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About Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931 | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1919)
. ..-,...i,A.-..--i... j-kmirf. -A-; ii.'SiS'.lKlSiMMi'a .. . .w!aaVTO'llB " itin Mast, m an ' . .. VOI,. IX., N. IBM). GRAVES WOULD PRESERVE THE BIG REDWOODS f'HIKF OP KOKKKTIIY MKHVK'K HAVH IlKHTItltTlOX OF I'OII- KJT MOVAIU IIS A t'lll.MK SCENIC HIGHWAY Will Effil Vio 1Cmu1 Kn,ru Hun Kraoctiaco U yiviit Otjr mid Grant !'; Would lluy the lnri TIhi trip to tbu yest count 'by 8oc rwtary 'Agriculture Houston and II. S. Graves, head of (bo V. 9. tort-try department, may moun much to Cal ifornia, ami especially to Crescent City; and ludtfunlally Grants Psss may be benefitted. In ix-aklti; of the trip yesterday evening while In thla city. Mr. Graves Intimated that the main oli of the tour wss to view the pro posed arenlc highway from 8nn Fran4sco north to Kureka and Cres cent City, and on, connecting with the etate highway at Crania Pass. He' waa greatly enthused with the trip and said: . 'When finished, the highway from San Francisco north to Crescent City VIII oot be surpassed by any scenic highway In the United States. The road will nu through perhaps 75 or DO miles of beautiful forests. There are tree by the roadalde meas uring '12 to IX feet in diameter 7rl redwood tivea a tboimaad jears old. "To destroy'those monarcbs of the forest." said iMr. Graves, "would ibe lllce destroying 'Niagara Kail or Outer Jiike. They should le pro tected and some meana to aecure their prcservutlnn nniHt'be found. It is hardly likely that an appropria tion ran be secured for the purtoae from the government although ucb an attnmirt. may be made and It l probable that we will hnve to resort to popular subscriptions. "nut little of this great forest I within the forest reserve and the land la mainly owned by private par ti. Why," and the head or the i forestry department grow enthusias tic, "1 aaw logger over there rutting great tree fully 10 or 12 foet in diameter, working tbo timber up in to ties and smaller' lumber. Thla wan right by the roadside. Wo nre not asking the forests be preserved. (Continued on Page J) MAX FRANCISCO HITS PKIIHEltM IIAJIO JOI.T. Ban Vramliico, July 18. Pan Francisco aa an ordinance thai re quire vandor having no fixed iplace of business and who make their headquarters in hotels or other tem porary Places to pay a license of 150 a dey. Out of town dealer from all sections of the country un wittingly have bad experience with is ordinance. WORK IS IN DOUGLAS State Highway Engineer Herbert Nunn, of Salem, and Highway Com missloner iR. A. IBooth, of Kugene, arrived here last evening from the north on a tour of Inspection of the 'Pacific highway. Traveling with the state official Is John Kelley, a' rep resentative of the 'Portland Oregon Man, who 1a to chronicle the trip. In speaking of the Pacific nlghwoy In Douglas county, IMr. Kelly stated that, there waa now $1,300,000 un der contract In this county. "There are only 300 miles of the Pacific highway in the state," said 'Mr. Kel ley, "and one-third of that tfl In (Douglas county, which means that an enormous amount of money will . be spent here." iRoseburg News. HUMS BROKE SPIRIT HARD FIGHT OF RUSSPRISOBERS OVER DAYLIGHT Half Million Men Lifted Out of l MinUnry by American; Forgot ten by TfoHr Own Country Pari. July 18. 'Half a million Huh((ium In Germany who formerly were prisoner of war have 'been lifted out of despondency within the lust four months, partly by a course of training in' American Ideals, Am erican sports and American spirit, aald Major James A. Ilabblt, a "Phil adelphia when he returned recently from Germany on bis way to the United States. "We found the Rtimlan war pris oners ln a stale of complete lassitude, mentally and physically," be aald. "They had spent four year In the neglect and misery of German In ternment ramps. It was enough to break the strongest wsn's spirit. Their own country had forgotten them and no word had come from their relative and frlonds. There was no future In Germany nor hope of anything ibetter In their own conn try. Hundred of thousand of Rus sian who had fought valiantly for the allied cause were slowly dying from depression, mental Inactivity and physl'-al malnutrition. "We put them to school Hke chil dren. Athletic games were Intro duced Into the camps and these stim ulated the prisoners physically while motion pictures and other mental recreations brightened their dull hours. Their hospitals were provid ed with every needed medical and surgical requisite. The ramps were organised under the command of rhs (American army personnel. They began to take on a new physical as pect snd the men stowed signs of returning life and courage. Al though they at first regarded us with suspicion, this was soon changed and they looked upon us as friends. They formed camp committee which brought all their need, grievances snd fears to our attention." RED CROSS CHECKS : TYPHUS AT SALONIKA Walonlki. July 18. The typhus epidemics at Kavalla, iMonastir, l's- kifb, iLeskovats and some other smal ler places In southern Serbia now are believed checked, say iRed Cross re ports received here. At sJI these points small typhus hospitals have 'been set up under the direction of American physicians and nurses. (Disinfecting stations have been established and In them thousands of refugees and soldiers are cleaned. v Portland, July 18. Results to date of a straw vote of returned sol di ors, Ibelng taken at the local army recruiting office, show that national prohibition Is la disfavor with the veterans here, woman suffrage Is favored, universal military training find strong support and American girls are preferred to 'French girls by almost five to one. Of those casting hallots, about 75 per cent have ibeen wounded veterans of the war. . Total returns , since the voting started are: Tor national '. prohibi tion 35, against 56; for universal military service 63, against '20; for 'be league of nations 77, against 12; for woman suffrage 54; agalust 36. . the disposition of the kaiser and his councillors now stands; For death 36; exile 32; for liberation 5; neutral 10 and not voting 8. . The American girls Is preferred to the 'French iby 46 .votes to 10; three have refused, to. vote, 12 are doubt ful and 9 are neutral. GKACTB PAHfl, JOSEPHIXK OOVXTT, OREGOX. SAVING RILL liKI'l IU.ICAN8 WIN, 11INK AX OTMKH'YKro AMI TACK ItlllEH TO AtJItHTIH UK MKAHI'ltK WILSON TALKS WITH M'NARY Paris Supreme Council Think Mili tary Intervention WW lie .N'twnt. onry in Hungary Washington, July IK Determined to attempt again the repeal of the daylight saving law, even at the risk of another presidential veto, the re publicans of the house agricultural committee today, over objection of democrats, Included the repealing rider in the agricultural bill. Washington, July 1 8. 'President Wilson today continued his confer ence -with republican senators. Ken- yon of Iowa and Kellogg of Minne sota talked with him. Heater he had appointments with Senator McN'sry of Oregon and Capper of. Ksnsas. The senators refused to comment on the conferences. Washington, July 18. The presi dent In a message to congress today asked that permanent ranks of gen eral 1n the regular army be given (Continued on Page S) SELL SaVES FOR FOOD AND CLOTHS Arcbanget, Ju(y 18. Ivan Davld off, a .wood supply contractor who hss recently returned from Petro gra'd says he found that city almost unrecognizable. Tramways wer$ ap proaching standstill and there was hardly 'any artificial lighting. He often saw starved horses fall down and die In the streets. "Everywhere one saw starved and emaciated jeople unable to walk, ly ing or sitting In streets begging for bread." he said. 'Uter these heart rendering spectacles were seldom to he seen ajs iRed Guards collected such mendicants and took them away. No one I knew could tell me for certain their ultimate fate, hut often one heard the communist motto 'Anyone who does not work shall not eat, and must die.' "The poorhoiwes, hospitals for In firm or helpless .wounded soldiers were all used as hayracks and com- mune headquarters, the Inmates be ing thrown out to die. ' "Many starving children of work men were expatriated to so-called grain growing districts, hut, unfor tunately, now no district can grow enough grain to feed Itself ade quately. The lack of food especially In. the capital was appalling, Mln IPetro'grad and '.Moscow many an honest and educated woman has beet forced to sell herself for food or clothing. The people look like the Inmates of a hospital and the death rata Is phenomenal." 20 LOSE LIVES WHEN Klmiball, W. V;, July 18. Twenty-one men. were killed and a score Injured In a gas explosion at the mine or the Taswell Creek Coal company at nood today. Over 100 men were working In the mine. Res cue parties are digging for ' bodies burled under the wreckage. FRIDAY, JILY HARD BOILED SMITH GIVEN 01 MEDICINE "HK.ITK.V TO PIL.P" HV VANK8 OV WHOM MK ll.tl XO MK1MT WIHI.K OVKIt IX KHAXCK COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE Itallinger of Mawuu-huSrtu Kays Bol- dler Will Testify That Smith's Trial Was a Joke Washington, July 18. -Array offi cers composing the courtmartiat that tried Uentenant "Hard Boiled" Smith, and" Lieutenant Mason, for merly In charge of the American mil itary prisoners in France where sol diers are alleged to hare been beaten mercilessly wlH be called before the house war Invstlgatlng commit tee soon to explain the sentences they imposed, according to Represen tative Dalllnger of Massachusetts, republican. Mr. Dalllnger said tbs witnesses called "will testify that tbs trial of these two men was a joke." Smith I and Mason were only honorably dls- cnarged. despite their brutality. When Smith arrived at Fort Jay, N. Y., recently, some of bis victims serving sentence there "'beat blm to a inilp" Ibefore the guards Interfer- red, Dalllnger said. WAR TAX ON LUXURIES MUST BE PAID JULY 20 The war tax on ice cream and soda water tor the month of (May and the war tax on luxuries, such as shoes, shirts, mrllinery, etc., for the month of 3lar will be due and payable at the office of Collector of Internal 'Revenue Milton A. iMUler at Port land, on or before July 20.. Blanks for the purpose of making report of these taxes have .been gen erally distributed. Taxpayers who have not yet re ceived them are urged to write to Collector Miller for the blanks, aa the law provides penalty where pay ment Is not made when due. Collector Miller Is anxious to avoid the assessment of any penal ties by the department, and this of fice wfll cooperate with the taxpay ers with a view to bringing about compliance with 'the (provisions of the act without undue hardship and expense to the taxpayers. IRKIiAXD OX THE WAR PATH 8AY8 "PRESIDBNT" DH VAfRRA Sacramento, Cal., July 18. IA state of war exists between Ireland and England, Eamonn de ValeraX provisional president of the "Irish republic," asserted upon his arrival here this afternoon en route to San Francisco to address the convention of the Ancient Order of (Hibernians of the United States and Canada. "David Idoyd George, the lBrttiah premier, had no authority to repre sent Iceland at the Paris peace con ference," declured Valera. "Ireland was then and 1s now, by right, ah independent nation. Ireland was not represented at the peace conference ad Is not hound toy Its acts. The Irish people, united as never before, will never quit fighting till they have thrown oft the British yoke." (V --:" ifi ,-'.,V.p-' TELEPHONE WORK ft'Of "San Francisco, July 18. The tele phone strikers were today ordered hack to worJt next Monday morning by the officers ot the . electrical workers and operators unions. 18, 1919. CLAIM HENRY FORD VERY MODEST MAN Attorneys. Kor Manufacturer of Tin IJzdes Want IWter Treatment for Their Client iMount Clemens, Mich., July 18. The heart of Henry Ford's libel suit wss reached today when the Tribune attorney began questioning Ford re garding the editorial headed "Ford Is Aa 'Anarchist," and published in the Chicago Tribune on June 23. 1916. Mr. Ford's attorneys characterized the efforts of Attorney Stevenson to get- Ford to admit that he was an ignorant Idealist" as brutal and par ticularly distressing to so modest s man as Mr. Ford. The court advised them that Mr. Ford coijld not expect different treat ment from asy other witness. THICK FMKR t.UAA 20O0 FKBT WHKX REIT BRRAKS Auiericus, Oa,, July 18. Sergeant Barton Gates of Flushing. X,. I., was Rilled late yesterday durina- an aerial circus being held at Souther field. sergeant Gates was firing upside aowa at the time and it is believed that his life belt broke. .' He fell J.000 feet to the ground, while- his machine crashed down nearly a mile distant. SPOKANE LABOR COCNCIL ASKS $18 FOR WO.MRX Spokane,' Wash., July 18. Thai organized labor of Washington will demand, at the next meeting of the 'state- Indostrlat welfare commission. reinstatement of the six-day week for women was the declaration today of W. J. Coates, president of- the Spokane central labor council. Mr. Coates declared the commission also will 'be asked to increase the mfnl- mum weekly wage for women above I1S.20. We soggested 118 a week. with 1S for apprentices, as a fair wage. f MURDER MAJ. COCKRIEL Coblenz, July 18. Two Germans attempted .last night to assassinate Major George Cockriel. provost mar shal ot the American forces in Ger many, but the major was uninjured. The Germans escaped after tiring several shots from 'behind him., The Major's home la In St. Paul. FARMERS ASK RELIEF Great -Falls, (Mont., July 18. The questionnaire system has been adopt ed toy the directors ot the Great Falls Commercial club as a means of ex tending relief, to drougtb-totrlcken areas is the 1? northern and central counties of 'Montana. A question naire will be sent to 100 county agents, bankers and merchants in the various communities '' and through this the club hopes to learn the act ual crop conditions, acreage lost and actual yield; number of head . of stock that must bo moved out to ob tain pasture; number ot farmers who ms.y have to leave the district; the number of acres that will re main nnplanted next spring; the aYalUbtlity of county funds through bonding, to buy seed, and sugges tions and recommendations will be Included.. With this material at hand, the dub will decide whether the help tor farmers should come from private subscription, from counties, from ths state or from the national govern meht." Hellef In the form of credit Is ipromlsed to cary Montana farm era through the coming winter. WHOLE XCMBKR 2721. THOUSANDS IN SEDITION - PLOT TO WRECK U.S. 70,o6o GARMENT WORKERS FAV OR SOVIET" FORM OF GOVERX- ' ' - JIEXT IX AMERICA W. ' W. AND REDS BUMED Radicals Sernre Control and Make It Appear That Ail Members Favor Tearing; Down Frorea New York. July 18. James P. Holland, president of ths New Tork SUte Federation of Labor, testifying today before the Joint legislative committee Investigating radical and seditious activities in this state, de clared that the I. W. W. had organ ized many thousands of workers throughout ths country on a plat-, form which Included la Its flank on calling for the destruction of tha American government. The most powerful of the radical orranlsaw tlons, IMr. Holland asserted, was the Amalgamated Garment Workers of America, with a memhershln which he estimated at 70,000. ias an evidence of the wide sw inr piana or me I. w. w.. leaders were read into the testimony, la which I. W. W. leaders nrged Euro pean and South American workers to Join in a scheme for an "Interna tional reTOHKKxaary industrial un ion." One jf the most ambitions projects was the organisation of ths marine workers ot the two America and the maritime European coun tries into "one big union." The most fruitful field found by the radicals In this country, accord ing to Mr. Holland, has been the gar ment industry, the second createst industry In the United States. Aaked what were the ortndDlea of the organization formed by the I. W. W. among the garment workers. Mr. Holland replied: "They dont believe in KOvstrn- ment. They reached that behind closed doors and now some of them preach out of doors." The witness was then asked If It ever had been brought to hla atten tion that the Amalgamated Garment Workers favored a soviet form of 'government. "It has not only been brons-bt to my attention, but ft has been ram med down by throat." replied Mr. Holland- "But the malorftr of tan workingmen and women are 'Ameri cans first and not Soviets, aa some would have us believe." FOREST FIRE UNCHECKED Missoula Mont., July 18. There Is no Improvement today In the for est fire situation In (Montana and Idaho. Much livestock has perished and hundreds of families are fight ing the blaze to protect their homes. E ' If arm? men alone enter ha itm. etican legion, in Oregon, a member ship in this state ot more than 30,- 000 for this national organization of ex-service men is possible, according to figures in a Washington report just issued. This report shows that Oregon furnished 5.185 enlistments In the regular army, 2,395 men for the enlisted reserve corps and na tional army, 4,306 national guards men, and 18,250 draftees, a total ot 30,116. In addition to these 30,000 pos sible members, the American Legion may draw upon the navy and 'marine corps for Its personnel. . Washington had a total of 45,154 men In the army, Idaho 1J.016. '