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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1921)
iti 6 POTATOES TO BE CLOSELY NOTED Arrangements Made to Pro tect Northwest Califor nia Pest A system of close inspection to protect the northwest trues from potatoes infected with 'u!crinoth in California has been arranged iy the horticultural officials of California and of the northwest ftfitn. C. A. Park of Salem, th&irman of the state board of horticulture. has Just returned from Sacramento where a confer ence was held. , ! Potatoes design. ii for ship iient from California to the north f-est will be inspected carefully before ty leave tae fields, and if further inspection will be made as they are loaded onto the car. Import their arrival In any other BSate they will be lnsp'ed again fljnd if not found abeoto-'ply clean there will be legal authority to rrturn them to California. 1 The strawberry root weevil, which has infested Oregon berry patches, la being watched care fully. Two fir-Ids in Alameda county, Cal., have become infect ed from Oregon shipments, and efforts are now being made to BACK Summer Tourist Tickets i through California will be on sale at. REDUCED FARE " ' Jane 1 to August 15 Final return limit three months from sale date, not to exceed October 31st Liberal Stopovers and r Your Choice of .Routes Combine two trips at the price of one, by having your ticket routed in orie. direction via California. On your next trip east consider the advantages of the Shasta, Ogden, Golden State and Sunset routes, or the sceilic "Carriso Gorge Route," the new trans-continental link between San Diego and the east. For particulars as to passenger fares routes, train schedules or sleeping car reservations inquire of local ticket agent '-...., , Southern V TODAY'S A jstory imtten by a child T.lXGF.It GOES SWIMMING Afjter I had decided to try for a ponyjl was very excited, and .want ed (to1 start right away. I found it . interesting wofk to keep up, and often, when I thought I had all the j subscriptions I could get, someone would perhaps give me a ' three-year subscription, - which 'would give, me fresh heart to go on again. When. I got the tele gram, saying taai i bad won a I could hardly wait for the poy Send in vhiir nnmrnafinn h -,u.f- . 7.:., w, : : " w ui mc nmuitu iusecure ior your very own a matr- 4&ilttie ,Shlanvd Pn'. to keep and enjoy as long as you like. Over 100 ponies nd !2&?' -w?f,w ' dy i? Wn by 1)0X3 and irls- Noflntions are free-lIaU yours "n tody Watch for another pony story tomorrow. 1 ony Contest Editor, J Statesman Publishing Co., Salem, Oregon. Please register my name as a ermtosfonf i t tiritVi Knnn t v ftih 5000 votes. I have aHl. a j yoniesianis iName I Address- This blank Tjrorerlv return mail' THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON eradicate the pe'st before it can spread further. The plan is to burn all the plants in the two rields and then to keep thr yrdtmd cultivated cleanly for two year before it Is used further. No Fatal Accidents Are Reported for Last Week No fatal accidents were re ported to the state Industrial ac cident commission for the week ending April 2. although the total of accidents ih industrial ae tivttie was 423. .Of the total number reported 4r were sub ject to th provisions of the work men's compensation act. 14 were from firnia and corporations that have rejected 'the act and four were from public utility corpora tions not subject to the act. California and Oregon Universities May Break EUGENE, Ore.. April 29. Ath letic relations between ITniversity of Oregon and University of Cali fornia are strained as a result of the action of the latter's announce ment that It would not send a track team to Eugene for the an nual. Pacific coast conference meet and a rumor Is prevalent on the campus that a break between the two Institutions may be the Ultimate result Announcement was made here today that the offer of Graduate Manager Nichols of California to send a second team to the con ference will not be accepted. EAST Pacific; Lines JOHN i SCOTT, - General Passenger Agent A . Jj . : vT:' - W FV'TS, SECOND PRIZE .Cinderella Harness and Buggy SHETLAND PONY STORY who won a Shetland pony train to bring him in, and when I saw him in the crate he looked such a cute Little fellow. When we opened up the crate and took him out he snuRpled his nose np under my arm and was quite ready to make friends. My brother and I led him up to the stable with a' lot of children following, and they all thought him lovely. As it was winter and we could not use the carriage, we had a little red sleigh made for him. My brother and myself take our little sister Violet Next Distribution of Ponies anA K u .l;u . .v NOMINATION BLANK T . c read the rules of the contest , fOlprl raif Ki.;.- n- juu j.urvuer imonnation ana supplies Dy CALVERT PASSES AWAV VVell-Known Salem Woman Passes Suddenly After Going for Ride Mrs. Charles Calvert. 7!! yea old. member of a pioneer family of Orepon, died suddenly yestei day about 4:45 o'clock at tli home o'her daughter. Mrs. Low ell Tweedale on North Cottage srr-el. Mrs. alvert had been out r'Uinn with her daughter. Mrr. Mark S. Skiff, and had stopped at the Tweedale home when she be came ill and passed away. Sho had been in ill health lor neveral weeks, but her death was- not ex pected. Mia. Calvert's maiden name" was Martiia Aune Smith. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. .1. T. Smith who were pioneer residents of Gervais. She wa: marrit-d to Charles Calvert March 17. 18t)4. at the old Waconda. which was near Gervais. Mrs. Calvert was the mother of six children, five ot whom sur vive her. They are Mrs. F. si Craig. Mrs. Mark S. Skiff. Mrs. Lowell Tweedale and Jennie Cal vert, all of Salem, and Mrs. Clark Groves of Camas. Wash. Mcr husband died in September, 1911. Mrs. Calvert has been a resident of Salem since 1SC7;. She has been a member of the Baptlft church for 5 4 yearr. Silas E.. Howard ( Resigns From Local Service Un der Pension Statute After .11 years as a mail car rier in Salem. Silas E, Howard, known as "Si" Howard, retires May 1 under the postal employes pension act which passed con gress a year ago. Mr.. Howard is 65 years old; and in a few days will go to California to visit. his children. Mr. Howard walked over his mall routes for 23 years and boasts that he never had a corn and never was held up or way laid. "I can wear a No. 10 shoe," said Mr. Howard, "but I wear ll's." For the. last eight years be has been driving the local mail ser vice collection wagon, making seven of the eight collections each day. Mr. Howard came to Salem in 1877 from Yamhill county and entered the mail service when the Salem postoffice was at Commer cial and Ferry streets, and Andy Gilbert was postmaster. "The first 10 years I was in the service I was paid $50 a month, and the next 11 years. $70." said Mr. Howard- "Other , in a former pony contest of two years out every day for a drive. When we come home from school bab runs to the gate and calls ont, "Niney get a Ginny." (Uinny is her pet name for Gin-Ker- .... We often drive him ont to the river when we go to have a swim. It is very nice to have a littl. j pony of our own to take us out. We would miss him very much if I we had to Dart with him t will enclose a photo of my brother sister and myself. Your truly tAunei uaipn Fearson. June 25th . u"-y "iest ana creaic me and agree to same. - "i"T.V" en mil Ml QUITS Increases came until wv worn re .tiiriK $i..oo a year. 'Many i time 1 have left thL office with a impound sack of mail on my bark, and when I had finished the rout? the sack felt a heavy as when I started." Mozorosky Must Remain In Jail, Judge Decrees PORTLAND. Or.. April 29 Jo seph Mozorosky must remain in jail in default of payment or $lt;o dainager awarded Sfd Swire as a result of a decision today by C'reuU Judge Stapletoji denying Mozorosky's second petition for a writ of habeas corpus, based on the fact 'that he bad filed a peti tion in bankruptcy. Judge Stapleton held that the rase arose in tort and does not involve collection of a debt on a Gambling contract, which under the common law Is prohibited. The claim covered Is not a debt, according to the opinion, and so i not covered by the constitution al provision which prohibits Im prisonment for debt and hence the issuance of a warrant and the incarceration of Mozorosky wan rot a violation of his constitution al rights. Young Negro is Lynched By Mob at Bowling Green HOWLING GREKN, Mo.. April 29. Hoy Hammonds, a 19-year-old negro, awaiting transportation to the penitentiary for assault on a 14-year-old white girl, was seized at the depot here tonight by a mob which overpowered Sheriff Charles P. Moore and a half dozen deputies. Hammonds was lynched at 7r4 5 p.m., the crowd harfging him to a telegraph pole. The crime was cpmmitteed here late Wednesday night and-Hammonds, arrested this morning, confessed and on his piea of guilty in circuit court this afternoon was sentenced to 10 years in the pen itentiary. Dissolution of Oregon Ranch Company Demanded SEATTLE, Apr l 29. Prose cuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas today filed suit on behalf of the state in superior court, seeking the disincorporation of the Cen tral Oregon Ranch company on the gronnd that the company is alleged to have attempted to sell its treasury stock before its cap ital stock was fully subscribed. The prosecutor asks for appoint ment of a receiver, disincorpora tion of-the company, ouster of the company from the state and other equitable relief. The company was incorporated under the laws of the state of Washington. April 1. 1920 for $100,000 by John W. Rumsey, Charles R. Elzez, S. Montgomery, E. S. Luttle and P. D. Yonng. President and Champion Win in Golf Foursome WASHINGTON. April 19. President Harding and "Chick1"' Evans, paired, outclassed Under Secretary . Fletcher of the state department, and Senator Kellogs of Minnesota, at the Chevy Chase golf links today. The nresident and the open golf champion were l&-np when the foursome ended at the 16th hole. The latter Dart of the match was played In the ram. Two Aviators Killed When Ship Hits Tree FALETTEVILLE. N. C, April 29. Lieutenants Joseph E. Vir gin of Norman, Okla., and Hard- son J. Hartman of Reading, Pa., members of the 8th aero squad ron, r. S. A., were killed late to day when their airplane went in to a nose dive at an altitude ot 600 feet and dashed against a tree. The cause of the accident has not. been determined . Q AT I7M T One Day Only Saturday, May 30 20 MJCFORMINC BOICaI AND SISaUAlf TJCEU ' bmiWIfcailii M. A ( AiEutriinAaSuprta A t 4U DasotEm BaaGrb4U St OFFCM AS AN ADDO ATT ACTION KtSjnCKASONAMOST NOVO.frUTCWOUS ml cumMia.Y coKxauiuuMruorALLGooM. CAi- fAULAMTV wwaan. cowmxs ; or ptarik orHOMsts Anaoaj r mtmwBFANTAsr 1 (MM OCT lUI-t'U' HUt A ACIUl I A AL C BARNES I fl w.Mauu3acour I nil lions I UV IN ONE BIG ACT I II 1 I I OKAPI I 1 f-iPPOQOTAuS 1 m cvrr-rrr '"S'ja."' SAMSON I AO AV oooas open t and r p n PCaTOBMANCES tANOIPN LEGION HILD ENTER LE Service Men Want to Play Baseball in Twilight Organization A petition for membership in the Twilight Haeball league has been presented to the league by the American legion, which will organize a team providing en trance in the league is secured. The field to select the team from is so large that as yet little is known in regard to the material available for the Legion team. All men desiring to play are asked to commupicate with Charles O' Malley. Among the men who played be fore is Charles O'Malley, who played last year for the Senators. Man rice Race is also good ma terial as a pitcher and there are several ex-service men going to high school who will probably be worked In. At present O'Malley ie acting as temporary captain of the team. It is understood that the bank ers have also presented a petition for entrance Into the league. my t E Many Petitions to Court Asking Retention Are , Being Prepared Endorsements of the county public health nurse and the plan for her retention were made at community meetings yesterday in Marion a a big public meeting in Silverton last evening. Petitions to the court asking that the county employ the nurse for the rest of the year are being filled out all over the county. Hubbard- rallied to the support of the nurse Thursday evening at a community meeting of the Par ent-Teacher association. 'Forty men and women signed the pe titions and delegates were elected to attend the court hearing in Salem. Aurora also Ifned up on the side of the nurse at a meet ing Thursday. Other county communities are nblding meetings to approve the plan and a general response, es pecially from rural districts, is being heard for the retention of the nurse. ,i - TO BE RENEWED Legion Will Make Second - Survey of City; Notices To Be Served After a lapse of about a week during which time little work in the Clean-Up and Paint Up cam- naien has been done the American Legion will renew activities next week, principally that of serving notices on persons who have failed to realize the importance of the clean-up movement. A sec ond survey of the city will be made at once and plans for the Continuation of the campaign an nounced at the next meeting of the pieces of property were re ported to the city attorney who was instructed to notify the own ers asking that they remove rub bish from the grounds. The response to the first call was so overwhelmingly large, ac cording to Dr. B. F. Pound. Leg' ion commander, that instead of taking three days to remove the refuse gathered up by the people. as had beenn planned, six days were required. At that time all rubbish and trash gathered up by citizens and placed so that the city's wagons could haul it away was disposed of. EUGENE WILL BE PATROL CENTER Air Squadron Covering Two States Centers at Lane County Seat Major B. M. Atkinson pom mandant at Mather Field, Sacra memo, nag inlorraed Governo Olcott by telegraph that the 91s air squadron will hav headnuar ter in Fnereno fnr nil air mun tlons iii Oregon and Washington irom Jnne 15 to about Septem ber 15, and authorifv is rpnne ed of the governor -to quarter and mess anDroxImatetv in mm in the Eugene armory at no expense 10 ine state. Governor Olcott replies con eerning the armory that It hsi been rented for meetinra pnniin uing throughout the spring and summer and that ih rom-mannim officer of the state university also Is unable to furnish quarters. The governor says, however, that the community offers a eamn site and will cooperate in every way toss Die. lr it Is impracticable for the 91st requadron to bring tentage the eovernor aavs further coy NURSE M MOVE SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 30. 1321 (r.,no Tim p-nvprnnr ntldfi (hit h U V . M v- - does not believe , any ,iullding available at Kugene which wouW prove as KUisfactory as tentatfN during the period from Julie to September. New Post is Accepted By Sir Edward Carson LONDON, April29 Sir Edward Carson, who recently retired from the leadership of the Ulster union ist party, has accepted the post of lord of appeal, according to hte Dally Mail. Man Who Killed Former Portland Catcher Jailed BOSTON, April 29. James J Connor, a bartender, was sen tenced today to a year In Jail for the kllline of John B. (Larry J V(Tmi fnrmar m A tor league baseball' player, in a bar room sev eral weeks ago. ATTEMPT MADE TO HE I Writ of Habeas Corpus Is sued in Superior Court For Hearing Monday SAN FRANCISCO, April 29. A writ of habeas corpus ad testifi candum (for the purpose of tak- ng the testimony) designed to return on Monday of Thomas J. Mooney, convicted of a bomb mur- dur to this city, to testify in an action seeking his release from the penitentiary, was issued by the superior court today. Unless the warden of the peni tentiary at San Quentin resists, Mooney will be brought here on the date specified. It was planned to serve the warden with the or der tomorrow. Mooney 's testimony will be tak en before Judge. Louis H. Ward in connection with a petition for a writ of audita querela (the corn- plant having been made) intend ed to release him on the ground that his conviction was obtained by fraud. According to his coun sel the code provides for the invo1 cation ot this writ, a common law pleading, when all other means of obtaining relief have failed. Mooney and Warren K. Billings are serving life sentences follow ing conviction for murder in con nection with the death of 10 per sons in a bomb explosion here during a preparedness day parade in 1916. Men on Trial Tel! How They Slugged Non-Union Men For Hire CHICAGO, April 29. How they crippled non-union workers, blew up buildings and even de frauded their union employers was told tonight by three self confessed sluggers today at the trial of 14 union members on charges of a conspiracy to com mit acts of violence during the upholsterers' strike last year. "It seemed like easy money," testified "Al" Green in telUng ot his introduction into the ranks pf the sluggers, "and I wanted to get in onjt. I did not do any ac- j mai Biugging l simply lied abont what I had done and then col lected the dough." Agricultural College Wins From Washington CORVALLIS. Or., April 29. Jhe negative team of Oregon Ag ricultural college here tonight defeated the University of Wash ington in a debate on the ques tion of whether labor should be allowed one-third representation n the beards of directors of in- ustrial corporations. GIDBOXS WIXS TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 29. After the bell saved him from Stock III suras pi FOR BRUTALITY ii 1 an apparent knocfeotit ttr the first round. Hugh Wat Wr . or Kansas City failed Jo respond to the call In lie second round of his sched uled 10-round bout here tonight with Tommy Gibbons of Stt. Paul. The referee awarded the match to Gibbons. 1 jxJk 10-Year-OId Boy Admits He Killed Foster Father POCATELLO. Idaho. April 29. Dale Cady Blake, 10 years old, confessed that he killed his fos ter father last Wednesday,- ac cording to sheriffs deputies to day. The .shooting took place on the Blake farm near here and, ac cording to the officers, the youth admitted that he had shot his foster - father, because the . latter bad administered punishment for running away from home. DISPUTE WITH Davis Abandons Hope for Settlement by National Agreement WASHINGTON, April. 29. Hope for a settlement by national agreement of disputes between printing, trade, unions and em ployers over wage and hours was abandoned today by Secretary Davis after a series of conferenc es. , . - Union representatives left the city without leaving, been request ed to return. Lack of organiza tion of printing employers author ized to sign any national agree ment, was given by Secretary-: Da vis as his reason for abandoning his attempt to replace, the. local agreements which expire May I. Settlement- of disputes Is now In the hands of the various em ployers and local unions, the sec retary ctated. Some of them nate been settled by agreement on the part of the employers to recog nize a 44-hour week, which .the main point at Issue in most cases. NOT SETTLED ... t , i . .. .-. . - Railway Employers And Workers Unable to Reach Agreement Yesterday1: CHICAGO, April 29. The rail way employers fighting .against wage reductions before the rail road, labor board delved Into the economics of the present indus trial depression today. The .fhture, the employes de clared would again see - normal conditions on American railroads and the temporary difficulties of the present, they contend, should not be shouldered off on the em ployes in trage reductions. The financial performances of the railroads In the past were Te cited in exhibits presented, by W. Jett Lauclt, economist Cor - the unions. The exhibits cited alleged fictitious stock Issues, inadequa cies and mismanagement for which, Mr. Lauck said, the em ployes shoul not be made to suf fer. "We have been made the scape goats of your misfortunes in the past, dne to financial mismanage. mnt," Mr. Laaek said. "As the result of these financial perform ances, you are trying to recoup your present losses Jjy taking it out of the employes' wages.' I The .American Federation of Labor group finished Its case ex cept for presentation pf some cost of living statistics today, and the hearing adjourned until Monday. At that time, eleven independent employes' organisations will be heard. Hands in Pockets Held As Dangerous in Dublin DUBLIN. April 29. A warn ing has been issued, by the mili tary authorities in Tipperary that Civilians "with hand a in thir pockets" are liable to arrest or to run the risk of being fired epon. The reason for the warning is said to be that murderers, not ih frequenUy steal upon their vic tims with hands in their nwiot. .so, as in mae tner weapon PRINTERS flieS wm Adjusting Reductions Suits and Coats Our season in SUITS and GOATS lias been exeeptionally good. We have now reached that. point. where sizes are becoming broken, leaving one or two garments of a lot. We have gone through the stcok and segregated the "BROKEN , LINES" which we have re marked at "SPECIAL PRICES." Don't imagine these are "left overt,' or cheap imitation models bought for a sale; they -are our regular stock of this season's new up-to-the-minute SUITS and COATS. This is not a big HURRAIL SALE with a lot of noise,' but arqniet "CLEAN-UP kale" to adjust' and balance our stock, affording remarkable savings for the woman who appreciates REAL BAR R A CANVASS U88E i Ol SECiO li human Interest Stories :mtl Many . from Lips of i V; j bolicitors Surnassinr even the mnmt ' fetched bopt-s of the committee-fa ' enarge, me secona aay or the Near ; ' feast and China famine relief - . (Campaign brought even more I funds into headquarters than did the first. Eighty solicitors; is addition to many who had BtarleJ " Ihelr work the previous day, com pleted the canvass of many se jtlons of the town yesterday. Other ' districts will be completed today -Ind the fore part of the week, ii W. P. Walter, executive secre- . tary, predicted last night that the Second day's receipts ha totaled well above ,$i000. while the, Brit ' had had been about the thousand j, mack. - ! i Human interest atorles eontlaus' to come Into' headquarters from the solicitors who hare met with : i ill kinds of people in their . sjl ' peal for money. Yesterday 'm elderly wan gave a $ gold place I, irhich was badly tarnished. H ' explained that the piece bad heei s left' by Ills wife who died Jnany I years ago but that be knew Jf she were alive now she mpuM Wisu uiti Jb ue (lieu ui BUCQ a worthy cause. ..-r"V;.. TAX K Kit IiAUXCHElX' . H VANCOUVER, Wash., Aptll' ij,' 4-The 12,000-ton steel tanket Al bertolite, built hy , the StipdlTer Construction corporation here for the Standard Oil company, wit launched here today. '.The cratft was christen e1 by Mrs. Miles Polo, dexter, wife of United States Sen ator Poindexter. STARTING SUNDAY etX iff "Would you lift tit r veil and teep behind at the unknown -things ttiat rule litr--' . andltrvf . Sec , on th screen. Augustus Thomas master-thriller ! . One of tEe greatest popti- V lar hit ever plajed" s V in America. ? Jete t Laky ; pretentr WilliamDJaylors Production pf Mtehm ! ortoui kh Elliott bexter I Also I VIOLIN SOLO BY ; , Mary Mnadge Headrick COMTNO WEDNESDAY' i: "Inside of! the f Cup" . . Where tte Big Shows xlH 3 11 1 o t 1 effort , will be made to procure Si! some sort qi a building .in Eu 7 a- rit-....1..