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iff - FIRST SECTIOil Pages I to 6 TWO SECTIONS lOPczes . 1 1 SEVirry-SECONp year MEM, OREQON.OltUESDAY MQRJflNG;' AUGUST 31; 1922 PRICE: v FIVE CENTS U17U UUVJ 1 1 '"j V LI: Lm ' J u viZ,-A .1 il v "a .'I 'i ' 10 fa '3 1 X it 5; 4 0 Opinion Expressed That Re clamation ; Amendment Has Aroused Stronger Executive Disapproval." ALL AmSNDm1nTS? ARE FULLY DISPOSED OF SmooVsIPlari to Give Paid up Life Insurance Policy rs Rejected; ? WASHINGTON, .Aug., ; 2 0. AH ponding amendments to - the eol dlers. bonus W were disposed bt today by the senate, buj whether a, final! rote would be reached to morrow depended upon the num ber and length of speeches ' tWith favorable action assured, e paramount , Question , In . the minds at friends and , foes alike was the reception the measure would receive at the White House! : President May Object , i There still was no official word from the president but callers who discussed ', the , subject L with him today said they gained the Impression that the addition : of the land reclamation project and the provision for; the payment of the bonus out of the interest on the foreign debt had made 'the bill even more objectionable than It was In its original form. Again today the possibilities of a yeto ran through the senate de bate. Senator McCumber, - Re publican, North ? Dakota,: ta charge of the .measure, contended that as reported the proposed leglala Uon met- the objections hereto fore expressed publicly by the president. He added, however, that. he did not knbw what' new objections might present them selves. Borah Disagrees , Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, an opponent of the bonus, disagreed, witn Mr. McCumber, contending that the bill "ran di rectly counter" to some of the executive's , objections and failed to meet others. , He referred par tlculariy to Mr. Harding's request for postponement until industrial and financial conditions .had reached a more normal state and his disapproval of i "piecemeal" payments to the veterans. ' t: Leading proponents of the bill urged throughout the debate that the senate retrain from "loading , down" the measure with addition- , al amendments which might fur nish further ground for a veto. AH proposed changes were re Jected by decisive majorities. First the Bursum amendment to nay the veterans half cash Immediate ly and the .remainder In five years was voted down, 44 to 27 Then, without a roll call, the ' Smoot proposal to pay the bonus with a manufacturer's sales tax was disagreed to. ' ' life Insurance Rejected i Senator Smoot presented and argued at length In favor of his v plan to give each veteran a paid up life insurance policy, maturing in ZO years or sooner, at death but this was rejected 48 to 18 . Before offering it the Utah sen at or eliminated the sales tax pro vision. : .: j As they will on the final vote party lines disappeared on the roll V of today. The Bursum amendment,, was supported by 16 Republicans and 11 Democrats , and was opposed by 31 Republl cans ana zi Democrats. The O . . : Diuwi mnirsnce amenament re ceived 15 Republican and 3 Demo , crat votes. with 30 , Republican and 16 Democratic votes In oppo sition, v Train'Hfts Open' Switch. - Fireman Quits His Job uywiiiisiiTU III., Aug. 30 Train No. ? , Chicago & Alton ran through an open 'switch "at Covel, six' miles west ot Bloom Ington tonight, but no damage re sulted.' The switch la believed to have been tampered with. .Fire- man Zombro refused to go farther with the train and it was backed to Bloonrlngton where another fireman was obtained and the run resumed. . ;' ;'"v( ; , STATESRMN GR0WERS1EI liBQR ! The Statesman is not an iemproVnierit agency, bat it 'does hold that it is' every pne's duty 'and .privilege to helpi tnen to get jobs, and to help get men for jobs in the pre3 eiit fruit'erisis Ah enormous crop, of prunes, that, bids ;f airt to save the fruit growers of the valley, is now almost ready for harvest;' and there are ., not' enough pickers in sight 'to savd this crop. To get the men and the jobs to gether and save the f year3 crop is worth while. The Statesman will carry a regular column, giving the name of growers wanting CAPITOL STREET TO BE OPENED; DEED TO PROPERTY RECEIVED .Victory has almost perched street openers, Fred. Erixon They have'been meeting every Wednesday as religiously as a tuher gives Ms, money. They hadn't always anything new to present but still they TLast night they met' to crow. They had received a deed to one of the pieces of -property, the Roberts tract straight north of the old end of Capitol street; and their attorney, after going over the abstract hese glad words: "Boys, it's can hop to it with all your might." - Trip Through Orchard Dis trict Shows Great Yield v and Little Labor An extraordinary crop of prunes is rapidly maturing in the Wil lamette valley and picking season Is now not more than 10 days or two weeks off. - . A, 30-mile drive through the prune sections tributary .to Salem Wednesday, morning, . emphasized the fact that the prunes are here almost ready to' pick and the dis quieting tact that there seems to be a certain shortage of help to harvest the crop when the pick ing season begins. .-.-v , Ih-yers Are Numerous I ; Practlcaly every dryer, no mat ter how ancient or how small, has been repaired 4 and ..brought .back Into service for this year's ' cropl There . never was such a number ot dryers in working. as this year. At that, however, there is no sur plus drying capacity. In-the esti mation of good prune authorities. Some of the fruit is pretty likely to have to wait almost up to the spoiling stage before it can be handled . through the dryers.- ! Pickers Seriously Needed J3nt the dryer capacity, is jess problematical than getting help to harvest the fruit. The crop Is so large, and there is so good a de mand for other miscellaneous help in, city and country, that a real shortage of ; pickers ' now looms up to plague ' the-, growers - who must -- gather their fruit or lose their year's work. , - . ' The picking is now expected to begin about September 15, Only a few of the orchards can begin much earlier than that. ' The Sa lem schools open on October 1, leaving two weeks time for ,the thousands of : school children to help In the prune JiarTest Most of . the country schools open at about the same Umer their year being' based on the average prune harvest close. ' It ndw looks ne cessary for most or all, of the children who : can do so to : be PRUNE CROPS: NEED PICKERS Continued on page S, TO HELP help phone number of , Dick ers' required, rural -route and any information necessiiry for pickers to locate the place. This is free. It is cheerf jiTly dedicated to the growers' who Want men and th workers Who want jobs. 1 . ... Write, bring or phone your address and your prune pick ing needs to The .Statesman, phone 23, Salem,' and it will be spread broadcast . 30 that every possible picker can know. Some big growers are still without help and a big crop almost ready to pick. Save the prunes they're valuable. on the banners of the Capitol and others. ' every week, for months, giving with a magnifying glass, said ab-so-loot-e-ly all right! You , wm act m unce. They haven't hopped to It just yet, for the other abstract, from Hunt, the other owner, "won't be ready for the attorney until this morning. But if he passes on it during, the day,' us he xpects to do, they will have a special meet lh tonieht to talk with the en glneers and surveyors and lot ap praisers and start .the ball to roll ing early Friday morning. The property, as it has been fig ured out, will cut up Into 32 lots, each with a 50-foot frontage. One man attended the meeting last night with the money in his poc ket to pay cash for one or two lots. He wants a home. Others have put In their applications, and the promoters-expect to sell it all within a day after it is opened. i This is one of the 'first town sites in history to be opened with out anybody making a tent out of it. The property,: isrut on the market at cost In acreage diocks. The association Insisted on the deeds being made to Fred Erixon, father of the street-opening agita tion, and he will retail vtbe sub- deeds tor the association,. , ; . ' i We've helped start some other good things In Salem, even it we have been slow In gett,lng this street' opened,'- said Mr. Erixon, last night. "The Summer street paving, and the paving lust now being , started; , past the . Valley Packing company . plant, , both seem to have gtown out ' Of our agitation., Now when we get Cap itol street actually open,we shall feel that we nave done something not altogether bad f ot the public welfare." . Derby' wniHeipr F. N. Derby, who is now vis iting at Newport, has been inter ested in the movement, and he will be called over to help in ap praising the value of the lots. New Artesian Well Shoots Water Forty Feet in Air YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. SO. Spouting a torrent 40i fe thevair, through: a 1 -Inch pipe the third arteBianweli in - the Cold creek district "came in na- fexpectedly today according to a messenger who arrived, from the well this evening. ; water was struck at 625 feet. The well was drilled by the Cold Creek DrlUlag fi, Development company in which Frank Rothrock of Spokane fa a ieaditrg stockholder! VERBAL ST0I1 Members Quit Until , Today Aftejf Relecting AH Am enifmerits to Coal Distri bution Bill. . PASSAGE AS FRAMED . . . . IS PREDICTION NOW Principal Attack ,bn Measure is By Representative Rayburn of Texas WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (By the .Associated Press) After., re jecting all amendments to the ad- i ministration coal distribution "bill I the house ran into an unexpected storm of talk late today and wa forced to quit until tomorrow without reaching a vote. Every change proposed was either on a point of order or de cidedly defeated. At the end" of the all day wrangle. Chairman Winslow, of the interstate com merce committee, who was In charge of the measure, predicted it would go through as framed. - Settlement If rid Possible . As the house worked . on the measure which its supporters claimed was all the legislation needed to meet the emergency caused by the coal and rail strikes, word reached leaders that attempts to settle the anthrp-J cite strike might succeed and that the senate was ready to take up the house coal tills as soon as it was through with-the- bonus. ' it President Harding's original suggestion for creation of a buy ing and selling coal agency was put before the houae by Represen tative Anderson. Republican. Min nesota, with a provision Indirect ly authorizing seizure of mines if found necessary in connection with agency activities, but it went out as a point of order. Rejection Not Courted Advised that an amendment au thorizing the president to take over the railroads in the event o 'grim necessity" would go out in the same swift fashion, members favoring such legislation an nounced that nothing was to b3 gained by courting certain rejec tion. With little ceremony the house voted down an amendment dele gating the distribution powers to interstate commerce in place of. a federal fuel distributor, and a mo ment later rejected an amend ment fixing the distributor's sal ary at 57,500. cnairman win slow asserted that it was "a man's job" and the president ought not to be hampered by restrictions which might force him to select one unfitted for the task. Dennison Move Defeated Representative Fairchild, Rfc publican. New York, .found few supporting his proposal that coal distributed should be "sold at a reasonable price to the ultimate consumer." An unsuccessful at tempt was made by Representa tive Dennfeon, Republictfn, i nois, to strike out what some members characterized as the heart of the bill, this being the provision that the fuel distribu tor, in trying to meet the emer gency, should 'prevent extortion In prices charged for coal and other fuel." An amendment by Representa tive Boies, Republican, Iowa which would have ordered a 50 per cent reduction in the freight rate on coal,' to begin within 10 days, was thrown out even be fore its readinz had been con eluded. Representative Gtaham Republican, Pennsylvania, also failed to get through an amend ment limiting the life of the fuel distributor to six or 12 months and . the proposal that this of fl eer's appointment should be con firmed by the senate was defeat ed after Chairman Winslow had explained it was calculated to cause delay in getting the ma chlnery underlay. ; V Texan Assails Bill L Some members also tried to have the house strike out of the bill the words "to promote the general welfare" but the commit tee thought they ought to, stay The principal attack on the bill today was by Representative Ray burn, Texas, Democratic member :i.v-jouttoued pn page SHOP CRAFTS V HEAD KILLED EARLY TODAY Shopling at Sacramento Con fessed by H. S. Debolt. AI- lesed Strikebreaker SACRAMENTO Aug. 31. Wil liam. Mero, president of the Fed ersted Shod CJrafts of Sacramen to.' died shortly after midnight this morning at a local hospHal ffom a pistol bullet said to have been fired fcy H. B. Debolt, al leged strikebreaker employed at the Southern Pacific shops (here. , ' Debolt was ' arrested and has confessed the shooting, officers sold. Head of Illinois MineWork- ers Declares Frame-up Has Been Made MARION, IU., Aug. 30. (By Associated - Press.) The investi gation of the grand jury into the Herrln mine war June 21 and 22 last, on the third day of its pro gress, developed two outstanding features) . . "The issuance of the first in dictment, and the appearance here pt state officials., of .the Illinois Mine Workers, including Frank Farrington, president,, who issued statement , tonight charging 'forces have combined to convict our members." Funds are Pledged. Immediately upon their arrival there the officials ' of the Illinois fMIne W6rkersvwent Into confer ence with A. W. Kerr,, chief coun sel of the miners, which lasted several hours. After the meeting Mr.' Farrington Issued a statement to the effect that the union al ready has pledged every means at its command to the defense of any and all of its number that may be indicted in connection with the trouble at the Strip mine of the Southern Illinois Coal company." While the name of the first de fendant was withheld pending the arrest, it was said the indictment was issued, for murder in the first ' aegree in connection - wun me, slaying of C. K. McDowell, super intendent of the Lester Strip mine. when the massacre took place. State's Evidence Expected. The fact that some witnesses are said to nave refused to answer questions during the inqury while others seemed to have suffered a lapse of memory as to certain de tails, has led- court officials to be lieve, that fear of incriminating themselves . has caused the wit nesses to r withhold information. Attorney General, Edward J. Brun- dage, who is conducting the in vestigation, declared, today he was confident that some of these, wit nesses would offer state's evidence as soon as the returning of Indict ments showed the grand jury had knowledge of the witnesses' par ticipation in the crimes. Engineer Killed When. Train Goes Into Ditch MILWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 30. Harry True, Baraboo, Wis., en glneer, was killed; Frank Tryer. ureman, severely scalded ana a half dozen passengers were shak en up today when Chicago & Northwestern train No. 610 from Madison, was wrecked at Nichol's crossing near Waukesha The train carried about 300 pas sengers, including a number of veterans returning from the 32 nd division convention at Madison. The engine went into a ditch. pinning the engineer underneath. Engine and Tender Are Derailed by Explosion CINCINNATI, Aug. 30. An ex plosion of ; dynamite late tonight on the .main line of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis, at Arlington Heights, a suburb , of Cincinnati. deraUed the tender of a work, train engine. (..Train No. ,35 from Cleveland had passed Arlington Heights a few, minutes before. the explosion occurred, at a point one hundred feet north of a trestle which spans a creek at that point. '.Traffic was delayed for ait hour while repairs were . made to the track. There OilljL.. wgrj no casualties. -.--. FRANK READIMO AND EDwA ITY ARE SIAIN son wins OVER STEPHENS California Treasurer Will Be Nominee for Governor Johnson Lead Big SAN FRAKC'SCO, Aug. 30. Senator Hiram W. Johnson and Staio Treasurer Friend W. .Rich- erdson will be the Republican nominees in California for United State senator and governor at the November election, returns from about ; three-fourths of the state, indicated tonight. The total number of precincts in the btate is 6695. The returns were as follows:.. United States , senator. Repub lican nomination 4925 precincts: Hiram W. Johnson, 242,745; C C. Moore. ' 182.024; Johnson's lead. 60,721. ' . ' Governor, . Republican, 4767 precincts: Friend W. Richardson 207,047; Governor W. D. Steph en, 195,208;; Richardson's lead, 11,839. . f Democratic nomination, ,4767 precincts: Thomas L. Woolwine, 39.024; M. B. Jones, 21,277; Woolwine's lead, 17,747." Carey Beaten. CHEYENNE. Wyd., Aug. 30. Governor Robert D. Careylthls aft ernoon issueda statement conced ing that he had been defeated by John W. Hay for the Republica tion for governor in the primary election last Tuesday. Governor Carey said that unofficial returns 60 far received made if. appear probable that he had lost the race. Typhoon. in China Seas Is Reported by Radio WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. The weather bureau announced tonight reecipt of radio messages from the Far East indicating the presence of a typhoon over the east China sea, movfng west northwestward toward the2hina coast. Similar, advices were received by the bureau prior to the recent descent of a typhoon upon the coast of China 1th the resulting loss of thousands of lives. Warehouse Charges Will Be Subject to Hearing WALLA WALLA, Wash., Aug. 30.- State hearing of the com plaints of high warehouse charges in Walla Walla, Columbia. Gar field and Asotin counties will be held here tomorrow morning. Rep resentatives . of warehouse com panies and growers will give their views and the state board will de termine the rates to be charged from the testimony given. The rates will affect this year's crops. Airplane Motor Dead: River is Only Refuge SPOKANE, Aug. 30. When the motor of his airplane Mwent dead" while flylnp over the business sec tion of Spokane this afternoon, Pilot N. B. Maner was forced to plunge the machine into the rap ids of the Spokane river. Maner and his assistant were uninjured by the fall and swam safely, to shore. The plane was later towed to shore and Maner ays it only suffered slight damage. National Adjutant Says Bonus Measure Will Pass YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. 30-L. L. Bolles, Indianapolis, national adjutant of the American Legion tonight addressed a public meet ing here on the subject of the bonus movement, predicting that congress would pass the pending bill and that President Harding would sign it. XIXE KILLED . CUMBERLAND. B. Aug. 29 Nine men were killed and 17 injured- this . afternoon by an ex plosion in mine No. i. of the Can adian Collerles Dunsmuir, Ltd. The cause of the explosion has not WD btt. determined, FTIL n 1 A Dff A mPF? 'F?. AT V 0 Frank Reading of Ullarhook, 40 years old, .was instantly, killed, and Edward Arrance, S9, of Falls City 'died less than an hour later.as a result of their automobile being run over by, an . Oregon Electric switch engine near Livesley. station yesterday afternoon. Both were employed in hop fields near. Livesley.. -i- .r- :y k V;- ;C'V ( Reading leaves his widow, and four children, who alsgi were employed as hop pickers. ; Arrance was single. It had not. been decided last night whether an inqucs would be held. . -."i'Vv ' Reading and his family were employea in the Jerman hop; yards near Livesley and Arrance. in the Bell yards. v The train, that struck the automobile was traveling north1 at a speed of about 25 miles an hour. The two men in tho car, a Ford roadster, were driving out of the hop fields by a' private road and towards the public highway leading to Sa lem. Statements made by trainmen were to the effect that the two men apparently did not hear the train or see it until too late. . . ' ;V- . V,;- ;C:v' ,y:V;-'-, . . The automobile, was demolished and the body of Reading badly mangled. Arrance was injured so badlyjhat he died less than an hour after ,the accident, at the Oregon Electric depot, the train having brought Arrance and the .body c Reading to..Salem:-'-;v;t--iT;;A;;: '- It is said there were at least two eye-witnesses to' thc accident. - ' ';.':""-v --y - ' r . . Besides his "wife and children, Reading Is survived by hli father. Mi D. Reading of, Tillamook. . Arrance leaves his fath er and mother, Mr. and Mrs. David Arrance of Falls City. , ) iJiineral announcements are S Ford Says Coal. Bootleggers Offered to Steal Coal and Sell it to Him DETROIT, Mlch.. Aug. ,30. (By Associated Press.) Henry Ford today refused to avert a shutdown of his automobile plants here September 16, at the expense of the domestic coal users of the northwest, it was learned by the Associated Press from a reliable source. . According to this Information, Mr. Ford charges that practically alt coal consigned to the north west has been offered to him by coal brokers in telegrams reaching his office here. ' Purchase lief used. ' The manufacturer refused to purchase the fuel holding It would hot be a humanitarian act to take coal intended to relieve the suf fering of men, women and chil dren during the coming winter. Mr. Ford was quoted as saying that "coal bootleggers" had of fered to "steal this coal" and sell it to him. . Steam Coal Valueless.' Reports em a nl ting from West Virginia that the Ford company had refused coa(l offered at normal prices were explained at the Ford plants. It was asserted that the fuel so offered was steam coal, a product of little use in the, Ford industries because it contains a nigh sulphur content If used In blast furnace work, it. was ex plained, ordinary steam coal would ruin the metals. ... ; lietroit Takes Heart. : Despite the often repeated de termination of Mr. Ford to close bis factories here unless he can obtain the kind of coal he needs at normal prices, the Detroit in dustrial district took heart today when it was announced the Gen eral Motors corporation, employ ing between 75,000 and ,100,000 men, had a 30-day supply of coal available. Thousands Affected. -. Closing of the various plants of th corporation, it was explained, would affect hundreds Of tbouf sands of workmen employed by concerns depending upon General Motors for various materials. : OBERLBDEAD ; PORTLAND, Ore., Aug., 301 John H. Oberle, 20 died at "a hos pltal here today from an Infection which set in after tie was struck on the cheek by a falling Iron nut at an Iron works where' he was employed. WEATHER s OREGON Thursday, "clearing west; thunderstorms and cooler east portion. HUT001 IS LAIM5 N'AffliEKI to be made. Lightning Frightens, Port land People with Un usual Performances ' ; PORTLAND, ? Aug. 30. Light nlng played . queer tricks during a storm In a. Portland suburb to dayi Residents said that no thunder accompanied the light nlng, and that there was but one bolt... - - : It slivered a large tree to tits, stunned A. A. Loeb, his wife and two children, in their - homer knocked down John Anderson who was shaving. In his room nearby and picked up six lids front the cooking stove In another rta dence, hurling ' them . with great force against the kitchen ceiling ' James Strand, standing beside the tree which was blasted, be came temporarily paralyzed i and could not move his legs for seve ral minutes. Little Chance to Reach En y tombed' Miners in Less , Than 48 Hours 1 v V. JACKSON, Cat. 'i Aug. 30.-- Tunneling from ..two different ; levels facedown in the Kennedy mine, crews of rescue - workers were reported to be making good N progress; tonlirht In their efforts V to reach IT men entombed since I Sunday midnight In the adjacent Argonaut gold mine here." -. ' While'' boring -" operations con--'' tljuo at a 3600-foot level of the 2 Ironnedyworklng' parallel with ther 4300-foot level of the Argo naut,, other: crews late today set to work with driUs and picks n an effort to break through a wall of rock and dirt from the Ken nedy's 3900-foot leveL " which would admit of entrance into the Argonaut shaft at a depth of 4650 feet. -;ti -'v. . .: j ; Mining experts directing 'the rescue work would not estimate the length of time required to re. open either Of these tunnels, but the belief i-yas prevalent l.hat neither crew could hope to "reach the imprisoned miners to less than 48 hours. '. . . . ' , i ". . The ' attempt' fo . penetrate the wall of dirt and rock at tho Ken nedy 390 0-foot level w as begu 4 late today; . , BOLTS PLAY QUEER FOB V