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THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, "WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, . 1920 . . .
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DRGArJIZED
LABOR'S
CAMPAIGN
STARTED
"Tremendous Enthusiasm"
Noted by Union Leaders.
GREAT OPPORTUNITY SEEN
Workers Urged to Elect Brothers
Who Are Candidates and Defeat
Known Foes Elsewhere.
WASHINGTON'. March 23. (By the
Associated Press.) Organised labor's
non-partisan political campaign has
gotten under way "with tremendous
enthusiasm" as a result of .meetings
held last night throughout the coun
try by trades ui isms, according to a
statement from American Federation
f Labor headquarters.
Directions were sent today by Pres
iclent Samuel Gompers, Secretary
Fran Morrison and James O'Connell,
comprising the campaign executive
committee, to all locals for the ce
menting of the campaign organiza
tions into an efficiently functioning
machine. These instructions were
made public as follows:
"The meetings of March tl have
been held as suggested and our
American Federation of Labor non
partisan political campaign has been
started forward with tremendous en
thusiasm. Our Drothers all over the
land have entered Into this movement
in a magnificent spirit of co-operation.
We believe every man and
woman of the labor movement will
he ready to volunteer when called
upon. With this object, we are send
ing a letter to each local union in
your city requesting co-operation in
this work with your central body by
the selection of a committee of three.
"Our central bodies and our local
non-partisan political committees
have a great opportunity in the pri
maries. Here a smashing effort can
be made to nominate members of
trade unions for elective office.
"Where these brothers are candi
dates in the primaries our central
bodies and non-partisan political com
mittees should endeavor to give every
assistance possible to aid them to
victory, regardless of party. In com
fnunities where this plan cannot be
made successful, our brothers should
exhaust all their resources to defeat
every enemy of labor.
"This is a duty we owe ourselves;
an obligation upon us to perpetuate
our liberty as working men and wom
en and as citizens of our country. By
operation of sympathetic farmers and I
farm organizations and appeal to all I
other liberty-loving citizens for sup
port.
"We urge each worker to use the
ballot to advance the principles for
which labor stands. Then there will
he no question In the future as to the
power of all the people to achieve
their just demands."
TEACHER FISTIC EXPERT
.Seattle Kdurator Victor in Battle
With Two Youths.
SEATTLE. Wash.. March 23. (Spe
cial.) When two big boys, not pupils
of the school, said to be about 17
years old. attacked Principal E. H.
.Stafford of the Pacific school. Thir
teenth avenue and Jefferson street at
t o'clock Monday they found they had
tackled an educator with brawn as
well as brain. With swift, well-delivered
punches, the principal admin
istered a knockout to one and waded
into the second so hard that he fled.
The trouble arose, according to, Mr.
Stafford's report to the police, when
the two young men. neighborhood
residents, invaded the Bchool play
ground and adopted rough tactics
with some of the smaller boys.
ALLIANCE BOLT FORESEEN
Railroad Brotherhoods Are in Sym
pathy With Farmers.
SPOKANE. Wash., March 23. Pos
sible withdrawal of the railroad
brotherhood organizations from the
state triple alliance of labor and
farmers' organizations was forecast
Monday by local officials of the rail
road unions.
Dan Teters. president of the affili
ated railroad crafts of this city and
a member of the executive commit
tee of the triple alliance, and F. W.
Fuller, president of the Spokane
county triple alliance and vice-president
of the railroad crafts, declared
the sympathy of the railroad men is
"with the farmers" in the reported
disagreement between representatives
of organized labor and the Non-partisan
league in the alliance.
SALESMEN TO USE PLANES
Innovation Planned in Opening of
Real Estate Tract.
SPOKANE. Wash., March 13. (Spe
cial.) The opening to home builders
next Saturday of an addition to the
irrigated area of the Spokane vallev.
consisting of 153 one-acre tracts, will
be the occasion for the first intro
duction in the Inland Empire of the
airplane as a vehicle for showing
real estate to purchasers.
According to the plans announced
by J. J. Schiffner of the realty
firm of Schiffner & Parsons, who
have charge of the sale of the new
addition, two planes will be used to
show to prospective purchasers the
entire Spokane valley, giving them
an idea of the extent of its orchards
and garden lands.
KIDNAPER IS SENTENCED
Woman Who Stole Daughter's
. Baby Gets 10 to 20 Years.
SPOKANE, Wash., March 23. Mrs.
Emily Hoyle, convicted in superior
-ourt here January 22 of kidnaping
the child of her unmarried daughter,
was sentenced Monday to a term of 10
to 20 years in the state penitentiary.
The baby never was located by the
authorities since Mrs. Hoyle was al
leged to have taken it to the juvenile
detention building, with a request
that it be kept there, which was re
fused. She maintained that she gave
it to a friend passing through the
city.
SKELETON IS UNEARTHED
.Mystery Surrounds Discovery Made
Near Hood River.
Hood River, Or.; March 23. (Spe- J
cial.) Mystery surrounds the discov. j
ery yesterday of portions of a skele
ton. The discovery was made just
west of Ruthton grade on the Colum
bia river highway. The bones, half
buried, were found at a point about
SO feet from the intersection of the
main highway and a new road just
opened to abutting ranches. The
charred skull and other large bones
at first gave rise to the suspicion
that a body might have been burned.
Sheriff Johnson, however, who was
called, found that the portions of the
skeleton imbedded in the soil were
not burned, and it is thought that the
bones were charred by a brusit fire
subsequent to the deposit of any body
at the point. Although a search was
made for clues to identity of the skei
eton, only a few buttons were found.
ROBBER'S WIFE ACCUSED
ARREST FOLLOWS CHARGE OF
BEING ACCOMPLICE.
Bail of Convicted Man Raised on
Eve of Being Sentenced; Money
Not Forthcoming.
MKDFORD, Or., March 23. (Spe
cial.) Sensational developments in
the Lark Evans robbery case today
were the arrest of his pretty young
wife on the charge of being his ac
complice in the robbery of "ft . G.
White of Grants Pass, and the raising
of Evans' bail from 11000 to $5000
He was convicted last Saturday and
is to be sentenced in circuit court at
Jacksonville tomorrow morning by
Judge F. M. Calkins.
Evans' father, a Portland automo
bile man. was unable to or did not
furnish this increased bond and the
son is a prisoner in the county jaiL
The wife, whose former home is The
Dalles. Or., and is well-known in
other Oregon cities, wired and tele
phoned around the state following her
arrest this morning in an ineffectual
effort to raise her $2000 bond, fixed
in Justice Taylor's court when she
was arraigned this noon. She finally
was released at 6 o'clock this eve-nine-
when District-Attorney Roberts
consented to a reduced bond of $1000,
which was furnished by her nusDanu s
father. Her preliminary hearing
takes place Friday.
She was much perturbed when ar
rested. "I'll raise that bail or DreaK
mv neck, in trying to," she said. "I
am innocent of the charge and can
prove I was elsewhere wnen mis
crime was committed.' ana mat it
must have been some other woman,"
she added significantly.
The arrest of Mrs. Evans created
no surprise here, as this move had
long been expected. The county au
thorities have held to tne Dener irom
the time of Evans' first arrest at
Klamath Falls that she was his
woman companion on the eve of Sep
tember 13 when he hired White's jit
ney for a short trip and when be
yond the outskirts of Grants Pass
compelled him to drive them to a
lonely spot near Jacksonville where
thev robbed him of J27. bound and
gagged him and leaving him in an
old prospect hole, drove away in his
r.
While White and other witnesses
positively identified Evans as the rob
ber, they were not so positive as to
identifying his wife.
The couple have been married only
a few months, it is claimed, the mar
riage having taken place since Evans
release from his first arrest. It Is
claimed that when Evans was in the
Klamath Falls jail he wrote her a
note telling of his love, the tight fix
he was in, warning her not to talk
and declaring he would marry her as
soon as he was freed.
Presbytery Committee Meets.
ALBANY. Or., March 23. (Special.)
The home mission committee of the
Willamette Presbytery met in.Albany
yesterday to prepare its report for
the next session of the Presbytery.
Members present were A. M: Williams,
president of Albany college; Rev. J. E.
Snyder of C'orvallis. Rev. Thomas F.
Anderson. Rev. Boudinot Seeley of
Portland. Rev. William M. Case of Eu
gene, Dr. Wallace Home Lee of Al
bany. H. Y. Kirk patrick of Lebanon
and William Fortmiller of Albany.
Masons Appropriate $1000.
SALEM. Or.. March 23. (Special.)
Salem lodge of Masons last night
appropriated $1000 with which to aid
In the erection of the proposed hos
pital. There is yet about $25,000 to
be raised before actual work will
commence.
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Street Railway System Is
Unprofitable.
REPORT FIGURES AGREE
Depreciation Main Item in State
ment Compiled and Issued by
Mayor Caldwell.
SEATTLE, Wash.,, March 23. (Spe
cial.) Confirming findings of state
accountants reported Saturday, Mayor
Hugh M. Caldwell made public today
a financial statement covering opera
tion of the municipal street railway
system for the year ending December
41, 1919, which showed a net operat
ing loss of $517,173.79, including an
allowance of $499,1.73.39, for deprecia
tion.
The statement given out by Mayor
Caldwell was submitted by Harry W.
Carroll, city controller, in compliance
witn a request the mayor made
early last week. Accountants in the
controller's office checked up their
figures with those of the state ac
countants, with which they agreed
exactly. The report reached Mayor
Caldwell Monday evening but was not
made public until the mayor had con
terred at length with Mr. Carroll,
. u. Whaley, one of the state exam
iners, and D. W. Henderson, general
superintendent of 'railways.
Formal Statement la Made.
With the financial report Mayor
Caldwell issued a formal statement
in which he explained that the item
of $499,178.39 for depreciation was
taken from the figures of the state
accountants working under the
bureau of inspection and supervision
of public offices. On the lines ac
quired in the traction deal he said
the ledger value of $15,000,000 was
taken, a deduction of $647,719 being
made for land and other undeprecia
ble property. The $499,173.39 depre
ciation therefore is figured on a
valuation of $14,352,281, making the
depreciation charge approximately 4
per cent, he stated.
"The Puget Sound Traction, Light
& Power . ompany figured its depre
ciation while operating the lines at
20 per cent of the passenger revenue
less the amount expended for main
tenance." the mayor said. "This was
purely an arbitraray method of figur
ing depreciation and carried with the
revenues and maintenance each year.
"If the city paid $5,000,000 more
than the lines were worth, as many
people believe to be the case, the de
preciation of course is being figured
upon an inflated valuation. As I un
derstand it, an engineer was employed
to spread the $15,000,000 over the as
sets that were being turned over to
the city and to estimate the pro
portionate value of each class of prop
erty or equipment making up the
total. At an actual value of $10,000,
OflO the depreciation would be ap
proximately $200,000 less per year."
Watered Stock Costly.
' San Francisco, the mayor declares,
makes an allowance averaging 5 per
cent for depreciation of its munici
pal street railway property, the valu
ation being $6,500,000. The Seattle
municipal light plant charged $244,148
to depreciation in 1919 on a valuation
of $7,600,000, the mayor said, making
the rate about the same as that de
termined by the state accountants
for the municipal railway.
"From the examinations I have been
able to make it seems to me they must
take one of two courses." the mayor
declared in closing. "It must continue
to proceed on the $15,000,000 valua
tion and figure actual depreciation on
what is equivalent to watered stock
or else it must make a new valuation
and charge off in a lump sum the ex
cess price paid for the lines, and
thereafter figure the actual deprecia
tion on the actual value of the lines."
In a statement accompanying his
report Mr. Carroll called attention to
the fact that it does not include
"items of expenses properly charge
able to railway operation borne by
the general fund and charged by au-
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thority of the legislative body of the
city to the expense of the respective
department rendering the services."
R0TARIANSHEAR HORNER
"Roving Marines" With Band Are
Club Guests at Luncheon.
J. H. Horner, professor of history
at the Oregon Agricultural college
and author of "The Oregon Country,"
was the principal speaker at the
weekly luncheon of the Rotary club
at the Benson hotel at noon yester
day. The lecture was illustrated with
a large number- of lantern slides,
showing the scenery, portraits of men
who have had a prominent part In
state development, and charts com
paring the areas of counties with
various countries and some oi tn
states, and with each other. The ad
dress was concluded with a recital
of Samuel Simpson's poem, "The
Beautiful Willamette."
The "roving Marines," with thei
band, were guests of the .club for
luncheon and gave a programme or
instrumental numbers. Publicity talk
by members of the club and maKin
of reservations for the Victoria con
ference. April 4, 5 and 6 were fea
tures of the day. There will be no
meeting of the club April because
most of the members will be absent
from the city..
Accidental Shot Kills Man.
WALLA WALLA, Wash., March 23,
(Special.) Freeman M. Smith, age
35, foreman on the Fred Lassiter farm
on Eureka Flat, died here today of
gunshot wound accidentally inflicted
Friday. He had shot a badger and
replaced his revolver in the tool box
on the drill on which he was riding,
When he took the revolver out later
it was discharged, the bullet passm
through his abdomen. A widow an
daughter survive him.
Suit to Collect Filed.
" OREGON CITT. Or., March 23.
(Special.) Juan Garcia filed suit
Tuesday against J. W. Kocker to col
lect $65 alleged to be due for wor
plaintiff did for the defendant Garci
claims that he cut wood for Kocker
at $1.25 per cord and the total amoun
cut came to $65, and that he had made
demands for a settlement but this has
been refused and neglected.
Aero Cltil) to Meet.
A meeting of the Aero Club of
Oregon will he held tomorrow night
at 8 o'clock in the green room of th
Chamber of Commerce-
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COSCPAXY WILL WAIT VNTIL
TACOMA GETS LARGER.
Representative on Board Admits
Street Car Fares to Pay Divi
dends Impossible at Present.
TACOMA, "Wash., March 23. (Spe
cial.) The Tacoma Railway & Power
company will ask for a franchise
from the city which will guarantee
a dividend. This was stated today
at the first meeting of the board
studying the local streetcar problem.
The board consists of Scott Z. Hen
derson, City Attorney U. E. Harmon
and Federal Judge Frank H. Rudkin
of Spokane.
"All other questions hinge on valua
tion." said Mr. Henderson, the repre
sentative of the company. "It we are
to take a valuation of 17.000.000 fixed
by the public service commission, and
fix 6 per cent as the rate of return,
that would mean $420,000 a year in
earnings. Under present conditions
such a reti?rn would require a fare
of probably 12 to 15 cents, which Is
more than can be collected, o the
company will have to wait until the
city grows, but the basis ahould be
fixed in the franchise."
Mr. Harmon said he had not de
cided whether or not the city would
ask for a revaluation under present
inflated prices.
CANAL TRAFFIC GROWING
Lake Washington-Puiret Sound
Water Report Issued.
SEATTLE Wash.. March 23. Traf
fic through the canal between 'Lake
Washington and Puget sound here in
creased 33 per cent In 1919, according
to reports made public here Monday.
Fishing vessels, sailing ships, scows,
tugs, passenger ships and freighters
were sent through the locks last year.
The total tonnage waa 1,020,710,
against 765,429 in 1918.
Fire Razes Beach Logr Home.
ABERDEEN, Wash.. March 23.
(Special.) The unique beach home
of Mrs. Paul Smits, built entirely of
logs,' was destroyed by fire early to
day. The home was built by the late
Dr. Paul Smits. The origin of the
fire was unknown.
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Every boy hears this
THE folks wont need to be
always saying that now We're
making clothes for you as well as
for father; same kind of clothes ; all
wool fabrics for longer wear; lively
style; good tailoring
The boys will like the.style; the clothes look better
Parents will like the saving; the clothes last; you
buy fewer of them Satisfaction or money back
Hart Schaffner & Marx
CHURCH TO USE FILMS
The- Dalles Methodist Congrega
tion Plans Movies.
THE DALLES, Or., March 23.
(Special.) The Dalles Methodist
church will use a motion picture ma
chine to supplement the regular Sun
day night services.
The young women's Bible class Is
behind the project. Educational and
relisious films will be shown in con
nection with the regular religious
services. This is the first church in
eastern Oregon to purchase a motion
picture machine.
POLAND'S PLIGHT TOLD
High Costs and Scarcity of Food
Explained to Drive Leaders.
Some Idea of the necessity of giv
ing relief to the children and women
of Poland was given to the commit
tee handling the Polish relief cam
paign in Portland by Morris Schnal,
a merchant of Tillamook, who is ar
ranging to bring a number of bis
relatives to Oregon from Poland.
According to Mr. Schnal. shoes In
Poland cost flflft pair. 20(1 pounds
of rjr cost 11000 and even at that
price is difficult to obtain, a burhal
of potatoes costs 1&4, and one quart
of milk sells for 33.
The response received thus far has
been liberal, but because of the lark
of workers It is probable that It will
take about ten day before the rm
palgn can be successfully concluded.
Trout Ready to lie Planted.
KELSO, Wash., March C3. Spe.
cial.) State Game Warden Darwin
has notified the Comllti county game
commission that CO0.0O0 silver trout
fry for planting In the lakes and
streams of Cowllts county are ready
for delivery to the county at the
Kalama river hatchery. County (i.im
Warden Oyster has been Instructed
by the county commission to complete
arrangements for placing these fry
in streams of the county, where thev
will have the most favorable condi
tions for development.
Alleged Red" Paper Introduced.
SEATTLE. Wash.. March 23. Copies
of the Industrial Worker, said to tin
an organ of the Industrial Workers
of the world, were introduced In evi
dence by the state In the trial in
superior court here yesterday of Ken
neth McLennan, charged with viola
tion of the state criminal syndicalism
act.
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