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J Grant* Pa»*—Gateway to the Oregon Cave» YOU XV., No. 71. FRIDAY, DE4 I M BE It 12, I in: I EARTH HUNDRED BILLION YEARS OLD SAYS JEANS CHICAGO HOTEL FIRE IS FATAL TO ONE LODGER ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ AMIlASHlDOR KEl.MMiG RE- PORTS THAT COMMUNICATION IS DELIVERED AMERICAN RIGHTS ASSERTED Thio GovrrnifM-til Ila» Meme Privi lege» a» Other Allie» lo Mehr < olirci Ion* Washington. Dec. 12.— (A. t A. P.) — Ambassador Kellogg reported to the state department today that he had delivered to the British foreign of fice, the American reply to the com- munlcatlon from London question- Ing the right of the United Blates to collect war claim» from Germany from benefits received by that coun try under the Dawe» plan. The re ply la understood to firmly support the position that the Washington government has every right accord ed to the allied and associated pow- era to make collection» under the Dawe» fllsn « WOMAN TRIES TO KILL KRASSIN Altrmpt .Mailt* Io Assassinait* Soliti Envoy tn Paris Paris, Dec It.—(A. I’)—An at tempt to assassinate la*onid Kres ale. Soviet envoy to France, by a woman eager to avenge the killing of her brother by the Bolshevikl was declared by police today to have been avert"u by the women's arrest. The woman, arrested while carrying a revolver before the Russian em- bassy, told them she intended to kill Krasaln k HNOW AIJIN'G REDWOOD ROUTE WAH REPORTED Eureka. Cal., Dec. 12.—(A. P.) — Eight Inches of snow fell along the Redwood highway between Garber ville and Willits during the recent storms and there were several slides, according to a report received trom the Eureka district office of the Cal ifornia state Automobile Association. The Redwood highway from Willits north Is passable but slippery, ac cording to the automobile associa tion's touring bureuu which advises motorists traversing this route to drive carefully and equip their cara with chains. W. C. Myers, of Seattle, spent the day at the Rowell Music house on business. New York. Dec. 13.— (U. P.) — The death rate from automobile ac cident«, Including both udults and children, for the first ten months of 1924 was 15.7 per cent per 100,000, as compared with 14.8 per cent in 1923 and 10.8 per. cent for 1920. On thia basis, the number of death« from automobile accident« in the United State« In 1924 are estimated nt 17.750, against 16.450 last year. These figure« were presented to the Eighteenth annual convention of the Association ot Life Insurance Presidents here today by Dr. Oscar H. Rogers, Chief Medical Director of the New York Life Insurance Com pany. Life insurance death claims for the first ten months of the current year reflect marked improvement in the health of the people of the United States during 1924. according to original statistics presented by Dr. Rogers. Notwithstanding the nor mal average Increase expected In population during 1924, the life in surance mortality records Indicate that there will bo 30,000 fewer deaths this year than during 1923 when the total deaths In the United States amounted to 1,360,000. Automobile accidents and suicidet are practically the only causes among Chicago, Dec. 12.—(A. P.) — One limn wsa killed and sev eral other lodgers escaped In scanty attire, losing their be longings. In a fire In the West (lute hotel today. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦A WHOLE Nt MBER :MI74. ♦ ♦ ♦ * ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 I 4 ♦ 4 ! 4 ♦ London. Dec. 12.—(U. P. ) This old universe of ours is a hundred thousand time» older th'un anybody ha» so far ever believed it to be. »ays Dr James Hopwood Jeans, «■•< rotary of the Royal Astronomical Society. Dr. Jean« has just conclud ed Investigations which indi cate that the sun for Instance, is by no means th<* youngster most people think. It has tak en the sun a hundred billion years to evolve from its hot test and Nvhftes' stage to its present form, according to this scientist, and not a thousand million years as has been hitb- erto believed. He Is convinced that the pro duction of the solar system in volved the close approach of the sun and "another alar,” an oc currence not likely to take place more than once in about a thou sand million years. For that reuson. lie says, the aolar sys tem known to Earth's inhabi- tants is almost unique, if not absolutely so. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 4 4 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 PRESIDENT IS Portland, Ore.. Dee. 12.— (A. ♦ P. >Young Carmen took a de ♦ cision from Pep Welsiter in a- ♦ 1 o-roiind bout last night. Jimmy ♦ Sacco, and Teddy Gartln. went ♦ 10 rounds to a draw. ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ I * OREGON'S FIRE MISS ♦ FOR MONTH »HIM. ISO CONFERENCE WITH SENATE I* ♦ LEADERS IS HELD THIS • 4 ♦ Salem. Ore., Dec. 12 (Special). .MORNING ♦ ♦ Fire losses In the state during No 4 ♦ vember. exclusive of Portland, are 4 ♦ estimated at 1168,450 In the rem- ♦ ♦ I 4 lar monthly report of Will Moore, ♦ state fire marshal. In the districts 4 ♦ outside of Portland the town of Har- 4 ♦ ria suffered the largest city loss l*r«-»l<lcnl AnxioUM That PwMai De. 4 ♦ |,nrtnient laiy Plan for Raising with a $50,000 saw mill fire The 4 ♦ Retenue Before Congre«» loss of a warehouse and upples in 4 ♦ Hood River resulted in the second 4 4 largest loss, amounting to 130.000. 4 4 Washington. Dec. 12.- — )A. P.>— 4 Six town» and cities reported fire 4 An effort to bolster up the admin 4 losses of 110,000 or more. 4 Eleven of the 25 fires in the state Istratlon forces In the senate, op- ♦ ♦ resulted from unknown causes, the posed to an early vote on the over 4 4 report shows, and resulted In a loss riding of the executive veto of the ♦ ♦ of $75,925. Stoves and their pipes postal pay increase bill, was made ♦ 4 were responsible for four fires, de today by President Coolidge at a 4 4 fective flues, for three and confla conference with a dozen Republican » ♦ gration for two. Eleven of the flres senators. Senator McNary, of Ore- were In dwellings, five in farm gon. was among thoae summoned to TURKEY MARKET IS The president • STRONGER IN ROSEBURG dwellings and two each In garages, the Whits House. mercantile buildings and mills. The discussed the possibility of staving Roseburg. Ore.. Dec. 12.—(Spec- total loss In the two mill fires off the vote on the bill until the postofflce department can lay be fall.—The Christmas turkey mar amounted to 169.000. fore congress a plan for the raising ket opened strong here Thursday, of more postal revenue by inrreas- with an upward tendency. Thirty ing the postage rutes on all except cents was offered on all prime birds with 31 cents for extra fancy stock. first class mail. Ttxmin« Walton Gora to Dentil on Competition among buyers is keen Gallow» Today and it Is believed that the price will PIIINCE OF WALES gS still higher. The shipment of WILL VISIT SPAIN Walla Walla. Wash., Dec. 12 — one carload of birds to the eastern (A. P.)—Thomas Walton, convicted markets took out some of the choice London, Dec. 12. — (I. N. S.l — of the murder of S P. Hurt. a fellow fowls so that the rates are urti ex convict, in the penitentiary here on It Is considered probable in official pected to be so heavy as in past October 7, 1923, was hanged at the 'court circles that the Prince of years. A drop of six cents is made penitentiary this morning. The trap Wales will pay a long-promised vis on seconds and old toms. was Sprung at 6:06 o’clock Walton it to the king and queen of Spain, was pronounced dead ten minutes at Madrid, in the early part of next year. later. He will make the trip as part of 'his annual visit to Biarritz. the ENGLISH ISE HH’VCLES; Rcallopition Has Been Aliandone«! AMERICA RIDES IN CARS French health resort, where he by Commerce Departnmt takes the cure. Ixindon. Dec. 12.—(A. P.)—The automobile has not yet replaced bi Washington. Dec. 12. — (Special). SNOW EIGHT FEET cycles In Great Britain, not by a —Reallocation of wave lengths to ‘ DEEP AT LAKE RIM long shot, There are 6.000.000 of radio broadcasting stations as rec the latter in use in this country. ommended by the recet^ national Medford. Ore., Dec. 12.— IA. P.) and less than 1,000,000 motor cars, radio conference to the secretary of • —Thut winter has come in earnest Motor-cycles, which ate much more commerce has been abandoned by in Crater National Park was the tele popular than in the United States, the commerce department. phonic news received here this morn number 500.000, The plan which was "devised ing from the park from Peter Oard, The ministry of transport. In mak short time ago has already been ren j the ranger stationed there. ing public these statistics, noted (»sard phoned that there were 8 dered obsolete by the increasing that the British are doing a greater ( feet of snow at the lake rim. 6 feet number of broadcasting stations and export business with bicycles and at Anna Spring camp, four feet at the demand for wave length assign- motor cycles than the American the Medford and Klamath entrances, ' nient», officiate of the department manufacturers. who once led the ' said today. Z and that there Is deep snow far British In this trade, It was said that until the radio two miles of, Fort south, to within I In 1922, according to > British snowing : broadcasting situation becomes more exported Klamath, and It was still records. Great Britain stable, no attempt would he made this morning 7,270 motor cycles while America The discomfitln g feature of this ' to revise the present allocation of Hut the was sending out 16,000. heavy fall of snow, is that it comes | wave lengths, while the department latest figures show 20,000 machines on top of the previous heavy snows would meet the increasing demands exported from Great Britain and on i of the winter so far. which had gone as far as possible. ly 9,700 from the United States. Comprehensive Plan Drawn down to a solid mass of frozen Ice. j The radio conference which met thus giving indications that with further layers of heavy snow coming here in October, drew up a compre and melting until next June the park hensive plan for the reallocation of management will encounter much all radio wave lengths, shifting, in difficulty and expense In clearing the some cases, those for marine com park roads of this ice and snow In munication in order to extend the tjtne for the opening of the season, number available for commercial broadcasting stations. July 1, next. adult deaths that show an Increase In rate over 1923. Noteworthy reduc tions are recorded in Influenxa and typhoid tevor. In typically children's diseases, an Increased death rate is Indicated In meningitis, diarrhea, enteritis, anu scarlet fever, while there has been a substantial falling- off in measles, diphtheria nnd whoop ing cough. Referring to auto fatali ties Dr. Rogers said: WANTS TO KNOW FOND SOURCE 10 ROUND BOUT TAKEN BY CARMEN BY DECISION CONVICT MURDERER HANGEO WAVE LENGTHS UNCHANGED NOURISHMENT TAKEN TODAY BY LAHOR CHIEF WHO WAS REPORTEI» DEAD SECRETARY H A H COMPLETE RECI.A MATION POLICY Portland. Ore., Dec. 12.— (Spec OUTLINED ial).—Government hunters and trap pers working under the Oregon di vision of the biological survey ac counted for 556 predatory animals 1 in November, according to Stanley G. Jewett, chief Inspector, Of the Anicriian Soll Bring« Back Goo<l legislation PropoMil—Also Commit number 522 were coyotes, 33 bob Spirit»—Joke» with Attendant» tee to Draw Up Reclamation cats and one a bear. The kill brings —Enroute to San Antonio Code for Project» the number of predatory animals slain since the federal and state agreement of May, ’923. to more l/aredo, Tex., Dec. 12.—(A. P.j— than 30.000, Jewett said. About 700 Washington, Dec. 12—(A. P.) — Samuel Gompers was able to sit up coyote skins will be auctioned off Secretary Work submitted to Presi on the side of his bed and take at the biological survey office in the dent Coolidge today a complete rec slight nourishment as his train left n«vw post office building Monday, lamation program which is expect here today en route to San Antonio. , Jewett said. Buyers from Seattle ed to form the basis of the adminis Gompers and his party arrived here and Denver and other cities will at trations' reclamation policy. The from Mexico at 7:30 this morning. tend. plan includes proposed legislation An official bulletin, issued on the and the appointment of a joint con arriva! here, said the patients' res gressional committee to draw up a piration was 94 and his pulse nor reclamation code to stand as a pol mal at 7 o'clock. Gompers’ condi icy for the existing projects and for tion was improved slightly as he future departments. reached American soil. His cheer Three Cities Report Damage to House« by T< mblors ROSEBURG VOTES NEW fulness was more perceptible and he HIGH MTOOl. BUILDING was joking with his attendants. Frankfort, Germany. Dec. r;.— < A. P. I—Reports from Southern Roseburg. Ore.. Dec. 12.— (A. P.) Germany state that the Swabian —The special school election called Alps region has been visited by an to consider the issuance of school Dy namite Put Untier House A» They earthquake, resulting in heavy dam bonds in the sum of $165.000 re age to numerous houses at Pliez sulted in the approval of the bonds Were Sleeping hausen. Etsingen and Mittelstadt. by a vote of 416 to 210. The next Lakeland. Fla., Dec 12.—(A. P.) step to l>e taken will be the appoint —Four negroes, three ' women and! ment by the school board of a com a man, were killed at Bartow. 12 mittee of 40 citizens, who will aid in miles from here, today when Dock the selection of a suitable site. Taylor is alleged to have > fired dyna- Plans are to be procured without mite which blew up a negro home. School I Nip ils Will Make H oum * to delay and the construction of the House Canvass The dead, including Julia. Taylor’s proposed new building will be start wife, were killed as they slept. Tay ed as soon, as possible. A junior high, The school children ¿4 the city lor left a note saying he set off start today in the sale ot the Christ school and junior college are to tie the dynamite to stop a nuisance at mas seals of the Oregon Tubercu ! introduced as a result of the liond the destroyed home. losis association. They will visit issue. EXPECTS TO BECOME BASIS QUAKE ROCKS ALPS REGION CHILDREN START SEAL SALE NEW FOX FARM STARTED A. J. Barrell and Sons Build Pen for Foxes in City A. J. Barrell and sons have just completed their fox pen on West I street. They have purchased a pair of silver foxes from W. X. Rogers on Prillee Edward Island. Canada, the animals being of registered stock. The «pen has been construct ed in such a manner that the foxes are protected from any possible out- side interference, This is the sec- ond enterprise of this kind in or near Grants Pass. The silver fox industry is attract ing much attention and many fox farms have been started up in the northwest. The market is constant ly growing and the fox pelts are bringing high prices. The foxes need constant attention. Mr. Barrell states that as ’_.<s stock increases, he will j more land and addit.uu», wntch will be purchased. liis place will be known as the White House ranch. the homes of Grants Pass in an en deavor to sell the stamps tor funds, which will be used to fight tubercu losis in this state. The business men have already been- solicited. Mrs. F. H. Ingram, who has charge of the seal sale in Grants Pass, states that she has not yet been able to check on the progress of the seal sale in the city but will be able to make a report the first of the week. It has been reported that children are out selling Christmas seals of the variety put out by companies Some have for sealing packages. been led to purchase the seals ,hrough the impresston that these were the health seals of the Oregon Tuberculosis association. STATEN Chicago, Dec. 12.—til. N. S.l—• A shortage of cloverseed Is facing America. The greatest shortage in history is looming, according to the Blue Valley Creamery Institute, of Chicago. The crop last year is the smallest crop on record, and the production of seed is now only 74 per cent of last year's crop, accord ing to government figures. The institute is advocating the growing of alfalfa wherever practi cable. instead of competing for high priced cloverseed. This it contends will be more economical. In its statement on the cloverseed shortage the* institute says: "The DUKHOBORS SEEKING crop report Just issued shows that NEW LEADER FOR SECT the total production this year is es timated with 1,100,000 last year Nelson. B. C.. Dec. 12.—(Special) and a five-year average of 1.610,- —The Dukhobors, whose 10.000 ooo. Ixist year approximately 24,- members are gathered near here to 1000,000 pounds of cloverseed were honor the memory of their late imported to make up deficiencies in “king," Peter Veregin. killed in a America, but Europe has a shortage bomb explosion on a train six weeks this year also, and probably will ago. have a ‘new "king,” but they , have little United don't know where he is. States. In Jersey City’s $5,000,000 "This is an alarming state of af fairs and means should he found to remedy it. The argument has been advanced that the number of acci dents is by no means keeping pace with the number of cars In use, but this is quite beside the mark. If a man is knocked down in the street by an automobile. It does not benefit him that the number of cars In the street is larger than It formerly was. It Is the one offending car that counts so far as he and his family are con cerned. "The remedy lies In greater care In the issuing of automobile licenses, so as to eliminate persons tempera mentally unfit to drive a car. Be tide that, adequate punishment ihould be meted out to all persons jullty of Inflicting Injury upon oth- irs by carles/driving." Five hundred families were made homeless whi n tiro swept several blocks of tenement houses in Jer- sey City, N. J. Three factories also were destroyed. The loss is estimated at »5,000,000. This picture gives some Idea of how buildings in the conflagration's path were gutted. z * z Washington. Dec. 12.— (A. P. 1— The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics expects to gather valuable scientific information for use in buildiug aircraft from experi ments that will be conducted in its new variable density wind tunnel at Langley Field, Va.. This tank, said to be the only one of its kind in the world, has just begun to produce re sults. The tank is 35 feet long. 15 feet in diameter and weighs 83 tons. It Is mounted on a concrete foundation and is surrounded by a working platform. Air pressures as high as 20 times atmospheric pressure are made possible. As men cannot work in a tank of compressed air, small glass windows are on the side to en able observers to gain scientific data. A small model airplane is placed in the wind tunnel and mounted on a balance or scale, which records the lifting characteristics of the airplane wings and the resistance of the whole» structure. Through a honeycombed arrangement the air is driven through the tunnel with a smooth flow, with the airplane model sus- pended in its path. By experimenting on models, ac curate calculations can he made on which the design of the new air planes is based, one of the greatest problems of today, the committee’s officials declare, is the non-functlon- ing of a plane’s coutrols while it is flying at low speed, especially when taking off or about to land, thus causing accidents. To endeavor to remedy tills condition and supply other valuuble Information. the committee's air wind tunnel has been brought Into piay. The committee is an independent government establishment, which In cludes the most eminent men in aviation in the country, all of whom serve without pay.