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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1920)
The Bute sunn receives tat leased wire report of tht AuociiUd Press, the greatest ix d most reliable sreis association la lb world. &EVEXTIKTH YEAH ... -. . . . , ' 1 , , , , , , muai, our.cx. tuf.spav mokmx. apiul 13. ipso. , tiuce: rare cexts PANORAMA OF BLOOMING ORCHARDS IN ROSEDALE DISTRICT THAT WILL BE VISITED BLOSSOM DAY ... t " ' 1 -" ' - ' ; . ' v.'" ;j . . ; - . , . ' . . . - 4 t 1 i "? . 1- ' Unles3 tne rainy weather continues, delaying the blooming of Willamette valley prune trees, next Sunday will be Blossom day in Ealeni. The event is being widely advertised and, hundreds of people will be in Balm for the automobile excursion through the famous prune orchards of the Rosedale and other sections of Marion county and across the river in Polk county. If the trees are not thoroughly in bloom a later date will be chosen. FLOWERS TO GREET III ELKS AMDFEZMEN Floral Peds on West Lawn of Co House Wm Bear Let ter! B. P. 0. E. and the Crescent and Sword YOU GOT TO QUIT KICKIN' THE CAT NATIONAL HUMANE AMHASSA IM)K IS CXIIX,TO SALEM; iUchanl Crarai to Address Students ; and Otlteni in Salem Friday and Saturday SHUQW IS PLANNED YHEN LODGEMEN COME Bojr ;5couts to Have Impor tant Part in Making Salem City. Beautiful - Two floral bed on the west lawn of the court house, that last year .were planted to popples, will this tammer be planted anew with a var ;ity of flowers, and one bed will bear In floral colors of purple and white Ue letters B. P. O. E., initials of the Was lodge, while the other, in ap- propriate colors, will bear the cres- t cent and sword of the Shriners These insignia. will be in design Urge enough to be plainly seen .from passinc trains, and will be in full bloom for the state. Elks con vention and 1 the ShIners excursion to Salem in June. ; Also Salem will hare - a f lowar show on the date of the Shiners' ris- It June 23, which also will be one of uree days the Elks' will be here Lots May Uo llcautiful This-is part of the city beautiful STEPS TAKEN Be careful . how you throw that cat out of the door! Go easy with the pup when he takes lunch out of friend, wife's newest 125 pumps, and don't kick pupp'e3' mama hard enough to . make - her yelp if she takes a few experimental steps in the most carefully nourished corner of the garden! For why! Richard Craven, ambassador of the National Humane society, is coming to town under the auspices of the state organization. He 1s coming all ' the way from the city of Beans to lecture toSa- lera people next Friday and Satur day. He "will speak' to the students and faculty of Willamette university at chapel time Friday morning and at the Lincoln junior high school in the afternoon Saturday morning he will have 'charge of the story hour at the city library. TO TERMINATE RAIL STRIKE Attorney General Given In structions to Act and Army Is Ready to Transport Food to Starring Cities BRIDE NO. 18 DISCOVERED I . BUT CANT BE LOCATED MILLAGE BILLS ARE ENDORSED Salesman's Club Unanimous in Support of Measures v Going on Ballot Unanimous endorsement of the 2 mill lax bill for support of elenven tary schools, the 1.26-mlll measure for maintenance of the state .instf 10MPERS AND LEE URGE RETURN TO WORK Speak to Strikers in Cleve land With 'Uncertain Result CREEL WRATH DESCENDS ON SENATE FOES Directs Letter . to Attorney- General Asking That Crim inal .Charges Against Him Be Investigated 1 campaign decided upon at a meeting I tutiona of higher education and the 01 the board tif directors of the Sa- 4 per cent oonaea maenieaness 1 lm Floral society last night. Decor-J amendment was giren at a meeting apon of the court-bouse lawn will I of the newly organ upo eaiera aaies- be done by a trooo of Boy Scouts I men's club la' night. The action famished by Harold Cook, Scout ex- was.takn aftfr addresses on.the sub ecutlve, and wilt be supervised by i kct by James S. Stewart. F. W. Jo- VV . Maruny. .. IbeJinan and others. I As a further tribute to the visit-1 The club was Pntertafnwl in a lg lodgemen who ill be the city's I variety of ways. T. E. McCroskey, guests at that time it is probata I manager of th Commercial club, that the Boy Scouts will be assigned J gave a jazzy talk on salesmanship. number of vacant lots, located inan) g. s. Harralson. the funny edl- AVASHIXGTON. April 12. Deter mination of the government's course in the railroad strike crisis tonight awaited further information from department of justice. agents. At torney General Palmer, after con ferences with government officials. said a decision might be reached to morrow, adding that the "govern ment would not shirk its responsi bility." Meanwhile. White House officials announced tonight that President Wilson would tend to the senate to morrow names of, nine members of the railway labor board created by the transportation act. Nominations had been delayed, it was added, by time taken in selecting representa tives of the public on the itoard to infure getting the right men. Men selected for that group had not signified tonight their willing ness to art, it was nald. Hope Pinned to I Jilr lUwiril. Frame rs of the transportation act. UK CJOT 'KM ALL RV SAMK SWKKT MKJSSACiE OF IA) VK Man of Many, Xante Discovered to Have More Wives and Authorities Think Hotter Net eVt Complete LOS ANGELES. April 12. "Bride No. 18" as the officers termed her. and a matrimonial form later were revealed today, according to detec tives working on the affairs of Rich ard Huirt. alleged bigamist, who is in a hospital here receiving treat ment for self-inflicted wounds. Bride No. 18". like five others of Hulrt's alleged jwtves, cannot b iouna. out a teief ram rrom uateway. Mont., declared she had been mar ried there to Huirt while be was us ing the name of Harvey F. Young. The message also stated he was sus pected of having married two other Gateway women. r t . 1 -II. 1 1 . . r wiuer auegea wires nave oeen 10- I 11 C a U CI cated in various parts of the United 1 ellS senator lie OeekS in fctates especially the west and In XT' r t U Canada. Two women Who assert v m ui um iw lL "r1 l ."Blrt the Can On The matrimonial form letter was discovered, detectives said, when they were questioning some of the man's alleged victims. It contained promises of trips-to the Orient and Europe and state the sender and tho recipient ultimately . would settle down In Southern California. ACCUSES SM00T0F BUNCOMBE PEDDLING HISTORIC SCHOOL RECREANT TO DUTY hCHOOL FOR ;iRLM MAKKS IlllKAK IX CjOOU IllXt)llD Kntlre Faculty of VmmV Unable, to Train One Wngle C;irl In Whole Class to IVrpetnate Calling NEW YORK. April 12.- Vassar college will not graduate a "school marm" this year. according to re sults of a survey of the senior class. made public here tonight. Low sal aries. It was said, had caused stud ents to turn to business; social ser vice and oth?r professions. MORE MONEY B GIVEN HATCHERY Hughes Raises Sufficient Ad ditional Funds to Put Plant in Operation MEN TAKE UP THEIR WORK IN CHICAGO Prospect of Early RecoTery From Illegal .Walkfoct Is Good in -Some Parts of Country . A' NEW YORK, April 12. George Creel, who headed the committee on public information. tonight made publie a letter be has sent to Attor ney General Palmer, insisting that Mr. Palmer investigate- at once No formal, charge has been placed I charges by the joint congress com against Huirt who is under guard to prevent him from injuring himself. important parts of the city and will Plant flowers to spell out "Wel come." Mrs. Milton Meyers and Mrs, W. P. Lord were appointed a committee to confer with Mr. Cook relative to work done by the Scouts tor of the Corvailis Coufier, furn ished diversion with a humorous rresentation, responding to an en core. . . " Murray Wade offered the sugges tion that since Salem haeTeen ae Mr. Cook told the board .that the Lorded the distinction of producing uieraDerssup or the facouts now num- morc rr capita, about $1500 an rs 250 and that before the end J npany for Tery man, woman and 01 im sunyner he hopes to have tne -hild. than anv ether city on th .uicuiucrnuip as nign as uu or ovv. The plan to plant the vacant lots is .suit tentative. . To work ins the necessary spirit la the .competition among the ehools for! prizes offered by -the Commercial club for effective work in decoratinz the citr witii flowes the society ) will furnish speakers to to tho students at the several schools of the city mittee on printing, that the Creel eommittce had wrongfully trans ferred the offiria! l'iMetin to Roger W. ltabson of Wcllesley. Mass. . Mr. Creel also made pabHc a let ter to Senator S:noot. chairman of he committee, declaring the senator knew there m no transfer of th- official bulletin to Hatjson.- but that the Joint committee "uneaklnKly AavcfiTn Rnnmrt Umma. I worked In sert to frame tbe.Jn- Airsnip isnnging Hoover dictnirnl that mv ,M,iny would Leaders Wltft Petitions to r.e rnad absurd." He added that 171 srnaior as mu n as any oce Tile at LapitOl ' . 1" was responiMe for wiping out tne erect committee June 30. isu, HYDROPLANE TO COME TOMORROW : S. A. Hughes, who as a -member of the legislature. Is credited wita being the father of tne new Santlam fish hatchery, now being completed on Stout creek, below Mehama, suc ceeded In securing; $4 000 more from the state fish and game commission when he appeared before the com mission in Portland yesterday. This assures completion of. the hatchery at an early date with no delay for lack of funds. This makes a total of $11,000 ap propriated to building the plant. The legislature or 1919 appropriated $3000, and In a prerlous effort Mr. Hushes ersuaded the commission to allow $2000 from the fish and game fund. The plant will be in condition to operate at an Oriy date. Mr. Huchcs also extracted from the commission a promise to send to more crates of Chinese pheas ants to Marion county, in addition WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK ARE ISOLATED Many More Men Go Out in Extreme East and on Pa cific Coast Salem will be treated to a thrill on Wednesday of this week. Starting from Portland about 10 including Chairman Cummins of the minutes earlier with the Hoover je- enat inrtat. commerce commit- tuions. Chester Murphy will fly to tee were firm in 'the opinion that iaiem. so as 10 reac.i me wuiameue the labor board would prove an ef- river rront at about iz:i.. riin .nnn to dent with the rail- "e w ' n a wa-piane. namw . - - . Ilk. ! l:.. I m. t A Vn that reason nuwusine 01 ine I . . .J "J - - I t - . t Hafcrrnl rt!on on nro-I,r- I.VMIIIlUto v. - I J ... ..,.-J i t... .nKimxe nnil fnmiirv I Jtiur rrnun, nwn in inn i nium into the striK . :r r " ?rr?-"0z ."l. .n.nn,.nt inilir pnt orders c J " lu ouiem, up id - - . . I VV IIMlll .I.A. 1 . n wr mall I '..'- i h'hi.ii huh'U 113 v 1 . .... officials for prompt reports on any " i.u",r" 01 lu. n, AfU-r of the malls. Pn in -ew .Mtxico. aou am. - ..AM a? 4itcllJA Willln 1 1 litT Utl'tll UUeiU jm. j- . 1-. m w-t 1 . . - be asked for Immediate prosecutions " one om- oe opn.ru ' I standing orators of America, and he under statutes roveraing mall trans-I U1 - Compete For Cups 5 -The schools will compete for cups. isree prizes to be awarded, and the swards wll be made on three points. roast, a celebration of the distinction should be Staged. No action was taken. J. F. Hutchason, president of the club, ; helped keep the meeting go ing with Intermittent scintillating remarks, and annennred that Man ager MCroskcy would have a shak er of wide repute and unquestioned notability for the rrosram next time. Hutchason also said he nour ished, within his bosom a secret which he wvuld spring at the next meeting. ' TSrSSJi trBower Without Opposition as Candidate for Sheriff most beautiful . work. - Anv school wlnuina a ctin two vears In succes sion will kep 14 as a perman'at tro phy. A farther Incentive will bo in Oerar. Hewer, candidate for sher iff of Marion county, apparently ts dividual nriToa nf il j i III Ol aianvn rounij, I'l'"""" wiX Kd'entof thera thl U have a lJl Junior high and the senior high nde.rstood candidate ls fo, tho best flower bed at - V was believ! " 'The floral society has decided to Institute a vigorous membership -Continued on page 2) that O rover Todd of Woodburn would announce himself as a candi riste. bnt It is now said that Mr. Todd will not enter the race. portation. the telegrams stated. Delay In formulating a program for roveminent action under tne Lever food control act, was said by (Con tinned on page 6) fathered on the river bank. He will speak from the sea plane. Mr. Eley is to make addresses in Portland for Hoover, and in Wash ington and Idaho also. He is now Tiro Automobile Dealers (Continued on page 2) in Race for MayoraltyPetitions for Supreme f i r - r.oorae E. Haivorsen. councilman I rfuauic ntc txecciveu from Ward 7. yesterday announced that he will run In opposition to CM-1 The four randidates for renom- to J. Wilson for mayor, and will fhe I ination and election to the supreme his declaration of candidacy some-j court, have ceased to file by the pe time this week. Mr. Haivorsen con-j tltion method rather than the filing sonted to enter the race only aftT I lee system, and petitions carrying Dr. F. L. "Utter had made the stat-jOTcr 2000 signatures for each of the ment that he could not put the time! Judges have been, received by 'Ar Into the race and Into the work ihatlihur S. Henson. clerk of the onrt it would require because his business j who will file them with the secre- would not permit. I tary of state. It Is said not mora Mr. Haivorsen Is one of the pr.vlthan half the names have arrived prietors of the Slarlon Automobile l Only 100 nams are required by company on South Commercial iaw. The four justices whose terms Street. lexr'rc and who are seekins re- Dr. Filer will remain on the city election are Chief Justice Thomas council. where he and .Mr. Halvor- a. McBrlde and Justices Lawrence sen nave stood together on most s-' t. lin-ris. Ilenrr L. Denson and sucs-.. Henry J. Bean. - CHICAGO. .April 12Whlle ths unauthorized strike of railroad em ployes, which started here two wttks ago with the walkout of sev eral hundred switchmen on the Chi cago. Milwaukee and St. Paal rail road, today appeared gradually la be waning In the midals west aad the far west, the situation eatt of Cleveland took on a more serious as pect. The center of development la the walkout of insurgents had shifted ta the east, where additions to tho ranks of the rebel railroad workers bad caused a serious stoppage of freight and passenger traffic and the closing of several Industries. The situation In the Chicago yards showed a marked loprorement abd report from other Urge railroad rrntpn In the middle west Indicated to four entfes already doe to arrive that the crisis wss past and that U in the middle of Its orderly liqui dation." The join; committee charged that the transferjiad been made without cost to liabtton and suicKested In- stltnMon of legal procedlnes against Creel. Dabson. C. T. Clarion and Kdward S. KochstT. to sm If the government could not recover the noney. Went Vindication. In his Idler to Mr. Palmer. Mr. Creel sold: 'I insist that your otfiee com mence an instant lnvestisatlon and put myself and every record at your disposal. I want to know from yai also what protection a citizen has againct the deliberate slanders of a member of congress. Not only are Senator Smoot's charges false, bu. he knew them to be lies when he uttered them. 'The olficial bulletin was not transferred to Koger Dabson or any one else. It was discontinued by (he order of the attorney general on the ground that I had no right to sell the property at public auction. The one ayt was a mailing list and this was publicly flared at the dis posal of any citizen caring to copy it. an action also taken under orders ot the att3rney general. "Any private citizen was at H'. erty to start a publication of simi lar character, and this is what Sir. Dabson did. He received nothlnx from the government i-ccrt the right to copv ihe mailing lisi. IMrretn Attack Aeln-I Kmoct. To Senaior Snioot. Mr. Creel said that after he had been "dispossess ed" on .July 20. 1919. his record bad twice Ieen moved and bad been jumbled Into army trucks He d elan! a "private memorandum. stating this confusion, was sent to Fenator warren,, but some one here. Also Mr. Hughes will receive from the state game farms a quan tity of pheasant rgs a1out the mid dle of May. Tise will be hatched under family letting bns In the poultry yards of this locality. Bronson Arranses for. fnler church Council Here Dorton F. Itionson. executive s-e-rtary of the Interchurch movement in Oregon, is in Salem. completing arrangements for the meeting to h4 held here Friday. Yesterday Mr. Hronson addressed the Salem Minis terial association, and outlined the work that is being done all over the state. He made the statement that "The Interchurch World Movement is not a superimposed organization but rather a movement than an or- jganzatlon. It is the Protestant churches in concentrated action. OVERALLS NOW ARE BIRMINGHAM STYLE niUMINCHAM. Ala.. April 12 The Birmingham .Overall Club, with 30& members pledged to wear overalls until clothing prices decline, was formallr orranlzed tonight at a mass meeting. Action fol lowed refusal today of local . newspapers to comply with a request by a committee of re tall clothiers that they case publication of newt items . of formation 01 overalls ciuds. tha clothiers alleging their tnine. was being Jhurt. On April 16 every club mera- her is to appear clad in over- all rnd a solemn pledge was t taken that the denims will be I worn until the price ot cloth- a strikers were returning to work; In contlderabU numbers. Officers X railroad brotherhoods, who hare been llgatlng the strike, were con fident that the breaking Bp of the walkout in Chicago would be fol lowed by a general resumption tl work in other areas. A pronouncement of The govern ment's course as expected at Wash- ogton tomorrow by Attorney jen- eral Palmer. Investigators or tno department of Justice were complet ing an inquiry Into the situation, ar, Palmer said. 4 Otlcagtt Ilcames Work More freight moved into the CV rago yards today than on any day rlnce the strike started, railroad 01- liclals announced. More than S.tiOa stockyard employes forced out of work by the strike returned. Packing house receipts Include 4000 cattle. 2.S00 hogs, and 4uv9 thcep. This was a larger quantity" than received any day last wi-e.. About 25.009 stockyard worke,-s wer still Idle. The Illinois Central, the Chlcazt. Milwaokee and Ft. Paul and the New York Central and other roads re ported cars again moving in the switching yards and that embarks had been partly lifted. The General Managers' Associa tion denied that any negotiations were being carried on wlih the out law yardmen's association, and stat ed no parley would be entered Into. Jn requesting negotiations lookics toward yhe end of the strike. Presi dent Urunao of the yardmen's aspo rtation said contracts the railroan have with the Lrotherbood of rail road trainmen and, the switchmen's union of. North America, did not ap ply to membership la Lis union, lis denied that the strike as illegal. Strikers Accmse Brut bcrtKxxl "The brotherhoode hlefs who ac- Contlnued on page 2) jLCoaUaucd, cn pas8 v;