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- i if o U in) tru 01 J I 0 U s J L J Li J 7 1 i I I I l j j I r (I i ji J II I I ' ;'V' '"' r 1 ' 1 : - aaJ L . - IN THE CITT OT 8Ai.r:j - i -I . i I CIKCUIJaTION . i Avcraga for Mb, 1921: Sunday only 6040 . Daily b4 Sunday . 5543 Avarac for ix month aadinf Mar .' . '. 1V2S: Sunday only , .. ,6044 . Daily cad Sunday 5502 SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR nn F PRESIDEHT liJ FALLS CITY Armory in Spokane Crowded ; With .Thousands Eager to Hear Address By Nation's Executive GREAT FUTURE SEEN FOR INLAND EMPIRE Court of International Justice ;Again Emphasized By Nation's Chief ESTSUBJECT SPOKANE. July 2. (By The Associated Press.) - President : - Harding delivered bis . addres ; here tonight to an audience that overflowed the state armory, an . auditorium seating about 3,000 people. The chief executive was intro 4 duced by Governor Hart-and was - theered heartily. He began speaks - tag at 8:40 o'clock by saying that ' ffhila he had received a pleasing rire"nowhere has the greeting i- been more wholesome-jaore cour teons or more kindly than In this ' great far west." , Before launching Into his pre pared address,' the president read a telegram from Director Lord of the budget bureau Informing him . of the surplus of" $309,000,000 over the expenditure for the fis cal year, which ended last Sat' nrday. . ' - Remarks Applauded! The announcement .was loudly applauded' and v there also was cheers- when the president com mented that "the United States alone of all nations had gotten back on the track and was living within its income." : Concluding his discussion of re clamation problems, the president tonight ' again appealed for sen timent favorable to American ad hesion to the permanent court of international pustlce. " -, 1 .Development Argued ,(-,'" : Gradual development of the na . tlon's"' natural . resources rather than preserratiton of them in their original state was advocated by President Harding here tonight as the only conservation policy to which. America dare commit it- :seir. . : The president, speaking on "de I velopment; reclamation and wa-ter-utillazUon,' declared against : locking up the public domain "as J; a treasure house of potentiate V -wealth," on the grounds that such action would prevent it from.be , ing ready for use when needed. He ; made It plain that he stood for gradual development, such as the ; use of water both for irrigation ' - ; and power and for a policy of re forestation that preserves the na- tional Interest jrhile permitting (Continued on page 6) mm worn me shed mm jail TTJTTr m ALBANY. Ore., July 2. Rulie Johnson, under indict ment on a charge of murder for complicity in the slaying of Sheriff Dunlap here May 21 last, was; still at large tonight and officers searching for him 5 had no ! tangible clue as to where jhe had gone following his escape from jail here yester day with George Parker, who was recaptured almost imme diately.! Evidence in support of the theory that the two prisoners had outside help in their preparations for escape was dis covered today In the form of a package of food lying just out side the jail near the hole in the wall through which the pair had made their exit. With it was Johnson's coat in a pocket of which was a knife which the sheriff said had been left in an outer corridor of the jail on a shelf. This weapon, he de- clared, could only have come -into j Johnson's possession through outside collusionj Filing upon an available water site along the Santiam river, in the Santiam national forest, about 40 miles from Sa lem to provide an adequate supply of clear and cold mountain water to supply the needs of the city of Salem in the future will be made Thursday. This became known last night when the city council in structed the chairman of the water committee to file on the aite at the office of the state engineer. This prelimnary step is occasioned, it ' was said, by the fact that there 5s some d .satisfaction concerning ihe Salem Water, Light & Power company's service. "While it is possible nothing may come of the filing there is another possibility the project may take form in the next few months as a municipal enterprise. . Nothing is known at present concerning costs of the project, ': but should the proposition become an actuality, these will be estimated at once; T ? ' t ' ' . Under present plans the water will be piped to Salem from the Cascades, a distance of about 40 miles. Mil IT Opening of Season Success ful Life-Saving Class .as Session ...More than 300 boys and girls attended the first day's session of the free municipal playground, on Monday afternoon. Swings,; swimming, baekelball, volleyball, children's games, and other sports were presented ; for their enjoyment, - The life-saving class held its first session. Swim- lnlifirtor profit; andsafety; ia X6 be made a specialty,' and every body, as nearly as they , wish It, win be given tne chance to learn life-saving in the water. Coach Hollis Huntington and Miss Smith, physical director for girls, had ; the assistance of R. R. Boardman, of the Salem Y, that will in general superviae the whole playground plan. Mr. Boardman gave most of his time to the work last year, and was one of the big factors in keeping It in so ex cellent condition., The grounds) are not yet entire ly cleaned up j but this is being done rapidly, so that' by the end of this week practically every ob struction or annoyance will be re moved. . The fplay and work , on Monday, the first day, was suc cessful from every standpoint. More apparatus Is being Installed than there waa last year. A grand stand is being built' that will ac commodate a large number of spectators and the first day's pro gram worked along almost as smoothly as ft It were mid-season. ' On ' Friday night the Salem band Is t'o give its regular concert at the municipal playground and park, instead, of at the regular! place, wlllson park.. It ought to be a notable musical program. It is expected lo add some athletic stun fs," also" ia volleyball game be tween the Rotary and ' Klwanls clubs, and a playground ball game between the Lions and the Kl wanls. Some life-saving " stunts in the water,' and footraces and other sports on land, may be added. ;' ! I ! ' - Parents are urged to feel that their children will . be carefully chapercmed and looked after. mm i) SPAULDIfJG MILL CLOSES FEW DAYS ; .. ' " i i ii . k l I Lay-Off of One Week Devot ed to Repairing Log ging Camps Idle ; Spaulding's Salem mill is closed down this week, partly for the reg ular enforced Forth of July vaca tion, and partly to clean up and get ready for another steady run with every detail in perfect con - anion lor etiicient work. Run ning two shifts a ! day puts the whole plant up to Its limit of en durance, and ah Occasional breath ing spell and careful inspection is necessary. The1 mill will reopen Thursday or Friday. The Grand Rosde logging camps are closed down for the full week. The men all wanted the lay-off. It is understood that a like vaca tion is occurring In most ot the logging camps of the valley. The two Spaulding mills at New- berg and Salem are cutting about 50 cars of logs a day. The New- berg mill is operating only a sin gle shift; the Salem mill running double. The company is getting out some logs from tts Luckiamute holdings, and is also opening Up a camp on Mary's river, No com mercial logs have as yet been cut; on the Mary's river tract,' but the place will be opened up so that steady production could he began there on a day's notice. - ' Logging wages is good this year. The average is about $6 a day for all the men ; employed In, t the woods.' The track men get $4 a -day; head hook tenders- draw from $9 to $ 1 1 throughout the valley, this being the highest paid job in the woods. There has not been a single lire reported In the woods of the Wil lamette valley this season, accord ing to lumber authorities. IBS'IIII Price of $72o",b00 Paid For Lester Strip Where Riots Took 'Place SPRINGFIELD, 111.. July 2. Purchase by the Illinois mine workers union of the' Lester strip mine at Herrin, 111., the scene of the riots a year ago last June was confirmed tonight by labor union officials. The purchase price was $726,000. Elmer E. Mink, Eugene Newspaperman; Is Dead -If.-.' r ... "Baaaaaaaaaaaaa - . f- -.. :. z i ;. EUGENE, Or., July 2. Elmer E. Mink, for 15 years engaged In the newspaper business here, hav ing been successively- business manager and rural circulation manager of the Eugene Evening Guard, died' here today after a long illness at the age of 60 years, tie is survived by his widow. WEATHER PRIUI Oregon: generally fair Tuesday. SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 3, 1923 OPENING GUI IS FIRED AT POOL BAZAARS Rear of Blessing & Orey E tablishment Closed By Ac tion of City Council Last Night ! IRREGULARITY FOUND IN LICENSE PAYMENT Real Estate Dealers Demand That Summer Street Carline Remain v The opening gun of a campaign against pool halls, proprietors of i which fail to comply wtth ordi nances governing their operation. night when by a vote ot 9 to 4,!in Salfm- as wel1 ,B Washing Chief of Police Birtctietjt was or dered to close the - reair of the Blessing , & Orey establishment. 356 State, which is occupied by 1 pool and billiard tables. f Mr. Orey waa notmea .snoruy toeiore j. o'clock of the decision bf the city council. I - - According to evidence produced before the council it appears that on May 25 George Orey was ar rested ;by Officer Olson for per mitting a minor to play pool In the establishment. Trjial of Orey was slated for yesterday, pending the return home of Will Purdy. a material witness, who has been with Company F at Clamp Lewis. City Attorney Smith noticed that both Orey and his attorney wer vastly sattsnea wiin me seieciiou of the 'Jury, and proceeded . to probe behind the scene. ' . Defendants Well Iyrtlf led. ; Aa a: result of his investigation J Attorney Smith found that while the proprietors of the pool hall had deposited the necessary sum of money to pay for -si license with the city recorder, and had obtain ed a receipt for thisj they had to date failed to make application for the license. In addition, neither the defendant nor I his partner eould be held to the complaint, inasmuch aa the transfer from Joe and Sam Adolphfwas not com pleted ttntil three days later. Takine the council as a wnoie. the war on pool hall proprietors who violate the ordinances has been declared, though there are some of the aldermen who. are op nosed to hasty and drastic steps." 'Heated discussion; followed the proposal of closingjj the establish ment last night. J No Discrimination . "On after them jail, but don't tingle out one," declared one al derman. 1 ' ' "Well, we have to .make a start somewhere," returned another. An attempt waeji made tp, pass the buck to the police department', by a declaration that it was the department's place to see that the ordinance was complied with and to close , up a place after the li-: cense . had expired.! It was learned however, that the police depart ment had nothing; to go by. The city treasurer was instructed by the council to give to the police department a list of all licenses, covering every business that op erated under such, provisions, and then to keep a ll complete r check upon the licenses. Both the li cense committeeand the chief of police will be plven i a copy of these. f - JL Save Carline Urged ) Eight reasons! why the Summer street carline should not be torn up were presented in a communi cation signed bjf D. D. Socoloisky and 283 others served by that car line. ' The reasons offered were that ttie franchise rights called for service; that the people had fulfilled' their part of the agtee menf,that it waa the duty of a public utility to! give service; that (Continued on page 3) tote SALEM RADIO WILL PICK UP HARDING TALK President's f Address in Port- i i land .JtQi ay Be Heard By 1 , Citizens in Salem " i i r i . . -i . --yli 'J ': " ,J J1 r-:l"-H Salem Aa' not to Bee: President Harding, P but he. will be here in voico Wednesday. The Salem Electric company Is installins a special power ampli fier, and will, also put in two spe cial loud speakers, one on High street l and the other ' on State. When the president r starts his speech' July 4 at 2 o'clock at Mul tnomah park In Portland, the Ore gonian distributing .station will take it up and relay it out over the northwest. ' : 5 Anybody who hasn't yet heard a ' real president, can hear him on Independence day, without' costing even the price of a street car fare. It may be difficult to distinguish his features or tell who is on the stage with him or how his wife is dressed, by radio, but a 1 little good imagination ought to .sup ply these . Important details, and' the lion-lover can hear and gloat over a real president right here ELECTED GODDESS Lumber Camps Succeed in Getting Candidate. Across at Silverton SILVERTON. Ore:. July 2. (Special to . The Statesman.) JAlaa Laura Osterland won in the Silverton Goddess of Liberty con test with votes; amounting i to 80,071 against Miss Ruth Greggs votes numbering1 75,448 Miss Osterlund was backed by the Lum ber camps while Miss Gregg was sponsored by frthe " Silver Falls Timber company office force. Miss Osterlund will go to Seaside as "Miss Silverton" during the Amer ican Legion, convention in Sep- t ember. Five Army Airplanes On Way to Portland , EUGENE, Or.. July 2.-Five army airplanes 4 that left Crissey Field, San Francisco, this morn ing for Portland where they will participate In the entertainment of President Harding, July 4, ar rived here at 4:30 this afternoon and remained over night. ' JL 1 : i Letters From a By George H. Graves. ;I ROUND V. HAPPY'S INN. Mont., June 21 The place where it does not get dark until' 9: 30; a place where the lakes : are full of beautifal troutra place where you get de licious? mountain .strawberries; a ploe where the houses are made of lpgs, the furniture Is hewn from logs, and the hardware made from wood, and I am writing this article with the light of a candle. , Happy's Inn is 69 miles from the nearest railroad, ho papers, no mail, j Located . In; the ,! Rocky Mountains', In the tall timbers and surrounded by beautiful lakes, and I must liot forget to; tell you that gasoline costs 50 cents a gal lon, but fortunately I do not have ; to buy any. . I am told today is the first day it has not rained: since the first of May and you would sure think so If you could see the condition UMSTEUD of the roads. i . i .; - 7 Here I stayed two nights and a day, and I really hate , to leave. The only reason. I would cane, to get away from ' here is - because' th.ey serve ice cream ' for desert three times a day- Figure it out. They haul in a freezer of ice cream for the guests, and when the tourists do hot come fas enough t they ' use it up on the regulars. , ' . X j Two log cabins are In course of construction. ' Have - watched , the : f - i 5 ' - gibbons: mmim mi a otsitoe w U m . . . AS IS CALLED OFF TODAY Commencing a t ' N o o n ; Youngsters Have 48 flours j Hours to Do Their Best Who-o-pe-e-e. . The. ban on firecrackers and fireworks within the city limits will be lifted at noon today. : Young America will be able to give full vent to his feelings through an announcement made last night by Mayor Giesy that tho ban he had declared upon all fireworks would be null and void at soon today. " ; Furthermore, tne ' ban will be raised until noon .Thursday.' This, stated Mayor Giesy,' who still remembers his boyhood days, will give-all an opportunity to get rid ofany firecrackers that hap pens to Btirvlye the Fourth of July, i 1 But, he also stated, the firing must cease after Thursday noon. - -; ' Only one provision, ore rather request, is made, by Mayor IGesy. Bvery person engaged in the time honored custom of "shooting off" firecrackers is asked to -exercise due precaution against doing so in proximity to buildings. Safety first is his message. Do not endanger lives and property through fire. Postoff ice Burglarized r At Silcott, Washington LEWISTON, Ida,. July 2. Burglars entered the Siltcott, Wn postoffice between .the hours of nine last night and four this morn ing, taking $20 in ' -Wb&t office cash, $55 personal money and three cartons of cigarettes. As far as could be learned, no stamps or checks . were taken. On discovering the burglary Postmaster Cliff M. Wilson at tempted to communicate with the sheriff at Asotin, but apparently the wires had been cut. . Post office inspectors, at Spokane have been notified.. Salem Fight Fan men at work during the day, and believe now I could build one. All the tools they seem to need is a hammer and saw and an axe, and principally an axe. They cut out the doors and windows after the cabin is built. ' . V June 26. Left Happy's Inn this morning, a Cadillac roadster with two girls from Los Angeles going to' New York, and a travelling man in a worn out 'Ford, and myself started ; out at 9 o'clock. The roads were not as bad as I ex pected them to 'be, but rough with a great many deep mud holes. Old Tootsie went clear to the axle and dragged many times, but she came through in excellent shape. The Cadillac and the Ford both slid crossways on the road, and had to be straightened up with a tow rope. Had sandwiches for lunch apd pulled Into Kalispell, Mon'. , at 3 p. m. i Away up there -in the moun tains I met a man on the road, who asked me if V knew L. H. McMahan of Salem. His name was Swarthout, also met Joe Rhinehart at Spokane., i ' Have travelled 985 miles and the car has worked perfectly. V Found Kalispell. Mont., a very nice , town; visited with friends there leaving there 9:30 the morn ing of the 27th. For 75 miles 1 drove around Flat Head lake, a (Continued on page 3) G B WSTED t- i f GREAT PALLS, Mont., July 3 (By Associated Pr; , The world's heavyweight championship battle tctr Jack Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons, which has been elf r on for the past several hoars, waa definitely restored zr.l . be fought on July 4 as originally scheduled,' accorilirj ta : announcement at 2:45 o'clock this morning by I.Iajcr J. Lane, of the promoters, following a lengthy conference v. I. Jack Kearns, Dempsey's manager. .: GREAT FALLS, Mont, July 3-By-Assctfcitc J Pr: At 1:45 o'clock this morning Kearns &ain appeared r.l t ' door of his room and announced that he had offered to 't a gamble'! with. the gate receipts of the Dcnpssy-Gii: battle if the promoters would absolutely guarantee the r -ment of preliminary expenses such as the salary cf tf referee, the purses for thfe preliminary bouts, etc . 4 ' .. I " . t -;" " '- ' , a, ' . '. - 5 'aaaMaaaaaBaMaiiaaMaaaaaBBl ' GREAT FALLS, Mont., July 3.- (By Associated Pre The Dempsey-Gibbons battle for; the heavyweight t::: pionship of the world was definitely called off shortly all midnight by George H. Stanton, Great Falls banker, cftcr last minute conference with Jack Kearns, Dempsey mane - . . Kearns, it was stated, agreed to go on with the fight I the promoters would pay him $50,000 immediately and perrr.: him to take the remaining $50,000 of the guarantee out c : the first gate receipts. r z T, : 1 . PROJIOTCRS Mllirr leBERTioe WILL PASS TODAY Cabinet Member and Former Salem Resident Gping. Through' to Portland Little Bert. Hoover, who used to run errands for' the old Oregon Land company in Salem 30 years ago,, is coming back through Salem today. They don't call him 'Lit tle Bert" any longer. They 'say Herbert Hoover, and fifty million people of Europe whom he re fused to let starve look on his almost as on a god. He Is really only a possible Jew jumps from the presidency he has gone that far since leaving Salem! - He is ndt stopping In Salem today, but he is joining the pres idential party in Portland. He has been in Collfornia, while the president was coming across the other way. But he isn't coming just to be near, the president. He wants to see 'some of his old Oregon friends, j He has ordered a royal bouquet prepared at the Hotel Portland, ' and he has in vited all his old business asso ciates of the Oregon Land com pany he was the office boy and they were mostly i the "associates" to come and jdine with him. Among the number was the late lamented Dr. H. J. Minthorn Ben S. Cook, C. B. Moores.- D. v. R. Reid, and Mrs.'- Louise Hewlett Bickfordf all of whom are now living1 in Portland. Bert Hoover ta; coming back to his friends; he was ever a friendly sort. He sent' $250 for the build ing if und for the new Friend's church In North Salem, last year-, the little old church where ' he used to attend. What he' will do to and for the old friends whom he f eeda at the .Hotel Portland today, ought to be interesting. Lambs Are Smothered . , - , When Bear Appears YAKIMA, Wrn.. July 2. Fright ened by the sudden appearance of bear on the trail, lambs valued at $5000 Were smothered yester day, afternoon when the band of 12000 piled up in the canyon on Toppenish creek. The band which belonged to J. S. Renhsler, waa being brought down .from the mountains to be loaded on a train for the Chicago market. I ; and alaawhera Is I Harioo. and Polk Ooantlat Kaarly ararybody raada The Oregon Statesman THE HOUX XKW?4F3 PRICE FIVE CHI, GREAT FAULO, Moat., J: 3. (By the Associated Prcs.) Jack Kearns. Dempsey's mana-j:-, after conferring with Major J. II. Lane and Loy Molumby, pronct ers of the Dempsey-Gibbons fi;.' t, came to the door of hlg room e : 1 told- newspapermen that he 1 proposed to the promoters tha i the championship figbfc be pc poned until either July 20 or He said the people who bad boutl. .t tickets were entitled to see tlia fight and indicated that if arrac la ments were made the battle might go on. ' KANE IS REAP SHELBY, Mont.,-July 3. (IV the Associated Press.) Edj: : Kane, manager of Tom Gibbons, will not listen to proposals for & postponement of- the Demp!f!7 Gibbons heavyweight title tout here July 4, he declared early to day ia response to informal; : ,. from Great Falls that efforts vrer. being made to arrange for hull ing the bout at a later date. "We will not stand for trr postponement of the bout," Knr. said. "Gibbons is here to fi: . 1 Jack Dempsey on July 4. TLs fight .will be held on that data only or not at all, under present arrangements, as far as we are concerned."- ' Haney Is Sworn in WASHINGTON, July 2. Eert E. Haney of Portland, Or., w3 sworn in today as a member cf the shipping board. succeedia George E. Chamberlain. The new commissioner will be'in charga cZ the board's bureau of law and probably will succeed Mr. Cham berlain also on the claims board. THE STARS AND STRirE3 No family should ta ivi. out an American FIst. indepene":,cl: dxx ' ' 'is nearly Lere. Have you a fcri-tt new ft -to salute Inderpaf c! r see flag aw,'olt:,-c.:;:: ... : ' on page: Tin::::': mm 3Y i I -