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'■“IverMty uf Ore LUirurt ♦ r ISMH I »TED I’llEKs SERVICE VOL. XL, No. 120. G HA NTH PAM, JOSEPHINE COLMTY, OREGON, MATI RDAY, MARCH II», ll»2l WHOLE M M BEK 3230. J—- MISS ADELIA M. STEWART A fl MRS. EMMA M. FIELD k 1 i I I «»MMISH1ON VISITS BY THE ATTOR- STATE EM PM » EH IT I GILA NTS PASS ANI» EXPLAINS ROAD Bl ILDIN'G POLICY HE »ICING rrr : FOREIGN .MINISTER TELLS DIET COMMITTEE THAT l*O6l‘HON WILL BE -MAINTAINED anti - wim opposed to official- Are » nms-<^u>*tJon»sil in At tempt io Siem Pr<— Agent Activity < A. Warsaw, Indiana. Mar 19 P l Virgil Decker, aged I!» »•«rly today conf<*«M*<l that he »truck 1^- Roy l.oxett, his "double." with a crowbar as ho slept In a cottage on TlppecaniH* rbtir near hen*, and aev- ernl hours later took tho unconscious body in a buggy to a nearliy railroad' crosalng where tun buggy containing tho body was struck by a train "The devil drove lue to It." aald Decker: after signing th» ronfoaalon He de-! nlod that transfer of hts own cloth-, Ing to Ix>vett‘a body waa part of a plan to collect Insunuire totalling nearly $30.000 payablo to his broth er. Fred Decker. In event death by accident of A'lrgll. Memories of hts early religion, re vived by a letter urging him to con- fen» and seek forglveneas. combined with the softening Influence of the motherly ad«l<e given by Mrs <’ II Moon, tho »heriff's wife, resulted In Decker'» confession M<w* Its Part in the Program Soon as the Federal I »epart men r. Will Give Worst .X, ■ — Jap Mvi-iaior- Will Visit I nited Slate- During the < <>m»ng Sum mer Says I'chida The Oregon state highway commis Tokio, Mar. 19.—(A. P.)—Japan sion. consisting of Messrs. R. A. will stand firmly on her mandata Chicago has an art spirit mystary Booth, of Eugene. J. B. Yeon. of over the island of Yap, Viscount that centars about Mr«, Emma Mabel Portland, and W. B Barratt, of Hep Field. For ten year« she haa been Uchida, foreign minister, told the pner, arrived in the city late Friday drawing strange pictures of Egyptian diet committee. He said Japan was afternoon but left immediately In figures, symbol« and scenes. ¿he doing everything possible to prevent company with the members of the started the work when she was thirty, the passage in other states of the Josephine county court and commis and with no preparation. Ignorant of Cnited States of laws similar to Miss Adalis M. Stswart, who has sioners for a trip over the Crescent both art and mythology, with no con those in California. Ten members of won the distinction of bong ths first City highway beyond Hays Hill. Re- ception of draughtsmanship or Egyp the house of representatives will woman to bo appointed * national turning from this trip, an Informal tian deco'ation. Mrs. Field say« she be visit America this summer bank examiner, Misa Stewart, who meeting was held in the lobby of gan suodenly In 1910 to turn out a hae been aeelefant chief of the mm- InIng division of the office of the the Josephine hotel in the evening series of fascinating pictures. Three develop Into remarkable drawings of comptroller of the currency, le a grad- at which the road problems of this Egyptian symbols. Mrs, Field Is to PROMINENT PORna.NI> uate of the Wethington College of district were discussed with the be investigated by the psychologists PHYSICIAN MISSING Law and a member of the District of county court, chamber of commerce| of the University of Chicago. Columbia bar. officials and other citizens The commission announced its pol Portland. Mar. 19.—(A. P)—Dr. icy of crowding work on the Pacific Jefferson D. Fenton, prominent phy highway as rapidly as available sician, has been missing since Sun funds and good construction would day. He had been ill. permit, and stated that before an-: MAJOR I RONKHITH AV AS other fall there would be Ititle cause PORTLAND MARKETS KI 1.1.>11» BY SERGEANT to complain over the condition of! that highway from the state line Portland, Mar. 19.—(A. P.) — Providence. R !., Mar 19.—(A. , northward to Portland. llattle Is SUH in Progrt— ami Heavy •P. 1 —Roland R Pothier, formerly ¡ Besides the Pacific highway, the New Treaty Is Said to Have Been Livestock. steady: eggs, one cent lower; butter, steady. I'aeualUe- on the Part of AtlAck- an army sergeant, today admitted road building problems of the county Made With the Bolshevik Gov er* Are Reported ernili twit of Russia that he killed Major Alexander P. were discussed, and understanding I Cronkhlte. son of Major General I wax arrived at upon the three prln- Adalbert Cronkhlte at Gamp !e»i« cipal feature« in highway develop- Belfast, Mur 1!» (A 1‘. I A. In October. 1916. The Camp Ijewis ment here Warsaw. Mar 19.—(A. P.)—News great ambush by tbe- Irish republican | army board had found that the ma-[ Giving attention to the highway to that a new peace treaty between Po forces near Jiinsale resulted in th»* Jor had -hot himself accidently, but the caves, which has been under land and soviet Russia had been About forty mother«, wives, sisters killing of alx crown soldiers and the the father had the case reinvesti- consideration as a cooperative build signed, reached here last night. ing plan between the county, state and daughters of American lx»glon wounding of five The attackers suf gated. and forestry department. Mr. Booth, OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE tn<»n were present at the meeting last fered heavy casualties The battle Is Body Shi|>|Mwt Today— chairman of the commission, said evening to organize a women's auxil still In progress. TIE IN FIHI.D SCORES Rotterdam. Mar. 19.—(A. P.) — The body of Winford Bocock. who that the assurance which was given iary to the American 1a*glon In this The growth of the American mer died in Montana early thi« week, will him that the county would make an county Tills was considered a very Loadon. Mar. 19.—(A. P.)—Ox- chant marine has brought a new fac be shipped today Arrangements for acceptable road to the forestry boun- good attendance considering the In ford and Cambridge universities the funeral can not be made till the dary would assure the cooperation of broke even in the annual dual track tor. the white-collared, “snappily" clement weather and other diverting Portland. Mar 19.—(A. P I—Re time of the arrival of the body here the state highway commission when- and field games today, Each team dressed, debonair American sailor. attractions duced lumber rates east are effective is determined. ever the federal authorities were won five firat places in ten events to the Schiedamsche dyke, Rotter- Post Commander James Mum. of I dam's ‘‘Barbary Coast.” the local post of the American Ijeglon March 31st. I ready to proceed, He said that the on the program. While the French. Dutch. English ENTEHI'ItlM. MAN Molli» more should come from the federal briefly outlined the purpose« of the and others who patronize these re- GO TO NICARAGl A I authority, and that as soon as that women's auxiliary and assisted in th»* HOTEL MEN IXVNHIDER " sorts usually are dressed in colored INCREASED PHONE RATE Merlin Conununity Club— ■■ ■ * , was obtained, the state stood ready orga nlzatlon preliminary step« of The progressive citizens of Merlin f'ann®l shirts, rough suits and tin- Washington. Mar 19.—(A P. I — ¡to meet the expense upon a 50-50 Tho meeting elected the following have organized and incorporated the Polished shoes, most of the Ameri- Portland, Mar 19. —(A. P.)— ■ Daniel Boyd, of Enterprise. Oregon, basis ladles as temporary officers pending cans. as soon as they set shore leave Chairman Booth proposed that in Merlin Community club, an organiza the receipt of a permanent charter Hotel men meet here Monday to con was presented to President Harding don suits smacking more of the col sider the telephone Increase tion which has for its purpose the by Senator McNary, who urged his1 the development of the Crescent Mrs IR. J. Jlimtul, president; Mrs. 1 lege boy than the sailor, white stiff erection of a building at Merlin, the appointment as minister to Nlc-|City highway the county and the Chester ■ Heston. vice-president. colors, belted overcoats, fashionable LAI NATI FROM SEATTLE lower portion of the building to 1 aragua Mrs G. W Wlnetrout. treasurer and (Continued on page 4.1 shoes and the characteristically Am- WITH LIQIOR sll/l.l» house a general merchandise store I'fttenger. secretary. Also Mrs. J. I,. and the upper floor to be a hall in erican soft hat. tho following executive committee San Francisco. Mar 19 (A. P.) which various meetings and commun- American diplomatic and consular was appointed to servo with officers The launch Floyd C was seized ity gatherings of Merlin can be held, authorities In Holland are very much of the auxiliary as ex officio mem with 300 cases of liquor from Seattle. The incorporators are T. W. Barber, interested in efforts to provide some bers Mrs. E. J. Bllllck, Mrs Fred Ross Crow. D.W. Mitchell Jr., W. B. substitute for ‘‘the dyke " Dance C. Collins and Mrs A H Cornell Ttle hall, saloon, dance hall, saloon, al- Lindsay and Frank Thompson, Application for a permanent char > ternate in almost unbroken mo capital stock is $3000. ter wax signed 1>y practically all [ notony for several blocks on Schle- ladies present and will be approved damsche dyke. In all of them, the and forwarded to department head-! chief spenders appear to be Ameri Columbus, Ohio, Mar 19.— (A P I ston. III. .was awarded first hon- quarters at onco. can seamen, whose pay is larger than —(All but one of the prizes in the f ' ors in the organ solo class, with a The next meeting of the Ia»gfon J other seamen receive. seventh biennial prize competition1 work entitled ‘Chromatic Fantasie Auxiliary will 1 m > Friday evening. The officials who are seeking some . for American composers of the Na- and Fugue." Honorable mention April 1st. In the courtroom of the sort of a substitute for thed yke’s ! tlonal »deration of Music Club», was awarded ’ Ecstasy" by William Ixmdon, Mar 19. — (A. P. I — Sir county courthouse. A great many attractions say that most of the sail- Hurry Brittain, member of tho Brit j have been awarded, it was announol Webbe of Summit, New Jersey. The now eligible« are exiiected to be pros-1 I ors would go elsewhere if they had ed here today by Mrs. Ella May ■ St. Cecilia Society of Grand Rapids ish parliament, who has Just return ent at tho next meeting and other Smith of this city, chairman of the offered this prize also. Naples, Mar. 19.—(A. P.)—The,a chance. steps taken towards the closer or ed from a tour In Germany, Austin American Music Section of the na - Mrs. Bessie M. Whiteley, of Brook-! students of - -- Naples university have 1 "But it must not be a namby- and Czechoslovakia, was much Im- ganization accotnpllhsed * — on * a -*-*• — »- in — -—.I Patnbr resort. one official «aid. gone — out strike protest pessed by the contrast between the tional oommlttea, who made known lyn, N. Y., won first honor in the------ Oft “Jack for the first time the names of prize competition for a song, with ‘The — against ___ (he ,1. j ever-rising price c.." ’”'" wants *“ music and dancing and two former countries. Shadders." a poem by Frank 1 R. scientific text books Marching round i beer, as well as reading material and ''The Austrian," he said to an In- winners - - bookshops - - The grand prize of $5000 was won Stanton. This prize was offered by ¡the city to the they pre-; a place to loaf when he gets ashore.” torvlewor, "Is waiting to be spoon It was on the Schiedamsche dyke fed at every angle. Tho German 1« by Pauline Arnoux MoArthur of New Mrs. J. R. Custer of Chicago, in per-'sented a demand that each publisher pulling and In many cases han pulled York, and Henri Pierre Roche. New petulty, the conditions being that should grant an all-round 50 per, that a number of American seamen ________ 'were robbed of their Identity cards himself together and tho great ma York, for a setting of the “Apoca the compoeltion must he written by cent reduction. chine Is getting into full swing right lypse," an oratorio. The prize was a woman and also a member of the1 Those who refused had their stores by bolshevik agents who used them offered by the National Federation of' National Federation. raided and their stock torn to pieces Into America. across tho country. Honorable mention was awarded J or pitched into the streets from bal-' ' "I was In villages and small towns Music Clubs. Paris, Mar. 19—(A. P.)—The In Eastern Prussia and Bavaria, as Cello solo prize of $100 was won Mrs Gladys Petit Bumstead of Co-1 conies, former inhabitants of Rholms, 70,- well as In Berlin and everywhere hy IJoyd Txvar of Kalamazoo. Mich. lumbus for her son “Such a Starved I ------------------- 000 of whom hnvo returned to the one could not put down the fooling The title of his work Is "Nocturne." Bank of Moss,” a poem by Robert NO BI SINESS FOR TORPEDO ruins of that city, object to any plan thnt this onco great and powerful Tho prize was offered by the St. Ce Browning FACTORY AT WEYMOl TH of having German laborers rebuild nation would be great nnd powerful cilia Society of Grand Rapids, Mich., Each of the prizes was |100. tho town and 'have announced thnt again." as a memorial to Mrs. Charles B No award was made in the "chorus Weymouth. Eng.. ....... Mar 19.—(A. thay want to do the work themselves Kelsey, a former president of the for untrained children's voices” com-, P.)—It has been announced • that M Ixnicheiir. minister of devas- SENTIMENT IS AGAINST national federation and of the St petition, for which a prize of $100 the famous Whitehead Torpedo ta$ed regions, who recently visited T<Of‘»L OPTION IN HOLLAND Cecilia Society. Washington. Mar. 19.—(A. P.)— had been offered by Mrs. France El-j Works here will close down In March Reims, was told by tho mayor of Violin solo prize was won by Irene liott (’lark of Philadelphia, who will jewing to the general depression in The white population of Portland, • hat place thnt. It has suffered dam Thn Hngun. Mar 19.— (A. P.)— Rorgo of New York, with a composi continue the prize for the next com- trade, Oregon. In 1920. was 252.961. with ageR fro;n war to tho extent of £71,- Efforts of Dutch prohibition advo tion entitled "Romantic Andante." petition In 1922. I During the war about 3,000 work-! 1S46 Chinese 1715 Japanese, 1556 ••0,000 Schools, cates to obtain passage of a local op Tho Musicians Club of Women of The competition opened October, ors were employed nt the works here. J negroes and 210 Indians. Filippinos and 91 tulles of tion law this year have mot with, Chicago gave the award. Alexander 1 920. and no manuscripts wore ac- in addition to turning out torpedoes , and others, the census bureau an- troyed. Work of snch small sneceim thnt action appar McFadden of Milwaukee, WIs., was cept«' 1 after December of that----- rear ’’ the paravane, -------- * a — mine cutting —**•— ■ Inven ------ nounced. The Chinese population also have to Include sewage. gas. entlv has boon postponed until a[ given honornhle mention. Since that time, the Judges have Hon which, ft Is claimed, saved many had decreased 3S53 In the ten-year water nnd electric lighting systems. more favorable limo. William Mlddelschulte or Evnn- boon going over the offerings. J hundreds of ships, "was tested. period. Chicago. Mar 19.—(A Pa [Charges that the rali roads. knowing the railroad labor board had no pow- er to enforce its decreea, were try- [Ing to smash labor unions through public opinion and were attempting to Influence public opiniou through false, paid publicity, were made be fore the board today by Frank Walsh, the unions' attorney, when he began the second day of cross ques tioning railroad officials. He asked T DeWitt Cuyler, chairman of the association of railway executives, whether Ivy lave, press agent, was not employed bwaime he was expert In breaking down unions "No." re- 1 plied Cuyler Walsh charged that fa*e published false statements re warding salaries of union officials in mine publicity gotton out in 1914 KILLS 6 SOLDIERS DRESSYON SHORELEAVE SEES PEP IN GERMANS STUDENTS STRIKE WHEN
