f BMmmM mi The Statesman receive thw laed vrirw report i of tie Associated Press, tne ixeatest and most r . liabi press association la tn TUB WEATIIEK Fair; moderate westerly winds. worio. . . .- SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1921 PPTn? 'CTVT7' PkTvTTS I I BOND I MEN IE LEW At Least Those Drawing $5,000 or Less Annually Will,1, Say! Ways "and Means Committee. 'TAX ON SWEETS IS , SLATED FOR SLASH Repeal of All So-Called Lux ury Assessments Favored By Republicans WASHINGTON. Aug. 12, Practically winding np revision ot the levy sections ot the 1918 tax law, ! house ways .and means committee Republicans voted to day to Increase rom $2000 to 12500 the exemption allowed mar ried men having au annual net in- s come, of i $5000 j or, less. This change would be 'retroactive to January' 1, 1921. and would be in addition to the increase of $200 In the exemption for each dependent of a head of a family previously decided upon, j . - . Candy Ta Decreased. Agreement was also reached. It was said.' to decreasu tte manu facturers tax on candy from S to ' 3 per ceift, themanufacturers' tax on tun from 10 to 5 per cent; the tax on art works from 10 to 5 per cent and to repeal all of the so-called luxury taxes, including those on j carpets, rugs, trunks, traveling eases, pocketbooks,. um brellas and portable lighting fix. tures as well as those on wearing apparel. ,:j Conference Monday ; Under present plans ot Republi can leaders, the committee draft of the completed bill, which, will be in the form of an amendment - to the 1918 law will be presented to- a conference of house Republi cans at I o'clock Monday and in troduced In thej house later that day. Actual consideration of it there, however, lit was said, would go lover until Wednesday in order '"' "o .. measure , be formally passed upon Tuesday by the ways and means committee with the Democratic members present. -Debate May lie Limited while the question or a special rule Is to be decided by the party conference, some leaders said to night they expected the majority to adopt a rule limiting general debate, fixing a time for a vote and glvlnr priority to committee amendments. They regard final action by the house a week from tomorrow as something more than 121? tb .".tl vt u wa empha sised that this was a matter for determination by the party con ference. ! Roseburg Infant is Drowned in Stream ASTORIA. Or., Aug; 12Alice Olson, 19-months-old daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. R. Olson of Rose burg. Wash., was drowned last night by falling Into Grays river as she was playing near the bank ot that stream, according to word brought here today. The body was recovered about two hours later, i : i, ; Transfer byj purchase of 100 , head of registered Jersey cattle j from the Willamette valley to the I Ochoco Irrigation district in Crook obunty is the way the peo ple of that project have decided t0. JTe tn alfalfa hay problem, which has reached a serious stage. The cattle will be taken to Crook r.-L from i Western Oregon about September 1. J Vlf. ,cnoc district has a great P 7"utnae o alfalfa hay and the SI ,?..tner r utterly unable Iff ltt. & they have been offerluR it at the ruinously low price of $ a ton. However. WYB. i.u Cr,k county agent, and other , leaders tn that distrlct( have concluded that the equlva L .v C 520 t0n n D received Xarmer the hay Is fed to dairy cows and turned into but ter, ; which always .has a ready sale. So that Is tho plan that has been decided on. lur; .. i .. : : RAISED EMERGENCY BOARD TO BE SUMMONED WITHIN TEN DAYS Increase in the initial bond issue from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 to make the first payments of the soldiers' loan and bonus voted by the people was decided upon yesterday by the bonus commission. This action followed a survey of the speed with which the commission expects to operate after the machinery is once set in motion. This survey showed that the larger issue was preferable in all ways and was agreed upon unanimously. QMestlontt Perplexing Consideration of the perplexing legal knots in the loosely-drawn law occupied the entire afternoon and evening as many of the rul ings of the commission will provs of far-reaching consequence, in volving large sums of money," Whether the commission has the right to restrict and regulate the use of the loan, whether rela tives are entitled to the loan, whether men not residents of Oregon are entitled to the cash bonus were among the weighty points that had to be explored by the commission. Ijaw Not Always Clear "This Is a most serious prob lem, the creation on short "notice of a $30,000,000 building an loan agency," said one member of the commission, "and every step must be taken with caution ant with the utmost deliberation of every consequence. Not only the inter ests of the "ex-service men but the interests of the people as a whole must be kept very carefully in mind and in preparing to admin ister the law we are confronted with trying problems on points where the law is not j entirely clear," Visiting Musician Knew Famous Six-Gun Men; Tells Incident ot Bob Ford, Jesse James' Slayer 3. J. Du'field.. a visiting musi cian who played in the Cherrlan band in its public concert Tuesday night, has a very Interesting his tory. He was a member of the Sixth cavalry, serving in the Philippine islands during the Spanish Amer ican war, and later he served with the American troops undr Gen eral Fukushima in the taking or Pekin, China, during the uoxet rebellion. . He is a member or Manila post. No. 1, the first post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The organization was started there in the old Spanish city, as a local social club, but it grew into a world-wide military orrnlztlon. Mr. Duffield wa the second wh:te child born In Arizona. His grandfather, Major. M. R. Duf fleld, was the first United States marshal or that state. Later, the younger Duffield removed to Dodge City, Kan., during the days when it was still one of the greatest gun-towns In the world. He knew Bat Masterson, Wild BUI Hlckok, and other notables of the six-gun days. He finally drifted up to Creede, Colo., during the boom days, and was a musician in the dance hall owned and op erated by Bob Ford, the slayer of Jesse James, when Ford was killed by a' shotgun assassin named Kelly. Only two minutes before this Kelly killing, a dance hall girl from another establish ment had been in the Ford place, asking for money with which to bury a girl who had Just died. . i , - The cattle will be selected from the. best? Jersey herds in Marlon. Polk, Yamhill and other centrtl Willamette valley counties by Mr. Tucker and by Professor E. B. Fitts of Oregon Agricultural col lege. They will bo oold to the su tlers in the district. Bankers have offered their co-operation, and will back the farmers in paying for the dairy animals. 1 Information of this unique move on the part of the Ochoco settlers was brought to Salem by Dr. W. H. Lytle, state veterinarian. Dr. Lytle says the Crook county far mers want animals of large size and this will be taken into consid eration when the purchases are made. The Jersey breed Is con sidered the best for butter pro duction., j The same method of utilizing alfalfa, hay also is being used In Malheur,. Union and-other Eastern Oregon counties. if- FRO M I litigation Improbable No test of the constitutionality of the law will be made by the commission, it was said, as all fe"l that the law is clearly constitu- t'onal in view of the "numerous tests that have been mad in oth er states on bonus laws all ot which have been declared consti tutional. The only possibility ot litigation now foreseen is that bond buyers might Insist upon such action before being willing to purchase the bonds. Such a contingency was not anticipated by the commission. 'Joint Session Planned It was also decided that the whole problem of finance will have to be laid before the emer gency board bs'ore a final poli cy of organization and disburse ments is put into effect. A joint meeting of the commission and the board probably will occur within the next 10 days. The entire commission attend ed the session, those present, be ing Governor Olcott, Sam A. Ko ser, secretary of state. George A. White, adjutant general; Lyman O. Rice, Arthur Spencer and Har ry C. Brumbaugh, secretary of the commission. Ford gave her $5, bat refused to put his name down on the paid list. When the collector Insisted that he should write something, he took, the pencil and wrote, "Charity covereth a multitude ot sins." The girl went out of the door. Kelly was there at the door, en tering as she left and in 10 sec onds Ford was blown to bits by the bravo's shotgun. Mr: Duffield was a member ot the world-famous Dodge City Cowboy band, without which no livestock meeting was complete while the band maintained its or ganization. PHONE REHEARING LONG DRAWN OUT Night Sessions May Be Ne cessary, Declares Chair man Fred Williams FORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 12. Night sessions are threatened in the telephone rate hearing before the state public service commis sion. , v Chairman Fred Williams stated today that the session was being drawn out at such great length , that he tnougnt even tug nearlngs would have to be held. Frederick Iceland Rhodes, New York, outside plant engineer of the American Telephone & Tele graph company was on the witness stand all day. He has held down this chair since Tuesday morning. Mr. Rhodes' testimony is en tirely technical, bearing on tele phone costs and the relationship ot the Pacific Telephone & Tele graph company. The hearings, at first largely attended, are now at tract in garcehranattention. Body of R. R. Drake is Recovered from River The body of Roy Russel Drake, who was drowned whiie swim ming In the Willamette river near Newberg Sunday afternoon, was found last night by searchers who had been working almost con tinuously since his disappearance. The body is now af Newberg where the funeral will take place today. Drake was 26 years old and was working at the Ray 'hop yards." Coroner Rigdon waived Inquest last night, the death clearly be ing the result of accidental drown Ing. . ' ' ," - - 3,000,000 TO $'5,00(0,000 IS SUBJECTED TO Evidence Unearthed By Of ficers That Appears Dam aging to Itinerant San Francisco Baker. HANDWRITING EXPERT WORKING ON LETTERS Missive Prisoner Wrote To Dolly Mason Recovered From Postoffice SAN FRANCISCO, Aur. 12. William Hightower, .. itinerant baker, stoutly resisted today all efforts of the police to connect him with the murder of Rev. Pat rick Hoslin. Colma priest, and af ter two days' questioning still mainta'ned he had no knowledge of tn- crime. He was taken into custody arter he had led a Rroip ot policemen and newspapermen to the priest's grave on the sea shore. Captain of Detectives MatheR-m. Assistant Dictrict Attorney Gol den of San Francisco and District Attorney Swart of San Mateo county, said tonight that they were nearer a solution of the crime than ever before." "Things are coming to a head, Swart said. I'Mdence Damaeri IYisoner Hightower was confronted by the police with information from widely different sources, tending, they said, to show he had knowl edge of the priest's death, but Hightower remained calm and un disturbed. He showed emotion only once, the police said. This was when handed a long-delayed telegram which told of his wife's xleath in Stillwater, Okla. The Inquiry today djveloped conflict of Hightower's story ot the use h3 jad made of a Email automobile rented from a local garage the night the priest dis appeared in company with a stranger to answer a "sick call.1' Discrepancies Found Hightower said he took the ma machine from ttri garas ibout 4 o'clock, went to San Jose with Dorris Shirley, a waitress, with whom he said he was living at the time; and returned to San Francisco at 10 o'clock, but find ing no one in the garag-e, left the story is the testimony of a garage employe that Hightower did not leave the garage until 6 o etoefc and he police were bending ev ery effort to tracr; the movements of. the car between that time and 0 o'clock, the hour the priest dis appeared in an automobile known to have been of the same make. Th5 police have been unable to locate Dorris Shirley and several Hus to the present location of Dolly Mason, the woman from whm Hightower said he received first knowledge of the grave's lo cation, have proved worthless, letter is Horovcrt'd A letter mailed Wednesday by Hightower to Dolly Mason was re covered today from the San Fran c'sco postoffice and real with Hij-htower's consent. It tended to bear out. it was said, his state ment that an unknown man had' betrayed to Dolly Mason the clufs on which Hightower worked in lo cating the grave. "I believe there ia something in what that drunk told you." the letter said. 'I am. beginning to think it mijfcht have something to do with the priest. See m! at once. There is a reward offered. , The police said, however, this letter might be part of a plan laid by Hightower to substantiate a story he had devised when he de termined to collect tho reward of $S000 offered from the various sources for recovery of Rev. Fath er Ilesiln. Spellinc Similar. Similarities of . phrasing and spelling between a letter known to have been written by High tower an an anonymous typewrit ten letter demanding a reward for the return of tho priest were nointed out today by a police handwriting expert. "Misspelling of two. different words in both letters Is identical" the expert said, "and phrasing and punctuation in the two is ihe same." Hightower has not been able to account to the satisfaction of the police for a contrivance they described as an 'infernal ma chine" found In a search of hia room, when a rifle and a strip of (Continued on pare 6) TI STIFF INQUIRY REMARKABLE PROGRESS IS M THIS SEASON IN PAVING UNDER GOUNTYHIGHf AY SYSTEM Marion County Road Building For 1921 What Has Been Accomplished A grand total of 20 miles of pavement put down un der county supervision and with county-owned equip ment at an actual saving of at least $100,000. The four plants with locations atScollard, Salem, Mount Angel and Aumsville operating'at full blast for narly three months, giving employment to over 200 men and keeping 40 trucks busy hauling material to and from the plants, bunkers and construction points. In addition to pavement of the various market road projects the county, during the past three months, has graded and graveled over 30 miles of roads in prepara tion from hard surfacing next season. Road districts of the county by authorizing special levies and working independently of the market road plan have graded and graveled 60 miles of county roads ami market road laterals. Twenty miles of hard surface and 90 miles of heav ily graveled routes. Combined output of the four paving plants would provide material for one-half mile of paving each day. One crew makes record of 749 feet of pavement in one day. Equipment valued at $200,000 owned by county is in first-class condition for perfecting balance of market road surfacing plan, authorized for a five-year period. By WILL CARVER Has Marion county been mak ing roads wh:le the sun sLines? Any autolst who makes use of the roads leading from Salem to Wood'burn, West Woodburn, St. Paul. Mt. Angel, Silverton, Suh Hmlty, Stayton, Jefferson, Aums ville, Turner or other inter-county points can testify that thre has been something doing all the time during the roadbullding sea son now closing. While the state of Oregon has been busy completing tho pave ment of the Pacif'c highway through from North Marion lim its at Aurora to wh?re the south ern boundary crosses the highway at Jefferson, the county's own road-building plans have been forging steadily alfcad to realiza tion. Credit Should He Given And before one takes advan tage of newly paved county high ways opened durtng the past two years, credit for the work done ""iff he given to those responsible for furtherance of the Pierce mar ket road program in Marion coun ty. Many loyal and far-seeing citi zens have given their whole-hearted and consistent support to the work at a time when some of the county's pinch-penny income hoarders were waving th? banner "Let the ruts and mud-holes stay and leave our property invest ments alone. Some one else will provide these roads in a thous and years, maybe." Officials Meet Demands County Judge W. M. Dnr-hey, Countv Comm'ssioners J. T. Hunt and Wt H. Goulet and Road master W. J. Culver have sensed Marion county's determination to estab lish a network of roads that would lay bare the wonderful resources of the county. There is to be no waiting for "George to do it" in this reetion ""'' the present county adminis tration by the most rigid economy (Continued on page 6) Polk County Leads Rflarion in A ver age Season Grain Yield The farmer in Marion county who harvested 20 acres of wheat this season, is doing as well as the average, according to the estimates of F. L. Kent, statistician with the bureau of rrtarkets and crop estimates, with offices in Portland. For Polk county, the estimate for wheat on August 1, was 21 bushels an acre. The government's report credits Marion county with DO per cent wheat conditions August 1, and Polk county with 100 per cent conditions. Marion lyrads in Tfay Marion county had tho best hay crop conditions of all the counties in the ftat?. Not the largest tonnage, of course, but finest conditions, as the reports! nve this county 115 t ef cent con ditions. Polk county hay crop was 100' per cent at the time th esf mate was rflade. Marlon county corn crop was i ffli,1 E TO FISH HERE Rate Case to Be Resumed in Salem Monday, Says At torney McNary The rehearing inquiry into ser v'ce rates of the Pacific Tele phone & Telegraph company now being conducted in Portland by the public service commission will probably be resumed in Sa lem next Monday, according to jonn it. Aic.xary, one of the at torneys for the telephone com pany. who returned to h's home here last night. Mr. McNary said the rehearing in Portland will adjourn earlv to day and that Chairman Williann probably will announce that it will meet here Monday. He estimates that about 10 days more will be required to; the rehearing. Boy Is Injured When Automobiles Collide SILVERTON, Or., Ahg. 12. (Special to The Statesman ) A small boy, whose name is be lieved to be Willie Cole, received a badly lacerated nose when two automobiles collided at First and Oak streets here tonight. One of the automobiles was driven by Sam KayBer and the other by a stranger whose name and license number wre not ohta'nod. The boy was injured by being thrown through the windshield of the Kayser car in which he was rid ing. a little better than Polk, as the report of conditions August 1, es timate. $7 per cent for Manon county corn, with SO per cent for Polk -county. In spring wheat. Polk county bad a little h best of it with conditions 87 Per cent, compared to Marion county's es timate of 85 per cent of a crop. (Continued on page 6) Mm ADE ROADS THOMAS WINS FIRST PLACE IN EXHIBIT Former Salem Yourtff Man Takes High Honors in Art Competition A. L. Thomas of Newnort. rl hibited a number of colored ma rine views at the Photographers Convention of the Pacific north west, held in Vanvouver, B.vCi, August z to t, inclusive. The ex liibit won firat nlarn tn it ! but what was more to his credit was the rating given by the judge, and the award of a beautiful alt. ver medal. - Many eastern visitors t th big Dlcture convention, rnmmoni. ed in a highly favorable way on nis worK. Mr. Thomas wan aenfnst world competition, some or the exhibits from Australia, England and the United States being included in me ciispiays. The artist Was educate In the, grammer schools and th tiniinu college in Salem and for two years was a student at Willamette uni versity. He is a son of Mrs. J. M. Thomas. 816 Mill street. U Boulder Plunges . Upon Miners, One is Killed LA GRANDE, Or., Aug. N. J. Fullerton was killed and Roscoe Foster Heriously Injured when a boulder rolled on them yesterday. jj The men were doing assessment work on their mining claim on Hurricane creek, 15 miles from Jof-eph Or., when the accident happened. Fullerton was a resi dent of Montana and Foster lived In Joseph. i Twenty Persons Hurt jf In Wreck Near Pueblo PliKHLO, Colo., Aug. 12.ii Twenty persons were injured, three of them seriously enough to be taken to a hospital today when passenger train No. 11, east bound on the Atchison, Topeka . Santa Fe railway was wrecked at Devtne," 10 miles east ot Pueblo. House Limits Number Of Fancy Salaried Officials, Expenses Approved WASHINGTON, Aug,. 12, Criticisms in the house today, by both Republicans and Democrats of the salaries paid by the ship ring board culminated In the adoption of an amendment to the bill carrying $48,500,000 foriex penses of the board until Janu ary 1, next, that not more than three officials shall receive more than 12.00 a year. One Motion .Defeated, ij The amendment was offered by Chairman Madden of the appro priations committee after the house had voted down an amend ment by Representative Ilady. Democrat. Texa. to make the $l2.r,oo limit apply to all but two officials. An amendment by Representa tive Sweet, Republican, Iowa, to cut- the amount carried in the bill' to J25.000.000, was defeated by a vote of 63 to 52. . j; Radium Worth $6,000 j Thrown Into Sewer POItTLANT), Or., Aug. 1?. A tube of radium valusd at $000 was lost today at St. Vincent's hospital. The loss was not jdls covered unt-J It had been thrown into the sewer. The radium! be longed to Dr. Ralph C. Walker who was treating a cancer patient. Thursday night the doctor admin istered thi tube of radium and during the night the pattent; be came restless and dislodged i!the tube. Unnoticed it was emptied into the 6ink- V- ll';; , ; The loss was not Uscovered; inn- til Dr. Walker arrived at the hos pital in the morning: to take ont the tube, . . . i' SHIPPING in IN BELIEVED UNDER MES Capture Effected After Fugi tive Has JSpent Morninr Plowing on Ranch llcz: Calgary, Alberta, LETTER IN BOTTLE TELLS OF FLIGHT Handwriting Found In Rive - Near Portland is Positive ly' Identified E0SEBTJEO, Or, Acj. 12. "I do not believe iVi true," said Mrs. R. H Brumfield thi afternoon, when told by tbe'Associat ed Press that her husband, Dr, E. M. Brumfield, want ed on a charge of murder ing Dennis " Russell, had been reported captured ia Calgary. Then, in a be wildered voice, she added: "I have never ceased to believe htm innocent of the : charge mado against tin, and I will never believe him r guilty until be tells me so with his own lips. Then I will gay he is in . sane. "I will say, however, that your message seems, to.be . authentic" . . CALGARY, Alta., Aug. 12. Dr. R. M. Brumfield, the miss ing dentist of Roseburg, Ore. wanted there on a charge c murdering Dennis Russell Jul; 14, under' the alleged camoii iiajre or a wrecked motor ca and a body mutilated rast rr cognition,' for the supposed ec live vi naving it appear ins it was Brumfield 's body, is be licved to have been arrcstc here today. . The man whom city deter tives and northwest police are convinced is Dr Brumfield was locked in a' eel here tonight. V - He was arrested south of Ca! gary, where he was working r a farm laborer under the nam of Norman Whitney. TL mounted police said, they ha traced Brumfield to Calpar A wire from : Porland, Ore they explained, ; had informe. them that an express packaj,' had been sent from Lake Louis (Continued on page .) r COAST BASEBALL1 ARozts s. rsisoo 1 RAN FHAKiClNCO, A iff IJ. S.b J-rr cUe failed to tak tdonUp f mimrr u rhaneas and Le Anffeloa wo todaT' fame S t 1. 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