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CIECTJLATIOlf Averag for January 122 . Kundaj onlr 5.157 Daily and Basilar S10S Avrag for montba anding January 81. 1922 v Soni'ay only S50S Daily and Sunday . 6108 I The Statesman rccelTcs the leased wtre report ot the Associated Press. the greatest and most re liable press association lm the world. SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1922 PRICE: i FIVE CENTS rui JL rn 1 1 .' 111 1 11 n u i w Ik i BIG WEDDING TAXES GRAINS I OF OFFICIALS Dignitaries of Church and State Hasten Completion of Formalities For Royal Marriage. PRINCESS MARY AND LASCELLES PRINCIPALS Ecclesiastical, Civil and Tra ditional Precedents Are To Be Followed . LONDON, Feb. 20. (By The -Associated Pifeas) Officers of the church and state are hastening to ward i completion of the mare of formality and detail -which a royal -wedding necessitates with only one week remaing before the nup tial ceremonies of Princess Mary and VIscouont l-ascelles in west minster Abbey. , An English church wedding of which folk of humble station are the nrincinals involves a formid able amount of formality, but 'when the bride is a daughter of the reigning monarch these dif ferences and infinitely multiplied. "Whole libraries must be searched for records of past ceremonials of J jklmilar nature. ; Possible Blunders Feared ThoA whose nosltlons in court society or off Jce entitle them to be InTited to the wedding: oioers. members of the house of lords for Instance; who have an. Inherent lht to exnect invitations but for whom ttoa Abbey does noi anora adequate accommodations, wuroe riven preference ; in assigniiiK seats to those who are finally in Tlted; the drafting of orders ror Drocesslons at . the Abbey in ac eordance to fixed rules of prece dence and the selecting from the whole military, navai ana air forces of various, units to compose the several escorts and guaras honor are among tne mynaa HK.I- riAntala -which must receive care-1 tul consideration and tne employ- ment or mucn iaci An unintentional blunder In dis crimination might lead to serious complications. - Peers Draw Lota The peers accepted the situa - lion in good grace ana arew iois for seats at -the Abbey, and the arranagetnent apparently satisfied all partljes. When these and other prellmin- ug. mfs Wilson Johnston of tries are settled, the approval of Portland also attended, represent church authorities who are $nR tne women's work of the charged with responsiDimy ior seeing tnat tne is nu wm eccje.i.. Jnt-- w- . -ffP -iDcra nave m me emnouw "--Jl" mm inn out m3 w5 1 drawn several weeks ago, but the final Btage obtaining the king's conclusive assent nas now oeen reached, and the official program of the proceedings is expected to - be available by Wednesaay. Old Tradition Holrfs In' addition to those elaborate elvll and church preparations, an other br no means" simple raattei Is the purely legal aspect of the arrangements, and as fixing the pre-nuptial settlements as between bride and bridegroom. An ancient trltt!m In the English royaJ family Insists that a royal bride must not sign her name on her wedding dav before she does so as a part of the wedding ceremony. A princess in 5 Victorian day, whose signature to an Important leral document was required on the morning oi mer weaning. r fused to comply until after the ceremony, which kept the lawyers waiuncr ana BenousiT iBier with tire day's plan, Price of Beer Boosted ; In City of Pittsburgh WASHINGTON. Feb. 20. The activity of federal prohibition au thorities has resulted in the boost ing ot the prices of beer in Pitts ourgh according to a report to Commissioner Haynes today from Enforcement Chief John Exniclos, 6 t m a1 it : Iaaa A 4A a 4r)A west couv a-1 ill la . uiiciu u . , t.. vi t. A f.(.ltM A a ItrtA , ?n.,t " CinC COaSt. J1IXL PASSED WASHINGTON'. Feb. 20. The senate passed today a. bill which would reimburse the city of Bal timore to the amount of $173,000 for expenses contracted ; In ' con structlng works of defense in and around the city during tne uviu war. ' WESTMINSTER ROYAL PAIR r-pHl3 is tne Interior or Westminster Abey, London, where the daughter of the King married, on February 28, to mony will be performed on the E HELD AT ST. res.uiar semi-annual convoca- tlon of th Eplscopal church, cen- Mtral diocese of Oregon, was held iQ Sahjm sunday. and Monday. TIia mttAfin era woro ViaM q t- fit pau,.a Epf8COpai church, and at 11 m AUibii3 nsiu -4 m a u the rectorv adloinlnr Bishop Walter T. Sumner of Portland was the presiding offi cer. The convocation was attend ed also by Archdeacon J. C. Black 0f Portland, and Dean Jennings 1 0f Eugene, otner members wno I had been expected were kept away Dy illness, among these being I Dean E. T. Simpson of Corval cnurCh The convocation gan Infor. mally Sunday morning, with an address by William Whitefield of I Portland, a lay member, on "The Nation-wide Compaign." This he IS TABLED The city council's proposed jit ney and truck legislation was tab led by the councllmen at the reg ular meeting held in the city hall last night. Alderman Henry Vandervort last night tossed a lighted bomb into the midst of the police com- maton as t0 why Chief of Police Moffltt had not acted upon the -----i,.- r,jnn in refusing licen- ses to the Gem. Eldridge and Clark hotels and rooming houses. "These places have not been closed for one day since the coun cil acted two weeks ago," declared Vandevort. I also want to ask Chief of Police Moffitt if it is not true that he recommended that the Leonard hotel be refused a license as well as the three others." "I cannot answer that question right now without consulting my list." said Chief Moffitt. "I want to call the council's at tention to the fact that C. S. Ham- - i - - . . t aw m J dally interested In the Leonard 1 11LUU. WUU. X UUUCIOWUU. m '" hotel, was present at the meeting I v ' -I.:- -.! -Van" wwii i ilia utiivu "m stated Vandevort. Alderman George Wenderoth also added a few questions. Why had the Gem hotel been permitted to operate when the owners ot this place had withdrawn application ofra license following the coun cil's action. Following the storm of ques- I tions. olice Committeeman Ralph Thompson offered the esplana Itlon that he had forgotten to PISGOPAL MOTOR VEHICLE lEflSURE ABBEY WHERE WILL BE WED iffrf "11: and Queen of England will be Viscount Lascelles. The cere raised platform in the center. IS PAUL'S GHURGH illustrated by the use of charts. Other speakers during the sertes were Bishop Sumner on "The Source of Power for the Task Be fore Us"; Mrs. Johnston. "Wo man's Part in the Task"; Rev. H. D. Chambers, rector of. the Sa lsm church. "The Mission of the Church and Its Responsibility"; Archdeacon Black, "The Task of the Church in Church Extension." and Dean Jennings, "The Organi zation of the Church for the Task." A reception was held at the rec tory Monday afternoon prior to the leaving of the out-of-town guests. Dinner and breakfast was served to all the visitors at the rectory, the women of the church joining forces to make the whole entertainment program one long to be remembered. This wag the' first convocation of the current church year. BY COMUEN speak of the final police action of the affair during the previous dis cussion under routing procedure. "Chief Moffitt explained that th Gem had changed ownership and that all of the places in ques tion had cleaned up and had put in new registers and had prom ised to reform," said Mr. Thomp son. The council voted to give the places another chance. In the future, any violations by these places or by any Salem ho tel will result in a recommenda tion for drastic action, according to Mr. Thompson, who is chair man of the police committee. During last night's meeting. Alderman Utter announced that in collaboration with Alderman Patton he was preparing an ordi nance which would bring about a 1 per cent reductio nin the sal aries of all city of Salem em ployes. Alderman Patton also announc ed that he was working upon an ordinance which will make the chief of police an appointee of the mayor and not responsible to Salem electorate for his action as at present. Mr. Utter stated that he was very much in favor of the plan, which is in practice In Portland and Oregon City. There has been some objection to tit ter's police proposal, on ground that there is as much danger of electing an inefficient mayor as an unsatisfactory head of the po lice department. (Continued on pace I) CONVOCATION TARIFF ISSUE E S Differences Between Repub licans Aired in Heatfd Secret Discussion Lasting Three Hours. NO CONCRETE RESULT IS REPORTED OUT Fordney Still Declares For eign Valuation Base Will Be Debarred WASHINGTON. Feb. 20. Dif ferences between Republicans of the senate finance committee and the house ways and means com mittee over tariff valuation prin ciples wera aired today at a three hour secret conference without any concrete result. Neither side appeared hopeful tonight of an early agreement. The house committeemen. Rep resentatives Fordniey, Longwoith and Green, would constitute the majority conferees for the house on' any tariff bill proposed by the senate held out strongly at today's conference for the American valu ation principle, who, in undertak ing to rewrite the house measure long ago abandoned that princi ple. Majority Asks Conference The conference was asked for by the senate committee majority, following the declaration Satur day of Mr. Fordney that if the senate sent back to the house a bill carrying a foreign valuation basis as tentatively agreed upon by senate committee Republicans, the ways and means committee rould rewrite the measure on the basis of the American valuation principle and the house would re turn that to the senate. Chairman McCumber said it was desirable to bring about an agreement between the two com mittees if possible before the bill was reported to the senate as time would probably be saved in that way. It was explained that any thfinre in tho valniiti.cn principle underlying the bill would involve a recasting ot most of the ad val orem rates or a rewriting of a groat part of the whoie measure. I)isruHion Ht'fatri The discussion beh.nd closed doors of the senate committer room was said to hr.vo been heat ed at times today, but many of those in attendance thought the frank discussion would serve to clear the way for some kind ot a compromise. Just now. however, senators and representatives are so far apart on the question that a specific compromise has not been seriously considered. None of thos3 Interested was prepared to say how long inter committee conferences would de lav the completion of the tariff. but it was practically certain that the measure would not be ready for the senate before next month. There already has been talk of two or three months debate in the senate and after a final vote there the bill would have to go to conference. Emergency Officers May Get Disabled Benefits WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. A vote in the senate tomorrow on the Bursura bill, giving disabled emergency officers of the A. E F. the same retirement benefits a3 regular army officers, was be lieved assured as a result of an agreement entered into late to day. Under the agreement de bate will proceed at 1 o'clock to morrow under the five-minute rule, and a vote soon afterward is expected. Actress Turned Down by New York Supreme Court NEW YORK. Feb. 20. Su preme Court-Justice Mullan today denied application of Edith Kelly Gould, for an order vacating the divorce decre? obtained in Paris by Frank J. Gould. In dismussing the action with $10 costs the court set forth that the action had not been brought in good faith by the actress and that the limit of her hope is to coerce the defendant. TWENTY-EIGHT INDICTED CHICAGO, Feb. 20. Indict ments were returned today charg ing Leslie Harrington and 27 others with operating confidence games through which several thousand persons were swindled. FOUGHT B N NEW MOVEMENT TO INSTALL MEN AND WOMEN OF WORKING CLASS IN LEGISLATIVE HALLS BEGUN PYTHIANS TO HAVE SESSION ON MARCH 14 Big Convention Slated by Knigths to Take Place in Salem Coming Month DALLAS, Or., Feb. 20 (Spe cial to The Statesman.) Plans are Ueing made by the Knights of Pythias lodges of this district to hold a big convention in Salem on Tuesday. March 14. at the hall of Central lodge of that city. The plans are in the hands of Floyd D. Mooro, district deputy grand chancellor, and nothing will be left undone by Mr. Moore to make this meeting one of the biggest successes in lodgedom ever held in Salem. Large delegations of Pythians from Dallas. Falls City. Indepen dence, Hi'.bbard and Sllverton have signified their intentions of attending the meeting. Several officers of the Oregon grand lodge will also be present, among them Grand Chancellor Lief S. Finseth. Salem being more centrally lo cated in the district has been se lected as the meeting place, and word has been sent to all the lodges of the district notifying them of the big meeting. BLOOD II ITS EKE Women Announce They Will Drop Peaceful Methods and Take up Cudgel EVANSTON, 111.. Feb. 20. The Woman's Christian Temperance union "has fire in its eye" and is going to drop its peaceful meth ods and fight to a finish to elect dry nominees in the fall elections. the organization announced to day in making public an editorial entitled "The Terrible Meek." which will appear in the union's Ftate papers, appearing between March 9 and May 15. After declaring that peace has always been the watchword of the W. C. T. U. and that "gentle ness, forebearance and everlast ing perseverance have won its victories heretofore," the editorial says: "Next November there will be a new congress and new state legislatures are to be elected Those legislatures and congress must be dry. The W. C. T..U. has always stood for peace to be gained through peaceful means. It still stands for peace,' but seeing and understanding the subtle propa ganda of the wet interests, it is going to fight that propaganda with truth." Further on, the editorial says: "Of course we expect the liquor interests to keep right on fight ing under the cloak of a personal liberty plea. They have labored for greed and opposed all right thinking and action. We are now ready to fight propaganda with absolute facts. We are not going to sit back calmly and let them fill the minds of readers with un truths." Old Type of Walks Soon Eliminated at Dallas DALLAS, Ore., Feb. 20. (Special to The Statesman.) The city of Dallas intends to build several miles of cement side walks during the coming summer and plans are now being made ny the city council towards their con struction. With this additional cement sidewalk area practically every old wooden walk in Dallas will be discarded and as a city or dinance forbids the construction of wooden walks the old walks of this type will soon be a thiug of the past. Two years ago the city voted to extend tne cement sidewalk district to take in the entire town and since that time more han 10 miles of walks have been laid of cement or concrete. A new ordinance will undoubted ly be passed before the walks arc begun this year changing th 3 type of walk from a two-piece concrete to a solid concrete construction This makes a far better type of sidewalk than the old typ? and will eliminate the crumblin ot the top surface as sometimfs takes place in the two-piece walks. DRY 11 HAS CHICAGO, Feb. 20 Unan- lmous support of a new move- ment to Install men and wo men of the working class in the nation's legislative halls was pledged by farmers, members of the Socialist and Farmer-Labor parties, labor union leaders and clergymen in a conference today, called by a group of railroad union men, headed by William H. Johnston, president of the In ternational Association of Machinists. Declared by Morris Hillquit of New York, to be "the most significant event that has tak en place in the American la bor movement for a genera tion," the conference brought together leaders high in labor and minor political party cir cles. Although Chairman Johnston declared in his open ing address that the time was not yet ripe for formation of a new party, today's meeting was expected to develop the germ of a new political organ ization which some delegates said would be functioning by 1924. Non-Partisan political ac tion in the 1922 elections was the keynote of the meeting. A dozen speakers pledged their support of a program to endorse candidates favorable to the working class. Com mittees on program and or ganization will report to the convention tomorrow when definite plans are expected tp be adopted. By combining their efforts, workers of every class could build a political machine which would elect to office "men and women truly repre sentative of the people of the United States," E. J. Manion, of the Order of Railway Te legraphers, told the delegates, and both he and Thomas Van Lear, former mayor of Minne apolis, pledged their support to such a movement. Morris Hiilquist of the Social ist party declared he was not at the meeting to make "political capital" and did not seek office for Socialist candidates there. Sictalixt Aid Offered ''We -are willing to give every thing we have as a party and as a movement toward the common f-aiiso " Ytr Hillnillt rtolnrpd 1 '"This is the first time that tha progressive elements of all di vergent factions have botten to gether in one common action. I believe it is the most significant event that has taken place in the American labor movement for a generation." Rev. Herbert Blgelow of Cin cinnati made a plea to capture the primaries in the established parties by electing men represen tative of the workers' interests. and H. F. Samuels, a farmer ot Idaho, urged the unity of all classes In achieving that end. He declared he had "looked and hoped for 30 years to be in such a convention as this." Tide of Insurgency Skcn Another clergyman. Rev. Rich ard Hogue of Philadelphia, execu tive secretary of the Church League for Industrial Democracy, pointed ont the opportunity to gather support from the public. "A tide of insurgency only lacking direction," he said, was sweeping the schools and semin aries of the country and its sup port could be gained by supplying leadership. The organized farmers' attitude was presented by A. F. Long of the United Society of Agriculture, who emphasized the necessity for obtaining the actual facts on the value of their production and de manding their share of produe- tion. Fa rm cr- Labori tea Eager The Farmer-Labor party, rep resented by J. G. Brown, national secretary, was friendly to the new movement, asserted Mr. Brown, who pledged his support "in any liberal plan of coalition." "We must depend on ourselves and not on our political 'friends, he declared. "We must develop leadership within our own ranks." The same Id?a was expressed by James H. Maurer of the Na tional Executive council of the Socialist party and president of (Continued on page 2). COMPANY F BOYS TO GET REAL MONEY Checks From Government for Attendance at Drill Are Distributed Today In this mornipg's mal. members! of Salem Company F, 162nd In fantry, will receive checks from ! the treasury of the United States, in payment of their attendance at company drills for the six months ending December 31, 1921. The pay for-company drills Is figured on the attendance of each member of the company and in order to draw pay. the member must attend at least 0 per cent of the drills. The pay for each drill is equivalent to the pay for one day in the regular army of the same rank. Members of Company F will re ceive a total of $1561.9. Among the non-commissioned offers and privates, the following stood high in attendance and received the following amounts: First Sergeant Ernest A. Rob bins, $44.17. Sergeants: Forest E. Wilborn, $33.50; Bert L. Ford, $35.50; Hyatt J. Maynard, $37.50; Harry Plant, $31.83. Corporals: Raymond W. Brunkall. $29.06; George R. Welch. $29.06; Harold W. McKin ney. $30.83. Privates First Class: Ray W. Remmington, $22.50; Charles E. Anderson, $22.17; William W. Craig, $22.17; Harold L. Larson, $22.67. Privates Harry E. Geisson, $20; Harold B. Millard, 18; Louis A. Burgess $16" and Albert W. Blankenship, $16. Members of company L of Dal las, also of the 162nd infantry, will receive their treasury checks for attendance between July 1 and December 31, 1921. This company will receive 4n 73 checke a total of $1475.02. The non commissioned officers and pri vates who stood high In attend ance will receive checks as fol lows: First Sergeant Clifford P. Hel gerson, $38.87. Sergeants: Edward L. Pres ton. $33; Ross Fletcher, $32.29; Alvln Rabb, $25.60. Corporals: Joseph Glatch $25.90; Elwyn Craven, $24.33; Ray Smith, $20.60. Privates First Class: Peter A. Friesen. $25.17; Dudley Getchel, $25.67; Lester Willis. $23.33. Privates: Virgil Brook. $22; John Cole. $22 and George A. Mather, $22. DAYTON BiRL'S Death of Frances Lischter Takes Place at Local Hospital Sunday . Today at the closed office of the Dayton, Ore., .Tribune, there is a chair turned against the lino type machine which Frances Lischter was wont to operate. For Frances has answered the call of "30." , Sunday afternoon Bhe passed away at a Salem hos pital after an unequal fight against the effects of arsenic which she had taken when she was betrayed, as she said. through an unfortunate love af fair. , When Frances died she had not given up hope that David Rob inson, also of Dayton, would keep his oft-broken promise to marry her.. But David did not keep his promise to Salem and Marlon tcounty authorities that she would return and make her his lawful wife even though death was near. To District Attorney John Car son and Chief of Police Verden Moffitt, Robinson admitted the truth of the girl's story of their relations. Frances and her drab Jltfle tragedy will soon be forgotten. Already Robinson's friends in Dayton are Intimating that the girl was making a false charge against the Dayton youth. Their Intimations are not credited by those who witnessed the last scenes of the tragedy In Salem. The funeral services and Inter ment of Frances Lischter. will be held at the I. O. O. T. cemetery at Dayton af 2 p. m., today. FUNERAL TODAY ENACTMENT IS COHTTEDII Missives That Deluge Presi dent t Are Suspiciously Similar and Lack Force for That Reason. COMMANDER McNIDER ASKS HASTE IN ACTION Whether Sales Tax Will Be Embodied in Initial Meas ure is Doubtful ;j WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -The question of financing the soldiers' bonus was referred back today to the special tax subcommittee by the major ity members of the house ways ami means, commutes anc it was announced that the sub-committee would at tack the problem ; again late tomorrow The trend of thought in cloak rooms and corridors was. that some sort of manufac turers or wholesalers plan would be drafted fa accord ance with President Hard ing's suggestion that financ ing be done by a sales tax Whether approval . of such & 1 tax by the entire committee. Republicans and Democrats, could be obtained, appeared to be a moot question. xu nil enurt w utocit ? ui sales tax within the commit tee, 22 Republican opponent! of this kind of levy met and framed petitions which werd freely circulated and signed before the house adjourned for the day. Representative Dickinson of Iowa who called the meeting, said it was the hope to obtain sufficient sig natures to convince the ma jority committee members that it would be impossible to put a sales tax provision through the house. The petition declared In favor ot adjusted compensation but In opposition to the financing of ft by a sales or manufacturers' tax and sets for its signers, uwlU op pose any rule for the adjusted compensation that does not per mit a separate vote on any sale or manufacturers' tax prorlsioe therein." . 4 President Is Deluged : 7 1 While the way and means com mittee was discussinr tha bonni question, it Was made known at the White House that President Harding had received many com munications opposing enactment of the bonus legislation for the present. At the tame time the American legion's legislative committee made public a telegram from Hanf ord MacNlder," the le gion's national commander, oppos ing any further delay in the bonus legislation. - It was said that the communica tions reaching Mr. Harding in op position to immediate enactment of the bonus outnumbered those favoring action at this time, bat It was added that many ot those opposing the bill showed a sim ilarity. . -is Sales Tax Knotty Issna , Much of informal bonva dis cussion at the capltol today cen tered around the question of wnvuiei m - - could be voted . ont ot the ways and means committee. Represen tative Garner of Texas, the rank ing Democrat on the committee ia n.mAfri(l minority B41U uiD Av. w- members would vote solidly against such i tar. On thUaeis. tti Republican, votes would oe- . .V Krnnnul and it WSJ UB- derstood that present estimates were that four of the 17 Republi .AgM be aralnst It. with two others probably doubtful. . Repttesentative Dickinson reiter ated that If the agriculturarbloe was unsuccessful in its efforts to block the sales tax in committee. It would make a determined stand in the Republican conference which is to b8 called to consider the bill. H seemed confident of S; TIClor y inn. mi, .y w - tb)e sales tax believed that they could win In the conference and were understood to be counting on administration influence, an embodied In President Harding's (Continued oa ptgt 2). i