The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, February 22, 1920, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTWO. SECTIONS 12 PAGES FIRST SECTION 6 PAGES ITV-MNTII YEAR SALEM, OKF.UOX, SVMKtY 31 OUMXU, FEBRUARY 102O. LABOR WOULD GIVE JOBS TO NEEDY GIRLS Employing of Married Wom en Whose Husbands Work For State , at Fat Salaries May Be Protested Influenza Ban Extends To State Penitentiary PRESENT SYSTEM IS HELD TO BE WRONG Girls With Dependents Feel They Are Entitled to Consideration The influenza ban has ex tended to the penitentiary and strict quarantine against visi tors wai announced by the of ficials of that institution last night. No cases or the disease have developed at the prison as yet. although more than 50 pa tients at the state hospital have been stricken. L. J. Comrton. warden pf the prison, says the quarantine will remain in effect until the epidemic has passed and health conditions have been restored to normal. JURY PLACED UNDER CARE OF DOCTORS 'Flu" Invades Courtroom and trial ot eleven Keds on Charles of Murder May Be Delayed Salem Gets Offer of Third Large Hospital Ousting fijora state position all married women whose husbands are physically able to provide for their ' support and he employment or girls and women who are thrown upon their own resources for an existence, will be urged at a proposed confer ' ear of state officials and men prom inent in labor circles of Oregon, ac- , cording to information received at the capital yesterday. Although state officials have re ceived no advices regarding the date of. the proposed conference it is un , derstood tfaaj U will be called with in the next a wo weeks. I Married Women Many A representative of a prominent STUDENTS JOIN IN LIFE SAVING CORPS IN SALEM Boys and Girls of Willamette and High School Sign Up Members TESTS TO BE OUTLINED CASE IS CONTINUED UNTIL NEXT TUESDAY Unless Juror Now 111 Recov ers by Monday Alternate May Sit (Continued on page 5) Project Is Held Necessary Be cause of Increasing Loss of Life Life saving corps are being form ed in Salem among tin Willamette university and high school students, in response to an appeal recently made in this city by Wllbert E. MONTESANO. Wash., Feb. 21. Influenza has invaded the jury room in the case of ten alleged I.W.W. on trial here for the murder of warren O. Grimm. Centralia armistice day parade victom. The illness of Ed ward Parr. Hoquiam. which caused postponement of the trial Friday was today diaenosed as Influenza and court was again adjourned . Fear that other members of the panel, even including the two alter mate iurors. all of Whom have been exposed, might become stricken Vas exorensed today when it became known that at least four others bad been reported as not "feeling well." The jury was removed from its The Sitrs of St. Vincent, in a letter received here yes terday l.y Frederick Lamport, have offered to erect a $200. 000 hospital in Salem in the evert the city will donate half of the money needed for the purchase of the site and con struction of the building. The letter said their hospital at Roseburjc recently was de stroyed by fire, and that they would not rebuild there in c.ise the iHp!o of Salem thought their proposal worth considering- The new hospital, if erect ed, would be of fireproof con struction, and would hav a capacity of mof than 200 pa tients. Two other hospital are under construction here at the present rime, and there la some speculation as to whether the offer will he accepted. How ever, a meetinR will be called some time next week, accord- inc to reports, when tome defi ! nite action may be taken. i J STEPS TAKEN TO ENFORCE HEALTHLAWS Strict Isolation of Patients and all Persons Living in Same Quarters Emphasized by Officials t sv. fi , ti rAS T ft I of Father's Misfortune I would like to talk to SALEM EDITOR IS NAMED HEAD AT CONVENTION Carle Abrams Chosen Presi dent of Oregon Editorial Association Continued on page 4) Continued on page 4) NESS SALE After .r- RING FROM BUS BEGINNING TUESDAY MORNING AT 9 O'CLOCK 28 years of tnccessfal bmine in Salem, we have decided to retire Absolutely Everything in the Store Reduced Without a Single v I Exception FromtlOi jer cent to 20 per cent and ia many odd lots and broken lines even more in order to dispose of our large stock quickly. You may think that merchandise is high at present prices, but the advances since January first have been alarming and the prices announced this week by Eastern mills for Fall lines are absolutely staggering. The following list of a few staple items will give you an idea of what is happening Jn the wholesale market this season Taffeta Silks cost before the war 70c per yard, now $3.00 yard Skinners Satins cost before the war 90c per yard, now. o y Dress GinghamsTtost before the war 8e per yard, now d' sj yartt Calico cost before the war 3y2c per yard, now. 7 .S ' Outin Flannels cost before the war 9c per yard, now eTon t Cotton Blankets cost before the war 70c per pair, now. JK5 Wansntta Nainsook cost before the war 12y2c per yard, now . 60c yam ' Pequoti Sheeting cost before the war 22c per yard, now J Germantown Zephyr yarns have advanced $1.10 per pound in the Eastern mar t ket dijiring the past two weeks. Corsets have advanced one third in price since January first Women's mercerized hose which formerly cost $2.30 per dozen have advanced to $8 per dozen. The Dry Goods Economist states this week that Fall prices on wool dress goods show an advance of 60 per cent over last Fall's prices. Merchandise is scarce and continually advancing. You know the standard quality of goods we have always carried. If you knew the present condition of the market as merchants know it, you would provide for your wants for the next two years. Every purchase during this sale means a substantial saving over present prices and wll protect you from the tremendous advances which have already become effective in wholesale lines. All Store Fixtures for Sale to be delivered as soon as our stock has been reduced sufficiently to dispense with them. . L,; ; SALE OPENS TUESDAY AT 9 O'CLOCK Trade forenoons ii possible and avoid the dinner hoiir from' 11:30 to 1:30. 3 m boy.' V. was son. o speaker said his nam Johr Yimby an-1 that bia a brijrht youth of 16 sum- FINE PROVIDED FOR VIOLATION OF ORDER mers. died recently In Portland. "When my boy was sick I had only a little money. I could not Rive him the care he needed. Maybe that Is why he did not pet well." The Krief-strirken father said his wife was dead and. with tear-diinnied eyes, continued: "Do you think the Spiritual ists could tell me how I can talk to my loy? I want to ask him to forKiYe me." Comforting words failed to console the sorrow! With a heart filled sruish n turned aside plain tively. vhopeIesly raurrnurlnc: "I would like to talk to him." SALEM URGED TO SIDESTEP RIPE OLIVES Poisoned Product Kills Peo ple in all Sections of Coun try and Housewives Are Given Warning t inp parent. d with an- I J THREE BRANDS 50UGHT BY FEDERAL AGENTS Local Physicians Vary Re garding Necessity of Dras tic Quarantine OFFICIALS TO KNFORCK QUARANTINE LAW HIGH COSTS DEPLORED Editors Hear Address by Ex pert, Elect Officers and Adjourn EUGENE. Or., Feb. 21. The sec ond annual Oregon newspaper on ference hel l at the school of Journal Ipra at the University of Oregon came to a close this afternoon with the adoption of resolutions placing the conference on record as being pro foundly dissatisfied with the market conditions of news print paper and as expressing distrust concerning them. , me resolutions runner can upon the officers of the state editorial as sociation to- make an Investigation of the facts of the situation in which metropolitan papers secure their news print at three cents or less in unlimited quantities, while country dailies and weeklies are asked to pay as high as nine and threvquarter cents in carload lots, and to report such fact3 to the membership wtth recommendations for governmental or such other action as may seem ex pedient. Officers elected for the conference are: Carle Abrams. Statesman Pub lishing company, Salem,' president X. J. Vanskike. publisher of the Mil ton Eajtle, vice president; George Turabull. University of Oregon school of journalism, secretary treasurer: Eric W. Allen, dean of the school of Journalism, chairman of the program committee. Strict isolation of patients and all persons living In the same quarters during quaran tine perled.- Compulsory reporting of all influenza, cases . by physicians. Fine of $S to $100 for vio lation of (quarantine orders. Thorough ' fumigation of quarters before liftiag of quar antine. Public asked to cooperate by reporting all cases to the city health officer in writing. t i i CAR ORDER RAPS SALEM PLANTS SAYS BUCHTEL Five Dozen Bottles -of' Sus pected Fruit Distributed In Illinois Salemites should, i beware - of rip olive bottled mader, MaUrU." uleI and MRlchJieaTU2eli un til such time as the federal authort- tt tilt, uA an AnfAriniilfv tA In. Empties tO Be Hauled From Ueatlgal,. Last Bight, federal and California oNrth Through Oregon, Is Report TELEGRAf.nTSENT EAST Carrier Situation Is Held to Be Acute and Relief Is Held Imperative PORTOLIVE MAY HAVE REAL KICK Attorney General Asked Re garding Legality of Sale in This State Attorney General Brown had on his desk yesterday a bottle of Proud's protclive wine oil tonic, with the re quest that the official give a legal opinion as to whether the produrt could be P'it on the Oregon market without violating , the prohibition lawsiow in effect in this slate. The jittornev eneral has held, according to an oral opinion, that it would no be leeal to sell the tonic in Oregon unless the word wine was omitted fr.-m the label, and in th event it could be usrd as a beverage. The tonic is manufactured In Los ! Aneeles. and in case of a favorablo opinion, it was planned to open a ! distributing agency in Oregon, ac cording to Mr. Drown. This Is on !of manv so-calId tonics that have been submitted to the attorney gen eral for Investigation under he pro hibition statutes during the past few weeks. CHEMAWA YOUTH SECOND IN RACE Indian Makes Good Showing in Five-Mile Run at Ama teur Track Meet Salem Is to enter a period of Iso lation! Xot from the world at large, but each Salemlte who is afflicted with the Influent or any of the per fectly good Imitations that go by toe name of influenza (in the absence of the real thing) will become separate and apart from the rest of the Salem- ites. Of course each indisposed person may nave a companion in misery who. according to the recent ruling of the committee on health and po lice of the city council, will also dis appear from the social whirl of three to six . weeks, depending upon the staying power ot each particular case of Influenza, or influenza in name only. The committee is composed of Councilmen Volk. Schrunke and Craig, with the mayor an ex-officlo member and Dr. R. L. Pomeroy as secretary. Itcports Are Xecwary -v Dr. Pomeroy emphasized the fact that cases must be reported either by someone in thei house or family of the party ill or by other parties. It is not desired that the people of Sa lem engage in a free-for-all festival of informing against their neighbors. but there will be cases that for some reason will not be known to the au thorltles unless responsible citizens cooperate. All reports of cases not attended by a physician should be made in writing to Dr. Pomeroy. In formation gained in this way will be considered strictly confidential and. while the communications must be pinned, the names will not be dl vulged. Cases attended by physicians must be reported within 2 4 hours. This is In accordance with the law that Is to be strictly enforced until the pres ent threat of influenza (so called) is entirely over. Statement I Varied Dr. .Pomeroy is responsible for the! enforcement of the new regulation and. though he has not observed a danger serious enough, according to his statement, to warrant a measure which is so likely to hamper indus try, he promise to see that the quar entine Is strictly enforced. He has already put into effect six new cases reported yesterday and about 60 oth ers previously reported and not sub sequently reported recovered. sentiment among others of the profession seems to agree fajrly well in thinking that the danger is not sufficient to warrant such stringent measures. Many of the .physicians seem to think either the epidemic is Influenza in a very light form or no Influenza at all. Some doctors have not reported a single case for the winter and others but very few cases. Fine I Penalty It is thought that the strict quar- entine will serve to regulate the "fashionable disease" to the catagory of the very undesirable and in this way reduce the number of bad colds and sore throats that have been pa rading under the banner of influenza While agreeing in the desirability of enforcing the regulation, now that it has been made, even to the extent or imposing a fine of $3 to $100 that HiarrarH it f fiiiaranlina nrrle a j a penalty, many of the local physi- i 1 clans warn against the danger of ; lanic which is always inexcusable ! T That the recent order Issued br R. H. Alshton. regional director or th United States railroad adminis tration with headquarters at Chicago. in which Instructions were given to move empty cars from California through Oregon for allocation at the northern terminals, will prove a body blow to the lumber industry of the Willamette valley to the benefit of Seattle and other Puget Sound points was the oninlon expressed In a tele- rram sent yesterday to W. C. Ken dalU manager of the car service bur eau at Washington by Fred J. Buch- tel. chairman of the Oregon public Mrvlce commlaaion.- - - Mr. nuchtel's telegram, which 1 self-explanatory of the condition ex isting in Oregon and the immediate need for relief, follows: We have received Information that Regional Director Alshton's of fice bas lust Issued peremptory ord ers to the Southern Pacific company to forward all northbound empties through to Portland for distribution to northern lines. Such order Is di rect contravention and abrogates your recent order requiring the Southern Pacific company to relieve the shortage of cars throughout the Willamette valley, and if not Imme diately rescinded will cause Irrepar able damage to our lumber industry. "An order requiring empties to be delivered from California through Oregon to northern lines appears to this commission as Indefensible and unquestionably would result In an unfair division of care. The Alshton order apparently Is founded on mis apprehension of facts Inasmuch as our available car supply Is now 50 per cent short of needs. "Unfortunately we have not se cured the oromlsed relief nor "rtut to which we reasonably feel entitled to. consequently it appears to this commission as Imperative that this order in this Instance be withdrawn at once." Mr. Ituchtel yesterday conferred with various shippers in the Wlllam ette valley, and It was their almost unanimous opinion that enforcement of the Alfhton order would have the effect of closing many of the mills and logging camps and throw thous ands of men out ot employment. towns of eight states, were making frantle efforts to. locate and coafls- eate dozens of bottles of these olives contain log the deadly bacillus botn Hnua, as a result ot deterioration. Several deaths vera reported from different cities of the .country-and housewives everywhere -.have . been warned to rttarn nnopeired contain ers holding suspected brands. Tbt.ollTev packed In lilt by a California company, jwere stold (to the retail trade through Bprague. Warner Co local wholesale gro cery house. Major A. ,A Bprarae. head of the firm, and .federal, war price commissioner for Illinois.-has famished a--record or all sales to federal authorities aad has Instruct ed his salesman, to call on every cus tomer and .lake, up the olives.:, , Five dozen, bottles erf the poisoned fruit have been distributed to dealers In IT Illinois towns. It is not known how many dozea are in stores In the other slates. . . , . ' ; 1 ' Dranda involved are rtiaiavi. Terndeir and "Illchllem. Only ripe-ieitm, -stuffed ' wtOr pfraentes and ftold In bottles, are affected. J. L. McLaughlin. - , an pefiatenaent or the Illinois division of food and dairies, said "Investigation disclosed that no blame Is attached to either packer, wholesaler or retailer. Labels on the bottles .show they were distributed by the Chicago ftrra but do not carry the packers name. The bottles contain six ounce net snd are of the Xo. 0 slxe accordln to the labels, - - i - - Towns In which olives are known to. have been distributed and the number ot bottles In each Include: Montana Richlleu brand. Wllon. 24; Datavla brand Kalispeu. 11. KlllTZ C'All DAMAtiKD. W. E. Klrtz. 1105 Leslie street drlvinc west on Liberty street, yes terdar. collided with a machine drlv en bv an unidentified man. - The Klrtz machine was slightly .damaged BROYN TO PASS ON DRY MEASURE Conflict b Enforcement of Federal and State Acts Up to Attorney Whether or not the federal and state prohibition laws are In conflict. and if so. which act superseoes us the enforcement of the dry regula tions, are the questions that have been submitted to Attorney General Hrown for legal opinion. The re quest for this opinion is said to have come from district attorneys ot prac tically every county: In Oregon. the federal departments at Washington snd Portland, druggists, wholesalers snd manufacturers. ." - Under the federal statutes physi cians are authorized to prescribe oer taln amounts of brandy for patients, according to the attorney xsneral. while under the state laws these pro scriptions must be confined to alco hol. . . -Ja - MARION COUNTY TAX ROLLS SHOW INCREASE OVER PREVIOUS YEARS me danger is at a minimum. They re- I J peat that only two deaths have been ! caused by Influenza, according to the , official reports for the winter, snd : J that there are but few cases that are i indubitably influenza, and that even i among these the lllne.s is usually) light and of slight duration. i Reports come from Mission not-! torn that many case? of flu have de veloped in that farming section. Xo fatalities have yet occurred but Sa lem physicians have made several professional calls to that locality. PORTLAXD. Feb. 21. M. Payne. Multnomah Amateur Athletic club distance runner and a former Uni versity of Oregon track" man. won n. cr.ss-city five mllo run today In tho fast tinio or 2fi:02 minutes. He won easily, finishing nearly a block ahead of Albert Spearson of the Che mawa Indian school, who was second. Sme i.Iea of the growth and development of Marion count v can ! pained when it i id that the tax rolls for the v-ar l!20t an compiled ly Hen F. West, county assessor, iarircr hjm ver before. The tax rolls will be turned oxer to Sheriff Needhatn tomorrow and the task of making collections will start Tuesday. Although Mr. West is highly optimistic over the future of Marion county he says this section will not attain" the beat roiilts fro-,n the standpoint of production until cheaper pow der is provided for the farmers. To bring this about, Mr. West advocates the establishment of a state owned powder plant, and the sale of the product at actual cost. l uder present high cost conditions farmers are unable to purchase pwder. and as a result much valuable land is being allowed to remain uncleared. This, Mr. West says, not only contributes to the increasing expense of the various house holds but is retarding development. The total taxes to be ctllected in Marion county this year, according to the tax rolLs, is $1,340,000.