DID YO U KNOW That Salem Growing Importance as an Educational Center Is a Great Assets i Stated rtv j sections j 10 Pages I 1 FIRST SECTION Pages ! to 6 mm SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1921 PRICE: FIVE CENTS . 1 " " ' i I 'i ' i. JOMIRY SCORES POINT '. Objection to Introduction of - Gates Letter Sustained And iMarshfield Manager May Be Called TELEPHONE ATTORNEY ACCORDS CONCESSION Corvallis Witness Promised Relief from Trouble I some. Situation -There la a possibility that Carl W. Gates, secretary of the Coos Curry i Telephone company ol Maruhfleld, may be called to tes tify for the city of Portland in the telephone rate cape. Thin cornea by the commission sustain ing an objection of Attorney John II. McN'ary to admission yesterday of a letter from Gates relative to telechronometer service. McNary'i objection was on two points, that the telechronometer was not in issue, and that the let ter ; was not proper testimony be cause It amounted to receiving the testimony of Mr. Gates with out an opportunity to cross-exam-ins him. ' I Third Point Raised "I understand." said Mr. Ms Nary, 'that the rehearing Is Gov erned by the ordinary rules of evidence, at least it ought to be." . "This Is- simply to fertlfy our position by the opinion of a com petent engineer," explained Tora llniwm. "That ralsea another point of objection," returned McNary. "We have no opportunity to test the qualifications of Mr. Gates as a competent engineer." Gates Available Witness Chairman 'Williams sustained Mr. McN-.rys objection, remark ing that "Mr. Gates Ja available as a witness and It wouldn't cost much to get him here.',' Mr.'Tomllnson then Asked that the letter be marked for identifi cation. E. M. Cousin, representing the Orenon Telephone Federation, started to question Willard and was challenged by the commis sion on grounds that Willar was not his witness. "He is my witness," retorted Cousin. "I haVe adopted htm." He was allowed to finish his questions. Cousin Swerves Point Mi1. Cousin, with one of his, wit nesses. B. P. Cator, who is otf a rural line tributary to Corvallis, scored a tally on the Pacific Tel ephone & Telegraph companr yesterday, In which Attorney James M. Shaw , of the Pacific promised for his company to In vestigate and correct a grievance which Mr. Cator has against -the exchange at Corvallis. or more properly at Philomath. "This is ery significant of a general state of affairs." remark ed Cousin after the promise had been made by Shaw. "It Is nec essary to bring a minor matte' like this up here before 20 men (Continued on page 3) LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM AT DINNER GIVEN BY WASHINGTON, July 27. Legislative programs in the seriate and house were fairly well outlined today following conferences between President Harding and a number of Re publican senators at a White House dinner last night. i Administration plans, as disclosed by senators, call for passage by the house of the internal revenue revision bill and of several senate bills by August 6, with a view to recess or adjournment of congress soon after that until late in Sep tember or early in October. . Tax MeaMire Advanced. '.. Probably the"f most Important feature disclosed waa the presi dent'! desire to have the tax bill enacted before the Fordney tariff measure. Senate leaders urged this change, it was said, and now plan to hold the tariff .bill In the finance committee until after the tax measure passes. The program was aald to leave the tariff bill subject to indefi nite delay, possibly until the win ter session, although some sen ate leaders reiterated that it would be enacted In this session. , Other features of the reported RIDDELL ACCORDED FIRST AND SECOND IN SHEEP EXHIBIT WINNIPEG, Man., July 27. At the Manitoba fair, at Brandon today, W. M. Riddell of Monmouth, Or., won first and second places in the Cotswold sheep exhibit He also secured the championship for male and fe male and took most of the honors for Lincolns. C. C Croxes of Liberty Centre, la., won second place for aged rams. VI DUN ASKS FOB HIS FREEDOM Charges Against Wife Made By Salem Man in Suit Filed at Dallas DALLAS, Or., July 28! (Spec ial to The Statesman) That he had been the victim of personal indignities inflicted by his wife and that she had gone out riding with other men rs alleged by Jos eph L. Van Doren in divorce pro ceedings instituted recently ag ainst Edna Catherine Van Doren. They live In Salem. According to the complaint, Van Doren alleges that his wife absented herself from her home m night and that during daytime and evenings on seyeral occasions she was in the compaify of other men. He alleges further that Mrs. Van Doren went to St. Paul, Minn, in July, 1917, and. that she did not return until December of the same year. Subsequent trips are alleged for the ., years 1918 and 1920. Since April, 1921, his wife has left his home and refuses to re turn to Salem to live, the- com plaint concludes. The couple were married at Hudson, Wis., Decem ber 10, 1912. Big Sewer Contract Awarded in Portland PORTLAND, Ore., July 27. The city council today awarded to J. F. Shea a contract to build a sectidn of 78-inch monolithic sew er main at a cost of 5319,911. The section, which will stretch over a mil on Foster road, will, when ex tended to the Willamette river, take care of the sewage and drain age water ot Mount Scott and sur rounding districts. CLUAX SWEEP MADE TORONTO, July 27. The Aus tralian Davis cup tennis team, Lwhich eliminated the Canadian representatives, made a clean sweep of the series with the do minion players today by taking the two singles contests, played as exhibition matches. program proposes delay on the administration bills for refunding allied loans and for funding rail road debts. Senate bills slated for passage before a recess are the agricultu ral credits measure, the Willis Campbell anti-beer, the Capper Tincher bill to regulate future trading in grain and possibly tho Borah bill to restore free tolls to American coastwise vessels using the Panama canal. Dinner Secretly Arranged. This slate was said to have been agreed on by the president S LIFE ' IS III BALANCE Petitions for Commuted Sen tence Are Circulated by War Mothers Reports reaching Salem Indicate that petitions are now being circu lated in various sections of the state under the direction of tho Congress of War Mothers, asking that the death sentence imposed in the case of Jack Rathie be commuted to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. The petitions, when completed, will be submitted for the consider ation of 13overnor""OTlott. During the past few days letters have been received at the executive offices from various Red Cross chapters in Idaho asking clemency for Rathie, while two women have ap peared In person to- ask that he be spared from the gallows. The pe tition asking the governor to commute the sentence imposed upon Rathie will be based bn his waf record. Rathie and James Owens are now in the penitentiary here awaiting execution for the part they played in the murder of Sher iff Til Taylor at Pendleton last July. Millions of Trout Will Be Planted in Oregon PORTLAND. Ore., July 27. Rainbow, eastern brook and black spotted trout aggregating approx imately 12,000,000 will be plant ed in Oregon streams and lakes before the close of the present year, according to A. E. Burgh duff, state game warden. This is over twice as many trout, declared the warden, as were planted in tho two years previous. . Work of planting is now going on, th fish being taken from the five trout hatcheries and the sev eral temporary hatcheries operat ed by the game commisison to the lakes and streams to which they have been apportioned by motor truck. THE WEATHER Thursday fair; moderate west erly winds. OUTLINED PRESIDENT and the 14 senators who met at the dinner, which was held under arrangements for secrecy, ordered by Mr. Harding. In furtherance of the adminis tration plan the president tomor jpw night will have a dinner con ference with about a dozen house Republican leaders. The senate Republican steering committee al so will meet tomorrow. lUisinc Conies First. President Harding told the sen ators, it was said, that he was as sured by house leaders of speedy passage of the tax revision bill. It is planned to incorporate tax I changed recommended recently by ine treasury aeparimem ana rusn the bill through, leaving most other revision to the senate. The senate finance committee then is to work on the bill during the proposed adjournment period. The president. It was said, ex pressed opposition to any recess or adjournment of either senate or house until the latter passes the tax bill. 1 I OF IS TOLD IN ILK Captain Whittle Harrows Hearts of Chautauqua Audience With Expose on Armenian Situation. ' I ORPHEUS QUARTET ' PROVES BIG HIT Elaborate Program of Enter tainment Scheduled at Campus Tent Today There wore two- outstanding highlights in the Kaiser's dream of world conquest (Jermany and Mesopotamia. He had the first; he coveted the second. , To bribe the simple Turk into t3troying the Armenian and olB-r-r Msopotamian peoples, arid leave it free for (ierman exploi tation and colonization as t); e heart center of an Asian German v this was his dream' Mitt I Europa with a path clear to tl a IflMtic to the Indian ocean anil he would 'have Great Britain d vided and destroyed for he coul 1 out off India and beggar the I'r -tish crown. Carrying out this dream. Ge -man gold bought the services ( t disaffected Hindu officers win j'held up supplies for the first Bri tish expedition. They did it so successfuITy that the British forces surrenderad to starvation and lacloof ammunition. Tho dream seemed like to come tru. Treachery Detected But the second British exptdf tion under General Allenby taw the treachery, and beat it Gown. The munitions came through, the troops defeated the Turks and i Arabs and Teutonic officers al! the way from the Mediterranean, throuh Palestine, into Mesopo tamia, through the Garden ot Eden as it is religiously believed by the best historians of the world, -and with the shattering ot the kaiser's dream, the bucbi? burst all over Europe. Clear to the heart of Berlin, tha dread fin ger of death chilled the blood of the Central powers. The might iest monarchy as1 well as the meanest mongrel of that unholy band knew that the end had come. They quit in Berlin like whipped curs and the war was over. The soul of war was bavk In the cradle of humanity and Christianity, the Garden of Eden and Palest'ne and when Chris t'anity once gained and held tl.oso historic, crucial lands, the war was over. Whittle Tells Story This in brief Is the war stary told at Wednesday's Cltauiaufun told by Captain, now Rector, Ar thur E. Whittle, late of the Bri tish army. He is a plain minister of the Episcopal church of Ana conda, Mont , but a few years ago he was an officer with Alien by when they broke the Turkisn army and started the great vic tory on the west. Armenia, says Cartain Whittle, had an army of 100.000 men. bo prevented the Tnrks from taking the oil fields of Baku and the Ar menian grain fields. General l.u dendorff, the German military wizard, said that this unforseen interruption of the German p!;ins hastened the end of tPe war. Now. however the Armenians are driven from their homes uns'tp ported by th-? charity of other na tions who seem to haw forgotten what is due them' for their part in saving the war to the allies. He hopos that America will soon come to the rescue of tht-fce strick en but heroic people. Si-.vagery Yet Prevails Drifting over into India a a part of his afternoon suMert, Captain WhittH says that the so cial condition of womankind i the greatest bar to progres?. Tho child marriages, to get ild of tn unwanted girl babies, and fhe sacrifice ot so many girl baliies to the river or to death in other forms, i9 a prevalent crime that unfits the people of India for anv form ofself government. The speaker said that he had seen whole fleets of tiny g'rl ba by bodies floating down the sacri rivers of India the sacrifices be ing made in the name of th-ir religions or their castes. "The breaking down, of the caste systems, anl the elevation of woman, both of which coma only through the Gospel, are the onH' salvation of India." declared Captain Whittle. Orpheus Outorpheused. If Orphens, the god of musi-r. for whom the Chautauqua Orph- (Contlnued on page 4) UNLESS STOPPED BY ORDE OF COURT CONSTRUCTION SOUTH OF MONMOUTH FINISHED THIS WEEK WOMEN PILL PUFFERS MAY PUFF AT WILL One Male, One Female at Com mittee Hearing Opposed to Fair Sex Smoking WASHINGTON. July 27. Out of a room full of women at a house committee hearing today only one indicated she favored a law to prohibit feminine smok ers from puffing cigarettes in public. A bill by Representative John son, Democrat, Mississippi,' would provide a fine of 2't for women who smokes in public places in the District of Columbia, a $100 fine if they repeated the offense, and a similar schedule for pro prietors of hotels, restaurants and 'public vehicles" who ail jo en force the ban. One male specta tor, saw need for the law, while 13 opposed It. 11.6. Funeral of Well Known Man Be Conducted by Salem Elks Friday Albert G.' Magers died at 10:30 yesterday morning at Dallas of injuries received when a truck dri ven by him was struck by a Southern Pacific freight engine The funeral will be held in Salem at 2 p.m. Friday. Services will be held from the Rigdon chapel under auspices of Salem lodge No. 336. B.P.O.E. Burial will be at City Vie"V ceme tery. J Mr. Magers was a former resi dent of Salem and well known here. Recently he had been liv ing in Portland. He is survived by two daughters, Helen, 12, and Mary, 14; by one brother, James Magers of Dallas; by three sisters, Mrs: S. E. Woodington, 895 Belle vue street, Salem, Mrs. W. T. Thompson and Miss Minnetta Ma gers of Portland. Mr.: Magers was the son of the late Dr. W. D. and Mary I. Magers and brother of the late Judge J. E. Magers- Farmers Sell at Low Figures, Says Lewis HOOD R1VKR. Or.. July 27. Addressing the fruit growers con vention Tuesday night, C. I. I-cw-i8 assistant manager of the Ore gon Growers' Cooperative associa tion, asserted that agricultrrnl interests of the country were sell ing for figures from Co to so per cent Ipss than they wpr for th average of the five-yar period before the war, while the con sumer was paying at least CO pnr tent increase for the same prou ucts. Professor Lewis showed that la many instances these figures ran much higher. He told of an In stance whre a Willamette vul lev farmer recently received U cents for a calf hide. The speak er declared the farmers) th-ni-selves were laijgcly to, blame Tor their condition in that they !iaNC not sensed the b-nefits that wo;:ll accrue to them from a campaign of national advertising. M PUSSES Move City Hall, Leave Ivy Alone, Is Method Offered by Vandervort to Dispose of Troublesome Issue "There is only one. thing left for us lo'do and that is to move the city hall away and leave the ivy standing." This is Henry Vandervort's so 'ution of the problem that has been vexing Saleni's aldjermen since the city dads undertook t3 remove the clinging vines that adorn the municipal administra tion building. , "That would leave' the city hall basement, but we could transform that into a municipal swimming taxik." smiled VandervorU who was a leader in the attempt to DALLAS, Or., July 27. (Special to the Statesman) Notwithstanding the suit by citizens of Independence which iis being heard in Salem today to stop work on the West Side highway south of Monmouth the contractors .who have the work are cutting down the objectionable hills at a rapid rate and unjess immediately stopped by the suit the grading of the contested piece of roadway will be practically finished by the latter part of the week. The steep grade at the Helmick bridge which has been one of the chief objections to the road as chosen by the high way commission has been literally cut down until at present there is scarcely a grade at all and the low place just across the bridge which usually fills with water during the winter months has been raised several feet so that there is no pos sible chance of the new highway being under water at any time. Work on the road between Dallas and Salem is also pro gressing rapidly. The mixing plant near Rickreall waa start ed up yesterday and the crusher is busy turning out rock to be used on the road between this city and Salem. The con tractors stated yesterday that they expected to begin lay ing pavement on the Dallas end of the highway about the latter part of the week and" after beginning expect to lay a mile every 10 days. GOVERNOR RESCUES Iffl Idaho's Executive Doffs His Clothes and Saves Game Warden from Death BOISE. Ida.. Julv 2 7. I!ow f Governor Davis of Idaho stripped to h;s undergarments and J. A. Apgar, deputy game warden ot Stanley Basin, saved Otto Al. Jones, Idaho state game warden from drowning in Red Fish lake is graphically described in a mail story to the Boise Statesman to day from Stanley, a mountain village, 200 miles from oBise. The nar tragedy occurred Sat urday, July 23. after the gover nor and his two sons had driven to the game warden's camp to in spect fish planting operations at the lake. Field Glasses and Tools Are Stolen from Mr Kay Valuable field glasses and sev eral aulo tools were st leu trom the automobile of Ercel W. Kay while it was parked at the front of the Elks club last nijsiit. Also taken Irom the car were drivers' l'eens-es made out to both Mr. and Mrs. Kaj. j Man Held up By Masked Man, Robbed Near Depot Lawrence Trout, a transient, was held up by a masked man just south of the South"! n Paclltc station at 9:20 last night accord ing to a report this morning at police headquarters. Trout was relieved of a gold watch, $10 in cash, a rins ana i-pveral other articles. The hold up wore a blue iiolkaJot mask, light cap, blue coat, khaki qhir.. It is thought that h'Rhwayr.tan climbed a passing freight as 3 thorough search lv pol:e officers failed to reveal his presence. Of ficers at Kngene and Albany were notified. NEW WHEAT ARRIVES EUGENE. Ore , July 27. The first carload of 1321 wheat was received, at Eugene today from Medford. It was high quality soft grain. chop down the vichi vines. When question yesterday as to what was his present attitude with regard to the vines, Mr. Van dervort submitted the foregoing suggestions as probable ways of appeasing public protest against removal of the vines, j Recents announcement by May !or Halvorsen reassured Salem beauty lovers as to the announce ments that the city wood chopper was going to get busy. In all likelihood, the vines will stay there as long as the city hall stand. SMALL RIOT YET T Game of Checkers Develops Between Accused Gover nor and Officers SPRINGFIELD, 111., July 27. Governor Small's attitude toward "unconditional surrender" to San gamon county authorities awalt- I ing to arrest him on charges of embezzlement and conspiracy to loot the state treasury while he was state treasurer, had not been made to Sheriff Henry Mester tonight. ?o response came from Chicago ta his message refusing to place the governor under arrest In Cook county , as proposed by Albert Fink, counsel for the gov ernor. Sensing a plan, they said, to involve them In habeas corpus proceedings in Cook county, the sheriff and State's attorney Mor timer declined the overtures of Mr. Fink and are awaiting the governor's return here. Friends of Governor Small said they believed he had not Riven up his intention "peacefully to resist arrest." adding that he would probably exhaust all privileges he could obtain from the courts be fore surrendering. A writ of habeas corpus, it was pointed out. could not be obtained until the governor is arrested, and nothing but time would develop in the case while he remained away from the capital. For this reason county authorities looked for the governor's early return here. CHICAGO. July 27. Mystery tonfght marked the . movements and plans of Governor Small, fol lowing a day of conferences with his attorneys and advisers. Elud ing newspaper men, the governor went from his hotel to the home of Albert Fink, his chief counsel, and then to a downtown office for an afternoon conference. Newspaper men who watched Mr. Fink s office, where, the at torney said last night In a tele gram to Sheriff Henry Mester of Sangamon county, the governor would be today prepared to sur render to arrest, failed . to see either Mr. Small or his lawyers. Refusal of the Sangamon coun ty authorities to come here and arrest the governor, and their expressed willingness to await his return to' Spriugfield, upset plans laid last night for a hearing on habeas corpus proceedings before a Cook county court. Governor Small left for his home in Kankakee tonight. At torney Fink announced that while several conferences had been held here no decision had been reached as to the next move by the state executive. Mickle Resigns Post With Dairymen's League PORTLAND. Ore., July 27. -- J. D. Mickle, formef state dairy and food commissioner, who since Januarv 1 has been organization director for the Oregon Dairy, men's Co-operative league, today announced he "had resigned. His plans are not yet ready to announce. Oe Valera Said to Be in Need Of Elucidation on Doubt ful Pdints Among Propos als for Peace. IRISH CABINET MEETS, . NO PROGRESS REPORTED BirkenheadYThinks Negotia tions Will ikst for, Weeks, and Asljs Patience LONDON, JuLr 27. (By The Associated Presfc) -A meeting ot all available members of the Irish Kepublican cabinet today gave further prolonged discussion to the British governments propos als relative to an IrUh aettle ment. but apparently reached no (tension. : I . A eomtnunicatjion from Eamonn De Valera la reported to hav reached the I British probably seeking further ulucida- iiuu wu Buiue ueuuiiut poinia iu the proposals. 1 ' Smut Trip! PofttporMHl. Another Kirnlf leant lnrMan day was the postponement by General Jan C. $muts of hla de parture tor Soutb Africa until Au- sua, o, wmcu was tan en to im ply the belief tihat his services as mediator may again be needed. Even ' more interesting, how. ever, was the speech of Lord Turk enhead. lord hlgh chancellor, la that the govern bent antlcinaut that jhe negotiations mar last fol weeks and, invitlrjg the parliament and the country !to have patience with the difficulties ' De Valera and his colleagues may be ex periencing in Dublin Incorrigible Denounced. He reproved, rebellious union ists In the co; litlon who de nounced the government's policy aa shameful, and uauciui, anaj numuiating. . ; The lord chancellor probably 1 . a (Continued on par 4) COAST bJaSEBALL t . SAN FKASriSCoj J,,!. a7.-.8l UU defeated Han Kraariju i t 1 today sad broke up the Heala" winning atrcak of trn atraiKht caraaa. j Tha Bala wero an- l- to hit with BMiif on haaea. "Butch" Br'T. Halt I,ak ratrher, waa banned from th turn in jh first inning after an erKurarnt With 1'mplre Finaejr. Man ager Cravath rrplpfed him aad thea ? orman, a former jOakland eatrher, waa railed from the drandatand ta Cravath. Donoaa parted in tha aarmd . inning; and tn the jfourth when ha nmt to bat be hit a tw bacjrer. eeorinf Oar aad went home hknaelf a few miaatf later on Hiflin'a ajnfle ta ranter. Ihiffy Lewta eptinaed bia batting atrrak with g horfie ran and a ainale. I . K It K ' . c- t. i. T nan w rannaro .J...A ............ - i S S Hatteriea Bromjer n4 Brier. Crav -ath, Oornian; Cfuaipler, Lewia aad YeUe, 8EATTLE IB, OAKUUTD 11 8EATTLK. Wwk. Jaly 87,HeattU ' teat Oakland VI j to 11 in a claKfinr ). The visitor' tued fir piteh-ra and the. home team three in an effort te top the onlaun?te ot battrra on bwtks ii.. Demaree. the lent prtcaer to take the mound for Kttl tightened id in the lat few inftinr and prevented S uirr.truru winning ran.. I r. n. e. Oakland I 1 1 13 1 s....t!U I . ia ti a Batteriea Ifrauae, Kroner, Arlett, Winn. Alten and I Koehlrr ; liailej, 'raa- ritt IhnuDrM Mfiii A Ha ma SACRAMXirTO 4, AKOEU 2 MM A.VUrsLKH Julf 27j Harra men to won from 1a Anfrelea today 4 to 2, bat the crowd got ill; aftinaemfnt oat of tho appearance of Jack. iMaapaey in the Hac ranmito duffoat. 'here he apent moat of th afternoon witn hia friend "Howdy" Klliott, and oat ofi a alight dieagTeeauwt l.-twen Menura Pick of Hacramento and Byron of the umpiring etaff. Byron pulled hi watch 4n Htr ! th eonrao . of a argument and tha latter, recalling the forfeiture that ocrwrred here lait week, went away trom there very apeed- . ily. R. IT. T. Sacramento .... 4 19 Hatterie .ShVa. 1 Btan'diah and Elliott, Cook; Thomae and Baldwin, Caaey. VEEKOH lVj POETLAKD J PORTLAND. OrJ, July 27 Vernon oTcrwhIroed - fire jPortiand pitcher ta day under an aralnna of bita. Klliaon waa the only one jof the Beaver' ou:n tH who aeemed to be able to stoo th ' ".) ' ' . lr naai n game well ia hand. fan-r Rill tuMMk put in an outfield of a-ibvlit-ite plavrrt. R. It. . Wnon j; 17 18 I Portland i, -1. 7 IS S Batteriea Shellenback and Hannah; Pillette, Cotenan, Oilbert. WtMMea berry, IUaon and Baker. BTAXDINO 07 THE CLTTSS i . '. w I. Pc. .659 .SSS . .IS04 .864 292 nan ratHriaeo Sacramento . '. , , t AngetFg j , Oakland X Seattle .. I 74 67 61 62 61 6 40 24 42 4 4 49 4f 57 TO 04 vernon tUlt lk PortUad . oaf 'A.