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D HAPPENINGS
CURRENT
WEEK
William Archer, the noted dramatic
critic and author, died In London Sat
urday. R. Q. Merrick, prohibition divisional
chief tor New York and northern New
Jersey, said New Year's eve raids
would be "bigger and better than
ever."
Three aged patients of the Illinois
state Insane hospital, three miles east
of Alton, were burned to death early
Sunday when a frame farmhouse was
destroyed by fire.
Expenditures of approximately $41,
500,000 will be made by the North
American company for expansion of its
public utility properties throughout
the United States in 1925.
More than 60 persons were killed,
upward of half a hundred were injured
and 15 others were missing as the re
sult of an unusual number of accidents
in Chicago Christmas eve and Christ
mas day.
Stacy, 12, and Clark, 10, sons of Mr.
and Mrs. H. R. Swanson, living a mile
below Santa Clara on river loop No. 2,
five miles north of Eugene were
drowned in a small lake at 4:30 o'clock
Thursday afternoon.
Construction of five hospitals for
the world war veterans, completion of
one and purchase of another will be
undertaken shortly by the veterans'
bureau with funds recently made avail
able by congress. A national training
school for the blind also will be built.
Contracts for construction of a 232
bed hospital at San Fernando, Cal., to
cost approximately 11,000,000, have
been awarded by Director Hines of
the veterans' bureau. The North Pa
cific Construction company of Los An
geles obtained the general construc
tion contract on its bid of $755,900.
The zero weather had moderated
over the middle west Sunday night
with the approach of a light fall of
snow. Utah reported zero and Colo
rado was warmed up to an average
of three above zero, except in the
mountains and on the plains, where
sub-zero weather still prevailed.
The whining of an Airedale dog,
unable to bark because of an automo
bile accident which left it crippled,
awoke the J. W. Stuart family in
Galesburg, 111., early Sunday and saved
the lives of five persons who escaped
in night clothes when their home
burned. The thermometer showed 18
below zero at that time.
Four more bodies were found Satur
day in the muck from the dam that
broke Wednesday night and flooded
the lower sections of Saltville, Va.,
bringing the known death list, to 13.
, Seven persons still are missing. The
bodies found were those of children
ranging in age from three to ten years.
Three were from one family.
Ultra microbes, organisms so small
that they are invisible with the strong
est microscopes, which presumably live,
as parasites in disease bacteria, have
been isolated in experiments at the
University of Minnesota, in a fluid so
deadly that one drop will annihilate
the most highly developed culture of
disease bacteria, it has been an
nounced. Thrown onto the pilot of the Knick
erbocker special, fast Big Four pas
senger train, after the train had crash
ed into an automobile in which she
was riding and injured three members
of her family,, one fatally, at a cross
ing in Indianapolis, Ind., Mrs. Kenneth
Clark, 18, had a wild 12-mile ride Sat
urday night until she fell from the
train into a ditch near Oaklandon, Ind.
Ice several feet thick was encoun
tered in the Columbia river by the
steamer Rose City, which left Portland
early Sunday en route to the sea, ac
cording to a radio message Sunday
night. The message indicated that ice
conditions in the Columbia had become
worse due to the break-up of floes in
consequence of the milder weather
and these were declared to be jam
ming the river between Portland and
Astoria.
Longview. A cut of 1,015,826 board
feet was made in two eight-hour shifts
at the west fir unit of the Long-Bell
manufacturing plants here one day
this week, according to Roy F. Morse,
manager.
MILLIONS FOR WAR ON WETS
House Taken Action for Prohibition
Enforcement.
Washington, D. C Provision in the
treasury postoffice appropriation bill
for expenditure of $11,000,000 for pro
hibition enforcement, during the com
ing fiscal year was approved Monday
by the house.
No effort was made to alter the
amount, which is $341,770 less than
the amount available this year, but
$75.1,120 more than the budget esti
mates. The house also approved, without
amendment, an allotment of $20,597,
S36 for coast guard activities, part of
which would be available for curbing
rum-running. This amount is $11,753,-
706 more than tho total appropriated
for this year.
A halt, in the name of economy, to
the ever-increasing activities of the
federal government was urged from
both sides of the house during gen
eral debate on the appropriation bill
carrying $760,000,000 tor the postoffice
and treasury department.
Chairman Madden of the appropria
tions committee said he hoped for
further tax reduction, but that the ac
tion of congress would in large meas
ure determine whether it would be
possible.
Representative Byrnes of Tennessee,
ranking democrat on the committee,
declared that, without questioning the
sincerity of President Coolidge in his
efforts for economy, he was convinc
ed there had been no such great reduc
tions in the cost of government opera
tions as the public had been led to
believe. He insisted that the figures
failed to show a material net reduc
tion in the original peace-time cost of
government.
Political appointments to federal
offices except in a few cases would be
prohibited under a bill introduced in
the senate by Senator Couzens, repub
lican, Michigan. .
Use of political influence in the ap
pointment and promotion of federal
employes would be made a misde
meanor, subject to a fine of $1000 or
six months in jail, or both.
The penalty would apply to sen
ators, representatives, members of
state legislative bodies, state officials
and officers of all. national political
organizations. Violation by public of
ficials would constitute a cause for re
moval from office.
Fliers to be Rewarded.
Washington, D. C. Secretary Weeks
approved Monday a plan for reward
of the army world fliers which would
advance Captain Lowell H. Smith 1000
files on the promotion list and Lieu
tenants Wade, Nelson and Arnold 500
files each.
Sergeants Henry H. Ogden and
John Harding, who hold reserve corps
commissions as second lieutenants,
would be appointed officers in the
regular army in their reserve corps
grades.
All members of .the flight squadron
would receive distinguished service
medals and would be permitted to ac
cept the decorations offered by foreign
governments.
The plan was drawn up at the war
department at the request of Presi
dent Coolidge, to whom it was sub
mitted by the war secretary.
5000 Rabbits Killed.
Pendleton, Or. The jackrabbit
population in Harris Canyon district,
west of Echo, was diminished by 5000
in three big drives Sunday. About 200
people from Umatilla and Morrow
counties participated. They formed in
line and marched down the canyon,
driving the rabbits into a corral.
Motion pictures of the drive were
taken and one of the camera men who
placed his camera on the snow in the
corral to close-up views had his ma
chine knocked over twice by the surg
ing animals.
College Changes Name.
Durham, N. C. The board of
trustees of Trinity college voted Mon
day to change the name of the college
to Duke university. ' By this action
the college is assured $6,000,000 for
building purposes and in addition an
endowment of $12,500,000. James B.
Duke, a tobacco magnate, stipulated
that if Trinity college did not change
its name to Duke university a new
university of that name should be
established.
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Potato Probe Ordered.
Washington, D. C. A message
directing Ambassador Kellogg to as
certain and report the facts concern
ing the promulgation by the British
government of the embargo against
importation of American potatoes into
England and Wales was dispatched
late Monday by Secretary Hughes. The
embargo became effective December
23.
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POOL ALL DEBTS
Statement Makes Plea for Spe
cial Treatment.
REPUDIATION DENIED
Distribution of War Expenses in Pro
portion to National Wealth
Is Suggested,
Paris. France's war debts to Amor
ica and Great Britain, amounting close
to 31,000,000,000 gold francs, are not
listed as liabilities of tho French
treasury as shown in a balance sheet
Issued by the French ministry of fi
nance Saturday.
Nor are the amounts duo France
from other countries for war and post
war advances, amounting to about 15,
000,000,000 gold francs, included in the
assets. The inventory was Issued
"for non-party purposes" with the view
of creating confidence by a clean
breast of the facts, as the document
said.
On the other hand, 103,000,000,000
paper francs, as the capitalization of
the French share in the DawA plan
annuities, are included in the assets.
Although the figures were omitted,
inter-allied debts were freely discuss
ed. Finance Minister Clementel, re
newed the French thesis that these
debts form part of the general allied
resources pooled in war time. He fig
ured that a strict equity would seem
to demand a general addition to war
expenses and their distribution among
the allies in proportion to the wealth,
without taking' into account special
undertakings imposed by monetary
necessities.
The finance minister Insisted that
France, therefore, was entitled to
special treatment. He remarked in
the inventory that the use of French
soil as a battlefield saved the allies
much blood and money. He also aver
red that America and Great Britain
pocketed duties on profits made by
British and American firms which ful
filled French war-time orders. He sug
gested that the amount of these duties
should be deducted from the French
debt.
M". Clementel concluded his state
ment by declaring that France had no
intention of repudiating her debts, but
that she was convinced an appeal to
conscience and the Bentlments of jus
tice of the allies would not be in vain.
Mayor's Removal Asked.
Seattle, Wash. Charles L. Maxfield,
secretary of the University Young
Men's Christian association Saturday
asked the city council to impeach
Mayor Brown because of alleged vice
conditions existing in Seattle.
"I believe that you must share with
other citizens deep humiliation be
cause of conditions that exist in our
city with regard to gambling, robbery,
bootlegging and graft," Mr. Maxfield
said in his letter to the council, and
asked that body to remove Mayor
Brown and appoint another man in his
place.
Break in Strike Likely.
Scranton, Pa. Union leaders said
Saturday night that the first break in
the strike of 11,000 Pennsylvania and
Hillside Coal & Iron company mine
workers had taken place at the Under
wood colliery of the company, near
Throop. As a result of a vote taken
by the Underwood strikers it was said
at least 800 of the 1200 employes
would return. According to statements
issued after the meeting of the strik
ers, 828 miners voted to resume work,
while eight dissented.
Coast Robber Captured.
Chicago. William Ryan, 25, alias
William Smith, was arrested here Sun
day with his 18-year-old wife, Martha
Gieser Smith, and confessed that he
took part in the theft of $17,700 in
currency and $60,000 in bonds from
messengers of the Pacific Gas & Elec
tric company of San Francisco, Decem
ber 4. Ryan disclosed the entire story
of the robbery to police officers, nam
ing two San Francisco men as his
companions.
FRANCE-WANTS
Death Rate Gain Shown.
Washington, D. C Slight increase
in the death rate of mothers from
childbirth or puerperal causes in 1923
over 1922 was announced Sunday by
the department of commerce. For the
ten states and the District of Columbia
which constitute the so-Called "birth
registration area" thdeath rate from
puerperal causes in 1923 was 6.4 per
1000 live births, acompared with 6.2
in 1922 and 6.1 in1915.
STATE NEWS I
TTVT DtJTPCi
Cascade Locks. According to rec
ords kept by .Sheriff Edlck of Hood
River countys tho number of foreign
automobiles roKlstorcd in this county
for the past year was 410.
Salem. The Oregon public service
commission has requested permission
to Intervene in tho courts in tho case
Involving express rates in various sec
tions of the United States.
Albany. Pupils of tho Solo high
school who live in the country will
receive $4 a month from the school
board with which to pay for their
transportation to the school this win
ter. Salem. Tho city of Toledo. Lincoln
county, has tiled with the state engi
neer here application covering the ap
propriation of water from an unnamed
branch of Mill creek for municipal
purposes. Tho cost was estimated at
$25,000.
Salem. T. B. Kay, state treasurer
elect, did not violate the corrupt prac
tices act In connection with his ex
penditures during the recent cam
vaign, according to a legal opinion
given here Saturday by John H. Car
son, district attorney.
Halfway. Some 50 youthful trap
pers will be on duty In Pine Valley
during the holidays and considerable
rivalry Is present among tho organi
zation to obtain tho greatest number
of hides. Nearly all boys In the local
high school earn their Rpare money
in this enterprise.
Salem. Despite that only three days
remained to obtain motor vehicle
licenses for 1925 In compliance
with the laws, less than 23,000 of an
estimated 192,500 to be issued for the
next 12 months' period, had been ap
plied for last Saturday at the offices of
the secretary of state.
Forest Grove. Fire at Roy, seven
miles north of here, at 2:30 o'clock
Saturday destroyed the genernl mer
chandise store of J. A. Moore, the
postoffice adjoining and the passenger
station of the Pacific Railroad & Navi
gation company. The loss on the store
and postoffice was estimnted at $20,
000, with no insurance.
Pendleton. Surety bonds given by
Raymond T. Cooklngham, sheriff-elect,
and Charles E. Grabam, county recorder-elect,
have been accepted by
the county court. The sheriff-elect's
bonds were in the sum of $60,000, $10,
000 given for him as sheriff and $50,
000 as tax collector. Mr." Graham's
bond as recorder was $2000.
Salem. Tho Pacific Co-operative
Wool Growers, with headquarters in
Portland, has petitioned the Oregon
public service commission to use In
fluence with the Interstate commerce
commission to the end that transit
privileges may be Included In the pro
posed joint freight rate on wool ship
ped from Oregon points to Boston.
North Bend. Manager Bock of the
Stout Lumber company mills here an
nounces that he will add a night crew
to Mill B, beginning January 1. This
will furnish employment to about 75
additional men who have been ldlo for
some time and who make, their homes
here. Mill A will continue to operate
with only the day crew as at present.
Dallas. The warehouse on the farm
of W. M. Elliott, two miles south of
Dallas, was destroyed by fire which
started from an oil stove used to keep
stored fruit from freezing. Eight hun
dred boxes of apples and more than
1000 empty prune boxes were consum
ed with the building. Mr. Elliott's
loss will be about $2000, with $200 In
surance. Marshfield. The port of Umpqua,
which includes Reedsport, the only op
erating . lumber town on the lower
Umpqua river, repols 1924 business
somewhat less than for 1923. About
70,000,000 feet will have been shipped
from the port by the end of the year,
estimates show. These shipments In
clude rough, planed and finished lum
ber products.
Salem. Planting a variety of trees
and shrubbery along the state high
ways and preserving these how matur
ed or In process of maturity, were rec
ommended to Governor Pierce in are
port prepared by a 'special committee
appointed by the state highway com
mission to develop plans for the pres
ervation of Oregon's scenic beauties.
The report was filed here Saturday.
Hood River. Wood Incom, a 16-months-old
prize-winning Hereford
bull from Lea-Mead farm, Nashville,
Tenn., arrived Sunday at the Ode.ll
country place of Rev. Billy Sunday.
Tho bull was the gift of Luke Lea Jr.,
son pf Senator Luke Lea of Tennes
see, to the evangelist. The Hereford
was a blue ribbon winner at various
southern livestock shows and fairs last
fall.
SCHOOL DAlS
W Copyright ! &?!-
Something to
Think About
Bt F. A. WALKER
IMPERFECTIONS
SO THINKING, the dogmatic young
n ui ii or woniiin sullies forth to
show the staid. Holier elders nt the
head of largo Industries how to do
things In u mixlfi'ii wiiy.
Being fanatics, these young folic
have no fear. They lire sure of their
ground, positive, tint, tluit they can
support their own unwortlilncss mid
march to victory with Hying color.
The young tniiil with a literary bent
will toll the old editor how to run a
newspaper to please everybody mid
get u million subscribers within a
year.
lie hr.s glon great deiil of thought
to the subject and knows there Is not
a single llitw iiuywhere In his self dis
covered theory.
The editor reinoveK Ids glasses and
gasps.
But he understand ilinself us he
understands his new iper,
lie begs to he usd from the
humiliating explmi.ii'on of the fact,
readjusts his tortoise-shells, settles
down again to his work mid chuckles
good naturedly us he beholds the
swagger youth being shown the way
out by a copy boy.
The Impudent young mini or woman
who has never painted fine pictures or
curved statues of merit, will tell you
that he or she knows nil about art.
There are swarms of the perfect In
Imperfection, preying every day In the
great cities upon the salt and staff of
life.
Like Mary's doll, or Willie's Teddy
bear, they tire stuffed with sawdust,
whirling In the great maelstrom of
hard knocks from which there Is no
escape except by noble work with
hands that are unafraid.
But the worst phase of this situa
tion is that there Is u new crop being
grown every season, for which there
seems to lie no visible demand.
($ by McClura Newspaper Syndicate)
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Reflections of a
Bachelor Qirl
E4 HELEN ROWLAND
TVTOWADAYS when a man actually
says, "I love you," a woman
doesn't know whether to accept It as
a Jest or n "gesture."
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Just about this time of year a wife
(tops speaking of her husband's lassi
tude as "rain-fag," and begins calling
It by its right name, when he drops the
rake and sidles toward the fireplace.
The most pathetic sight on earth Is
that of a middle-aged married man who
has suddenly been seized with the
hallucination that ho is the romantic
Ideal , of every sixteen-year-old de
butante he meets.
Aniong the men whom a woman has
loved there are many degrees of differ
ence ; but n man mentally bunches nil
bis past loves together like radishes
and tucks them away en masse In tho
refrigerator of his memory,
Before he selects n motorcar a man
spends two or three months looking
them over; but he will decide on a
wife In two or three minutes after he
has met her nnd then spend the rest
of his life "looking 'cm over."
Every flirtation Is a fascinating ex
periment In the laboratory of love, in
which the foolish carelessly play with
combustibles.
Some people take ihelr culture so
seriously that it seems almost like ft
vulgar display of refinement. '
(2 by HoUrn Rowland.) (
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WHAT TO EAT
"PASTY biscuit which muy lit used
" for tea or breakfast nri:
Tea Biscuit.
Sift a pint of Hour with four len
spoonfitls of baking powder, one ten
spoonftil of sugar mid one half ten
spoonful of suit, ltub Into It with the
lingers four ttitdesjiooiifills of butter,
mixing It thoroughly. Add enough rich
milk or half milk and half cream to
mala' a rather sI't dom;li. Roll out to
one-fourth of tin Inch in thickness, cut
Into rounds two and one-half Inches In
diameter. Hake lit u hot oven for ten
to fifteen minutes. Brush over the
tops with milk shortly before taking
from the oven. Serve cut In halves.
Cauliflower With Cheeee Sauce.
Soften four table-spoonfuls of butter
nnd stir Into It four tablespoonfiils of
flour mixed with oim teasiioonful of
salt, one-half tcaspoonfiil of is-pper, a
dash of cayenne, one-fourth teaspoon
ful of celery seed. When these urn
mixed add one-third at a time two
cupfuls of chicken or veal stock and
stir over the heat until It come to H
boil, Add one-half cupful of touted
hard cheese, stir until incited und pour
this over n head of boiled cauliflower.
Garnish with minced parsley. A head
of eiibbngp tuny be served In the mime
way, cutting out the hard center before
conking, Serve on a chop plate and
cut Into plu sluiped pieces to serve,
Spring Salad.
Take two or three fresh young car
rots, put through the meat grimier or
(Imp with n knife in n chopping bowl,
add a green onion or two iiIno finely
minced, a stalk of celery, and a half
down minced nuts. Mix with enough
good, highly-seasoned salad dressing to
molstin and heap on crisp leave ot
tender leltuce. This salad with a piece
of good bread and n generous spread
ing of sweet butter will make h meal
sulllcletitly satisfying. The addition of
a drink, such ns cocoa or milk, will
add several hundred calories of food
value to the menu,
(c). 1!2, Western NwMpiipr t'nlnn )
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he Younri Lady
Across tho Way
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'the young lady across (lie way says
she doesn't wonder, after what he did
to Cnrpentlcr, that Jack Dempsey
can't get anybody to wrestle with
him,
( by McClurt Newspaper SyudlcaU.)