1C WEATHER foe Statesman receives th leaded wire report , of the Associated Tress the greatest and taost re liable press association - la the world. I i' Friday fair; moderate westerly i winds. SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 29, 1921 i PRICE: FIVE CENTS rn rxn fs3 LKJ LT U i n Fo) (c? SJ UzJ J rui Jomlinson Corkscrews Ad- mission uut ot racmc Telephone Vice President In Rate Rehearing- LAST SESSION WILL J BE HELD HERE TODAY Adjournment Will Be Taken To Convene in Portland ; Next ' Monday II. M. Tomllnson, attorney for the city of Portland In the tele phone rate case, had a difficult time yesterday corkscrewing out of II. D. Pillsbury the amount of the latter's salary. But by per sistent boring in he finally got from Pillsbury the information that he receives 118,000 a year. Plllsbury is rice president and general attorney for (he Pacific Telephone company, having charge Of legal work and commissions. I 1 Tumlinaon Unrelenting." i PJlIsbury was called! to the stand by Mr. Tomllnson and ob jected to stating his salary, de claring that It was personal and tould be obtained from the rec ords of the public service com mission. 4 Attorney Shaw of the telephone company also objected, but Tomllnson Insisted. "I claim I am wfthin my rights." contended Tomllnson. "This company is a public utility and with its officials Is dedicated )to the public service. ;Yott al ready nave stated that the people of Oregon pay a part of your sal fcry I Insist that, you tell your Salary so that it may go into the records ot this rehearing." k i Records Inquired Into. Plllsbury yielded. I Tomllnson asked Flllsbury a ilone series ot questions relative fto records ot the Pacific Tele phone & Telegraph company and its predecessors. It was agreed that all these on the Pacific coast. with the exception of the general ledger,! were destroyed In the San Francisco earthquake and tire of 1906, but Tomlinson'g question was to the end of bringing out whether . duplicates or records mounting to duplicates, are not extant in New York. lie could not elicit this information. Filltttmry IHNelaimn Knowledge Neither could Mr. Pillsbury tell j Mr. ' Tomllnson who Is in posses sion of the general ledger saved out of the fire of J1906 and the question was referred to all other representatives of the ' company who were present at the rehearing yesterday, but no one knew. At the time of the fire the! prede cessor company, known as the Pa cific States Telephone & Tele graph company, was in operation. ' More frank negative answers came; from Pillsburw than from any, other witness who has been on the stand. Tomllnson hopes to bring out information that in past years the company or its predecessors have bought up' nu merous small companies as Junk and thrown them into its valua tion for rate making purposes, and also to be counted" in declar ing dividend payments, r Kantern Trip Frequent. Asked if in the past he had charge of the purchases of plants, Plllsbury said that in conjunc tion with the president of the company he had. He was asked if he makes frequent trips to New York, and replied in the affirm ative, lie was unable to recall the number of trips in 1919, 1920 and 1921. He said he had been general attorney for the company or1 Us predeceesars since 1906, and vice president since 1913. Fotmerly he said he was connect ed with the New York end of the American Telephone & Telegraph company as a legal advisor. "My business was to give them legal advice and they almost got Into trouble following it," said Plllsbury with a smile. Missing Ledger Wanted. .. Tomllnson went into minute de tail to ascertain Plllsbury's knowl edge cf .the records, even to ask ing the material of which the building, was made that was de stroyed! in San Francisco On most of theso Pillabury disclaim ed knowledge. 5 "I hate heard so, answered the .witness.! , ' ' v. ' f : "Where is It now? : "I don't know f "What was the new figure of valuations used after the San Francisco fire?" f- law . 1 .. 'v i aou t Know. ' i , "1 think Mr. Phelps, the gene ral auditor, might know," answer ed Pillsbury. ! Sherwin In Boston. i "Who was auditor at the time (Continued on page .6), $2,000,000 HIGHWAY BONDS ARE SOLD AT PORTLAND YESTERDAY PORTLAND, Or., July 28.--Bids were opened today by the state highway commission for an issue of bonds to the amount of $2,000,000 and also for the improvement of 60 miles of highway, including the pavement of an eight-mile section of the Pacific highway in Linn county. The issue was awarded to John E. Price & Co. and E. H. Rollins & Co. for $2,002,094. Last Month Beaten The price offered is a shade better than that obtained last month by the commission, reflecting an improvement, in the money market. Regarding the Roseburg-Coos mission decided to adopt what is known as the Brockway connection with the Pacific highway on condition that Doug las county build a good road to Dillard, the nearest shipping point. Bids were opened on a number of road projects. The bids follow: Carstens & Earles, et al., Se attle: short term SVi per cent bonds at$ 100 0.05 per thusand; long term 5 per cent, $1003.90 per thousand. John E. Price & Co. et al. Se attle: short term, no bid; long term, 5, per cent bonds at $1001.47 per thousand. Ralph Schneelock Co. et al., TAKEN IN BK The Commercial club is taking in about $100 a day in additional subscriptions, according to the re ports of the committees who met Thursday noon at the club lunch eon to talk over financial prog ress. Not all the money that was deemed necessary for the payment ot old Dills' and the proper ex tension of new business, has been KING'S Tho biggest beanery in Oregon is now in operation in Salem. It gets its beans by the truck load and the car load, and It prepares 'em 24 hours of the day. The old boarding house song, "Beans for breakfast, beans for dinner, beans for supper; beans, beans, beans!" is the only gong they sing In this huge food factory. This is the Salem King's de hydration plant, where string beans began to come irf Tuesday, and while they will not be in in full blast until the middle of next week, theplant will be stringing along until well along in August. The product is very good, and the string Jean is one of the fin est of.. -all the fine dehydrated products of the King process. Logan Benson Soon to End. Blackberries, too, are coming in in appreciable quantities, al though: the logans are still in the market but tapering off so that they will probably end some time next week. But the blackberries H, T, Lowe Succumbs to In juries While on Way to Independence INDEPENDENCE, Ore., Jul? 28. (Special to The Statesman.) H. T. Lowe, aged 30, who had been employed at Camp 1 on the Valley & Silets railway, died on the train today while being taken to this city, from injuries re ceived while operating a donkey engine. v The accident occurred while workmen were engaged in pulling in logs. The cavle is some way lost Its hold . around the log, striking Mr. Lowe with terrific force, breaking one arm and knocking him - to 4 the ground, causing concussion of the brain. He regained consciousness and gave his address and other infor mation, but died before reaching this city. His body was sent to Vancouver. Wash., for burial. He leaves a wife and several children. Mr. Lowe had been employed at Camp 1 for about two months and was a donkey engineer by profes sion. . lie formerly . worked at Deer Island near Portland. HUNDRED DOLLARS OUGHT 1 SALEM ENB1NEER DIES AFTER ACCIDENT Bay highway, the com- i Portland: short term, no bid; lon: term, r, per cent at $102,102 per nuhdred. United States National bank et al., Portland: short term, G per Cent bonds at $100 077 per hun dred; long term, 5 per cent at $100,777 per hundred. A. M. Wright, Tortland: short (Continued on page 6) CLUB secured, but the campaign has been fruitful enough of results that the goal seems Sn sight. I Another meeting is to be held at the club today noon to report yet further on the campaign pro gress. A number of good pros pects who were out of town when the first drive started, have re turned, and they are coming through in a satisfactory way, ac cording to the reports. BEANS IS MADE BY HIM PLANT are goine: strong and they will be getting better for a number of dais. The berries are especially fine this year, huge, shining big black fellows, brilliant and lus cious. The tame berries are. com ing in iirst. After them will come the wild evergreens, and they will last well through August. Rase Price 4 Cents. It is understood that a base price of approximately 4 cents a pound is to be paid for blackber ries I on the Salem market, with the tame and the evergreen ber ries on the same price basis. This is well in advance of the average price for logans, but one explan ation for this is that as the sea son has progressed, tho general business oonditions of the country have grown better, and the future market more assured so that the trade .knew what was ahead of it. , Four-cent blackberries isn't at all bad for the producers, es pecially for the wild evergreens that require - only -picking and hauling. MOILOCK NABS THEFT SUSPECT Requisition Issued for Re turn of E- L. Hinson 'from Puget Sound Alleging that E. L. Hinson, alias John Doe Patterson, is guilty of the theft of four automobiles, taken in less than six weeks time, officers of Linn and Marion coun ties are congratulating Deputy Sheriff Lee Morelock upon his work In tracing one of the cars, with the result that Hinson was located in Seattle. Upon requisition issued yester day, Patrolman J. Q. Rogers of Albany, is bringing Hinson from Seattle to the Linn county city where he will face charges. Should Hinson be released from Albany he will in all likllhood he rear rested and brought to Salem as a grand larceny charge is pending against him? here in connection with his alleged' theft of the car of William Setak of Salem. In addition to the cars at Al bany and Salem, Hinson , is thought to have been Implicated In, the theft ..: of tyo cars from Corrallis recently;, t SOVIET RUSSIA DESCRIBED FDD TENT AUDIENCE Skeyhill Not Convert to Com munism, But He Admits It Has Accomplished Some of its Aims. BALKAN ENTERTAINERS PLEASE MUSIC LOVERS Father Cronin Will Speak Today on Great Things Of Literature "Soviet Russia i3 today in tho last throes of in:il-nutrition," said Tom Skeyhill at Chautauqua last night. ' "Communism is better than no government; and there is nothing but chaos, nihi'ism, utter ruin for the social fabric of the world, if Lenine, who is communism, were to be killed. "Communism It a challenge to the capitalistic system of property which Is the system of ownics property and getting pay accord ing to what one can produce. To martyr communism is to enthrone it, to let it prove Itself a failure while the other system prospers, is the rational way to meet its claims. Idleness Is Tragedy "The tragedy of Russia Is the fact that, the rewards of industry being destroyed, production has stopped. Transportation has brok en down, because no one cares to either produc or to trans-i port where there is no reward.: Starvation, hunger, disease ,cpIdV stalk through the land unchal lenged because no one can care to check them for others and re ceive no profit for himself. "Lenin cannot write or talk; but he is logical, and courageous, and honest. He works hard, 16 hours a day; he is morally clean; lie does not sympathize with re ligion, but he allows it, un touched; he believes in what he preaches, and he is the whole of tire communistic government. There is no one to take his place; kill him, and his experiment falls to plunge Russia into yet low er hells than she knows now. Large Hearing Given. "Everybody who believes in the Russian soviet experiment, ought to go there and help it along. It is not on trial in America, or any where lse. It's theirs; let them demonstrate its right to live." j These are a few of the thoughts presented by Tom Skeyhill, Australian-American poet, soldier, lec turer, to a large audience at last night's Chautauqua. It was a two hour lecture, full of beauty, pa thos. Idealism, sordid bestiality, suffering, and a few rays of warm, heartening hope for the Russia of today. Sixaker Is Word Wizard. Mr. Skeyhill is a wizard with words. He is not quite a finished lecture; he sees too many things, thinks too many various ways to say them, to be a finished "ora tor." And yet he has a message: He has seen life in the raw; quiv ering from .the hospital, the scourge, the overtoil of the fac tory or the field, staggering from starvation and shivering with cold. He stole his way into Rus sia at the risk of being shot ; the companion who went with him, was shot' by his side, -and his face eaten off by street dogs or rats. He starved for months in that dreary, hopeless land, experienc-j ing all the misery of a sympa- ; thetic man who dies a thousand! deaths in helpless rebellion against i ck Kyan. who it v. behoved the injustices he sees. One could jin wanted in Portland on a charge not well tell such a story in or-j of holding up Paul Fulton of that derly, placid fashion: and Skey- .,- rtv votrlav mornine. was hill does not try the impossible Rut his story is one that will lonK stay with every one who heard him. Land Chen Fanners. "The communistic government has accomplished many of the things it set put to do." the speak er said. "It has given to l& farmer his lands. It gives to the workman his shops, and hi short hours and it ha3 brought to the soldier the peace he said he de sired. The chnrthes are full of worshippers; the schools were never as well filled; the art of Russia would even now be Jlour- shins if they could Ret .material. to paint and draw; music and the stage are as busy as they ever were. There can be np revolu tion against some of th6se condi tions. "And yet, communism in Soviet Russia fails to meet the demand even stronger than that for rest or food or- clothing the human cry for Jhe appurtenances of life, the nice things, the sense of owner ship, the desire for opportunity JContInued pa page 6) BELLING BOUNDED WITH S USPECTE I j I ! : i GOVERNOR UNDER CHARGES , 'v , r--' V ' - , " ft''"" 1 ' v r.,v -v V ff. . X& : N -. s, S- v . xS i 1 J t 'sLii ' - - ,; A iwiiMiiii iiiimnmaK --..jK.a mil agjMuiSSmiSMI ,Jtammmmt ikiIiimihii mini h iiiii'iiiiHa JiVfcfcwml GOVERNOR LEN SMALL of Illinois, who was indicted by the Sangamon County Grand Jury, charged with em bezzlement and conspiracy to misappropriate public money, has surrendered and given bail. The governor says he is the victim of a political plot. LIATH FARMER SHOOTS WIFE THEN TURNS KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., July i 28 After shooting his wife In j the arm, inflicting a slight wound, i his wife's action, which in he Thomas Hampton, 6, retired ; lieved to have brought about the lumberman, wrenched himself free from the grasp of his brother-in-law and shot himself through the head, dying instantly. Hampton yesterday was dis charged at a sanity hearing after a complaint brouuht by his wife. HI BELIED HDLD-UP ARTIST: Man A rested Here on Sus - picion of Robbing Pedes trian in Portland arrested here yesterday by local police officers and is beinfe heid here pending the arrival of Port-, land authorities. A total of $162.79 in coin and currency was found on his person, a few dol lars short of the amount taken from Fulton. rariy esieruay -.ulchsuuh tor Tortland office called the Salem', chief and asked that lie watch for j a nan answering the dftKC! int b:i i of Ryan, who it was believed had boarded a Southern Pacific trail: fbound or here. Local offices were sent to watch the train and tion by flood waters which had finding Fulton who answered thei'Fe.d out practically the entire description given them. they brought him to the station. When asked to hand over all of the money he had. Fulton gave the police but $2.7D. but they later found hidden in his coat more money. He told the police that he had come from New York City and that ho was locking for work. HAM OFFICER FATALLY IN EON ON HIMSELF He is declared to have expressed himself as deeply humiliated by shooting, bhe testified at the san ity hearing and asked him to deed her half of his property, valuei! at $f)0,i(.i which be refused to do. When she went to njr former home for her c'.othes, the shooting took place. TIVU ARE DEAD III CLOUDBURST ; Flood Swoops Down On Toil! 1st Party Camped Wyoming Canyon j OMAHA, Xcb., July 2-S.- Two ! persons wre drowned in a cloud 'burt that practically wiped out Beulah, Wyo., a village 14 miles jwest o Hj"i arfish, H. 1)., early to I day. according to advices reaching i Opih ha late today. ! The known dead are Mrs. Win Mower, Missouri Valley, la., and i John Mow er, her grandson, Chad i ron, X(.b. The two wore members of a 'fburist party bound for Yellow i stone park which had camped for if be night in a canyon near the village a relief train left Chadron late today laden with supplies for vic- tuns. It will be several days before H-ire communication can be re- ..in .t-j : i... .. . .1 L ' , j Pterins fjpearfish told of destruc Village consisting of about 100 inhabitants. Loss in livestock on ranches along thf. Spearfish can yon wiil be breat, reports stated. ROPER WINS DKOSIOX DETROIT, Mich, July, 28.' Captain Bob Roper, Chicago, won the newspaper decision in a tea round bout with, "Chuck" Vlgsias of Indianapolis. REVOLVER BATTLE DBOO ZE RUNNER BELLINGH AM, Wash., Jul Iv 8. Deputy Sheriff J. F, Cha,t field is dying in a hospit al here tonight and J. Ander son, a Canadian, is held in tht county jail charged by tho po lice with beine his slaver as the result of a revolver battle near the Canadian border, two miles east of Blaine, Wash., this afternoon. Alfred F. L. Tool, said to have been Ander-j son s companion at the time of the shooting, is held as a witness. Chatfield, accompanied bv Richard Drain, was scouting) for liquor runners when hd came upon Anderson and Tool! who claim to have been; searching for hope smugglers. 1 When ordered bv Chatfield toi throw up his hands, Anderson! opened fire with a revolver, according to the police, shoot ing Chatfield through the ab domen. Chatfield emptied his re volver at Anderson as he fell but the bullets flew wide. An derson and Tool then submit ted to arrest by Drain. BANK ROBBERS Wilson and, Haledy Believed Ta Have Held up Bou ners Ferry Cashier HOXXKKS FKRRV, fda., July 28. Two men were captured a a thick' t two milt-s south of here this rveninp; after one had Otseti wonnded in the legs by birdshot antl are held In the city jail to night "charged with the robbery of the F'rst State1 bank lisro shortly after noon today. -i'ho mn nave their names as Robert Wilson and Harley Haledy. ' Tim two men were traced to thir hiding1 place by James Mc (Hocklin, county truck driver, W. C. Reed, county assessor, and C W. McGuire. They were ordered to surrender, but Haledy is said to have fired at his pursuers, the bullet going" wide. McGlocklin immediately dis charged his shotgun, peppering Haledy In the legs.- The men gave themselves up. Upon entering the' bank today the two men ordered John A. Hansen, cashier, and Mrs. A. Stwart. the feller into the vault where Mr. Hansen was command ed to open the safe. - The robbers' if moved $00Q in currency and $ 1 0 . 0 f i 0 in liberty bonds and locked the bank' employes In the vavlt. " ' A telephone in the vault en abled Mr. Hansen to notify coun ty authorities, and the prisoners were released in about 10 min utes by J. H. Brody, county audi tor, to whom Mr. Hansen com municated the combination. The robbers bad escaped before help arrived. One hundred men were scour--ins; the surrounding conntry this af tTiio!i . before the two men were finally located. T'.ank offi cials stated tonight that all the loot had b.-en recovered. Portland Woman Killed, Slayer Commits Suicide PORTLAND. Ore., July 28. Mrs, Anna Baird. about DO years old, was shot and kilcld at her bo- el h ere by a man fctid by the po lice to be George Crowl, who then shot and killed himself. Friends of Mrs. Baird said she had rejected the attentions of Crowd, and that this led to .the tragedy. Gas Explosion Causes Panic At Los Angeles LOS' .ANGELES, July 2. A pas explosion of unexplained ori slv. damaeed th olant j of the Los AnzeUs Gas & Electric company here today, injured five employes and temporarily threat- i ened a serious fire. It afso cur tailed the gas supply of patrons, but arrangements were made to supply natural cas until the plant could be put back to manufactor insr. ; Windows for -n block around crashed in. Some. lumber piled across the street toppled ; vef, and persons working In s- nearby buildings were thrown ' to the ground. A near panic resulted, but was quieted when the nature of the trouble, was made known. DINNER INVITE Tfl PUBLISHER ISURH Northcliffe Informed That He Is Not Wanted at British Embassy and Expresses Resentment CURZ0N IS BLAMED FOR RANK INSULT English Newspaperman At tributes Treatment to" Recent Publication , . ; WAjSlUNGTON', Jnly 2S. . Lord Nurthcliffo.' thavBritisb nnlv lisher, now In the United States, in a statement issued here tonight said that f'for reasons ot which he is not. nwir." Invitation v- tended hiin to stop at the British emDassy and to attend a dinner there tonight had been with drawn..:. I ' -" I '1 "Knowing the methods in India of Lord Curt on, the IJrltlah for eign secretary," tho statement do- certain that Lord Purson has aaopteu theso methoda hero. " The Ilrltlsh publisher's atato. ment conveyed the Impression the matter Involved In tha reported cancellation of invitation, was an outgrowth of the controteray be tween Ixrd Northcliffe and Lord Curzon. i Attack Recalled Soon arter President Harding made his overtures for a disarma ment conference,? tho London Times, leading, paper published by Northcliffe. bnoaed thai tion that Lord Curxon be appoint ed one of the British, delegates 4.0 the proposed j conference and at tacked both the foreign secretary and Premier Lloyd George; ; This attack was followed by snspenslon of privileged rights en .loved for venra hv tho . ij,.4a. Times, a Northcliffe paper, in th ontaming or news from the Brit ish foreign office. . InHcturftfe. Says Kmboaay. Iord Northcliffe issued bin statement tonight after Questions had been asked him concerning, rumors that l&rlttinn tiiii him by the embassy had been u narawn on instructions from London. The ;only from ment ob tainable from the embassy were that the reports were "inaccu rate.."' .! d ' It was established, however, that Lord Northcliffe had gone to a local hotel on his arrival here early today from New! York. , Ho fContlntid on pare ) j COAST BASEBALL FEISCO 7, iSAXT UlKfi 1 f ' stopWI lhiffy twfc'- bUJn trk to rty. nd 'Kan KnnrUr Wi.trl . K.lt Uk 7 to 1. Lrtt ha J,jt in 89 ron jwutivj irnroM, bull today Hcou blanked h'ra- , Kllio w Jiwpoiulbl for six of thv fcal run, and taken eat in th ith inninr, mtttr be ha4 forr4 in Kamm by allowing walk with th basra full. . ., ." Salt Lake j ' " i BatterlM Kairi'"Om''d"Md Domu; 4U(r, .,j . t SEATTLE 4-5. OAKLASD . won iw rm from 0ktnd making inre airaicui r)rx0rtr; the rr b mg 4 to 8 and . to 8. A donhlo hf WitriU, who pmk hit in tlit mmh KroTvd l ranker and m th f hut me for Hattt. Tfta arond rm wan a pitrhent' ballla belwn Oartnr and Krpoier, a three ron rail bjr Ka lie in the aevnth deriding tb rntt. Fimt cam ! R. II. 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Slollwita aapyi-ri-rt. tirr ainrtod, I (Joolc waiked and fon dimtilp-l them Jinroe. - -j j Io Aft(tlR tonk; the lead train In fhn third whn, with! Htata aad Mn)y n, Carroll triplt-d end firlgg singled liiin I i ; ..." . k. jt. k. Lo Aacflm . 4 B O j Baftirim Knn and Cook; Craa.lait And fcUnaira. . , ! - BTAKDIKQ OF THE CLOTS JVt. ,nt .571 ,S4 .5fi .54 .?' -) nan rranriaco , 4aerarente 7' I' 42 67 ! 4 uoa Aoeeles . 62 49 49 -attla Oakland - 63 412 61 Nalt Lak 58 6T 40 71 24 5