OREGON C OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1922. FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR No. 35 ESTABLISHED 18S COUNCIL VOTES TO SUBMIT CITY HALL LOCATION TO VOTE Sineer Hill Site Involves Too Much Added Expense; Would Increase Cost Of New Building to $40,000. ADVERTISING FAILS TO BRING ANY BIDS Water Commissioner Says He Will Oooose Attempt To Accept Revised Proposals Plans for the city hall building on Singer hill, as originally drawn, and as revised, were abandoned by the city council at a special meeting last evening, and the council ordered a measure put on the November election ballots asking the voters of Oregon City to select another site for the hall. This action was taken because it was decided that it would be impossible to build a city hall on the Singer Hill site with the money voted and available for the building. The special meeting was called td consider bids that had been adver tised for the erection of the hall on Singer Hill. No bids were received, however. Alderman. F. H. Cross moved that the revised plans, calling for the omission of art stone and ornamental plastering, and necessitating the con struction of a 35 foot approach and steps,, be adopted. Councilman Bridg es seconded the motion and then with drew his second. Dr. Mount then, sec onded it, the motion was put to a vote and lost, no affirmative vote m being cast. These plans, if adopted, would in addition to the changes in the construction, have necessitated an ad ditional xpenditure of $5000 over the cost of the building, $35,000, the addi tional costs being for bridge approach; $1600; 'creek, $250; sewer, $300; con tractor's bond, $500; architects' fee $1750, and steps, $100. William Howell, water commis sioner, objected to the adoption of the motion to accept the revised plans, and said. "If this contract is adopted this way, I for one will fig-ht It. We will not have anything when we are through, and we will be out the $40, 000." Howell contended that the council would be doing something they were not authorized in doing if they paid over $35,000 for the con struction of the hall. All the cofcncilmen were present with the exception of J. E. Jack. John Bloom, who lives near 4th and J. Q. Adams streets, asked that some trees on city property near his home be removed, in that they obstructed bis view. No action was taken. The street committee was ordered to make a report at the next regular meeting about the sidewalks that needed repairing in the city, the walk near 4th and Monroe streets being mentioned particularly as being badly in need of repair. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PLANS FORREMODELING Building Will Be Constructed At Cost of $15,000; Many New Features to be Added. The First Presbyterian church of Oregon City has finished plans for the complete remodeling of the church building on the corner of Seventh andi Jefferson streets. The building was partially destroyed by fire April 22 of this year. According to the new plans practi cally a new church wil be constructed. A full basement is to be excavated, and a modern heating system, kitch--en. dining room and Sunday school ri-om installed in it. On the main floor of the new build ing will be the church parlors, an en larged auditorium, the pastor's study, and a mothers' room. A large class room will be built on the second flr-or, over the pastor's study and mo thers' room. The lot will be graded' down about six feet below its present height. The auditorium will be chang ed, and the entrance built on the southeast corner of the building. The cost of the remodeling is estimated to be about $15,000, according to the Reverend H. G. Edgar, pastor of the Oregon City church. Marriage License Is Granted Couple A marriage license was issued yes terday by the county clerk to Lynn Thatcher Brownell, age 26, and Alice, Knori, age 20, both of Oregon City. COUNTY FISH UNION TO BACK INITIATIVE BILL G. G. Green, Sponsor Of Measure, Is Assured Of Support Of Organization Endorsement of the fish bill pro posed by G. G. Green is voiced in a letter received by Green yesterday from the Clackamas County Fisher men's union. Plana for a meeting with the unioM are to be laid at once, Green stated yesterday, when the way will be opv ened for the sponsoring of a second bill in the event that the present ini tiative petitions are thrown off the ballot. The letter, signed by Charles Gates, president of the union, and Andrew and Anton Naterlin, follows: "As a group of individuals engaged in fishing for salmon in the waters of the state of Oregon we are vitally in terested in the constitutional amend ment to do away with seines, traps and fish wheels in the Columbia. The amendment, if passed by the voters, will be one of the finest pieces ofleg islation ever enacted for the real and true protection of the salmon. "You are to be congratulated for the work you have undertaken and you may be assured that we, the Clack amas County Fisherman's Union, as well as the thousands of fishermen on the Columbia' are back of you. We will do all that we possibly can to sea that your measure gets a square deal. We have arranged for Mr. Philip Ham mond, our . attorney, to be present at the hearing and look after, our inter ests." TWO STILLS ARE SEIZED BV SHERIFFS DEPUTIES C W. Hardy Is Under Arrest; Warrants Issued for John Wyatt and Ralph Wilson. After a nine hour search, . Deputy Sheriffs Hughes and Burke found a still on the farm of C. W. Hardy, in the Kussellvilie settlement, 20 miles east of Molalla. A complete still and some of the finished product were taken. Warrants for the arrest of John Wy att and Ralph Wilson were issued yesterday, charging the men with the illegal manufacture of liquor. A still was discovered on the John Miley place near Barlow on Pudding river by deputy sheriffs Hughes and Burke. An investigation of the affair was conducted and has ended with the ac cusation' of Wyatt and Wilson. The still, which was taken together with a small quantity of liquor, was destroyed. FALL FROM STEEP BANK IS FATAL TO FISHERMAN OLYMPIA, Wash., Aug. 28. Robert Dorah, manager of the Olympia branch of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company and a pioneer telephone man of Washington, was instantly killed yesterday when he fell from a steep bank into the v Deschutes river six miles south of Olympia. Dorah, with J. A. Gantenbein, a close friend of years' standing, left early Supnday morning on a fishing trip. They had been fishing for sev eral hours when Dorah left "his com panion, going farther down the river. A short time later, when Gantenbein went to join his friend, he found hisi body lying in a few inches of wa ter. The belief is that he' tripped on something and fell from the steep bank into the river, striking his head on a rock. Coroner Kenneth Partlow, after examining the wound in his head, stated he had suffered a fractured skull and probably died instantly. MEN RETURN TO WORK ON UPPER CLACKAMAS Sheriff W. J. Wilson yesterday made a trip through the seven or eight Hurley-Mason camps on the P. R. L. & P. construction work, inves tigating the. working conditions there. He reports that the conditions around the camps are satisfactory, that the I. W. W. menace is giving the camps 1 r. jhug v." i - . emu Luat uio men wciu returning to work- A few men, supposed to be I. W. W. agitators, are said to be around Esta cada, but they are having little effect m inducing the workers to remain! away from or leave their work in the camps. AUTO THUGS FLEE FROM OFFICER AS GUN IS JAMMED An automatic pistol, which jammed Harry Griffith after tie first shot had two auto thieves here at noon Satur day. An automobile stolen from Jack White of Portland is recovered "but the men escaped after an exciting chase through the lumberyard of the Willamette Lumber company, through the brush and around the river bank. The two men were stopped in the machine by Griffith, who had been looking for a stolen car of the type and description of the seven passen ger machine they were driving. As he started to look up the number, the men got out. Griffith found that the license did not belong to the car but had been taken from a truck listed as belonging to K. J. White; of Port land. Men Make Off As Griffith returned the licensejtfst book to his own car, one of the men started to run. At the officer's com mand he started to throw up his hands, but turned and bolted. Griffith sent one shot past the man, but he failed to stop. Then the gun4 Jammed, and the second man started! to run. Griffith took after the first thief, who ran into the lumber yard, and down through the bushes along the river bank at the foot of 15th street. With the officers two jumps behind, they ran for nearly ten min utes, racing through a place in the north part of the yard where a num ber of workmen were eating lunch. Bystanders sent in a call for the sheriff and Deputy Hughes was sent to the scene with a sawed off shot gun. Griffith in the mean time was chasing the man around the flat. ,Lat er when Hughes arived on the scene the thief ran past and a shot gun shell fifed at about 35 feet failed to stop him. The man succeeded in evading the officers and getting to the Pacific highway, where he jumped a car. Coats Are Found In the stolen, machine were found several coats, a woman's purse, flash light and other personal effects: Grif fith believes that the men have been doing hold-ups along the road. - The car was stolen June 27 and the insurance was paid on It Thursday. The machine Is being held here tof the company. . i Griffith, who is state traffic officer at large, left for Portland shortly aft ter the affair. His clothes had beenj badly torn in chasing through the brush. "I'm through with" automatic pis tols," said the speed cop. "You don't need one very often but when you need a. gun you want a good one." Griffith had just sold his revolver to one of the other state men and was using a 'borrowed automatic.- Women Battle With Bare Fists For Man's Love ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 24. Ap proximately 500 persons formed a ring last night in which two women, Eileen Clossen, 35, and Cadie B. Palm er, 32, fought with bare fists for the love of a man. The man, a witness to the fray, is said to have told the contestants he would throw his affections to the winner. News of the contemplated fight brought the neighbors as spectators and tney told in court of bets being placed. - Miss Palmer, landed the first blow, a right to the jaw. ' Her opponent countered with an uppercut but in jured her hand. Both went into a clinch. Miss Clossen broke away and while she swung, witnesses said. Miss Palmer dodged and retaliated with a blow to the chin for a knock out. Both women were arrested and fined $10 each today in the city court. 18 Year Old Youth Drowns After Dive From Small Boat VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 28. Conrad Wiley, 18, step-son of William C. Williams, a rancher living tw miles south of Ridgefield, was drown ed in Lake river Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. The youth, in company with two smaller boys, Harold and Howard Dunlap, rowed out on the river in a boat. Wiley, diving from the craft, was evidently seized with cramps. Seeinghis distress the small, boys . ' tL-ment rowed tried to help him, but in their excite- around in a circle unable to get near the drowning boy. Adolph and Herman Theil, brothers, one of them a brother-in-law of Wiley, heard his cries, but were . helpless to aid. Fred Bowma nand Clyde Lieser; div ers, called from Vancouver, recovered the body at 6 o'clock, 20 minutes aft ter arriving at the place. i ONE KILLED, 5 HURT IN . AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT Warrants Out for Arrest of 2 Young Californians Who Cause Death of E. M. Hill. . dena, CaL, and A. Stanley Pullen of Carmel, CaL, with manslaughter in' causing the death of Edward M. Hill of Dufur on the Columbia river high way Sunday was being prepared today" by District Attorney Francis' V. Gal loway; He planned to file it this aft ernoon. The two Californians, both young and evidently well supplied with mon ey, were driving a high-powered road ster headed for Lewiston, Idaho, Sun day afternoon, when they sides wiped Hill's car, .which was occupied by Hill, his wife and four children. Mr. Hill was fatally injured, dying just as he was placed on the operating table at the local hospital, Mrs. HIU suffered a fractured pelvis and other serious injuries, but is ex pected to live. The four children were severely bruised and cut, and are confined to the hospital. VICTIM m IN FIGHT Description of Man Tallies With Appearance of Brute Sought For Other Assaults. PORTLAND, Aug. 25. A battle in which woman's physical prowess prov ed more effective than her quick wit this morning routed a man supposed to be the "Columbia Park fiend" who has been terrorizing the Peninsula district for several weeks, when he at tacked Mrs. A. B. Ra.cine. 2055 Van Houten street, as she 'waited at Wall and Fessenden streets The man, exposing himself to view in the brush nearby." called ' to Mr. Racine. N "Keep away or I'll shoot," she cried, holding her hand in a bag in threat ening manner. "I'm not afraid of guns." the assail ant replied, and ran toward Mrs. Ra- nina T-Ti rr-a nnl cxrl ivltli Ti at onA cV CX struck him several blows before she ! could break from his hold and run. screaming, to Portsmouth avenue and Fessenden street, where her husband, a contractor, was at work. Her screaming sent the fiend scur rying into the brush and a cordon of police and deputy sheriffs at once be gan searching the neighborhood, sup posedly hot on his trail. Mrs. Racina is at the St. Johns police Bub-stationi examining suspects arrested. Thus far none of the several taken in the hunt has been identified. Flagrant Abuse Of Initiative Law Alleged In Suit PORTLAND, Aug, 28. Flagrant abuse of provisions of the initiative law is alleged In a legal attack launch ed against methods by which the grad uated income tax bill of the state grange has been initiated. The attack takes the form of a suit filed yester day in circuit court of Marion county at Salem, alleging insufficiency of sig natures to the initiative petition un der which the bill was filed. Basically, the complaint focuses up on the questionable methods of peti tion circulators and notaries. Fraud on the part of several such persons is alleged. These charges are backed by specific cases of persons whose names appear on the petition. Scores of these persons will appear as witness es, it is said, to testify that they did not sign the petition or were induced to sign, though ineligible. It is estimateo that orse to 400 persons will be called, if the case goes to court as expected, to testify to ir regularities in the petition. Some, it was said, will be minors, others al iens and still others non-residents. The suit filed yesterday was brought in the name of John H. Carson, as district attorney of Marion county, and names Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state, as defendant. It is demanded that Secretary of State Kozer be re strained from putting the income tax" measure on the ballot next November because of he alleged frauds in pre paring and filing the supporting peti tion. McNarv Will Aid In 1 Fruit Car Situation SALEM, Aug. 26. Because of his heavy fruit interests in Oregon, Sen ator McNary, it Is .believed here, will be able to represent the state effectively- in a . co-oprative movement among the Northwest states to keep a sufficient circulation of freight cars in this part of the country to move the fruit and grain crops this fall. MEETING HELD TO CONSIDER WIS TO OUST JUDGE Inefficiency In Road Work And Small Consideration Given Interviewers, Cited As Causes of Movement. TREASURER ASKED TO RUN ; DECLINES Recall Meeting Is Held At Mount Pleasant on Saturday And Charged Drawn Up. A movement to recall Judge Harvey E. Cross has been started in Clacka mas county during the lest three or four days, and County Treasurer W. W. Everhart has been asked to be come a candidate for election" to that office in the November election. At least one meeting has been held to take steps to have recall proceedings started and to secure a candidate for election to the office. This meeting was held Saturday afternoon in the Mount Pleasant dis trict, and was attended by men from various sections of the county. It is understood that OrtVon City, Oswego, Staford. Estacada and Needy were represented. Inefficiency in road work is said to be one of the major charges to be preferred and discontent is manifest ed by those active in the recall move for what they term the cur reatment that they receive from the present judge. They contend that too fre quently when endeavoring to get an interview with the judge they cannot get it, that he is too busy, will no take time, or listen to them. It was learned from L. A. Rail, of Needy, that more formal charges have been drawn up and. will be available within a day or two. A committee called on County Treasurer Everhart Tuesday, asking him to allow his name to be used as candidate for the office of county judge. It is believed that this com mittee represents the group who met at Mount Pleasant Saturday afternoon. Everhart told the committee that he would give them his reply within a coupif of daya He later informed the Enterprise that he had definitely decided not to run for the office. This decision was made, he stated, on the grounds that his health would hardly permit him to perform the duties of the office and that he had no desire to enter the race as a recall candi date. 33 Confidence Men Taken Prisoner By Denver Officials DENVER, Col.. Aug. 25. Using the basement of a church in which to hold their prisoners in order that their raid might not be tipped off while it pro gressed, deputies of the district attor ney and Colorado state rangers early today completed the round-up and ar rest of thirty-three persons alleged toi have conducted confidence operations in Colorado. Florida. Cuba and other tourist centers. Under a technical charge of conspir acy to defraud, the prisoners, ranging in ages from 20 to 73 years, are ac cused by the authoriies of having fleeced persons throughout the United States of sums aggregating $1,500,000. The officers in their raid seized $10,000 in cash, weapons of all kinds, telepraph apparatus and the parapher nalia of a stock exchange, by means of which District Attorney Van Cis charges the alleged ring relieved pa trons of summer resorts of their money in sums ranging from $100 to $1000. Victims are said to have been solic ited in hotels, bathing beaches and amusement parks, particularly in Col orado, Florida and Cuba, to play the market on . grains, oil stocks and stocks and bonds, being permitted to win their initial speculations and then being defrauded out of heavier amounts subsequently. The raid followed investigations of more"" than a year, in which authori ties in other cities aided, Denver po lice said. Extension of Time On Appeal Granted To Russell Hecker An extension of time for the per fection of appeal in the case of Rus sell Hecker, convicted murderer of Frank Bowker, Portland musician, was granted Saturday by Judge Campbell. Heckers attorneys were given until November 4 to file their bill of excep tions and until November 10 to file transcripts of appeal with - the su preme court. Hecker wag convicted here July 5 after a sensational trial.' He was charged with the deliberate murder of Bowker, and the secreting of the body in the Calapooia river. MT. HOOD HOP ROAD WORK WELL UNDER WAY Forest Service Men Aiding In Construction; Contract &&x, 6J. s) First Grade Nearly Do. o...-- Wort on the Mount Hood Loop road is now being. pushed at top speed by six crews, -working in Hood River, Clackamas and Multnomah counties and in the forest reserve. Following the tax supervision com mission's assu:fince to the state high way commission that funds would be forthcoming from Multnomah county the conract for gravelling the much) disputed stretch between Sandy and! the Clackamas county line, amount ing to seven miles, was let to A. D. Kern two weeks ago. ine two sections of the road are now within fifteen miles of junction the forest reserve crew is grading between the old summit house, two miles beyond Government camp, to White River, four miles away. An other crew is pushing back toward Government camp. The Hood River graders are still in the upper valley. From Zig Zag to Government camp; the forest reserve has put in a graded and graveled highway. From Zig Zag to Sandy Clackamas county crews are finishing grading and the old road. part corduroy, is still in use. Work on the four miles in Multno mah county to be graded, from the Clackamas county line to the junction! with Powell Valley road, is in prog ress, with a crew grading half a mile from the Clackamas-Multnomah line towards Portland. INCREASE OF WAGES IS WANTEDBYRAIL MEN 4000 Maintenance of Way Men Ask Minimum Rate Be Fixed at 48c Per Hour. CHICAGO,- Aug." 2. The first step for a general increase of wages for all railroad employes was, taken here today before the United, States Rail road Labor board. Four hundred thousand maintenance of way men asked their minimum! wage be fixed at 43 cents an hour. The present minimum is 23 cents. If the labor board grants a wage increase to the maintenance men, oth er rail unions will immediately ask for a rehearing of their wage scales. Grable's opening statement was a severe jolt to the railroad representa tives who had assembled for the open ing of the hearing. No such demands had previously been made and it fore casts another bitter fight on the part of the roads, who had expressed no objection to giving the maintenance of way men a raise above the last- cut. The hearing from the start took on a political atmosphere which had not been expected. Grable launched at once into a discussion of the "living wage" doctrine, laying the foundation' apparently for the claims of labor which will be urged upon Senator Cummins' attitude of the act, as the basis for amendment. Three Strikers Are Fined in U. S. Court; All are Discharged PORTLAND, Aug. 29. Robert Green, George Schrmann and Martin Chutuk, three of the 14 defendants in the contempt case brought by the O W. R. & N. company for alleged viola tion of the federal court's restraining order forbidding picketing in the shopmen's strike, received fines and jail sentences from Federal Judge Wolverton this morning. The other 11 defendants were discharged. Green and Scharmann were sen tenced to 60 days in the county jail and a fine of $100 each. Chutuk was fined $50. Upon the request of B. A. Green, attorney for the strikers, a 10-day stay of execution was allowed and the bonds of Green and Scharmann were fixed at $1000 and Chutuk's at $250. Pete Mihaljeyich, Conrad Brill, Roy E. Baker, Nick Castrigano, Mike Du betz, James Getty, J. Haberman, Hen ry Melcher, Emil Geska, Stogan Ves tica and Nick Eichner were discharg ed. ' Canby Resident Goes On Beach Vacation CANBY, Aug. 29. JT W. Snyder, of this city, has gone to Wheeler, Ore gon, where he is enjoying a vacation. He will visit a number of the beach resorts of Tillamook county. This is the first time that Mr. Snyder has seen an ocean, although he has at tained the age of 68 years. He has resided in Canby for a number of years, where he is in "business, having come from' Adelle, near Des Moines, Iowa. f BOY FALLS IN OLD WELIiROWLY rffS DEATH Rotten Boards .Break Under Weight of Child; Drops Into 30 Feet of Water; Braces Self Against Wall. RESCUE WITH HOSE Roy Robinson Not Hurt But Badly Frightened As Result Of Harrowing Experience. Roy Robinson, nine year old son of C. H. Robinson, 916 11th. street, "had a narrow escape yesieraay anoruuuu from drowning in an old blind well on the property of Mrs. Kate Newton, 10th and J. Q. Adams street. The well, which has some thirty feet of! water in it, was covered over with some boards and soiL The boards, which had become rotted, broke through when Roy ran over them, while playing in the lot. The boy is said to have gone to the bottom of the well. He came up to the top and clutched a brick, and by bracing him self with his feet and hands managed to keep to the surface of the waten until help arrived. - . A man who lives in the neighbor hood and whose name was not learn ed by the parents of the boy or by wit nesses, lifted the boy out of the well with the aid of a water hose. Though badly frightened by his ex perience. Roy was reported unharmed by his fall. The city council was asked at its special meeting last evening to order tho well flllnrf and covered. Na ac tion was taken by the council, how? ever. , 240 PEOPLE DROWN AS CHILEAN VESSEL SINKS SANTIAGO. Chile. Aug. 29. Twa hundred and forty persons were drowned today when the Chilean pas senger steamer Itata sank off the isl and of Chores, near Coquimbo. It was believed the sinking of the ship was due to overladen conditions in the heavy seas. Belief that all the passengers and members of the crew were drowned was expressed in a report from the cruiser Chabuco. The Chacabuco wsa chuising in the neighborhood of Choros island when the vessel sank. The Itata was believed to have sunk suddenly. The theory expressed by members of the cVew of the Cthacabuco is that the bottom of the Itata was scraped agains tthe rocks near the island and torn completely off. The Itata had a registered tonnage of 1971 and was built in 1873 by the-R. and J. Evans company at Liverpool. The ship was owned by the Cia ,Nac onal de Vapores and registered at Val paraiso and was flying the Chilean flag. Two Freighters Run Ashore in Heavy Fog SEATTLE, Aug. 29. The steel freighters Wabash and Gray went ashore in British Columbia waters early this morning in a heavy fog, ac cording to merchant exchange dis patches today. The Wabash, . bound from Seattle to the east coast, is ashore on Vancouver island, 12 miles west of Race Rocks. She will be float ed on the next high tide, it is report ed. She is operated by the North At lantic and Western Steamship line. The Gray, of the Victoria Whaling company, Ltd., grounded on Java Reef, 15 miles from Victoria. She is said to be in a dangerous position. The Nika, which went ashore on Vancouver island early yesterday, is taking water while the tug Sea Moni arch is standing by and the cargo is being lightered on to barges. Two Complaints for Divorce Filed Here Two suits for divorce were filed in the circuit court here yesterday. Ro wena E. Reed charges Merrill A. Reed with cruel and inhuman treatment. She asks for the custody of their two children, ages seven and nine, and for $160 a month for the support of her children and self. Eva M. Dickson filed suit against Carl F. Dickson, and ask for divorce, charging cruel and inhuman treat ment, neglect and questionable- con duct. She asks for the custody of nt t -Tiff