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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON TUESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 20. 1921 LINE FOR FIVE Gill and Ross Are Members of Aggies Basketball. Quintet on Tour OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Corvallis, Dec. 19. The aggie basketball team which left today for a week's barnstorm ing tour of the northern part of the state before settling down "for a hard season, in reported to be n excellent condition, and primed for battle. "Slats" Gill and "Pug" Ross of Salem are both assured of permanent berths on the team, if their present playing can be tak en as a standard. Gill has be?n shooting wicked baskets from the forward position, and Ross is holding down a running guard position consistently. This is his second year on the Aggie varsity while Gill has yet to play bis first varsity game. 7"Mush" Hjelte, giant center on the team, is one of the greatest men ever turned out in Oakland, Cal., high school circles! Stretch ing six feet six inches into the air. and tlppinf the balances at f 215 pounds, he is not only one of the biggest men in the confer l ence. and one of the fastest, f' Last year he made three-fourths of the approximately 400 points piled up by the rook, squad, and had the jump on any center in the conference. Stlnson, captain, will be at the other forward position, and Ryan, Crane and Taggart will give good competition for the standing guard berth. A wealth of mate rial has been on band all season, and Bob Hager, coach, has bad a hard time selecting the best men. , They will be seen in action on the Salem floor about the l-'tli and 13tlof February. MAIN MEASURE IS GIVEN TO HOUSE (Continued from page 1.) courage and. forward vision ot Oregon to put it through." The very first thing that the house of rapresentatives did on convening was to save the peo ple's money by calling on Repre sentative Roberts of Hood River to offer prayer, and 1ft the hirl chaplains go to pot. It was a good prayer; sincere, devout, good citizenship and it was only 40 seconds long, so that they "could get at their other work. House Jump to Work The house msmDers jumped to the job like 60 terriers after one rat. They acted on nine resolu tions, two concurrent resolutions, the reading of the Atlantic-Pacific exposition bill by title, the ap pointment of a new journal clerk, heard the reading of the gover nor's message, and took a for mal adjournment, all in an hour and 40 minutes bv the clock. Thev did one thing that wasn't IT'S GOOD TRAINING YOUR daughters, when married, will need, to manage their household fi nances, and to expend their husbands' incomes wisely. United States National Checking Ac counts, and personal allowances, will be fine training for the future, and afford them the opportunity of handling their money as they choose. Christmas is near a word to the wise is sufficient. V United States Efatlonal Ban!? OREGON exactly necessary, but It was so line that It looks like a golden investment of time and money. Following the prayer, the speaker called for the s'nging of "Amer ica," led by Representative Bel knap of Benton county. When Mr. liedknap retires rich on his legislative salary of $3 a day, he tan go after the place filled by the late Mr. Caruso, who never was a genuine American as the Benton county legislator is. The Louse sang it in various keys and balf-keys. The hons Is organized with the exception of one office, as 'it was for the regular session, with the same officers, the same attaches, the same committees throughout. Only one vacancy was foil fid. where Harry MeCleliand had to be appointed by the speaker to fill the post of journal clerk. House Rules Changed One change was made in the adoption of the house rules in section 68, which prescribes the number and pay of a host of at taches. This was expected, and a special resolution provided for the employment of not more than 10 stenographers, as requested by. a joint committee of three mem bers each from the house and the senate. An important resolution to guide the deliberations of the ses sion, was introduced by 33 mem bers of the house, limiting all the action to be taken to the two mat ters called for by the governor's message, the 1925 exposition and the highways, except that all oth er matters proposed should go through the ways and means com mittee Representative Kubll of Mult nomah at first opposed this meas ure, saying that a special com mittee ought to help handle those matters. But when Kay of Mar ion spoke for it, telling how com petent and necessary the ways and means committe? is, and that :t would have to pass on all mat ters of expense, anyhow, and how his friend Kubli was a member with himself, of the committee Kubli agreed with him that ths; were the boys to do the statu the best and fullest justice. Ho withdrew his objections. oVernors Message Read At 11:30. after being notified by both houses that they would meet in joint session in the legis lative chamber to hear his mes sage. Governor Olcott was brougnt In, by a joint committee com posed of Senators Gill of Mult nomah and Smith of Josephine, and Representatives Kinney of Clatsop and Lee of Multnomah. The governor read his message, taking only a few minutes to get it across to his hearers. The joint session then immediately dissolv ed, and the house adjourned until 2 o'clock. That was an interesting re union at the speaker's stand. The present governor was escorted by the only avowed, self-confessed candidate for his job Represen tative Lee. They were met at the head of th? stairs by another eminent gubernatorial possibility, Speaker Bena, who greeted them with the smile and the hand-clasp of the goed sport Representative ivan G. Martin of Marion county, has introduced! two bills, by request, to correct interesting condition in the ju dicial procedure for cases wliere minors are Involved. The law passed last year, re quiring not less than half of all jurors to be women in cases where minors were brought into court for jury trials, provided also lor tiie opt'onal service of th? women drawn on all trial juries. Going further and requiring that only tlie regular panel of jurors be drawn upon until all are dis qualified or dismissed, it miirht leave a numhsr of men still un called after all the women in the Iianel had been disqualified or refused to serve, and no others can .be drawn. The effect 's. that if not enough women will serve. their places can ! not be filled by men, and th ! cases cannot be tried. -n accused person m'ght lie in jalJ. or be out on bail, for a long tim. without a trial being possible Compulsory Service Demanded. To correct this matter, alter nate bills have been presented, one asking that women jurors be iequ'red to serve so as to fill the pansl. the other asking that the 5 0-5 0 requirement be abrogated so that a jury can be secured from any regular panel. It is a tax saving measure, which ever 's adopted, as every continuance costs money and helps to defeat justice. The old law is considered really an unconstitutional meas ure, in that it may render im possible a speedy trial to any per son accused. The two measures go to the ways and means committee for the'r consideration, since the house has voted to put all sub sidiary action for tb.3 session in their hands. Millions for Oregon Southern Pacific spends millions of dollars in Oregon each year maintaining its line and providing new facilities Southern Pacific expenditures for keeping up roadway, bridges and struc tures on its 1310 miles of line in Western Oregon this year $5,000,000.00 Southern Pacific payrolls in Oregon, year 1920. (1921 figures not yet available)........... $11,083,754.93 Southern Pacific purchases in Oregon, year 1920, (1921 figures not yet available) :. $4,S19,888.00 Southern Pacific taxes in Oregon, year 1920 $1,110,038.86 The Southern Pacific as a "going concern" closely identified with all of the commercial and agricultural development of western Oregon, solicits your patronage. Christmas Holiday Fares Are in Effect between all points in Oregon and including points as far south as Sacra mento. . Round Trip One and One-Half Fare f ILffvfttrmim Prtiir1 TVit Para t9 Kfi I f J. Ut&l VMltVt L A V yMVU Sale dates, December 22-23 and 24th. Final limit January 4th Winter Excursion Fares are in effect to Santa Barbara Los Angeles San Diego Sale dates daily to March 31st Final limit April 30th 1 Stopover privileges at all points New One-Way Fares East Through California Without additional cost, will appeal to you . Sales dates daily the year 'round long transit limits Liberal stopover priviliges at various points For information regarding passenger fares, train schedules, Pullman res ervations, and descriptive folders, consult any Ticket agent, of 1 "' Southern Pacific Lines V JOHN W. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent announced that he favored the protection of American capital invested in this country as against American capital invested in oth er countries. Spokesmen for the industry in the I'nlted States testified that the beet sugar industry had ieen developed in seventeen states; that there was invented in it $200,000,000 with 95 factories, it is now producing annually one million tons of sugar or nearly one fourth of the domestic ron stimption and is reclaiming waste land, localise the beets will grow where other products will not. The acreage now is 8 80.000 and the farmers raising the crop num ber loo.ooo. who give employ ment to an additional S".ooti. Given proper protection the witnesses argued, the industry would expand where it could sup ply most of the domestic demand and in case of war would make the country independent of for eign countries. It also contended r that the raising of beets improved farm lands. As to the tax on the people represented in the duty, it was contended that this amounted to only $1.44 for each inhabitant each year and that the industry was worth such an experience. JOINT ASSEMBLY WILL HEAR ARGUMENTS (Continued from page 1.) and means committee. Similar action was taken in the house earlier in the day. To these committees will be referred all bills and resolutions for recom mendation. The members of the senate com mittee are Patterson, chairman; Smith, Eberhard, Staples, Upton, Norblad and Bell. May Aid Veterans Senator Strayer of Baker intro duced senate joint memorial No. 2, memofalizinK congress to enact into law a pending bill providing that a penison of $72 a month be paid men who served 90 days or more in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States during the Civil war and who were hon orably disiharged, or who were honorably discharged by reason of disability incurred in the ser vice after having served less than 90 days. The senate adopted the senate joint memorial urging cougress to pass the McXary Smith reclama tion bill appropriating $350,000,-000. FRANCE IS READY TO ACCEPT NAVAL RATIO (Continued from page 1) strength of the vaiious nations, but simply to get them to agree to stop the ruinous race for naval supremacy. tl was pointed out that America had voluntarily un dertaken to scrap ships to the val ue of 300,000,000 and Great Brit ain had met this proposal by agreeing to duplicated. Then It was asked what' sacrifice was asked what sacrifice was France to make to compensate these con cessions. Premier Xot Explicit. LONDON, Dec. 19. In an inter view tonight wi h a representa tive of Peuters, Premier Briand is quoted as having said France's standpoint on naval disarmament is unchanged. France is quite ready to come to an understand ing on aimaments of offense, he said, and she is especially interest ed in the question of cruisers, tor pedo boat destroyers, submarines and defense vessels, which are in expensive to build. He ridiculed, says Reuters, In sinuations that the French naval plans are against Great Britain, France, he said, would never com pete in the building of capital ships. He added that the reason that had led France to increase her claim for tonnage was not a de sire to build capital ships, but to have sufficient of the lighter ves sels for coast defense and to keep In connection with the colonies. SM00T IS ACTIVE IN SUGAR TARIFF FIGHT (Continued from page I.) TAX REDUCTION JS tlf CLUB Organiation Started at Mc-j Minnviile After Service t Commission i the farmers are having a hard enough time without any addi-j tional taxes. The club intends to abolish the public service commission, to re duce military appropriations, cut the number of circuit judges in half, and to repeal the $100,000 for the tourist association. President Cooper said that if there were a reduction of 50 per cent on the assessment of real estate, the farmers might not be opposed to the 1925 exposition. WRECK KILLS TWO. ANNISTON. Ala.. Deo. 19 fireman and a mail clerk were fatally injured today in a wreck at Tarsus, eight miles from here of Southern Railway train No. 7 from Jacksonville for Birming ham and Kansas City. The acci dent was caus9d . by spreading rails. Six other persons were in jured. The engine, tender and two coaches overturned. Members of the Tax Reduction club, recently organized at Mc Minnville. met in session Monday morning at the Commercial club, with J. C. Cooper of McMinnville presiding anil Hoy Stockton of Sheridan serving as secretary and treasurer. A measure had been . prepared which the members hoped to in troduce to the legislators, declar ing that the taxpayers of th -tate demanded that hereafter all real estate be assessed at 5tt per cent of the amount of the 1921 assessments. That is, if a farm were assessed at 60 percent of its real value, the Tax Reduction club wanted the assessement to be 30 percent of its real value. The Tax Reduction club was organized December 13 at Mc Minnville, and, according to J. C. Cooper, president, already five counties have been organized, and he said that in time every county in the state will be fully organiz ed to take an active part in the coming elections. j Members of the club are em i phatically against any taxes for a 1925 exposition, believing that Program is Announced For Americanization Day An unrivaled program is prom ied fo - the night of December 21. according to the American legion committee in charge of the Am ericanization day event. The pro pram is of a patriotic nature and v. ill be held in the auditorium of the Salem armory and every ef fort is being made to secure a record crowd. The principal address of the evening will h given by V. V. Tomlinson. United States natur alization examiner for the Oregon district. Mr. Tomlinson, whose offices are in Portland, has had much to do with the work of aid the 210 Marion county foreign born who have completed their citizenship rights since November 11, 1918. ach of these new eiti 11. 191S. Each of these new cit izens 1 as received a special invi tation from thr American legion and .he Boy Scouts under whose auspices the program-will be giv en. The program is scheduled to start at 7:30 o'c'ock and is 3 follows: Invocation Rev. J. R. Buck. "Purpose of Assemblf, Com mander R. V. Pound. Capital post No. ' Anthem Sola by Mrs. It. M. Address: ' The Alien Troblem." Judge George O. Bingham. Song: -"America", by the aud ience. National Emblem March -Che-mawa band. Address: "Progress of Cltiten fhip " V. V. Tomlinson. "Respect to The Flag," Cere mony by Salem Boy Scouts. Benediction Rev. G. F. Leaning. LW'R PIONEER PASSES EUGENE. Or.. Dee. 19. Mr. Mary Elizabeth Bogart, the first white female child born In Lano county, died near here today at the age of 73 years. Mra. Bo gart was born near Eugene No vember 17, 1848. on the faru where ahei died. Her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob , Spores, had come to Oregon in 1847 and set tled on the homestead where Mr. Bogart lived all her life. She was the widow of William Bogart. a pioneer of 1833 and who died In 1919. HARGK GOES ASHORE VICTORIA. B. C, Deo. 19.- Canadian Pacific railway barge No. 8, ashore at Porlier Pass, .11. C. ton'tht was reported battered. on the rocks by a northeasterly gale and In danger of going to pieces. The barge had a list ot 25 degrees, and 17 cars, loaded with general merchandisa, had overturned. The salvage tteamer Algerlne and the steamers Leebro and Trader were standing by. BRING THE KIDDIES TO T0YLAND Free Pop Guns, Whistles and Horns Basement ' ent" by the Fordney bill was the highest imposed in thirty years and that it represented a tax of $162,000,000 annually on the American people, $81,000,000 of gar producers. Attention was also called by witnesses that Cu ba imported last year $515,000,- 000 worth of American products, and that since economic life of the island depended on its sugai crop, much of this trade would be lost unless the United States helped rehabilitate the Cuban sugar industry. Finally it was argued that the clause in the Fordney bill per mitted American refineries to import at least three fourths of the normal duty two pounds of sugar for each pound of domestic sugar refined from beats or cane was a violation of the spirit, if not the letter of the reciprocity treaty with Cuba, giving a pre ferential rate of twenty per cent below the full rate on imports from that country. It also wag contended that this was a dis crimination in favor of certain American interest sand injurious to others. Senator Smoot, Republican, Utah, took exception to many of the statements, of the witnesses presenting the case for the Am erican company. He declared PEOPLE'S CASH STORE! ShopEQLxbjj SPECIAL SELLING OF CHRISTMAS CANDY 1 A Punl grocery Dept. A 'Headliner of Bis Special Events JUUU ML mm $4.00 Wool Flannel Shirts In blue, brown and gray extra well made, ful cut throughout. All sizes. Christmas holiday sale price . . $1.98 Men's $2 Rough Neck Sweaters Made with two pockets; heavy rough neck; gray and Oxford colors Qn Christmas holiday sale . OC Men's 50c Woolen Socks Made of. heavy worsted gray yarn. Men, it's certainly a great value. One hundred dozen at your dis posal. Christmas holiday sale price, 3 pairs for.. v Ladies' $i All Wool Sweaters Slipover and Tuxedo styles; a big range of pretty colors; girls' sizes included. Christmas d qq holiday sale price tl0 Three Big Blanket Specials 64x76 Nashua Heather Plaid Blankets Only through a very fortunate purchase are we able to offer you this big value. Regular dn JA $4, Christmas holiday sale price . . . vTlJf $6 Nashua Woolnap Blankets Pretty plaid with artistic color combinations, silk piped edges and a very exceptionally heavy quality. Christmas holiday sale price . . . $3.98 64x76 Near-wool Sheet Blankets A regular $2.50 value, in a range of three colors. Pretty colored borders of pink, blue and 1 JQ white. Christmas holiday special $lfz7 A Belated Shipment 500 Pieces Values from $1.7.1 to $2.2.i Pure Aluminum Consisting of double boilers, heavy stew kettles, Berlin kettles, roasters, percolators, combination milk pans. etc. All go at this very low price while quantity lasts 98c (Limit one to a customer Bar gain basement store) Mens and Young Mens OVERCOATS! A SALE That Will Startle You. $24.50 Val ues at They'd be a big value at $24.50, but Christmas is Christmas and it only comes once a year and you'll certainly want a new overcoat for Christmas. We might add that values like these can seldom be seen in years. Better be down here early and let us fit you out. They are belted and conservative models in the latest colors and styles. ONE BIG LOT OF BOYS' Overcoats SPECIAL $2.98 One Big Lot of Ladies' $1 Value Cashmere Wool Hose,' 49c Christmas Holiday Sale A Christmas Shipment of Just in time for the Christmas season, and with th-2 snow on the ground it will be more than a suggesting item for the winter Regular $50 value Special $32.50 All Silk brocaded lining Belted models with double sleeves NEWS IMPORTANT KVKXTS STIIX HKL1 OVKlt FOR THIS WEEK Men's 89c and $1.98 Shirt sale. Men's Furniture Dept. Cleanup sale of Christ mas Slippers. Balcony shoe Dept. 95c Kafo Corset demon stration sale. Ladies' Dept. Balcony. 49c Graniteware sale, val nes to $1.25. Bargain basement. We reserve the right to limit quantities. Shop Early THEfo r Free Deliveries With purchases of $5.00 and over in any depart ment of the store (sugar purchases excepted). HOT COFFEE Served Free In the basement condiuons in Cuba were no worse than those in this country and