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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1921)
OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAUNTEREST B a r n e s , U. S . W h e a t D ir e c t or S a y s : Mr. "Eat More Bread Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. A n d r e d u c e the high co st of l iv in g .” Holsum Bread IS T H E C H E A P E S T A S W E L L A S T H E M O S T W H O L E S O M E F O O D ON T H E M A R K E T . B U Y THAT EXTRA LOAF Y o u r G r o c e r h a s it Cherry City Baking Co. Has Your C i • . • subscription Expired? Comt in an¿ renew it next time you are in town. M O newspaper can succeed with- A ' out advertising, therefore we solicit the patronage of our readers for those who by their advertising help to make this paper possible. Albany’s city Jail has been con demned as unfit to house prisoners. Bounties for 12 bobcats and four co; otes were paid ia Linn county last week. The city of Sheridan has complet ed the sale of 111,000 of street paving bonds. Several cases of smallpox and scarlet fever are under quarantine at La Grande. Smallpox has made its appearance again in Independence. Two homes are quarantined. Albany's third annual automobile show was held Friday and Saturday at the armory. Oregon City is industrially prosper ous, the payrolls now aggregating close to $350,000 a month. Albany's Shrine club has been reor ganized with a membership of 30. E. j D. Cusick is president. Perry Titus, aged 80, resident of Clatsop county for 46 years, is dead i at bis home in Astoria. During the month of January, 23 ar- rests were made in Roseburg and fines amounting to $138 were collected. James Stephens, 60 years old, an old resident of Grant county, was found dead In his beH near tfount Vernon. The egg market in Salem Friday reached its lowest point in seven years. Eggs sold at 25 cents a dozen retail. William B. Tucker, at present county agent of Ada county, Idaho, has been appointed county agent for Crook county. The body of Michael Hoff, pioneer business man of Baker, was fouud in his woodshed, where he had hanged himself. Fire losses In Portland in 1920 to taled $1,048,742, according to the an curl r»*>ort of Fdward Grenfell, fire marshal. The membership drive recently in augurated by the Eugene Country club has resulted in 45 new names being obtained. The overhead bridge across the Coyote cut-off east of Boardman on the Columbia highway has been thrown open for traffic. Nels Nelson, mayor of Carlton and a long time resident of that district, died at McMinnville hospital, follow ing an operation. E. W. McMindes of the State Agri cultural college extension department has been appointed agricultural agent for Clatsop county. Owing to an epidemic of smallpox, measles, inf. ,enza and other diseases, the public schools at Yoncalla have been ordered closed. A short course for Commercial club secretaries of Oregon will be held at the University of Oregon for one week, beginning March 28. With but 56 families in the parish, Catholics of Roy, In Washington coun ty, are erecting a church edifice at an expenditure of $35,00. Eat Prunes, Send a Box to you r Friends in the East this Week and Buy Your Suits and Overcoats at B I S H O P ’S T W O FOR O NE SALE M en’s Suits at $30 to $65 M en’s Hats, $6.00 to $12.00 M en’s O ’coats at $25 to $75 M en’s Shoes, $10 to $16.00 Boys’ Suits at $15 M en’s Suits, $35.00 to $85 to $25 Dress Shirts at $2.50 to $15 In c lu d in g H e a v y W o rsted a n d A ll M en’s H eavy U nderw ear Al and Cut S i l k W ork, Clothing, Etc. 2 Neckwear F o r the ]price o f 1 B lu e S e r g e s l Underw ear, H o s i e r y At Off O n e T h ird 1 0 0 Prs. Men’s Trousers “ Bishop’s Fabric” made in our own m ill o f virgin wool * M en ’s and young m en’s styles REGULAR $12.00 S P EC IA L $ 7.5 0 P AIR $1.50 and $2.00, A ll ¿tyles~ M en ’s W o r k G lo ve s f f $22.50 an d $25!00 *7 * O C Pair $2.75 B ish op ’s S pecial B lu eb ib O VERALLS B ish op ’s F a b ric di 1 C B O Y ’S S U IT S *p i% J $12.00 and $14.00 H e a v y dj 1 <P * O $6.50 O Salem W oolenMillsStore ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ r - tfI ~ JUDGE LANDIS IS Bill IONS IN WAR IMPEACHED IN HOUSE CLAIMS EXPECTED Accusations Based on Accept Attorney-General Says Suita ance of Position as Base '0 Collect From United ball Arbiter. States increasing. Washington.— Fedenti Judge K<>ne- Washington, D. C.—Millions of dol saw Mountain Landis of Chicago was lars—and promises of billions—are impcacht tf In the house of representa- | represented in the great tide of law tives by Representative Welty, demo suits which Is beginning to pour into crat, Ohio, who charged him with ''high the United States court of claims as crimes and misdemeanors," in connec one of the results of the world war. tion with his acceptance of the posi The court was expressly created to de tion of supreme arbiter of baseball at termine legal controversies between a salary of $42,500 a year. private citizens and the government 9houid the house decide to institute The attorney-general says that the proceedings against Judge Landis on amount of war claims is enormous and the basis of Mr. Welty’s charges, a that Indications are the Influx of cases formai trial before the bar of the has only begun. Actions upon claims house would be held and a decision involving approximately $124,000.000 rendered. have already been filed. The ultimate Mr. Welty did not introduce a réso aggregate of claims, It is estimated, lution proposing impeachment, us is will reach between two and three bil the usual procedure in such matters. lions of dollars. Instead, he arose to “ a question of These war claims are brought Into high personal privilege,” and an the court by plaintiffs having claims nounced that he “ impeached” the against all departments of the govern judge. ment. The war department has claims Without debate, the Welty charges, involving approximately $6,000,000,000. on Mr. Welty's motion, were referred The bureau of Internal revenue now to the judiciary committee for investi has pending claims for refunds and tenates aggregating $650,000,000. The gation and report. There were a few scattering noes. shipping board bos cancellations of contracts involving more than $850,- Senator Would Impeach Judge Landis. 000,000. Claims for patent infringe Washington.—Impeachment proceed ment are estimated by the attorney- ings against . Judge K. M. Landis of general at $100,000,000. The railroad Chicago #wero threatened in the sen administration has differences with ate by Senator Dial of South Caro the railroads amounting to approxi lina. Senator Dial said he had sent mately $750,000,000. to Chicago for the facts in the case in which Judge Landis is alleged to have discharged a youth who was charged with stealing money after the youth had testified that his salary was but $90 a month. " If I find these facts art true I shall seek the impeachment of Judge Landis,” Senator Dial said. Washington, D. C.— Congress will be asked to enact apeclal legislation Au thorizing the shipping board to em ploy vessels to haul to China grain donated by American farmers for the relief of the starving there and giving the navy department permission to pay expenses of volunteer naval re Washington.— The letter of Secre serves to form crews. It wsa an tary Colby declining to transmit in nounced after a conference between formation on the negotiations conduct Secretary Daniels and Chairman Ben ed with the view to treaty action with ton of the shipping board. Japan was received without comment The decision was reached after a by the senate foreign relation* com committee, headed by Carl Vroomaa, mittee. The letter was in reply to a ex-assistant secretary of agriculture, communication of the committee, for l.ad said grain already had been given warded at the instance _ of Senator by farmers in the west and that mem Johnson of California, requesting in bers of the railroad brotherhoods stood formation on the subject. ready to haul to the coast without •Secretary Colby said in bis letter charge for their services. that the record of the negotiations Chairman Benson agreed to ascer was “ practically that of a preliminary tain what ships are available on the comparison of views, coupled with Pacific coast. recommendations still the subject of examination.” POPULATION CENTER MOVES "Substantial progress has been made toward an ultimate agreement,” Mr. Growth of Coastal Communities Hsld Colby added, "through Informal con Prlnoipsl Csuss of Changs. versations conducted by Roland • S. Washington.—The center of popula Morris, ambassador to Japan, and Bar tion as disclosed by the 1920 census on Shldehara, Japanese ambassador.” is located in the extreme southeast corner of Owen county, Indiana, 8.8 miles southeast of the ♦■'"vn of Spencer, RAYMOND BARS RADICAL the census bureau announced recently. Elmer Smith, From Centralis, Refused During the last decade the center Permission to Speak. of population continued to move west Raymond, Waflh.—<51mer Smith, ward. advancing 9.8 miles in that direc radical speaker, was prevented from tion and about one-fifth of a mile north speaking at an advertised meeting of Bloomington, Ind., where It was which was to be held here Sunday located by the census of 1910. The bureau attributed the westward afternoon at the Arcadia hall. City officials and leading members movement in the last decade "prin of the Raymond post of the American cipally to the increase of more than Legion met Smith at the station when one million In the population of the he arrived from Centrulia. As he got state of California." off the train he was told of the useless ness of his attempt to speak. Mayor Idaho House Passes Anti-Alien Bill. Lawler, at a special meeting of the Boiso, Idaho.—The first decisive city commission Saturday Issued a blow at Japanese ownership of land la proclamation prohibiting the speech. the state of Idaho was struck with Smith Insisted on going to the build smashing force when the house passed ing. When Smith arrived at the Ar the Van de Steeg anti-alien land bUL cadia hall City Marshal Pederson It is one of the most stringent meas would not let him enter. ures before the legislature and now goes to the senate for approval. If Girl Talks Over Week. It passes that body and Is signed by Chicago.— Miriam Rubin, 8-year-old Governor Davis, Japanese not now victim of an Illness which has baffled citizens or any other aliens owning physicians Sunday slept silently for land In Idaho will be required to for- an hour. The girl started talking more felt, and hereafter aliens will be un than a week ago and Sunday was the able to acquire till*. first time her conversation had ceased in more than 212 hours. After the nap, 250 Millions Voted for W er Veteran«. however, she began talking. Washington, D. C.—The sundry olvll appropriation bill was passed by the Jail Sentences For Bootlegger«. senate carrying 1412,260,000, of which Portland, Or.— Federal Judge R. S. amount $250,000,000 Is for war vet Bean announced from the bench that erans. Among principal Items waa hereafter he would sentence to the $18.600,000 for n«w hospitals and en penitentiary persons convicted of vio largement of hospital facilities for lating the national prohibition laws. service men as requested by the Amer He made the declaration after he had ican legion. Funds for compensation sentenced a man to three months in and vocational training of the service Jail for Illicit manufacturing of liquor. men also were carried. VESSELS TO CARRY FAMINE AID SOUGHT SECRETARY IS SILENT ON JAPANESE TREATY Humptulips Flood Washea Out Tracks. Hoqulam, Wash.— The highest water in four years in the Humptulips river washed out the bed of the Northern Pacific railroad from underneath about 1000 feet of track. American Wireless Rights Uphsld. Washington, D. C.—The right of the American Federal company to con struct a wireless plant at Shanghai will be supported by the United State« government. It wsa learned at th« state department, where It was said Chamberlain Resumes His Seat. the question had been taken up with Washington, D. C.- Senator Cham the British government. berlain had sufficiently recovers! The department has advised Minis from his recent illness to appear upon ter Crane of tile step« taken to safe the floor of the senate Saturday. guard the American concern's contract.
