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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1919)
THE WEATIIKK The Stateimau receives tha leased wire report or tke As sociated Press,, the greatest aid most reliable press as sociation la the world. Fair, cooler east portions. erae westerly winds. - - - . ' ' " " ' SIXTV-MXTH YKAIt .. . . . . . . " - , -3 ' " r salf.m, oi;i:t;ox, thisd.iv .moumvjj, aigist i. 1910 muck: kivk ckxts. mm mm m mm mm mmm mam. mm " 1 ' ' - - ' - . FIVE SILVER FALLS LUMBER CAftfiPS . : x ' - , . BANDITS Army Posts on Border Tense Waiting Return of Aviators Held for $15,000 Ransom Armed Guard Takes Sum to Camp at Candelaria, Tex PREPAREDNESS IN AIR HIGH OFFICERS SILENT Future Depends on Attitude of Mexican Government is Assertion MA UFA, Tex.. Aug. 18. Aviator H. G. Peterson and Paul H. Davis held prisoners by Mexican bandit? near Candeleria, Tex. are expected to reach the border tomorrow, it was aaid by army ofricer3 tonight. Cour iers sent to the bandit camp last night are reported to have reached the camp, informing the bandits the $15,000 ransom would be paid. Among other dispatches today were a report that the aviators were j captured on the American side after making a forced landing and a state ment that General Manuel Diegue at Chihuahua City had ordered Gen eral Antonio Pruenda to leave Ojin aga at once with a force of Carran za soldiers in pursuit of the bandits Who captured the Americans. Mexican Tell of Capture The report, that the Americans" landed on the American Hide came from Captain Hadley, fifth cavalry. In charge of the border patrol near Pilares who raid four Mexicans heard the round of an airplane flying low on the day the aviators disappeared and later heard cries for help. Thl? Is said to have occurred near Par venlr. 17 miles from Pilares. The Mexicans Raid they did not investi gate the calls for help. Colonel Georce T. Langhorne., dis trict commander, here tonight or dered an Investigation of this report and soldiers will be pent to Porvenir to locate the damaged airplane, ho said. Army officials believe only a few Mexicans were Involved in the cap ture of the aviators. Officer Sure of Safety Army officers were confident to night that the two aviators were un harmed and they believed they would be released tontorrow, 'following the payment of the $15,000 ransom to day. The aviators carried no sld arms when captured. Th,o rende vour Is believed" to be near the bor der. - Mesrages from the relatives of the aviators were taken to the bandit camp, along with information the ransom would be paid. Telegrams to Colonel Langhorne today said Lieutenant Davis mother, at Stralthmore, Calif., was prostrat ed.. The colonel also was Informed that W. R. DavK the father of the aviator, was ready to reimburse the cowboys who yesterday raised the $15,000 ransom. MCKMAX OX IITV A IX XIGHT WAITIXG WOltP SAN .ANTONIO. Tex.. Ausr, IS. Officers of the southern departmen at Fort Sam Houston tonijrht were anxiously awaiting news that I lieu tenants Paul II. Davis and Harold G Peterson. prisoners of the Mexican bandits, had been released upon pay ment of the $13,000 ransom demand ed. Major General Joseph P. Dick man, department commander, who had remained on duty nil last night. -aa still at headquarters at a Tat hour tonight, keeping in personal touch wlh every message relating to the aviators. XO TltltOP .MOVKMKXTS ORKltEI. (SAVS KX. K.P.WIX EL PASO. Tex . Aug. IS. General Jamea B. Erwin. commander of this Iortlon of the Mexican lorder. said tonight no orders tir troop move ment had been issued. 1HKPARKDNKSH IS l.V Ain at iuRit:i: pist SAN ANTONIO. Aujj. IS. While no official of the southern depart ment will make any comment upon the possible development, an a-lmof-Phre of, preparedness evident Ihroughout the office t hoadnti.tr ters of the chief signal officer whew RELEASE 2 FLIERS (Continued on Page 8) . " 1 1 - A J OR GENERAL DICKMAN, command- nig officer of the south- ern department of the United States, who is in direct charge of all military operations along the Mexican border. He f buuiiuauucu nic a.riiiy oi oc cupation on the Rhine for several months and was through the thickest of the fighting in France. afr -m Coal Properties in Valley to Sell Products This Fall MEDFORD, Or., Aug. IS. The Peerless Coal company and ltosstau foal r lmna I V- vhnuA r.rr rtCtr-t i n o located in the Coker liutte and KoxyT Ana districts, will sell their products in northern California and the Wil lamette valley this fall. I'.oth com panies are installing electricallyy op erated machinery for the mining of coul and together expect to produce an output of one thousand tons a day. This witl supply the local and northern California markets. If heavier veins are struck the Willent ette valley will be invaded. At the Kosseau property where a force of men are drilling for oil a slight stream of natural ga3 has been tapped. , Council Silent on Request of Charles for Recognition PARIS. Aug. 18. The supreme xouscil has decided that, it will make no reply to the communication of Archduke Joseph, governor of state in Budapest .asking for recognition. , . , J. j ;.l . . i 1 M " v i Hi v X f'i: , - r irJj f f ' .' '"f7 l 3 1 ' Y A ' 4 ?4 r - lw r a - If : r - - X It I i i ,..- ... V V I 4 75 TH WILLAMETTE OBSERVED BY MEMORIAL ADDRESS Commemorative of the founding of Willamette university, and celebrat ing its 75th anniversary, a special Feiriee was held Sunday night at the First Methodist church, the prin cipal feature of which was an ad dreys by Hon. C. H. Moores of Port land. Dr. R. N. Avipon, pastor of the church, turned the meeting over to President Doney of Willamette who reviewed briefly the history of the Institution. Dr. H. L. Steeves was introduced by Dr. Doney to represent the board of trustees. Dr. Sleeve recently has returned from the east where he vir.ited a number of the higher Institutions of tearnrng and was :b!e to compare tbem Wita Wil lamette. He declared the famou old Orefrnn university would equal them in i far reaching influence Mr. .Moo res was chosen to make the memorial address because of his lonp standing intercut in the university and r-R acquaintance with persons who he ru?de the nstittttion fam ous. Mr. M-oro fa id: On July 1 1. 1837. just ono month more than S2 years ago. there gath- ! erert a congregation - worship, out In the open, in -a beautiful grove on the grounds of the "Mjssion Manual Labor school." on the banks of tho Willamette rFvelv at a location that ) has ever since born the name of1 ilPHONE ISSUE DROPPED BY COUNCMEN Motion to Postpone Action Indefinitely is Carried Over Single-Handed Protest of Alderman W. A. Wiest STATEMENT IS MADE BY MANAGER DANCY Ordinance is Introduced to Remove Marr from Respon sibility to Chief Almost alone, Alderman V. A. Wtest last nisht iotight against in ieiinite ioiti)onemeit of action hv -the city council relative 10 calli.ia i special election to determine wheth er the people of Salem want a munic ipal telephone plane to get fi jiu un der excessive rates imposed by the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph com pany. Motion to postpone indefi nitely was made by Aldernmn Utter f.nd seconded by Johnson and car ried after Wiest had spoken against the motion and Aldermen Volk and Hagcr, both nef members, had re sponded to a challenge of Mr. Wiest Ly defending the moticn. Aside from Utter and Wiest the cotincilmen showed ao disposition to conve out on the subject until, after the members had been lashed by Wie3t, Volk and Ilaer expressed theniselvt3. The municipal telephone issue was set as a special order. Wiest opened by moving that E. T. Busselle be sent to the public service commis sions' hearing in Portland on Aug ust 27, wyth City Attorney Macy, to represent the city and that he be paid $i0 for the service. The mo tion failed to receive a second. Utter took the floor in general opposition Xo a ""initiP"! system. After reviewing the history of ths agitation in Salem he remarked: "Wr.en the subject was before tho council before I asked Mr. Husselle a series of questions about the in stallation ami operation of a munic ipal system. The questions were never answered' satisfactorily, al though there were promises that they would be answered. I am opposed to a municipal system because it would be saddling an additional ex pense upon the taxpayers. If the Pacific company is robbing us I do not think the thing to do fs to pad dle upon the people the added bur den of a municipal system." Utte" concluded by moving indefi nite postponnient. 1 do not want to be the only mem ber speaking on tlx- other side of this question," said Wiest. taking I he floor, "and neither do I want Dr. Utter to be the only member speak ing on the other side if there are other members who believe as he ( Continued cn page 5) ANNIVERSARY OF "Mission liottom." The most prom inent characters present were Jason Lee, general superintendent of the mission work of the M. K. church In the northwest, his nephew and asso ciate. Rev. Daniel Iee and Cyrus Shepherd, the superintendent of the mission school. They were gathered to take part in the first public sacra mental service ever held west of the Rocky mountains, and incidentally to witness the marriage of Cyrus Shepnerd to Miss Susan Downing. Seven men and five women came from the mission house. Beside? these five women there was not an other white woman within two hnn- dred and fifty mile, and but two others west of r"he Rocky mountains-j lions. T'ne rest of the congregation was )li captors then In high glee principally maHe up of thirty or for-' went abnt their orfirfal duties Tor ty Indian children from the mission n hour o- more, white the Incarcer whool. an', a promiscuous eroiin of ! ated patrolman, striving hard to Canadian Frenchmen with their In-j mina;n hr. usual composure, sat di?n companions and half caste chil- wondcrinc how lone he was In for dren. After a few brief preliminary i evrry minute 'wniittT lik an hour, remarks .fnson Lee surprised his con-' rhil virions or hrld of onlv a fw ercz-itinn hv sleppine forward and hort hours anxiously awaiting thw sleppme lending to the altar Mis Anna Maria Pitman to w'tom he was then mar ried by Rev. Daniel T,ce. This cere mony performed. Mr. Cyrus Shep herd and MHs Smsn !owning ap peared and were united in marriage (Continued on page 3) BUI ; LOSS 01 HALF 1ILLI DOLLS IT'S BILL'S MOVIN' DAY ' EX-KAISER BUYS ESTATE PLACE TO BE TIDIED UP AMKUOXGKX. Aup. is. -The Associated Press) It became definitely known today that For mer Kmperor William Germany has purchased the Doorn estate near I trecht. The house will be immediately renovated and remod eled. This work will be likely to require several months time and meantime the former emperor will remained lodged In the Hentinck castle of Amerongen.t WILSON MEETS COMMITTEE ON TREATY TODAY Conference Unparalelled in History of Country in Many Ways -- INTERPRETATION SOUGH INTERPRETATION SOUGHT President May or May Not Make Public Statement of All Information WASHINGTON, Aug. IS. At a conference in some respects unpar alleled in American history. Presi dent Wilson will talk over the peace negotiations and the treaty with the senate foreign relations commute" tomorrow at the white house. By virtue of extraordinary plans to Inform the public of every word that is spoken, the meeting will hav the- aspect of an open forum discu- sion at which the whole nation can look on. Ileal Meaning? Wanted. As head of the American peace del cgr.tion and one of the inner clrcl which formulated the world settle yient at Versailles, the president is to W asked the meaning and purpose of provision's of the league of nationj covenant, the reasons behind the de cision to give Japan control of Shan tung province, just what part the United States is to take in recon struction, and many other questions raised in senate consideration of the treaty. Altitude Conjectural. "Whether Mr. Wilson will answer fully in so public a manner all the questions put to him. or will conisder that some o fthe information h re reived at the peace tabl should be ! held in confidence as a matte: of na tional policy, remains conjectural. But the committee members mean to igve him the opportunity if he chooses, to tell the whole of the in ffido story behind the treaty. NEWLYWED COP ISLOCKEDUP Honeymoon Joke of Thomp son's Colleagues Enacted at County Jail. Patrolman Walter F. Thompson- good natured and affable, was the re cipient of more than congratulations, best wishes and gifts upon the occa sion of hla wedding Monday, from hl.s associates on the Salem police force, officials of the sheriffs of fice and friends. Along toward the close of the oth erwle perfect dv, this worthy and popular peace officer and lately be come a benedict, was given the sur prise of h's life when he strolled over to the sheriffs office on busi ness. Just of what nature he knew not. However.' uporf his appearance before Sheriff Needham. he w con fronted by Chief of Police Varnev and Sergeant Harry Uowe. who ap oared wimn'taneously upon the Fcen? and without ceremonv Patrol Thompson w prompt It escort ed to the county bastile and locked ite of bis excuses and protesta- home eomine of a trdv spouse flouted before hira. About the time the unoonfort-lsrv prodiament of the patrolman began to assume a ser ious aspect, than he ws released from custody, the Havana passed around and the blsr joke declared as only a passing honeymoon incident. H C L ACTION SPEEDED UP BY CONGRESS Walsh Blames High Prices for All Unrest of World Two Houses Charged With Wast ing Time in Words SALE OF ARMY FOOD BEGINS AT CENTERS Portland Mayor Secures List of Prices of All Grocers for Record WASHINGTON". Aug. 1 s. Quick er action by congress In the cant paign ot reduce tho cost of living was urgfl today in the senate and house. Senator Walth declared rich prices were at the botOm of all the unrest and charged that congress was wasting time when something should have bet-n done already in response to President Wilsons' rec ommendations. Mayors of Xew Jersey cities ap pearing betore the house agricultur al cc mm it tee said at t ion was needed at once to stop the rising scab? of prices. Regulation of imports was one means suggested. The amend ment broadenirg the food control act wlil Ixt considered tomorrow by the committee and probably reported to the .house. Army FcmnI Sale Ik-gin. Sale of surplus army food began today at storage renters throughout the country. Definite reports were not available, bet it wa abelieved that orders had been twelved for many millions of pcunds of .canned uieats. beans and other staples, tc be sent out by parcel post. ItJKTLAVD MAYOU GhTS ItF.ltlKTS OK ALL t.UOCF.KS PORTLAND, Or.. Aug. IS. Three hnndrl schedules of prices obtained in a survey of the grocery stores and markets of the city conducted by the police department, we-t filed with the mayor's office today. Work of compiling, tabulating and analyzing the figures was comnaccd imme diately under the direction of Hal M. White, secretary to the mayor. Public Market Included. "Th survcv was ordered by Ma yor Baker." said Whito. will now be able to ascertain the coipar- ative prices of commodities in the different sections of the city and un cover any cases of profiteering or any possible coii'binal ions to loost the price of certain articles. Inas much as the public market waa In cluded in the survey, we will know jKsitivoly whether the people are getting produce cheaper by buying through the market, direct fiom the pioducer. or whether the latter Is keeping his prices up to 4hose of the ordinary storekeepers and mak ing a 'good thing' of it. Profiteer injc to He I Elected. ' Any profiteering or similar of fenses uncovered by the survey will be listed in a report filed with the office or the United States district attorney for action." Washington Legislature to Meet to Ratify Suffrage OLYMPIA. Wash.. Aue. IS. A special seskinn of the Washiotgoi state legislature to ratify the wom an's suffrage amendment will con- vene about the middle of January. SCORE BURIED ALIVE IN COAL MINE COMPLETE DEATH LIST IMPOSSIBLE RESCUE CREWS OV ERCOME BY GASES TRINIDAD. Colo.. Aug. 18. Nineteen or 20 men are believed dead, buried under the debris from the explosion this morning in the Oakview mine of the Oakdale Coa company near La eVta. Colo. At C o'clock tonight five rescue crews had been unable to recover any bodies Fumes from the gas explosion to night filled the mine and several rescuers were overcome and were re vived with difficulty. Owing to the wrecked condition of the mine nd gas fumes. It was considered doubt ful whether the full death list could be learned tonight. 21 Men Make Kca. Approximately 40 men were in the mine when the explosion occurred' : shot m H0UMIP.7 ENGINES, THREE WOUNDS MAY BE FATAL ROAD HOUSE IS SCENE nUTTE. Mont.. Auk. 19. Thre men wer shot, probably fatally, in a holdup at the Ten Mile Road House on Mill creek. 10 miles southeast of Anaconda on the Hie Hole road, said a telephone mes sage to the sheriff of Deer Lodge county at Anaconda early this morning. Advices to the Butte Miner said the sheriff was on his way to the road house to Investi gate the shooting. SERVICEMEN,. ARE STUDIOUS Twenty-Six Already Have Ap plied Under Recent State Aid Enactment Deputy Secretary of State Sam A Kozer has on tile the names of 2 soldiers, sailors and marines who have applied to the executive heads of seven different educational lnstL tutions ot the state to take courses of study under the educational aid enactment for service men. Law, bnslness and stenography, optometry, liberal arts and sciences, chemistry and mechanics are some of the courses desired by the appli cants. Following la a list of the applica tions filed up to this time: John Paul Mehrtng. Frank Peter Keenan. William Thomas McDonald, John J. Bracco, Lynn Joclyn Bueh nell. Ileyerman George Corgan, James H. Batchelar. Grover C. Mot ley. Urban A. Keppllnger, Henry H Dirksen. Portland, Oregon; Verns W. Lauman. Toncalla, Oregon with the Behnke-Wafker Bnslness college, Portland, for Combined business courses. Edgar Louis Roth. Hal JL Moor, Elmer Gaddis Field. Portland; Ans ley G. Bates. Astoria; Lester C Rickey. Gresham, courses in opto metry. De Keyser Institute of Opto metry. Portland. Harold Wesley Emmel. Portland; Victor A. Collins, llagerman. Idaho; Wm. Wesley Kclty. ClaUkanle; Rein Everett Jackson. Salem courses In liberal arts. Willamette university, Salem. James Young. Hillsdale, law course Northwestern College of Law. Port land. Harold B. Carver. Portland, high school branches. Philomath college. Philomath. Clyde A. Raymond. Portland, course la auto and gas engines. Ad- cox Auto ana uas engine scnooi. Portland. Dewey Lawton Ball. Frank O. Crawford. Eugene, general business courses. Eugene Business college, Eu gene, Oregon. Brichoux and Southwick C rr:i1 ri vvn, j Dave Brichoux and E, B. South j ick. convicts who escaped Wednes ! day from a working, gane of the state hospital while being taken to the flax fields, are believed to have been I seen Friday at Freewater. in eastern Umatilla county. SheriTf T. D. Tay lor of Umatilla county telegraphed this Information to state penitentiary authorities yesterday. Information was delayed in reaching Sheriff Tay lor, who mas not informed until Sunday. ' The two convicts are said to have been seen by an acquaintance of Brichoux traveling in a Ford auto mobile and to have inquired the di rection to Walla. The automobile bad a Nebraska! license tag. Indicat ing It had been stolen by the fugi tives. Ten escaped through the main slope af'er the explosion and ten other made their way to the surface through an adjoining mine. Will late Davis a miner, one of thoe over come, recovered sufficiently to make his way to the surface. None of the others has been heard frrm. The exploMon occurred about a mile and a half and the workings of the mine. Wnew Wait Word Tonight tearful throngs of womes and children relatives of the miss ing men eagerly waited at the mine for word from the rescue crews. Nine officials said the xesene attemp would be continued all night. Of ficials say there la slight chance tfiai any of the men still are alive. 10 BRIDGES DESTROYED lighted Match Thrown ,i hy Workman After Lights g Fuse Believed to Have Started Disastrous Blaze ARMY OF 800 MEN BEATING BACK FLAMES Mill at Silverton Closed Down When Crew is Rushed Into Woods A loss in camp equipment and cut logs estimated at from $500, 000 to $750,000 has been caused by a fire raging since Friday through properties of the Silver Falls Tim ber company southeast of Silver ton, according to information reaching Salem from Walter Smith, board of director member of the Loyal Legion of Lumbar men and Lcggers for district No. 2 and an organizer for that organ ization. Mr. Smith, has been at Silverton for several days. The fire is believed to have started' from a lighted ' match thrown, by a workman at Camp No. 2. when he lighted a fuse. Camps JTos 1, 2, 3, 4 and 9 have all been burned, with not a build ing left standing in any of them, says Mr. Smith. .Included in the equipment destroyed were seven donkey engines, and among other property licked tip by the flames J were 10 logging railroad bridges. Cmn fcos, 3. 4 and 9 were not in operation, but were ready to operate. Everything at Camps Nos. 1 and 2 was burned. No. 1 is a headquarters camp. Because of the burned bridges three log ging locomotives are tied up and cannot be used until the bridges are rebuilt. The main line road between Silverton and Camp No. 1 is not damaged. It is reported here that 150 bridge builders were sent from. Silverton yesterday. The big mill of the Silver Falls Timber company at Silverton was closed down Saturday and its force of workers numbering about 400 men were sent to assist in fightinir the fire. It is estimated 00 men composed the fire . ighiing army, u was reported yesterday that the fire was under control, but it is said still to be making dangerous progress to wards green timber. For fighting fire the men are paid the same wages received for their regular work, . averaging about $5 a day for eight hours. There has been no loss of life and only one man has been in jured. Funeral of Mrs. French to Be Held This Afternoon i 1 TflA tllllAMl . t. - t . Mrs. Mary Foster French, mother of Mrs. Irwin Griffith, who passed away Friday morning at the borne or Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Griffith. 2ZK North Capitol street, will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Rigdon chapel. The Rev. T. S. An dcrvm will conduct the service. The body will be sent to Marysville. Cal.. for burial. Olcott Asks Admiral to Send Ships to Portland Governor Olcott H Contributing his efforts to bring as many vers is from the Pacific; fleet Into Portland harbor as possible and also to have lite ships stop at Astoria rn rout" t. Urt-merton. The governor has tlc. t..ipl.ed to Admiral Ilach Rodman, commander of the flert. at Sami Baroa ra. Calif. 2'ny I prevail upon ye-j. says the .-overuor's message to d"nlral ll.! mn. "to make every effort to enl as ininy of your Pa-lfl5 fleet bip as llbl directly to vrtland af c tfce presidential revlev without first going to Bremerton? Cn I al.-w pte vail rpon yon to hare li ships at"-: at Astoria:"- I t 4 .1'