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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1921)
Elk WEATHER The Statesman receives the leased ire report ot the Associated j mm Tuesday snow flarires, fresh northeasterly winds. iTVSl. IUQ Kirftioo saa aw- - - liable press association ia u -world. SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1921 PRICE: FIVE CENTO LTU cl) re3 LKE03) C. T. BEYERL NOW PULP MILL MANAGER, BARNES MAKES WAY After having served as general manager of the Oregon Pulp & Paper company for the past six months, until such a time as the directors could find a man whom they thought qualified by his experience to assume the .managership, E. T. Barnes announces they have found the right man, and also that he now willingly steps out. C. T. Beyerl is the new manager and he will assume his duties at once. He has been with rhe company for the past six months as manager of the sulphite mili here. Before coming to Salem, Mr. Beyerl was for a number of yoars su perintendent of a paper mill in British Columbia and prior to that time was associated with several of the biggest mills in the east, making a specialty of manufacturing high class paper. ' Beyerl Experienced ; Speaking of Mr. Beyerl as a paper man Mr. Barnes said: "The directors of the paper mill all "feel confident that Mr. Beyerl is one of the best equipped paper making men in the country, lie has had 23 years experience and has been associated in an execu tive capacity la mills making on ly high class paper. Beyerl has the confidence of the directors. He is a construction engineer as well as an experienced papr mak er." IS LOSING EFFECT Wall Street's Denizens Work on4 Unmindful of Dyn . ;amite Threats BOMB l NEW YORK. Pec. 19. (By ' The Associated Press) No devel opments. v This was today's report both on the second" explosion against which Wall street had . been warned and the govern "menfs investigation of the 1920 ; Mast. . - Lower Manhattan apparently failed to take seriously letters mailed to brokers predicting that by nightfall skyscrapers within, a five-block radius of the stock ex change would be laid low. , Clerks appeared concerned on- ly with getting to work on time. - j. P. Morgan, who was supposed to be the chief objective of tho i plot, arrived unattended at his office at his regular hour. The ' tisual noon-day crowd at "Wall, Broad and Nassau streets Beem ed greater. True, a few more gnards couli . be seen and the special preroga tive of Santa Claus to secrecy was violated as suspicious looking Christmas packages were search r cd. William Burns, chief of tho bureau ot investigation of the de partment of; justice, was still - here, awaiting cabled reports ' from Warsaw concerning the ar rest of Wolfe Lindenfeld, alleged acquaintance of Lenlne, in con nection with tho 1920 explosion. He professed himself mystified at the non-arrival of any such re ports and scanned, with interest Arsociated Pre33 dispatches, vo! Inteerlng the comment that the correspondent was getting "good information." KUETHKR MA1HUKS SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19.- Walter (Dutch) Iluether, Brook lyn National league club pitcher, and Miss Gertrude Derby of San Francisco, were married by a jus tice of the peace at Redwood City, Cal., late today. FEKI T1IK 1M1US Remember the birds. Jack Frost's unexpected siege may easily work havoc with our feathered friends, the chick-a-dee, the sparrow, the robbln and other birds that usually remain in the Willamette ralley in defi ance of tho Wd-code ot mi gration to the "south. Just a few bread crumbs and meat scraps (especially Buet) supplied dally during the period of unusual cold and snow will save the lives of many birds. .A' Rood plan is to nail a makeshift shelf on the shel tered side of Borao building not too clone to frequently traveled walks. He sure that tho sholf is out of reach of cats. It.is advised that tho piece of meat or suet be sus pended Just above the shelf by menas ofta cord. Upon return from his year at Harvard univarsity last spring. Mr. Barnes, wh is heavily inter ested in the paper mill, consent ed to take up the arduous duties as general manager until such a time the directors could find a satisfactory man. It was just a few years ago that Mr. Barne3 retired Trom busi ness with the intention of taking up special studies in which he was interested. The six months as general manager of the paper mill rather interfered with his plans. KHTSBK 50 INSTILS WE'ALLS COM1N They'll be there with bells and then some! When? December 23 Friday at the Grand theater. Who? The Knights of Coilumbus min strels in a tuneful, colorful, fiO man power production, starring David Fuller, former Salem man and known as the "Human Mock ing Bird," and supported by a troop of sure-fire merrymakers. Portland press comment is very favorable to the K. C. funniak- ers. Salem theater followers who attended the three day perform ance given at the Portland audi torium, are confident that this is a sterling revival of the old-time black face minstrelsy. Among the big numbers are 'Jim" Riley, in monologue; Jake Schaefer, "king of rope twirlers." and Dixon, star funmaker and a dozen others. The show closes with a side-splitting afterpiece. Coontown Thirteen, or the ''Sui cide Club." The show is. -given for the bene fit of the Salem lodge, Knights of Columbus, and although only one performance will be present- ed,.'managers of the show assert that popular prices will prevail. The troop had been booked for Wednesday but this was set aside for the later date. Portland Affected by Record Cold Weather PORTLAND, Dec. 19 Tho cold est weather in two years was re corded here today when the ther mometer dropped to 21 above zero. A cold cast wind blew throughout tho day. All sections of the state reported cold weath' er. . JAP BOAT IX TROUBLE ASTORIA. OrJ, Dec. 19. The Japanese steamer. Texas Maru, leaking badly, lost two men over board, according to a radio re ceived here. The position given was 900 miles off shore. The steamer sailed from the Columbia river the1 evening of December 16 with wheat and lumber for Kobe POLICE REPORT OUTLWESWORK FOR YEAR 1921 Council Receives Annual Re ports of Two City Depart ments The total arrests by the police department of Saiem, for the year ending December IS, amounted to 546, according to the report sub mitted last night to tho council by Chief Moffitt. Of this number, 3 10"; arrests were for violation of the traffic ordinances of the city. During the year 36 forgeries were reported and 2 8 of the gnilty persons apprehended. Of the 5 automobiles reported stolen, 5". were recovered. Of the 264 bicy cles reported stolen. 2 2 were not recovered Chief Moffitt reported. Fines collected during the year amounted to $4,649.60 and Jail sentences pronounced totaled 272. In answer to requests for in formation, 2000 letters were writ ten during the year. One hundred and seventeen sidewalk notices were served and 263 street assess ment notices. During the year. 815 men were given night lodging at the city hail. Hugh M. Rogers, city engineer, in his annual report gave the fol lowing figures: 15.520 square yards of pavement laid by the street improvement department at a cost of $33.207.8o ; 10,247 square yards of pavement let by contract at a cost of $28,847; 17 building permits issued, covering improvements valued at $343,570; sewer permits to the number of 113 were issued; 110 cement con crete permits issued, covering: 80,370 square feet of side walk; sewers lain by city totaled 2.662 feet of eight inch pipe and 4 50 feet of 36-inch pipe. Snow Flurries and Cold Weather Registered Here With th thermometer indicat ing 28 degrees above zero, four degrees under the freezing point, and with a three-inch snow blan ket added, Salemites are keeping an eye on the weather reports and wondering! "What next:" 1 Property owners are expressing fear as the effect of the freezing weather upon exposed water pipes and plumbing. Reports from several points of the city yester day indicated that some owners had been compelled to thaw out city water pipes Monday morning. Local barometers are hovering near the 27-30 point, indicating continued snow and cold for the next 24 hours, at least. This is also confirmed by the weather re ports which predict northwesterly winds and snow flurries, today. MAIN MEASURE IS GIVEN TO HOUSE BY KUBLI, MULTNOMA House joint resolution No. 1 is the big thing of the ses sion. It is the big fair measure. Representative Kubli presented the bill. It is a care fully drawn measure, representing the best thought that all the fair exponents could gather in the country. Other fair measures may come up as substitute, but this is what the fair friends stake their lives upon. Briefly, it is an amendment to the constitution, permitting tin: state to tax itself for the fair, through general taxation. It provides for a $o, 000. 000 levy payable in tho years 1923. 1921 and 1925, or $1, 000, 000 each year. Representative Kubli of Mult nomah county was at first In fa vor of a sales tax. Informally, he declares himself thus: Kubli Against Sales Tax "A sales tax is comparatively easy to collect, and it is so easy to check and so productive where there, is big business leing done. that I favored it. The annual sales in Oregon run to approxi mately 00. 00O.000. As this fair tax is u three-year proposition, a state tax of only one-sixth of 1 per rent would prod nee the . 000,000 a year for the three years the fair appropriation would last. That's not much of a tax, is Iouble-TriM-king Avoided "Hut an entire new machinery for determining. collecting and administering this money would have to be inented and Installed We'd be double-tracking all over the field already covered by the general tax gatherers. Tha's all foolishness, and bunk, and ex travagance, and all those thing that are wasteful and hateful. It multiplies official sleuths and hangers-on, and it would cost a mint of money. "I've dropped the thought of a special salos tax,- for a mere tem poral;' appropriation, as a waste SHOT flGTI II FIGHT ON Clll SUGAR benator from utan r-onrays Scone of Beet Suqar In dustry and asserts Tariff! FORMER ACT RECALLED Aids Farms. License of Rutland Hotel is CUBAN GROWERS ARE Revoked Routing Bus DEMANDING REMOVAL msss Accomplished Island Operators Declare Tariff Cripples Plan tation Growth WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. Extended arguments for and against retention of the present temporary duty of 1.6 cents a pound on Cuban raw sujrar were presented today jto Senate tariff framers. ' Spokesmen for the Ameri can sugar companies operat ing in Cuba declared that the rate would prevent rehabilita tion of the industry there, while representatives of the beet sugar industry in this country asserted a return to the Underwood rate of one cent a pound would prevent development of that industry, if it did not destroy it. Those representing Ameri can companies in Cuba Je clared that more than a mete tariff question was involved; that the rehabilitation of Cu ba depended upon the sugar industry and that the United States was morally bound to aid that country. They also argued that there was one bil lion dollars of American capi tal invested in the Cuban in dustry as against $200,000,000 in the industry in this coun try. It also arpued that the duty proposed to be made "perman-" (Continued on page 2) ful and unwfirlhy ,!;ni for rais ins revenue. To collect tho taxe by the present tax machinery, an 1 let every taxpayer pay his right ful share of all the good thing., that such a fair will brine to the state, is the onlv ri-ht way. It is the only fair v ;y. too. Sales do not measure val:i"s quite as? well as tax assessments. I'nder a sales tax. the hold-fast nronertv owner who hans tisht to his stuff will uot pav a tnt for all the increment that the efforts ol the busy boys who' bring the fair and the neorle and the monv. may create. It's fairer to tax fl'-ad promrtv that other men make valuable, than to tax the progressive ons who bring pros perity. Vllecting 'oM ( 'nsid."!-llo "if that possible one-fixth of 1 per cent a year on sales would not have seemed much of a bur den only 1 cent on every $;i worth of business why not vote it straight in one lump, in tho other route that doesn't cost r.n evtrjj cent to ooHeect and admin ister? Why pay thousands or hundreds of toous-inis of dollars for collecting a, special sales tax. when if can b? done for nothing? "! all resolves to the one 'men tion: "Shall Oregon have the big fair? If we're agreed on this, we ronld vote on this measure in an hour and go home. "We're counting on the good sense and business acumen and (Continued on page 2) BUDGET SAFE 1TH SAYS Six Percent Limitation Not Exceeded, City Attorney Telle Pminril Regarding a recent statement that the budget for the coming year exceeded the ) per cent lim itation, Ray j. Smith, city attor ney, at the meeting last night of the city council, said he had pone into the situation and law thor oughly, and was satisfied that tho city council had a right to include $20,000 is the budget for the coining year for the building of sewers. leaving out the $2 0,000 for sewers, the figures showed the city was easily within the G per cent limitation. But tne city has full legal authority to spend $20, on sewers for the cominsr vear. Mr. Smith said, based on the char- I ter amendment passed by the city in a general election held in 19 13., Xo Fear Says Kniitit Mr. Smith said the eitv need have no fear as to its right to spend the money and Mayor George E. Halvorsen, said that the district attorney had also taken the stand that the city council could appropriate the $20,000 for sewers. The total amount of the city budget for the coming year is $199,873.79. Mr. Smith said. The revenue of the city is estimated at $18,430. The bonded indebted ness and interest to be paid amounts to $54,924.91. This leaves a total of $126,518.88 and if from this amount is deducted the $20,000 for sewers. the amount is $106,618.88. a figure within the 6 per cent limitation. The whole matter is whether the city has a ripht to spend money for sewers, and Mr. Smith, supported by the district attorney, holds that by the charter amend ment of 1913, the city has this right. El Ccnfro Inquires A communication was read from El Centre, Cal., asking how a great city like Salem did busi ness on 13.7 mill city assessment. A committee was appointed to answer the El Centro .folks. Earl Race, city recorder, said it was a fact that the city had paid off $20,000 on old bridge debts dur ing the past two years and had reduced the debt otherwise to the extent of $30,000 the past year. Charles A. Lytle wrote the council stating that he would like to have the appointment of sani tary inspector, stating that he had been a plumber for the past eight years. No action was taken. The Oregon Insurance Rating bureau addressed a communica tion to the city council regarding the reduction of insurance rates should the city purchase a combi nation pumping and chemical en gine and hook and ladder truck. May ilvt loer Hate With this new equipment, and also three more firemen, the in surance rate on masonry buildings would be reduced 4 per cent and the contents 3 per cent. For frame buildings, the reduc tion in insurance rates with the new equipment would be per cent and the same reduction lor contents. The license of the Rutland ho tel. 148 North Commercial street was officially revoked. An appli cant for a license for the hotel, who has been a clerk there recent ly, was refused. Man Thought War Hero Held as Draft Evader CHICAGO, Dec. 19. Three months ago a sorrowing widow. Mrs. Hazel Abbey Campbell, hold-I up; her five-year-old son by the' hand, watched a flag draped cas ket as it was lowered into a grave, here. Turning to the boy she .aid: "Always remember how your father died; that he gave up his life for his country." Last night the father, Donald Campbell, was arrested in a hotel here on a statutory charge and today he was surrendered to an army intelligence officer as a draft evader. Campbell, police say. evade! the draft and disappeared, his wife believing he had joined the army, in 1918 a man of the same name was killed in France and Identified a1? "Donald Camp bell of Chicago." The body was returned to Mra. Campbell and .buried with military honors. FRIGE READY TOTAKERATIO IT CONCLAVE Unofficial Report Indicates That French Premier is Wiling to Accept Ameri ca's Estimates. BRIAND DENIES THAT POINT IS ACCEDED Tri-Color Delegates Assert That Nation's Demand Must Be Considered WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. (lly The Associated Tress) France has taken steps to reconcile her views o:i the naval ratio problem with those of the other powers, but her precise attitude, now th crucial issue of the arms negotia tions remains in doubt. Unofficial advices from abroad today indicated Premier Briand had decided to accept the Ameri can proposal for a French capital ship, fleet of 175.000 tons in place or the ,150.000 ton plan drawn by the French delegation. Secretary Hughes, as chairman of the arms conference, also re ceived from the premier a ommu nicatlon construed at the state de partment as meaning that the French group had been directed to accede to the American program. Delegates Deny Change. But the French delegates did not so construe a lone tnessaee oof instructions received from the premier. They described it as ad vising them to go as far toward myelins the American views as tney could without sacrifice of French national Interests. If was said not' to embody a specine ue- cision nor tq make reference to any specific tonnage plan. With the negotiations in that situation Mr. Hufihffea and Albert Sarraut. head of the French dele gation, held a long conference l ite today. It was said only that the conversations were preceeding and that there was a mutual expecta tion of ultimate agreement Optimism Is Xotetl. In other quarters, also, there was apparent a distinct note of optimism despiie the day's mystl ryiiiR developments. Among Amer ican officials, an almost unani mous belief prevailed that France eventually would take the Ameri can figure for her capital ship al lotment even though she insisted on an increase of submarine ton nage as an offset. For the mo ment, the negogtiations are con cerned solely with capital ships and to many delegates a five pow er agreement on that subject does not seem far away. There were many, indications that with fiiy recession on the (apital ship question, the French would attempt to associate some form of assurance that they will be given the privilege of increas ing their submarine strength. Abandon Obsolete Tjes. It is not improbable that the French representatives also will want such a modification of the naval holiday ilyn as will permit ihem to replace their obsolescent battleships with vessels of the post-Jutland type so far as they can build them within the speci fied tonnage limit. Because of the war, the French naval experts de clare their fleet is badlv in need of replacements. A replacement provision would not be a surprise in the final French program ac cepted by the other powers. As the capi'tal ship problem verges toward a decision the naval experts are giving more and more of their attention to the submar ine questions as one likely to pre sent a troublesome knot. Palis Watches Driand. Although the French capital hip disciiSi-ions simmered down at their crucial stage to direct ex chances between Mr. Hughes and Premier Briand, it was learned to day thai the American delegates reieatcdly had sought to impress on the French representatives in informal conferences the necessity ror a withdrawal of the 350,000 ton plan. In these behind the scenes con sultations, the French were told that they were proceeding on a false basis, which should be de stroyed before it would be pos sible to erect any sound structure to shelter the conceptions of relief of the world from the heavy bur dens of competitive naval in creases. Purjxes Recited. But on the other band it was pointed out, America had the right to recall to the French mind the primary purpese of the conference to which France had subscribed. That purpose, it was said, was not to fix what should be the naval ConUflued-oa page 2 JOINT ASSEMBLY TO HEAR ARGUMENTS OK WORLD'S If Governor Olcott gets rid of this week he will have performed a real achievement. Afte the joint roads and highways committees had met last nigh and listened to a storm of objections to the highway pre tective measures submitted by the governor's special com mittee it looked as if the proposed reforms are the work of i year. In fact John H. Logan, who appeared as a represents tive of the motor bus association intimated that the influ ence of the motor bus men will be to defer action until th regular session of 1923. CRAFTS SUMS Would Delay Marriages, is After Nude Movies and Track Gamblers NEW YORK, Dec. 19. Legis lation by congress prohibiting marriages for ?,0 days after the announcement of an engagement "so it will be impossible tor an actress to get the son of a rich man drunk and marry him before he gets "sober" was recommend ed by Dr. Wilbur S. Crafts, head of the international reform bur eau of Washinington, in an ad dress today before a gathering of Methodist ministers. Other plans in a program for the betterment of mankind which he said his or ganization would strive for in cluded: 'An effort to induce the na tions represented at the arma ment conference to adopt inter national prohibition after they have finished m discussion of war problems." The adoption of an amendment to the federal consti tution for a uniform divorce law similar to the present New York statute. A fight made against nude pic tures "that put beauty above du ty" and against newspapers and magazines publishing them and against publication of racing odds that might encourage betting. Regulation of the motion pic ture industry. Another amendment to the federal constitution which will prohibit the giving to Catholic and Jewish institutions public money derived from the taxation of Methodists and members of other denominations. REVOLT RAGES Hospitals Are Filled With Wounded, Premier-Dictator Attacked LONDON", Dec. 20. A revolu tion has broken out in Portugal according to a dispatch to tho Daily Chronical from Paris. It be gan with cannonading along tho Tasus river and severe casualties hae resulted to both sides in the controversy. The hospitals are crowded with wounded and dying. Tho dispatch adds that Cunha Leal, who formed a temporary ministry last week was attacked In the Carlos bar racks and he and his followers were compelled to retreat. The fate of the premier is not known Recent dispatches have indicat ed considerable unrest In Portu gal. In October there was an out break in Lisbon in which Antio Granjo, the premier, and minister of the interior, and Jose Carlos Maia, former minister of marine were assassinated. Portuguese royalists are declared to have been the fomenters of the strife which has prevailed for several months. Late in November dispatches from the Portuguese frontier re ported that another revolution was brewing inside the republic and that the troops in Lisbon bad been confined to barracks. In the general unrest there were reports of a strong undercurrent of radi calism. AXTI-LYXCIf BILL UP WASHINGTON, Dec. IS. Af ter a bitter fight the house to night voted, to take up the Dyer anti-lynching bill under a rulo limiting general debate to ten hours. Leaders however have agreed that the measure will not be pressed to a final vote before the Christmas recess. .. ; Ml IIS IH PORTUGAL FAIR ISSD 1 i 1 of the legislature by the en Proponents and opponents of t tate tax levy to produce f 3,000, 000 In support of the 1925 expc sitlon In Tortland, have crawle through the ropes and taken thei corners. They are' rubbing thei shoes in the resin. The first rcr clash probably will be about 10:3; o'clock today when a joint sessio: of the honse and senate will b called for a discussion ot the snb iect. i The joint assembly Is calle primarily to hear representative of the exposition association, bu' doubtless members of the legis lature will be heard on both side of the question. Indications are a considerable grist of bills will be' Introduced Senator Jay Upton, it is said, pro poses to introduce a measnrr amending the state bonus ani oan act so that veterans of thf Spanish-American -. war - will tx benefited by it. Officials of Multnomah county, It is reported, who recently werr subjected to cnts In salary, pro posed to come before the legis lature and ask for relief. Linr county hag a lot of outstanding warrants the validity of which 1. questioned, and there is a inovf to asw the legislature to. validate them. v.:'' ''. .: i- During the severe enow atom and flood of several weeks ago much damage was done about the state to equipment " ot"the..stat fish and game commission. Th commission expects to introduce a bill at the special session asky ing for an appropriation of f 64, 500 to repair the damage. j A proposed repeal is to remove toad districts and possibly school districts form under the state budget law enacted last session. I Senator Norblad of Astoria will have a purse seining bill, as usual. One of the purse seining measures which the - senator got through last session is now in litigation, its constitutionality havipg been attacked on grounds that it extended the state's juris diction over practically the whole Pacific ocean. The case Is In the hands of Judge" Coke of Marsh f'eld, and a decree has been! awaited for some months. t Nor-: bladV expects to Introduce a new) measure so that if the present one , Is knocked out, the new one will j fill its place and not be In danger of having itc constitutionality at tacked. , - -.-.j .. Mlaa Brown Elected The senate actually swung; Into action at 10:43 a. m. j Colonel W. O. D. Mercer, ser- j geant-at-arms and chaplain, de- j livered the invocation. Senator I Moser introduced a resolution, which was passed, continuing the j organizations of officers ?. who served at the last session, with s the exception of Miss Roslna L. . Miller of McMlnnville, assistant j chief clerk, who recently was married and is living at Olympia. On nomination of Senator Banks, ' Elizabeth Drown, who served as I his clerk last session, was elected assistant chief clerk. t George Willet of Marlon coin. ty was elected mailing clerk In place of Leland M. Brown, f The-Moser resolution noted the ; vacancy caused by the death ot Senator "Wilson T. Hume. , f Would Protect Vetcr i j Senate Bill No. li introduced by f Upton, proposes to exempt mon- eys received by ex-soldiers nnder f the bonus and loan act from the payment of debts contracted prior J to the receipt ot bonus. - - " f A Joint memorial Introduced by S Senator Hall and others, today : cans upon congress to enact the McNary-Smlth reclamation bill calling for a total appropriation of $350,000,000. The bill was en dorsed by the irrigation congress recently meeting in Pendleton. Senator Hume Itcmcmbered President Ritncr appointed Senators Ryan. Joseph and Den nis to draw up resolutions per taining to the death of Senator Wilson T. Hume. Eddy,' Patterson and Strayer were named as a committee to in--form th governor that the sen ate was in session and ready to receive communications from his office. : Steering Committee Named' President Rltner today appoint ed as the senate steering , corr -mittee the members of the wav Continued oa parg 2) 7