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"' CIBOT7LATZ0H ttm for Mr. ivi-l xx tub cxtt or HT.rri aai laatrfcm Im Marie u4 PUc OMatla Kmxtj arwrybady aU The Oregon Statesman na kokb xswar axb 8019 Tl1Iv nA flaaa tCJl Ara for six month anding Mar 11. v 122 .; -- Suadty "'f " --: ,' 'i ' Daily and Saadaj ., , , 6Sa - ' SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR Aiai; oregon; tWgDNESDAYTMORNiNG; June 21,-1922 PRICE: FIVE CCNT3 r - n t rj UL i FORDS SHOALS OFFER FLAYED ;B!I11TTEE . Republican Members De- 1 . -. . nounce rronananmsis and Urge That Public' Be Given Facts. OFFER OF $5,000,000 ? DECLARED INADEQUATE Expenditure Already Many Times More Than Price Wow Offered WASHINGTON, June 20. Eight Republican members of the house ; military committee today signed a report, submitted to the house by Representative JCearns of Ohio, denouncing Henry Ford's offer to purchase and lease the government's project at Muscle Shoals, "Ala, - Their t action In creased to tour the number of reports emanating from the com mittee and marked anotner di vision of oplnton among the 21 ..-K. aa V '- flnuflAfl tit Muscle Shoals disposition. ' ' Tho eight membera were Rep resentative Kearns, Ohio; Morin, Crago and Ransley, Pennsylvan ia; Crowther; New York; Hill. Maryland; Parker, New Jersey and Frothingham, Massachusetts, None of the signatories to the report was .willing for congress to accept the Ford offer. AYanta Public Informed t Tb -Kearns report stressed the importance tf getting f "to . the country a clear; fair and unbiased statement of , tacts" concerning the Ford proposal, declared that "wicked" and "paid" propagan dists . were ''scattering propagan da throughout the country that la often void of truth" and attacked the Ford offer in a way that left none of its provisions free from hestile criticism. " r ' V 1 ' The report also asserted that the Alabama " Power company., which submitted an offer to de velop the power projects at-Mus- fairly with the government" and was ottering $2.500,000 ' for Its Interests - In the steam plant at Gorgas, In accordance with the terms of the contract . executed with the war department when the- plant was erected.- t .; Plant Was Krected In another part the report sum marized the cost prices of the pro jects which Mr. Ford would pur chase for ,$5,000,000. A total expenditure '-of $85,343,296 was claimed on the Waco Inquiry, the Gorgas steam plant -and nitrate plants' No. 1 and 2, while 'the amount offered was held to be whollyInadequate." 100-Year Jjaum Attacked Among the other provisions of the Ford offer which were attack ed by the report were those pro posing a lease of the water pro jects for 100 - years, that fixing" the terms of the amortization plan for repaying the government for building dam two and three; that offering $55,000 annually to the government tor maintenance and repair of dams; that provid ing for the mannacture of fertilis ers during the 100-year lease, and the failure of the Detroit manu facturer to agree to pay Interest on the $17,000,000 already spent on the Wilson dam. ".Some say that Mr. Ford Is honest," the report declared, "and that he has said he wants to make (fertiliser, and- they are willing to take him at his word whether it Is in , the contract or not. What ther say about Mr. ; Ford is not . endowed with a perpetual life, al , though some members of the mil- Itary affairs - committee would give him this water power lease ' In perpetuity, i v . .. "Mr. Ford cannot live through out any considerable part of the terms of this water power lease ? hold, and when ha is, gone and ; all, the men that he may have sur- rounding him will have passed away we do not know in what un conscionable hands this plant will fall and neither does any, man who : Is living today." ' V 1 t THE WEATHER Scattered showers and cooler, TREMENDOUS CROWD TURNS : i Salem folk turned out in great numbers last -night to hear the first band concert of. the year which was giYen by the Salem Cherrian band in Willson park. This will be the enly concert this week, since the band . will accompany the Cherrian to Fortland and will not be here Friday, according to Oscar Steelhammer, director. - - ? I Return of Ship Holdings to r Private Interest Serious ly Needed "WASHINGTON, June 20. President Harding tonight gave formal approval to plans for Re publican leaders in the house to bring - the administration ship subsidy bill to a vote at this ses sion immediately after 'the tariff bill had 'been sent to the con ference by the house. The - president's position was stated in a 'letter, to Representa tive' Mondell of Wyoming, the Republican leader, which em bodledl ; also -derailed ' arguments advanced by Mr. Harding In fa vor of enactment of the measure at the present session. Public Interest will not admit of a postponement of -decision on the policy to the next congress or the approaching short session, the- president said,) but advantage will result in a delay, of, a short ' time while house members, par ticularly many of whom are now awar from Washington, consult their constituents. , The subsidy bill, he declared, is needed to get the government ship holdings In to private hands and Into econ omic usage if for nothing else, and this question he held "not to be , prejudiced by the old and worn-out - ery against the sub Idy." ; - -- ), The exact time fixed for voting on ' the measure, the president said; in describing his agreeemnt with house ; leaders, is "approxi mately such time as house mem bers will be called In active at tendance to send the tariff bill to conference." lEEflilLY ..4 -! ,- ' t.-- Ei Astoria Car Overturns on Jefferson Road Donald McComber is Hurt Three people had narrow es capes from' death yesterday after noon on the Salem-Jefferson road four miles from Jefferson when the automobile driven by Donald McComber of Astoria, and in which his wife and little girl were riding, turned completely over, pinning McComber beneath the ear and inflicting serious braises and sprains to the woman and little girl. V The injured people were freed from the wrecked car by passing motorists and taken to Jefferson where they received medical at tention.. .,;-'' ' Mr. McComber was unable to tell exactly how the accident oc curred, but it is thought that he was driving at a fair rate of speed and a tire blew out, causing the machine to turn turtle. Mr. McComber was the most seriously injured of the trio, suf fering a badly wrenched back and bruises about: the face and body Mrs. v McComber4 -escaped 5 with bruises, while the . girl sustained a lacerated leg. f Tho McCombers left - Astoria several days ago ; and : were -on their way to California. J" According to' those who viewed the demolished car and saw the way Mr. McComher ' was pinned beneath, death would have been almost a certainty had the car been other than a light one. ' It is their,; intention to resume their journey as soon as their In juries make travel possible. OTT0IEAR Blpj0iRT ' Oscar B. Gingrich was much ap preciated last night in two solos. He sang the "March of the Tor eador" and one popular number, the latter not well heard because sung through a megaphone which caused folks to feel "that now they heard and now they didn't." Fountain En joyed The hundreds of youngsters en. joyed the fountain which played for an "unusually long time last night. The program closed with "The Star Spangled Banner." Mr. Gingrich will be soloist for next Tuesday's concert and tor several concerts in the Immed iate future, according to Mr. Steelhammer. It is planned to have different soloists during the summer's concerts, he says and other, local persons, will be heard. Personnel of Band ". v The personnel of the Salem Cherrian band was given out last night by Mr. Steelhammer aa fol lows: - . Cornets C. F. Pabst, W. H. &f ills, C. J. Kurth, A. B. ' Arm priest, E. R. Payne nd G. M. eager. Clarinets Adolph Born beck, George Smith, Earl Ander son, Ernest Derwent, Charles Pop pa, Roland De Sart. Horns- Lud wlg : Mickelson, Richard . Ryley, Jr.,. John Graber, Delbert Gear heart. ' Baritone C. G. Gray. Trombones T. C. Walsh, Frank Zlnn. Bass Richard Ryley, Sr., John Steelhammer. Brums David Tailmadge.A Ralph South wick. John Graber is manager of the band. NRMHGETS Receipt of , Court Record Causes Rumor Mathilde's Father May Again Marry CHICAGO. June 20. Harold F. McCprmlck, head of. the execu tive committee of the Internation al Harvester, company, today re ceived an exemplified copy of the decree of divorce obtained last January by his wife, Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, daughter of John D. Rockefeller. With the decree was an exemplified copy of the record in the case. The records were delivered while Mr. McCormick was at the Wesley Memorial hospital recov ering from an operation perform ed a week ago by Dr. Victor D. Lespinasse, widely known for his research work in the field of re juvenation accomplished through glandular operations. ' Considerable, mystery was thrown about the securing of the records, it being pointed out by the court attaches that the certi fied copies might be used in other states or in Europe as documen tray evidence of the divorce, should It become necessary. to pro duce such evidence, as in procur ing a marriage license. . The re vived rumors that Mr. McCormick. who is 51 years old, might be married soon - to Mme. Ganna Walska but his attorney, John P. Wilson, denied that this was the reason for procuring the record. At the Wesley hospital, Mr. Mc Cormick. sitting up in bed, receiv ed reporters during the afternoon and talked freely on any subject except his operation and the fu ture plans for himself or his 17-year-old-daughter, Mathllde, who has announced her intention of marrying Max Oser, Swiss riding master and 27 1-2 years her sen-; ior. ' "h "And what'a the latest from Madame 7" a wave of the In valid's hffnd, stopped the reporter. The arrival of Mathllde, accom panied hy Edwin A. Cassels, at torney for Mr, McCormick recent ly when Mrs. McCormick sought to place a legal obstacle ihetore the marriage of Mathllde and Oser when Mr. McCormick was appoint-, ed his daughter, guadlan, brought the Interview to a close. l - DECREE IPSDIP IS ALLEGED; PERVERT IS ! NOT ISSUE IN lllSAiaON GOUWH r RAIL HPUT IMMEDIATE TRIAL .. . Government Operation Will Not Be Asked, Labor Fed eration Told at Conven tion. UNION PROGRAM NOT GIVEN UP ENTIRELY Administration Declared to Be Unfriendly by Union President CINCINNATI, June 20. Gov ernment ownership and operation of the railroads will not be an issue in the threatened strike of 1,000,000 shop workers and oth ers, spokesmen for the rail unions today told the American Federa tion of Labor convention which responded to their request by, a re-affirmation of the federation's stand In favor of the adoption of such a policy. "The rail unions have not abandoned the program of public ownership or grown luke warm or indifferent." declared William O. Johnston, president of the machin ists' union in explaining the re quest. . . v "We ask declaration, however because we have a most unfriend ly and unsympathetic administra tion at this time and our enemies would say if the strike occurs in the very near future that the fight was for government ownership, -believe the strike is inevitable for there Is, no other way out and we want the Issue clear-eul. The tsue is the amelioration &l the wrongs committed by. the railroads. Similar pleas by others, who are the prospective leaders in the threatened walkout led Max Hayes of Cleveland to withdraw his mo tion for a re-declaration of the government ownership policy. The motion was injected into the con vention's work when it for a sec ond time during the day went on record as favoring repeal of the transportation act, in which con nection it denounced the railroad labor board for its orders, espe cially those reducing wages and changing working conditions. Consideration of the strike threat in connection with the res olution for repeal of the transpor tation action provoked the only long discussion of the day's ses sion which was crowded with busi ness. Early in the day the convention was marked by an oral clash be tween President John L. Lewis, pf the United Mine Workers and Jos eph Lynall, Peoria, trades and la bor council, when the latter sought to force consideration of a resolution congratulating Alexan der Howat and August Dorchy, leaders of Kansas miners, for their stand against the Kansas in dustrial court. The trouble ended ith the convention refusing to act on the resolution, and its ref erence to the miners' union for consideration. In addition to its big program of work, the convention was marked by the beginning of a movement to run Mr. Lewis as a candidate for president of the fed eration in opposition to Samuel Gompers, although Mr. Lewis de clared he was ''in no sense" a candidate. Secretary Weeks Should Resign Says Capper TOPEKA, Kan.. June 20. Senator Capper of Kansas in a special dispatch received here to night declares that Secretary of War. Weeks is out of tune with the Harding administration and that if he does not resign, his resigna tion might very properly be re quested by the president. Automobile Bandit Caught Following Bold Hold-up ..- -' . r ROSEVILLE, CaL, June 20. Herbert Lee Carter. 21, automo bile bandit, was taken Into cus tody here early tonight after he had forced an autoist at the point of a revolver to drive - him here from Marysville. Carter baa ter rorized the district between here and Oroville since .Monday after noon, forcing several autoistg to carry him over the highway,' ; WEST GRANTED LARGE VERDICT IN LOBBY CASE Ex-Governor Awarded $19, 681 Due from Coos County for Taxes Refunded 1919 SUC.ENE. Or., June 20. Os wald West, ex-governor of Oregon was given a verdict by a jury in the circuit court here this after noon against Coos county, Ore gon, in the sum of $19,681 which he claims was due him as a commission for lobbying before ccngress at Washington, D. C, in 1919, for a" bill to re-imburse Cecs county in the sum of $190, 000 as taxes on the southern Ore gon land grant which had been turned back to the government. The, ex-governor offered testi mony to the effect that he had a verbal agreement with the coun ty courts of Coos and Douglas, that he was to be paid 4 per cent of the amount refunded to those counties. The case will be appeal ed to the supreme court, accord ing to an announcement of attor neys for Coos county. Big Subscriptions Received from All Committee Has Been Able to Meet When the Illahee Country club was organized in Salem several years ago, one prominent citizen refused to join and become a charter member, declaring he had neither the time, money, health nor conveyance to get him to the golf links. But later he joined, and since joining he has found that he has more time than he ever realized. He has played golf and become exceedingly robust, so durned ro bust in fact that he has found it easy to make money. He didn't miss the few hundred that later he invested in an automobile, and now drives to the golf links sev eral times a week. When he was visited a couple of days ago by the committee of club members who are soliciting for $10000 to Improve the grounds and club house he didn't hesitate but wrote out a check for $200. The committee reports that it is being received courteously ev erywhere and that large subscrip tions have been signed by all whom the committee has had op portunity to meet. One of the much needed im provements in the piping of wa ter to the greens so that grass greens may be maintained instead of the present cinder greens. A cottage is to be built for the keeper and improvements will be mado to the club house. Section of Denver & Rio Grande Passenger Leaves' Rails in Colorado LEADVILLE. Colo., June 20. Twenty-four persons were in jured, four seriously today when the first section of Denver & Rio Grande Western passenger No. 2, eastbound, was wrecked at Keel dar, a small station 10 miles from Leadville. Spreading rails were believed to have caused the acci dent. The scene of the wreck Is near the foot of Tennessee Pass. ? The train carried many. Shriners returning from San Francisco, i i Three Pullman cars and the dining car turned over, whfle an other : Pullman also jumped the track and turned part way over COUNTRY CLUB DRIVE SUCCESS SIB H IN TRAIN WRECK LAI G10NG TO BE DEPORTED Chinese Alleged to Have At tacked Benefactor's Wife in Government's Toils Scorned by bis fellow country men in tbe United States and doomed ' to face ostracism in his own country for the. rest of his natural life, Lai Gwong, arrested here about a week ago, started on the first lap of his journey to China last night in charge of R. P. Bonham. immigration in spector, who will take Lai to Portland, from which place he will be immediately deported. Husband Trounces Him The average celestial has little respect or regard for the laws of the Caucasian, but seldom are they known to violate the laws of their own land or of their own god?, but LaPQwong respected neither the laws of this country or his own when, 10 days ago, he attempted a criminal assault upon he pretty little wife pf Lai Sue, the man who had befriended him. He was severely beaten by the husband and later turned over to the sheriff's office and placed in the county jaiL Record Not Good Investigation on the part of the immigration authorities disclosed the fact that Lai Gwong had also been sought for the past three years for making unlawful entry into the United States. The rec ords of the government showed that he had been deported In 1907 for a like crime upon a Chinese woman. He remained In China for four years and gained admittance to Canada when that government permitted the en trance of Orientals by the pay ment of a $500 head tax. Three years later Lai 'paid smugglers another $200 to bring him into this country. Since that time he has been around Salem. Life of Outcast Awaits The two crimes against women of his own race, of which he had been charged during 10 years, set a precedent, for nothing of the like had ever before been heard of among the Chinese. For that reason1 he is scorned by all of his own people, and must live out his life, isolated In his own country lest he be brought to answer to the unwritten law of his fellow men. One Man Killed, One Hurt When Auto Hits Train EUGENE, Or., June 20. W. A. Basf!eld, aged 50, of West Spring field, was killed and Harry Thompson, of Creswell, was bad ly injured when an automobile in which , they were riding and the rear end of a logging train col lided at Springfield early today. Bastield, Thompson and G. R. Smith,, employes of tbe Booth Kelly lumber company's mill, on the night shift, were on their way back from work when the train, switching in the yard, backed into their automobile at a crossing. Smith jumped from the running board of the automobile to a flat ear of the train and escaped in jury. Alien Women to Have Same Rights as Men WASHINGTON, June 20. To meet conditions which its friends claimed have been emphasized hy the women's suffrage amendment, the house today by a vote of 206 to 96 passed a bill which would open to alien married women sub stantially naturalization and citi zenship rights enjoyed by alien men. The bill would also permit American women who. marry for eigners to retain their citizenship unless they renounce their alle giance as do American men who marry aliens or unless they marry aliens Ineligible, to United States citizenship. LODGED JAIL IS L AND IKELY C. A. Sloat, alleged pervert, and former Oakville school teacher, was returned to Sa lem last night from Albany and placed in the county jail by Sheriff Oscar Bower to face six indictments secretly returned by the Marion coun ty grand jury last Friday, charging him with criminal attacks upon two small girls of Salem. . - ; f Sloat was recently arrested in Albany, charged with like assaults upon a small girl of that city, but investigation by the local sheriffs office satis fied the Linn county officials that there was a stronger case against the former school teacher in. this county. The specific charges on which Sloat will be tried in the Marion county courts con sist of one charge of . rape, two of assault with intent to commit rape, and three crimes against nature. ' According to the authorities, Sloat has con fessed to the alleged crimes against the two Salem girls, the offense beinjr. committed March 5. - ' t. -X ,r;- This is not the first time that" the 'alleged ' pervert has faced charges of this nature. It is aid he was convicted for a similar offense in Ta coma some years ago, and that he was arrested and later acquitted of an assault charge in McMinnville several months ago. ? It is possible that the ac cused man will - be arraigned immediately as Circuit Judge Bingham announced recently that Sloat would be given juick hearing if returned to Marion from Linn county. It was on this provision that District Attorney Lewelling of I,inn county relinquished Sloat to the local officials.' Should Sloat be convicted on all six counts against him it would be. possible to impose a life sentence upon him, Dis trict Attorney John H. Car son has declared. - Hitch In Counts in Waterford District Causes Official Investigation - - . . DiTBLIN, June 20 The results of the elections are still incom plete and final figures in some of the important constituencies will not be announced, until Wednes day. There has been some hitch at Waterford, which with Tipper- ary east, forms a constituency of five peats, and two officials of the provisional government have gone there to straighten the mat ter cut. The DeValera members whose seats in the DaU are endangered, including Charles Burgess, former minister of defense, and Seamus Robinson, one of the leaders of the dissentient section of the er ror- The nature of the hitch 1 not "finitely known but it is expect ed to cause a postponement of declaration of the results for pos sibly 24 hours. Man and Woman Murdered; Gunman Escapes In Car . ,UV . YAKIMA, Wasbl, June 20. A woman was killed and her hus band mortally wounded at Harrah, a Yakima Indian reservation town according to a report to the sher iffs office here by telephone. The alleged assassin escaped in a high powered car. The highways leadr ing from the reservation are heav ily guarded. Sheriff Pad Bear, before he left the ' scene of the killing declared he knew the.Iden tity of the supposed gunman. ELECTION COUNT DELAYED FIGHT LEO BY SENATOR ILS Move to Upset Early Con 1 Sideration Brings Tcrricf Battle on Floor of Hcu:;! Vote 52 to 8. WALL STREET ACCUSED I OF BLOCKING MEASUnn Soldier Relief Measure t: Follow Tariff Bill; Bit- i v ter Fight Waged - WASHINGTON, June 20.Tt! soldiers' bonus bill was made to day, by a vote of & 2 to i, the spe cial order "of business of tho sen ate immediately after the final vote on the tariff bill unless it U disposed of before that time. Adoption of a motion to th! : effect9 came after an all day fight, at the. outset of which an effort to get the bonus before the sen ate failed. : Several tenatort gavo formal notice that they wouU continue " to press for action cn, the bonus ahead of the tariff. J-X move to upset the program, of the Republican majority call ing for action first on the tariff was launched by Senator Walsh. Democrat, - Massachusetts, who made a formal motion that the tariff bill be displaced by the bon us measure. Senator Watson. Republican, ; Indiana, moved to lay this motion on the table and his motion prevailed Eight Dem ocrats supported the Watson mo tion and two Republicans vote ! against it . . . -With the' announcement of tin result of this vote, the bonus row began In earneit and waged for five hours..- ;'. v - In offering his motion to dis place the tariff, Senator Wals, stated this was the third time that there had been an effort to post pone action and "by that meant kill the bill' He added that Dis ponents of the legislation 'propose 1 to put me senate on record on th question.-r ? ,- . f r ; ; McCnmbor Denies Charge Denying that there was apur pose to defeat the bill n.tn McCumber, Republican, North Da- aoia, in charge of the legislation, read to the senate tho resolut! adopted yesterday, by' the Rc lican conference and specif, . that the bonus be made the t finished business of the senate alt er action on: the tariff. Ha de clared that this was assurance that there wOuld bo definite ac tion at this session of congress. Senator Watson of Indiana, cut off further discussion by his mo tion to lay the. Walsh motion on tfct table, but after the roll call, the storm broke In earnest. Sen atOr ilObinSAn. namivnt. Arlran. sas, charged In the course of a long address that the object of to day's proceedings was to prevent passage of the .bonus at this ses sion; adding that tbe bill was be ing "mads . the 'football of con temptible politics." J ; ' Wall Street Attacked Senator Heflia, Democrat, Ala bama, attacked th maiorltr for delaying action,' v declaring that Wall street was behind the move for delay in the hope that the bill could be killed In the meantime by a propaganda which the, sena tor charged was being conducted by the "war v rich He also at tacked metropolitan newspapers opposing the -bonus and declared that some of the papers In oppo sition were "subsidized." , The two Democratic senators were : attacked . hy Senator Ln rnotl Renublican. of Wisconsin. who declared ; that they delayed final disposition of the bonus bill by the time they bad taken up In disensslnr i He . chareed also that the time was being occupied for the Dumose of makin some "political capital out of the situ ation." : . . --.,: ;, : .: ;;. '; -. Senator Watson of Indiana then offered, his motion to make the bonus the special order of business after nassaee of the tariff and Senator Ashurst, Democrat, Arizo na, iumned into tbe fray with a demand: that there be an under standing that once the bonus was taken uo it should , cot be dis placed by the ship -eubsidy or any other bllL. Senator Borah. Repub lican, Idaho, said he; would ti c . (Continued on pass 2)