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GRANT8 PAHH, JOHEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON. ■ VOI,. XIV., No. HO. WHOLE NUMBER JCI7S. EARTHQUAKE DESTROYS THREE TOWNS IN SONORA MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE PROVEN AGAINST PAIR Nogales, Dee. 31.—(A. <P.)— ♦ Tho destruction of three towqs ♦ n«ar Hierru Mdtlres, in Honora, ♦ by an earthquake was con 4 firmed In reports today. There 4 were several hundred casualties. 4 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 4 UP BY POLICE UNITED STATES 10LD RED PLOT IS UNFOUNDED CHECKS AMOUNTED $100,000 DOCUMENTS HELD FORGERIES Bridgeport, Ohio, Dec. 21.— 4 ♦ New York, Dec. 21.— (A. P.) ♦ (I. uN. 8.)—More than five 41 ♦ —Ernest Vetter and his wife, 4 years ago, when a draft contin 4 ♦ Marie, were convicted today of ♦ gent was leaving Bellaire, Ohio, 41 4 first degree manslaughter for 4 near here, a resident of this city 4 ♦ killing Alonzo J. Storey, former ♦ ♦ suitor of Mrs. Vetter. 4 C. A. Holmen, heard one of the 4 Ijoys in the train ask for a pen 4 ♦♦444444444444444 cil. Holmes gave him a pencil. 41 EXPORT TAX 5LVKEH AMERICA NN CHECK FORGERS GET One day recently as he was 4 OFFICER» ARREST QUEEN HHIF OF AMERICAN MER »IIUN TURKIHH TOBACCO MUSICAL PIUN1RAMH WILL BE MONEY FROM MEDFORDITE8 SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTER DE passing a young man on a street 4 CHICAGO GIVEN HUN'DAY WITH »FE NIK» CHARGES MADE BY CHANT MARINE IH NOT In Bellaire, Holmes was stopped. 4i THREE OF PARTY OF COI N. CIAL MIH1C TERFE1TERH HUGHES BUDGED Kavala, Greek '.Macedonia, Dec. 21. Medford, Ore., Dec. 21.—(A. P.) "Here's your pencil,” said the 41 —Check forgers, operating last Sat — (A. P.)—«Notwithstanding a bum young man, handing Holmes 4 I urday night, defrauded local mer per crop, the tobacco business as a the stub of a pencil'. 4 chants out of between $500 and $600 whole was much poorer in Nevember The young fellow explained 4 with probably more to hear from than during October I'ecatise of the that he carried the same pencil 4 Warrants were issued Wednesday, Imposition of an export tax of 20 per all through France. At times 41 for the arrest of two men giving the cent In foreign currency. Tho de Most Denominations Will Have ICcgu it was the only one In the entire 41 Those Taken Not Members of Rand If Such Evidence Exists I» Not Au« Next High Waler Tills Evening May names of Craig and Reese, present pression Is felt more acutely because lar Christ mas Service« Monday company, he said, and it served 41 But Are Wanted for Theft of tlwntic He Haya—-Wants to Sub Float Viwl—Half Dozen Tugs whereabouts unknown, who are un of the absence of American buyers. or Tuesday Night as a good-luck token. The ex- 4 Motor Truck of Goods mit to Arbitration Are Ineffective der suspicion. Of the large tobacco crop In .Mace service man »«Id he deefded to 4 The bad check artists were em donia and Thrace not an oke was sold keep what was left of the pencil 41 ployed by the Jackson County Cream to America In October. In October while overseas and bring It back 4 Grants Pass people will have a Moscow, Dec. 21.— (A. P.)—For I Chicago, Dec. 21.—(A. P.)—Jack ery at Thanksgiving time, and some New York. Dec. 21—(A. P.)—The 1922, lAmerlcan buyers bought 829,- to the United States in hope of 4 , : McDonald, once an I. W. W. mem time last Saturday they sneaked in eign Minister Tschitcherin today de Leviathan, the queenshlp of the 887 okas. The total sales last month choice of several excellent Christmas meeting the dogor and return 4} 1 ber, with his wife and another man, to the office of the creamery, and nied the charges made by Secretary services on Kuriduy. The various American Merchant Marine, Inbound were 500,000 okes, (An oke is nnar-l I churches have made arrangements ’ ing the pencil to him. 4 1 was arrested today in connection stole a number of blank checks. The Hughes, of a red plot in the United today, grounded on Robbins reef, In ly three pounds.) tor special musical concerts and pro-; ♦♦♦4444444444444 ♦1 with operations of a band accused of fact that the checks were made out States. He declared if documents New York harbor. A call was sent printing counterfeit Pennsylvania on the regular blanks of the cream exist indicating that the soviet gov grams. The services will be as fol for all available tugs. The ship It) REIGN-BORN POPULATION railway checks, amounting to $100,- ery, made it easy to cash them. ernment attempted to influence the lows: grounded after It had panned quar STATE TRAFFIC OFFICER« INCREASING IN SOUTHWEST 000, and cashing many of them. American workers party, they are antine on the way to tho dock. RETURN «2115.50 IN FINKS Christian ______ forgeries. He said Russia would Railroad investigators .declared Half a dozen tugs were unable to Special Christmas Concert fB be like to submit the question of their _ that McDonald and his wife and budge tho Leviathan. The next high Salem, Oro., Doc. 21.—(A. P.) — given Sunday night, Dec.>23rd, in the Washington, Dec. 21.—(A. P.)—, Thomag Murphy, seized with them. authenticity to arbitration. water Is at 8 o'clock tonight. Activities of the state traffic officers White Temple Church of Christ. The center of foreign-born popula- are not the leadera of the band but Defunct State Bank of Portland Ac returned to the state fines amount "Joy to the World" .............. tllandel tion of the country is located In Allen were arregted ln connection with the counts Being Paid ing to $2115.50 during November, Congregation of a truck load of merchandise Pastor County. Indiana, 10.8 miles east of according to a report prepared heYe Invocation ................... Portland. Ore., Dec. 21.—(A. P.) Lorenz New Haven, having taken a south- from the Burlington railroad, and today by T. A. Rafferty, in charge of “ 'Tis Heaven's Reply' westward trend after two decades of admltted having passed some of the —Depositors in the defunct State Automobile Goes in Ditch and Chorus tho law enforcement bureau of the Duet, "The ¡Angel Chorus” ....’Beazley southeastward movement. In deter-, deter-, cbec checks. |<a Approximately a dozen Bank of Portland will receive a Motorcycle Hits Cow I'niKxl Mates Financier Honored by state motor vehicle department. Eleanor Cougle and Dorothy Eggers. I mining the foreign-born center, *be the other men are believed to be in Christmas dividend, approaching, in Commission Columbia county, with 22 viola Scripture Reading ....................... the case of the savings department, Two wrecks occurred last night Paris, Dec. 21.—(A. P.) — The re tions, reported a total of $630 in ................. "The Shepherd’s Watch” Census Bureau found it had moved ' volved. full settlement. Checks of claim which nearly ended disastrously for parations commission today decided fines, while Klamath county, with 24 "And There Were Shepherds” Wilson 18.9 miles in the ten years from ■ 1910 to 1920. Its movement was Antiphonal Chorus ants for savings accounts, mailed to the participants but which luckily to offer Charles Q. Dawes, of the violations, assessed fines aggregat Solo: "The Song is Ringing Still”.... 11.5 miles eastward and 15 miles day by the state banking department, resulted in only minor injuries. One United ISatM, the presidency of tho ing $440. .....___ ................................. Ixirenz southward. i ---------- amount to 30.6 per cent, in addition of these was an automobile accident committee which Is to examine Ger Eleanor Cougle "The change in direction of tho Rumania Looking for Foreign Inter to 50 per cent dividends paid pre at Carr's Corners near Grave Creek man finances. "Beyond the Starry Skies ” ....Wilson NO HOLIDAY PARDONS viously. movement of thia center from east ps,s for Development Antiphonal Chorus and the othe* was a motorcycle ac HAYS GOVERNOR PIERCE Sermnnette. "Christmas Time”. to west Is due principally to the in- I cident on the other side of Merlin Trio: "The Angelic Choir” ............ crease in foreign-born white popula- Bucharest, Dec. 21.— (A. P.) Oil hill. ......................... ....Carrie B. Adams Salem, Ore., Doc. 21.— (A. P.)— tion in the state of California,” says 18 one of the big factors in Rumania’s When the Kissel Kar, occupied by Mrs. Jackson, Miss Trueblood There will be no "Christmas pres ,the bureau. “l4e total Increase in dominant position in the Balkans, Mr. Peters five people, skidded and went iu the legality of Tax Huprrvisiiig anti ent" pardons or paroles at the state This music Is furnished by the the foreign-born white population of and the government's decision to de- St. Louis Bank Faced by Huge Loss. ditch at Carr’s Corners, only iR. J. penitentiary this year, says Gover- Conservation Rodle« Tested Young People’s Chorus of the Christ the United States was 367,209 and reIoP the oil-fields with the aid of Confession Made Jann was injured. He suffered bad ■ nor Pierce. This is not saying there ian Bible School, assisted by Mrs. the increase in the states of Texas foreign capital will open up, it Is glass cuts over and around the eye I will be no executive clemency grant Salem, Ore.. Dec. 21.—(A. P.)— St. Louis, Dec. 21.—(A. P.)—The and his condition for a time was Jackson, soprano: Miss Trueblood, California and Arizona was 316,222 hoped, big economic possibilities for ed during the holiday season, but it The supreme court this afternoon is contralto; Mr. Peters, tenor: Blaine or 86 percent of the total increase. Chippewa bank, in the southern part thought serious but he is now re the nation. bearing arguments in the mandamus there is it won't be In the nature of n Pruitt, basso, and others. Mrs. law, Economic necessity is now proving of the city, closed today, with a ported to be all right. The car Christmas gift. suits against tho validity of the " , of greater concern to Rumania than shortage reported at $300,'000. Gott turned completely around and went chorus manager; Mrs. Chas. Gordon, "No," said the executive, "there county tax supervising and conser political alliances add the practising lieb Wyerman. president, announced into a 10-foot ditch. Dr. ¡Loughridge director. vation act. The constitutionality Is will bo no wholesale granting of par- I of unsound theories, such as maxi that Cashier John S. Carr confessed was summoned and sewed up the Bethany Presbyterian done and paroles at the Oregon pen assailed. Tho Umatilla, Klamath mum prices, export taxes and othpr that his accounts were short, and re cuts made by the glass in the face ot At 11 o'cock, the musical program and Yambill commissions were at itentiary during the holidays this Bouts Will Be Given At County Fair restrictions at the expense of foreign turned $34,000. The exact shortage Mr. Jann. year. They will be given only in the by the choir directed by Mrs. C. B. tacked. Tillamook and Polk are to Grounds Wednesday capital employed in the development was not ascertained. regular course of business, as in 'Marks and assisted by Robert Niel The motorcycle, ridden by John come Into the case aa amici curiae , of the country’s resources. Piasake and Charles J. Hughes, deaf every other month of the year, and on son, violin, will be as follows: A boxing and wrestling card has Rumania today has title to vast mutes, hit a cow and threw them off. the recommendation of the parole "Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning”...X?. Whitney Coombs ■been prepared for the sport fans of aTeas of rlch oil-bearing lands, which board, which board I have found to Piasake was badly hurt, his jaw be the valley to be presented at the have been leased so far only in small Anthem with Violin Obligato be very careful in recommending ing broken. Hughes suffered only s "Old Chant" .............. Walter Kramer county fair grounds on Wednesday lots to P”™1? Rumanian companies, Senators McNary and Underwood bruises and minor cuts. The acci cases for pardon and parole. Violin Solo. Want Haney and Thompson night. The card is presented by the The ffovernment now apparently real- dent occurred near the road which "Sleep, Holy Babe” ........ .............. Prominent Hlockmnn and Financier Josephlne County Racing association Izes.that the best interests of the turns off from the Pacific Highway ................... H. Alexander Matthews Feature Dances Slated— Dead at Port land Washington, Dec. 21.—(A. P.)— for Merlin. They were in their way Contralto Solo and Chorus and consists of a double main event, country demand that these stare- For tho Cavemen's Holiday Ball on Miss Hortense Hough one being a 10-round boxing match owned lands be Intensively devel- Senators McNary, of Oregon, and to Portland, from Fort Worth, Texas. Portland, Ore., Dec. 21.— (A. P.) Christmas night, several feature The sermon subject will be "From and the other a wrestling match. oped, and plans have been drawn up Underwood, of Alabama, today urged With the aid of Dr. W. W. Walker, —William Wurzweiler, mayor of dances are being arranged. A local Manger to Throne”. In the boxing match. Jimmy Dou- ,or dr,l,ln* 3 000 We,,a On dur; President Coolidge to resubmit the Dr. Loughridge cared for the wounds Prineville, president of tho Bank of couple will give some exhibitions of There will bo ». Vesper Service at gan, of Grants Pass, will meet K. O.|ln‘ tho naxt, tP“ year8’ P,rOvlded’ °f nominations of Haney and Thomp of Mr. Piasake. Dr. Walker wired Prineville aud prominent for many fancy dancing while other feature 4:30 p. m. A program entitled "His son, as members of the Shipping the fractured jawbone together. years as a stockman and financier of dances are also promised. The dance Star in the East" will be given by the Owens, of Brookings for the middle- °°uree' that fore,gn «P‘^ta ca" Board. The White House indicated weight championship of Southern lnd,1 « d t0 come ,n and the Eastern Oregon, died here early to Is being given by the Cavemen to Sunday school and the church choir that the withdrawal did not neces Veryl Herriford arrived his morn Oregon. Dougan has been in 34 bat- * oad ' day after 36 hours of Illness from raise funds for the carrying out of will render the following numbers: sarily mean that the nominations of ing from Mount Angel to spend the ties, winning 27 by knockouts, four Great Brltatn ' and more part,cu,ar - heart trouble. their program for next summer. "Arise, Shine” ................ F. C. Maker Thompson and Haney would not be Christmas holidays with his mother, by decision, one a foul and got draws * r™6* « ""J* forÀ "The Birthday of a King” ............ resubmitted. Mrs. W. G. Robinson, at Kerby. sideration, would like to extend their W. H. Neldlinger with Bert Colima and Jimmy Darg.|vij __ _ ____ hold on the Rumania field but it is Baritone Solo and Chorus ’His last fight at Chiloquin with Billy felt here that American participation, T. P. Cramer Huff was his longest. Huff lasting Sunday School at 9:55 a. m. No which would presumably be entirely! for eight cantos. Owens has been Chirstian Endeavor meetings and no non-political in character, would be winning his bouts at Brookings and preferable. evening service this week. Marshfield by knockouts in the first F. Gordon Hart, Minister. few rounds. Their records give Baptist Church Berlin, Dec. 21.—(A. P.)—What .So Germany Is losing many of the promise of a real battle. Sunday school, 9:45. Pictures. la to become of Germany’s surplus men who might be most helpful in The wrestling bout will bring to Portland, Ore., Dec. 21.—(A. P.) usual growth. Reports from the population of 20,000,000? The ques- bringing her Industries back into or Regular session of the school at 10 gether two of the best welter-weights ’ ---------- —The acreage seeded to winter Eastern Oregon territory contain tion la looming up aa a serious one dered state. The younger men tire o’clock with classes for all ages. in this region. The bout is silated to Hundreds of People Fill Corridors wheat in the state of Oregon this such statements as: “We are having tn »tew of the fact that the birth rate of the hopeless snarl of domestic pol Morning service at 11. Cathedral go for two hours, for two out of at Atlanta Courthouse fall is computed by the Washington, unusually fine weather in this sec la rapidly approximating the pre itics, the clash of party Interests and Chimes played by Katherine Knox. three falls. In case of one fall each. | ---------- D. C., office of the bureau of agri tion for winter wheat.” “This has war figures and the annual emigra the endless wrangling« of labor and Two anthems by the choir: "A he decision will bo given, as the Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 21.—(A. P.)— cultural economics at 100 per cent been the finest fall for farm work political organizations. But It Is the Song the World Is Singing,” and tion la relatively email. southern Oregon welter-weight cham- Hundreds of persons were in the of the acreage seeded last fall, the in 25 years." “The present condition Rueala Is held up to the German rare workman who manages to col "There's a Song in the Air.” pionship goes to the winner. In this corridors of the court building to- revised figure for which is 896,000 ot my wheat is at least 25 per cent public aa a land that may eventually lect enough funds to emigrate. Sermon on "The Divine Family bout. Young Barrett, of Grants Pass day awaiting a verdict in the case of acres, says F. L. Kent, statistician, above normal.” "Wheat is in excel Germany's labor population, em Tree.” absorb 15,000,000 Germans, but meets Bud Shults, heralded as the I Philip S. Fox, former Ku Klux Klan United States department of agri lent condition." “Ideal fall weather there la slight movement toward that ployed in Industries of all sorts, in Afternoon serveie at Hugo at 2:30. best ln the Rogue River valley ln his editor, charged with the murder ot culture, with plenty of moisture." country because of present condi cluding shipping, is estimated at B. Y. P. U. Christmas service, led class. While the acreage seeded this fall In the western part of the state The fans are practically William S. Coburn, klan attorney, tions under soviet rule. South Amer about 25,000,000. Tho actual num by Group three. guaranteed of full satisfaction and The case went to the jury late last appears to be about the same as that fall seeding conditions were not ican countries alao are mentioned by ber of organized laborers Is 15,000,- Evening service at 7:30. Congre plenty of thrills. Torà J. Armstrong,, "fffht, but it is understood that de of a year ago, the condition of the nearly so favorable as they were last the German press as suitable for fu 000 and It Is largely from laborers gational singing. Prayer. Solo, veteran referee, will officiate. , liberations were not started until growing wheat is placed at 97.0 per fall. The ground was too dry to ture homes for Germans, but the of this class that the emigration Marie Kerley. Women's Chorus, cent ot normal as compared with plow until pretty late in the season, Reservations can be secured in ' ear'y today. United States is the only country th comes. "Dreamy Light.” Scripture lesson. 91.0 per cent a year ago, and the ten so much of the seeding was late, Grants Pass at the Pastime and at ; ________ which the Germans appear to bo For the first six months of this Anthem by the choir, "O Come All year average of 92.0 per cent. The and some acreage that would norm anxious to emigrate. The indications year the emigration from Germany Ye Faithful.” Men’s chorus, "Swift Couch's drug store. The first bout1, present vigorous condition of the ally have been seeded this fall will are that the applicants f6r admission totalled about 41,000, which was Through the Glory Light." Mixed starts at 7:30, Wednesday, Decern-j crop, taken in connection with pres go over to the spring season, and to the United States will greatly ex about four timos as much as that of quartet, "Star Divine.” Annoiffice- ber 26. ent weather conditions, would seem possibly be seeded to other crops ceed the quota of 60,000 this year. the corresponding months of 1922, ments and offering. Anthem. "Joy General Sanchez Goes to Confer With to indicate that there will probably than wheat. The over-population is mostly In the and almost three times that of the to the World.” Sermon, "Echoes there will be the usual treat for the Other Leader be less than the usual amount of loss The United States winter wheat school and general good time. Industrial centers. last six months of 1922. From the Bethlehem Anthem.” Song. from winter killing, which item acreage seeded this fall is estimated There la an endleas chain of young Emigration at the present rate, Benediction. Vera Cruz, Dec. 21.—(A. P.)— however, seldom runs higher than at 40,191,000 acres, which is 12.6 mochanlce who manage to get enough however, offers no solution for the Church of the Brethren White gifts of food, clothing nnd General Sanchez, chief military sup one to four per cent. per cent less than the revised esti funds together to make their way to problem of over-population which money will be reectved at both morn The usual church services will be porter of De La Huerta, is reported Seeding conditions throughout the mate of 45,950,000 acres seeded last the United States and send money Germany faces, a problem which is ing and evening for distribution as held with a sermon on the subject, to have gone to Esperanza, In the principal wheat growing countries fall. The condition of the crop on baek to their brothers and friends mado more acute by the refugees Christmas cheer. "The First Christmas Service.” The fighting zone, to confer with the were rather more favorable than Dec. 1, was estimated at 88.0 per who join them on the other side. from Russia and other Europoan The Christmas program and regular Christmas program will be other rebel leader on a plan for usual, and ln most of the area about cent as compared with 79.5 per cent Theee are mostly men without fam countries who have overrun the re Christmas tree will be given on Mon held Tuesday night. ending the rebellion. The military the usual acreage was seeded, and last year, 76.0 per cent in 1921, and public. ilies. day evening at 7:30, at which time TContinued on Page Two} situation is quiet. the crop has made better than the the ten year average of 86.5 per cent. PEOPLE HAVE GOOD CHOICE DEPOSITORS GIVEN *SURPRISE DAWES COMMITTEE TWO WRECKS TAKE PLACE HEAD OIL BECOMES BIG FACTOR ARGUMENTS ARE BEING HEARD | CASHIER MAKES BIG HAUL BOXING CARD IS ARRANGED RESUBMISSION IS URGED PRINEVILLE MAYOR DIES TODAY ACREAGE SEEDED 10 WINTER WHEAT IN STATE THIS FALL IS EQUAL TO THAT OF LAST YEAR FOX VERDICT IS AWAITED REBELLION MAY BE ENDEO
