Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, October 14, 1919, Image 1

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VOL. X., No.
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Seattle, Wash.. Oct 14. Union
circle today received roporrt that
several of tUo logging rami In Kasl
m Washington, Idaho and Montana
have baen closed by strike resulting
when the employe announced an
advance of 25 cent a day In the
price of board. Tim employer aald
(hat few of the camps were affected.
Spokane. Watih.. Oct. 14,d'lcket
Injj of the worklnKinen's hotel here
and offorta made to prevent men
loavinK employment offices for job
In the woods, together with the I.
VpTw. strike In tnnie of the eainpa
marked developments today In what
la hclievvd agitation amoiiK loggers
Jn thla section.
Tho strikers' demands include a
't per day minimum and the re
lease of "class war prisoners."
Employer estimated that there
ro 1600 men out.
Washington. Oct, 1 4. President
Wilson's I ml UHt rial conference ad
journed in confusion this afternoon
after Thonina K Chudbourne. the
public representative, hud proposed
a. plan to aettle tho Industrial dis
putes as a sulmtltute for lnbor'a reso
lution demanding arbitration of tho
eleol atrlko.
Washington, Ot. 14. tabor's de
mand Hint the nation-wide atcel
atrlko bo urbltrajed was reported to
the .national industrial conference to
day without recommendation, but
with the suggestion that If arbitra
tion la undertaken, a committee be
chosen from representatives of the
conference, but who are not In atten
dance. IUVTOX HAXK KOItllKD
McMlnnvllle, Ore., Oct. 14.
f Tho shorlff here has been notl-
find that the bank or Dayton,
4 noar hero, has beon robbed 4
f Sunday night of $1500 in II-
V berty bonds and war stamps.
The burglars blew the vault.
ARRIVE HERE TODAY
Tho canned goods ordered by
Grants Pass people, from the federal
government last AugtiBt arrived in
tho city this morning. They hnve
boon a long time en route, but tho
entire ordor came In from Portland,
with tho exception ot the vegetable
soup and two-pound cans' of baked
beans.
Postmaster Qulnlan and his force
of clerks have been busy today open
ing 'tip the goods and checking thorn
oyer and they may be called lor any
time beginning Wodnesday morning.
There are about 7500 pounds of
Roods In the' order, which includes
canned corn, beef, peas, bacon, string
beans, cherries, and dry beans and
rice. .Mr. Qulnlan states that ho has
Just received notice from the gov
ernment that sales -through postef
flces were closed on September 24,
tnd no more orders will be received.
DLCOTT SAYS ABHS SLEUTHS SAY
MOT F0STIES on BOMB
Humor Gun Kliipxl Wtti Krom
California for EinerKcnc) i for
Oregon Regiment
Kulem, Ore., Oct. 14. Governor
Olcott denlea that supplies for the
Third Oregon 'Infantry are being
haatenod from Menkla arsenal, Cal
ifornia, because of the atrlko sltua
tlon In thla atate and eayt that In
telegram that 1iave passed between
hlmaelf, the adjutant general's office
and army authorities nothing haa
been aald about atrtkea and attend
ant danger In Oregon.
"When the Oregon regiment was
federalized." aald Governor Olcott,
"it waa Mill lacking in the new army
rlfloft and aoine other equipment
neoesiary to a first class regiment,
but thla waa to be sent from Denlcla
amenal.
"Adjutant Gnnoral Stafrln believ
ed the eqtifptnent would assist ma
terially in bringing tip the regiment
to full strength, ao that It would 'be
prepared for any eventuality, and for
thla reason waa in a hurry to receive
It. He asked authority to algn my
name to telegram to the arsenal
urging haste in the shipment and this
waa granted.
"Still there wax delay and the ad
Jiituut general sent additional tele
grams to Senator Chamberlain and
the adjutant general at Washington,
but In none of these messages was
anything aald about strikes, nor was
thero anything else of aenaatlonal
character."
T
STAGGERS CADETS
Mount Grappa. Italy, Oct. 14.
Cadets of the graduating class of
the I'nlted States military academy
at West 'Point who are visiting bat
tlefields of the world war. had tour
days or thrills in their visit to the
Italian front, when they were taken
to tho summits of Mount 8a bat I no.
Mount Grappa and Mount St. Mi
chael, a series of position In the Ital
ian Alps which were scenes of moun
tain fighting by tho Italian army In
'the war.
. Mount Grappa Is approximately
(r.,ono fnet high, is a solid rock pro
jecting Into apace in gigantic pro
portions and almost perpendicular on
I Its aides. The ascent is made by a .
series of 'Winding roads made on ttu
western side In a switchback forma
tion. Thero are S9 switchbacks each
approximately 200 yards In length
curving at each end In a breath-taking
curve. '
The engineering Work staggers the
Imagination. The bare mountain
would have convinced one of the Im
posslblllty of. the ascent by road but
the army cnfllnpcrs accomplished the
task, constructing the roads In such
a way that a garrison -of two army
corps could be kept In full operation,
during the entire war with supplies
of ammunition, food and equipment.
EMPEROR BILL STILL
HAS EVERY LUXURY
Amerongern, Oct. 14. The for
mert German emperor Is understood
to have purchased several villas for
the use of his servants at Doom,
where bis new home is located. . The
villagers say that ha Intends to take
a large personnel to Doom, necessi
tating the acquirement of about 20
houses.
WAXTJJ TIIK HMIlAlMiO
OX AVHKAT 1UISK1)
Washington, ; Oct. 14. Julius
Barnes, federal grain director, has
Baked President Wilson to raise the
embargo on wbeot. . Representative
Young, ot North Eakota, Introduced
a bill levying a duty of 25 cents a
bushel on wheat imports.
MAKER 01
CHICAGO AUTHORITIES HOPE TO
HAVK MEX HKfTPO.VHIItLE VWl
OUTRAGES JAILED KOOX
PLOT 10 KILL MAYOR OF GABY
Have llunib-Maker's Xame and Ills
oner Stores of Hidden Dynamite;
Arrest (lilciigo Bomber
Chicago, 111., Oct. 14. The mili
tary authorities at Gary announced
today that they hoped to have the
maker of the' Gimbel and other
bombs which have startled tho coun
try during the past year, under st
reet within a few hours.
Secret sen Ice men said tbey'knew
the chief bomb-maker's nam and
also announced that tbey 'had uncov
ered a plot to assassinate the mayor
or Gary and discovered storea of
dynamite. They said they bad ar
rest od the man who blew up the en
trance to the Chicago poetoffiee a
year ago.
l.ondon, Oct. 14. After ten
months of trial the higher authori
ties of the -MetroKlitan police have
decided that women olice officers
have made good, and the 100 now
on dirty will be retained. They must
be of good education, possessing tact.
kindliness and a' sympathetic nature,
willing to work seven hours a day
for $10 a week and be Teady at all
times for duty.
The force was recruited from the
patrol workers ot the uational union
of women workers employed by the
commissioner in 1910 to aid In the
protection of the city. They did excellent-work,
tiut last November it
was felt that the pressing need for
them had passed, and they were dis
banded.
WOMEN "MAKE GOOD"
AS POLICE OFFICERS
RED CROSS NURSE TELLSOF HORRORS
AF.1DNG PEOPLE IN WESTERN SIBERIA
Toklo, Oct. 14. In abetter from
Omsk, Siberia, Miss Charlotte Board
man Rogers, ot New York City, who
was on the western front when the
Kolcbak armies recently evacuated
a number ot cities, writes a pitiable
story ot the horrors of typhus which
she personally observed as & nurse
ot the American iKed Cross. Under
date ot July 20 she says:
"I have spent 24 hours in hell.
Our train was stalled at the railway
stlitlon of iPetropavlovsk, iFYr .West
ern Siberia, and somewhere to the
w est ot us the .Red armies were com
ing on. .
"To the right ot us, left or us,
rear of us, were typhus, fever trains
box cars, passengers cars, 25, 30,
even 35 cars to a train and all load
ed 'with mien from the front and
from .the evacuated hospitals, with
hundreds thousands of patients dy-,
Ing of the dread disease. s
"No nurses waited on them, no
doctors administered medicines to
stimulate the action of their weak
ened hearts. They lay on rough
board shelves erected around the
sides and ends ot the cars, or on the
floor where even cattlemen would
have placed straw if -animals were
to be carried. No sanita'ry conven
ances were supplied; the patients'
othes were stained with filth and
lood; their feet' caked with mud
MILLER HELD
IN 01 IN
ID
U'IFK DltOWXKD WHILE CKOHS
IXO LAKE WASHINGTON IX
LAUNCH WITH HCHflAXD
FORMER WIFE OF MAYOR BAKER
Officers Find liUxxl stains on Launch
and Mate That Couple Had lTe
viously Quarreled
Seattle, Wash., Oct. 14. Walter
Miller is still held In the jail here
today, following the drowning of
bis wife from a launch In which they
were crossing Lake Washington yes
terday. ,
Miller maintains that bis wife fell
or jumped overboard, but the police
say that blood stains on the launch
Indicate that there was a struggle.
The couple had quarreled, the offi
cers said. The -woman waa the for
mer wife of George U Baker, now
mayor of .Portland, and was the
daughter of F. M. Blair, a Lane
county pioneer.
TO SAVE THEIR WEALTH
Vionna,vOct. 14. Austria, since
the collate, has no need to fear emi
gratlon, for in the time between No
vember, 1918, and July, 1ST19, no
less than 160,000 naturalizations
have taken place. The majority ot
them are ot residents of Bohemia
and Moravia of German ancestry
who, rather than come under Czech
rule and be Czech citizens, have
rushed to J'ienna and taken on German-Austrian
citizenship.
Many others, refugees most of
them, have also swept in and ap
plied for citizenship as . Austrians
rather than Gallclans or Hungarians
because they are of German origin.
Many have taken the move in an at
tempt to avoid the confiscation of
their fortunes.
and manure; their bodies alive with
little gray typhus lice the plague of
Siberia. -
"Cheek bones protruded through
their yellow skin, eyes sunken Into
their sookets, hands like birds' claws
stretched out with cups for water.
they lay all day in the .sweltering
heat.
'We tried to look away but all day
long we heard them moan or call for
their sanitary attendants.
"Our trip from Omsk to the ex
treme . front and back again at a
time when the Siberian government
armies were falling back before the
Reds has revealed in aH its pltitul-
ness the tremendous heed of Rus
sian hospitals, sanitary trains and
dressing' stations for every kind of
supply. ,
"Although the American Red
-Cross has been sending train after
train to Western Siberia, so vast Is
the need that many more trains are
necessary to' meet even the most pri
mal necessities. Yet those of us who
have seen the Immediate improve
ment in hospitals and sanitary trains
where 'American Red Cross supplies
have come In are immensely en
couraged, knowing that every pound
of absorbent cotton, every ounce of
drugs, every yard of gauze, can be
used' In Western Siberia' to save a
life." .
TIE1ERS III RIG
DERBY TRAIL!
Forty of Orlglnul Starters line t'p
for Finish; IJcut. Kiel Loses
Out bjr 31 Second
MIneoIa, N. Y., Oct. 13. Refresh
ed bf an enforced over-Sunday rest
40 of the (2 original starters in the
army air service trans-continental
race lined up early today at controls
all the way from Mineola to San
Francisco to take np the trail com
pleted Saturday by (Lieutenant Mel
vln W. Maynard, Major Carl Spatz
and Lieutenant E. C. Kiel, the three
race leaders.
Four fliers who entered at San
Francisco started the day with good
prospects of reaching Hlneola by
night, while five of the -westbound
fliers were within a day's flight, bar
ring aocldents, of San Francisco.
Major Spatz and Lieutenant Kiel,
the eastbound fliers who landed here
Saturday within 20 seconds of each
other after a nip and tuck race
across the continent which Major
Spatz is reported unofficially to have
won by the remarkably narrow mar
gin of 31 seconds, in a 2701 mile
race, were working on their weather
beaten planes today in an effort to
get them ready for the return trip
within the 96 hours', maximum 'time
allowed by the air service between
arrival at a terminus control and de
parture on the return flight.
SLAYKK CONFESSES
Mandan, N. D., Oct. 14. Stricken
with paralysis, Albert Brooks, 72 to
day confessed he had killed his wife
in Columbus, Ohio, 25 years ago.
HEBREWS LEAD DOG'S
LIFE OVER IN GERMANY
Berlin, Oct. 14. The Hansa Bund
of Hamburg, a mercantile association
ot the great port,. has requested the
publishers of the German Officers'
Gazette, to publish a demand upon
the public, not to read Jewish news
papers. The demand mentions, as
some of the more prominent German
papers owned by Jews the Berlin
Tageblatt, the iUllstein papers, Vols
sische Zeltung, Berliner Zeitung Am
Mittag, Morgenpost and the National
Zeltung.
This is the latest, and most direct
move in the antl-eemltic campaign,
that is grow'ng in Germany. It' is
another result of the revolution,
which is removing the old censorship
removed with it every vestige of con
trol over everything.
Officers of troops in the east re
peatedly are accused ot deliberately
furthering an oppression of their
Jewish soldiers. All in all, the life
of the Hebrews Is one of the most
uncomfortable in Germany.
Berlin Is flooded -with anti-semltic
literature. The west end ot the city
is the particular stamping ground of
those who distribute it. The antag
onism to Jews extends to almost
every stratum .of the German popu
latlon. Magazines, weeklies .and
monthlies, devote columns to the
subject.
FOR CHRISTIAN FAITH
London, Oct. 14. 'Postage stamps
of the new 'People's Republic of the
Ukraine," one of the young antl
bolshevik states which seceded" from
Russia are triangular, typifying the
dominance ot the Christian faith
over the Mohammedan. The triaform
stands for the Holy Trinity and is
said to be reproduced from a sacred
candelabra in the cathedral of St.
Sophia; at Kleff.
Further south the Trans-Caucasian
republic of Georgia has put out
stamps of barbario appearance, on
which is seen the figure of a Geor
gian knight upon a; prancing steed,
surrounded by constellations. ,
ARMORED CARS
HTOOB
FORM LETTS
B1IG.IK IS WILD PANIC, BIT RE
COVEB AND KECRO&S KIVER
TO GIVE BATTLE V
REJECT OFFER OF ARMISTICE
British. Warships Assist In Driving
Back the Gernvu-Rusian Itarcea; .
Reds Order Training:
Copenhagen, Oct. 14. flallled by
their officers after panic that seiz
ed them when armored cars broke
through their lines near Riga, the
Lettish forces, reinforced by some
Esthonians, have regained the in
itiative and moved across the river
over which they fled last week.
. The offer of an armistice made by
A'valoff-.Bermondt has been rejected.
The British warships in the harbor
at Riga are asslting the Letts in
driving the ' German-Russian ' army
batek, and the entire 'Russian coast
is virtually blockaded.
Helsingfors, Oct. 14. The soviet
government ot Russia has ordered
the entire population to train Imme
diately for military service, accord
ing to reports reaching here from
Russian sources. All the peasants
have been ordered to devote time not
occupied with agriculture to drilling.
London, Oct. 14. The capture ot
am burg marks the beginning of tne
,usn by troops of the Russian nortu
restern army under General Yuaen
Hch toward (Petrograd, according to
a dispatch to the Daily Mail filed
Saturday at Libau. General Glazen-
app is reported to have taken four
complete bolshevik regiments, 2,000
other soviet troops and the entire
staff of the 10th bolshevik - division.
His losses are reported to have been
27 killed and 150 wounded.
ItOl'RGEOIS APPOIXTEI)
Paris, Oct. 14. Leon Bourgeois,
former premier, has been appointed
representative of (France in the coun
cil ot the ' league ot nations.
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PRESIDENT WILSON
4- XOT SO WELL TODAY
.
Washington, Oct. 14. Pres-
-f ident Wilson's condition ' is
good today, although be did not
have a restful night, the phy- -f
slcians' bulletin said. His rest-
lessness was caused by the
4-1 swelling of a) prostate glSnd,
Dr. Grayson said, and is unlm-
portant. It is expected, ' how- -f
ever, that Or. Grayson will call -f
a specialist to make the presi- -4
dent more comfortable.
BAD SPOTS IN ROAD
TO BE MACADAMIZED
Herbert Nunn, etate highway en
gineer, has wrlteen to the county
court of Josephine county, stating
that the highway commission has
favorably passed upon this county's
request for funds with which to ma
cadamize some short stretches along
the 'Pacific highway north of Grants
Pass on the new established grade,
with the understanding that ' not
over $2,000 is to be used on any one
piece of work.
Judge Gillette says the work ot
Improving these bad spots in . the
road will be begun at once, as they
will, in their present condition, make
the road impassable after the winter
rains etart. The work will be
classed as '"maintenance," and will
begin near the county home and ex-
innri nnrtli Ia ft, a n
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