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PORtLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1923
26 PAGES
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SEITE REJECTS
CUM PilCI
4-Power Pacific Treaty
2 PUPS AND MOTHER
MAY INHERIT $16,000
DOGS CENTRAL- FIGURE IN
FIGHT OVER ESTATE.
RURAL CONDITIONS ARE HELD
"ALMOST INDESCRIBABLE."
SMALL TOWN'S GIRL
WORSE THAN CITY'S
PORTLAND W ID0W
IN ROM RICHES
Mrs. Agnes Loretta Day
Likely to Attack Will.
23 PERSONS KILLED
C IN EASTERN STORM
LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, AR
KANSAS, OKLAHOMA HIT,
INCOME TAX RECEIPTS
TO DROP $300,000,000
SHRINKAGE IX BUSINESS AND
PROFITS HELD TO BE CAUSE.
REVOLT III HAND
NEARLYOUELLED
Garrison Has No Food or
Water for 3 Days.
FARMERS
FAVQR
' Is Kept Intact.
VOTE IS ON PAHTY LINES
Opponents Lack Enough
Votes for Adoption of
t Jwo Amendments.
INDEX, HOWEVER, IS POOR
Leaders Concede Division
Doesn't Show Much on
Final Ratification.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 14.
; After another stormy debate, in
which possible political conseqences
of the administration treaty pro
gramme were discussed from Sev
eral ang-les, the senate late today
rejected by a division almost on
party lines the first two of the
proposed amendments to the four
power Pacific pact.
At the peak of their strength,
with 11 6hort of the full member
ship present and voting, the oppo
sition to the treaty marshaled 26
democratic and four republican
votes, within two of a third of the
full senate membership, baif three
less than enough to upset the two
' thirds needed for finaL ratification
when all senators participate, in this
" vote. Leaders on both sides con
ceded, however, that at best the
division was but a poor index to
senate sentiment on the question of
ratification itself.
One Amendment Robinson's.
The first of the two amendments
acted upon was offered by Senator
Robinson, democrat, Arkansas, and
provided that the four powers should
refrain from aggression against
non-signatory as well as signatory
nations, and that all interested na
tions, whether signatories to the
treaty or not, should be invited to
any conference over a Pacific con
troversy. The proposal was lost, SO
to 55. Later a similar amendment
in different form was presented by
Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana,
and was voted down, 27 to 50.
On both rollcalls four republicans,
Borah of Idaho, Johnson of Califor
nia, France of Maryland and' La
Follette of Wisconsin, voted in the
affirmative, while an equal number
of democrats, Pomerene of Ohio,
Ransdell of Louisiana, Underwood
of Alabama and Williams of .Mis
sissippi, joined the opposition.
Debate Touches All Issues.
In the debate preceding the first
.vote, nearly all the issues of the
treaty fight were revived and both
democrats and republicans indulged
in prophecies of what might happen
if the arms conference treaties be
came an issue between the repub
lican and democratic parties. Sen- j
ator Lenroot, republican, Wisconsin,
warned the democratic side of the
chamber that should the four-power
pact be defeated, President Harding
might withdraw the other treaties
from the senate and ask the coun
try for a verdict at the polls in
November.
By Senator McCumber, republican,
North Dakota, also a supporter of
the treaty, the president was invited
to say what had become of the re
publican campaign pledge for 1920
High School Students Said to Carry
Small Flask of . Liquor
Tied About Xecks.
CHICAGO. March 14. Moral con
ditions among: girls In small towns
are worse than in the cisies, Mrs.
Julia P. Kennedy of the state depart
ment of public health, told delegates
attending: the health conference here
today.
In many towns she declared con
ditions "were almost indescribable,"
and told of finding- a group of high
school girls "everyone of whom had
a small flask containing: liquor tied
about her neck and carried inside
the bosom of her dress."VJn another
school, only a few days ago. she said,
four pupils were expelled for drinking
lemon extract.
In the small town there seems to be
fewer restraints thrown about the
young people than in the cities.
"Things have got to be changed.
Mental and moral and physicr 1 effects
of such conditions on the young peo
pie are going to weaken permanently
the next generation.
MILLIONS REPUTED AT STAKE
Husband's Mining Interests
in Idaho Cause.
DR. WORK "COOLS HEELS'
New Postmaster-General Is Kept
Waiting by Mere Clerk.
CHICAGO, March 14. A well
dressed man, unknown to any of the
clerks in Postmaster Lueder's office.
walked into the postmaster's outer
office yesterday. '
"Son, may I see Mr. Lueder?" he
asked a clerk.
He s busy. Sit down," was the an
swer.
The man waited 15 minutes, then:
"Son, do you suppose I could see Mr.
Lueder now?"
"No, he's still talking to a bunch of
clerks," was the reply.
"Well, you take him this card," said
the stranger.
The clerk looked at the card. On it
was:
"Dr. Hubert Work, postmaster-general."
The clerk kicked over several
wastebaskets in his rush to tell Mr.
Lueder that it was the new postmaster-general
who was cooling his heels
in the outer office.
WEALTHY B0Y LOSES JOB
Son of Turfman .f inds It Hard to
Meet Terms of Will. .
SYRACUSE. N. Y., March 14.
"Jimmy" Sanford, son of the million
aire turfman, William Sanford, has
lost his 114-a-week office boy job
with a typewriter manufacturing
campany.
"I'm fired because they wanted to
give the job to somebody that need
ed the money," Jimmy explained to
day. So once more Jimmy is on the hunt
for a Job and in the meantime is
forced to fall back on his J2000 a
year allowance to pay his bills at an
expensive hotel where he continues
to live. By the terms of his father's
will he must work two years before
he can come into his $350,000 inheritance.
DIGGINGS NOW CLOSED UP
Dead Financier's Relatives Ex
pected to Contend That .Property ,
Is Worth About $350,00.
BISHOP TO SPEAK 1HERE
Episcopals Choose Edwin Stevens'
Lines for' Local Convention.
NEW YORK, March 14. Announce
ment that Bishop ' Edwin Stevens
Lines of Newark, N. J., had been
named preacher for the opening ses
sions of the general convention of
the Episcopal church at Portland.
Or., beginning September 6, was
made today by the national council of
the Episcopal church.
Beginning with Bishop William
White, "father of the church in
1785," this honor has been accorded
only leaders in the history of the
church.
for an "association of nations,"
which should -embrace all the prin
cipal powers of the world. Senator
McCumber said a smaller "associa
tion" had been formed by our party
treaty, but argued that Germany
and Austria, among . others, should
be brought into a similar compact,
because an incomplete combination
"only would be a trouble breeder."
He put into the record a plan of his
own for such a world "association."
Robinson Amendment Backed.
Arguing for the Robinson amend
ment, Senator Walsh, democrat,
Montana, announced that he could
not support the treaty unless some
such qualification were adopted,
and likened the present contest to
that which was waged over the wo,en candidates for treasurer were
..... -ii p ,,, I successful, in five villages in Van
treaty ui v ei sdineo. opunsuis ut me Buren county, five in
MAIL PLOT TRIAL BEGUN
Men Accused of $150,000 Robbery
In Sacramento Face Jury.
SACRAMENTO, March 14. John
Haanstra, A. H. Cain and W. S. Hoop
er, charged with conspiracy to steal
securities from the United States
mails, went to trial in United States
district court today.
The men are alleged to have been
connected with the theft of more than
$150,000 worth of bonds and other se
curities from a Southern Pacific train
in Sacramento last May. Haanstra
has a record in Seattle.
SPOKANE, Was., March. 14. (Spe
cial.) A lawsuit involving millions
is probable as a result of the expected
contest in the settlement of the estate
of the late Eugene R. Day.
His Widow, Mrs. Agnes Loretta Day
of Portland, through her attorney,
Walter Hanson of Wallace, is ex
pected to contend that the mining and
other property of Mr. Day is worth
from 2,500.000 to $3,000,000.
On the other hand, Mr. Day's broth
ers, Jerome J. Day and Harry L. Day,
when they filed the will for probate
n Wallace yesterday, said the entire
property of Eugene R. Day, both real
and personal, including cash on hand,
was worth "probably $350,000."
Efforts of the brothers and sisters
to settle with the widow are not ex
pected to succeed with so wide a di
vergence in valuation.
Mrs; Day has lived in Portland for
many years. Prior to Mr. uay's aeatn,
it was understood, $100,000 was of
fered her if she would release him
from further obligations to her. This
she refused.
Half Allowed Wldorr.
Under the Idaho law a widow can
not be deprived by will or otherwise
of a half of the community property.
It was said' the brothers and sisters,
who are the sole heirs under the'will,
will contend that, even if the estate
s worth" more than the amount thsy
named in filing the will, the. widow
is not entitled to much because, they
alleged, much of his property was ac
quired before marriage, which was in
1910.
Mrs. Day and her attorney con
tended that this makes little differ
ence in this case, for sue, tney as
serted, is entitled to half the com
munity property, and that this in
cludes the earnings of the community
property. .
This contest, unless it is settled, is
expected to prevent the early re
sumption of work in the Hercules and
Tamarack and Custer mines in the
Coeur d'Alenes. Mrs. Day's friends
said that the Days, who control these
properties, will not reopen them be
cause it will be easier to prove that
the Day's holdings have not the great
value that has been alleged if the
mines are not working.
Opening Declared Postponed.
It was said that the Days had plans
ready to resume operations of the
properties and that before the death
(Conclurtea on Page 2. Column 4.)
Many Others Are Injured In Dis
turbances Reaching Proportions
of Tornadoes Some Places.
NEW ORLEANS, March 14. At
least 23 persons were k'lled and many
pthers were 'seriously injured as a
result of a series of storms, at places
reaching proportions of tornadoes,
which visited isolated sections of
Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and
Oklahoma last night and early today.
. The heaviest loss of life reported
was at Gowen, Okia., a village 15
miles east of McAIester, where 12
persons were killed when a tornado
swept through the foreign section of
the village last night. Many others
were slightly injured.
Six negroes were killed when the
storm passed through the northeast"
ern section of Jefferson county and
the southeastern section of Lonoke
county, Arkansas, early today. The
storm in this section left a trail of
wrecked buildings for 20 miles.
At Sulphur, Okla., two persons were
killed late yesterday and 19 others
were seriously injured. Property
damage is estimated at $100,000. Fifty
buildings were completely demolished
and 200 people Were left homeless.
Eight homes were demolished at
Sunrise, a village two miles north of
Baton Rouge, and a negro woman and
her child were killed. Four others
were slightly injured there early
today. v
Twenty persons were injured, a
number seriously, when the storm
struck Corinth, Miss., today. More
than 150 homes were-leveled. The
storm swept a path more than 100
feet wide, razing ever'y building in
its path. A school building in which
were 1000 children barely escaped the
path of the storm.
An aged negro man was killed and
several negroes were slightly injured
and a score of houses were destroyed
at Arkansas City, Ark., early today.
Only meager details were avail
able from the sections visited by the
storm on account of the damage to
wire communication and it was
feared the death toll would be greatly
increased when more information is
available. Little effort has been made
to estimate the property damage
which, in addition to destroyed homes
and other buildings, includes damage
to crops- and destruction to livestock.
The atorm was accompanied by the
usual freaks, the most cutstandinerof
which was" reported from. Keii
where a 12-days-old infant was blovi-n
from a bed, on which it was lying,
across the yard, where its clothing
held it suspended to a picket fence
until the storm abated.
First Quarter's Payments About
$160,000,000; Indebtedness Ma
turlng Today $630,000,000.
WASHINGTON. D. C. March 14.--
Receipts of .income and profit taxes
due tomorrow, in the opinion, of
treasury officials, probably will show
a decrease of more than $300,000,000,
as compared with collections by the
'government during March of last
year. ,
: Secretary Mellon estimates that the
first Installment of taxes on incomes
and profits for 1921 will amount to
$460,000,000, as against more than
$727,000,000 taken in by the govern
ment last March, for the correspond
ing "installment, of taxes on the year
1920. The estimate for the first
quarter of the present year, Mr.
Mellon said today, is subject to some
uncertainty because of the shrinkage
in business "and profits .during the
calendar year 1921.
Against the $460,000,000 expected
tomorrow the treasury has outstand
ing about $530,080,000 in treasury cer
tificates of indebtedness maturing
March 15, but has also announced a
new issue of certificates of the same
date to the amount o f about
$250,000,000.
Tonight at midnight is the closing
time for the filing of income ' tax
returns. Clyde G. Huntley, collector
of internal revenue, said the office
in the custom house would be kept
open until midnight to take care ot j
belated persons who wished to make
their reports.
Mr. Huntley said that from present
indications fully 75,000 returns would
be filed this year, which will equal
the number of last year. The tax.
however, he predicted would segre
gate a smaller amount, owing to
smaller incomes and increased exemptions.
Between 5000 and 6000 returns were
received by mail yesterday, practi
cally double that of the preceding
day. In addition about 3000 persons
appeared at theoffice to obtain help
in making out their reports. The 30
deputies in charge were kept busy Un
til a late hour last night taking care
of those who needed help in working
out the details. '
RESCUE IS FINALLY MADE
British Forces Reported to
Be Making Progress.
FORDSBURG IS BOMBED
Previous Lull In Fighting Believed
Caused by Smuts' Attempt to
Prevent Loss of Life. "
SERVANTS GET BEQUESTS
y
Will of New York Woman Provides
Liberally for House Staff.
NEW TORK, March 14. Libera!
bequests to her household servants
feature the will of Mrs. Rosina E.
Hoyt, which was filed for probate
today and disposed of an estate val
ued at more than $300,000.
To her coachman, Hugh McGuire,
Mrs. Hoyt left $10,000; to her chauf
feur, Herman Hartmeyer, and her
butler. Axel Swenson, $5000 each, and
$2000 each to every other employe
who had been more than three years
in her service. She left $20,000 to
Ideal charities. ..
Two sisters of the deceased, Mrs.
Harry H. Granger of Zanesville, O.,
and Mrs. Margaret M. Rober of St.
Louis, were bequeathed $50,000 each.
PRICE OF SHOES IS CUT
Reduction in Men's Footwear Is
25 to 50 Cents Pair.
BROCKTON, V Mass., March 14. A
reduction in the price of shoes was
announced today by manufacturers
of the Old Colony district, comprising
one of the largest men's shoe-making
centers in the country. The cut was
understood to be between 25 and 50
cents a pair wholesale, and it followed
the award last night of a wage cut of
10 per cent made by the state board
of concilatlon and arbitration.
.The new prices were communicated
by telegraph today to salesmen
throughout the country. Summer and
fall shoes will be the first to show
the price reduction.
Legal Battle Has All Requisites of
Movie Thriller Aged Woman
Has No Direct Heirs.
CHICAGO, March 14. Two mongrel
puppies and their mother today scam
pered around a backyard unmindful
that they may be heirs to $16,000 and
that they are the central figure in a
legal battle which has all the requi
sites of a movie thriller the death of
an aged woman without direct heirs,
two wills, one of them missing and
the other said to be illegal, a contest
by relatives and a counter contest in
behalf of the dogs by a young attor
ney who drew 'up the missing will.
Mrs. Sadie Howard, who died sev
eral days ago, is the benefactor whose
will, or wills, have caused the con
test. Harry Leemon, her attorney.
announced today that he had drawn
up her will some time ago and that
it left the income from a $16,000
building to the dogs. Relatives were
given a few small bequests and the
remainder of the estate, estimated at
about $25,000, was to go to a chil
dren's home in Little Rock, Ark. A
few days later, Leemon said, a rela
tive drew up another will for Mrs.
Howard, made himself the chief bene
ficiary and cut out the bequests to
the dogs and the home. Mrs. Howard,
according to Mr. Leemon, later de
clared that she did not want that will
to stand, that she had cut her signa
ture off it and that it was illegal
anyhow, because it was not witnessed
according to law. She told Mr. Lee
mon, he said, that the will he had
drawn up should stand.
Mr. Leemon says that the relative
now has the original will naming the
dogs and the home as beneficiaries,
and that he refuses to give it up.
I have a copy of it, however, said
Mr. Leemon, and I will go Into probate
ccurt with this copy, demand an order
on the relative for the original of the
will and ask that I be made admin
istrator of the estate.
But even if the dogs lose the $16,000
they won't , have to worry for Mr.
Leemon is having a new doghouse
built for them to replace the half
barrel in which they now live.
BASIC TAX PLAN
Probe Commission Told
to Make Everyone Pay.
OFFICIALS ARE IN QUANDARY
Attempt to Lighten Burdens
Strikes Snag in Law.
WALLOWA BADLY IN MIRE
CANADIAN TRADE REVIVES
Government Reports Reflect Big
Increase During February. .
OTTAWA, March 14. Canadian
trade, is again on the upgrade. Recent
improvement in exchange and in the
volume of employment are reflected
in increased trade for February.
Official statistics show the total
trade for- the month as $101,298,728,
compared with $98,,573,937 in January.
$50,000 GIVETTO NURSE
Atlolph Norden of New York: Leaves
Legacy to Mary Louise Cleary.
NEW YORK, March 14. A gift of
$50,000 to Mary Louise Cleary of Cam)
Stratton, Colorado Springs, described
as "my faithful nurse and friend,
was revealed today when the will of
Adolph Nordt . who died in this city
February 9, was filed for probate.
Joseph and William Norden, neph
ews, of San Francisco, received $40."
000 and $35,000, respectively.
WOMEN TO HANDLE FUNDS
Eleven Mic'iigan Villages Elect
Femiiine Treasurers. '
DETROIT, March 14. Women are
to hold the purse strings of more than
a dozen Michigan, villages that held
elections yesterday.
Returns completed today show that
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Lenawee county
and one ia Kalamazoo county.
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PRETORIA, South Africa, March 14.
(By the Associated Press.) Good
progress has been made in suppress
ing the revolt, according to a long
official communication issued today.
Many new points where loyal forces
were besieged have been relieved,
and great numbers of prisoners have
been taken.
The police garrison at Brakpan
was reoccupied today by government
forces. The garrison had been with
out food and water for three days.
The railway in the Pretoria-Germis-ton
area has been cleared. The en
circling movement of the government
forces was completed and the situa
tion was reported to be well In hand.
Brakpan Coal Mine Center.
Only certain portions of the central
Johannesburg area, said the commu
nication, still required clearing.
Fordsburg, a few miies from here,
was being bombarded at noon by ar
tillery, tanks and machine guns.
The commands at Fordsburg were
notified by the government that they
must evacuate their positions, failing
which they would be subjected to the
bombardment.
Brakpan Is a coal mining center, 22
miles east of Johannesburg, and has
been a revolutionary stronghold.. A
Capetown dispatch last night stated
that Majpr-Geperal Van Deventer was
directing the march on Brakpan.
Advices from the western district
yesterday showed the government
forces were sweeping in from "both.
sides upon the commandos fighting
at Maradaburg, the advance govern
ment forces having reached the ridges
overlooking the town.
Surrender Sought by Smuts.
In was believed the lull in the fight
ing meant that Premier Smuts was
trying to obtain the unconditional
surrender of the strike commandos so
as to avoid the loss of life which
would be entailed in overwhelming
them with his forces.
In the house of assembly at Cape
town today members of the labor
party deplored the "ghastly slaugh
ter" on the Rand and demanded that
the government negotiate imme
diately for the cessation of hostilities
to prevent further loss of life.
Government spokesmen denied the
assertions of labor members that the
strike movement had only assumed a
revolutionary character when th
government began to employ force.
CAPETOWN. March 14. i (By the
Associated Press.) The Cape Argus j witj, no clews, and the pt describes
naa rctcneu a. uiaitu uuui ui ua-. j. a8 an attempt at muraer. ine
burg, saying the town surrendered woman ia between SO ana 60
after 75 minutes of bombardment. j ot age.
County Faces Bankruptcy hi Re
sult or Matching Money for v
Roads, It Is Declared.
AUTOIST KILLED BY TRAIN
Fred Johnson of Centralist Loses
Lire in - Collision.
CENTRALlA, Wash., March 14.
(Special.) Fred Johnson 6f this city
was killed instantly at 1:45 P. M. to
day by the collision of his automo
b and a train at the Bucuda cross
ing of the Northern Pacific tracks.
He was thrown several hundred feet.
The automobile was-wrecked.
The body was brought to Centralis.
Mr. Johnson, who formerly lived Id
Bucoda, has two daughters living
here. The train was north-bound al
the time of the accident. Respon
sibility for the wreck has not been
fixed.
MYSTERY SHROUDS CRIME
Lady Alice White Found Slugged
in Hotel in London.
LONDON, March 14. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Lady Alice White,
widow of Sir Edward White, late
chairman of the county council, was
found unconscious in a London hotel
this morning, her skull fractured,
BY JOHN W. KELLY.
LA GRANDE, Or., March 14. (Spe
cial.) Make everyone pay taxes, was
the demand made on the tax inventl
gation commission by the farmers and
officials of Union and Wallowa coun
ties at a public hearing today. A baKic
tax, whether called a poll tax or
something else, was their recom
mendation. The throng that filled every mat In
the largei chamber of the city hall
here favored also a property quali
fication for voters on all matters
where finances are concerned.
Confronted by the need of curtailed
expenses in order to hold down tax
levies, 'officials complained that
whenever they attempted to prune an'
item there would be a delegation of
prominent citizens protesting against
the cut or else there was a statute
making the levy compulsory. Thus
officials, while expressing an earnext
desire to lighten the burden of taxes,
confessed that they were virtually
helpless.
One Optimistic Ray Shines.
The one ray ot optimism In a cloud
of pessimism came from a city com
missioner of La Grande, who pre
dicted that in three .years this city
will be absolutely free from every
debt. Wallowa county, however, "has
gone broke because of matching state
money for roads," according to Ernest
Johnson, county commissioner. F. D.
McCuIly, another commissioner of
Wallowa, predicted that the mortgage
companies will getthe land and It
will be turned over to a flock of city
farmers. School taxes constitute the
heavy load of that county.
Applause Invariably followed every
mention of a basio tax, which sounds
nicer than a poll tax but means the
same thing. For a basic tax is de
signed to hit everyone. There was
no mistaking the temper of the farm
ers on the matter of limiting voting
on financial matters to taxpayers.
( Taxes for All. Urged.
Why. asked II. H. Wea therspoon, a
successful fruitgrower, should farm
ers pay 100 per cent taxes while phy-tk-ians,
lawyers, wage earners and
ti-achers escape. Yet Mr. Weathrr
spoon. who pays a federal income tax.
opposed a state Income tax, declaring
that it is not so equitable as a salei
tax. Only 9 nr p.nt nf hA nAttl
apparently by some blunt Instrument. pay xeg ,ccordin(r t BUllgtlclli ,nJ
.ner conaauon 's cruu-ai.
The police are investigating what at
the moment is a sensational mystery.
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CHICAGO HAS BIG FIRE
AVhoIe Block in Flames; Elevated
and Surface Traffic Halted.
CHICAGO, March 15. Fire started
in the Austin building at South Canal
street and West Jackson boulevard
shortly after midnight, spread rapidly
and at 1:30 A. M. the entire block
bounded by Canal, Van Buren and
Clinton streets and Jackson boulevard
was burning. The flames were fanned
by a high wind.
The Burlington' building, contain
ing some of the offices of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad, caught
fire and many night employes were
driven out. The Metropolitan West
Side elevated structure was burning
the length of a block.
Traffic within a mile radius was
halted and neither elevated nor sur
face lines operated.
The Burlington building is ." 21
stories high.
The flames were visible within a
radius of more than 20 miles and
thousands of spectators thronged
about the burning area.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
SIX ON ARBUCKLE JURY'
Two Women Among Those Tenta
tively Selected to Hear Case.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 14. Six
jurors had been accepted tentatively
at the close of today's session of the
third manslaughter trial of Roscoe C.
(Fatty) Arbuckle. Two of them were
women. Only a half-day session of
court was held on account of the
funeral of a sister of one of the pros
pective jurors.
The prosecution attempted to ask
one of the women members of the
venire what she would do if it, were
shown that Arbuckle had told three
different versions of event" at a party
in his hctei apartment here Septem
ber 5, 1921, which was followed four
days later by the death of Miss Vir
ginia Rappe. but the defense pjeo- j
tloos to too question were sustained.
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 40
degrees; minimum, 3s degrees.
TODAY'S Rain; southerly winds.
Foreign.
Revolt In Rand Is nearly quelled. Pag 1.
French wine men seek American market.
Page 4. .
Blocs being formed for Genoa conference.
Page 15- '
4 National.
Senate rejects amendments to four-power
Pacific treaty. Page 1.
Favorable report on bonus ordered. Page I.
Income tax receipts for first quarter ex
pected to drop 1300.000.000. Page 1.
Treaty ratification by small but aafe mar.
gin predicted by Mark Sullivan. Page 5.
Davis and Lewis hold strike Inevitable.
Page 19.
Domestic.
Small-town girl held worse than city sister.
Page 1.
Two pups and mother may inherit $18,-
000. Page 1.
Twenty-three persons killed In eastern
storm. Page 1.
Rail session farce, says labor leader.
Page 3.
New York arraigned by Dr. John Roach
Straton. Page 3..
Argument begun in Obenchain case.
Page 2.
Roll being called on singer's wives. Page 6.
Paelfie Northwest.
Portland widow In row for riches. Page 1.
Seattle enters era ot Intensive building
construction. Page B.
Farmers favor basic tax plan. Page 1.
Sports.
Athletic meeting to be held Monday.
Page 26.
Beavers In fight for fielding Jobs. Page 2A.
Card of Saturday of lnter-city Hue.
Page 25.
Champions in eight districts selected.
Page 6.
Commercial and Marine.
Changes In wheat grades are proposed.
Page 18.
British bonds respond to advance In ster
ling exchange. Page 17.
Portland shippers hold big meeting.
Page 14.
Early Irregularity In stocks short. Page 13.
Portland and Vicinity.
Police seek clew to bank robber. Page 19.
Dally drug aales of s:?00 charged to Davia.
Page 13.
Fort Stevens asked for sick veterans.
Page 8.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 19.
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.Mr. Weatherspoon Insisted that every
individual should contribute some
thing and that a basic, tax would
reach the masses. In this he found
support from F. S. Ivanhoe, who also
pays a federal Income tax. Colonel
Ivanhoe delivered a prolonged argu
ment in favor of a basic tax. The
only way to reach Intangibles money,
notes and accounts according to
Colonel Ivanhoe, is to protect a man
only to the extent of the property on
which he payg taxes. His remedy in
to prevent a note owner from going (o
court with it if the note is not listed
and a tax paid on It. Also If a man
pays taxes on ten horses and has 10
stolen, he Is not entitled to protection
on more than those on which he pays
a tax, he declared.
Schools Again Tax Problem.
As at the Baker hearing the school
problem became a tax problem. Ed
Reynolds and Bishop C. J. Black of
the La Grande school board, did not
agree. Blsnop tuacK opineq mat sai-
ariea might be a little nign ana mat
there might be too much given to
athletics. Mr. Reynolds answered that
living is so high In La Grande that
teachers need their present salary, .
and as for athletics, it is money well
spent. Criticism was directed at the
millage tax for elementary schools
and at the millage taxes for the In
stitutions of higher learning.
Commissioner Johnson declared that
the elementary school millage tux,
which was promised not to hurt but
to help, has done nothing but in
crease the pay of teachers and I
costing Wallowa county, about 141,000
with no other benefits. He asserted
that teachers work short hours, live
well and get more money than an
man In Wallowa county. The educa
tional tax, he said. Is the worst thorn
the county has. The elementary
school tax has not lowered local
taxes. a promised. arid epeclal
school taxes are as high as ever.
As to the higher institution, ha ex
pressed the opinion that in Wallowa
people thought $10,000 a year salary
was too much for the president of
the agricultural college. Efforts to
cut expenses In Wallowa failed miser
ably until, in desperation, the road
tax was eliminated entirely and 1'
the roads are to be maintained the
farmers will have to do It them"l vr
"We spent $170. 010 on rnnrts la.f
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