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GRANTS PASS. JOSBrHINK OOrTT. ORKOON. .MONDAY. OtTOHKH 20. 1010.
W1IOIJ-; JilMBEK 2800.
WILSON IS NOT
PERMITTED 10
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fM.V WILL NOT 1'F.HMIT HIM
TO ACT OX IMMM
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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.
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