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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1922)
I t f-" - - t. t - REVENTY.FTRHT YEAR ' ; SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1922 : PRICE: FIVE CENTS a fi i fl ii (iQ lo- ft n Rnjji : 1 ? 1 1 i r fun r i ? n hrn 1 1 f ? i n ' ' L 1 1 1 UUL I I I 1 il 11 II ILJy LJlil li ILJI I V l I J ll 6)aV U fn)f m ii i i m . - a mi i WHEELS HALTED z im nrnprp nr iu urriuLG ur r - I LULIIML IILHUUI - '.:! h- - Congress Adjourns After Brief Meetings and Arms Conference is Unable to Carry Out Program. y RAILROAD TRAFFIC COMES TO STANDSTILL Automobiles, Streetcars Are Abandoned, Government Employes on Foot ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. More than 24 hours of contin uous snpw tonight had covered rthe .middle Atlantic r section rith Washington as a center to A depth of from a foot to nearly 30 inches ; caused suspension of practically; all business ; dis rupted transportation and shut most of the population in their homes. The gtorm, which weather bureau officials said was one of the most severe in history and exceeded in the depth of inowf alii only by a blizzard of February-, ! 1899, was moving ilowly tonight up the coast from its position during the ' day off Virginia. Reports to the weather bureau rhowed that the Carolinas, Vir ginia, Maryland, Delaware and the 'District of Columbia were bear ing the brant of the storm. . Capital Paralyzed Washington, however, appeared to be the: center of the heavy fall, the weather bureau measurements show ins the depth to be two and , half feet against the record of ' three feet In 1899. , , : The capital was virtually par alyzed as to activities of all kinds. ' ' . The city awoke snowed in this morning and was unable to cope daring; the day with the rapidly descending fall. Street cars on the principal lines managed for a while early in the day to strug gle along, but as the day wore op made almost complete surrender. ' Automobiles and other motor vehicles likewise were snow bound, and tonight the streets of Washiarton were lined wun abandoned cars. -' GWcrnnxnt Wheels Stop The snowfall here practically halted governmental activities and caused cancellation of the two scheduled armament conference meetings. Thousands of government em . ployes walked to work and many others living in outlying sections stayed - home. At noon many bureaus dismissed their employes for the day. ' Congress was affected, only 49 ' Senators answering to the roll call, and a hare handful of house members being present. Both houses adjourned after brief ses sions. Train service between Wash ington and the outside world was practically suspended from last midnight until early today. Many trains, - especially those from the aouth, were annulled and all of those arriving were hours late. . ' Galea Sweep Coast While Washington was battling the snow, Norfolk, Newport News and Portsmouth. Va.. Atlantic City. N. J., and other coast cities were being swept by severe gales. Shipping, was forced to seek shel ter, and from every port city came renorta of shiDS In -distress. The downtown business section of Nor - folk was flooded by high tides, and traffic police were compelled to work In hip boots. (Continued on pafe I) SO-CENT HAT GOOD ENOUGH FOR PEARL WHITE, ACTRESS 4. U-'T.'Z. ' . V 4 to' t -tv .A K-Tn 1 f7i at t -- ?4 f Jr ir' ; , A TV TISS PEARL WHITE, famous film star, photographed in AVA her five franc woolen from style capital. LIVESTOCK STARVE AS PRICE OF HAY IS QUIBBLED UPON PORTLAND. Or., Jan. 28. vailing on the vast stock ranges of Oregon during the se vere winter weather recently, made in the interests of the Oregon Humane society by Mrs. F. W. Swanton, manager, and State Officer Churchill, shows that ldsses reaching into millions of dollars! and involving hundreds of thousands of head of stock will result through the scarcity of feed and the stringency of the times, according to their report, made today. "The conflicting interests of the livestock owners and the owners of hay," says Mrs. Swanton in her report, "the in ability to agree on the price of hay, coupled with the in ability of many stockmen to buy hay at any price on account of depressed conditions in the cattle and; sheep trade, with bank credits exhausted, have brought about a condition bound to result in loss by starvation of thousands of head of stock within the next few months." STANDING OF ORE SHOI IN REPORT BY BRISCOE 9alem has more than twice a? many students in its high school J with the exception of Portland, in tha Kta:.iG- A. Briscoe of Ashland found as auj - with the exception of Portland. In the four highest grades, or - dinarily known as high school, 62; Baker i 58; Albany 53; Cor s.im ha an enrollment of S27. vallis. 52; Pendleton 47; McMinn- anii then follows Astoria next highest with 389; Corvallis, S.'.O: Albany. 332: La Grand. o, Ashland, 275; McMinnville. 24S; Rosebnrg. 248; Oregon City. -2 40, and Dallas ranking 20th on the list -with 100. No record was ob tained from Eugene. In Bwuririg statistics to com- - t -v wm,t, - v I .r 'Iff J :; .iiv:.-::-: ...iw:---, v...-w.-x .-.-v . i'i rn.g a i "creation," which she brought A survey of conditions pre , pare high schools of the stats that Salem "has 129 teachers and Astoria second wtih 97. Then jth number drops to La Grande i ville, 36; Sijlverton 28, and Dallas Ashland (Ih.ms Largo A'shland teachers have the lars est classes.; with an average of 31, while Sjialem has an average of 26 pupils to the teacher. Thera (Continued on page 2) M SCHOOLS OF-PRESIDENT Shantung Tie-up and Wash ington Blizzard Combine to Block Operation of Arms Conference. TREATY DRAFTING IS PREVENTED BY STORM Harding's Compromise Like ly to Rule in Bringing Nations Together . WASHINGTON'. Jan. 28. (By The Associated Press) The Shantung tie-up and Washington 3 near blizzard combined to block again arms conference progress today, but the delay did not dim prevailing confidence that all the conference issues soon would be carried forward to solution. So far as Shantung was con cerned, it was a day of waiting for the mediatory effort of Presi dent Harding to have its effect at Peking and Tokio. All Indications pointed to a decision early next week and all delegates appeared confident that the decision would be for a settlement along the lines of the compromise support ed by the president. Both meetings planned for to day were cancelled because of the storm. One meeting was to have brought the Japanese and Chinese delegates together to begin draft ing a Shantung treaty and the other was a proposed session ot the sub-committee considering the Chinese eastern railway. The postponed Japanese-Chinese meeting", it was explained, was merely to have 'put into treaty language the agreements already rached on collateral subjects. In the Chinese Eastern railway discussions which are a part of the Far Eastern committee nego tiations, differences of view have developed which seem likely to delay a decision for several days. William F. Woodward is Candidate for Legislature William F. Woodward of Port land yesterday filed with the sec retary of state 4iis candidacy for the Republican nomination for representative in the legislature from the 18th representative dis trict. Mr. Woodward has no slogan. In his platform he says he will "endeavor to perform the duties connected therewith honestly. faithfully and efficiently." Heavy Snowfall Visits Sections of Polk County DALLAS. Ore., Jan. 28. (Special to The Statesman) Snow fell two successive nights in Dallas and this morning the r round is covered with a white covering. In the mountains west of this city the snow fall averages all the way from six inches to several feet. Rome of the logging caiaps have had to suspend oper ations until after the snow melts wtila others where the snowfall was not so great "are still coninu iug work. PA INK VAMED SPOKANE. Wash.. Jan. 2S. Alan Paine, assistant secretary of the Spokane Chamber of Com merce, was today appointed clerk of the United States district court by Federal Judge Rankin.. Paine succeeds Dr. W. H. Hare, ,, who di-xl in November. THE WEATHER Generally fair, except rain in southwest portion; moderate Iwlnda becoming northerly. AWAITED BOY NEARLY WENT TO WAR WITH TEDDY L. D. Waring Tells How Roosevelt Left Him Behind Because of His Age "Say. young man. I like your acts, and your looks, only that I'm afraid of your age. How old are you?" "Well ain't you enough of a horseman to te!l age by the teeth. I'll show you mine and let you ?ce I'm old enough. I' want to go to war, and I guess my teeth are old enough and enough of 'em." "Yes, I could tell the age of a horse but how could I tell the age .of a jackass by his teth? I'm afraid you weren't born long en ough ago, milch as I like your style. I'll just write to your fa ther and be sure." That was the interesting but heart-breaking conversation be tween L.. D. Waring, now of the Salem postoffice force, and Theo dore Roosevelt, when the Rough Riders swere beln recruited for the war with Spain. Young Waring, a Texan from Fort Worth, was a slender Httle buckaroo, delivering horsfs at San Antone for the Rough Riders. He says that ho rode at least half of the horses that outfit took across to Cuba. "Crazy to go" wasn't half the truth; big men, rich men, kids, gun-men. chaper ejocd cowboys, spectacled profes sors, football men. professional men from almost every walk ot life', were clamoring to get into that unique and warlike organiza tion and the law put the ban on the kids who weren't of military age. Roose-velt actually did'write, at once, to the senior Waring, and he came through with the deadly, damning calendar. So the lad didn't break into the war. Just be cause the toothly Teddy wouldn't accept another man's teeth as cre dentials. EflBLV PflDSPECT Activity Points to Construc tion of Route from Dallas To Beach DALLAS. Or.. Jan. 28. (Spe cial to the Statesman) That the proposed new road to Tillamook beach resorts trom Dallas to the Wallace bridge will be a go and may possibly be in shape for tra vel beforo the end of the present year is evidenced by the fact that surveyors from the state highway department have been busy during the past two weeks locating the site for the nw roadway and ex pect to begin the actual surveying within a short time. . The work of locating the new (roadway has been under thf di rection of William Harcom of Wil- lamina, an employe of the state highway department. Mr. Har com states that after thorough investigation of the route over which tha new road wm be built that it can be constructed with not more than a 6 per cent grade ( at any point, from the bridge' over Salt creek near the ranch of County Commissioner Ezra Hart j to the Wallace bridge over the ; Yamhill river. Dallas and Salem people are j pleased with the prospect of get- i ting this now road to TillamooS i as it means a saving of about one ' hour's time in driving to the j beaches during the summer j months. 1 Klamath Falls Bank is Again in Bad Condition KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Jan. 28. The Fir3t State bank of Klamath Fall failed to open to day and a fctt bank examiner took charge. The bank closed its doors about a year aro but reopened af ter 90 days and was said to be In sound financi.l condition. The bank examiner said lack of ready cash bad caused the sec ond closing. TUMI ROAD BENEATH RUINS OF PLAYHOUSE, IN HEART OF WASHINGTON D. C. WASHINGTON, Jan 29. -Revised figures of the casualties in the Knicker bocker theatre disaster at 4 a. tn. today were 21 identified dead; three unidentified dead, and 55 inured. Many others were in the ruins. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 -Edward Shaughenessy, second assistant postmaster or general was listed as missing early today after the Knickerbocker theatre dis aster. He was understood to have attended the performance when the fatal crash came, and efforts to locate him later were without avail At that time many were still working in the ruins, and in case he was pinned beneath the wreckage it was hoped he was still alive. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.--Bodies of 12 dead from the ruins of the Knicker bocker theatre collapse had been gathered late tonight in the First Church Scientist, near the theatre. These, added to police reports of others brought the death tell to 17, but many dead or alive, no one knew, were still beneath the fallen roof. ' v WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Fifteen persons at least are believed to have been killed and scores injured tonight in the collapse under the .weight of two feet. of snow of the roof of the Knickerbocker theatre, a motion picture house, located in the heart of Washington's fashionable northwest section. ...... Two hours and a half after the crash, which occurred about 9 o'clock, definite information as to the number of the dead and injured was wholly lacking as well as estimates of the number of those in the theatre at the time estimates ranging from 150 to 300. although the theatre is one of finest motion picture houses in the city and had accommodations for more than 2000 spectators. KU KLliX KLAN HAS CHARITY AT HEART The Ku Klux Klan of Sa lem has donated $10 to wards charity. Yesterday afternoon Dr. H. K. Morris, secretary of the Associated Charities, recelv a $10 bill with the notation: "For the Associated Charities, with the cordial wishes of the Ku Klux Klan." It is thought that the do nation was on the basis of 10 cents a member, the am ount assessed by the Asso ciated Charities on organiza tions In the city, to aid the needy this winter. h WILL RESUME BISBEE. Ariz.. Jan. 2S The Calumet and Arizona Coppr mines here and the company's smelter at Douglas, Ariz., will re sume operationr February 1. ac cording to an announcf mont to- j night by Colonel John C. Green-1 n, r,uK way. general manager of the com- Nesbit. son of ashington corre na " 6 snondent of tlie Kansa City Star; WAGES CUT CLEVELAND, O.. Jan. 2S. Representative? of the National Window Glass Workers' assocla- j tjon and the National Association of Windmv Glass Manutacturers' tonight sipned an agreement car rying a . ner cent wage Reduc tion for window glass workers. HOOVER COMES WEST LOS ANGELES. Jan. 28. Her bert Hoover, secretary of com merce, will visit LOs Angeles Feb ruary. 22, acceptance having been received from him today here to an invitation tc address the Cham ber of Commerce on that date. WORKER KILLED LA GRANDE. Or.. Jan. 28. Theodore Zimmerman was killed in a logging comp near Pa'mer Junction. 25 miles from here to day. Details of the accident were lacking. He has a brother in Se attle. XEW SCALE AIK)PTET COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 28. Coal operators of Southern Ohio today adopted a new wage scale to sup plant that expiring April 1, pro viding for redactions averaging from 31 per eento more than 4 6 2-3 per cent, he check-off sys tem also Is abolished. NUMBER OF The names of the dead had been ascertained by the po lice only in a few instances and these follow: , J Mrs. B. H. Covell; Miss Costley; William Tracy, a mem ber of the orchestra; F. H. Earnest and two unidentified;' Douglas Hillyer; Mrs. Marie Russell; W. S. Scofield of Dan vfllo. Va., and G. S. Freeman, musician. ,; Mrs. Correlle, D. F. O'Donnell and Mildred Walford, all of Washington; Mrs. Tracey, William Crocker of Congress Hall hotel; T. A. Bourne and Jacob Erdell. The body of Chauncey C. Brainerd, Washington corres pondent of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and a member of the Grid Iron club, was recovered from the ruins of the Knick erbocker theatre early today. The body of L.-L. Lehler, Washington representative of the Indiana Flooring company, was also recovered. --( Among the injured was Representative Smithwick of Florida, who was painfully cut about the head and chest,' but not seriously hurt. Another injured was Noble Tomassq' Asserto, third secretary of the Italian embassy. . f Li.vt of Injured Bernard Breslau, both shonlderi Among the injured according broken; Elliott Braumbauih, to reports received at hospitals were: Mrs. R. J. Brown, Walter I'rd Say. M. E. Castney, Mrs. Henry S. Howell, Henry T. Lacey, fractured ribs: J. L. Durland cuts and bruises; Mrs. J. L. Durland, cuts and bruises; It. J. Bowen, in- iuries serious: Mrs. R. J. Bowen. ci.; . oiiiiuiiu , Deri wuwamH; 1 1 . Pi Robertson, Joseph Klemk Mertie. arm crushed off at shoul der; G. Caplin, M. Gold, Hugh Glenn, Dr. Curtis Le Hall, frac tured arm, and his wife, dislocat ed shoulder, fractured arm and cuts about head; Miss Margaret Cole, Florence Longi Mrs. Ger trude Kyler. Miss Helen Hopkins, S; M. Lee. Miss MacLean White, broken leg; J. B. G. Curtis, Mrs. 4 ' -' " DO YOU REMEMBER? i " . 'i ' In the early days Oregon hops bad the same trouble that Ore gon's choicest fruits are having. They were shipped under false la bels. ! Do you remember when all the hops grown in the rpplon tribu tary to Salem, were bought by Ez ra Meeker and were shipped to London labelled. Washington hops?" i And do you know that the "Washington hops" label was 4one away with by an article In the Statesman which was mailed tio the Mark Lane Express of Lon don, which gave the Londoners fcbe knowledge that some of the finest hops In the world were grown in the Willamette valley? j: Do you remember when old man Robertson disappeared from L::J .-...'.-- - DEAD LIE bruises; N. I. Urdong; Gertroda Taylor, internal injuries; Vincent Danber, condition serious; Johtt Nesbit and his sister. KAtherine, adopted children of Major Joba Scott, slightly injured; N. Wes son, slightly Injured: Mrs. Mc Kinney, unconsciona, broken leg. and other Injuries; Mrs. Haadea P. Buchler, tlightly injured. William Roberts. both lega broken; Miss Mary Forsythe; John T. McEverly; John Martert; Dr. E. E. Hayden. Mrs. Harden and their two children; Alice Pasquale; Miss Virginia Poole; Mrs. Joseph Younger, Warren Helpens, H. B. Moses; Herbert Nash and Marie Nash; E. Taylor, Mrs. Mary Young; Joseph '' C Bruce; Miss Inez Woodruff, - ' ;- (Continued on page ) - his lodgings In the old court house when it stood on the nortb. side of Court street and that he has never been found or account ed for? Do you remember a time when Byron Herrick did not run fer surveyor, or when A. M. Clong did not run for coroner? : v ? Do you remember when Dan J Fry made his big: success by ad vertising the famous "squirrel poison"? Or when S. Friedman, put up a little clothing store on the corner of Commercial and Ferry streets and when I. Green baum was with lm? Do yon remember when Pete Graber first landed in Balem and led up to his prosperous plumbing' (Continued on page t). J