entire county.
With the south end road negotia
tions 'in the air and the municipality
facing a grave contingency in the
completion of the Pacific highway be
tween the new bridge and Canemah,
the Live Wires of the Oregon Gity
commercial club Tuesday noon com
pletely washed their hands of the en
tire matter and accepted the offer of
County Judge Harvey E. Cross to
allow the county to take over, the
entire negotiations.
The action came at the latter end
of the forum session. Main Trunk
Ralph Shephard earlier: had refused
to take any hand in the matter, de
clining to discharge the standing com
mittees of the organization.
With suggestion of a speech from
the county judge, recently elected
head of the county commissioners and
judges' association of the state, the
query regarding what the court could
do about the south end outlet was
made.
No "Miracles" Booked
"I can't perform miracles," " the
judge replied, "The entire affair
badly involved. You have all had a
hand in it and have got it into a mess.
Then you coma at the eleventh hour
and the 59th minute and ask, the coun
ijl Jufige to resurrect a dead , horse.
O. .D. Eby chairman of one of the
! rnmrriiftwic! nn tho -nrn-iAPt -niintpil' mit
the need for. cooperation and cited the .
necessity for action at present rather
than letting the matter slide. The
negotiations had reached a vital point
he said and urged the people to get
together upon some plan.
A- G. Beattie urged a concrete sug
gestion upon the part of those pro
posing to open Railroad avenue as
the highway route. He cited the cost
of some $50,000 for the improvement
and asked where the money was com
ing from.
L. A. Henderson urged the sale of
the city hall property on Main street"
and the use of the special property
fund remaining in the treasur which
would together make $30,000 as the
starter for the work.
Promise Is Made
At this point Judge Cross took a
hand in the discussion again. He
pointed to the negotiations over the
remainder of the highway in the
county which he characterized as ef
fectually concluded by himself alone.
The agreement, with the state com
mission to lay the grade between the
city line and Cenemah, amounting to
some $40,000 no longer was operative
he declared. He also showed the pos
sibility of state proceedings to con- -demn
the Railroad avenue routing and
charge the entire cost to the county.
- "I have- never been consulted," the
judge declared. -"You have carried
on these negotiations ' and made a
mess of .the affair. The court has
! been sitting by, very much interested,
i but taking little active part. We can
do- nothing until you stop fighting
among yourselves.
Court Will Try
"When you are willing to admit
that you are exhausted, ready to say .
hands off, .play good dog," and leave
.the entire affair alone, then I will
take the matter up and see what can
be done. How it will be done I can't
say, but we can try."
Just as adjournment was about to
be taken." Henderson moved for the
complete abandonment of Live Wire "
action on the road, the discharge of
all of the committees and the placing
of the entire affair in the hands of
the county judge. With the most mark
ed unanimity which has marked any
proceedings of the forum for- some
j time, the motion was carried after
it had been pointed ' out that the
status of the negotiation, through its :
Various ramifications had put the en
tire matter back where it was a year
and a half ago.
COFFEE HONEY CUSTARD
Combine one cupful of strong cof
fee with three cupful s of milk. Beat
together three eggs, six tablespoon-
fuls of Tinnev a few erains of nlf nd
Margaret Gleason estate, letters of three drops of lemon extract Add the
administration granted to Anna G.
Hass; Champion W. Chamberlain, let
ters of administration granted to
Charles W. Chamberlain.
coffee mixture, transfer to custard
cups and Bet in a pan of hot water.
Bake until the custards are firm in the
Another War. Is Said
Planned by Germany
PARIS, Dec. 15. Germany is plan
ning another war with a new and
deadly poison gas that will penetrate
any mask, and specially designed air
planes charged with liquids that will
annihilate cities, Andre Michelin,
speaking before a gathering of po
litical and industrial leaders, charged.
Michelin raised a bogie of renewed
warfare similar to that conjured up
by Georges Clemenceau in the United
States, declaring German factories are
busy turning out implements of war,
chief among which, outside of poisons,
would be special torpedo - carrviTff