TITE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1923 6 F DO YOU REMEMBER? REDUCE THEIR TAXES Old-Time Prosperity Expect ed Within Short Time. Heavy Increases' Are Shown in 21 Subdivisions. CITY IS IN GOOD SHAPE MULTNOMAH CUT DRASTIC What Destruction Has Been Done Is Declared Due Not So Much to War as to Necessity. Decreases Total $1,900,000 and Kises $1,200,000, Aggregate Saving Being $700,000. CHICAGO 0 110M C01I S SURETOCDMEBAGK i ? 4 I , A X A - l A ' ' L - "M SALEM. Or, April 10. (Special.) Eleven Oregon counties reduced their 1922 taxes approximately Jl, 900, 000, while 21 counties show an increase aggregating more than 11,200.000. when compared with the figures foe ' the year 1921, according to records in the offices of the state tax commis sion Multnomah county, with the largest valuations In the state, made the most drastic reductions In taxes for the year 1922. The reduction aggregated fl, 500,000 when compared with the previous year. Increases in outside counties, however, had the effect of reducing the total reductions in Ore gon to $700,000. Morrow Leads Redactions, Morrow county reduced its taxes for the current year approximately 15 per cent, while Malheur county made a 9 per cent reduction. The heaviest reduction in any other county Is only 5 per cent. Ieschutes county has the distinc tion of making the largest propor tionate increase. This increase was 23 per cent, as against an increase of 22 per cent lor Lincoln county. Curry, Douglas, Grant and Tillamook coun ties averaged 15 per cent in their in creases, while Benton, Umatilla and Union counties averaged 11 per cent. Increases in the other counties are 8 per cent or less. Increases Due to Levies. The records show that practically all of the increases were due to the activities of local levying bodies. Taxes for state purposes showed a reduction in nearly all counties and a substantial reduction for the state as a whole. The heaviest reduction was noted In the millage taxes, due to the marked decrease in valuations for the state. One of the outstanding factors in local Increases was the levies neces sary to pay interest on bonds, county, city, school, port, drainage and irri gation. The levies for interest on the bonded debt exceed $4,000,000. Of this amount approximately $500,000 is for county road bond issues. , City bond interest aggregated $2,500,000, port bonds $500,000, irri gation bonds $400,000, and Interest on warrants $100,000. Taxation Is Summarized. The fol. owing summary shows the taxes for the several counties of the state for the years 1921 and 1922: County. Baker . . 1921. 776.892 473,079 1,512,159 1,007,733 707,300 1.271,500 205,78(1 133.271 . 498,026 994,358 20S.U48 245,050 304,495 4K0.SJ3 1,224.51 243,775 413,294 982,076 326.049 1,477,023 349.978 1,052,140 1922. $ 767,512 528,575 1,408,401 1,882,316 756, 733 1,281,121 314.703 153,414 615,063 1,144,735 2H0.719 281,471 381,876 526,344 1,283.471 245,000 445,324 985,000 325.000 1,509,315 428,568 1,064,045 714,108 1.6,85,937 4.W.377 Benton Cl&ckamas . . . . . Clatsop Columbia ...... Coos ........... Crook Curry Deschutes ...... oufflaa Gilliam ........ Grant .......... Harney Hood,Iliver Jackson Jefferson ....... Josephine ...... Xlaroath ....... Lake ........... lAn, . . . Lincoln ........ Linn ........... Malheur 83,715 Marlon 1,695,121 Morrow 544,681 Multnomah 14,776,314 Polk 557,217 Sherman 358,087 Tillamook 805,304 Umatilla 1,551,014 Union 68S.641 Wallowa 503,383 Wtico 687,382 Washington 1,076,482 Wheler 149,192 1'a.mhlil 7S3, 18 13,2;!9,851 574.292 346,209 920,825 1,717,814 768.960 539,913 737,734 1,079,481 150,000 807,932 Total .$41,174,042 40,453,28 $27,213,433 Not including Multnomah . . .S26.RP7.T28 PRINCIPALS TO MEET Clarke County Association Session Is to Be on Saturday. VANCOUVER, Wash.. April 10. (Special.) A meeting of the Super intendents' and Principals' associa tion of the Clarke county schools will be held Saturday in the East Mil Plain school building. H. B. Ferrin, principal of the Washougal schools, will outline the plans of the county track and dec lamatory contest; Ralph E. Roberts, principal of the Minnehaha school, will talk on "The Value of Education to the Individual, to the State and to the Nation"; Professor C. W. Shum way will talk for the 30-10 plan, ini tiative measure No. 46; and Carl S English of the Mill Plain school will lead the general discussion. AUTO STRIPPING TO HALT Police Will Not Take Accessories to Compel Owners to Report. The polce practice of stripping au tomobiles of seat cushions and similar accessories as a means of compelling owners to report to police headquar ters for traffic violations will be dis continued, it was announced yester day at the police traffic bureau. This "action was taken follow'ng a confer ence between traffic officers and City Attorney Grant. Although the police asserted that they have a legal right to take such measures in compelling the attend ance of traffic violators at police headquarters, it resulted in consider able inconvenience to autoists who were Improperly tagged by traffic of ficers. Transient in Fight Arrested. SALEM, Or, April 10 (Special.) O. A. Penny, who told the police that' he lived at the Gurns hotel, Twelfth and Washington streets Portland, was taken to a hospital here early to day suffering from serious cuts about the face and) neck following a fight in the local railroad yards. Penny said his assailant was a man by the name of McAfee. The latter was ar rested1 In Portland today and will be returned here for trial.' The police said Penny and McAfee were tran sients and were "beating their way" south at the time of the fight. Irrigation Deal Approved. KLAMATH FALLS. Or., April 10. (Special.) Returns today showed that the supplemental contract with the government, providing for three years' postponement of the $10,000 annual payments for operation and maintenance of the Klamath Irriga tion district carried Saturday. 44 to 39. Bead The Oresroniaa classified ads. The annual exhibition ilven ly photograph shows the team that performed in 1881. Those standing, from left to right, are: Robert B. Davis, Eugene C. Fety, Jacob Muth, Dan J. Moore and Francis M. DeWitt. The three In front are: James Dunlbar, Willie Berry and Thomas W. Dunbar. " The Olympic clmb was an athletic sium on the top floor of the New Market theater. Once a year they gave an When all provisions for Oregon City When, R. B. Knapp built his mansion, every Sunday to view Its progress? When all the district north of Gllsan street and east of Notth Nineteenth street was known as Dr. B. B. Miller on his bicycle with That livid mftlodrahna. "Under the by Bike, the villain, and a pasteboard the nick of time? FOUR BLAMED FOR CRASH DISPATCHER AND CREW OF TRAIN CHARGED WITH WRECK. Loose Methods of Handling Trains at The Dalles Condemned In Report to Commission. THE OREGONIAN NEWS" BUREAU, Washington, D. C, April 10. Blame for the heau-on collision of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Naviga tion company passenger trains near Celilo, Or., on the night of Decemher 1. last year, which resulted in the death of seven persons and the injury of 70 others, is placed upon Night Dispatcher Walsh of The Dalles of fice, Conductor Allison and Engine man Allen of train No. 12, running from Portland to Spokane, and Pilot Conductor Clark in a report made public by the bureau of safety of the interstate commerce commission to day. The Portland-Spokane train, through the fault of the persons mentioned, it is asserted by the report, collied with westbound train No. 17, running from Omaha to Portland. Operating of ficials of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation company also come in for severe criticism for "their failure to provide a safe method of operating trains between Oregon Trunk line connection and Biggs, Or." The report declares, "this accident was caused by the failure of, Con ductor Allison and Engineman Allen, of train No. 12 properly to communi cate with the train dispatcher before leaving Oregon Trunk connection, and by Night Chief Dispatcher Walsh is suing a train order giving extra 3211 train No. 17 the right to run against the current of traffic from Biggs to Oregon Trunk connection without properly protecting the movement. "Sharing in the responsibility for the accident is Pilot Conductor Clark, who by his actions led the crew of train No. 12 to believe that he had been authorized by the train di patcher to clear their train," The report says the investigation shows many rules for the operation of trains to have been violated on the night of the accident, and it also is asserted that the inquiry disclosed that careless methods of operation had been carried on for some time on that part of the line. 'Tt seems to have been no uncom mon tning," the report goes on, "for trains to leave Oregon Trunk connec tion without written train order or clearance card, and proceed eight miles on the main track with nothing more formal from the train dispatcher than his verbal statement over the telephone of go over to Bigga and I'll fix you up there." 'In fact, a strict compliance with the rules was impossible because op erating officials did not see to it that blanks or other stationery were kept at this telephone booth for properly receiving train orders or clearance cards. Under such a loose system of operation, it is not surprising that the crew of train No. 12 assumed that Pilot Conductor Clark had authority to instruct them to proceed." TWO POACHERS ARE FINED Gillnetters Caught With Salmon in Closed Season. ASTORIA, Or.. April 10. (Special.) That a few gillnetters are poaching for salmon during the closed season is shown by two arrests made by John Larson, deputy warden, on Sat urday and Sunday nights. Both ar rests were in the Minaker channel near Knappa, which is known among the officials as the "closed-season" channel, as it is the place where much of the illegal fishing is done. Albert Erickson was caught Sat urday night. He had two fish In his net, but released them when officers appeared. John Fox, who was cap tured on Sunday night, had three fish and they were confiscated. Both men pleaded guilty in the Justice court this afternoon and each was fined J50 and $5 costs. The water In the river la extremely muddy and, as a result, there are said to be but few salmon going upstream. PARTIES TO BE DIVIDED ScIIwood Community Sections to Give Separate Entertainments. Because of difficulties in the past In handling the large crowds, it has been determined that the Sellwood community house this season will not members of the Portland Olympic club organization that nourished) in fortiana in me eany avs anoi naoia BJ"""- were brought from Vancouver in a at Seventeenth and Davis streets and: . 60-inch wheel? Gaslieht." played at the Oro Fino theater: the hero bound to the railroad ties locomotive and trains was run across n.. i. undertake to give one large "affair" with all the community house organi zations participating, but the classes will be divided into three groups for this purpose. The first will be given by the kindergarten section and the first and second junior boys' and girls' section next Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the community house, East Fifteenth street and Spokane avenue. This will be especially for the children and their parents and others directly interested, and demon strations of the children's work will be given. Following this, on the afternoon of April 22, the intermediate and high school young folk will have theif entertainment, and one week later the women's classes will entertain their husbands and friends. STUDENTS HAVE BIG NIGHT "TRAVEL-ON" PARTY PROVES POPULARITY OF COEDS. Sorority Houses and Girls' Halls at Corvallls Fair'ly Stormed by Men at Campus Jinx. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE. Corvallls, April 10. (Special.) Men could not travel fast enough between sorority houses and girls halls Saturday night, judging by the manner In which bicycles, automo biles and motorcycles were put to use and the pace set by some of the track men during the "travel-on" party, a campus entertainment substituted for the women's stunt show. Though forced to walk ladders, dive through automobiles tires suspended from the ceiling, explore the subter ranean depths of orority basements listen to horrible Jazz music played on home-made instruments, walk through ' ranks of ghostly-looking dressed-up dress forms, drink muddy- looking water with a cordwood "stick" in it, the men simply "ate It up" and went on to the next house for more. The Delta Zeta girls played "Sweet Girl Graduate" to ten packed houses during. the course of the evening. The Kappa Alpha Theta's three-act vaude ville, from the appearance of a tight rope walker to the girl dressed as a cigarette, was applauded heartily through nearly as many perform ances. ( A Japanese tea garden . at Waldo hall attracted more than its share of "travelers." ASTORIA TO GET HOTEL Chamber of Commerce Committee Authorizes- Signing Contract. ASTORIA, Or., April 10. (Special.) The hotel committee -of the chamber of commerce at a special meeting today authorized the signing of a contract with E. J. Hockenbury of Harrisburg, Pa., head of what Js known as the Hockenbury system of hotel financing, whereby he 1s to undertake at once a campaign to raise J300.000 for a new hotel in Astoria This was Mr. Hockenbury's second trip here In person and a representa tive spent a week here making a survey to determine the need of a hotel, the attitude of the people toward it and the prospects of finding the money with which to build it. A hotel of 125 rooms, is contemplated. It is possible that the top stories will be converted Into apartments. The committee members today said they believed that the contract with Mr. Hockenbury guarantees Astoria an other hotel 'within the year. KAPPAS FROLIC VICTORS Sorority Wins First Prize in An nual University Affair. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, April 10. (Special.) Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority won the first prize for the best stuntat the April frolic. The frolic is an"" annual affair, at which the co-eds gather in the wom en's building for a party not at tended by men. v Josephine Evans of ' Portland, dressed as a basket o poinsettias, won the first prize for the best indi vidual costume. Mildred Brown of San Jose, Cal., received second prize, and Fiorina Packard of Portland and Lillion Flint of Eugene received hon orable mention. Hendricks hall re ceived honorable mention in the house stunt contest. Phone your want ads to The Ore gonlan. Main 7070. Automatic 60-95. at the New Market theater? This exhibition in the New Market theater. rowboat? O. T. the procession of citizens out there w- . Slabtown? C. E. O. F. T. M. the stage, the hero being saved In 3 SOLDIER BODIES ARRIVE FRED M. TOMLINSON OF PORT LAND ONE WAR VICTIM. Ceremonies by City Officials and American Legion to Be Last of Kind; Task Near End. Three bodies of soldiers killed in action overseas, part of the last group of bodies to be brought from France, will arrive in Portland on Thursday. One is that of a Portland man, Fred M. Tomlinson, and the other two will be sent to other destin ations. Whether these will be the last ever to arrive in Portland from France cannot be definitely ascertained, al though they came on the vessel which ended the huge task of transporting the dead from France. This vessel was the Cambrai, which arrived in New York March 29, carrying the bodies of 2000 soldiers. Captain Vere Painter, depot quar termaster stationed at Portland, said last night that the three bodies may be the last but added that there was a chance a second group might still be sent from those which were brought home on the Cambrai. In this case the ceremonies to be per formed in honor of the dead by city officials and the American Legion on Thursday will be the last of their kind Fred M. Tomlinson, the Portland soldier, was a private in company C, 127th infantry. His mother is Mrs. Mary E. Tomlinson, 552 East Twenty ninth street. His body will be taken to the Dunning undertaking parlors by a delegation from the American Legion. Tomlinson was killed in ac tion August 4, 1918. One of the other two men Is Ralph C. Lucy, a private of company C, 101st infantry. He was killed October 23, 1918, and his body passes through Portland en route to his mother, Mrs. Thula Lacy of Washtucna, Wash. The third body is that of Levi B. Owens, son of Levi W. Owens of Post Falls, Idaho. He was a private in company A, 358th infantry, and was killed in action September 14, 1918. FOUR STUDENTS HONORED Quartet at University Elected to Iiiterary Fraternity. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, April 10. (Special.) Four student writers today were elected to mem bership in Sigma Upsilon, a national organization of short story and liter ary writers. The four are: William Silverton of La Grande, Claire Keeney of Eugene. Darrell Larson of Imbler and Donald McDonald of Eugene. Alpha Sigma, local sorority, has announced the pledging of Dagmar Skulison of Portland. New Courthouse Impossible. ROSEBURG, Or., April 10. (Spe cial.) Douglas county will not have a new courthouse, as recommended by a recent grand jury,' the county court announced today. The grand Jury recommended the remodeling of the courthouse, which is antiquated in style and too small for the coun ty's needs, several offices being maintained in other buildings. Strong sentiment was expressed for a new building, but because of lack of funds the court said a new building at present was impossible. ppj surely does neai eczema A very little Poslam spread over the irritated skin usually stops the itching and burning right away. With the irrita tion gone, the skin at rest, the healing medication in Poslam is often able to check the in flammation and clear away eczema, rashes, orsimilar skin- troubles in a few days. PoanmismeeDcnH m- g 1 tntrd that a little PoslZim ODESSA, March 16. This former Chicago of Russiaand destined soon to be again the principal export and import center of the new Ukraine soviet republic, today presents the appearance of a house from which the owner has been away on a long journey and left it in the charge of careless keepers. Despite the many conflicts which have taken place in this city since the workmen captured It in the fall of 1917, the well-built docks, the solid business houses and the splendid residences are in good repair, ex ternally, and seem to wear an ex pectant air, ready for the old pros perity to return. Unlike Baku and Tiflls, Astrakhan, Batum and dozens of other cities the correspondent has visited in Russia, there is not the air of finality of destruction and hopelessness that so characterizes them. Buildings Burned for Fuel. There has been destruction, of course, but not so much from war as from necessity. The huge public market, covering several city blocks, has been torn down and its stones used In street repairs. On the water, front the port looks in good condl tion. But the lack of fuel in the city for several years has led to the destruc tion of a part of the grain elevators, once capable of storing 600,000 tons of export wheat. In some instances their wooden roofs are gone. A guar ter of a mile of the loading appara tus, consisting of steel and wooden frames for handling the belt and bucket system of pouring wheat into the ships alongside, has been torn down for firewood. The Peresk warehousesmust be restored. Coming into the city, along the railway line from Kiev the train runs for half a mile along the gaunt walls of big buildings, the roofs and upper stories of which are gone. For all this the city maintains itself solidly. The sewage, water works and electric light systems function. There is no doubt that Odessa can and will come back quickly. . Famine and Typhus Kill. Tne saddest feature of Odessa's life has to do with the immediate present. Coming in on the train", there was a whole car full of dead people, frozen during long weeks of travel or dead from hunger or from typhus. On the very streets of once proud and prosperous Odessa, where bread could be had by the basketful, there are daily dropping dozens of people, ill and dying from hunger and typhus. In the only large restaurant in the city famishing people beg the privi lege of sweeping the scraps from the table and these scraps they eat. These hungry persons were once well-to-do people, now thinned down to the skin and bone. The thinness of the people and the beauty of the city are the two first Impressions -of the stranger. Dennis McSweeney, the longshore boss sent in for the American relief administration ships, had another impression. "The girls are prettier here than in Moscow, I'll tell ye," he said. "But they wear too much rouge on their Hps." FRENCH ACE TO BE WED Mrs. Edna Springer Lively Is to Be Bride of Rene M. Vidalie. Mrs. Edna Springer Lively, ex-wife of D. O. Lively, formerly of this city. ill be married to Rene M. Vidalie, French ace, today in San Francisco, according to articles in California newspapers. Mr. Lively, who Is a live- stock expert, won considerable fame during the war for his work as major t Pacific coast ana also nas me op in charge of the Red Croes commit-! portunity of doing great good for the sion in Siberia. He was director of livestock exhibits at the Panama-Pa cific International exposition and Is well known on the coast. Mrs. Lively divorced her husband late in 1920. They had been married 11 years and separated when Mr. Live ly went to Siberia. They had no chil dren. Mr. Lively was married a year ago to Mile. Erna Martina Lazda at Vladi vostok. Mr. Vidalie, to whom Mrs. Lively will be married today, is now an au tomotive engineer and aviator. Old Mortar Found in River. OREGON CITT, Or., April 10. (SpeclaL) Displayed in the window of Huntley-Draper Drug company .to day were a mortar and pestle, found by workmen employed on the new suspension bridge. The find was made 20 feet beneath one of the piers The mortar is one of the most perfect ever unearthed in this city and Is be lieved to have been used by Indians many years before the whites settled here. - v WARNING I Say "Bayer" when you buy Aspirin. Unless you see the name "Bayer" on tablets, you are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians over 22 years and proved safe by millions for Headache Colds Rheumatism Toothache Neuralgia Neuritis Earache Lumbago Pain, Pain Accept only "Bayer" package which contains proper directions. Hand "Bayer" boxes of 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 and 100 Druggists, aiptxla la the trade muk of Bayer Mnnfirmre of HcnMCetlcacldeater of BaUcgrUcscld 41 MAXWELL DENNIS IS FOB WILLIAMS SUPPORT FOR REPUBLICAN COMMITTEEMAN URGED. Newspaper Publisher of Jja Grande Rallies to Aid of Man Whom He Once Opposed. Bruce Dennis, newspaper publisher of La Grande, who was once an op ponent of Ralph E. Williams for republican national committeeman for Oregon, is now advocating the re-election of his one-time rival for this place. Mr. Dennis, who is In the city on business, said that the fact that Williams is now vice-chairman of the national committee should give him the support of the republican voters of Oregon. "It la not the personality of Mr. Williams, nor his record in Oregon that are to be considered now," said Mr. Dennis, "but it is the fact that this state has the vice-chairmanship of the republican national committee, which is the highest place in party activity that can be attained, ex cepting the chairmanship, and in case of a vacancy In the chairmanship Mr. Williams will go to the head of the national committee. The committeeman from Oregon, therefore, has an opportunity to be , the biggest man politically on the nation. Not a question on the Pacific coast nor in Alaska that affects the party should be settled without con sulting Mr. Williams. 'or tnese rea sons I expect to vote for Mr. Will iams at the polls." WIFE DECLARED BIGAMIST Divorce Granted Wayne A. Arnold Who Finds He Is Third Spouse. OREGON CITT, Or., April 10. (Spe cial.) A decree of divorce, based upon charges of bigamy, was granted by Circuit Judge Campbell to Wayne G. Arnold of Mllwiukie, route 1, from Edith Arnold. Arnold married his wife in Portland on March 1, 1919. At that time, ac cording to his statements to the ref eree, he was not aware that he was married. He believed that she had only been married once, and that to Albert Schaeht, from whom she was legally separated. About a year later Arnold and his wife had a "family row" and, accord- THE splendid perform ance of the New Series of the good Maxwell in every part of the country, empha sizes the value of this fine car Touring Car - $1060 Sedan . - - - Roadster - - - $1060 Coupe - . F. O. B. Portland Covey Motor Car WASHINGTON AT 21ST Broadway 6244 Clht Good ing to the man's testimony, at that time she told him that she was not legally married to him. Investigation showed that she was married to Will iam Lampe. Portland Man Drowned. KELSO, Wash.. April 10.-f-(Special.) Max Barnes of Portland, Or., was drowned in" the Columbia river, near the Long-Bell mill site, two miles south of Kelso, late yesterday after noon when a boat In which he and a companion overturned. They were employes of the Long-Bell company and were spending the afternoon boat' ing in the Columbia. Barnes came City Auditorium Wednesday Evening, April 12. Fritz Kreisler is coming! Prepare for his concert by familiarizing yourself with his wizardry in advance. Kreisler, in common with so many other giants of music, makes only Vidor records. Here are a few suggestions: Humoresque, 1.75 Moment Mosicale andTambourin, 1.75 Handel's Largo,1 1.75 Hymn to the Sun, 1.75 Swanee River, 1.25 Rondino, 1.25 Gypsy Serenade, 1.25 The piano accompanying Kreisler's magic txrw "will, as al-ways,te the Steinway Sherman Jflay & Go Sixth and Morrison Streets PORTLAND Oppoutt PoMo&ca SEATTLE TACOMA SPOKAftf $1725 $1625 Co. here from Portland a few days ago. His parents reside there. He ai about 28 years old. Man, 82, Dim of Heart Alliick. FOREST GKOVK. Or., April 10. (Special.) D. M. Morrln. aged !, died suddenly here early today the re sult of an attauk of heart dlsinii. Several weeks ag Mr. and Mrs. Mor ris celebrated tholr lt weddinir an niversary. They came to Forest Urove 10 years ngo. Mr. Morrl' death wu ihe first In hi family. He I survived by his wlilow, a daughter and several grnnrl'-n Milron. t