THE MORNING OREGONIAX, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1921 4 rest of C F. Johnson and his wife, f TROUBLE FEARED AT mobile accident near Dixie, Mants was hurled out of the machine against a fence, a stake penetrating his chest and making a large wound. Mants and W. E. McKlnney. pro prietor of the Waltsburg garage, were driving from Walla Walla to Walts burg. The carburetor was giving trou ble and McKlnney leaned over to make an adjustment. The car failed to make the curve which led to a bridge over Dry creek and Instead plunged off the road and into tne ditch. The machine was wrecked. McKinney suffered a painful cut over the eye and was bruised on the body. Mants was removed to the hospital. Mtnti was born In Colville 28 years ago November 1. He had been living in Dayton, but recently came to Walla Walla to live with bis brother, Lee Mants. This is the third fatality from auto mobile accidents in this vicinity with in a week, two small girls having lost their lives.' Luella F. Johnson, who are charged with kidnaping Jennie Willetta Roberts, daughter of Mrs. Johnson by a former marriage, from the home of the girl's grandmother. Mrs. Sarah Pruitt of Glendale. Percy Roberts, father of the girl, recently procured a divorce from his wife on the grounds of desertion and was awarded the custody of the three minor chil dren. Mrs. Roberts obtained a de cree of the court transferring the custody of the oldest girl, Wllletta. to the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Pruitt. While visiting Mrs. Pruitt It is al leged that Johnson and his wife took the girl and went with her by auto mobile to California. Telegrams have NOW PLAYING Thursday Friday Government Bankruptcy Talk Starts Stampede. Europe Would Dump Crisis on Armament Meet. Housing Problem Is Solved by Building Own Home. GAIN IN MARKS VISI0NED GERMANY GRAVE PROBLEM WOMEN HELP AT WORK SINGER SAYS Mt'SIC F.SSEN TIAL, TO COMEDY. Washington Fears Reparations Question Will Be Injected and Old Bickerings Renewed. Every Member of Each Household Turns Hand to Task to Escape Exactions of Landlords. Opponents of Wirth Regime Said to Aggravate Situation by En- ' couraging Investment. FEES PROTESTED F1ILIES0FBM WAGE WAR Oil! IM SPECULATl NOW RAMPANT IN BERLIN COiiCOHENCE . .. : -V V t " ' ' - ...-,- r ' . -X BT MARK SULLIVAN. (Coprrliht by the New York Evening Foil, Inc. Published by Arrangement.) ' WASHINGTON", D. C. Sept. ft. (Special.) It la difficult to avoid feeling- disturbed by this week's de velopments retarding the armament conference. There Is reason to fear that there- Is just ahead of us In Eu rope a crisis similar to but greater than that of April and Mar last. This crisis will be bad1 In Itself, but even worse is the tendency, obviously ap parent, to dump tills coming; crisis Into the lap of President Harding's conference for the limitation of ar mament. laflatloa Brings Disaster. The most competent judges doubt whether Germany will be able to pay the next Installment of the repara tions. Germany has been creating; a feverish and temporary prosperity by the old device of inflation. She has been using- the printing press to create more money. This is a device always tempting- to governments In time of trouble and always certain to bring disaster In the end. Germany and the world are just beginning to see that the mark is going the way of the kronen and the ruble. The crisis of last spring was tided over by the fact that Germany man aged to pay the Installment of repara tions due May 1, by Great Britain's pressure on France not to treat Ger many as a defaulting debtor and not to march into Germany, and by sev eral other friendly momentary turns of fortune. The sense of assurance which the world got from the tiding over of that crisis now seems likely to prove false. De-fault by Germany on the next In stallment of the reparations would renew the crisis of laat spring and practically throw the world back to the peace conference. An easily fore seeable outcome of the situation would be the necessity of taking up the whole subject of reparations again from the beginning, a process which would renew all that hap pened at the peace conference in dis cussion of this subject. Most disturbing of all " from the American point of view is the sugges tion, seriously made by responsible British statesmen and business men, that all of this be brought up at president Harding's conference. Win ston Churchill goes further and says that in addition to reparations the Washington conference should take up a further disturbing subject which was not considered at the Paris con ference, namely, the matter of the debts owed by Kurope to the United States and the financial situation of Kurope generally. More Blrkrrlag feared. Everybody knows how unwelcome it would be to American public opinion to renew in Washington the bicker ings of the Paris conference over reparations. Everybody knows also how equally unwelcome it would be to a large section of American public opinion to mingle discussion of limita tions of armament with discussion of the debts owed by Europe to the United States. All in all, these developments art likely to give a melancholy but be lated strength to the position of Sen ators Reed, Borah and others who wished that the Washington confer ence should be restricted to the dis cussion of armament solely. FIRE DESTROYS CHURCH Origin of Blaze. Laid to Tourist Camping Party. VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept. 28. . (Special.) The Methodist church at Sara, seven miles northwest of Van couver, was burned to the ground this morning by a fire of unknown origin. The song books were all that could be saved. The building was valued at $1500 and 1200 insurance was carried. The blase was discovered by T. A. 1 Sutton, but It had gained too much headway to be checked by a "bucket brigade," and the structure soon collapsed. It is thought that a tourist camping party entered the church to use the stove Inside, and that a de fective flue became overheated, caus ing a blsxe which smoldered all night and finally worked its way through tie roof early in the morning. CURIOUS FIRE HAPPENS Home Barns While Family Pro pares to Leave It for Good. BROWNSVILLE, Or.. Sept. 28. (Spe cial.) Fire totally destroyed the resi dence and belongings of S. S. Ackley Tuesday under curious circumstances, The Ackley family were making prep arations to go to Silverton, where they expect .to reside, but had gone over to a son's house for dinner, and about noon looked over and beheld the house belonging to the senior Ackley afire. The piano and practically all the furniture were destroyed. The build ing was Insured at $1800. The build ing had been built but a few years. It Is situated some three miles up the Calapoola river from this city. BOYS HELD R)R BURGLARY Grocery Store Robbed and Goods in Possession of Youths. VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept. 28. (Special.) The Taylor grocery store, 715 West- Eighth street, was robbed last night, and today two youths were arrested by the police and the goods, cigarettes and candy, valued at about $8, recovered. The boys were Lloyd Bunker, aged IS, and William Smith, 18. Bunker said he was from a New Jersey town, while Smith said he was from Meadows, Wash. The robbery was reported to the po lice early this morninrr. and Deputy Sheriff Steele and Policeman Rafferty made an investigation. The back door had been broken open. I i ' MAN AND. WIFE SOUGHT Warrants Out for Arrest on Kid naping Charge. ROSEBURG, Or.. 6ept. 28. War rants were issued today for the ar V VI f . v - A J ' V .: y. Miss Dorothy Raymoad. "What would happen, to the comedy In a musical comedy without the music?" That is a question in the mind of Miss Dorothy Raymond, who Is receiving the enthusiastic ex pressions of her friends this week on the strength of her portrayal In "Here and There." at the Lyric theater. Miss Raymond testified, with years of musical comedy expe rience to, make her an author ity, that a comedy without mu sic would lose a vsst share of Its humor, for it is the musio that brings out the climaxes, engenders the enthusiasm and pitches the audience for the work of those upon the stage. "And music Is a great aid to the players In comedy roles." Miss Raymond declares. "We find ourselves every day re sponding to the spirit of the particular selection from the orchestra pit. You can Imagine how funny a group of come dians could be on the stage If the orchestra rendered 'Hearts and Flowers,' for instance." been sent to the authorities in that state and it is expected that the couple will be arrested within a short time. SENATE REMF0R FRAY WAY IS CLEARED FOR FIGHT OVER TAX MEASURE. senate r McXary of Oregon Opens Attack on Transportation Im posts In Revision BUI. WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 28. The way was cleared today in the senate for the fight over the repub lican tax revision bill. Reading of the measure for approval of uncon tested committee amendments to the house bill was completed and consid eration of the contested features will begin tomorrow. These include sections dealing with income taxes, profits taxes, transpor tation levies, excise and soft drink levies and all other levies changed by the commltee as well as with estate taxes and levies on admissions and dues not altered by the committee. The attack on the transportation taxes was opened by Senator McNary of Oregon, republican, who offered an amendment to strike out the levies on freight, passenger, Pullman and express. Senator King, democrat, Utah, said he would propose an amendment to eliminate also the tax on telegraph and telephone. Senator Simons of North Carolina and other democratic members of the finance comlmttee completed today amendments which they plan to offer and which. If adopted, would virtually rewrite the bill. It is understood their principal feature is the raising of rates on corporations and the wealthy to maximums higher than those pro posed by the finance committee. Senator Smoot of Utah, a republican committee member, gave notice that he hoped to have his manufacturers' sales tax plan ready to offer tomor row and that he probably would speak on It Monday. During the reading today the senate agreed to most of the special and stamp taxes and the existing tobacco taxes and also to a number of admin istrative provisions. These provisions Included those designed to speed up nnai settlement of tax claims, es tablishing a tax simplification board and to prevent unnecessary examina tions or Investigations of taxpayers' books of account. Other sections agreed on included one authorizing the secretary to Issue an additional $500,000,009 in short term notes to facilitate th of victory notes and certificates of indebtedness. MEXICAN LAUDS COUNTRY Paris Charge d'Affa Ires Says Re sources Are Fabulous. PARIS. Sept. 28. (By the Ao elated P,ress.) The two days' cere monies In connection with the cele bration of the 100th anniversary of Mexican Independence closed tonight wun a Danquet given by A. B. Nervo, Mexican charge d'affaires. Senor Nervo said: "The present government of Mexico has succeeded In meeting the Just de sires of foreign countries, in consoli dating Its prestige, and keeping safe and sane Its national dignity and sov ereignty. Few countries today could guarantee more substantially their financial obligations than the Mexi can republic, few countries can show a national debt so small, as It only amounts to $500,000,000, while the na tional resources are fabulous." Harding Indorses Memorial. NEW YORK, Sept. 28. President Harding has Indorsed the movement to found a permanent exhibit of manuscripts, personal mementoes and other material' relating to Theodore Roosevelt, the Roosevelt Memorial as sociation announced today. He said such an endeavor was a publlo serv ice . NEW YORK, Sept. 28. (Special.) Scores of families in the Bronx, tired of crowded apartments and high rents, are solving the housing problem in primitive fashion. They are putting up homes by the toil of their hands and the sweat of their brows. Every one, from grandfather to the toddler. Is lending a hand. Within the last two months a village, complete in It self, has sprung Into being In the Throg's Neck section, where Tremont avenue sweeps toward the sound. Families are living on the ground, although the work Is far from fin ished. Plana for 200 homes are being carried out. The land was part of the Costar and Brown estates which were cut up recently and sold In lots meas uring approximately 25x100 feet. Identically the same thing Is belng-j done on the high ground at Last Chester, near the Gun Hill Road sta tion of the New York, Westohester & Boston railroad. Whole Families at Work. It Is now no novelty to see In en tire family at work in the suburbs on the business of creating a home. They appear to be striving for artistic ef fect, as well as for space and all mod ern conveniences. The buildings are elaborate or sim ple, according to the taste and cir cumstances of the owner. One-storied frame structures flaunt green and white coats of paint.' Stucco fronts rival more solid looking brick build ing of two stories. Clumps of trees on the property add to the appearance of the little colony, which will present a fair face to the eye of the observer If the prophecies of some of. Its dwellers are fulfilled. Contrasting a crowded tenement home in the Bronx with the open spaces and alluring promise of her new home, Mrs. Q. Miller, the mother of six children, sat on her veranda. "It seems too good to be true. ' My husband Is a policeman and we were paying $75 a month for our home In the Bronx. Nothing but people every way you turned. The children had no place to play. Most of the time when I let them out I was hanging over the window to see that they were all safe. Life Nothing; But Burdra. "Life was nothing but a burden. Now I can look forward to years of contentment and no worry about rent. In eight or ten years this place will be paid for. even if we only pay $30 a month- We have more rooms. It Is our own. Look at the children! In the city you have almost to apologise for their existent"." - The youngsters were playing hap pily on the strip of grass outside tlie veranda. It was country to them. A dog frolicked around. Every one was welcome. Although the last coat ol paint was still to be applied, the "homey" spirit was there. A short distance away Is one of the houses that every member of the family had helped to build. The boys mixed the mortar, the mother carried laths and everybody hammered nails and used a paint brush. Father did the heavy work, of course, with the occasional assistance of a mason or a carpenter. , When news of strange doings along Otis and Edison avenues was first heard, people who had lived in the neighborhood for years turned out to see If It was true that women and children were putting up their homes. On every side they saw convincing testimony. It is estimated by one of the dwellers in the colony that 30 per cent of the work on upward of a hundred buildings has oeen aone Dy amateurs. And they are all proud of It and wax discursive to the casual visitor. City Employe Is Builder. "I lived for 30 years In a crowded section of the city." said John Henry, who Is a city employe and passes his evenings and days off building his house. "I never knew I was alive un til I came out here. It may take six months more to finish this house, but it's going to have everything that I want. 1 have five rooms, the water already In and the electric light com ing In a day or two. The place is my own that is what I like about it In eight years I will have paid off every thing. At that, it is cheaper than handing out a big rent every month to an agent. If you are dispossessed here you get some time to think things over. You aren't Just turned into the street." As one home after another was vis ited, the story was repeated. The majority of the structures are occu pied, although none Is completely fin ished. Women leave their kitchens while their husbands are at work to paint a few feet of the veranda. The enthusiasm of home-making appears to have settled on this small area within the city limits. There Is much friendly competition In skill and speed. Recently neighbors were counting the gains of the week and surveying one another's lot with an appraising eye. GRADE NEAR COMPLETION Southern Paciric Main Line In Lane County Ho Be Double-Tracked. EUGENE. Or.. Sept. 28. (Special.) The. Southern Pacific company has almost finished the work of grading for the doubletracklng of its main line between Klncald station, on the eastern outskirts of Eugene, and Springfield Junction. The second track is for the Kugene-bpringneia trolley line, the route of which will be changed. - The electric cars, after this new track Is completed, will follow the main line afong this new grade and track to Springfield Junction and then will use the same track that the steam trains use between the Junction and Springfield, thus eliminating one of the bridges across the Willamette river at that point. A steam shovel Is at work tearing a big hole It the hillside along this stretch of railway and depositing the earth on the opposite side of the track to make the grade for the trolley cars. MAN IN AUTO MISHAP DIES Injuries Are Sustained in Striking Fence Stake. WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Sept. 28. (Special.) Charles Mants, aged 25 died today In a local hospital of In juries sustained last night in an auto- UNIVERSITY CHARGES ARE DE CLARED TO BE PROHIBITIVE. Mass Meeting Called to Rebel Against System of Requiring Pay ments for Almost Everything. SEATTLE. Wash., Sept. 28 (Spe cial.) The University of Washington Is tending to become a "rich man's college," with the poor student ex cluded from attendance by prohibitive tuition fees. This is indicated by a survey of registration figures this year at the university. Hundreds of students are up In arms against the attendance and lab oratory charges which they say will prevent them from taking desired couravs. A mass meeting will be hold at Denny hall tomorrow night to pro test against the new fee system. . The state legislature, at Its last session, dealt a solar-plexus blow at free education when it prescribed that every resident student should pay $15 a quarter to attend the uni versity. If this were the only charge, the poorer class of students might be able to "stand the gaff." university officials declared. But on top of the tuition fee there is a charge of $6 for the use of the library and all students are expected to purchase an athletic ticket for $10. In addition to these, fees are exacted for prac tically every laboratory course. Student leaders point out that ap proximately 40 per cent of the men are entirely self-supporting and that t8 per cent are helping to pay their way by their own work. A few dollars will frequently pre vent a man from attending school. "I am afraid that the high at tendance fees will prevent many stu dents from attending college this year," H. T. Condon, controller, de clared. Mr. Condon pointed out that the ap plications for Lander and Terry Hall, "the poor man's dormitories," are fewer than they have ever been in the history of the Institution. In former years there was always a long list of applicants waiting to obtain rooms In these campus dormitories. At the last report there were 30 rooms vacant out of 125. CONVICT AT ENCAMPMENT Governor Gives Veteran Parole So He Can Attend Reunion. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 28. (Special.) Henry Romine, 76. partici pated today in the big events of the annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic under unique conditions. He is serving a life sen tence at the state prison, Michigan City, for murder committed at Colum bus, Ind., eight years ago. The prison doors swun.g open for him at the order of Governor McCray, who gave him a five days' parole so he could attend the encampment and mingle with the veterans with whom he served In the war. His comrades received him cor dially and he has attended the re unions and marched In parades with them as though he was not a "lifer." He called on the governor to ex press appreciation of the parole and Friday he will return to prison. His parole was recommended by Warden Fogarty. BILL ANTI-MONARCHISTIC Drastic Measure Introduced by German Socialists. . BBRLIN, Sept. 28. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The 'Independent so cialist party today Introduced In the reichstag a bill aiming at the elimi nation of the last vestige of mon archists Germany. The main clauses provide that all the property of ex-Emperor William and the ex-German princes shall be confiscated; civil and military func tionaries holding monarchist views or tolerating monarchist manifestations or who refuse allegiance to the re public, shall be dismissed without pension and military men shall not ,be permitted to carry arms except while on active service. The bill also proposes Introduction of trial by Jury. AIR BOMB T0BE TESTED 4000-Pound Projectile Thought Most Destructive Built. WASHINGTON, D. C. Sept. 28. Tests of a new 4000-pound aerial bomb, said to be the heaviest and probably the most destructive con structed, will be held at Aberdeen proving grounds, Maryland, tomor row. Measuring 14 feet In length and about two feet in diameter, the pro Jectlle Is designed to carry 2400 pounds of T. N. T. Only machines of great lifting ability are adaptable for handling the new bomb and. In tqmorrow's tests, army flyers will use a Handley-Palge model, equipped with special carrying and releasing devices. Read The Oregonlan clamlfle't ads. Dyed Her Dress, Coat and Skirt for Few Cents Each package of "Diamond Dyes" contains directions so simple any woman can dye or tint her worn, shabby dresses, skirts, waists, coats, stockings, sweater, coverings, dra peries, hangings, everything, even 1 she has never dyed before. Biy "Dia mond Dyes" no other kind then perfect home dyeing Is sure because Diamond Dyes are guaranteed not to spot, fade, streak, or run. Tell your druggist whether the material you , wish to dye is wool or si'.k, or whether It is linen, cotton or mixed goods.---' Adv. , j BT ARNO-DOSCH FLEUROT. (Copyright by the New York World. Pub lished by Arransement.) BERLIN, Sept. 28. (Special cable.) The popular belief that the govern ment Is going bankrupt has precipi tated a frenzy of stock speculation which Is upsetting ail political con sideration Just as the reichstag Is opening. As the general 1 V el of industrial stocks has not risenV as fast as the mark has fallen, the rush to buy at any price assures a rise of 100 per cent or more before the next opening of the bourse. That the bourse 1s open only two days a week does not restrict speculation. Cumulative effect of this Is felt In the reichstag. Opponents of the Wirth government, wanting to make his record seem the worst possible, are credited with encouraging specula tion, but the crisis has had a sobering effect on 'the people's party and the industrials who planned to overthrow the Wirth - Rathenau combination. They have been forced to realize that a broader coalition has been made necessary by Germany's unescapable obligations. Bitf Paymeats Soon Dae. The outstanding factors in the sit uation are that the country must make two large reparations pay ments, one of 2a0,00O,00O gold marks In November and another of 600,000, 000 in January, together with the 2( per cent export payments, which are breaking the nation's financial back. The new taxation system must be put through before November to stabilise the mark; otherwise the government will be forced to drive the raDidlv declining: mark perhaps to 200 to the dollar In buying foreign exchange for the November payment. The mark is now worth only half Its value when the reparations ulti matum was signed. Reactionary pa pers, like the Lokal Anxelger, try to make it appear that the Wirth gov ernment is responsible, but it is com monly understood that responsibility rests with reparations and specula tion, not with Herr Wirth. The coming session of the reichs tag Is more likely to be gruelling than sensational. Before the end- of this week the chancellor will present his 15 new tax bills and may even play his wbole hand by facing the reichstag with his gold value expro priation scheme by which the govern ment would acquire a share in all the country's wealth. Sitaatloa Favors Wirth. The DOlitical situation in other re spects favors the life of the Wirth government. The Prussian cabinet, controlled by the people's party and the centrists. Is now taking in the social democrats. This makes It eas ier for the Wirth government, backed by the' social democrats and centrists, to take in the people's party also. The danger to the government lies in the rapid fall of the mark andi the possibility of a national demand for a "buslose government." AnjV government, however, will have the two Immediate reparations payments before it. These will amount nearly to 1.000.000,000 marks and perhaps more, as the exports on which part of the payments is based have increased rapidly. TAX 0PINI0N IS GIVEN Inheritance Levy Is Paid Into State's General Fund. SALEM. Or., Sept. 28. (Special.) Money received on account of Inheri tance tax Is paid into the general fund, and in case of an excess pay ment of this tax Into the state treas ury, refunding may be made from tM general fund, according to a legal opinion given by the attorney-general. The opinion referred to a law en acted In 1915 providing a more simple method of bookkeeping with relation to the special funds in custody of the state treasurer. Interpretation of the law was asked by the state treasurer. 4 000 Boxes Peaches Marketed. SALEM, Or., Sept. 28. (Special.) TODAY AND FRIDAY ONLY X Cecil a DeMille's THE AFFAIRS OF ANAT0L Cast includes Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Agnes Ay res, Elliott Dexter, Bebe. Daniels, Wanda Hawley. Monte Bine, Theodore Roberts and others. LAST TWO DAYS Lllllpgj- Charles May Atmospheric Prologue Alex LaFollett, senator from Marlon county and a prominent orchardist of the Willamette valley, has marketed more than 4000 boxes of peaches this season. The returns for the peaches averaged fl a box. Most of the peaches from the LaFollett orchards were sent to the New York and other eastern markets. State Employes to Lose Jobs. SPOKAXE. Wash., Sept. 28. Fur ther reduction In the number of state employes Is to be made by the end of the present year. Governor Hart an nounced in a newspaper Interview here today. He said hat "many" state employes have been released In the interests of efficiency and that 15 to 26 more will be dropped before the end of the year. Read The Oreonian classified sds. ii i " "aya " w .". ..." A -A v ' i X --" '"'' IN A MIDNIGHT BELL1 A dive into mystery with a rubber-heel salesman who starts bargain sales in a hick town and nearly gets more than he bargains for. Bank bandits try to trap him. Ghosts can't scare him. And the fun and thrills are too good to miss. Toonerville Liberty Comedy News Reel - VON HERBERG igc1 .r,cri w - hi i iy m r:?Ji j XnthewordsofDAi'tag'han ' -in 4&!SK SATURDA Always Keate and Our Giant Organ Uf:J?9 V.I I