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? lì ♦ University or Ora. Library / % UNITED PRESS SERVICE --------- VOL XI.. No. 71. I R ------------------------------- .—----------------------;— ---------------- .. GRANTS I’AHM, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, DE< EMBEIl II, linio. WHOLE NUMBER 31 ML — ■ THREE STAGES T0BE1AKENT0 SENSELESS IS Prnddcnt-etect Invites Prominent l>vnio< rat to Confer on Idea of As sociation of Nations Minto liepaHliKHt Will Ask Evplaiis- U<»n of Cell of Gunteiiialcan Min ister on Hriutor M<»s«s a Marlon, DM. IE—(A. P.)—Pres Washington, Dec. 11. (A. P.') REPRESENT ATIYE M1KO.N SENDS I INVITATION SENT TO FORMER ident-elect Harding Invited William l>r. Julio Uiancha, Guatamelaeait, KING AS RESULT OF GREEK TEUSGRAM TO HYMANS ICE Jennings Bryan to confer here In minister to the United States, will be PLEBISCITE QUESTING ACTION December 17th regarding a plan for asked, the state department said, for an ezplanatlon of his call yesterday an association of nations, He con- on Senator Mora, of New Hamjel ferred today with Colonel George »hire to discus* the nenutor's resolu-i Harvey, who favors staying out of tlon calling on the department for ' the Versailles league. Tomorrow he Information as to the detention of | I Ini « km 1« Mt Meet I n g Mtatrs That (lev former l‘*>sldent Cabrera by U>* Sending of Special InvcMlgator* to Former Foreign Minister and Aide de 1 will confer with* Herbert Hoover, present Guatemalan authorities It Ireland Favored l»y < rmnirnt WIII Not Hla< k«n Build* Camp Are Prohibited Franz Ib j leader of the pro-league group. of Is said the minister's uctlon ts a vlo- t urning io Athens ing I’lnn* While I . 4L ln<r<M»«<-» Committee of One |iumln<d latlon of diplomatic usages. Attend Wolf Creek .Meeting— • ......... County* Agent R. E. Miller an'! Lucerne, Switzerland, Dec. 11.— Miss Rut,h Corbett, horn« demonstra- Geneva. Dec. 11.—(A. P)- Dis Washington, Dec. 11.—(A. P.) — armament In three stages la the re Representative Mason, ' of Illinois. (A. P.)- Official notification of the I tor, went to Wolf Creek this morn commendation whl< h the committee . made public a telegram sent by him result of the plebiscite ln Greece and ing to attend the meeting of the an armamenta of the league of na- to Paul Hymans, president of the an invitation to return to Athens to1 Farm Bureau which will be held to tlous assembly will make. The first night to ma» out a program for the league of nations, appealing for suit ataxe would be an agreement among port of the league in an effort of the reascend the throne immediately, coming year’s work. Yesterday Miss the powers to make no further In- commission of the committee of 100 were received by former King Con Corbett was at Williams where she creases In armaments. The third I Professor Streit, did dress form work. Mrs. P. W. Investigating the Irish question to stantine today. Yukio, Dec. 11—CA. P.)—Dem •end special Investigators to Irelsnd. atage will be complete dlaafmument former foreign minister who was Nomer, Mrs. Jim McFadden and Mrs. Ing that Japan is militaristic and in except as arms are needed for police | Stella Stratton were engaged in the vltlng foreign critics to study Ja-1 Chicago, Dec. 11.—(A. P.)—The Constantine's chief adviser during work with her and will help their purposes l>ane«e history to prove the conten- | ' foreign trade conference voted to or his exile, and Captain Paparrigopou- neighbors in the making of the Geneva. Dec 11.—<A. P )• A dis lion. Premier Takashi Hara has writ ganize Immediately a foreign trade los, Censtantine's aide de camp, were i forms. At Fruitdale. Mrs. A. W. pute between Chile and llollva In ten an article entitled “Jaitatuese Na corporation, capitalized at $100,- prohibited from returning by the i Bates, Mrs. J. Stanbrough, Mrs. F. the league of nations aaaembly raised tional Characteristics as Misunder- 000,000 finder the provisions of the Greek government. IG. Roper and Mrs. Robert Harris the possibility of the withdrawal of ■toad by the W'orid,” which is pub Edge act. will aid their neighbors in making • . lished In the Chuwe, an organ of the | one or the other from the league. ; the forms. Selyukal party. It is charged that the Japanese Geneva. Dec 11.—(A. P.) Japan Gold Was Plentiful— cannot reduce her armaments while is an aggresive rm-e, bellicose and R. M. Wilson, of Gold Hill, Jack- the United States la Inereaaing hers, lacking In civilisation other than the i son county, is a guest at the Oregon. Viscount lahil, the Japanese delegate art of war." the Premier writes.1 Gold Hill is a »historic and pictures declared at a meeting of the arma “This misunderstanding may be at que little community on the banks tribute to three defective points of ment committee. view. First. Japanese history ls| Washington, Dec. 11.— (A. P.)— of the Rogue river. In the old days it enjoyed a season of hectic lifg. disregarded; second, Japanese liter Washington, Dec 11.—(A. P.l Danzig. Dec 11 —(A. P.)<—Vllna. The military situation in Haiti and Senator Walsh, of Montana, present-| ature and art are set'aside: and which the former' Russian general. Santo Domingo from the point of Gold dust poured into the tills of a its . ed and advocated a resolution re third, the true condition* of the life Zellgouaki, recently occupied with view of the marine corps is "extreme merchants when the gulches th* people have not been atndied troops of the Polish army, has fig- ly satisfactory,” Major General Le- bars were yielding fortunes to questing that the president appoint of booted, bearded and red shirted Pla ’ * an American representative to meet by th« critics. | ured In the aspirations of Polish ex jeune, commandant of the corp«, de "Japan ha. no record in her hi— pansionists ,mnillolll(lU for for nearly nearI). 700 700 years. year, , clares in his annual report to 1 tbe I c®r miners. Gold Hill in days to with the league of nations commis none oi ill be known as the s home i I come - — will of tory of having conquered other r»-(Tbe sion considering disarmament. The Frw> Free State State of of Danzig ls la lntereBt Interest . secretary of the navy made public ho found the I-ampman brothers, wl — ------- cm * everyone knows The for- ed ,,d In ln the th. outcome olltcome of of the the catnpaig* campalM? j ,«1«» wars ln th. Meljl era. especially for |1(MMm(l1on of the c|tT ft A year ago, the bandit situation there a rich ledge of literary mater- thy R lias Ian war. were almply wars Is felt here that Vllna must be the; in Haiti was “quite serious,” General | ial which has formed the theme for for self-defense against foreign ag-| strategic point upon which will al- ! ; Lejeune says, but the present bri many a poem and magazine story.—■ i Portland Journal. gresston ways hang the issue of peace or war. j gade and gendarmeirie commanders "If Japan's history Is to be exam (The Tjeague of Nations decided at* have handled the situation in "mas ined cloaely. It Is rich In records of j its first assembly In Geneva to send terly fashion and now banditry has warfare, to be sure, but It Is a great an international force to Geneya lo been almost completely suppressed.”; Best Makes Sales— E. Boyer, of Spencer, Iowa, -has mistake to jump at the conclusion anable the people of that city to de There has been no serious banditry sold his three acre tract on East A Washington, Dec. 11.—(A. P.)— that the Japanese people have been in San ¡Domingo in the last year. I street to W. L. Schroeder of this Secretary Payne has entered into a a war-like race altogether, born and cide what their nationality shall be ) ! General il>ejeune says adding that on city. Geo. H. Kesterson has sold his What its possessiotT means to the supplementary contract with the Cal reared In the midst of wars. The his recent visit he found the marines property on the corner of North ifornia-Oregon Power Company per wars of Japanese historical records Pole« is • indicated by recounting stationed there to be ln efficient con Ninth and Mead streets to A. A. mitting the company to biflld a dam have been political wars. In the days some of its turbulent history. Vllna was founded by Prince Godi- dition. Hyde of Applegate. Mr>Hyde has provided It deepens the approach to before civilisation had advanced, po The "after effects" of the world moved his family Into the property, the main and Keno canals tv ensure litical and military wars were em mln, of Lithuania, who reigned frqm war have nearly disappeared from where they expect to make their fu a flow of not less than 1200 feet per ployed for the same purpose by all 1315 to 1340, and. with Kiev, it the marine corps, the commandant ture home. Geo. A. Meutz. of Am- formed an important pnrt of south second into the Klamath project countries which are now civilised.'’ ern Russia. Godimin and King Wad- continues. He believes that both of hurst, Ohio, has sold his 12*4 «ere main canal and 1020 feet Into the islaw of Poland united in a war ficers and men have overcome the re tract on North Ninth street to Thnr- Keno canal with water In the lake at against the order of German Knights, laxations and unrest which followed m?s Smith, of this city, who is now an elevation of 41.37 feet but reserv SENATE COMMITTEE DECIDES but it was not until nearly 100 years the war and that they are working1 living on the property. Arthur H. ing the right of the government to IGAINST DEFERENCE OF TAXE* later that the two countries estab- unceasingly to maintain the efficien and John H. Denison have sold their « > require a greater flow. , llshed a common Reichstag. th is cy of the corps at Its highest stand property on North Seventh and was at Horodlo on the Bug river and ard. Lookout Ave., to W. L. Schroeder. POLICE BREAK UP .MARS Washington. Dec. 11.—I A. P.) — Gefleral Ijejenne tAcommends that Mr. Schroeder has rented the proper here the rtiders of the two lands'vo- MEETING OF JAP SOCIALISTS The senate finance committee line legislation be enacted which will al Tokio, Dec. 11.—(A. P.)—Police decided against legislation looking ' operated in deciding all important Is low the retirement of marines who ty. Mrs. Lucia Peterson sold her; home on West C street to W.‘ L. I broke up the first attompt of the so Jo the deferment of the Income and sues. served either as warrant or commis The* cialists representing all parts of Jap other tax payments due off Decern-1 There was q complete union of Po sioned officers in the world war with. Schroeder as an investment. land and Lithuania in 1569, as far as. above sales were mq^e by Isaac Best. ‘ an to hold a mass meeting. ber 15. ¡all state affairs were concerned and pay of the highest grade In which i this continued until the end of the they served during the emergency. i eighteenth century. Although Lith- He also uiFes the creation of the ! uanla was divided into 'six govern grade of chief marine gunner, chief mental sub-divisions in 1795 and quartermaster clerk and chief pay was under the rule of Russia, a writ^ clerk for the corAs. the grades to be er in the Danzig Zeltung says, Vll- j ¡filled by promotions. Everett Earle Stanarci na's sympathies ' remained with Po Siskiyou* Imi'«*»ablC'— land * Vllna was occupied by Russian; Reports are In circulation in the Washington. Dec. 11—(A. P.) — I "red” troops in the summer of last city today that it is Impossible to get The campaign against the high cost When wo wore kidlots on the farm in fhe old days over the Slskiyons because of the year and twice changed hands dur-1 blithe anil sunny we watched the bees in weather warm of living, efforts to break up trusts Ing the Polish-Russian campaign | depth of the snow. Five cars which and combinations in restraint of clover fields coljecting honey. And oftentimes it came tried to climb the mountain from this this year. It has been called the pass as through the grass wo ranged forgetful we trod an trade and the government's tight on <:apttal_of Lithuania but the writer, side yesterday had to turn back be radicalism are reviewed by Attor sect down, alas, and barefoot-wise hopped round regretful. cause of encountering two feet of ¡ In the Danzig Zeltung says the num Sincere respect we thus acquired for all the little honey sip- ney General Palmer in his annual ber of Poles ln and around Vllna snow this side of the summit. There report sent yesterday to Congress. p«rs, and watched them bussing, never tired, about the flower Is a report also that one car from probably would decide the issue in cups and dippers. We never saw them loafing round. We In a discussion of the radical prob Redding succeeded in coming over Poland's favor. • saw them ever active, nimble, and watched them with Intense lem, Mr. Palmer discloses that the the mountain to Medford yesterday, profound belief that the/ are type arid symbol. In other but thls could not he verified.—Mod-1 Department of Justice has developed words we came to see, as bulk was added to our stature, that a card index system, containing more HOUSE VOTES TO CURTAIL ford Tribune. we should emulate the b(> a\id thus correct our slothful na- than 200,000 cards, giving detailed * THEIR CHRISTMAS RECESS ure. It now appears that, we were wrong, for now we hear a data on the activities of ultra-radi Three Bound Over — great bee-master expound new wisdom In a song that threat Washington, Dec. it.—(A. P.l A preliminary hearing of the cue cals and their organizations as well ens us with dire disaster. Ho sez In a dispatch, sez he, that i The house voted unanimously to cur- against D. F. Richardson. W. Rich as a complete library of reference on you must get a whip and irge 'er, to keep this Insect steadily i tall the Christmas recess to take up ardson and D S-hoff yesterday re the general radical movement. a-tollln o'er the blooming verdltre He sez she merely works Nlnlty per cent of the communist I tho annual appropriation bills wlth- sulted In the three men being hound onohgh, while hours are cheery, warm and sunny, so that the out. delay. They agreed to adjourn over te the grand Jury. They were and anai’chistlc agitation during the living won’t be tough when she must sip the winter honey. ¡Thursday, December 23, and reas- aceussed of killing a hoc belonging last year, the Attorney General says. Well, let thia freak bee-master spout and rage In manner Kemble Monday instead of adjourn-1 to Archie Taylor nt Oak Flat alone Is tra -eable to a’tenj. This agitation theorltic. we’ll cling to childhood's dreams, no doubt and Ing* two weeks as heretofore. the ntlnola river. They are being he added. Is not confined to the so- At any rate I think that we praise the buzzjng bee Pm t r* . held for |25O bond each. The henr called “economic evils” but has been at this date won’t blame the .<. « 'ii^r Let’ i ■ ’ In iffind, J. F. Sargent, of Gettysburg. ing yesterday was befdre Justice directed also, toward the stirring up too, that.the bee most Ilk' ly ■III wields his sham sflnger. South Dakota, and J. H Rreene, of Holman, a large number of witn»'ses of rn 11 preludie«. One of the fer r<ehanon. South Dakota, are in the coming in from the Illinois valley. tile fields, he says, Is among the ne city for a few days on b Ths three men are from Portland. groes who "have been appealed to JAPAN REFUSES TO REDUCE HELP WÄNTEO RE COMMITTEE HOWARD CONFESSES TO .MUR DER OF GEORGE SWEENEY AT VALE IN SE1TEMBER DESIRE FOO MACHINE IS CAUSE .Mnr»|gred .Man Had Car Advertised for Sale ami Howard Killed Him to Get Possession of Auto Vale, Oregon, Dec. 11.—(U. P.)— Beating George Sweeney into un consciousness, George Howard cram med the body of his victim into a trunk and buried him alive on Sep tember 1’4th,* according to » signed confession by Howard. He stated that it was his desire to secure Swee ney's automobile without buying It that caused him to murder him. Sweeney advertised the machine for sale. Howard called and asked him to demonstrate the car. When they reached a lonely spot on the road he grabbed a wrench from the car and The knocked Sweeney insensible. confession relates that Howard cov ered Sweeney with a robe, returned to town, bought a trunk, jammed the body into it, drove several mile« away and burled the trunk. Officer« are now searching for the trunk. Following Sweeney’s disappearance, a search was instituted for Howard, who was the last man seen with Sweeney. He was located and ar- rested at Garden Valley, Idaho, on Monday and brought here Ontario. Oregon. Dec. 11.—(A. P.) —George Howard, 2 2, was arrested at Vale Friday charges with the murder of George W. Sweeney, The officers said that Howard has con- fessed that he lured Sweeney into the country near Vale on September 13, killed him and took his automo bile after burying the body. Rome, Dec. 11.—(A. P.)—All vil lages in the Tepeleni district In southern Albania were destroyed by an earthquake last .night, according to an Avlona message. Two hun dred persons were killed and 15,000 are homeless. PORTLAND MARKETS Portland, Dec. 11.—(A. P.)—AU markets are steady. directly for support in the movement to overthrow the government of the United States.” The foreign language press haa been “particularly noticeable for its strong ultra-radical leanings,” the Attorney General says. He declares that the spread of radical doctrine« has been "aided” in 26 or more for eign language newspapers in th« United States. The results of the.January raid« on the Communist and Communist Labo’r party meetings, Mr. Palmer says, caused a "marked temporary cessation" in radical activities her«. Meetings of the communist and an archistic groups .were suspended and were followed later by the declara tion of the American delegate to the Third Internationalists at Amster dam that the January raids had de stroyed the hopes of the commun ists In America. * Mr. Palmer recites the legislative (Continued on Page Four)
