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University ot ftliil' VOI JX, No. 177. GRANTS PASS, J08EPU1XB OOUHTT, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1010. WHOLE NUMBER 867. GRANTS PASS HJMIETO SEE AIRPLANES tUMMlTTKH FROM AKilO VIXli OK OUEUOX VWITS OITV IV INTEREST OF CARNIVAL PRONOUNCE SITE AS IDEAL QUE lUmlA Not IMrflnlUJ)- HeUlod and Aviator Urge OUmmui to l'n'jwre Landing PUce Col. Lewis P. Campbell, special representative of the Vlotory Roue Festival iU Portland June 11, 13 and 13, end John r. Rlsley, Lieut. L. R. . Mullineaux and Lieut. 8. T. French ward la Grants IW today In the In to rout of that event. Ueutenant French and Mulllneaux bave been In the service aa "blrdtnen," therefore re competent to Judge what would Make a good landing place for air planes. These men were appointed ai a commkte to locate aviation landing in Oregon, especially for the air , planes which are to fly from Mather Field. Cut., to Portland during the ltoe Festival. The following letter from 'Harry L. Watson, lieutenant of lr survire, to MlHon 'R. Rlepper. president of the Oregon Aero Club at Portland, fully explain plana for taking the air plane to the Roue Fes tival: - ..... "Our tentative plana for landing. tc, on the flight to Portland are now a follow: First day etop at Chloo, Redding and Vroka. Cal. Sec ond day, etop at Modford. Clendale . and Roscbnrg, Ore. Third day. atop at Eugene. Salem and (Portland. We shall plan to arrive on the evening ,it June 10. TM achedule may be changed on receipt of the Information a to land ing field which to helng prepared by the pIloU of the Aero Club of Oregon. (The schedule which 1 have outlined to. aa I have stated, merely tentative and ha boen arranged Trom a atudy of mape. " have your letter of Nay 18 sug gesting a parachute to drop from one of the plane and a1o suggesting that certain civilian be carried dur ing the trip. tAuthrlty for auch flights can be obtained only from the director of air service at Washington or higher authority. I suggest that you take 'this matter up with the director of air ervlce. I am not very deslrou of carrying any civil ian (passengers while actually travel. Ing. The machine which we uae "have a capacity of only two passen rem and they will foe pretty well loaded with the necessary mechanics -and with baggage, spare parU for the motor, etc. There will be no objection on our part to carrying passengers iwhlle visiting the towns, hut, ae I have already stated au thority for auoh flight must foe ob tained from the director of air ser vice. ' "It to now our plan to taring one de TTavlland to Portland, In addition to the tx JN4H plane. This will make a total of seven ptolets and rive passengers." After 'viewing ILawnridge height north of this city, at the end of the pavement, the committee stated that It would make an Ideal landing place for airplanes and assured the 'Courier that they would so recom mend It. But little work will be re quired to put the field In condition, said lUeutenant French, this morn lag. wnne tne committee, that' was here today could not state positively that the airplanes from Mather Field would stop here on their way to "Portland, they gave It aa their ottn Ion that If Grants Pass citizen would prepare the La wn ridge tract the planes would etop here. But re Wirdles of this first Might of planes. "the airplane has come to stay and 1t "wlH not be long foefore a regular nlr- (Continued on page iTT aiiiini dunituintA mo Trny cnnm rvninrc Find CuUmay to MlMtlon (Vi twite")' .Near Tiuwm Believed (Jreot Wraith I Ilnrld Tucson, Arli.. May 27. What 1s believed to be the first clew to the reputed burled treasures of the pa dre of the Tumacacorl Mission, built by Spanish Jesuit high up In tbe Tumacacorl mountains, lex than three hours' Journey from Tucson, has 'been discovered by Frank Pink ley, custodian of tbe ruins. It Is the gateway to the mission cemetery. From this gateway. It 1 said, tbe plaua and maps left by the padres start to outline tbe way to buried gold and silver. The Tumacacorl Mission was built near what are believed to toe the rulus of one of the Seven Cttle of Cibola. Heattered over the long, red mesa surrounding the mountains are large numbers of hieroglyphic boul ders, which, say the modern Indians, Allocs placed there to mark tbe hid ing place of t another great treasure hidden In the neighborhood. This Is aid to consist of 2060 burro loads of white silver and 90S burro loads of gold and silver. The entire region la aald to show evidences of rich mineral deposits, which, declare those who bave In spected the mountains, doubtless led the padre to build their mission. On the sides of the mountain lie the ruin of many dwelling, while on the top, carved from solid rock, I the Axtec god standing guard over the silent city. Nearby, on a large flat rock, are the stone basins that held the bleed ing hearts of the victims sacrificed to appease the wrath of the stone Image. Hundreds of these sacrifices are said to have been made each year. There are five of these ancient vil lage 4n the vicinity of Tucson and two Immediately across the Mexican border In Sonora. Some say they are the seven cities referred to by the conquistador, Cabeza de Vaca. A newer city, that of Tubac, mean ing "Ruined House" stand near the mission, ib ut little Is known of the life there. , Ten acres of land on which the Tumacacorl mission was located have been deeded to the United States government and the plot now Is known aa the Tumacacorl Nation al Monument. It I under the direc tion of 'Frank 'Plnkley, who also su pervises the mysterious Casa Grande ruins near Florence.- OHIO BOASTS BIGGEST SALOON IN THE WORLD Columbus, Ohio, May 26. Ohio Saturday night threw her hat Into the prohibition ring. (Although con stttuttonal prohibition does not be come effective until Tuesday, all but 163 of the 6,600 saloons In- the state quit (business Saturday at midnight rather than pay the $305 license In order to keep open today. The biggest saloon In the world. located at Bridgeport, Ohio, will not close Its door until tonight at midnight. It to owned foy Samuel Ungerlelder and employs 77 barten ders and clerks. For the past four year It has sold an average of 20,- 000 drinks a day. Ohio to now the (biggest prohibi tion state In the country. The state was voted dry on last November 4 by a majority of more than 25,000. DHADliOCK IN WINNING STRIKK Winnipeg, Can., May ' 27. There Is no change In the gen- eral strike deadlock here, ex f cept a further Increase In com- merclal activities. mo iLnmouuii LArmco Safeguards For Religious Discriminations in New States. Germany's Voluminous Answer Tomorrow Allies Look With Favor on Kolchak and Omsk Government Paris, May 27. President Wilson, referring to Dr. Epltacio Pessoa, presldeut elect of Brazil, at dinner, said: "IJ very delightful for one, If I may say so, to know that my presidency Is not ahead of me and that bis presidency 1s ahead of him." Washington, May 27. The Parle peace conference has decided upon safeguards against religious discrim inations In the new states created as a result of the great war. London, May 27. Germany's counter peace -proposals will he pre sented tomorrow. It to expected that they will be voluminous. Dispatches reflect quite a sharp division of sen timent mong the Germans as to whether the treaty should be signed. Difficulty In framing the Austrlal treaty dealing with reparations caused delaye but tbe treaty may he ready for presentation foefore the end of the present week. There to no confirmation yet that tbe all-Russian government at Omsk will receive the recognition of the E FOR FIELDS Kavalla, Maredona, 'May 27. There are so many Americans in Ka valla, the first city In tbe Balkans to become a basis for American Red Cross operations, that It has some of the aspects of a real 'American city. Here the finest tobacco in the world the 'bulk of which Is con sumed In America is grown. Here the great American tobacco com panies have export headquarters. For years Bulgaria has looked up on Kavalla wKh a covetous eye. Al though defeated and subdued, she looked hopefully to the peace con gress at Paris to give her Kavalla as a port. Kavalla to not a harbor but Bulgaria which now has only the shallow port of Dedeagatch, at the mouth of the Gulf of Enos, Is an xious to get any outlet through Ma cedona and the sea tor her large out put of tobacco, wheat, livestock, silk and attar of roses, and would be quite ready to spend any sum In de veloping and deepening the harbor. During the war the Bulgars adopt ed In Kavalla the same ruthless prac tices they followed in alt occupied territory.. They pillaged and des troyed. They made every effort to make the land uninhabitable. They out down the 'trees and carried off furniture and everything made of wood. They , sacked the homes and drove the Greek inhabitants out. When the Greek commission of the American .Red Cross established re lief j posts here, after the armistice, no section of the Balkans ever pre sented a more depressing picture of misery and. squalor. The Americans found the inhabitants dying by the dozen from famine, exposure and typhus. They established soup kitchens and dispensaries and gave out tens of thousands of American- made garments. They sent physi cians, nurses and medical supplies, distributed hundreds of thousands of loaves df bread made of American flour, established shelters for the homeless women and children and cared for the hordes of broken and dispirited Greek and Serbian soldiers who had been released from vile prison camps in Bulgaria. ir vnr rj'T; g allies. Certain guarantees are said to be demanded. Paris, May 27 British and Amer ican marines have been landed at Danzig, It Is reported. A powerful fleet will be anchored off the harbor. Washington, May 27. A cable gram from President Wilson to Sec retary Tumulty, responding to i message fey RaAM Stephen Wise, protesting against the reported mas sacre of Jews in Poland and else where, disclosed the conference's safeguards against religious discrim ination. Paris, May 27. The Italian troops who occupied Sokla, SO miles east or Smyrna, Asia Minor, have re-embarked In transports, turning control over to the Turks. Paris, May 27. It to understood that Lloyd George to considering favorably a proposal from the Amer ican peace delegation that he visit America this year to attend the first meeting of the league of nations In Washington In October. BOHEMIA 3V0ULD DIVIDE UP ALL GREAT ESTATES Prague, (May 27. There Is a heat ed controversy throughout Bohemia over the question of dividing up the great estates held by the land own ing magnates of this, section of Czecho-Slovakla. The greater part of the land In Bohemia is In the hands of these 'large land owners and there Is a widespread demand that the estates shall be taken over foy the state and in some way put In the hands of the poorer classes. The, people are all the more Insis tent that this action should be taken because the land owners, for the most part, have foeen open enemies of the Czech nationalities and have been faithful satellites of the Haps- burg dynasty which oppressed. Bo hemia for tour centuries. One of the first acts of- the new government . was to appoint a com mission to make recommendations tor reform In land 'owning. The commission now has reported recom mending that the great estates should be bought by the state and that no land owners should foe al lowed to hold more than about 625 acres. The question as to what amount the state should pay these land owners for the land it expropri ates 1n this compulsory fashion has caused serious differences of opin ion. All hut a few extremists con cede that the land should be paid tor. BATTLE-SCARRED Portland. Ore., May 27. Portland tosjiy greeted the 147th artillery, a men ot A Dattery. 42 of B cat tery, 123 casuals, mostly Oregon- tans. These men saw more service than any troop 'returned thus far. The heroes dropped off the moving train in waves and were taken into the arms ot loved ones in mass for mation. They saw their first fight ing at Toul last 'June, afterward on the iMarne. the Oise-iAslne offensive, -nd the Argonne. E Shows Little tluuiKe of Heart Where He Escapes Victorious Rye of .. the Allies London, (May 27. While the at tention of the allies Is concentrated1 on the Germans along the western front, German government officials In Schleswig are preventing tbe Danes, who have the coi&ent of the entente, from shipping food to their own needy countrymen in Schleswig. This Information has been receiv ed here foy Edmund Gosse, well known English literary critic. "I learn," be said in a letter to the Morning Post, "that the burgo master of Flensburg declares that Us hungry rnhaottaats of that town, the largest in Schleswig 'hare no need of Danish food.' " The same German official, accord ing to . M'r. Goese's Information has refused passports to any families in the town and district of Flensburg to cross over into Denmark to accept an ofTer of Jutland and Funen to re ceive several thousand Danish-speak ing Schleswig children. "If Danes In Flensburg dislike German rule," he puts It, "they may starve." Mr. Gosse terms as "scandalous1 the treatment of Schleswig soldiers repatriated through Denmark. "These unhappy men," he said, 'are arrested as they cross the fron tier, are prevented from even visit ing their relatives, and r$ rm me diately conveyed to the Polish fron' tiers to swell the German - army there. North Schleswig Is at the present moment more severely perse cuted than it was even through the war. mere is proceeding a com mandeering of cattle and horses which Is paralysing to the popula tion, and this is emphasized by the indulgence with -which South (or German) Schleswig is being treat ed.' Schleswig, he understands, to now closed to all persons coming trom Denmark. "On the Rhine, under the eye of England and France," Mr. Gosse ob served, "the boche may be meek enough, hut he shows title change of heart where he escapes from the eye or me victorious alHes." bcaieewig, the northern half of Schleswig-'Holstein between the North and Baltic seas has (been a province of Prussia since 1864 when it was wrested from DairfRh Under the peace treaty of Paris the control of certain tones ot Schleswig is to te decided by plesbeeclte. Honolulu, T. H., May 27. More than 300 school teachers ot Hawaii wno nave filed applications for transportation to tbe mainland this summer on army transports, are to suffer e. great disappointment. The July iad August transport are al ready practically booked full ror army officers, soldiers and federal employes, and only a few, if nny, of the teachers will be able to get to the coast for their vacations. Being employes of the territorial govern ment, public school teachers are en titled to transportation on armv transports when there to room for them. Nearly all of the "marodned" school teachers are young women front the Pacific coast states. ' 4444444 4N4 444444 4 PACIFIC FLEET 4- BY LATE SUMMER 4-" . 4-.. Washington, May 27. Sec- 4 4- retary Daniels stated today that -f 4- the navy will have a 'big Pa- -f 41 dfle fleet by late summer. 4444444444444441 MEEK II UNDER RULE K 4 FIRST PLANE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC LEFT AZORES THIS MOHMXQ AND LAXDS AT LISBOX EARXT ' THIS AFTERXOOJf . GREAT HONOR FOR U. S. FLAG Congress to Thaalt AU Those Who Attempted Ocean Flight la Ib- terest of Science ' 'l f Lisbon, Portugal, aiay 27. The NC-4 has arrived here. ' Naval officer here have been concerned over various wire- less messages that have been 4- picked up In tbe south 'Atlantic f whose origin or purpose to not 4- discoverable. They refer main- f ly to bad weather conditions, some of them reporting the im- possibility of flying. Ponta del Gada, Azores, -May 17. The American seaplane NC-4 started for Ltebon at 6:18 New York time this morning, r with the weather ' clear. It will he an 800 mile flight and 14 destroyer nark the route. The plane should reach Lisbon this afternoon, averaging over 80 knots per hour. Washington, May 27. had made 560 miles at York time. -The NC-4 1:10, New Ponta del Gada, Asores, May 27. The NC-4 passed station .. No. 12. three-quarters ot the distance to Lis bon at 2:05 New York time. Washington, May 27. Announce ment that the American seaplane ex pected to complete .the. trans-Atlantic flight .before sunset by landing; at Lisbon was greeted by applause In the house. Representative Hicks announced that he had prepared a bill thanking tbe crews of the three seaplanes for carrying the United States flag first across the seas: DEMOCRATIC SENATOR . - ROASTS THE LEAGUE ;V ! Washington, ,-May 27. The league 'of nations was debated In the senate again yesterday 4 with an Increasing show ot bit- terness. ; 4- Senator Reed, democrat, of 4- Missouri, attacked the proposal 4- in such vigorous terms that he 4- aroused repeated objection 4- from senator supporting H and 4" 4 a J running debate developed, 4- colored iby dramatic accusation 4- and heated retorts. The Mis- 4- 4- sour! senator ' declared the 4- league would place the destlnis 4- 4 ot the' white race in the hands 4- 4- of ignorant and superstitious 4s nations of black and yellow - 4 population,' and charged that 4- 4 many democrat were support- 4- Ingj It for partisan reasons. 4'4' PLUNDERERS STEAL WHOLE POTATO PATCH .Berlin, May 27. A small army of 1,000 organized plunderers recently made a raid upon a huge potato farm not far from Stettin, forced the em ployes of the farm to help ; them transport its products to the : rail-' road station and compelled the terri fied railroad officials to order a spe cial train on which they carried their plunder into Stettin and sold it. The farm owners have appealed to the German general assembly at Weimar to punish the robbers.