Page Eight OREGON CITY, ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22. 1922. CITY HALL SITE ON 'II BY MUNICIPALITY Formal Transfer of Cauf ield Property Completed; Lot Isj Bought in Accordance With . t l n Action I aken at tleCUOn. FIGHT UPON LEGALITY OF BALLOT EXPECTED Disregard of State Law On Filing Period May Change Tenor of Entire Mandate. Oregon Glty today owns the Percy Caufield property at Seventh and John Adams streets on which the new city hall is to be located. The loca tion, under the referendum "ordinance passed by the people at the Novem ber election, was bought by the city for $5000. The property is 52 1-2 by 132 feet. The deed to the property was filed by City Attorney O. D. Eby Tuesday. A cash payment witn funds drawn on the special property fund, was made. The question of locating the city hall has been the subject of an in HILL NOW OWNED tense local fight, including various. PARIS) Dec. 14. Although former elections, court proceedings and secret ( Premier Georges Clemenceau is far agreements. The entire matter was ( away from France, returning home thrown on the ballot November 1 in .; npon the liner ParlS( made his po an issue to decide whether or not ; lltical infiuence felt by wireless today, the hall should go on the hill or be- prancois Crucy, correspondent , of low the bluff. The hill location won. j tne petjt ,Parisien, who is accompany Rumors have been current that the . mg the ''Tiger," sent . an interview actual purchase of the property would from the liner which created a tre- be met by injunction suit, but if any action is to be taken it will be com plicated by the fact that the city now owns the ground. A controversy over the legality of the election has grown up: The city did not file its notices with the county clerk in time to get on the regular county ballot, and as the result printed its own ballots and held the election under the city char ter, excluding the state law. Whether it is legal or not attorneys differ upon and a decision by the courts is the only war of determining. Proponents of the hill location threatened to con test the election in the event that the down town location won and similar action by the advocates of the clown town site is considered prob-able- J Taste s a aUty V tobacco1 J Wf U ll-A li? COLLEGIANS TO DEBATE UPON CiTiES IN OREGON OREGON AGRICULTURAL. COL LEGE, Corvallis, Dec. 14. John Bea tie of Oregon City, sophomore in commerce, has been selected by the Oregon City Commercial club to rep resent the city in the college cham ber of commerce, and to carry the college news to the home city. Let- tfra vara PTlt. tf 71 fitlPH ZLYL(l DrSC- j tically all of them have responded, naming one of their strongest students j Jn the gCnooI of commerce at the Ore gon Agricultural college as oinciai representative. These students will be obliged to show in debate on the floor of the college organization just what re sources and industjr)ie,s ithejir cities possess, and, will be pitted against representatives of other cities to prove which city is the best. To get students of O. A. C. familiar with Oregon cities is the plan of the college commercial organization, and student ' boosters of their own home cities wUI be the result, believes Wayne K. Davis, senior in .charge of the debates. Leading parts in the commerce show scheduled for March 9 and 10 will be given these city representa tives, and special invitations to their home associates will be sent by the school of commerce. ' ' ClemenceaugSends Message to France From Ship by Radio mendous sensation in the chamber of deputies today and threatens to de stroy pa'rty alignments. The former premier made the fol lowing points in his statement: First Opposed occupation of the Ruhr by France. Second Urged ratification of the Washington .conference treaty by; France. ! " Third Approval of proposal that President Harding' should arbitrate Anglo-French differe-ac-es. Fourth "Warned France to make costly sacrifices to retain American friendship. -. Political capital will be made of the interview when Premier Poincare ad dresses the chamber of deputies to morrow. & Myzxs Tobacco Ca V r V' FEW CHANGES IN BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR ARE MADE Lots of Smoke but Little Fire, Develops at Session In Council Chambers; No Cut in Road Fund Is Made. HAWLEY AUTO PARK APPROPRIATION HIT Additional ' Hose, Insurance For Fire Department Is Given " Unanimous Vote. There was more smoke than fire at the budget meeting in the council chambers last night. The police de partment, road department and prac tically every appropriation not definite ly fixed by statute ran the gauntlet, shook itself, and with two exceptions came through whole. -The first exception in thje financial program for the coming year came in. the matter of fire protection. Senti ment on all side3 developed for the purchase of more equipment, but end ed in the increase of the appropriation, for hose, providing for 500- instead of 250 feet. More would have teen voted except that there were no funds.1 Provision for insurance ' on the ap paratus was also made. The two in creases were made by cutting down the amount to be paid on the principal of the fire department bonds, from $1500 to 11000. Under the additional one mill tax voted November T an additional man is to be provided for the department and state accident In surance for the men. These things however, were arranged in the tenta tive draft of the budget submitted to the Meeting last evening. Park Fund Is Cut The other exception was the Hawley auto park. The city virtually washed its hands of further financial support of the park which it was pointed out should be self supporting. The appro- priation of $150 was cut to $75, the amount necessary to meet overdrafts on the park account. The extra $75 to put the park in shape next year was cut out. A few sparks flew in the first con sideration of the park question. Wm. Howell, member of the water board and the park committee, wanted to knew where the $600 voted by the city for the park last year had been spent, why the park was on paying basis, and how the money had been used if so much of the work and material for the improvement of the park had been donated. Councilman Metzner, also a member of the park committee, charged that alj the money had been accounted for as records of the city would show and that Howell, being a member of the board, was as much to blame for the conditions as anyone. Road Situation Is Hit Charges that political debts were paid in the maintenance of the street department during the past three months of 1922 resulting- in a defic iency in the fund of $1,900 was made by H. S. Mount, chairman of the street committee. The charge immediately drew from Tom -Smith the counter charge that personal grudge was the motive behind tne attempt made by Mount to lay off the street depart ment. As the councilman explained thei situation, $1900 over the budget had been paid out to complete Molalla avenue. He declared that the coun cil had refused to lay off the street department in order to meet this de ficiency out of the road fund. He maintained that the only legal way of meeting the overdraft was out of 1922 funds and opposed the inclusion in the 1923 program ox a similar amount to- meet the past year's overdraft. He advocated the merging of the entire road fund into one pot without de partmental provision for the street department. The motion was killed and provision for the street superin tendent and his assistants together w-ith the definite appropriation of $5000 instead of a blanket allowace for permanent roads was made. Auto Is Allowed The budget for the police depart ment' went through unscathed. Coun cilman Cross, as chairman of the health and police committee dbjected to the appropriation for the purchase of an auto and asked for the provision for a motorcycle and side car instead. He presented a series on the relative costs of operation. - Councilman Mount moved to entire ly strike out the motion but the propo sition was lost. Neod for the motoriza tion of the police . department was emphasized. Wm. Andresen, chair man of the budget committee advo cated, the auto as a general utility vehicle for the police department and put it to a vote, the automobile plan was retained. The appropriation of $500 for a rest room will definitely go to aid the W. number of others pointed to the neaes: C. T. IT. it was decided. Andresen, Linn Jones, Mayor Shannon and a sity for the provision of a rest room for the women and lauded the union for its work. The rest room' location is forced to be changed and the meet ing decided that the fund was not to be used toward the improvement of the bridge pier rest rooms but, was to remain intact for the use of the C. T. TJ. in finding and equipping new quar ters. Miller Estate Is Admitted to Probate Letters of administration in the estate of, G. R- H. Miller who died the S ,,, J J'u.y &,qi9, were granted in TROT HIGHWAY ON ' COAST NOW ADVOCATED California and Washington Organizations Back Move To Get Road's Completion. SALEM, Ore., Dec. 14. Officials and private citizens of Oregon are urged in a letter received by Gover nor Ritner from H. I.. Walther, vice president of the Medford Chamber of Commerce, to use their influence to bring about completion of the Pacific highway (through Washington and California to connect with the high way through Oregon. Walther writes in behalf of O. G. Steele, of Yreka, Cal., president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Siskiyou, Cal. ' Steele's letter- to Walther com plains that the California highway commission has , neglected the north ern part of that state. The " letter points out that the inland route In California, which would connect with the Oregon highway, is a trunk route and should ' have ' attention prior to less important highways. Promises, it appears, have been made the North ern California counties, but the high way commission has failed to adver tise for bids as they were expected to do several months ago. "We have followed this matter up diligently," "writes Steele, "and have finally succeeded in getting them to advertise for paving from Yreka to Grenada and the grading and widening of the road from Klamath river to the Oregon line. This latter unit, however, should have been in cluded for paving, but for some reason or other, they. have not seen fit to include the paving of this unit. "We are after them again and we are now going after them for addi tional! money to not only complete these two units, but to pave the high way from the Oregon line to Redding, which will then connect Portland with San Francisco by a continuous pave ment. "To acomplish this, and assuming that the road is paved- from Yreka to Grenada, 109 miles will remain yet unpaved. Ten miles of this has not even been graded. "Through good authority, we know that the commission in a recent budget, set aside $1,000,000 for a high way in the Feather River canyon. This is -not as essential as the com pleting of the main trunk line from Oregon south.' Moreover, the $1,000, 000 set aside for this unit is only a drop in the bucket as there iss no question but that this Feather River highway system would require from $5,000,000 to $6;000,000 and we feel satisfied ithat Governor Richardson will not permit the expenditure of this money at this time, or at least until such a time as the trunk line has been completed. "It therefore appeared to us that both Oregon and Washington should get busy and use what Influence pos- sible to bring about the completion of the inland highway and thought it possible for you to bring .about a di rect appeal from the governor of Ore gon and the governor of Washington to the governor of California, and also from the highway commissions of Oregon and Washington to the high way commission of California. The papers in Oregon of course, should also lend their support." OF ASTORIA IS BEGUN WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. Secretary of War Weeks today wired war de partment officials at Portland to give him an immediate report of the- situa' tion at Astoria, Or., where many persona are homeless as a result of last Saturday's fire. If the report Weeks receives warrants, a joint reso lution providing for the purchase of supplies, medicines and food, etc., will be rushed through congress as an emergency measure. The resolution now drawn provides $1,000,000, but this amount will be changed to conform to the reports from army engineers at the scene of the disaster. Major R. Park, army engineer, is at j Astoria today making a survey of tne city's needs, in accordance with in structions received from Secretary Weeks. He is expected back either to night or Saturday to forward details of his investigations. No report of his findings has been received at the en gineers' headquarters in the custom house. Shantung City Now Sans Government TOKIO, Dec. 15. Tsingtao, Shan tung, which has just been turned back to China by Japan, in accord with the agreement reached at the Far East ern conference in Washington is sub stantially without government, accor ding to dispatches from the Japanese consul there. Two factions one representing C. T. Wang, the Shantung commissioner of the Pekin government, and the other apparently upholding the tuchun or governor of Shantung are reported to have appealed to the Japanese to hand over to them the money In the treasury and official document The dispatch, however, fails to y . to whom the Japanese surrendered these assets. Grand Jury to" Act Upon Larceny Case L. A. Smith, . charged , with the larceny of dump-carts and steel rails, was given a preliminary hearing In the justice court Monday and bound ovr to the 'grand jury. Smith was "' f s'Hjiti own recogni MUNICJPALTAXES FOR OREGON CITY RLACHNEW MARK Increase in School and Fire Department Imposts Will Raise Total Millage of 1923 To More Than Thirty-six. OFFICIAL FIGURE IS NOT YET AVAILABLE Statistics for Coming Year Are Still in Process of Compilation; Value Gains. Oregon City this year is facing the heaviest tax levy in the history of the municipality.' Increases voted for the fire department, for school adminis tration and the continuance of the levy for the partial payment of the new Pacific Highway bridge will in crease the impost to 36.4, not inclusive of any of the state and county levies. These, which are not yet computed for the coming year, will make the aggregate nearly 70 mills. The figure for the city itself is not exact because the 1923 valuations for the county have not been completed by Assessor Wm. Coon, ana the as- sessor's office is not yet m a position to make an accurate estimate, al though it is believed that a slight increase In the local valuation is probable which will result in cutting down the millage a trifle. School Levy Heaviest . The heaviest tax in Oregon City is for school purposes, amounting to approximately 13.4 mills, an increase of two mills having been vrtad over last year. For municipal administraton pur poses Oregon City pays seven mills. A- one mill tax for the library and three mills for the fire department, the latter figure representing a one mill increase voted November 7. To take care of the bonded indebt edness of the county, Oregon City pays a seven mill tax to meet interest and principal of $275,000 general fund ing bonds and a one and a half mill tax to meet $30,000 funding bonds ad ditional. A one mffii tax was voted with the passage of the $35,000 bond ing act to provide for the proposed city hall. Total Indebtedness $437,000 The total bonded indebtedness of the city is $437,000 according to City Recorder C. "VST- Kelly. This figure includes a total of $375,000 general funding bonds, of which $70,000 Is current without any tax provision for its retirement. The city hall bond , 3Sue has been voted but not sold and as the tax is gradually being paid into the treasury both interest and principal are accumulating to the city's credit. Included in the total is $12,000 elevator bonds, for which no tax retirement provision la made and $15,000 fire department bonds. Of this latter amount $12,000 is owned by the city cemetery irreducible fund. A tax provision for the retirement of this issue was included in the increase voted this year. Added to the various imposts which, go to-make up the 36.4 mill total is a levy of two and a half mills voted as a special road tax. This levy Is the second special road Impost In the history of the municipality and was voted for th year of 1922 lot the first time to take care of Oregon City's payment upon the Willamette river bridge which was financed, by the state, county, Oregon City and West Linn. The estimates of the millage are based upon the valuations for the past year. The levies are made by the city in dollars, computed approximate ly upon the basis of what a millage tax would bring. The exact percent age of the ratio is' decided by the assessor on the basis of the current i assessment sheet., Duelists Both Miss; . Honor Is Satisfied MONTEVEDIO, Uruguay, Dec. 14. The great Brum-Herrera duel was only a bloodless memory today. - Baltazar Brum, dashing president of Uruguay, who resigned his office to fight Luis Herrera, political opponent, was invited to retain his office, since the affair of honor passed off peace fully with two fruitless shols by each principal lending it the- proper air of mortality. " . Substitution at the eleventh hour of pistols for , two sabres saved the. duellists from injuries certain to have been sustained had they fought with j the latter weapons. ' Brum and Herrera were old enemies. The former won the presidency over Herrera at the last general elections. Herrera promptly issued a manifesto, thanking his supporters and mention-; ing the fact that JJrum was elected largely through fraud and police cor ruption. The president replied in kind. Herrera challenged him to a duel. Brum accepted. The "court of honor" ruled Brum could not meet Herrera because of the presidency. Brum' re signed the presidency. War in Near East Is Believed Averted LAUSANNE, Dec. 14. War and massacre in the Near East, feared in-' evitable If the Lausanne peace con ference broke up, was averted at the eleventh hour today. Ismet Pasha, Turkish spokesman accepted a British proposal for pro tection of Christian minorities in Con- recogniMTicestnntinople and other parts of Asia TRAIN WRECKED, STEAM COOKS FIVE TO DEATH HOUSTON, Tex, Dec. 14. Five deaths. a a hospital this morning brought the total to 14 dead to date as a result of the crash' of Houston East and -West Texas, passenger train ,No. 28 with a switch engine at Hum ble,' nearby oil town, late Wednesday ! night Conductor William Campsy, Hous ton; M. Young, Van Noy company agent; an unidentified white man and six negroes were cooked to death by live steam. Approximately 23 other negroes were badly scalded, five of them so seriously that they died, bringing, the death total up to 14 by 9:30 o'clock- this morning. The train ,was known as the "Na cogdoches Lufkin Rabbit,' running be tween Houston and Shreveport. Although they received a severe shaking up, none of the passengers in the Pullman cars were, injured. . All of the dead and injured were pas sengers in the first and second coaches of the train, into which the live steam from the switch engine's steam chest poured. Outstanding among many instances of bravery and presence of mind re corded during the work of rescuing the victims was one man who refused to give his name. This man catapulted himself into the coach while it was still a .seething cauldron, stumbling the entire length of the "car, breaking windows as he progressed and thus as a result or his bravery the steam. j poured out of the car and relieved the stifling victims. This action is be- j Heved to have saved many lives Panic followed the crash in the ne- gro coach. Wild, horrified yells and shrieks rang out as a mad scramble for windows and doors began. A few minutes after the crash, a re lief train carrying doctors and nurses was en route to the scene from Hous ton. Work of extricating the dead and injured was begun . by Humble physicians and citizens before the re lief train arrived, however. According to members of the crew of the switch engine, a watchman named Smith had been left in charge while they went to a nearby restau rant for their supper. The first they knew of the engine's "drifting" came with the impact of. the two locomo tives. . TWO AMERICANS KILLED IN ROBBERY IN MEXICO HOUSTON, Tex., Dec' 14. Details of a Mexican payroJU robbery 'DeV cember 2. in which two Americans and a Mexican were killed and an other American Injured, have been made - public by Clemmons West, brother of one of -the slain men, at his "home in Humble, near here West has just re'turned from Mex ico, where he was in the employ, of j the Cia- Mexicana de Petrolo El Aguila, a British subsidiary of the Royal Dutch Shell Oil company. rhe slain Americans were: J. G West, 22, of Humble, and Charles E. Snapp, 28, of Houston. The injured man was Charles Miller, who lived in Walter county. ; The robbery occurred between the little village of Puerto, in the state of Tobasco, and the camp of the oil company. ' West, his brother, Snapp and several other Americans were on vacation in Puerto when they were asked by officials of the company to accompany the monthly payroll back to camp. The journey was made over a nar row gauge railway operated between he two points. Passing the foot of a mountain within a few kilometers of the camp, the train was fired on from ambush. The Mexican engineer was killed instantly. Another volley and West and Snapp fell dead. Miller was shot through the hip and; when West left Puerto for the United States was believed to be on the road to re covery. . After " the first volley, the other Americans in the party dropped on their stomachs and feigned death. The j firing over, they ! ran for a nearby creek, but were captured by the ban dits. PROGRESSIVE BLOC TO FIGHT FARM PROGRAM WASHINGTON, Dec. l-i.--Adminis-tration leaders agreed yesterday to the program of the "prdrwsive bloc" for substitution - of farmer credits legislation for the trending ship subsidy. In return the bloc dis closed its purpose of attacking the administration farmer relief program. Assured of Democratic aid. Reaublien insurgents " prepared to oppose the Lenroot-Anderson bill as inadequate to meet the needs of agriculture. Improved marketing facilities in addition to easier credits was an nounced as the rallying point of the Dioc. Senator Norbeck urged enact- ment of some such measure as he has offered in thd senate giving agricul tural paper the same status aa other commercial notes and removing com plains of disabilities In the present co-operative marketing statutes. Martha E. Graves Dies at Canemah Mrs. Martha E. (Graves, wife of E. T. Graves, died last night at the home of her son L. W. Smith, of Canemah. She was 65 years of age, and a na tive of this state having lived in Ore gon City for the past 28 years. She Is survived by her husband and eight children. . The funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 o'clock from the Meth odist church with the interment in $200,000 TAKEN: ER0MU.S.I1TIN DARING GUNFIGHT Denver Reserve Is Raided by Bandits; Guard" Is Killed In Hail of Shot; One of Thieves Is Thought Slain. AUTOMOBILE IS USED BY YEGGS IN ESCAPE Federal and Police Officials Take Charge of Search for Loot; Car Seen by Sheriff. DENVER, Colo., Dec. 18. Leaping from an automobile whichhad drawn up alongside of a federal reserve de livery wagon at the main entrance of the Denver mint, and shooting toward four federal reserve guards, who were emerging from the building carrying $200,000 in $5 bills, two bandits this morning shot and fatally injured Charles Linton, one of the guards, seized, the entire consignment of money, . sprang into their motor car and escaped. The third member of the bandit group remained at the wheel of the automobile. One of the bandits is believed to have been shot while making an escape. Guard Hits Bandit As soon as the fifty bundles of paper money were placed in the bandit Car the men entered it and the car headed east at high speed. It was while one of the bandits, de scribed as wearing a light overcoat and hat, was entering the car that a shot from the gun of a guard on duty on the second floor of the mint, . took effect. The bandit was seen to throw his hand's into the air and was grabbed by Vhe other men in the car as it rushed down the street. In their flight the car forced an automobile driven by A. L. Bethke, assistant city attorney, into a fire plug ta escape a collision. The fire plug was broken off and flooded the street. Officials Begin Search Manager of Safety Downer and ' Chief of Police H. R. Williams ac companied the police riot car con taining - the first squad of police to answer the call to the mint and as sumed active control of the search for the bandits- " A prohibition agent returning from, a trip into the country reported short ly after noon that as he was driving into the city a large touring car, an swering the description of the bandit I car, passed him going east at a high I speed. Peter Kiedinger, one of the door guards at the mint said he saw the uanait Deiievea to nave Deen wouna ed crumple up on the running board of the automobile as it started away from the mint. The bandit had a colored handkerchief around his face. "We were affaid to shoot right -into the thick of it," said Kiedinger. "We couldn't tell which were the nunuita ana wnicn were me cuarn unscrcpa -cis Mrjg NOtecf As police cejan jjo questiJ witnesses to the , Tbbe-ty disf cies in the nimVaer of bandit j ally engaged,, 3n the holdup bel appear Several witnesses d they saw three and four men, Director C?i-ant of the mint d but two, iuen actually . partkl in the rubbery, while a third reil at the wheel in the automobile. The robbery, which' occupiedr fiva miuntes.from the time the dits appeared until they fled. said by police to involve the larj amount of money stolen here in any one hold-up in. the city's police his tory. During the five minutes ' that the robbery took place, the alarm gong in the mint was ringing con tinuously. Man Dies in Hospital Linnton died in a hospital just be fore noon. An impulse to fire a final volley at the guards of the mint and fed eral reserve guards may have cost the youthful bandit who directed the robbery his life, according to Peter Kiendinker, one of the mint guards who witnessed the daring holdup and shooting. "When the robbers turned into the civic center, less than a half block from the mint, the leader poised on the running board and emptied his revolver at the guards. . Wearing a light overcoaV, his figured-stood put clearly against the uakgrounc, of the drawn side curtains. V bullet from. my gun or one of th. other mint- guards aimed directly at tihe andlt strur.v Tiim Tho hnnrljt waAl -vji collapsed. An auto door opened and. he was pulled inside the car, which sped on," said Kiendinker. Vincent Astor Sends Stricken City $5,000 ASTORIA. " Dec. .14. One of the largest cash donations received or an nounced at local relief headquarters Wednesday was the one made by "Vin cent Astor of New York, head of the house of Astor, whose illustrious fore bear, John Jacob Astor, .founded this city in 1811. Astor telegraphed $5000 to be used in general relief work here.. His message follows: , "I am forwarding you by -Western Union telegraph $5000 to be- expended at your discretion for general relief. May I not express to you and through you to the. citizens of Astoria my sin cerest sympathy in this great catas trophe, with a conviction that the ini tiative resourcefulness and energy dis played by your city throughout the past shall overcome even the disaster and assure a future -of happiness and prosperity." IS I r f...- U , ., ),.