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\ \ ♦ J I I II ^0 __Grant« Pass—Gateway to the Oregon Cave» VOL. XIV., No. 207. GRANTS PASH, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, Ifliil. WHOLE NIMBER 3.101. ----------------- —.... — FLYERS Ml BRITISH AVIATOR Gtu'" IN AKYAB, BURMA, TODAY FLOOD LIGHTING WILL BE USED BY LONDONERS ♦ ♦ London. May 21.—(I. N. S.) ♦ —Flood-lighting of London ♦ from great towers 500 feet in ♦ height. In place of the existing ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Sluitiglinl. May 21.—(A. P i —Ktunrt Macharen, th« British aviator flying around the world, arrived at Akyab, Burma. today from (ialcuttu, mild a dispatch. ♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ V A London, May 21.—(A. I’.) — Mag netic landing fields for airplanes are forecuHl by Prof. A M. Low, noted British sclentlHt. Airplane« of the future. Prof. Low predicts, will lie able to use n lunding place but little bigger than their own dimensions by landing on "magnetic’’ ground, which will pull Hie plane to rest uh u magnet attracts nulls. In the event of magnetic binding fields being found Imprac- ticul for nil purposes, I'rof. Low I Hays, the problem of lunditig in a A unanimous onnsent was reached small space will lie solved by i|ec- today by the conferees on the tax re trie ulr brakes. duction bill. The Simmons demo The <luy Is not far distant, Prof cratic rate schedule, providing for a LOW believes, when a swift, safe 40 per cent maximum surtax and a nirplune will be obtalnuble for *250. 5o per cent reduction in normal taxes on incomes under *3,000 was accepted. The senate amendment« providing full publicity of tux re Millions of Feet of Tlmlwr Sold by turns and a tax on undistributed corporation profita were rejected. Bi-part merit The republican leaders expressed Washington, May 21.—(A. P.) — the hope that the bill as now framed Awards covering the sale of approx would meet the president's approval. imately 310,000,000 feet of ripe tim ber in the Klamath Indian reserva FINES ARE APPLIED tion, Oregon, were made today at IN RENI! BONI'S CASES the interior department, involving which approximately *1,500,000, Portlunil, Ore., Muy 21. — (A. P.) will go to the Klamath tribe. —H. J. Overturf was fined *1.000 system of Individual lighting, Is suggested by a public body of lighting engineers junt con- atituted here. The theory iu to floor! th«- whole of the inner area of the city with artificial light after nightfall l»y powerful constel lations of electric lights fixed on high column« of steel placed at eight different points. It i« contended that this sys tem will nave an enormous amount and prevent the huge waste of illumination caused by the rays from nmull individ mil lutnpn hitting the sides of shops and houses before their fullest power hu« been exhausted. ------------ ERROR OF 1OO VOTES FOUND OFFICIAL OU ST IN WASH INGTON COUNTY Seattle, May 21.— (A. P.) — Sheriff Starwfch stated today that the plot for three score prisoners to escape from the county jail had been foiled by the discovery of six saws and several spoons yesterday in the ♦ cell. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ OBSCENE ROOK TRAFFIC TREATY IS RATIFIED RATE SCHEDULE IS ADOPTED LEW INCREASED 100 VOTES DIARIES WERE SPIRITED AWAY KLAMATH TIMBER IS SOLD SITE GIVEN FOR BUILDING POULTRY 4 MEN TO MEET BANQUET ROOM IS BUILT CAVES BOOKLET IS PUBLISHED QUARANTINE TO BE ENFORCED r 4« DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REI’. RESENTATIVES SOUGHT TO FRAME HEAB Geneva, May 21.—(A. P.)—The Irish Free State, which was elected a member of the League of Nations last September, has just ratified its ♦ Plan to Slop nt Kuidilro or Minuto Now Has 24MI Votes to Good in Con first league convention. Michael Accusations Made by Men Called ♦ Io Gel Additiounl Supplies. test for Democratic Nomination Upon to Testify Before Senate McWhlte, the permanent Irish rep ♦ Will Iti' tin Meli, I h I uiu I For U H. Senator Daugherty Probers resentative here, has informed tl.e ♦ secretariat that the Dublin govern ♦ ment has officially approved the Portland. Ore., May 21.— (A. P.) treaty for the suppression of the Aboard the Destroyer John Washington. May 21.—(A. P.l — ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ - .Milton A. Miller took a jump of traffic in obscene publications. Forti. Kushlro. Japan. Muy 21 (A. The senate Daugherty committee 100 votes in a close race with W. H. P.l Tli<> Americun uround the Ruchdi Bey, the Turkish minister was told today that representatives MARRIAGE QUICKLY ENDS Strayer for the Democratic nomina at Berne, also has notified the of the department of justice not world flyers hope to start from Hl- THIRTY YEAR ROMANCE tion for United States senator today, league that he has been authorized only had sought to “frame Senator tokappu buy. In the Kurile Inlands. Thursday morning nt duyllght unti Cincinnati. Ohio, May 21.— <1. N. bringing his lead to 260, as the re to sign thi» convention in behalf of Wheeler’’, the committee prosecu fly tn Kusiinilguurn. 50 miles north S.)—After thirty years a courtship sult of the discovery of an error in Turkey. Turkey is expected to ap tor, but had spied on the committee the unofficial returns from W’ash- ply for league membership as soon members and its witnesses, and had west of Toklo. in one duy, stopping which began in childhood landed on ington county, The revised totals as the great powers have completed t spirited away the famous diaries of either at Kualllro or Minuto. Jupnn. a reef here recently when Mra. Ida stand 1664 of the state's 1 763 pre- their ratification of the Lausanne Gaston B. Means, working with it as to refuel, Thia la n hop of about SOO a divorce Mae'Holison, 41. obtained icincts, Miller 10549 and Strayer treaty. miles. an investigator. One of the witness from Frederick Holison. 10289. es was W. O. Duckstein, who said ho "I met lioliHon when I was only , knew about the whole proceedings Tok Io,\ May 21.—(A. P.)-—Gar- nine years old." Mrs. Hobson told : Portland, Ore., May 21.—(A. P.) GAS PLANT INSPECTION because his wife is a secret agent in bled message* the court, “He courted me until | received yesterday —iReturns from 1681 precincts tab- ON COAST WILL BE MABE the department. He said she iden by the AuHoclatcd Press from Mln- four years ago. when I finally con-1 ulated at noou today, gave Miller tified Means’ records in his pres ato, 35o miles north of Toklo. indi sented to marry, Our happiness was | 10,567 and Strayer 10,303. Miller’s ence after they had been secured by cated Hint the Americun armj short lived, He deserted me even- Medford, Or., May 21.—Special) lead is 264. a ruse. ings, and I spent every holiday nround-thc-world flyers hsd arrived —It was announced here today that alone.” there from Yctorofu Island, their the officials of the Souhern Orego« sei-oud landing place in the Kurile Extreme cruelty was the charge (las company have decided to make GRATER LAKE HIGHWAY islands. Official dispatches to the upon which the decree was granted. -, once ____ a . . tour ___ of ... inspection :_____ ..... of al! „1. IS DI'STY DUSTY FOR O1 OPENING at Japanese navy department and Charles Carroll. James Ryan Hobson did not appear in court. today, the gas company’s plants between however stated thnt the aviators anil Charles Haines were fined $500 Democrats Endorse Him For Presi Medford and Victoria, B. C.., after Medford, Ore., May 21.— (A. P.) Were «1111 at Yctorofu, where they each In the feiierul court today In RlILROlil PRESIDENT HAB dential Nomination which they will meet with the other —Unless there are rain or snow SECRET STREET STAIRWAY were detained by stormy weather. the Bend bonus case. stockholders at San Francisco to de storms between now and July 1st, Southern Pacific Offers Ijiml for The navy department wan Inform St. Maries, Idaho. May 21.—(A. cide whether or not to build a new the opening of the Crater Lake sea Exhibit Room in Rullnuol Park Boston. May 21.—(I. N. S.)—' P.)—The ed Hint un attempt would lie made Idaho democratic state son, it is possible that for the com When wreckers dismantled the old, convention early toda y adopted a *150,000 plant. to hop off from Yctorofu early thin Aftr*F"mwch negotiation with tho station of the Boston A- Maine Rail-' fort of visiting autos to the Crater morning If the weather showed signs i resolution endorsing the candidacy Southern Pacific company, a site for National park the Medford and road, built here in 1870. they dis-! of becoming favorable. , of McAdoo tor the democratic pres- the exhibit building has rftally been Three-Day ÜMMiion Will Be H(‘l<l lit Klamath entrance roads may have covered a secret railway leading Corvallis in .Inly idential nomination without instruc grunted on railroad property, tho to be sprinkled quite a distance from leading from the president’s office! ting the states eight votes in the northeast corner of Sixth and G either entrance. GUARD WILL NOT GO Poultrymen of Josephine county, to a blind alley. Carefully conceal convention to be cast for him. streets having been granted for the ed behind false walls, thousands of Al Martineau Starts Work on I ni While there is no official intima TO CALIFORNIA THIS YEAR purpose. This places the exhibit who attended the economic confer- tion or hint to this effect, the above employes of the company did not provenient ât Josephine Hotel ence at Corvallis last January, will building committee In a position to I presumption arises from the fact note with pleasure that their sug suspect the stairway's existence. Its Salem, Ore.. May 21.—(A. P.F- »tart work on the financing and con purpose, presumably was to enable that it is known that a telephone re gestion of a three-day poultry con An improvement which has been port was received yesterday fore Governor Tierce, In a letter pre struction. The committee states the railway executives to escape un vention at Corvallis this summer 1 Copies May Be Obtained by Applica badly needed by the people of pared here Inst night anil addressed that this position Is excellent lie noon at the Crater National Park been adopted and will be held on welcome callers. tion at Forestry Office Grants Pass was started this morn to George A. White, adjutnnt-gen- cause of the «hade trees and lawn office here that for quite a distance July 23rd, 24th and 25th. ing by A! J. Martineau at the Jose ernl, announced that members of the which are already there and because the roads of the Medford and Klam VETERANS TOLII HOW TO Many of the poultry men of I the with Copies of a booklet dealing phine hotel. This is to be a ban ath entrances are as dry now as Oregon national guard would not lie of the fact that there will lie ample FIGI RE I P BONI S county who are anxious to keep up the Oregon Caves in southern Ore- quet room, apart from the regular allowed to hold their nnnuiil encamp parking space for any number of they were in August'last year. to date on all matters of interest ; in gon have just been received at the dining room of the hotel where clubs ment Hila yenr nt Monterey, Cal., be- cars. Superintendent C. G. ' Thomson , Washington. May 21. — A veteran their line will undoubtedly want to District Forester's office in Port and conventions can meet In privacy. A large amount of work wan <nuse of the foot and mouth dl«ea«e had not intended to go to Crater may determine the amount of his, it take in this poultry convention, land. hotel will The new addition to the Hint is raging In certain sections of necessary to get the permit for the Lake again until the middle or lat- , bonus in this way: This is the first publication issued cost in the neighborhood of $5,000 building on account of the failure of lielng the first of its kind in the the southern state. ter part of the week, but it Is known Figure up the number of days of state. by the Government on “the Marble as it is to be fixed up in first class The governor said he based his several exhibit buildings In other that on receiving this report he left service. For each day of home ser Halls of Josephine County” for style, The contract was let Tues- decision on reports received from cities of the »tale. E. L. King, su at once for the park and will not vice above the first 60 days $1 will which there has long been a need, day to Stephenson and Green and 11. T. Simms, head of the veterinary perintendent of the lines in Oregon, return from there until Saturday. be allowed in adjusted service credit] ¡especially since this attraction was work was under way this morning. S. Rosenbaum, district department of Oregon Agricultural and A. and for each day of overseas service' opened up by the completion in The banquet room, phich will college, who ia now 111 California, freight and passenger agent, worked Stat,- Board Attempt* to Prevent above 60 days $1.25 will be given. 1922 of the 'Forest Service road to have a seating capacity of 150, opens San Francisco, May 21.— (A. P.) and Dr. W. II. Lytle, alate veterin hard for the proposition and it was Spread of Rallies If this adjusted service credit these caverns. The booklet is an off the main lobby of the hotel. It —A sudden heavy demand for dried arian and secretary of the state due to their labors thnt the permit doesn’t amount to more than *50 *11 at(raCive one containing sixteen connects with the kitchen so that fruit has come to central California Various livestock sanitary board. The gov was given, it Is stated. Tlie quarantine on dogs, recently will be paid in cash. Otherwise an pages, two maps and seventeen illus- only a small amount of work will be from Germany. Since January 1 ernor liaa auggested that the guard«- members of the Grants Pans Wom established in this county by order insurance policy will be given. The |trations. It is the first complete needed to get it in operation, the German imports of dried prunes, men be sent to Camp Lewi« for the an's Club have expressed their ap of the state livestock sanitary board, approximate value of this policy and authoritative publication ever is contractors estimating that 30 days peaches and apricots have been in proval' of the site. 1924 encampment. will be strictly maintained, it was may be determined by adding 25 perj sued on this great scenic attraction will be consumed in the work. Three creasingly heavy. Before the war stated today by tho county court cent to the amount of credit due and from any source. The Oregon Caves' walls of the building are already up Germany was one of California’s and the sheriff's office. The law multiplying the total by about 2*4-j i are coming to be one of the leading and only the fourth wall and the heaviest buyers of fruit, but in re provides that dogs must be kept tied Thus it a veteran served 400 days! tourist attractions of the State, for roof, with the needed flooring, must cent years her purchases dropped or muzzled, unless they have been at home after the first 60 days, he est officers say. virtually to zero. be installed. vaccinated as required against the would be entitled to a policy valued The circular contains information ratites, which is now known to exist at *400 plus $100 (25 per cent of on the history of the Oregon Caves] in the county. The order was ef the amount) multiplied by 2H. or| National Monument, geology and fective on May 12. $1250. accomo- formation of the Caves, the - ■ - - a The disposition of matters vital Dogs caught without the tax show Grund Rapids, May 21.— (A. P.) — I dations to be found there. how to Nearly 1,000 commissioners from ly related to the doctrine of the ing vaccination or a muzzle will be ; reach the Caves, the special features church, particularly in connection taken up and killed, it was stated every stale In the Union, officially ] to be seen, rules governing visitors. with the report whihch the Presby today. Only those dogs actually en ,a complete bibliography, and what representing the 299 Presbyteries of tery of New York will make to the gaged in herding cattle or sheep are I University of Oregon Will llnve is said to be the first published the denomination, wilt attend the General Assembly Large Class Los Angeles, May 21.— (I. N. S.) starting May 27 and continuing until by direction of excluded and these must I be lie kept | lists of rare trees, plants, animals General Assembly of the Presbyteri the General Assembly of a yoar ago. —During the last week of May and June 2. tied when not in use. Notices are an church in the U. S. A. at Grand’ This involves the preaching of Dr. Eugene, Ore.. May 21.— (A. P.) and birds found in the Siskiyou Na Close on the heels of this conven being posted throughout the county the first two weeks in June the eyes Rapids, Mich., beginning May 22 Harry Emerson Fogdick, a Baptist, will tional Forest. The bird and animal — The University hf Oregon tion come three others. The Cali this week in an effort to give due lists were prepared by Stanley G. of the women of the world will be fornia Federation of Women’s Clubs and extending through May 28 or In the pulpit of the First Presbyter notlco of the action which will be graduate 210 persons from the 25 Jowett of the V. S. Biological Sur focused upon Los Angeles and vi , is also to have a two-day session in 29. This will be the 136th annual ian church of New York City. j schools and departments in June, j taken. It is not desired that the cinity, when five large meetings ol Pasadena, starting May 30. national congress of the denomina This The annual reports of the four sheriff's office lie forced into the ' according to figures issued recently vey. Copies of this booklet may be ob women’s organizations and one gi- iconvention is usually the high light tion, which is sometimes erroneous new boards of Foreign Missions, at the university. The school of killing of any dogs, but it was given tained at the Caves, from the “Cave gantic convention—the biennial of of the club year, but has been forced ly referred to us the "northern’’ National Missions, Christian Educa out that tho quarantine is to be education leads the list of schools men” and the Forest Supervisor at the General Federation of Women’s ; into the background this year be Presbyterian Church, but which Is tion and Pensions, showing the pro and departments with 27 who are made effective and to do this in or Grants Pass, or from the District Clubs—that is expected to bring at cause of the demands of the biennial. not in any way northern or section gross made uuder the reorganization expected to receive degrees. The de der to protect human life, stringent least 8.000 delegates to the city, will al. The national convention 1 of the partment of English comes next Forester at Portland. of the 1 (I boards and agencien into terms must be employed. be held. Daughters of the British Empire is with 23. Outstanding features of the busl- four. On May 23 and 24 the California to take place May 29, 30 and 31 in General The list of schools and depart ne«s of the Presbyterian plat's tor a groat Progress of section of the League of Women Los Angeles. ments with the number bf students Assembly will be: Presbyterian Center in Washington. Voters will hold its annual conven Also on May 30 and 31 comes the graduating front each Is as follows: Reports of severul interdenomina The opening sermon by the rotir- tion here. At this meeting the wo annual State convention of the Ing Moderator, Dr. Charles Freder tional movements of cooperation Fann I «»an Board Funds t'scd Architecture 4, fire arts 1, normal Aviator Dies in Auto Accident nt men expect to reelect the present American Association of University arts 2, botany 6, business adminis Melbourne union, including a plan for Wrongly Is Ciaim ick Wishart of Wooster, Ohio, and roster of officers—Miss Marlon De Women. tration 18, chemistry 2, drama and merging Congregat onal, IReformed which Is expected to sound the key Important as all these conven- Melbourne. Australia, May 21.— laney of San Francisco, as presi-' Washington, May 21.— (A. P.) — speech arts 2, economics 18, educa note for the 10,000 churches of the and Presbyterian bodoies. dent; Mrs. Mollie Bloom Flagg, of . tions are they are only the shadow tion 27, English 23. geology 3, Ger (A. P.) — Captain Andrew Lang, Plans for tho reduction of the The account maintained by former denomination) against divisive for chairman Charles II. Lobdell, of the man 2, history 10, journalism 13, holder of the world’s airplane alti I>ancaster, treasurer, and Mrs. Ar cast before the big event—the bien ces which have been active in some size of General Assembly. Dr. W. R. Patterson, comptroller farm loan board In a local bank, was law 9, mathematics 5. medicine 6, j tude record, was killed this morning thur S. Heinemann, of Los Angeles, nial gathering of the General Feder quarters the past year and In favor ation of Women's Clubs, which will of the Presbyterian Central Receiv used “at times” as a slush fund, music 12. physical education (wom when the auto in which he was rid as secretary. of harmony and peace. meet here from June 2 to 14. Be The fourteenth annual convention' Senator Howell, republican, of Ne-I ing, crashed into a fence in a dense en) 11, physical education (men) 1. , ing Agency, will report the year ’ s Moderator, The election of a new romance fog. Lang was driving auto in a of the Drama League of America sides representatives from all over He must be chosen from among the gifts tor 'benevolences as totalling braska, charged in the senate, con physics 1, psychology 2. and the first "Little Theatre Con-j North America, delegates will com« commissioners actually registered $8,815,887.30, a net increase of * 1 ,- tinuing his opposition to the four languages 11. sociology 13, zoology 24-hour test. He is the nephew of I«- I ference” will take place In Pasadeaa from several European countries. Andrew Lang, the English author. | 354,4-87.92 over the previous year. pending nominations to the board. and sitting. WILL STOP FOR REFUELING » ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ I NANIMOIS CONSENT IS AR ♦ RIVED AT TODAY ON TAX ♦ .MEASURE ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Hlnillloii« Di-nue rulli- Itine I’rogriim ♦ ♦ I m Accepted—P io , irle» Illg Be- ♦ ireiiM- in Amount« i’nld ♦ ♦ ♦ Washington. Muy 21.—(A. P.)— ♦ MILLER TAKES KING COUNTY CONVICTS FOILED IN ESCAPE PLOT 210 WILL BE GRADUATED SLUSH FUND IS CHARGED RECORD HOLDER IS KILLED f
