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THE MOUSING OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1921 DRASTIC ECONOMY SCHEME IS ADOPTED Tax and Expense Cut of lions Decreed. SWEEPING REFORM URGED Repeal of Excess Profits Tax and .Half', of Transportation Levy Among Proposals Agreed On. other student' applying for entrance to the college this year. Her par ents are George R. and Mrs. Stephen son, 820 First street. Bertha. Schu macher has the next highest aver age for her complete high school course Franklin. She is the daugh ter of Louis Schumacher, 1906 Bast Alder street. Five other Portland high school graduates have sent in credentials that show an average well above 90 for the entire course. They are Robert Slinger, Washington high, son of Charles A. Slinger, 724 East Tarn hill street; Marion Bonney, Lincoln, whose father is Alfred T. Bonney. 355 East Twelfth street North; Lucille Rush, Lincoln, daughter of A. L. Rush, 443 Eleventh street; Eleanor Austey, Lincoln, daughter of W. G. Austey. 527 East Thirty-seventh street North, and Gertrude Nutter, Franklin, daughter of Mrs. Benjamin "W. Wag ner, 880 East Franklin street. Others made marks Just above SO, and many students from other cities in Oregon received high grades for their high school work, as indicated by the credentials. WASHINGTON. D. C, Aug. 9. Re ductions of approx'mately $600,000,000 In taxs and 1520,000,000 in govern ment expenditures this fiscal year were agreed upon today at a confer ence between President Harding, Sec retary Mellon and republican leader-3 o' the house of representati vs, includ ing members of the ways and means committee. Specific tax reductions on which it vas announced agreement was bad included: Repeal of the excels profits tax, retroactive to last January 1, $450,- 000,000. Repeal of one-half of the transpor tation tax, effective next January 1, (130,000.000. Repeal of the higher income sur taxes, retroactive to last January 1, $1)0,000.000. Repeal of the so-called nuisance and clothing luxury taxes, $50,000,000. As an offset- against this cut of $720,000,000, it was agreed to increase the income tax on corporations by probably 2 per cent instead of 5 per cent, as heretofore proposed, ef fective as of last January 1 to next .January, an additional $125,000,000. New Bill to Be Drafted. Decision was had, it -was said, to .ban-don all new taxes suggested to the house committee last week by Secretary Mellon, including a license on automobiles, a bank check stamp tax and an increase of 1 cent in the first-class postage rate. Repub licans of the ways and means com mittee are to meet tomorrow to draft a new revenue bill on the basis of the revisions agreed upon, and lead ers said it was hoped to have it ready for a conference of house republicans next Monday. Hope for its passage l5y the house on August 20 was ex pressed. Under the agreement reached at the White House conference, govern ment expenditures this year would be reduced from the previous esti mate of $4,554,000,000 to $4,034,000,000 jand the income from internal taxes would be cut front $3,670,000,000 to $3,075,000,000. The total income from all sources was estimated at $4,035,- ' 000,000, including $370,000,000 from customs, $490,000,000 from miscella neous sources, including $140,000,000 more than was heretofore estimated on the sale of war salvage, and $100, 000,000 additional from back taxes. Kxprndlture Cnta Proponed. Cuts In expenditures proposed in cluded $350,000,000 for various gov ernment departments and agencies, and $170,000,000 on account of the public debt. Departmental cuts in cluded $50,000,000 in the war depart ment, $100,000,000 in the navy depart ment, $100,000,000 by the shipping board. $25,000,000 in the agricultural department, $25,000,000 miscellaneous ' and 150.000,000 in the estimated pay ments of $545,000,000 to the railroads. The $170,000,000 previously esti- mated as necessary to retire war savings securities and Pittman act certificates will be taken care of through refunding operations it was - stated, the treasury retiring these securities by borrowing in the open market. Besides the 60 per cent cut in trans portation taxes, effective next Jan uary 1, the conference was said of ficially to have agreed to have a pro- , vision in the bill for elimination of the balance of these taxes on Jan- . uary 1, 1923. One Surprise Develops. The agreement to make the repeal cf the excess profits tax and higher income surtaxes retroactive was something of a surprise, as there had been strong sentiment in the house committee to defer these repeals until next January 1. Under the agree ment the highest Income surtaxes for , this year will be 32 per cent and there will be a further cut to 25 per cent on next January 1. The question of advances in the levies on cigarettes and tobacco and its products was not finally settled ' at the White House conference, but house leaders said the committee was not likely to make any increases in these taxes. Reductions In the taxes fixed upon were the same as those urged by . Representative Mondell of Wyoming, the republican leader, and Chairman Fordney and some other members of the ways and. means committee. Cuts in expenditures were said, however to have represented a compromise as between house leaders and treasury officers. Chairman Fordney was un lerstood to have favored the charg ing of payments to the railroads. chipping board, and the $100,000,000 for retiring war savings certificates 1 to war expenditures and having them taken care of through refunding op rations. Refunding Made Easier. Under the plan agreed upon, the re funding operations would total only 1170,000,000 as against $745,000,000. It was pointed out, however, that '. the same result would be obtained by making sharp reductions in depart mental expenditures. Besides Repre tentative Mondell and Mr. Fordney, house members conferring 'with the president were: Speaker Gillett, Chairman Madden of the house appropriations committee and Representatives Green, Iowa Longworth, Ohio; Hawley, Oregon Treadway, Massachusetts; Copley Illinois: Mott. New York; Young, North Dakota; Frear. Wisconsin; Til son. Connecticut; Bacharach. New Jer- . sey; Hadley, Washington; Timberlake Colorado; Bowers, West Virginia Watswn, Pennsylvania; Houghton New York, and Chandler, Oklahoma Before going to the White House the committee members spent several hours discussing various revision pro ' posals, but it was understood that the only concrete action was defeat of proposition to exempt from taxation $300 on the income from stock held by individuals in building and loan as sociations. This exemption had been urged as a means of stimulating in ' vestments In such organizations with a view to increasing the building of homes. MRS. MAR5TEHS ELECTED docclas oocxrr womax ,W. C. T. U. EXECUTIVE. Other Officers Chosen at Itoseburg Convention Banquet Given v Visiting Delegates. ROSEBURG, Or., Aug. 9. (Special.) Mrs. A. C. Marsttfrs was elected pres ident of the Douglas County Women's Christian Temperance union at the annual convention of that organiza tion, held here today. Mrs. Marsters has been identified with prohibition work in Douglas county for the- last 25 years and) this is the 16th time she has been elected president of the Douglas county union. Other officers elected were: Mrs. J. J. Betts, Glengary, vice-president; Mrs. P. E. Nygren, Roseburg, corre sponding secretary; Mrs. I. M. Tutsill. Sutherlin, recording secretary, and Mrs., Florence Bodie, Roseburg, treas urer. Particular attention will be given by the Douglas county union during he coming year, it . was decided, to the enforcement of the law prohibit ing the sale of cigarettes to boys and to the suppression of bootlegging in this section. At today's session a number of in- eresting speakers gave addresses. A banquet was given the visiting dele gates at noon. The meeting tonight was in charge of the chamber of commerce. OG AIDS FIRE CONTROL MAIX CAMP OF OREGON TIM BER COMPANY B CRN ED. IS SEATTLE TEACHER IMCED BY 'REDS' Woman's Companion Fears Her Life Is in Peril. RUSSIAN THREAT IS .MADE Railroad and 280 Acres of Green Wood Also Destroyed Before Flames Are Checked. ASTORIA, Or., Aug. 9. (Special.) The heavy sea fog which rolled in from the ocean last night and the cloudy, misty weather this morning have aided materially In getting the forest fires in the eastern aection of Clatsop county under control. The Oregon Timber company at Clifton reported today that its crew had been f.ble to confine the flames which yes terday destroyed the corporations main camp, and that there was no immediate danger of another spread. The man reported missing yester day has reported unhurt. About 280 acres of green timber. several hundred acres of slashings, a considerable portion of the company's logging -railway and its main camp have been burned. The destruction cf the main camp will cause all of the company's operations to be sus pended. Plans for rebuilding and re sumption of logging are indefinite. The fire in the Ladee & Hammond Lumber company holdings along the Clatsop-Columbia county line also is reported to be better controlled. F. G. C0RB1NJS ARRESTED Man Accused of Breaking Up Home of Half Brother. There was a sordid but unusual tory connected with the arrest yes terday of F. G. Corbin, charged with a statutory offense, according to John Driscoll, deputy district attorney, who issued the complaint in the case. Corbin was reputed to have broken up two homes, the later one that of his own half brother, it was charged. He won his brother s wife, Mrs. H. H. Drath, on June 12, 1921, it was charged in the complaint. According to Dris coll. Mrs. Drath left her husband for Corbin, then left the state, later re turning to live with Corbin at the home of his mother, who is also the mother Ot Drath. Intrepid American Persists on Course "mien 3Iet at Border With Warning From Agents. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 9. (Spe cial.) Miss Adeila M. Parker, Seattle school teacher, is in dire peril in soviet Russia If she" has not already met death at the hands of bolsheviki officials, according to Christian Paschke, 4717 Fortieth avenue South west, who returned to Seattle from Siberia Monday night. paschke, who is the last person in this Country to have seen Miss Par ker, declared that the Seattle teacher had twice been deported by the soviet authorities, but that, undaunted, she had determined to try again, in the face o warnings that If she did so it would be at the penalty of im prisonment or. worse. .V- I am very much afraid that Miss Parker has been killed if she carried out her intention," Paschke said to day. "Over here you cannot conceive the conditions in Russia the killing of an American woman wouldn't mean anything to the bolsheviki." Paschke met Miss Parker in Ja pan, and as both of them wanted to visit the interior of Russia they de cided to make the trip together. In company with another American, a Mr. Bennett, and two .Russians whom Paschke knew only as "Billy" and "Shorty," they set out together from Japan last May. Party Leaven for Manchuria. The party encountered no difficulty In entering Vladivostok and went from there to Manchuria. After traveling several hundred miles through Manchuria, they re turned to the far eastern republic. Their path wa. smooth until they reached vthe border between, the far eastern republic and "red' Russia. "The first soviet officials that we encountered held us up. ' They told us thejf had. no authority to permit any Americans to enter and particu larly no American women. "Your gov ernment doesn't recognise us, so why should We recognize them?' they askeA us. They held .us a little while long enough for someone to steal all my clothes and tools and then de ported us. "We decided to try It again and this time we didn't get so far. Our second deportation was accompanied by less ceremony than the first one and we were given to understand that it wouldn't be healthy for us to try il a third time. "When we got back in the far east ern republic, we held a council of war. The others all decided to try it again but not for me. "At the Manchurian border an offi cial told me Miss Parker was in jail. I told some American officials in town about it, but they seamed apathetic; they said that jail was the safest place for her. . Warning la Given. While I was in Shanghai on my way home," Paschke repeated, "I wa approached by a man whom I took to be a secret agent for the bolsheviki. He came up to me on the street and asked me if my name was Paschke When I told him it was, he said You've only got a short life ahead of you; yoil've been knocking the itussian government. "He said it as if he meant it, and x li aam-it tnat it made an impression on me a migntiy unpleasant one. Paschke, who Is a native of Poland and a naturalized American citizen, is a steel worker and seaman by trade. Miss Parker la an instructor In civics and economics at Broadway high school and has been a student of economics for many years. She left Seattle April 18, having obtained a leave of absence until next February to permit her to visit Japan. At the time she left she said that she would return by way of Europe, going through Siberia and Russia if possi ble. She is a sister of Dr.. Maud Parker and Charles E. Parker of Seattle. in the Oregon national forest is rag ing on Bear creek, a tributary of the middle fork of Hood river, and a large body of heavy timber la threat ened. T. H. Sherrard. national forest supervisor, of Portland, arrived today to direct fighters. A section of brush land and timber has already been burned over. Forty men have attem-pted vainly to bring the fire under control. Twenty Jap anese were sent by automobile to the scene tonight, and Mr. Sherrard has called for all available help here. Many upper valley orchardists are with the fighting crews. The fire, it was thought, was start ed by campers. BRUSH FIRE IS EXTINGUISHED Blaze Xortlrwest ot Dallas Does Damage of About $1000. DALLAS. Or., Aug. 9. (Special.) The brush fire three miles northwest of this city was reported to have been extinguished today after it had don damage estimated at about $1000. The burned property included a" house owned by John -Hackett and some fences and wood. The fences were on the Boise place. Although the blaze threatened to get away from the firefighters and sweep the whole countryside, it was confined eventually to the brush area. Campus Has Grass Fire. ALBANY, Or., Aug. 9 (Special.) A grass fire on the campus of Al bany - college yesterday afternoon would have threatened buildings had it not been discovered and controlled promptly. Professor C. N. Patterson, who lives just across Eleventh street from the campus, saw the fire as it started and, with assistance, put it out. Dallas Fire Under Control. DALLAS, Or., Aug. 9. (Special.) The forest fire that threatened large areas of valuable timber pear Dallas yesterday and last night has been controlled without further .damage. The area burned over is a mile long and half a mile wide. . SPRUCE RDM FDR SALE RAILWAY TO GO TO HIGHEST BIDDER OVER $1,000,000. Line Under Fire in Investigation by Congress to Go on Block on November 1. The spruce production railroad No. 1, connecting Disque Junction, Wash., with Lake Pleasant, a distance of 36 miles, and a much disputed road dur ing the investigation conducted by congress relative to the affairs of the spruce division, will be sold November 1 to the highest bidder above a price of $1,000,000, according to an an nouncement by Colonel Charles Van Hay, in charge of the Portland office of the spruce production division. The road connects up with the Chi cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road at Disque Junction, and is said to have opened a territory that will be valu able to lumber interests. , . This piece of government railroad has no connection with the piece pur chased last week by the Multnomah Lumber & Box company, in Lincoln county, for $400,000. Terms will be given to" the pur chasers of the road, so that they will be permitted to make their payment over a period of ten years. HIGHWAY RECORD- BROKEN More Than $2,225,000 to Be Spent on Roads This Month. SALEM, Or., Aug. 9. (Special.) The month of August will probably break all records with relation to the amount of money expended in road improvements in Oregon during any similar period since the incep tion of th-e state highway depart ment, according to Herbert Nunn, state highway engineer. Mr. Nunn said today that contrac tors are busy in all sections of the state, and that the aggregate ex penditures for this month probably would exceed $2,225,000. In case of fair weather the work will" continue until late in October in order that all improvements now under way may be completed this year. ' . - ' 1 k ; Today, Thurs., Friday fcSli LXjTotr A THRILLING STORY OF PrSSkUUTS ifiil III DESPERATE DEEDS AFTER DARK, FrT Pi Jf PT R Vi feaS3 AND OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN'S Zni) t VV SSt&Z DARING ADVENTURE. I 1 "ABAUGMTEt , - "JyiK$ 0 Jvv The greatest of all crook story writ- i x " r-i V7i;?K er surpasses himself in this thrill- ' - C sV" . W '"'??v" ' ing drama of the underworld. The f? -i ' f '-sLX v 1 "j picture rips the curtain from the Jf'ii-mb"ij ,t --.'vw V- seamy side of metropolitan life 0t-x "'?:?sf 0T -' sordid, splendid, cruel, glorious! .-:' I - A ' i " " SCREEN MAGAZINE Including the Latest Fashion Hints I I I I , V . :, for Milady's Fall Outfit I .. . . "A ." --- It I : : -TN ""..". . ... :-i :--kf ' ' S - LEE i ' ; vv ' MORAN V - ' ' i "Robinson's i'S t - ; Trousseau" X ' . - -f V4 1 11 Women like a ' . . ViVt 1 - ' ,Vt m- with a I C 0A - i - like man t i ! ' , - , . ? with a punch. t '. UT V , , - ' -V - I ' ""." j Hre' 2 reel t v-w N tor alU ' ' . if ' rWr - - ' - - - -?"' ; s' - 0 - - ROTARY CLUB HAS PICNIC 350 Attend Annual Affair Held at Crystal Lake Park. Fat men, slow and short-winded: old men. rheumatic and lame; young men, single men and all other classi fications of men who .go to make up the membership of the Portland Ro tary club forgot business worries yes terday and joined in the programme of races that made the annual picnic of the organization a complete suc cess. The event was held at Crystal Lake park with more' than 350 people in attendance. A. J. Bale, president of the Rotary club, was chairman of Mie day. There were races ot all kinds in the after noon and following basket dinner all joined in dancing in the park pavilion. Auto Stage Driver Hurt. MEDFORD, Or., Aug. 9. (Special.) When the iron retaining ring on one of the rear wheels of a Crater lake stage flew off at a local service station today Willard C. Bush, the driver, who was adjusting the tire at the time, suffered a badly lacer ated face, the loss of two teeth and other injuries which will keep him in the hospital for a week. Charles F. Furnas, who was helping him, suf fered a badly bruised hand. MOTOR ACCIDENTS FEW Motor Vehicle Inspector Finds Few Traffic Violations. SALEM, Or., Aug. 9. (Special.) That automobile drivers are now using more care in handling their cars than ever before was the report brought here today by T. A. Raffety, chief inspector for the state motor vehicle department after a trip to Tillamook and Seaside. "My trip was made for the purpose of observing drivers on the road," said Mr. Raffety today. "Although I covered several hundred -miles and met and passed thousands of motor vehicles, only three of them were found to be violating the law. In one instance a driver had lost his li cense plate, while in another case an operator was rounding curves at reckless speed. The third offender committed a trivial violation. "I halted these three men and they assured me they would be more care ful in the future. A year ago. while on a similar jaunt. I witnessed no less than half a dozen serious acci dents and a half hundred traffic vio lations. , GIRL'S AVERAGE HIGH Lincoln Higli Student Turns Best CredenUal Card to O. A. C. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis. Aug. 9. (Special.) Ruth Stephenson of Lincoln high school, Portland, has sent in a schol arship average with advance creden tials higher than that maintained for the four years of high school by any Fair Will Be Discussed. The Columbia Hydro-Electric league will hold a luncheon Thursday noon at the Imperial hotel, to discuss fu ture activities of the organization with reference to the 1925 exposition. Members who will attend have been requested to communicate with George K. Cleaver, secretary, at Broadway 525. 72,000 Pounds of Wool Sold. BEND. Or., Aug. 9. (Special.) Sale of 65.000 pounds of wool by Tom Cronin at 14& cents, and 7000 pounds by Ned Murphy at 16 cents today disposed of all clips of fine wool stored here. The purchaser was the Rotary Worsted company. Total sale for the summer were 362,000 pounds. NURSE TO PLEAD INSANITY Woman Who -Killed Xew York Lawyer Calls Victim "Good Spirit." NEW YORK, Aug. 9. (Special.) Miss Olivia M. P. Stone, the nurse who shot and killed Ellis G. Kinkead in Brooklyn last Friday evening, nrob ably will be Indicted for murder in the first degree this week, it was said at the Office of District Attorney Lewis in Brooklyn. If a defense of Insanity is made, it was said, a com mission will be asked for to - de termine the woman's mental state. In the Raymond-street Jail Miss Stone referred to Kinkead as her ''good spirit," and said she felt sure his spiritual Influence would stand by her. She said she realized for the first time what she had doneand that she regretted it. Her attorney, Abraham H. Kessel man. said his theory of defense would be that Miss Stone was in such condi tion on the night of the killing as to be unable to judge the nature and quality of her act. SERIOUS FIRES REPORTED Forty Men Unable to Control Blaze Xear Hood River. j HOOD RIVER, Or.." Aug. 9. (Spe I oial.) The first serious forest fire CRIER WILL 15 FILED CHILDREN TO SHARE PROPER TY VAUED AT $100,000. Floyd D. Young of the Portland weather bureau, who will be here Friday and confer with local fruit men concerning the conditions under which it will be established. BUDGET LAW EXPLAINED State Engineer Sends Instructions to AVater Districts. SALEM. Or.. Aug. 9. (Special.) Copies of the law enacted at the last session of the legislature provioing for the compilation and publication of budgets by irrigation districts to day were sent by the state engineer to the officials of these projects 10 fatpri in different parts of the state. The budtret law provides that three land owners in the district be ap pointed to sit with the board ot supervisors as a budget committee, and also requires that the budget, when DreDared. shall be publishea. In caBe there is no newspaper avail able then the budget may be posted and a hearing held thereon. The publication of the budget must be 20 days prior to ihe hearing. Land Fraud ; Is Alleged. TILLAMOOK. Or., Aug. 9. (Spe cial.) A. P. Johnson and F. E. John son have filed suit In the circuit court for $4500 damages against F. N. Wilson and wife, growing out of the sale of dairy land in January, 1918. The land was sold for stz.uuu, and consisted of 35 acres. The plain tiffs now hold that there are only 22 acres of bottom land and the place is only worth 7500. Tne suit is brought to obtain from the defend ants the difference. The piaintuis allege that the defendants raiseiy ana fraudulently misrepresented the land. Planes Sent to Clatsop. SALEM, Or., Aug. 9. (Special.) At the request of C. C. Scott of Port land, secretary of a number of fire patrol associations In Oregon, Cap ta'n Smith, at the head of the forest airplane patrol service, today made a trip over the timbered areas of Co lumbia, Washington and Clatsop counties. There were said to be several etubborn forest fires raging along the Columbia river. ' Masonic and Eastern Star Home Receives Bequest to FurnisU Room as Memorial. An estate of approximately S100, 000 will be distributed equally' be tween the four children of the late Mrs. Elisabeth D. W. Cramer, ac cording to the terms of the will filed for probate in the circuit court yes terday. Mrs. Cramer died at the age of 66 years. July 4. A charitable provision in the will is the bequest of $400 to the Masonic and Eastern Star home near Forest Grove, for the furnishing of a room to be known as the "Elisabeth D. W. Cramer room," this name to be en graved on a plate on the door. Two nephews, Sam and Charles Fries, and a niece, Hilda Fries, re ceive $150 each. Albert E. Gebhardt, "friend and legal advisor." is be queathed $250. The children who will share the residue of the estate are: Johanna M. H. Cramer, Margaretha L. E. Cramer, Elizabeth F. W. Cramer and Gustav P. H. Cramer. Service Station Held Up. EUGENE. Or,, Autr. 9. (Special.) For the second time -within a week a Standard Oil service station employe In this city has handed over the day's receipts at the command of a masked robber. The lone holdup obtained $40 last night at 10:15 o'clock, within a few blocks of the downtown section find last Vrtne.dsy night at th? same time an employe of another sta tion lost a like amount. The police believe the same man committed both robberies. I In Persia a man who laughs is re garded as effeminate, but free license is given to female merriment. TODAY FrostsMo Be Forecast. EUGENE, Or., Aug. 9. (Special.) For the benefit of fruit growers in this section a part-time frost fore cast bureau may be established here bv the government. npfording to 1 .3 JYaI w,ii rl . A Irrentatlhle m the 1 I inowi in their grrat I 1 north country are I I the I "Man Trackers" J PILES FISTULA, FISSURE. 1TCHINO at4 all other rectal conditions. xce: cancer, treated without surgery. My method of treatment saves the tissue Instead of destroying it- xt la painless, requires no aoesthetlo and la permanent. There ia no confine, ment In Jed. no interference with BttslneM or social engagements. Call or vrKa for booklet. DR. C. J. DEAN second mad Merrlaon 'ta. Portland Or. Laughing in His Sleeve "I was told nothing but an opera tion would help my stomach trouble, and was getting ready for the opera tion when a friend advised. me to try Mayr's Wonderful Remedy. The first dose helped me. I am now as well as ever in- my life, and am laughing up my sleeve at the doctors." It is a simple, harmless preparation that re moves the catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and allays the inf lam- roation which causes practically all stomach, liver and intestinal aliments, including appendicitis. One dose will convince or money refunded. The Owl Drug Store and druggists everywhere. Adv. fe?; J Why Wait for a Husband Who May Never Return? If you were separated indefinitely from ( the man you love, would you await his possible return or live your own life? SCREENLAND NEWS This is about the best issue yet of the home-grown news reel. There are thrills and spills and interesting; subjects all local throughout, including a fall style show KNOWL.ES and the Picture Players