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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, MARCII 13, 192; YOUTH, 2UHSTED S DRUG SMUGGLER Engine Wiper on West Cayote v Is Caught on Tip. INFORMANT USES PHONE Underworld Intrigue Said to Have Resulted in Capture of Edward Wolf by Police. Underworld intrigue was said last night to be responsible for the ar rest of Edward "Wolf, 21 years old, engine wiper on the West Cayote, on a charge of having cocaine in his possession, although Wolf was booked by Patrolmen Burdick and Shaffer of the police narcotics squad. Pa trolman Burdick made the arrest and at the same time confiscated 19 one ounce bottles of cocaine and took charge of a $2000 automobile belonging- to Conrad Wolf, 393 Knott street, father of the prisoner. Apparently, in the catch of a drug Importer, a victory was recorded for the law. In reality, the old and f irm- tives today, is exhibiting a monster egrg, laid by one of his prized hens, that he believes is upequalled in size. It weighs nearly one-half pound, has a longitudity circumference of 12 inches, and measures almost 10 inches around the center. It weighs as much as three average-sized eggs. Mr. Barker says there is nothing the matter with his scales or tape meas ure, either. ABERDEEN, Wash., ' March 12. (Special.) William E. Lermonde of Cosmopolis claims the prize laying hen, of this district. The hen, a Black .Minorca, 10 months old, laid an egg Tuesday which measured seven and seven-tenths inches in circumfer ence the long way and six and three-fourths inches the shorter way. j It weighed four ounces. The shell and shape of the egg were perfect in every respect. On the followin morning the hen laid another egg ex actly like the first. DRASTIC DANCE LAW ASKED MEW YORK Bill Would Provide Number of Steps Minute. WOMEN BACK PROPOSAL ZEM SNOW DIES IN CITY PROMINENT PORTLAND LAW YER PASSES AWAY. Funeral Services' Will Be Held P. M. Today at Trinity Episcopal Church. at Zera Snow died late Saturday night in the Campbell sanitarium1, after two weeks' illness. He was 67 years of :e and lived with his wife, Mrs. Emily W. Snow, at Alexandra Court, 53 Ella street. For nearly 33 years he was a prominent member of the First Offense Would Cost $50 and Second $250; "Familiarity',' Would Be Banned. NEW YORK, March 12. (Special.) Dancing without a stop-watch and metronome will become an expensive proposition in this state if the Duke dancing bill, sponsored by the New York civic league and introduced in the legislature last week by Assem blyman Duke Jr., chairman of the as sembly codes committee, becomes a law. The bill provides for the arrest of any one donig more than 66 one-steps or 40 fox-trot steps a minute and would impose a fine of $50 for the first offense and $250 for repeaters. Count to 48 if you want to waltz and 54 if you two step. But have your Z ",1V " frfhVrt , check ready if you want to speed up and peddlers was but strengthened I I fh ,. last t for I .ine. I by the arrest of young Wolf, in the opinion of the police. Two Trips Made by Wolf. Wolf is a Portland boy, who has made two trips on the West Cayote. He was said to have confessed to Fatrolman Burdick that he bought the 19 bottles of cocaine in a Jap anese port, paying $7 a bottle, and that he was about to wholesale it to a negro here for $35 a bottle. He declared it was the first time he had ever tried to flout the law, po lice said. The West Cayote arrived early Nreek and ' Wolf began looking & market for his smuggled cocai Being a novice, the fact that he had a quantity of cocaine for sale was coon noised about among members of Portland's underworld, whose con sections have long been established, and have been tried and proved by time. They were reported to have decided that there was no room in the field for another smuggler; also that an oversupply of narcotics would bring prices down and ruin business. As Patrolman Burdick, on his day off, was working about his home in overalls, his telephone rang insist ently. When he answered it a voice informed him that a delivery of co caine was to- be made at Tenth and Everett streets in the early evening. He tried to get hold of his partner, Patrolman Shaffer, but failed, so he requisitioned the services of a neigh bor, Guy A. Davis, 656 East Eightieth street North, and drove to the corner In his automobile. A handsome touring car was drawn p at the curb. The driver. Wolf, was talking to a negro. Burdick placed him under arrest and upon search ing the car, found the 19 bottles in a suitcase containing silken shirts fend some other apparel. The young sailor broke down when he was taken to police headquarters. He had been warned by his father, he said, to leave the stuff alone, but the huge profits appealed to him and he took a chance. He said his father " thought he was driving to the boat to get a shipmate to bring home- to dinner, and that he had no knowledge of the use to which his automobile was to be put. Bottles Sealed With Wax. The 19 bottles of cocaine, after being adulterated with quinine and baking soda, would have been re tailed for about $5000 to Portland ad diets, according to an estimate made by Patrolman Burdick. All were sealed with wax and carried a label of a Japanese firm, and the fact that there was English on the labels indi cated that the cocaine had been pre-PF-red by the Japanese wholesalers for smuggling into the United States. Wolf was placed in the city jail without bail and held for the federal government for alleged violation of the Harrison narcotics act, and faces possibility of three years in McNeil's Island penitentiary. His father's automobile was held by police, who were unable to say whether or not an effort would be made to confiscate it I ? :: vj ,yt Zera Snow, prominent Portland attorney, whose funeral will be held today. MDNSTEH SEEN YEARS AGO NAVAL OFFICER VERIFIES PATAGONIAN DISCOVERY. South American Society Protests Against Killing or Capture of j Huge AYater Beast. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 12. The plesiosaurian monster seen in Patagonia, according to reports from the Buenos Aires zoological garden. Is not a myth, snake or a turtle, in the belief of IjieutenTif-C?nmmTn1er O. Beviliqul, now at the Philadelphia navy-yard. He said today that he had seen a monstrous animal off the coast of Patagonia 16 years ago that bar in Portland. The funeral will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from Trinity Episcopal church, Nineteenth and Everett streets, and concluding services will be at the Portland crematorium. Zera Snow was widely known in Portland, and in other parts of the state. From 18S4 until 1918 he prac ticed law in this city and during the greater part of that period took an active interest in democratic politics. He retired from law practice four years ago, when the first signs of failing health appeared. Hardening of the arteries was the affliction that finally brought on his death. Mr, Snow was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and spent the early years of his life in that city, receiving part of his education there. He studied law at the University of Michigan and afterward took up its practice in the city of his birth. He remained there only a short time, and came to Portland in 1884. Almost at the start of his career here he became interested in demo cratic politics, and during the period of his practice attended as a delegate from Oregon several national demo cratic conventions. In 1896 at Chi cago he withdrew from the Bryan faction and went over to the gold democrats. In this connection he ac quired almost national prominence, his name, "Zero" Snow, and his full beard being featured in the press of many cities. In law he was first associated with Judge William S. Gilbert through partnership. This lasted until Mr. Gilbert was offered a judgship. when he retired from the bar and went on the bench. . Mr. Snow then formed a law partnership with Wal lace McCamant, and this firm en dured until the former retired four years' ago. One of the notable cases in Mr. Snow's career was when the Oregon Washington Railway & Navigation company went into the hands of a receiver and he was associated with Senator Thurston of Nebraska, attor ney for the Union Pacific system. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Emily W. Snow, 53 Ella street; two sons, MacCormae Snow, a Portland attorney, and Berkeley H. Snow, manager of the Pacific Power & Light company at Hood River; also by three brothers and two sisters, George W. Snow of Los Angeles, Cal.; Captain Elliott Snow, U. S. N., .Wash ington, D. C; Herbert W. Show of Chicago Mrs. Adelaine Gilmer of Wells, Nev., and Mrs. Susan Pratt of Salt Lake City. the pace, The bill has other pet aversions. It is designed to put an end to dancing exhibitions in New York ball rooms and dance halls, considered so shocking by the- Civic league that it can-not "describe them in its reform bull-etin" and still send the bulletin through the mails. Familiarity Is Banned. First and foremost, says- the biu, undue familiarity" between dance partners has got to stop. Five com missioners would be- appointed by the bill to make sure of this. And to make doubly sure the bill stipulates that the proposed commissioners would have to 'be "oked" by the Wom en's Christian Temperance union and religious organizations of Protestant, Catholic and Jewish women. Here are a few of the thing's the bill seeks to prohibit: 1. Vulgar jazz music which influ ences dancers to use jerky half steps and immoral variations. 2. The holding of partners tightly. Both dancers should assume a light, graceful position. d. uneek to cneek dancing. 4. Neck-hold dancing. The right arm should encircle his partners waist, his hand resting lightly on her back, just about the waist line and he should place his other hand in the opposite hand of his partner's, or to the side and free from his or her body. The woman's hand should rest upon her partner's arm or shoulder, but not extend to his neck or back. Shaking; Dance Is Barred. 5. Dancing which consists of shaking or jerking of the upper body while taking short steps or standing still or which consists of alternating right and left short side steps. Dancing which consists of ex ceptionally long or' short steps. 7. Dancing characterized by move ments above the waist rather than from the waist down. Dancing which consists of sug gestive movements. v 9. The extreme dancing seen upon the modern stage. 10. The presence of any dancers who violate any of the foregoing pro hibited practices. The bill also would ring a curfew for sub-debs at 9 P. M. for all under 17, not accompanied by their parents or guardians. So-called "moonlight" dances would be prohibited and quit ting time all over the state except in New York and other cities, which have local dancing ordinances, would be on the stroke of midnight. (Special by wireless). The leader of the Bavarian peoples party In the reichstag, Representative Held, pub lished in his newspaper, the Regens burger Anzeiger, the announcement that the monarchy soon will return. Herr Held writes: "We have republican state machin ery controlled by people, among whom you can scarcely find a republican with a magnifying glass. , We have a landtag in which the majority openly praise a limited monorchy. The pres ent form of government is going to ruin, and will leave the monarchy to replace it. Wait, time will work with monarchy." The Bavarian monarchist' leader. Dr. Heim, has publicly joined the new society organized to reconstruct the Bavarian government. Bavaria is full of secret agents of the Berlin govern ment and the Bavarians greatly re sent this. AUTO RUNS OVER GIRL, 111 LiOKENE STEVENS BELIEVED INJURED BUT LITTLE. Driver of Machine Speeds Away, but Found by Police; Failure to Stop Laid to Nerves. Lorene, 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Stevens, 268 Stanton street, was knocked down by an auto mobile at Williams. a venue and Rus sell street early last night as she was crossing Russell street with her 12-year-old brother, Cecil. The motor ist. Alvin Ross. 324 East Ninth street. sped away, according to Cecil's story to his parents. The girl's brother took the number of the automobile and police later brought Ross to the station. Ross, in making out his report of the accident, declared that he failed to stop because he was "nervous and went all to pieces." He was charged with failing to give right of way and was released under S5U Dan. At first it was feared that Lorene had been injured internally, but ex amination by a physician showed that. although one front and one rear wheel ran over her body, she was but slierhtlv bruised. Her most painful wound was a long scratch across her faMrs. E. M. Goethal, 896 East Morri son street, suffered a broken right wrist when she was knocked down by an automobile driven by John J. Johnson, 942 East Morrison street, at East Thirtieth and B'elmont streets. Mrs. Goethal was carrying an um brella and did not see the approaching car. No arrest was made. F. A. Urban, 608 Carlton street, was driving east on Carlton street and was about. to turn left into Milwaukie avenue when he was struck by the car of H. Mazoretzky, , 651 Tacoma ave nue. The Urban car was thrown on the sidewalk and Frank and Fred erick Urban, 12 and 14 years, were bruised slightly. Mr. Urban also suf fered from shock. They were attend ed by a physician from the. city emer gency hospital. PROFESSOR STICKS TO HUNT FOR SPOOK Dr. Pierce Stays Alone Antigonish House. in GHOST OPINION DIVIDED LABORER SHOOTS FRIEND ATTACK ... IN BUNKHOUSE IS HELD TO BE MISTAKE. Mexican Railroad Worker at Divide Sent to Eugene With Serious Wound; Assailant Flees. BANDITS" SMALL BOYS 35 Men Under Sheriff Capture Trio Practicing With Shotgun. LKWISTON, Idaho, March 12. Sheriffs and police officers led a posse of 25 men early this morning to capture three armed desperadoes, who, according to reports - from re sponsible persons, were encamped on Snake river two miles south of here and had been shooting at motorists who chanced to stop near their -camp. Led by the officers, the posse sur rounded the camp, and, the hunted trio surrendered without resistance. It developed that banditti were three small boys who had gone out for an early hunt, and had chanced to try out a new shotgun with three nr four shots in the direction of a party of motorists who chanced to stop, unknown to the boys, to adjust their motor. None was injured In the shooting. Some Residents of Caledonia Mills Believe Scientist Already Has Seen Ghost. CALEDONIA MILLS, N. S., March 12. The .spook-hunter. Dr. Walter Franklin Prince, was alone tonight in Alex McDonald's little home over on the hill, hoping that the "thing" which caused Alex and his family to vacate would get friendly and sug gest a game of "tag." Down here in the settlement the folk sat up late, expecting at any moment to see the psychic professor. his hair on end, fleeing from what ever it was that took liberties with Alex's cattle, slapped a provincial de tective and a reporter when they grew too bold, and then refused to walk when its would-be visitors called. There are some here who believe that Dr. Prince already has discov ered the secret of the ghost, or per haps made its acquaintance and ar ranged for a friendly little chat to night. Dr. Prince -has taken precaution to prevent members of his party from giving out any information that h has shared with them, and members of the McDonald family, who visited their erstwhile residence Friday night were pledged to secrecy regarding what -happened. ' Dan McGillivray, a neighbor, said tonight: I reckon the doctor saw all he wanted to, else why all the gumsho stuff? "We have one mystery up here all winter now we've got two," he added. "First it was the ghost, now its tne gnost-hunter. No report was made public of the happenings of last night in the Mc Donald home. It was generally be lieved, however,' that if the ghost went for a walk, it managed to evade Dr. prince s cobweb system of ghos alarms. Toll of ."Ht?Gteater I WOMEN REFUSE JURY DUTY Four of 14 Called Claim Exemp tion in Marion County. SALEM, Or- March 12. (Special.) Four of the 14 women selected to serve on the Marion county circuit court jury during the March term have declined, and have sent their exemption cards to the county clerk. unless tne women accept Jury re si jnsibility, it may be possible that the court will be compelled to dis miss the cases against two men now confined in the Marion county jail on statutory charges. The law pro vides that in cases of this character at least six of the 12 Jurors shall be women. These defendants have been in jail for several months, but cannot be tried until enough women accept jury service to comply with the law. - EUGENE, Or., March 12. (Spe cial.) Alberto Cruz, a Mexican rail road laborer in the employ of the Southern Pacific company at Divide, was shot in the back by Ramon Ga- mino, a fellow laborer, at 6:15 o'clock this morning. Cruz is now at the Eugene hospital suffering from a serious wound. According to officers who made an investigation of the shooting, Gamino had been out all night and came to the bunkhouse drunk. He fired two or three shots outside tne house and upon entering fired two more, the second striking Cruz as he slept. The two men were friends and on that account the officers state that they believe the shooting of Cruz was a mistake. The bullet struck in the left side of the back and lodged near the left shoulder. It was extracted by surgeons at the hospital. Gamino, after the shoot SOVIET TO LEASE FARMS Foreign Capitalists to Lease Grain Lands Near Volga. MOSCOW, March , 12. The soviet e-overnment soon will be ready to lease to foreign concerns large soviet estates ' in the Volga and southeast Russia on a' concession basis. M. Cereda, member of the supreme economic council, who is charged with the task of raising 1,000,000,000 gold rubles, or $500,000,000, for agri cultural and road improvements, an nounced the plan in an interview with the official Russian press bu reau. M-- Cereda said the leases will be designed to put much of the most valuable grain land in Russia tem porarily in the hands of foreign capitalists. resembled descriptions of that report- 670,000 IN SAN FRANCISCO in& disappeared 'and has not yet d seen recently by an Englishman rr t Shflf f A in tho bo m 1fsa 1 it v Lieutenant Beviliqua, who is com- Population Estimate Is Made by inander of the United States ship Ka weah, said that during 1906, while in the Straits of Magellan, about 500 yards off the coast of Patagonia, he saw the monster. The head was like that of a horse and the neck was fully 30 feet long," he said. "It was not a turtle, because ttrties do not have necks of that length. I am equally sure that it was not a snake, because snakes do not live in the ice and snow." been found. BUENOS AIRES, March 12. (By the Associated Press.) A protest gainst the killing or capturing oi the plesiosaurian monster which is reported to have been seen in an Andean lake in Patagonia, has been raised before the ministry of interior by the "Sociedad Jrcitectora de Lot Animales,"- which corresponds to the American- society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. The society urges that if such an antediluvian creature exists it be allowed to roam its native heath un molested and that the expedition which proposes to bring back the animal alive or dead to the Buenoa Aires zoo be prohibited. Meanwhile Professor Onelli, who first announced the existence of the animal, says the expedition will start at the end of the week, provided additional funds are forthcoming. Telephone Company. . SAN FRANCISCO, March 11. This I city's population now is 670,000, ac cording to an estimate made by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph com pany, and announced yesterday. The estimate, company officials said, is based on an elaborate checking sys tem, including telephones installed, and ordered, registration of voters and daily average attendance at the public schools. The last federal census gave San Francisco a population of 506,676. LOS ANGELES, March 12. The city of Los Angeles now has a population og 831,123i persons, an increase of 60,622 over 1921, according to esti mates in the 1922 city directory to be issued Monday. DAYTON BONDS VOTED $50,000 of $170,000 for School Is to Come From Estate. WALLA WALLA, Wash., March 12. Citizen3 of Dayton, Wash., yester day voted a 70,000 bond issue 1237 to 44 as a result of which they will receive a $120,000 school structure. Fifty thousand is to come from the estate of the late Dr. Marcel Pietrzki and $90,000 additional from the es state will be used for maintenance. Dr. Pietrzki, on his death ten years ago, left a $100,000 estate which has grown to $140,000. The new school will be a combined high and indus trial school and will be called the Pietrzki school. PUNSTER EGG IS SHOWN Weight Is Nearly One-half Pound and Circumference 12 Inches. KENT, N. T March 12. (Special.) .(Percy Barker, according to rela. WILLIS FOR RATIFICATION NEGRO SUSPECT LYNCHED Advocacy of 4-Power Pact Made Alleged Assailant of Farmer Is by Senator in Church Address. WASHINGTON, D.. C, March 12. Ratification of. the four-power Pa cific treaty, negotiated at the recent arms conference, was advocated in an address at Calvary Baptist church by Senator Willis of Ohio. He de clared, however, that "if the four power treaty is defeated the limita tion of armaments treaty should also be defeated, and I would so cast my vote." "Ratify the four-power treaty and we have taken the biggest step for ward for peace in centuries," declared the senator, "defeat it and we had best start at once to arm with all the adequacy at our command." . . Killed by Posse. - - HARLEM, Ga., March 12. Alfred Williams, negro, charged with shoot ing L. O. Anderson, a white farmer, near here early this morning, was taken from a posse as he was being brought to the Jail here and lynched. Anderson will recover. BAVARIA CHANGE SLATED Leader of Peoples Party Predicts Monarchy Will Return Soon. (Copyright by the New York World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) REGENSUBURG, Bavaria, March 12. SEA FLIGHT IS COMPLETED Ma for Cotton Reaches St. Johns After Trip to Mainland. ST. JOHNS, N. F., March 12. Major Sidney Cotton completed today the first airplane round trip between this city and the Labrador coast. ne return trip of 500 miles from Cartwright, a Hudson Bay company trading post in Sandwich bay, midway up the Labra dor coast, was started this morning and was made in eight hours. Thla included half-h'our stops at St Anthony and Botwood, N. F. WOMAN KILLS MAN IN ROW William T. Dickinson, 5 7, Fatally Shot in St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, March 12. An uniden tified woman shot and killed Wil liam T. Dickinson, 57, after a brief argument atf the entrance of the Ar lington hotel here tonight. The woman escaped. Dickinson's home address was unknown. Redmond Post Commended. REDMOND, Or., March 12. (Spe cial.) The activity of the Redmond post of the American Legion was commended by HanfOrd MacNider, national commander, in a letter re ceived recently by P. M. Houk, ad jutant of Ray Johnson post, No. 44. "We hear many good things about Ray Johnson post down here at na tional headquarters, of your splendid activity and of your endeavors in the formation of the central Oregon American Legion council," said Mr. MacNider. Encampment Lodge Completed. REDMOND, Or., March 12. (Spe cial.)' The organization of a Red mond Encampment lodge was com pleted here today under the direc tion of C. L. Shattuck, grand execu tive' officer, and M. R. Biggs, grand master. Oddfellows of Oregon. Eight een central Oregon lodges have signed the petition for a charter here. There was a large attendance of encamp ment members from other points. Best gradts of coal, well screened. Diamond Coaf Co. Bdwy. 1037. Adv. FATHER, 80, SHOOTS SON Joseph Feltin, 45, Killed in Row Writh Aged Parent. SAN JOSE, March 12. Joseph Fel tin, 45, Was shot through the head and killed tonight by his father, Louis Feltin, 80, as the result of an altercation between the two as to whether a neighbor should be given permission to erect a shed on their property. The father ssfid he shot only after his son threatened to knock him down and then only to frighten him. He exhibited a bruised hand as evidence of the scuffle which he said occurred. The son is survived by a bride of two weeks, ill at a local hospital. MORE WARS PREDICTED Zion Overseer Declares Britain Will Lose Many Colonies. MILWAUKEE, March 12. In ad dressing several hundred persons, Wilbur Glenn voliva, overseer of zion, today prophesied that Great Britain would lose many of her co lonial possessions, which would be followed by the formation of a great northeastern confederacy, with Rus sia, Germany, Japan, China forming to combat nations already allied. "There is no peace for the 'world nothing but hell," he declared. in the Air Wherever crowds gather in street, elevator, shop, theatre or office deadly influenza germs lurk in the air you breathe. Caution should be your watchword. The influenza epidemic of 1918-19 snuff ed out more lives than the greatest catastrophe in historythe World War. In the present emergency common sense demands that you protect yourself and those about you by strengthening your resistance to disease. Take Hill's Cascara Bromide Quinine Tab lets regularly and avoid colds, headaches, grippe, constipation and other strength-sapping disorders that weaken your resistance to deadly influenza germs. Wherever there is a drug store you will find Hill's world-famous C. B. Q. tablets in red box bearing Mr. Hill's portrait and signature. Keep a box at home and office never be without one. While "Flu" lurks in the air avoid danger by regularly taking Hill's Cascara Bromide Quinine. At all Druggists, 30 cents W. H. HILL COMPANY. DETROIT. MICHIGAN Ask for Hills Cascam Bromide Quinine The present emer gency calls for calm ness and common sense-not hysteria and fear. Shun sneezing crowds. Walk on tho sunny sido of the street. Exercise. Get lenty of sleep. Avoid atigue, colds, headaches and constipation. Take Cascara Bromide Quinine tablets regularlyand don't worry about influenza. For colds, headaches, grippe and influenza, C. D. Q. Tablets are best by test. Like no other quinine tablets they disintegrate and start work in ten seconds, giving quick relief. Hill's Tablets are sure, safe, dependable. They leave no bad after effects no "head noises" Con venient and pleasant to BRIBERY EES SCORED FAIR COMPETITIOX IN BUSI- ' NESS IS URGED. ALBANIAN REV0LTERS WIN Revolutionaries Reported to Have Occupied Capital. LONDON, March 12. Revolutionar ies . commanded by Zugrliedi and Llsud dussek have occupied Tirana, capital of Albania, said a dispatch to the Ex change Telegraph from Rome. The dispatch added that members of the government have established themselves at Elbassan, 61 miles southeast of Scutari, Seaside Debaters Triumph. SEASIDE, Or., March 12. (Special'.) Seaside won two legs of a trian gular debate between Rainier and As toria last night and as a result are now champions of the lower Columbia district of the state league. The question was: "Resolved, that aliens incapable of becoming citizens should be prohibited from holding real prop erty. Seaside won on the afflrma tive, against Astoria's negative at Seaside, and Seaside's negative team won from Ranter's affirmative at Rainier. ... Cure Lies in Souls of Individuals, Says Federal Trade Official; -Abuses Are Cited. BOSTON, March 12. With a plea for fair competition in business as a solid foundation" on which to con struct national commerce, Huston Thompson of the federal trade com mission speaking today at the Algon quin club, described some phases of unethical procedure with which the commission has come in contact through its study of American industries- Commercial bribery, the speaker said, has taken on a tremendous im petus since the war, "representatives of many industries having come to the commission and declared it was impossible without the assistance of a government body to root tne evil from their own establishments. "Frequently it is said that com mercial bribery is greatly superin duced by the breakdown pf character through the un-American habit of ac centing tips." Mr. Thompson declared. "Such a practice canmever be wholly eliminated by any governmental in stitution. The cure lies in the souls of the individual." One of the greatest character-build ine forces in "America, the speaker said, is the boy scouts organization, each of whom is pledged and taught to abhor tipping. The harvest of speculation hav ing long since been garnered in the country districts, is now being reaped in the cities. Commissioner Thompson said, but he expressed disapproval of the proposal that a federal official be clothed with authority to say what securities could or could not be is sued. A more effective law, he sug gested, would be one requiring those selling securities to give all vital in formation concerning them, and to Include sworn statements of this data in their circulars and advertisements. EMPLOYMENT IS GAINING Nearly All Industries In New York Show Increases. ALB ANT, N. Y., March 12. In creases in employment In virtually all of the industries in New Tork state were shown in an analysis of employers' reports, issued tonight by Henry D. Sayer, state industrial com missioner. A 3 per cent Increase in factory employment, the second larg est gain since "the beginning of the depression," was featured in the re port. "Improved business conditions and seasonal demands were the chief fac tors causing these gains in employ ment," said the report. Tho newspaper argues thut the Washington government is following a policy dangerous to Kurcne. ns the. United States, being the rreditor of all states, even the strongext, "In tends to take advantage of this ero nomic position in order to gain a rrul leadership which threatens to become an Imposition." $7000 Paid Daily in Taxes. SALEM, Or., March 12. (Special.) Taxes have been paid to the county at the rate of approximately $7000 day, according to Oscar Bower, sheriff and tax collector. Although hard times have been preached throughout the land, the tax re ceipts thus far this year were said to be slightly above normal. This would indicate, officials said, that money is not as scarce as some peo- ple have contended. Skin Tortured Babies Sleep Mothers Rest After Cuticura Mill mm &tteUhteTftriM,P9t.X,Btaa4M,MM. I U. S. EGOTISM CHARGED America Said to Be Trying to Win Upper Hand In Europe. ROME, March 12. Commenting on the American government s decision not to participate in the Genoa con ference, the Temps says the Ameri can note might seem to be a "pre meditated act of national egotism by which, under the pretext of checking the ambitions of others, the United States tries to make its own political and financial interests predominant BAUME BENGDE ( AXALorjiiquii Vt All tlruaaUtl Keep a tulM tuuvlir THOJ. LtLMINO w CO. NIWYOKK, . UT have you ever tasted OLYMPIC WheatHearts? It's both health ful and palatable. FLOUR CEREALS FEED, SAVE WATER BILLS Sale! Sale! Sale! 2 k. Best toilet tank repair balls. The kind that stop the leaks. Regu lar price 75c and $1 each. 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