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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1921)
, -rf-' 2STON : ' ' ' w Leader VOLUMti 43 CONGRESS SUMMONED IN SPECIAL SESSION Tiriff and Tax Revision to Be Principal Subjects Before the New Congress. H'ahlnlnn. A proclamation con renin cnnareit In apodal aesnlon nt iiojKA-m II. "to receive audi com muiilratlmi may hi made l" !"' tuecullve," waa lnnued Tuesday by I'retlili-nt I nrIUiK Tariff unrt l revision will I the principal atibjocl before III" new tun sn. bill many other intputiuut ul Jh-Ii. luclmlliiK ill" iriiimportallon problem, regulation of III" iitrklim and timl Induntrlc and Iniiiiliiratton re atrlctlon are impeded to bo taken up. Nun i'f Hi" eub)cU ( bn iiiiihM' cred waa mentioned In I ho rail for th" aemtlnn. Th Pordncy emergency liiriff hill, aa vetoed by former President WlUon. will be rushed through cou grrxa In tli elra tesnloti. According la the re'uel of Preal Hrnt Hardin for paK of a meas ure dnalticd 10 help farmers, afford Inn protection aaalual foiolpi com petition, rrpuhllran nienibnra of the hotme waye anil mean committee turn ed about and voted In revive the Kurd ney hill after agreeing week ago not to consider an)- emergency glala Hon ahead of a permanent tariff and revenue revision, Henator Penrose. Hmool and .Me Comber of the aenato finance com mittee agreed lo the new program which. It explain"!, meet ap proval of the prcHlrnl. Tin' new Kordney hill will be pre sented wltli a lx month' llmltailoti, lui Ha prnvltilona will I'tplra earlier Miould lh permanent bill In- enacted. After disponing of tin' emergency measure in the fimi few d of tho rxira aeaalun. Ihn house will luke up and paaa lb" antidumping bill, wlilrh will lie followed by Hie allied meas ure filing American taluutlott on goof paying d valorem. Then will coir.n the permanent l.t riff, which republican leader hopo will bo broad enough to satisfy alt Interest demanding an upward r vlalon. LAST CALL IS OUT FOR DRAFT EVADERS Waahlniclon. A laat opportunity for elective acrvlre law cvdcr lo csrpe hroadraat publication of their name a dcertr during the world war was given by Adjutant-General llarrla IVraona who hava rcaaon to IkIct that they will bo charged with cvndlng the draft but who did not actually do ao, the adjulantgeneral nnnounred. may em-ape the odium of bi'liiK pub licly branded aa a deacrtcr unjustly by communicating all tho facia of tho caae, to him without delay. ' The final check, of lb" lll la being completed by former member of the local draft boarda. By the end of the month the war department expecla lo begin making the Hat public throiiKh the newnpaper and by furnUhlng co plea lo clly, alale and fedrral police, detective agencies, the American Le gion and other patriotic aoclcilna. Tho department' Hat of draft evad er, which aa originally reported to tho provoat inamhol general numbered nearly 4M.000 uame. hn been re duced to approximately 150,000 namca. TWO DIE IN BIG EXPLOSION pontanou Combuatlon Cauaed Da atructlon of Armour Elevator. Chicago. Two pernona re known to be dead and four oilier nro min ing In tho grain duat cxploalon which rocked South Chicago and wrecked ona of the world' largeat grain elevator. The elevator, which consisted of ateel and concrete tower, waa located In tho outhern outaklrt of the clly on the banka of tho Calumet river. It waa built at a coat of moro than (10, 000,000 and waa operated by tho Armour Gruln compuny. J. C. McDonnell, chlof of tho flro prevention bureau, aald hla Investiga tion had convinced him the exploalon was due to apontaneous combiiHtlon. Englnoors ld damage to tho' ole rtor would approximate, $1,500,000. The value of tho grain destroyed wa eatlmated at $1,000,000. Laundry work done nt homo. Mrs. R. R. Riley. S. Broad Btroct. CITIZENS SHOULD ATTEND mm OF CITY COUNCIL t'orrr-puiiili-iit l'i: Siiiit of Co-M-rut ion on the I'uil of People. To the Kililur: Wonloii elioulil iP't In- allownl t liilf bi-liiliil ItH iii-iKliboniiK tuwim. u a.trrouniliiii: muili-y uhwthl UMnuriiHMt il In iixlin tivclu-h", '1 lie wluiil farina inljoinim: Wcivton mine their III! to fi') buoliiU l' oTC Tin' tiKiiilituiii land producca diversified cinpH in iilititiilaiicv, iiiol yiclda exact ly tho piiliil'i liicilcd for the AIuuLa tuuli- -u ifi'ml. I"nr kcc-r. fur u Miior to thu irrigdlfd epud. Why uhouliln't a iiiiiikct wuiiIioiim- where Ihew pulnl'HK un !' nor led, eli-uio-U mid liiHil timlei ii eimriiiitei-, lie iiiulriiiii. in Hiii iiy? A ready market t t"i price mulil be fouml f.ir every putiito itrown on Weitoll nioiiiilaiii. With ntl Hi Ihw ami iupcr pro-ilm-live trrntory, Wvr.toii Ikk dor liiiint, itieminiHy iiiii-otibcioua f the litinieiiM' poMiilnlitieK wuilinir al Its iloor. There i-i II Inw of Cod which tlicreea llml iiothmi; or nobody can Blund rtlll. Imlividuala and towns mui-t either pi'DK'rcMi or retrograde, either jrrow or i: buck. All the oilier citiei. of ilmlliir W in Ihi Mellon pre priikTew Iiik lixini; their otreetn, bullilinc Hidewalka, bumiieeit Iiuums and remdenceB. In Weston gointr to linger alwaya in thu bark K rou ntl ? All citiuna hlioubl rvalue Ihut they are a part of the irovcrmnciil, u part of tho elate and a part of the community in which they live. They should help booht, help build "I1 Ix-tter their Mtrroundiiiga not ail back, Imwl ami try to tear down. The iliMVivnt council "f Weston have pioi-.il.'lv made come miftakoe life i.t full of mistakcK but quit dwelling in the past and live in the prcM-iit, preparing' for the future. As lnyiil and uutirmir im the Weslon city ofliiialH are, why uhouliln't evrryutaly pill their fhoiililels to the wheel, eup port the council in it eirorU to make Wcxton a cily well worth livinc in nud one to be proud of? I ii m infuiiiieil that Weston official have under consideration the pavintr of Mum etrtet mid the widening of Water (.licet lo M feet, along with various oilier city improvements. Hut thi-y tan do nothing without money. They contemplate revising the. city charter no that they Can bond the city for needed Improvements, and will ilbciitw this subject at their next regular meetliu. April ti. I un lit inland they would like a goodly at tendance of Wciilon citizens and property owner. tit thin meeting'. Why not nUeiiil, till of you, and dis cuu these mutters if ymi do nothing nioit 1 Kerne nthcr, each ivniilent and property owner is a part of Weston. Do not lay tho wholo liurilen on the ofllcinls, but let everybody help them in thi ir ileMire lo improve and beauti fy the town. Then all will feel glad that they are boostcra Instead of knockers. ' A l'KlKNl) OV I'ttOCUIiSS. NOTICE TO .SUIISCRIHKUS If thin notice in marked it signifies that your subscription expires on tho flrnt day of April, l'.ICl. Tho Weston Leader is on a canti-in-advanca basis, and will Kiently appreciate your prompt renewal. THE WESTON LEADER. Orecon News Notes Tho public service commission will bn nuked by the Kugcno chumher of commerce to reopen tho telephone rule caso as It npplle to rural tele phonos and hold a meeting In EuRone ' in tho near future to hear tho farm ers' side of the affair. , Tho Btnta highway commission at a mooting to be held lij Portland April I will consider proposals for tho grad ing and graveling of approximately 915 miles of road, laying 31 miles of pavement and constructing three lirldges and ono overhead ciosslng. If the state highway commission w ilt advanco the money to pay for Multnomah county's share, to bo ro- , paid later, It la possible that work can sturt on tho Mount Hood loop this year. The $85,000, which tho county set stdo for this undertaking last year, was not acted on by the high- , way commission, so the money revert d to tho general fund on December 31. No Item for tho loop waa placed In the 1021 budKoti so tho county ha no available funds to co-oporat. WESTON, OKEGON, Spring i ii JA 10U11 HOW ANJUT Lf.U yrJ$Z 1HAT mi 0IRL I ORWRtOM FROM "OVER THEHILL Auiiui Fusa i making extensive improvements lo hi property on Third street. ' A. M. Cillis was hero from his home at Washturna, Wash., during the week. Maurice Hill ha returned from an extended vii.it to North Yakima, Wash. Dr. and Mr. C. 11. .Smith and the children visited in Pendleton, Tues day. Hulph and Edwin McEwtn are at the McEwen ranch this week, for their Easter vacation. Mm. K. U. Hoyd spent the lirt of the week nt the home of her daughter in Pendleton. Mrs. Lula Head and daughter Jen niinme and Mi Rca Allen are visit ing Mii-s Violet Kcndig in Walla Wal In, during the Easter vacation. Ilenrv Harrett reiiorts that his lamb crop promises to be a big one in event pricr weather condition prevail. M. I.. Watts, Marion Hansel I and Omar Stephens shot over the WbUb Walla traps, with good results, last Sunday. Will Kussell, who cruised with the navul ivM-rve during the winter, is home, having arrived from Seattle Tuesday. In the process of workinir county mads south of Athena, the Pambrun hill in being torn down toward a bet ter grade. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Thocny of Wes ton, were in the city Sunday, attend ing the funeral of the late John Cal lentler. M"-. E. II. Caton has returned to College Place, after a week at her home here. She was taken over Wednesday for treatment by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Haynie. Homer Watts, who returned Satur day from a visit to Portland, has been confined to his home with sickness during the first of the week, but is now able to lie at his office. Mrs. Roy Cannon has so far recov ered from her protracted illness as' to be able to conic home from the sanitarium at College Place, and is at the ranch home near town with her family. She is under nursing care of Mrs. Theo Bush. Mujor Robert Walsh, commanding ofllcer at Mathers Field, Sacramento, arrived in the city Sunday and is a guest of his uncle, F. S. Le Grow. Today lie is in Spokane, but will re turn and spend several days hero be fore leaving to visit his parent, Gen eral and Mrs. Robert Walsh, in New York. The young oflicer recently made n flight of 600 miles in six hours. He has recently been promo ted from the rank of captain to major. Mrs. Ivah Kilthau and Miss Ruby Callendor arrived from Portland Sat urday to attend the funeral of their father mid were guests while in the city of Mrs. Austin Foss. Their brother, Turner Callender of Seat tle, has been unable to walk for three months past, being crippled with rheumatism, lie waa prevented from attending his father's funeral. The ladies returned homo Monday, v The funeral services for the. late John Callender, veteran clerk at the St. Nichols hotel, were held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Meth odist church, with a largo number of friends gathered to pay their last tribute to his memory. , Athena delegates will represent local fans at a meeting to be held in Pendleton this afternoon, when tho question of what towns will be repre sented in the league- this season will be decided. So far, Pendleton, He FRIDAY. MAUCII 'l VSll D Deliveries lix, Athena and Millon-l'reewater are on the In-t, and this week Wetun has decided to put a team in the field. It is understood that Walla Walla is nut to bo included in the league this season. "Behold My tV'ifo" George Melford'a lieretn production of Sir Gilbert Parker' great atory, "The Transla tion of a Savage," will be iVewnteil at the Standard Theatre Sunday eve ning. The bill for Saturday (tomor row) night is McLean and May, the favorite comedians, in "Let' be Fashionable." Next Wednesday night Robert Warwick appears in "The City of Masks." When the fact became known last week that the state game warden was in the vicinity of Bingham ' Springs investigating a prospective site for a fish hatchery, much interest was evinced by the local anglers. It is considered by Athena trout fisher men that this section of the state . has never received benefits in propor tion to the amount collected from here in sportsman license fees. The base ball grounds were worked over and the infield leveled, Wed nesday, by the high school boys and help from the town contingent, head ed by Omar Stephens and Lou Ilodg en. The high school boys handled 27 wagon loads of soil, which was used to fill up the low places in the diamond. A big roller was used in the leveling operations. The student body of the Athena high school responded with a gift of $23 to the Armenian-Chinese re lief fund. Some days ago Mr. Jones field secretary for Oregon in the pres ent drive, addressed the school pu pils ami faculty regarding the con ditions in both Armenia and China, with the result that the school be come deeply interested in the suc cess of the local drive, which is under direction of II. A. Barrett Boy's Narrow Escape When the Warren Construction com pany finished excavating rock at the quarry below town a dandy pond was filled by the winter rains, to tho de light of the small boy. In some places the water is several feet deep, alid unless one can swim, lie has little business to attempt to fall in, or jump in, for that matter. Sunday a number of small boys, in cluding Elver Miller were playing at the pond, and the Miller boy in at tempting to navigate an improvised raft, fell into tho water. The cries sent up by his companions for help reached the ears of Millard Kelley, who happened to be passing. Kelley ran to the waters edge, jump ed in and dragged the boy to safety. The lad was none the worse physical ly from his narrow escape fromsdrown ing but it is assumed that he was scared badly enough to predict that it will be a long time before he again trie to raft across the pond. To Amend Charter Before tho City of Athena can dis pose of its street improvement bonds an amendment must be made ' to the city charter, and the city council met in special session Monday fore noon and paused the required resolu tion which provides for the amend ment and for the holding of a special election to voto upon it. It transpires that bonding compan ies will not take street improvement bonds until tho charter conforms to their bonding- proceeding, and accord ing to City Recorder Richards Athena is not tho only town from which the bonding companies have required charter changes, but to the contrary, with few ' exceptions all small towns MUCH NEW EQUIPMENT FOR WESTON LIGHTING SYSTEM prestun-KhafTcr Company Will Make EUnsite Improvrmenl-i. The Preston-Shaffer Milling com pany will soon begin extensive im- rove-mints in the electric lighting t,:t.m at Weston, with a view to giving- the .best possible acrvice to Its many patron here. The plans em brace new poles where needed, heav ier wire and extra transformers. Tlu town will be districted. One new transformer will Ik- piucul on Muin street, another on south i:re,i street mar the M. A. Baker resi dence, and a third on Normal heights near the H. Goodwin resi dence. The company it-quest h the eo-oK-ralion of Weston people in the trimming of trwR which interfere with the wirei. In view of the spirit of progrer.a it displays in making these improvements, the Leader is confident that prompt and cordial response will be made to the compa ny's modest requirement. Improve ments of this nature show a confi dence in the town and a desire to promote its welfare, that should be appreciated. upon starting street Improvement have made charter alterations. The proposed charter amendment when carried at, a special eltxtioa to be held in the near future, will pro vide that the city have privilege of paying for the intersections in ten annual payments, such aa is now giv en the individual property-owner, under the provisions of .the Bancroft Bonding act. Inasmuch as thece in tersections and other street improve ments approximates $14,000, the con venience of having the option of the ten-year payment plan is apparent. Oregon News Notes Business men of Hood River have gone on record unanimously as op poiod to the closed shop. Settler of the central Oregon irri gation district will vote on a C30.O(m Issue at a special election to bo held April 15. The state convention of the D:ms'-i-ter of tho American Revolution was held In Salem Friday and Saturday with more than 35t delegates In at tendance. Members of the board of control of Ba!;er public schools have decided to establish a nutrition class for under nourished pupil attending schools in that city. Several streams In the Willamette valley are running bankfuil as a re cult of tho heavy rains of the past few days. Some smaller streams are beyond their banks. Reports reaching the adjutant-general' office in Salem from the war de partment show that Oregon's national guard is ahead of all states west of the Mississippi river. Albany will bo the convention city In 1924 for the Oregon state camp of the Royal Neighbors of America. This was decided at the triennial session held In Astoria last week. Mr. Adam Setera. 43, was shot three times ud probably fatally in jured nt Oregon City by her son, Adam Setera Jr., 17, who is believed by the authorities to be Insane. A voluntary w-ago cut of $1 a day, made In the hopo that the action stimulate building activity In Bend, was announced by officers of the brick layers', masons' and plasterers' union. J. W. Miller of Sholburn was ap pointed county school superintendent of Linn county by the county court this afternoon to succeed Ida Max- well Cumming. who resigned recent ly. Bids for 11,000.000 of state highway bonds, the issuance of which was ap proved by the state board of control, will be opened in Salem April 9, ac cording to announcement made In Salem. Ralph Hoober. senior in economics at the University of Oregon, won th-3 Btato intercollegiate oratorical contest at Eugene. There were eight other speakers, representing tho same num ber of schools. Mayor Hamilton of CoquUle and the board of councilmen believe there is a great amount of gambling goius ou at the county se it of Coos county and measures are to be taken to elim inate the nuisance. The Medford chamber of commerce hss called upon the city council to purchase the Pacific & Eastern rail road terminal property. Including 13 acre of land near Bear creek, for use as a tourists' camping ground. NUMBER 12 T.IAEiY WINS lij UPPER SILESIA Plebiscite Strongly Favorable to Teutons, According to Cfficial Returns. P-rlln. Cormany won an over wlitlinin victory In the plebiscite held in I'pper Silesia to determine the fu ture r.itionul statu of that region, ac cordlng to official returna received J'roviisional returna published in nwhp:iTxrm here show that In Oppcln. Germany received 20,000 votes to II, is3 tor Poland. In Tanoftil the German cast" 83 per cent bf the ballot and in the town of iSeutht-n they cast 73 per cent. In the Teu'hen country districts tha voto stood: Germany 69,21'2; Poland 6.040. In Kocnlgiuuette the German re ceived 32,000 and the Poles 10,831, and Kaltowltz and country district gave tha German 72,831 and the Pole 86. li7, the town of KattowiU votiug German by $3 per cent. In Klndeaburg the German cast 36,878 vote to 31,025 by the Poles, while In Kreuzburg the German rote was ZZ.HO ft 1556 for the Pole. , Tho plebiscite area Involving 5000 square re'le cf valuable mineral lands, Including coal, iron, tine and le.sd, is the largest territory to decide Its nationality under the peace treaty. Germany h-is insisted it must have "up per Sileria to meet her reparation pay ment?, while "Poland equally urged It need for that nation' welfare. Kormer residents, both Polish and Crrman. fiocr.cd back to vote. It Is estimated at least 140.000 German returned to voto, special trains carry ing the majority of them there. Allied troops guarded the territory during the balloting. HAROiNG UPHOLDS BOUNDARY DECISION Washington, D. C The decision of Chief Justice White in the Panama Costa Rica boundary dispute "must be the unalterable position" of the United States government, President Harding declared in reply to an appeal from President I'orras of Panama. He expressed regret that Panama should feel wounded by the decision, described by Porras as "painful and humiliating." The exchange between the two ex ecutives waa In the nature of an ad interim discussion while the state de partment awaited Panama's reply to Its note. Co .ta Rica has accepted the White award. President Porras recalled the ex pressions of friendship for Panama given by Mr. Harding last November daring his visit there and voiced a hope that the Panamanian people might not be disappointed in their faith in the now administration. To this. President. Harding renewed his avowals of cordiality, but added that the exercise cf friendly relations al ways must be tempered by justice. $5 POLL TAX IS APPROVED Every Person, 21 to 50, In Washington, Subject to Levy. Oiympia, Wash. Governor Hurt has signed the poll tax bill passed by the Inst legislature. The bill became ef fective at ouce and under it every man and woman in tho state between the aas of 21 and 50 years must pay a poll tax of $5 before May 1 of each year. The first year's tax is duo be fore May 1 next. Govrnor Hart has filed with the sec retary of state his veto of items to taling $64,450, the omnibus appropria tions bill of the last legislature. . Tho veto brings the total appropria tions invalidated by tho governor to $1,062,006.02. Tho stricken items leave the general fund appropriations of the last legislature at $10,637,289.88 for the coming bionniura, which in cludes $1,430,893.95 to cover deficien cies from the past biennlum. 856 Oregon Men In Ranks Wounded Salem, Or. A total of 856 Oregoi men, who served in the ranks ,durin( the recent war, were wounded accord ing to statistics compiled by Adju tant General White. This list doet not include wounded officers nor en listed men serving In the marine corri or the navy, which is expected to brinj the total to approximately 1000.