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VOL,. LIX XO. 18,722
Entered at Portland Oregon)
Postofflee as Second-Clas Matter
PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1920
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SG82.BQB IS SLICED
OFF STATE BUDGET
$3,232,773 Total Is Ap
proved by Board.
WOMAN, HOME AFIRE,
'S MURDER
ANSWERED
DUBLIN CALM; MORE
TRAGEDY EXPECTED
THANKSGIVING TURKEY
SALE LEAST IN YEARS
MOVE FOR DUTY ON
PLAN INAUGURATED
TO FINANCE WHEAT
SAVES HER CHILDREN
TOOGSTERS DROPPED OUT OF
CITY'S QUIET HAS UNHEALTHY
AXB OMINOUS LOOK.
BIRDS FEW, PRICE HIGH -AND
QUALITY. BELOW AVERAGE.
MILLERS AND ELEVATOR MEN
AID SOUTHWEST GROWERS.
W1XDOW, XOXE HURT.
ASQUITH
WAR
SALOONS
CHARGE
WHEAT PROMISED
IN CHICAGO BEGUN
V
10 INSTITUTIONS INCLUDED
$985,635 Is Granted Hos
pital for Biennium.
PRISON GETS $328,000
School for Blind to Receive $43,
600, Dear $81,850 and Feeble,
minded $337,450.
SALEM. Or., Nov. 24. (Special.)
The state board of control announced
today tbat it had lopped off approxi
mately 1683,808.50 from the budgets of
estimated expenditures of 10 state in
stitutions for the next biennium. The
institutions had asked for appropria
tions aggregating J3, 23773. 50, ac
cording to the budgets submitted to
the board of control while $2,549,965
was actually approved. These budgets
now will go before the ways and
means committee of the legislature at
its meeting in January for final con
sideration and approval.
The amounts asked by the several
Institutions, together with the total
lumi allowed and the reductions fol
low;
Hospital Gets 9085,635.
State hospital $1,104,216 asked.
$385,635 allowed, reduction $118,581.
Oregon state penitentiary $363,080
asked. $328,900 allowed, reduction
$34,180.
Feeble minded home $546,750 asked.
(337,450 allowed, reduction $209,300.
Boys training school $160,000
asked, $137,200 allowed, reduction
$22,SOO.
Tuberculosis hospital $161,900
asked. $141,950 allowed, reduction
$19,950.
State school for blind $54,500
asked. $45,500 allowed, reduction
9000.
984JSSO Ciin Deaf SrhooU
State school for deaf $121,668.50
sked,"$84,850 allowed, reduction $36,
S18.50. State school for rirls $129,739
asked, $84,850 allowed, reduction
$76,099.
Eastern Oregon hospital $478,540
asked. $329,460 allowed, reduction
$149,080.
Soldiers home $112,380 asked,
$105,380 allowed, reduction $7000.
The budget of the Oregon, state
hospital, which asked for $1,104,216,
was pruned to $985,635. This includes
salaries amounting to $260,120, equip
ment and materials $525,480, library
ana amusements $2500, transporta
tion of insane within the state $20.-
v, transportation of non-resident
insane $20,000. cold-storage plant
$6835. fed barn $12,000 and repairs
and replacements $38,700. Items
eliminated fro mtho hospital budget
included an industrial building esti
matca to cost $40,760, machinery
building $10,206 and fruit-storage
building $8100. A number of other
items, including salaries and main
tenance, also fell under the chopping
Improvement Are Eliminated.
For the operation of the Oregon
. j, me oai.a approved
mmo ab-sregaung $328,900. Thl. !
stitution had asked for allowances
""un5 10 -i3.080. Which include
a new barn at a cot of $7000. root
cellar. $2000. and horse barn. $5000.
mrco proposed improvements
were eliminated in their entirety
-oere eliminated in thoir entirety.
-mm me maintenance was trimmed
irom tJiu.usu to $296,400
Of the total "amount of money ap
proved for the penitentiary. $103,680
will be required in in meeting the
salaries of officials and employes.
The state home for the feeble
minded had requested appropriations
aggregating $546,750, but this was
pruned to $337,450, or a total of $209.
300. New improvements approved for
this institution include an additional
water supply estimated to cost $15,
00 and completion and furnishing of
. the dormitory at an expense of $7000.
From this budget was eliminated a
proposed heating plant costing $65.
t00, school building. $50,000; hospital
Vuilding, $20,000. and girls' dormitory,
$35,000. Substantial reductions also
v ere made in the items Involving
repairs and replacements.
Bora School tirts 137.200.
The budget of the state training
school for boys was approved to the
extent of $137,200. while the amount
Ksked aggregated $160,000.
The proposed improvements for
this institution include the erection
of a greenhouse at ati expense of
21500 and a dairy and cold storage
Vlant estimated to cost $3000. Re
quests for appropriations for repairs
end replacements were cut nearly in
half.
For the operation of the state tu
berculosis hospital the board approved
items aggregating $141,950. Approxi
mately $161,900 had been requested
by this institution, the reduction, of
$19,900 being possible through the
pruning of the maintenance items
from $97,200 to $78,000 and the repairs
and replacements from $11,700 to
J10.150. The only improvement con-
(Concludes ou X'usu 5, Column 1.)
Boy of Five Heralded as Hero Be
cause In Excitement He Re
' mcmbercd the Baby.
SEATTLE. Wash., Nov. 24. (Spe
cial.) Awakened by the cries of her
8-year-old son to find the room and
the bed in which two of her children
were sleeping in flames, Mrs. Anna
B. Johnson, 328 Vine street, gathered
up her youngsters and dropped them
out of the window at 3 o'clock this
morning. The children ranged in age
from 8 years to 3 months. The baby
was sleeping with its mother.
On retiring last night Mrs. John
son , had washed out come clothing
and hung it on a line over the stove
in the room where the elder children
slept. In the night the clothing
caught fire, burned the line and the
flaming clothes dropped onto the bed
and floor, setting fire to the bedding.
The 'eldest boy was awakened by
the flames and smoke and screamed
for his mother. The apartment, in
a frame building, Is on the first floor.
and, although the ground is some dis
tance below the window, none "of the
children were Injured.
With the children safe, Mrs. John
son attempted to eave her household
goods. A neighbor turned in an alarm
and the fire was extinguished.
But the mother was not the only
heroic figure. Her 5-year-old son,
Elmer, this morning was heralded by
neighbors as a "little hero," because
he was the only person having the
presence of mind last n'ght to look
out for Jack, his 3-mor.ths-old broth
er, when everybody else had forgotten
about the baby.
SCHEME HELD HAZARDOUS
Captain Dollar Turns Down Van-
derlip Siberian Concession.
SAX FRANCISCO. Xov. 24. The
eastern Siberian concession, obtained
by Washington D. Vanderlip for a
group of Los Angeles capitalists, was
turned down several months ago by
Captain Robert Dollar, head of the
Dollar Steamship company, because
among other reasons, it inevitably
would lead to war with Japan, ac
cording to a etory published in the
San Francisco Call today.
Captain Dollar's reasons, according
to the Call, were that the concession
could not be validated; that any at
tempt to validate it would lead to
war with Japan, and that the repre
sentative of the soviet government
who offered it made the condition
that the widest possible publicity be
given to the enterprise, a publicity
which, in its final effect, would help
to swing American sentiment around
to the soviet cause.
JUDGE TO FACE COURT
Lawyers Recommend Disbarment
of Police Jurist.
BAN FRANCISCO, Xov. 24. A rec
ommendation that disbarment action
be brought in the state supreme court
against Police Judge John J. Sullivan,
following his indictment on bribery
charges, was submitted to President
Jeremiah F. Sullivan of the San Fran
cisco bar association by the discipline
and grievance committee of the asso
ciation here today. The indictment
against Judge Sullivan was dismissed
recently on the ground that there was
not evidence sufficient to convict.
The findings of the committee were
based upon three cases which C. Vin
cent Rlccardi, a San Francisco attor
ney testified before the association
were unduly influenced by Judge Sul
livan's official action.
AERIAL FLIGHT PLANNED
Trip From San Diego lo Panama
and Return Scheduled.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 24. The aerial
force of the Pacific fleet will leave
San Diego, Cal.. three days after
Christmas for a flight to the Panama
canal and return, covering approxi
mately 6500 miles, the navy depart
ment announced tonight.
The air squadron will spend New
Year's day at Banderas bay, 1230
miles from San Diego.
From that point no rest will be
taken until the planes reach Balboa,
where tbey arc due January 12.
MARY'S DIVORCE PROBLEM
State Objects to Trial Judge Hear
ing Coming Suit.
CARSON CITY, Xcv.. Xov. 24. A
formal motion that a jurist other than
Judge Lanagan be called to try the
state's action to dissolve the divorce
of Gladys M. Moore, known otherwise
as Mary Pickford. motion picture ac
tress, from Owen E. Moore, was filed
by Leonard B. Fowler, state attorney-
general, in the court at Minden. Nev
today. The divorce was granted at
Minden last March.
The motion filed today is based on
an affidavit by the attorney-genera
tbat Judge Lanagan. who tried the
divorce action, "probably would be
called as a witness for one side or the
other" in the hearing of the state'
action.
NEW PARTY MEET CALLED
Farmer-Labor Committee to Con
f-lder Plans for Future.
CHICAGO, Nov. 24. The national
committee 6f the farmer-labor party
will meet in Chicago December 10
and 11 to consider plans for the future.
Frank Esper, national secretary,
mi.de this announcement today.
British Policy Denounced
by ex-Premier.
IRISH SECRETARY RESPONDS
Murder Gang Held Abetted
by Liberal Federation.
CROWN FORCES DEFENDED
Sinn Fein Gone and Republican
Army Being Broken Up, Says
Sir Haniar Greenwood.
LOXDOX, Xov. 24. The eagerly
awaited debate in the- house of com
mons on the Irish question was in
augurated this afternoon when form
er Premier Asquith, leader of the op
position, moved his resolution ex
pressing abhorrence of the recent
Dublin assassinations, condemnation
of reprisals, and urging immediate
steps to bring about Irish pacifica
tion.
The motion was a composite resolu
tion, combining the independent lib
eral and labor motions sponsored by
Mr. Asquith, Donald MacLean and Ar
thur Henderson.
The former premier declared there
was only one way to escape and that
the first step lay with the govern
ment. This, he said, was to discon
tinue the reprisals. He believed, he
said, that an overwhelming majority j
of the Irish people and of the crown
forces had no sympathy with re
prisals. Murder Plainly Chanced.
It was difficult, said Mr. Asquith.
to speak with restraint of Sunday's
assassinations in Dublin.
"They were cruel, cold-blooded
murderens," he continued, "and could
only have been the work of men who
have lost all sense of humanity and
honor. The very gravity of such
rimes as these I am afraid it's a'
istake to say they are decreasing
makes it all the more necessary that
he executive shall be able to en
counter them with a clear front and
lean hands."
Sir Hamar Greenwood, the chief
secretary for Ireland, was loudly
cheered on rising to answer Mr.
Aequith.
The vast majority of the people of
Ireland are not in favor of murder."
he said. "They want peace and they
are getting peace because the forces
of the crown are braking the terror."
Liberal Kleraent Rapped.
Sir Hamar declared the vast ma
jority of the Irish people were on
he best o terms with the soldiers
and police.
The murder gang in Ireland, he
continued, "issues a document known
as the 'Irish republican bulletin, and
that murder gang sends the- bulletin
to persons in .England and to news
papers in' England. Some of them
publish it. What amazes me is that
the London liberal .federation has
actually used the bulletin and based
it on a charge of reprisals, so called
and circulated it without any com
ment except this: 'Display this prom
inently wherever you can.
The right honorable gentleman
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Curfew Has Come to Be Signal tor
Crown Forces to Begin Un
ceremonious Raiding.
DUBLIN, Xov. 24. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Dublin, long accus
tomed to tragedy, has settled back
with two days of outward calm, which
has. however, an indefinable and un
healthy quality, cloaking much behind
the scenes, and there is activity in
both camps. !
While the daylight hours pass al
most without incident, the curfew
has come to be the signal for the
crown forces to commence uncere
monious raiding of all sorts of prem
ises, the seizure of any wanted doc
uments and arrest of suspected per
sons. These arrests are becoming
almost Indiscriminate, but in many
cases the detention ends after an
examination at headquarters which
shows absence of connection with
the republican movement.
As no class of residences, even the
first-class hotels, is exempt from
these searches, there has been a
marked diminution of cross-channel
traffic and an almost total cessation
of tourist arrivals.
Reports from various parts of the
country today recount widespread
seizure of bicycles, which the author
ities at Dublin castle interpreted as
a move to counter the motor licens
ing restrictions.
Military and police forces raided
Liberty hall, headquarters of the
Irish transport workers, today. The
raid, which started at noon, was still
continuing tonight.
-Among those arrested were Thomas
Johnson, secretary of the Irish labor
party, and Thomas Farren. former
president of the trades union.
Troop:, raided the offices of the
Freemair's Journal early today and
searched vainly for men wanted in
connection with recent disorders. It
was declared at the newspaper office
that none of these men wore ever
employed there.
CORK, Xov. 24. The kidnaping of
three army officers at Waterfall
County Cork, last week, has been fol
lowed by the posting of the follow
ing notice in Cork today: "If Cap
tain Green, Captain Chambers and
Lieutenant Watts- are not released,
unharmed, within 48 hours, leading
members of the Irish republican party
will be suitably dealt with. Ignore
this at your peril."
GARRICK-OX-SHANXON, Ireland,
Nov. 24. The removal of a well
known local priest to an . unknown
destination by military officers cre
ated great excitement today.
BELFAST, Xov. 24. David Kelley,
manager of the Sinn Fein bank in
Dublin, was arrested at his sister's
residence today. He is a brother of
Alderman Kelley, lord mayor-elect of
Dublin
CITY-COUNTY MERGER AIM
Seattle Corporation Counsel Fin
ishes Work on Bill.
SEATTLE, Wash., Xov. -4. (Spe
cial.) Work on a bill for amendment
of the state constitution to permit
the merger of King county and the
city of Seattle was completed- today
by Corporations Counsel Meier and
Vivian M. Carkeek. An, active cam
paign to enlist public opinion on be
half of the measure will be inaugu
rated at once. Attorney Carkeek an
nounced.
The bill will be submitted to the
legislature in January. Lt calls for
a vote at the general election in No
veraber, 1922, on the proposed amend
ment. It provides for the merger
any city and county whose combined
population would) be at leaBt so. mm.
WHO HAPPENS TO BE A WAY
Many Pass Up Festive Fowl, Tak
ing Cheaper Poultry Home for
Holiday Banquet Board.
Portland had to get along with
fewer Thanksgiving turkeys than for
several years past. Whether this was
because the farmers did not market
the usual proportion of their flocks
or because the crop is lighter than
usual is not clear, but at any rate it
was responsible for the price holding
up at a high level while other food
commodities were dropping. Country
shippers exacted a 6tiff price to be
gin with, and this made a high whole
sale market and a firm retail price.
Sixty cents was the ruling retail
quotation on the best turkeys. The
demand was not keen, -however, and
late in the day some of the markets
cut the price to 55 cents. Inferior
birds, of course, sold for less, and as
there were a good many in this class
it brought down the average price
materially. The entire supply was
not disposed of, but the dealers ex
pect to work off the hold-overs in
their Saturday trade, which is gen
erally good during the winter months.
The Front-street commission men
succeeded in marketing all their re
ceipts except the few belated arrivals
yesterday, and there were no buyers
for these, as the retail merchants
were busy with their own affairs.
The quality of turkeys this year
did not come up to the usual etana
ard, either because the weather was
against them -or farmers failed to
give sufficient feed..
Other kinds of poultry were plenti
ful, and many passed up turkeys to
invest in other and cheaper lines.
Fat dressed hens sold at 40 to 45
nts an reese at 60 cents. Ducks
brought 50 to 60 cents a pound.
COAL MINE BEING OPENED
Raymond Compuny Starts Work on
Xewaukum River Deposit.
CHEHALIS. Wash., Xov. 24. (Spe
cial.) The Balcuna Coal & Coke com-
r,nr fa rl t ill ixed at Raymond at
S150.000. has a force of men opening
up a coal mine on the north fork of
the Xewaukum river. 12 miles east of
Chehalis. At this point there is one
15-foot vein near the surface and the
coal, which is a semi-bituminous
quality, is said to be very good of its
kind. There is practically an unlim
ited quantity of the coal.
It is planned to rush development of
the property.
Near Firdale, on th Willapa Harbor
branch of the Milwaukee, the same
company has a mine which is in suc
cessful operation and from which coal
of an exceptionally fine quality is be
inz taken. It is rumored that an
offer of 1,000,000 by New York par
ties is pending further development
of the Firdale property.
SWITCHING RISE STOPPED
Interstate Commerce Commission
Suspends Rate Increase.
THE OREGOXIAN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington, Nov. 24. (Special.) Th
interstate commerce commission to
day issued an order suspending "until
March 25 the new tariffs or the Great
Northern railway in regard to increas
ing the switching cnarges on carload
freight" between South Tacoma. Wash
and stations on the Great Xorthern
lines in Washington. Idaho, Montana
and states east to Minnesota.
The new charge was a- rise from
$6.50 to $8 a car, and applied only to
noncompetitive interstate traffic orig
inating at or destined to stations o
the Great Xorthern lines in those
states.
FROM HOME CAN MAKE IT A
Campaign for Farmer
in
Congress Assured.
OUTCOME FAR FROM CERTAIN
Republican Majority in Sen
ate Now Slender.
VETO ALSO IS POSSIBLE
In Event of Failure at December
Session Fight Will Be Renewed
by Sew Administration.
THE OREGONIAX XEWS BUREAU,
Washington, Nov. 24. Immediate ef
forts will be made by congress at the
opening session December 6 to secure
passage of a law placing a duty on
wheat and flour imported into this
country. The measure will be intro
duced by Representative " Young of
North Dakota, chairman of the sub
committee on agriculture of the house
ways and means committee.
It is considered likely that the bill
will pass the house, but it may have
difficulty in getting through the sen
ate because of the slender republican
majority there. Even in that event,
there is the possibility of a veto at the
White House. If the proposition fails
at this session it will be taken up
gain as soon as congress meets after
the inauguration of President-elect
Harding.
Representative Young is specially
interested in this measure because of
the manner in which it will affect the
northwest. It was Mr. Young, who, a
year ago, introduced a bill in the
house to repeal Canadian reciprocity.
This bill now is pending in the senate.
Caandlnn Wheat Dumped.
At the time that Representative
Young introduced his bill repealing
Canadian reciprocity he also presented
a bill to restore the duties which had
been in effect prior to the passage of
the Underwood tariff law on wheat
and flour. It is under the provisions
of the Underwood .tariff law that Ca
nadian wheat now is being dumped
on the American market duty free.
In view of the fact that Mr. Young
is chairman of the subcommittee on
agriculture, there is little question
that his bill will be the one to be con
sidered.
An immediate investigation by con
gress to determine the cause of the
extreme decline and violent fluctua
tions in the price of grain, livestock
and cotton in the past six months will
be asked by Representative L. J. Dick
inson of Iowa, when congress recon
venes. Price Probe Promised.
Mr. Dickinson already' has prepared
a resolution calling for such an in
vestigation. It declares that the levels
to which the prices of agricultural
commodities have descended, in many
instances below the pre-war mark, are
threatening the food supply of the na
tion and driving out producers, mak
ing relief imperative.
The declines and fluctuations, the
resolution further declares, have been
too extreme to have been caused by
the natural law of supply and demand,
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HAPPY OCCASION,
Dollar Per Bushel Advanced to
Farmers and Carried on Contract
for Later Delivery.
WICHITA. Kan.. Xov. 24. A im
way to -relieve the wheat farmer of
his difficulties, as the result of low
prices and a strained money situation.
has been devised by mill and elevator
operators here and in other grain cen
ters of the southwest.
A plan of advancing to grain grow
ers $1 a bushel on wheat carried on
contract, so that they may deliver
now and sell at some future date, has
been adopted by a large line of ele
vators and mills. The inauguration
of this plan primarily is to relieve the
money situation, it was said.
Millers declare the plan will move
considerable wheat and stop talk of
forcing the farmers to sell their
grain.
The inauguration of the plan, mill
operators said, already has been re
ceiving much favorable comment by
I farmers as well as bankers.
The plan as outlined by mill and
elevator men follows:
"The contract with the farmers is
very simple. He now has the op
portunity 'to dispose, of his wheat at
once and receive In turn tl down.
Then as he watches the market quo
tations, he finally decides the quota
tions have reached the top and he can
draw the remainder of his money
from the miller or elevator at the
basic market price. The result of the
plan easily can be seen. It will re
lieve the farmer of holding his loan.
The wheat will not be subject to
weevil and the market will become
more stable."
PRIMARY VOTE IS LIGHT
T. J. Long and Edward Deggellcr
.Nominated for Mayor.
CHEHALIS. Wash.. Xov. 24. (Spe
cial.) The Chehalis city primary
election yesterday attracted a vote
slightly in excess of 1000 out of a
total registration of 1900.
T. J. Long and Edward Deggeller
were nominated for mayor, Mr. Long
having a big lead over Mr. Deggeller
and Dan W. Bush, who were the
other candidates. John Denhof led
for commissioner with 604 votes. J.
L. Magoon was second with 538. Roy
Bechaud third with 492 and Thomas
Verner fourth with 284. The election
will be held Deccraoer 6, and probably
will be warmly contested.
ALL OBJECTORS LOOSE
Hunger Striker Among Prisoners
Freed by Mr. Baker.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 24. All army
conscientious objectors imprisoned
during the war have been released.
Secretary of War Baker announced
today. A total of 33, the statement
said, have been discharged by recent
orders, including B. J. Salmons, who
started a "hunger strike," while con
fined in a government hospital here
a month ago.
WAR BLIND STORE CLERKS
Boston Merchants Plan to Furnish
- Departments for Sightless.
BOSTON. Nov. 24. Shoppers in
many stores in this city soon will be
waited upon by sightless men and
women i the plans made known to
day by the state commission for the
blind mature.
Certain merchants have offered to
furnish departments in their etores,
to be conducted wholly by those who
as a result of the war or other causes
have lost their sight.
Marriage Licenses Issued.
SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 24. (Spe
cial.) Marriage licenses were issued
today to Thomas Bruhn, legal, Seat
tle, and Gertrude Potter, legal. North
Bend, Or.; Charles H. Haggland, 26,
Portland, and Carol Payzant, 23, Se
attle. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
YESTERDAY'S Highest Temperature, 49
degrees ; lowest, 38 degrees.
TODAY'S Rain, southerly winds.
Koreifcria
Dublin outwardly calm, but much pro
ceeding behind scenes. Page 1.
Asqulth's charge of murder in Ireland an
sewered by Irish chief secretary. Page 1.
Turkey and Russia unite to liberate India,
Kgypt, Algeria and Morocco. Page 2.
National.
Move to plac duty on wheat promised at
coming session of congress. Pase 1,
Iomcftic,
War Is started on liquor dispensaries In
Chicago. Page 1.
Mill and elevator operator of south went
advance money to wheat growers, on
contracts. Page 1.
Two more extortion indictments returned
against alleged head of building trust.
- Page 3.
Pacific Northwest.
Woman, home aflame, drops children out
of window and saves all. Page 1.
682,808 trimmed from budget of ten state
institutions. Page 1.
Five injured when two trains crash near
Che maw a. Page 8.
to ports.
Multnomah eleven on toes for battling Ag
gies. Page 10.
Betting odds are two one against Pullman
in clash with Nebraska. Page 10.
Whitman to play Willamette today at Sa
lem. Page 10.
Oregon freshmen eleven in spotlight for
1021 varsity. Page 1J.
Commercial and Marine.
United American lines Is considering re
frigeration of some of its fleet. Page 10.
Coaxt hop markets have another bad turn.
Page 17.
Wheat breaks at Chicago under severe
selling pressure. Page 17.
Reaction in stocks affects nearly all
classes. Page 17.
Portland and Vicinity.
Thanksgiving turkey sold least in years,
Pago X.
Portland to celebrate Thanksgiving day
with feasts. Page 18.
Doughty may be charged with murder.
X afiO 8.
Suits to Close 72 Liquor
Dispensaries Started.
8 SHUT BY INJUNCTIONS
31
Persons Are Indicted on
Conspiracy Charges.
CROOK ROUNDUP AIDED
City Officials Welcome Federal and
State Campaign $60,000
Liquor Theft Frustrated.
CHICAGO, Xov. 21. "Chicago will
be the most unhealthy place for
crooks and the dryeet city in the
United States by Christmas," federal,
state and city officials declared to
night after they had taken part to
day in a drive against liquor dealers,
which included suits to close 73
saloons and cabarets, injunctions
shutting down eight such places and
federal Indictment of 31 persons on
charges of conspiracy to violate the
Volstead act.
Attorney-General Brundage, who
instituted the 72 suits, tonight said
that several hundred more were con
templated and that the state would
continue the drive "until there was
not a drop of intoxicating liquor in
any of Chicago's 3000 'dry saloons.' "
Federal Officials Join Drive.
The federal officials Joined in the
drive hsortly after the attorney-general
had filed his suits when Charles
Cllne. United Stated district attorney,
procured temporary injunctions from
Federal Judge Land is closing eight
cafes.
Shortly afterward the federal grand
jury which has been- investigating
alleged illegal liquor traffic for sev
eral weeks, returned indictments
against 31 persons.
City - officials welcomed the state
and federal drive as an adjunct to
the round up of criminals started on
Sunday and said it weuld make ' it
easier for them, to keep crooks out
of the city..
Liquor Theft Frnntrated.
At the same time they frustrated
an attempt to steal $60,000 worth of
liquor being transported through the
city on trucks and arrested two per
sons in connetcion with a theft of
$50,000 worth of wine. -
Shortly after the liquor drive' be
came known, the city council adopted
a resolution authorizing the mayor,
to call at a meeting of all state's at
torneys and mayors of Illinois to plan,
a statewide campaign against law
breaking and Chief of Police Fitz
morris dismissed William Tobin, pa
trolman, for alleged "whisky run
ning." More Dismissals Promised.
Further dismissals will follow, the
chief said. The theft of $155,000 worth
of whisky from local railroa'd yards
started the investigation which found
its climax in today's drives. It was
charged that this liquor brought hero
illicitly from Louisville, was guarded
by policemen and then stolen from
them by another band which also in-
eluded members of the police force.
The injunctions issued and the
suits filed today cover many of Chi
cago's most notorious cafes, while
the indictments include men well
known here and in other cities and
several members of the police force..
CUTHBERT BOOSTS COAST
Capital Hears More About Pacific .
Xortliwest Attractions.
THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU.
Washington, Nov. 24. Herbert Cuth
bert of Seattle, representing the Pa
cific Northwest Tourist association,
embracing Oregon, Washington and
British Columbia, arrived here today
after attending the national hotel
keepers' exposition at the Grand Cen
tral Palace, New York, where he put
ir. a week advertising the tourist at
traction of the northwest.
isitors to the exposition were par
ticularly attracted by a big royal
Chinook salmon which was a part of
the Cuthbert exhibit. This salmon,
fresh every day from Reedsport, Or.,
curious visitors were told, was truly
representative of the fishing resources
of most of the waters of Oregon,
W ashington and British Columbia.
Mr. Cuthbert called today on the
national park service, the interstate
commerce commission, the shipping
board, the federal highway council
and the American Automobile associa
tion to interest them in the tourist ad-
vantages of the northwest and to ask
their aid in routing sight-seeing travel
in that direction next year.
RICKENBACKER ON FLIGHT
Fog Spoils Attempt to Break Oak
land1-Los Angeles Record.
LOS ANGELES, CaL, Nov. 24. Cap
tain Eddie Rickenbacker arrived at
the Los Angeles speedway at 2:08
o'clock this afternoon, having taken
exactly four hours for a flight from
Oakland.
He started with the intention of
trying to break the airplane record
between San Francisco and Los An
geles but became lost in a fog over
Coalinsa, he said.