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Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-10
ALASKA CIAMoRs FOR M
PASSENGER SERVICE

Anchorage. Alaska, Dec. 15.-(By
Mail)-Anchorage wants the United
States government to operate pas
senger and freight steamship line
between the states and Alaskan
ports. Recently the local chamber
OF commerce adopted resolution
asking the government to establish
the line as necessary adjunct to
the railroad being built by the gov
ernment between Seward and Fair
banks. two Alaska points.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-10
EIGHTY DELEGATES TO
meet At CONFERENCE

Paris, Jan. 10.-There will prob
ably be 80 delegates at the peace
congress. There will also be extra
delegates from most nations. Con-
varsations to lay the foundation for
the big conference are about to start.
1t is understood that President Will
son is disappointed at the delays.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-10
73O OUT OF. 1921. ARE
CONVICTED IN TRIAL

Sacramento, CAL. Jan. .1O.-Of
the 1927 cases of alleged violation
of state pure food laws referred to
the bureau OF foods and drugs dur
ing the past two years convictions
were obtained In 73O cases, 200 are
awaiting trial and in others persons
accused were allowed to go with
reprimands.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-10

F. S. Bramwell, of this city. vice
president of the Oregon Chamber Of
Commerce, and E. w. Allen, who is
representing the Grants Pass Cham
ber Of Commerce. are present at the
meeting.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-10
PUTS RAILROAD
IN RECEIVERS HANDS

Spokane, Wash, Jan. 1O.-An or
der has been filed in the federal
court naming F. 3. Conners., of Chi
cago. receiver of the Spokane g In
land Empire Railway company,
which has been losing $4,000
monthly. due to influenza and in
creased cost Of operation.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-10
DOGS WILL Be SHOWED
OUT IN COLD WORLD

Salem, Ore, ia. Warden
Stephens announced today that 40
dogs, property of individual prison
ers, must be out Of the penitentlary
by January 15. The Wardens says
the dogs have been supported at the
states expense.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-10
ATTEMPT. 70. %. !.
PASS FAMINE BILL

Washington, Jan, 1O.-Adminis-
tration leaders, after canvass Of
the house rules committee, have de-
cided to make another attempt to-
morrow to obtain rule for, immedi-
ate consideration OF the 100000
600 famine RELIEF Bill, They claim
sufficient votes.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-10
BANK ROBBER DAVIS TO
Be SENTENCED MONDAY

Portland. Jan. 1O.--Arthur G.
Davis, recently arrested at San Fran
cisco, pleaded guilty OF robbing the
East Side Bank here of approximate
iy $4,000. He will be sentenced
Monday.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-10
FLU" IN PORTLAND is WORSE

Portland, Ore, Jan. 10.-That the
influenza situation in Portland is
more widespread and more violent
than at any time since the plague
first swept this city is the opinion of
prominent doctors, who predict it
will become worse instead of better.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-10
DRAWN BATTLE BETWEEN
FORCES AT HUN CAPITAL
Spartacans Putting Up Stubborn Fight to Repel Govern
ment Forces, Whose Troops Are Ordered to Shoot to
Kill Without Waiting For Foes to Begin Hostilites

Berlin, Jan. 10.-The government
forces have incomplete control OF
the section of the inner city. between
the Brandenburg gate and Fried
erichstrasse, and has issued an order
prohibiting all professions and or,
derIng its troops to fire without
waiting for the spartacans to begin.
and to shoot to kill.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-10
WOULD RATIFY AMENDMENT

Sacramento, Jan. 1O.-The fed
eral relations committees of both
houses of the California legislature
have recommended the ratification
of the national prohibition amend
ment.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-10
COMMISSIONER GALLOwAY's
MOTHER CRITICALLY Ill

Salem, Ore. Jan. 1o.-state Tax
Commissioner Charles Galloway has
been called to the bedside OF his
mother. wife OF former Circuit Judge
VIM. Galloway. She is critically III.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-10
NAVAL FORCE or 225.0o0
.REGINNINi. NEXT July

Washington, Jan. 10.--The house
naval subcommittee has decided up
on a naval force OF 225,0OO men for
the year beginning next July.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-10
BIG STRIKE is ON IN
ARGENTINE REPUBLIC

lBuenos Ayres, Jan. 10-A general
strike was declared throughout the
Argentine republic. at midnight last
night.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-10

London. Jan. 10.-The Ebert gov
ernment is steadily gaining ground
at Berlin, The Spartacus group is
losing, although showing great de-
termination. The government is
bringing large forces into the city
and has control OF the railways.
II is reported that the Berlin gar
rison, which was formerly neutral,
has gone over to the government, as
also have some of the elements OF
the Spartacans.
Amsterdam, Jan. 1O.-The Frank
fort Gazette contradicts the reports
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-10

that DR.. Karl Liebknecht has pro-
claimed a new government in Ger
many, and declares that the naval
divisions have broken of relations
with Aebknecht and Independent
socialists.
IL Is reported that thousands OF
Russian Bolshevists. disguised as
German soldiers. have arrived in
Berlin.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-10

Berlin. Jan. 10.-It was given out
from official sources that the gov
ernment had recaptured police head
quarters from the spartacans, IL
was later learned that this was not
true and the headquarters are still
in the hands OF the spartacans. The
government is determinedly attack
ing the newspaper plants held by
the spartacans.
Copenhagen, Jan. 10.-The Spar,
tacans at Berlin have seized the
water works and are trying for the
cattle market.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
ION the
Church Side

The generously proportional red ears
OF the second elder became p tinqe
redder, if that be possible. 1t NAV
have been embarrassment, and possibly
1t was anger. He said:
mo. | don't want none of it. 7 omit
all that when l jined the church. Pm
playing the game on the church side
now and | can't cheat"
The invitation that aroused the SEQ
ond elder wasn't repeated, but there is
little likelihood of his resolution weak
enlng. The man who extended il did
1t as a matter of course. With 1899
men 1T would have met with favor.
Sergeant York is the 1O.0OOth man.
He says but few words, but those few
represent exactly what is in his heart
IN New York he has been taciturn. but
there have been flashes of conversation
from him at night when his oiled
doughboy shoes had been kicked under
the twin brass beds that he slept in at
the Waldorf and he was rubbing the
tlredness out of his feet that SUGGESTED
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

THE American advance through the Argonne last October
the of the Decauvle railroad kilometres inside
the assumed tremendous
wooded hills pitted with of
gunners Time
the 328 dash the little valley reach
the railroad the krmish line of olive drab would
machine fire that sounded though
all the the world
The the hill the left of the valley had to be
Sergeant before he became
soldier the platoon ordered
the left flank Parsons ordered Acting Sergeant Bernard Early
take squads and silence the German machine
that known Yorks Hill
After at the base of Hill 223 and advanc
through the the base of this hill opposite Early his
Alvin C. York, stumbled
Post than
sitting about, talking After exchange shots the
Germans shouted Kamerad They quit cold including the German
major in
Then from oxhoes thirty yards beyond other swved
their machine opened fire the Americans their
prisoners The sought first and the
Six Of the Americans killed Three others Eary squads
including Early wounded That left Corporal York
privae These pvates their
have established that all guarding the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

not believe an the kind of p God that
is the boss of the Christians" He
believes in the American flag. only "to
the extcst of the Declaration of In
Dependence The principle Of Boil
shevlsm he explained in court as that
wherein those who do socially useful
work arc to control the government
and industries Of the country"
Before Willie Sidis was two Years
old he learned to spell and read cor
rectly by playing with ettered blocks.
The seed of his fourth dimension
theory may have been planted during
his play with these cubes.
AT three years Of age young Sidis
could write essays on a typewriter
At four he knew "Alice in Wonder
I land" and Mother Goose" by memory
At five, from his own study of the
calendar, he worked out system by
which he could tell on what day Of
the week any date would fall. At SIX
he knew every bone in the human BODY.
At seven he was an expert accountant
\
he could speak six language French.
German, Greek, Latin, Russian and
English. At nine he mastered astron-
omy, the use of the telescope, etc.
At ten he was student in a class Of
young men at Tufts College. At fif-
teen he had graduated from Harvard.
During all this time young Sidis's ac-
tions and conduct were natural and
his first sensational act recorded was
that which recently sent him to con-
tinenent. But regarding his iatellectu-
al precocity, David Edgar Rice, assist
ant professor of biology in Coll
umbia University in 1910, said: From
what / have read of this case | am
strongly inclined to believe that this
youngster is a freak, and that his
unusual development is due to alb
normal natural ability rather than TO
the methods employed by his father IN
his education.'
In 1910, Willie Sidis said as re-
suit Of his calculations made in the
Jefferson physical laboratory. that an
airship could make the trip to Venus
in twenty minutes under normal con-
ditions; that the alpha rays given Off
from radium are able to drive machine
through space with great momentum
and incredible speed. By attaching a
block Of radium to the rear of the
airship. Sidis figured that the machin-
could be shot through space faster
than the earth itself moves
The erstwhile prodigy's Bolshevis.ic
leanings may be connected somewhat
with his attitude toward trusts and
business combinations. At the age Of
eleven, in an interview, he declared a
! financial panic was bound to come and
very shortly. too, unless the govern
ment steps in and brings to an abrupt
stop the depredations of these So
called trusts and adopts drastic meas
ures to prevent them from futu.c
lawless feeding on the resources OF
the whole people"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

that there might be substance in his
dream of returning to Pail Mall and
studying to be a preacher.
Parson Pile, he who testified in
letter to the military authorities at
camp Gordon soon after the second
elder had been drafted that by reason
OF 4ork's membership in the Church
OF Christ and Christian Union he was
qualified to plead sincere and honest
conscientious scruples against fighting
this same Parson Pile will supply the
necessary ecclesiastical tutoring. How
ever, the Tennessee Rotary Club is
buying York about the finest farm to
be found in all Tennessee. They ara
stocking it with thoroughbred animals.
The barns and stables are models.
Maybe York will decide to settle on the
farm. But whatever he does decide on
that he will do.
When DR.. King motored him into
Camp Merritt at the expiration of his
dve-day furlough Tuesday morning ans
bid the second elder farewell he asked
him if he had liked New York.
YES" said York.
Are you coming back to see us some
time, sergeant?"
IF my mother'll let me-" said the
redhaired fighter, and he didn't grin
when he spoke. He meant just that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

York alone replying the German fire. So York
who killed the twenty-five
later by Captain Cox, of Atlanta.
York has told shooting grenade
him. York wounding prisoner.
another with his lieu
tenant and who charging obiquey the hill
him with fixed bayonets AS for the Others York has
knowledge of when he killed simply
shooting live targets and he rarely misses.
Shortly after York stopped the lieutenant
who had
York he would make the Of his
stopped pulling the of his pistol
hill who then
descended toward York. literally in droves
the into sembance of column
doughboy surrounding
American
position Hill 22S On the several other
the
Keeping the German in of him
o several other machine
finally reported the Post of Cd
32Sth Infantry he had 1872 Almost sngehanded
he york HILL short time
were Decauvil railroad
York wearing Medal Crox
Guerre Ferdinand
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
Lexis school house. Pail Mall Pile and zrc. , 49,.
Inc the the white e

Guerre with palm people stopped their
chasing either of dollars, amusement
or love to demonstrate to this fellow
countryman their respect and adula
ton.
In Peacock Alley, at the Waldorf
Astoria, he became a familiar figure.
not because he especially cared for
the atmosphere, but because it was
hked by the reception committee, into
whose custody or guardianship he had
fallen, since it was the Tennessee So
clety of New York that had prevailed
on the adjutant general of the army
to grant five-day furlough to the sec
ond elder dating from the moment of
his arrival in Hoboken.
Malcolm Meacham, DR.. King. Mr..
Kellogg and several others were on hand
every hour of the days that York spent
IN New York. When he had his picture
taken, and 1T was about fifty times
each day, the heads of the COMMITTEES
were invariably in the picture. During
those days their families knew them
not They belonged to Sergeant York.
Would he like an automobile ride {?
How about little snack in the Rose
Room? Some breast of guinea fowl =?
AS the sergeant didn't, wouldn't drink
or smoke, their genius for entertaining
was seriously hampered.
One enthusiastic hero worshipper put
an arm across the sergeant's shoulder
one evening last week and said:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
"NO, Thank
You"

AS they started toward the door
in the fire wall some one pointed to a
rouge-stained powder puff lying on a
table and said:
Sergeant, why not take that little
contraption back to Tennessee with
you along with your German SOU
venirs?"
York SHE'D just trife in passing
the table and said:
"No. No, thank you" He had q
suspicion that he was being "chipped,'
as the Tommes he met describe that
type of patronizing, and his politeness
was almost warning.
They had to step bit faster to get
out of the way of a troop of girls lin
ing up in the wings ready for their
entrance. Their heels were tapping to
the cadence of the song Charles Purcell
was singing. Then they began to kick
their way out before the footlights
One of tie maidens, possibly the one
from Kentucky said
"Thank you for coming back, Ser
geant York" And another:
Were proud of you, sergeant" And
then Zeke Coloan:
Get on. Get on" Stage discipline
must be maintained.
"Goodby, ladies'" said York, in his
rather high pitched voice, and the fire
door jolted behind him. The unlettered
blacksmith had won another victory.
1t was the same story all over New
York. Wherever the big redhead ap-
peared wearing the bronze Congress
sional medal of honor suspended from
blue ribbon beside his Croix de
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

v v district of Boston in favor
Of revolution and soviet
rule for this country, an understood,
frall young man Of twenty-one in a
tit OF anger struck a policeman who
sought to interfere with the carvings
on of a rabid element wearing red
sashes and waving Bolshevist banners,
few there were, even in the crowd of
paraders, who knew this same young
man for the person he really was
the rosy checked lad who, at the age
OF eleven, startled gray-haired Harvard
professors by propounding mathemati-
cal theories strange, and in many cases
unknown, to them; the same youth
who at the age of five composed q
textbook on astronomy and at six
passed the Harvard Medical School ex-
animation. But justice knows no ia
vorites, and despite his remarkable
mental demonstrations as child, Will
lam James Sidis. youngest Harvard
graduate, received a sentence of six
months in the House of Correction
for rioting and one year for assault
upon police officer, as the result Of
the radical outburst of May /.
The courts action brought to q eli
max an experiment by his father, Pro-
lessor Boris Sidis, a Boston psychol-
ogist, in scientific forcing, which
proved highly successful though la
inevitable. The boys precocity was
the fruit of parental theory Of mind
growth put into practice from the very
beginning Of his life, but which re-
suited in dwarfing him physically and
fitting him for an impracticable eX-
istence. That he at the age of twenty
one should turn Bolshevist is no sur
prise to those who knew him in the
classroom at Harvard. Anything but
progressing, and wholly indifferent
to his environment and classmates, he
was regarded as a mere abnormaljtv.
OF Russian Hebrew parentage, it has
remained for this extraordinary living
example of a precocious child to enroll
himself in the army of industrial revo-
lutonists, the trail blazers of the
Red" movement having for the most
part sprung from the same race and
having been imported from Europe for
the purpose Of disseminating MARKHAM
ism and all sorts of unrest propaganda
with which to bolster the dwindling
regime of Lenine and Trotzky
Probably his blood accounts for his
conversion to the Red" cause-cer-
tainly there is parallel of Russia
and things emanating from that hot
bed of torture. But it is more likely
that birds of feather flock together
and that the young Sdis found his
cult in the society of so-called in
tellectuals who seek to overturn es-
tablished order here and everywhere
His mind represents a development,
in education beyond Christianity, be
lyond established knowledge. He does
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

Facing the Big Guns Here One
of His Great Heroisms
of Peace
By Boydesn r. sparkes

patches Of green and amber light shat
filtered off the stage.
"Here's Sergeant York, folks" an
nounced Sidney Jarvis in a real stage
whisper, the tail Of his early nineteenth
century cloak floating out behind him
as he hurried forward to claim 8 hand
shake with 9 character who will oc-
cupy at least page in all future
school histories Of the United States,
to say nothing Of those Of France and
Germany.
York shook hands and, as always, as
though he meant it. Another moment
and a score Of the stage people were
crowding around. Inadequacies of cos
tune were unmarked in the crush.
Then the circle opened before the
radiant creature of the pool Of amber
light.
"l'm from the South, Sergeant York,
and I'm proud of you"
From the South?" echoed the SOL
der wonderingly, what part, ma'am ?"
York's escort began to nudge one an
other. He was taking interest, act
ually shaking hands with this half clad
blonde beauty.
Then the girl said:
"1'm not from Tennessee; I'm from
Kentucky" Right there Sergeant York
lost interest. He Strengthened up and
centred his attention on the bustling
activity Of the stage hands. The girl
slipped away to her dressing rooms,
perhaps for a little more rouge, but
possibly for a short dream of blue
grass and winding hill country roads.
Behind him a couple of girls were
gossiping in the dark shelter of a pile
of properties. The second elder won
dered when he overheard one say:
"And John Cope says: Last year I
had season of thirty weeks and l
says, My Gawd, that amt season,
that's career!' And listen, deare"-
Then Jarvis led the bewildered
York into the wings, almost into view
of the audience. The visitors eyes
flashed from point to point, taking in
the colorful front of the scenery as
we'll as the drab hind side of the can
vas sets.
One of the Watson sisters, the fa-,
that is, the largest one, came galloping
up. "Come on, Sergeant York." said
she, "I'm just going on as Josephine.
Come along. III tell 'cm you captured
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
Another
Adventure

But even the awesome, not to say
awful, Zeke said "kamerad" when
Sergeant York was mentioned, and that
was how come (as York might say) the
press agent to extend the invitation
E. A. Kellogg, confectioner and q
member of the Tennessee Society re-
oeption committee, leaned forward and
suggested that trip behind the scenes
would be an additional adventure with
which to regale the folks down in the
kills of Fentress County. >
York rubbed callous palm across
the red stubble on the crown Of his
head. He was thinking perhaps of his
position as second elder in the Church
Of Christ and Christian Union back in
Fall Mall, of Pastor Pile. He was
thinking also of the diaphanous garb
of the creatures who pranced and ca
vorted on the stage. He had observed
that they rarely appeared twice in the
same costume, and he had only the
vaguest notion as to where and how
those changes were made.
"No, reckon I'd better sit here" he
said. But there was a note Of indie
cision in his voice, and others in the
party began to assure him he wouldn't
have to utter a word. This won his
reluctant consent and so he started
and though Adelaide and Hughes were
dancing the members of the audience
that he passed on the way clapped their
hands and whispered Murray"
Each of the half dozen individuals
who crowded after him, anxious tc
como in contact with the rough cloth
Of his uniform, was thinking that there
vas a man whose life was climaxed
like red and yellow covered FIVE
| cent novel, Diamond Dick in the flesh
A dead shot, whose unerring aim will
rife and pistol was wishing ring.
York was fairly showed through tn,
narrow fire door that provides egres!
to the stage behind the left boxes. His
escort crowded after him.
In a pool of amber light on thu
rough floor Of the wings was a chorus
girl. Her arms were bare. The from
of her costume was cut sufficiently Low
to have her read out of the Church
whichever it might be, did SHE
belong. In fact the upper part Of he,
frock was just trihe more than (;
girdle supported by slender straps
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

second lieutenant in the army. He
asked the sergeant to go "back stage"
The big redhead affected not to hear
and kept his eyes glued to the stage.
Back stage" at the Winter Garden
is an absolute monarchy, and the king
thereof is Zeke Coloan. Any Of the
ladies of the theatre who drive UP to
the stage entrance in purple and pink
limousines and dismiss their chauf-
feurs with naughty wave of the hand
lose all their haughtiness when they
pass through the little coop that
shelters the doorkeeper who guards
the entrance to this sanctum of tights
and what goes in 'em