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Harding to
Launch Big
Rum Drive
Tell, ( Congress in Annual Mes
sage Repeal of Dry Laws Un
like!}—Urges Co-Ordina
tion of Transportation.
Asks More Farm Credit
Washington, 1 H'c. S.—President
Harding in hi* annual message, de
livered today to congress in person, i
ideals with nearly a score of subjects,
chief among them prohibition, farm
credits, the transportation problem,
child labor and immigration.
The executive announces his pur
pose to Invite the .governors of the
slates and rerrltorics to an early con
ferenoe with the federal executive au
thority Willi a view to adopting defin
ite policies of national and state co
operation in administering the pro
hibition laws. He says the day is
unlikely to come when the prohibi
tion amendment wtll he repealed and
that the nation should adapt its
course accordingly.
Conforms Willi laws.
President Harding tells congress
that if the statutory provisions for
prohibition enforcement are contrary
to deliberate public opinion, which he
does not believe, the rigorous and lit
. era! enfore.emecnt will concentrate
public attention on any requisite mod
ification.
"Such a. course,” he added, "con
terms with the law and saves the
humiliation of the government and the
humiliation of our people before the
world and challenges the destructive
forces engaged in widespread viola
tion, or corruption and individual de
moralization.”
With regard to the transportation
problem, Mr. Harding proposes that
t ho railroad labor board ho abolished
with the substitution of a labor divi
sion in the Interstate Commerce com
mission with ample power to require
its rulings to he accepted by both par
ties to a disputed question. The exec
utive also proposes that the law re
quire the carriers and their employes
to institute means and methods to ne
-^v.otiate between themselves their con
sointly arising differences, limiting
. ppeals to the government body to
disputes of such character as are
likely to affect the public welfare.
Transportation.
Coordination of all transportation
facilities Is urged by the president.
These would Include not only Inland
waterways, but motor truck transpor
tation as well. He inveighs against
.tli* ystem of paralleling tie rail
roads with truck roads, thus cawing
freight from the steam lines instead
of making the motor truck a ’erder
for them.
As to the carriers themselves, Mr. j
Harding suggests as ways of increased ,
economy and efficiency there he a
merger of lines into systems, inter- I
change of freight cars, the consolfda
t on of facilities and the ^conomio use
of terminals. He declared that the
managers of the lines are without that
iuterearrler. co-operative relationship,
"so highly essential to the most and J
hci-t economical operation,” addins
that they could not function in har-j
n,r ny when the recent strike threat- j
i nod the paralysis of nil railway Iran?
portatlon.
Credit for Farmers.
'Tore extended credit for the farm
( is strongly urged by the execu
tv who declares that the very proof
of helpfulness already given is the
s longest argument for the pernian
i ,it establishment of widening credits.
I te satys the farm loan bureau may
well have its power enlarged to pro
vide ample farm production credits
well as enlarged land credits.
Two constitutional amendments are
moposed. One would give congress
^authority over child labor and the
other would restrict the issues of tax
i \empt securities, which are declared
to be "drying up the sources of fed
oral taxation and encouraging unpro
ductive and extravagant expenditures
by states anad municipalities."
Enactment of legislation providing
for registration of aliens and for more
i rorough examination of emigrants at
: iie ports of embarkation is urged.
The president says there is a "re
, rudescenee of hyphenated American
is.ni which we thought to have been
-damped out when vve committed the
nation, life and soul, to the world
war." and adds that advocates of revo
lution are abusing the hospitality of
American shores, "finding their de
luded followers among those who take
on the habiliments of an American
without knowing an American soul."
Registration of aliens, the presi
dent adds, will enable the nation to
ruard against abuses in Immigration,
checking the undesirable whose trreg
ular coming is his first violation of
the law and at the same time will
•...-dilate the needed Americanizing of
11 re who mean to enroll as citizens.
Dealing with foreign affairs, Mr.
Il.ii-dlng tells congress that American
relations are not only fre* from every
threatening cloud, but the country
has contributed its "larger influence"
toward making mabkets conflictless
likely.
"It has been our fortune both to
preach and promote International un
derstanding." he adds. "We are
A cognizant of the world's struggles for
full readjustment and rehabilitation,
id we have shirked no duty which
ouvs of sympathy or fraternity, or
. ghest fellowship among nations.
!l\ery obligation consistent with
Mtvrican ideals and sanctioned under
■ ir flag is willingly, met."
Again and again *he president was
pplaud-j he outlined his ...
luru te reft: two, Column Oh.)
Leaders in Attack on
Four Courts Are Slain
O 'Cotvjxcrr
I .lain Mrllowm.
Scout Planes to
Hunt U. S. Fliers
Army Officers Scheduled to
Arrive at Tucson Thurs
day Morning Missing.
Tucson, Ariz., Dec. S.—No trace of
j Col. Francis Ci. Marshall and Lieut.
Charles Webber, scheduled to arrive
hero yesterday morning, had been
found at 9:3<i o'clock this morning.
The two officers left San Diego, Cal.,
! by airplane to matte the trip to Port
Huachuca; and were to have stopped
[ m this city yesterday, where Colonel
^Marshall was to inspect the cadet
! units at the University of Arizona.
Scout Planes Ready,
i San Diego, Cal.. Dec. 8.—Army
' aviation officers at Rockwell field here
were ready today to send a squadron
j of scout planes to search for Col.
I Francis C. Marshall, attached to the
! stafr of the chief of cavalry in Wash
ington. and Lieut. 'Charles L. Web
I h«r of the air service, who left San
j Diego at 9:l5 o'clock yesterday morn
| mg in flight for Fort Huachuca, near
! Tucson, Arlz., and had not been heard
'of early today. Fear was felt for the
safety of the t\<o officers, and the
Rockwell field officers made flans trt
i canvass tho country in southern Cali
fornia and Arizona, if there was no
word of the missing officers this
morning.
The officers were expected to reach
their destination within live hours
after they took off. Lieut. Webber,
an experienced cross-country pilot,
was instructed to report by wire on
■ arrival at Fort Huachuca.
Would Anieud Cotton Act
Washington, Dee. s.—A bill to
amend the cotton futures act to en
| able buyers of contracts to demand
j delivery of grades of cotton they de
I sire for use In manufacture was in
| troduced by Representative Steven
son. democrat, South Carolina.
Ron O’Connor. Liam Mel
lowes and Two Other Lead
ers Hanged in Reprisal
for Hales Killing.
Declare War on Healy
Dublin, Dec. 8.—(By A 1\>—Rory
O'Connor and Liam Mellowes, to
gether with two other Irish rebels,
were executed In Mount Joy prison
this morning, it was officially an
nounced.
An official army report is that the
four me i were executed as a reprisal
for the assassination of Scan Iiales.
the deputy shot yesterday, and as a
solemn warning to those associated
with them "in tho conspiracy of as
sassination against tho representa
tives of the Irish people.’
The two other men executed were
Joseph McKelvle and Richard Barrett,
both prominent, republicans.
The prisoners were tried by a mili
tary court martial during the night,
found guilty and sentenced to death.
O'Connor Near Collapse.
The death sentence was carried out
at 9:20 o'clock this morning. Three
priests were present. The prisoners,
blindfolded, were marched to the place
of execution. O’Connor had to be as
sisted to the scaffold.
The startling swiftness with which
the free state government acted in
consequence of the assassination of
Deputy Hales caused a great sensation
among Dublinites, used as they are to
sensational happenings.
Through today’s executions the ir
rtgulars lost two of their principal
leaders and two other important al
though less known men. AH four sur
rendered after the destruction of tlm
Four Courts, in the seizure of which
O'Connor and Mellowes took a leading
pa rt.
Leaders of Insurgents.
Roderick (Rory) O Connor and Liam j
Mellowes, were leaders of the band
of Irish insurgents that held the
Four Courts building in Dublin in its
stand against the free slate troops
last June. Each was taken prisoner
when the building was captured after
a three day’s siege.
Declare Ilealy Enemy.
London, Dec. S.—(By A. I’.)— Tho
Irish republicans, says a dispatch to
the Evening Standard from Dublin,
haye issued a manifesto describing
Timothy Healy, tho governor-general,
as a life-long enemy of the nation.
The manifesto adds:
"The light will go on as long as
there is a man in Ireland. It is war
to the death.”
Shot in Reprisal.
London, Dec. 8.—(TJy A. P.)—Tho
Dublin correspondent of the Evening
Standard reports that a party of men
today entered the Mercers hospital
and shot a free state soldier lying
in one of the beds iit reprisal for the
executions of Rory O’Connor and Lianf
Mellowes.
Woman Drops Divorce
Case Against Kleagle
A telephom call from Mrs. Helen:
Sorenson Fuller reached Henry Peal,
county attorney-elect, at an early hour
yesterday morning, requesting that he j
dismiss the divorce action filed in dis- ,
trlct court against her husband, Edgar
Fuller, former kleaglo of the Ku Klux
Klan at Sacramento, Cal.
"For the baby’s sake alone," said
Mrs. Fuller's voice over the wires.
Mrs. P'ulier dropped from sight with 1
her husband Monday evening after ;
their marital difficulties had been tho
roughly aired following a chase half
way across the continent by the father,
who sued for custody of the child,
Helen Dorothy, 5. She refused to tell
Beal where she was.
During 'heir recent unexplained ab
sence. the Fullers have been "some
where in Iowa."
Mrs. Obenchain III
Los Angeles, Dec. 8.— Mrs. Mada
lynne C. Obenchain, released from the
Los Angeles county jail last Monday
1 after two juries had disagreed as to
I her guilt or innocence of the charge
; of murdering her former sweetheart,
; .1. Belton Kennedy, last night was said
| by friends to be under the care of a
■ physician, who was treating her for
"a complete nervous breakdown."
Who Killed John Waring?
That question baffles all investigators until Flem
ing Stone, detective, is assigned to the case.
, The facts before him are: .John Waring, newly
elected college president, stabbed to death in his
study—all doors and windows locked on the inside—
no possible exit for the murderer—a strange girl,
known as “Miss Mystery,” whose actions need ex
plaining—two men who desire her acquittal at any
cost.
Follow these tangled threads as they are un
raveled by the mastpr hand of Caroline Wells in
“The Mystery Girl”
It Will Appear in The Morning Bee
Beginning Monday
—
loua Girls Declared
V a it n i n g Cham pious:
l our Europe as Reward
Chicago, 1>. . v—Two girls from the
little Iowa village of Ed.lyville today
won the national canning contest hold
in connection with the International
Lives Lock exposition. They arc Itue
lah Kodgers and Katherine Bolihangh,
lid will receive a three-months' tour •
of Europe as their reward.
The Colorado entrants, Elaine llen-j
drlcks and Bertha L’ogcr, won second j
place, white the Connecticut team j
members were named as alternates.
The contestants represented practi
cally every state. The contest was
held under the auspices of the Amer
ican cdnmiittee for devastated France.
Daring Bandits
Rob Omaha Train
Mail at St. Joseph
Masked Kobbers Knock Clerk
I town and Crab Mail Hags
^ bile Armed Agents Are
in Station.
Mail robbers are much rougher than
A1 Jennings ever pictured them, in
the opinion of Mail Clerk A. J. Woell
ner, who was knocked down and
robbed of several registered mail
pouches shortly after midnight Thurs
day night at St. Joseph, Mo., by "three
or four” masked bandits.
Mall Clerk W. F. Shuck of Kan sap
City, who was in charge of the mall, i
yesterday told the story of the rlarirfg ,
robbery to Assistant Superintendent I
Blackwell of the 14th railway mail i
division at the Omaha Federal build- 1
Ing yesterday morning.
Clerk Knocked Down.
"I was In tlie car with three other!
clerks loading mail when the thing
happened." said Shuck. “Woellner and ]
a man from the St. Joseph Union sta- ;
tlun wero taking the registered mail j
into the station. Woellner was
knocked down by one of tho bandits
with tho butt of a revolver. Another
bandit stood on him. Woellner was
not unconscious; ho stjulnnod around
and made wlvit noise he could. They
then heat him some more.
“We left S*. Joseph so quickly af
ter the robbery that we didn’t find,
out w hut happened to tho station man.
Woellner could not have been more
than 10 or 15 feet from our car when
he was knock'd down, but we didn’t |
hear anything. When he stagfeered
up to the edr we snatched our guns
and rushed out, but the bandits, were
gone.
•Inking Kepis.
"While Oils Happened there were
three Burlington railroad special
agents, fully armed, upstairs in the
Union station. A brakemau at the
end of our train, which was Burling
ton No. 22, due iri Omaha Friday morn
ing, saw the bandits walk leisurely
around the train and off into the
yards. He usked ’em whither bound
and made some joking reply.”
Woellner had a large bump on his
head, but was not seriously injured.
Mr. Blackwell said it would be up to
Kansas City-to determine the value
of th* mail stolen. It was all for St.
Joseph. All the mail clerks on the
train reside In Kansas City. The
other three in the car were Edward
Messaccr, Herbert Dexter ami Ken
neth Brown.
Tilths,ante train was reported robbed
of several pouches of mail Wednesday
night near Armour Junction, Mo.,
when several bandits boarded tin mail
car, held up the clerks and threw
out several pouches of mail. The ' alu
able mall was taken.
Nebrakan Named Director
of Interstate Merchants :
Chicago, Deo. s.—Paul Davis of
Waterloo. Jh», was nominated for
president of the Interstate Merchants
council at a meeting at the domestic
and foreign commerce department of
Die Chicago Association of Commerce.
The council will hold Us semiannual
meeting hero in February.
Selection of directors Included: L. R.
Rafter, Santa Ana, Cal.: Tom Mac
Donald, Denver; .1. H. Strain, Ana
conda. Mont ; H. E. Stein, Hastings,
Neb.: L. Rosen, Las Vegas, N. M.; H.
N. Moe, Klamath Falls, Ore.; G. F. j
Buche, Lake Andes, S. P . T. Hooks, '
Waco, Tex.; F. S. Carpenter. Manti, |
Utah; R. H. Rhodes, Tacoma. and R. !
Merritt. Douglas, Wyo.
Corn erstone Laid for
Cathedral at Hastings
Hastings, Neb., Dec. 8.—The corner- j
stone of St. Mark cathedral a* Hast- ]
ings was laid by Dean Charles i
Tyner and Bishop Beecher. .V largo j
congregation witnessed the ceremony. ,
The old church was built 12 years I
ago. The committee expects to have
the roof on the new structure by
Easter, 1923. The clergy from over
the district of western Nebraska were
present.. A banquet followed the cere-j
mony to which 190 were present. Dean I
Charles R. Tyner has been in charge !
of St. Mark for the past four years. I
The new building "ill he of stone and 1
will roft $90,000.
Caidiirr of Defunct Hank
Held to High Court for Trial
Geneva. Xeb., Dec. 8.—Adolph Ko
tas, former cashier of the defunct Ne
braska State Bank of Milligan, was
arraigned in district court on n charge
of making false statements to the Ne
braska. bun^u of banking, and was
bound over to tb*' n«xt term,of district
court. Kotas pleaded not guilty. Bond
was fixed at $5,009.
Claims of depositors and draft hold
ers of the bank amounting to rnoiT
titan $172-900 were approved Ly tin* !
district judge. t
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Scratching the Mountain
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OF
woHrhless; r»fv*tVASsv.'&i?
Ka i
“Tiger Woman”
Baffles Police
Officials Admit ’Hardly Know
W lien* to Look* for
Clara Phillips.
—
l.o# Angeles. Dec. S.—Officials were
quoted early today as admitting they
"hardly knew in what direction to
look,” for Mrs. Clara Phillips, "ham
mer murderess," who sawed her way
to freedom from tlie Los Angeles
county jail lust Tuesday mornlg.
Si nee her escape became known, ap
proximately six hours after she sev
ered the bars across her cell window,
the police of the greater part of the
country ami of the .Mexican territory
of Lower California as well, have been
on the watch for her.,
But so far, the search has resulted
only in scores of “tips,” which proved
worthless and in-annoyance to women
as far east as Chicago, who were be
lieved to bear some resemblance to
the missing murderess and who ware
passengers on trains on which she
was reported to be traveling east
ward.
"While the police, sheriffs’ forces,
private detectives and citizens in gen
eral were still searching for her the
district attorney’s office reviewed the
punishment prescribed by law for
prisoners who break jail, to dtermine
what further penalty might be given
the woman already under sentence
to serve from 10 years to life for
beating Mrs. Alberta Meadows to
death with a hammer.
Charles Flick, deputy district at
torney who assisted In Mrs. Phillips'
prosecution, stated the California
penal code classified a jail break as
a misdemeanor and fixed punishment
for it at six months imprisonment in
the county jail, a. fine of $500 or
both.
But in damaging the jail by filing
through the cell bars, lie added, slie
had committed a felony, punishable
by a fine of $5,000 or by a sentence
of from six- months to five years in
the penitentiary.
It she had accomplices In her es
cape, he said, they were guilty of
felonies and liable to severe punish
ment, if apprehended.
Jury l liable to Agree
Jackson. Miss., ,D»eo. s.—The jury
trying AN'ill Atkinson, a Leak county
farmer, charged with the killing of
Joe Owen, a prohibit ion agent, last
August, reported last night after being
out. 20 hours that it was hopelessly
divided and was discharged.
1 Jl
One, two,
Button your shoo;
Thrpe, four.
Open the door;
Five, six,
Your Christmas shopping fix;
Seven, eight.
Don't, be late.
You only have 1 4 days more.
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Day's Activities
J
in Washington
The navy's bureau of aeronautics
I reported satisfactory progress hi post
war development.of naval aircraft.
Kuropoan wheat rf-'iu rement s for
J the current cereal year were placed
it 640,000.000 bushels by the Depart
| merit of Commerce,
The Interstate Commerce controls*
'sion announce.! that hearing on pro
! posals to consolidate railroads in the
west would be resumed January IT.
Congressional proceedings were
broadcast by radio for the first time,
apparatus having been rigged up for
transmission of the president's ad
dress.
4 Tduj. Gen. Rickards, chief of the
militia bureau, in bis annual report
declared development of llu- national
guard Waits retarded by luck of funds.
Continuing consideration of the
treasury appropriation bill, tin house
rejected amendments to restrict the
prohibition unit in us expenditure of
I government funds.
Allied proposals at Lausanne for
control of the Turkish straits were dis
cussed by Secretaries Hughes and
IDenby and a. group of high navy offi
cers during a conference.
Clemencea-U, concluding his four-day
stay In the capital, renewed his plea
for American participation In Euro
pean affairs In an address before a dis
tinguished audience.
President Hauling addressing a
joint session of congress, discussed a
score of subjects, among them prohi
bition, rural credits, transportation,
I child labor and immigration.
The Interstate Commerce commis
sion announced that b-’ginning Mon
day at midnight, practically all out
standing service orders giving prior
| ity to coal movements would be cnn
| celled.
Expansion of the nation's air forces
to insure offensive as well as defensive
strength In the event of war was
j urged by Cien. Pershing In his annual
report as chlefof staff.
Representatives of bituminous oper
ator* and mine workers were re
quested by the federal coal commis
sion to meet with it next week )n an
effort to reach an agreement on a new
wage scale.
Nomination of pierce Butler of St.
Paul to be associate justice of su
preme court opposed byj Senator-elect
Shipstead n-t hearing before senate
committee.
—
Senate commerce committee prac
tically completed consideration of the
administration shipping bill after vot
ing to eliminate the Madden amend
ment and substitute the Willis Len
root compromise.
Exchange to Close Dec. 23.
New York, Dec. b.—The New York
cotton exchange today announced
that it would he closed on the Satur
days preceding Christmas and New
Year*.
Death Sentence of
Nichols Commuted
Mau W ho Shot ami killrd
Sweetheart in Cheyenne
County Escapes Chair.
* Kineoln, Dee. *>.—{.Special.)— The
electric chair erased to become a spoi
ler today for Charles Nichols, 4S, when
j the supreme court commuted his sen
tence from death to life imprisonment.
! Nichols shot and killed his sweet
heart, Emma Carow, June 17, 1921, in
Cheyenne county, nnd shot himself
twice, but recovered. Mo was taken
, to the state penitentiary six months
l ago.
tv hen told today by Deputy W arden
j Kiyva'naugh that his sentence had
been .changed from death to life im
prisonment. he said:
“Well, I'm mighty glad to hear it.
1 want to live now and make some
’ thing "myself."
For several months he had refused
; to permit his relatives to apply for
i clemency to the supreme court.
Broke Kngageinent.
Testimony at his trial showed tluil
Miss Carow had broken her engage
to Nichols three different times. He
worked ns a hired man on her moth
er's farm.
He claimed she came into tho Held
where he was working on tiie day of
the murder and Told him ha was dis
charged and their engagement brokers
He went lo his room, got a revolver
and met the girl and her mother on
the road. He declared he intended IT
shoot himself before them, did shoot
himself lirst and then turned the gun
on her. ,
Didn't Want Suffering.
She fell wounded and he said that
rather than see her suffer he shot her
again. Then he shot himself a second
time.
The supreme court held that his
case was premeditated murder, but
r.ot a cold prearranged plan for mur
der, such as would call for a death
sentence.
"It Is a case where justice should be
seasoned with mercy,” the supremo
court ruling read.
This action of the supreme court re
duced the population of the death
house at the state penitentiary to one
Walter R. Simmons, waiting for death
or clemency from the supreme court
for the murder of Frank Pahl, a Spen
cer, Neb., taxi driver.
The Weather
Forecast.
Saturday mostly cloudy with slowly
rising temperature.
Hourly Temperatures.
5 a. m. .ft
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9 a. m. ft
10 a. m. 11
11 a. m. 15
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Hlghput Kridii).
•*'heyenne .an;
Davenport . .... ..22
P*n\or . . . . r*
Pea Main**? .is
r*odf (.'i'y
t.aixp: . .24;
Port'd Piattt .SO
Pueblu ....3‘
Hop] ) f'ily . h
Salt Lok.. .32
Santa Ke ....... 42
Sheridan . j;
Siou\ i.’ity .It
alenUaft » «jj mill ,
30 Blocks
Razed; Loss
'
Business Section of Astoria.
Ore.*. Destroyed —Dyna
mite I’sed to Stop
Kusli of Flames.
Other Towns Offer Aid
Am, < n-«■.. | )i i s - tTty A. ^.v-—
The business district in Astoria, tile
oldest city in Oregon, is in ruins,
hundreds of persons are homeless and
property los estimated around SIB.
UOO.OOO was caused by p fire here to
day. For lo hours the flumes held
sway, ruling no ever-widening path
through the city Until shortly aflei
noon
Hank- newspupei plants, hotels,
stores, theaters ami numerous build
imp housing a variety of business
places were wiped out According to
Fire Chief Foster, the fire got out of
eontrol because it burned beneath the
buildings on piling! upon which the,
business section "f 1 lie city was built
He attributed the disaster to fallun
to fill the space beneath the piling
Dynamiting was resorted 10 In an ef
fort, to stay the flames.
Netores Staples, automobile man
and president of tho Bank of Com
merer, dropped dead of heart failure
while tin fire was til Its height.
30 Blocks Wiped Blit.
The; body of C. .1. Smith, r trail
si*-tit, was found hanging under tho
sidewalk on.the waterfront at Eighth
and Astor streets, but whether he had
ended his life because of, the fire or
for other reasons the police were tin
able to determine. He had spent the
night in a cheap lodging house on the.
watet- front.
Thirty blocks were wl|>ed out l,y
the flames. Many homes in the old* ■>•
residence district were destroyed and
about 50 families living In &n apart
ment house were made homeless by
the destruction of that building. In
addition to these, many persons oc
cupying rooms In the destroyed area
lost everything they had except the
clothing on their bucks.
l’lan Belief Measures.
A committee of citizens met at tho
call of Mayor -lames Breninui* anil
planned immediate relief measures
They were assured of help from Port
land and Seaside. Every restaurant
and hotel in the eliy had been wiped
| out, so there was prospect of immedi
ate want.
Portland bakeries sent loads of
'bread and Seaside sent word that the
hotel there was open to receive thus*,
wltleoit shelter. A large number of
summer cottages at (he beach resorts
also were offered 1*^ the homeless.
Homes in ihe residence district, a I o
were thrown open to give aid and food
i to the needy.
"I” Building Thrown B|u-n.
Tlio V. M. C. A. building, which wipj
outside the fire zone, was opened us
tho headquarters of all welfare
agencies. r
The Budget an afternoon miner.'
which attempted lo got out an edi
tion on the press of the paper at
Seaside, found this Impractical, and
instead issued mimeographed sheets. ^
J H. Dellinger, published of tip
Asturian, the morning paper, announc
ed that he w >uld probably get out
Saturday morning edition on the
press of the local Finnish daily, the
I.o veil.
The Artorian recently moved into a
new building which ih« swept bv tie
fii’. Mr Dellinger said three type
setting machines laid been saved but
tlw r*-s, of the plant was destroyed.
Including the file- of 10 years ago
Telephone Exchange Hums.
Telephone exliaiiges and telegrupii
offices were burned.
Communication with the outside
was maintained throughout the dn\
hy means of a long distance line teni
porarily set up at the city hall.
The meeting of citizens and the
mayor resulted in the naming of r
committee on temporary relief.
II. A. Hoefler placed his resident
at the disposal uf St. Mary hospital
for housing of patients. The hotel
keepers of Oregon in session at Pori
land donated $1,000 for relief and
railroads offered free transportation
and free aid.
The C. T. (' established a fro
lunch.
The Columbia River Racking as
sociation donated the ns. of two
steamers for housing purposes ai
facilities In churches and other build
ings were listed for housing
A detatchment of National guard
was due to arrive to aid the local
police. Orders were issu'd to keep
every person out of (he burned dis
trict tonight
Ree Drake, part owner of the As
toria Budget and president of tin
Astoria Chamlier of Commerce, cali »
. meeting of all merchant* for S.n
urday to discuss plans for rebuilding.
liernan Goes to New York
“to (»et on His Feet’’
New York, Dec. S —John 1*. Tiernan,
former member of the faculty of Notre
Dame university, whose recent marl*
tai affairs ln'|t> public interest, has ar t
riled in New York "to ^r-t on lu- fi-ot'*
out will remain in i'Im; i-n fur some
time, : datives ennui.i.i ’ !
”el< r Tit-man, bis b tint di'dand
tin Tiernan family vanted to
John n oilslire to e, l s'ramht vitlt
'i t' "' if Hid ! ' 11 . > m ould help
hint.