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About Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1919)
University of Ore. lieraar .1 VOI. IX., No. 1(17. ofiA.vra pass, Josephine ooujrrr, oreoon, thirsday. may in, WHOLE .UMBER 2608. 5 GREAT CROWDS COME TO SEE BARNES SHOW OVER-CONFIDENCE AWE a MANY HANKS ANI FINNY UVNH IN IU(J 8TKEKT I'AltADE CIRCUS HAS NEW FEATUpES I'lnk Ij'iihiiumIk. Toy lUllmms, Hqunckt-r, I'liimiiiU iuul fun Art .Minii in Evidence Hundreds of lioiil) lined H'O aide walks of Crania I'll thin morning to witness the Al O. Barnes pageant f uulfv cauarlsoncd horses, beauti fully adorned circus wagons, trained aulmal. funny clowns and a myriad of other attractions thai Invited and forwunlwl a aplt'iulld and tlirllllnK program at the circus ground. The Barnes circus ha been In Grants Pass many time before, and has never failed to attract large crowds of people. Jt la the verdl -t of those people that Barnes ha a more spec tacular parade and a bettor how this year than on any of hla -prevtoua vlHlta. Two side show opened before the big how every freak and curiosity was represented. The tall Slant, the fafglrl. lady with nine feet of lialr, Floao boy wonder, Prince Dud win the thlnest mute on earth, and a hundred other.. thing Jcro .all there. Red lemonade, (balloons and all were In evidence. Then the big how, every specie of wild life was there Elephants, camel, zebras llamas, sacred rows of India, sea llona. seala, leopards, tigers, pumas panthers. Jaguars, dogs, monkefi goats, pigs, ostrlihs, kangaroos and even a trouue of trained geese, all ready for thulr part of entertaining A band of 60 pieces greeted you when you entered the folg top. and funny clowns amused the crowds till tho show began and the show, Oh Boy! Alice In Jungloland well you can't describe It, It Is one of the greatest conceptions of artistic crea tln imaginable. One hundred and ten varied animal features are given each one a wonderful dlavlay of nerve and daring and If you live to be as old ns Methuslam you will never see a more wonderful, eduea tlonal display that brings old Fsth cr Noah and his Ark to your doors Al G. 'Barnes has the greatest ant nml circus on earth. Beside the thirty clowns, HO wild animal features, 12U0 wild and tnm animals, ovor 200 performers and trainers which make Al (1. Barnes name tdnnd before the public as the greatest educator of wild animals on earth. Another performance will be given tonight. Poors open at 7 and performance at 8, Miike Mlwriibln Mesa of Trying to I'l-mlmo 22.0O Airplane In 12 Months lMine Abend Washington, May 16. Admission Hi nt both military and civilian ex perts over estimated the country's capabilities In setting out In 191 to accomplish tho Impossible tusk" of producing 22,000 airplanes In 12 months' Is muda In tho official his lory of the government's efforts to u lid up the Industry, made public today by the war department. Re alization of this error resulted al most lmindlately in the placing; df contracts In Franco for 6.875 planes f the Spad, Nleuport and Dregeut type. The report shows that by May 23, 1918, American factories had de livered S.270 planes, or 24 per cent of the aimbltlous program while the French had delivered 31 per cent of the number promised on that date. I'p to November 11, a total of 11,364 Irplanoa had been produced In Am erica, "but these were largoly train Inif machines, fighting pianos com pleted during the war period total ling only 8,328. "Broadly slated." the history says, "the united States produced for her army alone In her second year of manufacture, as many air planes as England produced for her army and navy In her third year. a 8. FEEDS BY GERMAN DELEGATES WILL TRY TO IMPROVE TERMS Wilson to Make Brief Address to Congress Terras to Austria Demand Disarmament of Skoda Works Hons Turned Down on Proposed Labor Legislation Herlln. May f.". On Wednosday von Brockdorff-Rantzail, head of the German peace delegation, in commu nicating to other members of bli delegation the text of the three notes he sent to rremler Clemenceau, pointed out that the peace treaty In its present form could not be signed because It Is Impossible to fulfill the terms. The German delegates, he suld, must endeavor to improve the treaty and make signing by Germany possible. PariB, May 15. President Wilson has advised the cable companies that bis message to congress at the spe cial session will not be more than few hundred words. Paris, May IE. The Austrian peace terms will probably be present ed to the 'Austrian delegation next Wednesday. The terms, it Is under stood, require the dismantling of the famous Skoda armament works. CITY OK PORTLAND HAS titO.OOO KIKE Parts, May 15. The council of four today declined to consider the Portland, Ore., May 15. Fire starting early today destroyed four kilns of the plant 'of the university shlnglo mill, causing a loss of $30 000. Belgrade, Serbia, May 13. "All Rumania Is eating flour from Amer ica today,. .The people realize whore the aid ihna come from and are ex ceedingly grateful. Without Ameri can help starvation cortalnly would have (become very general." Thoao are the words of Lieutenant Colonel II. Gideon Wells, American Ret Cross commissioner to Rumania, who recently arrived at Belgrade from Bucharest. Colonel Wells said the great 'bulk of the Rumanian food supply, Includ ing about 20,000 tons of flour monthly Is furnished 'by the Ameri can food administration. It Is sold In wholesale quantities to the gov ernment, 'which attends to all detnllp of transport and distribution. Flour trains run continually from the port' to the Interior and have the right of way over all other transport. . Uuidon, May 15. It was learned toduy in official quarters that Frank Walsh. Kdward F. Dunne and Mi chael F. ;Ryan, representatives of Irish societies In the United States who have been visiting Ireland will not be received by Premier Lloyd George on thein return to Paris nor will they be accorded any official or semi-official recognition. According to a 'Renter's dispatch from 'Paris, Col. E. M. House, who had promised to endeavor to arrange an Interview between the American delegates and the 'British premier, in view of their aotlvltlos in Hreland decided not to act as an Interme diary. Mr. .Dunne and Mr. Ryan reached London last night, Mr. Walsh remain ed in 'Dublin and Is expected here to night. Mr. Lloyd George has ibeen sub' Ject to most bitter attacks tor his alloxed encouragement of the dele' gates' activities. Even a serious Journal like the Spectator has gone so far as to assert that a "dangerous conspiracy" Is afoot for committing the premier and the British govern' ment to virtual recognition of the Irish republic. Other newspapers complain of the fact that the dele gates have fraternised with Sinn Felnleaders has given the Sinn Fein movement new life. The question has. Deen asked what would thought If a British delegation should visit the United States on mission of a like character. von Brockdorff-Rantzau note on la bor legislation. RED FOUND ONLY EMPTY CASH BOX Manufacturers Who Could Sot Fur nish Money Were Stood I'p Agnliutt Willi and Shot Washington, May 15. Raymond B. Fosdlck, of New York, will be one of the permanent American repre sentatives of the council of league of nations when the league organizes. It was learned today officially. London, May 15. Phlllpp Schelde mann, German premier, has sent to the correspondent of the Dally Her ald of Berlin, a tabor newspaper, an appeal to the British people to re llze "the appalling position in which Germany has toeen placed by the peace conditions." Paris, May 15. Immediate meas ures tending to the further subjuga tion of Germany if Its delegates re fuse to sign the peace treaty were Indicated today by the announcement that Marshal Foch had been sent to the iRhine by the council of four to take such action as may become ne cessary 'in the event that the treaty Is not signed. NKW VICTORY FOR KOLCHAK'8 TROOI'S f Berne, May 15. Troops of Admiral Kolchak have captured 4 Samara, the Ukrainian Press 'bureau reports. KLMA POSTOKKICE WRECKED I1Y ROBBERS Aberdeen, Wash., May 15. Robbers wrecked the safe of the Elma, Wash., postofflce early today and took 11,000. DIVORCED FROM WIFE. ' TWO PLANKS START OS OCEAN TRIP . ' ' Trepaasey, N. F., May 15. The American navy seaplanes 4- NC-l'and NC-3 made the hop- off from here shortly after 6 p. , m. on their flight to the Ax- t ores. St. Johns. N. F., May 15. The American naval dirigible 4 C-5 broke adrift this afternoon and was carried to sea. ' f Trepaasy, N. F., May 15. Both seaplanes after cruising off the harbor fox a short while 4 came back. -f V Paris, May 15. Bolshevism in the untutored mind of the Russian proletariat Is a system 'under' which everybody has plenty of money and one needs to work only two or three hours a day, writes a special corre spondent of L'Intranslgeant from Russia. The money they needed, the moujlks were told, they would find In the factories, and all they would have to do would be to go and get It. Disappointment awa'ed them in most cases, fcr the ueat majority of the manufacturers wore ruined, and the office cash boxes were generally empty. Th? n'xt course was to seize the proprietor by the throat. "Where Is our money?" they would demand. "The money that we're earned by our sweat and blood?" One plant owner answered that he had no money, and offered to prove by his books that he had not even enough to keep body and soul to gether. The men fumbled through the books; but being Ignorant of the rule of three, they could not under stand the entries. Then somebody found an entry of two million rubles under "Mortgages," the Russian for which la "Amortlzatzia."- "What is this?" they demanded furiously. "Amortlzatzia must 'he the name of a woman. She has got ten our money. Who Is she? Where is she?" . The unfortunate employer vainly attempted to explain. The mob gave him five minutes to "confess after which he was shot against his factory wall. isn mi GIVES BIG SUM 10 METHODISTS HEADS LIST WITH $750,000 HALF HIS FOKTl NE, FOR CAUSE HE THINKS WORTHY $1fiOtJiHH Will Be Spent In China, Which Country Is Raising 805 620 Sorthwest to Front Li Chicago, 111.. May 15. Francis Burton Harrison, governor general of the Philippines, let it be known today that tonight ihe will wed Miss Elizabeth Wrentmore, aged 18 years, of Berkeley. Cal. Harrison's wife obtained a final decree of divorce at San Diego today. ISSUE CALL OS J1AXKS Washington, May 15. The con troller of the currency Issued a call today tor the condition of all na tlonal hanks at the close of business on May 12. SIX DROWNED WHEN E mm Portsmouth, N. H., May 15. Six persons. Including the captain's wife and four children, 'were drowned to day when the coal-laden barge, Kan' ticoke, owned fby the Potter Trans portation company, sank off the Isle of Shoals. THE WEATHER MAN HARK liEUS FASHIONABLE OVER IN GAY l'AHKE UNION LABOR STILL FIGHTS FOR MOONEY Chicago, May 15. Officials of the Chicago Federation of Labor I nounced today that the votes of or ganized American labor on the "Mooney general protest strike pro gram" will he counted in public on June 2 by the federal Intervention committee. . It was stated that 80,000 organiz ed workers la Chicago hare voted to accept the program and tnat 4,000,- 000 votes would he cast throughout the country to decide 'whether the wheels of Industry shall remain mo tionless until Thomas Mooney and Warren K. iBillings are released from prison. The Chicago Stockyards Labor Council, representing 30,000 workers voted unanimously for the general strike In behalf of the two men con victed or participation In the pre paredness day 'bomb explosion In San Francisco. Sixty thousand iron and steel workers here also favored the strike It was announced. ' ' New York, May 15. Headed by gift of 4750,000 from a western man whose name was withheld at his re quest, reports of many large sub scriptions to the Methodist' 105, 000,000 centenary fund poured Into headquarters here today, although the week of the intensive drive does) not begin until Sunday. . The anonymous giver la , not t a Methodist George M. Fowls, Cen- tpnarv treasurer, said it was halt the giver's entire fortune. , ' "I went to him and told htm that wanted a million dollars," said Mr. Fowler. - How mjich do yon think 1 have?" he asked. I answered, "A million and half." "Right," he said, "and you haro the nerve to ask me for two-thirds of it." "I took two hours then explaining our whole program. At the end he said 'The church for the first time is really doing a big thing In a high business-like way. We will compro mise on 1750,000.'." Other campaign gifts Include 150,- 000 from Mrs. Gustavus F. Swift of Chicago; an anonymous gift of $50,- from New England, and three anon ymous gifts of $25,000 each from Baltimore. .President Chi Shi Chang, of China, has contributed 11.000; rremier Chien $500 and other Chinese offi cials lesser amounts. - The Centenary budget calls for tha expenditure of $7,501,588 in China, of which $865,620 is to he raised among the Chinese and the Kalance in the United States. Portland, Ore., May 13. Mrs. Marie Mlddloton was released from Mio murder charge, following the death In Jail here of Eugene Tuck, who was generally accused with the Blaylng of Mrs., Tuck, Who died of a gunshot wound In the Tuck home where Mrs. Mlddleton was a guest. Paris, iMay 15. At the champs racing the first of the week, which President Wilson and Colonel House bsw, the stocklngless fad was launched. It Is 'believed that hare legs will prove popular, with Bilk stockings costing $10 a pair and up, and so diaphonous they scarcely last a day without tearing. v . Recently actresses quit wearing stockings at the theaters and lead' Ing dressmakers sent mannequins to the race track stocklngless. Owing to the thinness of the fashionable stocking, which I; so sheer as almost to be Invtsfble, people had to look twice to make sure the wearer was not barelegged. , ; ; Low necked and armless gowns, longer than formerly, marked the first Sunday at iLongchampa. Halifax, May 15. The United States seaplane NC-4, after returning here from an earlier start for Tre passey, N. F., made a new start to day noon. Commander Towers said the NM and NC-3 might start to- Long-J day for the Azores, although the weather conditions were at present unfavorable. WYOMINU AN "OIL" STATE TEACHING BUSINESS MEN TO REDUCE WAISTLINE Cheyenne. Wyo.. May 15 Dreams of a taxless Wyoming may soon be realized. One section of state-owned oil land will be paying a royalty of $300,000 annually 'before the end of the present year, and it other state properties prove out anywhere near ly so well the annual revenue to the state will reach Impressive figures, :- El Paso, Tex., May 15. Walter Williams has declared war on the waistline. He 'has been an athletic Instructor at the army camps and. not being chosen for service in France, he has ibrought the war home to the 'business men of the city I who are getting perfect 46 figures In the region of the equator. Each morning at 7 o'clock his class re ports tor duty, and Williams puts them through an hour of fat reduc ing exercises which end with a swim and a shower. ' Portland, Ore., May 15. "With more than 500 cities in the north west already reporting their Centen ary drive as completed, almost $500,- 000 of the $2,600,000 allotted to tne northwest has ibeen collected," an nounced Dr. A. L. Howarth, associ ate executive secretary tor the Cen tenary movement tor the northwest, this morning. . ' AYHO'S GOT 'EM? Kansas City, Mo., May 15. Police are searching high and low for two $100 liberty bonds. , Harold Luther and Alton Cox attached the honds to their kites and the strings broke. AIRSHIPS EFFECTIVE 1000 HELP POLICE Winnipeg, May, 15. Union work men 'walked out on a general strike here today, following the failure of the metal workers and employers to adjust differences. 1 A committee of 1,000 citizens was formed to main tain order. ' .London, May 15. Sweeping up the thousands of mines which strew the seas In the neighborhood of the British Isles has proved such a cost ly and dangerous Jo1 when carried on 'by the ordinary methods, that the admiralty has turned to the airship for relief. Experiments conducted In the North Sea, It is announced, have been successful, mines being located, and exploded much quicker than when the ubub! mine-sweeping ship Is used. J . While the airship has the advant age of height in locating mines, the . mere fact that an atrsnip caunoi mi. a mine adds so much to the element of safety that It is expected that much of the 5,000 square mrtes of; mine strewn waters which remain will be cleared without loss of life.