Morning Oregonian., December 10, 1921, Page 4, Image 4

THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1921
MEDMHOR UKKFD
IN PACKERS' STRIKE
Federal and State Authorities
Sent to Yards.
END OF VIOLENCE SOUGHT
Mow Counted Bettor Than Sending
Troops First Death Reported
. in Chicago District.
CHICAGO. Deo. 9. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Federal and state au
thorities combined toVlay to stop vio
lence, in connection with the stock
yurdd strike. W.
Four mediators, two from, the
United States department of labor and
two representing the Illinois indus
trial commission, were sent into the
stockyards district to restore order
and bring the strike difficulties to
d' liberation between the packers and
strikers.
Official government recognition of
conditions. Iirnest WIthall. chairman
of th state commission, said should
bring an end to the clashes between
strike sympathizers, workers and po
lice when the federal and state agents
get among the strikers.
Oscar F. Nelson and B. M. Marsh
main. United States commissioners of
conciliation, with two representatives
of the state, carried the government
plans for truce into the yards today.
"This move is better than troops,"
Mr. Wlthall said.
Firm Death Hrported.
Tho first death resulting from vio
lence in the stockyards strike was re
ported this morning. George PI'e. 35
years old, a laborer, died in the county
hospital of gunshot wounds received
Wednesday night. The police said
FHe was shot by a motorcycle police
man after he had thrown several
brtelcs.
The outbreak here, quelled Wednes
day night, broke out afresh last night
after a comparatively quiet day, and
police declared 150 persons were in
jured, including one man shot and a
score seriously injured.
Morris Co. announced their plant
was operating at normal capacity and
thu they had no difficulty filling
vacancies.
Dennis Lane, secretary of the
hatcher' workmen's union. Issued a
statement at the same time, saying
tbftt the strike was lofl per cent ef
fective," and that GO.OiiO men were out
in, the' -different pucklng centers.
Mechanics Join Strikers.
Mechanics to the number of 1561
employed at the stockyards, went out
on a. .sympathetic strike with the
.Amalgamated Meat , Cutters and
lilUcher Workmen" according to an
announcement from Ch'cago strike
headquarters today.
OMAHA. Dec. 9. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Ralph Dold, general
manugir of the Dold packing plant
here, announced today a meeting had
been called for tomorrow, to which
the company's striking employes had
been invited, to attempt tc form a
club for direct dealing between em
ployers and workmen In the hope of
ending the packing-house strike so
far as t concerns the Dold concern.
VICE HITSJTOUNG GIRLS
10 cl;t red Average Age of Ail-
niiltancc to Rescue Homes.
WASHINGTON. D. J., Dec. 9. That
girls now admitted to the Florence
Crittehton homes are at the average
age of 16 years, as compared with
an. average age of 2S years a fow
years ago, was the declaration of
Mr. Kate Waller Barrett, national
president of the organization, today
at a meeting of the International
Reform bureau.
"The facts have almost forced me
to, the point of questioning whether
women are better guardians of mortals
than men," she added. t
'"I have six little girls. under 10 fn
my charge, physically and morally
ruined." she said. "I am at a loss to
understand the cause of this alarm
ing change unless It be a national
loosening of the standards in our
homes. You can't expect much of
young girls when there are so many
60-ycar-old vamps."
SLAYER KILLED BY PAL
(Continue.! From First Pang.)
gOard on duty there. Slaughter then
opened the cells and offered all the
pfisohers liberty. Only six took ad
vantage of the offer snd two of the
guards tv ere locked up.
He next took one guard to the
office of the penitentiary with him
and took possession of it, turning
the guards on duty there over to. the
men who elected to escape with him.
Next he went to the hospital and
forced a nurse to precede him oijt
slde the walls to the apartments
occupied by Warden Dempsey and
his family. The nurse awakened
them and Slaughter then forced them
to accompany him to the death cell,
where they were locked up. He told
them he would not harm them and
later brought .them a pot Of coffee
with cream, sugar and cups.
Slaughter then threw the gates of
the penitentiary wide open and lei
surely set about fitting hfmself and
companions with civilian clothes from
the commissary.
Warden Dempsey said he heard an
automobile leaving in th early morn
ing and with the aid of prisoners
above, who cut a hole thaough the
floor at his' direction, he escaped from
the death cell and spread the alarm.
Mrs. Drmpary'H Anto Takes.
Slaughter had taken an automo
bile belonging to Mrs. Dempsey.
Slaughter was 26 years old. He told
an Associated Press correspondent at
the time of his first incarceration in
the penitentiary here that ho was
reared in southern Arkansas, and
-when 14 years old was convicted of
a charge of grand larceny and sent
to the"reform school. He served his
term and then drifted into Oklahoma.
Since that time he has participated
in numerous bank robberies In Ar
kansas, Oklahoma, Texas. Missouri
and elsewhere. He escaped twice from
the Texas penitentiary and his term in
Texas wag unexpired when he killed
Deputy Sheriff Brown In Hot Springs
a 'little over a year ago
Slaughter denied a killing charged
to him in Pennsylvania, but admitted
that he had taken part In many rob
beries. Trimly at Knrm In Hilled'.
The desperado, who has beer, con
sidered the most dangerou in the
Arkansas penal Institution, made an
unsuccessful but spectacular attempt
to escape from. the prison farm at
Tucker when . he killed the trusty
guard in September. Slaughter had
obtained a rifle from the outside and
on Sunday morning when the men
were gathered in a bath house, be
opened fire on the guards outside. He
killed Bliss Adklsson. a trusty guard,
serving a sentence for murder com
mitted when a posVe raided a band of
draft evaders of whom Adkisson was
one. He also wounded other guards.
He finally was forced to surrender
when a guard, in hiding took him un
awares. He often had boasted that he would
never go to the electric chair. At Hot
Springs he and his cell were searched
daily for weapons. After a jury re
turned a verdict of life imprisonment
he turned over' to the guards, who
inrluded a company of national
guardsmen, a handful of hacksaws,
remarking' that if the sentence Ttad
been death he irtver wouldbave stayed
in jail overnight.
The. state guard was called out on
another occasion 'Just about a year ago
to guard the penitentiary here when
a plot which he had Instigated for a
wholesale delivery of prisoners was
uncovered. ".'
Governor McRae offered $500 re
ward for rhe return of Slaughter dead
or aijve.
CLACKAMAS BUDGET DONE
$10,000 IXCLIDKI) TO UEDICK
OITM WHIM. WA It HANTS.
$6500 Appropriated to Rebuild
County Jail Tax Recording
System Provided For.
OREGON CITY, Or., Dec. 9 (Spe
clal.) Inclusion of a $40,004ptmd in
the county budget for reduction of
warrants outstanding against road
accounts, appropriation of 16600 fo
me reuujiuiiijj hi luv couolj in
crease, in the market roads appro
priation. and an appropriation for the
Installation of a new tax record sys
tem are the outstanding items in the
estimated expenditures of Clackamas
county for 1922, as prepared by the
budget committee.
Next year the county tax will be
$562,055 96, an increase of 6 per cent
over this year. The state tax next year
amounts to 1355,680.15. Added to the
county tax, this makes a total of
$978,989 to be raised from Clackamas
taxpayers.
The total expenditures, inclusive of
state tax next year, will amount to
$1.176,50.48 as against $925,384 this
year. a
Under the new budget law, money
on hand Iecember 1 is deducted from
the proposed expenditures. This has
allowed the court to Include a larger
"number of projects within the 6 per
cent limit. It is pointed out, how
ever, that as taxes do not begin to be
collected until March and the country
must conduct its affairs upon a cash
basis, these funds will become In debt
for the first part of- the year, and
warrants will be indorsed unpaid for
want of funds, until the depletion is
made. up. As one example of this, the
balance in 'the general fund is $49,
213.84, but according to the treasurer's
estimates, there will be but $3000 in
this fund oh March 1.
FRANCE TO INCREASE NAVY
,
ij:pi tii:s approve measure
for more warships.
Tlih'ty-lliree Vi-m'K. Including
Submarines;, Are Programme
to Be Carried Out.
PARIS, Dec. 9. (By the Associated
Press.) The chamber of deputies
adopted unanimously today the meas
ure providing for the building of
three light cruisers, six destroyers.
12 torpedo-boats and 12 submarines
during the period from 1922 to 1925.
Credits voted during the war for the
construction of four battle cruisers of
the Normandie type, which project
was abandoned, will be used for the
construction.
The programme calls for the ex
penditure of 160.000.000 rrancs in 1922.
of S34.000.000 In 1923, of 190.000,000 in
1924 and 71.000,000 in 1925.
Voting on the budget of the min
istry of vm? was completed by. the
chamber. This budg3t. Minister of
Finance Doumer said, after the last
Item was adopted, amounts to a "few
millions over 4.000.000,000 francs."1
jf ft was pointed out by Minister of
War Barthou that the 1922 war budget
shows a decrease of SaO.OyO.OOO fraifes,
compared with that of 1921.
Buff Orpington Rooster
Actually Laya Eggs.
Physiologist Dumfnunded by Bird
lihll.lted In Britain.
BY JAMES M. TL'OHY.
(Copyright by the New York Werld. Pub
lished by Arraficeiaent.i at
LONDON, Dec. 9. (Special cable.)
Not the least bewildering hap
pening of this wonder period is that a
Buff Orpington cock at a poultry
show In the agricultural hall at
Islington has laid an egg. This bird
began its career with all of the at
tributes of a sure enough hen. It laid
eggs and cackled over them in time
honored fashion. Its head, plumage
and habits were all hen-like.
As it grew its conformation under
went a subtle change. It began to
grow a cockscomb, sprouted a cock's
tail, developed fpu and crowed on
appropriate occasions but continued
to lay eggs. When its owner ex
hibited it as a "cockhen" and claimed,
despite its male affiliation, that it
produced eggs all the poultry fanciers
derisively nicknamed it "Bluff Or
pington." One doubter offered to pay 100 if
the bird laid an egg. It was watdhed
day and night for the coming of the
marvel and yesterday duly presented
Its watchers with an excellent egg.
The wagering challenger Is nowhere"
to be found.
Physiologists are dumbfounded by.
this fabulous bird, which evidently
believes in saving the best of both
worlds. ,
PROVISIONAL HEAD NAMED
Gesera Orellana for Time Presi
dent of Gnatemala Republic.
GUATEMALA CITY. Dec. 8. (By
the Associated Press.) General Orel
lana, chief of staff of the Uuatemalen
army, today was elected provisional
president of the repdblic to take the
place of Carlos Herrera, who was
tverthrown early in the week.
Twenty-five persons were killed in
side the city Tuesday during the over
throw of the government. Accord
ing to official report, 10 of the killed
were city police.
Runk Discount Rate Reduced.
RICHMOND Va., Dec. 9. The board
of directors of the federal reserve
bank of Richmond today authorized a
reduction In the discount rate from
5 to S per cent. This is the second
reduction this year.
Most comfort, smallest outlay, S.S.S.
coaL Edlbfsen'a, Bdwy. 70, Adv.
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Senator Pounces Upon Staff
Officer at Hanging Probe.
ATTACK CAUSES UPROAR
Chairmui Brandegee' Calls Upon
Georgian to Leave Room But
Solon Uurls Back Defi.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 9.
Threats by Senator Watson, democrat.
Georgia, to slap the face of an army
officer sitting wlmin touch of his
elbow threw tbe meeting of the sen
ate committee investigating charges
that American soldiers had been ille
gally hanged In France into an up
roar today and brought a quick de
mand from Chairman Brandegee for
a sergeant-at-arms to prevent any
physical clash. For a moment the ut
most confusion prevailed. In the din.
as some women hurried toward the
door, the voice of the chairmaif in
strident tones commanded the Georgia
senator to sit down or retire from
the room.
Banging the table with bare
knuckles, the chairman soon restored
a semblance of order, but there were
many heated exchanges before the
meeting broke up until tomorrow aft
ernoon. General Staff Officer Victim.
Major George W. C. Cocheu, at
tached to the general staff, was the
officer on whom Senator Watson
launched his verbal attack.
It happened near the close of a
brief but turbulent meeting at which
Senator Watson's charge that the
committee "at a secret session had
prejudiced" the case was character
ised by Senator Shields, . democrat,
Tennessee, a member of the commit
tee, as untrue and wholly without
foundation.
The' senator's attack on Major
Cocheu hit the committee like a
crack of lightning. There, had been
no intimation that anything of the
kind was impending. -Major Cocheu
had not testified and his friends said
later he was present In his official ca
pacity as chief of the l(Jislative
branch of the general staff.
Senator Act Suddenly.
Suddenly swinging to his feet and
shaking his right hand within two
feet of the major's face, the senator,
his voice pitched high, exclaimed that
"for two pennies I'd 'ap your jaws."
The officer did not bat an eye.
Instantly Chairman Brandegee was
on his feet, calling for a sergeant-at-arms
to protest the officer frpm
"an insult." Then, declaring that he
himself had been insulted. Senator
Watson announced that he would
retire from the meeting.
"An insult can be given by looks,"
Senator Watson declared, wheeling
quickly again to face the officer. "If
he looks at me again that way I'l'
slap bis face. I won't sit here and be
bulldozed by these officers by this
bull-Jawed brute."
Chairman Brandegee Rolled.
Major Cocheu looked straight ahead
at the senator as Chairman Brandegee
endeavored to get the proceedings
within orderly senate bounds. After
repeating his command that the sena
tor sit down or leave. Chairman Bran
degee and Senator Watson had a ffcry
exchange ae to just what had been
promised in keeping officers out of
the room while any of the latter's
witnesses were testifying.
Finally the chairman shouted to the
Georgia senator, asking if he wanted
the officers sent away, and on being
informed that he did they were told
to get out. After that things settled
down a bit. Smiles came back to Sen
ator Watson's face as he explained
that he wanted to bag the pardon of
the committee if he had acted in in
unseemly manner. He added, how
ever, that the officers, sitting there
and gazing at him "in ah insolent
manner," had aroused his "southern
biood."
Army Officers to Be Heard.
The committee later decided to
hear some army officers tomorrow
and then adjourn the open sessions
for a week. The committee agreed
to summon anybody Senator Watson
felt could give evidence as to the il
legal hangings
Senator Watson asserted at today's
session that "Colonel Theodore Roose
velt Jr. corroborates my statement
that a soldier was shot by an officer,"
but this statement was formally de
nied tonight by Assistant Secretary
Roosevelt in a letter to Chairman
Brandegee, in which he offered to ap
pear as a witness before the com
mittee. Senator Watson announced that he
desired the committee to call 63 wit
nesses, whose names he presented
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Very Itchy. Cuticura Heals.
I had a baby about six months
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with scales that were very
itchy and then little pim
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larger and spread all over
her back. They were
very itchy and burned
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WATSON
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TO SLAP ARMY MAN
Old
along with a great volume of letters.
Senator Watson also protested agair.st
the decision of the committee to con
fine the Inquiry solely to the ques
tion of hangings. .
Nnrrovt ing of Ilea rind Opposed.
"I want to protest againstthe ac
tion of this committee in narrowing
the investigation to hanging of sol
diers without trial by court martial,"
Senator Watson declared. "My charges
were broader. 1 protest against these
charges being narrowed. I want It
understood that I am going into the
shooting of men by their officers."
The committee suggested that It
might be necessary to 50 before the
senate and ask that the resolution
directing the inquiry be enlarged. Mr.
Watson said he proposed to try the
case on the floor of the senate. .
Examination of the letters filed to
day by Senator Watson showed that
they related to many charges of bru
tality on the part of officers toward
privates. The letters included one
signed by Anthony Mells of Lowell.
Mass.. declaring he saw two men
hanged by the military police of the
2Sth division at Is-Sur afTelle. and that
the victims were Claire Bodgett of
the "air service and John Juthey of a
labor battalion. The addresses of the
men were not given.
Albert Melle ot Philadelphia wrote
Senator Watson that he saw a soldier
bayonetted and clubbed to death, while
Marion J. Wallls of Athens. Ga.. said
he saw a sick soldier at Camp
Wheeler. Ga.. knocked down and
killed.
5 OF 300 MISHAPS FATAL
Out of Total, 255 Are Subject to
Compensation Act.
t SALEM. Or., Dec. S. (Special.)
There were five fatalities In Oregon
due to industrial accidents during the
week ending December S, according
to a report prepared here today by
the state accident cpmmission:
The victims were Martin Coyle, la
borer, Buxton; Guy W. Steels, con
crete worker, Grants Pass; Thomas
Kinsley, miner, Preuss; L. L Rice,
electrician, Donald, and John Burle
son, slip tender, Buxton.
Of the total of 300 accidents re
ported to the commission during the
week 266 Were subject to benefits
under the workmen's compensation
law, 35 were from firms and corpora
tions that have rejected the act and
10 were from public utilities not af
fected by the compensation law.
67 Students Posted.
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY, Sa
lem, Or., Dec. 9. (Special.) Indica
tive of a stringent increase in the
scholastic standards of Willamette
university is a formal "post" list, the
second of the year, which made ltf
appearance on the door of the presi
dent's office the middle of the week.
Sixty-seven students are listed as
falling in two or more subjects. These
persons are required to see President
Doney within a short time to confer
as to best means of raising their
grades. This action came aa result
of a recent faculty ruling w4lich pro
vides that each instructor periodically
report the names of all students in
his class who are failing. In their
work.
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NEW PLAY TRACT TP DPEN
EAST SIDE RECREATION PARK
WILL BE READY IN SPRING.
Williams Avenue Grounds to Give
Out-Door Pleasures to Large
Community of Children.
New city-owned playgrounds of
more than an acre in extent, bounded
by Williams avenue, Morris street.
Vancouver avenue and Stanton street,
are to be made available for the use
of a thickly settled section of the
city early in the spring.
Preliminary work on the Williams
avenue park and playgrounds will be
carried on during the winter. The
tract will be fenced, the land leveled,
and portions of it put into lawn and
set with shrubbery, and some play
ground equipment will be installed.
There will be a fine baseball field.
This tract. 290 by 310 feet, was pur
chased by the city more than a year
ago from H. Dutard of San Francisco.
It was bought for J21.930, which was
the assessed valuation.
The park bureau also plans to take
the playground equipment now on
the Albina homestead grounds and
install it on the new park property
at Fremont street, known as Irving
park. The Albtna homestead play
grounds are to be turned over to the
use of the city schools.
During the winter some work is to
be carried on in Pier park, the 6Z
acre tract held by the city In the St
Johns district. The tract 19 well
timbered and the underbrush and
fallen logs are to be cleared so that
all parts of the park may be made
accessible. The baseball grounds will
be established there. A movement is
under way to have St. Johns avenue
paved as a means of direct access to
Pier park.
FIRE HITS FLOUR MILLS
Vancouver Pltint Sustains Damage
Of $35,000.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. ' 9.
(Special.) Fire did damage estimated
between $35,000 to $40,000 at the Van
couver Flouring mlils on West Eighth
street. The origin is attributed to a
hot Journal. The fire started on the
top story and burned away a large
portion of the roof and side walls, but
the fire department responded quickly
and soon extinguished the blaze. Much
machinery was damaged, including
electrical equipment.
The company will have special or
ders on hand milled at some other
mill until repairs have been made.
There was also loss of stock.
Tree Drives Post in Ground.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 9. (Spe
cial.) A tree blown down on the Pa
cific highway at Whipple creek dur
ing the recent wind storm struck the
top of a concrete post squarely. The
post was driven into the ground
flush with the surface and was not
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OVERCOATS
--offering one of the largest
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An unusual sale of unusually fine overcoats.
Come in and try one of these splendid coats
on today, selling at the exceptionally low
prices of
$25 and $30
If you prefer a coat tailored in just some cer
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of the variety of patterns we are
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We have some coats as low as $20,
others as high as $45, but our big se
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broken. The poBt is reinforced con
crete, 10 by 10 inches in size, three
feet in the ground and four above.
Walter A. Schwarz, county engineer,
today had a picture taken of the post,
showing it in the ground. It will be
dug out to make room for another
post and to see what action the ter
rific blow had on the concrete. He
roughly estimated that the blow must
have been at least ISO tons.
Aberdeen to Appeal Decision.
ABERDEEN. Wash.. Dec. . (Spe
cial ) City Attorney Cross announced
today that he will recommend to the
it
yourself!
OPTIMISTIC
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BROWNSVILLE
WOOLEN MILL STORE
Third and Morrison Sts.
city an appeal to the supremo court
in the cose of Weyerhauser Timber
company and R. A. Wiley, which was
decided against the city yesterday in
superior court. The decision of court,
he held, left the matter of who should
pay for the culvert undecided.
Cow Parades in lligli School.
SALEM. Or.. Dee. 9. (Special.) A
cow parading in the halls of the high
school building was 'he sight that
greeted the janitor when he arrived
there this morning to start his day's
work. How the cow got in the school
no one appea'red to know. Tho cow
is owned by John J. Lucas of Salem.
MAIL ORDERS
FILLED
Send for free sam
ples, tape measure
and measuring
blank.
who telephoned to the police this
morning that it had been stolen some
time last night.
II) droplune Ijike Duck.
HOQUIAM. Wash., Dec. 9. (Spe
cial.) While It wus being towed to
its home shop on the Hoqulam river,
the hydroplane belonging to John
Ketchum exhibited the proclivities of
a duck yesterday afternoon and dived
underneath the surface. Mr. Ketchum
was In the tug thnt was towing It,
while Adolph Sahll. his assistant,
noting its desire to go to the bottom,
dived overboard and escaped with
nothing worse than a wetting.