Each week the Enterprise (QON carries a full resume of the moat important happenings throughout the state and nation. It's worth your awh- scription. J if i,a W HISTORICAL 8UU- FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR No, 36. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1921. Portland. ESTABLISHED 1866 To buy and sell the usu- al or unusual needs of 3 farming people requires sch a medium as the col- $ umns of the Enterprise. Try a classified ad. CITY "NOT GUILTY" SAYS 3RD MAN IN BOOZE CAR MORRIS GALBREATH IS " JOHN DOE " PERJURY CHARGE MAY , BE FILED IN ARBUCKLE CASE; JURY IS SILENT Star Witness for State is Now Accused of Giving False Facts SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.. Sept. 13. A statement expressing the conviction lhat perjury had been committed by Man Answers Indictment and ZLJZZ Enters Plea; Bonds are Cut to $2,000 The third man, who was in the booze car which was wrecked at New Era last Wednesday morning, is Mor ris Galbreath. Galbreath, whose name the author ities suppressed until his appearanc-3 here, came to Oregon City Monday and answered to the "John Doe" in dictment, charging the reciept, pos session and transportation of intoxi cating liquor. Galbreath was arraigned, and plead ed not guilty. His bond, reducsd from $3,000 to $2,000 was guaranteed by harles W. Reymard and Sarah Gal breath. MAN DISAPPEARS Galbreath was not to be found when the authorities investigated the wreck of the big Hudson machine, in which Dr. J. P. Graham, of Portland, was seriously hurt. Search was instituted and the man's identity learned, altho his name was withheld from publica tion until he appeared. Galbreath was recognized while, passing through Oregon City, and his connection with the wreck established by his own ad mission to the taxi driver who took him to Portland. This happened be fore the local police learned of the fact that a third man was wanted in connection with the booze wreck. gaticn last night of the death of Miss Virginia Rappe, iilm actress, for whose alleged murder Roscoe ("Fat ty") Arbuckle is under arrest was is sued here today by District Attorney Maf-hew Brady. The statement came shortly after the grand iury had concluded a fivr hour consideration of the case and ad journed without voting an indictment. In the statement Brady also charg ed that he believed ."undue influence and pressure of a sinister character has been brought to bear, upon cer tain witnesses. Whether or not an ar rest would be made In connection with his chares of Deriury. he said, would depend on further developments. Says Story Changed In his statement, District Attorney Brady charged that Miss Zey Pro vost, also known as Zey Pyvrcn, naa rhan-eed her testimony before the grand jury from that she had given prev.'ously to the police and officials of the district attorney's office, that Miss Ranne had told her Arbuckle had caused her injuries. Earlier last night it was reported, Miss Pyvron refused to sirn a state ment that Miss Rappe had told her 3 77ie Unemployment Situation In times of quiet business, some croakers are al ways representing things as far worse than they really are. It is much that way with the present unemployment situation, in which it is claimed that some 5,000,000 people are out of work. The truth is that there are very few periods when there are not a good many people who are in the course of transit from one job to another. Furthermore, the number of unemployed may be computed in many cases by comparing the number now at work with the number employed at the height of the boom times. In that period great numbers of young peo- pie were tempted by high wages to leave school prema turely, also many women left their home work to take factory jobs. Conditions like these are not natural. The chances are that when a fair comparison is made with average times, many less than .5,000,000 people are loafing. The unemployed must co-operate by a willingness to work for fair prices. Much idleness has been caused directly and indirtctly by strikes. Those who are not willing to work for wages that the public can afford to pay, are not entitled to much sympathy. However, everyone knows that the number of peo ple out of work for no fault of their own is very large. Everything possible should be done to assist them. More public construction projects should be. started in such times, to take care of this surplus labor. Periods of un employment are the most favorable for getting roads built and public buildings erected. ; There should be public employment bureaus all over the country to find jobs for willing workers. The loss to the community by their non-production is a hun dred times what it would cost to maintain an efficient system of such bureaus. Unemployment can never be wholly done away with, as many popular follies help to create it, but watchful oversight by federal and state gov ernments can reduce it to minimum. '; 1921 PROFIT TAX VOTED BY SENATE RECOMMENDATION O F MELLON FAVORED House Bill Amended; Express and Oil Companies Hit By New Provisions WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 13. Corporations would be required to pay excess profits taxes for another year under a decision today of the senate finance commiftee. which finally approved provision in the house bill repealing these taxes as of January 1 next, instead of "last Janu ary 1 as recommended by Secretary .Mellon. me committe also inserted a pro vision in the house measure repeal ing the capital stock tax, effective next year, and adopted an amendment increasing the corporation income tax from T.0 to 15 per cent instead of 12, effective next January 1. These represented the major deci sions reached today at two ressions, although it was said officially that he committee practically had decided to amend the house bll to continue the tax on express packages and oil transported by pipe line. In an attempt to fasten the blame was missing. His statement follows this and later, it was said, she denied that she had ever made the assertion I .................I..,..,.,......... .. t concerning Miss Rappe, Brady said. District Attorney Brady also charg- COMMISSION ISSUES FINDINGS liln ,-vi V i Ulrica Alisxtl Blake, another prosecution witness, Jj AL. 1 HJiN AlAliNoI KAlixKUAJJ FATTf HOLDS PARTY; PRETTY ACTRESS DEAD for the character of the cargo upon Galbreath, J. L. Smith, driver of the car, who is out on $3,000 bond under the same indictment as Galbreath, Is sued a statement to the effect that the sacks containing the liquor were the nronerty of the "third man." Ac cording to Smith's statement, neith er he nor the doctor were aware of the booze mission. TRIAL NOT SET The date for the trial hag not been set. hut will be sometime during the coming- session of the circuit court. Doctor Graham is still confined to the OrMron City hospital. Federal court records show that Morris W. O. Galbreath, alias Maurice Galbreath, and his mother. Mrs. Sarah Galbreath, were arrested at Bonita. Or., October 15, 191 9 after two stills were found in operation on Mrs. Galhreath's farm. The agents found a 20-gallon and a 15-gallon stUl, 240 gallons of mash and three gallons of finished product. Mrs. Galbreath wa not nrosecuted. On December 3. 5919. Galbreath pleaded guilty and vat fined $100 and sentenced to 30 days in jail. "We have sent Miss Pyvron home under surveillance The girl changed , her story completely before the grand jury. Whether or not we shall arrest her and charge her with perjury will depend on futher developments 1 am convinced, however, tbat perjury has been committed by her. "I am convinced that undue influ ence and pressure of a sinster char- NEW FREIGHT HANDLING FACILITIES TO BE BUILT BY DECEMBER 10 ACCORDING TO DEMAND ALLOWED BY PUBLIC SERVICE BODY SALEM, Oregon, September 10. (Special) Improvement of the Southern- Pacific depot at Oregon City, the construction of a new freight depot apart from the passenger station, and repair and repainting of the present passenger acter has been brought to bear on depot, was ordered Saturday by the Public Service Commission. her and other witnesses, one of whom, Alice Blake, has mysteriously disap peared frcm her home in Berkeley. We have been unable to find her. Proposal For Paving Highway Accepted The order is the outcome of a suit filed against the Southern Pacific early this year by the Oregon City Commercial Club, through a committee of which Wallace Caufield was chairman. A hearing was held at Oregon City March 28, at which evidence upon the facilities maintained by the company here waa Introduced. A large number of local business men were called as witnesses. The case waa handled by O. Schuebel and O. D. El for the commercial club J pounded on the door for admittance, ArDucKie nnauy aamittea tnem, tney said, and they saw Miss Rappe on a SAN FRANCISCO, Ca . Sept. 10. The death of Miss Vi ginia Rappe, Los Angeles motion cture actress, in sl hospital here yes erday. after at tending a party in th'" rooms of Ros coe "Fatty" Arbuckle motion picture actor, in the St. Frai cis Hotel, is be in investigated today by the police. According to worm n members of the party, Arbuckle and Miss Rappe went into one of the rot ms of the hotel suite, and the door of the room was thereupon locked. Later there were cries and sounds of a scuffle heard in the room, they said, and they WAR DOES NOT PAY SAYS HEAD OF LEGION . IN TALK IN FRANCE Veterans Should Work for Peace Says American Commander (Special by Mail) CHATEAU THIERRY, Fiance, Aug. 27. War does not pay. It is as use less and as senseless as duelling be tween individuals. Franklin D'Olior, former national commander of tb.j American Legion declared here on August 26 when, with the Legion dtd egation revisiting France, he indi cated the new Roosevelt bridge over the Marne, named for the late presi dent of the United States and his sen, Quentin. "We fought in the recent war and therefore cannot be accused of dis satisfaction with the result," Mr. D'Oleir said. . "As ex-service men we represent the average citizen who al ways has to pay the price of any war. Let us dedicate ourselves to the task of impressing on our public leaders .trie lesson that we know: that war does not pay, and let us insist that they so conduct our affairs as a na tior that even though we play hard we shall play so fair a game that wars in the future will be buried in that samp deep grave where duelling so fortunately lies. "If the ex-service men of all coun tries should join, in this effort and tell their national leaders just what we mean, the millions of our - com rados who gave tTieir all for their re spective countries will not have died in vain." Speaking at the unveiling of the French monument to the A. E. F. -it Flirey, John G. Emery, present nation al commander of the Legion, express ed a similar thought. "Let the vecer ans oi America and rTance, strong in tradition of victory, turn their ener gies to the problem of a guarantee f.f future peace," jvtr. Emery said. " "If '9 unite and have the courage, to speak what is in ov heart nothing can successfully oppose us." IMARRAGES ARE EXCEEDED BY DIVORCES SURVEY OF CLACKAMAS RECORDS MADE Multnomah County is Blamed For High Percentage; Few Decrees are Local Portland Doctor Is Said Little Better and the city. Four specific charges were made against the company at the hearing in regard to the Oregon City facilities. The plaintiffs showed that the equip- The proposal of the state highway ment for handling live stock was insufficient, that facilities for carload ship- commission in regard to the Pacific I ments were inadequate, that less than carload shipments could not be handled Highway paving in the Canbv-Auror I properly due to congestion and absence of proper means for ingress and A slight improvement in the condi tion of Tr. J. P. Graham, of Portland who Is in the Oregon ' City hosnital as the result of iniuries sustained in rh wreck of the booze car last Wed ro:oav night, was reported late Mon- dav evening ' Doctor Graham, while he has prac- ticallv gained consciousness, is not mentaly rational. He is suffering from a severe fracture of the skull He is not able to converse and is. not in a state where he can be talked to Doctors In charge of his case re port a chance for recovery, provided Tin. unseen setbacks occurr. It was first feared that Dr. Graham would not live, but he seems to have rallied somewhat from his former dangerous condition. Gardner Thought To Be Off Island MCNEIL'S ISLAND, Sept. 12. That Roy Gardner, California mail robber, who escaped from the federal peni tentiary here one week ago today, has managed to get away from the island, was Indicated today by re ports of the theft of a boat from Mosquito island, midway between the prison and the mainland in Pitt pas sage, which was noticed Saturday, and the discovery of a "mystery wo man" who came to the island Sep tember 4, the day before Gardner es caped, and who has not been seen since that time. County Hit By Early Frost; Crops Hurt An early frost in Clackamas county on Sunday night did much damage to gardens in the Crescent and Red land districts. In places the cucum ber vines were still covered with ca. cumbers are blackened and ruined, and tomatos are ruined, while near 'Crescent ice was formed. paving, was accepted by the Canby City council Monday night. The city remonstrated against the payment for the highway through its limits, and the commission offered to do the pav ing if the right of way were voted outside the city limits. Under this arrangement, Canby will pay but fourth of the cost of the road. amounting to approximately $1400 The question of changing the boun daries of the city, so as to exclude the right of way, will be considered by the voters at the next regular meeting of the council. No opposi tion to the plan is expected. Fund for the payment of the city's share of the road are provided for and are in cluded in the amount due from the county on the general levy. Work on the section of the road at Canby is under way and the crevis are at present constructing the pave ment from the end of the hard sur face in Canby to the Molalla river bridge. The Canby council Monday night also voted to notify the property own ers that they will he able" to take ad vantage of the Bancroft bonding act to pay for the street improvements recently made by the city. egress of trucks, and that accomodations for passenger traffic were not com patible with the civic standards of the city. , - In regard to the general appearance of the depot the commission found "that in order to properly serve the needs of the community and of the travelling public the existing station, should be devoted entirely to pass engers, baggage, mail and express service, and so rehabilitated as to best serve the needs of this charac ter of traffic; the interior and' ex terior thereof should be repaired, in proved and repainted; the station and grounds should be more adequately lighted; modern toilet facilities should be provided convenient to the wait ing roms; the grounds in the vicinity of the station should be gravelled and a cement sidewalk should be con- struced in front of the station pro per and extending northerly there from In such manner as te provide ready access to the nearby street.1 Other improvements ordered by the commission, which are to be com plated before December 10 of this year, are as, follows 1. That said defendant should con struct and maintain ample and suffi cient stock yards and a loading chute at a convenient location to accomo- bed, practically nude and but Par tially conscious. Her clothing was badly torn, they said, even to her stockings. She was placed in a cold bath in an endeavor to revive her, but this had no effect, and she was taken into an other room and put to bed. The house physician was called and later she was taken to the sanatarlum. where she died. Arbuckle in his conversation with the police last night, specifically de nied all of the statements made by other members of the party, saying that he was not alone with Miss RaDne at anr time and lhat his eon- OU I COME OF RECALL IS du a-t no ti ne was objectionabla AWAITED ROAD BOND MONEY NOT TO BE SPENT Bad Check Is Passed At Oregon City Bank 50 Ask For Bonus; IVIaiority Want Cash date livestock shippers of said point J J I and vicinity: 2. That said defendant should con Approximately 50 local ex-service I struct and maintain amply commodi- men, who are entitled to the benefits 1 ous team tracks at a convenient lo ot the state bonus act, have made I cation within its yard limits to suffi- applications, according to Phil Ham- ciently and conveniently serve the mond, bonus attorney. A much J shippers of Oregon City and vicinity; larger proportion or tne application i 3 That all roads within said de- than was expected, are for the cash fendant's railroad yards leading up bonus, he says. to team tracks and depots should be In the majority of the cases, it la properly gravelled and maintained to tne unmarried men who are mamng nBrmif roniv cr-pa to ttuxA nnlnta: applications for cash. Most of the applications in the first rush were by single men who want to get' some ready money. Applications for loans, it is indicated, will -be slower forth coming. A limit of a year in which to apply for the cash bonus is mad. but there is no limit as to the time 4. That a sufficiently capacious freight depot to adequately serve shippers at Oregon City should be consiriif :ed and maintained iajt a convenient location, and separateand apart from the passenger station; 5. That the present station build- in which applications for the loans inS should be maintained solely tor will have to be made. FIRE DOES NO DAMAGE At eight o'clock last night the fire department was called out to ex tinguish a blaze at the Hawley Pulp and Paper company wood pile on Fourth street. It was extinguished be fore any damaige was done No cause has been assigned. the accommodation of passenger traf fic, mail, express and baggage and lhat it should be so rehabilitated as to best serve the needs of this char acter of traffic County Court Announces Its Policy; Mt. Pleasant o r r 1 I A man giving the namo of George roject rverusea J Carson passed a check for $16.80 signed with the name of .R. E. Cher- rick, and drawn on the First National No money of the bonded road fund. I Bank of Oregon Cilv. The check was otner tnan tnat already appropriated f drawn August 26 anJ cashed bv ior construction purposes will be 1 Charles Bockler, a merchant at Bar- spent by the county until after the low. The check waa returned from outcome of the movement on foot to the Oregon City bank a few days recall the unspent portion of the re- later with the announcement that Mr. cent $1,700,000 road bond issue.. Cherrick had no account at the Ore- This policy was announced by the 1 Kn city Dank- An examination of Clackamas county court Saturday I u'e check showed that no attempt had when it refused the petition of resi-1 D6en made to imitate Cerricks sig dents of the Mount Pleasant ditript I nature. The check had been made for the construction of a road which I Payable to George Carson, and in in would be paid for out of the bond I rtorsintg it he had evidently started 16 funds. A taovement iwaa wntlv I write anotner name. OREGON 1925 EXPOSITION IS ENDORSED started by the Pamona grange of this county, to place upon the ballot a measure to recall that portion of the bond issue voted for roads which ha not been sold. Unofficial esti mates place the unsold portion at 75 per cent of the issue. Petitions to place this measure up on the ballot are now being circulated, and until the movement lis terminated the court will innaugurate any roads which would call for further expendi ture from the bond funds than is al ready called for by the work In progress. Present projects, which are on their way to completion, the court announces, will not be interf erred with, as bonds to finance the work, in the majority o cases have been sold. Mr. Bockler states he can identify the man who passed the check, whom be supposed at the time had been en ployed on the Cherrick farm. No re port was made by Eockler to the county authorities. A man giving the same name was placed under arrest at Tigard last .week. Suit Filed Against Clackamas County Mrs. B- C. Curry, of Portland, a former resident of Oregon City, was in this city on Tuesday, where she Was a guest of Mrs. A. L. Beatie. Suit to recover $640, alleged to be due on a bridge contract, was filed Tuesday against clkamas county by E. D. Olds. The complaint avers that the amount sued for is still owing on payment for work- in the construction One of the further reasons for the I of a truss structure over the Molalla refusal of the Mt. Pleasant project, at Diekey'si bridge. It alleges that was that the court did not believe only a portion of the money due for the won- could be completed this fall, the building of the approaches to the An effort Is being made to clean up bridge, was paid. Expenses of suit all of the construction in progress be- and attorney's fees are asked in the fore winter sets In. action. PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 8. (Spec ial.) Out of. a group of 157 repre sentatives from every county in the state except Baker and Wheeler, only one dissenting voice was lifted against a resolution endorsing the proposed 1925 exposition, and that single note of opposition came from one of Port land wealthiest citizens. The dele gates from the out-state counties, one after another, declared their enthusi asm for the exposition and sanctioned, the financial program reported by a committee of which Emery Olmstead was chairman. j $6,000,000 to be Raised Tho outstanding feature of tho con ference waa the adoption of a pro posal to raise a fund of $6,000,000 to finance the big fair. Of this sum, $1,000,000 is to be raised in Portland through the sale of stock. $2,000,000 is to be obtained through a tax levy from Portland alone, and $3,000,000 is to come from a state-wide tax levy, of which Portland will pay one-thiru. The program means that Portland will pay two-thirds of the cost of the ex position and the balance of the -state one-third. The financial plan will bo submitted to the people, and so far as the state-wide levy is concerned, the plan will be to levy one mill each year for three consecutive years. Un der this proposal a taxpayer with an assessed valuation of $1,000 would pay $1 a year for three years. Governor Olcott Presides The conference got down to busi ness early this morning, with Gov ernor Ol-jott presiding. May r Baer delivered an addres of welcome to i the delegates and in a stirring speech he declared that all Oregon wiU bene fit y the exposition. The prelimin ary organization was explained by Edward Cookingham, and talks were mad by Congressman McArthur and Senator McNary, who steered the x- positron resolution through congress. Clackamas county was represented bv county Judge Cross, who is heart ily m favor of the exposition; M. D. Lutourette. termer . Liberty Loan chairman, and E. E. Brodie, who was chairman of the committee on reso lutions. Nine state-wide organizations were represented by delegates and the Liberty Loan chairmen represented the various counties. Labor and. farmer delegates joined h-tnrts with bankers and heads of in dustrial concerns in their endorse. ment of the exposition idea. It was igrced that the fair wculd advance Oregon 30 years, and thst more peo ple are needed in the state to equal- :?e me tar Duraen. J. L Meier, who has been the trnM- ing hand of the preliminary organiz ation, was elected permanent chair man of the conference, and Robert E. Smith us secretary. One representa tive from each Oregon county will be selected to act with the preliminary governing board, and from this organ ization an executive committee of 15 wil- be appointed. Divorces in Clackamas county ex ceeded marriages in all but one of the past five years according to a check, of the records completed Mon day in the county clerk's office. The report, compiled by Deputy Clerk Guy Pace shows that from 1916 to 1920, inclusive, there were 1177 marrigfees in the county and 1496 divorces, a dif ference of 319. -The reason for the high compara tive number, of divorces, according to County Clerk Miller, is that a large number of cases are fleo here from Portland. Under the law, residents cf Oregon can use any court in the state and due to the proximity of Oregon City a large number of people from the metropolis chose to air their ma trimonial difficulties here. Corre spondingly for marriages from Mult nomah county are performed here. The majority of the marriage licenses are local while only approximately one out of eight or ten divorces are filed by local people. MULTNOMAH BLAMED The tabulation for the five years, shows that only in 1917 did marriage licenses exceed divorces. The report indicates that during the year that the United States entered the world war, a large number of couples made up their minds, but by the steady in crease in divorces since 1917, they have been un-making them ever sinca. In 1916, 211 marriages were record ed, and the divorces numbered 215. The following year divorces dropped to 203 while marriages totaled 219 In 1918 the divorces climbed to 30r., marriages dropping back to the 19i6 level of 211. The year of 1P19, pro bably due to the return of the service men, saw a large gain in marriages. They numbered 255. but divorces al so took a leap, totaling 366. The largest number of divorce came in 1920, when the total was 405. Mar riages during this year jumped to 2S1 . A large number of thi- local mar riage licenses for locnl couples are issued in Vancouver, Wafhington, ac cording to Clerk Miller. The divorces complaints show that a good mar.y of the couples asking for a severance of martial ties, were married at the Sequoal State Greta Green and di vorced at Oregon City, the Reno of the Willamette. Short Hop Crop To Bring High Prices With. the world's hop crop extreme ly short this year, local growers ar-3 looking forward to higher prices. The market is reported strong fn all -quarters and more active throughout Ore gon. Although the majority of the grow ers themselves are selling under con tract fuggies are going at 33 1-2, an advance of about 2 cents durinjg the past week or so. Clusters are in de mand but the farmers are not free sellers. Most of the dealers estimate the Oregon crop at 50,000 ales. Contract sales to date are figured at about the same quantity. The western Washigton crop is coming down about one-tfrd sort of last year, but the Yakima crop is holding at about the same size as last year California dealers have again reduced their crop estimate 5000 bales to 80,000. The greatest shortage is in Europe", where the English crop is said to be fully a third under last year's, while the continent has only half a crop. English brewers claim to have a six month's supply, but Germany is bare of hops and must depend on this year's growth, which means the Ger man firms must buy in outside coun tries if they want to hold any ' of their export trade The course of the market here will naturally depend on the extent to which the Britishers buy American hops. 4 Decrees Granted By Circuit Court Four decres of divorce were gmnted by the circuit court Tuesday. They are as follows: John from Josephine Lauretta. Th custody of two minor children, Grace and John was given to Mrs. Eunice Murray, of Huber. Margaret from Charles Wort hington The plaintiff was given her maiden 1 name, Margaret wami. Nellie from L. vv. jvone. rne plaintiff was granted exclusive own ership of personal property and 25 a month alimony for the period of one year. gt?J?-J'!T'TO.ALj,,f!r'T'ta''