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OF CURRENT WEEK
CHINESE RESUME FIGHTING
Renewed Intensity Follows Kain Storm
Little Change in Situation.
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Three armed aDd masked men driv
ing a closed automobile blew the safe
of the Melaval postotflce, near Maple
Creak. Saskatoon, early Monday and
escaped with $2800 in cash.
Toklo. Very severe rain and wind
si onus in Formosa have caused HO
deaths, while 312 persons have been
seriously Injured. Some 3200 houses
wen; destroyed and 4600 damaged.
Fell do C. Avila, Gautemalan consul-general
here and former secretary
or Htate in his native country, died at
Sierra Mndre, near Los Angeles, Mon
day night, utter an Illness of several
years.
Sloven new oil wells were completed
In Los Angeles basin fields during the
week just past. Torranco brought in
nino and the other two were com
piled by Huntington Beach und
Koseerans.
Mrs. Ilanna Eldred of Baldwin, N.
V., entertained 80 of her 183 descend
ants Sunday in honor of her 102d
birthday by dancing a jig. This dance
enlivened I he Virginia reel when she
was young.
Pruning temperatures were report
ed Tuesday from five weather sta
tions in Minnesota and North und
South Dakota. Iteports of frost came
from Minnesota, North und South Da
K ui a and Iowa.
Four policemen and 11 Filipino
strikers were killed Tuesday Ir. a fight
Ml the town of Ilanepepo on the island
ill Kauai, according to advices. Dep
uty Sheriff Crowd! also was reported
lu havo been seriously wounded.
K. T. Cliapln, president of the Cha
piu Pole company of Spokane and
owner of extensive logging interests
in northern Idaho, shot and killed
himself accidentally Monday at his
Hummer home at Hayden Lake, Idaho.
The First National bank of Putnam,
('win., closed alter its cashier, (!.
Harold Oil patriok, ex-state treasurer,
attempted to commit suicide August
7, is short. 1700,000 In Its accounts us
a result of the cashier's embezzle
ments. The government of Chllo is now
entirely under the control of the Chil
ean army. President AleAandrl,
shorn of Independent action by the
powerful military Junta, has resigned
nt the behest of the Junta and will
leave the country.
Edmund Ducloux and Dr. Funis of
Paris have made a serum immunizing
..gainst anthrax A report telling how,
by means of Ibis serum, they preserv
d 20.000 cattle and 10,000 sheep from
an epidemic was read at a meeting of
the Academy of Silence.
l.oulso Drafkn, formerly of New
London, Wis., was freed of the charge
pi complicity in (he $2,000,000 Rond
out, HI . mail robbery lust June, by
United States Commissioner Peltier
Monday. She was held in flO.900
bonds as a material witness.
Worried over this year's CTOP full
lire and unable to recoup by a gamble
In Wheat futures, which he tried, (Jus
Sturkey, 32, one of the best known
farmers in Coronation, Alta., Sunday
afternoon set fire to a straw stack
and crawled on top, where he burned
to death.
A big lead for Ralph O. Brewster,
republican, tor governor of Maine, was
shown In returns from Monday's elec
tion from SU precincts out of 633 In
the state, which gave Brewster 136,
Stfl voHs to 103,273 for William it.
I'attangall, democrat, l'attangall con
ceded Brewster's election.
Mrs. Florence King Harding, widow
of President Harding, and Mrs. John
Crier lllbben, wife of the president of
Princeton university, have guaranteed
120.000 to build and equip a power
boat for church work In southeastern
Alaska, it Is announced In Ketchikan.
Alaska, by Dr. S. Hall Young, super
Intendent of Presbyterian missions In
Alaska.
The American member of the repar
ations commission under the terms of
the Dawes reparation plan will be ap
pointed at a meeting of the couinils
slot) on September 19 und It Is con
sidered almost certain that the nom
inee will be James A. Logan Jr. who
has been unofficially American ob
server with the commission since the
departure of Poland W Boydeu.
Shanghai. -The armies of Chekiang
and Kiangsu, battling west and south
west of this city, which held their
fire during a few days of raiD, were
fighting with renewed intensity Mon
day. As a result the streams of wound
ed returning from the front increased.
Report as to the result do not agree,
but the best information was that
there was little change in the situa
tion. Trains arriving were filled with
wounded soldiers. Lesser fighting
was reported from the Liuho sector on
the coast, 30 miles northwest of the
city, where General Chi Shieh-Yuan,
commander of the Kiangsu forces, has
been trying to establish a contact with
his naval forces, sent down the
Yangtze river from Nanking, the Ki
angsu capital.
Casualties of the Chekiang army de
fending Shanghai were estimated to
total more than 400, of whom half
were killed. The Kiangsu attacking
army was said to have lost about the
same number.
Shanghai was calmer, although the
naval forces landed to protect foreign
ers and their Interests have not re
laxed their vigilance. One reason for
the lessening of anxiety was a report
that the Kiangsu leaders had aban
doned their attempt to reach, the city
through Liuho and Woosung, the outer
port of Shanghai, and had sent rein
forcements to Hwangtu on the Shanghai-Nanking
railway, where the fight
ing has been the hardest. Both sides
are using machine guns, which ac
counts for the increased casualties.
JAPANESE PROTEST
UNREST IN MUKDEN
Toklo," Disorder and unrest in tiie
forces of General Chang Tso-Lin, sta
tioned at Mukden, principal city of
Manchuria, huve resulted in a strong
protest from the Japanese consul gen
eral there, according to reports re
ceived here Monday by the Japanese
foreign office.
Press dispatches received here say
that as a result of the situation the
Japanese consular police, are held In
readiness for action at Mukden and
that Japanese troops may be called
out to preserve order.
The Chang Tso-Lin troops are con
centrated1 at Mukden to movo south
toward Pekin for an attack on the
forces of the central government, in
ChlhU province, headed by Wu Pel l'n
liissension in the forces of Chang
Tso-Lin, as Indicated in the Toklo
dispatch, would be a new factor in
favor of the central government forces
about to defend Pekin. The under
lying cause of the Mukden turbulence
was not Indicated.
79,000 Pogrom Victims.
Kharnov, Ukrainla. - According to
the findings of special commissions
which have been investigating the
loss of life and property caused by
Intervention and the Russian civil
war, 12;!T Jewish pogroms occurred
in the Ukraine region in which 79,000
persons WON killed, f0,000 driven
from their homes and 20,000 children
rendered destitute
A lurfte number of small towns and
villages were destroyed. Severul com
munists stated that they had lived
through as many as 17 pogroms.
PERSHING ELATED
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General Retires From
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Long
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Ex-Commander Confident That De
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Solved Great Problem.
U. S. Princess Killed.
' Klneo, Me. Princess Radziwill, for
merly Miss Helen Simpson of Chicago,
was killed Sunday when she fell more
than 1000 feet over a cliff on the
north slope of Mount Klneo, Her body
lodged in trees part way down and
w iis recovered w ii li difficult y.
The princess, who had spent the
summer here with her family, had lost
a valuable ring on the mountain some
time previously. Willi her brother, it
was understood, she was searching for
it when the eurth gave way on the
edge of the cliff.
Washington, D. C. General Persh
ing passed to the retired list of the
army Saturday, satisfied that the mis
sion he set for himself when he turn
ed his face homeward from France
establishment of a national defense
system to safeguard the nation in fu
ture against any such confusion and
turmoil of impoverished preparation
as it knew in 1917-18 was well on
the road to accomplishment.
The former commander of the Amer
ican army in France was at his desk
as usual, although he had only a half
day longer of active service to give.
He found the officers of the war de
partment awaiting him to pay their
respects, and upon his desk a mass
of messages and letters of greeting
that gave witness to his high place
in world esteem.
He found also more complete re
ports testifying to the sucess of the
defense test Friday than were avail
able at midnight, when he finally con
cluded his part in the one-day tryout
of the national defense system that
he has personally fostered and super
vised through its initial phases.
He was happy as a boy over the
showing made all over the country
and at the evidence of patriotism
shown by the millions of men and
women who participated in the exer
cises.
General Pershing feels that the test
demonstrated conclusively that the
American people Qesired some such
democratic and workable programme
as has been devised under his guid
ance to be a part of the permanent
policy of the nation. He believes that
annual tests of the sort conducted Fri
day should and will become a part
of the nation's life. And he also be
lieves that there is no necessity ,for
congress to make appropriations to
pay expenses for such tests, ns the
voluntary contribution of services by
citizens of all ranks and occupations
everywhere is the keynote of the sys
tem that has been planned.
Additional reports on the test show
ed that the total number of regular
army troops mustered for the duy was
92.5S1; national guard, 167,633, and
organized reserves, 59,168.
"Volunteers to fill the ranks of
these forces exceeded 1,000,000," the
war department's statement said.
Millions of other citizens besides
the volunteers shared in the exercises,
and maiiy communities remain to be
heard from. The war department of
ficials are confident that the final
check-up will show that the full war
time strength provided for In the or
ganization tables of the three-part
urmy, more than 2,000,000 men, was
actually assembled during the day.
Yet this was accomplished, they point
ed out, without the expenditure by
the government of a single cent aside
from Ordinary peacetime appropria
tions for the army.
Pershing Boom Starti.
St. l'aul, Minn. A boom to make
General Johu J. Pershing national
Commander of the American Legion,
In annual convention here, was start
ed Monday night.
Who started the move, no one seem
ed to know, but the cry "We want
Perekinf for commander," rang
through hotel lobbies and on the street
wherever "buddies" gathered.
Leaders of some delegations said
they planned to get in touch with
General Pershing to learu whether ho
would accept the office.
Islander Held Firebug.
Honolulu. Hasan Prcgorio de la
Cru was arrested here Monday on a
secret grand Jury Indictment charging
him with arson In connection with
the burning of a sugar plantation cane
field at Ewa. this Island. De la Cruz
recently was released after having
been detained 54 days, lie made
charges of false imprisonment against
Chief of Detective Kellett In that
connection. The case against Kellott
Is still pending.
Two Killed in Gunfight.
Los Angeles. Two men are dead as
the result of a gun buttle at Newhall,
north of here, Sunday between Gus
Lebrun, a well driller, and two con
stables who attempted to arrest him
on the complaint of Miss Nellie
Bayles, formerly known to the stage
as Bonlta Darling.
Lebrun was hit seven times in the
exchange of shots and died within a
few minutes, but Just before he ex
plred he sent a bullet into the body
of one of the officers, Ed Brown,
wounding him so seriously thin he
died several hours later.
IN BRIEF.
"Bull" Montana
Grain Movement Grows.
Washington, D. C. -A new high rec
ord in the number of cars loaded w;th
grain products was established during
the week ending August 30, according
to figures by the cur service division
of the American Railway association.
Loadings during that week totaled
0S.S37 cars, an increase of 7224 cars
over the previous week and 4122 cars
over the previous high record of
6L715 cars for the week ended July
19, 1921.
Roman Bath Uncovered.
Milan, Italy Nero's bathing houso,
the largest of the Roman period yet
discovered, has been excavated at
Agnano, near Naples. The structure
is six stories high and 1125 feet long.
The throe topmost galleries n re
served for individual steam baths.
La Grande. Efforts are being made
to form a party to go to Burns Septem
ber 24 to attend the celebration com
memorating the completion of the Ontario-Burns
railroad.
St. Helens. Four shipments by
water left St. Helens for the week
ending Saturday night. Three of them
were for California ports and one con
signment was for China.
Salem.--Friday, September 26, of
ficially set aside as Booster's day at
the state fair, promises to be one of
the stellar dates of the week, with
booster organizations coming to par
ticipate in one big all-day rally.
Salem. Citizens of Burns have
written a letter to the public service
commission protesting against the
service afforded by the Central Ore
gon Telephone company. Special
complaint was directed at the long
distance service.
Salem. The citizens of Rufus,
Sherman county, have filed with the
Oregon public service commission a
complaint with relation to the water
service there. The complaint has been
referred to engineers of the public
service department fgr investigation.
Salem. It will cost approximately
378,024 to conduct the Oregon state
penitentiary during the next biennium,
starting January 1, 1925, according to
an estimate filed with the state bud
get commission today by A. M.
Dalrymple, warden of the institution.
Salem. Prune picking in Marion
and Polk counties was completed Sat
urday night. While this year's crop
was far below normal with relation to
tonnage, the quality is good and fair
prices have been obtained. Hop pick
ing will continue throughout this
week.
Kugene. The traffic counter install
ed at McKenzie bridge by the forest
service has shown that 5312 automo
biles passed over it between August
14 and September 8, inclusive, accord
ing to word sent to the office of the
Cascade national forest by S. L. Tay
lor, ranger in charge of the McKenzie
bridge station.
Salem. The Southern Pacific com
pany has started the work of tearing
up its street-car tracks on Seventeenth
street, between D and Center streets,
in compliance with an agreement en
tered into between the traction corpora
tion and the council a week ago. Auto
mobile bus service will bo established
on Seventeenth street in lieu of the
street cars.
Hood River. The first flag ever
flown over Hood River soon will be
placed in the city hall. . The relic,
which for many years has been held
at the quarters of the Oregon Histori
cal society in Portland, is the gift
of Captain H. C. Coe, pioneer steam
ship man and son of Nathaniel Coe,
Mood River's first settler, who now
resides at Manhattan Beach, Cal.
Sclo. The Scio Logging & Lumber
company's mill was sold to the
Thomas Creek Lumber company last
week. The new owners are Mr. Welch,
.1. K.Elder, A. W. Sharpe and C. R.
Hlckey. About $12,000 is being spent
In improvements, including a Ross
carrier. They plan to have everything
in readiness to begin operations by
November 1. About 60 men will be
employed.
Marshfteldf A new sawmill is to be
erected on the north shore of the
lake at Port Orford, 1V4 miles from
the city, where it will bo convenient
to timber of that section of Curry
county. The enterprise is being fi
nanced by Portland men and N. II
Larson, of Port Orford, who has been
engaged in various lines of lumbering
at Port Orford for six or seven years.
The mill will have a capacity of 40,
000 feet daily, and will be constructed
this fall.
Yamhill. Fire which broke out dur
ing Saturday in the camp of the Flora
Logging company. 15 miles west of
Yamhill, is said to have destroyed 11
donkey engines and several thousand
feet of timber felled and cut. The
damage is estimated at more than
$100,000. The fire was thought to be
under control but was reported Sun
day to be again raging across two sec
tions of green timber and putting the
entire camp in great danger of de
struction. Roseburg. Earl Stone. 3-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Stone of
Myrtle Creek, was fatally burned Sun
day morning and died about 2 o'clock
in the afternoon. The boy, it is be
lieved, was playing in the ashes in
the kitchen stove when his clothing
became ignited. His twin sister ran
for her mother, who was at the home
of a neighbor. The boy also started
across the lot to the house where his
mother was visiting, and was picked
;in. a human torch, by his mother.
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"Bull" Montana (whose front name
is Louis) is one of ths best known
among the men of the "movie3." He
was born In Voghera, Italy. He be
came famous as a wrestler in his na
tive country and then emigrated to
the United States and established him
self in Los Angeles. At one time he
served as trainer for Champion Jack
Dempsey, the pugilist. "Bull" is five
feet ten Inches tall and weighs 180
pounds. He is of dark complexion,
his eyes and hair are brown.
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Superstitions J
By tt. IRUINQ KINQ
SHOES UNTIED
IN SOME sections of the country
thpnp t n common sn oprsl i tion tins t
it brings good luck to have one's shoes
come untied. This is but another
phase of the ancient belief of sympa
thetic magic, that phase which has
to do with the doctrine of obstruc
tive knots In connection with other
current superstitions. Tie up a knot
and you tie up the man ; unloosen the
knot, you free the man. The cave
men's reasoning originating from the
fact that "Man, havin; come to as
sociate In thought those tilings which
he found by experience lo be connect
ed In fact, proceeded to erroneously
Invert this action and to conr-lude that
association In thought must Involve
similar connection in reality.
Of this sympathetic magic Professor
Frazersays: "Among the ignorant and
superstitious today It Is very much
what it was thousands of years ago in
Egypt and India and what it is now
among the lowest savages surviving In
the remotest parts of the earth." The
learned professor would appear to In
dicate the Ignorant as the class among
whom alone superstition prevails. But
a little observation will rhow that su
perstition Is confined to no one class,
but exists, though less ostentatiously,
among the cultivated and high pinned;
and he who most loudly boasts of his
freedom from its trammels is often
found to be secretly influenced by su
perstitions Inherited from the lost
ages. He has his pet superstitions
and hides them ; perhaps jams them
down Into his subconscious self and
flouts them. But they exist and they
are his, and they influence htm. The
savage and the peasant, on the other
hand, display their superstitions un
blushlngly. That is the only difference.
When it comes to a question of super
stition, "the colonel's lady and Julie
O'Grady are sisters under their sklne."
by klcClure Npapr Syndicfctt.)
Uncle Eben
"I never could forgive Adam," said
Uncle Eben, "foil bein' tempted by an
apple. If it had been a watermelon
dar might have been some excuse."
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