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VOLUME LXI " THE . OALLE8, OREGON, WEfP AY EVENING, MAY 11, 1921. , f . . J .. J NJrlL
g s . flti : CONFEREES IKE m&Smn
AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVES
SIGN AGREEMENT TO.THIS
EFFECT, SLACKER CLAIMS.
ru.t
AFFAIR TO BEWyiTAfD, DS-
SPITE OFFCIAU DbNIALS
'FROM DEPARTMENTS.
, By United Pre si
EBBRBAOH, Germany, May 11.
Grpver Cleveland Uergd'oll, draft
dodger, today defied the. United States
government.
Informed by the United, PresB of the
statement of Chief of Staff March
that the war department is determined
to 0 get Bergdoll from Germany, '.'at
any price," the slacker said: "You can
tell the -world that I won't bo captured
in Germany..'.
He asserted that. American repre-s
sentatives had signed an agreement
when the two' United States soldiers
were releasedafter-i'an attempt' to'
kidnap. him, not to molest him. or bin
chauffeur, Eugene Steelier, and that
the United States is in honor bound
. to let him alone.
- WASHINGTON, May 11, The
claim of Bergdoll, 1n a statement to
the United Press, that American rep
' resentatlves agreed not to molest him
, in the future, will be investigated by
the special house Bergdoll commit
tee, Chairman Peters said.
Peters and ' other members of the
committee manifested great interest in
the dispatch, which will be placed on
record.
, At both the state and war depart
ments it was officially denied that
any agreement not to molest Bergdoll
had been signed by American repre
sentatives. HRETT SUITED
FOR SECRETARY
PAPERS ARRANGING APPOINT
MENT STOLEN AFTER "COUS
IN'8" ARREST," CHARGE.
By Unltea Press
CHICAGO, May 11. Evertt Harding,
self-styled "cousin" of president, was
scheduled to be appointed assistant
secretary to the chief executive, his
attorney claimed when Everett was
on trial, charged with impersonating
a government officer,
"Papers arranging for the appoint
ment were stolen from Everett's
home, after he was arrested," Hen
ry Seligman, attorney, told Judge
Landls in the federal court.
Seligman filed a demurrer to the in
dktment.
SOLDIER KILLED
MAN ON IMPULSE
SLAYER CONFESSES HE HIT
VICTIM ON HEAD WITH
ROCK.
Br United Preu
TACOMA. May 11 "It wu all
dose on the spur of the moment. I
wear I didn't plan It, I hit the man
em the back of the head with a rock.
at tfce avfkeatloR of the other fel
lAn. la tha tuck ma&L"
SishteM-yearoM Private Filioa f
Huai imu. firat mt lour 'v'eathfai
TZ T )Ut. X
infekiiiiiiTtt ' in nriMrn
iMffluniii 15 utnitu
efdtora ta nt a part ta thelwke dtecoreraVI rUlua. 8ae arrlvea
mrier f Karl TteW. Tacomalea the White Star user oiyapic, 10
taxi M, t4ay prtmfi U UjeLnaWlVe Um Sit of sraat
Nminu''iw fit t j i"ri . -Tir - mvu-. . -. t '--.r jEnnnnnnnnnml9EL Jrawiiiwi.ft'TJ-iJuat v " s vav3Writ-. w7rfu nx;; . tiw. .hiiimw w:Sttr?,txr.ca4wwf'
. .That the falls of the Willamette
river .at, Oregon, Cltou is not the only
place where sportsmen -rwith hand
lines cah-jangle successfully for. Chin
ook, salmon,. being i demonstrated
nany oy iisueriueu wuu uiu Junius
the bin boys out .of iJio .rif'les of the
!CQlumita,apoy,e.BJIg.Eddx. .
Equalling in size tne largest catenas
madevjthia, year, at Oregon City a; 40
oundChifioflk salmon was brought to
Tne i)alles late yesterday byvB. Chal
clupka, 'a .resident of i Waplnttla. i The
'fish was captured with regular salmon
gear-and a brass spoon, about three
miles above Big.JJddj;. .
A Chinook salmon does not eat once
it leaves the salt water, and it, will
I'-npt strikeiSt bait or bait lure. But it
sees red apparently all the way on its
trip to the spawning grounds and the.
w.hirlingJspoQn with, gang hooks will,
often tempt it from its mad course
upstream.
Chaloupka had his fish "weighed at
Motor Service garage. It tipped the
beam-at Just over 40 pounds.
WILL GIVE COMMUNITY SERVICE
OPPORTUNITY TO FINANCE
ITS WORK.
Refusal of permission to all or
ganizations of any kind to stage
any further drives in The Dalles,
until after the big Community Ser
vice pageant is put on here May
27, was asked of the board of di
rectors of The Dalles-Wasco Counts
Chamber of Commerce last night bj
a delegation of persons represent
ing Community Service. Any furthei
drives, with the exception of the
Chinese and Near-East relief drive
now on, will seriously hamper the
presentation of the pageant, as well
as other Community Service activ
ities, it was pointed out.
After some discussion, the direc
tors agreed to grant .the request of
the visiting delegation and allow no
more drives to be put on in this
city until after June 4, at least, by
which time, Community Service
hopes to finance itself.
T. A. Sammls urged that the
chamber directors take steps to se-
rurn a connection for The Dalles
with the Ml. Hood loop road, via
Mill creek and Brooks' meadows.
It is all right for Dufur also to
have a connection with the- Mt.
Hood loob voad, but I bellove that
The Dalles is overlooking a good
bet if it does not direct some ef
fort to , securing a connection be
tween the loop and this city," Sara
mis explained.
The United States forest
ser
run pos
was vice has already promised to
. . i.i i
a survey wmcn wouiu uiimo
slble such a connection, it
b'rought out in the general discus
sion which followed Sammls'. re
marks. No active work on this pro
ject has been started, however. Tho
directors decided to wrjte the for
estry department in Portland, ask
ing them when they will bo ready
to make the promised survey.
The proposed survey would extend
only in tho government forest re
serve, it was pointed out, the gov
ernment wishing, a road there in
nrdor tn lessen danger from forest
fires and to make easier accessibility
Into the various parts of'tho forest
The entire connectiom would .extend
from Tho Dalles up Mill creek a
short distance, across Mt.' Hood flat
'and then to Brooks' meadows.
DISCOVERER OF RADIUM
ARRIVES IN
U. 8.
I Bv TTnlted PreM
WASHINGTON, May U-Aawrlca
I today weleeaaed Madame Marie curie,
of
j" ' "
hp t umvts
the
i K 1
D'ANDREA defeated forcoun:
CIL IS RIDDLED t WITH ENE
MIES' 3ULLETS.
t . '
T . '
, t , ,Bjr United lrewi . J
CHIGAqoj May. 11 tt 'Tonjr . D'An
dira. democrat lo'poiitcal bos.?, -ott the
"Isoody nlnteenth" ward, was today
riddled with bullets in front of hits
hcJfve.. . , k i i V
Assassins, conf paled In a,; vacant
apartment) en, , the first lloor.tjit the
hulldlng occupiel.hy D'Audret-nq
hih f.iinily,, fired olht shots' asi! Lit'
tie Italy's qfcleftaln 'allghtd fioxn a
tasci. fifeven of: the shots entered his
brdy. : U
D'Andrea'8 ; .wfQ always i; tyt rf Ji
for r her husband, rushed Into the
street in night garments.
"Lena, I'm dying," gasped ' the
politician. !They got me." j ,
, The attack on the politician! came
as a climax of months of assassin
ations and sluggings in that 1 dis
trict, which gave the namev.of' the
"bloody nlnteenth.".. to the ward.
Bombings .and shootings were every
night occurances a few months ago;
during the campaign of John Powt
ers and D'Andrea, who were'j, run
ning for the aldermanic Job. ;Pow
ers Von. . i ' ' ! .
OREGON TAXES SHOW
IO PERCENT LEAP
IN LAST 10LYEARS
PRESENT SCHOOL TAXES ARE
GREATER THAN ALL TAXES
DECADE AGO.
(Chronicle's Salem Bureau.) N
SALEM, Ore., May 11. (Special)
Taxes in Oregon have Increased about
170 percent in tho last , ten years, ac
cording to records in the offices of
the state tax commission.
ThOv levy of 1811 on, the rolls of
1910 amounted to 115,210,040.15. The
levy of this year is $41,117,367.71. The
difference is $25,907,327.56 which is
somewhere, .near . 170 percent.,
School taxes alone, which are the
state's biggest item of expense, ex
ceed by approximately 20 percent the
total tax expense of the state a de
cade ago. Oregon taxpayers are this
year paying a total of $18;263,388,90
for maintenance of educational pur
poses. This is an excess over the en
tire tax expense of the state 10 years
ago.
Another interesting comparison i3 n
combination or tho present school and
road taxs, not counting .the automo
bile license tax. compared with the
Ltotal levy In fhe state for all purposes
10 years ago. Tho road tax now, not
counting automobile licenses, is ap
.vm...c3 - -
nroximately $7,086,266.80. Added, to
tho $18,263,388.90 school tax the
suit is $25,349,655.79, an excess o'
$10,139,615.64 over the entire tax cf
1911, or about 61 percent excess.
Hore is shown Oregon's school tax
for this year:
Special school taxes voted by tho
people, $9,000,813.24 ; general school
taxes, $3,063,221.00; ono-twenty-flfth
mill tax for Oregon Normal school,
541,633.56; four-tenths mill for Or?gon
Agricultural college, $416,335.62; four
tenths mill for University of Or gon,
$312,261.71; four-sevenths of 1.2
mill levy for O. A.-C, 1920 levy paid
this year, $679,155.75; . same mlHagolM In a homo-Drey. eu auoi ineieau
for O. A. C, 1921 levy. $713,'18.20;
three-seventh of 1.2 mill for 1 nlver
aity of Oregon, 1920 levy, pa.d this
year, $509,366.81; same mllluKo for
University of Oregon, 1921 assesB-
njent, $535,288.66; .06 mill for Ore
gon Normal school, 1920 asset ameot,
paid this year, $59,426.13; sano mill
age, for Oregon Normal schod, 1921
assessment, $62,450.34; under ser
vice men's educational aid act, .2
alii of act of 1919 and additional .J
mill act of 1M0, $411,335.62, under
2 mill eleHentary school act, $2,0S1,
678.10; miscellaneous educational la
stltatleM. $3.71,715.61.
Tl. rnad tax Is is follows: If
'
HOUSE CONFEREES ACCEPT
ELIMINATION OF RELIGIOUS
. i
REFUGEE8 EXEMPTION.
"B? United Press
WASHINGTON, May 11. Confer
ees today agreed on the emergency
immigration bill. The bill limits im
migration for the next 10 monttts
to three percent of the nationals
of any country, resident in the
United States under the 1910 cen
ants. House conferees agreed to the
elimination. of ,an.exemption in favor
.of religious refugees.
MOTORCYCLE POLICEMAN
HELD FOR MAIL ROBBERY
By United Pre
PORTLAND, May: 11. Federal of
ficers today arrested H. R. Levinson,
motorcycle policeman, on a charge of
robbing the Kansas? mail train .of
two sacks of registered mail in Oc
tober, 1911. They allege that Lovin
son's real name is William Korfoot
and that .he was a former mall clerk
on the jLeavenworth-MlUonviUe run.
He Is under grand jury indictment in
'Kansas, where ho Jumped his bond.
Arresting officers claim to have ob
tained a 'confession.
MUSIC, CURE FOB
ECONOMIC ILLS
StY MUSICIANS
LEADERS OF MUSICAL PROFES
SION, APPEAL FOR COMMUN
ITY EXPRESSION.
By United News
k P.Htf!AiO. Mav 11 use an v
' w---
f American grnnd opera scoro
r. ... a .nttr. nrrll. -k
ten by George M. Cohan instead
r- "... -'j - -
nf fim thrpndbare Italian and
r --- i
Spaniph settings and then you -X
c will have a useful ppera."
'! Myissaye Boguslawski, Run-
if slan pianist, had this advice
-J for the convention of 5,000
Ik lenders of the music trade here -x
4C TllPHllllV. &
lesday.
"If the great composers would
come off their mgn uorses ana George c JeweW Qf SpokRnei head of
write mush that would give us N thweBt Qra,n Growers, assn
Kmore than three minutes of . c Hector MacPhorson, head ot
pleasure for three nours oi oon--
H QOm, gOOU IIIUSIU wuuiu ucvuiuo r-
K more popular," ho said. "I don't -K
ft favor Jazz, because jazz is dc-
structive, but I do favor miiElo
-K with real appeal to real people." -K
I.
By Alexander F. Jonei
(United News StnfT CorreispondPiit)
CHICAGO. May 11 Bands in city
'nn,.lu nvnntmru fl If 1 1 OH 1 1'Q H ill filC'
iaiBo W.V......O",
..- nt nuon. ,uui homo mudo con-
rc-fparta in tho homo at all times
-
this Is tho cure for many of our
social and economic ins. in me om
Ion of moro than C.Q00 leauera oi
the musical profession and industry,
in convention hore.
The tired business man Is all of
us and a municipal band In a city
park Is better than a first row sea
at an expenslnve musical comedy. It
U!dn industry Is sod by
an orohculm made u, o
from tho factory and Irrl tated -aiv.
anu nusoanus c. u k
oi aggiavaiiHK ' "-,.
dyolOgUeS.
"Community llfo Is better ror
v'ul" '
community music." said c. i.
Greenleaf, Indianapolis, .Ind., repro
wnlin one of tho largest manufac
turers of musical Inalrumenta In tho
"We have been trying to fill tho
void left In the lives of some ell I
sens by file going of tho saloon,
........ h.n miiRic
-that coets sothlng-but which vef
ties nerves 7
"Our Industrial unres? has been
a blc problem with all our business
mea. Many of us are finding, that
Tne county ana city aaivauon ariuj
drive, conducted Under . the direction
of Mrs. Lulu D. Orandall of this city,
officially closed yesterday, with only
'$500 raised out of a quota of $2,500,
if .was announced this morning. The
'Salvation army drive was closed in or..
der to make way for the China and
Near East relief drive, which will bo
put on here this weekt
"The people are simply tired toi
death of drives, which have been
coming in rapid succession during the
last several weeks," Mrs. Crandnll
explained this morning. "In .soliciting
for the Salvation army, we found that
the minute we mentioned the word
'drive' we seemed to antagonize the
person we were talking to.
. . ''As a war moasure, .drives served
tho purpose, but now that the war
is over, I believe that we should fol
low Portland's example and have a
f Community Chest. Under this system,
(Contlnued on Page 6.)
FARMERS TDACT
STATE WHEAT GROWERS TO DE
CIDE QUESTION OF JOINING
NATIONAL.
Leaders of progressive farming in
, Oregon apparently do not fear super-
1 stition, for they have deliberately
'chosen Friday, May 13, day aftor to
morrow, ns the time for the big meet
lng to be held here, for the purpose of
I deciding the future policy of wheat
growors of tho state in marketing
their product.
Tne neaaquanors ol uu
The headquarters of. tho Oregon
,,, . 00i(i h
UIU1U UlunUlD tlOOUUItl kiuu o jiwu
.. . . , j , , a Howard of Chi
.......
cago, president of tho American Fed
eration of Farm Bureaus; W. F. iSchll-
orHUPH Ol 1'U.rill uuruuus; ty, r.ra
, .,. .,
ling, nuuu oi uiu iiiiik ihuuuuuih ua
soc,ntlon of Minneapolis, 'Minn , and
TJ . riiirdick. of Kansas Cltv. will
as-
U. L. Burdlck, of Kansas City, will
bo here Friday morning for tho meet
ing when resolutions recently passed
by the national grain growers asso
ciation applying to tho northwest, will
be -discussed and passed upon.
MeotIng wIth these men will be
marketing of Oregon
Agricultural collego; C. A. Sponc.
grand master of tho granges of On
gon, and Ceorco A. MnmfloM, p'-u'il-dent
of tho stale farm bureau.
Tlio national organization ineotint;
In Chicago last month, passud ros"
lullons, tho accoptanco of wli'eh, will
pormlt the growers of tho group of
northwestern statos to become mem
bers of tho country-wide group.
Thoso resolutions,, embodying 11
points, wore fully described In Tho
Chronlclo last week. It Is for tho
consideration of tho points that the
tn,t,nrtl in nrw.m Is
. nii
that the rcnolutlons will "no ratified.
ThjH wm oimplo tll0 re80iutlonB com-
n)1Uo0i conBlstlnB ()f MosgrH, ownr(l(
ontop ,n(() ,(
, Qngm M BWW.
p0J.1HlunB lhom to conKOlldnto
-h th naUona
u Q,y
,ial(quarte
hilH rocolvoU information to tho ef-
megatlQm . wheat grow.
,t.nn,. i.Vr.
vin ftvvuiin w ............
wmv nilllnni nnil U'liHCO
" "
Moo Tlins. tcnnlif.ru will lnfltlfv
-; " ' ' ,
.V :
anallgnment with the national
The wneai growers o. - yasu,...
are meoiing wiiii in nuai i
world. . .. ..... . . ..
muons commuuo ... vu.H.. ,uu,.
Lt Saturday tho committee conier-
red with Montana ranchers, who aro
said to have declared unanimously
for 100 percent pooling their wheat.
'" ' -
marketing agencies of the national
asaoctatlon. .
This question of 100 percent paoh
MR CAPTnn IN RFPA'RAT UNB
POOLING
,j ,,.-.
"UU"M ' c 7 .-"r" T
ING FACTOR IN" REPARATIONS
ACCEPTANCE.
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.i-
NEW CABINET ACTS
CHANCELLOR WIRTH SENDS
NOTES' TO' LONDON, PARIS
AND ROME.
By Carl O. Groat
BERLIN, May 11. Germany final
ly yielded to thp allies. With a cabinet
chosen on purpose to accept tho al
lied ultimatum, Chancellor Wirth to
day sent to London, Paris and Rome
a note rigreelng unconditionally to
ull domands. The note was also hand-
en to nuica amoassauors nere.
BERLIN, May 11. Members of the ,
new German cabinet are: Bauer, vice.
chancellor; Brauns; economics; Schif-
fer, justice; Schmidt, labor; Greener,
transportation; Giesberts, post - and
telegraph; Hermes, food controller;
Grudneur, interior; Gessler; defense;
'Sllborschmidt, reconstruction; Wirth.
finance.
PARIS, May 11. nisnppolnted by
the los-J of a chanco to seize the
Ruhr valley, Franco today awaited
Germany's final noto, of surrender.
Officials at Qual D'lOrpny ndmltted
that the, invasion will be held wv if
the German note accepting the allied
ultimatum Isas sweeping aB reported.
Tho French, however, mndo no move
to cancel troop orders or other prep
arations. They regard the invasion
moro as postponed t)ian abandoned;
Paris newspaper la'ld .final, settle
ment to American pressure on Berlin.
Hughos last noto, bidding tho Ger
'mans to mako nccoptablo offors to
the allies, is credited with belng.iho
deciding factor in Berlin's decision.
WASHINGTON. May 11 Accep
tance by Germany of the allied repara
tions domands is described as pleas
ing to tho American government. The
government has frequently made1
(Continued on Page 6.)
500,000 MUST .
GIVE $40 m
TARIFF WILL RAISE $600,000,000
REVENUE DILL AT LEAST
$3,500,000,000.
By United PrcJU
WASHINGTON, May 11. Present
taxation plans call for an average con
tribution of $40 each year, from each
or 500,000 perrons In tho United States
it Is estimated by tho houso ways and
moans committee.
As outlined to tho United Press,
tho proposed taiiff bill will ralso
?GOO,OOO,O0O. A lovpnuo bill, to bo con
sidered later, will low a total of at
loast $3,500,000,000.
ASBESTOS SUIT
SAVES COMEDIAN
SHUFFLING CHARLIE STUMBLES
INTO BLOW TORCH SEVERE
LY BURNED.
By United News
LOS ANGBLES, May 11. Charlie
Chaplin, famous film comedian, mirac
ulously escaped death by cremation,
late Tuesday when, stumbling over a
poweriui, Diow inrcn, us wuuiuir w
instantly igniieu into ubb. u
flameB. Before Edna Purvlaace, co
comedienne in all Chaplin's films,
mmA nthnr atnflln workers COUld ntM
to. .tha resent. nd extinguish tts
eiMsian viifwu! v""- "7
ed Mvere- burn about the legs ana
ty Jail that the atriar waa at
raalaai, frMMtea
weatea of Antrlca.
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