* nil 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 I 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 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 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; r . • , , , , . | 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 , ,, _ . 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, .1 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 'oar 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 I I ■I