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i n i C F V FVTF.RPRISE. HALSEY, OREGON, DECEMBER 13, 1923 THREAT OF WAR IN SOUTH AMERICA P. L GOLDSBOROUGH B o rd er Clash S ta rts Rupture B etw een P a ra g u a y and B olivia. La Pax. Bolivia.—The country I* In • g reat state of excitem ent over the breaking of diplomatic relation« with Paraguay, which followed a border claiih between troops of the two coun tries last Thursday. D em onstrators In the streets here shouted before the presidential palace: "We want war, Mr. President." P resident Siles appeared on a bal cony and replied: "If war Is neces sary we will all go." Six thousand youths bearing lan tern s and torches paraded through the streets, calling upon the general staff to enlist them Immediately, shouting "Viva Bolivia; muera Paraguay." Former Governor Phillips Lee Gclds- borough of Maryland, Republican, who Asuncion, Paraguay. — The foreign defeated his Democratic opponent, office has handed to M inister Mer William C. Bruce, present senator cado of Bolivia a note saying th at from Maryland, for the honor of rep Bolivian troops had entered Paraguay resenting his state in the senate of an territory and when Invited to with the 71st Congress. draw, attacked Paraguayan troops. The note declares th at the entire responsibility rests on the Bolivians and alleges th at this was not the first Incursion made by Bolivians, despite the assurances given by the Bolivian m inisters. It charges th at not long ago the Bolivians occupied the south ern region of Gran Chaco, beyond the most advanced Paraguayan military position, but withdrew their forces when Invited to do so. A fter reviewing the efforts made to arb itra te the boundary dispute, the note says the Bolivian governm ent does not appear to have a clear vision of the dangers of the situation, which is not In accord with accepted treaties and has occasioned repeated conflicts which. Instead of healing the breach, widen the abyss separating the two countries. BIG INCREASE IN SAVINGS DEPOSITS New York.—The g reatest yearly In crease In saving deposits recorded In the United S tates was announced by W. Espey Allilg, deputy m anager of the American B ankers' association. In charge of Its savings bank division. H e reported savings totaled $28,412,- 961,000 on June 30, last, a gain of $2,- 327,059,000 over the previous year. "This Indicates prosperity more gen eral than at any tim e since the busi n ess depression of 1920,” said Mr. Alblg. The gain per Inhabitant was 7.7 per cent over last year, and 113.5 per cent over 1918 when the strong up ward curve In savings deposits first developed. The per capita savings now stands at $237, New York, with an Increase of $49 per capita, led the states. The New Kngland and middle At lantic states were tied in group gains for the year, with $36 per inhabitant. Gains per inhabitant of other sec tions for the year were reported as: E ast central $15, Pacific $9, west cen tral $4, southern $3. D E C LIN E IN INFANT DEATHS Report Shows Oregon and Utah Lead in Lowest Mortality Rate. W ashington, I). C.—Continuation of federal co-operation with states In m aternity and Infancy health work and extension of study of delinquent and dependent children as a vital part of the nation's campaign against crime were urged in the annual report of Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the children's bureau. Miss Abbott also reported the In funt death rale during 1927 to have been the lowest In the nation's his lory. Utah had the lowest death rate, 46 per 1000 births, Oregon was second with 48 and Idaho and W ashington had 50. Shingle Tariff Urged by Johnson. Chicago.—A call to cltlxens of the northw est to organise at once to fight In behalf of shingle and lum ber tariffs was Issui d by R epresentative Johnson, republican, W ashington, who said an opportunity to present argum ents will be afforded at hearings before the house ways and m eans comm ittee Jan uary 17 and 18. LEAGUE COUNCIL MEETS IN LUGANO Lugano, Sw itzerland.—With Charles Evans Hughes now a member of the bench of the perm anent court of In ternational justice, th ere is special In terest manifested In American circles In the revision of the statu tes of the court. This question Is on the agenda of the league council session opening here Monday. Interest also is keen because new s paper reports from W ashington, D. C., have said th at President Coolidge con tem plated reopening negotiations for American adhesion to the court. Geo. W. W ickersham , ex-attorney general, who has taken a leading part in the league's work of codification of in ternational law, was mentioned as one sf the international experts who might be designated to study remodeling of the court statutes. He is regarded as the most likely American to be chosen. The exam ination for revision is by order of the league assembly, which decided th at as the court now has been In operation for eight years, with an ever-increasing num ber of m atters referred to It. and th at as a second general election of the Judges will take place In 1930, gome changes will be necessary. It is understood th at no sweeping changes will be made. The statu tes have worked too well to make any profound change eith er desirable or wise, and have been interwoven into many treaties. F urther, It is desired th at nothing be done which would make it more difficult for the United S tates to join the court. B R IEF G ENERAL NEW S The Prince of W ales, en route home to the bedside of his father, King George of England, has left Cairo for P ort Said. A rm am ents have been steadily grow ing since the Kellogg reunuciation of war pact was signed, declared ex P re mier Lloyd George, speaking at the opening of the liberty party's peace campaign. Dr. Wilhelm Marx, ex-chancellor of Germany, has resigned his post as chairm an of the centrist party, which is In convention. Joseph Joos, a mem her of the relchstag, was named as his successor. P rem ier Mussolini, addressing the cham ber of deputies, declared the fas cist foreign policy Is directed toward peace, as dem onstrated by Italy's sign ing of the Kellogg Briand war renun elation treaty. Italy Is declared to be ready to sign oth er such treaties pro vided they contain sincere guarantees for peace. Bolivian friendship and good will toward the United S tates was official ly expressed to President-elect Hoover by Acting Foreign M inister Palacios, representing President Siles aud the Bolivian governm ent, <m the arrival there of the battleship Maryland, car rying Mr Hoover on the good-will tout of South America. Kansas Marathon Danes Ends. K ansas City. A m arathon dance here came to a prem ature end Satur- day night when the tew rem aining contestants walked out after dancing Estimate Shows Portland Has 361,218. three weeks. The three prom oters of Portland, Or.—With a total of 361. the contest could not be located after $18 persons living within the corpor several attachm ents had been filed on a te lim its of Portland, according to box office receipts, fiv e couples were com putations made by llen ry K. Heed, on the floor when the dance ended. realtor, based on the registration for th e Noveiulwr election, the population Gsorgla Hsn Claims Championship. Savannah. Ga.—The "long distance" of the city has Increased 39 8 per cent since 1920. when the total was 258.298 egg laying championship of the United S tates Is claimed for Princess Ger Portland Scores In Philanthropy. trude, a white Leghorn hen th at in New York Portland, Or., ranks 23d 165 days laid 339 eggs. Previously In a list of 183 American cities and the best record in th is country was th eir adjacent trading areas which held by a white Leghorn at the Wash ngton state agricultural experim en' contributed more than $2,000,000 to philanthropy during 1927. station, 335 eggs in 365 days. OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST Installation of the electric light and j power line is in progress on the pro E L IZ A B E T H MORROW posed Dayton-W heatland system . The , Yamhill E lectric company of Newberg 1 is sponsoring this project. A carload cf lime has arrived at P rin cip al Events of the W eek Canby from the state lime plant and is being distributed to farm ers of Assem bled fo r In fo rm atio n I Clackamas county a t $7.95 per ton, with $2 credit for retu rn of sacks. of Our R eaders. Mrs. Pansy Imislund, 38, resident of F ire of unknown origin destroyed Knappa, n ear Astoria, was killed in one half of a business block in Wal stantly when she was struck by a j logging train while crossing a trestle lowa last week. belonging to the C rossett W estern The Hubbard m ineral springs was Logging company. formally opened Saturday evening For the past two years the city valu- with a banquet to 100 guests. i ation of Newport has ben steadily de- At a m eeting of taxpayers in New ' creasing. The 1929 budget was based port recently a motion to levy a $5000 I on a $20,000 decrease in valuation, road tax was carried w ithout opposi much city owned property being elim tion. inated from the tax roll. The Lafayette high school has three The Gunderson store a t Diamond teachers and 36 pupils and operates at ville, half mile from the lime plant of $75.34 per capita, the lowest operating the P ortland Cement company near cost In Oregon. j Baker, was destroyed by fire recently. Apples from E astern Oregon and 1 The entire stock of groceries and gen - W illam ette valley points are being eral supplies also was destroyed. i sold on the streets of Coos Bay at Im mediate plans to r startin g a fund Miss Elizabeth Morrow, daughter ol $1.15 to $1.60 a box. with which to build a new courthouse the ambassador to Mexico, who, it ia Isabella Jane Curry, who for 37 to replace the ancient schoolhouse rumored, is engaged to marry Col. years had been a resident of Douglas j which has served the purpose for 20 Charles A. Lindbergh. county, died at her home in Roseburg years sines Hood River county was established, have been abandoned. after a short Illness. A so-called double-knot netting ma- A herd of nine large elk and fout deer were seen browsing near the ■ chine for knitting nets for salmon Black bridge on Tillamook road, nine twine has arrived in Salem from France and will be installed in the m iles.south of Seaside. Miles linen mills there. The machine A carload of lime has arrived in As will be installed by a m echanic who Salem, Or.—The n et debt of Irriga toria from the state lime plant and is accommpanied the machine to Salem. tion districts in Oregon July 1, 1928, being distributed by the county agent T hree carloads of turkeys, compris was $16,812,349.17, according to the an to farm ers who wish it. ing the second pool to be shipped nual report of the state treasu rer, The N orthw est P reach ers’ parlia through the Idaho T urkey Growers' which was completed here, and copies m ent of the C hristian church of Ore association, left H erm iston recently. of the report filed with Governor P at gon, W ashington and Idaho closed In U nsatisfactory prices offered in Boise, terson and m em bers of the legislature. Eugene recently with a banquet. Idaho, resulted in a decision to ship U nm atured bonds outstanding July Polk county Is said to have the larg the birds direct to New York, where 1 of this year aggregated $13,274,- est vineyard in the W illam ette valley. they will be sold on consignm ent 075.71, with m atured bonds not re It belongs to A. J. Flala, who this sea Plans for the construction of a state deemed totaling $374,600. W arrants son sold 115 tons from the 16 acres. fish hatchery on Fall creek, to re and other outstanding obligations ag Dan Cupid established a good lead place the Tumalo hatchery, were made gregated $3,222,808.10. The total debt In Baker county during November, 15 known In Bend when th e Deschutes of the districts was $16,871,483.81, with m arriage licenses being Issued as com county court agreed to give $200 to sinking funds of $59,134.64. pared with four divorce suit filings. ward the purchase of the site. The The repoft showed th at Oregon dis The election held In U m atilla coun new hatchery will be about two miles tric t Interest bonds Issued on behalf of irrigation d istricts aggregate $2,- ty recently to vote on a proposed tax east of the present “eyeing station.” to m aintain union high school district The non-resident m otor vehicle 158,960, with annual Interest thereon No. 7 was defeated by a vote of 67 to sticker for the year 1929 will be print am ounting to $101,548.32. In terest paid 34. ed In three colors and will carry an on these bonds by the state up to and The state tax commission has fixed outline map of the state of Oregon and including June 1, 1928, totaled $514,- public utility valuations in Linn coun a photograph of Mount Hood. The 694.27. T here has been repaid to the ty at 34,315,254.52, an increase of $236, new sticker was designed by Hal Hoss, sta te by the d istricts Interest in the Approxim ately am ount of $245,938.58, Accrued in ter 191.09 *over the assessm ents of last secretary of state. 100,000 of these stickers will be re est credited to these districts totaled year. $5105.44. The am ount of unpaid in The state fish commission has leased quired. The Oregon new spaper conference te re st due the state from the district* Lake Neah-ka-nie In Tillam ook coun ty from Its owner, Dr. H. E. Rinehart, annual session will be held a t the is $263,650.25. and has released 500,000 baby chinook U niversity of Oregon F ebruary 21, 22 and 23, according to F rank Appleby, F IS H in its w aters. BOARD C O N S ID E R E D E. E. Bragg, of La Grande was re publisher of the LaGrande Observer, This Power of Commission Makes Carefwl appointed by Governor P atterson as a president of the conference. Selection Necessary. mem ber of the state Industrial acci date was selected a fte r a question Olympia, W ash.—Governor H artley dent commission. H e will serve a nalre had been sent to all Oregon pub lishers. may soon take action to restore the four-year term . Four rural schools, which were open life of the state fisheries board, which Hom er Fisher, 70, long a resident of C lackam as county, burned to death last year n ear T alent, are closed and was vacated and left dorm ant In 1927. R epresentatives of the fishing in recently when flames destroyed a one the pupils are tran sp o rted by busses room cabin near Sherwood, on the to the Ashland schools. Two schools, dustry have recently urged restoration the Siskiyou and G reenspring dis of the board and were persuaded that T ualatin river. tricts, were closed last year, and those the governor was not unmindful of the The new power line being built from closed this year Include Soda Springs, need for re-establishm ent of the fish Seaside into Cannon Beach will be Dead Indian, Pilot Rock and Pinehurst eries authority and th at the delay was finished tn about two weeks, accord districts. due to the difficulty of finding three Ing to officials of the Pacific Powe' The new federal courthouse In P o rt men of the "right so rt” for the board. & Light company. Making up the fisheries board Is The assessor reports a total valua land has been allotted an additional tlon in Clatsop county of $31,423,444 $600,000 out of the lump Bum appro concededly a ticklish problem for sev or a drop of $1,933,356 from th at ol priation for continuing public con eral reasons. In th e first place, the 1927. A storia’s valuation Is $9,578,711. struction, carried by the treasury ap board is the most powerful of all state propriations bill Introduced In the commissions, ranking next to the leg against $9,437,327 in 1927. house, m aking $1,100,000 in all which tslature. Thanksgiving turkeys brought Vali will be available for the building when It has jurisdiction over seesons, grow ers about $11,500, Bold through it is begun. gear, etc., and its orders. If promul the Idaho T urkey G rowers' associa Ashland's pride of achievem ent, rep gated, are final and not subject to re tlon. The big part of the 1928 crop resenting more than a million dollars view by the courts. Is being held for the C hristm as mar o f im provem ents made there during ket. the last year was predom inant last “Tar Heel” Beet Earn Millions. Marlon county's tax levy for 1929 week in the dedication of three of the Raleigh, N. C.—As a farm Industry will total $1,214,274.74, according to major projects, which have Just been in North Carolina, bee-keeping Is a 2Vi- the budget as approved by the county completed by the city, R eeder gulch/ million dollar enterprise. Twelve budget com m ittee. The new levy will dam, new stre e t lights and new lithia years ago It was worth only $468.- be Just $10,012 higher than the 1928 drinking fountain. 914.16. This year there are 214,945 levy. The Douglas county turkey pool colonies of bees in North Carolina and One evidence of the early construc consisting of approxim ately 11 car they produced 14,000.000 pounds of tion of the Lebanon-Caacadia branch loads, will be sold on a consignment honey. of the Oregon Electric railroad Is thr basis, with an advance of 32 cents, top purchase of a nine-acre tra c t of land price, to the growers, the directors ol THE MARKETS at Sweet Home .for depot and term inal the Douglas County Co-operative Tur Portland purposes. key G rowers’ association announced W heat — Big Bend bluestem , hard Appreciation of the fine qualities recently, following three days of con of th e K lam ath N etted Gem potato ference regarding the disposal of the white, $1 48; soft white, $1.1754; west- ern white, $1.1654: hard w inter, was expressed in a letter from Presl crop. $1.11*4; northern spring. $1.10; w est dent Coolidge received by H enry Se Some 5,000.000 fresh w ater shrim p ern red, $1.12. mon. prom inent potato grow er of the are to arrive in Portland soon, accord Hay—Alfalfa. $22® 22.50 ton; valley Klamath basin. ing io M att L. Ryckman, superintend timothy. $17®17.5O; eastern Oregon Clarence H. G ilbert of Portland, ent of hatcheries for the Oregon state timothy, $20 50 6 21; clover. $15.50® prom inent In w elfare work In Oregon game commission. They are tr e for many years, was appointed by Gov mendously prolific and are declared an 16; oat, $15®15.50; oats and vetch hay, $16@16 50. ernor P atterson, judge of the court ol Ideal fish food. This first batch will B utterfat—54®55c. domestic relations of Multnomah be taken to the McKenxle hatchery Eggs—Ranch, 31® 44c. county to succeed Judge Richard with the aim la te r to plant the shrim p C attle—Steers, good. $11® 12.25. Delch. Judge Delch was recalled b) in Oregon lakes and stream s, parti Hogs — Medium to choice. $7.75® the voters of Multnomah county at the cularly where fish food is insufficient 8.75. recent general election. to sustain life. Lam bs—Good to choice. $11®12 E stablishm ent of a Pacific coast Bids for construction of approxi Seattle airw ays beacon on a Jiigh point five mately 65 m iles of road and tw< W heat—Soft white. $1.1754; western miles south of Salem wag assured bridges will be opened a t a meeting white, $1 1654; hard winter, northern when a federal representative sign of thq state highway commission In i spring. $1.11*4; w estern, red, $1.1254; ed a ten year lease on the site. The Portland December 19. This was an Big Bend bluestem . $1 48*4. beacon will be of 2,000.000-candle nounced a t the office of the highway H ay—Alfalfa. $22; tim othy. $28 power. departm ent in Salem. B u tterfat—54c. Resolutions urging Jatl sentences In The Raker city budget as tinallv j Eggs—Ranch, 24 0 44c. stead of fines (or persons convicted adopted by the budget board calls foi C attle—Prim e steers. $11® 11.50. of cattle theft were received by the the raising of 098,019 98 by taxation Hogs —Prime. $9 25 0 9 40. state suprem e court from the Grant A total of $5,089 95 was lopped off the Lam bs— Choice. $1101150. County Llvcrtock G rowers' associa Item i lor the m ay o rs departm ent Spokane. Ion. The resolutions declared tines The amount to be raised la only $74‘ H ogs—Good and choice, $8 75® 9M rere ineffective. »Tester than last year. C attle—Steers, good, $10 50® U.M . OREGON IRRIGATION DEBT $16,812,349 PROGRESS SEEN IN CONGRESS SESSION S en ate C onfident of Rapid Ac* tion on M an y B ills of H e a vy C a le n d a r. W ashington, D. C. — Prom ise of definite strides forw ard on the heavy legislative and inquisitorial calendars of congress were held out by leaders at the outset of the second week of the short session. The Swing-Johnson bill for construe- tion of a dam In the Colorado river at Boulder canyon holds undisputed right of way again in the senate this week but it continued to show signs of yielding to a solution of the long standing controversy between Cali fornia and Arizona. The house with its smooth-working m achinery already has ground out the first of its nine m easures for ap propriation of the billions of dollras necessary to run the governm ent next year and during the week its leaders expect to dispose of another and re ceive a third from its com m ittee. On Tuesday. C hairm an Borah of the senate foreign relations committee will bring the Kellogg anti-w ar treaty again before th a t body, with a view to expediting com m ittee action. Behind the Boulder dam bill In the senate is gathering a real batch of legislation with the new McNary farm relief, the fate of which Is still In doubt, pending a decision by party leaders as to w hether to seek its pas sage at this short session or await the extra session prom ised for Its con sideration, If necessary, by H erbert Hoover. PROGRESS CLAIMED IN ANTI-RUM FIGHT W ashington, D. C.—The efforts of the prohibition bureau of the treasury departm ent to enforce the prohibition law was depicted in the annual report off P rohibition Com m issioner Doran, who recited th at his forces had made 75,307 arrests, with 58,813 convictions, in the fiscal year 1928. It was an in crease of 10,000 over the a rre sts lor the previous year. O perating with 4396 perm anent and 92 tem porary employes, the bureau seized 1,048.636 gallons of illegal spir its, 4,254,029 gallons of m alt liquors, 399,603 gallons of wine, 16,220 illicit distilleries, 19,980 stills and 217,278 ferm enters. During the year the pro hibition forces seized 6934 automo biles valued at $3,057,132 and 81 boats valued at $144,240. Com m issioner Doran said 77,799 prohibition violation cases were ter m inated In 1928, and of the convictions 15,793 persons were given jail sen tences equaling 5631 years and fines aggregating $7,031,109 were assessed. In addition to the federal cases agents of the bureau aided in 15,077 cases In state courts in which 9025 convictions were secured. V ETS GET $ 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 M O NTHLY Sum of $26,217,825 Loaned by State of Oregon in 7 Years, Salem, Or. — A pproxim ately 10,864 veterans of the world w ar borrowed $26,217,825 from the state of Oregon during the seven years th a t the state bonus and loan commission has been in operation, according to figures available in the offices of the world war v eteran s’ state aid commission. W hile most of the money w’as loan ed during the first two years tl^at the commission was In existence, loans are still being made a t the rate of more than $100,000 a month. Cash bonuses have been distributed In the am ount of $4,663,395. In terest paid on loans taken out up to the present time totals $3,636,774.87, while $3,507,610.63 has been paid In principal. The report showed th at 384 proper ties have been foreclosed and taken over by the commission. Two Die, 10 Hurt in Rail Smashup. F o rt W orth, Tex.—Two engineers were killed and ten persons were in jured in a head-on collision on the Fort W orth & Denver City railroad 416 m iles northw est of F ort W orth. Officials of the railroad expressed be lief the wreck was caused by failure of a freight train to sidetrack betw een Amarillo and D alhart for passenger train No. 2, southbound from Denver. Train Hits Auto, Three Die in Idaho. Boise, Idaho—Guy Powell of Buhl, Idaho, was Instantly killed and his wife and 5-year-old stepdaughter. C atherine Andreen. w ere Injured fatal ly when their autom obile was hit by a train at Filer. The woman and child died in a Twin Falls. Idaho, hospItaL New Earthquake Felt in Talca. Santiago, Chile. — D ispatches re ceived here said th at there was a strong earthquake shock in Talca, and that two houses collapsed and severe* walls felL