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;f-:. ..1 CXKCOXATXOir ji Armr for August, lM2r '. i . ftand.y nlr , .7 ,', 5S14 Daily ud BBiwUy M6T . Attc fpr six month coding JaJy 10, IMS v - 8aidr nlr j " ' Sail gaUjr 6404 XX TSB CXTT Of tlXCt tas lwir hi The Oregon Statesman THB SOUS VCWKTATKB SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3, 1922 I Si - - "- A" PRICE: FIVE 01 ILWEIfJS : DHEJlO ". i ' . 4 , . , . 'i j .. "y. , , . Left Public Service Com ; 1 mission Employed by the Commercial Club '-'Trial 1'-1 . i ' H J WHOLESAUfJG CENTER t i I fJ SALEM IS OBJECT H v i t . C. rP-T Bishop f.Udev-Leader :v o Committee io Wae J. Campaign for Members 8alm' Commercial clab An to hat ; traffic department follow In the action of the board of dfreclora at their monthly mefet 1ns last night. Hal F. "Wiggins, for the ! past 'two ear -rate ex pert with 'the Oregon puibllc ser (rtce commisBion, fand before that with' the' Washington commtsaloa In. thV aame capacity, -has een elected 'to, head ihe clab depart ment. - He haa had 17 yeara con tlhiona 'experience with this In tricale and Tital worki ! I Betnrlce for Bhlpprra - 'Tl aertJcea of h expert will W ayailable for e ery shipper, znanafactnrer buyer .to secur ing proper freight rates nd lin adjustment In cases of overcharge, : The Oregon XJrowera found that in about two ears a "rate expert eaved them many times his cost. It la .belief ed that a I full time ftfeehi 6f euch abttlty ' win' help materially in making Salem a real wholesalng' center, and that the proper showing in 'freight ratea may hare marked influence In in dnclng manufacturing plants - to adopt Slem athe!r home. - Campaign to Begin . 1 ; ; An, - intensive ' campaign i for memberships to the commercial club is to be put on for the week October 23 to 2S lncluslre. ,' C. P. Bishop was named as head of the campaign committee, nd he will select his. own aides to head the smaller. Working 'committees. The club hopes 'to establish c real record for efficiency, : starting with thf new year. !--.,- ' ii i UIUH1 E Ministerial Association Com- ' "mends 'Nestonan Fam . v line Relief Movement . The Salem Ministerial associa tion, at a meeting yesterday, by resolution 'endorsed the work of K, Michael,; represeuUtlve Of the Nestorian relief fund, and voted to name a committee, to receive and forward funds, coming In -here, : The resolution, which is signed by Rev. H. F. Peinberton, presl dent" of the'asSocUtion. and Kov Nathan' Swabb, temporary secre tary, reads as follows: "Resolve, That we endorse, K Michael and commend him to. our churches for bearing on the Nes , torian famine situation, in so fat as our churches may themselves arrange for him, Tand that we ap point a committee to receive and forward to Dr; Shedd, Occidental college, such funds as may be con f ributed for this purpose.!' j , Yea Cannot Afford to r Miss this Bargain i '. . Today The Statesman : Pub lishing Company announres a . special bargain offer to readers in Salem 'and else where In . Marlon and Polk counties. On an inside page ts - a full page - announce ment, giving all the details of this wonderful bargain offer. The' time. Is limited, so it will be to your advan tage for jrou to act at. once. mm GRAVE uOBBERY AMD ARSON ARE Mm. fl;R: BRENN St. LOUIS, Mo., Oct: 2r (By lie Associated Press) Fred Mueller, prosecuting Attorney 5 df VtoU county1 late today issued warrants: charfeingf gtavfe robbery .'and arson .afcainst Harry-RJ Brenn land, is ?wif e, :inhriec1ioh .with the discovery of a body found in Urehn's garage at OakVille,Mo., which waa destroyed by'fire last Tu'eSoay was that of a young woman and not Brenti. as it was Dresumed orieihallv.' s Brooksand'Siater Did 'Not . txceea Auinoniyf is American Belief LONDON, Oct. 2. (By the Associated Press ) The situation arising out of the recent closing of; the American j t consulate ' t Newcastle-on-Tyne again ; is agi tating the minds of Anglo-Ameri can businessmen With the arrival n Lori don of Nelson P. Johnson, American consular Inspector from Washington.'1 v Mr. Johnson will make a rough feview of the case and render) a detailed 1 report to J Secretary Hughes who .-will then act on the matter. Vlt is understood no ques tion of the reopening of the con sulate win ; . te Involved in Mr. Johnsdn's I Investigation .which Is to be made' merely with the idea 6f reviewing the tacts. The, con sulate property in Newcastle al ready has "been4 placed' on the market for sale. ' : ' ' Mr. ' JohnBon today ' "conferred with . "George Harvey, , the Ameri can ambassador, and Robert P Skinner, the" American consul gen eral Jn London. ;The visitor was unwilling to discuss the case with the newspapermen, but the opin ion ellll prevails in American of ficial circles that Fred C. Slater, late American consul at New castle, and the vice consul did not go beyond ' their instructions In . handling the business of - the consulate. fill'S LETTCfl . " . HELD FORGERY Murder Case of William M. ; Creasy May go to-Jury ; Some Time Today ;MlNBOLA, N. Oct 2. A handwriting expert, called - by counsel for illiam M. Creasy of Fort 'Thomas, Ky., now on trial for the murder of his " former sweetheart,; Miss Edith Lavoy, to day testified that one. of .the num erous letters alleged to have been written by the-girl was: a forgery. "Can love be4 forced?" tho lat ter ! asked. ; ."Would you .want a wife wbo would not I6ve you?"I . Loren C. Horton of Kew York, the.hand writing expert, found in detail dissimilarities between the writing in jthls letter and that in other letters known to have been written by , Miss Lavoy. , Ke was not cross-examined. ; Creasy contends that Miss Lar voy shot herself as he lay by ber side on a couch in her Freeport home .because he. had put off his marriage to her. The prosecution charges that It was Miss' Lavoy who became , disenchanted, and ended the romance, drawing a let ter from ' Creasy in which he wrote: ?v"--;V'K'-r 'I ' "I have no more heart in my body. ' By Sunday I shall be under six feet of earth in Kentucky .When asked as to his reason for this despondent note Creaky said today: v 4 ; , : - ' "I was on a spree the night be fore and when I wrote, that letter I was recovering from tho effects of it." T, :.. : -'" The case probably will go to the CHARGED The 'warrants were isstied on the strength of, Information sworn to by Dr. Rolla.Bracy, coroner of St, Louis county .i0 announced that in his opinion Mrs. Brenn was withholding Information about the crimes ' with which she and her husband are charged; Body Missing at Cemetery Brenn was; taken Into , custody laBt" Wednesday by detectives, who declared that the" body found in the garage ruins, was that of Miss Celeste Schnaider, yhich was stol en last Monday from its grave in Mount Hope cemetery. The police say they learned that Brenn and his wife intended go ing to Germany, Mrs. Bi enn's home, after collecting 9u00 life insurance,, which Brenn carried No trace has been ... found -, of Brenn, who left borne last Monday before the fire. The body fit the young .woman was found-layin on an automobile standing m the fire debris. ' ' " At . , : " ' Wqman Pleads Ignorance Mrs. Brenn steadfastly has maintained that sho knows noth ing of the aleged plot, which the police accuse, her .ofengineering Repeated questioning by ; detec tives and deputy sheriffs has fail ed to change her account of the garage fire and the disappearance of her husband, who she said wa6 dead, having perished in tho fire, Warren Brothers Company Wins Suit Against State Highway Commission PORTLAND,. Or., Oct The state . highway commission lost a decision in, federal! court this morning for $18,635.25 but the full effect of the decision may total approximately j$225,- 000 In cost. ! The case was that of i Warren Bros.,. against Oskar Huber for 25' cents a yard royalty oin 74, 541:8 yards of bitulithlcj paving, known commonly as Warrenite Tlw contract Was taken brjHnber from the state highway jedmmis- slon! without the Inclusion royalty since the commission de sired a test case to determine if the Warren company wa entitled to the royalty. really Huber was guaranteed in his contract that the commission would! inter vene and care for the judgment in case of suit. . . In announcing his decision this morning Federal Judge Bean said that he had road the record and brief in the case with gifeat care and was unable to dissejht from the numerous decisions of! a like nature' in other states wherW com missions had assailed thf patent ' Settles Many. Claims Richard Montague. attrey for theWarren company, said that settlement of this suit woli prob ably adjudicate other cllins of his clients against the commis sion. " In the past 18 months i; the par ticular patent ? involved .' in this suit has expired and the claims lie between the tims of-thef dlecision of the commission to fight the royalty and the date ot expiration of -the ipaient. : ? At the time the commission an nounced that ; it would fdjemnlfy contractors laying the pavement of the Warren companji against the collection of a royaJty the commission had an understanding that it it chcoe to settljo with the company 'without a. eiiit that iYta rnvattr naif! uhonld i !h ' .10 cents a iard 1t a 'cbrtaini yardage had been laid. The yardage re- E ISSUE Bi Workers arid operators Are ' Loo&tncrto Future Settle hitnts Without Strike Caususes Called ERRE HAUTE OWNER - IN SUSPICIOUS MOOD ohfi U Lewis Oeclares- His Men Are Standing Pat Prior to Session CLEVELAND O.. Oct. 2. XBt the8 Associated TPress) The gen eral "policy committee of the.IJnlt-i ed Mine Workers of -America -and representatives of bituminous op erators from many - parts ot the United States met here bilay to formulate a plan ' for negotiating future wage Bcales, and after or ganizing , adjourned j until 10 o'clock tomorrow' moaning. ' Miners and operators said the conference is one of the moat rep resentative everheld todeal with unionized Soft coal mining! 1 Temporary Officers Electel At the joint conference this af ternoon T. K. .Maher, president ot the Maher Colleries company rjf Cleveland, was elected temporary chairman, and William Green, sae retary of the United Mine Work ers, temporary secretary. The conference was character ized by Phil H. Penna of Terre Haute, secretary of the Indiana Coal Operators' association, as "4n attempt to resuscitate collector bargaining." .1 John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, declared In,: a statement tnat tne " miners were standing pat" on the agreement reached in Cleveland last August when the soft I coal strike was practically settled. Tnvcstlgatllon Demanded In miners' quarters this was in terpreted that the miners wonId insist on the appointment ot a commission composed of operators and miners to jinvestlgate the In dustry. What stand the operators would take on this proposal was not discussed at their' caucus, Mr. Penna said. The operators wet immediately following adjourn ment of the conference. ; Operators at their caucus wre almost unanimous in expressing the need of some definite organi zation which would bo empowered to deal wUh thie miners and wbfch wouM be Representative of all par ties controlling minen.; ControllJnR Factor Urged However, no action lookine? to tlfe Wrmatlon bf such an associa tion Was taken. Folowinr the meeting of 'op erators Mr. Penna announced fhat no definite policy of action' had been ;reached. lie said operators discussed the whole situation De taining to the soft coal industry and -hoped that tomorrow's Joint conference win :' develop th atti tude of both sides regarding, the naming of an investigating com mittee and a joint committee em powered 'with the formulation of a method to be followed, fn nego tiating new wage ' contracts in an-otheY-meeHng! in January. In , addition. tOv operators from the old central competitive field Ohio, Indiana. Illinois and wes tern Pennsylvania attending the conference are soft coal operators from Oklahoma.'. Iowa. Missouri. Kansas, Montana, Wyoming and Washington.' j ' " : Westerners Admitted The producers of western states never before had an oppor tunity or participating in wage scale meetings although they ihauy times asked to be admitted to the central competitive field between 1898 and 1919. The operators of the central field refused to admit them. to the scale conference, ac cording ,to miners', union officials, The last time they refused was when their admission was suggest ed by Secretary of Labor W. B, Wilson during the 1919 strike. ameathet: INCWENCE . Tuesday. showers. si in Divorcee of FUNNY ACTOR IS BANKRUPT Mildred HarrK hows Liabili ties of $30,000,: While Asi if sets Are Only $1500 J p; . ..- ' I . LOS ANGELES. Oct. 2. Mil dred Harris, motion picture ac trels, and former wife of Charlie Chaplin, filed a petition in bank ruptcy here today in which lia bilities were listed at 130,000 and assets $1500, which the petition declared 'was the value of wearing apparel and said to be exempt; Miss Harris executed the peti tion at Dttluth, Minn., where she was filling a vaudeville engage ment, and it was forwarded here for filing. i , Two lone illnesses and lack ,of employment for 1 many months was what brought about her pres ent financial condition, according to word received here from Miss Harris. She 'Claimed that after Betting with her lawyers she had but $6,500 left of the money which Chaplin gave her. Council Sits Down on Illum inated Device Woodry Can't Have Stable Monday night was execution cra night at the' city council when everybody with, a justifiable grievance -or even a corn or the -dyspepsia pr a sleepless night, came to bat- and batted out a home run on somebody elaa. There really weren't many of them, but they certainly popped out when everybody was looking the least. ThO council refused to sanction the : erection of a sales stable in North Salem that J. S. Woodry Lhatl hoped to build. A report from the health committee set fire to the barn before It was built,. ' The council refused to sanction the application of the Bllgrh hotel for permTssion to erect another electric sign in front of its placo of business. Pat ton Makes Complaint "If they had on older .sign there before, and it blew down, it certainly didn't comply with the ordinance," declared Council man Baumgartner. Alderman Pattoh protested that thejBllgh hotel had over charged visitors coming to tne state fair, according to reports reaching ihim. "Wo have been trying, tot make this city a placo that people will want to visit a second time, and whoever over charges them isn't entitled to our consideration," he said. ! The vote was practically unani mous to-refuse to grant the sign privilege j to the hotel. Several other , sign applications were granted, however, one being for the Federal Tire Service at Ferry and Commercial. , Lumber was ordered bought for re-decking the Church street bridge, which is in need of re pairs. The work is to De aone beforo winter. Mrs. Hinges Paid Mrs. Hellie parrish Hinges was ordered paid $100 from-the park fund, for her solo work with the band at the municipal con certs during the past summer. Al derman Vandevprt was the espe ciarchampion of this bill. It had been held over at, a previous meet ing, because he was not present. The money oes through the park fund. v ' I .". "Her work was worth the nricd declared Vandevort. "The band concerts were the greatest advertising that Salem has had for years. : A resolution laid over from the last meeting, calling for the re vocation or rather the ruf usal to grant a license to I, R. Smith to conduct a pool: hall, because of the violation of the city regula tions Concerning the allowing ot minors to frequent the place,; was finally killed.- Abetter was read wherein Smith explained that he had thought he had paid his, li cence, enclosing a check for f the SHY N (Continued og page fl WORLD SERIES IIS Till UTONEiyoi Lengthy Youth From Texas I Comes in on Freight I Train, and Thousands 'Come on Cushions BUSH AND NEHF : ARE, FIRST PITCHERS Ynks Reputed to Have Bet- er of Giants in Per sonnel of Twiriers JJEW YORK, Oct. 2. Prom- ise tonight of fair weather for the opening day of thei world's series Wednesday was a boon to the thousands eagerly await ing! the first game of the sec ond all-New York classic. . v i the . box office. Indications pointed to a record breaking demand for seats and officials of, both clubs voiced the belief tha last year's first game at-, tendance of 20,203 would be greatly exceeded. - j , I The Giants and Yanks. prac ticed together this afternoon at the PolO grounds. anagers McOraw and Hug- - ! i' expressed I themselves as" ry satisfied with tho con- n of their players. - VH-'- jrqsw YORK, Oct. 4 A fast freight train stopped n Newark, N. , ., at duk f today and from one of its car ' doorsf Jumped a iengf hy, sunburned youth, known dwn in a far, hot corner of Tex as! a; s "Long Jlm(' Baker, star hurler of a sem'i-professional team jiiamed after a; grocer for adver tising purposes. . t y . v Jim came to New York on a tube! train and found a cheap ho tel, j " ! ; ' j Inquires About Game "IVho'se going to pitch the fust game?" be asked. 'tfoe Bush for the Yanks and Little Artie Nehf, the left handed Giant," answered an Individual whose face was burled in a sport ing page. , & Wo'll," drawled Jim, "I. been expecting .for some time that some of these here days I'd be a pitcbin world series games my self,' so I though I'd come up to see jwhat they're like, get used to the crowds of folks and all that staff. Ainu never seed ono afore." Fans Throng In At about the same time Jim left his freight and for some hours previously during the day fast passenger trains were arriving at their New York terminals, bring ing 'crowds of minor and major league players, managers and of ficials and newspapermen and a fair: sized bunch of fans. It probably is true that the sec tional interest is not so great when the series has for its prin cipals two teams of the same, city, but a baseball fan is like a lMtli boy when his sister's beau is call ing. He can't forego the burning desire to take a peek.' j jWorld Series that'll Funny And, too, a funny thing about the world's series is why they call it that. The contesting teams always are American teams and one could hardly conceive of in terest in the series being mani fest in the Orient or in the Far North countries of Europe. Yet among writers who will report the games for newspapers from other countries are a Squad from England, two from Japan, one from France, one from Rus sia, -one from Cuba, a couple from Brazil and the Argentine, a half score from Canada And one from Sweden. The latter probably was aracted by the Giants latest pitching acquisition. Mr. Czven gos. Czvengroa, however, is not afworld series eligible. s RerKTvatlons Increase , Press: reservations hajve been made by men representing every laVge' city in the United States. Mfany.'aTe from the Pacific coast wjiile the minor league cities, at least the larger of. tbem, have iContJaued on page 21 STATE BONUS J ESDESC GOUNTY OFF ;'e.M. H. J. Overturf, Member of Legislature, and 0. IX Hirdy Summarily Dismissed erf Accuxatisa of P&ddisg Real ty Values and Placing State in Danger of Losses Grand Jury Likely to Act j , Surrtmary of the board of loan appraisers for Deschutes county uhjder.the ex-service men's bonus and loan act was ef fected yesterday at ar meeting of the World war veterans etato aii cqmmission attended by the entire c6mmlssion.' The tiro appraisers who were dismissed are H. J. Overturf of Bend and O. B. Hardy of Redmond. Overturf was a member of the last legislature and is a candidate for re-election. . . ' Padding of realty values was given as the reason for the commission's action. Innvestigation of Deschutes county loan appraisals is said to have disclosed a number of cases whefe the values have been ited, Erroneous reports bf purchase . prices and 'of the value of property olfered ' the state as se curity are attributed to the two appraisers. - At present there are but the two appraisers, the Fred N. Wallace of Tumalo having resigned recently. .. , OFFICERS AHE Representatives of Depart n meht of Justice Accused of Filching Booze WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 Charges tharfcWalnr representatives of the department of Justice" , con Terted to their own- use large stocks of liquor seized in the 'en forcement of prohibition laws were made in a special report fil ed today by the District of Colom bia g.-and Jury, The report asserted liqnor was removed from the Warehouse used by the department for storage purposes and was used by the of ficials involved for their private consumption, for distribution to personal friends and as gifts to favored institutions. There was no charge that any of the liquor was disposed of tor financial gain. Individuals Not .Vamod Illegal withdrawals covered in the report' were declared to have occurtod between Jl tO and Sepr. tember 11, 1920. The j.i-v did not name the individuals who were involved but declare! that their conduct" "cannot .s. too severely cendomned." At the department of Justice, uf ficials Indicated that no action w.i. in i lospect s'in-s the offenses c:mplai.'ied of wery by "fr-rmet attaches of a form-r adn'nistra tioh' ofthe department. William I Burns, chief of th department's Iniresn of lnvestl tiori, said thai large stacks ot liquo? hel-J In the custody of the dei-s-Mment, ' ha ' disappeared between the dates mentioned in the g."iMi! Jury -re port.: , , FvidencefCar?rt liificd Orriciul? of the denrtment es timated that "several hundred c oh" of assorted "Manors were re moved illegally from the depart ment's evidence cache. Tne val ue was placed at upwards ot 3100,- 000 by D. T. Wright, counsel for Frank Bunch, one of the Interests ed owners. . Mr. Wright rtMentfy filed suit against Frank Burke former chief of the department of justice's bureau of Invenigu tion. P. J. Ahem and Henry P. Alden, employes of the depart ment. charging that they had un lawfully removed Ms client's li quor from custody and convrte it to their own use. . The liquor stocks covered jn the grand Jury report were those tak en during the operation uf the Reed bone-dry law,! which prohib-1 lied sale of alcoholic beveragci within the district during the early months of th'e war and dur ing the period when purchases in adjacent territory were still per missible. Department Enforcing Agency . The department cf justice was made the enforcing agency,' and while Individuals were permitted to bring reasonable quantities in to the district for their own nse. agents of the department xerc's ed supervision over the stresm which immediately, began to flow through local railroad stations. It is a matter of record, cording to attorneys who were ,in terested - in the legal phases : of Continued os paje SJ, mm . , third member of the board. The commission at ' the - aame time reached. 1 'decision to. pres ent the entire matter to the prop er authorities for presentation to the grand Jury in Deschutes coun ty for Investigation. ' ; Members Talk little Members ot the, commission re fused to discuss the matter fur. ther than to say that the whole operation of the loan law in that county ought to be delved Into and that from the facts and re ports which It baa collected the grand Jury is the proper body to make such an investigation. That the state stood to lose neavur inrougp loans - maae on farms and homes is apparent from the high valuations placed on properties offered the state as se curity.. It Is said that in several cases the appraisers fixed values on property that, were more; than 60 per cent greater than the sals price. . . . :P ' - f ' . In some cases "uTwaa said iheai parcels were those bot through a Utah loan agency of which' he bat been the repVesentatlve.. PalnsUkiag Investigation tntl every transaction in Deschutef ' county proceeded the commission's action, it was ' said.; From the very first days Of loan operations valuation placed almost without exceptioon On Deschutes county properties and finally decided up on an inquiry. All loans In tho county have" been held in abey ance since that time and losses to the state- prevented. A new set of appraisers will be named, -at once and the operation . of the1 loan law proceeded! with! , ' Restraining Order Asked , in National Bank Case , A restraining order was hand ed down br Jndra (I. CI ninrbim to prevent the Capital National bank from instituting a suit to collect a promissory note for $11, 000 from II. S. Gile. The bank is. required to make an appear ance Thursday, Oct; 6, and show cause why a temporary injunction should not be granted pending trial of the suit. - ' -, ' Mr. Gile alleges In his com plaint that tho note was made to the bank without consideration. solely at the request of ( John II. Albert, then president of the bank and as 'an accomodation to the bank. The note Is Jdated October 15, Mi7., 'f.Ai:y;i-r4-- luuuer lien un Joseph II. Albert, .president of the hank, has demanded payment of the note and threatened suit un less payment Is made before Oct ober 1. . , 4 , Woman Killed; Husband . I Badlv Hurt in IwMpni GOLDENDALE, Wash. . Oct. 2 Mrs. Frank H. Winters of Ten ino. Wash , was killed, her hus band, an attorney, had both shoul ders crushed, one leg broke and was injured internally, and their 8-year-old daughter was hurt slightly as a result of an accident yesterday in which their automo bile plunged off the highway be-, tween here and Blckleton and roll ed nearly 900 feet, to the bottom of a canyon, ' j ; Both Winters and his wlfa were carried from the canyon br a rescue party and Mrs. Winters died last night at Blckleton. where she and the girl were taken for medical attention. I jury late tomorrows - fCo&tlnved on pagei-S).