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About Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1919)
r iii pup . (g$mm GRANTS PASS, WW OOUm, OMOQ,, FRIDAY, MAY 23, ,.1,. v miOLB nTS piiniMn iid nm pi lire M PEACE TREATY WHULl ViUKLU ;;:Hr 1 u 11 mu Ul UIU ULUN VOItKlUN COl'NTIUKtt WILL ftPF.Nl MILLIONS TO AIISOIUI LAIIOH AMI All) PARMKIW ,S, Kajdneorlng Authority Hays I'nlted hUtm (uld Afford b Spend Mil lion to llulltl oO.lMMl MlU-n Washington, May 23. --goon after the armistice tu signed, the U. S department of laibor distributed 200, 000 posters bearing such message , "Good Roads! Build them now nd see how quickly good times will roll down the road," nd "Build now the National, Stile and County Itoads thnt are needed." Although road building on a big scale liaa been begun In many states, even the moat ambltloua undertak In will be 1)111 a start toward nation wide work now eo much neoded. Re port rocolved by the department allow that highway rontitmctlon n Immediate meana of absorbing labor baa been undertaken In foreign countries on a scale much greater than that represented In the pro grim of the V. S. government. 1f comparative area and population are taken Into consideration. A comparison of tha approba tion! of (England and France wltb those of thia country la of Interest While congress haa made available 180,000.000 for expenditure In 1918 and a total of $275,000,000 up to and Including the fiscal year of 1921. thla money m ill be available on all or any part of the 2,500,000 mile of rural highway In the United States Agaiinat thla figure, 'France la con rentratlng ita fund of $152,000,000 or 65.000 mllea of national highways of which a large percentage haa al ready (been Improved, leaving the de partmenta and aub-departmenta to carry on the work In the lea Import ant systems. The total road mileage In England la 150,908 mllea and aside from the $50,000,000 anuro prlated by the national government, at leant aa much more will be aet aelde by ahlres and municipalities. In the matter or hard surfaced hlghwsys, both France and England are far ahead of thla country In road building aa a rosult of continued gov ernment expenditures on national systems while Prussia alone bad 75.. 000 mllea or hard surfaced roads previous to lta entry Into the war. Tn proportion to elze. the United State would need 1.811,914 mllea of hard surfaced ways to rest on a par ity with Prussia, although close es Ornate show that only one-quarter of one per cent or 6,250 mllea of our highway are hard aurfaoed at the present time. Estimates prepared by engineering authorities show that the United States could well afford to spend II. 350,000,000 on a hard surfaced sys tem r 50,000 mllea which could he o located as to serve directly 46 per cent or all or the counties, or the United States while 41 per cent or alt the others would be directly adja cent to it. ln other words. 87 per cent or the total population would he touched with reasonable dlroot ness. At an annual expenditure of $100,000,000 the fundamental sys tem would be completed In 12 and a hair years. ATTEMPT MADE BOMB . Washington, May 23. State de partment advices say an attempt was made to demolish the American lega tion founding at San Jose, Costa Rica, Monday night by a bomb. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, May 23. Ten bodies have been taken from the rulna of the Douglas Company starch plant, following an explosion and fire. Seven men are missing and are probably In the ruins. Workmen say dust caused the explosion, N The entire plant waa burned by resultant fire, which was confined to the Douglas property. The loss is $3,000,000. Many employes were In the works at the time of the explosion. Scores were Iburlod beneath the wreckage and are being removed to hospitals. Persons on the streets and about the works were Injured by flying wreckage and broken glass. Win-' dows In the (business district were blown In and many people In the buildings were cut by flying glass. The shock was folt all over Cedar Rapids and for miles around. Fire followed the blast and consumed the. shattered plant, t hough the en tire Are department was called out. Firemen extricated dead and wounded from the debris hastily to avoid Incineration The Injured were rushed to hospitals and homes as rapidly as volunteer with auto mobiles could be mustered. ' Bo severe was the explosion that persona a mile away were thrown from chair. The cause of the acci dent la thought to have been due to either a defective toller or spontan eons combustion. AMIKItfi UAHK IP . XKXT HK1TKMHKU Portland. Ore., May 23. J. Henry Albcra perfected an ap- peal from espionage conviction today by filing a $10,000 bond. 4 Arguments .will ibe presented to the federal court of appeal ' here In September. New York, May 23 A detachment of nurses In command of Colonel J. I. Talbot of Washington, headed by Miss J. K, Doyle ot Portland have ar rived here. They were abroad 11 months and handled 15.000 cases. New Tork, May 23. Two New York stock exchange seats were sold for $85,000 each, the highest. price since 1910, when a seat brought $94,000. bawson, Y. T:, May 23. Since 885 Yukon Territory ihaa shipped to the outside world $200,000,000 In virgin gold, according to records or the royalty collector or the Domin ion (government here. The Klondike sent to the great war 600 or its stalwart sons. Stress of (high cost or equipment and supplies, due to war, slowed down gold production during the years from 1914 to the end ot 1918. But with the approaching of peace, large dredges which have been idle are expected to revive their opera tions, and the estimated 48 miles of placer creeks of proved values with in a few miles of iDawson miners say, soon will hum with renewed ac tivity. The greatest year's gold produc tion of the Klondike was during 900, when $22,275,000 worth or virgin gold was shipped. In 1918, the last year of the war, recorded production fell to $1,935,820. China to Sign Regardless of Question Puzzler-United -Allies Force Enemy Paris, May 23. Concessions of some points in the peace treaty have been made to the Germans by the peace conference. Slight modifica tion were made In the terms of the Soar valley and the terms regarding reparations have also been modified. it Is not given out Just what terma were decided upon. China's delegation decided to sign the treaty, deapiu tha declaration that It would not. It Is reported that reservations were made regarding Klaa Cbau and Shantung. The question of the future admin. Istratlon of Turkey Is occupying much time of the peace conference. The powers appear to want the Unit ed 8tates to assume the position aa LIKE SO MANY CATTLE Vladivostok, May 23 Instrument of torture the bolshevlkl am hwaH -Ho Have used against their victims I . " Have been found by the iPenn dis trict Inquiry commission according to the government telegraph agency. They Include a chain whip with thick handle, an iron tar which was used to brand prisoners, and a rub- toer knout. 1 5 AT ARCHANGEL SAY THERE IS NO JUSTICE IN Archangel, May 23. The Russo- AIHed force whioh has .been conduct Ing the campaign against the bolshe vlkl In this far northern region has been outnumbered Iby the enemy everywhere from two to ten to one What they lack In numbers, this force make up in pluck, the pluck that makes them stick tight under attacks by superior forces, although they have not much interest In the 'Russian question and feel, candidly speaking, that the folks at home in Washington and London and Paris are making them suffer the nenaltv of their inability to make up their minds as to what should be done In Russia. , They grumble because they're here, and at the mistake made toy those at home and in Archangel who sometimes don't exactly understand the disposition of a homesick Yankee doughboy or British Tomnile who is sitting In the snow In a frozen trench wihere a heavy fur coat makes no more Impression on a man's beating apparatus than If It were a web of gossamer. 'But they go on fighting. Just the same. With all their hardships, these troops have confidence In their com mander, Major General Edmund Ironside, i veteran of several British campaigns, and a six-footer physic ally who spends more time at the front than at headquarters In lArch- angel. They know the general is looking out for them but they don't feel the same way about the folks at home. To march for four or five days over snow trails, sleep on the cold, hard floors of peasant cottages at night In an atmosphere so thick that one couldn't even pour It, and then to fight all day In 15 below zero temperature, ihaa been imore or less routine ifor the Yanks up here. They have fought with N signal ibravery. when greatly outnumbered, and when support, because of the weath er conditions or the trails, failed to Former Declaration Turkish States May Be Mandatory to Retreat in Russia mandatory for Turkey. President Wilson baa been advised toy former Ambassador Henry Morgenthau that the administration of Oonstantin opie, Anatolia and Armenia should be combined In the hands of one power. Von Brockdorff-Rantzau and other German delegates have gone to Spa for consultation. The allied forces In northern Rus sla have carried out a turning move ment against the bolshevlkl and have forced the enemy to retreat south ward. The'allles have occupied aev eral towns In the process of hem ming In Petrograd toy the Bethoni'an Finnish. Other allied forces are ap parently progressing. , FOLLOWS OLE'S PLAN W Innlpeg, Can., May 23. Effort to bring about a program of concil iation at a meeting ot citizens and r I h ,t n ( n n u J I . I "" " u.-ua me general strike here today failed. .Mayor uray closed the meeting with the remark: "If it Is your wish that nothing further be done regarding conciliation, then hop to it. I will see law and order maintained." FIGHTING THE BEOS reach them. uVearlv two score at ih Americans wear British or French ribbons for bravery In action against the bolshevlkl, and more decorations are on the way. The Yanks .have gone on, day by day. grumlbling but amillno- hn..i their hardships. They're not extra ordinarily fascinated by the Russian "Marlshnas," or young girls, and having a Yankee contempt for males who wear whiskers and kiu h other in the streets and speak a Jaw- Dreaklng, foreign lanaruaae. The want to o home aa soon as they can, and, to them, it seem that all Uncle Sam has to do to get them home quickly Is to sand up a lot ot regulars and marines and finish the bolshevlkl quickly. The point of view of some nf th American officers Is illustrated h the remarks of one of them to the Associated Press correspondent. "H 1," he said, whan lis arrlv-ml here wltib. other American reinforce ments hut September. "Miam ln any Justice, no justice at all. We've been training at home at Oimn fu . ter for months andjmonths to fight tne Germane. And then they send us up here to iRuseia, to guard stores, I auippoae. The bolshevlkl can't fight, any way, for they're notning but an organized rabble. We wanted t6 fight; we didn't Join the army to iwatoh these .Russians revol- ute." This winter down In a snow-covered little, log hut. thatched with birch boughs, on the front, I saw this same young officer, hatt-frozen despite his fur coat .and Shackelton boots, as he waited at the field telephone while shrapnel from bolshevik guns were bursting somewhere around us. "Well," toe said, "there tent any justice, no Justice at all. The war Is over in France and we're still up In this tolafikety-blank frozen swamp, fighting. ..Why, do you know, I've had only two weeks reliet since we landed. Been fighting ever since." IScUf That Han Cabinet Will Xot Sign Causes Panic. and Many Flee From. .Mannheim Mannheim, May 23. Alarmed by tbe belief that Germany, will not sign the peace treaty and that the allies will occupy Mannheim, citizens be came panic stricken today nd storm ed the municipal savings bank. Many persons have fled from Mannheim. Large crowds later held protest meetings and other demonstrations, which added to the general confusion in the town. An official expression of regret has toeen Issued in Berlin that the people of Mannheim "appear to have lost their heads." Berlin. Mar 23. Tha maJorltv so cialists held a demonstration of pro test against the peace terms in the Wilhelmsplats today. The crowd, in contrast with earlier meetings, re ceived the speeches of leaders in frigid alienee. Chancellor Scheidemann said he hoped In the Interest of humanity to attain a peace toy understanding on the basis of the German counter pro posals.' While the German delegates at Versailles were working for this understanding, he added, it was the task of the government to raise its voice on behalf ot the conciliation. not the alienation, of peoples. A peace of conciliation only was Pos sible if Germany is included as an equal In the league of nations. The league, he declared. -was a ne cessity, but the government was against the spirit of the present form which made the Germans the slaves of other nations. He concluded toy calling for cheers for the league. Herr Mueller, for the Independent socialists, aaid the socialists of all countries must regard peace as !m possible under the present treaty. Fran Juchacs said that If the al lied peace terms were carried out they would perpetuate a -war of hnn ger. The Independent socialists also held a demonstration. INDUSTRIAL CET,TER Nl RADICAL HOTBED Berlin. May 23. The state arsenal at Bpandau, which has toeen shut down toy the government, haa shown monthly deficits of 35,000,000 marks for the past few months. Estimates far April, May and June Indicated a further total operating loss of 60.- 000.000. Attempt to utilize the gi gantic plant for peace production have toeen unsuccessful In its nrea- ent condition and it will have to be dismantled and re-equipped. - The arsenal, whioh 1n peace-time employed 9,000 hands and in the past few years engaged 40.000 work ers, has since the revolution de veloped into a hotbed of radicalism Communist leaders openly engaged in tne Intimidation of other wnrbar. threatening them with tooycott , and otner forms of terrorism. It is stat ed also that the Blant has also toeen grossly mismanaged whioh gradually brought on a state of massive rit. ance and Insubordination a mono- thJ workers. BAD WEATHER DELAYS N-C 4 IN OCEAN TRIP Washington, Mar 23. Weather conditions at Ponta del Garda are still unfavorable for the resumption of the seaplane flight. Rain sqiuUls a m nv .... n. A m. ... . . . f - "fokiou wiimu me next rew hour. London, May 23. The caibla ahln Friday reports that it sighted tha red light of an airplane early Mon day, approximately midway between England and New Foundland. In the course whlrh Harry Hawker would have ro. lowed. ' E SHERMAN'S RESOLl'TIOX DE CLARES IT DUTY OF SEXATE TO TEAK TWO APART JOHNSON WANTS THE FACTS BiU Appropriating 943,000,000 ta Soldiers and Sailors Passed aad Xow Tp to Prat dent Washington, May 23.: Senator Sherman, of Illinois, republican, haa Introduced a resolution declaring It the sense of the senate that the covenant of the league of nations 'be separated from the peace treaty when submitted for ratification. Senator Johnson, of California, called up for consideration in the senate his resolution asking the state department to fnrnish the senat) with a complete text of the peace treaty. - The senate passed without amend ment the deficiency appropriation toill adopted yesterday In the house, carrying $45,000,000 for war i& allotments to families of soldiers and sailors and dependents of Civil War veterans. The measure now goes to the president. - . , Washington, May 23. Measure for the repeal of the wartime prohi bition act. Insofar as ft relates to wine and beer, and also tor the eo forcement of that act as veil as the constitutional amendment, waa Intro duced today. . SEATTLE MAN EXPIRES ON RETURN TRIP ICE James Brown, of.. Seattle, was found dead in his berth this morn ing on train So. 14 northbound. From what could be learned from other passengers on the train he had been at Los Angeles to visit a con and was returning home. He had not toeen feeling well and retired last night about 10 o'clock, removing his shoes but not disrobing. . Dr. Strieker of this city, .who ex amined the body, was of the opinion that Mr. Brown had been dead about eight hours when the train arrived here, death, apparently, having re sulted from heart trouble. Among the papers found 'on his person were his naturalization pa pers, several letters and a draft for over 18,000. ' He alse had about 114 in change In his Dockets. Writ ten across one of the envelopes hear ing Ms address were the words: "In case of accident notify P. M. Hurtle of Seattle." Justice Hoi man' haa wired tn Mr. Hartle for instructions, the toody 1n the (meantime being held at the TTaii undertaking parlors. VOLCANO 8POIT9 Rome. Mav 23. ThA vntnnn 4. of Stromboll, on the island of that name, oft the north coast 4- of Sicily, has tourst into violent -f eruption and numerous victims are reported. .. . ' -f BAKER MAN WINS IN Salem, Ore., May 23. 'Baker City was chosen by Oregon Oddfellow for their nest grand lodge session. The hottest contest waa for grand warden, which required three bal lots before M. R. Brlggs, ot Prine vilb, was. re-elected. FROM LEAGU