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'11 " DAILY. EDITION Ef VOK VII., No. 13. GRANTS PAHS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1010. WHOLB XUMBEB 1944. ! N'o Other Towu in the World the Rizo of Grants Pass Has a Paper With Pull Leased Wi re Telegraph Service. - - ' i ' i 'in ft 1 5 f i . INCREASE OF ACREAGE OF, BEETS Subject Discussed by Com mercial Club at Its Weekly Luncheon Was of Getting larger Plantings; in 1917 How beat to render kid In adding to too acreage to be planted to sugar beets for the crop of next year was the subject that wai up for discus lun at the weekly Monday noon luncheon at the Commercial club. Oeo. C, Sabln, who waa cbaldman of the- committee that rendered auch effective service during the, Initial campaign for acreage previous to the location of the factory, waa the first speaker. He Impressed the thought thai of all the work that had ever neon before the Commercial club that of proper aupport for the sugar fac tory waa moat Important, Just as the bringing of the factory Itself was the most notable achievement. Alex Hood, speaking from the farmer's point of view, said that the (rowers of beets In his district were 11 satisfied and that there would be material Increases In acreage nest season. He said that a loading sta tion should be built In the district Just west, of town, and that a more extensive Irrigation .system there would have the effcet of causing a larger acreage, ' Clarence Wlnetrout favored the formation of committees to whom would be assigned, certain districts to cover In the campaign for acreage this winter, and as campaign ma terial he wanted data obtained upon the fields of beets now, grown under proper conditions, showing the profits made as compared with other crops. He said that there were some of the best beets ever grown now ripening In the district, though, nn fortunately, some fields planted with out proper preparation of the soil and without Irrigation, which had Toeen abandoned radically from the Jay of planting, occupied prominent places along the highway and had been a bad advertisement. E. II. Rltfhard compared the mak ing of sugar 'from cane, aa In the south, and, from beets, and showed low the comparison all favored the beet. But t that, the districts where cane sugar was made were prosperous and beet-growing districts would be more so. He said the community was under a legal claim, represented by signed contracts, to supply a defin ite acreage, but that there was also moral duty to give every possible ounce of support to the great institu tion which hnd been built here. Re ults with the crop grown by Mr. Richard and his associates this year bad been, so satisfactory that the acreage would be lnoreasod 100 per cent for next year. 0. TC. Nllos, manaRer of the Leon ard Orchards, said that so well satis fied was he with growing sugar hoots from his exporlonro this season .that next year every ncro of the 2000-acre ranch that iouhl bo properly pre pared ami. minted would be plnntod. Alex Nl'jj, manager of tho local sugar courtly, mild that tho only thing neorjH Mo. make a thorough PUuTf n of ll.e 'Industry hero would be Vets. Tji- -. ron r factory which his coiiipimy Tied 'ikv linMiRht to prac li ff conioHlon niii.it. lmviviiocls tluit I! could nun r.'iM'nIly r-ir.U". mora lis l.h;in wiv-y in I v. Here u'cvH .'nil ' nil Hi ln-r cli i, i. The climr. '1 Just ffr(, t :. etii;iliv.i !. li'hllt.", I (.'I' (i) Jii.'ilii' fi.'r nl" ('jo cmn ii nor! i of M lii'ctn from I uj, fields timv Vviv f n J the 't'jls iJ cil lli.it tlit? 'company 'y have to pay $fl per ton " t' WHIM: (illlll ll E FOR FIRST TIME Berlin, Oct. 2. Roumanian troops have Invaded Bulgaria for the first time since Roumanla entered the war. An official statement from the war office today announced that the Rou manians succeeded In crossing the Danube south of (Bucharest, gaining a foothold on Bulgarian soli. On the ltusslsn front the Teutons recaptured a position north of Bra berka, which was lost to the Russians Saturday, taking 1,600 prisoners. On both sides of the Brody-Lemberg rail way Russian attacks failed. East of the Zlota LI pa fighting con tinues. The Bulgsrlan fortress of Rust chuk, the strongest Bulgsrlan posi tion on the Danube, lies directly south of Bucharest, and the Roumanian crossing was made near this point. The Berlin dispatch does not Indicate bow large a force of Roumanians crossed the Danube. A crossing by a large force would threaten the rear of the Teutonic army In Dobrudja and force their retirement. II Of San Francisco, Oct. S. Manufac ture or rubber In liquid form for waterproofing. Insulating, wood pre serving snd prevention or rust, Is the latest commercial possibility, it was announced today after the comple tion of successful ' experiments by Mrs. Anne Gilbert Cox. Mrs. Cos Is the wife of Dr. H. Barrlnger Cox, In ventor of the dry cell battery, the wireless subterranean telephone and thernew devices. With the liquid rubber applied In any desired consistency with a brush any material can be effectively water proofed, say those who have witness ed Mrs. Cox's demonstrations. The dressing, once applied, Is Impervious to "either hest or cold, snd in one of her experiments Mrs. Cox coated a piece of tissue paper without affect ing the flexibility or the paper. She has been working on this, discovery for six years In her husband's labor atory. She has a thorough technical education and has also been Dr. Cox's laboratory assistant for several years. MORJAWK VALLEY MILK DVMPKD IS THE SEWER Utica, K. Y.. Oct. J. Masked men, supposedly members of the Dairy men's league, have aelsed 25.000 quarts of milk, destined for New York, In the past 24 hours and dump ed It into ditches In the Mohawk val ley," Efforts to ship milk have been almost unavailing and many farmers are turning to butter and cheese making. ' another year if the next crop showed the same high sugar oontent and purity that these tests had 'proved. Ho made clear, however, that a fac tory could not continue to operate year after year, even with beets of tho class of those grown hore unless It was tdv?n a an melon t tonnngo. Estimates, he said, showed .that tho tonnage this year would be around 1 8,000 tons. The capacity of tho fac tory Is 70,000 torn. In Informal discussions nflor the luncheon business men 'expressed their willingness and desire to enter into tho campaign for the Increase of tonnngo next year, .and tho splrt'l manifest was to aid In every way the nlvlns of a capacity run to tho fac tory In 11)17. Wxt .Monday being the date of the i-ir.iihr meeting of the Commercial ImI', Phi members present voted to Hi; e, !ie luncheon served on that day m ;S0 In the evening, and the beet " ti -a, nuestlon will bo taken up Hi-mi, Tim luneimon will merge Into the buiV'wi-, meeting 'of the chtb.,fV ROUMANIANS PENT mm LIQUID RUBBER DE NG8 OF ZEPPELIN Thousands of Londoners See Giant Dirigible Brought to Earth During a Raid Over England Last Night Iondon, Oc(. 2. The huge super Zeppelln shot down In last night's attempted raid on London crumpled up and broke Into several pieces as it plunged earth ward 'before the eyes of thousands of Londoners. The commander of the destroyed Zeppelin was found In a field near part of the wreck this morning, still alive, but terribly injured. He was driven Into the wreckage with auch force that the Imprint of hla body was plainly visible when be was pick- edup. , Thirteen bodies hsd been re covered at noon. Fragments fell from SO to 60 yards apart and with them mangled bits of bodies. ' Unlike previous ralda in the vicinity of London, last night's attack was signalled by no tremend ous gunfirlng. A tew shots from anti-aircraft guns brought thousands to the roof tops or to the streets throughout London. They gaxed to ward, the 'starlit heavens, while searchlights converged their silver shafts on a Zeppelin, the whirr 'of whose engines could be heard very faintly. The Zeppelin was lost to view for a moment. Then suddenly a small. red speck appeared In the heavens, gradually growing into a red ball of fire. The flames spread like lightning, lighting up the country for miles around. The Zeppelin seemed to stsnd still for the moment, present ing an Indescribable' spectacle. Its blazing, flaming fabric silhouetted the aluminum framework. Every de tail stood out as if lined by some artist depicting a scene from hell. For several seconds the burning airship rested on even keel. Then It tilted downward and shot earthward like a rocket. Pieces of flaming ma terial separated themselves from the main mass, dropping along the atde In long, flaming tongues that gave the plunging, fiery, mass the appear ance of a comet ' An awe-inspiring sllencex settled over the crowd as the Zeppelin fell. There were no explosions. No roar from the rush through the air of this great body' reached the London crowds. But with the dying after glow a mighty cheer rollod up from North London and swept the entire city, registering England's triumph. Before 4he Zeppelin was hit her crew threw overboard 39 bombs. Most of tlyrn were explosive. A supplementary report added by General French this afternoon said that one man was klltod, one woman Injured and Insignificant material damage done. THE MYSTEBIOUS OR, C, E, Snn Krnnclseoj Oet. 2. "Dr. C. K. Uuvall," who snld he was an "Immin ent DrltlHh surfieon," and his wife nro no longer 'guests at a Sun Fran cisco hotel, Instead, the same man, known Stanlslnu Ebstcln, a drug victim, Ih HKnln In the Stockton state hospital, and the bride of a few days In being questioned as to possibility of Klisteln rocelvlitg aid from a drug rlnx. " M Mis rase Is like a serial movie. A DUVAL! I (HIED IN STREET CAR WRECK Cateraan Is Charged With Responsibility For Sraasji up In Detroit This Morn ing In Wlicd Many Die Detroit, Oct 2. On the shoulders tf 65-year-old Valentine Showskl, a $35 a month gateman employed by the Grand Trunk railroad, the state of Michigan will attempt to place the responsibility for the fatal street car crash early today that caused the death of eight persons and Injury to 35 others. " : ' At least three or the Injured will idle. ; ' ' Showskl was arrested at the Grand (Trunk depot this morning, after he bad fled from the scene of the acci dent Witnesses told Assistant Prose cutor Speed that Showskl failed to lower the street gstes at East Forest avenue and the Grand Trunk cross ing, where a southbound Grand Trunk freight side-swiped a cross town car bearing nearly a hundred passengers shortly after midnight The car was thrown fifteen feet from the track by the Impact and partially overturned, hurtling pas sengers under the wheels of the still moving freight , The Dead: Baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Roller. Jacob Tauss, 24. Ludwig Cshanleskl. Joseph Alnskl, 35. Fred E. Landry. Two unidentified men. One unidentified woman, may be Mrs. John Koller. OREGON CITY RAID Oregon City, Oct. 2. ETldence gathered In the biggest liquor raid ever made in Clackamas county was placed before the grand Jury when it met today. It was predicted that subpoenas would be issued for a num ber of' men and women, automobile parties discovered .In' the Friars club when t was entered by Sheriff Wilson and a posse of deputies early .Sunday morning. Julius Wilbur, manager of the club, Is out on $1,000 bail, charged with violating the pro hibition law. Three club attendants are also under afreet. According to Wilson, the club was running full j blast, like a regular roadhouse, when I he raided It. Fifty men and women were dancing and making merry. Seventy bottles of hoch ranging beer to champagne were confiscated. (The ofllcers declare Wilbur fled over !a fence after the raid and did not' j halt until Deputy French fired his re-1 jvolver In the air. j i 1 I few days ago he left the Stockton In jstltutton for a day and married Miss! j Winifred Sims, of Oakland, who had! caused his detention In the lnstltu- !tlon. A few days later, with his, i bride, he caino here and posed as a 'wealthy Londoner, promising heavy, I tips to tho hotel employes' and run-. iiiltiK up a large nccount. He was ar- . rested upon advices from Stockton, Just as the hotel prepared to eject, him for failure to pay his account. It developed today that EhstiMnj victimized another hotel In the same manner before his commitment to Stockton. He has told so ninny con- , dieting stories that llttlo Is known' of his antecedents, ID UQH New York, Oct 2. -This city felt the first pangs of a milk famine to day. Only half the usual supply was served and much of that was milk stored up-state in anticipation of the strike. Meantime, the distributors the Big Three sought to have the dairymen's league, the producers' combination, Investigated as con spirator, s The dairymen's representatives re torted with the claim that they form ed merely a co-operative organiza tion, and that the Big Three was In reality a vicious trust. And at Al bany authorities started probing both questions., ; New York bad probably only half of Its cu.tomary 2,500,000 quarts this morning. The grown-ups tcok the milk famine philosophically. They abstained from cereals needing milk or cream, and took their coffee straight This wss In keeping with advertised appeals of the "Big Three", that patrons consume Just as little as they could In order that hospitals and babies might not suffer The dis tributors arranged that 'these two groups should get first consideration. .Up-state the farmers did picket duty. Reports from a number of points told of raids on milk teams bound for the creameries of the Big Three. There appeared a grim spirit of halting all shipments and. accord ing to Information, the league has the supply virtually cornered. - . To meet the shortage partly, the Big Three . has ordered shipments from as far awry as Canada and Illi nois. But they admit that as mat ters now stand they can hold out little hope of anything but an actual milk famine within the next four days. , RESIGNATION OF GREEK i ? , CABWTET REPORTED London, Oct. 2. The Greek cab inet' has resigned, said a Central News dispatch from Athens this even ing. , The new Greek cabinet formed on ly av fortnight ago, was not recog nized by the allies and was generally believed to be blocking Greece's par ticipation In the war. ITALY CALLS MOKE MEX TO THE COLORS Home, Oct 2. Sailors of the class of 1896 were today called to the colors. TEDDY TO MAKE SEVERAL SPEECHES New York, Oct. 2. At least four, and possibly six more carefully pre pared speeches will be made by Col onel Roosevelt within the next two or three weeks. They will be so republican headquarters officials say today of the same "skin 'em alive" variety aa that delivered at Battle Creek Saturday. Flans tentatively settled upon today called for a speech at Chloago, another two days later at Denver, and a third at Houlsvllle on the way back to New York. Tho fourth Is to be made here In New York Just n fw days before the cam palRu closes. Republican leaders took a leaf from President , Wllsou's campaign Look In deciding asalnst nny such swlnR-nround-thc-clrclo trip as Hughes Is taking. Roosevelt him self suggested the set-speech Idea." ; Although tho colonel told the lend ers ho was opposed to back-platfonn talks, It was believed he might- bo prevailed on to show himself occa sionally on hla way to and from Dcn- v,'V EW STATE BANK Grants Pass Banker fatzi to Important Position j SzpL jSargcnt at Sessca of the State Badcg Bczrd SalemOct 2. Marshall Hooper, cashier of the Grants Pass Banking company, was appointed state hank1 examiner today. The appointment was made by State Bank Superin tendent Sargent at a session of the, state banking board. Hooper will succeed George H.' Tracy, Jr. , The ' salary Is $2,000 annually, i Tracy was given the title of assistant stata bank superintendent so he could act in the absence of Sargent Charles H. Stewart was also appointed assist ant superintendent Tracy resigned' the office to accept a position as vice president in an Oregon City hanking establishment Acceptance of the position given Mr. Hooper will necessitate" his re-"' signing as cashier of the Grants Pass -Banking company, Mr. Hooper stated today. As the appointment came rather suddenly, no arrangements have yet been considered, though' for the present, at least; Mr: Hooper -will continue his residence In Grants Pass, v Mr. Hooper came to Grants Pass1 In the early part of February, 1918, and has been a valued and active citizen,' with many friends who con-" gratnlate him' upon his appointment ' to a position under the state admin istration. He is at present a mem ber of the school board, has served as president of the Commercial club, and has always taken a foremost part1 In" advancing' the ' interests.' of the" community. ' SILENT PROTEST San Francisco,' OctV 2. Two'dfr' monstratlons are"sclrBduled for the ' appearance of Senator James Hamll- . ton Lewis of Illinois when he speaks - at Dreamland rink tonight an en thusiastic welcome 'by Wilson aup- v porters, and a silent protest by mem- befs of the women's party.5 The lat ter demonstration Is for the pnrpoee of showing the organization's dis approval not only of President Wil son but of Lewis' alleged threat of democratic opposition to national suffrage If , the women oppose the dem-"cratlo party. , L'wls. this' morning laughingly doibted the ability of women to make a "silent" protest. He stated, though, that he would rather have the women . come Inside the rink and hear his message on behalf of democracy. The women, however, have made exten sive plans for their protest and In tend to carry It through. s ZONE CONCESSION'S MADE RAD FtNANTIAL SHOWING San Francisco, Oct. 2. Four mil lion, one hundred thousand dollars represents approximately the losses of concessions on the "Zone" at the Panama-Pacific International exposi tion, It Is stated today. The books of that part of the exposition are now' closed, following the settlement of tho affairs of tho Japanese syndicate operating amusements there and booths In various buildings. The Japanese deficit alono was $100,000. Thirty-five "Zone" concessionaries went out of business during the pro- , gress of the exposition. AiER 1 1EM TO STAGE
