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What Can Be Eliminated.
LAKE TRANSFER OPPOSED
Body Firmly Against State Surren
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BY JOHN W. KELLY.
Invariably in every public hearing
the- state tax investigation conrmis
sioa has been informed that the peo
ple want a reduction in taxes. This
demand is statewide. "Something
i must bo done.'' the commission has
been told. And that is as far as the
commission has found unanimity of
opinion.
It depends -whose ox is being gored
this proposition of cutting down
taxes. Everyone wants the reduction
to be made on the other fellow's pet
(scheme. What is a "frill and. rancy
to one becomes a necessity to another,
and what one indignant taxpayer des
ignates as "folderol" another cham
pions as most practical. There is no
budget item creating taxes but has its
stout defenders.
Statutory levies In May.
After hearing delegations from 15
counties in eastern Oregon this week
the commission has been informed
that one stumbling block against the
reduction of taxes in counties are the
number of statutory levies; with these
the county courts have no option
the law says these certain levies must
be made, and so they cannot be elim
inatedw In order that this phase of
the tax problem may be dealt with
comprehensively, with a view to ac
tion .by the .legislature at the 1923 ses
srion, the commission will ask an
opinion of the attorney-general to
prepare a list of mandatory levies
and discretionary levies.
Fortified with a list of the com
pulsory and optional levies, the com
mission can then give the legislators
something to work with along con
strnctive lines. Some, or all. of the
mandatory levies may possibly be
repealed by the law-making body, or
made discretionary with county
courts.
Diamond Lake Transfer Opposed.
That no further property of the
state be surrendered except where it
is shown that the state will be over
whelmingly benefited is the firm de
termination of the state tax Invest!
gation commission. This will be a
recommendation in the commission's
report.
Relinquishment of any water nights
meets with the opposition of the com
mission, as it means decreasing the
taxable assets of the state. The parr
ticular significance of this resolution
adopted yesterday is -that it places
the state tax investigation on record
against the plan to turn Diamond
lake and surrounding country over
to the federal government. As for
Diamond lake it is not. in the opinion
of the commission, any more of a
wonder than half a dozen other bodies
of water in Oregon.
Second Trip 'Mapped.
Tn line with the commission's -at'
tltude on having the state retain its
lands and lakes, the commission is
much opposed to the "certificate of
necessity and convenience," since the
adoption of which, the commission
says, water powers have been tied up.
At the meeting yesterday the com
mission outlined its second and last
trip. Having covered the eastern half
of the state in its search for infor
mation on tax problems, the commis
ston will go through the western sec
tlon, so that all counties will have an
opportunity to be heard before the
commission knuckles down to the
compilation of its report.
As agreed on yesterday, the trip
win start with a hearing at Medford,
April 24, where Jackson, Josephine.
Klamath and Lake counties can be
heard; April 25, Roseburg; April 2,
Eugene, for Lane, Coos and Curry
counties; Apru av, AlDany. for Linn
Benton and Lincoln counties; April
z, aaiem, ror Marlon and Polk coun
t'es; April 29, McMinnville. for Yam
hill. Washington and Tillamook coun
ties; May 1, Oregon City.
Whether the sentiment regarding
educational matters and roads, couhty
agents and extension work and in
equality of assessments is the same in
western Oregon as in eastern Ore
gon remains to be seen.
. Today the commission will hold its
hearing $n Astoria for Clatsop and
Columbia counties.
SPINACH WILL BE GROWN
Diked Land Farmers to Produce
for Cannery Markets.
: CLATSKAXIE, Or.. March 17. (Spe
cial.) Farmers of the Delta Gardens,
a tract comprising thousands of acres
of diked Columbia river marshes ad
joining Clatskanie, will give spinach
growing a thorough test th:s year.
J. N. Miller, one of the best known
farmers of the district, has contracted
to raise 25 acres for a cannery at
Rainier.
Spinach is something of an experi
ment to find a garden crop that is
readily marketable. The land pro
duces cabbage in abundance and prac
tically every kind of root vegetable,
but recently there has been no great
demand in the outside markets.
TWO WORKMEN KILLED
Industrial Accident Commission
Reports on Week.
SALEM, Or., March 17. (Special.)
.There were two fatalities in Oregon
due to industrial accidents during the
week ending March 16. according to
a report prepared by the state indus
trial accident commission here today.
The victims were Eric Sweet, bucker,
of Kerby, and Donald W. Appleman,
laborer, of Portland.
Of the 302 accidents reported, 270
were subject to the benefits of the
workmen's compensation act, 23 were
from firms and corporations that
have rejected the law. and nine were
from public utility corporations and
not subject to the provisions of the
compensation act.
Ex-Banker to Take Graduate Work.
ALBANY, Or., March 17. (Special.)
Alfred C. Schmitt of this city, until
recently president of the First Na
tional bank of Albany, has gone east
to take post-graduate work in several
prominent universities preparatory to
resuming work as an instructor this
fall. He will be assistant professor
of business administration at Oregon
-Agricuiturl college. Mr. Schmitt was
a college professor before he entered
the local bank several years ago.
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TD ffiRT STRIKE IS 1
OWNERS' AND WORKERS' COM
MITTEE ORGANIZED.
Doubt Expressed That Xew Wage
Scale Can Be Drawn in Time
to Prevent Halt in Work.
XEW YORK, March 17. The an
thracite coal mine owners and work
ers' committee of eight tonight began
to organize for a long series of de
liberations seeking to avert a strike
by amicable settlement of their wage
disagreements.
President Lewis of the interna
tional organizations of United min
ers and Samuel D. vvarriner, chair
man of the operators' policies coln-
mittee, both members of the commit
tee of eight, were optimistic. They
expressed doubt, however, that a new
wage scale could be Brawn in time
to prevent suspension of mining op
erations in the central, competitive
field on April 1.
The whole mining industry, from
the digging of the coal in the col
lieries to the shipment, distribution
and sale to the consuming public, will
be taken into consideration in nego
tiating the new contract,, it was said.
The miners expressed determination
to '"get down to the bottom of costs
and profits." The owners were
equally emphatic in asserting that
every angle of the industry had been
gone into.
"Despite the great divergence of
views with rrhich we begin negoti
ations, ' I believe the committee in
tends honestly to try to work out a
solution of the wage problem in the
anthracite mines," was the statement
of Mr. Lewis.
Neither he nor Mr. Warriner,
speaking for the operators, would
predict upon what basis wages of the
miners would be computed, whether
the demands for the universal 'adop
tion of the check-off system would
be considered, or for how long it was
desired that the- contemplated new
contract should extend.
ALL DEPOSITORS PAID
Affairs of Eltopia State Bank Are
; Being Cleared Up.
OLYMPIA. Wash., March (Spe
cial.) Depositors in the Eltopia State
bank at Eltopia, Franklin county,
have been paid in full through assess
ments which the .stockholders of the
bank levied on themselves, and the
affair of the bank are being ciosed
up, John P. Duke, supervisor of bank
ing, was advised today. The ' bank.
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Airs of St. Patrick
doing business in a district which has
had successive crop failures that have
resulted in heavy losses, has been in
a critical condition and has been ope
rating for some time under the super
vision of a deputy bank examiner.
All depositors have been paid and
all outstanding drafts will te cared
for as they come, the statement to
Supervisor Duke aid. The bank at
the close of last year had deposits to
taling $83,000. It was formed in 1913
GREEKS RELEASE VESSEL
Turkish Troops and Passengers on
' Italian Steamer Freed.
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 17. The
Greeks have released the steamer
Africa, which was seized Wednesday
by Greek warships off Ineboli. The
steamer was flying the Italian flag.
The commander of the Greek flagship
Averof formally apologized to the
captain of the Africa andreleased
the steamer- and the Turkish passen
gers on board.
A dispatch from Constantinople
Wednesday said the Africa was taken
to Mudania, where after a three-hour
search of the vessel, the Turkish pas
sengers, including the personnel of a
Turkish sanitary corps, were declared
prisoners of war.
IDAHO ORATOR IS NAMED
William Fowler to Represent Uni
versity in Tri-State Contest.
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, Moscow,
March 17. (Special.) WilliamFow
ler of Wendell, a sophomore in the
college of law, will represent the Uni
versity of Idaho in the tri-state ora
torical contest between the Univer
sity of Oregon, University of Wash
ington and University of Idaho, to be
held in Seattle in May.
Fowler won the tryout with his
oration on "The Foreign-Born Ameri
can," said to have been one of the
best ever presented at a preliminary
trial. Professor Collins of the Eng
lish department will assist Fowler in
preparing for the triangular meet.
Employment Campaign Planned.
BAKER, Or., March 17. (Special.)
Participation of Baker post, No. 41,
American Legion, in the national
campaign of that organization to find
employment for ex-soldiers was out
lined at a meeting last night. It
was decided to have speakers at the
Kiwanis and chamber of commerce
luncheons during that week to solicit
aid from those bodies and to inter
view all employers in the county
relative to situations. Plans for the
annual meeting of the post on ADril
6 also were furthered. At this meet
ing. iniUa,Uon wiu be. Jield. -
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. The play that for years has been the greatest of all successes
on the American stage and for which $250,000 was paid for half
the screen rights alone. ' .
Cast includes Harry Myers, the Yankee of "A Connecticut
Yankee in King Arthur's Court."
This is not another "4 Horsemen" the style is too different
but it's just as good.
FREIGHT GUT ANNOUNCED
SAN FRANCISCO LINES MEET
PCGET SOUND REDUCTION.
Ii umber Rate of $12.50 for Thou
sand Feet and $5 for Ton of
Cargo New Schedule.
Meeting the cut of the Blue Fun
nel line out of Puget sound in the
trans-Pacific trade, which a week
ago lowered the lumber tariff from
15 to $12.50 a thousand feet, lines
plying out of San Francisco to ori
ental ports have fixed a rate of $5
a ton on general cargo and J12.60
on lumber, according to messages re
ceived yesterday from the south.
Portland steamship operators re
garded the move as a fight between
lines engaged in competition for
transcontinental business, and point
ed to the Canadian Pacific as having
followed the Blue Funnel cut. On
the other hand they said that San
Francisco is- not a lumber shipping
point, hence the move in meeting the
cut rate on lumber really is without
effect.
Harry L. Hudson, manager of the
Pacific bureau of the Port of Port
land commission and commission of
public docks, was advised of the cut
by San Francisco lines. None of the
lines operating out of the Columbia
river district has yet acted to meet
the lower rates. The, tariff on gen
eral cargo from this port is from $8
to 9 a ton.
K. D. Dawson, general manager of
the Columbia-Pacific Shipping com
pany, said . last night he looked for
the rate situation to be restored in a
short time and said the drop was
precipitated because of efforts . to
draw more transcontinental freight.
which the Portland services are not
so dependant on as the San Fran
cisco lines.
HAND IN THEFT PROVED
Joe Kletzel Found to Have Re
ceived Stolen Goods.
Joe Kletzel, indicted for receiving
stolen property, was found guilty by
a jury in the court of Circuit Judge
Evans yesterday afternoon after a
trial occupying most of the day. He
will be sentenced next Thursday.
Kletzel was discovered by a city In
spector to have installed a five-horsepower
electric motor, valued at $150,
in -a mattress factory on the Foster
road, and the motor was identified as
the one stolen by Andy Hilsentrager,
who pleaded guilty to the theft and
was sentenced to 60- days ia the coua-
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ty jail recently. Kletzel told con
flicting stories 'as- to how he came
into posssession of the motor and the
authorities believed that he knew it
was stolen.
George Graham, deputy district at
torney, prosecuted the case.
BANK'S DIVIDEND BIGGER
English Institution's Increase Is
an Agreeable Surprise.
NEW YORK, March 17. The Bank
of England, which has distributed a
5 per cent dividend semi-annually
since 1914, has increased the rate to
6 per cent, a telegram to a financial
agency here said today. A dividend
at an annual rate of 12 per cent has
not been paid by the Bank of England
for a whole year since 1806.
The increased dividend was an
agreeable surprise to international
bankers. Even those with influential
London connections seemed to have
no intimation that such action was
impending.
The largest disbursement, coming
so soon after the reduction of the
discount rate, was accepted here as
proof of England's steady recovery
to normal or pre-war conditions.
BRITISH COALITION WINS
Government Party Succeeds in Bye
Election at Cambridge.
LONDON, March 17. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The coalition unfcn-
ists won by a plurality of 3943 in
the recent Cambridge bye election
against a divided opposition.
The election was for a successor
to Sir Eric Geddes, coalition unionist,
formerly minister of transport, re
signed. The successful candidate
was Sir Douglas Newton, who polled
10,897 votes as against the labor
candidate's 6954, and the independent
liberal's 4520, it was announced today.
At the general election in 1918 Sir
Eric Geddes defeated the labor can
didate by a majority of 7764.
Fugitives From Baker Arrested.
BAKER, Or.. March 17. (Special.)
After passing a check for $50 on
District Attorney Levens and another
for $25 on Baker's bakery, R. O. San
ders and Paul Berkman were arrested
on complaint of authorities at San
Jose, Cal., late yesterday. They had
produced credentials from an Elks
lodge at San Pedro, Cal. . Word re
ceived from the San Jose authorities
states that the men are also wanted
on charges of bigamy, forgery
and embezzlement. An automobile
shipped here from Pendleton was
seized end two women who accom
panied the alleged check operators
axe being neldor investigation.
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SHIP PAPER IS Dfi SALE
SECURITIES ARE OFFERED TO
AMERICAN PUBLIC.
'Original 'Cost of Face Value" Is
Many Millions of Dollars, Says
Board Viee-President.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 17.
Vice-President S. Kimball of the ship
ping board, in charge of finance, an
nounced today that the emergency
fleet corporation was offering at
competitors' sale securities obtained
for advances by the government "to
the people, on account of the world
war," to finance the shipbuilding dur
ing the emergency. The securities
and properties, Mr. Kimball caid, "at
an original cost of face value," to
taled many millions of dollars. Mort
gages for sale are on housing proj
ects at Newport News, V a., at Sun
village and Sun Hill, Chester, Pa.,
and Newburgh, N. Y. Other villages
located adjacent to. shipyards on the
Atlantic coast from Maine to FlorlJa,
on the great lakes and on the Pacific
coast will be sold, Mr. Kimball said, as
soon as the necessary" arrangements
are completed.
The mortgages on the real estate
offered for sale are valued at $12,
410,432 and notes secured by pre
ferred mortgages have face value of
$33,500,000.
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body and soul together.
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