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G rant» Pau — Gateway to the Oregon Caves *= YOL. XIV., No. M2. _______________________________________ GRANT« PASH, JOSEPHINE COVN TY. OREGON 1 COAST GUARD 'sS»«Z lT THIRTY YEARS NEEDED ED PAY CREW IS HELD 11! '•'< ‘ i •''•im, ,, Yin St. Cloud, Minn., Dec. 26.— (A. P.)—Tho police here to day are searching for three men, two of whom are said to answer to the description of tho D'Atitremont brothers, wanted in connection with tho Southern l'aclflc holdup In Oregon. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 444444444444444 ♦ ATTEMPT IS MADE TO RESCUE Crew Hail (ione Out to Help t'rah Fisher But Wind Kept Them Out All of Tuesday and Today Newport, Ore., Dec. 26.—(A. P.) —Eight members of the coast guard life saving crew, exposed to tho storm since late Monday, were brought in to port safe today by the tug Go Getter. Newport, Ore., Dec. 26.—(A. P.) —The tug Go Getter, Captain H. M. Brown, crossed out over the bar this morning with supplies for the coast guard crew of eight mon In a launch, who have )>een exposed to the storm since Monday evening, unable to re turn to Newport after golug out In an attempt to rescue the crab fisher Victor Webb. Tho const guard crow was caught in the storm returning from Waldport, and spent Christmas day and last night exposed to tho storm with little food and only a tarpaulin for protection. The l>ar la very rough today. No attempt to come In I* expected until the high water this afternoon. Madrid, Dec. 26.—(A. P.)—The decree for the establishment of the airship service between Seville and Buenos Aires now uwalts only the signature of King Alphonao, the tech nical and financial question* of the project having been settled. The work on the airships for the service will bo started within two months. A threc-dny service will be main tained over the route which takes two weeks for boats, Tho money for tho project has been furnished by Spaniards and the mechanical equip- rnent will be made in Germany. LEGION INSTALLS TONIGHT Auxiliary The installation of officers of the American Legion will he held tonight in the Legion rooms in the basement of the courthouse. Elections were held two weeks ago. Other import ant matter* besides the installing of the new officers are to come up at this meeting. The Legion Auxiliary «till hold their elections tonight at their meet- ing in the basement of the library building. Thulr nomination* have already been made. Tuesday for Oakland, where they will make their home. Carl Husen and Minnie Elizabeth Local Profile Married at chrbdniaa- Pollock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. tide Ceremonie* W. H. Pollock, of Jump-off-Joc were united In marriage at the home of Pour weddings were solemnized Lewis A. Fall. 710 North Tenth St. over Christmas, Cupid having work at 11 a. ni. Christmna day l>y Rev. D. ed In conjunction with Santa Claus. Lester Fields In tho presence of James Bernard Hoxie and Daisy ubout 35 relatives. The home was Opal Jewell were married at the beautiful in Christmas decorations, home of tho bride's parents. Mr. and j Aft*r the ceremony a sumptuous Mrs. Stephen Jewell, nt 7 o'clock on (dinner i was served. The newlyweds Christmas eve, with Rev. C. M. Clin* IwlH | make their home nt Glendale, officiating. About SO guests were ! Ore. present, a wedding supper following George Martin Williams, of the tho ceremony. They will spend sev National Drug Store, and Miss Lula eral months at Konnet, Calif., after Dorothy Garrett, one of the teach which they will return to Medford ers of the county, were united in to reside. marriage at the Methodist parsonage Bruce Virgil Hagerman and Flora at 10 a. m. Christmas day by Rev. D. II. Tolin were married at the home of Lester Fields. Fred E. Hillstrom the bride's parents at Dryden, Rev. and Virginia Creager were the wlt- F. Gordon Hart, officiating. They left : nesses. FOUR WEDDINGS ON TUESDAY » Seattle, Wash., Dec. 26.—(I. N. 8.)— When football warriors of the United States naval academy at An- napoli* face the University of Wash- ington Huskies in the Tournament of Roses bowl at Pasadena, Califor nia, on New Year's Day in an Inter sectional tilt which promises to make gridiron history, they will battle one of the strongest elevens that ever represented the purple-and-gold In stitution. Not since the days of Coach Gilmour Doblb. now mentor at Cor nell, who sent out nine undefeated elevens In the period ending in 1916, has the Seattle university boasted such a powerful aggregation as this year. Although the Golden Bears of the University of California copped Far Western football honors In finishing at the top of Pacific Coast confer ence teams, Washington played a great schedule, losing only to Cali fornia. The Huskies finished run ners-up in the Coast conference, champions in the Northwest confer ence and ranked second among all elevens of the United States in the number of points scored during the 1923 season. Washington rolled up a total of 284 points, this number being ex ceeded only l»y Doble's Cornell eleven which hammered Its way through Eastern teams for a total of 320 points. An analysis of the play in the Cali fornia game, marking the Huskies' only defeat, shows that the Navy players must be prepared to meet a varied attack when they line up against the purpto-and-gold men of brawn at Pasadena. As during its regular season. Washington will probably feature its brilliant aerial game, supplement) d by tremendous line smashes, agninst th© Navy in the post-season clash. Washington lost to California by a 9 to 0 score, but the figures do tell the story. The score does show that the contest was one of most bitterly fought in Far West nals. Once Washington let loose its passing game and advanced the ball to the Bear's three-yard line, where a final forward pass failed, losing a touchdown. Even Washington's most loyal supporters admit that the Huskies' defense in the California game showed a big weakness. The Wash ington players failed again and again to stop Captain Don Nichols In re turning Washington punts. Time af ter time Ziel and Tesreau of Wash ington outpunted California's kick ers, but almost without exception Nichols ran back the long kicks to the spot where the ball left the Washingtons' toes. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF U. H. TREAHI RY HAYS BILLIONS WILL BE PAID 1 ■’ 111 ■■ 1 GRAND OLD MAN MARRIES AT YOUTHFUL AGE OF 120 WHITNEY BOYS GETTING ALONG O.K. SAYS POUCE Bagdad, Mesopotamia, Dec. ♦ 26.-(Special) — What to do with 4 the •’Grand Old Man" of Zu ♦ beir was a problem that con ♦ fronted the new Arab regime in ♦ Mesopotamia when it displaced the rule of the Turks. The “Grand Old Man,” one Abu 8e- raith by name, who owns to the THREE »IE AH RESI I.T OF THE age of 120 years, finally solved DRINKING OF CHRISTMAS that question himself by taking WHISKEY a young Mesopotamian damsel to wife, He now has a post un der the minister of Awgaf, but is more or leas a pensioner in spite of hla physical vitality— he thinks nothing of walking a dozen or more miles a day to «pollane Man Shoots Himself After Basrah, For the past twenty Watching Family Open Presenta. year* his diet has consisted Another Hives Under Engine solely of bread, dates and milk. 4 SEVERAL COMMIT Now Outstanding obligations Which Must Be Met. Creditors Arc Slow Pay WHOLE NUMBER .*170. WEDNESDAY, DM!. 20. 1MB. Jt SUICIDE 4444444444444444 Washington, Dec. 26.— (I. N. S.) —About the best news the Amer ican taxpayer has received from the federal government recently was the announcement of Gerrard B. Win ston. assistant secretary of the treasury, that in less than 30 years most of the public debt of the United State*—now running well over *22,- 000,000,000—would be substantially retired. Winston announcement takes on added significance when It is pointed out that approximately one-third of the money collected by the govern ment in taxes each year goes to pay the interest on that big debt. If the treasury's calculations are correct, and they have been made under the direction of Secretary Mellon him self. the public debt of this country In 1953 will be very small in compar ison to the present figures; and the way will be definitely opened for a considerable reduction in federal tax ation. Before the World War the public debt totalled only about $1.000,000,- 000. There were some 2 per cent bonds maturing in 1930, a 4 per cent loan of 1930, and certain Panama Canal bonds then outstanding. The public debt Jumped at the beginning of the war, and the peak was reach ed in August, 1919, when the figure was more than $26.500,000,000. The last treasury statement put the debt nt 122.100,000,000, consist ing of $1,000,000,000 of pre-war debt, nearly $15,000,000,000 of 4 per cent Lilierty Bonds, $760.000,- 4100 4U per cent Treasury Bonds of 1947-52. $4.000,000,000 of Treas ury certificates maturing in less than a year, and $330.000,000 of Treas ury savings securities. Ever since the end of the war the treasury department has been hard at it in getting the public debt as low as possible. During the war the treasury carried a cash balance of $1.125.000,000 to take care of un expected large expenditures, When peace-time operations started this balance was too large, and it was used to reduce tho debt. Since then the debt has been reduced as fol lows; 1920, $1.185.000,000; 1921, $322,000,000; 1922, $1,014,000,- 000; 1923, $614,000,000—the fig- (Continued on Page Three) FRANK HAMPTON New York, Dec. 26.— ( a . P.) — U. H. MAIL SENT TO RUMANIA Three persons, two of them women TAMPERED WITH IN TRANSIT' Portland, Dec. 26.— (A. P.) —The police today received a wire from the Winnipeg con stable saying that there is no cause to worry about the mem bers of the Whitney Boys' Chorus, concerning whom par ents asked the police to inquire. ♦ ♦ 4 4 ♦ 4 4 4 444444444444444 4 AUSTRIA MAKING GOOD PROGRESS WITH FINANCES ¡».YEAR OLD YOUTH CLEANS UP HUGE HUM IN STOCKS AND SECURITIES Geneva, Dec. 26.— (A. P.)—The ■ league of nation has received an en couraging report from Vienna on the progress of the regeneration of Austria financially. One of the fea Directed to End All Speculative tures of the regeneration was an in Operations by Father After In ternational loan, secured by the Aus vestigation Had Been Made trian customs receipts and tobacco monopoly. . The league’s Vienna represents-1 New York. Dec. 26.—(A. P.) — tives report that during October the Lieut. Osborne C. Wood, 26 year* receipts from customs and tobacco j old, son of Governor General Wood, aggregated 276,000,000,000 paper .of the Philippines, has admitted the crowns, an increase over the average making of between *700,000 and monthly receipts of 87,000,000,000 $800,000 in speculation in Wall crowns. Street securities, conducted by cable If this income is maintained the from Manila, where he is aide to his total of loans issued or arranged for father, says a copyrighted dispatch will be thrice covered. to the New York Times today. DEPARTMENT MAKES PROBE over 60 years of age. are dead, two j Bucharest, Dec. 26.—(A. P.)— are in a critical condition, and over The Rumanian government is con-t 1 a score are in hospitals as a result . Des- vinced. after a searching investiga-_^18°n°U8 5hrls;”“ i pondent because Christmas held no tion, that theft* of currency and val uable documents from American and ’ ' cheer for them, two men committed Canadian mall to persons in Ru_ ( suicide and four others made unsuc- mania are committed before the ce88fu* attempts. mail reaches this country. The in- j Spokane, Wash., Dec. 26.— (A. P.) vestigatlon resulted from the nu merous complaints made by officials . —Fred E. Misselhorn died in a hos- I and individuals whose mail had been > pltal a* a result of shooting himself after watching his family open their tampered with. During the investigation a sack of ; Christmas presents. He was wor ried over business. An unidentified ( Owner of Pac|fl<--RedMOod Service registered mail, shipped on a British man shot himself to death in front of l Station in Portland steamship from an American port, ( i a hospital and another unidentified was opened in the presence of Amer |*nan threw himself beneath a loco- ican officials. The sack apparently i motive. Since he has been operating a ser was in perfect condition, but it was vice station just south of Grants Pass found that a number of the register- . where the Grants Pass-Crescent City ed letters had been opened in tran- ! pill fl highway leaves the Pacific highway. sit and some of the contents taken. UMLU L. C. Russell says that but one tour- The Rumanian government has ' asked the United States government Weather Bureau Kays Portland Will 1st has returned to express disap pointnsent. Thia tourist said: “I Get Frost to start inquiries in that country and _____ didn’t thing much of that hole in the with the steamship companies. Portland. Ore., Dec. 26.—(A. P.) ground." Mr. Rm BSell was at the | —The cold spell in the wake of the Multnomah yesterday. He told of storm Is forecast for tonight. Freez- a novel color scheme he carries out I ing weather in Portland is predicted among his employes. He has two j by the weather bureau. At Hood men at his garage, one black-haired River last night icy streets caused and one tow-headed. He has red Event* Said to be Excellent by Those ' numerous automobile wrecks. Kelso. dish-brown hair.. He says that if peo At Track Yesterday Washington, reported snow last ple do not like one color of hair they will find a color they do like. night. He makes it a point to be accom A small crowd witnessed some ex Christmas Weather Late— modating in other ways, and says citing races yesterday at the county | Grant* Pass almost hau a while .that tourists frequently return three fair grounds. Spectators at the Christmas. Following a frost Tues or four times before they leave event state that the races more than' day night, with the mercury at 28 southern Oregon; fis ___ ___ there are _ a surpassed expectations and some degrees, the snow started to fall and number of side trips to be made from lively contests were run. Several by morning had almost covered the strings of racing horses were on ground. The weather forecast is for Grants Pass. If their machine was fixed by the tow-head, they invariab hand and lively competition devel-j cold weather tonight. ly ask him to work on it again, and oped. The races are being held this j the same with the black and the red. afternoon, tomorrow afternoon and he claims that any man who pre Sunday afternoon, starting at 2:301 tends to forecast the possibilities of daily. A complete set of events is' tourist travel in the northwest is being run off each day. Portland Man Sets Fire Which Ends foolish. “It can’t be done," he as Davidson's string of racers won Fatally serted. “’Official figures show that the relay event, which was as speedy — on July 19. 1922, 1600 machines as can be seen on any track. York Portland, Ore., Dec. 26.— (A. P.) passed through Grants ’Pass on the was second and the Hoibrook-Mur- !—Otto W. ?rawford, 27. a logger, phy string third. Slats won the i was burned to death early today in Pacific highway. On the same day three-eighths, followed in by Circu 1 a padded cell in the police station, in 1923, a total of 2200 machines were counted. So long as prosperity late and Bacon. T. J. Armstrong which he set afire. He was brought won the pony race and Earl Topping to the station yesterday by a rela is general In the United States people took the saddle horse race. The tive on account of insanity. He was are going to flock to the Northwest, Roman race was won by Adams and violent throughout the night. With and they will come in greater num bers after those who have been here the Chariot race by Redsull. ' one match, overlooked when he was have spread word of the wonders ¡searched, he set the fire. that are to ‘be seen in Oregon, and the softness and beauty of the clim LIEUT. RALPH E. DAVISON ate and land.”—Oregonian. RUSSELL BOOSTS FOR COUNTRY SPELL IS FORECAST New York. Dec. 26.—-(A. P.) — Lieutenant Wood's financial opera tions were made the subject of a war department investigation says the New York Times. “It has been learned, also, on the best author ity,” says the Times, “that the de partment found nothing whatever in the transactions of the young army officer to call for a censure, but that the department did strongly advise him to stop his speculating at once and that a communication on the subject passed between the depart ment and Major General Wood, who directed his son and aide to end ail speculative operations. The advice and command were immediately re sponded to.” BOXING MATCH IS CHAN6ED Illegal to Hold Bout Outside of the < Htj So Will Be At W. O. W. Hall Because they ran afoul of a state law which prevents the holding of boxing matches outside of a city, the management of the bouts which were to have been held at the coun ty fair grounds tonight has changed the meeting place. The bouts are now scheduled for the W. O. W. hall at 9 o’clock sharp tonight, under the supervision of the municipal boxing commission, which must direct all such matches. The card tonight consists of two main events. One is a 10-round fistic go between Jimmy Dougan, of Grants Pass, and K. O. Owens, of Brookings. Local fans are giving Dougan a little the edge of the fight as his record shows 27 knockouts in 34 battles. The other is a wrestling bout between Young Barrett of this city and Bud Shults, of Rogue River. Both matches will be good as the boys are prepared to give the best they have, in an effort to help bring these athletic contests back into favor. Twenty-five Per Cent Increase Seen Over Previous Record According to reports in Washington, Frank Hamptj.y, secretary to 8en. ator F. M. Simmon* of North Carolina, I* to have charge of th* campaign of William Qlbba McAdoo. Grants Pass people had a bigger Christmas than ever before. Either that is the case or there are many more people in the city than in previous years, as incoming mail was 25 per cent heavier than at any time in the history of the town. Mail be gan getting heavy the middle of last week and by Sunday night was as suming huge proportions. The postoffice was rushed to get out the packages, but by noon Tuesday had delivered or attempted delivery on nearly every piece that had arrived. Tuesday morning five cars and 11 men were called into action. The trains on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning had piled the post- office so full of mall that it was al most Impossible to get around. By noon Tuesday this had been put out of the way and the clerks were given a chance to enjoy the Christmas af ternoon at home, in accordance with the regulations sent out by the de partment this year. Monday night the whole force worked until 10 o'clock distributing the parcels. F' fig w c : - Lieut. Ralph E. Davison, American naval aviator, ha* be*n selected from 30 volunteer* to pilot on* of the three plane* making up the squadron which will attempt next summer to traverse the Arctic region*. They will be com. mended by Capt. Roald Amundsen. Geneva, Dec. 26.— (A. P.)—Some 30 countries have already signed the convention for the simplification of customs formalities which was re cently elaborated at Geneva at an in ternational conference, and copies of the treaty have been forwarded to the United States government for its general information. An American delegation was present at the confer ence, though it took no active part and did not vote. The convention marks progress in what League of Nations officials call the codification of International law, which is now being undertaken step by step by the league. Already about two score conventions have been drafted through the machinery of the league. Seventeen of these concern the protection of labor. Three touch the freedoin of communications and transit, and others provide for the creation of the world court pf Jus tice. the inclusion of arbitration clauses in commercial contracts, the prevention of traffic in obscene pub lications and the suppression of traf fic in women and children, common ly known as the white slave traffic. In addition to these general con ventions several specific instruments of far reaching importance have been negotiated through the league. The most notable of these is the docu ment which provided for the finan cial reconstruction of Austria. Publicity of all tariffs and customs formalities is the fundamental note of the customs convention. Of gen eral interest is the engagement to simplify and make more uniform the rapid delivery of merchandise through customs houses, and the quick inspection of traveller«’ bag gage. Furthermore, the contracting states promise to limit as far a* pos sible the cases where certificate* of origin are obligatory In connection with the Importation of good*.
