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Newspaper Page TextPass ïDailjî Courier Granta Pata — Gateway to the Oregon Cave» GRANTN PAHH, JOSEPHINE COUNTY. ORKGON. VOL. XIV., No. »7 THURBDAY, (MTX»HER IM, 1®3». 1— I NEW YORK MAN BECOMES FATHER AT ACE OF 78 DOPE SMUGGLERS MAKE BIG PROFITS ON DRUGS Vienna, Oct. 18— (A. P.)— ♦ ♦ ♦ Cocaine smugglers are active in ♦ ♦ Austria, bringing in the drug 4 ♦ from Germany and Franc«. The 4 ♦ police not long ago found * ♦ ♦ consignment of 169 pounds. ♦ ♦ One kilogram was sold* recent ♦ ♦ ly for the equivalent of 82,100. ♦ ♦ It was purchnsed first for 856. ♦ CONNECTION ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ LEGION TO TAKE HfYK ITELI» IN WITH WNKTYOU ROBBERY ARE QUESTIONED ADMIT NEAR BOUNDARY LINE Ai I nate Made on Descriptions Give® By H. P. .igeate—Ixxutixl l'ire- _ arms Are Found • Sacramento, Oct. 18,—(A. P.) — Held incomunlcado over night, four men and a woman, arrested late yes terday, suspected of connection in the Southern Pacific holdup In the Siskiyou mountains a week ago, were questioned today by the police, sher iff’s officers and special railroad agents.. The prisoners are C. J. Underwood, J. L. Millett, John Car oll bandit suspects, and C. M. Mul ford and Bernice Gordon, believed to be their associates The officers found In the men's room, two suto- matle pistols, a revolvsr, a shotgun and a rifle, all loaded. The three men first arrested admitted that they has been near the Oregon-Cal ifornia boundary. They declared they have been hunting. The ar rests were made on descriptions asnt by the 8. P. Agents. Sacramento, Oct. 18.— (A P.)— After • severe questioning for three hour« of the three train robbery sus pects the police eald that they had not yet learned anything pointing to the connection of the mon with tbo Siskiyou train holdup, though tbo police were certain all three were in or near Ashland at the time of the holdup and killings. Portland, Ore., Oct. 18.—(A. P.) the —Detectives today scoured woods around Scappoose on a clue connected with a battery stolen near Oregon City, similar to the battery found near the Siskiyou tunnel after the holdup. PER CENT NORTHWEST WHEAT UROP SIGNED IT Spokane, Wash. Oct. 18.—A. P, — A quota approximating aixty-five percent of tbo 1924 wheat crop of Washington, Oregon and Idaho is certain to be signed up for the nat ional cooperative marketing plan, recently adopted during a meeting held In Chicago, according to Wal ter J. Robinson, president of the Northwest Wheat Growers, Assoc iated. This amount, Mr. Robinson said, would mean from 50.000,000 to 60,000,000 bushels of wheat from the three states and la expected virtually to control the price of the grain. ACTION ON REHOLUTION CONDEMNING ORGANIZATION SOVIET RECOGNITION OPPOSED Annusi Registration of All Aliena In United States Wanted—Would Down Immigration / âan Francisco, Oct. 18.—(A. . P.) •A bitter antl-Ku Klux Klan reso I lution, submitted by Charles Kend rick, of San Francisco and a pro-Ku Klux Klan resolution, submitted by E. W. Whitney, of Oklahoma, were both lost when put to a vote at the American Legion convention today after one of the most bitter fights In Ixeglon history. The resolution of the Michigan delegates, condemning the Klan in more mild terms, wan New Agricultural Program for Ore almost unanimously carried. EXTENSION AGENTS MEETING gon in Being Developed Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis, Oct. 18.—The annual meet ing of county extension agents and specialists recently held at the col lege devoted this year to develop ing a new agricultural program for Oregon. Counties represented num ber 23. A complete survey of Ore gon agriculture made by extension service specialists with the help of the United State« department of ag riculture was used as the basis of discussions as to the most profit able crops, livestock, snd fruit pro ducts for different sections of the state. Following the general conference, which lasted three days, county con ferences will be held In counties em ploying extension sgents to work out programs especially adapted to local conditions. Leading farmers, bank ers, commercial organizations, and other agencies Interested in agricul tural progress will be InvKed to take part. Medford. Ore., Oct. 18.—(A. P.)— Governor Pierce Wednesday granted permission for use of the men from the natloaal guard companies of Ash land and Medford, in Investigation of Rocker Carved by President’s Fath er Used to Pay Bill the Siskiyou tunnel murders and robbery, the men to be under the di rection of Chief Special Agents Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 18.—(A. O'Coanel of the Southern Pacific. P.)—A rocking chair said to have This word was conveyed in a message been made by Thomas Lincoln, fath- from the governor to District Attor er of Abraham Lincoln, and after- ney Rawles Moore. The militiamen wards given by him in payment of a will be used in following trails In the dentist's bill, has become the prop Bleklyous, and tracking the move- , erty of Elmer F. Rudee, of Loe An ments of the men before the rob geles. It Is being exhibited at the bery. public school here. Positive Identification of the blast The chair according to the records, ing machine, insulated wire, dyna was given to Dr. Jesse Hall, in mite aad concussion caps as the prop Charleston, Coles county. III., In erty of the Ragotte and Winters Con 1849. It Is said “The Emancipator" struction company of Oregon City, ■ was sitting reading In the chair when was made Tuesday, and another link j | the dentist called for settlement of forged In the chain of evidence be the bill. The elder Lincoln asked ing welded about the perpetrators of his son to get up and when he had the Siskiyou tunnel murder and taken the old other available seat, hold up last Thursday noon. one on the floor, his father persuad The material was stolen on the ed the dentist to accept the chair and night of September 9th, and was receipt the bill. used a month and two days later. Dr. Hall, who died here recently Upon the theory that the bandits at the age of 90, left the relic to his worked on the contracting job for a widow, who died soon afterwards. short time the list of employee is Herbert L. Gray, who next owned being chocked up. the chair, sold it to Miss Agnes The total reward for the arrest Woodwnrd, a friend of Rudeen's, and conviction of the bandits Is now 8he presented it present 87,800 each, the American Express owner. company offering a reward of 8300 each Tuesday. The government of fers 86,000 reward and the Southern whether the mall car was blown up Pacific railway 82500. The express ' from the insido or the outside, has company also assigned Spocial Agent filed no report to date. Coacsln of Its detective force to as All the evidence gathered to date sist In the work at Ashland. Concaln by the Authorities point to the fact arrived Tuesday and reported for that the hold up was weeks In the duty this morning. planning, and there are some incl- The report of Prof. Heinrelch, Mente that support the theory that University of California criminolo the Hudson car, that went north on gist, who has been., studying the the Pacific highway Immediately af overalls and other evidence found ter the hold up *as a "cover-up” for near the scene of ths crime, was re the real robbers, who took an oppo ceived today from Berkeley, Cal., site direction: Chief Special Agent according to word received, and, ar Daniel O'Connell regarded the report rangements are being made to have Tuesday of a trio of men seen in Del him visit the tunnel as sn aid to the Norte county, California, as a Ukely scientific deductions he Is making. clue, ahd railway detectives were dis The findings of the explosive expert, patched from 8an Francisco to assist who was designated to determine the sheriff of that county. LINCOLN CHAIR IN LOS ANGELES I San Francisco, Oct. 18.—(A. P.) —The Michigan department’s reso- lution condemning the Ku Klux Klan and declaring any organization which creates or fosters racial, religious os class strife, or takes Into Its own hands law enforcement, to be un- American, reached the floor of the American Legion convention today. The convention adopted the Ameri canism committee’s report, Including opposition to the recognition of so viet Russia and the demand for the annual registration of all aliens in the United States. It also demanded the cessation of all immigration for five years and the raising of stand ards for admission. The constitu tional amendment prohibiting child labor was also favored in the reso lution. President Gompers, of the Ameri can Federation of Labor, in his ad dress, declared that the government owes the ex-service men belated com pensation. L. A. njJCIT BOOSE TOLL SINCE JANUARY 1 IS 17 Los Angeles. Oct. 18.—(I. N. 8.) —Seventeen persons were killed in this city by unlawful liquor, mostly "moonshine" whiskey, since January 1, according to startling figures re vealed at the county coroner's office. In the majority of cases death oc curred after the victims had suffered terrible pain and In some instances ft was suspected that the liquor im bibed was poisonous, according to police reports. 1 Gives Talk al High School— J. W. Van Kirk, of Youngstown, Ohio, was the speaker this morning at the high school assembly, His toplo was “World Peace”, He re- viewed the contributions of the dtf* ferent nations to the present clvlll- nation, In dealing with the political aspect. Mr. Van Kirk urged that the United States participate world affairs. COUNT YAMAMOTO Count Qombel Yamamoto, premier of Japan. ♦ Oswego, N. Y.„ Oct. 18.- (L N. 8)—The claim of an Okla- homa official to the honor of being the oldest man in the country to become a father la successfully disputed by Hiram Dutcher, 78, of this city. The Oklahoma claimant, Frank Vore, county commissioner of Muskogee county, Is only 70. Dutcher is the proud father of a lusty son, Desmond George Erwin Dutcher, 8 months old. Dutcher has other claims to notice. He la a veteran of the Cf"*il War, who boasts he can walk, run, jump and box with the same zest as when he was a boy of 20. Dutcher has no in tension of challenging Jack Dempsey, bnt he does think he could hold his own at scientific sparring with some of the men who think they can box. Chicago, Oct. 18.—(A. P.) —Lloyd George has recovered from the cold which kept him in bed yesterday and has re- sumed his tour, leaving tor Springfield, 111. ♦ ■r ♦ ♦ ♦ •e ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ FRUITS AND VEGETABLES ♦ ♦ FLOW TO AUSTRIAN CITY INDUSTRIAL ♦ ♦ GEILENKIRCHEN BUILDING IS DAMAGED ♦ Vienna. Oct 1.—(A. P.)—Farm BY ATTACKS ♦ ♦ ers ’ carts again art to be seen In the ♦ — market squares of Vienna, a circum ♦ ♦ stance which means that the farmer ♦ 4 today is perceiving the necessity of ♦ 4 bestirring himself if ho wants to ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Food Shops Also Broken Into—Six dispose of his products. With this will come competition, and a plen ♦ 4 to Eight Are Reported Dead In tiful supply of fruits and vegetables ♦ ♦ Fighting At Mannheim for the city dwellers at lower prices. ♦ ♦ Gone are the days when Vienna ♦ 4 housewives, rain or shine, had to ♦ 4 Gelsenkirchen, Oct. 18.—(A. P.) ♦ ♦ —Women attacked and badly dam troop out to the farms laden with city finery for the farmers’ wives ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ aged the administration building of which they turned over for the privi CHISEHR GREATLY OUTNUMBER the Mannesemann Iron works today, lege of digging a few pounds of po OTHER PHILIPPINE IMMIGRANTS as a protest against the non-payment tatoes, while the farmer stood aloof, of their husbands' wages. The wo smoked city cigars and made sarcas Manila, Sept. 18 (A. P.)—The men also raided food shops and vis tic remarks. Phillplne Islands will not be dist ited nearby farms, seizing cows, urbed with an Immigration problem pigs and chickens. tor some yean to come if the present Mannheim, Oct. 18.—(A. F.)— rate of immigration is continued. Six to eight pernona are reported A total of less than 4,000 imm igrants came to the islands during dead and many were wounded in yes State Department Today Issued For the first six months of the present terday's food riots in Mannheim. mal Notice The police declared a state of year, according to reports obtained edge. from the customs service. Chinese compromise the bulk of Washington, Oct. 18.—(A. P.)— Immigrants, 3,381 out of a total of The state department today issued 3,820 of those seeking permanent a formal notice that there will be no residence In the Islands being Chln- closed season for halibut fishing this ese. Of tbese 1,185 were minors Heavy Seas Wreck Boat—Rescue winter, as no binding agreement Crafts Founder under 14 years of age. has been reached concerning a Japanese subjects are a poor sec closed season provided by the North New York. Oct. 18.—(A. P.)— A Pacific Halibut convention. ond with a total of 248. English 60, Spanish 57, Indians 22, Germans 20, fishing smack broke up In a heavy The all other nationalities made up only sea off Coney Island today. crew of 15 were rescued from small <2, MRS. HARDING PLEASED boats by a tug. Several launches BY TREE MEMORIA!, PLAN Bill Allison and George R Smith went to the aid of the smack but were tossed by the waves. Some of were in today from Kerby. Mr. Al lison reports the bunting this season the rescue craft are believed to have Lima, Ohio, Oct. 18.—(I. N. 9.) — rather poor due to the fact that dogs foundered. Mrs. Warren O. Harding, widow of have been running deer from his the late President, writes: "Noth community. Few of the big bucks ing, I think, could have pleased him are being killed. more," in her letter registering ap Accidents This Year Were Unusually preciation of the memorial project and announcing the desire to aocept Heavy Is Report an invitation to plant the first tree Ix'gion Gets Behind Movement—City Geneva, Oct. 17.—(A. P.)—The In Allen County's living memorial to Planners Meet Alps take a steady toll of human late President Harding. If Mrs. Harding can be present the life. Every summer mountain climb The city planning committee met ers come to Switzerland to scale Its first of the 6,000 elme to be planted last night to consider plans in con peaks, and every summer sees a on either side of the Harding High nection with the exhibit building, number of tragic fatalities. M«ny way, across Allen County, will be now being planned for the city. A bodies never are recovered, for the planted by her on Arbor Day, committee was named to look into devoted mountain climber often goes next April, on the courthouse lawn means of financing the building and out alone to find his last resting here, Charles Lathrop Pack, preei- this body will report at an early place deep in an ice crevasse or at dent of the American Tree Associa- date. A resolution adopted by the the remote base of a precipice. Acci tlon, Washington, D. C., and Con- executive committee of the Ameri dents have been unusually numerous greesman John L. Cable, of Lima, are expected to make addressees at can Legion, advocating the building this year. was read and the committee decided Recently when a Swiss bank clerk the courthouse exercises. to send a vote of thanks to the named Ootesch, noted as a good Legionnaires for their support of the climber, failed to return, searchers move. saw his body at the foot of a cliff. A The resolution follows: rescue party, led by a priest with WHEREAS the Oregon State 450 feet of rope, finally made the Chamber of Commerce has an descent after 12 hours of dangerous Getting nounced its intention of instituting work. They found beside the body a nation-wide campaign advertising a note saying: "‘Kindly bury me the state of Oregon, to the end that here." The students at the high school are potential settlers and home-makers The little funeral party rolled will become Interested in seeking boulders and blocks of ice so as to getting primed for the big game Sat and finding a location In our state; form a mound over the man, they urday with Medford, the first this and placed an Ice-axe at his head as a season on the home field. As the WHEREAS it will devolve upon cross, and the priest read the burial final pep producer, a giant rally la planned for Friday night with the the individual communities to make service. annual bonfire, speeches, stunts and proper presentation of their particu yells. The rally will be held on the lar advantages to these home-seek PROF. E. MORGENSTEIN high school field and will start about ers when they arrive in the state: 7 o’clock. Thia will be followed by and whereas the existence of a suit a street parade with the rooters able structure to house our Cham forming a serpentine through the ber of Commerce, the automobile business section of Grants Pass. registration office, together with The organised rooters are holding suitable exhibits displaying in graph- yell practice every noon and night la manner the resources of this com after school hours. Under the di munity and county, and which build rection of Miss Arda Isham, recent ing may serve other Incidental ly elected yell leader, the rooters appropriate purposes furthering have been getting their yells to the same end; is necessary; point where they expect to show NOW THEREFORE BE IT some real encouragement to their SOLVED: team, They have been spurred on That the Grants Pass Post of the by the knowledge that Medford is American Legion desiring to further bringing practically the entire high community Interests, and In accord school down for the game. ance with the program of the na Each class has prepared a stunt tional organization of the American for tomorrow night, the best to be Legion In fostering and aiding civic repeated at the Saturday game. .The progress, does now hereby express faculty has also decided to put on a its hearty and full endorsement of stunt, the nature of which is to re the plans now on foot for the build main a secret until the afternoon of ing of a Chamber of Commerce of fice and exhibit structure: and here the game. They decided to do this after the three upper classes had by tenders its services In whatever capacity may be deemed helpful In Prof. E. Morgsnetsln, noted Russian paid up their student body dues 100 the successful prosecution and con ?«yoho-analyet, who arrived in New per cent and the freshmen had paid clusion of whatever plans are decid ork after having made a voyage to up 91 per cent. Thio percentage is ed upon for the undertaking and tost out his psyohlo panacea for mat- said to be the best in the history of de-mer. the school. completion of the project. 4 FARM PRODUCE IS TAKEN AWAY HALIBUT SEASON KEPT OPEN ALPS TAKE HEAVY UFE TOU EXHIBIT BUILDING IS FAVORED FOOTBALL RALLY ON FRIDAY BANDON ASTROLOGER ENTERS NEW PLEA IN CIRCUIT COURT TODAY DEFENSE ASKS FOR FUNDS Marshfield, Oct. 18.—(A. P.)— Arthur Covell, Bandon astrologlst, today changed his plea to not guilty in the circuit court at Coquille. At torney Claude Giles, appointed to de fend Arthur, asked the court for an appropriation of 8250 to hire medi cal and other experts, but the court refused on the objection by District Attorney Fisher. It said, however, that the court would consider any ex pense account filed by the defense. It was indicated that a plea of in sanity would be made In an effort to eave Covell from paying the ex treme penalty. There is to be no retraction, however, of Covell’s con fession that ho Instituted the schemes for the murder of Mrs. Ebbs Covell, his sister-in-law. Definite plane for the plea will be made by Olles after further con ference with Covell. Olles, who Is president of the Coos County Bar association, was appointed by Judge Kendall yester day to defend Covell. Graduate of Orford University Given Freedom From Atlanta Atlanta. 0*.. Oct. 18.—(I. N. S.) —The gates of the Atlant* Federal Prison were thrown open recently to George C. Chatterton, physician-edi tor-prisoner, known throughout the nation as editor of "Oood Words", the official organ of prison inmates, and he walked out to freedom. Chatterton, Oxford University student and graduate in medicine was sentenced to serve four years on each of four counts alleging for gery. The District of Columbia judge who passed sentence failed to specify the manner In which the four sen tences should be served. If served separately the total term would have been 16 years, but Judge Samuel H. Sibley, of the At lanta Federal Court, following de cisions made many times in the post, ruled that in the absence of tpecifle terms in the original eentence It must be construed that the four counts had been satisfied concur* rently. CRICKETS INVADE WHOLE CITV Insecte Chew Up Wearing Apparel And Costly Rugs Dayton, Ky„ Oct. IS.—(I. N. 9.) —The erkket on the hearth, ever since the time he was so ably presa- agented by Charlee Dickens, has been considered a sign of good luck for any family fireside which he might honor with his presence. Not to, however, do the house wives of this Cincinnati suburb re gard him. They assort with vehe mence tlhat he Is distinctly bad luck. The reason T Thousands and tens of thousands, coming apparently from the city "dump," have invaded the homes of residents end driven them frantic with their chirping and crawling; These particular crickets, gray la color and unusually large, are «aid to have ehewed up much wearing ap parel end many rugs. They are said to display an especial fondness Mr costly Oriental rugs, although they Shemselves are dietinetly American In origin. Various poisons bars been scattered about for their eon- sumption. but they refuse the death dose and eat other things. City authorities have 'promised ’te take etops to eliminate thorn at thsiir source "before election."