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9 4 9 OX*1’ V’ > Grants Pass—Gateway to the Oregon Cavee r-' ■ ,1 1 I ■ VOL. XIV., No. 27.1. GRANTS PASH. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON. GARAGE FIRE iS FATAL TO ONE IN WASHINGTON OF ALIENISTS IS ATTACKED ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Rhclton, Wash., Aug. 11.—— (A. P.)--Fatally burned In a Murage fire at Shelton yester day, William Livingston. 44, succumbed during the night FIRST TOOTH DOES NOT ENTHÜSE--DIVORCE ASKED ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ EUROPE AIMiPTH HMOKING OF AMERICAN TfNH(NN) WHOI.K M Mlini XVIO. MONDAI, Al Gl HT II. IWI. l»s Angeles, Aug. IL—<1. N. H.)—Thirteen yours ago lit tle Alfred Ix*e Pen nl n Kt on hud hin first tooth The boy's father. Charles D. Pennington didn't enthuse. The boy’s mother, Nellie Lee Pennington, nursed resentment In her heart for 13 years. Now she is suing her hus band for divorce, alleging no greater cruelty could lx- Imag ined than the aloof attitude of Pennington when Alfred I me cut his Mrth Kxffh. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ICE IS FOUND SOUTH DAKOTA NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR KILLED ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. 11. — (A. P. »-—Andrew S. Ander- son. democratic nominee for governor of South Dakota, was gored lo death today on his farm near Beresford. S. D. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ TO INTERFERE ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦4 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ SIXTEEN LABOR CONVENTIONH ( RE »TED BY GENEVA Bl'liEAU PREHIDE.NT ANSWERS LETTER FRENCH PREMIER TAKES IP ♦ ItAI.EIGH REPORTS DENSE FOG AND HE III MMÍMK IN EX- MUTER WITH MTREHEMIN ♦ OF PROTRHT OVER NEGRO Washington, Aug. 11. —(A. I*.I ♦ l*M>RATION OF GERMANY POLITI« IAN ♦ ♦ Geneva, Aug. 11.—( A. P.»— Be- American Ingenuity, In developing I fore the World War and as a result ♦ ♦ the European taste away from Turk-, ♦ ♦ *!sh brands of tobacco In favor of the' I of generations of effort, only two ♦ ♦ international labor conventions had American product, has developed a ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦a ♦ great field for the sale of American been adopted, but since the war 16 international Instruments have been tobacco In foreign countries. IRELAND GIVES Hl'BHIIHES FOR T. U Hughes, chief of the tobac elaborated through the machinery of Hohls That Equal Rights Arr Guar- liiTriiM«« l*h|MciN io IU*«*1 TtiU .liter« Vol to Ik* Taken I'nlil All < ourw* New Hope Put In NegoHaton* l<y the co section of the commerce depart Surre« of Coti ferrare Which Will ACRES PLANTED TO TREES of Ai l ion Have IU n ’ ii lx»okc<l Into. the International labor office of the iioon Willi rriHM*«ulioii Taking anteed to All Citizens, IkMpifc league of Nations. ment. In a statement summarizing ■ Hight Vol To Ik* Called Off End Yeti Thursday I !• Filini l’art of Itrnring Rare or Color in Statement Dublin, Aug. 11.- (A. P.l .Ijist1 his observations on u recent tour of! The two pre-war conventions cov-i year the Free State government! 11 European countries, said he found ered the questions of night work for planted 4.000.000 trees on 1.098 Chicago. Aug. 11.— I A. P I—The it greatly Increased demand for cl-1 women and the use of white phos-' Reykjavik. Iceland, Aug. 11. — (A. 1-ondon, Aug. 11. — (A. I I».» — Pre- Washington. Aug. 11,—LA. P.l — state todAy attacked the theory of Karaites. Consumption, he explain-, mler Harriot, of France, and For- acres of land and proposes this year; P. I—The United States cruiser Ra phorus the manufacture of match Replying to a letter of protest functional disorders of the endoc ed, had Increased In Germany from I | elgn Minister Ktresemann, of Ger to plant 1.000 acres es. Recent weeks have shown a leigh, exploring the east coast of against the candidacy of a negro in The minister of agriculture des-! rine glands, set up Haturduy by the 11 billion In I»13. to 23 billion In the I Greenland, seeking a landing place marked increase in the number of New York state for’congress. Presi i many, conferred late today on I crlbed Ireland as perhaps the worst! defense In a plea for the mitigation I»23. The Increase In other coun evacuation ot the Ruhr valley. ratifications of conventions adopted I for the American world fliers, today dent Coolidge today expressed his wooded country in the world. The of the punishment ot Richard la>el> tries has been proportional. America I reported to Rear Admiral Magruder by the various post-war internation "amazement" at the suggestion that establishment of peasant proprietary and Nathan F Leopold. Jr. States produces about 35 percent of th«» i that she was in a dense fog »0 miles al labor conferences, the total now he Interfere. He reaffirmed his In London. Aug 11.— (A. P )—The has helped to deforest the country. Attorney Crowe, cross-examining world's total tobacco crop. east by southeast, of Angmafcsalik. being 130. ullied and German experts attached tention of administering the consti It was said in the Dail that the first! Dr. II H. Hulbert, th« fourth and to the international reparations con and had encountered many floating tution. which he pointed out "guar ¡thing a farmer did on getting hls| last z»f the defense alienists, sought 1 icq hummocks. ference have reached a full agroe- antees equal rights to all our «in I.S< APED CONVICT IM to impeach his testimony by bring vested was to cut down the tim-j , The next leg of the American i Dawes program, They 1 Hand zens without discrimination on ac- her. Id MATED IN HE ATTI,R mint on the ing »tit that Dr. Hulbert had been remained In session until 3 o < ’clock ’ world flight will not be attempted.! count of race or color. too busy to 'make some of bls nu The government Is inviting the this morning lo arrive at an under- I until all courses ot action have Iteen I * county committees of agriculture t merous tests and had relied upon the Salem. Ore., Aug. 11.—(A. P.) — standing on the reparations pa y- “ considered from every point of view. Ernst Kroner, ot Portland. Heads words of others. Crowe's delving set aside a certain sum for forestry State Forces for Campaign Fred Howard, a convict who escaped ments in kind, The French I pre- ' and the best possible decision is * Into the endocrine gland theory was and will make a grant of «100 for from the prison flax fleltLon August mler's return, with his cabinet's ap i reached. cut short by the noon recess. The 1. was apprehended Saturday In Se proval of his Ruhr evacuation policy, «very acre used for growing trees This announcement was contained Chicago. Aug. 11.—(A. P.) — defense expected to rest and the state attle according to word received here put new hope Into the negotiators ! in an official statement issued on Ernst Kroner, of Portland, has been local Member» Attenti < demonial lute today to begin presenting the lost night from the chief of police of and British observers believe the con named Oregon state manager of the at Convention long list of rebuttal witnesses, In the northern city. With the capture ference will end on Thursday. The I-aFollette campaign and John G. truding four alienists. ¡vessels, which Is patroling the Ballain. of Seattle, for Washington. of Howard only two of the convicts evacuation of the Ruhr district was Muscovites of Grants Pass attend who rst-uprd remuln at large—Davis being consider late this afternoon al Mislfortl hrigation District Would , ourse of the fliers. John W. Nelson, national IztFollette ed the ceremonial at North Bend, Chicago, Aug. 11. — 4 A. PJ Stop Diversion of Mater 1*here is no question of calling off campaign manager, announced to Nathan I,eo|>old. Jr..(Wanted to kid Pen well, Howard's cotnpuulon, und'the allies' conference. ■over the weekend and report one of ¡the flight because ot the ice condi- day. nap a little girl, nttaz-k her. and kill W. A. Anderson, on« of the four who the best meetings of the year. Ful Medford, Ore., tAug. 11. — An ac- j tions, the statement said, and in the NEW EN(;|,AND RADIO her In preference to selecting young escaped from the brick yard ly 75 of the members of the local tlon involving tho water of Bear| O p| n | un „( Admiral Magruder, in TO JOIN STATION M Itizbert Franks, who became a victim Kremlin and their ladies made the creek for Irrigation purposes in Ash-1 command of the naval squadron, the Si — The Boston, Aug. 11.—(1. N. of him and Richard la>eh, Dr. Hul trip Saturday, the majority return- bert. defense alienist, testified this I PCinU CCK MCUI MCliDCDQ biggest radio broad« anting progra tin land, to reduce the drain on the city! night will be completed succeoafully, ing Sunday night while a few re l UIUH UtlO HtW mtrnDLIld ever ,,_er undertaken un,.„taken In this nart of the ti water supply, hag just been tiled In barring possible accidents, L part ot afiernsMui * • - few more days at country will open New England the circuit court at Jacksonville by "The possibility that the weather! All of Ashland Creek Watershed Is mained over for a the coast. FORTV MILLION IN II YDS week on September 15, according to the Medford Irrigation district and lnay change suddenly after the next Included in Order OE I’OWIIEll III'll NED Granta Pass Post 1« Mucccssful in present plans. The North Bend people I showed the Rogue River Canal company |eK „f the flight is started.” Admiral Membership Drive Nashville. Tenn. Aug. 11.—(A. the visitors a real time. 5 Yesterday All the larger radio stations .wilt I against the Talent Irrigation district | Magruder said, "is a factor that may The closing of three more national P. I—Forty-five million pounds of Im hooked together by land wires, so and Fred N. Cummings, water mas- cause failure, but by using the best forest regions has just been announc a sea-food picnic was held on the beach, with 500 in attendance. The powder were destroyed l>y fire at the Grants Pass (Post No. 28, of the that the same program will be broad ter. An order of estoppel is sought, judgment, our army world fliers will ed by District Forest Geo. H. Cecil, ceremonial on Saturday night was a Old Hickory powder plant near here A water right was granted in 1854 I succeed in reaching Labrador. After Portland, Ore. cast simultaneously. today. The loss, on the basis of pres American Imgion, came through i the big success with 83 being initiated. This will include addresses by for the powA for the old flour mill that the legs are short and easy.” On the Mount Hood national for The Lady 'Muscovites put 75 initiates ent prices Is estimated at more thun. week of their "drive” with 23 new Governor Cox. of Massachusetts; nt Phoenix. The Medford Irrigation Lieutenant Smith and his com- est. that portion of the Barlow creek members for the organization. 1' ‘osta 18.000.000. Governor Baxter, of Maine; Gover- district and co-defendant assert they rades are considering three possibil- watershed lying in Secs. 28 and 33 through their paces. The work was throughout the state were puttlug The powder wus manufactured for nor Proctor, of Vermont; Governor acquired this waler right—22 sec- Jties for the next lap of their journey. of Twp. 3 S.. R. 9 E. and Secs. 1, put on by the state team. The local the federal government during the on membership drives during the I Flynn, of Rhode Island, and Gover Ind ifeet—and that defendants are ¡The first is based on the Raleigh's patrol took part in the parade. 2. 3. 4, 11. 12. 13 and 14. Twp. 4 war at a coat of approximately week to compete for the Hanford nor Templeton, of Connecticut, in holding it back by storage at the finding a safe haven on the Green- The Muscovites are now resting S.. R. 9 E.. W. M . is closed. McNIder trophy and the members «22.500,000. up so that they can take part in the some cases these men will speak Emigrant creek dam. no»- in course land coast. On the Crater National Forest, the Machinery and buildings erected of the local post went into the work front the stale capltopi. which will of construction, preparatory to di-! The second would In» a flight to entire watershed of Ashland creek ceremonial at Klamath Falls in Sep by the government during the war with vigor. They brought 'the mem be connected by tand wire to Me verting It through a 14-mile ditch Angmagsalik harbor, which is free lying within the national forest, is tember. The local team will put on at a cost of more than I5.000.000 bership up to 120 In the county and chanics Building. In Boston. Herbert for irrigation purposes on the south of ice. and taking on fuel there by the work at that time. closed. also were destroyed by the flames, expect to get several more before Hoover, secretary of commerce, prah- portion of the Talent project. mean« of the Richmond and RBleigìi. I The entire Wallowa National for the present week ends. which swj'pt over an area of 40 ucres alAy will be a speaker also. On the other side of the argument The third is a non-stop flight from est is closed, except at designated The I-eglon, and thu Red Cross, ( In the heart of the plnnt. it Is alleged that the main source of Reykjavik to Iglvtut. or a base near camp grounds. represented by i.Mrs. Jennie iMoss, supply for the Medford Irrigation | Cape Farewell. The lafter place is in Oregon Seven National Forests helpqd over 125 men to fill out their district is from the lAttle Butte 780 miles from Reyjavik and such a and four in Washington now have application blanks for the adjusted creek, and that the Bear creek wa-: flight entails the possibility of hav- regions cldsed to camping, smoking, Alleged Insane Patient anil Burglar Oklahoma and South Dakota Start Chicago Woman Wins Western Golf compensation provided by the gov- Makes Get Away ter Is ibut supplementary. The case ing to take on fuel at sea from the I or use of matches under tresspass Itoa.l Work ernment. From five to eight lx*glon- < liant pionsh l|> will he tried at the September term cruiser Raleigh. regulations of the department. Since naires were on band every night Chicago. Aug. 11.—(A. P.l—Ok Klamath Falls. Aug. 11.—(A. P.l nnnTi sunrnn iimi nnur urnr | new areas are closed from time to Chicago. Aug. It.—I A. p.i— during the past week to offer their, lahoma and South Dakota, two states pf court. Dean, held as a California — Albert ! time, as emergency conditions arise, Edith Cummings, of Chicago, today assistance In the work, 'Later in the i nofed in the past by automobile Famed East Indian Is ( , travellers should call at local su- escaped insane patient, and Earle V won'the women's western golf chnm- year the veterans will be given an- tourists for their bad roads, are (■rants Pass In Itinerary of Annual . pervisors' or rangers' headquarters Duncan, alleged burglar, escaped Honored in England Burns, other chance Jo have the assistance mending their highways with the pionship by defeating Miriam Trad«1 Excursion « | for permit and information as to from the county jail, atop the court- of Kansas City, last year's t it !»•- of the local Imglou men In filling result that In the future driving house last night holder, 12 up and 11 to play. out their application blanks. The annual trade excursion of ¡closed areas. _________________________________ through them will be better Portend business men will stop in easier. Grants Pass on this year’s trip to Oklahoinu announces southern Oregon and Coos Bay. The miles of hard surfaced roads are be (Portlanders will arrive here on Tues ing built and the cost of the day, according to the itinerary, gram, together with bridges, which was chosen by the excursion reach «9,959,000. Twenty-four 'committee from requests of various eral aid projects embracing | communities in Portland’s trade ter i miles of concrete highway at a London. Aug 11.— (I. N. S.)—If confreres. (Now ithey are said to ritory. Executives of Portland’s Washington, tug. 11.— (A. P.) — The War Department has ascer- of «5,455,000 are being completed leading commercial. financial and there is such an organization as the know more about dilution of whis With about 32,000 young men in at talned, after four years' experience by the state highway commission, manufacturing establishments will American iBootleggers’ Protective as key than any American bootlegger. tendance, Uncle Sufn’s citizens' mili with the camps, that the American Twenty-nine stretches tjf gravel high- compose the personnel of the party. sociation it jteeds a representative in They have also learned a few tricks tary trulnlng camps are In full swing youth la somewhat below par physl- way totalling 2 23 miles, also recelv- with caramel and other colorings. In a telegram to the Courier, the at 29 points throughout the country. rally, He gains on an average of ing the aid of the federal government “Bootleggers, or sellers of smug • Portland Chntn'ber of Commerce has England, and at once. Obedience to authority, teamwork, four pounds after a season in a mil- and costing 34,014,000. are being gled spirits, in the United States are At the behest of the House ot invited the merchants of the com personnl hygiene and the responsi tary camp, lie passes a higher per- laid. munity to accept 'their hospitality Commoiia J. Ramsay MacDonald and being beaten at their own game”, bilities of citizenship are being rentage In the army intelligence test The conimmlssion contemplates in the participation in Portland’s members of his Cabinet are seeking said a London dealer In wines and taught in four courses, the "Basic", than did the man summoned for ser-' spending between «8.000.000 and ; 12th annual Buyers' Week from ways and means of putting a damper spirits, who for obvious reasons re "Red", "White," and "Hine." Youths vice In the world war, but officers »10,000.000 annually for six years. on operations in the British Isles fused to have his name disclosed. ! August 18 to 23. from 17 to 24 years Bro eligible for point out that 60 percent of the boys Three counties will vote within the "Your American bootleggers have The program for Buyers' Week which benefit American bootleggers. training during (heir first year at are etudents. next mouth on road bonds totalling calls for most unusual entertainment Not only are they seeking to prevent been making huge fortunes by re- camp, if their physical condition Captain iC. C. Lowe, who Is In more than «2,000.000. features for men and women merch the shipment of liquor to the coasts reiving smuggled spirits at the no warrants It. In the other courses, charge of "recruiting” tor the cumps, Financed, by 70 per cent of a mo ants. Smokers and cabarets for the Of the United States, but they are torious Rum flow and then breaking the maximum age Is 31 years. The has approached business men on the tor vehicle license tax and the entire men. a dinner "Amongst the Clouds” seeking to stop financing operations the spirits down and selling the lads are trained In one of six branch subject of getting more Industrial proceeds from a two cent tax on gaso on a historic spot 1300 feet above here by those who seek capital for weakened and diluted spirits at a es. cavalry, coast artillery, field ar- workers Into training, and many era- line, the 6,000 mile trunk highway the city, where the Indians used to rum-running ventures; and a major tremendous profit. Hilary, engineers, Infantry and aig- plt/yers .are co-operating wlth the system of South Dakota, begun In "latrge quantities of whiskey and hold their councils, theater parties ity of those who run the liquor from nal corps, after they have taken ttie governmetft In allowing an extra 1919, will be approximately other spirits are now being bought England to the American itwelve- of for the women tyid other forms preliminary course. There are no two weeks off during the summer to fourth completed and gravel entertainment that are too many to mile limit are financed by English In England and despatched to the aviation, quartermaster or hospital permit eligible employes to take the faced at the close of 1924, under enumerate at this time will also hf capital. The Cabinet threatens to free port of Hamburg. There the supervision of the state highway corps courses, as these are In the 30 days' training course. provided. A special feature will be cramp operations unless its plans go spirit is diluted and shipped to Rum The (Boy Scout movement has commission. specialist class. I Row in any craft available. As a re Hainan, famed East the luncheon when nationally known astray. comprises six direct The system Uncle Ham furnishes the uniforms, been an aid to the camp Idea, and sult the bootleggers are being boot But it Is not the Government dian, has been elected a fellow of speakers will present the democratic which are turned back to the gov former scouts make up an appreci east and West routes through the legged. for the profit is actually re Royal Society of England, being alone that is seeking to Injure \he and republican platforms. Govern state and an equal number running ernment at the close of the camp, able percentage of the camps. • third of Ills race to lie so honored, alized In Eugland aud in Hamburg, American bootleggers' business — it and pays all expenses of the success Uncle Sam is looking forward to north and south. The construction graduated from the Presidency college ment and cabinet officials will be ful applicants. Medical and dental training 50,000 boys in 30 camps In program of this season is the most at the age of sixteen and got hlx M A. present at the banquet. The round- is the English and German agents of the whiskey being so weak when it United States that fur- attendance and laundry are free. 1 925. He had 10,000 boys In 1921; significant yet undertaken, as it will two years later with record marks, ! trip railroad fare will be refunded the American bootlegger. These arrives In the whose purchases gentlemen have learned much from ther dilution on the bootleggers’ No obligation of future service Is as 22,000 in 1922 and 25,000 last year complete a number of the through lie beanie professor of physics In the 'to merchants their contact with their American part makes it unsalable.’’ routes in the east half of the state. Caleuttn university In 1914. ¡amount to «500 or more. sumed by the applicant. as against 32,000 this year. HTATE EIGHTH TEMTIMoNY <»l‘ ERRED IN MITIGATION OF MENTEN< EH STATE TAKES UP REBUTTAL DAWES AGREEMENT REACHED CONSTITUTION IS UPHELD LAFOLLEHE HEAD IS NAMED MUSCOVITES AT NORTH BENO BEAR CREEK SUIT IS FILED EDITH CUMMINGS IS VICTOR HIGHWAYS ARE IMPROVED KLAMATH HAS JAIL BREAK »