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9 I ATRO BKEM8 MKKVIUK TT Vol. XI., No. KM». GRANTS PAKH. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON. MONDAY. JANUARY 17, 19*21. Corn, the King of Crops, Showed a Iter Acre Value of Only S'JO.IM In IIWO WHOLE NI MBER 8177. Sentry Who Shot American Meuten- ant Mtngdon to Death Must An swer for His Action Washington, Jan. 17.—(A. P.l— OWNER OF LIQUOR-CAilitVlNG IJ-XHSLATURE RECONVENES AF Washington, Jar 17.—(A. P.)— PRESIDENT-ELECT HARDING HAS ELEVEN MEMBERS OF NATIONAL 1 Corn, king of crops, produced an J CONVEYANCE RSSTONM1BLE ORGANIZATION JAILED FOR TER KEt’EWi WHICH WAS TAK The Japanese sentry who shot and PRACTICALLY DECIDED ON ' average of only »20.93 an acre to killed Lieutenant Langdon at Vladi FOR ILLICIT TRAFFIC ALLEGED PARTICIPATION EN MOT THURSDAY EXTRAORDINARY SESSION farmers based on December 1 farm ( vostok gave his version, coinddlng prices while hops produced ,486.10 | with the antemortem statement of an acre, according to average« for the dead officer, said a dispatch to the country as a whole Issued by the I the navy department. The sentry department of agriculture. The has been recommended for court- value per acre of hops In 1919 was martial. I ,874.75. while corn's average value Named Guani» Who He Said lla«l per acre was ,38.49. With the ex hupreine tourt fluids Ixwn llecl- Urges Use of flood Fund to Build BAUEN BANKER’S ESTATE ■don in a C um - From Georgia That New Training School FadlKies Taken Hutnmary Action Against ception of rye. cranberries, soy beans IS VALUED AT gl 77,060 Ila* IttXMul Effect Killer of Private for Boys • and sirup, the average value per acre last year showed heavy reduc- Salem, Ora., Jan. 15.—(A. P.)—The! tione from 1919 because of the de real property of John H. Albert, Sa Washington, Jan. 17.—(A. P.)— Salem. Jan. 17.—(A. P.)—The lem banker, who diqd here recently, Birmingham. Ala., Jan. 7.—(A. clines in price«. Washington, Jan. 17.— (A. P.l— P.l—.Elevon na’llonai guard mem Wide variation 1« «hown In the i The seizure of automobiles or other legislature reconvened* today after a was valued at »92,660, and the per President-elect Harding has practic ber* are in Jail charged with lynch value per aere of the various crops, 1 conveyances carrying liquor is au- reoees taken Thursday and several sonal property at »85,000, a total of ally decided to call a spedai session »177,660, according to a petition of congress April 4th, members of ing William H.ilrd, miner, at Jasper, while the averages for different 1 thorized whether or not the owner bills are before both houses for the filed In the prolate court by Mrs. tne house ways and means commlt- Thursday night. statee show a broad rvnge for each 1 of the conveyance Is Innocent of vlo- The arrests followc’l an ill -g«d crop. The average farm value ;»er itlng the law, the supreme court third reading. Eiizabeth McNary Albert. tee were informed by Chairman Ford- The joint session was arranged for Mrs. Albert asks that she be named ney wh0 returned from a conference confession of a taxlrxb driver of the acre of the Important .’arm crops as 1 ¡»eld In deciding a case from Geor- i administratrix of the estate, part he took, naming th« sildiers. estimated by the department of ag ! gia here today. Her with Harding today. (Continued on page 4.) husband left no will or testament, Baird had been accused of kill! >( a' riculture for last vt ar follower she said. national guard private after the Hope. ,4*6.10; cranberries, ,218.- tetter had killed Baird’s father-in- 37; tobacco. ,16*05; potatoes. t no BWHiwwM oveb law. ,137.61; eweet potatoes, ,116.71; •orgum sirup. ,97.56; soy beans. ,48.42; rice. ,47.75; peanut«. ,38.- 68; beans, ,31.94; hay. ,27.87: cot- enthusiasm is evidenced by the news- _____ *4 ¡ton, ,25.14; buckwheat, »24.41 ; papers over the new cabinet formed winter . grain * sorghums, ,24.86; Washington. Jan. 17.—(A. P.)— by Premier Briand. Sydney, Jan. 17.— (A. P.)—A vio- Keep our money at home, buy wh«at, ,22.88; broom com. ,21 40; --------------------- lent rainstorm, said to be the worst home securities that are becked up The house resolution proposing re-i ( cowiieas. ,21.25; clover seed. ,21.- Chas. Spaulding, of Grand Rapids, 1 for 70 years, has reduced the new 25; corn. ,20.93; barley. ,17.68;, by the lands of the valley, and use < peal of most of the special war-time' Mich., spent Sunday In Grants Pass. South Wales wheat harvest from 20,- every financial resource for develop rye. ,17.57; oats. ,16.61; spring i laws was approved by the senate ju I 000,000 pounds to 15,000,000 pounds ment of industries here, was one ®fi diciary committee. Under a commit-1 Dallas, Tex., Jan. 17.—(A. P.)— wheat. ,14.08. ■ the minister of agriculture states. Albert Rowan, son of a wealthy Dal- the pithy points brought out in a dis tee amendment, operation of the! The minister describes the great 1 m business man. was arrested to cussion at the courthouse this morn food and fuel contract act would be. , storm as a tragic disaster for the day charged with robbing the Jack- ing. About,30 of the land owners; eon tinned. wheat growers, who had' every rea- of the Grants Pass Irrigation project' eon street sub-postoffice Friday. The I rll 8On to <'xpect a recovery after three * police said one of the robbers con | gathered at a call issued by J. E. LLU ! years of devastating drought. fessed, declaring Rowan planned and Hair for the discussion of affairs con- ; Cyrus Wheeler Passes Away— 1 cernlng the progress of the work of directed the robbery I the project. The directors and other! Cyrus C. Wheeler, for the past 10 Paris. Jan. 17.—(A. P.)—The J COMMISSION ADVANCES 'officials of the district supplied facts years a resident of Grants Pass, passed away at his home on A street I carriages for passengers are being I GAS RATE IN PORTLAND and figures asked tor during the dis PORTUIND MARKET» I --------- - Visalia: Cal . Jan. 17.—(A. P.l — cussion. the land owners desiring to Sunday morning, January 16th, fol taken from the big Ferris Wheel' I it , —(A. P.)—Th® know the costs of the various fea lowing a stroke of paralysis which here and sent to the devastated re-' 3alenii jan Three hundred mljes of carbon bi Portland, Jan. 17.-<-(A. P.l—Cat tures of the project to date and es-l he had suffered Saturday. He was gions of France where they will be1 put)]|c gervjee commission increased sulphide "smoke balls ” stretching tle steady: hogs lower, prime mixed, j |n Portland by order today ' timates for the complotion. A fur 68 years of age, and is survived by used as bungalows to provide homes. gas ,11 to ,11.75: sheep firm to higher; , four times across Tulare county’s ther meeting will be held next Mon-1 his widow, and by two sons and a for homeless. They are just big1 rajsing the first 12,000 feet from »1 agricultural lands, are being used In eggs, firm: butter, steady. what has been described as the most day. the meeting resolrtng to Invite' daughter. One Bon is a resident of enough to make a diminutive home |o »1.35 per thousand, with corre- extensive squirrel eradication cam Ralph Schneeloch also to be present Central America, the other son and containing one living room and a gpondjng increase to larger consum- I erg paign ever undertaken in the west. A motion was carried asking that the: I*1® daughter residing at Concord, kitchen. board of directors be asked to pub- Mass., where the body will be taken1 The Ferris Wheel is being - dis-j _____________ The work la being carried on un lish a monthly financial report of for burial. Mr. Wheeler was formerly! mantled after haring been one of der the Tulare County Horticultural HIMIOTnAI 01IIIHOI III I association, assisted by the county the district. It was during the dis- a resident of Concord, where he the sights of Paris for many years. supervisors, commercial organize-i cussion on finances that Mr. Hair.' holds a life membership in the Blue tlons. farm bureau and state agri calling attention to the losses of ' lodge and the Chapter of the Masonic. Basketball Game— " ■ ----- ----- ——----------- order. cultural department officials. (Continued on page 4) The high school girls’ basketball ; Constantinople, Jan. 17.—(A. P.) It Is expected close to 200 tons of team met the Ashland team Friday,! —Defeat of the Greeks by Turkish the poison will be used in the drive, November 14th, on the high school! nationalists in a pitched battle near which opened January 10, 1921, and gymnasium floor of our neighboring! London. Jan. 17.— (A. P.)—Win the junction of the Bagdad line with closes about May 1. Twenty-eight < city. The girls played a hard-fought railway to Angora, was claimed section gangs of the Southern Pacific game, with Ashland winners, scores ston Spencer Churchill, war minister, the nationalist press at Angora, railway are being used to help. The 1 27-13. The much anticipated return I has accepted the post of secretary nationalist capital. The Greeks drive officials hope to drop a "smoke, game is doubtful because of the n«- of state for the colonies, succeeding «r<> reported as withdrawing along ball" Into every squirrel hole In the ture of local facilities for match J Viscount Milner, resigned, it is re- i liably reported. * farming sections. thia entire front. Washington, Jan. 17.—(A. P.)— games. There must ibe something wrong Roland B. Mahaney, solicitor of the with a bunch of burglars that will department of labor, has been ap- pick the domicile of a newspaper! i pointed by the president as the Am man for their operations, but that is erican representative at the interna- just the thing that happened Satur- 1 tional commission of immigration to day nlght when the home of A. E( meet at Geneva at a date to be fixed Voorhles was broken into, and Mr. VoorMes' other suit of clothes and by the international labor officie of various other articles were removed ' the league of nations. TAXICAB DRIVER CONFESSES STORM DESTROYS ““ WHEAT IN WALES ♦ » » * V. Ixtndon, Jan. 17.—(A. P.l—It Is estimated that Txmdon Is short of 150,000 bouses and Premier Lloyd George, speaking in house ' of commons, h^s placed the total house shortage for the whole of the United Kingdom at roughly 1.000.000. A house for rent potice board In Ixin- don quickly attracts a crowd.- Housing Is a department of the ministry of health and. by legisla tive act. local authorities are requfr-j ed to submit housing schemes. Thou sands of sohemMi have bean submit ted, but progress has been veryi slow. Perhaps the chief reason for this has boon the economic factor Houses which coat throe or four, times n» much to htilld ns before the war, cannot ohvtoualv let or sell at. pm-wnr figures. Nevertheless, ac cording to government atetlatlcs some 60,000 new houses were started In 1920 and the number contracted) for has risen during the year from | 10,408 to 133.3^1. One striking feature of the effort! to provide houses 'is a housing| scheme conducted by the office of works, which wan empowered to' spend 6.000.000 pounds spread over 18 mouths. IU) operations started in to some place as yet undiscovered.Mr. Voorhies was in Eugene at the time Camberwell, a south -London bor and the other members of the house Approves Work Shutdown— The county court has received a) ough. An arrangement was made by hold were absent from 7 .till 9:30, letter from the district engineer in which the office of works supplied returning at the latter hour to find charge of the work for the bureau oil the plans, materials and supervision, the liouBe ransacked. roads for this territory appovlng the The thieves gained entrance 1 i cessation of work on the Hays hill while the local federation of trades ( till the weather becomes unions supplied the labor and the foretng one of the kitchen doors. contract tearing the door and casing from the more propitious. This is the work borough council assumed responsi wall. An unsuccessful attempt was that has been in progress by Harry bility for the flnsnces. The plan made on another door. They drew . , Webber, but which had to stop opera worked smoothly and houses were the shades of the second floor win tions because more* damage was be built for 78(1 pQunds apiece, a saving dows and proceeded systematically ing done through heavy trucking of at least 200 pounds, making a to to ransack everything. They nsed^ Tover soft roads than good was being tal saving to taxpayers of 400.000 matches at first hut later found a ‘ accomplished. Mr. Webber has the pounds. This scheme may become candle, as was shown by candle drip | contract for the surfacing of the the embryo of a stato building de pings over many articles. Mr. Voor-i grade over Hays hill. The engineer partment. hies lost a well worn blue serge suitJ also forwards a statement showing The financial difficulties connect and a pair of new sox. Miss Rene-i I that »5,309.97 had been expended on ed with the housing problem have diet’s loss was a platinum bar pin 1 . the work between the date of com been responsible for the creation by with one diamond, a gold neck chain mencement anil the 13th when work local tithoritiM of Interest bearirrg with three diamonds, gold nugget ceased, and Josephine county is "housing bonds” which are In some I stick pin. and gold locket. Miss asked to put up »1.769.99 as its localities a fairly popular Invest-1 Ament lost a gold ring. An opal pin third o( the cost. This work is done ment. was left untouched, the burglars evi through cooperation of the federal In the north of England. concrete I dently considering it unlucky. bureau, the state highway commis houses have become popular, as ma There Is no clue to the light-fin chinery largely replaces man-power gered gents, though a trio of negro sion and the county each bearing an In their erection. Tn some parts of hobos had been seen loitering around equal part. London, too, such houses have been the district earlier in the evening. As built recently, owing to the shortage a neighbor lost two chickens at the 9. P. Morrison, of Watsonville. of bricks, the high rate of wages same time, suspicion points pretty Cal., was a Sunday visitor tn the and other difficulties* strongly to the colored strangers. city. Philadelphia, Jan. 17.—(A. P.) Frederick J. Libby, commissioner of the American Friends’ Senice Com mittee (Quakers) who recently re turned from Reval. brought back in formation that many children are starving in Russia. Mr. Libby ob tained his Information from Arthur J. Watts, an English Friend, who has been engaged in relief work in Russia. Mr. Wattr gave Mr. Libby a translation of the reports of Rus sian commissars from various Rus- slsm cities. It is upon these Mr Li>by bases his Information. It appears from the commissars reports that the situation of the children varies greatly In the differ ent centers. In some cities such as Vitebsk, it Is reported by the com missars that whole families are PW- iahltig from starvation., In others such as Smolensk. Yaroslav, the chil dren are reported to be obtaining sufficient nourishment. . The re port from Vitebsk stated that the bread substitutes give the children chronic dysentery which it is impos sible to cure. The commissars re ported that in several centers the children had been unable to obtain bread for a long time and that In a others no kind of fats or meats were obtainable and that milk was re ceived rarely. The children of Moscow were de clared to have no sugar nor fats and were reported to be either starving or falling 111 due to undernourish ment. Inmates of the children's homes In Novgorod are starving, ths reports stated. They received no meat, butter, potatoes, milk or salt but live on a daily portion of sour cabbage soup, milelt cooked in water and black bread made from bad flour. They are suffering from scur vy as a rest:It of undernourishment. The children In the schools of ths Bashkir republic are reported to be In rags, barefooted and hungry. Golden Drift Item Partir Gone— The recent high wnter of ths Rogue have taken ont a portion of the concrete work on the old Golden Drift dam above town, the portion destroyed being between the spillway and the north side. The water is now running through the break and the. crest of the spillway Is reported to be several feet above the water mark.
