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1 FIRST SECTION J Pases 1 to 6 SEVENTY-THIRD YEAH U; S. SHIPPING r j ISSUED Skinner and Eddy Corpora tion Brings Suit :f or $9,- :t!ll(,?iatUlilar nuwyc wvii tract Breach HEAD 'OF COMPANY ..1 ri ASSERTS PATRIOTISM Shipbuilders Did Hot Take Single Cost Pius contract, rSEATTLE. Wash.. May 1. The Skinner 'it - Eddy. . corporation, Which during? the world war de veloped a large shipbuilding plant here, taday filed "it in superior court fo$9.129.401.14 against the United States Shipping Board emergency fleet corporation, alleg hreach of contract, .v i i The complaint alleged that In February, 1819 th government ' cancelled' contracts with, Skinner & Eddy for the building of 70 Teasels, et a time when 25 vessels were in course "of , construction. Loaaea i aUeged to - hav resulted from this action ' include $1,605, M0.22 said to hare been expended In f improving part of j the plant known as Skinner fc rEddy-site No. 2; 1514.441.40 plant rental orlea$e payments to the. govern ment, and 1166,272.42 ( insurance and taxes. Other items of losses claimed Were shipbuilding materi- ' als on hand at the time; of cancel lation, bonuses paid to workmen and advances to' sub-contractors. All material on hand and ordered was declared to hare' beeome al most totally worthless at the time of cancellation. . ; . v-.j" . . Profits. Shunned. Clfan Expendltures for improvement of the plant were made.1 according to the complaint, on the theory ' that the property would revert to the company. It was alleged that cancellation! of the contract pre vented Skinner A Eddy from com pleting operations to acquire own : ership of he plant. ". i v-vjf D. E. Skinner, president of the Skinner Eddy corporation, said tonight that the suit was the only , reply he had ever made I to "many ' rumors, that , have been coming back to me all these years." j The Skinner1 Eddy corpora tion did; not make millions oat of cost-plus contract during ; the wr, no asserted. "We never too ka slngfe cost-plus! ' contract with the" government. We never took a contract by which! we stood only to make a proflt'suffered no .risk of loss." ' 1 -T if FOB BOYCOTT Organization v Will Attend Mass Meeting in ) Body, Not bend uommtttee The American War Mothers yes terday unanimously endorsed the Idea of boycotting the use of su gar and decided to attend the mass meeting hich It is expected will be called, as a body and not be represented through a commit tee. i,-, L---. f a , THE WEATHER THE WEATHER OREGON - f Generally ' cloudy - Wednesday, with rain, i near the V IX)CAi-, 1 WEATHER (Tuesday) I Temperature. Max. 5S. Temperature Min 41: , .River, 2.T, falling, j l . i Atmosphere,; partly - cloudy, ' ' Wind, south. . ,- I; mm ' 1 I MOTHERS "f v iHr-v: i L ' a n n I irzri a - : 1 FAR! .NEAR IS VISITED Visitors Are Feasted at Gray IMBED' I Present From Silverton, Portland and Other Places Wives Accompany Traveling Representatives Tulip Farm To Be Seen Todays "You. see that boy laughing? You think he's all fun? But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done ; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man who knows him laughs loudest of all." The Brotherhood of American Yeomen have sent out four laughing, cheerful men as select their great $10,000,000 l hey ares now in balera. Up Detroit, chairman of their children's department who selects the great national home, went into one of the big law offices on business.; Some one told a 'funny; story,' and McKee started to laugh, -lhe whole office) stenographers junior clerks, the infection, and they stopped work as if the 3hop had been blown up by dynamite. The head boss saw what, had hap pened when McKee laughes; he led him gently enough but with desperate firmness out of the rodmr saying: "Old top, you 11 have to go somewhere's else to laugh if we're going to carry on the law can't do it when you laugh like that!" HOLY ROLLERS .: BEAT BY MOB Incensed at Ku Klux Com- plaints Non - Members . . Start Big Riot BOUND BROOK, N. J.. May 2. At oneJ b'elock-this morning a crowd !of Hlol-y Rollers,. who sought refuge in the second floor of their Temple", from . a i mob which at- . .- - . 3 . ---" '" - - f tacked and wrecked the first floor,' stllli were Imprisoned : and state .troops who arrived from Netcong and - Franklin Park- wjere unable to drive away ;: the crowd that surrounded the church, i ueiore ine troopers amvea one of the beleaguered churchmen stuck his head out of the window, but before i he ; could Jlnlsh -' his plea that' the attackers disperse, he was pelted with - stones, which ( continued on page 2 ) FiverHundred Students Out- 1- 'Jl -XlfNI- MMIT-.. Slue oi loaiem win iiy to Pass Grades Approximately 500 eighth-grade students in county, schools out side ot Salem will graduate this year, provided , they are able to pass the eighth grade examination, according to information given out from the county school superin tendent's' office, yesterday. Copies of the examination question which are in the superintendent s office at present are being mailed out to county teachers. According to county school reg ulations students who - qualify for graduation must maintain an av erage of 80 per cent in all their subjects and cannot fall below. 70 per cent in the final examinations, Those who attend classes total of 450 days during' three Vears, average a grade ot AV, (between 90 and 100 per cent) in all of their subjects and hold a deport ment record of 1 5 "per' cent. ' may be exempt from! final cxamina tions. fe.--r- x'r Counting the sixth and seventh grades a total of over 1800 stud ents throughout the county are ex. pected to take the final grammar school examinations this year. SALEM IMST IN - OkEG1 Belle, With Other Guests their national committee to farm-school-orphanage home. in -Portland, Mark McKee of force, more than two-score head clerks, partners, caueht i But they are doing more -; than laugh. They are carrying tho makings of a laugh to - potential lens of, thousanda of children who are . to, live' in- tho grat - home they are to locate aud build; to the thousands i of . afnicted par ents who, facing the last grim battle, without spear or shield, and: with their own. end certain, will know that their,' little j ones will be taken into' the great heart of the Yeomen, home and given the lore and the care ' that the (Continued on page 6) 'Mi T EM PUS TODD" JUST NATURALLY FUNNY; YOU WILL BE FOR HIM IN ALL HIS NUMEROUS TRIALS Have you ever had your feel ings of loyalty, anger and disgust tied , into a mixed, double 1 hard knot, by .seeing some one you like Imposed upon disgracefully in such circumstances that you were powerless jto do a thing? . i t " If you have you will ache to get your hands . on Octavus i Roy Cohen's amazing humancharadter, "the uppity Willie Bunon," when the uppity Willie-makes Tem'pus Todd take -him for a joy ride ih pns' taxicab. with ' Miss Cara mel Watkins. ' ! t' Miss Watkins, you will under- stand, is TempusVex-fiansay.'' This episode of Tempus, the up pity Willie and the ex-fiansay is only one or tne never-ending ser ies ot screamingly uproarious sit uations in Octavus Roy Cohen's new dally cornier strip, , "Tempus Todd," publication of which has begun In the Statesman. But to tell the rest of this won derful ' Octavus Roy Cohen plot TEMPUS TODD fHtl COMES YOUR GAC WITH THAT UPPITY 1 t . . .. a . ... Mt ..a,., f SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1923 Q State Securities Commission Demands More Business Like. Proposals From Ir rigation Districts ' APPRAISAL ORDERED i i FOR POWELL BUTTE Session Enlivened By Dis pute Between Cupper and Oswald West The Oregon irrigation and drain age securities commission.- In ex ecui i vc session late yesterday, fol lowing: an all-day open hearing, refused to certify bond issues for any of the reclamation proects ap plying , until more - satisfactory proposals are made , by the dis tricts. - - , ; ' , ; . The districts under considera tion were the- Jefferson, water jconservancy district ot Jefferson If county asking certification for 4,si,ooo. bonds ; the Suttlee lake district of Lake, county. .ask ing certification iot.. 4 75,000, and the. Powell ' Butte -district of Crook county, asking, certificatiyu of $1,500,000. - . Cuei- to Draw 'Plans Relative to the Jefferson' "Water conservancy end. the SatUes lake districts. State Engineer. Percy A. Cupper was instructed to draw up proposals which he is. willing to recommend to the commission and the commission. will pass on these at a meeting to be called later by (Continued on page 5) would spoil your "fun. Move In on "Tempus Todd" and get in on thei big dally laugh which Octavus Roy Cohen. America's foremost humorist and' the greatest: pjbt producer the fiction field has ever known, has prepared for readers of this, paper in his - new riot of fun) "Tempus Todd,' a j comic strip with the illustrations, drawn by II. Weston "Taylor, one iof Am erica's greatest Illustrators, him self a great humorisU Nbtjhing to equal this combination of stars has ever heretofore been attained In the creation- of comic art, - When" Octavus Roy ?, Cohen makes you ' laugh, he means the laugh to 'begin at your waist line and come up, increasing in vol ume. ; And that's the way "Tempus Todd'.'jWiji make you laugh when you findtifeurself whirled into the fun-seethiig vortex . of sttuations (Continued ua page 3) Tempus Makes His BY OFFICIALS . ' r,.' '. j ' CCOOD MAWWIW; MISS CARAMEL. W I l n U( fW K II I .HAW IS VOL! FFFLIM4". TUl5 MORKJINC?J I fWATCM ME STRUTN f: - n "7 ' . ... , ' I ' I MY STUFF AMD - III :- ''A- .v;; v r i lymrrr uiisi i 11 .j m. v 1 r I ii is' m r. m 'V. - WHAT SALARY GET, ALL ASK ; ,' -4:.. .-. Home Hun v Swatter Receives Surri of $4,3333 a Month Iliit For How Long? ' YORK, May 1. Babe Ituith lost $590.51, about four da-s. pay. In city court today when Justice Wendle ordered the. fCpw York American league base ball club, to take that much out of the , bambino's morithly enve lope in satisfaction of judgment granted David Davidson for dam ages, to bis automobile In a col lision with Ruth's car. v Attached to the formal order wae a .statement by the Yankee management. Babe's boss, that On May; l he had $4,333.33 coming toj him and a. like amount on June l; so Babe's monthly stipend win expertly- computed at $4, 333.33. Dopers-out of Babe's an nual ' salary, 1 however, who have gaessed it at various way stations between S 2 5,0 00 and $100,000 a season 'were not helped much. . If he gets $4,333.33 a month for the approximate six months of the baseball season his salary iir $25,000 ?a year, and if he gets a check the first of every month' winter included, ft is $50, 000, but if the amount increases or diminishes, then it's different. TO SALEM PEOPLE Rooms for Shriners Should i Be Listed' By Calling Marion Friday : The housing committee of the local Shriners are appealing to the citizens of Salem for rooms In private homes to accommodate the throng of Shriners' whose car avan will arrive in Salem Satur day, May; 5. " ' v i : r The ' committee has madie ar rangements i to conduct a listing bureau in ! the Marion hotel, and all ! Salem t citizens who have rooms that are available for Sat urday night, a,re urged to st them by calling the Marion- hotel any time arter 9 o'clock Friday morning, May 4. , j ; i- The people of ' Salem, it is as serted, have had reason , to be proud in the last few years in the way they have opened their homes ' to various organizations and' to the Shriners who came to Salem during. the state fair, and at this time theV housing committee of the Shriners1 urges air those who have available rooms to list-them Friday. May 4. as the committee will be busy assigning rooms on the following day, and there will be no opportunity to make a list ing then" j t : Glands; for women are the1 lat est. But there Is nothing that beats living right, eating right; sleeping right and leaving the other folks business alone, to have all of us dwell in the land of youth! for many, many years.; Bow (I II flPPEA L IS MADE . M A Y DAY I S 1 REMUNERATIVE 1 i Seven Thousand Members of Building Crafts ) Receive Dollar Per Day increase in Wage ; DEMONSTRATIONS IN ; ENGLAND ARE QUIET Ward Baking Company Em- ployes and I WW are Still j - ' Out on Strike i NEW YORK, May 1. --Sever! thousand union members of build ing crafts celebrated .May : day In New York City by demanding and receiving a dollar a day Increase in wages, i Two branches of the American federation "tof labior (Continued on page ) IMMS1P MIES fflIISPROBE0; ; eearig is mm After investigating on its own motion intrastate trans portation rates and charges made by Oregon railroads on fresh and. dried fruits and vegetables, the Oregon public service commission yesterday ordered a hearing on the subject to be-held in Portland June l. Forty-two railroads are requested to have representatives at the conference. In its order calling the hearing the commission ? states that after investigating the present local and joint , transportation rates and charges on, these commodities as they, affect intrastate! traffic, the commission believes there is suf ficient grounds to warrant a hear ing, at which time. It will be de termined whether, the ' rates are Just and reasonable and ; not dls crimnatory. " ! The roads cited to appear are: Central Pacific' Railway com pany, Deschutes Railroad com pany, Great Northern : Railway company,' Marlon & Linn County Railroad company, Nevada - Call, fornia - Oregon Railway, North ern Pacific Railway company, Northern' Pacific . Terminal com pany, Oregon & California' Rail road: company, Astoria Southern Railroad company, Benson Timber company, California & ; Oregon Coast railroad, Carlton & Coast Railroad company. Central Rail road company,' Central i Railroad of Oregon,; City of Prineyille rail way. Columbia & Nehalem : River IS FEEUN UiCE NOT BEINC -AWMOVEtWHN WALKS OUT WITH NT FKIFNO MI3TUH mue WASHINGTON, May 1. Announcement that the gov ernment in thirty' days will begin to "vigorously" enforce ths law as interpreted by the supreme court to prohibit American and -foreign, ships from carrying liquor within the thj:ee-rnil3 limit was made tonight by Attorney General Daugherty. Explaining that the supreme court mandate would bo corrie effective in 30 days,, Mr. Daugherty in a formal state ment, in which he'discus$ed yesterday's decision at consider able length, declared that "every agency atmy command vrill be used ' to enforce the lawrwithout favors partiality or dis crimination" -. - r : ' ' r': - . Portland Railway, Light & Poyver Company Profits The Portland Railway, Light & Power ; company- made money in 1922 on both its Portland city lines and its Interurban lines ac cording to the- annual reports filed with; the publif service-com-mission. The figures are: " City lines: : Operating" revenues, $ 5,1 0 0,673.70;! operating expens es, $3,797,773.79; taxes, $454. 691.41; operating , income, $S48, 208.47. .. . ' ' . ?' ' . Interurban lines: - Operating revenues. $802,584.43; operating expenses,' $675,673.47; taxes, $62,961.40; $63,919.56, operating income. it railroad, Pacific S.tates Lumber company. Gales Creek' & Wilson River Railroad (company, Great Southern Railway company, Mt. Hood Railway company, Lewis $t Clark Railway company, - Oregon Pacific & Eastern railway, Oregon Short Line - Railroad company, Oregon Trunk railway, Oregon Washington Railroad & Naviga tion company, Southern Pacific company, Spokane, Portland 4c Seattle railway", Sumpter Valley railway, Valley &. Slletz Railroad company, Portland & Oregon City railway. Portland and Southwest ern .Railroad . company,: ' Portland, Astoria &. Pacific railroad ., com pany, Willamette Valley & . Coast railroad' company, i Willamina . Grande Ronde ' railway, - Kenton Traction company, Medford Coast Railroad company, Oregon Elec tric Railway company. Portland & Troutdale Electric Railway comi pany, Portland Railway, Light & Power company. United Railways company. Walla Walla Valley rail way company, Willamette Valley Southern Railway company. . Story HEN) SVf F R Ht TR) PE 8UAHON. tAN MANE A FkULcK Ft EL UNMtCEsSAKYj TWOSECTWIIS lOPcZZT PRICE FIVE : CENTS rn i... WASHINGTON, May 1. Ilr. Daugherty issued his comment on the decision and its probable ef fect afier ha had spent Bercr-1 hours studying 'it, and after: tL3 ship liquor question had been dis cussed at today's cabinet meeting. He expressed the opinion that sev eral : complex questions in prohi bition enforcement had been con siderably ? clarified by the decis Iohj . . i h ' . After ; reviewing his . own opin ion that neither foreign nor Am erican ships : could : carry llquc? within the territorial waters o" the United States and that do mestic, ships had no right to sell intoxicants-, on the high seas a ruling later upheld by Federal Judge Hand In New York tha attorney general said the su preme court had placed "the fll stampjot approval upon all cf it except only the right of America a ships to carry. and sell liquors ca the high seas and i In JSorelra ports, but even as to that the supreme--court has . stated that-con-gress may- make such '-prohibition if it! so desires- ' "l am glad. Mr. Daugherty de clared, that the doubts entertain ed by some people in this coun try .have now been put at rest and1 that it is clearly understood to be the law of the land that no intoxicating liquor can be brougtt within three miles of 'our shores on any ship flying aforeIga fla whether they do so under the ex cuse bt ships' stores or otherwise. I shall see that such law is vig orously enforced as far as I have the power and authority to do which now seems to be ample." Want to Rent A House? Try a Statesman Want Ad: Th6. Results Will' : You" Surprise .' " - - -. ) ' Below' Is one of .the . , Want Ads. appearing in -today's -Statesman Classified Columns. " I ; 'A- ; One a Day. Yill it Yours Tcnicrrow? FOR RENT FURNISHED house, $ 35 monthly. - W. A. Lisrton, Agent. ; by OCTAVUS-ROY C0IIEU IHDtraUons by K. Weston Tsyler - ! THAT CAL SURELY A. -