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1*97, Consolidated March *, 1931.
Moro, Oregon, January 1 , 1932
Forty Fourth Year
No.®
American Baseball Players at the Meiji Shrine
Chronological Account of 1931
1300 Pared From City
Budget at Meeting
News Prepared For Readers
The city council met Tuesday night
and accepted the suggestion of the bud­
get committee to cut |3u0, from the a-
mount proposed to be spent for electrie
power at the pumping plant during
1932._
Divided 1st« Seres Sectiras Fer Ciaviekeace ud Iking Al Imperial
■
-Events of Ite Year Jut Esded
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FOREIGN
Jan. 2—Government of Panama over­
thrown by, revolutionists aa* Presi­
dent Arosemena captured. Ricardo Al­
faro, mlniator to the Unftod gtatou
accepted offer of the piesid.ncy.
Jan. 4-c-Qr; Denied *alaaaanca elected
president of Bolivia.
Jan. 19—Round table conference on
a
Jan. 28—Pierre Laval formed new
minletry for France.
Feb 7—King of Spain reatorod eon-
atltutional rights and called an elec­
tion.
Feb. 9—Earl of Beseborough appoint­
ed governor general of Canada.
Feb. 14—Berenguar cabinet of Spain
resigned and king cancelled call for
parliamentary elections,
Feb. 18—Pehr Svinbufvud elected
president of Finland.
Feb. II—New Spanish government
formed by Admiral Juan Asner, mon­
archist
Feb. 8d—Attempt to assaeoiaate King
Zog of Albania Tn Vienna failed
Peruvian counter revolution eup-
pressed with bloodshed at Callao but
continued at Arequtpa.
March 1—Navy Junta ia Peru forced
Provisional President Cerro to resign
and put Chief Justice Ricardo Elias at
head of government
Dr. Gabriel Terra inaugurated ao
president of Uruguay, and Arturo Ar­
aujo as president of SaHador.
March 5—Army Junta in Peru ousted
Elisa.
March 10—Lieut CoL David Ocampo
< became provisional proeiAeat of Peru.
'9 'Aprll 4—Mutinous troops seised Ma­
deira Jsland; Portugal rushed war­
ships to crush rebellion.
Aprt! a 12—King Alfonso'c •nami«»
_,__
triumphed ao Spain voted; Republicans
routed monarchists ia municipal elec­
tions.
April
Alfonso abdicated
and sailed for exile; republic set up
beaded by Alcala Zamora.
April 19—Civil war broke out In Hon­
duras. loyal troops dsfoating rebels tn
three bsttles
April 20—Honduras Insurgents cap­
tured and looted Progrsso.
April
23—Honduras
rebel
forces
routed by federal troops.
May 2—Rebels in Madeira Island sur­
rendered to Portuguese forces.
May 13—Aristide Briand defeated for
presidency of Franco; Paul Doumer
elected.
•lay 22—Spanish republic decreed
absolute freedom for all rellgfona
May 80—Premier Mussolini ordered
dissbiutlon of all Catholic actloa youth
organisations in Italy; Pope Pius re­
sponded by Discing the Catholic Action
in control of the blshope.
June 8—Great Britain awarded own­
ership of Jerusalem vailing wall to
Moslems, with free access for Jews
at all times.
Juns 18—Psul Doumer Inaugurated
president of France.
Juan B. Peres resigned presidency
of Venexueia on demand of congress.
Juns 18—Government of Austria rs-
algned.
June 19—Juan Vicente Gomes elected
president of Venexueia.
June 20—Pope Plus denounced the
Fascist government of Italy.
Doctor Buresch formed new govern*
ment for Austria.
Juno 28—Spanish elections won by
Republican coalition.
July 9—Mussolini barred all Fascists
from Joining Catholic Action.
July 11—Financial crisis in Germany
due to failure to get huge loan for
Reichabank.
July 28—Carlos Ibanes, president*
dictator of Chile, resigned and fled.
Princess Ileana of Rumania and
Archduke Anton of Austria wers mar*
tied at Sinaia.
July 27—Juan Estcbsn Montero bs-
eame acting president of Chile.
Aug. 9— Plebiscite failed to over-
. throw Prussian -«overnment and rad­
icals staged fatal riota; -
State of war declAr«> la Havana as
revolutionary movement broke out.
Aug. 14—Cubah army captured Gen.
Marlo Menoca) and other revolutionary
leaders.
>
Aug.
17—Pre«8*epi
Machado an­
nounced the Cuba« revolt was eup-
Aug 1»—Count
bremler of Hungary
was succesded
by Count Karolyl. -
Aug./ 24—Brit lab ■-
r sabinal ro-
signed and Premise
ald was asked to form a coallItlon min­
istry to balance the budget
Isidro Ayora, president of Bcuadof.
resigned.
Aug. 25—British national gov< 'eminent
formed with MscOonald <a pHi
later.
Sept. 1—Mutiny In. CbMean
threatened government.
Sept. 2—Italy and the pope reached
an accord on Catholic Action ••cietiea.
Chilean cabinet -resigned.
Sept. 8—Chilean government planes
botn.K?d jvarshjpa h-jd bx mutineers.
To Chances For Crop
The amount originally putin the bud­
get waa $k00 but after inveatigatioo it
was found that a greater reduction
could be made because the plant at the
new well Was much cheaper in operati­
on than were the oU wells and pumps
The estimated expenditure is now set
at $700 which represents a saving of
over $400 from other years.
1 he total amount of money to be
raised for the city of Moro in 1932 will
Snow, long prayed .for. Anally fell*
be $7785, instead of $8085, as the other
on the wheat fields of Sherman county
items were left as in the published bud­
in sufficient quantities to raise the
get
prospects for a wheat crop in 1932 high*
'I he millage for the * ity will be So.7
er than they have been for three years.
for this year and the total millage will
r After two weeks of comparatively
be 47.7. Thia is divided 7.9 mills for
warm weathor’and occasional rains that
county and state. 1.1 for roads and 8.6
took most of the frost out of the ground
school district 17.
and left considerable moisture snow
The valuation for the city is $258,724
began falling Wednesday mording and
for 1932 which is a reduction of $9,160
continued throughout the day. Thurs­
frnrn the 1931 figure of $262,884. Thia
day morning there was approximately
reduction in valuation keeps the mill*
8 inches of snow,, the greatest depth
age high.
the county has seen for three years
Our average moisture between the
first of September and the first of the
Civil Service Offers
year has been 5.06 inches for the last
Opportunity To Men twenty years. This year, according to
the weather reports published in the
Journal we have had 5.28 inches of
The United States Civil Service Com­
moisture during that time.
mission has announced open competi­
Another advantage of thia snow is
tive examinations as follows:
that it came with practically no frost
Teacher, intermediate (grades 4—6)
in the ground a condition that has not
$1,680 a year; teacher, primary (grade
prevailed for three or four years. Uu-
1—3) $1,680 a year, Indian Service.
leas we have some very cold weather or
Cloaing date, January 26, 1912.
other extraordinary conditions all the
Automobile engineer, $8,800 to $4,600
moisture in the snow will go into the
a year, War Department. Closing date,
the ground to be available for the >9*2
January 19, 19*2.
Junior medical officer (interne) $2,000
GROUND FROZEN BUT LOTIE
. Sept. 8—British parliament met and
mattonai government woe veto of coh-
Sdence.
B<pt. It—nomee of Commees aoceptad
Snow4on’e budget, increaeteg tehee an*
emittag ths dole and pay ef govera-
Sept 14—Resnd tsb-e conference oa
India opened 1n London with Gandhi
present.
Sept. 81—British parliament passed
measure suspending gold standard act
for sis months.
Sept. M—Norway and Sweden sus­
pended gold standard.
Oct. 4—Juan Esteban Montero elected
president of Chile.
Oct. 7—Gorman cabinet resigned and
Chancellor Bruenlng was commissioeed
te form a new government with great­
ly Increased powers.
Oct. 18—Spanish sortea votsd separa­
tion of church and state.
OhL 14—Zamora resigned as presi­
dent of Spain and waa succeeded by
Fmanuel Asana.
Oct. 88— People of Cyprus revolted
against British ruis, burning ths gov-
srnment building In Nicosia.
Oct. 8|—Cyprus rsvolt supprscsed by
troops. -
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Oct -24—Sanches Cerro elected presi­
dent of Peru.
Oct 28—President Guggtarl of Para­
guay handed over the pnoetdentiai
powers to Vice President Navero, be­
cause ef disorders.
Oct. 27—MacDonald's National, gov-
srnment won a swooping victory In
ths British elections.
Nov. 8— Prime Minister MacDonald
of Groat Britain announced now cab-
inet oflte.
Nov. 14—Philip Snowdon was cre­
ated a viscount and slsvated to house
of lords.
Nov. 19—Spanish national assembly
declared former King Alfonso an out­
law.
,
Nov. 25—Labor cabinet of Auetralla
was defeated and resigned.
Nov. 27—British conference on Bur.
ms opened in London.
Dec. 1—Round table conference on In­
dia ended without result.
Dec. 2—Moderats coalition won New
Zealand election over radicals.
Dec. 8—President Arturo Araujo of
Salvador ousted by military revolution.
Wagos of Canadian railway work­
ers cut 10 per cent.
Dec. 8—German government decreed
reductions In wages, salaries, and
nearly all costs of living.
Benches Csrrp Inaugurated president
of Peru.
Dec. 10—Zamora was elected coa-
etitutional president of Spain.
Dec. 11—Japanese cabinet resigned.
Smetona re-01 acted president of Lith­
uania. _ _______ t
Dec. 12—Tsuyoshi Innkal, head of
Selyukai party, made premier of Jap-
etandarA
Dec. IS—Chiang Kal-ehek resigned
as president of China. Lin Sen suc­
ceeded him.
Dec.
17—Giuseppe Motta
elected
president of Switzerland.
INTERNATIONAL
Jan. 8—Pope Pius XI iseued aa en­
cyclical
condemning
divorce,
birth
control and many phases of modern
life.
Jan. 88—League of Nations council
decided to convene world disarmsment
conference Feb. 2. 1M1
March 1—France and Italy reached
an accord on naval ctrongth.
March 27—International wheat con­
ference opened in Rome.
April 27—Naw commercial accord
signed by Italy and Rueala.
May 4—China abrogated all extra­
territoriality treaties, effective Jan. 1,
1932.
May 18—Commission on proposed
European union met hi Geneva, and
Austro-German customs union was de­
bated.
June 20—President Hoover proposed
one year suspension of Gorman repara­
tions and payments oa war debts
June 23—Rotary Intcraatloaal mot In
Vienna and slocked S. W. Pascall of
London president.
Juno 24—Franco made counter pro­
posal for war debt moratorium. Great
Brtta'n «nd Italy aceoptod Hoover's
July 0—France an* United States
agreed on moratorium plan and It be­
came effective aa of 4ato ol July 1.
July 18—World banksre at Basel ex­
tended 3too»oo,M» oradtt to> Germany.
July It—IntoraaUMMd conference on
Gorman crisis opened in London.
July • 88—London ■ conference
ad-
{ourned after adopting raearosaonda-
lons that . bort term credits to Ger­
many be renewed.
Aug. 11—Protocol en-or*innMng mor­
atorium plan with Toung plan Mgnod
by intornaHonarowperto In London.
Freneh
IT—Ana arican
bankers arranged for >460,#•0.000 loan
to Greet Britain.
The Hog As A Weather Prophet
Doubted by Uncle Emmett
“Wal, Uncle Emmett, I butchered;
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Sure, I do, son ata t a hog one of
last week rn we ain t goto to have
j the moat thoughtful animals we got?
much more winter,” reported Wabash
i But it never occured to me till just
as he dropped « package of asuage and
now that swine might have given their
spare ribs on the old man’s kitchen
entire life to preparin’ weather data
for farmer«, 5 u wouldn’t take him
nr* on expert <>n hogeterology?”
to be a «dentist, but when yu hear
¿atpd Uncle Emmett
. ..
. him iquealir g in the shed at eight, he
he big part of the milt war
,
ain’t < old. No, air; he’a juet puttin’ a
uhnwn that the wont of the
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few seal lope on his spleen in a noble
pnmin early, anew- red Wg-
effort at self expression He’s pre­
parin’ to inform poor ignorant human­
•k< ri the winter ain’t never ao
ity about the winter.’*
r h feller has butchered five or
“ Mobbe, though, he don’t aim to
ther the hog la a wea-
let humans in on the secret. Ho sure
•i or not. You know, Wa-
keeps it dark as long ss ho can, that
1 v « yh v ondered w hat a hog i
ia. Wabash, I reckon the inside of a
inidirg 'UbouC when it stands
hog is dark even though there to lights
,4'-Of!" । to >n* fide with
in it That thoughtful,serious,interest­
löi; •• -n’t-Yae rrrntal exer
ed look that ia common to all hoga must
thuuplitful faco,'. Wasn't I
V
be for some purpose. No animal could
iw, not to’te remembered
be expected to undergo that painod ex­
< on-uhrin’ the weather an
pression for a whole life time without
aome thing cornin’ from it, ao I reckon
vu’re right; the h>g la a weather pro­
tell the
•* ihm t ;
phet.
Winter bj a hog?” a^kid Wabash,
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SHOW BRINGS JOY
10 WHEAT FM
Members of the squad of American baseball stars. Including 1 a > u Gehrig, Al Simmons, Lefty Grove and Lefty
O’Doul, walking from the Meiji shrine at Tokyo, which they visited during their Jmrnstormlng tour of Jnpnn
Sept. X—Oirmany and Austria form­
ally abandoned the proposed customs
union.
Sept I—World court ruled Auetro-
Gorman customs union was Illegal.
Sept. 7—League of Nations assembly
■net in Geneva, electing Nikolas Tl-
tulescu of Rumania president.
Sept 8—Mexico accepted bld to Join
League of Nations.
Sept. 14—Panama and China given
i League of Nations council.
Sept. 19—Japanese troops shelled
and occupied Mukden, Manchurlg.
Sept. 20—Japan occupied all cities in
southern Manchuria; China sent note
demanding Japanese cease hostilities
and withdraw troops to prsvlous posi­
tions.
* 'Oct. 5—Fourth Pan-Amsrlcan com-
mercial congress opened ID Washing­
ton.
Oct. 8—Japanese army planes bombed
Chinchow, temporary capital of Man­
churia, killing many soldiers and civil­
ians.
Oct. 10—China served ultimatum on
Japan, demanding immédiats evacua­
tion of Manchuria.
Oct. 11—Secretary of State Stimson
called on League of Nations to avert
war between China «nd ■ Japan.
Oct. 15—League of Nations council
Invited United States to participate in
discussion of 8ino*Japaness embrogllo,
Japan opposing.
Oct 84—League of Nations council
demanded that Japan evacuate Chinese
territory by November 18 and ad­
journed to that date; Japan rejected
the demand.
Nov. 4—League of Nations again told
Japan to withdraw troops from Man­
churia.
Nonr. 8—Japanese won three day bat­
tle with Chinese under Gen. Ma Ghan­
ahan at Nonni river bridge.
Nov. 8—Three thousand armed clv-
Ilians rloted In Tientsin: Fifteenth
United States Infantry called out, to-
gather with French and Italian troops.
Nov. 12—Germany asked a moratori-
am on reparattona.
Nov. 18—League of Nations council
Paris to consider the 8lno-Jap-
anese embrogllo; Ambassador Dawes
present as American observer.
Ono year armament truce declared In
effect by League secretariat.
Nov. 18—Japanese routed General Ma
and captured Anganchi and Tsiteihar.
Nov. 20—Truce In Manchuria, planned
by League' of Nations council, rejected
by Japan.
Germany proposed jtew conference on
reparations and debts.
Army I d Manchu-
Continued on Page
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Government Reports
On Wheat and Hogs
“In Oregon during the past sea­
son the aggregate valse of the prin'
cipal crops listed amounted to $46,
698,000 compared to $.56 355,000 in
1930 and the total of the same group
of crops in 1929 of $84,857,000.”
nays the Department of Agriculture
in hsuing the December crop lumm
ary for Oregon and they
further that the
comment
decline
Lawrence Rakes Has
Interview in Journal
largely due to lower prices instead of
smaller yields.
While in Portland attending the mid
winter meeting of the Oregon State
winter wheat as 15,262,00(1 in Ore­
Teachers Aaaociation, Laurence W.
gon «nd 787,4>65,OOO in the United
Rakes was written up in the Oregon
States. Spring wheat is reported to
Journal by the Veteran Journal man,
have made 2,400,000 bushels in Ore
I*'sed Lockley.
gon and 86,411,000 in the* United
Mr. Rakes has had a varied life since
States which is a startling decline be-
his birth in Tarpon, Va , in 1891 having
ing considerable less than half the
attended three universities, one world
production of the previous year.
war and l^yed in several of the states of
The total wheat crop for the U. S.
the Union.1*
in 1931 was 73,856.000 larger than
To quote from the Journal. “I made
it was in 1930according to this re­
my first money growing tobacco in the
port even with the decrease of 112,
Cumberland mountains of Virginia.”
000,000 bushels in the spring wheat
said Proffessor Rakes
“L was brou­
crop. Some of the winter wheat sec­
ght up in a feud country, where you
tions had bumper crops in 1931.
had to be either ‘fur or agin,’ If a boy
The government’s pig .survey showp reflected on the anceatry of your moth­
that there, «re 145 per ^ut a« tuanv er you had to liek hhn, or try your beat
pigs of fall farrowing this year as to do so or be branded ‘yellow.’ I had
there was Inst. This has been brmi to walk six miles to a rural school and
ght about about almost entirely be most of us were barefoot til! Christmas
, cause there were more sows bred for time, for Father made the >hoes for us
the increase in the number of pigs children and he rarely g< t round to
saved is negligible being 6 6 for 1931 make them till Christmas. Mother
and 6.5 for 1930. In the United made all our clothes from homespun
States ns a whole there were more flax and wool. Father and 1 made the
pigs farrowed in ‘.he fall of 1931 than loom and we helped weav» the cloth.
in the fall of 1930 but there
“When I was 16 years old I had my
। only about two thirds as many born first store clothes
They cost me $4
in the fall of 1931 as there were in When I was io my teens I hired out
the spring of that year.
hoeing corn and tobacco and was paid
25 cents a day. Later I landed a job
teaching school in Virginia at $27.50 a
month, later I secured another schoolt
where I was paid $37.50 a month.
“From Virginia I went to Texas,
where
I punched cattle for $25 a mo.
MIN.
PRECIP
MAX.
DATE
From
Texas
I went to Western Wash
Dec. 24 .. .............. 46 .. ..33.. . .00
and
went
back
to teaching. I enlisted
“
25... .......... 43... ..30.. . .00
in the World W’ar and spent two years
“
26 .. ............45... ..26... . .03
“
27... ........... 42... .34.. . .00
over seas. I was at the front for a
28 .. .............. 36 .. ..29... . .19
year, I never got wounded or promoted.
“
29 .. ........... 34 .. ..17.. .. .00
I was a buck private straight through,
30 .. ......... 87 .. .24... . .56
and
I have no alibi to offer.
Total for week .. ........... 0.78
The report gives the production oi
WEATHER REPORT FOR
WEEK ENDING DEC. 30
Another Year, Another Picture
D
a year, St. BHrnbetW Hospital, Wash­
ington D. C. Closing date Jan., 19th,
1932.
Full information may be obtained
from the Secretary of the United States
Civil Service Board of Examiners at
the post office in any city which has a
post office of the first or the second
class, or from the United States Civil
Service Commission, Washington, D, C.
License Examines To
Be Here January 6
merfallow fields but there are no bare
places left in the fields and drifting is
lees than common with eight inches of
snow.
The highway crew found’ three feet
of snow at the top of Demoea hill that
made them shovel there way out. Sev­
eral country roads running north and
south will be blocked until farmers
break through with teams or snow
plows.
The examiner of operators’ and applicaations and conducting examin­
chauffeurs’ will be in Moro again on ations for licenses to operate automo­
biles. This is a change from Monday
the 6th of January, Wednesday, be­
which has been the day Mr. Bentley
tween 9 a m. and 12 a. m. at the
•pent
in Moro.
court house for the purpose of receiv-
Old Time News For Old Time
Readers From Old Files
December, 29th, 1892
Bro. Seiders, Uncle Sam’« faithful
It ia calculated to start the flouring mail carrier on the Monkland-lforo
mill at Granta, on or about the 10th of Route, dined with Hoary Goaeen Chrtot *
January.
mu day, and when he returned home
It looka as If the prayer of the peo­ found a bucketful of holiday flxeoa on
ple waa answered last week—enow to his doorstop which A. Nish had deliver­
the depth of about two foot fell which ed from Mrs. Meloy
melted and nearly ail soaked into the
John Foes and wife are yet in Athena
greund.
he to able to be about town daily
Carson C. Maaaiker, one of Sherman
George Oliver Mowry was at home
county’a highly respected citiaens re­ duriag the holiday vacation.
turned from Minneaota laat week,
P. O. DeMoea ia moving to Grace Vai*
whither ho wont for the purpcM of
selling horses for Messrs. West and
bonfangg together.
Davenport.
January 3» 1918
Moore and Rollins, General Merchan-
Married at Grata Valley. Dell Olds
dice, advertise their business at No’a
3, 4 and 5 Front 8t., Graaa Valley, Oro. and Miaa Ella Walkenahaw. The happy
A mooting of the Sherman County
Muaical Aaaociation wu hold Doe. 26th, bound train New Year’s Bro. °
at Moro with a fine program of muaie
and recitationa. Master Roy Powell
aang a comic aong that captivated the
audience.
January 2. 190«
Father Isaac Thompson aold acme of
the finest fat duck a la Moro yesterday
ceuta a pound Familiea should encou­
rage the farmers thus to diversify far­
ming.
Hoydt Brothers now have all the ma­
chinery neceeaary to complete a harness
eotnlDg a eelf tua teinin g eity
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