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THE MORNING OltEGONIAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1923 1ITTIE HOPE HELD OF AVOIDING STRIKE Bituminous Walkout on April 1 Is Expected. PARLEY PLEAS DENIED Coal Operators Said to Continue to Refuse to Enter Conference . With Mine Workers. TVASTTIxnTOr. D. C March 13. tittle hope for averting a strike in the unionized bituminous coal fields on April 1 was held out today in those official circles -which are most con cerned with the repeated government attempts to bring- about an adjust ment of wage agreement differences. Mine operators, it was said, were continuing refusal to enter a con ference with the United Mine Work ers, looking to the creation of a wage contract for the central competitive field, notwithstanding representations made to them by Secretary of Labor Davis, who holds that existing con tracts require them at least to enter negotiations regardless of whether such negotiations are carried to ' completion. Labor Willing- to Confer. The United Mine Workers of Amer ica, the general union organization, was declared to be entirely willing to enter a conference, although in eistinsr unon the maintenance of existing wage scales, which were adopted in 1920. The employers are demanding reductions amounting to 20 per cent or more. It was indicated in official circles today that the government would go , no further at present, but to await the development of the threatened Strike. The degree of possible gov ernment intervention later, it was said, would be determined by the de gree to which the strike, if it de veloped, might affect adversely the public welfare. Statistics assembled for the labor department indicate that 65,000,000 tons of coal are now in storage, approximately a ten weeks' supply for the entire country, that this amount is rapidly being aug mented and that non-union produc tion is tending to increase. Local agreements between the union and operators are also expected to go Into effect on or before April 1, which -would Insure maintenance of further (Operations. Davis Policy Hnnds-Off. Secretary Davis was said to be maintaining a policy of hands-off with reference to the anthracite sit uation on the ground the operators and miners were conferring and that prospects were at least hopeful that wage contracts would be made. Of ficials declared there was no rea son to believe that a coal strike would spread to other industries and took occasion to l Dint out that in 1D03 when a general strike developed in the anthracite regions, former Presi dent Roosevelt did not interfere until it had been in progress for six months. John ' I. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, was expected to arrive in Washington " tomorrow, but union representatives here said he would then go immediately to New York to participate in the an thracite negotiations. . dent Kerr of Oregon Agricultural col lege, and President Campbell of the Oregon university, declared Senator Strayer. said that $800,000 would be sufficient for the two institutions, but later they recommended a bill for $1, 200.000, "and," continued the senator, "Kerr came to me and said that the sum was far in excess of what -they actually needed." Senator Strayer proposed that the 11,200,000 be elim inated. or that at least 11,000,000 be out oil. Schools Get Half of Taxes. County Judge Dodson of Baker re ported half of the county taxes goes to schools. He favored elimination of tne coyote bounty, saying . squirrels and skunks do more damage In Baker county than coyotes. He also de clared the recent telephone rate de cision to be class legislation and failed to see why railroads should be assessed on a basis to permit their making a certain profit, while other people cannot make 1 per cent. E. H. Test, Judge of Malheur coun ty, explained that while the taxes are high in his county, the fault is not all chargeable to the state, for cities and towns have been extravagant and if they want $30,000 or $40,000 they vote it. There are $200,000 raised for schools. He admitted that he didn't see any "relief unless some of the state i mulage is abolished. Income Tax Favored. W. F. Holman. banker at Ontario, Informed the commission that prac tically all money, notes and accounts escape'taxation. rle opposed a tax on mortgages, but favored an incomt tax. District Attorney Lytle of Vale pro posed a poll tax as a relief, but found no reinforcements in his argument. Judge William Smith of Baker in dicated various appropriations which the legislature has made and said these could have been, done without The judge held that there ar. In structors for fads and fancies in the schools and "children are being taugnt all sorts of folderol." He had no sympathy, however, with any plan to cut wages or salaries, maintaining tnat that Is the poorest kind of policy. Commission Not Satisfied. A. A. Smith, ex-representative for Baker county, appeared as attorney for the Eastern Oregon Light & Power company and insisted that public utilities pay taxes on nearer the true valuation than any. other property in the state. This power company has a valuation of $1,050, 077 for rate-making purposes and an equalized valuation for tax purposes ot $763,498, he explained. Assessors present were asked what they thought of a central assessing ooay, so tnat there would be uniform assessment in all counties and the commission tried to discover why in adjoining counties sheep and live stock and the same character of land would have different valuations. The commissioners are not satisfied yet with the explanations. Assessors did not enthuse over1 a central assessing ooay. SHUT-OUT OF ROADS AT HEARING FAILS Labor Board Vice - Chair man Blocks Attempt. ISSUE IS HELD BIG ONE fcABOR DELEGATES READY Quick Agreement Predicted If Mine Owners Give Way. NEW YORK, March 13. Anthra . cite mine workers assembled here to complete arrangements for the joint conference with the operators on Wednesday expressed confidence to day that the negotiations for a new wage agreement will not be pro tracted unless the mine owners re fuse to recede from their demands for a cut in wages under the present scale. The scale committee is under in structions to demand an increase in the contract scale, a straight eight pour day underground for day labor and a standard check-off system for the collection of the miners' union dues. Coyotes Infant Industry. Coyotes are an infant industry in some of the eastern Oregon counties, it developed at the hearing. County commissioner .Dean, of Malheur, in formed the tax investigators that there are men who make a specialty of locating dens of coyotes and killing tne cuos ana permitting the old ones to escape to breed more young. The eight or ten cubs bring $3 or 4 each under the bounty. By preserving the parents a new crop of bounty-bearing coyotes is assured. The pelts of coyotes, the commission was informed, are worth from $5 to $15 each. The coyote bounty is so at tractive that pelts are imported from adjacent stages. One man was caught Dootlegging coyote skins, bringing In, a truckload of them from Nevada when apprehended. On the whole the coyote bounty does not meet with favor in Baker and Malheur counties and it is one source of a leak of taxes. POLICEMAN IS MISSING MILLAGE TAX CUT URGED (Continued From First Page.) the increase for all taxes is 87.9 per cent. The percentage of delinquency in Malheur county is 9.9 per cent. Denial was made by State Senator Strayer of Baker that the people are responsible for the big tax load. He insisted that the responsibility rests with the legislature and the press, as well as the electorate, arguing that the press has not dissuaded people trom voting for taxes. Vote Limitation -1" reed. Senator Strayer, who was a member of the ways and means committee of the 1921 session of the legislature, recommended that the commission propose a constitutional amendment which will prevent anyone but a tax payer from voting on measures where financial matters are at issue. He held that non-taxpayers are important factors in saddling on the taxpayers costs which they themselves will not have to carry. Non-taxpayers out number the taxpayers and are in posi tion to put over any measure by weight of numbers. If he had his way, he said, no measure could be initiated urttil it had first been offered to the legislature and turned down. An attack was made on the high cost of education by the senator. He said that faculty members visit high schools and do all they can to induce students to go to one of the institu tions of higher learning and then these same school people go to the legislature and demand more approp riations saying they are swamped with applications of students. Presl- The Dalles Man Thought Suffering From Aphasia Due to Illness. THE DALLES, Or., March 13. (Spe cial.; Whether Patrolman Robert Lambert of The Dalles police force is a victim of foul play or is wander ing about the country suffering from aphasia brought about' by a recent attack of Influenza, is puzzling local authorities. Lambert left his home last Saturday noon, after having been in bed with a high temperature for a week, and announced that he was go ing back to work. He never reported at tne ponce station. Friday after noon an acquaintance saw Lambert about five miles east of The Dalles, walking along the railroad track. wnen questioned. liamDert, in an un comprehending sort of way, is said to have replied that he was out for the fresh air and was going to walk across the river to the Washington side at jeino. His wife believes that his Illness caused him to lose his memory, as he had no reason to desert his home. sue said. Action on Cases of Three Lines Involving Violation of Trans portation Act Due Soon. CHICAGO, March 13. An attempt to bar a number of railroads from the present wage hearings before the United States railroad labor board failed today when Vice-Chairman Hooper ruled against evidence pre sented by railway employes to show that the roads had violated the law and therefore have-no standing be fore the board. The ruling brought out the fact that action on cases involving thre roads, charged with violation of the transportation act because of con tracting shop work to outside firms, is expected soon. The question at issue, Vice-Chair man Hooper said, was one of the most important the board has faced. If such contract work were declared legal, he added, "the ground would be cut out from under this board and the vitals of the transportation act would be killed. Three Cases Pending, Cases against the Erie, the Indiana Harbor belt and the New York Cen tral are pending before the board. All fclm with regard to the papers found here before sending him on to Cen terville. The bank robbed was the Farmers' State bank at Centerville, Wash., and the cash, securities and other papers were stolen when burglars tunneled through a brick wall last Thursday night and after trying in vain to force the time lock on the main safe, gave up there and broke into a num ber of safety deposit boxes. List of Bonds Received. Following Is the list of bonds found by Mr. Frank: Albert Clockner, one $50 sold cer tificate. Andrew Lllmetta, six $50 bonds, two $100 bonds and one $1000 bond. Gustava Niemela, one $50 bond, ono $100 bond. Wilber Crocker, one $50 bond. W. B. Hayden, one $50 bond. Elma Mattson, one $50 bond. T. H. Masters, one $50. bond, four $100 bonds. Jacob Lawery, one $50 bond, five $100 bonds. John W. Miller, one $50 bond, two $100 bends. Bertha Matson, one $50 bond. Edward L. Cleckner, one $50 bond. Edina C. Cleckner, one $50 bond. Theodore Jaekel, one $50 bond, eight $100 bonds. George Garner, one $100 bond. Herman Heikka, one $100 . bond, three shares of elevator stock. Lillian Garner, two $100 bonds, one $500 bond. Minnie McKillip, two $100- bondls. Frank Mattson, one $100 bond. Adolph Matta, one $50 bond, five $100 bonds. William Ahola, one $50 bond, one $100 bond. Charles Wildamen, three $100 bonds Mary Masters, three $100 bonds and one $500 bond. J. W. Miller, three $100 bond Wilber Crocker, two $100 bondis." Fay Mulligan, one $50 bond. Estella Matson, one $50 bond. John E. Klocker, five shares of Cen terville Elevator stock. One note. $370, Farmers State bank, signed Gideion Lllmetta. One receipt from the Farmers State bank to Jacob Jacobson for $200 worth of "liberty bonds. SUSPECT CAUGHT AT TACOMA Involve the sub-letting of shop work 1 Safety Deposit Boxes in Bank of . . . . . - lu coiiLra.ci.or3, ail ot wnom are pay ing lower wages than the scale set for railroad shopmen by the board. The ruling was made over the vig orous protest of B. M. Jewell, bead of tne shop craft unions, who asserted that if shops were to be closed by the railroads one day, and opened by, a contractor at lower wages the next. the railroads were setting an example which might convince the employes that "the very small number we have termed radicals were right and the great majority of sane-minded em ployes is 100 per cent wrong." Notice Held No Given. Mr. Jewell's attempt to rule out the contracting carriers came after he had presented testimony intended to show that proper conferences, accord ing to the requirements of the trans portation act, had not been held prior to bringing wage disputes to the board, on numerous railroads. In all cases, Mr. Jewell charged, the railroads did not give the required 30 days' notice of their wage adjust ment proposals, that they submitted a fixed reduction for acceptance or re jection and that there was no real endeavor made to actually negotiate new scale. Centerville Looted. TACOMA, Wash., March 13. Will- lam Walters, 50, was arrested when he alighted from a train at the union station here today and was held for Investigation in connection with the robbery of the Farmers State bank at Centerville, Wash., last Thursday night. He will be sent to Portland. Stamps, bank notes and cash, believed to have been taken from the Center ville bank, were found upon him, ac cording to Captain of Detectives John Strickland The Centerville bank was robbed last Thursday night when yeggs tun neled through the brick wall and. after vainly trying to force the com bination of the time lock, turned their attention to the safety deposit boxes. looting a score of them. While an overturned automobile with $7000 in deposit checks was found near The Dalles, Or., account ing for part of the missing securities, $2000 in bank notes, stamps and cash was Btill unaccounted for. It, was be lieved the robbers made their way by train to Portland after abandoning the wrecked machine. GREEK KING TAKES MARINE MINISTER ORDERED TO FORM NEW CABINET.. EVIDENCE ESCAPES JURY Good Men and True, Unable to Agree, Return Empty Bottle PHILADELPHIA, March 13. When a Jury in quarter sessions court to day retired to determine the guilt cr Innocence of a saloonkeeper charged with selling liquor without a license, they took with them a bot tle of whisky which had been offered in evidence. Nearly four hours later the pudge ordered them to report. They filed in with the liquor bottle empty and the information that they were unable to agree. Inquiry from the court as to what had become of the whisky brought no satisfactory answer and the jurors were discharged from further service in the court. ' Pi? 1bf : WIMM ,Wf M Ilr . -r ' f are the f TEETH ii FREED SUSPECTS JAILED Liberty Given Diamond Robbery Fugitives of Short Duration. OAKLAND. Cal.. March 13. .T-V Harris and- Gus Schaefer, arrested here last week on the request of St. Paul, Minn., authorities in connection with an alleged $150,000 diamond theft in St. Paul, were released today on a writ of habeas corpus, but were rearrested on a charge of being fugi tives from justice and placed in jail in default of $75,000 bond each. Attorneys for the men filed another application for writ of habeas corpus and the case will come up Wednesday. By that time St. Paul sheriff's depu ties are expected to be here for the men. Steilucoom Employe Resigns. OLYMPIA, Wash., March 13. (Spe cial.) Resignation of C. E. Maynard as storekeeper at the Washington State hospital at Steilacoom to accept a position as examiner in the division of municipal "corporations of the state auditor's office was announced today by John W. Pace, assistant director of business control. No successor has been appointed. Maynard s resigna tion as secretary of the business con trol department to become storekeep er at the Steilacoom hospital was an nounced two weeks ago. Nicolas Soratbs Charged With Re organization of Government as Result of Crisis. ,. ATHENS. March 13. (By the As sociated Press.) King Constan.lne has charged Nicolas Soratos, ex- minister of marine, with the forma tion of a new cabinet. LONDON, March 13. The Athens correspondent of the Exchange Tele graph company reported the resig nation of the Gounaris cabinet. He added that a prolonged crisis Is ex pected, as it is unlikely the liberals can form a governinent which will survive. The Greek government was defeat- I ed in the chamber of deputies at I Athens Friday when Premier Gou naris was refused a vote of confi dence, 161 to 156. He had previously! announced that as the allies desired I to establish peace in the near east, I he had accepted their mediation on condition that they agreed regarding I the peace terms. Some of the supporters of the pre mier were said to have abstained from voting, and M. Gounaris was presumed then to hold the situation well in hand. He was requested by the king to consult with the chiefs of I the different parties and leaders of I the parliamentary groups with a view to the reconstitution of the min istry. It also was reported that he I had submitted his resignation at that time. Demetrlos Gounaris has been twice premier of Greece, having held the post for five months in 1915. Fugitive Held in Seattle. VANCOUVER, Wash., March 13. M. A. Woods, wanted here on a charge of petty larceny, has been arrested in Seattle and is being held until Frank Cornelius, deputy sheriff, can go there and bring him back. It is charged that Woods solicited adver tising for a booklet published by troops in Vancouver barracks, and failed to turn over all of the money he collected. Veteran Sends Bonus Thanks. SALEM. Or, March 13. (Special.) T. G. Zimmerer, ex-service man of Pendleton, has written a letter to Sam A. Kozer, secretary - of state, thanking the officials and the voters at large for the so-called soldiers' bonus. Mr. Zimmerer said his check bad arrived and that it was much ap predated. Every large city has one newspaper which, by universal consent, is the Want-Ad medium of the community. Ir. Portland It s The Oregonian. LPp 1 DEAD, 50HURT IN BLOW Tornado Wrecks Many Buildings in Oklahoma Town. SULPHUR, Okla., March 13. One man was killed, more than 50 persons were injured and scores of buildings were wrecked when a tornado struck Sulphur late today. While more than 50 persons received injuries, less than a dozen were in hospitals early tonight. About 50 buildings were wrecked, most of them residences. Property damage Is estimated at about $100,000, with considerable other damage to the telephone and electric light wires. . PLANE'S TAIL SPIN FATAL Lieutenant Niedermeyer Falls Sev eral Thousand Feet to Death. DATTON, Ohio, March 13. Lieu tenant Frederick W. Niedermeyer Jr. of McCook field was killed late today when a monoplane In which he was doing combat problems fell .several thousand feet in a tail spin. Niedermeyer's home was said to be I in Columbia, Mo. No end to its goodness First you get the zest fill fragrance. It quick ens your, appetite. You're hungry ! Then you taste it You like it It's good. Delicious ! And then you find that its rich, tangy fla vor is imparted to every thing it touches ! OH LOOT FROM BANK FOUND (Continued From First Page.) S. A H. green stamps ror cash. Hol man Fuel Co., coal and wood. Broad way 6353, 660-21. Adr. Kead The Oregonian classified ads. bank note3, stamps and cash were still unaccounted for, but it was thought that with Frank's find and the loot which was found in Walters' suitcase, that practically - the whole theft would be accounted for. -Walters Arrest Only One. 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