Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, April 29, 1921, Page 2

Men’s Work Shoes $2.95 $3.95 $4.85 Grocery , Specials aturday Specials il Saturday | VALUES THA T CAN NOT BE OVERLOOKED ARE GIVEN AT THIS STORE EVERY WEEK. oe READ THE FOLLOWING AND SAVE ON YOUR EVERY DAY NEEDS [FOREIGN-BORN HERE NUMBER 13,703,987 |2.6 Per Cent Increase in Last Decade Is Smallest Ever Recorded. Washington, D. C.—Germany, Aus- tria, Ireland and Russia, natives of | which made up more than 59 per cent fps | of the country’s total foreign-born ten PEABERRY COFFEE, 3 Ibs. FOR $1.00 15 OZ. PRESERVES 55 STANDARD PEAS, 6 CANS FOR 1.00 PINEAPPLE (BEST GRADE) 40 f= PEANUT BUTTER (2', Ibs. CAN) . 65 DRIED FIGS (SPECIAL) PER LB. 15 TOILET PAPER 10 Men’s Rockford Socks 20c 15c 25¢ il” P J. V. BAKER & SON “WHERE QUALITY AND PRICES MEET” INDEMNITY REPLY SENT BY GERMANY | from proposing the assumption by Ger. | many of the allied debts to the United | States, Offers 200 Billion Marks in Counter Proposals Given American Envoy. Berlin. — The German counter-pro Posals on reparation were presented to Ellis Loring Dressel, the American commissioner here, and were imme diately transmitted to States The payment by Germany of 200, 000,000,000 gold marks for reparations is, roughly, the preposal submitted by Germany for transmission to the allies. The payments will be spread over a period of from thirty to forty-two years, or less, according to Germany's economic recovery. Economic pledges in the way of goods and participation in Germany in- dustries are offered as guarantees, it is stated. The offer, it is indicated, inclines more toward the terms formulated by Me allies at the Paris conference iast pa 2 ~ —— the United | | winter than towards the offer made by Germany at the London conference | which the allies summarily rejected ed at Paris in January, demanded that Germany pay 000,000,000 gold | marks, or approximately $56,500,000, | 000, the payments to be spread over a period of forty-two years. Germany's | exports, in addition, would bear an ex- port duty of 12 per cent, to go to the | allies for an identical period. | | The allies, under the decision reach | LOST—Bay horse about 12 | years old, weight 1000 pounds. | Horse strayed from pasture in | Rocky canyon. Finder notify F. | H. Gentry, Cottonwood, Idaho.-4 FOR SALE—Well improved | farm of 160 acres cheap. Small | cash payment, balance on long | time at 6 per cent. Located northeast of Cottonwood. Ad- dress Box 954, Grangeville, Idaho, Germany's counter proposals refrain | | years ago, showed heavy losses in the number of their natives in the United | States during the last ten years, ac- | cording to census bureau statistics. | 000,000 and were believed to have been | due largely to the world war German-born showed a loss of 818,- 035, Austrian-born a loss of 600,014, | Notwithstanding this the country’s total foreign-born pop- | ulations, as just announced in a pre | | liminary statement prepared for con- | | gress, showed an increase of 358,442, | Smallest both in number and percent- age ever recorded for any decade. In | the previous decade, 1900-10, the in crease was 3,174,610, or 20.7 per cent Germany led as the country of birth jot the foreign-born in the United | States ten y }more than 0,000, and still leads, 1,683,318 The standing of other countries in | the foreign-born population of the United States has changed somewhat from ten years ago. Italy has taken second place from Russia with an in crease of 264 a total for 1920 of 1,607,358. Russia has taken third place from Ireland, but showed a decrease of 203 783. Natives of Russia in the United States numbered 1,389,999 Poland has gone into fourth place which was occupied by Italy, with an increase of 195,797, bringing her total to 1,139,578 | | | | | Ireland, which has showed decreases | in each decade since 1890, had a larger | decrease during the last decade than | in any previous one, the loss having been 316,571. The total number of Irish-born in the United States in 1920 | was 1,035,680, ranking that country fifth. IMMIGRATION BILL PASSED BY HOUSE } an amendment seeking to admit to the | United States foreign political refu gees, the house passed the immigra | tion restriction bill substantially the same as it went through last session. | republican leaders said it would be | passed without delay The measure is designed to be op perative for 14 months and would limit | the entry of aliens to 3 per cent of the number of nationals of any country in the United States at the time of the 1910 census | Three amendments were adopted by the house. One would permit admis | sion in excess of the 3 per cent limit of all aliens subpected to religious per- of all aliens subjected to religious per- secution in their native land and seek ing refuge here solely to avoid such hardships. The secopd would admit children of American citizens under 18 years of age, independent of the percentage of | limitation and the third would give preference to the families and rela tives of American citizens and ex | service men honorably discharged from the army or navy regardless of | whether they had been naturalized, in | determining the question of admis- sibility under the restricted total. ANESE ASKED Oregon Governor Urges Enactment of Rigid Exclusion Law. Salem, Or.—Enactment by congress of a rigid exclusion act in connection with the Japanese immigration prob- confronting the United States, was urged in letters prepared here by Governor Olcott and sent to Oregon's delegation at the national capital Governor Olcott wrote the letters after he had received an appeal from William D. Stephens, governor of Cal ifornia, in which the latter urged the Oregon executive to use his influence to the end that a satisfactory ex clusion law would be passed under conditions that would “save any real humiliation to Japan. lems now Japan Yields Point on Cable Principle. Washington, D. C. — Japan and France are understood to have accept- ed the American principles of distri- bution of the former German Atlantic and Pacific cables at a session of the international communications confer- 18-tf | ence held at the state department. | These losses aggregated almost 2,- | heavy loss, | ‘8 ago with a total of | although the number was reduced to | 333 in the ten years and | Washington, D. C.—After reiacting)| | | | | The gasoline consumption is un = MOTOR CAR Dedge Brothers Motor Car is built for long life and endurance. The fine enamel finish, for instance, is practically indestructible, and sel- a | dom requires more than a good cleaning and polishing to restore its criginal lustre. The tire utleage is unusually high. COUNTY SEAT NEWS ITEMS. Odd Fellows and Rebekahs of Grangeville celebrated Tuesday night, the 102d anniversary of the founding of Oddfellowship, with a program and supper in the Odd Fellow’s hall. Miss Grace Mires, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mires, of this i and John W. Kendrick, a well-known yound rancher resid- ing north of Grangeville, were married Thursday afternoon by Justice of the Peace T. E. Quin- lan. Filing liens on logs and lum- ber, in order to recover more than $6000 alleged to be due them for labor, ten men from Kamiah have brought actions in the district court of Idaho coun- ty against F. W. Waterman and the Rawson - Works Lumber company. “Large Can.12 Ounces The Best Low Priced Health{ul! Baking Powdcr Obtainable Contains no Alum Use if and Save! Write tor New Dr. Price Cook Book- [ts fre: Pricc Baking Powd | Toos Independen Factory, (Gs vd Chica Il separ ess- afl Cottonwood Hardware & Implement Company ! | Motor registrations in the of- | fice of Calvin Hazelbaker, county | assessor, to date in 2921 show a decease of approximately 100 {from the number of registra- tions at the corresponding time ayear ago. A total of 528 list- ings have been made for 1921, while 1920 listings to April 21 were 630. | If Grangeville will establish jan airplane landing field, this city will quite likely be made a | stopping place for all airplanes |flying between Coeur d’Alene, Boise and Salt Lake City. This was the opinion of James F. Ail- | shie, former chief justice of the |Idaho supreme court, who ad- dressed the Grangeville Commer cial club, Wednesday noon at the | Imperial hotel. Wireless telephones will be }operated in the Nezperce and | Idaho National forests during |the next summer, according to | information received at the local | forest office. It is planned to erect a station on Buffalo Hump, | Salmon mountain, and at Me- |Call or Warren. The wireless will be used to report forest |fires from regions not reached | by telephone wires. From Buf- | falo Hump, the messages will be repeated by wire to the Grange- ville office of the Nezperce for- | est. j —