The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, March 14, 1919, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextV ton? Leader A. VOLUME 41 WESTON, OREGON, 'Fill DAY, MAKCIl 14, 1013 NUMCEIC 41 WES . OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST B.I..I..I tu-.t. f Ik Uliik Prlnclp-1 tvanti of the wmk Crlefly Sketched lor Infor mation of Our Retderi. Negotiation have tan closed for lhi establishment of shingle mill In Rt-eilaport South Umatilla county plans lo erect a 135.009 trhnol builillilK for 1)1 (ill school purposes only. It ha definitely bimn 6rUM by the Graves Canning company to rit a 118,000 cannery ( Wondburn. An epidemic of smallpox liaa hit tha lata school for the di'af. and 70 rhll lire a aro now under quarantine. Thn atata arcurlllca commission haa approved a bond laaua of $17,000 for the Hood River Irrigation district I'lana for tha formation of a Linn county chamber of cominorca war lauucbad at a moating of the Albany chamber, Tbo Cooullle corn how had a larger Una of exhiblta thia year than bad txtcn shown before, a total of 3000 ear having bacn offered for eahlbl tlon. Recant ralni to saturated tha (round that a portion of the paved highway about a mile south of llose burg haa been undermined and made unsafe for travel, Cbarlra O. Letourette. a prominent Oregon City attorney, recently present ed to Oregon City ten drinking foun tains, seven of which already have been Inatalled In Main street. Representative llawley hopes to complete bis work with the bouse committee on committees In time to leava for Oregon this week. He will be accompanied by Mrs. llawley. A special school election to author tie tha floating of $31,000 In bonds for tha construction of a new school build ing In Rend baa bean announced. Tha lection baa been eel for March 19. Pint Lieutenant Ralph M. Wilcox, of Portland, and Second Lieutenant Lewis C. Boebe of Cottage Orove, have been awarded distinguished service crosses for extraordinsry heroism in action. ' Of 410 accidents reported 'at rr in the state Industrial accident com nilsalon, one wns fatal. The victim of the fatal accident wee James McColm, who was killed In connection with shipbuilding In Portland. Mrs. J. R. Norton or Hood River waa drowned In the Sandy river, about 20 mllte east of Portland, when an auto mobile In wblrh she was riding with her husband loft Ihe grade, crashed down the embankmont and Into Uie stream Nino million dollara ii now available for road and trail construction, main tenance and survey work within the national foresta of Oregon and Wash ington, according to an announcement made In Portland at the district forest headquarter. Branlold Zanatta, unnaturalized Italian, was arrested near Prlnevlllo by Deputy "United State Marshal F. B. Tlchenor. He Is accused of threaten ing to kill President Wilson If prevent ed from bringing hi wife to thl coun-' try from Italy, It la costing 13.11 a thousand feet more to, produce lumber In western Oregon and western Washington than the mill are able to get for It. ac cording to figure preaented at a meet ing of tha West Coast Lumbermen's association in Portland. ! The legislature just closed excoeded all record for hill passed, although. lagging behind the three preceding ieiston. for tha number of bill. Intro- duced. The number of bill finally ttaaaed was 43 out of 821 introduced, or over 80 per eent passed. Ninety per eent of the vote cast at the special election in Umatilla county favored the Issuance by the ,county of $1,050,000 in road bonds. Less than 6000 votes were cast against the proposal and only four of the 84 north through Bond, and the eaBt and preclncta, all small one, returned un- west road from Klamath Fall to Lake favorable majorities. view, will be undertaken at once by ' The chamber of commerce of North the atata highway commission, accord Bend and Marhfleld have Jointly an- Ing to Commissioner R. A. Booth, who pealed to the commissioner of the addressed a banquet at The Dalle, port of Coo bay to take atep toward attended by delegatea from Wasco, ecurlng for the harbor a powerful Sherman, Crook and Klamath coun Iharbor tug. The plan U to have the ties. Beside tate and national np tug for aiding in unloading largo ve- propriatlon which aheady have been eel and for towing over the bar, made available for these projects, Mr. Bids opened by the county court for 1277.000 worth of Douglas county road bonds were disappointing o the offi cials, and acceptance of proposals was 'deferred. Morris Bro. of Portland bid approximately 95 eent on the dol lar, while the hid of Freeman. Smith fi Kamp of Port la ml was a f riflo Inns limn "I cents, lirputy Kk.1i Vn"'n l-amon, who I patrolling iliu CiiMii.il. n river during tha closed season, reports thai thus far lltoro hav bnen practically no vln latum of the law, but a strict watch l .o u k w)lh . V(IW uf pUI1,M,llI18 nveryotio who attempts to flnli during Ihe closed scanon. That muny mlmon are reentering the rlvir Is Indicated by the fact that Immenao herd of srala are seen In the various sections of thn stream. AftiT a trial lasting four days James FulliTton of KUKnn u found guilty by a Jury In clrrult court of the chaw nf libel agnlnat the lnlvrslty of Ore gun, Its pr ldint, I'. L. Campbell, and tint student. Mr. Ktill- rton had been indicted by the grand jury on the charge of I1"1 for utterances In the Oregon Hornet, a smalt monthly pub lication printed by him. That work will be started In the near future on three flshway at falls below Ilend In Iho iJeuhutee river waa the statement of Master Flub Warden It. K. Clanton. The concrete ladders are provided for by a 10000 appropriation made by the Isat legis lature, and when Installed wilt make available bundroda of miles of spawn ing grounds for Columbia river salmon. That the Smith Industries on Coos hay are likely to open strain Is admit ted generally since It becsmo known A. It. Towers was ordering his fore men lo return to Power by Msrch 15. Rumor aaya that activities there will be Increased and the seven camps will cut 1,000.000 feet of logs each day, This Is taken to mean that the mill will be operated on a scheme of larger output Laws enacted by the 1010 legisla ture will become effective on May 29. unlets they carry the emergency clause or the referendum Is applied. Till statement was Issued by Secre tary of State Olcott. Ho said that the session laws wlU bo available for distribution by May 10. Laws not car rying the emergency clause are effec tive SO days from the end of the session. Governor Olcott has let It be known that In event an adjudication may be obtained of the question of whether or not he would still remain governor In event he resigns as secretary of state and It la determined by such adjudi cation that he will remain governor and not automatically forfeit the off!-e by so red I mil ns, ho will surrender the office of secretary of state and name a successor for that office. A herd of 20 registered Guernsey cattle baa been given the Oregon agri cultural college by W. B. Ayor of Port land, former federal food administra tor for Oregon, and ow ner of the Foot hill farm at Carlton. The college herd Is now one of the largest among those maintained by agricultural colleges of the country 100 head. The value of the gift Is estimated at between 17500 and f 10.000, but to the state it la ex pected It will be worth many times that amount. , x That two main branches of co-oper atlvo work among the farmer of Klamath county-the promotion of sulphuring of Ihe alfalfa land and eradication of the squirrel, under the leadership of the new county agricul tural agent, 12. II. Thomas, will be Im mediately luunchrd, wns decided at meeting at Klamuth Falls of the exec utive council of farmers, The fight against the ground squirrel Is to bo a strenuous one. Poison will be used in to the distressed civilian popul -Mon all sections of the county. and that staffs to determine needs and Twelve days were spent In covering direct distribution of relief have been a distance of 33 miles by state em- established in practically all of the ploye who arrived in Dend from Elk countries in central Europe. -lake, bringing with them 60,000 - ; . which were immediately taken to the new hatchery ix mile, from Dend a, the first to be placod In the trough at the new plant Snow ranging In depth ,from two to 13jfeet Impeded the progress of tho egg carrier, and on the last two day of the trip they sub listed entirely on a diet of bean. Central road projoct. Including The Dalles-California highway branch road Booth announced, mat me rarest sur Ice has just promised the state that It would assist In building road through forest reserves on a 60-50 basis. The state highway commission ha Instructed the engineer to prepare IT'S WORTH WHILE THAT'S WHY !', it . -r?- . 'i . t ' i .. s till . i r- 'V- .. . $750,000,000 TOTAL OF AMERICAN CLAIMS Washington. Claims already filed with the state department by Ameri can citizens against the central pow er for payment for loss and Injury of life and destruction or Injury of prop erty already aggregate $750,000,000, It was announced. The depredations for which damages are asked in these, claims were all committed by the central power. bv. foro the United STfctes thrpw off the role of neutrality and entered the war against Germany, it is assumed, for had they been committed white the United States was In the war, these claims probably would come under the head of Indemnity, while somo t f the claims probably would not be war ranted had the depredallone been In flicted while America was a bellig erent. The claims of American cltltens, when all have been received, passed to establish their validity and com piled, will be presented to the Ameri can delegation at the peace confer ence, who lu turn wilt submit tbem for Insertion In the treaty of peace. A large staff of workers of the state department has been engaged In the compilation of these claims. MUCH FOOD SENT ABROAD . . Q.0 Ton Go to Distressed Popul. tiona Since Armistice. Washington. A review of the relief work conductod under Herbert C. Hoover since tlio signing of the armis tice was made publio by the food ad ministration. It show that 250,000 ton of food, chiefly flour -and fats, haa been sent P peciticatloda for a number ltl "? I? Z n Z which bids will be opened at the next meeting of the commission, March 28. These include: Paving 12H miles in Coos county between Marahfleld and Coqullle; paving in Umatilla county between Milton and the Washington state boundary; paving 6 miles in Marlon county, between Jefferson and Salem; paving and grading in unn county between Albany and Tangent; paving 4 mile in Joaephtne county between Wolf creek and Grave crsek; paving In Douglas county between Oakland and Voncalla and between DUlard and Myrtle creek; paving In Yamhill county between Bellevue and "McMlnnville; paving 3 mllei.tn Wasco county between The Dalles and Sen fert; grading in Columbia county be tween Scappoose and McBrtde; grad ing and graveling In Umatilla county between Echo and Morrow county line; grading 1 mile in Douglas county be tween Canyon villa and Galesvllle; grading In Josephine county on Smith hill ridge. IX - La? i FRANCIS SAYS ALLIES MUST CRUSH REDS Washington. David It. Francis, who went to Rueela as American ambassa dor In 1918, before the overthrow of the monarchy, and who remained there until after the bblabevlsts had seized the government. In testifying before the aenate committee investigating lawlcaa propaganda, ' warned that should the bolsbevlsts be permitted to remain la power, all Russia would be exploited by the Germans. Within 10 years under such conditions, he said, Germany would be the victor of the war antf the nation would be stronger In every way than it waa In 1914. Ambassador Francis told the com mittee that a complete and thorough understanding of the Russian menace convinced him that with the boUhcv IhU in power in Russiapeace not only in Europe but throughout the entire world was an utter impossibility. The ambassador said that if Ameri can and allied troops wore withdrawn from northern Russia be was positive the bolshcvlsts would sweep in and engage in an orgy of murder and de struction on a scale such as the world has never seen. ' Mine Thrower Used Against Reds. London. Government troops in Ber lin made further progress in demol ishing Spartacan strongholds In the northern and eastern sections of the city, according to a German wireless message. The troops UBed artillery and mine throwers, being thus able to force the Insurgents back without ex posing themselves. The dispatch says their terroristic methods have caused a revulsion of feeling in favor of the government everywhere. 1700 Nominations Held Up. Washington. Seventeen hundred nominations, including those of A. Mitchell Palmer to be attorney-general and John Skeltou Williams to suc ceed himself as controller of the cur rency, remained unconfirmed when congress adjourned. On the list were ,ppr03ima,e,y 1000 postmasters, 500 ,rmy ofticers ,nd 200 navy officer' 8oeP,tiry Baker on Inspection Tour. Washington. Secretary Baker and General March, chief of staff, left Sun day on their trip of inspection of var ious army camps which will take them to the Pacific coast Mr. Baker and Qen6rai March expect to return to Washington near the end of the month and the gccretnry then will prepare for ni8 thlr( ulp oversca3 , R. R. Shopmen Seek Wsge Increase. Washington. Several thousand rail road shop employes have asked the railroad administration to Increase their wages about 25 per cent Perhnps tinder the new order of things It will be necessary for man to have a license to live, as well a his dog. It Is to be, hoped by gentlemen with feet and enrs thnt the knitters will not demobilise themselves with the coming of pence. DRAWING THE HUN TEETH I'm is. Military Germany will go out of cilatence aa the result of adop tion by the supreme council of the military terms of German disarma ment aa they will go Into the peace treaty. These terms provide for a sweeping reduction of the German military establishment down to 100.000 men, with 4000 officers, the army to be recruited by the voluntary system for the period of 12 yesrs. The effect of this Is to limit Germany's military strength to less than the number of uioiwEwltzcrland haa In her army. Other provlslona loathe military terms lin.lt the arms and munitions Germany may possess to a quantity sufficient for 100.C00 men and alt the remainder must be delivered over or destroyed. The German forte along the Rhine also must be destroyed. The Imperial staff Is Abolished at Vx't re sult of reducing the force. The progress that has been made with the work of framing the peace treaty Insures the completion of the task by March 20. The frrst rough draft will be In readiness jjien Presi dent Wilson arrives In Fraace Thurs day. It is the present purpose of the peace conferee to call the Germans to Versailles soon after' March 20, probably from March 22 to March 25. CRIPPLED YANKS RESTORED Reconstruction no, that's too pro saic. Regeneration Is the only word that can describe the remarkable work of rebuilding the wounded in the mili tary hospitals. One feels, after a tour of one of these hospitals, that he he been permitted a visit to a divine workshop where men are fashioned In parts, put together, and taught to func tion. God made Adam of dust, lint tbe?e modern scientific surgeons make their men of wood and Iron, gold and silver. Wine "sad clay. That Is the physical. Of the mental and spiritual thai which Is Intangible well, only this: these surgeons blow Into their men cf wood and Iron, gold and silver,, bone ana cmy, a spirit. Ana ravins oiown Into their product thia spirit, they f-ed the spirit Then months later from this hospital walks a man who was a machinist before his legs were blown off at Chateau Thierry. Now he Is a draughtsman on his way to a job, con fldent happy, Independent .He Is walk ing, on legs of Iron and wood. Ton would have to ace him take tbem off before you would believe It He walks so well. Tet his legs are no newer than his spirit or his ability as a draughts man. Nor Is his spirit or ability less firm than those new legs of "wood and iron. ' , . v ' The Cost There are 1200 war wounded and sick In Letterman General Hospital In the Presidio at San Francisco. Most of these men from the Argonne. Belleau Wood. St Mlhlel, Chateau Thierry, are being remade bodily and spiritually. Of the two phases of their regeneration, the spiritual Is perhaps the more dlf flcult. For when a man Is mangled of his less, or ills arms, or his eyes, he Is apt to lose more than those physical as sets. He loses his economic value and with It his confidence and his self-respect For proof of that we have the legless, the armless, the blind begging on our street corner. They have lost their spirit Of course, this divine workshop of the military surgeons la an expensive regenerator. It takes thousands of dollars each month to carry on the work In Letterman Hospital alone, and Letterman Is only one of many such hospitals, all of them run by the gov ernment So next April when the Victory Lib erty Loan comes aknocktng at your door, remember that a big part of the money you lend is to be used to keep running the machinery of these divine workshops where men who were man gled for love of America are being re made. THE FIRST THOUSAND When a mar. gets a thousand dol lart saved up there are always oppor tunities for a good Investment. It Is hard to placo much less than that. That Is why weelthy men who are self made advise young men to begin early and -save the first thousand. . Until we went to war, In order to get a thousand dollars together one' had to go to tne bank and put a little away each months or each week or tuck part of his salary away In an old sock. It was troublesome to go to the bank and the sock was too handy. . . Now, however, there Is an easy way to get that first thousand. The an swer is War Savings Stamps. In them tue government of tha United States, backing those stamps with a guarau tet of four per cent Interest com pcunded quarterly! opens the way. One can begin with "two bits." - HALF MILLION MEN TO BE HELD III ARMY Fcrce of 509,909 Will Remain In Service Until Congress Outlines Strength. ' ' Washington. The war department ill bold an army of 509,909 until con gress provides otherwise. Chief ol Staff March announced. Tbls army will not be reduced undel any circumstances, March stated, until congress passee a law outlining lh permanent military organization. lie declared that the United State could not get along with a small army. Tbls Is the strength aaked by the war de partment in the military bill which failed to pasa congress. Demobilization figures given by Gen eral March show 419,525 men sailed for the United States up to March 3, and 354,811 bad landed In the United States np to March 7. The number ordered demobilised I now 1,615,000. The total American battle eaaualtiee during the war were 240,197, March announced. Americans who took part In action against the enemy in France numbered 1,390,000, he added. These Included 1,100,000 divisional troops. In- fXLr Of supply. The list of divisional total show that the 91st (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, Utah) lost E838. 100,000 YANKEES DISABLED Only About 20,000 Soldier Will Hav to Be Retrained. Wwhlngton. Present estimates of military authorities put the number of American disabled in the war at 100,000. Of thia number it la esti mated that 80.000 will be able to re turn to their old occupations, leav ing 20.000 who need retraining for work suited to their maimed condition. The federal board of vocational edu cation, appealing to the country for aid in the campaign to make disabled soldiers independent by making them self-supporting, announced that so far 13.000 men Injured in fighting the bat tles of democracy have registered for retraining. The applicatlona of 1300 have been approved and 500 actually have started courses in re-education. At least 15,000 disabled men are ex pected to enroll for vocational courses. Irish Appeal to King George. London. A petition has been sub mitted to King George, signed by a number of prominent Irish officer who served in the British army during the war. praying that Irish home rule he submitted to the peace conference. ' The petition points out that 200,000 men In Ireland and an equal number of Irish from Great Britain's overseas dominions volunteered for service in the war. Release Soldiers When Folk Are ill. Washington. General Pershing has been authorised by the war depart ment to send to the United State for the purpose of Immediate discharge, Individual officers and drafted or en listed men, upon presentation of con vincing testimony to the effect that there exist sickness or other dlstrers in the family of the officer or soldier concerned. .. - 339 End Live In Army, Washington. Statistics compiled by the war department show that from the date of the entry of the United States into the war to February 21, 1919, here were 339 suicides in the army. Peaceful people go right on hoping thnt In time both Perrogrnd and Berlin will grow weary of mnchlne-gun gov ernment The unconquerable German army hns ceased to exist So much for the Btoying power of official imperialistic adjectives. ' It Is rumored again . thnt Kins George wilt visit this country. It goes without saying we will give him a royal good time. If the law of Increased demand op erates that way, the price of mar riage licenses ought to go up when the army gets home. Statistics are nt hnnd to show a phenomenal Increase In the number of millionaires during the war. And how muny are poorer?