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GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY. OREGON,
FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1931
COL JOHN A M’lLHENNY
WHOI.K NtMBER 317«.
MARION LEROY BURTON
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10 PAYMENT OF
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LIVE STOCK
OBJECTS To AMERICAN l*OHHEH. ESTABLISHMENT OF Ml NIFI PAL
SION' OF SMALL HILL .NEAR
ICETAIL MARKETS IS ALMO
(ODON FOR DEFENSE
ONE OF PltOINMiALS
OfiLIGATION NOT ON STATE
TO PBOIECT UNNI ENTRANCE
|.*MM* tn M um MrtSlng nt Portland
Col. John A. Mcllhonny, famous
Approve Stau> Ronin, of 42« or
for his efforts In the conservation of
Furio or Rome ! sui II
bird life. Is the financial advisor of
Govi^iiuient Tbiukx Inile Haul Is In-
I al Ung ||rr Blgllte at the EaM
Elul of Big Ditch
the republic of Haiti.
At the direction of the department
headquarters of the American la»xlon
for definite action for or against the
State bonus, the local post of the
American 1a»glon last night unani
mously voted not to urge or make
any demand upon the state legisla
ture for a state bonus for ex-service
tn»n ot this state, believing that the Portland Blaskraaller E< hk { m ^> From
obligation for the service man's
Trap Sel by the Offici** After
bonus belongs entirely on the federal
Shota lisle Ihwti Fl rd
government for whom they served.
A large majority of the memt>er-
ship of the local |>ost of the legion
Portland, Jan. 14. — (A. P.) —
turned out last evening for its first
"Shadow” escaped from |«ollce and
regular meeting In several months
A lares volume of business was deputy sheriffs again early today In
spite of bullets fired by the officers.
transacted and the following officers
The
second episode in which the
elected to serve for the ensuing year:
writer of threatening letters ewca|>ed
Commander. James Llum; vice-com
occurred In the outskirts of Portland
mander. Ixiyal W Heath; adjutant,
J. L. I’ittenger; finance officer. K. at another rendezvous prescribed for
J Wesley lauld. banker, to deliver
M Winetrout; chaplain, Robt. Be»-
a package containing $25.000 When
tu); serveant-at-arms. Chas A. Han-'
the machine aproached. "Shadow”
sen; historian, Ix»<> Sauer
A committee was appointed to in*: flashed signals and the |H»lice opend
ot ‘ Shadow” wan
vestlgate the advisability of holding fire, but no trace
found
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a dance during the coming month
Deputy Slieriffs Mollenhour and
Visitors Introduced, were Comrade
reported that about two
Lamonte
Butler, of Paris, France. Post No 1,
hours
after
"Shadow” escaped they
and Comrade McCientick. of the Ala
were
accosted
while searching for
mo Post. San Antonio. Texas Fol-'
him
by
a
man
who
ordered them to
lowing the meeting the members nd-,
Before the
throw
up
their,
hands,
an
ex-
Journed to a local cafe where
get out their weapons.!
officers
could
cellent luncheon was served
the man fired six shots. The officers
fired at him. but he escaped In the
Portland. Jan. 14.— (A P.l — brush
About 1500 veterans of the world
war in a mass meeting last night SKITTLE AUTO THIEVES
roared affirmation of a resolution
KILL PATROLMAN STEVEN'S
calling upon the state legislature to
allow ex-service tnen the option of
SeAttle, Jan. 14.—(A P l —Patrol-
$25 for each month served or |30U0 man Stevens was killed in a battle
for farm or home loan
with four automobile thieves here!
today.
RAOUL I’F.RET To FORM
NEW FRENCH CABINET
Portland. Ore, Jan 14
(A. P.l
Completion of present contracts
by shipyards In the Portland dis
trict will swell th«» dlstrlcf produc
tion to approximately 1,000,000 tons
of steel ships.
Paris, Jan. 14. (A. P.)- Raoul
Poret. president of the chamber of
deputies, has accepted the task of
forming n now cabinet succeeding
the one that resigned Wednesday.
WOULD SHTTLE AFFAIR GROW.
INO OFT OF THE KILLING OF
LIEUTENANT LANGDON
American National AssocUUon Con-
<- Marion Leroy Burton is tne new State Ilepartment Hunt Have Can*
oidrai M-gislation for IVotection
vincing Proof of Japan's Good
president of the University of Mich.
of Industry
Future Intentions
iOS"
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Panama, Jan 14.—(A. P.l —The
Pana man government has protested
to Washington against the action of
the United States officers In taking
IMMisession of a small hill east of
Colon adapted tor works defending
the eastern entrance of the Panama
canal.
E1 Paso, Jan 14.—(A. P.)—The
enactment of a tariff for protection |
of the livestock industry and grad- i
ual es ta bl Uh mont of municipal retail
markets in all cities, and enactment
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by congress of constructive federal
legislation regulating packers, com
mission men and traders were recom Naval Air Mcn Wlio Landd in Hud-
Portland. Jan 14.—(A. P.)—Cat mended in resolutions presented to
s»n Hay Countrj a Month Ago
tle, steady; hogs, weak; sheep, the American National Livestock As
Retu-hed Home Today
a
steady; butter, two cents lower; eggB sociation by the resolution commit
tee here today.
firm.
A small crew of men. carpenters
and corfcrete workers, has been
placed upon the fishway at the Sav
age rapids dam. and concrete is to
day being poured upon this portion
ot the structure The water of the
river is at too low a stage to inter
fere with this work, and the fishway
can be carried through to comple
tion. A truss span was put in on the
trestle where the two bents were car
ried out during the later high water,
and this is so satisfactory that the
bents will not again be replaced. The
treetie today carried the concrete
cars without a wobble. The river has
maintained practically Its level for
the past week, the reading being a
little better th.-.n three feet at the
Gold Ray dam. It was above 10 feet
during the high water. Today the
reading la 3.6 feet.
MANY INDICTED FOR
NEW YORK ELECTION FR ll'DS
¡few York. Jan. 14.—( A. P.l—In
vestigation of alleged election frauds
last Novenfber has revealed a scan
dal. It 'liecame known here today. The
number indicted by the grand jury is
nearing 30.
New York. Jan. 14.—(A. P.)—
Lieutenants Kloor, Farrell and Hin
ton of the U. S. naval air service,
arrived here today, exactly a month
after they landed near Moose Fac
tory, Ontario. The three mer^ were
the pilots of the naval air service
balloon that was carried into ti»o far
Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 14.—(A. P.) north by the storm of a month ago.
—Travel during 1920 to .Rainier Na-
tlonal park broke ail previous re-
cords. A total of 14,000 persons
from outside the state of Washing-
fbn entered the park during the
year. Six thousand of these were
from east of the Mississippi river.
When the 1921 tourist season opens
there will be avilable additional ho
tel accommodations within the park.
New York. Jan. 14.—;(A. P.l —
TEN’ DAYS IN JAIL FOR
Public buildings, churches, public
BREAKING XMAS DOLL utility plants and homes of wealthy
citizens throughout the city are
Portland. Ore., Jan. 14.—(A. P.l heavily guarded by order of the po-
—.Ten days in jail was the penalty lice as a precautionary measure
for smashing his little daughter's against liosefb’e radical demonstra-
Christmas doll, meted out to a vio tions.
lator of the “bone-dry” law here by
Warnings of threatened bombing
Judge Roseman.
activities at New York were received
by the government from a reputable
SUPPOSED MORPHINE WAS
private detective agency, and caused
ONLY COMMON' TABLE SALT the precautions in New York, said
Alameda. Cal., Jan. 14.—:(-A. P.l' government officials.
—Fifteen hundred dollars worth of
morphine was the seizure police offi
cers and representatives of the state
board of pharmacy believed they!
made here in arresting a drug ped-|
dler suspect. Analysis proved the
seizure to be a bag of table salt.
Manila, Jan. 14.—(A. P.)—Japan
has agreed to the payment of an in
demnity as ft result of the killing of
Lieutenant Langdon, of the cruiser
Albany, at Vladivostok, it is under
stood here, Admiral Gleavee, who
started for Vladivostok to investi-
gate, returned last night, having re
ceived a wireless message Indicating
the affair was settled.
Washington, Jan. 14.—(A. P.)—
The.state department will not drop
the Langdon affair without convinc
ing proof of Japan's intention to
make similar incidents improbable, it
was announced here The govern
ment is awaiting satisfactory assur
ances following dispatches sent last
night.
ORDER SANDWICH SIGN'S
OFF PORTLAND* STREETS
Portland. Ore., Jan. 14.—(A. P.)
—V-shaped, or sandwich signs for
advertising purposes, are banned
from Portland’s downtown side
walks by order of the city council.
Refusing application of the Portland
Young Men’s Christian Association
for use of such signs In a campaign,
the council declared such signs an
impediment to traffic.
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ROOSEVELTIAN FAMILY
OF WASHINGTON COUPLE
Moxee City, Wash.. Jan. 14.—(A.
P.)—Four children wtthin eleven
months came to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. William Wayenberg here, with
the arrival of a second pair of twins.
All were doing well, including a fifth
child 26 mouths old.
JAPANESE ARE TARGET
Ixtndon. Jan. 14.—(A. P.)—The
OF ARIZONA LEGISLATURE
Greeks made another important ad
Chicago. Ill., Jan. 14.—(A. P.l —
Phoenix. Aril., Jan. 14.—(A. P.l
vance against the Turkish national —A bill like the California anti . The executive council of the Ameri
ists in Asia Minor, the Greek legation Asiatic act was introduced in the can Federation of Teachers, foirow-
reported. The Turks lost heavily.
I tng action taken at the recent con-
state senate here today.
I vention of the organization held In
i St. Paul, is launching a nation-wide
' campaign for better tenure legisla-
I tion for teachers. State legislatures
New York. Jan. 14.— (A. P.l
in India at the present time of na-|
will be asked to remedy existing con
According to n’dvlces received by the tlonal crisis a conference of collegej
ditions relative to the employment
India Information bureau, the move students from all over India has been
and retention of teachers, who be
I
ment for non-cooperatlon with the
lieve that injustice lies in the pre
announced. The appeal which has
British government in India Is being
vailing system. The American Fed-'
been
Issued
relative
to
this
confer-
develoi>ed In the boycott of govern
Budapest, Jan. 14.—(A. P.) —
eratlonal Teachers authorities assert
Spokane,
Wash..
Jan.
14.
—
(A.
P.l
ment-supported colleges and schools. once declares that "It is now high Even the cats and dogs of central
that remdial legislation will go far
Tho withdrawal of children from all tl me that the students should assert Europe have degenerated as a result -Automobile tourists spent approxi towards raising the standard of the
educational institutions which re their corporate existence and decide of the war says Professor Balkanyi, mately $1,250,000 in Spokane dur teaching profession. inaamucn as it
ceive igovernnient support was one together the line of action that may director of the veterinary school ing 1920. according to Frank
W. will obviate arbitrary dismissal of
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of tho planks in tho boycott plat bo desirable in the best interests ot here, who 1s investigating how the Gullbert. president of the Eastern competent teachers by autocratic
form formulated by M. K. Gandhi, the country.”
habits of domestic animals have 'been Washington Highway association, boards of education.
native leader, and accepted by the
Tn the wake of the new movement Influenced by that cause. Most of
"In asking for decent tenure leg
country at the special session of the has come considerable apprehension the town-bred cats in this part of the Fifty thousand machines. carrying islation,” said Charles B. Stillman,
Indian national congress in Septem on the |>art of the government, fol world refuse to drink milk because 150,000 ;>ersons entered the city president of the American Federa
ber, last. To date several Indian lowed by measures of repression, as it is unknown to them, due to the during the year, according to estl- tion of Teachers at Chicago head
colleges have d«»c1ared themselves in In 1919. the India Bureau is inform lack of milk during the war. the pro mates of Mr. Guilbert. He says that quarters. "otir organization is not
sympathy with Gandhi's movement ed. Two editors of tho Punjab fessor asserts.
each person stayed in Spokane a day animated by any desire to protect the
and students hnve abandoned their have been arrested, one already con
"Both cats and dogs are relapsing and a half at an average expenditure inefficient teacher. In fact, the Am
classes and set up new colleges.
victed. Following the arrests, dem to the savage ways of their untamed of $5.
erican Fedefation of Teachers is in
Tn Ahmodabad. under the chan onstrations of sympathy took place ancestors,” he says. "The vagrancy
Automobiles from all but two of terested in providing the machinery
cellorship of Gandhi, a national col in iAhore and Amritsar, principal of dogs is startling. Pet dogs elope the 48 states registered during 1920 by means of which incompetent
lege was recently opened. The in cities of the Punjab, and at public from heart-broken ,mistresses, join at the national parks highway office teachers may be removed from the
augural ceremony was attended by meetings held in these cities resolu ing packs of mangy village dogs, here, as have machines from Canada, school system. Far from protecting
over 3.hOO Indian parents and stu tions were irnased congratulating the where they live in communist equal Hawaii, Mexico, Holland. Philippine I incompetency, the American Federa-
dents.
editors and expressing sympathy for ity.”
Islands. South America and Alaska. ! tion of Teachers has gone on record
The student movement is not them. A hartnl (cessation of bus
The same authority says that, be The two states from which no cars in a most revolutionary measure for
sporadic and fleeting, according to iness) ts also reported to have taken sides hydrophobia, nervous diseases
were registered are Alabama and the protection of the public schools,
tho Information reaching tho India place In both center«. In Calcutta are very frequent among animals. 1
by demanding* for its organization
Delaware.
bureau, but. rather a serious attempt «bout 130 students of the Madrassab am afraid domestic animals in East-
Registered at the highway office' professional training as a prerequi
at establishing a now national edu college went out on strike as a pro ern Europe are degenerating and were 216 cars from »California. 254 site for the chartering of a local.”
cational system. To consider fur test against the coftVIctlon of one of that the stock must be replenished from Montana. 82 from Idaho and
President Stillman said the Amer
ther the status of the student body the editors.
from overseas.
ican Federation of Teachers main-
252 from Oregon.
tains that tenure should be perma
nent during efficiency after the lapse
of the probationary period, which
should not exceed three years; that
all dismissals, both during and after
probation, must be for causes defl-
nitely embodied in the educational
law, such as gross insubordination.
inefficiency and conduct unbecoming
a teacher, and that after the proba
tion period dismissal for any cause,
including inefficiency, shall be au
thorized only by an impartial trial
board.
Appeal from the decision of a trial
board may be made to the civil
courts would also be allowed.
The federation officials say they
see a cultural wage for teachers and
explain that this is a wage which
will enable them to live according to
the requirements of their position,
to provide for such hazards of lite as
illness and old age, to provide for
culture, recreation and professional
improvement, and to maintain self-
respect.
Beside demanding certain working
conditions, they also assert the right
of teachers to participate in the ad
ministration of the schools and es
tablish the principle that the teach
ers are entitled to the rights of free
expression and the right to organize
and to affiliate with such groups as
they find expedient and deem social
ly and spiritually sound.
The
American Federation of
Teachers Is affiliated with the Am
erican Federation of Labor.