♦ AMAOCIATED PREHH HKKVKTK GRANTH PARU, JOHKI'HINE (Ï)INTY, OIINGOM. WHOLE NUMBER 3100. TU2MDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 1021 f «I ARTHUR GRIFFITH SMALL BOAT, LONG TRIP I I li TO BE ASKED $ I ■ Belief in Berlin is That The Government Can Not Agree ♦ to The Terms of The Supreme For Settlement of War Debt 'z « ALL ELEMENTS THAT OPPOSE IWHAHEVISM UNITE AMD ES­ TABLISH GOVERNMENT * # ¿ / y I « 4. - ' Now Head Will Summon Congress in Extraordinary Heselon After Ho Tidies Office <3 Berlin, Feb. 1—(A. P. >—Dr. Wal- i ter Simon, German foreign minister, will tell the relchstag today that Germany cannot accept the allied re- paratlon demands because they are impossible of fulfillment. „ JH* )O<> ■UH ugoyf* Washington. Feb. I.—I A I’.l A request from Pre»ldenl-eleci Harding Arthur Griffith, founder of th» Sinn that Pretrident Wilson call a special Fein and vic» preaident of the "Irish meeting of the now senate for March . republic." who was arrested by th» 4th. was convoyed to the White British authorities. House by Senator Underwood, demo- cratlc leadef. today. Tho request for the m>«clal session of the annute was to confirm cabinet and other appointments by the In­ coming executive A call for a spe­ cial session of the now congrtws will be issued by Prootdent Harding after inauguration. It la oxpacted this ses­ sion will begin late In March or early Manufacturers Start I p Mill» After In April. Having Horn Shut I town Wholly MAKERS ÖF STEEL TO OPERATE AGAIN Berlín. Feb. 1.—(A. pj—The Germana regará the reparatlon terms declded upon by the supreme allled councll as tan tas tic and Imposaible of oxeentIon, and it la the general . i 4 London. Feb. 1.— (A. P.)—It will be impossible for Germany to pay the reparations debt fixed by the Supreme council, says Professor John Maynard Keynes, principal represen­ tative of the British treasury at the Versailles peace conference. He pointed out that to make the pay­ ments Germany's world trade would have to be Increased to such an ex­ tent that British trade would suffer. Portland, Feb 1.—(A. P.l—Rail executives reached an agreement to permit the Great Northern and Spo­ kane, Portland and Seattle railroads to permanently use the Union sta­ tion. The 45-foot auxiliary schooner Ty­ phoon arrived at the municipal ferry pier at St. George, Staten island, re­ cently, thereby completing an 8.000- rnlle voyage mdrked by several ter­ rific gales. Little larger than a Cape Cod catboat, it was buffeted by wind and wave, but Its crew survived. X II Pittsburg, Feb. 1.—(A. P.l — Many Independent steel manufactur-i nrs today increased their operations, •ZK’. on V conservative basis after about The Hague. Feb. 1.—(A. P.l—-An Salem. Ore. Feb. 1.- The Oregon six weeks during which time opera­ indictment of "blue Sunday" advo­ prunes will soon l»e standing in the tions were entirely susi>ended or cates was returned in the report of a llm« light, as a movement Is under committee ot the second chamber ot way to name the week beginning greatly curtailed. I the Dutch parliament on a bill pro- February 14 as Prune Week In Ore-j IMMlng to forbid amusements, curtail gon. when all patriotic Oregonian« train service, etc., on Sundays. will b« asked to patronize a home | "The Sabbath was made for man. grown product. I not man for the Sabbath.” said the Down In California, the stores will report, killing the bill. "The closing not handle prunes grown in Oregon of the theaters and the prohibition They work for California and when I of games would lead many to seek any one calls for prunes, the French amusement In a less innocent way. or Petite prune is handed out. One The reduction ot passenger traffic on cannot buy Oregon prune« retail in Tok io. Feb. 1—(A. P.)—In Sundays would prevent people who Tx>s Angele« sympathy with the protest from the \ were shut up in close homes and nar­ Just to call the attention of the Ja;»anese associations in combined good housekeeper» to the value of America against the new conscription row streets all the week from enjoy- the Italian prune as grown In Oregon law governing Japanese residents i Ing fresh air and nature on the Sab- thia special prune week will be put ! ltath.” abroad. Mr Uyehara one ot the lead­ on beginning Monday. February 14. ing Kokuminto party members has From a stand’ point of food value, decided to Introduce a petition in the Oregon prunes rank high with 40 j the coming session of the diet for per cent sugar and 22 per cent other the amendment of this legislation • carbohydrates. Only 28 per coni Is According to the new conscription moisture. The analysis shows that from a food atnndpolnt. the Oregon regulations passed by the last see prune has exceptional food value sion of the diet, any Japanese resi­ And at the present prices It Is one dent in America who returns to Jap­ of the moat economical food» on the an and »tays more than one month Sacramento, Cal . Feb. 1.—(A. P.l ran be called up for military aervice. market today. —Criticism of the state's taxation Thia naturally elicited opposition system developed during the first from Japanese residents in America i part of the present legislative session who held a general conference and dispatched a representative to these i from both proponents and opponents i of the King bill, which proposed an shores to appeal to the government authorities for the amendment of } increase of approximately one-third the regulations. Tho representative in rate« Imposed upon public service arrived here some time ago and has and certain other corporations. The since been endeavoring to convince state derives its principal revenue Nagpur, India. Feb. 1.— (A. P.)*— the authorities of the need for from taxes upon public utilities. The difficulty of distributing equit- The Turkish peace treaty wns charac­ amending the law, terized as '‘the greatest travesty of [ ably the burden of taxation was the I chief point of criticism. Admitting Justice, a monument of hypootlsy and the blackest broach of solemn } this difficulty, the state's fiscal offi­ pledges" by Dr. Ansar in bls address cers contended that their computa­ as president at the annual session of tions, upon which the King 1)111 was the All India Moslem league today. 1 based, pointed to a readjustment as He demanded its revision which, he I nearly fair to all parties concerned declared, there seemed little doubt as was possibte under the involved was being seriously considered by tho ! system - provided in section 14 of ar- allies. ; tide 13 of the constitution. London, Feb. 1.— (A. P.)—The The speaker denounced "the hor­ Thia system was approved, by vote rors of the Punjab reign of terror" "jazz" Is dead in Ixmdon. says P. J. of the people in 1910, after having and supported tho non-cooperatlon 8. Richardson, one of the foremost been rejected in 1908. and became movement In progress among the na­ English authorities on dancing. He effective in 1911. Former state Sen­ tive« as a protest against British rule. declares that no "new dances will be ator John B. Curtin was one of its "There is a divine Injunction to popularized this year, but the fox­ leading advocates. Mussulmans to practice non-cooper- trot, one-step and tango, which have It provides that taxes levied upon atlon against the opponents of Is­ held International Interest for two or public utility and similar companies lam." said Dr. Ansar. "There ap­ three seasons, will be standardized shall be exclusively for state pur­ pears to be a deadlock between the "Previously those taught the same poses, thus exempting the utilities bureaucracy and the people of India dances by different teachers found from local taxation by cities and which is entirely because India has themselve« hopelessly at sea when counties. When the constitutional awakened to a keen sense of self-re- they tried to dance together,” he amendment was adopted the state tax •peot and is determined no longer to said. "Through standardization, on on general property was dropped. submit to a secondary position,| which the majority of dancing In­ In the first class are grouped all whereas tho bureaucrat Is atlll structors in Txmdon have now agreed, railroad companies Including street thinking In obsolete terms of govern­ a common framework In the steps railways; car companies; express ing with the mailed fist. will bo insured without eliminating companies; telegraph and telephone "In order to win the cooperation of all chance of introducing Individual companies and gas and electric com­ th<> people of India our alien friends variations. Freakish and eccentric panies. This tax is levied on gross: must first of all disabuse their minds 'light gymnastic* such as exaggerat­ receipts. of tho Idea of raco supremacy and do ed forms of 'Jazz' are rapidly passing Insurance companies comprise the ample penance for past wrongs.” j out." second group, the tax being placed on Tacoma, Feb. 1.— (A. P.)—Ar- thur Rust, 20, son ot W. R. Rust, wealthy Tacoman, was kidnapped by a lone man and forced to write a ' note to his father for 225,000 ran-i bom. ■a. Kerensky and former Advisers Join in tiie New .Movement to Over­ throw Radical Parties 9 TACOMA YOUTH HELI» ALL RAILROADS TO I SE FOR HEAVY RANSOM PORTLAND l MON DEPOT or Partially for Sit Werke PROTECT JAPANESE JL;: opinion that the government cannot agree to them. I Paris, Feb. 1.—(A. P.)—Formal application is about to be made to Great Britain, France and the United States to recognize as the rightful ex­ isting government ol Russia the Rus­ sian constltutent assembly which has Just been created at a meeting hers of all elements opposing bolshevism. Preeident Avskentieff, member of the former Kerensky cabinet, presiding officer of the conference here, will ) make application to Premier Briand I for recognition. Kerensky has gone | to London on a similar mission. Rus- IVIUIliUV UllUUi -pan Ambassador Balcpmeteff, at . -■ Washington, will approach tne Am- l erican government. Will Require More Tluui a Year to (lose ti»e Affairs of the Ilefunct ■ Portland Bonding House — — ------ - - - CURTAIN HOT SOWN Oil GRAPE INDUSTRY Portland. Feb. 1.—(A. P.l—Earl} C. Bronaugh, former circuit Judge San Diego, United States marine brigade poet, at once. It is certain to take over a i Cleveland, Feb. 1.—(A. P.)—That which is expected to be the largest of its kind in tbe west, will be com­ year because creditors have until [ prohibition did not ring the curtain down on the grape industry was the pleted here about March 1». December 27 to file claims. opinion of delegates attending the The government, it is said, already recent convention of the National has spent nfttre than 22.000.000 on Grape Growers congress here. the poet and another 22,000,000 will be needed to complete the work. “Though we lost the sour wine When finished, the post will have ' trade," L. G. Young, grower of Erie about 45 buildings, many of them j : county. Pa., declared, “there has built on the Spanish mission style I been such an insistent demand for about a huge quadrangle. At pres-* grapes for the making of home made ent six barrack buildings are almost I wine by the foreign elements, who completed. are wine drinkers that the price ot San Francisco, Feb. 1.— (A. P.l — grapes is higher than ever before.” According to present plans, the post will be the permanent home of One of California's groves of big red­ Last season grape prices reached woods was dedicated recently as a top mark about 2200 a ton, rt was the Seventh Marine regiment. memorial to Colonel Raynal C. Boll­ said. In 1919 they were ISO a ton ing. said to be the first American and in 1914 about 235 a ton. officer of high rank to lose his life W. O. Johnson, of Genera, O., pres­ In the world war. The grove is on ident of the organization said the the Eel river, 50 miles from Eureka. Dr. J. C. Phillips, of Wenham. shortage of cars last season caused Mass.. Colonel Boiling’s brother-in- great loss to the growers, because law, purchased the grove for the large quantities of fresh fruit were memorial and will present the deed allowed to spoil due to inability to j to the California Save the Redwoods ship. their gross premiums. The third group takes in the banks, the levy be­ League. A memorial tablet will be placed near the entrance. ing made upon their capital stock. Before the war Colonel Bolling I Franchises comprise the fourth was general solicitor for the United: group. States Steel Corporation. The levy in each case is to be fixed at a figure that would make the tax PORTI.AND MARKETS upon the property Involved propor­ i tionate to that collected by titles and ; Portland, Feb. 1.—(A. P.l—Cat­ counties on general property. tle are lower, choice steers. 28.25 to, Josephine county has again gone The constitution further provides 29; hogs and sheep, steady; eggs.} over the top In its service of human­ that "in the event that the above three cents lower, buying price 35c, ! ity. This time in the cause of the named revenues are at any time selling, selects. 38c to 40c; butter.) three and a half million starving and deemed Insufficient to meet the an­ firm. grossly underfed children of war- nual expenditures of the state, there torn Europe. may be levied in the manner provided It was with a great deal of sat is­ by law a tax for state purposes on faction that County Chairman ti. L. all the property In the state, includ­ Pittenger, forwarded his report on ing the classes of property enumer­ the efforts of Josephine county In ated in this section sufficient to meet this recent drive. The sum of the deficiency. 21675 in cash and pledges has been « By far the larger part of the state’s forwarded by Chairman Pittenger income is derived from corporation to state headquarters of the Euro­ taxes. The board of control esti­ Melbourne, Feb. 1.—(A. P.)—The pean relief council. The city churches mates that, without the. proposed re­ Australian government has undertak­ in their recent collections have for­ adjustment of rates .the corporation en to educate the children of Austra­ warded to their national headquar­ taxes for the next biennium will ag­ lian soldiers killed or totally incapa­ ters an aggregate of 2229 for this gregate 249,000,000 of the 260.939,- citated in the world war. At least fund and the matinee at the Rivoli 200 total estimated revenue 12.000 children are expected to bene­ theater Saturday morning netted 278.55 for the destitute children ot Collections from other source« are fit. estimated by the board as follows: The plan covers the whole range Europe. Thus Josephine county has Inheritance taxes. 27,000.000; li­ of educational curriculum, in indus­ exceeded her quota of 21700 by more censee, 21.650.000; receipts from oil trial. agricultural and professional than 2300. leases on public land, 1,000,000; sec­ courses, together, where necessary, There are still a couple of country retary of state fees, 2450.000; su­ with period of apprenticeship and a districts that have made little or no preme and appellate court fees, 217.- subsidy (by way of sustenance while effort towards raising their district 600; register land office fees, 26.- undergoing such training. A fund of quotas and it is hoped these com­ 600; lunacy commission fees. 29,000; approximately 10.500.000 is on hand, munities will yet help swell the state homes collections, 2780.000; which Includes a grant from the fed­ county’s subscription. Anyone de­ delinquent property tax redemption. eral government of t4.000.000 and a siring to contribute to Mr. Hoover's 217.000; interest on deposits. 2700.- ■ transfer from the repatriation trust European relief fund can do so by 000; Interest on bonds, surplus funds 11 fund of approximately 2050,000. forwarding their contributions to Mr. investments. 2100.000; miscellaneous I I Large Lavrs» contributions are assured 'rom Pittenger who will see that they 1 other • sources. receipts. 2210,000. reach their proper destination.