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so' 00? EG ON C rc--i k n pTTa ms, rPT v ,. FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR, NO. 42. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1922. ESTABLISHED 1866 I 1 " I H 11 I i" -i II I I I V0 I . U Li CHECK IS STARTED UPON H.L CROSS .RECALL PETITIONS Documents Containing 1700 Of 1984 Necessary Names In Hands of Clerk; Final Filing Is Expected Soon. PERCY T. SHELLEY IS NAMED TO HEAD DRIVE Statement On Charges Issued By H. S. Gibson: Claims Of County Judge Denied. Petitions for the recall of County Judge H. E. Cross, containing 1700 signatures, were placed in the hands of the county clerk Tuesday to be checked over. A total of 1984 signa tures are needed to put the recall on the ballot. At a meeting of the recall committee held Tuesday Percy T. Shelly, Sandy attorney, was elected manager to con duct the remainder of the campaign The petitions which are now in the hands of the clerk, Shelly states, do not represent all that are in circula tion. Sufficient are still to be collected from the circulators to take care of the usual shrinkage and still have the required number, he says. The posi tions must be filed by the end of the present week. A statement concerning the recall movement in regard to the charges of the county judge, was framed yester day by H. S. Gibson, of Barton. It follows: . - EAGLE CREEK, Or., Oct. 17. (Edi tor of The Enterprise.) In refuting some of Judge Cross statements . as published in the Banner-Courier of last week in regard to H. S. Gibson being chairman of the recall commit tee, I want so say that I have not been chairman of any recall committee, nor have I attended any raeetrng-or the recall. Judge Cross in his letter asks the question, "What is his trouble"? The most trouble "that I had was to donate fifty dollars to the damage fund, after the petitioners were informed by the judge, that the court would not allow the appeal of the three property own ers for more damages than had al ready been given them by the board of viewers; and the judge further stated, that if the property owners ap pealed from the report of the board of viewers, that he would be in favor of rejecting the report and take the . $600.00 theretofore allotted to Mar ket Road No. 3, by the county court under Judge Anderson, and give it to some other locality. The facts are, that Judge Cross at the final hearing voted to kill the road by rejecting the report of the Board of Viewers; Commissioners Proctor and Harris voted for the adoption of the report. Harvey Gibson one of the property owners, damaged by reason of the es tablishment of the road, received $300 as allowed by the viewers from tl county, and $500 additional raised by private subscription. In my opinion, Harvey Gibson's place instead of be ing benefitted by the establishment 4f the road, is practically ruined by it. One neighbor interested in the es tablishment of the road, came to me, and asked if I would give the same as he, and make up enough to pay the difference'between the $1090.00 allow ed as damages by the viewers and what the three land owners whose land was cut up by reason of the es tablishment of the road would set tle for, and withdraw their objections to the road. The sum of $870.00 was raised by subscription among the cit izens of Eagle Creek (Douglass Settle ment) and Estacada, and divided a miclably among the three parties dam aged by the establishment of the road, in addition to what the viewers had allowed them, making a total of $1875.00. And then Judge Crocc re fused to allow one dollar, and said he would go on record as being against the allowance. Both commissioners votSfl for the allowance. Now there is one thing I would like for Judge Cross to explain; Why did he tell W. H. Douglass in a prive conversation in htsoffice a short time after that, "WhileTam in office, the Gibson's will get nothing; Oh, they will get justice, but they will get no favors." H. S. GIBSON. $40,000 CALL ISSUED BY COUNTY TREASURER A call for $40,174.37 in outstanding road warrants has been issued by W. W. Everhart, county treasurer. The amount of the call represents part of the payments made on the last half of the present year's taxes. A call which will total about $60,000 will be made by the treasurer next month after additional tax receipts are turn ed over to him. During the summer period much of the road work is car ried on warrant 'indebtedness while the collection of taxes is still pending. T SENTENCE iCA Elmer Eliot Fined $100 And Given One Year Jail Term; I Anderson Guilty of Assault, i More than , doubling the sentence given in the justice court from which an ppeal was taken, Judge J. U Campbell Friday sentenced Elmer EI Iott, convicted in the circuit court of stealing wood for commercial use, to pay $100' fine and serve a year in the county jail The sentence to jail w suspended temporarily contingent up on the payment of the fine and the man instructed to report personally to the judge every two weeks during the period of the parole. Eliott had been sentenced three months in jail and a $50 fine by Justice E. J. Noble. Andrew William Anderson, indicted for the assult and battr -y of Sarah J Baldwin on May 30 last, was convict- ed in the circuit court Friday. The! inrv emhndiAri in thir vprdiot re-: commendation to the court for ex- Sandy, has been employed by the com treme lpnipnrv ' mittee sponsoring the recall of Coun mi. - mv. . The suit of Thomas Burrows against the Portland and Oregon CityW way did not come for trial having " sued for $150 damages for right of way infringements nnon hia nroDertv. non- sidting of lots 3 to 17, block 94, Mia thorn addition to Portland. The set tlement is understood to cover the amount of the judgement asked. EXPRESS TRAIN ROBBED BY LONE NEGRO BANDIT CHICAGO, III., Oct. 12. Sixty- eight Chicago-bound passengers in sleeping cars were robbed of theif jewels and money by a negro bandit who boarded the Santa Fe California limited train out of Kansas City, Mo., late last night. The bandit, his face covered by a handkerchief mask, boarded one of the sleeping cars as the train pulled out of Kansas City station, the re ports said. He went through two cars, ordered the passengers out of their berths" and seats, robbing all of them. Kings and necklaces were torn from women. The negro swung off the train ten blocks from the station and disappeared in the darkness of the railroad yards before any of the train crew except two frightened porters were aware of the holdup. The train was not stopped until it reached its next regular stop at Lex ington Junction, Mo. The train arriv ed at Marceline,- Mo., twenty minutes late. Here two members of the crew were dropped off on orders of the chief special agent of the Santa Fe to aid j posses. The California Limited, crack train of the Santa Fe, left San Francisco Monday night at 8 o'clock. Several women were subjected to indignities as the holdup man tore of.f their necklaces and snatched their purses. Clothing of passengers who had retired to their berths was ap propriated by the bandid. The robbery occupied only a few minutes. EVACUATION OF THRACE CONTINUED BY GREEKS CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 12. Eva cuation of Eastern Thrace by Greek civilians, as provided by the Mudania armistice, was under way today. The first little bands of Hellenic na tionalists, realizing th.t it is useless to await until Saturday midnight, when the terms of the armistice actually go into effect, were moving their belong ings out of the last province. The Greeks have two weeks to leave the territory awarded at the end of the World war and lost because of the stinging defeat of their armies at the hands of Mustapha Kemal's Turkish nationalists. On the heels of the Greeks the al lies will enter, and then turn Thrace over to 8000 members of the Turkish gendarmerie. It was believed here that the place and date for the permanent peace par ley would be announced soon. After this conference is held there probably will be a meeting of the League of Na tions and steps will be taken for the guarantee of internationalization of the Straits of the Dardanelles. Rumanian King And Queen Are Crowned After Long Delay Alba-Julia. Rumania, Oct. 16. King Ferdinand and iQueen Marie were crowned at this ancient Ruman ian town Sunday morning. The cor- onation, whiih was delayed beruse of me worm war, was witnessed by rep resentatives of the great powers. Marshal Foch came as the special envoy of France. - Ferdinand was crpwned by the presi dent of the Rumanian delegates. The king then personally placed the crown: on the head of Queen Marie. .SANDY ATTORNEY EMPLOYED TO AID DRIVE EOR RECALL Percy T. Shelly Is To Direct Campaign To Oust County Judge Harvey E. Cross ; Records Will Be Surveyed. PLACING OF ISSUE ON BALLOT SAID CERTAIN Petitions Will Be Filed By October 18, Expectation; New Charges Now Hinted. Percy T. Shelly, an attorney at i ty Judge Harvey. E. Cross, to direct L . j 1 . , T SS?1 SSSetortJ hisS quarters in Oregon City next week remaln here until the date ! . of the election Members of the committee state that practically sufficient names have been secured to assure the placing of the recall measure upon the ballot. The petitions, according to L. A. Rail, one of the committee, will be filed together, and np attempt made before hand to check over the names, before the documents are placed in the hands of the clerk. It"Is" understood that Shelly is to make further research into the county records than has been done by the committee so far, though no indica tion of the type of data, sought is given. The only charges concerning county , records made by the recall committee so far involve the amount of the warrant indebtedness which they claim has been increased con siderable due to the Cross adminis tration. The committee indicates that an intensive campaign,.- is jo be waged' during the period between the actual filing of the recall and the date of election. October 18 is the last date at which the petitions can file mo that the special recall election can be call ed on November 7. A total, of 1984 signatures are required ' New Prohibition Ruling Held Up By Injunctions NEW YORK. Oct. 12. On the eve of the date set for enforcement of the federal prohibition ruling prohibiting passenger vessels, both American and foreign, from bringing liquor under seal into American ports, enforcement authorities today were faced with two important test cases. One was a tem porary restraining order, granted to day by Federal Judge Hand, enjoining local enforcement authorities from mo lesting liquor on board the American steamers Finland and St. Paul. The other was an order directing the government agents . to show cause why an injunction should not be issued restraining them from - in terferance with ships of the British owned Cunard and Anchor lines. This was issued by Judge Hand last night. The injunction granted today was hailed as an important victory for the steamship companies, who claim they would lose millions by the enforcement of the Daugherty prohibition decis ion. It was issued upon application of the International Mercantile Marii corporation, which controls the Amer ican line operating the Finland and St. Paul. 8105,900 Payment Covers Last Half Of P. R. L. &P. Taxes The largest payment of taxes, made on the second half of the Clackamas county roll, was recorded by I. D. Taylor, head of the tax department Friday. It amounted to $105,912.84, exactly one half of the taxes against the Portland Railway Light and Pow er (company. The company is the heaviest taxpayer in the county b7 a considerable margin, according to Mr. Taylor. The payment was made before the period of delinquency, but owing to the rush during the last t days of collection, the amount was not entered on the book" until Fri day. New Road Is Asked In Monitor Country SALEM, Ore., Oct. 13. Forty mem bers of the Monitor Community club appeared before the Marion county court Wednesday and petitioned for a paved road from Monitor to Join the new Mount Angel-Woodburn paved highway. The ' county market road bond issue provides for grading of the road, but not its pavement. It is pos sible that the countv may find means to grant the request next summer. FEDERAL COURT REVIEWS HIGH SEAS PROHIBITION Trans-Oceanic Business Said Dependent On Keeping Of Bars Aboard All Vessels. NEW YORK, Oct.. 17. Owners of trans-Atlantic '. liners were character ized as "saloonkeepers" by United States Distrac Attorney William Hay ward, who defended the Bry seas' or der of Attorney General Daugherty in federal court here today. i Hayward spoke to Judge Learned Hand against the application of the White Star and other lines for a per- manent injunction restraining enforce - ment of the order which would forbid ships carrying liquor to enter Amer- tcau puiis mitri ci.iAi . "The reason that the liquor is being attacked here.", stated Hayward," "is that it will spoil a very profitable business of the trans-Atlantic saloon-. keepers. , "Owners of foreign - vessels have 1 w HMein? candMacy of H been treated very fairly by the United Wf-!" ' f Lg.?,, foJ- county States government, especially. the Brit- T Jy ian ; afternoon with county clerk Fred A. ' . ''',,'" 'v. Mlller- - The petitions have not yet This ruling is less severe than been checked but if sufficient legal some of those put in force by Great names are'round on them, Hagemann Britain. For instance, the British gov- wm become the indenenrfAn ,.n ernment prohibits American ships to carry liquor between its ports." The district attorney stated that If the court invalidates, the order the Ba hama Islands will become a veritable bootleggers' nest. "If this order becomes effective, the trade between the United States and European countries will become par alyzed," Van Vechten Veeder, attor ney for the Whit Star line and other companies said. Fire Regulation Is Gordian Knot To City Council To the state fire marshal's office, is to be referred the perplexing question of whether or hot the city can over ride its own ordinances and allow the construction of buildings in violation of the building -code adopted in 1913. The city council In special session last evening was confronted with a knotty problem brought, by the petition of J. A. Roake for permission to continue construction on his foundry at 6th and Water streets, which was begun in, violation of the code. The code has never been enforced and the council is not loathe to begin its enforcement with buildings con structed on all sides in violation of its terms. The concession asked by Roake is considered by many of the council to be only a technical violation and present no real fire menace, so tne state marshal's office is to be asked whether or not it is safe. If it is, concensus of opinion in the council is to once more lift the rules. City Attorney Eby pointed out that there was no legal method for the council to override the ordinance. Henry Templeton made a plea for the enforcement of the fire law to the letter. Councilman Cross called for the general enforcement of the law but stated that the arrangement made by Roake appeared to be satisfactory for all practical "purposes . and urged an exception. This sentiment was echoed by Bridges and Krassig. City Engineer Stafford pointed out that the ordinance Is being flagrantly violated and that there were numerous cases on Main street where its pro- visions were being scorned. Present- j ing the situation to the council he urg ed either the enforcement of the law or its removal from the charter. The budget committee which will frame the expenditures of the mun icapility for the year of 1923, was ap pointed last night by Mayor James Shannon. The committee is composed of: William Andersen, L. E. Jones, Al Price, W. B. Caufield. C. Schuebel, J. H. Cameron, Carl Green, R. Grieves and I. H. Henderson. The committee with the city coun cil will outline the departmental ex penses and the apportionment of funds. Their first meeting is to be held in December. The final council action to place on the ballot the question of locating the city hall, was taken when a mea sure was passed placing the hill sight before the people. The down town lo cation was acted upon at the session on Saturday night. 2 Are Arrested For Driving: While Drunk! R. C. McMurran ana A. C. Buckley, both of Oregon City, were arrested by Night Officer George F. Titus early Sunday morning, charged with driv ing a car while intoxicated. In municipal court Monday Judge Kelly fined McMurran $100 on charges of driving a car while intoxicated and $50 additional on the separate charge of being drunk. He is serving time in default of payment. Buckley was fined $20 and sentenced to ten days in jail the Jail term was suspended. Titus and Hemmingway arrested Stanley Ward and N. R. Thomas of '.Portland on charges of disturbing the peace. . They lorreitea $5 bail eacn by non appearance. Jess Merritt, arrested for drunken ness by chief of police May will have a hearing today. . HAGEMANN FILES AS INDEPENDENT FOR COUNTY JOB Petitions of Logan Man For Contmissionership Placed In Clerk's Hands; Check Of Signatures Is Begun. PRESENT INCUMBENT . -Tr. . . A1LO INfc.W CANDIDATE 1 ) W. F. Harris and Fred Proctor Listed Among Circulators; 208 Names Are Necessary, aaie against u. w. ivruse, republican and Roscoe Gard, democrat. There are 229 signatures on the pe tition. A total of 20S are required. Some of the petitions were circu lated by W. F. Harris, who was de feated for the republican nomination to succeed himself. Petitions were also circulated by Fred L. Proctor, son of W. A. Proctor, j the other county commissioner whose term holds ever. Other circulators whose names appear on the petitions ! are: Wm. B. Donely, G. E. Hobbs, ' F. H. Kiag, Mariou Smith. Gush Lesch, Hermann Brunner, T. C. Thomas, Billy M'Cad and Hagemann himself. Work of checking the sig- i natures was started last night by dep uties in the clerk's office. Five o'clock Thursday afternoon un der the iaw was the last date at .which independent candidates could file for county positions. Hagemann's peti tions were, presented before four o'clock. . - - t . The independent candiJacy of Hage mann. is regarded" 'as another move in the fight to gain control of the county court. Cppojiiioj to the county judge has lead to the iuauguraUon of a recall, petitions for which are at present in circulation. Hagemann candidacy is expected by some to split the vote for Kruse, who l:nes with the j faction of the county jude 8nd placo Gard, the democratic candidate position. in the Confessions In Rector Murder - Are Retracted! SOMERVIL.L.E, .N. J., Oct. 12. Ray r ond Schneider today retracted his confession accusing Clifford Hayes of the murder of Dr. Ha!l and Mrs. Mills. NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J., Oct. 12 Discovery of a knife with which Mrs. Eleanor Mills' throat may have been cut, and a severe grilling of Nick Bah mer, proprietor of "Nick's Place" a dive marked today's investigation of the Hall-Mills murder mystery. Coupled with these developments came a strengthening of the popular movement to free Clifford Hayes, the suspect now under arrest. Even authorities responsible for his deten tion now doubt he had any part in the tragedy at Phillips' farm. Charlotte Mills, bereaved of her mother by the tragedy, declared her complete faith in Hayes in an interview with the United Press, in which she cried passionately for arrest of the real slayer. A little child furnished investigators with their first tangible clue. John Lyons, 8, ran to his mother one after noon following the discovery of the crime, carrying a blood-stained potato knUe he had picked up 125 feet from the scene of the killing of the Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, choir singer. "Look, ma, I've got the knife that killed the lady," he cried. Mrs. Lyons, according to the story she told the police, did not wish to be drawn Into the affair and at first planned to throw the knife away. Later she decided to keep it and last night it was placed in the hands of the prosecutor. . It may serve to iden tify the slayer. Grilling of Bahmer resulted from statements made by his daughter, Pearl Bahmer, who is locked up in the same jail with him. on a charge of incorrigibility. She asserted her father had often threatened to cut her throat, and that "nobody knows what might have hap pened" haa he come upon any couple on the Phillips farm the night of the murder when he was drunk and search ing for Raymond Schneider, whom he accused of "going with his daughter. Eliott Is Convicted JDpon Theft Charges Elmer E. Eliott charged with the larceny of a quantity, of cord wood from E. A. Hackett, was convicted by a jury in Judge J. U. Campbell's court Wednesday. He will be sentenced lat CAR SKIDS AND LANDS IN RIVERUPSIDE DOWN Driver, Blinded by Fog Runs Off Road Into Clackamas; Five Occupants Uninjured. Two automobiles turned turtle, the occupants of each miraculously es caping serious injury was the toll of the week-end on the Clackamas coun ty highways. Bewildered by the -heavy fog Satur day night, a car driven by James Mooney of canby plunged into the Clackamas. The accident occurred on the sharp curve just south of the Ryan farm on the river road. The five oc cupants of the machine were thrown out of the car which lit bottom side up in. four feet of water after jump ing the 30 foot bank. The occupants, Bill Wangbren. Earl Stevenson, John Knox, and Robert McClure, all 0f Wopdburn and the driver walked to Oregon City. Officer Hemmingway took them to the city jail where they dried their clothes and remained over night. How they extricated themselves from the wreck the boys do not know. A Ford coupe was somewhat damag ed Sunday morning when it skidded on the wet pavement near the Wenger hophouses on the Parkplace road and left the road, landing in the ditch about five feet below. -The car was driven . by Charles Wakefield of Woodburn and had just met and passed another car. The Wakefield rar -vas wing north and it skidded across the road and left the pavement at the left side. The car lit bottom side up in the ditch, after hurtling over a six foot bank on the top was caved in and the windshield and glass in one of the doors was broken. The radiator was also slightly damaged. The car was briught to a local garage for. repairs. No one was hurt. WORK OF CONGRESS IS i PRAISED BY PRESIDENT --V ... ... ' . : WASHINGTON', Oct. 1C President Harding has come-forward on an ap peal for popular approval of the work of the 67th congress. In a letter to House Leader Mon re'l. mad mihlio Sunday nieht. Hard- j ing aeclared: x doubt if any con. gress in our history has accomplished so impressive a volume of work, touching sowide a range of national interest. Without attempting to sug gest an enumeration of the accomplish ments of which the country is in rebted on the 67th congress, and its immediate predecessor, it is befitting to appraise the general results which has been so helpful to American wel fare that they will not fail to appeal to the approval" of the American peo ple." The president further commenced the work of congress In comparing the reconstruction perio J following the Civil war and that following the World , War, with the respect to the work of; the respective congresses. "So, whether the comparison is made with our own experience in after-war reconstruction a generation ago," Harding wrote, "or with the experience of other nations in the years since the world was. it is clear that we have been most fortunate. BRITAIN WILL PROHIBIT U.S. WASHINGTON. D. C, Oct. 16. British rejection of the American pro posal for a treaty to extend the right of search of vessels up to 12 miles off shore was contained in a note handed to Secretary Hughes today by Ambas sador Geddes. The communication was in reply to Mr. Hughes' note of June 26, setting out difficulties en countered by American prohibition en forcement officers in checking the il licit flow of intoxicants into the United States. Secretary Hughes made public his correspondence with the ambassador without comment. There was nothing to indicate that any further step to extend the right of search for Ameri can prohibition officers beyond the three-mile limit was in prospect. Action of the cabinet recently in ap proving the abandonment of such search presumably because of pos sible international difficulties, coupl ed with the British reply of today, ap peared to indicate that operations would continue to be confined within recognized territorial waters. The American note dealt particu larly with smuggling operations from British possessions in waters ad-iar-ent tn the American coast and sug gested "methods by which the exist ing extremely unfortunate conditions might be remedied." Marriage Licenses Given Two Couples Marriage licenses were issued Sat urday to two couples. They were Gil bert Mlller. 44 and Ema Carlene, 33, both of Oregon City and Adolph Alt, 28 Portland and Berdeen Rankin, 21, Oregon City. LIQUOR DEBATE IS HELD ON COMPULSORY EDUCATION BILL J. E. Hedges and C. Schuebel Argue Leading Measure At Pre-Election Session Of Live Wires; 150 Attend. NEW TAX MEASURES UP FOR DISCUSSION W W Woodbeck, G B Dimkk Livy Stipp and O. D. Eby Explain Proposed Imposts. The Schuebel-Hedges debate on the compulsory school bill, will be repeated Saturday, at 8 p. m. at the library for the bene fit of those who were uneble to attend the meeting last evening. The session is open to the pub lic That the compulsory school hill will be the cementing influence to make of the divers peoples in. America one homogeneous, Americanized body o.r that it will be the entering wedg of an era of religious prejudice with auch terrible potentialities that the end cannot be forecast : these were the jwo divergent views taken upon I tne Prosed measure in its discussion before the Live Wire pre-election po litical meeting last evenm5. Chris Schuebel spoke for the adop tion of the measure. He was opposed by J. E. Hedges. The debate followed a banquet attended; toy members of the club. The session in the club parlors at which the leading measures to be voted on in November were dis cussed, as attended by more than 150 people. History Is Traced. Urging " the adoption of the bill. Schuebel characterized as regretable the -iactr-that a sectarian issue had been injected into it. He viewed it as. primarily a regulation touching ed ucation only and as a move to put in the background all religious preju dices. . Tracing the history of educa tion from the Athenian period, he stated that the heritage of dual con trol of state and education through linking with the church of all demon inations, had not -fostered the best education, citing the extent of illiter acy in European and Asiatic coun tries where this condition obtained. Persecution on religious matters continued in America until the revolu tion, he pointed out, but tne tendency of the present measure would be to educate in one school, teaching Ameri canism, all the children of whatever creed, building a unified country and breaking down the caste and religious prejudice which he claimed sprung from the maintenance of private ana parochial schools. If the system of education is not good enough to care for all of the children, it should be improved so that it attained this stan dard, the speaker claimed. Present Law C'ted. Attacking the measure. Hedges cit ed the law at present on the statutes as sufficient to provide for compul sory education, pointing out that it allowed private and parochial schools to function, and branded as insincere the statements of the sponsors to the bill that it was primarily of education al value. He held that the issue was based upon religion, and the result of a religious prejudice which would bar certain convictions from being taught to the children of those peo ple, who held these particular beliefs. From this he declared, would spring a race and religious prejudice, which would threaten the democracy of the nation aud lay it open to hopeless pat ernalism. The private schools, not necessarily ofa parochial nature were character ized as an efficient addition to the public school system in their provis ion for good instruction supervised by the same boards which handled public lie schools in provision for research (Continued on page four.) AT DOCKS IN PORTLAND PORTLAND, Oct. 13. The second strike of longshoremen this year, branded as an I. W. W. walkout, was launched tonight along the waterfront but tvas only partially successful. Men engaged on some vessels' re fused to pay heed to the Insistence of delegates to leave their employ-, ment. Employers said they were con vinced sufficient men would refuse to participate in the strike to insure cargo being handled with experienced workers. "No demands have been made as to wages or working conditions ami no notice was given of the strike," said H. S. Eaton, manager of the Water front Employers' union, which con ducts a neutral hall for the employ ment pf longshoremen. LONGSHOREMEN STRIKE