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WEATHER The Statesman receives the leased wire report ot the Associated Press, the greatest sod most re liable press association In the world, . ,.', : u Tuesday fair; light to moderate easterly winds. , i SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8, 1921 PRICE: FIVE. CENTS iFynnM. T 0 Y ' 9 4 Sinn FEINERS WAIT OUTCOME Confidence Expressed in 'Outcome of Conference Going on Between Lloyd : George and Craig. COALITION-UNIONIST SHOWS IMPATIENCE jtWiiliarp Henry Davidson if Wants Inside Informa- tion, But Turned Down LONDON, Dec. 7. Sinn Fein delegstes are awaiting patiently and, they say, confidently, the re mit of conferences between Pre mier Lloyd George and Sir James Craig, Ulster premier, -which were continued today v and in which ' other members of the Ulster cab ; Inet ar expected to participate t before the end of the week. Fltzalan Called In Viscount 4 Fltzalan, governor general of Ireland, was called In- t to the conference today and many Irish political leaders and offic ials, as well as British unionists, " slso are being consulted. In the house of . commons Sir f William Henry Davidson, coali- t llon-Unlonlat. tried to draw nut Lloyd George on what was go ."Tlnar on. askinr for tha anrin t that Ulster would not be coerced or pressed to surrender anything ': siren, in or os4r-the home' rule ..net. 1; The premier declined to ane l4wer nd expressed the hope that q 8ir William's question would not ;do pressed while the Irish nego tiations, were proceeding. , $ ' V - ' Do Valera Consulted ; Meanwhile Michael Collins and George Garan Duffr. members nf the Sinn Fein delegation, held fur J. ther 'consultation with Eamonn t De Valera in Dublin today, -but It was pointed out at the ' Sinn Fein headquarters here that noth ing could occur on their side nn. i til after the conferences hetweoen I Mr. Lloyd George and, the Ulster 7 premier, They declared nothing ; had been agreed to. " They, said Sinn Fein had put before the government plans on which they considered the prob- . idui vuuiu w suneu, ana inai tne P government had made proposals. Di' ; LONDON, Nor. 7. .(By A. P.) K Discussions of an Irish settle- ?. mens are neanng a cumax. Af .ter a long conference with Mr. I.LloTd George todav. Sir 'Jnm I vi6t v' rwiDii Duuiiuuaou I members of his cabinet from Bel. lfsst for meeting here to con- aider proposals mlde by the Brit--lsh gorernment. i "' ' "'' - -.'''"' t ; "" Further Session Thursday kWho will come Include John Milne Barbour, Marquis or Londonderry, TT. N.1 Andrea, and Thomas Miles. (chairman of the committee of the Ulster parliament. The official announcement also WateL that there would be a fur ther, conference: with Mr. Lloyd George Thursday. I ) The Irish situation, It was ad frmltted In official circles, is in. an 1 extermeiy critical stage. It is un derstood that the Ulster premier 5 Informed Mr. Llovrf ' Henrm that he could not possibly think of IL. ...... . suuuiuriiuK me responsiDlllty 01 accenting: the oronosals mad tn him ;by the premier' and would De compelled to consult his col leagues. t v Premier iflay lVslgn Everything, it .is said, depends ? bn Thursday's meetings, and. if :, the Ulster representatives reject the compromise proposals it is re ' garded as possible Mr. Lloyd ' George! will carry out his threat ; to resign. ' Vv According to agency reports the fcerlous, official view regarding 'gbe negotiations is due to the stiff attitude taken by the Ulster pre ' tiler In .his Interrlew with the premier. Sir James is represent ed as Intimating his firm determ ! )natln: to maintain Ulster's po i sjtion. and he is said to have, sig ibtJled that in. his opinion the ', J Jroposals which Mr. Lloyd George '-J submitted to him seriously im I periled the rights of northern Ire 's Jlnd. - In any case he would con- n ede nothing on his own respon--mbiilty.- ( DOZEN BANDITS TAKE WEALTH OF VALUABLES FROM TRAIN IN ILLINOIS; 5 OF CREW WOUNDED MS TO Ten Years to Life is Punish ment Meted Out to Wom an at Twin Falls TWIN FALLS, Ida., Nov. 7. Mrs. Lyda Meyer Southard, found guilty In district court here last week of the murder of her fourth husband, Edward F. Meyer, was sentenced today to a term in the Idaho state penitentiary of from 10 years to life. Mrs. Southard appeared in court for sentence alone except for her attorneys. She betrayed no evidence of feeling when sen tence was passed. Notice of appeal was formally entered by her at torneys but a stay of execution was not asked and it is understood that she will enter upon the serv ing of her prison term within a few days. Yesterday she packed all her belongings about the Jail and her attorneys say she is anxious to be gin serving her sentence with as little delay as possible. Today's proceedings which were witnessed by a large crowd, occu pied less than 10 minutes. Portland Playhouse Loses $8000 Girl Kicks Qvef Phone, Calls Help PORTLAND Ore., Nor. 7. Three-masked bandits looted the Liberty theater of approximately (8 000, this morning. J They, surprised Auditor R. IE. Charles just as he was opening the safe at 9:30, o'clock, bound him, two girl employes andfth9 car penter, emptied the strong box and escaped. j Esie Rotramel, a bookkeeper, finally managed to knock over a telephone and shout for helD. j A supervisor at the Main, exchange notified police headquarters, i Vhen Jhe police arrived the men had been gone for about 110 minutes. " ' Henry Barney, the carpenter, was slugged by the robbers, but was not seriously hurt. s The bandits made their get away, leaving Charles Barney, Miss Rotramel and Myrtle orbes lying helpless on the floor. j . Miss Rotramel managed j to twist her ankle over against Bar ney's hands and the carpenter un loosed the bonds. j Immediately she knocked oyer the telephone and shouted into the transmitter: ! "Police! Liberty theatre! po llcel" f Her hands were still tied and she could not hold the receiver! to her ear. So she reiterated the ry until she felt certain someone had heard and notified the police. 1 The gunmen, according to 'Miss Forbes, apparently entered the upstairs office by way ot the the ater. ' Monmouth Stockmen Jake, Championships in Show PORTLAND, Ore.. Nov. 7. Championship among, Percheron entries at the Pacific International Livestock exposition was eoday awarded to "Havelock 4, 76.4, a California entry by A. Cw Ruby from the Santa Rosa Stock farm. Championship in the Junior stal lion division went to W. ' AJ Clark of Latah. Wash. i Roy Shotwell of Boise, Idaho, won prizes in the Duroc classes in the swine exhibition. ' ' J. BStump & Sons of Mon mouth, Ore;, took two champion ships out of three on bucks in the Angora goat classes. S. F. Zysett of Scio, won tnira cnamprousiup. BOUT IS DRAW MANILA, Nor," T.llud Ridley, Seattle featherweight, and Ma carlo Villon, Filipino boxer, fought 10 rounds to a. draw here tonight. 5 n Ml ROBBED BY MASKED H PAXTON, III, Nov. 7 with pistols shotguns and bombs which they used freely wounding several trainmen and mail clerks, held up the New Orleans Limited train on the Illinois Central rail4 toad tonight and with true wild west tactics, looted the 'mail car of all the registered mail and the valuables in the safe and then escaped in waiting automobiles, which 'were stationed two miles south of Paxton. The train was first stopped on a bridge over a small stream by three bandits on the train, who crept to the engine cab over the tender and held up the engineer and fireman, made the fireman disconnect the mall ear and the baggage car and drive farther south, where the rest of the desperadoes helped in the bombing, dynamiting and firing of the mail car before it could be entered and 'looted. Those who were injured: H. Banks, fireman, Chicago, shot in the shoulder while helping defend the mail car. Thomas Baker Carbondale, Ills., mail clerk, beat' en with revolver in mail car. j B. Bovinette, Mattoon, mail clerk, shot through Wrist and shoulder, not serious. Arthur Mon, colored porter, Chicago, shot in chest md groin. , . j K.H. Knowlton, student University of Illinois, shot hrough coat three times, skin grazed. While disconnecting the cars the conductor pat his i iead out a vestibule window to see what was wrong, but qaickly drew it back when a bullet whizzed past f He saw the firemen facing the tender with his hands partly, raised as though hesitating whether to leap at two armed men who were visible just beyond him. j "Get back there," he heard one of the men command the fireman. The stoker still hesitated and the foremost bandit struck him on the head with a pistol. The fireman staggered back toward his side of the cab and the second robber ad vanced toward the engineer with two revolvers aimed at him. A third robber followed. "Stop the train," shouted the masked men, while one of them covered the firemen, j The engineer and fireman at first hesitated to comply with the demands of, the robbers who crept over the tender into the cab, but when pistols were thrust into their faces 4nd one of the thugs had hit the firemen over the head with a pistol, the trainmen complied and escaped injury. In dyna- femiting the safe the. desperadoes set fire to the interior of the steeL mail car. After the bandits had fled in waiting au tomobiles, the engine crew returned to the rest of their train, qut out the flaming mail car and proceeded to Champaign, the next division point, ' j The all-steel train left Chicago loaded with passengers at (:30 tonight-and.-crashing through Paxton at high speed had gone some two miles when the fireman turning to take a scoopful of coal saw masked men sliding down the coal ile in the glare fronvthe open fire box odor. He stepped back hurriedly, -dropping' his shovel. The noise attracted tjhe attention of the engineer, who took his eyes from the jails a moment to ascertain what was the matter. (Continued RESIDENTS NORTH SALEM I TB HAVE ELECTRIC SERVICE f Residents livhig on fliver road nprth of Salem have made ar rangements with- the Portland Railway, Light & Powdr com pany for electric service. The Une will extend north from its present terminus at Pine and Front streets and end at the hjome of Lester Pearmine. Poles and cross bars, as well as wires, Have already been ordered and work is expected to begin soon. Those who will have electric Bervlce in their homes from this new extension of one and one half mileS north -on what is known as - River or Keizor road are; UVinstanley estate, E. H. Tett, W. G. Pearmine, Jennie A. Rulif sn, George W. Weeks, Joseph SchulU. Franklin Smith, D. D. Giorsline, Marion county poor rarm Lester I. Pearmine, Bruce Sftuires, June PhilpotUM. L. War ing, W. H. Weeks, L. W. Squires, apd A. O. Davidson. I During the past few months, other districts close to Salem have arranged for electric ser A dozen bandits armed on psge 6.) vice. For thope living in the Walker Bchoolbouse neighbor hood, all material has been ord ered and work will begin within a week or two. This extension will require about three miles of wire. Arrangements have not as yet been fully completed for the line towards Livesley station. but plans are well under way for this extension of 5 miles. Residents of Monitor living west of town will also soon have electric service as work will soon begin on a wire extension of one and one-quarter miles. VKSSEL FIX) ATS SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 7. The United States destroyer Wood which went ashore on Anpel Is land in San Francisco bay durinp a heavy fog early today was re floated tonight and proceeded to Mare Island for survey. Navy officials said the Wood! did not suffer damage. VOTE CflUNTE AFTER DEBATE GF 15 HOURS Passage Takes Place at 1:35 OXIock This Morn ingWill Yield $3,250,- 000,000 by June 30. C0NFEREEE GAUNTLET IS YET TO BE RUN McNary One of Few to Stand for Excess Profits Levy But Without Avail t WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. The much revised tax revision bill fi nally passed on the senate at 1:35 a. m. todqy alter a session lasting more than 15 hours. It still must run the gauntlet of the senate and house conferees before it reaches the persident. Th vote was 3 8 to 24. three Re publicans LaFollette, Moses and Norris voting against the bill and one Democrat, Broussard, support ing it. Conferees Named Senate conferees on the bill were named as follows: Penrose, McCumber and Smoot, Republicans; Simmons and Wil liams, Democrats. The bill is to be reported to the fiouse Wednesday and Republican eaders plan on Thursday to send it to conference. As now drawn the bill is esti mated -by treasury experts to yield approximately $3,250,000,000 for the fiscal year ending next June 30 or $200,000,000 less than the existing law. If all of the changes proposed become effective, how ever, the measure ultimately will reduce the nation's tax bill by ap proximately $750,000,000. Provisions of Bill Features of the tax revision provide repeal of the excess prof its tax and all transportation taxes on next January 1 and a reduction of the surtax rates, with the max imum rate reduced from 65 to 50 per cent. Uesides, the bill would repeal taxes on: Parcel post packages. Proprietary medicines, toilet soaps and toilet soap powders, toqthl pastes, tooth and mouth washes, toilet powders and pe troleum jellies. (Stamp taxes.) Pianos and other musical in struments. Luxury Taxes Ifrmovrd Umbrellas, parasols, sunshades, picture frames and articles of wearing apparel costing in excess of certain amounts (so called luxury taxes). Insurance premiums. Articles made of fur. Moving picture films. Ice cream. Chewing gum. Sporting goods, including bil liard balls and tables, pool tables and dice. Admissions where the cost does not exceed 10 cents. Pleasure boats and canoes cost ing less than $100. Thermos and thermomatic bot tles and jugs. Portable electric fnns. More Ntamp Taxes Cut Bonds of indemnity and sure ty, (stamp taxes). Taxes proposed te be reduced include those on: Individual incomes of $5000 or less through increased exemptions of $500 to heads of families and $200 for each de pendent. Candies from 5 to 3 per cent. Works of art from 10 to 5 per cent. Capital stock issues having a par value -of less than $100 a share (stamp taxes). Cereal beverages from 15 per cent of the sale price to 2 cents a gallon. T- Unfermented fruit juices from 10 per cent ot the sale price to 2 cents a gallon. Carbonated beverages from 10 per cent of the sale price to 2 cents a gallon plus 5 cents a gal lon on the syrups used in their manufacture. Proposed Increases Listed Taxes proposed to be increased include: Corporation incomes from 10 to 15 per cent. Corporations through repeal of the $2000 normal exemption on those having a capital stock in excess of $25,000. Estate . taxes where the total sum exceeds $10,000,000. (Continued on page ) MISS HEIST WILL LEAVE FOR BOMBAY Head Aide for State Accident Commission Accepts Post as Foreign Missionary Miss Uiura lleist, head aide of the Salem branch of the physio therapy department of the state industrial accident commission, vill sail December 14 from San Francisco for Bombay, India, wh";re she has been assigned as a missionary ot the Methodist church. Miss Heist has returned from Wichita, Kan.,- where she attend ed a convention of executive sec retaries of the Women's Foreign Missionary society, and she was one of a class of R4 who were consecrated as; missionaries at a meeting a week ago last Sunday. She is the fourth member of the class of 1914 of Willamette uni versity to go to the foreign field as a missionary. The exact nature of her work In India is not yet known to Miss Heist, but she will receive h-r definite assignment from the bishop in charge at Ilombay upon her arrival there. Miss Heist will sacrifice much in the way oTI salary in leaving the state employ for the mission field. SEWS IN BILL Mother of Drkft Evader Asks For $10,000 Annually As Caretaker PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 7. Mrs. Emma C. iBergdoll, who has been ordered to vacate "Bergdoll Castle," which the government maintains Is owned by her son, Grover C. Bergdoll, draft evader, has sent the government a bill for $10,000 a year for her services as caretaker. Colonel T. W. Miller, alien property custodian today said when Mrs. Bergdoll had been di rected to vacate October 31, it was because she had maintained it was an effort for her to administer the property. She admitted the property belonged to Grover, he said, and mada; charge of $10,- 000 a year roi administering it. "My agents tn Philadelphia in formed me Mrs. Bergdoll did not vacate October; 31 and that she claimed her reason for not doing so was on account of a certain ill ness she had contracted," he said. "Now, we are informed she is not ill, but that her aged mother who was doing the family laundry in the cellar of, the "castle" last' week, is the one wDo is ill." The statement asserts Mrs. Bergdoll's conduct is a "palpable effort to evade the law." Justice Harris Will Speak at Independence INDEPENDENCE, Ore., Nov. 7. (Special to The Statesman) Justice L. T. Harris of the suprmc court, will be the principal speak er at the ArmiBtlce day celebra tion in this city. The judge has accepted an invitation of the local legion to officiate in this capacity. Negotiations are pending for the Women's band of Sheridan, be sides other talent, to make up a program for the day. Arthur C. Burch is Legally Held Sane LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7. Arth ur C. Birch, indicted for murder in connection with the slaying of J. Delton Kennedy, broker, here last August was legally adjudged sane here today by Superior Judge Sydney N, Reeve, when the court denied a motion that Burch be granted a sanity trial before trial of the murdtr case. Simple Service Held For Japanese Premier TOKIO. Nov. 7. The funeral of Premier Hara today was of the simplest character. The cer emony at the residence was at tended only by friends. Mayor Goto represented the city. The services were conduct ed by a Buddhist., priest and six assistants, after: which the fune ral cortege proceeded to the Seiyu Kai headquarters. While the body lay in state, thousands passed : the bier. To night tho body ;was conveyed to a special train ;which carried it to Morioka, where the final cere mony will take place November ii. it. . .. MS LL SENATE RACE HERE MAY CALL OUT BIG j LIST OF ASPIRANTS Earlier than usual, perhaps earlier than in any other county in the state, Republican politics has begun, to warm up in Marion county with reference to the primary elections of the approaching month of May. ' PORTLAND COMMITS SUICIDE W. Harry Talbott, Despond ent Over Losses, Kills Himself at Home PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 7 . W. Harry Talbott, 48, grain buyer and prominent here, was found dead in 'his home today, seated in an arm chair, a revolver which he had purchased earlier in the day and an opened box of cartridges by his side. On a sheet of paper which lay near the body were figures in Tal bott's handwriting with a final notation "$4100 in losses." The body was discovered by Tal bott's young daughter, who with his widow, survive him. The coroner said the indications were that Talbott had klleld him self because of despondency over his losses in the grain market, j Another Portland Man : On Trial for His Life PORTLAND. Ore.. Nov. 7J James T. Anderson,' accused i of killing his wife with an axe May 24 as she lay asleep in the family home went on trial here today on chagre of first degree murder. Mrs. Anderson had been sick and officers said Anderson declared he killed her "to end her pain." . Questions put to prospective jurors by John A. Collier and carl Bernard, attorneys for the defense, indicated that Anderson's defense will be insanity. j STATE INCOME TAX V BE OPPOSED Br THE ASSESSORS Gossip among assessors of the stato who were here yesterday for their annual conference with the state tax commission, indicates that a majority of the assesaora may oppose the proposed state in come tax which, it is understood, will be urged by the state com mittee on taxation. This commit tee, provided for by an act' of 1921 legislature to devise new methods of taxation, was appoint ed by the governor and I. N. Day of Portland is chairman. It is saidj the state committee will call a conference with the assessors in Portland in the near future. Farmer Not Relieved Some of the aesessore take the position that an income tax would not remove tho presont condition by which it is claimed tho farmer bears the brunt of the taxation, but that the result would be that he would continue to be the main taxpayer. Some objection is being raised MONMOUTH STOCKMEN AMONG BIG WINNERS IN LIVESTOCK SHOW PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 7. Grand honors in the first day's judging at the Pacific International Livestock exposi tion were scattered throughout Oregon, Idaho, British Co lumbia and California with Oregon breeders taking the lead in horses, sheep and Angora goats. . .-. , A. C. Ruby, Portland, swept practically all breeds of the horse division except Clydesdale with senior, junior and grand cham pion stallion in the Percheron and Belgians and senior, junior and grand champion mare in the Shires. John B. Stunipf & Sons of M6n mouth. Ore., swept the grand sweepstakes prize of $500 for the best buck of any age. An Oregon-bred, pure blood Hereford, Idaho Sensation, fitted Already Alex La Follette, who. has served a number of terms In the house and senate of the state, legislature, has announced that he. will be a candidate for renoralna tion. Friends ot Senator Louli Lachmund believe he also : will again seek the nomination. , ; ; If the early; gossip hits any where near what is going to tak place there will be a strong field in the race for the senate nomina tions. ; --.j...... j'i Frionds of George Griffith, on of the owners in the Marion Au tomobile company and who Is in terested in banking at Jefferson in the south part of the county, have approached " him with the suggestion that i he should enter, the race for the senate. Griffith, is a member of the American le gion, president of the Rotary club) and vice president ot-the Com mercial club. ; , t? v I 'M T. B. Kay. who. was a member of the lower bouse t the 1921 session, it (s said may make a run for the senate. lie previously has: served In the senate, : and- some years ago served as speaker of the lower, houso. lie was state treas- . urer and member ot the state' board of control for eight years. J. C. Perry, also & member of the lower house at the 1921' ses sion may be Induced to seek a chair in the senate. i i - Another whose name is , men tioned as a possibility for the sen-' ate race is Charles A. Park, chair man of the state board of horticul ture, and who is active as a eitizen of J5alm- and many ltnerTJf civic enterprise. . s Dr. .F .L. Utter, galem dentist," is said to feel the lure of the leg islative halls and possibly might come out for one or the other of ; the two houses. He has served a number Of years as a member of the city council. ' Getting outside of Salem It Is believed there is little doubt that (Continued on page . against the present method of go-' ing to the county sales records to arrive at valuations o nland for the reason that many of the deeds represent land as valued when wheat was at top price. Some of the assessors believe that assessed valuations should be based on producing value of the land rather than on sales value. - Each assessor is given 10 min utes in the conference to express his views. On the basis of argu. menta heard and data left with the state tax commission the com mission will revise the tentative ratios. ' Some of the public utilities' of the state, whose assessed valua tions are fixed by the state tax commission and not by the asses-" sors represented at the meeting." Tentative ratios fora U the counties were announced by the tax commission about 10 days ago. The assessors contend for higher ratios and the utilities for lower ratios. by the University of Idaho, won grand champion In the fatted stock class. i The Richards! Livestock com pany of Virginia, Idaho, won grand champion and' senior boar on its entry. Giant Sensation; in the Duroc-Jerseys. The Idaho concern divided honor with the Sierra Livestock company of Per ris, Cal.; in the breed. The Cali fornia company had the grand champion and senior -sow, Sensa tion Queen, - , ; i k
