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♦ JI A » sanEssr-srsBBi VOL. XV., No. IW. " GRANT« I’AHH, JOHRFHI.NK COtXTY. OREGON, RECOGNITION FINALLY GRANTED TO RUSSIANS HIS ELECTION Parili. Oct. 28. — (A. P.) — The French government today officially according de jure rec ognition to the Soviet Husslun government. Recognition wus grunted in u telegrnm made public till» afternoon. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ALIENS ARE SMUGGLED INTO U. S. FROM MEXICO ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ DAVIS ISSUES STATEMENT Assert» Himself on Hevernl of the More llli|H>Kiint Questions---- laiFolleHe In New York Washington, Oct. 28. — (A. P. )- President Coolidge told friends every Indication seemed to point to the election of a Republican national ticket and he 1« milking all his plana accordingly. Coolidge la planning to vote by mail, rather than make the trip to North Hampton. > I-ondon, Oct. 28.—(A. P.)—The New English Dictionary, which has linen in the course of compilation since 18 57, probably will lut pu li llshed about the first of the new year, and it is claimed that It will lie (he largest and most authoritative exposition of the English language ever produced. The dictionary Is being compiled by the Oxford university press, and most of the work has been done un der the supervision of Oxford uni versify professors. All the sections of the i dictionary have been rom pitted, biti the editors have been finding It necessary to make several additions and revisions, so change able is th«» English of today. ♦ ♦ MATTER IS STILL BECIOLIDED ♦ ♦ ♦ Attorney General of Opinion, How- ♦ ♦ ever, That Publishing Is Vio ♦ lation of the law ♦ ♦ ♦ Mexico City, Oct. 28.—This republic is becoming a populous stepping stone for thousands of irqinlgranta who are barred from the I'nlted States by the new laws and quotas. Thousands of them go Into the I'nlted State« legally, but just as many more pay a large sum to a well-organized agency, now under investigation by de- partment of justice agents, and go In by the underground rail way. Those who go in legally do so under the provision of the Mexican laws which permit them to declare citizenship after on> year's residence and the United States Immigration law, which does not restrict Mexican immigration. The other cla*« come« from the Orient. They may be seen in the mornings in conference with mysterious agents, who usually appear to be Americans. Next they are loaded into sec ond-class railway coaches and leave for border states, pre sumably for the purpose of working on farms, or some of the big irrigation projects. From there, department of jus tice agents now here declare, it is an easy step across the line to where they are lost on some Japanese farm, or in Chinatown in some of the larger cities. GASOLINE PRICE IS CUT TWO CENTS IN OREGON ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Hartford, Conn., Oct. 28.—(I. N. 8.1—Connecticut's next Legislature will he asked to set aside $50,000 to prevent the absolute closing of every stream in the State to public lk»rn in the I'nited State« fishermen. The money would be Inch and a Half of Moisture Falls and Wee One of the Ex- Within 24 Hours — Month’s used to secure leases on unposted Average Is Now Passed streams, which are growing fewer each year. ♦ 4 MAYER IS NOW IN CHARGE ♦ ♦ ♦ Bell in 4 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ [ ♦ ♦> ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ AMERICAN CHARGE D'AFFAIRS CONNECTICUT LOSING NORTH PACIFIC STATES ARE I’A SHEW, FOLLOWING GIVEN SOAKING BY ITS FIOR I NG STREAMS DOWNPOUR SI ODEN STROKE ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Portland, Oct. 28.—(A. Pi —Gasoline was cut two cents in Oregon, Washington. Cali- fornia. Nevada and Arizona, to- day, and three cents in all points having water transporta tion. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ LOCAL RAINFALL IS HEAVY Pekin, Oct. 28.— (A. P.)—Edward Washington, Oct. 28.— (A. P. I — ♦ Portland Oct. 2$.—(A. P.)—The The federal government's attitude ♦ Bell, American charge d'affairs here, North Pacific coast was hit by a wind toward the publication of the income ♦ died this afternoon as the result of ♦ and rain ¡Form last night, southerrn tax returns was further beclouded 4 a stroke suffered last night. Ferdi ♦ Oregon and northern California get today after the question was dls- ♦ nand I., Mayer .first secretary of 4 cus»e(l at the cabinet meeting. Leav 4 the American legation, will succeed Dcbatc So Poor That Judges Refuse ting the brunt of the blow, according ♦ to the local weather bureau. The ing the meeting. Attorney General 4 Bell as charge d'affairs in the ab to Give Decision ♦ storm etended from San Francisco sence of Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman. Stone »aid he had found his collea 4 to Canada and east to Idaho. gues In a general agreement and 4 who is in the I'nlted States. ♦ Two thousand telephones on the would make a statement late today 4 Bell was born in New York in The decision of the three judges Rast side were put- out of commis 4 Asked whether ho and Mellon agreed 4 1882. He was one of the experts who patiently sat through the al ♦ as to the legality of their publication. 4 attached to the American delegation leged debate last night between the sion by the conduits being flooded by ♦ New York. Oct. 28—(A. P) — Stone replied In the affirmative. 4 at the Washington arms conference. Cavemen and Lithians at Ashland the heavy rain. 4 Declaring there "can he no compro Mellon previously took tho position 4 on "Resolved, that Lithia water is ♦ mise with reaction” and asserting that the publication is illegal. more conducive to the development SECRETARY WILBER WANTS 4 Ills position on «eversi “of the more Grants Pass received its full share Home time after the meeting, how 4 ♦♦♦♦♦4♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ IMPROVEMENTS IN NAVY of a football team than grape juice,” ♦ important Issues liefore th«* people." Medford Version of Saturday Game of the downpour which was reported ever, while the houne officials said Rolls Football Squad was that neither side deserved a de Jnmes Davis today Issued the first Coolidge was unaware of any decIrion cision and none was given, The de from all parts of the state. During of a series of statement» for publi Washington. Oct. 28. — Naval as to the ruling, the president was haters touched upon every subject the pant 24 hours, 1.48 inches of cation before election. strength in the last analysis must The Grants Paa* high »chool foot said to be of the opinion that the except the one specified, and as a rain had fallen, with more expected, hall team Is slightly peeved, to say government officers must enforce the Chicago, Oct. 28. — (A. P. — lie measured by the "blow a ship’s result, the talks were highly enter- Previous to that time. 1.89 inches had fallen in October, making the the least, at the Medford version of law but that everyone must be pre Churches should avail themselves of guns can deliver at long range«," Baltimore. Oct. 28.— (A. P I — last Saturday's football game with sumed innocent uutil guilt is proven, i the opportunity to reach the public Secretary Wilbur declared last night taining but contained little of in- month's total 3.37 inches. The av formation, The Grants Pass side of La Fol let is today carried the fight the Bear Creekers. and this coming through newspaper advertising, in j in a radio naval day address. Kf- the argument or talk fest was up erage for October is 1.91 inches, Into New York. The senator last Saturday will step on Klamath Falla the opinion of the committee on pub forts to acquire a “homogeneous held by M. L. Opdycke, A. K. Cass which brings the rainfall well over night umalled President Coolidge as to attempt a greater score than that the normal, the first time this has licity of the Lutheran church of fleet” for the United States will lie and L. M. Mitchell. the "nllent servant of a system." and run up by Medford two weeks ago. happened during the year. America. The view is expressed in unavailing, he asserted, unless the While nothing was done toward charged that the president's failure Th« one meeting with Medford Is all I*. H. H. Washington Will Be Srr»i|»- the committee's report to the bi gun elevating machinery on the The rain was the heaviest since the scheduling of a football game last winter and ends a period of ex to reduce the sugar duties la coat- that will tie held this season and the |M»I—11 ns < iM $05,000,000 ennial convention of that church in American battleships be improved to between the two organizations, the ceptional dryness. A large amount ing the American consumers ll.ooo.- local boys will not be given an op- session here. The, committee says: permit all main batteries to reach meeting resulted in the fostering of of.moisture will be needed to bring 00» a week. portunity to again take them on. For Philadelphia. Oct. 28.— (U. P.) — "The churches nave found pub an average maximum of elevation. Denying that the navy authorities an excellent feetiirg •t»®twden the the river flow to normal again this that reason they will have to run The U. S. S. Washington, giant bat licity and advertising proper aids in members of the booster clubs, this winter and to guarantee plenty of up some good scores on team play tleship now partially completed at prosecuting their work nationally and have overlooked the importance of being the first meeting the Lithians snow in the hills for irrigation and I.AND OWNER IGNORANT ed by Medford and see If they can the Philadelphia navy. yard, is to be locally and the public press has come aviation in modern naval strategy. and Cavemen had held together. A mining purposes. OF HARDING'N HEATH not make better records than the sunk—a victim of disarmament. Secretary Wilbur called attention to attach a growing value to church banquet was spread at the Nelda Jackaon county bunch. The man-o'-war. which already has activities as new» for their readers, that the horse-<power of airplane cafe and the Lithians and about 35 engines in commission today in the Saturday’s game was rather an un cost the government about $25.000.- The paid advertisement has become Martin's Ferry. Ohio, Oct. 28.— fortunate one as far aa the rough 000. will be taken to the southern invaluable to a considerable num ber navy is almost equal to the total Cavemen sang and talked for sev horsepower of the navy that defeated eral hours, during the progress of (I. N. 8.)—A corps of surveyors, re playing la concerned. Granta Paaa drill grounds in December and sent i of local churches.” Spain, while on the other hand our the meal. Considerable amusement cently working near Dallas, W. Va., loat two players by thia route, but to Davy Jones' locker. building airplane engines which will was occasioned by the Cavemen tie Report Shows Nearly $.'1,000,000 Has participated in a political discussion. Medford also loot two with In her sinking, various tests will ing better "effervescere" than the he more than double this power. Ono surveyor mentioned President an added penalty of 40 yarda for be made which will give the navy Been Raised Lithians. In the bubble blowing Coolidge. The owner of the land rough playing. Deaplte the score, department valuable Information of contest which was to decide the which the men were surveying want spectators, including those from how the latest resign of battleship rather weighty question. Pete Allen Washington. Oct. 28.— (A. P.) — GENE TINNEY* AGAIN ed to know why the surveyor said Ashland who joined the Granta Pass will withstand bomb, depth charges was adjudged the best blower and The Republican national committee WINS IN FIRST HOr.NI» instead of rqoters, state that Grants Pass should and long range projectiles, which Father of Confessed Murderer Dies •'President Coolidge was presented with a silver pencil. had collected $2.829,980 in contribu He it Idn't ihuve won the game or al least made have increased in efficiency since the “President Harding, at Chicago Home The Cavemen extended an invita tions up to Octolier 20. or within Memphis. Tenn.. Oct. 28. — Gene know Warren G. Harding was dead. it a tie score. Ashland confidently war. Tunney, American Light heavy tion to the Lithians to meet here at $171.000 of the $3.000,000 total Ill» excuse was that he didn't “taka expects to heal the Hear Creekers The tests. It is hoped, will dis Chicago. ' Oct. 28. — Albert Loeb, weight champion, knocked out Har some future date and the upper val- fixed by Chairman Butler, it was n newspaper." Ho admitted, how on Armistice day. close what changes must be made in ever, that he could read, incidental The coming game with Klamath the modern battleship to obtain the vice-president of Sears. Roebuck & ry Foley of Hot Spring«. Ark., in the ley club accepted. The date of the shown today in the figures presented Co., and the father of Richard Loeb, I first round of a scheduled eight meeting has not yet been set. to the Senate committee. ly, he ha» earnod sufficient money Falla should furnish plenty of ex- maximum amount of protection. to buy additional land, which the citement. The score on the first The Washington is the latest de who with Nathan Leopold. Jr., kid round bout here last night. men were surveying. game was 13 to 7 for Grants Paas. sign In fighting craft. It is 68 per naped and killed Robert Franks, died cent complete and is an oil burner. shortly after 9 o'clock last night at Preparations for disposal of the the family home here. Mr. Loeb had been ill for many | Washington are being made at an ex penditure of more than $100.000. months. His doctor« had feared that Jap Scientist 'Discovers Method by » The ship will be sunk at such a depth the shock of his son's confession in 1 Which Element ('hanged the Franks case and the subsequent that salvage even of junk will lie im court proceedings which resulted in Washington. Oct. 28. — The de cent for 1922. and 64.7 per cent for possible. Tokyo. Nov. 28.— (I. N. S.)—Ja life sentences tor the two youths pan has produced a Midas, perhaps, partment of commerce announces 1917. The increase in the amount would prove more than Mr. Loeb’s1 (I. N. 8.) — palgn fund Is ludicrous, as compar- . in the person of Professor Hantaro that the total payments for expenses, of property and special taxes collect London, Oct. 28. weakened constitution could stand, ed was 179.4 per cent from 1917 to for the third ed with Baldwin's. If all contrlbu- CATTI.E EPIZOOTIC IS When British poll ' Nagaoka. who claims to have dis interest and outlays for the state 1922. but there was a decrease of SPREADING IN TEXAS and he was taken to the family's covered a process by which pure time in two years—on October 29. j thins amount to $150,000 he will summer home at Charlevoix, Mich. government of Oregon for the fiscal 0.6 per cent from 1922 to 1923. The three great protagonists will keenly j reckon himself extraordinarily for- gold can be manufactured. He had returned from Charlevoix out- Houston, Tex., Oct. 28. — (An on ly compote for votes. . tunato. But if It amounts to Professor Nagaoka disclosed the year ending September 30. 1923. per capita property and special taxes two weeks ago. There will be throe expromlera— ono-quarter of that amount, his sev- break of foot and mouth disease was i success of his experiments to a group amounted to $20.523.191. or $25.02 were $9.65 in 1923, $9.85 in 1922, Ramsay MacDonald. Stanley Bald- oral millions of supporters will take discovered In a herd of cattle be of research workers at the physical per capita. Of this total $9.876.375 and $3.79 in 1917. Earnings of general departments, and chemical laboratory here, and represents the expenses of operating win atyl Herbert Henry Asquith, all their soap boxes to the corners of the longing to J. M. Catquard on lli s in — coin showed a piece of gold he had ex- the general department of the state or compensation for services render madly anxious to win back the cares streets, and what they lack •- -«- ranch about three miles north government. 8,582, expenses operat-' ed by state officials, represented 6.9 traded from another element. of office and re-enjoy the dingy iJhey will more than equal in eager- of Alvin In Tacquard county. i nt'ss and enthusiasm. Reaching the pot of gold at the ing ipuiblic service enterprises; $2,- per cent of the total revenue for spaces of No. 10 Downing street. Asquitn represents what, since the end of the rainbow, however, will 543.084. interest on debt; and $8,- 1923, 6.4 per cent for 1922, and MacDonald and Asquith are ex war, ha» been the wavering forces not appreciably affect the world's 095,150. outlays for permanent im 10.6 per cent for 1917. men. Baldwin Is Im- treinely poor money market in this case, it is au provements, including those for pub • Business and non-business licenses mensoly rich, But all three would of liberalism. For over 150 years thoritatively declared, The reason lic service enterprises. In 1922 the constituted 29.5 per cent of the total give their all to regain a wretchedly Britain has always tended toward Republican» to Escort Lincoln Tour for this lies in the fact that the total payments for the state were revenue for 1923, 25.4 per cent for Party Into City underpaid job, to re-enter n life of liberalism in times of stress, and Its element from which Professor Na- $28.563.652. and in 1917, $4.379,- 1922, and 11.0 per cent for 1917. nerve-racking toll and fearful anxi program of "peace, retrenchment and Josephine county Republicans gaoka extracts gold is mercury. And 689. a per capita of $35.31 and $5.82 i Receipts from business licenses con ety, just to handle once again the) reform” has periodically «ent it back to office with big majorities. i were leaving this afternoon for Gold the quantity of mercury is so limited, respectively. The totals include all sist chiefly of taxes exacted from in reins of power. But Lloyd George almost fatally Hill, where they are to meet the scientists declare, that the amount payments for the year, whether made surance and other incorporated com- Baldwin will enter the race with : of gold obtained in this way will have from current revenues or from the ' panies, and of sales tax on gasoline, the best advantages. He stands for i disrupted tho party when he drove Coolidge-Dawes Lincoln highway tour [while those from nonbusiness licenses no appreciable effect. The process proceeds of bond issues. u party that has the biggest solid Asquith out of office during the war. caravan. The caravan will be escort The total revenue receipts of Ore- comprise taxes on motor vehicles and is known to only a handful of scient vote in Britain, with an organization and the wounds have never been ed into Grants Pass late thij after ists. and is being guarded with the gon for 1923 were $17.485.037. or , amounts paid for hunting and fish- whose name Is allied with the words healed. And, while the party has noon nnd this evening will hold a $21.31 per capita. This was $5,- ing privilege». utmost secrecy. “safety and composure” and a cam I not moved toward the negative vir j>ig rally. The net indebtedneas (funded and 056,996 more than the total pay- tues of the tories, its progressive This new theory is not like the The entertainment this evening paign fund nt least ten times that one by which a German extracted ments of the year exclusive of the floating debt less »inking fund as of his two opponents combined. He instincts have been seized and accel starts at 7 o'clock. The Grants Pass small grains of gold from mercury payments for permanent improve sets) of Oregon for 1923 amounted knows that his party, almost certain erated by the laborltes. For the time band has been secured, local Repub | by means of a mercury lamp. Dr. ments, but $3,038.154 less than to $40,876.118, or $49.82 per capita. ly, must return with the greatest being llbornlism makes practically no licans raising enough money by sub- i Nagaoka said the gold extracted by the total payments including those The per capita net debt for 1922 was number of votes, and, even though reoruits. lit depends on a revulsion scription to pay for it. Sixth street, I I his contemporary was in such small for permanent Improvements. These $46.40 and for 19il7, $0.66. he cannot himself regain power, at of feeling among Its old supporters. between H and F streets, is to be Willie Petersen, youngest page at grains that there was no way of payments in excess of revenue re-1 For 1923 the assessed valuation of least he will be tho dictator of tho Asquith treasures no hopes of a ma roped off and the political meeting other two parties. He can make jority vote. He even doubts his own ] will be held there. The band is to the Waldorf-Astoria, has just re testing the method. Apparently the celpts were met from the proceeds of property in Oregon subject to ad ya- | lorem taxation wa» $1.009.499,160; election. The most he could visualize play at Sixth and G streets. Several turned from Germany where he de chief advantage in the new method debt obligations. and unmake. In Oregon property and special the amount ot taxes levied was $8.- MacDonald fight« tho election with would be an even break between tory- speakers of national prominence will livered a message of good will to the gold can be separated from a given ---- and the per capita levy, what the j taxes represented 45.3 per cent of ¡835.295; ,* comparatively small, but growing, lam and labor, with himself stepping be on hand to explain numerous cam- Sllnnes Brothers, that country's most quantity of mercury, Just i the total revenue for 1923. 41.0 per [$10.77. $10.77. ratio is has not been stated. prominent hotel proprietors. I paign Issues. in io keep tho balance. and enthusiastic forces. Ilia catn- HIGH SCHOOL TEAM PEEVED 1 WHOLE NIMBER :WI.'M. T« EHDAY, (MTOIIHII », IIWL ! CAVEMEN ARE ENTERTAINED G. 0. P. FINANCES ARE HEALTHY ALBERT LOEB PASSES * w * y GOLD MADE FROM MERCURY « Willie Returns CARAVAN MET AT GOLD HILL ♦