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T buy and H the uhu- Each week tho Enterprise carries a full resume of the most important happenings J 3 throughout the state and nation. It's worth your tub- scrlptlon. . ECdON OREGON CITY, QREGON. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1920. FORTY-FOURTH YEAR No. 37. ESTABLISHED 1866 OK C Y ENTEKPR SE HARDING ISprofiteers are nr iMirn U H UL Ul or ima acmes UUA MINNESOTA HTATIC FA 111, Sept. 8 An agricultural program - to keep tho nation self HuntulnliiK and to iinpruvn the. condition of tin farm r wh outlined by Semitor Harding. RcpuhlU-nii nominee for tho presi dency, In a speech today at the Min nesota HtnlH fulr. lu HpHlflc term tho candidate net forth hi polity an contemplating tho following steps; Larger representation for farmers In governmental affairs, particularly with regard to trado nlid fliiuru:e. KtnbllKhniint of a system of co operative unsocial km for marketing farm product. "A scientific study of the world mar ket for farm product with a view to MiibtlUatlon of prices. t'urtullinoiit of "unnecessary price flxlrnr unrf of "III coimldcre.l effort arbitrarily to Nuro farm proilmt prlct'K." AdmltilBtmtlon of the farm loan n't no as to decrease tenancy, promote diversified funning and provldo lotia term credit. Itimtumtlon of railway fiullittes to mate of highest efficiency. Revision of tho tariff to protect American agriculture from unfair competition. ... Itoth redmnalon and Intensive farm It i K have their places In a develop nijent of the nation'' agri cultural rexoureea to a cap- wtty which woud Insure to pos- terltv an abundance of domestic food prrxliut o stressed tho nwil fm illverslflcj rrf'P and si no declared 0 enientliil that there be a no-mnl but once between grain and livestock production. Deploring the drift of population from muntry to city, Senator Hard '.UK advocated an Improvement In the social life of the fa-m and siiq, an administration of economic law a would lnure "a fair balance between our nrhsn and rurnl Industries," " Vraliw'rt tho part played by the fa-m er during the war, declaring that "It never will be understood or "' Vrecluled by on potplc." Cl'LllKHTBON, Mont., Kept, K, fiovernor Cox said today as ho pushed his stump rampa'.xn another ulep went Into Montana, that ho 1 prepared to show that thowj corpor ation which mudo greatest profits out of tho war aro among thfi hi- gent tuckers of the flepubllcan cam paign fund. "The niot notorious profiteers In America, the American Woolen com pany, William M. Wood, president, al ready ha made a lawn contribution to the campaign of Republic- ' which William Barnes, Albany, N. Y, I publishing" he charged sMolflcul- F r. Governor fox had a survey made o conditions at tho woolen mill and It understood hi assertion was based on this report. Ho Indicated In future addresses be will name o1ir orporatlons to which he believes the Mm" charges can bn applied. Indicating that Democrats have. strong hopes of carrying Montana, ('ox will spend two days In this state. Only two main addresses at Havre and Great Falls were on lb" ached ule today,, although several rear plat form talks probably will be made. Tomorrow Cox will visit the copper mining section of Butte and Auscon- dit. Even the governor s close admit his receptions In North Dakota yesterduy were rather lukewarm, but they attribute this to the Influence of tho Non 1'nrtlsiin league. The Right To Cooperate Out of every dollar the consumer pays for food products the farmer who produces the food gets from 40 to 50 cents. The rest of it is taken by people along the way between the producer and the consumer. Some of these people serve a useful purpose, but some of them are charging altogether too much for the service they render. The farmer has been studying this high cost of marketing his products. He has found that by joining with his neighboring farmers in co-operative associations he can considerably cheapen his marketing cost, but dur ing the past two or three years the free operation of these farmers' co-operative marketing associations have been interfered with. In some cases officers of such associ ations have been prosecuted. In some few cases they have been thrown in jail temporarily. Under a Repub lican administration this sort of thing will not happen. The Republican National platform is very specific in that point. It pledges to the farmer "the right to form co operative associations for marketing their products and protection against discrimination." j ' Warren G. Harding, the Republican candidate for President, goes even further than the platform. He said in his speech of acceptance, "Contemplating the de fenselessness of the individual farmer to meet the organ ized buyers of his products and the distributors of the things the farmer buys, I hold that fanners should not only be permitted, but encouraged to join in co-operative association to reap the just measure of reward merited by their arduous toil." v To which the farmer will say, Amen. BOMraS PROPOSES I'AROR UNION RRHT UIUUII UI'll.l . IUII1 I I 11 OVER KANSAS PLAN: IK I HUM WASHINGTON, ept. 8. Samuel Oompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, In a lett'-r to the central labor union, of K" u ge In em to hold a conference to outlines methods to effects a repeal of the Kansas Industrial court law. Corn pers denounces the law as a vi cious measure designed to establish compulsory labor. "The united forces of labor and the farmers should seek the repeal of this law," gay Gompers, in his let ter. "If this Is endorsed the next legislature will go farther as . the governor of your state appears to have made it big life work to hamper the advancement of labor and the farmers. "Hy a cleverly conceived propaganda many farmers have been led to b5 llve that the law would not affect their Interests. But should they seed to better their economic conditions be, and undoubtedly will be, used to th-ougj, thlr organizations the 1 defeat their activities." Marines Mostly a American Born LEADBETTER MILLS LOST 10 VANCOUVER OreRim Agricultural College, Cor vallls. A iik. 31. Oregon farmers could market nt leant $:ino.nuo worth of farm produce that now either Koes to waste os Is sold us common stuff while qual ified for IilKh clans specials, said C. .1. Mcintosh, agricultural press ed itor of the sluto nsrlcnltural colleee. to the members of the State Killtorial association at Astoria Aucust 14. , "The farmers need this service murj, more than the editors .need the business of advertising" the speaker asserted. "It would add not less than J'.'flO profit to tho avernRe farm and greatly benefit tho community hyup- plylnK thn best produce in tm) mom economical manner possible." rt was shown that as many as eli:ht hauls, long.-and short, with double that number of hnndllnRS, five commissions, and often a few specula lions, IntnrvoM between the. Oregon jrrnwer and the Orewon consumer of notntoes. This ties up much labor, mnnv cars and some good money causes deterioration of commodity am contributes to industrial unrest Independence For Filipinos Doubted HONOLULU. T. H Sept. 1. "No independence for the Philippines In the next quarter of a century," Is the verdict of Representative Randall, of California, who passed through here A few days ago on the Great Northern , after a visit to the Orient. "You will, find practically evory member of the congressional party of the same mind." added Mr. Randall "After soolno conditions', there la unnnlinous verdict that tho Philip pines are not yet roady for indopond ence." Book Agent is Diamond Thief OVER LAFOLLETTE MAN BY AT LEAST 20.000 MILWACKKK, Kept. 8. Senator tnrlnR ! Inroot was leading James Thompson for the Republican nomin ation for Called Stiites aenutor from Wisconsin by 8STH votes at 10 o'cloc today, Returns from 026 precinct out of 2i!79 gave Mnroot 45,289 and Thompson 35.391. l'nroot support ers are claiming hll nomination by at least 20,000 votes. t Thompson had tho support of Sen ator Robert M. Lafollette. The ro lurns received come from ' 37 coun ties, many ot them regarded as La folletto strongholds. In tho fight for the Republican gub ernatorial nomination, Roy V. Wilcox holds a slight lead over Jamea J ltlalne, Uifolletto candidate. W, II. Stafford, former congress man from tho Fifth district, will op pose Victor L Herger, Socialist. In tho November elections, He won a lireo-coniercd fight for the Uepubll an noirfliiaUon. T ; Pershing To Tour In South America SOUTH H15ND, Wash., Sept. 7. Mlas Eleanor Hoggins, a book agent, who Is said to have claimed that she was a Portland, Or., school teacher on Tncntton. is reported to have confess ert to a plot to ateol a $100 diamond rlnK from Miss Laura Smith of this eitw snd to have camoa out no (Kiheme in part. BY CIGARETTE STUB ROSKIU'RO, Or., Sept. 8. W. W Smith, nn employe on the Bradburn farm, at Wlnstous, was lnatnntly kll e.i yesterday morning when a cap of dynamlto which he was homing ex plotted. Smith wng In tho orchard en gaged In subsolllng, and had set off several charge" round a number of the trees. Just prior to tho accident he had been warned by his fellow laborers to coase smoking when hand ling explosives. It Is the supposition that the dynamite was exploded by cigarette stub. Bank Files Suit To Collect Note The Hank of Oregon City filed suit Thursday against S. B. Saulabury, the Oregon City Auto company and K Downey to collect $200 which plain tiff alleges was secured on a note given by Saulabury. According to the complaint Sauls. bury gave the bank a note for $300 with the name of hla wlfo.Nora Sauls- bury, signed, which It la alleged was a forgory. SaulBbury secured th $300 on the note and deposited $20o with the auto company, which . the bank asks the return of. It la alleged that Downey claims an Interest In the money on account of a writ ot attachment granted him BRANDED TRUST BY VANCOUVER, Wash. Sept. 8 Van couver loses the paper and sulphite mills projected by Fred W. Leadbet ter and associate! according to N. U. Sinclair. In charge of local affairs of the corporation. Salem will get the mills,' he said. Falluro of the Vancou ver council to close street ends as asked Is given as the reason for the hanged plans. The company pur- hnsnj tho rittock-Leadbettcr mill property, which was to have been used for the enterprise. What dlspo- Itlon will be made of this has not wen decided, Sinclair said. WASHINGTON", Sept. 2 The year ly figures on recruiting just Issued by the marine corps contain some Inter esting dataQon nationality. Of the 10.30? men accepted by the sea sol diers In the last 12 months the Amer-Ican-born totalej 91 per cent. Six foreign nationalities are repre sented by a lone marine, namely, Ar menia, Australia. Columbia, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela. Each of these, as with all of the foreign-born In this branch of the service, jas either become naturalized or has taken out his first papers. NEAR HVIZZANO ROME, Sept. 8. Several hundred persons lost their lives In the earth quake at Flvlzzano, and many more were Injured, according to a dispatch to the Trlbuna from Massa. Scores of lives are also believed to have been lost In the district north of Florence, which vas shaken se verely by an earthquake yesterday morning, As reports from the strick en region come In tHe extent of the disaster seems to be growing. ""AtwFlvlzzano a town "of 17,00CTln babltants near Carrara, almost every building was damaged and niany were destroyed. Among the collapsed .s-tm-tures Is the postofffce, In the ruins of which la the entire staff. Sollera, In the province of Massa Marittima, and Monti, near by, were partly destroy ed. Rlvesano. Forni and Montlgnoro are reported 'n rums, while In Marina and Carrara many structures have col lapsed. At Vlaregglo the church of St. Paul was destroyed. Panic prevails at Lucca as a result of the cataclysm, and from Gavinan and Llmestre come reports of lives being lost. In one. town an .entire family wa-i the village of Vlgetta was entirely burled In the ruins of their home, and destroyed. , WITNESSES WASHINGTON', Sept 8. The Inter national Harvester company of Chi ago and other big manufacturers of farm implements, together with farm implement aeaiers were branded a gigantic profiteering trust In a report by the federal tiJe comjibslon made public today. In an investigation ordered by the senate the commission found that the manufacturers and dealers fixed pro fiteerlng prices by mutual under standings In reslrant of trade and that the dissoluton of the Interna tional llarvestor company negotiat ed by Attorney General Gregory Is a sham. WASHINGTON", Sept. 2. General John J. Pershing will tour principal countries of South America at the end of this year as the personal represent ative of President Wilson, if present plans of tho state department are car ried out, It was learned today. Per shing's trip will be ostensibly a re- urn of the visit here last year of Dr. Kpltaclo Pessoa, president of Brazil. The reul purpose, will bn to further strengthen the tiea of friendship, It was understood. Ryckmaii Boss of Trout Hatcheries NOMINEES NAMES FILED IN OREGON BY LABOR PARTY SUGAR PRICES TAKE ANOTHER OROP IN ADMIT TWO COX CLW CHILAGO, Sept. 8. Support of Gov ernor Cox's charge that $400,000 had been set as the republican campaign fund quota of Cleveland and $25,000 as that of Atlanta, came from repub lican' witnesses today at the senate investigation of campaign funds and expenditures. In addition, there wag an admission by Harry M. Blair, assistant to the treasurer ot the republican national committee that he had approved "form 101," a document setting forth a campaign pan which called for sub scriptions of $5000 and $10,000 each. Mr. Blair said sufficient copies of the bulletin were prepared to supply all field agents of the republican na tional treasurer, but when the nation al ways and menag committee refused to approve the project, the release on the document was canceled. Mr. Blair said the form was in the bulletin, but it had never been made official. L OF El'GENE, Or.. Sept. 7. Matt Rvck man superintendent of the McKeuzle river trout hatchery for the past few years was named superintendent ot all trout hatcheries for the state of Oregon at the regular monthly meet ing of the Oregon state fish and game coirimlsslon. held In this city last night Appoinment Of , thirty new "deputy wardens was authorized. DRIVERS' LICENSES TO BE COMPLETED ST. HELENS, Or., Sept 7,-By September 15, It will be possible for the motorist to travel from Portland to the Clatsop county line a distance of about seventy-three miles, on hard surfaced pavement. The paving crews, working towards each other from Scappoose anj St. Helens, have only one and three-quarters miles of paving to lay before the St. Helens Scappoose gnp will be closed, ThU wtll be done, during the next' ten days. The paving crew working from fllatiknnlo has almost reached the Clatsop county line and the paving company Is working a double shift lu order to complete the Job as soon as possible. MOTOR CAR BODY REMITS $2673.16 Courts To Decide Vital Question PORTLAND, Maine, Sept. 3. The question of whether a woman has- a right to the one secret she is sure to keep her age may be determined before the courts here. ' Mrs. E. ErnBt Holman, wife of Portland citizen, was denied the right to register for the September state eloctlons because she refused to give her age. , ' The Incident may be made a test case and the courts called upon to de cide whether a woman must divulge her age In enrolling for an election. SALEM, Or. Sopt. 1. The Dealers' Motorcar association today remitted to the socretary of state $2673.16, cov ering the tax on gasoline and disu nite salos for the month ending Aug ust 31. The association sold 267,310 gallons of gasoline durlpg the month; according to the report. TROTZKY'S SON KILLED. LONDON, Sept. 8. The son of Leon Trotzky, war minister of Soviet Rus sia, was killed in the fighting on the Russo Pollsh front, according to a cen tral News .dispatch from Cracow, Po land," crediting the Information tQ the Crawkow Kmrjer, , SALEM, Or., Sept. ?-f;The Indus trial lahor party wa ' launch ed In Oregon Saturday following re ceipt at the secretary of state's office of certificates of nomination and ac ceptance of the several nominees of the organization selected at conven tions held In Portland, August 21 and 31. v W. W. Cox. of St. Louis Is the nominee of the party for president, while August Gillhaus of New York City is the nominee for vice-presi dent. C H. Svenson of Astoria was selected to make the race for United States senator. Upton A. Upton of Bftacada will run for secretary of state and F. T. Johns of Portland for representative in congress from the 3d congressional district Nominees for presidential electors Include Felix J. Carlson, Anders D. Berglund, John Olson and Charles Bearman of Port land and Nels H. Loff ot Newbergl The new party was created by pe titions filed with the secretary of state here on August 7. These pe titions contained approximately 8500 names. NEW YORK, Sept. 3. Announce ments were made i today bringing prices tor refined sugar to about the same basis at which "second hand," or speculators' stocks, recently have been selling. The Federal Sugar Refining com pany announced a new reduction ot a cent a pound, making Its price for fine granulated "15 cents a pound less 2 per cent." Arbuckle Brothers did not change their price list, although they an nounced late last night they were of fering limited amounts of fine granu lated at 15 cents a pound. This Is sugar that had been bought hy specu lators or others who have returned It to refineries to "be "sold at the best price obtainable." Wasco Fanner's Son Smothered S ON ARMY-STAFF WASHINGTON, Sept 8. Orders were Issued by the war department today confirming the assignment of 12 national guard and reserve corps officers to duty with the general staff as provided under the army reorgan ization bill. ' . The officers, who were selected from lists submitted by the governors of their respective state1., Included Colonel C C- Hammond of Oregon. OF U. S. E T E SUM SALEM. Sept. 2. A total of 86,223 automobile drivers' licenses had been Issued by the registration department of the secretary of state's office up to closing time Tuesday afternoon. At the present time Indications are that the department will have dug itself out from under the mass of applications- that have been received about the middle of September, permitting of the rigid enforcement of the pro visions of the law, designed to check reckless driving. With a total of 3045 automobiles registered during August the total for the year up to closing time Tuesday was 97,815 as against a total of 78,298 registered up to this time last year anj a total of 83,332 cars registered during the 12 months- of 1919. ' State Sues For Accident Fees WASCO, Or., Sept. 8. The 10-year- old sort ot Hans Thompson, promi nent farmer of the Monkland, dis trict, 14 miles southeast of this city, was smothered to death in ft bulk wheat bin Tuesday evening. The boy was playing In the wheat while a load was being drawn from the bin and 11 is supposed was drawn down by the suction. He was not missed for about 40 minutes and whe-a foftnj was buried under several feet of grain. Life wa3 extinct and all ef forts to revive him were futile. EK The state industrial accident com mission filed suit in the circuit court Wednesday aganst Creason Bros.. operators of a logging camp and saw mill In the eastern section of the county, charging failure to pay their fees to the workmen's compensation fund, as required by law. Payments to the amount of $52.97 are asked for In the commission's complaint. T 61-2H Pay Is Boosted On Grand Trunk MONTREAL. Sept. 2. The Grand Trunk railroad will put Into effect the same rates ot pay to employes' who belong to the Brotherhood of Railway an Steamship Clerks. Freight Handlers and Express and Station Employes aa have recently been adopted by the United States Railway Labor board. This schedule was adopted by the Canadian Pacific railroad some weeks ago, Noted Writer Says Lox is 15 e a t e n THE DALLES, Or., Sept. 2. "Gov ernor Cox gummed the works and Harding is as good as elected," Irvin Cobb declarea at an Informal dinner given here last night by the chamber of commerce. Representative Sinnott presided. . Mr. Cobb, who is an avowed demo crat, said he could not understand why the democratic nominee had made hla charges of a huge slush fund when he was unable to prove that such a fund existed or was be ing raised. "My platform consists ot four planks wine, ale, liquor and cigars.' Mr. Cobb intends to spend a month in Oregon gathering material for magazine stories. He will leave morrow morning for Bend, Or. KENTUCKY FOR G. O. P. to- FARMERS TO COOPERATE. NEW YORK, Sept 8. KentrteVv will be found in the Republican col umn at the November election, ac cording to a prediction made by A. T. Hert, Republican! , national com) mitteeman for the state. GRANTS PASS, Or., Sept. 8. At a meeting of the farmers of Josephine county the Josephine County Farmers' Co-operative association was organ ized. The organization Is for the purpose of stimulating Increased pro duction the profitable handling of agricultural products and co-operative purchasing. WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. Mall de livery time between San Francisco and New York will be reduced al most 50 per cent with the inaugur ation Wednesday of the transcontin ental air mail service, according to announcement by Postmaster General Burleson. Mail planes will hop off at 5:30 a, m, Wednesday at ootn san fTancisco and New York. The California mail bags will be in New York 56 hours later under the schedule as now arranged. ' The best time for railroad mall de liveries from San Francisco to New York is 96 hours. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. Federal guarantee of railroad earnings re sulted in an increase in the public debt of $101,750,000 during August according to treasury figures issued . today showing the nation's gross debt to be $24,324,672,000. Treasury rtteofrdj charge the in crease in the public debt to an issue of certifciates of indebtedness offered August 16. sold to cover payment to the railroads under the guarantee provisions of the transportation act Advances to the carriers against probable deficits during the month , were said by, treasury officials to have reached nearly $1bu,000,000, and on this basi8 they figured there would have been a slight reduction in the public debt had not the earnings guarantee been in effect. Payments to the roads In August do not correctly Indicate the amount to which they will be entitled when a final accounting for the six 'months' period over which the guarantee ex tends is made, it was added. ' As a result the drain on the treas ury probably will continue for several months, but officials believed it would be possible to clear up all transac tions with the railroad except the re volving fund by the opening of the new year.- , ' The figures made public today show redemption of approximately $2,500y 000 in Liberty bonds during the last 30 days, about $1,500,000 of which were ot the third loan. , No7 Prospect of Lumber Declme ST. LOUIS, Sept. 7 There is no nrosnect of an immediate decline in the price of lumber, according to dele gates to the fourth annual convention of the National Retail Lumber Deal ers' association, which opened here today. Charles A. Bowen of Detroit secretary of the association, opined that prices would soon reascend. OPP6SED TO PROHIBITION. ADELAIDE, South Australia, Sept 7. Resolutions favoring prohibition were rejected by the Angoloan synod In session here. During debate on the resolutions, one of the speakers, Rev. Mr. Walker, said: "Prohibition is anti Christian and the idea of American cranks." Third Class Post Offices Advanced WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. The post- offices at Florence, Scappoose, Oswe go and Rogue River, Or., -have been advanced from fourth to third class, bringing them within the range of presidential appointment. In accord ance with the practice of the depart ment, the postmasters- now serving will retain their places. The department announces that ex aminations have produced George S. Yoder a9 the only qualified applicant at Wedderburn, Curry county, and Mrs. Alexandra F. Rock at Oretown, Tillamook county, and their early ap pointment Is expected. DENVER PAPER RAISES PRICE DENVER, Sept 2. The Rocky Mountain News Tuesday advanced Its prloe to three cents a copy on street sales. The subscription price for home tdellvery ia unchanged.