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II . I FIRST SECTION TWO SECTIONS AO Pages Pages 1 to 6 SEVENTIETH YEAK HALEM,- OUEGON, FRIDAY MQllNING, JANUARY 14, 1921 l'UICK : FIVE CENTS J1 LAWMAKERS ADJOURNED Till MONDAY Joint Session Called Janu ary 17 Ito Hear Special Message of Governor Purpose Is Unknown UPTON WOULD DESTROY EMERGENCY BOARD Stale Lands Near Salem Subject of BUT by : Martin SHADOW BLACKMAILER! SPEAKS OVER PHONE JKxxiNfj finds letter OFFICE DKSK ox 23,0OO I Demanded From Lnd.l or Great Misfortune Will Overtake Him DEFICIENCY EXALTED SPIRIT AIDS fflm A 1? A fl?0 WOMAN FAST 46 DAYS LUBfi TiiliLO At th closo of the mornin? .MCinn rf the legislature yester day both houses, adjourned until 1 Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock ;ovemor , Olcott ha called a Joint session of the senate and house for Monday next at 2:3ft o'clock to hear a special message from the governor. " The session wan formally called yesterday when the senate adopted a house i concurrent resolution calling the mating. .Rules were suspended nd the resolution passed -with- out reference to committee. Members of the: legislature are unable to, guess what .is to he the purport of the special message. One. venture. M that It deals vwHli the question of indirect taxation. A special committee -named, by the governor some months ago to make a study of possible new revenues, by this method, has nojt yet reported.,, :.; Senator Upton yesterday In troduced a hilt to do away with the state emergency hoard, hut offering no substitute for the i, .board. ' "! i '- The em-rgency board is the state board that authorises state departments and institutions to create deficiencies when the mounts appropriated for their r.ge by the legislature run short at any time during the biennlum. The beard is composed! of the governor, secretary of state, stata treasurer, president of the senate, speaker of the house," chairman of the senate ways and . means committee and chairman of the house ways and means commit- , Jt is understood another bill will be Introduced In the senate to substitute the Joint ways and .means committee, or part of It, for the emergency board. This would provide for the calling to gether of the committee, presum ably by the secretary of state, at ny time during the biennlum to consider shorlages In aniv state . department. It la held that the ways and meann committee is particularly competent to perform this function for the reason that all legislative appropriations are vnder the perusal of the com mittee at each session of the leg islature. .'- . .- -:j ? , A special committee of six members of the .house and five of the senate is proposed in a Joint resolution Introduced yesterday by Senator Xorblad to confer with a lilos committee from .the legis lature of the state of Washington .' relative to mutual fishing Inter1" , eats on the Columbia. river. The 'reflation would have the com mittee, following Its deliberations, ' ' meet with the fish and game com t mlttee to discuss data gathered bythe committees. . A bill authorizing Inclusion of . jtate lands or incorporated cities or towns. In irrigation or: drain age districts, with reference es pecially to the state lands , east ef Salem In the Santlam section, s was Introduced. In the house yes ; terdav by.Ivan O. Martin, repre sentative from Marion comity. Legislation snrh as this has Wn discussed at each of the ses sions Tfor a pumber of years and last year was passed but, vetoed by the,, governor: because It was not considered I an emergency measure.' A committee appointed at that time tof Investigate the advisability of drainage of the land east of Salem found no law whereby the state could authorize such improvement, Th? meas ure introduced by Mr. Martin ould place the state on the same . basis' with any other owner of lands In the matter of Improve ments. - . i fi. n. 39 y Moser Amending statutes relating to establishment and maintenance of kindergarten?. r . 4ft by Upton Reqfo ring certain conveyances of personal property to be recorded. 41 by uPton Repealing i ni?fIr"a,lnK emergency board and defining' it. ,ini. PORTLAND Or.. Jan. 13.- "Shadow". the Alleged blackmail er who is the supposed source of threateninE,- letters received by prominent and wealthy -Portland- ers;.within the past few days, was still active today according to th? Dot we. J. vesitev Lartd, one of the .men whose life bad bee.i i hreateued, received a mysterious call ow i the telephone today. ho told the detectives. The voice on: the wire told Ladd that .'Shadow"! was speaking and warned him a?ain that if he did not pay the $25,000 prevlous'y demanded. great misfortune would overtake him. Other developments today were the finding on a desk in his place of business by II. Jenning, Jr., another recipient of a "shadow" letter, of a notei signed by the sun posed blackmailer saying he had been there andith receipt by Mrs. Philip Gevurtzj wife of a former resident, of one of the blackmail ing letters., .. ' FUND MAY BE COT IN HALF Kozer Advises 50 Per Cent Reduction in Appropria tion Asked by Emergency Board ; $459,766 Wanted LARGEST ITEM FOR SOLDIERS' AID ACT Livestock Exposition and State Library Requests "Large MRS. 1IARR1XGTOX COXFIDKXT IlKlt Hl'SIIAXl) V1LIY1KI.I I Physician Firwls Food Alstainer in as Normal C'mtdition h Healthy Person LEGISLATIVE PARALYSIS TAX ROUS MY BE INCREASED Senator Jones Would With hold Exemption From All Institutions Millions of dollars Worth of property will be added to the tax roll of Oregon and the assessed valuation of property, In the state will be g?ven a tremendous boost if "a bill to be introduced in the legislature nextweek by Senator Jones of Iane county is enacted into law. Senator Jones proposes a law providing that jail churches, hos pitals, private schools and all other institutions that are now ex empt from taxation must he olaced on the tar rolls, as well as all land owned by institutions of this kind. No statistics are avail able at the state capitol to show how much of an Increase this would make In tax receipts, but it would go a , long way : toward re lieving the present condition wherein taxes i fall far short of Meeting .thejaeeds of public ex penditures. This condition has become so serious that Governor .Olcott some time ago appointed a special com mittee or . prominent persons to make a study of further . possible sources of Indirect taxes, and the committee waa icharged to report Us findings at this session of the legislature. i rtnnbt exists i whether Senator Jones' proposed bill will be able! to get past the legislature. , ii is believed ; certain that . both churches and school leaders will unite in lobbying against the measure, and both these elements are tremendously Influential -in the state, particularly with the average legislator who has a fu ture political career In mind. IU11 Would Complete With emergency clause attach ed, a bill was introduced today by the senate committee on revision of laws empowering the industrial accident, commission to invest the unexpended balance of the reha bilitation funds iwhen the balance shall exceed ,$73,000. It is .a, rem edial bill to complete a measore passedat the special -session of 1920 creating the rehabilitation fond. ,f . , ; ' ;: liquor if Delivered by Airplanes From Canada SAN FRANCISCO. Tan. -1 3 Airplane delivery of liquor front Canada and It distribution through a comprehensive organi zation operating under the cloair or an ostensible: airplane school were reported today by D. C. Smith, prohibition officer from Portland, Or., co-operating with John L. Considlne. prohibition su pervisor. In an s Investigation oi the alleged association. According to Information whicn the officers said they had ob tained, the association has an in itiation See of $300, has $2o0 members In Portland alone, ha3 several companies and m an air plane school operated as cloaks fnr tt real business. Seven air planes flying between the Canad ian border and coast states and a protective: system wiiereny members by assessment fnrnisfc funds for legal id for arrested operatives. ;- ' Hides for Shoe Leather Costs Same as Before War Through a-suggestion made to the ways and means committee by Sam A. Kozer, secretary ot state, the amount to be appropriated by the present legislature to meet deficiencies authorized by the emergency boat d in the last two years," may be cut from $459.76J to $234.76fi. almost 5ft per cent. The total In deficiencies that has been authorized is $459,766. Ot this amount the largest item Is $223,000 under the education al aid mlllafce act for soldiers, sailors and marines. This is four tenths of a mill, which on the lasis or the - state s present -Efcsed valuation, produces about T44ft.Oo a year. The peak in the demands ot ex-service men under the act, Mr. Kozer believes has been passed, end the demand will decline each year from now on. His sugges tion is that the ways and means committer & ot the senate r and house, which work jointly,. recom mended no appropriation what ever to meet the deficiency under the educational aid act for ex service men.- Retause of the de creasing demand under the act the secretary, of state feels cer tain that surplus left at the ?nd of. each year from ths millage as sessment will be sufficient in about two years to meet the present deficiency. The sugges tion is said to have been met. fa vorably' by Senator Patterson and Represent atlver Herbert - Gordon, chairmen respectively of the sen ate and the house ways and means committees. DANVILLE. 111.. Jan 13. "This is an amazing woman, a strange case wherein the spirit is so exalted as to maintain the health of the body." said Dr. Gerety tonight, after making a careful examination of Mrs. Krn- ext Harrington, who has fasted 4 6 days in the eiidoMvor to cause her husband to join her church. "I fouud her in as normal a condition as any healthy person," resumed the doctor. "And I am incliiifd to . believe her faith is such ax to cause her to tell the truth. I am quite sure she has not eaten since November 29. Her pulse is 84 which is higher than normal. 72: but that means noth ing. Her temperature is98, and 1it heart leats f:rinly The only change in her body appears to he a slight flabbiness of -the wus- cels." Mrs. Harrington -declared she Intended to continue fasting, and is confident her husband's spirit will finally yield. Crowder Finds Failure of Electoral and ' Courts to Function Within Pre scribed Limit MAJOR-GENERAL TELLS OF LAX CONDITIONS Courts; Will Decide Upon Probative Value of Evi dence Presented HAVANA. Jan. 13. .Major OPERA STAR ELECTED CHICAGO DIRECTOR MARY .R1KX TO PLAY DUAL ROLE IX M'SIC WORLD . Debut, Wm Made Jn Paris.-Tlien in America In Thai Krw Ha 9 Oaiqed World Fane CHICAGO. Jan. 13. Mary Carden, American grand opera star, was elected general director of the; Chicago Opera association at a meeting of the executive couriitt- today. MifK ;arden. it was announced - 111 vmlinM u appear as an art- iri of th company a ltd therefor? assume a dual role s general director and artist, just as Maes tro "Campaninl continued to con duct operas while he was general director. Sh wilt rweive no compensation as the world V first woman general director of an opera company either this season or next, ,She will reeive only (he amount paid for her regular performances as an artist. sMi3A Carden 'was born-lu Aber deen. Scotland. In 1X77 and came t' America with her parent when fte . was s years old. After a short residence in the east the family came to Chicago where General Knot l, II.' Crowder. B1,e-1 .'1? art Ue Mudy of SALEM IM'SSTQRY IS STRANGER LURID, DIME THAN: NOVEL L L Daniels, Drugged, Kidnapped and Robbed,4 A wakes on Ferryboat in 4San 'Francisco Bay Weh-d Tirne Spent With Armed Ruffians in Local Taxicab Bride Weeps at Home, While Dazed Youth Walks Streets of Strange City Threat Recalled by Girl ( S0V1ETISM ISOPPOSED National Civic Federation Says Regime Overthrow ers of Democracy . Clal representative of President U'llFon iiivest'igatlng conditions in Cllla. in a statement Innirht NEW YORK, Jan. 13. Official recognition of the soviet govern ment of Rusia by the United States was opposed by the nation al civic federation, meeting here, today. f 1 T The adoption of a resolution denouncing Leninn and Trotsky for the chaos into which they had plunged Russia and pledging sap- nort to the incoming administra tion 'at Washington in r resisting "fomen'ors and social unrest" fol lowed the reading of a letter from Act'ng Secretary of State Davi3 outlining the department's policy toward soviet Russia. The letter branded as false statements that the government of the United States nroposed otfi clallr to restore "Russian terri torial integrlty and rule over Lithuania, Letvia. and Esthon.a'; nor has the government any -intention. Secretary Davis said, of ficiallv to restore "the former boundaries of the Russian em- tTo sars interest on deficiencies J plre ers. S rmJ?;. 42 Revision of Laws in? "'"Provfding tor Invcst Vll .U,"r Wd balanW In m.-l0. ,nduBt Ident com- . 2 by CUlRegulatlng ...UUvv i cuiiecTion ageucies. bureaug or offices. V it,,; v uP,0nProvIdIn5 that la election nrecirwt. ..(i flf Incorporated cities or towns wacre me. numDere of registered oters does not exceed 60 persons (CootlQtied an Page 2.) MILWAUKEK.IWis.. Jan. 13.--The cost of the hide out of which shoe leather is made Is only about rixth of the retail price of a pair of men's shos. according to L. D H. Weld of Swift & Co.. Chi cago who today addressed the National Retail Shoe Dealers' as sociation, i , ; ,' "Hides have fallen lovalue un til now they cost no more than before the European t war ,n9 said. "One grade that sold lor neaHv SO cents pound a year aro brings only about 1 cents. Calf skins, out of which uppers or marte have fallen -even more. from around $1 a pouad to.abotat 15 cents."' I that have been authorized during the past biennlum,: the ways and means committee will have tWe bill apportioning money to meet these introduced by January 20. It will be introduced in th lower house, as is, required for appro priation bills. Another bill to be introduced by the " ways , and means committee in the .next few days will be one. appropriating $40,000 for expenses of the legis lative session. What the policy of the ways and means committee will be rel ative to . budget demands made by the -many stale departments is yet a matter of conjecture. , No big, cuts are expected in the esti mates of state institutions, since these were passed on by the state board of control prior to the as sembly of the legislature. "However, a policy or the strict est economy, it Is believed, will be pursued by the committee "and some departments, are liable to be accorded appropriations thou sands of .dollars below what they are demanding. It is known that several departments have mad" demands in excess of actual newli knowing tbey would be cut down. tne department heads apparently calculating that -this Is the surest method of obtaining vhat is act ually needed ' No surprise will be occasioned if thf ways and means committee swats the Pacific International Livestock exposition of Portland Two years ago the s exposition leaders were accorded slate aid of $iO.OOO nsed for premium awards on prize livestock. This year they are asking tin state for $l"r,,O0O. This, it is considered, would be state aid far out of proportion to the aid given the Oregon state fair. Two -years ago, the state fair received from the state $105- 150, and the present estimate submitted to the ways and means committee is $22.",. 000. Whether the state library will receive all it asks pf the state is a question, since the estimata places the amount for salaries at more than double that of two years atro. At that time the ap propriotion for salaries Id the library was ; $21,000. Now the estimate is $43,060. Two years aso only :$j0,000 was allowed the library &k a total. This year the demand Is $79,6C0. Four years ago the total amount was only $40,000." 1 The state livestock) sanitary board Is asking a 20 per cent in crease over two years ago. or $0,000. as compared f ith $50, 000. This Is likely to be cut. The resolution cpposlng official recognition of the soviet govern ment characterized It as "an or ganization whose avowed purpose is the underminlnc; and overthrow of stable government and demo cratic Institutions throughout th world.1 ' LOWER RATES ARE ADVISED Sam Cowan Declares Rail roads Should Lower All Rates RELIEF WORK IS I'RfiED WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. Continuation of ' relief : work In Europe is ' urged In telegrams from American diplomatic repre sentatives transmitted today to the senate by President Wilson Jn response do a request for In-; formation regarding distress. EL PASO, Texas. Jan. 1 suggestion that owners of rail road securities in this country aid in a movement for the reduction Of railroad rates and thereby fa cilitate the readjustment period in, America, was made today by Sam P. " Cowan of .Port .Worth. Texas, In an address to the Am erican National Livestock associ ation's annual convention. Cowan is counfel for the association. Cowan charged that the rat increase allowed railroads In Angutl last was excessive. He declared that because of con ditions in European countries which prevent Eurwpe from buy ing our wares, 'we have got to live largely In ourselves." "Wases must come down," he declared, "and the Jilgh cost o' living must come down, but the question seems to be who will start the movement to lower levels. Railroad freight rates control prices In this country. The owners of railroad securities in this country. If patriots, can af ford to roretro some dividends and i educe railroad rates."' W. C. Rarnes of Washington. D. C an official of the forestry service, told delegates grazing fees would not be raised until 1923. at least, but also declared tion or elimination of the present J fees. , , C. H. Withey; manager of the Farmers Union Livestock com mission of Omaha. Neb., explain ed the -workings of co-operative, marketing associations. Discussion went over until to Many Important Issues will conv up tomorrow, the closing day of the convention. John B. Kendrick. United States senator Irom Wyoming, now president of (he association, and Marion San some or Fort Worth. Texas, are candidates ror the presidency. arter referring to fhe failure or the electoral and courts to func tion within the prescribed limit, declared: Vlf these agencies continue to fail.. Cuba in due course of time ill be confronted with; ad In terim provincial and national ad ministrations and after the first Monday in April next, with a to tal paralysis of the legislative power." General Ismic Statement. General Crowder until tonight had maintained absolute silence ever since his arrival her- on the cruiser Minnesota, a week ago. Ills statement, which sets forth "what has been accomplished thu far at the Instance of the ptesident." follows: "As President Menocal has so forcefully stated In his admirable Utter to the, central electoral board, the urgency of the present electoral situation lies In the fact that already, through the failure of the electoral boards and the courts to function withln the prescribed time limit, we have to day an ad( interim or provisional municipal' administration Jr a majority oi the municipal dis tricts or Cuba. ' : "It these agenci-s continue to fail. Cuba. In due course, will be confronted with ad interim pro vincial and national administra tions and after the first Monday In April next, with a total par alysis of the legislative power, due to the fact that on that. date one-half of the seats of congress will become vacant. Judiciary Action Lucking. "The electoral boards have functioned and posted their uro- visional returns. What In lack ing is the action of the Cuban ju diciary on the contested elation cases, of which ihere are a great number, involving practically' all of the colleges or the Orient and Matanzas and a large number of the colleges or Santa Clara. In cluding whole municipal district and a smaller number of col luges in other provinces. "What has been accomplished thus 'fur at the instance or the president in the patriotic co-opor-ation of the supreme court and central electoral hoard In the is suance of proper instructions aad regulations and the . patriotic co operation of political parties in the waiving of certain provisions of the legal proeeedure or Cuba, all or which means a moxt expe- In Paris. She made ber debut In the title role of "Louise" at the Opera Coioiqno ia Paris in isoo. Her American debut wxs. made in .Thais at New York in 1 SOT. Since then she has gained world wide recognition for her intper conations of such characters as "Marguerite." "Salome." ".Thais" Carmen," "Sapho ' and ;"Iu. ise." No adventure or dime novel hero is more thrillinfir. and no fiction more fctrangre, than the mishaps' that have befallen Lewis Edward Ilaniels, Salem youth of 23 years, since he stood with his bride of 18 at State and Liberty street on the afternoon of Friday, January ,7, when; he suddenly disap peared, and until he again joined , his younjr wife in Salem Wednesday night. There is a villain in the story two of Ihem, in fact, and the unenacted chapter is the capture and punishment of the wrongdoers: ' ; Suddenly, in the hands of thieves and robbers, to flit rom the conscious world ;'to awake on atferryboat crossing Dakland bay; in fragments to gather remembrances of two nonths of wedded happiness, then abduction and threat of' leath; courage and strength, at last to send word to th loverf one weeping at home. That is Daniels" strange story, the itory he told yesterday to Chief Uoffitt. WILLIAM SIMMS VISITS SALETtl United Press War! Corres - pondent Stops on Way to. Japan William Philip, Slmnls. United Press correspondent and .one of the most famous of the corre spondents ef the world war. spent Wednesday In . Salem calling on Governor Ren .W. Olcott. Mr. Sirams is on his way to Japan where he will spend a year In vestigating conditions and inter preting the Japanese situation for the United -Press. - Rerore sailing for the Orient. Mr. Simms will provide himself with a more intimate knowledge of the Japanese question in this country, visiting Seattle. Van couver, R. C, Sacramento. San Francisco and other coast cttie. Some of the . very best world war stories appeared in the Port land Journal tinder the Simms "Ly-line" while he was manager or the Paris ofHce or the United Press. He was the Hrst Ameri can war correspondent permitted to viit the French front by th French government. Other honors were heaped upon him by the French government In recognition of the exceptional grasp, accuracy .and balance of his work. WAR IS GONE PRICES STAY - . i... . Young Rebukes . Certain American Business Interests More Than Half People of U. S. Live in Towns Washington; Jan. is. For the first tim more than half of the population or continental United States 4i living in nrban territory. Persons living in cities and towns of more than 2."00 when the 1920 census was taken, numbered 54.31K.032. the census WASHINGTON. Jan. 1 lain American business interests were rebuked by , Representative Young. Republican. North Dakota. today during consideration or tar- irr revision by the house ways and means committee for asking dut ies which be charged would am ounfto licensing them to contin ue pronteering. He served no tice that he would strenuously op pose the granting or import duties ranging frem 'TOO to -400 pr cent above the Payne-Aldrlcn rates." Earlier In the day Senator Mc- lumuer. Republican, also from North Dakota, had announced -he would seek an Increase in the duty on wheat In the Tordney etnerg ency tariff from 30 to 00 cents a bushel. He declared th higher rate necessary to stop "enormous Importation" of .wheat from Canada. Mr. .Young said he was "getting tired " 'of witnesses coming to ask for prohibitive tariff rates and re lating bow German competition was cutting into their trade. He said that a lot of industries were complaining of the competition when "what hurt a lot of these industries Is the definite decision of the consuming public to ioV mit no longer to war prices. "The war Is over." he - sail. "and the consuming public la aix Ing why war prices are not also gone. If we grant the rates moat of these Interests are seeking, will simply be licensing a. contin uation of profiteering." 1 lilt J;i if annnnn Awt tnitnv miIiIIa dUious proceedure for the courts j l0s living In rural territory In deriding these numerous a?- nnmbf,TPd 5i.3ft0.7::!. The population of the cities pealed, cases. "The electoral code of Cuba makes a special appeal to the ju diciary of Cuba in snch a situa tion, us now exists- It should b the attitude of - everyone to as sume that the Cuban courts will meet that situation and discharge their full responsibility. They have the mandatory' duty of d creeinr the nuUity of elections In any college or colleges for any of the causes A to O, inclusive mentioned article ot 242 of said code, and the asthority to Inval idate elections for other cause where it shall be established by proper proof that there has been sunpreBH!en of the vote of a fail ure of the scrutiny and canvass through intimidation, force or fraud or other causes. Courts Must Act Upon Evidence "I point to these provisions in order to reftiind nil the contet- ants that die law as drawn give'i them an ample remedy .and to press my belief that the courts will be -courageous and fair in tfil application or the law to the sev eral apnea! which have been tak en and ot course, this means courage to grant nn appeal and. as well, the courage to deny op1 kt other 'words.', talmess to both' parties. . . "The courts will not be at an obstructed by technicalities. "Under express terms of law. articles no longer operate to ex clude from consideration of the courts relevant facts which are of' fered for their consideration. The evidence Is . to bc .admitted and lu nrobble value left to the de termination of th? courts. "Having taken this distinct step forward, we must now await tha result before- the six audienclaa and the supreme court. Mean- Friday, tain west: rain or snow while. I shall glre my attention European ' nd warmer in east portion; fresh ;to other matters connocted with southerly winds. . . rn mission to tuca. Girl and Baby Fell Inlo Well; Rescued Unharmed MARSH FIELD. Or.. Jan.-12. While crossing the yard of a de serted home in Cquille. Or., ye. terday and carrying a lb-months old boy. Miss Jean Polnl-r plunged into an abandoned well according to word brought here today. A man passing saw them disappear and rushed to the spot They landed on n platform built half way across thr well and two feet above the water.- The im tact iarred the baby from tha girl's arms and he fell into the wa ter. As he came np after la plunge Miss Pointer leaned over, reached down and pulled tn I hen iUrned Adnftl rescued from their perilous posi tion by means of a laaaer. and towns in 1920 showed a gain of w.fi per rent over that In 1910 and was Til. 4 per cent of the to tal.' The proportion, of urban population I larger than In 1910 in all hut thrcf states. Colorado. Montana and Wyoming, the larg est iru-reaze being for Mirhlran. fiom 47.2 In 1910 to 61.1 per cent in 1920. yonng Woman Dragged PORTLAND. Of.. Jan. 13. A young woman whose name was withheld by the women's protec tive division of the police depart ment, was picked up in a delir ious condition on a street ear!y today, who had been made the Victim of gangsters, according to Mrs. Iola G. Baldwin, in charpe of the division. For several hours after being taken to the po lice station the young woman was delirious. Later 0e told a story or-havlng been taken with a girl friend by two young men from a dance hall for an automobile ride. At a road house. Mrs. Raldwin said, the girl was drugj-edLat"" she was turned adrift. A good description of her-assailants ha 1 been given bv the girl. Mrs. Raid win said, and atresia were Imminent. T1IK WRATH Kit: Collected Information . Tucked Away by Harding YOUTH IS SHOT SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 13. Henry Aldana. 14 years old. son of Dr. E. M. Aldana. was shot and possibly . fatally wounded tonight after a rour-ralle -chase through the downtown section by mem bers or the shotgun automobile squad, who said the boy refused to halt when they discovered him driving a stolen automobile. MARION. Ohio. Jan. 13. With his conferences here Hear ing a conclusion. lresldnt-elect Harding devoid today, to-discussion of Incidental public qnes tions. The dafr's conlerences re vealed no development in regard to cabinet appointments nor any of the other Important . problems awaiting solution. Speculation regarding the cab inet now centers about the ques tion ot whether Charles Evans Hughes ot New York . I willing to accept the post of secretary of state. Thre is no evidence that a formal offer has been made but it is understood that some time ago feelers were put out to karn Mr. Hashes attitude. Developments In regard to vlr-J tually all other cabinet places bid fair to remain at a standstill for tome weeks.. .Most r the Infor mation Mr. Harding has collected has been tucked away, to remain, present' Indications forecast, at lvaft until after his bouse -boat excursion, in nortda. Young Daniels for some rear lived at Swan Valley. Ida., where he lias a farm. He came to Salem .nvnBMr. S and was married to the pretty daaghter-of Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Dickson. 113 Front street. They bad known each other for-IS months. Aftertheir weddlag they lived at the Dick son home. , Journey t to Farm Planned The young couple planned to co to the Idaho farm to live.- Friday, January 7. they went down town to make pome purchases neces sary for the 'trip, .expecting t leave Salem last Monday. . Danlet drew $50 from the bank and gave his wire ilO. She went to an ocu Ufts office In the Bank ot Com merce building and he waited on the corner below. Upon her return the husband remarked that ha would go to a lavatory at the Ore ron Electric depot, and asked her to wait. She carried a heavy bas ket or purchased articles aad he remarked that it was unnecessary for her to carry them to the depot. Girl Reeetne Alarmed For an hour 'and a halt she waited, and the young husband did not return. She went home la. alarm and told iter father. Thef reported to police headquarters. The yoang wife in tears told how very happy they had been, with, never a eros word to mar tha honeymoon days. This, her father corroborated, but conceded that :he disappearance seemed to pro voke suspicion that the youth had deserted his wife. This the girl would not believe. They asked Chief Moffitt's advise. He told them to await developments for 10 days and said that it no word came la that time he would com municate with otflcera at .Swaa Valley and also with authorities In 'Cleveland. 0 where Daniels' mother lives. 'Telegram Cornea. . Tuesday came a telegram from San Francisco, signed by. Daniels and aaylag: Am stranded. Wire money for me to come home on." . "What Is the troable. the wife wired back... "If yoa seed money we will wire you money for a ticket.- -. The reply message waa to the effect that he could not explain until he arrived home. The money was sent. - Daniels left San Fran cisco at 10:57 o'clock Tuesday morals g and arrived in Salem at 7:15 Wednesday nUht. DanlfU Tells 111 Story When Daniels went Into the lav atory at the Oregon Electric de pot, according to bis story to the police. -two men followed him In, one about 5 feet 10 Inches tall, the other a shorter nan. The tall man poked a gan against his back. "Make no nole." he said gruf fly, "or I will kill you right here." The short man took him by the . arm. "Walk along . beside me as If nothing Is wrooc. he ordered. The tall man again warned him that his life would be the price of any outcry, and emphasized It by proddinr him with the inutile of the pistol. . Taxlrab Await. Outside a Ford taxicab await ed. The three entered the taxi and tha -tall man ordered the chauffeur to drive them to the Southern Pacific depot. The tall man went lato the depot. Presum ably be asked about trains and purchased tickets. This was about 2:30 o'clock. When he returned to the cab he ordered the chauf feur to drive about la South Sa lem. As they sat in the taxi Dan iels was compelled to write this nete: "Dear wife I am going on a long Journey. I don't know, when I shall return, for I don't know where I am going. The tail man took the note. It was not received by Mrs. Daniels. For an hour and a halt the tax icab whipped about the streets ot South Salem and then returned to the depot where the Shasta Limit ed waa boarded at 5:49. As they left the taxicab and walked to tha (Continued on pare 2)