The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, November 13, 1921, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text... ... . . -,. .... ... 'i ' . i FIRST SECTION Pases 1 to 8 TWO SECTIONS 1$ Paget i C ' SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 13, 1921 PRICE: FIVE CENTS ' .-. n. s1 EfflREIfflOTS FIRED I STffl OFFICERS li IN POLITICAL -ROW if. (Jlcctt and Kozer Intimate Hoff is Attempting to Spent ' State Money for Propaganda Treasurer Thinks Olcott Narrow in Attitude on Training School and Takes Prods at Knser j I KThft schism in the state board of control, with Govpmnr fTontl J P.. . - m ctii rr ' it .7 j uu oecreiary. ov oiaie xvozer on one siae ana state lyeasurer Hof f on the other, caused bv a difference of :nmnl ion. on public policies and. conduct of state business, has dej f veloped into an open political fight that promises to become" f one of the bitterest in the state in recent years. i, uw.ii oiue uueu utt: uyvu me ouier yesteruay in ine I replied to arevious statement signed by Olcott and Kozer1 I concerning the proposed new state training school and in dq I tnse of . their action as majority members' of the. board of control "in -employing Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Kuser of EUdora. , la- us ireaus w me insiuuuon at a salary in aavance over, i i he present salary paid. In his statement Saturday, which I ; is the second one made public by Hoff, the state treasurer j iumer etauoraica on nis posinon. nnnnnhm nnn n nnmnnn i n ruvoJLn iu o n w or a ) o AM 0 0 m r i I ii i v I I I I 111 I if II f J II I i f i a ; i iw I I I i i ii i i i . ii i v' li'ii i r ill ii i i ' i i x . . t i I.! i i ... t J LJ U UU W u U u UUUUlUuULJ LJ GIRLS DRAW NICE NAMES, BOOKS SHOW J The statement issued by Olcott , tn(J Hoff yestefday takes a new :' .line. This is in tfie form of a ..- letter to R. B. Goodtn. seetary of the board of control, dlsap f broYing an item of 44.53 in I Hofra bill -wUh the state printer. "TM is the charge for-16,000 cop les of. the treasurer's report. , The fetter arerm that this report- is such that it does not come within the scope of state business, . the j. Intimation belnc that Hoff is cir- - culating his reports as political $ roparanda. , i 3 to re RcDrts Ordered " Vnrflia Yim latter nnirm InnnlrT f I "refeals that'15,000 more of the r mnrfi havn bMn tnrlnted and 'price c-uotatlonn obtained on 20,- 000 additional, and that the bin ! on these also will be disapprored. The state treasurer's report re ' Jl erred . to is printed on a single s sheet of racer and Is beaded Of t Interest to Taxpayers." It cdvers : the two-year period t rtn July lf 1919. to June 30. 19ZI. " The letter signed by Olcott, an4 Kozer follows: ?s , "Herewith find' state treasur er's Toucher for the sum of -S207.73. for printing- for; the treasury department of the state of Oregoa ' during the quarter ending September 30. 1921. ."We approre the Toucher as to all the items save and except the item lob No 1518' for f r and purporting, to. be for ,'15,000 ' Treasurer's fReport ' , , . Not AttUiorizea jminesa -. j . "The nature of this ; so-cH?d I renort. in ; our opinion, is such ! that it does not tome within tha - scope of ' the; authorized busiess 1 of the treasury department and therefore, should not be paid fof i out of the funds appropriated by the legislature for defraying the i , expenses of printing for: that de- Apartment.-. i' "On inaulrr we learn there has ' just beeir printed at - the state i t printing office 15.000 morej of i these reports, and price ( quota- f , iion hate been obtained on an ' " . . . . . . a. AAA Cfi aaainouai w,w. wiuus if Touchers for. the printing bills are submitted to the board fox approval, will be the. same as herein indicated, as puch items of expense cannot be approved. 'The Item of .$44.53 , s refer red to. herein is herebyreturned unapproved-" ..... , Hoff's reply to Koter and Ol cott on the training' school ques tion follows: Hoff Slakes Reply . . 'In a statement by the major ity -of the. board; of. control con cerning the boys training school. the following appears: delinquencies . admitted more than once 'by Mr. - llqtf. state treasurer himself. - l am mak ing this statement that the $itua tion -be not misunderstood. . . '"Since something oyer a year ago when added and' essential equipment was given Mr. Gilbert I have admitted no 'delinquent les'. because there has been,: none r have, during the 4 past year. given, my personal attention to the school.. and kept in close touch with.it, and the work of Mr. Gilbert, asstated in my for mer; communication, has been to my mind, excellent . Furtheiy more, no complaint has come to me frpm. any outside source nor haa' my. attention, been called to any complaint In the last year, bat I have received many com mendatlons of "Alf . Gilbert's work both in person and 'by letters. OUbert Declared Able ! VIn discussing this matter with a member of the board I have said that Mr.. Gilbert was not the strongest man."" we coudl have. (This oouTa be said' of any one. But in knowledge of boy psychol ogy in understanding of boy na ture, in being real father and mo ther to these children," to 'lead' them to .clean lives in place of driving' them, Mr. and Mrs. Gil bert cannot be excelled. : "I am, sorry to learn through their ' statement, that Oregon, Marion County Boys. How- ever, Must Get Along With Good Old-Fashioned Kind For the benefit of those who are interested In naming babies, ltjmaype said, that according to the official records of births in Slem during October girls are re ceiving all the beautiful poetic names while the boys will have tq. get along with just the aver. H i : ' ' . i or instance, gin , oaoies born I "October, were given such pretty names as Edith Alida, Virginia June, Barbara Jane, Caroline Mary, Anna Bernice and AUegra Ruth. ! The Coming generation of boys, taking ' it from those named last month, will ! travel under the strictly business-like names Such as John Iceland, Raymond Lewis. William, Forest, Gordon - Vernon and Erwin. compared witn tnese names. not the - following assigned to girls born last month: Betty Ruth, Irene Bertha, Marjorie Max ine, . Carvel ,i Ellen, Lois Marie, Maud Genevieve, Lila Lucile, Flor ence Virginia and-Thelma May. Boys have ho such poetic names as they yere given names such as Charles Joseph, Lee Edward Ver non, Marlon TaTm2Trtcard.TBtiS it will; be seen that the latest girl babies! have the beautiful names and the boys just good every-day Dusmesa names. r v. Onei year ago .,the baby girls were' named f as follows: Edith MarteJ Mary. Catherine, Jane Gray, Anna Marie, ' Lucile May, Marga ret Doris, Llla May, Shirley Eliza beth. Charlotte May, Agnes Elvin, Doris Lucile Beulah. Betty Jape and Helen, Georgette. , ? r And the boys one year ago were given j such jib8 tan tial , names as Phillip, Donald, Alfred, Earl, Rob ert, John, Glenn, Oscar, William0 and Richard.!' Joney J. Walker of State Bank at McMinnville Ac cused of Arson and Vio fating Banking Laws. WORK WILL BE DEVOTED TO ARTIST Davenport Memorial Fund to be Raised Through Co-operation of Oregonians DEPOSITORY CLOSED BY IRREGULARITIES Former Trouble in North Dakota Becomes Known to Oregon Officials (Continued on page 6) . , . . . - . . i v " ' i ii surjonncHfiiikCiUFiiiTii -9 : - ' - - SPECIAU1 ISSUES SWAY EXCHANGE ; McMlNNVlLLE, Or., Nov. 12. J. . J. -Walker, ex-cathier of the La Fayette, Or., State bank, was indicted here today on 10 counts, two of them for arson and eight alleged violations of the state banking laws. Walker will bo, ar raigned Monday. He denies the charges and alleges, that he is b? ing persecuted on account of the failure of the -bank, of which he was cashier. The two indictments that charge arson allege that Walker con spired with J. Frank Takayama, a Japanese, to burn the Lafayette prune dryer, which was set on fire on November 13, 1920, with Intent to defraud the Insurer, the Pacific States Fire Insurance com pany, and also on the same day to bum the cannery and' waro house of the Lafayette Canning company with the intention of de frauding the insurer, which was the same company. The i eight other indictments charge serious violations of the state banking laws. f ' SILVERTON. Or.. Nov. 12.- (Special to The Statesman) HerJ ginning next Monday the follow ing week will be known as Dav enport Memorial week at Silver ton, Already the greater amount of Silverton stores and places of business have decorated their win dows with pictures and drawings of and by the famous Oregon car toonist. The following men are sponsor ing and working for the memori al fuid: Chairman, C. W, Keene; secre tary, J. C. Wolf; treasurer, J. W. Hyett; .publicity committee, George Cusiter, John T. Hoblitt and E. B. Kottek; representa tives of the fund for Silverton. J. W. Welch, E. S. Porter, Julius Aim, J. D. Drake. J. K. Mount; from Portland. McKinley Mitch ell; from Woodburn, J. jM. Poor man; from Albany, Henry Davis; from Oregon City, Hugh S. Mount WORLD POWERS STUNNED FAR-REACHING PEAGE PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED BY MR. HUGSiES Leading Persons of Salem Tell Their Opinions oi Disarmament Plan Offered by linked States How will the public receive. the disarmament proposal hk present ed by Secretary of Stato Charles E. Hughes on behalf ofl the Unit ed States at the opening of ' the disarmament conference yester day9 Seme Idea; can be had by the following comments from lea ders of influential Salem and Marion county organizations: views and the. creation of a more friendly j relationship and bettered understanding of the ' problems invol ved. Salem outlned from Eugene, Mrs. W. F. Osborn; from Salem, Thomas B. Kay, and from Spokane, A. F. McClaine. Usual Favorites, Play No Part in Yesterday's Trad- , ing Proceedings MIES HEBE THIS WEEK Prominent erliglousy education al and political leaders of , the state will participate in the state Sundat school, convention, for the Western Oregon district, which wUl be held in the First Christian ' church Tuesday, Wednesday and ' Thursday of this week, according ' tq the program which was made 9 public yesterday. Among ' the ; M speakers will be Governor Olcott, i President P. -1 Campbell of the University of Oregon, President i Carl Gregg Doney of Willamette university and many prominent men of the clergy. The, program for the three days follows: : Tuesday j j ---'- 10:30 Devotional period.) V 11 Greetings by Governor Den Olcott. Announcements. "The Call of the llour to the Trustees ; ol Tomorroy," Rev. R. M. Casq. Noon recess. j 1:3ft Children's divislon-J-Tbe (Continued on page 4.) . if I DIVUiE GUIDANCE INVOKED ON CONFERENCE I RY REV. 17. S. ABERNATHY 0F WASHINGTON- WASHINGTON". Nov. i:. Rev. W. a. Abernathy, pastor ' of Cal vary Baptist church, the church attended by President Harding, delivered the following prayer just prior to the. president's ad- dress at the opening of the dis armament confeernce: i "Almighty God, we thank Thee for the coming of tthis eventful "' dsy. We have seen it from arar and now v we rejoice that it has at last dawned. May It bring m told blessing to a troubled world. O. thou omnipotent One, as. In pother days, we beUeve that Thou .i rnMa in human affairs. Thou bast made of one blood all n- ad though we are. of many! races and many tongues; yet the inter ests of the few-ire the interests of, the larger number. "May we : feel assured that the welfare and happiness and; pros perity of the human family are in expressibly dear to Tsy heart. We pray for clear vision or we shall grope blindly for tba light and lose our way..W pray for hearts lovingly sympathetic ,tp 1 human distress wherever it may exist, or we shall sink Into the depths of a miserable self Ishness. 4 j , ' Wa urair for minds willing to believe - that the strong ought to NEW YORK. Nov. 12. Usual favorites among rails and indus trials played no part in today's brief but expanded Stock market. their; places being taken by spe cial issues, particularly oils. Stan dard Oil, of New Jersey was tho most Prominent feature at a gain of eight points. Standard Oil of California 5-8. American Lin Beed, comman and preferred, were 3 1-2 and 5 1-2 points high er ' '.Pullman, pressed steel car. rreferred and American Drake Shoe were the strong equipments. j Coppers.; leathers and paper SDeclalities. alo several . of the textiles were better by 1 to points, these in turn being ptset by moderate recessions in mis cellaneous tissues, .including mail order stocks. Sales 365,000 shares. ! i The day's light dealings in bonds centered in liberty issues, the 3 1-2's and second 4' show ing! marked strength. H Domestic iesues of the railway, and Indus trial types! were dul and Interna tionals showed j Irregular! changes. Total sales, par value, : 6,750. 000. 1 . - i ! : Changes! in the weekly clearing house statement reflected the In terruption! to business caused by the! two holidays. Actual loans and discounts contracted by a Ht tl5 imore than $22,000,000. re sertes jbt fnembers of the federal reserve bank Increased by slight ly over $23,000,000 and a cash zain of about $22.POO lifted t he! excessi reserves to about $35,- 000.000, in contrast to the deli cit record! eeveral weeks ago. Tradincr in , foreign iexchanges wfti-n . "-Irreeular. I i Hritish and French rates held! firm but Hal Jan, Belgian and German Jssues cased-, ", . j.ji ' i WEATHER (Continued on page A.) Sunday cloudy; moderate south westerly winds. Tried in North tlakota Joney J. Walker was formerly cashier of the State bank of Zap. at Zap, N. D. In 1919, while still connected with that bank he was indicted on a charge of forgery. He was acquitted, how ever, but the case resulted in em barrassment for the bank, and to avoid failure it was consolidated with another bank in Zap. The officials of the bank agreed not to prosecute him on condition that he turn over property in his pos session, valued at about $18,000. This he did, but the state prose cuted the case. The trial in which he was acquitted took place in June, 1919. It began in Mercer county, and two changes of ve nue followed, the first to Mor ton County and the second to Burleigh county. Walker Works Rapidly Walker operated rapidly. Af ter his acquittaljn North pakoia he came directly to Oregon and bought stock in the Lafayette State bank in Yamhill county. He was elected- cashier September 18, 119. scarcely more than two months after he had been tried in North Dakota. Suspicion was first aroused against Walker at Lafayette last February when S. L. Stewart, an examiner or the state banking department, examined the Lafay ette bank. Shortly afterward an inquiry was instituted by the state fire marshal's department into the burning of the plant! of the Lafayette Canning company in which; Walker and a Japanese named Frank Takayama were interested.- The Japanese was also in Walker's employ. Walker was Charged with arson and Was ar rested, it being alleged that hs object was to o btain $16,000 In insurance mony. All jof this atnount.was paid by the insurance company. V , 1 Removal From Rank Follows On March 30 Walker was re moved from the bank and Guy N. Hickok was elected In his place. The" bam k is saM - by Frank C. Uramwcll, state bank examiner, to have been in i excellent con dition when Walter bought into it. It was closed August 10 la3t, House-Senate Conferees Agree on Amendments i iii" V WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. House and senate conferees on the tax revision . bill today agreed to approximately 160! of the 833 amendments. The most important was that adopted 'by the senate and continuing the taxes on the salaries of the president and fed i eral judges. Chairman Penrose of the senate managers, said there was discus sion of a provision by congress for a permanent fund for the presi dent for official entertainment and a special fund to cover the cost of entertainment incident to thearms conference. The conferees passed over to day the income surtax amendment and the corporation income tax provision, but agreed to the amendment continuing the pres ent normal income rates. GEORGE E. j HALVORSEN, Mayor of Salem-As far as dis disarmament is concerned, I do rot think it advisable to disarm any people or any nation1 and I do not believe that this will be the; expression. ,of the conference. 1 believe that this conclave will he of the greatest ultimate bene- tit' to civilization inasmuch aa leading statesmen of the nations will be thrown together in a fel lowship that will have only one ind and that will be the unity of J. C. NELSON, principal High school The - plan by the lnHed States has -the mer it of, being absolutely definite and concrete, and give the (United States the Immense advantage; of taxing the lead m tne aeunera tion. We must not forget, how everl that the other nations , will not follow our lead' unless! we at tug jDaiiiv iuio 3 cumij aa.a ite Regarding the disputed ques tions wntcn.: maxe war a possiou ity. j Are we willing to assert our selves n favor of complete in invdlabillty of Chinese territory; notjjonly Japan, but by the Euro pean nations as well? Can we (Continued on page 6) i i. Highway Officials Meet Forest Service Members i GRANGE TIES WITH ST1T ISSUE PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 12. State hilhway commissioners and officials of the United States for. est service were in conference to-) day in reference to road projects to be recommended to the secre tary of agriculture for completion under the recently passed federal road aid bilL Commissioners R. A. Booth and W. A. Barratt; R., A. Kline, secre tary of the commission; Herbert Nunn, state engineer; P, H. Dater. district engineer of the forest ser vice; George Ih Cecil, district for ester and C. II. Purcell of the bu reau of public roads, attended the conference. At a meeting ;of Salem Grang No. 17 yesterday a resolution wa adopted condemning the action of the majority members of the states board of control In removing Lj M. Gilbert as superintendent of r.he state training school incident to inauguration j of the new cot tage system, and replacing him with a superintendent from out side the state at an advance in 3alary. Tho same resolution en dorses the stand taken by State ; Treasurer O. P. Ilotr. in opposing tlie other two UiemDers on this issue. The resolution, attested by 1 - , L PT 01- BOARD WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. (By the Associated! Press) More drastic and far reaching than the friostjardent advocate of disarmament dared I hope. America's proposals here sud denly laid before the arms con ference today j at ; its first ses sion by Secretary Hughes. ; i A JU-year navai nonaay is the , prorwsal,- and: the United States, Ureat Britain and Jap- ; an shall scrap 66 capital ships aggregating 1,878,043; tons. . , M limit nine lavjuiita UKi the conclusion of an agreement, the ; United States would have 18, capital ships; Great Britain 22, and Japan 10. .Tonnage of the three nations, respectively, would be 500,650; 604,450, and 299,700. -r ::x ly;-- V v Replacement Curbed i Ships when 20 years old might be replaced and the re placement scheme is 500,000 tons for the ' United , States, 500,000 tons for Great Britain and 300,000 tons for Japan. No replacement ship, could exceed 35,000 tons. M j , P The United States would strap' 30 capital .ships aggre gating 843,740 tons; Great Bri tain ID,, aggregating 843,740 tons ; and Japan 17, aggregat ing 448,928 tons. ; j ; J The figures include old ships to Or Zella S. Fletcher, secretary, folr lows: . : ,. "Whereas, the Oregon state board of control in initiating the new "cottage system" for the Or egon state training school, has seen fit to remove Superintendent Gilbert from that institution and f ill j the place with, a man from Iowa at a salary two and a half times as large as that heretofore paid to. Mr. Gilbert, and 'JWhereas, L. M. Gilbert ha3 i r..i. 9 t,A Orornr ctato frafninfr KrhOfll for Pregnant With infinite pOHSlDll o r. "-"IT.. , ..1 jmes ana mosi nopeiui oi ai be scrapped, ships building ' for which material has been assembled, ' : ! 1 i Characterized by Baron Ka to chief Japanese delagate as "very far reaching," but' pro bably suitable as a basis for discussion and by Mr. Balfour, head of. the British delegation, as "a statesmanlike .utterance, (Continued on page 4.) Portland Will Clean up Dens in P.hinp.sp Quarter i saiem air is PORTLAND. Ore., Nov. 12. Steps will be taken immediately to clean out the secret dens of Port land's Chinatown, as a result of themost recent tong outbreak, which resulted in the killing of John Stevens, an innocent , by stander, by a Chinese gunman, according to District Attorney Myers who announced today that a-conference of city and county, officials will bo called soon to bring about, " if '''possible, some method of cleaning up conditions which have existed for years. (Continued on page 6) Dairymen Pledge Loyalty To League in Oregon HILLSBORO, Ore., Nov. 12. Seven hundred Washington county dairymen in session in Hillsboro today by a practically unanimous vote,- pledged continued allegiance to the Oregon dairymen's league and. adopted resolutions calling for a meeting of state member ship at Portland next Tuesday. Upon demand of the meeting, K. C Eldridge, manager, consented to. withhold the resignation he had proposed to present at the meet ing of the directors Tuesday. Although the average citizen is not especially engaged in wor rying about political conditions n nevertheless the political developing a number of wave lengths that are producing a nervous condition among those who have In slock private politi cal lightning rods. Although the political storm, ks six months in the distance, thojse with an ear tuned to political conditions are very quietly doing some prognosticating. No trijal haloons have as yet been sent n,p, as a cross current so early in tie season might carry them awajy. Yet there are indications thjat quite a number of good citizens are looking longingly on the seat now occupied by George E. H.1 vorsen, mayor; of Salem. Ilalvorsoh Says Little It is knot known whether the present mayor finds the seat com fortable or not. or whether he will permit the use of his name for a second term. And that i3 the reason a number of possible can didates are lying low. If Maylor HalvorBen decides to succeed hiin self, it is generally conceded that ha will have a good chunco of doing it- But it he finds, like many other mayors ha v found, that one year is enough. t,hen ppl iticai conditions permit a general free-for-all race. - r Anfong those who are promin ently mentioned as possibilities are the following: V. Several Arc Mentioned : Edward Schunke, of the Roth Grocery company. . Mr. Schunke has bad several years experience in the city council and has served as chairman of v the ways and means committee. This.isthe (Continued on page 4) isfactory results,'.' the Ameri can proposal concrete and de tailed, fell on the opening mo ments of the great conference . ' ' mm ' i t- ' H t like a DomDsneii. f oreign aei egates were' stunned.' I -A Main Features The principal features of the American plan propose : j ! That' for not less than 10 years, competitive naval build ing cease as between Great Bri tain, the United i States and Japan. j -v: " That all capital ships build ing or. planned be. scrapped and a few recently-placed in the water be destroyed ; with;n (Continued on page 2) j T HARDING OUTLINES PURPOSE OF SESSION-, . CALLED TO PERPETUATE PEACE OF WORLD i ' .- - (By Associated Press) .j ... WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. the text of President Harding's ad dress at the opening of the con ference on limitation of 'arma ments follows: ?Mr. Secretary and members of the conference, ladies and gentle men: It is a great and happy priv ilege to bid the delegates to this conference a cordial .welcome to the capital of the United States of America. It is not only a satis faction to greet you because we were lately participants in a com man cause, in which shaied sacri fices and sorrows and triumphs brought our nations iaore closely together, but it is gratifying to ud dress, you as the spokesmeen tor nations ybose convictions and at tending actions have so much to do with the weal or woe of. all. mankind, j ., : It is not I possible to over-appraise the importance of such a' conference! It is no unseeralf boast, no disparagement of other nations, which though not repre sented, are held in the highest re spect, to declare that the conclu sions of this body will have a sig nal influence on all human prog ress on the fortunes of the world. - 1 . World Ilemedy Sought Here is a meeting, I can well .(Continued on pace 4) Hlona that dwell pon we w