GRANT8 PAHH, JOHEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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 ’
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—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. |
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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
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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