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THE MORNING OTCEGOXIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1920 SENATE "DOOMED" BY LABOR PARTY State Convention at Salem Today to Plan Abolition. STATE BANK PROPOSED at Reedsport today of men accused of violating: the prohibition law. Among those taken into custody by Deputy Marshal Frank Tichenor were Nick Brown, owner of the Umpqua hotel; Charles Cobb. Fred Engren. SamuelConrad and Lute King. Mash for liquor was found by the deputy marshal in the Umpqua hotel and in one or two other places. Some men who are wanted could not be captured today, but -the officer will return to Raedsport tomorrow to search for them. The charge against the men is manufacturing liquor and in one or two cases selling. The party of five was brought to Marsh field on the afternoon train for a preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner Duncan Douglas. STOCK SESSION IS DEVOID OF CLASHES Fight Expected Over Control of Packers Does Not Come. Murfcrting System, Public Owned. Klcvulors, Mills and Other Industries Arc Planned. SALKM, Or., Jan. 2S. (Special.) Abolition of the state senate, estab lishment of a state bank, state mar keting system, state-owned elevators, mills and other industries and a tax Amendment providing a prohibitive levy on unused lands are among the feature planks to he considered in frnrning the platform for the united lncl and labor party, which will hold its preliminary convention here to rn orrn w. r)cl"Rates from practically every tabor bnioi; in Oreson are expected to be in ftttendanee at the sessions, as arc leading members of the state gringo and manv other fatiners and i-uiat organizations. V. E. i'onlter, a Portland machinist, who is one ot the bright lights in the movement to launch the new party, will pieseit a plan to abolish the state senate. Bank and Market Proponed. Another proposed plank in the p'atform. emanating from the Port laud labor unions, will provide for the establishment of a state bank, state marketing system, state-owned elevators, mills and other industries. Iiabor also will make a determined effort, it was said here tonight, to incorporate into the platform a plank opposing any law which has for its purpose interference with the right of free speech. A so-called "right to work" amendment also will have consideration. leleKates arriving here tonight seemed to be somewhat divided over the proposed action of the radical branch of labor to put out a com plete ticket at the coming state elec tions. It was argued by some of the delegates that such a move was in opportune in that it would take sev eral months to place the organization on a sound footing in the state, other delegates declared that the adver tising attendant to a party fight at the approaching elections would aid the organization in eommandeerin,T followers for future campaigns. .Split lay Rrxult. Although C. E. Spence, master of ths state grange, and representatives of a number of other rural organization! have announced their intention to at tend the convention, it was rumored here tonight that they had served no tice that they would not support any platform which savored of radicalism. This is accepted by the more radical delegates to mean that the farmers will not combine with labor unless they are assured an even break in the political spoils in the event of the success of the new party. Leaders in the movement for the united land! and labor organization de clare the proposed platform, if adopt ed, will be much the same as that of the non-partisan league, which now is in control of North Dakota. The convention will be held in the local labor headquarters and it is not expected that adjournment will be taken before Friday. LOANS BENEFIT FARMERS I'EUERAL ASSOCIATION SAVES BIG SUM IN" WEST. ALL DELEGATES SEATED Report Shows Borrowers Arc $600,- 000 Ahead by Operations in Four Northwest Slates. SALEM, Or.. Jan. 28. (Special.) More than J6, 000. 000 was saved by the fanners of Oregon, AVashington, Idaho and Montana through the activ ities of the federal farm loan associa tions during the year 1919, according to reports presented at the closing sessions of the annual convention of the Oregon National Farm Loan asso ciation, which ended here tonight. In the four states the loans for the year aggregated 16.000. with a total of $40,750,000 involved. With the completion of several or ganizations during the convention there are now K0 of these farm loan associations operating in Oregon. The record of loans during the last 24 months is held by A. C. Bornsstedt of Salem, who loaned more than half a million dollars during that period. Through an arrangement perfected today Salem will be the headquarters for the regional federal loan apprais er, with C E. Widows, in charge of this department. Officers elected for the ensuing year follow: C M. Emery, Kugene, president; Mark T. Johnson, Astoria, vice-president; W. A. Ay re. Kugene, secretary; J. B. Cooley, Hillsboro; L. Cooney, Condon; H. .1. Kaufman, McMinnville; R. L. Weekly. Gravel ford: A. W. Stone. Medford; G. W. Franklin. Enterprise: Tillman Reuter, Madras; George Miller, Shelburn, and G. L. Steelsmith. directors. The principal address todaj- was de livered by A. W. Hendricks, president of the Stock Land bank of Kan Fran cisco, who sounded a warning that a movement was on foot to disrupt the federal farm loan system. Jealous private bankers, more particularly in the east than in the west. Mr. Hen dricks said, were to blame for this movement. Several other men prom inent in farm loan circles delivered addresses at the closing sessions of the convention. LIQUOR PEDDLER FINED Dallas Resident Found Guilty of Selling Liquor. DALLAS, Or., Jan. 28. (Special.) I'cter (Wildgoosc) Reddekopp, a Dal las citizen, has been arrested by Sheriff Orr and City Marshal Chase at his home in the southern part of town on a charge of selling intoxicat ing liquor. Reddekopp has been under suspicion for some time, but it was not until Sunday that the authorities placed him under arrest. Reddekopp tried to convince the officers that his wife was the one who made the booze, but was unsuccessful. At a hearing before Justice Sibley .Monday morning, he pleaded guilty and was fined $r0. Several gallons of liquor made from prunes and apple cider were taken in the raid on Reddekopp's home and destroyed. WATER IN STOCK, CHARGE Light aiul Water Company Hearing at Itoseburg Begun. ROSKBURG. Or., Jan. 28. (Special.) With the public service commission sitting as a "court of equity"' in this city today, the Douglas County Light & Water company hearing on applica tion for an increase in rates, prac tically doubling those now prevailing here, opened this morning. Attorneys for the company asserted that the plant was operating at a loss and that the properly having changed hands several times, the actual cost of the system could not be ascer tained making an appraisement neces sary on the basis of which the in crease was asked. Attorneys for the city, fighting the demand for increased rates, admitted that the property had "passed through various hands, but asserted that every time a transfer was made the stock of the company was watered to an amazing extent. ANAESTHETIC HELD' CAUSE Fresno Girl Died Preparing for Criminal Operation, Is Belief. MODESTO, Cal., Jan. 28. Mayme Holm, 19 years old, ! resno girl who was found dead under bed in a hotel at Waterford, 13 miles from here, January 11, probably died while an anaesthetic was being given preparatory to an attempt to perform a criminal operation on the girl. This was the opinion expressed by Dr. J. L. Hennomuth, one of the sur peons who performed the autopsy, who was a witness at the coroner's inquest which opened here today. JUDGE KANZLER RENAMED Governor .Makes ApMintineut on Ket'onimentlatioii of Court. SALEM. Or.. Jan. 28. (Special.) Jacob Kanzler has been appointed judge of the court of domestic rela tions for Multnomah county, accord ing to announcement made here to day by Governor Olcott. The court was created originally by an act of the 1919 legislature, but because of subsequent attacks with regard to its validity, the institution was technic ally re-established - through legisla tion enacted at the recent special session of the lawmakers. The names of Air. Kanzler, Joseph Hammersly and James Brockway were submitted by the circuit judges of the fourth judicial district as be ing eligible for the appointment. TIMBER SALE ANNOUNCED Appeal for More Conciliatory Atti tude Toward Industry Is Meeting Some Response. SPOKANE. Wash.. Jan. 28. In dorsement of proposed legislation for government regulation of the packing industry, wnicn had been expected to precipitate a contest on the floor of the American National Livestock as sociations convention here, did not 1 come to a vote at the second day's ses sion today. Appointment of a credentials com mittee, which threatened yesterday afternoon to bring the matter to an issue, was effected this afternoon without a show of strength by either) side, after a compromise motion of-1 fered by ex-Governor Ammons of I Colorado, providing for appointment of the committee by the president. John B. Kendrick, United States sena- I tor of Wyoming, had been accepted I and carried unanimously. The credentials committee report, finding the secretary's check of the delegates credentials correct, later I was adopted, also by a unanimous! vote. Further evidence of what was inter preted in some quarters as a move away from a heated contest on the convention floor was seen in the unanimous adoption of a motion, also! offered by ex-Governor Ammons, ac cepting the report of the market com mittee, which demands legislation for regulation of the packers; thanking! the committee for its efforts during the last four years, which it has been declared resulted in government in vestigation of the packing industry and bringing of suits which ended with the voluntary withdrawal of the packers from all "side line" indus tries, and accepting the resignation of I the committee members, which had been tendered with its report, in com pliance with a rule of the association. The motion was adopted, it was specified, with the understanding that such action did not commit the as sociation to an indorsement of the committee's stand on the packer leg islation, opportunity for an expression of which will be afforded with the in troduction, at tomorrow's session, of a report of the resolutions committee commiting the association to such an indorsement. An appeal by H. A. Jastro of Ba kersfield, Cal., chairman of the mar ket committee, for a more conciliatory I attitude toward the packers, and warning that the welfare of the en tire livestock industry would be I threatened by continued attacks on the packing business, also was re garded as a further movement toward a healing of whatever breach in the association's membership may have resulted from disagreement over de-1 sirabiiity of packer legislation. The convention will close tomorrow with disposal of the resolution com mittee's report, election of officers and other business. Delegates were guests tonight of the Spokane cham ber of commerce and of the Spokane stockmen s club at a smoker. Appeal la Dramatic. Mr. Jastro's appeal for a changed attitude toward the packers came as a dramatic close to the presentation to him on behalf of the association of an immense basket of flowers. The re port of the market committee was presented yesterday by J. A. Burke of Omaha, vice-chairman of the commit tee, who also has been active in the contest outside the convention hall in its defense. Mr. Jastro. who has served six terms us president of the association, has been indisposed since his arrival here to such an extent that he has been unable to take an active part in the convention affairs, and his speech this afternoon had not been expected. It took the form of an appreciation of the association s testimonial. Without retiring in any degree from the stand taken by his commit tee, he declared the time for a ter mination of active opposition to the packers by the stockmen had come. Legislation, he argued, was neces sary to make Dermanent the vlrtnrv he said had been won by the stockmen I with the packers' acceptance of a court injunction forbidding continua tion of their diversified activities, but he warned of what he said was the danger that other organizations, more radical In their views, might work irreparable injury to the livestock in dustry if the agitation againBt the packers was not halted. MASH CAUSES ARREST Officials Round Up Alleged Dry Law Violators at Reedsport. .MARSHFIELD, Or, Jan. 28. (Spe cial.) Wholesale arrests were made Merrill Lumber Company Acquires Big Santiam Holding. EUGENE, Or., Jan. 28. (Special.) A sale of 68,000,000 feet of timber In the Santiam national forest east ef Albany has been made during the last few days by the forest service to the Merrill Lumber and Shingle company, according to an announcement today by F. E. Ames, assistant district for ester, in charge of all timber sales in this district. The timber acquired by the Merrill company is located on Breitenbush creek and two tributaries. It is con venient to the Corvallis and Eastern railroad and the contour of the country and such that the timber can be easily logged, Mr. Ames said. CHARLES GOSSO TELLS ABOUT M'MINNVILLE SHOOTING. THIN BLOOD AND BACKACHE Every muscle in the body needs a supply of rich, red blood In propor tion to the work it does. The muscles of the back are under heavy strain and have but little rest. When the blood is thin they lack nourishment and rebel. The result is a sensation of pain in those muscles. Authorities agree that backache seldom or never means kidney trou ble. Real organic kidney disease may have progressed to a critical point witnoui aeveioping a pain m the back. Pains in the back should always lead the sufferer to look to the con dition of the blood. It will be found in most cases that the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to build up the blood will stop the grumbling of the ill-nounshed muscles of the back. How much better it is to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills' for the blood than to give way to unreasonable alarm about your kidneys. If you suspect your kidneys, your physician can make tests in ten minutes that will set your fears at rest or tell you the worst. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all druggists or direct from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Schenectady, X. T.f on receipt of price, 60 cents per box. AVrite for the free booklet, "BuildLDST Up the Blood." Ada. 425 HENS LAY 70,176 EGGS Ileus at Multnomah Farm Make Good Record. Says College Pxpert. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, Jan. 28. (Special.) eventy thousand one hundred and seventy-six eggs were laid by a flock of 425 "Oregons at the Multnomah county farm the last year, according to James Dryden, professor of poultry husbandry at the college and origina tor of the "Oregons." He says this is much better than the average for first year layers while thev were second year layers. The Inmates of the farm took all of the care of the chickens under the supervision of U. G. Smith, foreman. The stock for the county farm flock was supplied by the college. Convention Delegates Xamed. SALEM. Or., Jan. 28. (Special.) Twenty-three delegates from the Salem Business Men's league will at tend the annual convention of the Oregon State Retailers' association to be held at Astoria February 16. 17 and 18, according to announcement made here today. Among the delegates are Walter Denton, C. P. Bishop, P. E. Fullerton, J. W. Chambers, Lawrence Gale, O. Hartman, C. M. Eppley, H. S. Poisal, Ward Richardson. D. J. Fry, J. Baumgartner, H. W. Meyers. Will iam Gahlsdorf, J. B. Littler, Paul Mau ser, Joseph Lebold, H. O. White, N Kafoury, Edward Rostein, Z. J. Riggs C. Hamilton and a. Scnulnke. I E 9 Jlllll tip Blip WW m mm Mil IP I lA 'Piece of Qood zjfdvice Profit by the lesson of the season, the scarcity of good clothing, substitutions and uncertain values. Go now and buy a Kuppen heimer Overcoat. Don't take any chances. Every far-sighted man will have a Kuppenheimer Overcoat in his wardrobe for present and future use. She HOUSE OF IOIPPKNTHEIMER Jl National Clothes Seroice This is your store for Kuppenheimer Clothes 7D7 -rJB. Morrison at Fourth nies his guilt, and asserts he will be able to establish an alibi. Man Called "Dutch Pete" Implicat ed by Confession in Wounding of Town Watchman. SALEM, Or.. Jan. 28. (Special.) Charles Gosso, in confession made here recently to Warden Steiner of the state penitentiary and other pris on officials, said that an ex-convict known among his companions as 'Dutch Pete," shot and wounded Jeff Clark, a watchman, at McMinnville last summer after Clark had been robbed. Gosso declared that he was residing in Portland at the time of the shoot ing, and had been invited to drive the automobile in which "Dutch Pete" and members of his gang went to Mc Minnville. Gosso said he .refused to take any part in the affair, but later was told that "Dutch Pete" and his companions were responsible for the shooting. Although "Dutch Pete" is said to have a long criminal career, it is not believed he ever served a term in the Oregon penitentiary. Gosso was questioned here recently by the Mc Minnville officials, and is said to have told freely regarding his dealings with "Dutch Pete" and numerous men associated with robberies. Gosso was committed to the peni tentiary from Dallas, Polk county, for an indeterminate term of from on to three years for larceny from dwelling. He is 20 years of age. McMILLVILLE, Or.. Jan. 28. (Spe cial.) Local officers, while satisfied that Pete Stroff, alias "Dutch Pete, is the man that shot off the hand of Night Policeman Clark on the morn ing of July 6, are working on further clews regarding other accomplices in the affray. When Sheriff Henderson went to Salem Gosso gave his version of the shooting affray, which is said to tally well with the details of the event Stroff, who is in the county jail, de- SENIOR TABLE DEDICATED Oregon Agricultural College Class Holds Exercises. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, Or., Jan. 28. (Spe cial.) Dedication of the senior table top was made last night at Andrew's and Kerr's where the class has had its traditional senior table placed. Between 200 and 300 seniors met at 7:30 o'clock under the trysting tree on the lower campus and went to the place of refreshments where the table had just received its new mono gram of the class of 1920. Including a visit to the show in the programme, the class returned to Andrew's and Kerr's at 10 o'clock at which time the- Innovation was dedicated. Emil E. Seibert of Pendle ton, president, made a. short speech. Anti-Smoking Bill Killed. COLUMBIA, S. C. Jan. 28. The bill prohibiting smoking in public eating places in South Carolina passed by the state senate last week, was billed in the house today without a dis senting vote. Albany Lumber. Co. Sells Mill. ALBANY", Or., Jan. 28. (Special.) The Albany Lumber company has sold its sawmill here to J. P. Van Ors del and associates, through a trans action completed today. The mill will be enlarged and additional machinery will be Installed. The capacity of the plant will be increased materially. Mr. Van Orsdel has been manager of the plant of the Coast Range Lumber company at Mabel. Skin Eruptions Cause Unbearable Itching Scratching Increases the Irri tation of the Delicate Skin Tissue. You can claw your nails into your skin until it bleeds, in an effort to obtain relief from the fiery itching and burning caused by skin diseases, but you only increase the irritation and pain. And you can pour oinjments, salves and lotions by the gallon on the irri tated parts without obtaining any thing but temporary relief. Just as soon as the strength of the counter irritant gives out, your pain and tor ture will return with increased vio lence, because these local remedies have not reached the source of the trouble. m The real source of all skin disease School Records Arc Burneil. EUGENE. Or., Jan. 28. (Special.) When the home of George A. Acheson at Alpha, on Deadwood creek, in west ern Lane county, burned last Friday night all the records of that school district were destroyed. Mr. Acheson being clerk of the district. He was in Eugene yesterday to consult the county superintendent regarding new supplies. The loss is said to be in the neighborhood of 20o0. WlioTe Family Has Smallpox. DALLAS. Or., Jan. 28. (Special.) The family of J. H. Brown, consist ing of five persons are confined to their homes several miles northwest of this city with smallpox. So far as known bv Dr. B. H. McCallon. the county health officer, there are the only cases in the county and extreme methods are being taken to prevent the sprend of the d isease. is the blood supply. The blood be comes infected with some impurity, and the disease germs . break out through the delicate tissues of the skin. They may appear as eczema, tet ter, boils, pimples, scaly eruptions, caused by disease germs in the blood. The real cure, therefore, must be directed through the blood. And no remedy has yet been discovered that equals S. S. S. for such disorders of the blood. This great old remedy cleanses the blood of disease germs and clears up the complexion and gives it the ruddy glow of perfect health. Get a bottle at your dgug store today and you will soon be rid of your tormenting skin trouble. Also write at once for expert medical ad vice regarding your own case. Ad dress. Medical Director. 263 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga. Adv. ' SiniMftfm m mm li i It "ia ra"r""it miiF CHARLIE CHAPLIN And his sick-cylinderea fliv are racing here for a week of traffic troubled and tire-less laugh ignition that will mend any crank case in his newest million dollar comedy. "A DAY'S PLEASURE' You'll Say So, Too! Am a LAST TIMES CONSTANCE TALMADGEw VAJ in VA-iWi FRIDAY MIDNIGHT STARTS SATURDAY For One Week "A VIRTUOUS VAMP" Told on the 4:22 The train was filling up with -women shoppers from the suburbs. Helen Wagner found an empty seat and tried to be comfortable in the stuffy car. Just as the train was pulling out some one sat down with a weary. "Hello. Helen." She looked up and eaw her friend Dorothy Thomas. "Dorothy." she exclaimed. "What are you doing on this early train?" "I aimply had to go home from the office. My head is all stopped up and I know I have a fever. It's another one of my miserable colds," was Dor othy's answer. "Why in the world do you bother a doctor when you only have a cold." Helen caid. "Do as I do and take -Weeks' Break-Up-A-Cold Tablets at the very first sniffle and a cold simply can't get a start on you." "But I am afraid of cold tablets since I took a certain kind." Dorothy replied. "They contained calomel, w-hlch l & mercury compound you know. The mercury stayed in my sys tem and I was nearly poisoned." . Helen smiled and took a small box from her bag. "Now, here's a twenty five cent box of Weeks' Break-Up-A-Cold Tablets. There is no danger of their poisoning you, for not a bit of calomel is in them. A vegetable laxa tive Is used instead. You see Weeks' Increase a person's cold resistance that is why they are so effective. I take them and I haven't had a cold that lasted over night all this winter." "I certainly shall ret a box. Where do you get them?" Dorothy asked. "Almost -every druggist carries them." Helen replied, "but Insist on Weeks". They cost only twenty-fiva cents a box and they are the best." BronchialTroublos Soothe the irritation and you relieve th distress. Do both quickly and effectively by using promptly a dependable xcxnedyJ.