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The Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon,
Established 1887
0BE60H STATE NEWS
OF GENERALJNTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Oar Readers.
ANTI-GOD MOVEMENT
SPREADS IN RUSSIA
Soviet Plans Demonitra-
> tions for Caster Week.
Anti-Jewish Movement
Improvement Of 2 *4 miles Of the
Æïelson mountain road w ill eliminate
about five fords on this route, reports
i- p , M. Morse, Lane county engineer,
who has returned after an Inspection
trip. Thia work is planned for the
coming summer.
County road crews throughout Lane
county have been pnt to work again
with the advent of good weather, it
was announced by members of the
county court. Crews are patching the
piled roads preparatory to spreading I
another coat of ail thio spring and
clearing the right of way for new road
projects is under way.
Portland
Wheat—Big Bend hluestem, >146;
soft white and western white, >1.05;
hard winter, northern spring and west
ern red, >1.03.
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- Hay—Alfalfa, >21.50©22 per ton;
valley timothy, >20.50 @21; eastern
Oregon timothy, >>3.50©24; clover.
>18; oat hay, >17; oats and vetch,
Price Five Cents
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Moscow.—W ith the approach '• of
Easter and Catholic and Protestant
days of “Iritereesaory piajrer on behalf
of Christian Russians,” Soviet-atheist
“O. E. Flnnsrty,-superintendent of Al­ Officials are hnsily formulating an In­
bany schools for the past eight years, tensified assault upon God and re­
has been reelected for another year ligion.
Ignoring
the
worldwide outcry
by the school board.
against Communists for their attitude
A ll guests of the Gold Star hotel, toward the church, which they say Is
suddenly destroyed by fire last week, only a cloak for an economic blockade
were believed accounted for after a against the Soviet union, these leaders
careful checking at Astoria.
Issued Instructions to members of the
More building w ill be done on Red­ League of Communist Youths, number­
ing 2,500.000, to -have “special shock
mond’s main street this year than In
brigades and groups of light cavalry"
the history of the town. I t w ill exceed
during Easter week lend the anti-God
1928, when- the >200,000 hotel # was movement and Investigate schools, uni
b u ilt
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versltles and clubs, to see how the
The Medford barbers' union at a anti-religious education of the young is
recent meeting decided to Increase being carried out.
Members are directed to organic
the price of shares from 25 cents to
mock religious carnivals, athelsli-
>6 cents after July 1, and of haircuts
meetings, torchlight processions and
from 50 cents to <5 cents.
lectures and also to fight for extermi­
A resolution adopted by sheep shear
nation of the kulak, the^joniplete
ers at Pendleton recently was ap-* ¿ectivlxatlon of farms uwd fulfillment
proved by a group of plant men and of the five-year industrialization plan.
On Easter day huge bonfires of
shearers, which called for 15 cents a
Icons
will be made in all large cities
head, with board, for shearer wages.
and towns, around which unbelievers
According to reports coming Into will celebrate the “extinction of re
Ashland numerous deer have been llglon.”
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found dead In the hills of the Green-
springs district. State game officials
Suicide Ends Convict’s
are Investigating the cause of the mal
Battle for Freedom
ady.
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t Trenton.
N, J.—Charles
Evans,
The Monitor State bank of Monitor,
twenty-nine,
a
trusty
at
the
state
Marlon county, has been purchased by
prison here, after an hour of furiou«
the’ Coolidge McClain bank of Silver
gunplay with half a dozen guards
ton, which w ill liquidate and dlgcon
died by his own hand—a suicide with
tlnue operation of the Monitor insti­
his last bullet.
tution.
- The battle-also coat one other Ilf«-.
Final arrangements for the Installa­ — that of Frank Butcher, a guard.
tion of a power pump and the necea Two other guards were Injured
eary piping to carry water to the new Ernest -Gordon with a bullet wound
ponds at the McKenxie river hatchery In the shoulder nnt! Thomas F. Soren
are announced by the state game com­ with a possible fractured skull.
Evans went to prison for life In
mission.
1919. when lie was eighteen years old.
Sale of 2,000,000 hoard feet of west­ for shooting two policemen In Jersey
ern yellow pine In the Green Buttes City.
area is announced by the supervisor
Of the Deschutes national forest. The
“Young Pact” R
purchaser was Grover C. Grimmet of
Sanction of Hi,
Chemnlt
Berlin.—The
Young
plan,
’ Four male students of the Univer­
claimed In Germany as “the
sity of Oregon, all residents of Shqrry
tlpn of the past,” was signed by Presl
Ross hall, have been suspended for dent vpn H laden burg.
the remainder of the academic year
This act makes possible the evac­
as a punishment for having liquor In uation of the Rhineland and the free
their possession.
lng of Germany from foreign control.
A pril 1 to 8, inclusive, will be the \ An urgency clause mnkes the plan
city dress-up week In Corvallis, and Immediately effective, so beginning
“palnt-up” and “clean-up” will be the the liquidation of Germany's debts
to the allies arising out of the World
slogans of local residents during the
war. A few hours later the President
week, making for city beautification
signed the separate debt accord with
and fire prevention.
America.
A proposal for the construction oi
a new East Side school and ah Addi­
Supreme Court to Hear
tion to the Kenwood school will prob
Attack on Prohibition
ably be submitted to the voters of
New Y o rlr—The opinion of the spe
Bend In the form of a >115,000 bond
clal committee on the Eighteenth
issue about the middle of April.
amendment of the New York law yers’
The city council of Medford has vot
association that the Eighteenth nmend
ed to subscribe >500 for the balance ment has been Illegally ratified In de
df the year to the fund of the North­ fiance of the Tenth amendment will he
ern California and Southern Oregon tested before the United States Su­
Development association for promo­ preme court within a few weeks, for
mer Supreme Court -Justice Daniel F
tion of the Crescent City harbor.
Cohalan,
chairman of the committee,
Two cougars and a bobcat were
announced.
Specifically, permission
killed with a bow and arrow by Cap­
will be. asked of that court to appear
tain C. H. Styles of Berkeley, Cal.,
In a test case as “amicus curie.” a
during a game hunt in the Caps Illa- friend of the court.
hee district. Perry W right, Roseburg
trapper, acted as guide during the ex
Ukrainian Leaders in ..
pedition.
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Friday, March 21, 1930
Moscow, U. S. ft. R.—The Jewish
telegraphic agency reports that an
nntl-Jewlsh plot vlsnglng pogroms In
Jewish agricultural colonies was re
vealed at the trial of 45 Ukrainian
leaders In Kharkov. The Ukrainians
are charged with organizing an Il­
le g a l‘ “association to free Ukrnlnin,”
to overthrow the Soviet government
and conspiring tvlth Polish groups to
occupy the Ukraine.
pjgnj|-gg of Germ sny’i
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Debt to United States
Washington.—Ogden Mills, under
secretary ’ of the treasury, estimated
before the house ways and means com­
mittee that Germany owed the United
States $193.930.7(15 for the cost of Jhe
American army of occupation main
talned In the Rhineland after the
armistice.
He also estimated the chilrits of
American citizens against Germany
— wouM amount to $209,937,878 nddl
tional.
O rders G am bling Houses Closed
>18.50 ©19.
- Butterfat— 82c.
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Eggs—Ranch, 20©23c.
Cattle—Steers, good,^>11.75012.25.
Hogs—Good to choice, >10@11.26.
Lambs—Good to choice, >9.75©10.60,
Seattle
; W heat — Soft white and western
White, >1.08; hard winter sn$ »orty-
erq spring, >1.07; western red, >1.0$’;
' Mexico C ity.—President Kuhl«» sent
Instructions to the governors of all
provinces to close nil gambling houses.
The president plans to abolish pub
He gambling throughout Mexico.
W ould M o d ify Jones Law
Big Bend hluestem, >1.1?.
Eggs—Ranch, 21@26c,
Butterfat—88c.
Cattle—Choice steers, >10.10 ©II,
Hogs—Prime light, >11 ©11.50.
Lambs—Choice, >9©10.
Spokane
Cattle—Steers, good, >10.75011.50.
. Hogs— Good to choice, >11.85© 11.50.
Lambs— Medium to good, >9.50 ©10,
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Washington. - The ChristophersqQ
ipbcomniiftee-of the house Judiciary
pommlttpe made a report recommenc­
ing that congress modify the drag­
lie Jonos laxv penalties for prohibition
violations.
R ailro ad E xecu tive Dead
* Chicago.—Samuel
Mor^e
Felton,
deon of Chicago railroad executives
and- chairman of the Chicago Great
Western railroad,’ died here. He was
■eventy-seven je n r« old.
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hack home. When It arrives across
the river, where It has been kept for
some time and well fed. It la killed to
obtain the drug.
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Pigeons cannot otdy be used again
and again, but they can be used for
convening the drug greater d^tances.
the long distances only cutting the
New Problem Presented m ' weight of the load. One thousand
miles eanj.be covered by a good fast
Birds Bring D ope Over 1 •bird
easily, but It Is not believed the
home lofts of the smuggling birds are
Mexican Border.*
located that fa r from their sources of
supply.
San Antonio, Texas.—Carrier pig
i eons have been added to other dumb 1
BSE R3883 ! 0
sm ugglers w hich m ust he watched h.v ;
federal customs otllcers along the Mex-
lean border add narcotic officers here
?he birds are being extensively used
or smuggling narcotics Into this conn
try, It was declared by customs in pec
tors here, and are pr<«vlng the most
difficult problem fo r tiie officials to
solve.
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Dogs, donkeys, and e.en Cattle have
been used to smuzjge “dope" la the
past, but It was ueqk«red_that only,
recently‘ have pigeons h^vn employed
to any extent. • O f com , the amount
of the drugs that one bird c ii’i
carry is small, but * suih.l1 aluminum
capsule attached to ets h leg Is raid
to contain from $3 to $10 worth, de
pending on the hind pud the under
cover market prices.
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JUSTICE 89 YEARS OLD
Find Lost City of
Apollonia in Albania
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I ’onya, Albania.— Few readers are
« young enough to have studied the
; geography of the new kingdom of Al­
1 bania left by tiie war. This ^oung
i country Is trying to drain the fever
i laden marshes by tiie blue Adriatic
. sen and njake good farmlhg land of
them."
Rome of the Imperial armies had all
that here 1,500 years ago. Their ini
perial city of Apollonia was here—
sptpcwhere near tiie present wretched
hamlet of Tonya.
Ancient carve»l anti Inscribed stones
are found encased In the cabin walls
of the peasants shaking with ghllls and
Washington.—Three women and a
fever. There Is also a Greek monas­
colored gurage ninu^are Included In
The officers’ attention v. ■( fir.u at
tery ‘’with brick Byzantine arches of-
the district Supreme court Jury chos­ ‘traded to the birds When a S ,n An j (a lly Christianity and carved stones
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmea.
en to try Edward L Dolieny, multi- tonio pigeon fancier, whose nanje th
of the Mutcdon of Alexander the
milllotfnlre oil inan. on a bribery In­ officials declined to filviij^e. Informed
Washington.—The grand old man of
Grt/at.
The Austriun bombs of the
dictment charging he gave Albert II. them that a pigeon sold by him sev­
American Jurisprudence, Oliver Wen­
war made-short work of what time
Fall, former Secretary <*t the Int-erlor. eral months «ago lytd returned. hom ea and fever had uot vuined utterly.
dell Holmes, recently celebrated hie
SIOO.OOU for a lease on the navy's with tf’Tapsule attache 1 to e.t’.-h U ;/ |
eighty-ninth birthday. A veteran of the
So human curipstty has been look
Elk l|jT^..’ Ciillf.. ml .reserves.
Investigation showed th “ capsul s con ’ ing here. for Apollonia, lost imperial
Civil war on the Union side, three times
talned cocaine. The fane' r explni.ne 1 city.
There were cavernous sounds
wounded, the Justice seemingly Is In
that he had sold twenty |>'-.•(•• »ns s<<r.ie j from underground. “There the monks
better health than for several years.
time before to a Mexican whose mrmc j buried us and their own dead,” whis‘
He Is constant in the discharge of his
SENATE* VOTES FARM
he did not remember. <'-> reco d w : h -| pered the awe-stricken ^peasants.
• Judicial duties, not having missed a
BOARD 100 MILLION mdde of the sale. "
A trqnch was dug—and, lo and be> session durlug the present term. Jus
hold, th^ lost city of the great Alexan­
tice yolmes has served as a member
One Avoids Now Herne.
.
der
and
Homan
emperors!
Founda­
of
the court for 27 years and 3 months.
The
fancier
aided
the
bfl'.cers
in
at-“
Large * Sums Added to De-
tions and carved coltlmns, statues of
tempting to trade the birds without
ficiency Bill.
lovely- goddesses, all mixed In with
success. lie, explained that the |»:ir-
tombs of 2,00d years—and the canals
t h a V r no doubt hud tn' oxulhe birds
LIQUOR BUYER CASE
to drain the marble basin of the wa­
to some place in Texas end Confined
Washington. — Immediate • approprl
TQ SUPREME COURT
ter'd which have made the marshes by
them In a loft until he b.-Eevwd they
atlon of more than >173,000,000 foi
age-long
neglect.
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ie
nml
multiple government projects was.vot­ were “broken" to the n
M. Leon Key Is directing tiie exca­
ed by the senate In passing the flraf would return there v Hen n lensed.
Highest Tribunal to Determine
vations of tiie French archeological
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there
MeX|c<
,
They
were.
Vicn
scut
to
deficiency bill.
mi
(siou
here.
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Purchaser's Liability. .
The senate added to the measuie as ladeji with “dope" nnd released.
i-d
to
Its
for
.The
bird
which
rettrr’
It passed the .hohse the >100.000.000
Washington.—The Supreme court
im
requested by President Hoover for the mer owner's loft Is said'
W c!f Bounty to Keep
was asketl by the Department of Jus­
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clnrcd
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an
old
one.
and
th»w
farm board ;* >150,000 to continue the
to another
Public Library Going tice to'settle tiie controversial ques­
American delegation at the London na 't o be very bard to “¡ire
• Toronto.'—^HfifiSfy wolves are about-, tion of whether the purchase of liquor
val limitation conference; >7,000,01X1 loft. The others were y •.l!i;n»r nnd ho
is a criminal net punishable under the
doubt returned to the r new lutine.
to take over the maintenance of the
for seed loans to farmers in storm
national prohibition law.
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each with Its c:’ 'g " of : ir ot’ H-, it 1« only public library in the’ Dominion
stricken states.
The department brqyght the matter
Relieved.
which'
owes
Its
existence
to
the
price
>100,000,000 fund" for the farm,
to the attention of the court by filing
1 The fact that Sun A . ilio Is the
of a bearskin.
rd gives this newly established gov-
an appeal In the case of James.E.
' center of nn Tfcllve plf« •n r:u»l;,g- ns-
BenrFfnre
neither
ns
profitable
nor
ment organization a total of $ -’•«»,-
Farrar, Watertown, Mass., resident
sedation complicates th ; ’’. ori: of tip
as plentiful «s they used to he on St.
000.000 of the >500,000,000 authorized
recently freed in Boston after being
oliicers. No races are flown f rn:n
Joseph’s island, up near Sault SJe.
for its revolving fund by congress.
indicted on n charge of purchasing
Mexican po'.nta» it
iwiid, on n 'connt
Marie,
where
the
bearskin
library’
The additional fund was approved
liquor. In that case Judge James M.
of fast-flying fnleon« in that country
flourishes.
The
exchequer
of
the
li­
without opposition, but Senator Smlto
Morton quashedTIb Indictment against
which have caused the h>«-a of many
brary bus run lew and the library
W. Brook hart (Rep., Iown), demanded
Farrar and handed down a decision
birds in form er, yea « when San An
hoard
has
Issued
a
call
for
volunteers
that the board co-operate wlth.Jhe Ca
holding
the purchase of liquor Is not
tonio and .Monterry f i ders i'“l I two-
to. Join* In n wolf hunt, pool the >29
nndinn wheat pool against what he be
a crime under the Volstead act.
way races. Those fic.’s ve:<» «ban
bounty
paid
for
every
wolf
killed
on
lleves to be a combination by England
Final action by the Supreme court
doned on account of the falcons.
the island and buy more books.
France and Italy to depress the A mer
on the issue raised in the Farrar case
There has always b'<*n. some t.-ad •
The
library
was
formed
nt
the
vil­
lean market. He estimated, that tIn­
would provide a clenr-cut decision on
with Mexico In homing pigeons. In
lage of Hilton Bondi when n limiter
board would really need >1 «800,000.099
the question of whether the buyer of
spite of the danger from falcons In
with
-literary
leanings
shot
a
bear
und.
to carry out the purposes of the act.
beverage liquor can be prosecuted un­
that country, nml shipments acre's
used tiie money to buy the first books.
der the Volstead net for that one net
the Ilio Grande fr«»rn Ran Antonio
More begr hunts were organized and
alone.
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caused no suspicion m til It was found
the library flourished.
Woman Lays Claim to
that th’cv were belli, t used, for smug­
Hilton Bead« had the books aad no
New Altitude Record gling. Even now < era saifl It Is pJaVe to put them. Also it had a Jail Young Plan Definitely *
f. shipm ents of
New York.—Elinor Smith, girl flyer. hard to keep track
and no prisoners. So the bearskin li­
Accepted by Germany
in officers co-
birds, ___
although
M
nearly lost her life flying over Roose- _______
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brary was moved to the lockup and
irds shipped t i still is the only public .library behind
velt field. She fqlnted from exertion . operate In the work
Berlin.—Germany definitely accept­
y sm uggled to
ed the Young reparations plan which
and lack of oxygen—but declared sha b order points are
the bars.
f
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provides for final liquidation of Its
«1.
had set a new women’s record for other points t»nd rci
Though It is u library,, the lockup
war debts, when the rolehstng ordered
Birds Sound *A’ m Clock.
altitude.
Is still a prison. The eofistable InthU
Miss Smith said one altimeter re I, Once Tiie birds a t “ re!en--ed, Inter-
Its final udoptlon on third reading by
the keys as well ns the librarian. Ev­
corded 32.000 feet, the other 3O.(* hi cepthig them Is snid t > be linpo.'-fdlde.
n vote of 2G5 to 102, or a majority of
ery year or two a «inn Is arrested on
73. The pact for settlement of dis­
feet. The official record is 23.900 feet, A flying pigeon Is a <. 'U(»n sl rht any-
the island and spends a night in a
made by the Mrs. Marvel Crosson of wh’ere, and the horn ■» v ariety * (hies
putes with Poland was approved by n
cell lined, with reading mutter.
Ix*s Angeles, who died last year In i not stop until It rear •! Its home loft,
majority ’ of only 10 votes, while
the Santa Monica to Cleveland worn . I t enters the loft
the German-American agreement was
rough a tra p
Qwl Battles Engineer
an's air derby.
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passed by a rising vote.
equipped with an nhir: i clo ck, and the
owner Can detach tl. ■ , o n fra J c n d iia
on Swedish Express
mediately.'and it is c !y hidden,
Stockholm, Sweden.—A struggle be­
World War Veterans in
Figures Show British
Shotguns would ti" avail m gainst
tween un owl nnd the engineer of aji
Urgent Need of Relief
Exports on Decrease the birds, - even If t j' ■ b order patrol electric express train has Just be^n
Ip flight. Tlib
^ Washington.—Elghty-four thousand
reported nt Lfnkoeplng, in southern
London, -T h e
British
hoard
of should see them wh:'
¡llsnbled veterans of the World war
Is alxvays o u t, Sweden. The bird, probably attfacted
trade figures disclose the fact that carrier on long flig’ :
shot,
and
even
of
range
of
even
l»“o
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are
In urgent need of relief provided
by* the headlights of the locomotive,
Britain's exports for February were
In range their speed v ihl m ake them
In the new veterans’ committee omni­
hurst against one cab window nnd
the lowest of any month since De
—
bus bill pending In the house. National
broke tiie glass.
cerober. 1920. with one exception. The a difficult target.
The border is h ‘i- ' wnfehed for
Commander O. L. Bodenhamer of the
Well inside, it sank its claws into
February exports were $30.000,000 less
American Legion said In a statement
the shoulder of the motorman and At­
than January,*1930, and >3.500.000 less shipments of |iig e o r«. hut officers a re
urging imtnedinje passage of the mens
tacked him with its bill. The engi­
thun those of Fqpruary, 1029, while confident as many are nnggled across
ure. .
neer could not leave his grip on the
the month shows an unfavorable.trade as are phipjh’il (ii>cel-.... -it is an easy
n'lattor to confine le t
rds in g has
switch, and a tierce battle ensued
bulance of more than >30,000,000.
ket and shin them ; roes tiie fflo
while the train raced on Its way. At
Doctor Cook Released
G rande, It was deci ir< .1. (Ince across,
last the r motorman succeeded in
the work Is easy. ’| he unerring hom­
New York Civic Leaders
From Federal Prison
strangling the bird, which was un un
ing Instinct of "the | ' n'ons does tl»e^ usually large specimen.
Kansas
City. — Dr. Frederick A.
. to Fight “Red Men ic e ” t r i c k . -------„-----; .^.7.7----------------------------
Cook was released March 9 on parole
New York.—The N6\v York L’haml»|u
Officers pohit o.yt t ’XJ't as far as they
from the federal prison nt Leaven
F o ch S ta tu e in L on d on
knew only oiip bi$ti2V,wl been found
of- Coinmerce'nnnounces It bus organ
worth, where he was serving a sen­
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London.—Plans
to
erect
a
statue
Ized a oumbqr of civic grsups t<> Jlgfii with the goods ott It/i I that was the
tence, for using the mails to defraud.
In London of Marshal* Fochi nre now
what It "termed the “red menace.”
one that n turned to 1:. former* tr'onie.
After spending, some time In Chi­
in progress. A committee linder the
The chamber says I t Intends Ip com
Tbousnnds».imye h <m 'Hipp“ I a ,m s
cago, the physician said he intended
direction
of
Lord
Derby,
p^dsldent
of
d
“d. '1'he mofe'e
plete a list of agltntopa.wlio are nfiens the border. It v
to return to Texas to make his home.
the United Associations of Great Bri­
and ask for their depbrtntlon. It nlso trips the hlrds malic.- the better for
tain and France, Is handling the proj­
will advocate that employers defiPr- the smugglers they h^iome. A fter a
Gold S ta r M o th e r* O rganise .
ect. '
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mine whether they have nny'Commu; pigeon has been d«>u*r over tiie same
New Y-ork.—A hundred women who
i route two or three times. It will he
nlsts In their employ.
lost one or more sens in the World
• off like a'-shot ns it is released. I f the
war met and ergantxed the American
1 territory In which the l»ird Is released
Gold Star Mothers, hoping to make It
Explosion of Mine Gas *
' is strange to It. some t me will be lost
If John D. “Wants”
a national society.
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in Shaft Is Fatal to Five In getting orientated.
Coffee He Gets It
Smugglers Flaking Own C irda.• '
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Ormond Beach, F ^ -—MU’haol
Morrlsey, favorite butlur of John
I). Rockefeller, knows that Ids
employer abstains from coffee
and governs himself accordingly
One morning, however, when
“Mlejiael" was passing coffee to
other guests, “John D.” re­
marked: .
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•‘Michael, I ’ll take eofTee.”
The butler went on. serving,'
unmindful of the request, so Mr.
Iloekefeller repeated: "Michael,
I ’ll tuke coffee.”
The efficient “Michael" paid
no attention, hut when Mr,
Rockefeller was passed y#
the third time, br-saWr firm ly:
“Michael, I want coffee:”
And ho got It.
CAMPAIGN TO FORCE
BRITAIN FROM INDIA
Gandhi in Open Defiance of
Government Rule.
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Salt Lake City.— Five miners were
dead and two othc, were suffering • ' Officers here* have rciiuestyd pigeon
from burns and the effects of gns as .fanciers to keel»* r(*“<'rdfL of s:des,
Which Is being done.’ but it l,< believed
a result of an explosion In the Peer
less Coal company’s mine near Castle th a t many smugglers l ave, v stah ie bed
Jofts and an» n<>w hr« < diug th ejr own
Gate, 'Utah.
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, pigeons. The hinls are prolific, and
It is not uncommon for a pair to raise-
W indars Succeed^ S hum aker *
as many ns ten pairs within a year.
Indianapolis. — The headquarters
• These ten pairs, drscer ¡ants p f smug
committee of the Indiana Antl-Snloon glers, will no doutd ihe next year be
league announced the election of Dr. smugglers, amj In ’ return breed smug
C. H. Winders superintendent of the
glers. It Is feared.
organization to succeed the lute Dr. E.
Officers report finding dogs and don
8. 8humnker.
keys used us drug smugglers, hut ns
'a rule the animal.■ nlilumgh It carries
A m ericana E n rich in g Canada
I mofle than» a pigeon, caii-he usejl-but
Montreal.—American tourists left al­ •nee, ns the succors- <»f Its mission
most S30fk(MN),000 In Canada during the costs Its life. Tiie (ii - ; Is usually fed
year 1920, according to on estimate to the animal In a hug - metal «upside,
made public by the Dominion bureau and the .nnlmnl rele.i «/.d on the
aide of the Klo -tLauflc tojflhil it# wuy
of statistics.
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B rid al P a rty o f 3 6 D row n
Warsaw, Poland.—Thirty-six persons
were drowned in Naroch lake In the
Vllnn district when a wedding pnrty
on tbe wny'to the jhurch detoured on
thin ice.
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Pinchot Would Ba Senator
Philadelphia.—Gifford Pinchot. for­
mer governor of Pennsylvania, an­
nounce/ that he will be -a candidate
for the gubernatorial nomination at
the Republican primary election in
May. t \ . * *
Oppose L ab or Inju nctio n s
-,New York.—Opposition to the use
of injunctions against labor unions
fighting for recognition by employers
was* expressed In a statement by tbe
Federal Council of Churches, s
New Delhi, India.—Mahatma Gand­
hi's historic “march to the sea” in for.
theranee of the campaign for civil dis­
obedience began from tbe leader's
headquarters at Ahmadabad, and dem­
onstrations that were usually orderly
were reported from various parts of
upper India.
* Gnndhl defied the British govern­
ment to arrest him and warned his
followers that they must be prepared,
“for the worst, even death, In plans
for defiance of the salt ta x " Pro­
duction of salt in defiance of the gov­
ernment monopoly Is the first disobe­
dience step of the Indian program.
At the beginning of the march thoo-
sands of men and women accompa­
nied Gandhi for several miles, rich and
poor marching side by side, while
thousands lined the roadside. Most of
them dropped out eventually and
Gandhi continued with eighty or mors.
Demonstrations in other places were
mainly limited to hoisting the Nation- &
alist flag nnd making speeches. Atw?
Rawalpindi the president of the Youth
league was arrested and charged with
sedition, but business went on as
usual.
Gundhi’8 party has planned to take
-twenty days to reach the Gulf of Chat-
hay,' where it will attempt to produce
salt In violation of' the government
'monophly," thus Inaugurating a pro-
gruniv which has for Its ultimata ends
nonpayment of taxes and nationwide
nonparticipation with tbe British gov­
ernment in India.
New Zealanders Extend
Royal Welcome to Byrd
Dunedin, N. Z.—Rear Admiral Rich­
ard E. Byrd, American explorer, and
the members of his Antarctic expedi­
tion returned to Dunedin after spend^
ing more tnnn a year at the bottom
of the world.
There was tumultuous enthusiasm as
the expedition borne by tbe bark City
of New York and the steamer Eleanor
Bolling, entered the harbor of Done-
din. Dunedin was the last city te
Did Byrd good-by when be set out for
tiie Antarctic- In December, 1928.
Tiie explorers will remain here
about ten days and then sail for New
York by way of the Panama canal.
Im m ense Steel Merger
on Eve of Completion
New York.—Negotiations to aserge
tbe Bethlehem Steel corporation and
the Youngstown Sheet and Tube com­
pany have reached such a stage that
the plan to form this Sl.axMMNi.oun
company Is ready for submission to
the directors of the Youngstown com-'
pnny, it Is announced. The prelim­
inary negotiations have been carried
ffh for several weeks between Eugene
G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem
company and H. G. Dalton, a director
of the Youngstown company and also
a director of the Bethlehem ooncern.
Supreme Court Vacancy
to Hold Over Thirty Days
Washington. — President Hoover
probably will withhold his nomlaatlon
of a successor to the late Associate
Justice Edward T. Sanford of tbe Su­
preme court, who dled^here March 8,
for thirty days.
The President having proclaimed a
thirty-day period of mourning for the
passing of former President Taft» ap­
pointment of a successor to Justice
Sanford w ill, wait until this period
ends.
The body of. Justice Sanford left
Sunday night for Knoxville, Tenn.,
where the Jurist was buried.
Hans Luther New Head
of German Reichsbank
Berlin.—Dr. Hans Luther, a former
chancellor of Germany, was elected
president of the reichsbank to suc­
ceed Dr. Halm ar Schacht, whose vio­
lent opposition to the Young piss led
to his resignation.
Doctor Luther is fifty-one years old.
His actual banking experience has
been limited, although he is recog­
nized as a good administrator. H e
was finance minister of the German
republic in 1923.
His downfall as <
chancellor of the relch came in 1900.,
Report Discovery of* %
Immense New Planet
Cambridge, Mass.—Discovery of a
ninth planet by tbe Lowell observa­
tory at Flagstaff, Arhu, lying beyond
Neptnne, was announced by Prof. H ar­
low Shapely, director of the Harvard
observatory. Doctor Shapley declared ’
It was the most Important discovery
since that of Neptnne in ISM .
The new planet Is 40 times as fa r
from the earth as the earth Is from
the sun.
Davi« G iv e * Vare'» Sapper*
Philadelphia.-W illiam S. Vara for­
mally announced his withdrawal as e
candidine for the United States sem­
ate and asked his friends te supper*
Secretary of Labor James J. Davie
for tbe nomination.
Iafarsser N at AceempBca
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Denver.—An informer cannot be
garded as an accomplice 1* the p a r
chase of Intoxicating Uqoov an evi­
dence against a seller e f Itqoor, the
Colorado Supreme court has ruled, *
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