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w IT'S THE CLIMATE : : WE'RE TELLING THE WORLD : : ."SSij: ENJOY IT " '' '' 11 Ell II VOL. X., So. JU4. GRANTS PASS. JOSBrHINK OOrTT. ORKOON. .MONDAY. OtTOHKH 20. 1010. W1IOIJ-; JilMBEK 2800. WILSON IS NOT PERMITTED 10 III IHGlXiiON IIFTTKK, HIT GRAY fM.V WILL NOT 1'F.HMIT HIM TO ACT OX IMMM 1'ruluiilMon F.nfon emeiit Mejuui, Kow Awaiting rrtlU-nt, May He come. KfTit'llvti AiiloiiiMtirally Washington. Oil. 20. .1'resldent Wilson's digestive disturbance has subsided almost completely. Ha li resting comfortably today after a good night's rest. The program of complete rent from official care prescribed by Dr. Gray son and hla assistant la to. lie en forced. It wit taled. There is no 'Intention of referring to the Presi dent any matter not absolutely re quiring the exerrhie of hla official powers. Or, Grayson Indicated Hint he would not favor referring any bllla to the president for signature at pres ent 11 n lew) It was ono on which he desired to exercise, hla veto power. Otherwise, measures would be allbw xl to go upon the atattite book a at the expiration of the 10-duy period provided by the constitution. Tho prohibition enforcement hill ia now awaiting presidential action. The Impression prevailed, today that It would tin allowed to become, effec tive without Mr. iWllaon'a signature. s ' Wanhlngton, Wt. 20. licet sugar refiners have been notified by the department of Justlre that a charge of sugar In excess of 10c a pound wholesale would be considered a vio lation of the food control act. The United fltntes sugar equalisation board has held that II cents a pound retail Is a fair price. Tho department of Justice took-1 step to prevent abnormal Increase In prli e of siiKar duo U- tho existing shortage Refine were asked to telegraph a concurrence. In price, which would jnean' that they would put their supply on tho market Im mediately. T A SOVIET-HERE . Washington, Oct. 20. The Rus sian unions which have been organ ized In the principal iPennsylva'nta and Ohio steel plants afo seeking to organize an "industrial soviet" In the United States, the committee In vestigating the. steel strike was told today ily Jacob Margolls of. Pitts burg, attorney for the I. W. W. He doclated that an organized govern ment was unnecessary. SILESIAN PLEBISCITE AWAITS RATIFICATION Washington, .Oct. 20. Secretary v Baker Announced today that Ameri ca troops will not be used to police Silesia or any other country for 'which plebiscite Is proposed, until the Versailles treaty has (been rati Wed by the United States senate. ENGLAND TO BUILD HUGE DIRIGIBLES I'litnniiiK Air eiervlco U New York and Auralia and Will Hnl IO,(MHMMM on I ndertukJntf Ixindon, Oct. 20. The proposed IJvorpool-Australla and Liverpool New York air service will be an en ormous undertaking. The problem of supplying the necessary dirigible airships Is but one of the Items to be considered. They cost about $3, 750,000 each to construct. At leant six of these huge craft will be ne cessary to maintain these two ser vices with auy degree of regularity. Aerodromes for dirigible are re quired only at every 2,000 miles and it la now possible for. an airship to be moored to or released from a mooring tower in any wind up to 60 miles an hour; yet the total finan cial backing considered necessary for such an undertaking Is in the neigh borhood of 110,000,000. OBSERVED OCT. 26 Portland, Ore., Oct. 20. Sunday, October 2N, will be Koosevelt Sun day In Portland and elsewhere, ac cording to elaborate iplnns announced today In connection with the Roose velt memorial drive soon to be launched to raise money for a mon ument in Washington, V. C, to the former president and all-round man. Churche throughout tho land, the Y. M. C. A. and other organizations will be asked to observe the day by holding services In honor of Theo dore Roosevelt. October 26 hus been chosen espcciully, as It Is the Sunday nearest Colonel Roosevelt's birthday, which falls on Monday, Oc tober 27. FAIU WKATHKIt IS FOIlUt'AST Washington, Oct. 20. .Pacific Count States: Generally fair with normal temperatures. Marshfiold, Ore., Oct. 20. Har old llowcl, the M-yenr-old Uandon youth who was held in the county Jail several weeks as a suspect In connection with the killing of Lillian l.euthold, of ilandon, with a 25-cal-llier rifle, was Indicted last night by the Coos county grand 'Jury. The jury, had entirely new testi mony presented at the last moment of the Investigation. The indictment is for second decree murder, since flint degree murder Is punishable by death and the la'wa of the state do not ipermlt capital punishment. Dublin, Sept. 24. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The general effect of the government proclamations tup pressing the Sinn Fein parliament and Sinn iFeln organizations through out Ireland la to make these organ izations Illegal. It will be an of fense to 'hold .meeting of these bodies In the proclaimed areas or to publish reports of any such meet ings. ' As these ' organisations declare their purpose to be the overthrow of British rule in Ireland and the es tablishment of an independent Irish 'Republic, and as that purpose has long been Illegal under the ordinary law, the proclamation merely pro vides a speedier means for the trial of offenders and a greater probabil ity of their conrlotlon. LONGSHOREMEN E A STONE WALL MILITAItY LAW TO KKC'KOX WITH HRill.AU HOMMKItS TAKK KTIUKFItH' I'LACF, 500 UNO JIT BROOKLYN PIER I ndi r Orders to "Khootjlf .Neces sary" linker Hays Traniort Ser vice I 'art of War Operation New York, Oct. 20. Five hun dred soldiers from the regular army were landed here from the transport Oeorge Washington today in an at tempt to end the congestion at the army piers at tirooklyn, caused by the longshoremen's strike. The men are under orders to "shoot If nocessnry," according to Brigadier General Peter 'Davison, chief of troop movements at the port of embarkation. The general said: 'The troops will aid in moving the transports or do whatever else is necessary." Secretary iliaker said the mainten ance of transport service out of iNew York was part of the war operation of ships. I .TO MIIOOIX C)KF.I VOH LACK OK TKACIIF.US Salem, Ore., Oct. 20. ilJecause teachers cannot live on the salaries now paid. Oregon is facing an acute dearth of instrutcors for public schools of the state, according to J. A. Churchill, state superintendent of public Instruction. Teachers with out sufficient training many of whom have tried for certificates and have failed to pass the tests, some mak ing grades as low as 22 ner cent, have been impressed Into the schools. The standard of efficiency is greatly lessened by this condition, savs Mr. Churchill. "School boards and the public gen erally must realize soon," declares Mr. Churchill, "that teachers must have' more money if we are going to have properly educated children. The situation is critical. More than 150 schools of the state have failed to open this year because of the lack of teachers." SII'RKMK. (X)lltT SISTAIXS OHIO STATU OFFICIALS Washington, Oct. 20. .Authority of the Ohio state officials to confis cate and sell food held in cold stor age, longer than authorized was. sus tained today by the supreme court. Oixmude, (Belgium. Oct. 20. Scat tered Over the low-lying, country be tween Ypres and IDlxmude, scene of many a battle, are thousands of Ger man prisoners nnder guard of 'Brit ish and IBelglan soldiers as well as civilians 'who have been called Into the gigantic, task of clearing up the battlefields and once more making it fit tor habitation. They are stack ing shells, recovering brass cases and burying the dead. ThereMs a mili tary efficiency about their work and the progress they are making Is most gratifying tor all the governments concerned. One may still see the ruins of many British and Belgian , tanks, caught In the German shell tire, now twisted and broken wrecks. Now they lie rusted and neglected, mere shells of the once powerful machines which went into action. , Some of them are almqst burled In the mud, oUhers hang iprecarlously on the edge or dilapidated trenches, while still others stand high In the fields where IV 1 INTO THOUSANDS OF GERMANS CLEANING BATTLEFIELDS AT YPRES AMD DIXMUDE CAVALRY HAS CUT THE IADS TO PETUAD lOMK) H KAILS ' OFFICIALLY THAT FOUTUFKH OK KltOX BTADT MAS FALLKX E NEARLY FREE OF BEDS IMnlioClki Mill lie Wiped Out by 8ring; England to Reduce Navy , to 50,0(H After I'. S. Signs London, Oct. 20. The white flag was hoisted over the 'Russian fort ress of Kronstadt lost Friday, the British war office announced today. I-ondon, Oct. 20. Petronrad is virtually Isolated, the anti-bolshe vik cavalry having cut the railroads leading from Petrograd to Vitebsk, Moscow, and Volegda. Paris, Oct. 20. Official reports from the Ukraine, once a stronghold of the reds, declare that it Is now al most wholly antl-bolshevlki. "The entire Ukraine will be free of bolshevlkl by spring without out side assistance," says one dispatch. Although the red armies still num ber more than 600,000 men, the ne cessity of dividing the forces into so many widely scattered armies, the increasing effect of the Impaired mo rale, and the lack of efficient co operation from the interior due to the collapse of industrial life, mili tary experts here do not consider that figure as indicating anything like the true military strength. Portsmouth, England. Oct. 20. The personnel of the 'British navy will be reduced to 50,000 men when the Vnlted States ratifies the peace treaty, it is said by the Evening News today, on what It declares to be authoritative information. The number of marines. It declares, win "be cut to 10,000. The pre-war strength of the Brit ish naval personnel, as shown by the figures of 1914, was 114,236 of ficers and men. The number of ma rines in the same year was 18. 042. London, Oct. 20. .The war office states that troops of General Dene klne have driven the bolshevlkl from Kiev. Copenhagen, Oct. 20. The attack ing army heard a tremendous explo sion in Petrograd last night. The liberation .of the city, is expected hourly." they were abandoned by such of their crews as survived. (Many of them are torn and riddled as though their beavllx armored sides were little more than paper. Perhaps the most impressive fea ture of the dead and blackened land scape are the trees. Gaunt and statk, stripped of .every limb and branch, -they stand out against the skyline, so many lifeless sticks. Whole villages have disappeared, ground by the .big guns into mud or dust, without one vestige remaining to mark their location. This is true of Poelcappeile, whose former exis tence would not have been suspected had not a IBelglan major volunteered the Information that here his battal ion had once held its main street for three days. 1 , Many live' shells still remain In the fields, and today as a ipatty. was passing within a few miles of Dix- imude they were startled by the ex 1 plosion of one of these "duds." CLAIMS DISLOYA HOLDING OFFICE Senator Watson Says IUd and liadi ' cals Are "Kntrenrhed in Our Government Departments" Washington, Oct. 20. Sensation al charges that socialists, reds and other radicals are "entrenched in government departments," and par ticularly that investigating force of the federal trade Commission contain men hostile to the government and American institutions, were made to day la the senate by Senator Wat sbn, republican of Indian, who in troduced a' resolution for the Inves gation by the interstate commerce committee disclaiming any defense of the meat packers. Watson declared that some of the records of some of the commissions' employes showed themselves out spoken anarchists, pro-Germans, reds, or admirers of Lenlne and Trot sky. I LOSS OF LIFE Spokane,- Oct. 20. A protest against the trans-continental airplane race, because of the number of deaths that have resulted among the contestants, will be forwarded today to the government authorities in charge of the air service by the As sociated Engineers of Spokane, which Includes In tts membership several former aviators. The protest is in the form of a resolution, and was decided upon late last night. It declares "that the trans-continental airplane endurance speed race now under way. stressing as it does human fiber beyond any demand of peace time flight, involv ing weakened Judgment and energy of the exhausted contestants, and re sulting, as already reported, in seven avoidable deaths, is doing more In the public mind to injure legitimate aviation than perhaps any so far at tempted." CHURCH WILL PERMIT Detroit, Oct. 20. Through action of the laymen of the Protestant Epis copal church in the 1916 general convention, sustained by both clerical and lay delegates, the Innocent party to a divorce may be re wedded in the church. ' 'Amendment o'f the canons to prevent Temarrtage by an Bplscoital priest ofa person who has a divorced .husband or wife living was defeated, despite desperate ef forts by many of the clergy and a few of the laity to secure Its adop tion. Both orders registered a ma jority, against the amendment. Under the canon the Innocent par ty to a divorce may be remarried In the church If the bishop, after exam ination of court records and with to. gal Advice, consents, although no priest Is compelled to officiate. The amendment defeated would make no distinction between guilty and Inno cent and would absolutely prohibit sn Episcopal clergyman offlclatlnsr In the marriage of persons divorced for any cause. Ell WANTS REST E Washington. Oct. 120. Republican Leader Mondell told the house today that it was the intention of the re publican leaders to have congress adjourn between November 8 and 1 0, so that members could have a brief rest before beginning the regular session early in December. REGULAR TERM IS:, SECOND FLIER I LANDS AT MIXEOfiA, rHAKIN'G MOO MILE FLIGHT IX LITTLE SIXGLK-SEATKIt PLAXE TEH ilVES PRICE OF ARMY TEST line From Saa Francisco to Mineota Dotted With bead Men and Disabled Planes Mineola, X. Y., Oct 20. Captain J. O. Donaldson, the second aviator to complete the trans-continental flight to San Francisco and return, landed here at 10 o'clock this morn ing. He made the 400 mile flight in a single seater airplane. Mineola, Oct. 20. 'Death wingeS his tragic flight with the army's great transcontinental air derby. Ten lives bad been the toll to the time Lieutenant B. W. Maynard crossed the finish line. Seven had died actually in the 'contest and three In connection with it. From New York to San Francisco the route of the flight was dotted with disabled planes which were forced to quit the race, or crashed to destruction from the air. Many fly ers were injured. Sixty-two contestants started the big ""race the most adventurous peaceful air competition the world has known. Forty-seven took the air from Mineola and 15 from San Franclscd on Wednesday,. October 8, for the 5200-mile round trip, high speed, aerial Journey. GARY STANDS FIRM FOR THE OPEN SHOP Washington, Oct. 20. Reaffirm ing his refusal to negotiate with rep resentatives of labor unions, not em ployes in the plant of the United States Steel corporation, Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the corporation's board of directors, announced that he (would not recede from his stand for an open shop. It is understood that Gary expressed fear of the con sequences of further recognition of the labor, unions. It Is unknown what effect his announcement will have on the Industrial conference. EIS Seattle, Oct, 20. An American ex plorer, Harold Nolce. formerly a member of Vllhujalmur Stefansson's party, Is working his way eastward on foot along the route of the north west passage on the northern rim of the continent, according to word re ceived here. He expects to reach the Hudson Bay country and civilization some time next summer. . Storker Storkerson. formerly sec ond in command of the Stefansson party, who arrived here recently from the far north, said that Nolce, accompanied only by Eskimos, Is pror ceedlng slowly and mapping portions of the coast line as he' goes. A stretch or the coast line of Victoria Land, heretofore unmapped, is being charted by Nolce. Noice may visit the interior of Vic toria (Land, Vhich, according to all reports, has never been explored by white men. All explorers, traders and trappers who have touched Vic toria Land have only Journeyed along Its shores. Stefansson found ths tribe of "blond Eskimos" in the Victoria Land country. Nolce has no ship and but few sup plies. 'He depends almost entirely upon bis gun for his living. DOWN TO REACH GOA