Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, February 25, 1921, Page 2

DOCTOR DOWELL Dr. Norah E. Dowell, who has been appointed assistant geologist in the United States geological survey. HUGHES NAMED NEW SECRETARY OF STATE St. Augustine—Charles E. Hughes, formerly supreme court justice and republican nominee for the presidency, was designated by President-elect Harding as the new secretary of state. | The announcement embodying the | first official word from the president- elect regarding selections for his cab- inet was made in an oral statement after a long conference with Mr. Hughes on foreign problems. There was no element of surprise in the selection, for it had been known several weeks that Mr. Hughes was almost certain to get the place. He is understood to have been Mr. Hard ing’s choice from the first. Mr. Harding declined to go Into de- tails about the subjects discussed with | Mr. Hughes, saying that one of the | policies of his administration would | be to let each department head speak for himself. Mr. Hughes declared no public statement on the problems ahead would be expedient at present. BRIEF GENERAL NEWS A bachelor’s tax was proposed in a resolution introduced in the Wiscon- sin legislature. F. O. Lowden of Illinois has: sent word to President-elect Harding that he could not permit himself to be con- sidered longer for secretary of the navy. Decline of 3 per cent in retail food prices in January as compared with December was reported by the bureau of labor statistics of the department of labor. Crime swept over the United States to such an extent in 1920 that the year closed the chapter and left it to be classified as the worst for crime in the history of the country. Loaded with more than a score of amendments, the Fordney emergency tariff bill passed the senate. The vote was 43 to 30 and the measure was im- mediately sent to conference. The house of the Nebraska legisla- ture passed the bill which would de- prive aliens ineligible to citizenship from owning land in Nebraska. The vote was 60 to 29. The bill now goes to the senate. Substantial reductions in transcon- stinental rail rates to enable western products to move to the eastern mar- kets were recommended to the rail- roads and to the interstate commerce commission by the public service com- missions of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, meeting in joint session in the Portland office of the Oregon public service commission. Egyptian Self Rule Asked of Britain. London. — Negotiations with the} Egyptian government for the conclu: | sion of a treaty according self-gov- | ernment to Egypt was strongly ad- POWER ASSOCIATION EXEGUTIVES NAMED Both Oregon and Washington Represented on Umatilla Rapids Project. Walla Walla, Wash.—The executive committee of the Umatilla Rapids Power association, which has for its purpose the development of power on the Columbia river at Umatilla Rapids, Was announced at a meeting here, as follows: Washington—Dr. S. B. L. Penrose and Ben Stone of Walla Walla, D. V. Cox of Pasco, M. M. Moulton of Kenne- wick, R. S. Boynes of Seattle, ex-Gov- M. Warner of Alderdale, Oregon—Ralph Stanfield of Echo, F. B. Sweazy of Hermiston, D. C. Brown- ell of Umatilla, George Hartman of Pendleton, Whitney L, Boise of Port- land, J. M. Kyle of Stanfield and F. A. McMannon of Heppner. One Port- land man is yet to be named. | Enthusiastic approval of the Uma- |tilla rapids power project was given j by members of the state legislature, of Oregon and Washington, city offi- cials of towns in this district and others. Salient facts about the project as brought out by the speakers are: | The minimum flow of the Columbia |at this point is 48,000 second feet, | double the flow of the great Keokuk dam on the Mississippi. The total estimated cost of the pow- er project, including dam, equipment, etc., is $25,000,000. One hundred and ten thousand acres of land may be watered through the use of pumps directly connected by turbines. Five hundred and fifty-eight thou- sand acres of arid land are susceptible of reclamation by pumping in the vi- einity of the project. The project would develop 120,000 continuous horsepower, with 200,000 additional horsepower during the Irrt- gation season. THIRTEEN KILLED IN IRISH FIGHTIN Cork—Thirteen civilians were killed and eight captured, of whom three weré injured, in an engagement be- tween Lisgoeld and Midleton, Cork county, according to a general head- quarters report. This was believed to be the largest number of casualties among members of the Irish republi- can army in any single encounter. Two soldiers were wounded in the desperate running fight between a de tachment of a Hampshire regiment | and a large party of republicans. The troops came upon the republi- | can forces preparing an ambuscade and attacked them. A detachment of the Hampshire reg- | iment surprised a party of civilians in a house in Midleton. The civilian forces split up, some remaining in the house, while the others took to posi- tion in the garden. In brisk fighting, one soldier was slightly wounded and the civilians were dispersed and pur- sued. Nine members of the Cork corpora- tion and other leading men of South Ireland were among 80 persons sent to the Spike island internment camp as political prisoners. GRAIN AGENCY IS PLANNED Proposed Market Organization Would Be Co-operative. Kansas City, Mo. — The farmers’ grain marketing committee of 17, ap- pointed by the American Farm Bureau Federation to devise cheaper market- ing methods, announced it had voted to recommend formation of a non- stock, non-profit corporation to be known as the national sales agency which would handle the marketing of grain after it leaves the producer. The organization would be co-oper- vised in a long-awaited report on the | ative, with growers of grain taking Egyptian question, presented to par- liament by Lord Milner, ex-colonial sec- | retary. The negotiations should be | entered upon by the British govern. | ment without undue delay, Lord Milner | declared. British Commons Backs Indemnity. London.—The house of commons de- feated the amendment to the reply to the speech from the throne censuring the government's policy with regard to the treaty of Versailles. The vote was 181 to 40. Premier Lioyd George in the house of commons declared that he stood by his pledge that Germany must pay to the limit of her capacity. Would Change Idaho Primary Law. Boise, idaho.—Idaho’'s latest election law, introduced in the senate by the committee on privileges and elections, primary elections and provides for the membership. They would then effect an agreement with local co-operative elevators or a jocal grain growers’ association to deliver the grain either on the basis of a sales contract or a pooling contract. association then would contract with the grain. More Freight Cars Idle, Washington, D. C.—-A freight ca surplus is piling up at the rate of a shortage of 150,000 freight cars No vember 1, the announcement sald, Arizona Alien Land Bill Passed. Phoenix, Ariz.—The anti-Asiatic land nouncement that Harry M. Daughtery | absolutely cuts out the separate party| ownership bill was passed by the lower of Ohio had been chosen for the at-| house of the Arizona legislature. The ernor M. E. Hay of Spokane and W. | railroad representatives, business men | ‘SENATE. MEASURE LIMITS IMMIGRATION |Number to Be Admitted Re- duced to 3 Per Cent of Those Already Here. Washington, D. C.—A drastic meas- | ure against immigration during the which, by 61 to 2, passed the Dilling- ham immigration restriction bill. The bill, it is estimated, would limit immi- | more than 355,000. | for the Johnson bill passed by the | house. | adopt the Johnson bill. | The 3-per-cent standard of the bill, jaccording to committee estimates, |would permit the following number of immigrants during the next year after the bill becomes a law: | Belgium 1482, Denmark 5449, France | 206, or 202,212 from western Europe The maximum number estimated next year was adopted by the senate, | | grants during the next year to slightly The bill was adopted as a substitute | Before passing the substitute the | B8enate defeated, 43 to 19, a motion to | |from northern and southern Europe | is: Austria-Hungary 50,117, Bulgaria |845, Serbia 139, Montenegro 161, | Greece 3038, Italy 40,293, Portugal | 1781, Roumania 1978, Russia 51,974, | Spain 663, Turkey in Europe 967, Tur- | key in Asia 1795, or 163,249 from that | district. | The senate bill provides that it shall | “not be construed as amending, re- | |pealing or modifying any law or) | agreement existing which forbids the | | admission of any alien of any nation- | jeuy or geographical boundary.” This was interpreted to mean treaty | provisions covering the subject of im- /migration with China and Japan | | would not be affected by the measure. | (MANDATE TRANSFER WILL BE STUDIED Washington, D. C.—The text of the | | Franco-British convention by which jthe Syrian desert is transferred from | |a French to a British mandate, was | |recelved and is expected to engage |the close attention of state depart: | | ment officials in connection with the | study of the allied mandates in which | concerned. |can officials are: | date territory from one power to an | reference to the league of nations, }her long cherished dream of an all rail route from the Mediterranean through territory under her exclusive political or military control. In the settlement of the boundaries |of the mandate territories, the south- | astine, previously allotted to France | by the league of nations, is trans- ferred to Great Britain and provision | ls made for the construction of a Brit- | Ish railway linking Palestine with the | Mesopotamian railway system through the Syrian desert. U. S. EXPENDITURES DROP Decrease by More Than 16 Million Dollars Noted for January. Washington, D. C.—Ordinary expend- itures by the government during Jan. uary decreased by more than $16, while public debt payments fell off by more than $1,000,000,000, accord jing to the treasury’s monthly state- | ment. debt totaled $590,100,657, compared | with $1,600,418,856 the previous month | A total of $83,081,570 charged to the war department was the largest ordi | mary expenditure for January, while | | $545,839,500 spent in the redemption | of treasury certificates of indebted ness was the largest item of public | debt payments. | The local elevator or grain growers’ | Maii Robber Escapes With $100,000. | Minneapolis, Minn. — Zachary E. Genera) hospital, believed to be dying | from wounds inflicted by a 20-year-old | outlaw who held up and robbed the mail car on the North Coast limited, Northern Pacific road, between St. than $100,000. Daughtery Willi be Attorney General. | St. Augustine, Fla.—Definite an- torney generalship under the coming holding of but one election and the pay-| pil) had already been passed by the| administration, was made here by ment for judges of suid election. —_—— weuale - Se ee ‘President elect Harding the American government has been The two phases of the treaty which | | have engaged attention of the Ameri- | Establishment for the first time of | }the precedent of a transfer of man- | jother by mutual agreement without | and acquisition by Great Britain of | | ern portion of Syria bordering on Pal- | 000,000, as compared with December, | | $388,179,272, as against $404,575,091 in | December. Payments on the public | | | | Ordinary expenditures amounted to | | | | | | | | | the national sales agency to handle Strong, railway mail clerk, is in the | 25,000 a week, according to the Ameri: | Cloud and Minneapolis. The robber | can Railway association. 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