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St. Paul. Oct. 20— (A. P.) —
Northern Pacific shopmen were
granted 2c an hour Increase
as a result of negotiations
through ths shop crafts organi­
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EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT IS NOT
POI.ITK'AL ISSUE HOLOS
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CLERK SAVES RECINTEREI)
MAIL
MORE DETECTIVES ON CASE
Pinkerton ami Bums Men Arrive on
Job Indurrei by Reward for Ar­
resta—Rumors Are Many
Danvers, Mass., Oct. 20 (A. 1*.) —
A pear tree which was brought from
England by Governor John Endicott
of Massachusetts Buy Colony in 1030
and planted on his farm at Danvers-
port In still bearing fruit. About a
bushel Of pears was Its harvest this
year.
The tree Is protected only by a
picket fence. Tradition has it that
it waa a custom of the governor to
send a basket of the pears each year
to the King of England. President
Lincoln Is said to have visited *hu
tree and eaten of Its fruit. When
President Calvin Coolidge was gov­
ernor of Massachusetts he came here
to see the tree and characterized it
as "one of the moat remarkable liv­
ing landmarks of the early history
of New England.**
EXECUTIVE DUTY IS SEEN
Harr Been Made and Will Be
Enforced—^Matter In Hands of
Governor* Is HtatciiK-nt
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Washington, Oct. 20.— (A. P.) —
Medford, Oct, 20.—W. A. Rada-
President Coolidge, addressing the
baugh of Bpokane, chief of postal In­
law enforcement conference today,
spectors for t'he northwest division
declared that the enforcement of the
has announced that a complete aur-
eighteenth amendment and the fed­
vey and check up of the content, of
eral liquor law could not be made a
the mall car, wrecked In the Blskl-
political question. He declared, fur­
you tunnel murder, and attempted
ther, that he would do bls duty as an
hold-up. showed that the bandits se­
executive and enfore the laws, which
cured no loot, and that al) registered
he said were perfectly plain, putting
mall had been accounted for.
the responsibility on the president
The registered mall was In a safe,
and the governors.
wiilch Mall Clerk Daugherty, who
"This country ought to compre­
lost his life In the explosion locked
hend that when laws have been made
at she first sign of the robbery. It
waa reported that the train carried a Ten or 12 Bandits Blow Vault and there Is, and can be, no question
Get Blfi.ooo in Currency
about the duty of the executives to
largo shipment of money for Klam­
enforce them with such means as
ath Falls, the payroll of a lumber
Charleston, III., Oct. 20.—(A. P.)| the law provides. They have no al­
mill,—but this
has not
been
—Ten or twelve bandits held up the ternatives. They cannot be criti­
confirmed.
The Inveetigators working on the night watchman and blew open the cized for doing their duty. This is
case, were augmented by the ar­ vault and safe of the First National not a political question, it cannot
rival of several representatives of the Bank, at Oakland, 111., early today. be mado a political question. These
Burns and Pinkerton detective agen­ They escaped with *15,000 in cur­ problems must be taken directly to
the American people. These laws
cies, presumably attracted by tho rency and bonds.
The bandits shot and seriously are their laws. They are not a na­
*7800 reword offered for the arrest
wounded Clifford
Hickey, night tion of Inebriates. They cannot be
and conviction of the bandits.
Rumors, as wild and thick as qny watchman, and made two other men charged with being hypocrites. They
have no patience with anarchy. They
that ever marked a political cam­ prisoner.
are sober, (rank and candid people.
paign develop dally.
One rumor
They have respect and reverence for
charged that some 8. P. employe
duly constituted authority.
The
aped Dr. Brumfield, substituted a
sheep opine and fled with the money; Edward latnrnm Shot and Body Burn, great body of people is thoroughly
law abiding. This great law abiding
another that one of the bandits had
cd by Possenien
element is entitled to support and
become Insane from worry and that
the authorities had sent to New York
Alexandria, Minn., Oct. 20.—(A. protection. I propose to give them
for a brain specialist, to restore his P.)—Edward Larson, 38, slayer of that support and protection to the
mind so that the names of his part­ Jacob Ley, waa shot to death by a limit.**
The president also asked the gov­
ners could be learned and another posse and his body partly burned
that gained wide circulation was that when his bungalow was fired in an ernors to aid in enforcing the immi­
the wife of one of the bandits had effort to drive him from cover, the gration and narcotics laws. The
"squealed." None of these have one possemeu found early today when governors were the guests at the
slightest foundation in fact.
they examined the smoking ruins of White House for luncheon.
Footprints leading into a lonely the house.
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mountain cabin 8 miles west of the
8lsklyous tunnel, where a week ago kins of Yreka. Calif. A cap of the
four men were slain. In an attempted general description of one worn by a Alkaline Pools Bordering Great Salt
train robbery, were described today member of the bandit crew was also
Lake Arc Patrolled
by Daniel O’Connell, chief of South­ found in the cabin, which showed
ern Pacific special agents as "a very signs of being recently occupied.
Salt Lake City, Utah. Oct. 20.—
material piece of evidence, and high­
The powder expert detailed from (A. P.)—By keeping thousands of
ly encouraging.’’ The footprints tal­ Portland to report on the explosion wild ducks away from the alkaline
ly with thoae found in the tunnel, that wrecked the mall car, found in pools which border Great Salt Lake,
and on the hMlsIde adjoining, and I a statement "that the car was un­ and by picking up and caring for
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were discovered by a posse Thursday questionably blown up from the out- ducks which have been found ill in
afternoon, under Sheriff A. S. Cal- ' side.”
the pools, the fish and game depart­
ILLINOIS BANK IS LOOTED
SLAYER IS KILLED DY POSSE i
DUCKS SAVED FROM MALADY
Meridian, Miss.. Oct. 20.—(I. N.
8.)—Sharpe Wellborn, ex-service
man, victim of a mental affliction
contracted as a result of exposure at
sea, won't serve his sentence of eight
years in the Mississippi state peniten­
tiary. The Mississippi branch of the
American Legion, making use of a
difference of opinion betwoen Gover­
nor Lee M. Russell and Lieutenant-
Governor Homer Casteel, has seen to
that—with nine minutes to spare.
In 1919 Wellborn, a sailor during
the war, waa convicted of manslaugh­
ter in Jasper county. Governor Rus­
sell turned a deaf ear to all pleas
of the Legion, the Veterans’ Bureau
and other organizations in
Well­
born’s behalf.
Several months ago Governor Rus­
sell visited in Tennessee for a day.
The lieutenant-governor, having a
different view on the subject from
that of the chief executive, took ad­
vantage of the governor's absence
and issued Wellborn a pardon—al­
most.
A controversy followed. The legal
authorities ruled that the lieutenant-
governor had power to grant clem­
ency while acting as governor. The
governor came back with the asser­
tion he would not again leave the
state during bls term of office.
But—he did.
Curtis Green, state commander of
the Legion, got a tip that the gover­
nor had visited New Orleans; that
he had already lmarded a train for
home. It is 90 miles from New Or­
leans to the Mississippi state line.
Quick action was necessary.
le­
gionnaires in Southern Mississippi
were ordered to record the exact
time the governor's train crossed the
state line.
> The Lieutenant-governor was at
Pickens, 45 miles away. A hurriad
call waa put in for him to come by
nvtomobile to Canton, half way be­
tween Jackson and Pickens.
Green, the secretary of state and
Wellborn's attorneys, armed with the
necessary legal pardon forms, jump­
ed into a high-powered car and sped
away to meet the lieutenant-gover­
nor.
A race rivalling any in history
was on. Disregarding all speed laws
and totally ignoring local constables,
the two cars drew up at Canton court
house simultaneously.
The lieutenant-governor signed
Wollborn’s pardon nt 10:16 a. m.
The train bearing Governor Russell
crossed into Mississippi at
10.25
a. m.
Wellborn will go to a government
hospital in Wyoming, where, M b nu­
merous ex-soldier buddles hope, be
will be cured.
ment of the state has succeeded in
stopping the toll of duck life which
has been demanded each year by
some unknown malady. This mal­
ady has taken the lives of hundreds
of thousands of ducks every year
since 1910. The members of the de­
partment also feel that they have
the cause of the trouble localized to
Willard Bay.
If this proves true
they hope to be able to patrol the
bay and prevent all ducks from
lighting and in that way block the
malady.
The game officials state that in the
last week weeks they have picked up
no less than 2,000 ill ducks, trans­
CAPT. H. G. MONTGOMERY
Thia photograph, taken Just after ho
wai decorated by General Pershing at
Peekaklll, N. Y., ehowe Henry Q. Mont*
gomery, captain, field artillery, United
8tatea army, who was decorated with
the Distinguished Service medal for
exceptionally merltorloue and distin­
guished servieoe in the World war.
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Paris, Oct. 20.—(I. N. 8.)—
Helen Wills,
woman
tennis
champion of America, is an ex­
cellent player, but is still in­
ferior to Suzanne Lenglen,
world’s champion.
That's the opinion of Henri
Lacoste, youthful French ten­
nis star, expressed just after be
returned from America, where
he was a member of the French
Davis Cup team and partici­
pated in the American national
championship tournament.
"Miss Wills’ play reminds me
of that of "Little Bill* John­
ston,’* said Lacote. “She has
a good service, is fast and is
an excellent volleyer. She is
a finished player, but 1 don't
believe she ranks with Mlle.
Lenglen.”
Lacoste was much impressed
with the grade of men's tennis
he witnessed in the United
States. He came back and told
his compatriots that they have
much to learn from the Amer­
ican masters of tho court game.
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GOUYA WINS 300-Mlu Tlinr DI AOOip
ENDURANCE RACE TODAY lUlU ULHùùlÜ
FOR TESTING
DIFFERENT PROCESSES USED
Will Be Able to Find Beat Methods
For Extracting Mineral—Has
Ton an Hour Capacity
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Geneva, Oct. 20.—(A. P )—A new
water power plant is Itelng con­
structed in the Alps nt an altitude of
6.233 feet near Martlgny, Canton of
Valais, for the purpose of supplying
electric energy to the Swiss federal
railways.
A dam is being built across the
Barlterlne cascade, whose waters
flow Into the River Rhone, to form
an artificial lake of 40,000,000 cu­
bic metres. The cost of the dam »ill
be 20,000,000 Swiss francs, but with
the electric installation the amount
will be run over 60,000,000 francs. A
total energy of 60,000 horsepower
will be supplied.
The work will be finished in 19'J6.
It goes forward slowly, for at this
high altitude the cold and the snow
permit of only 100 working days a
year.
RED GROSS HAS MEETING
Attend Annual Session
Library* on Friday
LXRS Rs,.
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Rochester, N. Y„ Oct. 20.— ♦
♦ (A. P.)—Gouya, the brown ♦'
♦ gelding Anglo Arab owned by ♦
W. R. Brown, of Berlin, N. H., 4
♦ today was declared winner of ♦
♦ the 300-mile national endur­ ♦
♦ ance test in which 23 horses ♦
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TAKEN Bï ZEV
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ENGUHH RWtCER IS DEFEATED
IXN’AJ, MUNING ENGINEER HAS
BY SIX LETGTHH BY
(XMVUCTR PLANT IN
UNEMPLOYMENT TO TERT
MUBAOLINI, SAYS VISITOR
AMERICAN CHAMP
OFFR E HERE
NEW ALPS WATER POWEP,
PLANT IN SWITZERLAND
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WHOI.E NUMBER 3322.
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WILLS STILL INFERIOR
TO LENGLEN IN TENNIS
SHOPMEN GET INCREASE
OF TWO CENTS AN HOUR
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HATI'ROA Y. 04 TOBER 20, 1023.
at
A meeting of members of Jose-
phine Chapter American Red Cross,
which was held in the basement of
the public library Friday afternoon,
was attended by such a small num-
bee that it was impossible to hold
the annual election. Fifteen per-
sorfii constitute a quorum, but or.ly
six responded, four of whom were
officers. O. S. Blanchard, chairman,
therefore, called the executive board
to order.
Mrs. Jennie Moss, home service
secretary, gave a good report of the
work done by that office. A notice­
able item was that all money loaned
to local ex-service boys had been re­
turned.
A *50 liberty bond had been given
the chapter by the Junior Red Crose
when they disbanded, will be given
to the Boy Scouts, to be used for life
saving work.
Since the organization of the
chapter in Grants Pass, April 19.
1917, O. S. Blanchard has been its
chairman, Mrs. W. W. Canby, vice-
chairman for the past six years, R.
W. Clarke, treasurer for the past
five years, and Mrs. Philip Helmer,
chapter secretary for five years.
R. K.
Oflher officers have been:
Hackett, treasurer for nine months;
Benj. C. Sheldon, secretary nine
months and Mrs. Moss, secretary
seven months.
On November 9, 1918, Mrs. Jennie
J. Moss was appointed home service
secretary and has been most efficient
in handling the problems of ex-ser­
vice men.
Josephine chapter at one time had
2245 members. Today there are 38
members.
The officers deeply regret that no
election could be held Friday, owing
to the lack of interest, making it
Necessary for them to continue In of­
fice. With so few who are interest­
ed in maintaining a chapter, the Red
Cross will probably cease to func­
tion by the end of the year
ported them to places where
water was pure and in three days
the ducks would be able to fly away.
The officials claim that less than 10
per cent of the birds died.
A complete reduction plant, for
the treating and testing of ores has
been installed at the rear of the of­
fice of Henry M. Lancaster, mining
engineer, at Sixth and D streets. The
plant is primarily for the sampling
of ores from the Copper Queen mine,
owned and opperated by Mr. Lancast­
er, but later may be used for testing
other ores of the county. It is com­
plete in every detail, having the
crushers to reduce the ore to a fine
dust, the means for amalgamation
and for intensified amalgamation, a
complete cyanide plant, Wllfley table
for concentrating the tailings, a small
stamp mill and other necessary mach­
inery.
Asaays on the ores sent out varied
so greatly with the different assayera
that the only safe way of finding out
the values of the different ores is by
testing them himself, states Mr. Lan­
caster. With the use of his reduct­
ion plant he can use every process
until he finds the one which must
be applied to the ore on hand. The
treatment required by ore in the ex­
traction of mineral varies greatly in
different localities of Josephine coun­
ty. One of the main difficulties in
the successful extraction of the min­
erals has been the adaption of the
process to the ore. By experiment­
ation in his plant, Mr. Lancaster
hopes to overcome this difficulty by
finding which process must be used.
The plant has a capacity of a ton
of ore an hour. The rock is first put
in the coarse crusher which breaks
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it into pieces the size of marble«. It
then goes into a Trowbridge rod mill
which pulverizes it into a fine dust.
This is then run over the amalgama­
tion plate and the gold and silver
adhere to the murcury while the
tailings are run into the settling
tanks. These tailings can then be
reworked by other processes to get
out the rest of the minerals which do
not respond to the amalgamation.
Intensified amalgamation is pos­
sible by the use of metallic sodium
with the mercury. Any metallic par­
ticle which may be in the ore is pick­
ed up by this process. A three-volt
electric generation, of 300 to 600
ampheres is used to break up the
common sodium chloride into the
metallic sodium. Treatment of black
sands is also possible at the plant.
A magnetic separator is used to take
out the iron particles, which form
about 50 per cent of the black sand,
A cyanide plant, capable of hand-
ling 200 pounds of ore, has also
been installed. This is complete in
every detail and accurate tests of the
quality of ore from the Copper
Queen can be made. At his house
Columbus. Ohio, Oct. 20.—(I. N.
8.)—The unemployment problem in
Italy la expected to determine the
fate of Premier Mussolini this win­
ter, according to Professor Henry R.
Spencer. Ohio State University, re-
vently returned from a three-month's
visit in Rome.
Whether .Italy will be torn with
revolution and chaos, or whether the
new Caesar at Rome will attain his
political aspirations, as a result of
his dictatorship, will
be decided
within the next few months, is Spen­
cer's opinion.
Although there Is no open opposi­
tion to Mussolini now, embers of
revolt are smoldering beneath an ap­
parently quiet surface, said Spencer.
I Arg»- Crowtl ..Views Event—Rasali
luirse of *20,000 Goes to Ixwc-
Horses Well Matched
Belmont Park, N. Y., Oct. 20.—
(A. P.)—Zev, America’s great three-
year-old, defeated Papyrus, the Eng­
lish three-year-old champion, by six
lengths tn the mile and a half Inter­
national match today.
The time
was 2:35 2-8. Away with a lead of
a length. Papyrus seemed to stop
and Zev took the lead as they passed
Paddock gate. Zev held a length
lead until they reached the stretch
where Earl Sande called upon Zev
for speed. When they passed under
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the wire Zev was running under re­
Planking of Ancient Craft Dug Up
straint.
ANCIENT CRAFT UNCOVERED
in Loe Angeles Harbor
Los Angeles, Oct. 20.—(A. P.)—
The framework and planking of a
craft which has withstood the stress
of years and which is believed to
have been used centuries ago by
Chinese or Spanish explorers or pi­
rates, have been uncovered many feet
beneath the earth’s surface at Los
Angeles harbor in excavations for an
oil storage tank.
The boat, less than forty feet in
length, with high sides, is built of
a heavy, thick wood. Some of the
timbers are half rounded, as is the
case in many old Oriental vessels.
Metal used to fasten pieces of the
craft together had rusted away. The
construction of the ship indicates
that it was not built by the Indians.
More than a century ago. channels
of the harbor are said to have exten­
ded much farther inland than today
and mariners say they believe the
vessel entered, became fast in a mud
back and was abandoned by the crew.
What is believed to be the tusk of
a mastodon wa£ uncovered near the
timbers. . . V
That a Chinese master brought
the craft across the Fhciflc Ocean;
that it crosed the Bering Sea and
sailed down the coast to California,
and that it might have been brought
aiound the horn by Spanish explor­
ers or pirates are theories advanced
to account for its presence here.
Mr. Lancaster has one of the best
equipped chemical laboratories in
the state. He states that he does not
expect to do any commercial work
for some time but as soon as he has
completed his own work may be able
to make tests of the ores from other
properties.
Paris, Oct. 20.—(I. N. 3.1—Any
person against whom a divorce is
granted in France will be subject to
three months’ imprisonment at hard
labor if the recommendations of the
Natality congress, wheih recently
met in Marseilles, are adopted by
the French legislature.
The congress also recommended
that divorces after two years of mar­
ried life be Invalid and that the mar­
riage of a divorced person with the
co-respondent be not permitted.
Adoption of these drastic regula­
tions would mean the end of uncon­
tested American divorces in Paris.
Wealthy Americans with marital
troubles would have to seek another
Reno.
France's falling birthrate must be
checked at all costs, members of the
congress decided,
otherwise they
envisage France in 1940 a poor sixth
in relative population figures of the
world's great powers.
The figures would be as follows:
Mrs. Baaaia T. Rodman of Seattle, United States, 125,000,000; England,
70,000,000;
Wash., la the only woman In the world 75,000,000; Germany,
whoso businoaa la tombstone making.
Japan, 67,000,000; Italy, 44,000,-
000; France, 37,000,000.
MRS. BESSIE T. RODMAN
WINKER GETS $100,000 SHARE
New York, Oct. 20.—(I. N. 8.)—
The turf honor of two nations and
a mere matter of *100,000 was the
outcome of the two-horse match race
between the 3-year-old champions of
the United States and Great Britain
at Belmont Park this afternoon. The
race was at a mne and a half, with
Zev, of the Harry Sinclair string,
carrying the banner of American
thoroughbred racing and Ben Irish's
Papyrus running for England.
The winner receives *80,000
and International
recognition as
champion of his class. The loser
gets *20,000; simply that and noth­
ing more, as the late Mr. Poe might
lament.
Upword of 100,000 persons viewed
the proceedings from points of vant­
age and point without any at all.
These latter included standing room
privilege in the infield and on the
club house lawn, with the best grand­
stand seats selling at *22, box office
prices. The largest crowd that ever
saw a turf event in America furnish­
ed the greatest revenue ever taken
in at a race track gate here.
The occasion was ready made in
its appeal to the sport public. It was
a meeting between the outstanding
three-year-old of the American turf
season and the nominal, though dis­
puted leader in Great Britain, the
first event of its kind ever held.
In addition, the sporting element
involved in the journey of Papyrus
to this country and the consequent
handicaps he must suffer in compe­
ting here have not been without
their appeal. The further fact that
the colt crossed the Atlantic with alt
the ceremony and attention due
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France's standing army at that
date would be 135,000 young sol­
diers, against the 250,000 annual
levy of today.
Less than 76 years ago France
was the most populous of the great
powers. Since then, however, while
England has been gaining 25,000,-
000 la population and Germany has
been gaining 20.000,000, France has
gained only 2,000,000. Her birth­
rate today is only 1.8 per 1,000 In­
habitants, against 7 per 1,000 in
Germany and 11 per 1,000 in Italy.
Other measures suggested by the
Natality congress include the project
of a mother's pension, prevention of
the practice of birth control, estab­
lishment of child welfare stations
and the inauguration of an anti-im­
morality and educational campaign.
Numerous suggestions as to the
best methods of raising the birthrate
appear in the press from day to day.
It has been advocated that fathers
of families be given greater voting
powers in the general elections than
bachelors or husbands whose wives
are childless.