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About Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1919)
'Us The Climate We're Telling The World Come and Enjoy It' fftlte Pftlli MILLIONS IN RUSSIA FACING STARVATION UIXIEF SOCIKIIUJ ItKl-ORT U Alt HAH LEFT l),04MI,04M DEMTI Tl'TH IS EAST LICE ill DISEASE RAMPANT People living In Htnlw, Hull In the Ground and l'nder Old Wrwk. age; Typhus Hmltr Many New York. 8i.pt. 27.rThe River lluif. which served, until recently, w 'boundary of the Ibolehevlk fight ing, Is today a boundary of another kind. Its eastern shore bounds on one Ida the hungriest and the moat diseased, and the mom striken terri tory In the world today, five mil lion people are at the point of star vallon at of the Diver Don, accord ing to figure given out 'liy the Am erloan Jewish Relief committee, and eompllml by the American Itwl Crow, and American Jewish Relief agents. A great numhrr of them are Jews. The war left fl.non.ono death ute and stricken Jew in eastern Kiirope. a number aa greut aa the entire popu lation of New York City, utterly helpliws. In many case lk. In every caae hungry and doindent. East of the Illver Bur ttpwe peo ple are HvIiir In devaatated 'muses. In alalia of old stables, n roofless plnlforma hullt for refugee families. - . . one. fiWiUly.to a .platform, In - old freight cars. In hole In the ground, or under the opn aky. Thoy are weak from many montha of seml elnrvnllon. for thiy have gone for five yeara without one square meal. They are mill terror-stricken from the war. Their number la Mng re duced every day by a series of the moat terrible epidemics that ever awept any sertlon of the world. Typhus, cholera and nmnllpox are all raging In the territory cant of the River mug. The first and moat gen eral of theae epidemic la carried elmply 1y body lice. At least one member out of every fifth or sixth family la etrlcken with some form of It. aa la inevltnhlo among a people rind in five-year-old rage, people who have not hHd a ibath with eonp, or a change of clothing alnce the be ginning of the war. No estimate of the aetnal number of those smitten with typhua In Poland haa yet teen compiled, tout it probably la greater than In Hlborlu, where ttoe American "Rod Cros found 100.000 cnaee. Thla aummer the Joint distribution committee cared for 75,000 children 'In vacation .homos. Plana are under way for caring for the 100,000 or plTuna whom war hue left In eastern 'Rurope, many of whom are atlll -sleeping on the street a. " The "reclamation of the territory east of ttoe 'Hug la under way. To save 20,000 square miles of Immun ity from doeolaitlon Is a big Job. But Americana do not desert Jobs be cause ttooy are 'big, and tooth the American died Cross and American Jewlah 'Relinf agents Intend to stay with this one, according to the latest reiiorta from Poland. PRESIDENT TO GREET ALBERT, F Y Aboard the President's Special, Sept. 27. The president Is "feeling about the same," lAdmlral Grayson reported today. 'Ills Illness Is noth ing alarming, but absolute reHt foi a considerable time Is Instated upon Ills Illness Is due largely to an nt 'tack of Influenza in Pnrls Inst April Admiral flrayson said. The president hopes to go to New Yopk next Friday to wekome King Albert, but othur members of the party think It unlikely. . THE WORLD SERIES STARTS OCT. CIikIiiiiiiII lUtlx and Vlill Hot Will Piny Nino Gmiim-n; Anu-riran l-iiKiier Are Favorites Cincinnati, Sept. 27. The home grounds of the Cincinnati Nationals winners of the National league pen nant, which It known aa Redland field will seat approximately 27,000 persona, and accommodate about 83,- 000 when the local team plays the Chicago Whjte Sox, winners of the American league race -for World's series championship honors. The permanent stands seat 22,000 but by the time the first game of the worlds serlo la begun, new seats for 5,000 more jieraons will have Ibeen erected. In addition fuus who are not fortunate enough to obtain cou pon tii-ken for seal will find space for about 6.000 persons. Records of (baseball world' series of past years show that all hough the American league entries have been victorious In nine of the 1 4 series, the game hsve been so closely con tested that the National leaguers are only three behind their younger oi ponents In the number of runs scored and six in guinea won. Ho-called world aeries were played aa ifar back as 1 KS4, but It was not until lo:. that the national com mission took charge or the aeries nud promulgated rules governing it. -Mince that year the winning clubs In each of the major leagues have met In. October In seveu game aeries to deride the championship, although this year the series will be length ened to nine gsmee, During the past 14 years "8 game nave neon pinvrt-n "average of i five and a half per aeries-rlm-ludlng two ties. In winning their nine serins the American league teams have tri umphed In 41 games while the sen ior league entries have been on the long end of the score In 3T games In winning their five series. In runs scored the Americans lead with 263 against tbelr opponents 2.10. The shortest eerles of the 12 was that of 1914 when the 'Boston Na tionals defeated the Philadelphia Amerlrons In four straight games. The Chicago Nationals of 1907 also won four straight from the Detroit Americans but this run was preced ed by a tlj game with the score standing 3 to 3 when darkness halt ed tho play. The longest series was that of 1912 In which eight games were played' with the Boston Ameri cans winning four and the . New York Nationals three, with one tie game thrown in for good measure. The .present -world series starts next Wednesday with the opening game at Cincinnati. CHOOSING THE FITTEST FOR GERMANY'S ARMY With the American Forces In Ger many. Sept. 27. Officers for the new iGerman army permitted under terms of the peace treaty are to be chosen by selection of the fittest. and the!ornmn war ministry has al ready takim thn .ri rut iIm In lh o. loctlve process. There are 20,oflo onicers sun in service and as the number must be reduced to 4,000 by March 31, 1920. a large field of choice Is available. N'enana, Alaska, Sept. 27. .Approxi mately one million dollars will rep resent the gold output of the Idita rort district this year, arrivals here from that district report. The slump In the annual yield wns atriibuted to tho fact that one of the big dredges formerly operated was Idle this season. aU PAm' JOSEPHINE" COUNTY, OREGON. ATUUMY' KKITKMIIKIt 27, 1010. AMERICA, ENGLAND AND ITALY IN Report Current That Revolution Imminent in Italy-Lloyd George Believes Labor Being ExpIoited-50,000 More Strike Monday at Bethlehem Steel Plant Home, Sept. 27. Alarm'' re porta here are ourrent, one being that civil war is lininlno,t. The Na tionalist and military factions are against the socialists. The army and navy are dissatisfied due to the lack of consideration by the Anglo Saxon colleague who are favoring Jugo-Slavia alms, and who are act inic as If they were musters of the Adriatic. A million workmen are striking and the cost of living is causing dis satisfaction. lndon. Sept. 27. Urivd George, In statement on the nation-wide railway strike, said "the treciiltancr of this action gives the Impression of delrborate, matured lotentlon on the part of some individuals to seek a quarrel at any cost." The premier declared that "It has convinced (he that It Is not a strike for wages qr better conditions. The government believes the strike has been engineered by a small, hut ac ADELINA PATTI PASSES iondon. Sept. 27. .Adellna Pattl. prima donna, died this morning at Cralgy-iXos Castle. -Penycse, South Wales. Mme. Adellna Pattl reigned for 40 yeara as queen of singers. Her marvelous voice thrilled the greatest contemporaries of her days. The elder Dumas, the French dra matist, once said to her: "Being a man and a Christian. I love to listen to your singing; but if I were a bird I would die of envy." "She had tones so beautiful." snld one eminent musical critic, "that they seemed to gush spontaneously from the very fountain-spring or vo cal youth." Mme. 'Pattl Inherited her talent. "I am a child of the stage." she had said, "being born during an 0eratlc season at Madrid. Spain, In 1843. My father Salvatore Pattl, a Sicilian, was a good tenor singer. My mother, a ltoman, became a famous artist as Sighora Barlll the name of, her first hushand." Dwindling finances sent the Patti famllv tn Vnw York whnn Aitollns I Fhose -birth name was Adela Jnnna Maria Pattl, was a baby. When she was seven years old, her parents sud denly became destitute. "Jn the emergency," the singer said, "my mother considered that I had extraordinary vocal talent, and hit upon the Idea of bringing me out In concert. And so T sang and soon won bread for ithe family." " The child made her debut at Trlp ler Hall, In New York, sinking arias from the "Barber," In 18S0. She was the Juvenile prodigy of the day, and nearly ruined her voice by over work. She appeared again at the age of 13. After a tour through the West Indies, she withdrew to pre pare for a gTeater career. At lihe age of 16 she appeared In the Academy of Music, New Yorkt In her first opera role. "liucla' di Lum mcrmoor." Her wonderful soprano roused the audience to the wildest enthusiasm, and her fame swept the country. At this time she was earn ing $100 a week. She repeated her conquest as Aml na In "La Sonnambula" In Coven t G-arden, London, In 1861. Her sal ary had Itreased to $750 a month. . It was the beginning of a dazzling conquest ofoH Europe. Royalty en tertained her and courted her favors. The populace ibeselged her . hotels and theatres. Men in all stations of (Continued on Page 3) STRIKE GRIP J:..i.if.,J.f tive body of men who songht tire lessly and Insidiously to exploit the labor organisations for sutoserstve ends." . Youngstown, Ohio, Sept. 27. Fol lowing a canvass of employes as they received their ,iay today, officials of the Ohio work of the Carnegie Steel Company announced that an attempt would be made Monday to reopen the mills. This marks the first effort at resumption of -work in the Mahoning Valley. The employee of the Ohio works voted last night, 82 to 29, to return to work "when the -proper time pre sents Itself." ! Pittsburg, Pa., 8ept. 27. The na tional committee for the organiza tion of the . Iron and steel workers has ordered a general strike In the plants of the Bethlehem Steel com pany, effective Monday. The order is expected to affect 40,000 to 50.- 000 workmen. . T GIVEN Washington. Sept. 27. Eight for mer German liners allocated to the United States after the armistice. In cluding the Imperator, the second largest ship afloat, are to be turned over to the shipping board by the war department. The British ministry of shipping had expected that the Imperator would be turned over to Its agents today and the vessel is already promised to the Cunard line for ser vice between New York and Ene- land. The ships were used as transports and England has claimed their allo cation is only temporary and that they should revert to the allied ship ping pool' for permanent allocation. The shipping board, however holds that the original assignment is per manent. All the vessels are, huge liners which laid In German ports during the war, but all are- now on the L'nlted States' coast. They will be used In establishing new freight and passenger lines, presumably to Great Bi-ltaln, Europe and South America. AKHKS SIFT.OVKR POUTLAXD Portland, Sept. 7. A volcanic ash or dust Is falling on the city and vi cinity today. The cause is unknown. GAM KS START AT 2 O'CLOCK Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 27. The world series games of baseball will begin In each city at 2 o'clock prompt. "KM MA" LHAVK8 rXK XKW YORK Jefferson City, Mo.. Sept. 27. Emma 'Goldman, released today af ter having served a term In the prison here for violation of the es pionage act, has left for New York. LIVESTOCK BY PARCEL lOST Chicago, Sept. 27. F1do, tabby and all of the fowl and domestic ani mal creation within measurement restrictions, now are eligible to ride via .parcels post if their destination can ibe readied within 48 hours.' Postmaster Carllle was notified of this ruling today by the pastmaster-general. SOUTH SIDE WILL 1HSTALLBIG PUMP IrriKMPm for JJKiO cmmi rk-etns As Mured; May Install Second Pomp for the North Side The Oranu Pas IrriUoa district which comprises lands on the south side of the Rogue river, la advertis ing tor the sale of $40,000 worth of Irrigation district bonds. Bids will be received up to November 4, and the district reserves the right to re ject any or all Wds. ThU $40,000 is a portion of the $290,000 bond Issue formerly voted by the district. The bonds are In de nominations of $1,000, with dates of maturity ranging from 10 to 15 years. The bond win not be sold for less than 90 cents on the dollar. The board of this district is com posed of Chas. Smith, president; Geo. A. Hamilton, secretary; O. H. Letgh. director. i Mr. Hamilton stated today that the south side district was assured of having water on the land for next year's crops. It will be a' pumping proposition, he said, and it is pro posed to install a 100 horsepower motor and a 12-Inch pump. Water will he raised to a height sufficient to cover from 2,000 to 3,000 acres of land. It is the intention of the dis trict to also install another pump, of like size to cover land above Grants Pass and In the city proper. 8ALKM TO CJBT MODERN ,X)LI STORAGE PLANT Salem, Sept. 27. A modern cold storage plant to cost approximately $165,000 'will be erected on proper ty adjoining the present iPhex plant on South Commercial and Trade streets, according to- announcement made by the IPhex company of this city. The building will tbe a three story, concrete affair, fireproof and one of the largest cold storage plants in the entire state. Work on the structure will start as soon as ma terial can be secured and it is expect ed to have the plant in operation by early next spring. This plant is ex pected to provide storage space for the various canneries now operating in Salem as well as for the fruits and berries handled by the Phez company in the production of their fruit Juices and jams. fXIDKXTIFIED MASKED MAN KILLS SEATTLE WOMAN Seattle. Wash., Sept. 27 Shot last night iby an unidentified masked man who stepped from the closet in a First avenue hotel, Mrs. Edna Silti na, 34, died in the city hospital to day. John Ldback, taxi driver, who was with her was wounded by the same assalliant. San Francisco, Sept. 27. dlerbert Hoover announced today that he has "retired from public life." He . will devote his time to making the S3 and $6 a day salaries of Stanford professors more commensurate with the $8 and $9 wages of the home. building, artisans now working on his new home on the campus: to the various European relief measures. and work as consulting engineer. He will return $85,000,000 In foralm obligations to the treasury for the 1100,000,000 voted for relief. T GET OUT OF LITHUANIA 'Paris, Sept. 27. The supreme council has decided to send the Ger man government, through Marshal Foch, a note demanding the 0VAC1I. atlon of Lithuania by the German troops, under drastic penalties for non-compliance. . HOOVER HAS MANY NEW IRONS IN FIRE WHOLE M'MBKH 87S1. EUGENE Mi WILL SUCCEED cn ANOTHKB SHIFT IS MADE IN OLD SOIJMKiW HOME AT ItOSE fll'ItU; S.VUVllV TOO LOW TJHILOII ENTERED lit MED 15 Captain Shrnr's Resignation) Effectire September SO; Thinks Board of ' Control IMd Injustice ' ' Salem. Ore.. Sent 27. Samuel Taylor of iBugene. past department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, and for four terms the county treasurer of Lane county, to day was selected by the board of eon trol to succeed James P. Shaw as commandant of the soldiers' home at Rosdburg. Commandant Shaw has sent in his resignation, to become ef fective September 30. Mr. Taylor enlisted In the 13th Pennsylvania cavalry during the war of he rebellion when he was only 15 years of age. and nearly all his life has -been a member of the G. A. R. ' For 20 years he was connected with the Eugene water department. For six terms Sir. Taylor was post commander of J. W. Geary .Post, O. A.- R., at Eugene and during; 191) and 1914 nras department command er of the O. A. R. for the state of Oregon. Roseburg. Sept. 27. Capt Shaw stated that he had sent In his resig nation as commandant of the sol-' dlers' borne here as early as Septem ber 18. When the salanr of adliitant of the home was raised to $1,500 a year, while his remained at llOOfl Capt. Shaw said he could not do otherwise than wire in his"resigns Hon at once. "I could not keen mr self-respect and remain as head of the home under these circum stances," said the commandant, "I am surprised that the board of con trol could even think or such an In justice, especially as the command ant is treasurer as well, and under heavy bond, and Is required to man age the farm and take the rennnl. hility of the condition of the whole institution." WILSON SAYS ITALIANS MVST GIVE VP FITME iRome. Sept,. 27. President Wil son's reply regarding the new pro posals for the disposition of Flume has been recefved. the. newspapers announced today. It insists that no on his original view that the city should -be Internationalized and not annexed to Italy, becoming the" cen ter of a small buffer state between Italy and Jugo-Slavia. The president does not insist, ac cording to the press, upon a plebis cite In the buffer state at the end of 15 years, as at first proposed, and he consents to the ratification of th eastern frontier of Istria in favor ot Italy, in the district of Albona. GREAT IRRIGATION Kallspell, Mont.. Sept. 27. Com pletion of the irrigation district ah Shelby, which will include 285,000 acres, is reported iby C. H. Foot, at torney for the association. This, it Is said, is one of the largest protects In the northwest. Water Is to be taken from th i-Marlas and Cutbank rivers and Beav er creek, to form large storage reser voirs where the water will be im pounded and held until needed dur ing the dry montha of the The contract for the work already oas Been let.