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About Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1921)
University nt Ore. Library rants ,]Jnss Dai In Courier AHN4MIATED PREKN HER VICE GRANTS FAMI, JOHKI'HINE COUNTY, ORRGON. DESTROYERS BATTLE WITH SOVIET FORCE AIXIXG I Clocks Are Stopped and Adjournment is Expected—Many Bills Are Passed io The Final Rush While Others Go to Slaughter as Session Nears Close COANT OF IlLACK NEA Salem. Feb. 23.—(A. P.)—Both houses of the stale legislature stop- ped the clocks at noon today and It continued to wind up business Is expected that final adjournment will come this afternoon. HEAVY LOSSES ARE 8EP0RTE0 ltux>l»n lloiMx-i iks Now Salci l<> IM* (*<>n<-«*nt ruling Vrmy for Attm k on J n|mn <■•*<* Constantinople. Feb. IS (A. I*.) I -- Frenoh deetroyers cruising along the eastern coast of the Black aea ‘ have been engaged with aoviet forces| at Gagry Reports say the bolslie-| Albert Johnson, congressman from vikl loat heavily from ths fire of tbs Washington, Is chslrman of ths house oommlttss on Immigration and ths bill French warships. •o prohibit Immigration for a period bears his name. HOOVER OFFERED CABINET PLACE Harding I’lxmre From Nt. Augustine But No IUv»|>on»w Hae Ye« lli-eii Given Truu her Has HmallpOg— Dr. Ixxighridge reports thst Miss O. J. Tarbell, teacher of the Advent New York. Fob. 23.—(A P.) — ist school at E and Eighth streets, lai Herbert Hoover today declined to suffering from an attack of am ill >ox stalo his attitude toward President although the disease Is not In u vio elect Harding's offer of the commerce lent form Miss Tarbell ta >ght In I ortfollo lu the cabinet', tendered the school Monday and Tuesday be last n ght by (elaphone from St. Au fore the nature of her Illness was de gustine. termined. and before being quaran tined had broken out qrith the marks of the disease Those who may have been exposed are being vaccinated. SAYS THE CHURCH CAN PREVEN! WORLD WARS PAY HEAVY FINE W. D. BOYCE I KANT Harbin, Manchuria, Feb. 23 — (A | IM—Military operations by Russian! bolshevlkl against the Japanese for ces In Siberia are believed to be fore- shadowed by concentrations of so- j riel trooiat in the eastern end of the country. There were 30.000 bolshe vik soldiers In Chita recently and more are said to be arriving. WHOIÆ NUMBER .120®. ALBERT JOHNSON FRENCH WARNIIIFN ENGAGE THE; BGIMIIEVIKI WEDNEHDAY, FEBRUARY ‘M, IWI ALLIGATOR SHIPPED DY MAIL TO TACOMA Tacoma. Wash.. Feb. 23.—(A. P.) —Tacoma's i>ostofflce recently hand led Its first live alligator, which was shipped by mall from Miami. Fla.. InT. E. Bryant of this city. In permitting delivery. Postmaster Calvin Stewart took the position that the alligator was not Included among the "offensive land dangerous" ani mals prohibited by law from being transpor ed through the mails. Mr. Stewart decided that a small alligator has just as much right in the mall as a queen bee. a soft crab, a blood worm, a leech, or a chame leon, all of which are permitted by the law. Buffalo, N. Y„ Feb. 23.—(A. P.) —The world war has awakened the church to Its tremendous resources. Binhop Thomas iNicholson told the delegates to the annual meeting of the Episcopal Council of Cities here J today. ‘ The latest figures give thel direct and Indirect coats of the world war to be 3343,0(10,000,000 tn money and 43.000.000 Ilves,'’ he said. "It Is within the power of the church to make impossible another such world catastrophe." Bishop Nloholson pleaded for a. development of progress and modern boniness methods In the church. "We must have faith in ourselves," he said, "and In our ability to do and to give, and we must be willing to bring the methods of work of the modern church up on a scale com-1 Eureka, Cal.. Feb. 23.—(A. P.l —j mensúrate with the progress and de Attempts are to be renewed next velopment of modern business meth month to save from a sandy grave the ods. wreck of the steamer Corona, a for-! “The demand of the hour is for nier (Pacific Coast Steamship Co. ves-J more spiritual power. Not long since sei, which a storm hurled over a I was on the Great Taikos. I saw one Jetty here 14 years ago. The wreck of the largest steamers afloat. The Iles about 1500 feet from the water, owner was aboard and with pride ho1 the shoreline having receded, since showed mo over the great engines.1 the boat came ashore. Than ho showed me how they had Tjist year about half the hull was duplicate engines so that If anything uncovered when a sudden winter went wrong with the machinery on storm swept the sand back and. bury one part they had aq entirely new ing the vessel, Undid In a week an set of boilers and engines to carry expensive task of several months. the ship through. They burned hun Frank Johnson, contractor, who dreds of tons of coal a day. but they bought the vessel two yean ago for could make time In the face of the 35,000, financed last season's unsuc greatest storm which could be antici cessful work. This year he Intends pated on the lakes. to bulkhead the wreck in from the "A few days later I was on a little encroaching sands, and pump the old boat built 25 years ago. with Its sand from outside and inside the hull sputtering engine. It Is as useless to at the same time. try to run the big ocean liners with There Is a shipment .of steel rails the steam power of that little ‘boat and other goods of imperishable na as It la to run the modern church ture In the hold, ac- ordlng to John with the degree of spiritual power we son. He said recently that he has a have had In the past. The power of standing offer for the engine and boil God Is unlimited. The greatest need ers which will net him a profit. Hope of the borir Is the development of has also been expressed that pos moral and spiritual power which will ■ sibly the hull, made of Norway iron match the commercial and Industrial | may be dragged back to the , shore lino and launched. masteries of our age." MAKE ATTEMPT TO SAVE CORONA WRECK I I PRESIDENT OF THE OREGON PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY IS CONVICTED ■ ; ' senate today passed the Bennett . ■= house bill extending title to the state' In lake bed lands uncovered by re-! afe* ceding waters. I'lirmi r Officials of Hairy Concern The reapportionment bill finally! passed later yesterday after the Plead Guilty to Indictments house receded from its amendments. Against Them % As enacted it makes no change In the , Halein. Feb. 23.— (A. P.)—The present senatoral districts and gives senate today concluded enactment of eastern Oregon two more repi'esen-i I Portland, Feb. 23.—(A P.)—R. highway legislation by passing the (stives and Multnomah county one.: P. Butchart, president of the Oregon 37,000,000 dollar bond bill and the A third Roosevelt highway bill W. D. Boyce, a publisher of Chicago, I Portland Cement Company, was fined latest Roosevelt highway bill, both passed the house. The senate passed :■ »5600 and Clark Moore, manager, bouse measures which now go to the Mrs. Kinney's bill qualifying women J who has started on a 50,000-mile trip to the little-known Islands of the ! 32500 In the federal court following governor. to serve as jurors, and defeated the South sees, and to New Zealand and the anti- Automobiles using state highways bill legalizing horse race betting. It Australia, In search of material and ! conviction of violation of trust law. E. W. Ellis, former man for transportation of freight and pas also defeated an increase of salary j photographs for use In hie publica ager of the Hazelwood Company, a sengers are put under control of the for the secretary of state. The Nor- j tions and In a new book ho Is writing. dairy concern, was fined 31000 fol public service commission by a bill blad bill iputling purse seiners out lowing his plea of guilty to selling now before the governor. of business in one year and trailers butter made from rancid fata with The house today refused to grant In two years is now in the governor's out proper labeling. 3800 annual Increases in salaries of hands. These are designed to pro public service commissioners. tect Columbia river fishermen from Steam Shovel Progrès* The senate passed the new gaso deep sea fishers. The senate passed « The steam shovel that is excavat line tax bill. The senate last night the house motor code bill, and the\ ing the north side Tokay canal Is I passed 83.050,000 In appropriations bill creating a state bond commission making good progress every day, to handle Investments of state funds though just now it Is digging its way Salem, Feb 23.—(A. P.) — The was finally enacted. Conference Today Organizes Cam- through the solid rock just beyond the "Dry Diggings.” The canal will ixügn Against Wage Reductions pass between the house and the barn and Other Issue» I at the Jackson place on the eastern side of the ‘‘Diggings.” It is being Washington, Feb. 23.—(A. P.) — excavated ten feet wide on the bot An extraordinary conference of union tom and will carry 80 second feet of i representatives met today to provide water. J I for a campaign against anti-union Salem. Feb 23. —(A. P.)—The San Francisco, Feb. 23.—( (A. P.) shops. wage reductions, compulsory house passed the senate bill relating —Spring training grounds of I the arbitration, labor injunctions and to salaries of Josephine county offi-j clubs of the Pacific Coast Baseball' open shop propaganda. President dais. The bill refers to the people lAague soon will be alive with play Gompers said that issues of “most at the next regular of special elec-! ers, veterans and recruita, working serious character affecting the peo- | f lion the question of Increasing the | out the winter'a stiffness in prepara pie and the republic” are faced by, salary of the assessor 'by 3100 per tion for the 1921 season. More than organized labor." year, and of school superintendent 200 players, it is believed, will train! Plymouth. Mass., Feb. 23.—(A. P.) by 3300. at the eight camps. Moon and tide have dictated the As all the training grounds are in dates for the pageant to be presented California, several of the teams will I next summer in celebration of the not have to go tar from home. In tercentenary of the landing of the fact Sacramento has decided to train I Pilgrims. on its home grounds. Buffalo Park. Portland. Feb. 23.—(A. P.l—The The Vernon club will trolley to Ven-| As the scenes are to be set on the police are reported to have evidence ice for the workouts while the Seat shallow shore where the Forefathers that a girl is involved in the murder tle and Portland clubs will make Mantla. Feb. 23.—(A. P.)—Legis- first trod, presentation of the piece of an unidentified man found shot long trips to reach their camps at lation prohibiting emigration of Fll- »ill be subject to turns of the tide, to death near the city yesterday. ipino laborers from the Philippine To obtain the best artistic effects it (Continued on page 3.) Islands has been proposed to protect has been decided to hold the events the islands' labor supply. »1 night, making the moon a factor Should the Philippine legislature , in th« program plans. As a result the enact such a taw. the thousands of almanac was consulted Tor the most Filipino laborers sent to Hawaii advantageous dates. Professor G. P. every year to work on the sugar Baker, of Harvard, who is preparing plantations would be prohibited from tl»e pageant for the Pilgrim Tercen- emigrating. The bureau of labor denary commission now announces statistics says about 10.000 labdrers that the spectacle can be best shown < ’ I Portland, Ore., Feb. 23.—(A. P.) Raleigh. N. C.. Feb. 23.—(A. P.l — have gone from the Philippines to on four consecutive evenings In the middle of July, in the first of August —Track and field activities In Ore Besides owning and operating Its Hawaii annually for several years. and in the middle of August. At gon for 1921 will be opened with I own water works, electric plant, ice ! those times only, it was found, did the 17th annual indoor meet of Co- plant, opera house and a railroad the moon, and the tide whioh it con- lunibia college here April 19. Invl- four miles long the little city of War-■ trols. promise to combine the ele- tatlons to participate in the tneet renton. Warren county, North Caro ments considered essential to the have been sent to the University of lina. with a population of less than IT ’ most effective presentation of the Washington. University of Oregon, 1.000 Is also building a hotel to cost I | pageant. the Oregon Agricultural College and 8140.000 to be paid'for by a bond The pageant is planned as the other northwest schools. issue. tral feature of the celebration here Columbia's indoor meet will be The municipally owned railroad Washington. Feb. 23.— (A. P.)—I next summer. It Is to be divded into handled by Ed ("Flash") Madigan, runs from Warrenton to Warren Cotonnbia coach who goes to St. Plains, where it connects with the A new record In production, ship seven episodes, portraying the lives Mary's College. Oakland. Cal., soon Seaboard Air Line Railway, it being ment and gross value of Portland of the Fathers in many separate cement was established by the United scenes. as football coach, The meet, it is the only line entering Warrenton. States last year according to estl- The performances are to be given believed, will be Madigan's last ap "We have made a profit on all of' pearance io Columbia athletic activ- our municipally owned enterprises,i mates announced by the geologlcal in the immediate vicinity of Ply- mouth Rock and that historic boul- Itlee. except our opera house, and we! survey. Production is estimated at 100,- der may appear as one of the "stage haven't lost much on it.’’ declared1 302,000 barrels, compared wlth 80,- properties.’’ The waters of the bay CADKT FLYERS KILLED Tasker H. Polk, prominent lawyer IN CRASH OF PLANE and member of the Warrenton board 789,378 barrels in 1919, an increase on which the Mayflower sailed from of 24 per cent. the Cape Cod anchorage where the of aidermen. Shipments were 96,329,000 bar- famous compact was signed, to the •Austin. Texas. Feb. 23.—(A. P.) Warrenton is one of the oldest rels. compared with 85,596.616 bar- spot here where the landing was —Cadet Flyers E. E. Allen and Vir gil Beach were killed today whew towns in the state. Horace Greeley rels in 1919, an increase of 13 per- made will serve as background. and was married there in 1836. cent. Cole's Hill where many of the P11- their plane tell here. Gross value was 8193,548.000, grims lived, died and were buried, compared with 8146,656,076 in 1919, with the waterfront, will form a na an Increase of 31.9 per cent. tural amphitheater. Stocks of finished cement on hand Performers who will number 1000 at the end of 1920 amounted to or more probably will include some 8.290,000 barrels, compared with of the few descendants of the Pil 5,852,497 barrels at the end of 1919. grims who live near the scene of an increase of more than 41 per cent.' their settlement. _____ Average factory price in bulk at , mills for the whole country was 82.01 Chicago. Feb. 23.—(A. P.l-^Jac’x, a barrel In 1920, compared with ’ Knight arrived from Cheyenne in PORTLAND MARKETS Mi first attempt at a continuous air Ings against the Southern Pine As 31.71 in 1919, an Increase of 17.» per cent. rd ly of transcontinental mall. J. O. an alleged conspi- Pennsylvania produced more than I Webster took up the flight for the sociation to end Portland. Feb. 23.—(A. P.) — east W. J. Smith, piloting west '.acy to curtail supply and Increase 28 per cent of the year's output | Livestock, steady; eggs, weak; but- the price of yellow pine lunibei. ~~(Continued on Page 2) ter. firm. bound mail, left here for Omaha. » % COAST LEAGUE PLAYERS OEEEOR TRAINING CAMP MAY LEGISLATE TO KEEP FILIPINOS HOME HOLD EIRST TRACK ANO FIELD MEET APRIL 19 MAIL RELAY STARTS
