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t ♦ Tn U *•. / ''-anta Poaa — Gateway to the Oregon Caoee G It A NTH »? H, JOHEPH1NK COUNTY, OREGON. VOL. XIV., No. M. .................. 1 ». ...... ■■ ■■ f ............................................ ... 11 GERMAN SPY RELEASED BUT WILL BE DEPORTED KISS IS PAID LAWYER FOR ACTRESS’ DIVORCE Leuvenworth, Kans., Nov. 21. — Luther Wlzke, convicted Gor man spy, was released from federal prison today. Ho Is to be deported. ♦ Los Angeles, Nov. 21.—(I. N. 4 ♦ 8.)—A kiss for a fee. ♦ ♦ That was what pretty, Impul- ♦ 4 slve Alice Bigelow, vaudeville 4 4 actress, gave her attorney, Isa- 4 ♦ dore Morris, just after ho had ♦ 4 obtained a divorce for her In 4 4 Judge Summerfield’s court. 4 ♦ The kiss was perfectly legal, 4 ♦ too, because it was administer- 4 4 ed in the courthouse in public, + 4 just outside the courtroom. It -4 4 went smack! And Judge Sum- 4 4 merfield later declared he 4 4 heard it 100 feet away! 4 4 “There, that’s your fee," 4 4 Miss Bigelow told her attorney. 4 4 Her decree was from Harry 4 4 Owen, of Chicago. Cruelty was 4 4 the ground for divorce. The 4 4 plaintiff declared her husband 4 4 had tried to commit suicide and 4 4 once threatened to drive the 4 4 automobile in which they were 4 4 riding into Lake Michigan and 4 4 end both their lives. 4 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 GERMANH EAGERLY RESUME BUYING FRENCH LUXURIES ELECTION NEXT .MONTH WILL TEAMS TO RAIME ADVERTISING Berlin, Nov. 21—(A. P.)—French BE OVER CHOICE OF NA- FI ND FOR CHAMBER ARE wines, French perfumes and French TION’H POLICY LINED UP food supplies of various sorts came back into the German market with a rush Immediately after tho an nouncement of Chancellor Strese- iniinn thnt the passive resistance in the Ruhr was at an end. Bills of Geovgu Halda and II. L. Bromley to fare In prominent cafes and restau Out come Causes Misgivings—Par ties Are Split and Terriffic Fight Is-ad Trams—laew-rs Mu»t Pro« rants again are being written in Is Expected vide Dinner for Winners French, and all the signs declaring French and Belgians would not be served have been removed. London, Nov. 21.— (I. N. 8.)—Ac Moat of the larger German hotels The drive to fill the coffers of the Chamber of Commerce advertising and cafes had extensive cellars filled cording to present plans the British fund for the coming year so that Mie with French wines. Much of thiB i government will hold a general elec work of advertising Josephine coun has been sold ns Italian or Spanish tion on December 5. 4444444444444444 The issue will be simple—a choice ty can be carried on will start next wine during the passive resistance Friday morning. Tho heads of tho period, but the Spunish and Italian by Great Britain between “Protec COOPERATIVE HELLING PROVEH various teams have been chosen and labels have now been replaced by tion" and “Free Trade.” HUCCEHHFUL IN PORTUGUAL everything Is being put In readiness French labels, and customers who Washington, Nov. 21.—(A. P.) — This decision has followed on for the start. Edw. W. Miller, have been clamoring for French wine Premier Baldwin's declarations that A band of 100 Portuguese farmers, chairman of the advertising fund are happlor. the unemployment situation in Great who can neither read nor write Eng committee, has hla plans worked out Britain can only be cured by “pro lish and who are working out their and yesterday afternoon met with I H. IIEAVIKHT PRODUCER tecting the home markets." His aim economic freedom through coopera OF PETROLEUM IN WORLD the other members of the committee is to assist British manufacturers by tive marketing, is engaging the At and the teams. The budget has preventing import of cheap foreign tention of the department of agricul Washington, Nov. 21.— (A. P.) — been prepared by Sam Baker, H. D. goods, manufactured under the aegis ture. Norton and Frank Mashburn and Tho United States produced almost of debased currencies. Officials here say these Portu will be submitted at the Thursday two-thirds of the world output of , The general scheme meets with guese, who live about Cape Cod in petroleum last year, and Mexico night meeting of the Chamber. Massachusetts and call themselves slightly more than one-fifth, the geo much support throughout Britain. the Cape Cod Strawberry Growers’ Majors for tho drive are George Even the hardiest free trader is in logical survey reports. World pro Association, understand the true Sabin and Horace L. Bromley. Cap duction was 954,889,000 barrels, of sympathy with the idea of prevent principles of cooperation. The sec tains under Mr. Sabin are II. W. ing the French trader, operating un which the United States supplied ret of their success .is a higA qual Clarke. Vallard Truax, Harry Couch 557,531,000 and Mexico 182,278,000 der the agency of the depreciated ity product, carefully graded and and Al J. Martineau. Those under franc, successfully competing with barrels. packed which has created a demand Bromley are C. D. Flos, James T. In the 65 years, 1857-1922, world the home British manufacturer, But that takes practically all the berries Chinnock, J. M. Isham and W. E as to the general outcome of the Newcombe. These men mot yester production of petroleum totaled 10,- scheme, much misgiving is felt. the association can market. 3C6.778.000 barrels. The United This year more than a million day with the general committee and Slates furnished 62.3 percent, or “Protection" Is not popular In quarts of berries were marketed it was decided that each captain Britain and Its wholehearted accept 6,459,582,000 barrels. should choose six workers, tho names ance seems the necessarv sequence with a gross return of |133,000. The association has been in existence to be reported back today. of Premier Baldwin's plans. eight years. The office is making a division of It is just twenty years ago since prospects and the territory will be the late Joseph Chamberlain split divided between the foams on a geo Ambassador Crews T«l<l How to Con the entire fabric of British politics clude Paris Negotiations graphical basis, north and south on by his campaign on behalf of pro Sixth street. Tho two majors with tection. He based his main plea on April Primaries in Nebraska Will I London, Nov. 21. — (A. P.) — The their teams will start soliciting on Have Ford on Ballot thé necessity of giving “preference" either side Friday morning and will British government today forwarded to the British dominions. But he report their progress at tho Monday to Ambassador Crews at Paris, final also used the unlucky phrase, ”!f Omaha, Nov. 21.— (A. P.)—A noon luncheon of the chamber. The i Instructions for handling the delicate you give 'preference' you must place Ford for president ticket will be Sabin division has challenged the Hllnatjon which threatened the <m- a tax on food." placed on the ballot in Nebraska for ; Bromloy side to a contest. This was i tented existence. The foreign of- the April primaries, according to Thnt phrase re-echoes more strong- accepted and the losers are to dim flee is optimistic because Poincare .ly today than ever. Twenty years Roy M. Harrop, temporary chairman down In their pockets to provide a yielded on three of the chief points: ago it smashed the conservative of the progressive party. dinner for the winning side. Tho First that the note to Germany is party and put the liberals in power, teams will report at the meeting on not to be an ultimatum, second that with an unprecedented majority. But Sioux Falls. S. D., Nov. 21.— (A. Thursday night to get their supplies the request for the expulsion of the in those days living in Britain was P.)—McAdoo's supporters, claiming and additional Information on the ex-crown prince be dropped, and cheap. Today it is officially 73 per better than a two to one victory in third that no definite penalties be campaign. cent over pre-war standards, House- the county proposals convention over Two special committees will be ap threatened immediately. V wives gay that 173 per cent would Ford's sponsors, today began work pointed today to solicit nev\ prospects Paris. Nov. 21.—(A. P.)—The be a more accurate figure, And on the state platform. for the Chamber from among the council of ambassadors, called to whenever the housewife thinks about business men of Grants Pass and consider the text of the note to Ger an election on this issue—women vicinity, who are not already mem many, reached a full accord this af were not enfranchised In Britain 20 bers of the organization. At the ternoon. 'The result was declared by years ago—that phrase, “Tax on Trnln of 40 Cars of lOOO-mark Notes Thursday night.mooting, matters of the members and by Marshal Foch food,” Is ringing in her head. for Pound of Sausage Interest are to be taken up, one of to be' particularily satisfactory. The Nevertheless the Baldwin govern the most Important being tho budget ambassadors adopted tho text of two ment is proceeding with the elect Berlin, Nov. 21.—(A. P.)—Ger for the coming year. This will be notes to Germany, one concerning ion. It is believed that Protection man financiers of statistical bent fully explained. The meeting will the interallied military control and for Britain Is the only remedy for un figured it would require a freight be held at the Woodman hall, start the other the return from Holland of employment. It cannot pass protect train of 40 cars to haul enough ing at 8 o'clock. the ex-crown prince. ive legislation without an election, 1,000-mark notes to pay for a pound because its hands are bound by the of sausage. words of ex-Premler, Bonar Law. He gave a general pledge when he suc ceeded to office that he would not make nny fundamental changes in German Finns Make Attempt to Se LEADERS IMPORT TARIFF NOT POPULAR ARE APPOINTED FINAL INSTRUCTIONS RIVER FORD WILL BE1N TICKET VALUE OF MARK ¥ FIGURED FIRST POSTOFFICE WAS ESTABLISHED 284 YEARS AGO AT BOSTON BY GENERAL COURT Bogton, Nov. 21.—(A. P.)—Two hundred and eighty-four yearn ago the first postoffice in the United Staten wan established In Bonton, and the celebration of the anniver sary thin month recalled the man ner of its founding. It had been the cuntom In thono days for the citizens of Boston to troop on board tho packets which ar rived from overseas in quest of let ters and other tidings from England. That was all very well for a while, but an the population grew the ha bit became a nuisance to the skip pers, who objected to having their decks made Impromptu delivory of fices and tho none too spacious quar ters below crowded with men and women. So tho general court (as the Mas sachusetts legislature always has been called) stepped in. In 1639 it ruled that Richard Fairbanks (on the site of whose home tho Boston Globe building now stands) was to take charge of and distribute letters from abroad. u. s. wil F not I ell ships (Continued on Page Three) SIR B. HARTWELL "For preventing tho miscarriage of letters," tho quaint order read, "and it is ordered that notice bee given that Richard Fairbanks his house In Boston Is the place appoint ed for all letters which are brought from beyond the seas, or arc to bee sent hither, are to bee brought un to. And hee is to take care that they bee delivered or sent according to their directions, and heo is al lowed for every such lettor a pently." John Winthrop was governor when Fairbanks was appointed. The lat ter held a permit to sell “wine and strong water," and over his bar the men of Boston sipped their ale and read their mail and talked of the tidings from far away. Fairbanks acted as postmaster un til 1677. In January, 1673, tho gen eral court made provision for a do mestic postal service, the carriers to be paid three pence per mile for their services. Twenty years later the American Postoffice was established and In 1695 a coach and mall ser vice was begun between Boston and Hartford. Sir Broderick Hartwell, Incumbent of an Irish title over 400 years old, hae openly avowed hla Intention to pro- mote a transatlantic rum-running en terprise. WHOLE NU3IBER .’M IH. WEDNEHDAY, NOVEMBER 21, I»ÍBI 4" cure Cast Off War Vessels Hamburg, Nov. 21.— (A. P.)— America's decision not to sell any cast-off warships to foreign buyers on the ground that such action would minimize war. has attracted much attention in Europe. Several Ger man firms made inquiries in Wash ington concerning battleships which were desired by them for the iron and steel they contained. About the time the policy of the United States government was an nounced, it was learned here that several battleships upon which con struction began during the Czar’s regime, but which never were com pleted, had been sold by the soviet government to a British wrecking, concern to be used as scrap iron and melted down. Word to this effect came from Petrograd to German shipping companies who were inter ested In the deal, but whom, it ap pears' were out-bld by the British. Included in this Russian sale were 15 warships and 5,000 locomotives, some of which had been the pride of the Russian state railway in the days when the trans-Siberian express was in Its prime. .............. . 1111 i 111 i IN ATTEMPT TO HOLO OP ORDER THE UNITED HTATEH DISTRICT COURT DIHMIHHEH HIM AP PLICATION 4 4 4 4 4 4 Spokane, Nov. 21.— (A. P.) —The first snow of the season fell today at Spokane and El- lensbnrg. Less than an inch fell here. It was melting as it fell at Ellensburg. ♦ 4 4 4 4 4 44444444444444444 4 AMERICAN CO-ED SERIOUS, SAYS OXFORD PROFESSOR NOTED OF Welletiley, Mass., Nov. 21.—(I. N. S.)—The American college girl is a serious-minded young person. She is democratic and a "plngger.” Take this from Professor Redvers Deposing of Executive Will Be Tak Opie, who has jnst arrived from Ox ford University to take charge of the en to Supreme Court—Holds department of economics at Welles Himself Ready for Arrest ley. “Educational standards are high Oklahoma City, Nov. 21.—(A. P.) er in America than I expected,” says —The application of J. C. Walton, Professor Opie. “I thought the col deposed governor of Oklahoma for lege girls would be mainly the a restraining order against the sen daughters of the wealthy, who would ate impeachment court verdict was I consider college in a frivolous fash dismissed today by the United States ion. district court. Walton announced “Instead, rich and poor mingle in that he would appeal to the United democratic fashion, all approaching States supreme court. Walton ap their studies with a surprising de peared in the county courthouse at gree of serious attention. noon. He announced that he expect “American college girls are eager ed to be indicted by the county to do their own work, with a small, grand jury and intended to be ready amount of direction from their pro to submit to immediata arrest. He fessors. They are not afraid of said he did not know what indict spending their time digging for ment they would charge. facts.” 1 i ------------------- C. L. Goff was a Medford business man in the city today. CASE WILL BE APPEALED MOTOR REGISTRATIONS HIGH Oregon Has Large Number of Dri ers and Chauffeurs Up to October 31, 1923, there were registered and licensed in Ore gon 560 motor vehicle dealers, 13,- 824 chauffeurs, 258,381 motor ve hicle operators, 3,101 motorcycles, 148,999 passenger and commercial cars of less than one ton capacity, and 13,201 truck and trailers, from which the total license fees aggre gated $4,031,141.92. The fees, less administrative expenses, are dis tributed one-fourth to the counties from which the registrations are re ceived and three-fourths to the state highway fund for the prosecution of road work throughout the state gen erally. The distribution of the 1923 regis trations up to October 31, 1923, shows that in Josephine county there were licensed 9 motor vehicle deal ers. 169 chauffeurs, 3,171 motor ve hicle operators, 21 motorcycles. 1,902 passenger cars, 0 ambulances and hearses, 8 busses and stages. 71 commercial cprs of less than one ton capacity, 175 trucks of from one to five tons capacity, and 0 trailers of from one to five tons capacity, or a total of 2,156 licensed passenger and commercial vehicles. During 1922 there was a total of 1,725 passenger and commercial motor vehicles li censed in this county. Between September 15, 1922, and September 15, 1923, of the receipts from motor vehicle licenses and fees $967,492.19 was dfstributêd to the counties of the state and there was turned over or transferred to the state highway fund $2,902,476.56 during that period. Josephine coun- ty's share of the foregoing allotment to the counties was $11,742.90. REV. DANIFL J. DWYER Rsv. Father Daniel J. Dwyer, Little Rock, Ark., who, at the age of elxty- Mven has been ordained to the Roman Oatholio prieethood, fulfilling hie long- delayed ambition. GUILTY ON 12 COUNTS TODAY EXPI j ORER convicted USING MAILS DEFRAUD TO OTHER VERDICTS RETURNED One of Defendants Acquitted at Fort Worth—Oil Stocks Are Pro moted Through Mail Fort Worth, Tex., Nov 21.—(IA. P.)—Dr. Frederick A. Cook, explor er and oil man was convicted by a federal jury today of using the mails to defraud In the promotion of oil companies. He was found guilty on 12 counts of the Indictment. The jury was out 20 hours. Guilty ver dicts were also returned against all but one of the other defendants, though not on as many counts as Cook. A. M. Delcambre was acquit ted on instructions from the judge. Dr. Frederick A. Cook first became internationally known in 1909, when upon arriving in Copenhagen from a trip into the far north, he an nounced that he had discovered the North Pole the April previous. His story was accepted as true and he was received there with high honors. Upon returning to this country. Dr. Cook published reports of his journey and wide credence was giv Roseburg Organization May Accept en his narrations for some months. Since then his claims have been dis Cavemen’s Invitation puted, and he ultimately was brand ed a faker, but in the meantime he Rosebnrg. Ore., Nov. 21.—(Spe was the recipient of many honors. cial)—Booster organizations from He was made president of the Ex other cities in the state are swamp plorers Club, New York, and a mem ing the local Umpqua Chiefs with in ber of the Kings County Medical So vitations to visit there meetings for ciety, the American and National suitable get-together ceremonies and Geographical Societies, the Ameri today A. T. Lawrence received the can Ethnological Society, the lAmerl- following letter from the Grants Pass j j can Alpine Club and lesser organl- Cavemen: ; zatlons. "At a meeting of the Cavemen, a Dr. Cook was graduated with a de- booster organization of the Grants Pass Chamber of Commerce, on last gree of doctor from the New York Thursday night, I was instructed to , University College of Medicine in get in touch With th« Umpqua Chiefs 1893 and the following year was ap- which we understand is the name of i pointed surgeon to the Peary Antarc your new booster organization. Mr. tic expedition. Two years later he Gale, one of our members, suggested led a party up the west coast of that you were very prominent in the Greenland, and the next year he ex organization of this tribe, hence plored the south portion of the same knowing no one else, I am addressing Island. you in this matter. Our ‘Wild Men’ Tn 1897 'Dr. Cook was appointed are desirious of inviting your tribe surgeon to the Belgian Antarctic ex here for a consideration of the tribal pedition and as a result he received territory over a pipe of peace or else numerous decorations including the desirous of meeting you and your Order of Leopold, the gold medals tribe in Roseburg. Will you kindly of the Belgian Royal Society and the get me in tpuch with the proper par municipality of Brussels, and the ties to bring about this 'Smoke silver medal of the Belgian Royal Fest.’ Yours truly, A. M. Simmons, Geographical Society. Wingfeather.” Again yielding to the lure of the The Umpqua Chiefs, while not ful ly organized, hope to don their tur North, Dr. Cook, In 1903, undertook key feathers in the near future and an expedition to reach the summit of will no doubt take advantage of this Mount McKinley, the highest point invitation to meet the “Wild Men” on the American continent, more than of Grants Pass. (Continued on Page Two) UMPQUA CHIEFS ARE COMING SUPREME COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE ORGANIZED IN UNITED STATES AFTER WAR Washington, Nov. 21.— (A. P.) — Tnrough the completion of a reor ganization program begun immedi ately after the world war, the United States at last has a Supreme Coun cil of National Defense which is de clared by service experts to be the most efficient ever effected. An even half dozen officers, three army and three navy men, comprise the council, officially termed the joint board. Appointments are all ex-officio, the detail of an officer to a certain bureau carrying with it membership on the board. The pres ent organization includes General John J. Pershing, chief of staff; Ma jor. Gen. John L. Hines, deputy chief and head of the army war plane division, and Brig. Gen. Briant H. Wells, for the land forces, and the chief of naval operations, Admiral E. W. Eberle; the director of war plans of the navy. Rear Admiral W. R. Shoemaker, and the assistant chief of operations, Rear Admiral R. H. Jackson, for the navy. To this board is finally referred every major problem involving the national security, and all items of information and all rumors which may have a remote bearing upon the national defense. The new organ ization extends in a network over the entire country, having representation in every naval district and army corps area, where pfficers of the two services meet regularly to dis cuss the defense of the section un der their charge and its relation to the national strategic plan. The joint aeronautical board has been made virtually an adjunct of the super-council through an order which requires its recommendation to be referred to the higher tribu nal. A similar restriction upon the jail munitions board, composed of the assistant secretaries of war and navy, brings this agency of defense under the same directing control.
