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Wots on E s n Feb . TEE VOL. BOARDMAN, OREGON, FRIDAY, .MARCH 16, 1923 NUMBER G COLUMBIA BASIN SURVEY ORDE Investigation of Proposed Pro jects to Begin About May 1. Washington, D. C Secretary Work of the interior department announced he had directed the reclamation serv ice to conduct the investigation of the proposed Columbia basin and Umatilla rapids reclamation projects, for which congress recently appropriated $150, 000. The secretary also announced he had designated Assistant Secretary Goodwin, whose home is In Spokane, Wash., and Director Davis of the reclamation service, to advise him fur ther as to the engineering, water, legal and other questions arising in connec tion with projects. Investigation of the project!, it was said, will begin about May 1. Immediate relief for thousands of farmers located on federal irrigation projects in the west will be made avail able under a policy announced by Sec retary Work. Three classes of relief will be given under authority of an act passed near the end of the recent session of con gress. Extension of time for payment of construction charges on irrigation ditches, due Anting or before 1022, to December 31, 1924, will serve to re lieve many farmers from their most immediate problem. The second class of relief will comprise the furnishing of irrigation water during the se.'son of 1923 regardless of delinquencies in payment of past charges either for operation or construction due the gov ernment, and the third class will per mit payment in installments of ac crued charges for operation, mainten ance and construction. R. F. CLEVELAND 5 i5i. " " : I rcf 111 INTERESTING ARTICLE ON RAPIDS BY !. C. BROWNELL An interesting article by D. C. Brownell appeared in the Portland Journal Wednesday and I.; as fol lows: "Development of the Umatilla project can be made a great demon stration in complete development for the benefit of the entire west," said V. C. Brownell of Umatilla, in Port land Tuesday. Mi". Brownell, a pio neer citizen, made the original sug gestion that Umatilla rapids be utilized for power, irrigation and which to bu of waters o become imp ell, because ieht has appropriated the state 10,000 with vey the project. The use the Columbia river ha rative, said Mr. Browh the waters of lateral streams in I lie appropriated e though it leavi sands of acres an ea unt Hied, lity have all been devel o p m e n t, undrcds of thou potentially fertile 1 ! I r present met I ods 40 ARE DEAD IN MIDWEST STORMS Chicago, 111. Gradual restoration of i telephone and telegraph facilities in I the storm swept area between the Rocky mountains and the Appalachian range brought details of death and destruction, the dead nearing a total of forty, the injured counted at ap proximately 200 and damage to trans portation, lines of communications, homes and business buildings reported at millions of dollars. The worst effect of the storm was felt at Pinson, Tenn., and Deanburg, Tenn., where the death toll was seven teen and the injured totaled between fifty and seventy-five persons. Cmtral Kentucky felt the irresist ible force of the gale and as its effects were being checked, counted its dead at nine, the injured at approximately eighty and property damage close to a million dollars. In Ohio two persons were reported killed, one at MaBSillon and one at Steubenville. Scores were injured. Practically the whole state of Wis consin was recovering from the effectb of a heavy snow. Richard F. Cleveland, son of former President Clvela:-d, who is engaged to Miss Ellen Gailor, daughter of the pres ding bishop of the Episcap.il church. FIVE-YEAR MENTAL LAPSE IS BEL Wa'la Walla, Wash. Time rolled back five years for Jce Straghan, a convict at the state penitentiary here, when he regained cunseiom-ness from a skull operation and picked up the thread of his existence at Camp Fre mont, California, in 1913. Straghan, sent to the penitentiary from Spokane on a statutory change several months ago, was operated on by prison physi cians to relieve epileptic seizures, to which he had been subject. They dis covered that a fragment of his skull had become lodged in the brain cover ing, causing a pressure. Five years ago Ktraglian's skull was fractured when hospital attendants dropped him from a stretcher while removing patients during a fire. When he recovered consciousness after his most recent operation his first words were: "I hope they won t punish the boys. They didn't mean to drop me. Is the fire out?" lie declared that the last five years, during which he had been convicted and sent to the penitentiary, were an absolute blank to him. .no city can surviv an unreclaimed dost leither can Port lain Id and maintain its FARM LOANS TO BEGIN Twelve Regional Banks Will Soon Be In Operation. Washington, D. C The federal farm loan board has completed all necessary steps up to the actual issuing of char ters to the new government-financed intermediate credit banks to put into operation the new credit system to aid the farmer. Commissioner Lobdell 'of the board said loans under the new system tem porarily at least, will be limited to a basis of nine months maturity. Upon livestock paper satisfactory assurance of renewal will be given in all proper cases and under satisfactory condi tions of security, it was said. It was indicated to be the plan to turn over from the treasury $1,000,000 to each of the twelve regional banks in the system immediately upon the issuing of charters, with additional funds up to the aggregate of $6u,000, 000, to be supplied as need arises. Mr. Lobdell reiterated that it was hoped to have the system in full operation within a few weeks. I SAYS BALFOUR 13 V.RGNG Mistaken Impression Gained in Debt Issue, Says McAdoo. Los Angeles, Cai. William G. Mc Adoo, secretary of the treasury during the world war, said in a statement here tiiat it was never suggested by Lord Balfour or himself that Great Britain should assume responsibility for K.ans made by the United States to allied governments other than Grat Britain. "1 am at a loss to understand," McAdoo said, "how Lord Balfour, for whom I have gieat respect and admira tion, could have gained the tmpres ion reflected in the statement attributed to him that 'the United States Insisted in substance if not in form that al though her allies were to spend the money it was only on our (Great Britain's) security that they were pre pared to lend it.' " l the midst " he added, lurvlve and oveted sta tion as the clearing house of this wonderful country now practically undeveloped where should exist fer tile fields and the . homes of mil lions begging the privilege to pour their products into the coast sea lants' storehouses for export to the markets of the world. 'The Umatilla development is asked for the specific development of the agricultural, industrial and commercial resources of the interior k1umbia basin and not with the Idea that such hydro-electric forces shall be carried away over high pow er lines to remote markets, to be sold at high prices to meet the COBt of long distance transmission and high profits of the vendors. "The priorities at the developed Umatilla project must be: First to pump water for reclamation and cultivation of land: second, to pro vide the farmer with needful power in the production and marketing of his crop and for domestic uses; third, to electrify the O.-W. R. R. & N. and S. P. tt S. railroads, and other roads within the electrically reclaimed area; fourth, to serve municipalities in the district; fifth, for nearby industrial plants; sixth, for the general market in cuHe there is a surplus of prnfer. "The federal government should finance the dam and power machin ery, bridge and locks and main can al. Oregon and Washington should respectively construct laterals and canals leading to irrigation district laterals, and Irrigation districts should in turn deliver the water to consumers. The first thought for the use of the power, the water and the navigation reshltant from Uma tilla rapids development should be the development of the adjacent re gion where development has pro vided as far as it can without gov-;rnment-8tat s Impel us." THE LADIES STRIKE AM) THE AWKWARD SQUAD In all the history of Board man :his was the best entertainment ever ivOn in the auditorium. This opinion jrQU hear expressed everywhere you go Each playlet was ui entertainment of itself. Bridget O'Flannlgan of the old school, and 'II the other girls who were stand ing up for thoir rights, furnished ".s a rare treat, although they could not keep from showing their dis comfiture when the "Ladies" went on a strike. or local interest was the Darkies' ketch and the "Awkward Squad". The sketch between acts furnished wreat amusement' even to the most 'aeting who have spent years traili ng thoir ears for vaudeville, The ' kward Squad wound up the even ing, which showed the skill and lalr.stnking our corps of teachers exhibited in getting us the enter tainment, And not least by any n ana did the whole entertainment prove what wonderful talent our onnc people have and can show if brought out . BtG CHURCH MEETING TO HE HELD IN BOARDMAN The Presbyterlal of the Pendleton presbytery will be held in Board-, man at the Community church on March 26 and 27. The first session I is to be hi id Monday evening. The young people are rendering a pro gram which will be followed by an i address by Miss Preston who is the loine mission field worker, On Tuesday dinner is to be served j .it the church: also luncheon in the evening. Those who do not have to I etit'Ttain any of these visitor,', at ; hone, will be required to furnish . to i of the eats Among other visitors will be Mr Chas. H. Williams who is the for-j sign ml. slon secretary of the North- , ern Pacific district. We also expect delegates front the various churches and officers ol the Pendleton 1'ivsiiy t trial so: ii ly. Eviybod Is urjtetJ to j some and make this meeting a great success. JUDGE MACLAfiEM WHEAT MERGER FLAMS FT. A V 1 Judge J. J. Maclaren ot Ontario, Car.sda, who SUOCeeda the late John Wanamaker as chairman of the Inter, national Sunday School association. CITIZENS VVOHK ROAD A combination of GttlseBS and buslne s men are busy Ibis week making a good and passable road to Wells Springs. We are told that the brush will be cm alongside the road in preparation for a pipe line o the oil well to be drilled at the iprlng and bo in nadi.iess when oil is struck. Mrs. Macomb. r entertained al a thicken dinner last Wednesday sven ;ng in honor of Nate's "?" birth lay, The invited guests were Mr. an. Mrs. Clay Wam-n, Air. and Mrs. II. Hfnns, Miss Ida Mefl'oid and Al Ma tomber. Whitfield He!d o;i Murder Chr.rge. ancouvtr, Wash. George Edward Whitfield, 20, wai formally accused of murder in the first degree when in formation charg.ng i Im with the slay ing of 11-year-old Anna X ,sko of Bat tle Ground, while the child was on her way bl me from the Battle Ground school, was filed. Coast Munitions Stirvay to Ej M.;de. San Francisco. A Survey of every sizable manufacturing plant in Cali fornia! Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Nevada will be started this mouth by the United states war department to list the munition-making potentialities of the Pacific ti ns;, w tli a view of utilizing these plums immediately in the event ot a major war emergency. TEN A?.E KiLLEO !M rem Recklinghausen.-4 Eight Germans and two French are dead as the ivsult of clashes with French troops in vari ous parts of Reckllnghaut en. One French soldier and three Ger mans were wounded in u riot ut Dort mund. A state of sicg." has been derlared In the entire Recklinghausen district. Additional troops have been sent to preserve order at Buer, Where a French army officer and a French civilian official KWe killed Sat-inlay night and where excitement has since been running high, resulting in re newed shootings. of the Germans who met death, two Ware shot down while trying to escape from the fendafmea In the Buer dis trict. Five Other! were killed and several wounded an hour buer, when a crowd attacked s French guard post. The eight ii German was l.,lled at Dort mund. ! i al Marketing Association Arrangements Await Only State Units' Adoption. Minneapolis. Final plans for tie OSV ganixation ot a national co-operatva wheat-marketing association and pool have been completed and await only approval by state organizations to put it into etfeot, it was announced here. The plans were approved by a com mittee which has been meeting here In the offices of the Northwestern Wheat Growers Associated. The plans will be submitted to farm ers from central stales ut a meet ng to be held in Wichita. Kan., at a date to bo announced later. Another meet ing will be held later on the Pacific Coast. Details of the plan will not be made public until alter the Wichita meeting. It was said, however, taut the organ i.ation expects to pool about 50,000, 000 I UShels of wheat this year. The states which are to be asked to Join the ntOVi ment are Oregon, Wash ington. Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma and Col orado, Members of the committee which approved the plans are George C. Jew oit, general manager of the North- , w. 'stern W heat Growers Associated; George E. Duis, president of the North Dakota Wheat Growers' association; W. H, McQreevy, Carmen, Okla., sec retary of the National Wheat Growers' association, and Frank A. Carrecht, COtfnfiel for the Northwestern Wheat Growers Associated. II. E Warren I itor in Portland tl l a tuts is week i strike J Ml JNE EXTRA 1 1 PROCESS GIVEj I 1A DELIGHTFUL f THE MARKETS Portland. Wheat Ha.d white, $1.;',7; sofi white, $1.27; western White, $1.20: hard winter and northern spring, $1.20; red western, $1.19. Corn Whole, $42; cracked, $44. Hay Alfalfa, $24 per ton; valley timothy, $23; eastern Oreg. u timothy, $23. Butter Fat 42 fi i4c. KJggs itanch, 2'li,ji22c. Cheese Tillamo.,K triplets, 33c; Young Americas, ZZWfrStc; block Swiss, 30(U32c; cream brick, 2830c. Cattle Choice steers, $7.50!!.2o; medium to good, $6 25tp7. Sheep Fast of mountain lambs and choice valley lambs, $13.5014. Hogs Prima llsh, $J.30&9.65; smooth heavy, $S'T( 'J. Seattle. Wheat Hard while, soft white and western while, $1.::7; hard red winter, soft red winter, northern Spring and h .er Fat MC tic. Eggs Ranch. 210-24c. Cattle Prime steers. $7.25 7.65; medium to choice, $J7'4J7.!5. Hogs Prime light, $'J.2CQ50; Hotel Dor ion, pendl the house of welcome. Gcorrjc U. Piper Called By Death. Portland, Or. George U- I'iper, United Slates collector of customs, died at Good Samaritan hospital here. I'iper had bei n an active member of i lie political life of Oregon since his return to this suite in 191$. He wus at one time editor of th Seattle I'ost Intelllgencer and prominent in Wash- CRIEF GENERAL MEWS The Brookbart bill for a presidential preference prlmarj in Iowa was de feated by the senate 21 to 25. Governor WcCray announced that he would not sign the soldier bonus bill passed by the Indiana g moral assem bly. To date the board of estimates has voted $:i,5uo.ooc for the removal of snow from the streets of New York City. 'i reasury officials anticipate, an over- sithscrlption of $',(). CdO.tii ij to the re BtMttly announced i: sue of cert il'ieates Philippine government expenditures exceeded rovt nues by mure than $7, Witi.tiU') during 1:22, ucc.OfdlBg to the annual report of the li.iiulur auditor. The prohibition enforcement bureau has started ua Investigation of con cerns which advertise formulas and devices lor evading the Volstead act. Iletail food ccst IB all of 22 repre sent at ; ve ci t ies decreased between Jan uary IS ami February 15, according to figures compiled by the federal labor department iimjnsriME tdiai E!DS IN ACPTTAL Modford, Or. The Jury in the night riding trial of Dr. Jouttt P. Bray, prac ticing chiropractor and formerly a local minister; J. F Hlttson, automo bile merchant, ami Howard ton. or- cbaidist, accused uf riot In connection With the kidnupitiK and hanging of Joseph F. Hale, wealthy music li.stru ment dt aler. n the night of Maivh 17, last, returned verdict of not guilty after being out f0 minutes, 'lb i e women were on the jury It was the most sensational, longest and one of th hardest fought cases in the circuit court h. story of Jackson Bounty, 1 he trial lasted ulmost two v.ee!;s and osl the county thousands Of dollars. Sixteen Dthsf citizens were Indicted al in; with Bray, llltlaon and Hill lor p.ifVicipiiliio; in the Hale party, under the name ot John Doe, but have never yet been apprehended, nor has their Identity been revealed by the d. strict attorney's off.ee. $20,000 Tiken in Gtm Robbery. Portland, Or. Two robbers held up the offices of the G Cramer a impsny, jewelers on the seventh floor of the Selling building, S.xih and Alder itreets, and .-.; i I with nearly $20, 000 In loose diamonds, rings and watches just be. on 4 O'CMCI Mouday afteri oon. Webster to Get Judgethip. Washington, D. C. Senator Jones of Washington announced his definite In tention to name J. Stanley Webster of Spokane, representative, for United Slates Judge, ea.-.ihiii d. strict of Washington. $100,!TOO G.ven Pacific University. Forest Grove. Pacific university has received a donation ot I196VOO0 f-om Mrs. Robert L McCormick of Tacoma, according to announcement of W. C. Weir, piasideul uf Uie iusa t .t.ou. Mrs. W. H. MeffOrd was called to the bedside of her moltiT, Mrs. Knowlton, who was reported very ill. She lefi on Number one Tues day for Getcbell, WMH . and will stay until her mother is better, 50 GOOD CIGARETTES GENUINE Little Mildred Kutzner sick list this week. on the DURHAM TOJACCO FINNISH DEBT ARRANGED American Commission Alio Acts On British Dills. Washington, D, C. The American di ot funding SOnmiaSlOB has negotia ted a tentatlva programme for refund ing the debt of Fluiand to the United Stat s and put the recently negotiated lgreemeiit witli Cieat Britain .u the final stage preparatory to going Into opera: loti. I'.nland was accorded terms for the repayment or bar debt almost identi cal wnh those given Great lliitaiu: El tat slon of time for payment over a period of 62 years with Interest at 3 per ceRt for the first 10 years and HVs per cent thereafter, lateral on the di bt was fixed at the rate of 4',i per cent to December Hi last, when the 2 per cent rale was made effective, Oreson Bank Is Robbed. N'-w berg, Or Robert Hums, ex-con-vie,, and hdgar Lottla Stone, lt years old, robbed the Hank of St. I'aul at in: HO o'clock Monday morning, after holding up MISS Beatfioa. Murphy, tell er, and tier father, William Mufphy; escaped to New berg In an automobile and Within an hour were captured by Kay Am), Newberg night marshal, and lodged in Jill. The loot, $703.40 lu i currency and silver, was recovered. Is your subscription paid in advance?