Five Cents
BUDGE FAVORS
FARM CO-OPERATION
MARY T. NORTON
ALLIED DIPLOMATS
MEET IT VERSAILLES
Reparatlaps Claims Will
Is First Requirement
Be Pressed.
of Success.
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Washington D. C.—An address by
President Coolidge indorsing the co
operative marketing system, marked
o—oaoooQOCiooooonnooonooon the opening here Monday of the third
•penal convention of the national
council of the Farmers’ Co-operative
Marketing association.
Addresses by Frank O. Lowden, ex
governor of Illinois, Carl Williams of
Attorney-at-Law
Oklahoma City, Okla, and A. J. Mo-
the Canadian
Phall, president
Practice in All the Court»
Wheat Producers, Limited, were other
.of Oregon
features of the meeting.
Mr. Coolidge, in his address, describ
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ed co-operative marketing as the best
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means of stablixing the-country’« agri
Oregon
cultural organization, but warned that
the system possesses no magical attri
butes and must start from the soil and
be developed upward with the farm
ers contributing the major aid.
“There Is a school of co-operators
who seem to believe that the program
can be started at the top and built
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dowawards,” President Coolidge said.
“They want the government, or the
United States Dental Exam
bamks, or philanthropists, or providence
iner for this district.
to lay out a scheme big enough to
cover the country, set its machinery
moving, guarantee it all needed capi
Office at
tal and then Invite the farmers to sit
in the places reserved for them and
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proceed to garner their profit*. Let
me say that I offer no such Aladdin
I like project. I want society as a whole
to help; but I want the farmers to
do their share and I warn them that
this will be the lion's share.” .
MortP
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Paris.—The famous clock room In
the French foreign office, where Wood
row Wilson, Georg<-s Clemenceau and
their fellow peacemakers prepared the
treaty of Versailles, assumed the ^as
pect of treaty-nuking days Wednes-
Orego
On the Road to 1926
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diplomats and ministers met there to
settle some of the conflicts of the
peace. It is -the general opinion that
the discussions will furnish a few
sessions that may surpass in warmth
some of the liveliest meeting of the
big five.
«
The demand of the American gov
Mrs. Mary T. Norton of New Jersey ernment for a share in the proceeds
Is ths first woman to bo eloctsd to of the Dawes plan * as a means of
congress as a democrat. She take« paying American reparations claims
and the cost of the occupation of the
office after March 4.
Coblens bridgehead will come up early
in the proceedings.
American reparations claims are
estimated at $350,000. For purposes of
discussion of the American demand
for a share of the Dawes plan receipts,
this amount with $265,000,000 which
Washington, D. C. — All employes the American occupation cost brings
of municipally-owned institutions act the total claim of the United States
tng in proprietary capacity rather than to $600,000,000. The American dele
serving governmental purposes, such gation will have the support of France.
as water, light and street railway com- Italy and Belgium.
Ambassador Kellogg at London, Am
subject to income tax on
bassador Herrick at Faris and Colonel
to pay taxes on their Incomes as far James A. Logan, unofficial observer
back as 1918, and the bureau of in of the reparations commission, were
ternal revenue has notified the col appointed as the American- representa
lector of customs to compel the filing tives to the financial conference.
of returns over those years.
The ruling, far-reaching in its ap
plication, is based on court decision?
in several sections of the country,
Physician and Surgeon
which have held; in effect, that such
institutions as I were named were com-
enterprise and
>eting with private
1
Washington, D
similar footing with
should
occupy
a
Office and Residence
memorandum
regarding payment of
Washington, D. fc.—Six responsible respect to certain taxation features
France's
war
debt
to the United States
Offi
cial«
of
the
bureau
dedined
to
be
many
cities
poetai officios in
Hotel Moro
throughout the country have been sus definite in the application. of the rul was transmitted by Secretary Hughes
pended from duty, an employe of the Ing, which was made by Solicitor Nel to Secretary Mellon.
Secretary Mellon becomes heir to
senate poetoffice committee has been sob T. Hartson, and the problem of
discharged and the clerk at the house 'Enforcement has been left IB the hand? this much disrug^d docutAgnt by vir
tue of his position ns head of the debt
pastoffice committee has resigned as of internal revenue collectors.
funding
uaintahoo, authorized by
a result of an official investigation
congress to receiva and act upon all
into the alleged use of money to in
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offers of settlement by debtors.
fluence postal pay legislation.
Inasmuch as the document was pre
The officials suspended all are mem
The président and Mrs. Coolidge
Physician and Surgeon
sented
by M. Clementcl, French fi
bers of the legislative committee of shook hands with more than 4000 per
nance
minister,
to Ambassador Herrick
the National Association of Postal sons who filed through the White
Supervisors and held some of the most House for the annual Néw Year's re as an unofficial vid private communi
cation, the state department officials
Important positions In the postal serv- ception.
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The interstate commerce commis would make no comment on the sug
The suspended officials, whose serv sion investigation into wool rates from gestions embodied in. it.
WASCO - OREGON
The memorandum is understood to
ice averaged more than twenty years, the Pacific Coast and intermediate
contain
reference to a settlement plan,
are: Peter McGorty, acting superin territory will begin at a hearing in
including
a moratorium, with payment
tendent of mails. New York; James Chicago, February 19.
M. Greig, postal cashier, Boston; Peter
Senatorial investigation of the Uni over eighty years from the time the
Wiggle, acting postmaster, Detroit; ted States tariff commission, with moratorium expires, and interest pay
Harvey M. Tittle, assistant postmast particular stress on its sugar pedicy, ments during the moratorium period
er, Springfield, O.; J. J. Fields, super was proposed in a resolution introduc at the rate of one-half of 1 per cent.
intendent of malls, Louisville and Wil ed in the senate by Senator Robinson,
liam Sansom, assistant superintendent democrat of Arkansas.
WATER ALLOCATION STUDIED
Optometrist
of delivery, Chicago.
The navy department, under orders
Spacilist in the examining of
from President Coolidge, has begun Engineering Heads of 4 States Confer
< on Irrigation.
eyes and fitting of glasses. .
for the evacuation of the
TO RETAIN LAND OFFICES preparations
Lona grinding shop in
100 United Stat«» marines who have
Spokane, Wash.—Plans for the al
* connection.
Washington, Idaho and Orsgoh Appro been kept in Nicaragua since 1912 to location of the waters of eastern
Directly over Corson’s Music
protect American Interests.
Washington and Oregon, northern
priations In Senate Bill.
Legislation reducing the time limit Idaho and western Montana, expected
Store.
Washington, D. C.—The interior de
partment appropriation bill, as report for World war veterans to apply for to provide a soiAe of supply for the
Room 10, Vogt Bldg.
ed to the senate carries the amend their bonus from January 1, 1928, to Columbia basin Irrigation project in
Th« Dalles, Ore.
ment forced into it in the house by January 1, 1926, has been recommend south central Washinfctoh, wère dis
Chairman Sinnott of the public lands ed to congress by Major General cussed in the conference here between
committee, retaining the land offices Robert C. Davis, adjutant general of representatives of the engineering de
h 11 11 H'l h 1 1111 m m
partments o( the four states, tbe fed
at Burns and La Grande, Op; Walla thé army.
Christiania, for 300 years the capital eral power commission and the war
Walla, Waterville, Yakima and Van
couver, Wash., and Coeur d Alene, of Norway, ' exists in name no more department.
On the stroke of midnight January 1,
The session was adjourned to meet
Idaho.
the
name of the capital was changed here again January 19. In the mean
The bill also restores provision for
Eyesight Specialists
the retention of the surveyors gen to Oslo, by which it was known for time the state engineers of Washing
Manufacturing Optician«
eral, who, under the bill passed by the about 600 years—from 1047 to 1624, ton, Oregon, Idaho and Montana will
Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted *
confer with their respective state of
house, would have been deprived of when it was changed to Christiania.
N Exclusively Optical
ficials and civic bodies interested in
office July 1- All of the difficult con
Complete Lena Manufacturing
irrigation and hydro-electric power to
ditions imposed by the house in appro
The United determine accurately the water
Plant in Connection
Washington,
priating $375,000 for the Kittitas irri
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gation project in central Washington, States government in the note Am quirements of their states from the
16-16 Vogt Block.
including a provision for 5 per cent bassador Kellogg handed to the Brit Columbia river system, it was an-
interest on deferred payments of set ish government Monday refused to nounced.
tiers, were stricken, from the bill by accept the compromise terms offered
the senate committee on the motion by Great Britain in the dispute over Oregon Has Three New State Officers
the right of America to collect ap
of Senator Jones.
Salem.—Changes in the state’s of
proximately 1250,000,000 German war
JAMES STEWART
ficial family Monday as a result of the
claims
out
of
the
Dawes
reparations
Judge Gives Relative Prison
general election last November was
SHERMAN COUNTY
Portland, Or.—When Judge Wolver annuities. The Americpn case, as set limited to three major offices. T. B.
STOCK AND BRAND
ton of Portland leaned forward in his forth In the note and as it will be pre Kay succeeded Jefferson Myers as
chair in the federal courtroom to pass sented in Paris, is that this country state treasurer, Edward Ostrander
INSPECTOR
sentence upon Mrs. Leona Case, who lost none of its right through declln took the place of Newton McCoy as
Man - - Orato«
stood convicted of having abetted tn Ing to become a party of the Ver member of the public Service commis
the theft of goods in interstate ship sailles treaty.
sion from the western Oregon dis
DEPUTIES: L. Schadewitz, Kent,
ment, in a quiet voice he made known
trict and Harry H. Belt of Dallas be
Fascist! Hits Hard at Foes.
Oregon; Dr. Jo«. Saunder«, Moro,
to thorn in the court that the prisoner
Roms. —- The Fascistl government, came a member of the supreme court,
Or«.; W. H. Meyer, W««co, Ore.
at the bar was the jurist’s cousin by
taking the place of Associate Justice
marriage and the mother of a 10 year backed by its armed militia, dealt Martin Pipes, appointed by Governor
«Hiiliin i l1!IIIH»M-»+
old daughter who is the judge’s second crushing blows to its enemies in con Pierce to fill the vacancy caused by
formity with Premier Mussolini’«
cousin. —
promise of Saturday that the political the death of John McCourt several
horizon would be much clearer within weeks ago.
Stone Named Supreme Justloe.
Gilliaa «U Whular CwitM*
Throughout Italy paber«
Washington, D. Ci—Associate Jus 48 hours.
hostile
to
the
government were se Seizure of Quadra Declared Regular.
STOCK & WHEAT tice Joseph McKenna Monday conclud quartered, houses
San Francisco, Cal—The seixure off
raided and oppon
ed active service as a* member of, the
San
Francisco of the British steamer
ents
of
the
Fascist!
arrested
by
armed
supreme court and Attorney-General
Quadra
with its cargo of supposedly
militia.
Harlan F. Stone was nominated to
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illicit liquor valued at 1500,000 was
succeed him. The resignation of
Justice McKenna deprive* the Pacific Idaho Inaugurate* Ite New Officiale. regular in every way and not in con
Boise, Idaho.—The 18th Idaho leg!» travention of any treaty. United States
coeet of representation in the member
ship of the court, and selection of At lature, the second administration of District Judge Partridge held here Ip
torney-General Stone to fill the va Governor Moore, and the newly-elected quashing motions to suppress certain
justices of the supreme court, vrere in evidence against the Quadra. ... .,
cancy will $1vs yaw Yojk s
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America Is Represented and
Farmers Told That Self-Help
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Ford Car
Truck
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NOTE ABOUT DEBTS
POSTAL OFFICIALS
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3.—Studebaker truck.
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How about a set of Firestone Ballons
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in any home.
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