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y A » t é < 1-niverslty of Ore. Ubrary ♦ C WJ ANNOTI Al'ED PHEHN HKKVICK UNITED PREHH SERVICE GRANTS PAHS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON. Till ItNDAY, DECEMBER HI, IlfMl WHOLE NI MUER 3153. LIEUT. COMMANDER KING REAR ADMIRAL HUSE CZECH GOVT Bï OF THE LEAGUE « - ----------- t ATTEMITN OF COMMUNISTS TO GAIN CONTROL OF CZECIIO. NIXiVALIA REPl ISED K * 1 REPMEHENTATIVE M O N D E I. I. BULGARIA, COSTA RICA, FINLAND CLAIMS THAT TREAM RY ES AND LUXEMBURG LATEST ADDITIONS TO BE VOTED TIMATE CAN BE CUT REPORT OF COMMISSIONER GEN* ERA I. ALSO SHOWS MANY COME FROM MEXICO Aaks Timi lllgld Economy IL* prac Committee Take* Unfavorable Ac ticed—< ould Have By Siali ng tion on the Requests of Five Oth Down Army and Navy er»—France Refuse« to Vote I More Leave for European Countries Than Enter Causing a Decrease in Allen Population of 10,138 ♦ Paper* of Rwihal Group llave llwst Nu|>prt*»o<l and Govemiueut Is In I Full <'oiniuaittl <>f Situation V H I I ♦ - tA * * **» . ■ i • « Washington, Dec. 16.—(A. P.) — Immigration from Canada during th* Rear Admiral Harry McL. P. Huss last fiscal year broke all reeords, commands the American naval forces ordered to proceed from Cherbourg, and there was a tremendous increase Franco, to Danzig, the free port of in immigration from Mexico as well as from the European countries, Poland. Anthony Caminettl, commissioner general of immigration says in hi* annual report, made public today. Allens from Canada admitted to the country, the report says, number ed 90,025 while aliens departing HIX VOMEI» ON FIRE AS EARTHQUAKE IS RECORDED numbered 7,666 leaving an excess of RESULT OF EXPLOSION TWO CAUGHT AS DOME BA' V. OF W. SEISMOGRAPH 81,357. In addition 19,336 aliens in OF CHURCH FALLS IN Canada who applied for -admission New Orleans. Dec 14.—(A. P.l — Poindexter Mcaserv Makes Interfer Seattle, Dec. 16.—(A. P.)—An were debarred while 5,328 were re An explosion of oil at Jahncke dry ence With Interstate <V>mmerce Iaong Beach, Cal., Dec. 16.—(A. earthquake so severe that it tempor Cabl<*> Dealing With Irish Situation fused examination, the report says, dock occurred today and six vessels or With Bolshevism Must Meet a Felony P.)—The dome of the new First arily put two Instruments out of because of Inability or unwillingness are now burning. With Approval Christian church, under construction commission, was recorded by a Uni to meet the head tax requirement. here, fell at noon just after most of versity of Washington seismograph. Admission of aliens from Mexico Washington. Dec 16.—('A. P.) — the workers had left for lunch. Two The maximum intensity was at 4:48 totalled 52,361 while the number of Washington. Dec. 16.—(A. P.)— aliens going to Mexico from the The Poindexter anti-strike bill was are believed caught In the wreckage. a. m. American cable messages leaving United States numbered 6,606 leav- passed by the senate without debate Great Britain are being censored, Ing an excess of 45.755. During the or a record vote. The measure, which presumably to throw light on Irish previous fiscal year the admission* now goes to the house, provides that conditions or bolshevism, Newcomb of Immigrant aliens from Mexico Interferences with Interstate com Carleton, president of the (Western numbered 29,818. merce shall be a felony. Colon, told a special senate commit Europe sent a total of 246,295 im Salt latke City. Utah. I»ec. 16.— tee investigating cables. migrant aliens to the United State* CONSTANTINE LEAVER FOR (A. P.l—Utah mine operators decid In the past fiscal year while 256,433 GREECE ON GREEK CRUISER ed to cut wages of silver-lead miners emigrant aliens left the United I • MRS. PETERS IS SENTENCED 76 cents a -day and copper miners Josephine county is called upon to Berlin, Dec. 16.—(A. P.)—Emi States for Europe, causing a decrease Venice. Dec. 16—(A. P.)—Former TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON *1. to be effective on January 1. In alien population of 10,138. Im King Constantine and hla family sail save the lives of 170 starting chil gration to the United States from migrant aliens admitted from Asia ed today for Greece on a Greek dren of the war-torn lands of Ba- Central Europe has reached a stage Butte, Dec. 16.— (A. P.)—Wage Corvallis. Dec. 16.—(A. P.)—Mrs. numbered where it threatens to dump into 17,505 and emigrant cruiser. rope. Herbert Hoover has made reductions of 50 cents to 11 affecting America nearly 1,000.000 of the Jnez Peters, who pleaded guilty on aliens departing for Asia numbered fteraonal investigations of these “most undesirable peoples of Eu Monday to a charge of manslaughter 9,441 leaving an excess of 8,844. 6.SOO men In the Butte copper and »inc mines and smelters at Anaconda ARRIMAN CABINET HEADED BY countries and it la stated that there rope." says an official of the Ameri in ehooting Frank 9eltx, at Toledo. Resumption of immigration on a VESNITCH RESION8 TODAY are three and a half million children and Great Falls are announced can state department who has been Oregon, , was yeste^lay sentenced to large scale and efforts to deport who are actually starving to death, I watching the recent exodus with five years in prison. alien anarchists made the last fiscal Belgrade. Dec. 16,—(A. P.l—The and will starve to death unless Amer OREGON TAXI-» AGGREGATE much concern. year the busiest of any since the in MILLIONS FOR COMINO YEAR cabinet headed by Dr. Mllenko R. ica comes to their rescue and gives ; The emigrants are principally from auguration of the immigration ser Vesnltch has resigned, them temporary aid during fhis win-| Russia and Poland, and large num vice. the feport sa^s, “with indica Salem. Dec 16.—(A. P.l -State ter. bers of them, .who are very poor, tions that pre-war immigration fig taxes for the fiscal year ending De Josephine county has been assign have been directly assisted with ures would be outdistanced unless cember SI. ISSI, will aggregate I».- ed the task of taking care of 170 of money and advice from America, the affected by laws of this or other 493,105 22, a.TCordlng to Tax Com- these waifs, or in other words the correspondent was told. Consular countries.” mlssfoner Ixtvell's summary. state committee of the European re offices are swamped with their appli ’“Chinese immigration,” the re lief council has asked this county to j cations for passports and steamship port continues, “shows an increase EAMON DE VALERA SAID pledge Itself tor $1700 of the $35,- accommodations are inadequate to Chicago, Dec. 16.— (A. P.)—Forty over the preceding year, the number TO HE IN HIDING IN U. 8. 000,000 that America is asked to carry all who have permits to sail. feet underground Chicago has one of of admissions having risen from raise for immediate relief work. “There Is virtually no check on the most unique subway systems in 3,340 coming f<y permanent resi Portland, Dec. 16. — (A. P.) — Joe New York. Dec. 16.—(A. P.)— Notice was received yesterday by this movement, which beyond any the world. Devoted entirely to the dence in 1919 to 4.690 In 1920, thee* Eamonn De Valera Is “In hiding” Gorman, of Portland, won a decision J. IL. Pittenger, secretary of the; question must soon be a most serious hauling of freight, it keeps the con figures not including aliens of the from IA1 Grunan, of I job Angeles, In but may consider returning to Great Chamber of Commerce, that he wasj problem in America," the correspon gested loop district comparatively Chinese race granted transient priv Britain if granted a safe conduct, tho sixth round of a wheduled ten- appointed county chairman for Jose-! dent was informed, “An effort has free of heavy traffic vehicles. Offi ilege. Of the citizen class of Chines* round bout last night. Grunan was •aid hla secretary. Harry Roland. knocked down and claimed a foul. phine county. As Tuesday, Decem- been made to keep'out the so-called cials of the tunnel company estimate persons there were admitted in all, but the boxing commission's doctor ^er ^as been set as the day for ‘reds,’ but that, too, is futile for it is more than 6.000 trucks would have 1881, of whom 897 were of native P. ) — Andre Parts, Dec. 16.—(A. said that It was not evident that he tBi" campaign. Mr. Pittenger immedi- impossible to investigate the appli to pass through loop streets daily to birth, 843 were born abroad of na leFevre. wnr minister, resigned bo had been fouled and the referee gave 1 ate 'y appointed campaign commit- cants carefully enough to exclude duplicate the work done by the sub tive parents and 141 were foreign to the new cause of his opposition born wives of American citizens of OmM tbo d.H-lslon. for thl " >ork Th,< following undesirables. military service bill. way. "The only thing that can be done, . district chairman were appointed in the Chinese race. Over 62 miles of narrow gauge ! their respective districts yesterday it seems to me, is a new Immigration “Immigration from Japan to th* and notices Immediately forwarded: law- sharply curtailing this business track, 132 electric locomotives and continent of the United States shows Merlin. D. W. Mitchell: Gallce, Harry of dumping the down-and-outs of 3,000 freight cars hauled 6,000,000 an increase of 13 per cent over the j Sordy; Leland. A. A. Porter: Hugo, Europe upon our shores. And that, ; tons of merchandise and 230,000 preceding fiscal year, while that to A CAL.VMITY HOWL KB 1 Mrs. W. 55'. Penny; Selma. R. M. too. is going to be a difficult thing tons of coal last year. Hawaii show-s a decrease of 6 per Everett Earle Stanarci Scores of downtown office build cent, the admissions in figures be Hammer: Wllderville, C. F.• Love- for there will always be the possibil ( lace: Kerby. Fred Anderson: Waldo, ity of discrimination against classes ings and stores receive their freight ing 12,868 to the mainland and ! G. M. Esterly: Takilma. Harry Mes- that would make valuable citizens. I direct from the railroad depots via 3,306 to Hawaii as against 11,404 Old Nehomlah Trotter, our panic prophet here, is always . singer; Holland. W. R. Burnham: If immigration should be stopped en the subway. Their coal comes by and 3,500, respectively, in 1919. In hot water, and always full of skeer. He dally preaches I Provolt. 8. IA. T^angtwatt: Williams. tirely for a few years, say five, we the same route, and at night the 'lAs stated In the last annual re terror and squints through glksses green to make a humble Rert Bigelow; Wonder. J. T. Robert might wake up to the situation in ashes are hauled away through the port, the practice then obtaining as sparrer a vulture huge, obscene. When influenza smote us son: Dryden. Wm. Masten; Murphy. America and seek a wek out of the underground tunnels, to be dumped to the admission of proxy bride* as with sight of shroud and tomb he said the pest would tote on the lake front, where acre* of alleged brides of Japanese tn thia T. E. Gilmore; Wolf Creek. H. L. trouble. us Into Infernal gloom. And gasconading loudly he stood The country was not satisfactory to th* “The government's agents have land are reclaimed yearly. I Chapin. up in hla place farewelling sadly, proudly, to the whole hu Tho following committee was ap- been doing their beet to meet the ground on which the great new field department and the result was a new man race. And when he heard the rattle of guns that shook, I pointed to cover the Grants Pass dls- emergency with the machinery of museum, at the south end of Grant rule which promised a solution of the earth, he saw 'the last great battle' and cackled in bls ' trict: H. iH. Alyn, P. A. DeGenault, the law, but that Is pitiably inade park, is built, was a few years ago a the question. Contrary to this ex mirth.' He got a comfort splendid out of catastrophe and R. E 'Bratton, Roy Hackett, Sam H. quate. About all that can be done Is part of the lake. The tunnel com- pectation the number of arrivals of Armageddon blended with fire on land and sea. No momen such wives Increased from 3,189 in Baker, F. S. Bramwell, O. S. Blan to send department of justice agents pffhy filled it in with ashes. tary flash-up could Trotter ere discern. For temporary smash- Another unusual service rs the re 1919 to 3.816 in 1920. This ten chard, n«nj. M.'Collins, E L, Coburn. to New York and 'warn' the grafters up he didn't give a dern. He said that nations never could | and Herman Horning. Each of those and the more radical promoters of moval of dirt from building excava dency caused continued stud/ of th* get together none, but would cavort forever with sword and | above appointed will select their own this immigration that they must not tions. A shaft is sunk from the subject. Finally Japan fixed by de spear and gun. He scouted arbitration, and with unconscious resort to illegal means. Some of building site to the tunnel level un cree. the 29th of February of th!* | team of four other members. might, tried to work up creation to start another fight. Now them who were reaping rich rewards der the street. Workmen with wheel year, the last day upon which pass 17iis Is a most worthy cause and [ that the war Is over Old Nehemlah doubts that ever paying Is sponsored by such organizations out of the passport business—pre barrows dump the dirt down the ports would "be issued to so-called clover will grow from clover sprouts. He spends the day di tending to secure proper papers for shaft, where It falls into cars of a proxy brides and as the holders of as the American Relief association. lating upon 'the Idle mills' as though his useless prating sums paid in hand—-have been waiting train, to be hauled to the such documents had 6 months tn | American Rod Cross, American would cure Industrial ills. His doleful canvas sketches bank frightened off. but there are others lake front disposal station. which to apply for entry, September Friends' Service committee. Jewish ' winders gone to swash; It colorfully etches old Wall Street still et work.” For handling merchandise, coal 1, 1920, saw the end of this system. Joint Distribution Committee, Fed in a crash. Well, let ol<l 'Chaos Trotter’ on ruination rave, "The granting of passports under and ashes, electric elevators lift the eral Council of Churches of Christ ; PORTI. A ND MARKETS and paddle In hot water til he Is in his grave. When death subway cars from the tunnel level the gentlemen's agreement, with th* in America, Knights of Columbus. speaks his Forever, and Trotter's dead and gone, his memory Y M. C. A nnd Y. W. C. A. Presl- Portland. Dec. 16—(A. P.)-—Hogs to the stores and office buildings, exception mentioned, will continue as will never help mortals up or on.’ i lanf ! dent Wilson la !s noeonnnllv personally o.lrtnllno adoptlnrjare lower. $9.50 to $10,35. Sheep | where they are emptied and refilled, heretofore by Japan. The Immigra 20 of these waifs as his own tempor- are stead.v. Cattle, eggs and butter and then lowered again to the tion service finds difficulty in meet- tracks below. 'Continued oa Page 1) ary wards. ¡are weak. Paris, Dec 16.—(A. P.l— At- tempts which have been made by the communists In CaechoeHlovakla to Llsut Commander E. U. U. King, overthrow the government have tail ed entirely, according to dispatches royal navy, la assistant naval attach* of ths British embassy at Washington. to She French foreign office The * communist leaders ar» Imprisoned and the communist newspapers have beeu suppressed, tht^ Czecho-Slovak government emerging in a strong position. Washington, Dec. 16.—(A. Po Geneva, Dec. 16.—(A. P.)—Four ll rglng rigid economy in appropria new nations were made members of tions during the next fiscal year to! the league of nations today by the lighten the tax burdens, Represen- j assembly of the league, Bulgaria, tatlve'Mondell, the republican leader' Costa Rica, Finland and Luxemburg. declared in the house that the*total, Franco and Australia abstained from estimate of $4,653,800,000 submit voting for the admission of Bulgaria. ted by the secretary of treasury The applications of Armenia, Estho- should be reduced by approximately nia, Lithuania, Latvia and Georgia $1,400,000, chiefly by scaling down were repoYted unfavorably by the estimates for the army, navy and committee. sundry civil expenses. « -FUNDS ARE NEEDED TO 4 - * A*. <A’ a CABLE MESSAGES
