The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, December 09, 1922, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTWO SECT! OIK 12 Pages I i SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9. 1922 PRICStrHVE:CE:iT3 . "- . : . ! ' UIU V 0 ". It" 4 ' f ' c i r S i i at m a m a aaa am I , 1 mm . 'ai a a . . IIVILL ULUUIVIL, FINE HIGHWAY Project to " Will Be Cost $100,000 Constructed by Governm ent and County Cooperation. NEGOTIATIONS OVER : 2-YEAR! PERIOD ENDED Length to Be Thirteen Miles Federal! Funds Three-: Fourth of Total : After - two years o5 constant negotiations . between the govern ment and Afarlon county the gov eminent has . it last entered Into a contract for the building of the long hoped for road between Detroit and jNlagara, according to Information released from the county roadmaster's office , yes terday. ' ',;.-; .;; V;. ,. Format Beaierre Penetrated TKe road; will be built at a cost t about $100,000 and will be - approximately ; 13 miles . in length. Marlon county will stand about one-fourth of ' the cost while the government ; will as sume the balance, due to the fact that, land in tiat vicinity la gov ernment f oreetj reserve land The road will be bnlir along what Js familiarly 'known as MintoltraiL The government surrey will prop ably commence! some time In the spring after wihlch ; the work Is expected to progress rapidly. The contract was closed yesterday with '': the : secretary of ; agricul ture. i-V.-' '--r'f ":,. . ' ' Special Taxes Voted . Citizens In' the vicinity of De troit and Niagara have heen vot ing special tajces on themselves for the past tf ot years In order to provide the amount which the county must' furnish under i the terms of tha ion tract. . m. fMTZEIIER Well Known Opera Star Files Cross Complaint to Husband, Suit o SAN FRANCISCO, -Dec; 8 juaaame Margaret -jmiieunuci, opera star, in first formal answer lalnt to the divorce. salt of . her chauffeur husband. Floyd Glottmajcb, , fUed here late a , decree on the grounds of ccuelty and Infidel ity. J. J. Lermen, attorney for the diva, announced he would Intro duce In court . three canceled -check for a :otal ; of $357.50 which, he said.) were given by Ma dame I Matzenauer to Glotzbach and I forwarded by the : husband without the alnigera knowledge, to Mrs. Lottie Fraties of Carmel, . Cal. . One $100 check; It is set , forth, was sent to : Mrs. FraUes by Glotzbach ilx day before -he .and the opera star were married on June 18, 121. ' ? Glotsbaeh alleged relations and correspondence with ' Lottie Fraties; were responsible . for the marital troubles and eventually .led to the separation, Madame Matzenauer asserted. . ;l'f --i ? THE WEATHER OREGON Saturday "rain in west portion,! rain or snow in east portion hot so cold, f rLOCAL WEATHER " " ; (Friday) Maximum ' temperature, 40. Mfnimfm temperature, 55. River, .7 teet above normal 7. level jlslng. , . -Rainfall, $5 jfnch- Atmosphere, ;cloudy. Wind, .south. I: HEUT Company M, that was recruited to war strength in Sa lem for the World war, held its annual reunion last night. The boys were not nearly all there. Some of them never came back, at all, and others cp,me to die in the peaceful life of the civilian. A brave man, a patriotic man with a heart in a strong body and a soul in a strong mind, may come from the field, the factory, the store, even from the bar room or the haunts of vice, and make good, in the finest, most unselfish fight. But it wrongs no one el3e to say that the finest things that Salem ever saw, was back on March 25, 1917, when practi cally the whole junior and senior classes of Willamette uni versity came down in a body to enlist in CcJmpany, M. for service under Old Glory. It really was "Old Glory" to these boys, brought up as they had been in an atmosphere of rev erence, for the finer things of life. And they came as vol unteersthey didn't wait for the draft to do it they set out to do it .themselves. Three of them were sons of spectacled, devout profes sors in Willamette; others were themselves religious and so cial workers, almost through college, and with promise beck oning them on. But the call of duty, so much stronger than the call to profiteering and ease and ignoble safety, gripped them -and they went. They served all over Europe as re placement units for other organizations that were deficient. They did not have the poor privilege of sticking together as perhaps they had hoped to do. But it is the testimony of military authorities all through the army, that they "made good" in a splendid manner. Willamette has bred up a spirit that carries on, in peace, In war, in service to humanity. A tradition like that is a priceless heritage. Willamette need3, desperately, the support that the pres ent endowment campaign will give, to give room to grow in service. These young: men and young women of Willamette, and their traditions and ideals of service are of priceless worth. , ' ' v Let's raise the jmoney and keep -Willamette going straight ahead on the old, sublime path of service. FUND SHOWS FIRE GROWTH Willamette Endowment Has K Pledges of .$914414 Records Show Willamette now" hair $911,414 pledged on the $1,250,000 en dowment campaign, although the gain from' the last previous re port was not proportioned to the needs as expressed in terms ot so. much per day. Salem provid ed , most of ' the gain from the Thursday report, a total at 12, 612 being added from all sources, and almost one-halt of this being local money. The campaign - committee has Just finished crediting some mis cellaneous local subscriptions and yesterday apportioned $14,435 to be divided equally between the two local canvassing armies. This, .however is not that, mucb additional money for the . one day's work. The money actually raised and reported yesterday as (Continued on page 7) WANTED HER TO Ellen Lavina Hartley Tefls Why She Wants Divorce from Husband A "loveless marriage" was re vealed In the complaint filed by Ellen Lavlna : Hartley : against Arthur. Hartley in the circuit court yesterday for. divorce, i Accordln to - the complaint. immediately after their marriage which was only in Julr. .JLM2, her husband assumed a domineer ing attitude toward her, telling her" that since he had married him she must obey his every wish. ; As a result she was forced to do the family wash on Sun day, work in the hop yards d was prevented from visiting her parents. . " Upon one occasion, the com plaint alleges, he Informed her that other women wanted her to eat a fish" and shoke on it S so that they might, marry, him.: . At one time he told her to go home aj fit there. V So cruel i and Inhuman was his treatment, the complaint alleges, that In Octo ber ' he left her , and had since failed to 'stfpport her. . , V ' 'A divorce and alltnooy qf ' $25 a month Is asked. t-f. m v - cm Oil FISH KDUSE LIQUDR FIGHT IR! Prohibition Factions Make Clean Sweep in Knock . tag Out Amendments WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Friends of prohibition, in com plete control in the house, made a clean sweep today in knocking out amendments to the prohibition section of the treasury supply bill which they claimed were designed to weaken enforcement of the Volstead law. , , Hill Stands Alone Standing alone at times, .Repre sentative Hill, Maryland, sought to limit the money spending act I v. Hies of the prohibition unit. His proposals were thrown out bodily after thirty minutes ot bitter de bate in which the manner of the law's enforcement was command ed and condemned. The bill stood like a stone Arall against attacks by Mr. Hill's group. It had not reached the point of passage tonight because of an agreement to defer until to morrow, action on a provision for substituting fast power presses for hand presses on which the government's ! money , . has long been printed at the' bureau of en graving. Representative Tincher, Repub lican of Kansas, declared the Hill amendments were tn keeping with the attitude of those who had at tempted to defeat prohibition en forcement. He said he did not know -why Mr. Hill, should object if the Ku Kluz Klan tried to sup press moonshlning. ' Yearlings All Prink Characterlrtng Mr. Hill as the minister plenipotentiary of the vs soclatloh opposed 1 to prohibition, Representative .Crainpton, Repub lican' of Michigan, declared the Maryland representative was help ing the organisation in ah effort to nullify the eighteenth amend ment by hamstringing' the en forcement unit. , Representative Thorpe, Republican of Nebraska, elected for the short lime ending In March, said her was proud to vote with the friends of prohibi tion.' Representative Knutson, Min nesota. Republican whip, told the house he voted for the eighteenth amendment and .the -Volstead law but found now that "as the appro priations for enforcement go up, whiskey prices come down." He assented thit thousands of illicit stills flourished in . the country and "that girls and boys' $i their teens were coming home drunX" HARDING TALK TO CONGRESS President Puts Transporta tion, Prohibition and Farm Credits Problems at Head of List. 1 CRITICS OF FOREIGN PROCEDURE RAPPED Would Give Federal Tribun al Authority to Enforce All Decisions WASHINGTON. Dec. 8. Pres ident Harding addressing con gress in person today on tbe state of the union, placed the transportation situation, prohibi tion enforcement and farm cred its In the forefront of tbe nation al problems pressing for solution. Raps Critic. , . Also he took occasion to reply directly to those whom he saW. had assumed that the United States had taken Itself "aloof and apart, unmindful of world Obligations." He declared these gave "scant credit" for the "help ful part" America had assumed in international relations, 'refer ring particularly to the arms conference. 0, , the ptcbibitton situation, tbe executive asserted there wer conditions o! enforcement which Vsavor of naiion-wide scandal." He made no recommendations on ths score but announced his pur. pose to call an early conference ef the governors of the state9 and territories with federal authorities to formulate definite policies of national and state cooperation in the administering ot the laws. Transportation Important Declaring there was no prob lei exceeding in importance tne one of transportation. Mr. Hard ing told congress there was need to begin cn rims to coordinate all transportation facilities rail, water and motor. As to the re- ( Continued on Page 5.) DIVERSIF ED CITY OF ASTORIA IMPORTANT IN NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT; FOUNDED BY JOHN J. ASTOR Astoria, the oldest town in Ore gon, was founded. April 12, 1811, by John Jacob Astor, American merchant, who opened thet first American fur trading post in the Pacific northwest. Prosperity loomed for the little city, but the .war . of 1812 stopped his enter prise. The English took possession of the post in 1813, re-named it Ft. St. George, and held it until 1818. though nntil'1845 the Northwest company, an English company of fur traders, continued to occupy It. The natural antipathy between natives of the British empire and the United States is believed to have made impossible the success. f ul establishment of Astoria as a fur trading post operated 1y Americans, for the inbred na tional prejudice of the Britisher for. anything American was too powerful to go unnoticed. Held by British , The. British government trans mitted orders to the agent of the Xorthwest company to deliver the post of Astoria as "one of the places captured during the war," and as a result the post, founded by Americans, passed out of Am erican command. Although Astor urged the gov ernment, to : re-possess Astoria, and Intended to resume opera tions In the territory, the Pacific Pur company started by him was never, revived. Even following the war no attempt was made by the capitalist . to return to the post, which remained for some time under the control "of the Northwest company. ' ; Conditions continued on practi cally: the same basis until 18Z3, when a resolution was introduced into congress instructing; the com mittee -on military, affaire to "In NO LAW BARS GUARD WHEN DUTY CALLS General White Will Carry Relief to Stricken Astor ians if Necessary ; Federal law will be disregarded by the Oregon national guard, if necessary to carry relief to tho fire-stricken people of Astoria, Adjutant General George A. White said yesterday, while making preparation-, to wend men and equipment to that city. Men, tents, eopklng equipment, blankets and overcoats sufficient t,o administer comfort to 2000 persons can be sent at once it necessary, . the. adjutant general said. In such a case, said Gene ral White, damage to equipment will necessarily run ino the thou sands of dollars. This . will cre ate a deficiency in the state na tional guard funds which the leg islature would be called upon to meet by deficiency appropriation. Adjutant General White expected to complete the biennium without a deficiency. AT THEIR BEST Finishing Touches Being Put on Rehearsals for Min strel Nights The troupe of players at the state penitentiary who are to par ticipate in the annual state prison minstrel show which runs throughout next week are work ing hard putting on the finishing touches, and dress rehearsals are now the order. Some more than ordinarily line song hits and Jokes have been Worked up that are likely to be disconcerting to some of the cel ebrities who are to be present in the audiences. This is always one of the best features of the show. The show Monday night will be for inmates of the prison only, and ail the other performances of the week, which run every night, including Saturday, will be open to the public. quire into the expediency of mak ing an appropriation to enable the president to take and retain possession of the territories of the United States on the northwest coast of America." River Gateway Prized The advisability of effecting the possession of the mouth of the Columbia river, pointed out to be a British loophole for ultimate possession ot all United States territory beyond the Rocky moun tains, was seen by many states men. The resolution was adopt ed, but no action was taken. la 1824 a bill for "the occu pation of the Columbia river" ap peared in the bouse. In 1825 the bill came up again. Both times it was la?d on the table, and. In 1829, dropped. It was not until settlers began filling the post that the matter, except for hectic peri ods, ever received farther consid eration in congress. The settlers began their march westward in 1835, and the city of Astoria, al though not charted until .1876, continued to grow. t The territory eventually passed front, the fur trading1 stage to the settlement stage, ana the. North west company gradually lost trade and eventually moved' from - the post. .... ; ." - .' ' In 1890 the population of As toria was S184. ift.1990 8391, and tn 1920, 14,027. -Jetty Is Built Difficulty experienced in get ting larger vessels over the bar at the mouth of the C61nmbia river was eliminated by construc tion of si jetty, affording a deep and wide channel navigable by the largest ships. Five miles of waterfront within the city limits make ot Astoria' one ot the best (Continued on page t PN S IU LONG BREI0 LINES MM . w mwmem, u blocks IN RUINS, LOSS IS SALEM OFFERS City and Red Cross Stand Ready Knights of Col umbus Send Purse Willamette chapter of the Red Cross, and the city of Salem offered their assistance to the fire-stricken .people of Astoria yesterday, and at a special meet ing called for the purpose last night the Salem lodge of the Knights of Columbus collected a cash donation and forwarded U to Astoria for the general re lief fund. Mrs. Arthur S. Benson, execu tive secretary of the local chap ter of the Red Cross, early in the day telegraphed the superin tendent of the Pacific coast bu reau of the Red Cross at San Francisco a brief description ot the (fire and offered the aid ot the locar chapter. - The superin tendent replied, thanking . Mrs. Benson for the information and said he had ordered the super intendent of the northwest divi sion at Portland to go to Astoria to ascertain . the need. He said further that Willamette chapter would be called upon if neces sary. y Mayor George E . Kalvorsen and Mayor-elect-. John B. Giesy sent, the following telegram to the mayor of Astoria: "W are shocked beyond words to hear of the devastating calam ity which has befallen your beautiful city. The citizens of Salem extend to your citizens their heartfelt sympathy for the irreparable loss which they have sustained on account of the fire which is raging in your city. If we can be of assistance to you In any way command us." TAXPAYERS MIGHT BE GIVEN BELIEF Clatsop County Court Could Order Refunds to Fire Stricken People Prior to the great (fire loss of yesterday at Astoria that clty'3 loss by fire this year aggregated $1,020,830, According to A. C. Earber, state fire marshal. This was an increase of $723,915 over the loss for 1621, waihe was only $296,915. Oregon tires this year exclu sive of Portland have aggregated $4,365,503, and In Portland the loss up to November 30 was fl. 258,304.58, m.iklng a total for the state of $5,620,807.53. The Astoria disaster of yesterday will add poBsibiy $15,000,000 to this amount. The fire Ices in Oregon ex clusive of Portland for Novem ber was $309,880. Fires of $10, 000 loss or more were: Haines, milk plant, $40,000; Hood River county, store and contents, $la,000; Jefferson, saw mill, $11,000; Oregon City, Elk's temple, . $50,000; Powers, pool hall and hotel, $20,000; Salem, rug manufacturing plant. $30,000; Union county, barn and contents, $15,000. Taxation experts here yester day said it would be possible for the Clatsop county court at As toria to grant some relief to tax payers who are losers in the Xire. Whether this would be feasible or not would be a matter for the court to decide. While the assessment rolls are completed and accepted by the county board of equalization it would be possible, it is said, for the county court to allow refunds on property that no longer ex ists if such were petitioned for by the taxpayers. The law al lowing the court to order reas sessments, it is said, would not exactly apply in this emergency, since reassessments ordinarily are allowed for the purpose of correcting errors In assessment 11.- ASTORIA D iNCENDIAUlSai SDSlECTEpr r V . j: 'Incendiarism was responsible for the confLirratlcrv according to opinions of both Mayor Bremner and Chief c Police Carlson, and local radicals are under suspicion At a two officials said, , . ...V. " . . v . : Investigation proved thai the fire at the outset be&a in two separate. places, simultaneously according to Chief Carlson. "; ";J " y' "?- - A dozen citizens who were In the vicinity of the Ufa Hive department store when; th$ conflacratlon started, said they were certain that two restaurants one at either side of the department store were raging furnaces, whCa the store showed no sjlgii of fire. f , . "I am certain that the fire was incendiary ,n sal J Mayor Bremner, 'and I am likewise certain that radlcallsn is responsible. Of course there wOl be a more thorough In vestigation than has been possible today. When It is over I am sure it will be established ttiaf the fire was Set. ASTORIA, Dec. 8-Its heart eaten out by flame3 which ragedthrough it for hours today, .Astoria took time tonight to compute its losses at $12,000,000 which city officials esti mated to be the toll of the blaze which swefct away 24 blocks of the city's business district, destroying .eveif-departrnenl store, hotel, bank and scores ' of small business , establish merits Vi,:.. ,;r.,.. '0y,Ut .-, Two thousand people wee. homeless tonight '.'a Th& city was cut off without banking facilities. No food was obtain able except from a central diatributinif.station established by a swiftly organized ' committee' of CO business - inert wha had been at work for hours Relief was arriving hourly by train and automobile from Portland and other pointUv At nightfull the situation was In handV'(BecLs had been provided for, all without them and hot meals were being' served at several stations. . - . -,..., , . a ' Annual Homecoming of Sa lem's Famous4 War Unit Held Last Night Five years :ago, on December 10, the boys of Company M, Sa lem, sailed from New York for the No Man's Land ot the World war.. They didn't know, exactly where they were going, but they were on their way, with the" fire of service burning In every heart, They didn't expect that ai:,of them would ever return. Some of them did not. and never will. But those who did return, eame as visitors, after the job was all done. They Ate Turkey Last night the survivors held their, annual reunion to celebrate the event. They met at the Gray Belle where they dined on tur key not the kind ot blood-Sucking, Christian hating Turkey that they set out to fight f iveyears ago but' Oregon turkey, fattened on .grasshoppers and grain, instead of on Christian blood any they made It a feast for the ages. Tbe old flag of their lt2nd infantry regiment was brought from the state capitol to grace their table. Some of them had shed blood un der its folds, and it was their very own flag, loaned to the state. Some Not There Owing to the bad weather net all the boys were present who had been expected, .though . 50 were there in spile of the storm. Capt. Roy Neer, now of Port land, was present again to com mand his boys, as chairman. . He spoke briefly, as did Paul Wal lace, Louis Compton, Rodney Al ien, Capt. Conrad Strafrln of Dal. las. Col. Carle Abrams. and every soldier as he responded to his name in. roll call. Some story or sentiment, some bit of prophecy, some patriotic 'appeal, some re miniscence of those who did not come back there were many kinds of . stories in the brief thumbnail speeches that the boys made. Memorial la HeM " A memorial service for the de parted was held, led by Rev. David Hassel. one of the soldiers who enlisted and later came hack and was graduated from Willamette, This closed with a salutet, at at tention, while Edwin Payne, the old company bugler, played To the : Colors." The list of local dead Is growing. It now has the names of Maurice Lawson;. gradu ated from Willamette; Welcome tCoatlaued on page a.) 12 Hf 7. M , Long lines 4ot .hungry persons wafted fh front t the Y. J; C. J here tonight her they were be liifla HwlUt v'sAidltfie.j gad loaves ; r bread. Inside, many of theb-lidings.'. including balldlngi anr .the ; scene t stae, terribH Wasei women and men Srorkc4 tirelessly In an effort .to: providt for those without a home. s A-1 Hemee. Opened ;..."-'. "' Several grocery stores and frh meat markets iu the utlylng dlt tricts suffered an ahprecedented rush,, and, police authorities, by way. ot precaution. Issued erdera against profiteering, aa soon as systematic peratioaa " can 4 started; by the ! relief orfcaizar tions it will be possible to receive aid, through the Red Crosi, ft waa aaJd.,;:7A:,:i; ':'! '' Hundreds of homes 1 have heoa thrown open te those mifle 'desU tute by the blaze and, all, publla buildings available will . provide steeping .and eating quarter!. Al though net many residences weral in the path of the flames, apart ment houses,' hotels and ' frame) tenement structares were destroy ed and residents -of Alter U who made tkeir homes in thcie etrue tnres barely had time to escape. v Fod Supply CratraUaed A committee of SO representa tive citizens appointed by Mayo Bremner met anxl began prelim Inary steps for relief.' Major W S. Gilbert, pastor of Uhe lTrst Presbyterian church, waa appoint ed chairman - .- t. ;":: ; , Relief measures were hegua with orders to commandeer the city's food supplies at ooce to be gathered together In ' One build ing. , . , : .; '' : Banks,' aewspaper pltats, ho-, tela, atbres, theaters ahd numer ous buildings housing a variety of business places, were wiped ' out. According. to; Fire, Qhtef; E. .B. Foster, the ' fire got , out of con trol because it bunted beneata the buildings underpt!lng, upoa which the city was . built. He at tributed the disaster to failure to fill in the apace beneath the piling. - Norrta 6taplesr- aatomo bile man ; and president et c the Bank of Commerce; dropped dead of heart failure while the 'fire was at Its height early this mora ing. - : ' " '' One Body Fotmd ,. ?i The . body of C J. Smith, . transient, wai found haaglcg un der the sidewalk on the water front at Eighth and Astor ' stret, but whether he had ended his Ufa beciufe of the tir or tor ether, , reason the police were unable ta learn. He had apenf the night la cheap lodging house , oa tha walerlront' -'-. ..fi ':. ,x ;-ji-, . 'The Budget, , afternoon paper, which ; attempted to get out an edition today on the press of the paper at -Seaside, teund thls-im-i practicable , and lnsteid, iss ied mimeographed" sheets.: , t J. S. DeUiager;? pubUsheti of the Astortah, the morning paper,, announced that he would probab- (Continued on page l.