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GRANTH FAHR, JOHEI’HINK t’OENTY. OREGON.
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LODGE PLACE
POSTOFFICE SERVICES
MEQCAPC CENT
SHOW BIG LOSS IN YEAR IVlLOOHuL ùtili
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— With lit« I'xci'ptloti of first
class mall and postal suvlugs,
every service conducted by the
poMofflcn department shows a
silbstnutlul annual loss. Post
master General New Informed
tile senate today.
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Cirants Pas»
lais Angeles, Dec. 3.—<1. N.
8.) Geisha girl purtles are
driving Japan to the verge of
eionobiic ruin and financial col
lapse. according to C. II. Hodg
son. woolen mill owner, of
Yorkshire, England, who is a
visitor here on his way home
from ti»« Orient.
"The Japanese are living on
a scale that the smallness of
their country cannot stand,” he
declared. "They are imbued
with a spirit of high and costly
living, giving huge parties ane!
spending money recklessly, The
who
average man in Japan
maker 64.006 or more in a bun-
iness deal decides right away to
to give a geisha party and spend
more than half or all his mopey
that way."
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MEI IÍ1KI QAVQ
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UNITED STATES STAMPS |
BRING MUCH AT AUCTION
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GEISHA GIRL PARTIES
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REPORT TO BOTH HOLMES
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BY COOLIDGE
WEDNEMDAY, DEU. », 1»24
STORE FDR Ü.S.
WAR MINES STILL AFLOAT
IN WATERS OF BALTI«
ENABLE WITHHOLD RETI HNS
Copenhagen, Dec. 3.—(A. P. >—
FROM 1*1 Bl.K’ATION SAYS
Recent reports disclose the presence
JI SI R E
of drifting mines in the Baltic as a
menace to shipping, and it is evi-
• dent that official reports as to the
clearance of mines in these waters
are not to be wholly trusted.
i.
It is believed that any storm
«night dislodge the units of some | Boston Man ILul P<‘tlti<>n«<l Court to
l*rcvcnt Giving Out Sum Pahl—
mine field laid during the war. and
Name nn«l Address Given
. it is argued that dangerous mines,
frozen up in the ice of winter, may
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well float about until next spring I
Washington, Dec. 3.— («A. I.) —
and then reappear in totally unex
The commissioner of internal rev
pected locations.
enue may not be enjoined from
making available to public Inspec
tion the name and postofflce ad
dress of the income taxpayer, as
Student Body Heads and Editors well as the amount of the tax paid.
Hold Convention
Justice Hoehling held today in the
District of Columbia supreme court.
University of Oregon. Eugene. The decision was rendered in an
Dec. 3.— (Special).—The fifth an opinion granting the motion of
nual conference of the association Commissioner Blair to dismiss the
of high school student body offi suit for an injunction filed against
cers and the Oregon high school him by Gorham Hubbard, of Bos
press association, to be held here ton. to prevent the publication of
next Friday and Saturday, Decem the amount of the tax paid by the
ber 5 and 6, will bring to the cam petitioner.
pus between 400 and 500 delegates.
Student body leaders, editors and
managers of high school newspap
ers. annuals, . and news-notes sec
tions, and representatives of girls'
leagues will attend the conferences. Metolius Robbery Clise Set For Dc-
Featuring the editors' and man
cchi I mt 2!> at Madras
agers' conference will be illustrated
lectures on the preparation of
Bend. Ore.. Dec. 3.—(A. P.)—The
newspapers.
news-notes
sections trial of William Gott. Ed Hinton and
and annuals. Advertising problems [ Etta Hinton, ail of Shaniko, and
will be discussed. Round table ses- Walter Fisher. Indicted yesterday- at
sions will bring high school editors, Madras in connection with the Me
managers and faculty advisers into tolius bank robbery, has been set for
informal conference with faculty December 29. according to word
members of the university school of from Madras today.
journalism.
An annual dinner given by the
associated students in honor of the
delegates, a college night produc
tion and a correct clothes .show for
women will be among the entertain Answer Made to Request That Ho
ment features.
Renew <)ff«“r
University of Oregon. Dec, 3. — I
I Specif) — l'nlverslty| of (Oregon
students are Bottling down to the
regular "grind" Immediately pre-
ceding final examinations.
<'iilifornUt Solon Huirwl, latir Sen
The examinations scheduled for
ntor Coll «• Head of Commit-
the full term finals has Just been
Us- on Admlaslon of I Urn*
l*au»«i by the administration.
Ex
aminations will be held Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, I>rcrnibrr 17.
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Washington, Dec. 3.— (A. 1». » —-
Washington, Dec. 3.— (•A. P.l
Friday, IbTember 10,
18 and 19.
Years of "prosperous and healthy
Cool-
Senator Borah, of Idaho, today be- will be the laat day* of school for Congress received President
SENTIMENT ON «0111.11
conditions such as succeeded the
came chairman of the senate for- the present term und for the year Idga's annuul message today Im nae-
EXPOSITION TO BE NOUGHT
election of 1896” were forecast tor
dlately upon reconvening, anil then
elgti relations committee, succeed- 1924.
the I’nited States by Secretary Mel
plunged
Into
the
serious
work
of
the
Two
Ing the late Senator Lodge,
will begin
The winter term
Portland. Ore., Dec. 3.—(A. P.l
session. With the exception of the — Sentiment in Oregon on the pro lon in the annual report of the
new members were named for the Monday. January 5.
committee, Mcla-an, of Connecticut
Sixteen days will be allowed the two years that Woodrow Wilson was posed world exposition tor Portland treasury sent to congress today.
The secretary’s views are based,
and Edge, of New Jersey. Senator students
as Christmas vacation, III In the White House, this was the will lie sounded In a canvass of the
Johnson, of California, was named With the resumption of school in first time since 1913 that the chief various chambers of commerce and he said, on the repudiation of "va
to succeed the late Senator Colt as January the winter term ' will occu- executive had not delivered the an boards of trade by the Knights of rious theories inconsistent with ec
onomic laws" and the Indorsement
It
chairman of the Immigration rom- py virtually two and one half nual communication in person,
Electra, it whs decided at a lunch
und
of
a program of constructive hana-
was
tranunltted
by
messenger
mitten
j months, ending March 20.
eon of the organization yesterday,
■ ling of government affairs given in
reud separately in the two houses.
The meeting was enthusiastic and
11)2.1 I.EGIMI.ATI KE WILL
the last election.
He counselled
was characterized by a cooperative
BE ASKED TO GIVE »5O.<MMI
Washington. Dec. 3.— («A. P.l — spirit of volunteer effort which the , the nation, however, to approach its
President Coolidge advised congress members avowed thej\ would put problems with intelligence that the
Salem. Ore, Dec. 3.— (A. P)—
In his annual message today that forth In liehalf of the exposition if progress made and the groundwork
That the 1926 legislature will lie
laid in the last four years may not
perhaps the most important work It is held.
asked to appropriate a fund of ap-
come
to naught.
It could do at its present session
Work of conducting a survey of
proximately 1110,000 for the
Ibe con
Washington. Dec. 3.— (A. P.l—- would be to practice such economy
The United States, he asserted,
the state to test opinion on the pro
struction and maintenance of an Ore Six semi-rigid airships are now be as to make possible a reduction of
posal will be entirely volunteer ef was the first world power • to come
gon building at Reno during the Ne ing built for the air service of the taxes for the next fiscal year.
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fort. It was announced. It was said through the post-war transition
vada Trans-Continental Highway Ex army, and the coming fiscal year will
"The government can do more to; that there were to Is- no salaried po j stage successfully and the first to
position In 1926. waa Indicated here see the addition of other varieties of i remedy the economic Ills of the peo-!
sitions in connection with the. plans ! be able to present "reasonable as-
yesterday by Joseph Hutchinson, di air vessels.
surance" that “true progress" wlll
pie by a system of rigid economy for the exposition at present.
rector of organisation, for the expo
Three of tile semi-rigid, are of the in public expenditure." he said,
Mr.
continue within its borders.
sition
The big fair will be held. TA make, and three of the TC. The "than can be accomplished through
Mellon urged perpetuation ”if the
The request will probably be brought former are of 130,000 cubic feet any other action."
¡program adopted by "the great ma
through I’prltepd
Jua' .what aUl- apwwhr and the tatter Of 2«u ooo
Although stressing economy, Mr.
jorlty of our people in the last el
tude the state legislature will take cubic feet. The TA. short for traln- Coolidge presented a wide range of Director» of the Irrigation District ection” which he interpreted as one
Is problematical but it is doubtful Ing airship, Is equipped with one- other recomm«>ndatlons, some new
of "hard work, economy, and sound
Will Receive BMs Monday
If the appropriation will be approved. man control and Is the next step, at- and other reiterations of proposals
policies."
ter the free balloon, in the training made a year ago in his first annu
The board of directors of the
In general economic conditions
of filers of ligbter-than-alr craft, al message.
Grants Pass Irrigation district at its as well as in the domain of feder
Then comes the TV. short for train
Most of these related to domestic meeting Tuesday ordered the con al fiscal operations. Mr. Mellon re
Ing coastal, wit h Its two-men con- affairs, but the president went into struction and extension to two of the
counted how complete the transi
Two of Suspects Enter Pleas of Not trols calling for team work.
| the field of International relations laterals in the Sand creek basin to tion had been.
He said that in
Guilty at Albany
Endor the present arrangement, ■to renew his plea for American ad- cover lands that will be ready for the last four years the per capita
the army develops the semi-rigid^ I lierence to the permanent court of , water next season. These laterals are tax on citizens of the Enited States
Albany. Ore., Doc. 3.—(A. P.l— types, which have only a keel and no International justice; to declare the the Chicago and Sand%creek ditches,
had been cut from $5 4 to $27. or
Two of the four tnen under arrest, supporting framework, while the United States not to be disposed to the former to lie extended about one
exactly one half; public expendi
charged with participation In the navy develops the rigid makes, with join the league of Nations; to ap mile, while Sand Creek lateral will
tures which in 1920 exceeded $6.-
Shedd bank robbery pleaded not guil both keel and ribs. Both branches peal for support by public authori be extended 8.500 feet. Each is a
500.000,000, wore only $3.500.000,-
ty In the circuit court here today. Joe work with non-riglds. which are ex ties and private citizens for the Eu small ditch with a two foot bottom,
000 in the fiscal year which ended
Sliter pleaded guilty, Clarence Re- emplified by the balloon, with neith ropean reparations settlement plan, and under the specifications must be
last July 1. and the "complete dis lamgview, Portinnil anti Northern
■«logic, who wus seized with un epl- er framework supports nor keel.
and to repeat- his declaration of op ready to carry water in April. Sev organization"
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the
economic
Nerds More Money
leptic fit today, was unable to ap-
The new TA’s are equipped with position to cancellation by tile eral tracts of land that will be wat structure by the collapse of prices
pear.
He will plead later, Clar-
90 horsepower motors, are 162 feet United States of the debts owed the ered from the new ditches have re in 1920 and 1921 has been reeti-
Washington. Dec. 3.—(A. P.)—
county
enco Boggle, former Linn
cently been sold by the Chicago Land fled.
long, and capable of making 50 miles country by foreign nations.
The Longview, Portland & Northern
deputy sheriff, and Lawrence Neilson,
Two
new
pronouncements
mark
Co., Jos. Dericks, and other land
an hour. The Tt"s have two 150
The lifting of th¿ tax burden., al- railroad asked the interstate com
pleaded not guilty. Sitter will be
feet ed the president's discussion of for- owners in that district, and consid though slight as the decrease has merce commission today for author
horsepower engines, are 196
sentenced Saturday. The trials of
One touched on re- erable acreage will be made ready
long, und will travel 65 miles an eign affairs.
been, has done much for business. ity to issue and sell approximately
I he others were not set.
Auction of world armaments, and for crops next season. Bids for the
hour.
Mr. Mellon said, and he expressed $230.000 in 6 per cent notes. The
the other had reference to the olit work will be received December 8.
New aircraft acquired by the army
the hope that more could be done securities will represent the cost of
Albany. Ore., Dec. 3.— (A. P.l—
lawlng of war.
Parties from Idaho who have re I soon. He said he desired tax re 125 new lumber cars.
Iteplogle later toduy pleaded guilty air service Include 25 Curtis pursuit
■"Proposals to outlaw aggressive cently purchased tracts of land ad form as well as tax reduction and
plunes,
six
Douglas
seaplanes,
one
to the charge and will lie sentenced
atnphibion for land and water service warfare, the president asserted, joining the district on the New Hope warned against using the field of
Saturday.
and 200 rebuilt war stock De Havi should be carefully studied and divide were before the board of di taxation as a field “for socialistic
sympathetically viewed.
rectors Tuesday asking about “'•■•experiment or as a club to punish
land planes of the DH4B type.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Boomer, of
Combining discussion of tax re taining water from the Allen creek success.” If this were done he said
Waldo, were In the city today, Mr.
vision with his statement on econo lateral which is just above the prop the conditions of a few years ago
H. L. Bromley, of the Copco com
Boomer has the contract for the con-
my the executive said that if con- erty. They were informed by the ma.’ come back.
etructlon of a portion of the Red- pany. waa in town today from Med
grees at this session kept within board that if petitions for the 80
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ford attending to buaineaa niattera.
wood highway.
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the budget he had presented "it wilt acres adjoining the ditch at the dt-
The county wide tuberculin test
then be possible to have a moder vide shotrid be covered by a petition
which is now being conducted in the
ate amount of tax reduction anti all I asking for its inclusion. the board
county has finished its second week
the tax reform that the congress ■ would act favorably upon the aprii-
with 3,000 cattle tested by the three
may wish for during the next fiscal ‘cation and would make water avail- Goes in Regular Sleeping Car—Mrs. inspectors in the field. Out of this
year.” He declared publication of , able. This can be done without the
number there has been found six re
('ooliilge With Him
Income tax payments to he "detri building of a new canal as the Allen
actors, a remarkably small percent
mental to the public welfare and creek lateral already reaches the
age. according to those in charge,
Washington. Dec. 3.— (A. P.l — but one which demonstrates the
bound to decrease public revenues.” land.
Johnson City, Tenn., Dec. 3.—(U. called ‘Croatan.’’-
Traveling in an ordinary sleeping work is by no means useless, as it
and urged the repeal of that section
The skeletons, according t<f scien
P.)—Eight hundred skeletons, be
the transportation act contemplat car apartment on a regular train. is the last few that should be weed
of the revenue act.
lieved to be the remains of a white tists, are about four hundred years
President Coolidge left today for ed out to prevent the disease from
Aside from his declarations rela ing consolidation of railroads into
colony massacred by the
Indians old. They are, according to the
Chicago where he will deliver, two spreading among the large number
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larger
systems
to
promote
more
ex
tive to economy and taxation, the
about 1590, have recently been dis Smithsonian Institute, toe first trace
nn peditious action by "affording a pe addresses tomorrow. The president, of cattle in Josephine county.
outstanding
recommendations
covered In u cave near Bonhams, Vir of the lost colony and the length of
riod for voluntary proposals to the accompanied by Mrs. Coolidge and a
the
presi-
The test also demonstrates that
time the hones have been In the cave domestic affairs made by
ginia.
commission (.Interstate Commerce party of friends, were allotted the the native cattle are remarkably free
dent
included:
The discovery was made by S. C. and the date of the colony's disap
commission) and in supplying gov sleeping car. "President tirant,” » for from this dreaded disease and it is
Enactment of such legislative
closely,
Dyer, scientist of Mohnwk, Tenner- pearance correspond very
by a lhe newly purchased animal
ernmental pressure to secure action the first extended trip taken
that
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see, who believes the colony were another fact lending authenticity to remedies for agricultural ills as are after the expiration of such a per chief executive in recent years
with- should be viewed with suspicion. Of
worked
out
by
the
recently-appoint
scientist's
belief.
friends of Virginia Dare, the fltst
out the use of a private car.
iod.”
the reactors, that have been found
Some scientists believe the Indians ed agricultural commission and ex
white child In America.
Amendment of the labor sections
several have been animals either
The colony came from England horded the entire colony Into the ertion of all efforts "by government of the transportation act so as to
brought into the county lately or
activity
and
by
private
agencies
to
and landed on Roanoke Island, Vir cuv<‘ and left them there to starve.
embody a plan "which while retain HMilAMI'H OLDEST WIDOW
changed hands a number of times,
Souvenir hunters carried away so restore and maintain agriculture to ing the practice of systematic col-
ginia. July $2, 1587, with Joint
SEEKS ANOTHER Hl SHAND and could not lie definitely traced
normal
relationship
White as governor, according to hla- many skulls soon after the discovery a complete
¡lective bargaining with conciliation
though not tested last year. The
was that It has been Impoaslole for scion- with other industries."
tory records.
Virginia Dare
and voluntary arbitration of labor
inspectors have reported they have
Tiptree.
Eng..
Dec.
3.
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Passage immediately of pending dlferences, could also provide simp
tlsts to determine by moiisiiro.nentH
born there, August 18, 1587.
found three reactors tn herds w hich
Governor White went back to whether they are of Mongolian Cau legislatlort based on the report of licity In relations and more direct Mrs. Betsy Pennick, who was a de
tested clean last year, and have be
England to obtain supplies and on casian or Ethoplan races. There Is a the 'Reclamation Fact Finding com- focal responsibility of employers butante when Victoria became Queen
I of England in 1937, is on the look come infected in some way which
his return in 1590 found Roanoke possibility, scientists nay. the skele mission "for the proper relief of and managers" and at the same
out for a husband. She is 106 years ¡they were not definitely able to trace.
Island abandoned, No trace of his tons might be those of Cherokee In those needing extension of time In .time recognise that the public "has
This testing work is practically
which to meet their payments on a right to be heard when there is old and still going strong. Having
colony was found except the word dians.
completed except in the Illinois val
just
recovered
from
a
period
of
ill
Irrigated
land,
and
for
additional
The
number
of
the
akelotons
cor
"Croatan” carved on a tree. Histor
danger that the nation may suffer
ley and a few scattered places which
ians deducted from this that the col responds with the number of mem amendments and reforms of our great injury through interruption ness. she says she wants someone to
wefe missed by the inspectors for
provide
for
her
for
the
rest
of
her
reclamation
laws.
”
.
bers
of
the
colony,
according
Io
tec
onists were either massacred or. dur
I
some
reason or other. The two gov-
I
days.
(Continued
on
Page
Two.)
Amplification of those portions of
ing White’s abaence, moved to a place ords In histories.
NOT DELIVERED IN PERSON
JOHNSON HEAOS IMMIGRATION
FUTURE PROGRESS ASSURED
CANNOT KEEP
TAXES SECRET
INJUNCTION SUIT IS DISMISSED
HIGH SCHOOL OFFICERS MEET
NEW AIRSHIPS ARE BUILT
LATERALS WILL BE EXTENOED
PLEAD GUILTY TO ROBBERY
SECURITIES MAY BE ISSUED
BINK THEFT TRIAL IS SET
FORD REFUSES TO RECONSIDER
Washington. Dec. 3.— (A. P.l —
Tins message came from Detroit to
day in reply to the request of sena
tors that Henry Ford renew hin
Muscle Shoals bid. “Answering yours
of November 28. Mr. Ford's offer was
withdrawn by him in his letter to
the president on October 15.”
Washington. Dec. 3.— (A. P. ) —
The house bill providing for the sale
of the Muscle Shoals to Henry Ford
was presented to the senate today by
previous agreement.
JOSEPHINE COUNTY CATTLE FOUND TO HAVE
SMAIL AMOUNT OF TUBERCULOSIS IN TESIS
COOLIDGE WILL GIVE TALKS
ernment inspectors. Dr. F. H. Thomp
son and Dr. E. J. Creely, went Tues
day to the Illinois valley where they
will work during the coming week
testing the cattle in that and the
Deer Creek valley. The few scat
tered cows which have not been test
ed will be taken care of by Dr. Grif-
fenhagen who is assisting the gov
ernment men in this campaign. Most
of the herds missed are known to
fthe inspectors and plans are being
made to visit them during the com
ing week. However. In view of the
fact that they are anxious to reach
all cattle in the county and there is a
possibility every herd may not be
listed, those interested in having the
test made and have not been reach
ed would do well to get in touch
with the county agent's office rela
tive to their herds.
County Agent Howell said this
morning. "We are anxious anti will
ing to test every animal that the own
ers desire to hav«> tested. If we do
not reach the owners by the end of
this week, if they will get In touch
with my office, arrangements will be
made to do tile testing work. We
are out to make Josephine county a
clean area, and receive the benefits
to be derived from this and we will
ke<*p at the joli until it is com
pleted.”