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V, j; r Lx.J-LJaL Ll2Jj - SALEM, OREGON, FmDAYMQRNING JULY 20, 1923 I : j , : TT1 1 i i 1 001) L11LES OF 51 ' BY OFFICIALS IValuJ&le Date for Hearing ! ;By Interstate Commerce . commission uatnered By corey?s Party rtAiLRDAn RiliinifjR PROPOSED FOR OREGON Series of Adventures With Weather Encountered By Travelers 1. tired1 Bronzed 1 and and sleepy. ba feeling that they- had stirred up a tremendously helpful rail road bulMinc enthusiasm in cen tral Oregon, the public serrice commission party- returned Thurs day from a 1500-mile tour of the state . In the interest of railroad construction. ; li- The . Oregon, commission Da's a complaint before the Interstate commerce commission asking, for definite railroad .building pro gram for Oregon, under the pro visions of the transportation feet of 1320. This act of congress ghres the interstate com mission the authority to order roads built into sections where public neces sity requires It, and where a prop er showing can be made that the business In the new territory will be profitable, or. in the words of the law, "will not Impair the abil Uy of the transportation com pan- lee to pay-a reasonable' return, on their investments." Oregon Demand Important The Oregon demand is the big gest thing of the kind erer taken to the national body. It calls for almost 350 miles of construction, most of this in a country not now served even slightly by railroads. In the, 30,000 square miles of ter ritory to be covered there is today not a foot of track. Yet much of this country is well developed, at least up to the point where it can go ,no further without railroad transportation., Most, of it' has a tremendous tonnage, either ready for almost Instant shipment, or at least that can and will be devel oped by the time the roads could be built. i . v Would Extend Present Road The program calls'; for the ex C (Continued on page six) H.T0RS TOLD OF Country Not Over-Built De spite Recent Boom, De clares Denver Man PORTLAND. Ore., July 10. Despite the heavy building boom - which has lately been in evidence over the country, 94 percent of the cities are still not over-built i and In 61 percent shortage of houses exists, accordfng to a statement made today at the con vention of the Northwest Real Estate association ; by I. F. Ep pich, of Denver, president of the National Association of Real Es tate boards. .'He explained that his statement was based on re turns from a questionnaire sent out from his Chicago headquarter ; to leading cities of the country, to which 225irresponsea had been re- . ceived. . "1- K "In addition to showing that an actual shortage of houses exists the returns showed also that, 74 percent of the cities have had an Increase in building permits over a year ago." be said, "and ..in genera that there is a tremendous amount of real estate' activity at present." THE WEATHER OREGON: Fair. Friday. - - LOCAL WEATHER .---.' (Thursday) 'Maximum temperature 82. Minimum temperature, 57. . " River '.2. ' - ' Rainfall. 0. , Atmosphere, clear. . Wind, southwest. . TETOURED III SHORT MS MMM QUITS: jm All IOCS. SPRINGS AS ML PIPE Failure Greets Second Attempt to Span Continent Be tween Dawn and Dark: Airplane Was Traveling 170 Miles an Hour in in Sto for Repairs at ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., July 19. (By Associated Press.) Failure greeted the second attempt within ten days of Lieutenant Russell L. Maughan anriy . airmkn to span the North American Continent between dawn and dusk Hoday when an oil leak forced him to land: nere at o :u r. jyi. (mountain standard time). He had covered more than two thirds of the United States, a total of 1,925 miles and was t-t! Viis rrnnl t. a snppd of 170 miles an hour AAlA-aV Vliil , UVf vv Ma. O after leaving three of his five hind him in his race Witn tne descend.. ' A tiny stream o , XV Hiljr outaui v .vm, f aperture in the oil coblcr of the Uurtiss pursuit piane, neccs sitated the conclusion of the flight. Machine Sent By Express Should Arrive in Four x or Five Days , There is being sent to Salem from Ontario, Canada, a jf lax pull ing machine. It was supposed to be started ; yesterday. The Can adian inventor and manufacturer are taking the risk of the high cost of getting the machine here. and if it does not worK.ltnai win be their loss. , , , If it does work, there will be nlentv for it to do to keep It busy from the day it is ready for the ttax fields. The Canadian ma chine : will , be accompanied by a man to run it. If his machine will pull flax,: and deliver the bundles properly! the- growers . j will be glad to pay him for his work and the Hax plant at the peni tentiary will honor orders irom the growers. ,v- The same thing Is true; as to the bartosx machines, eleven of , which are supposed to be ready! foif work by next week, une 01 ipem is work now on the Bradlejy farm, a mile south of Aumsville. but its adjustments for delivering the bundles are not as perfect as they should beperhaps will be, In tha next few days, i t The early sown ripe flax is d Ing pulled, by hand by a numbei of growers, They do not propo&e to have any of the nax go iu waste. ' f : f Rat most of the late sown Iiax will not be injured by standing .nth s dan In the fields be fore it is pulled unless we should have unusually hot weaker, -with all th 12 flax nulling ma chines may bo able to do, there Is ure to be a good deal of hand inir at least of the early sown flax that 13 ripe and ripening. FIRES REPORTED III BETID FOREST Deschutes Reserve Has Sev- erai blazes; vv uu clared to Be Menace 1 BEND. Ore.. July 19J Forest lookouts reported today that many tires have been spotted in various narts of ; the Deschutes national forest yesterday and today! but the forest headquarters has no ac curate check on the number and location of these blazes. H. L. Plumb," Deschutes forest super f nor. was out in the timber per sonally directing 'the work of the fire fighters. 1 ; ."- ; (V Althoueh no report had - been received from the supervisor since he left Bend -Wednesday evening. there was danger that some of these fires, fanned . by anorth east wind, had broken away, from the fighters, - - .', ..- IS LEAItIG Effort to Make up Time Lost Cheyenne. M . scheduled stopping pointsbe- sun, wnen oe was iuitcu w n aniirtino-' from ah almost invisible - -0 ------ .. . A Bimilar leak had caused al most an 5 hour's, delay at , Chey enne, Wyo., his third, stopping nlace. shortly after noon, today and Maughan was driving his iho- tor at ton sneed- to regain the ilme which had : been ;. lost. , For more than 200 i miles .westward from Chevenne. the , motor raced smoothly, but at Rock Springs the cooler suddenly began to s leak Mauehan passed over the air mall field at' 4:58 p.m. determined to continue to Salduro, Utah the next stopping place. As the fumes from the escaping oil became stronger, however, he realized the fnMlitv at contlanlnir. ' turned back and landed af the almost de serted field. ; . ; A brief examination by two pilots convinced Maughan that it would be impossible to reach San Francisco, the western terminus of his flight before I darkness closed In; f , , ; , j i t Pilot biaappointcd ' t Bitterly disappointed at Jthe lailure of his , second .attempt to cross the continent, when success eeemed , almost assured," Maughan made - a cursory examination, of the oil cooler and strode from, the air mail field: to a Rock Springs hotel to retire for the : night i Lieutenant Maughan said that it would take three Or four hours to ; repair his . plane. He said he probably would not go v to San Francisco, now that the flight was ended. - ' I He added that he mighf fly to Locan. Utah, tomorrow to seel his wife and children and his mother. After that, he asserted. Mltfchel Field. N.Y the start! nr point of his trans-continental flight today. probably would be his destina tion. He indicated he would, re- turn to Mitchel Field by airplane. ; Tampering Rumor Deniea : Lieutenant Maughan charged ae Impossible rumors circulated, , In the east that his plane rnght have been tampered with before he started the flight. j . "It was simply a case of j the soldered part of the tank coming loose as a result of the vibration" he asserted. . ( "If would have been impossible for anyone to tamper with the air cooler. - Any euch reports are) un true." ' j The leak occurred at a place within the plane machinery which could not have been i reached without working a considerable time, -he said, and many of j the y- (Continued on page 2) j Rosebrauqh Brings Suit J On Insurance Policies W. W. Rosebraugh Is seeding to recover $2500 from the Lower Columbia Fire Relief association on a policy covering loss byj fire or lightning for his foundry! and boiler works which were destroy ed by fire at a loss of $5000 on June : 24. 1922. The compjaint was filed with the county clerk Thursday. t Rosebraugh claims that the pol icy was taken out on April ,28. 1919, and was for a period of five years. ' One claim matured on, or about April 24. 1922. bat this) was paid July 1, and amply protected by certain clauses in the policy. He declares that no part of the $2500 lias been paid.! and that, the defendant -has. . refused to mako payment on the policy. In .ad dition to the $2500. Rosebraugh demands that $500 attorney' fees bo allowedj , VETER ANSflSK Would BarAII Except Those naiiiiy i ooojjuiio moicau or tresenx "uenxieman s A0mentc,, . RESOLUTIONS DEMAND EQUAL COMPENSATION Ask MirtimUm Wage Scale for Women and Prohibi tion of Child Labor VANCOUVER, Wash., July 19. A tightening of the ban on Jap anese immigration was demanded today by the United Spanish War . ... " veterans of Washington and Alas ka,, who began their 20th annual encampment here today, . The veterans Insisted in a I resolution on a treaty , barring all Japanese from entering the country except- ing those with passports, instead of the "gentleman's agreements' in effect at present, i . Treat All Alike The cx-soldlers also demanded equal, compensation for , veterans of 'all wars and deprecated the practice of sineline nut nnn rriinn of veterans and givine them snel8.1! t tne chief executive. j cial compensation not accorded others who are eauallv deserving Adequate minimum wage scale for , women, legislation and lawslPart7 arrived at Valdex today, and nmhfhlHnw rhiM i.k. ..kkr. w - - - : .WW. . UU 1K1 VI - w in the -United States was advocSit-la the two stops remaining be- ed in other resolutions. 40O Are Present Clarence Hotchkfes of Portland. 1lintn va AmmoWA (n - , m der in chief at the session. F. A. Walker, senior vice commander of Rhodes, senior vice commander ot 3cout Young camp of Portlind. and Mrs. AV roMnf r Young 'auxiliary, spoke on behalf of foreign veterans. Abont 400 dfilftfra", of wW AJ ganizations had arrived up to to - night. WATERS-ADOLPH BE Contract fo Construction at Liberty and Court Likely . Next Week Plans have been received fdr the Waters ft Adolph building to be erected at Liberty And Court streets. The contract will. bo let! shortly, possibly next week. , i ' The , building; site is cleared, ready for the permanent construe- tion. The last of the old Wood 1 stuff was burned Thursday after- uuuu. me, new siruciure if .l be of two stories, without base- ment. It will have three stores 1 , . ... on the corner dividing Its front age Wtweed , Liberty and ?durt. oiiu me uiucr iwu will 1 1 uu L uu Court. The hnildlno- -aHll fiA R3 I . 7 " 1 " l leei square, or practically Ofuu feet ot usable store space. , The new building will have more glass frontage, than - any other structure in Salem.- Upstairs, the big plate glass windows will cover practically the whole front, ex posure.. It will have a marquee or rain-roof all around on. the street fronts. It is understood one of the store spaces will be occu pied by one of the Martha Wash ington stores. Funeral Services Held for Ahierican Magazine Editor OBERLIN. Ohio. July1 19. Funeral services for John M Sid- dall, editor of the American Mag azine, who died Monday, were con ducted tdday by Henry Churchill King, president of Oberllp college and Dean Edward I. Bosworth. I Burial was beneath the ancient j elms,' leas than a mile from the campus, where Mr. Siddair trod I as a student and alumnus of the I college, PLANS BODY OF MAN? CONTAINS 72 POUNDS ROCK Klamath Falls, Worker, In- - jured in Dynamite Blast, Submits to Operation KLAFATH FALLS, Ore., July 19. Twelve pounds of rock was .."UtV result; of an operation performed at a local hospital today. I Day was terribly Injured last week in a dynamite explosion Ion the Ashland-Klamath highway. when, is companion, Glenn Hy- hart' lwas killed. Day has never ,osl consciousness since the add aenc xook piace ana nis condition Is still precarious. v ALASKA DELIGHTS HARDING'S PARTY Steady Growth for Territory I . r it,, i. i I J is Predicted;. Now on j Way to Valdez ABOARD U.S.S. HENDERSON, with! President" Harding, July jl9 (By the Associated " Press) The concensus of officials In President, Harding's party, fixed as the conclusion of an Inspection I of. Alaska approaches, is that the territory will gradually develop. I "ut .i1111 no sensational Doom can I be expected, ' as a result of-the I. , President Harding, Secretaries I Work,'' Hoover and Wallace and ltne remainder or the presidential larA TRTarlnr to Corrtora and-Sit- I fore Vancouver, B.C., which the jHenderaon is to reach next Thurs- YtV. - I OlaLcB . W OeltitJ lUC .IU11UW1UK L, i. hIs ,AIakpo"cy c!ear ,n a nnderstc-od that the statement will ; xur,e, probably; suggesting the creation of 4ddJt,onal filing reservations with a view to conserving the sup- Pi? ( by. protecting if from exeps ITS , 1 Fir tVni-lr la untA tr favnr dmiv. lification of. the homestead laws so that patents to lands In Alas ka may be Issued mpre quickly. He is believed to be of the opin ion j that the Harding administra tion would be unjustified in re- i - I commending to congress large appropriations for Alaskan devel - opment, but to assent to the pro posal that congress should pro vide for developments as they are needed. . ;, ' I I Mr. Wallace has already an nounced his conviction that agrl cultural: development In Alaska wilt ha slnw inH that farmnfa In thej territory have many dif f Icul- Ue yet to overcome before, thjey Bet; the Industry on a plane where I success is assured. Mrs. .Harding did not come f ashore when the president visited I Vildex. but reniained on the Hen- Iderson; continuing a program of 8he left Fairbanks. Her physic- Una said that she was respohdlhg faTorably to treatment, but that 1, , k,.-- - I T3 UllCt 1.1 MCI iu Dial uu --i-1; -viA i pany,n(? the president on -R tiip of two hours that he took to .. wortma n on the Valdez branch of the Richardson highway.' TEIS DISCUSSED TODAY German Reparations Neces- . . a . ii r ii snaies Anoiner uouncii By Cabinetmen LONDON. July 20. (By The Associated Press.) Another cab inet council has beeiL summoned for tomorrow to consider further draft of the British reply, jto the Germany on reparations. . This announcement was made late to- nlght., ;.; :. 1 EAHL BIARRIK8 CHORUS . CURL CHICAGO, July 19. The Earl (of Northesk, and Miss Jessica Brown, former Follies. girl. were married here tonight in the offices lof Fraak T. Jordan, her attorney. 1 KS STRIKE ORDER Both Eastern, and Western Wobblies Told to Return to Stragetic Points and Wait Instructions PROPOSED GATHERING I - - w - -w mmwrnmr - - - - mmwm mm w DEEMED INADVISABLE Tie-Up of Marine Workers Expected to Take Place in Few More Weeks PORT ARTHUR. Tex., July ,19. (By . The ; Associated Press.) There will be NO invasion of Port y the IWW This statement w This statement was made by General Organizer Sidney Terry at 11 o'clock tonight.. He declar ted that a messenger had just ar rived from New Orleans bearing orders from Harry , G. f Clark of Chicago anad John Shuskie , of New York. , The reason given by Terry, who was in company, with ; William Green and Robert. ,Bell, two other IWW's, who were arrested last week and are awaiting trial on vagrancy charges, is , that a general ' strike is being ordered which will take marine workers but of vessels , in every port and the higher officials of. the organ ization do not . consider it advis able to concentrate .in any one section, and those who were n- route to Port Arthur 'are being turned back at New Orleans. ; The men had been ordered back to New York, according to Terry's statement to The Associated Press here while those from the r west coast have been ordered to return to stragetic points to await or ders for the general strike which may come in a short time. - - .Terry stated that h6 and, his three companions, all officials, of the organization division of the jww were the only outside mem bers . who so far have arrived in Port Arthur. He said that they would remain here and stand trial when j their vagrancy cases were called prob ably tomorrow and won Id, re main in Port Arthur to await further orders. . 'If the strike comes soon," said Terry, "we will open headquar ters in Port Arthtur but should J anything delay the strike order it may be that we will be sent to other ports to take charge of the preparations as our organization work, 13 going on smoothly here. There will be no more IwW coming In hero at this time and the Invasion has been definitely I Ordered OIi. "We have been keeping ; head quarters in touch with conditions here and Ihev know Just what is being done in tlfe way of investi gating the Holland casei by the grand jury and "others. "The strike is to be a general one, airecting an transport mem bers of our organization as they come into jthe different ports af ter the strike order is given. fetters From a By GEORGE H. GRAVES ROUND XIV j Montana Mud t " . OLD FAITHFUL INN, Yellow stone park. Wyo.. July 14. There are one million mud holes in Montana, and Tootsie went into every one of them and pulled out on her own power until she came to the very last one, and there she stuck and had to be pulled out. . . : . M . Left Glacier Park hotel July 11, and pulled over that awful road to Great Falls. Stayed in I Great Falls until 11 o'clock of the fol lowing day and then made for White Sulphur Springs. 113 miles over some. more awful rough gum bo roads. Finally came to the Belt mountains and at last struck a fine piece of road, nine miles up to the top until I reached an ele vation of 7035 feet, and then coasted down Into White Sulphur Springs over one of the smooth est graveled roads I have; ever been on. It had just been scrap ed. Then I stayed over night at the poorest hotel I hare been in. The room I had . was simply aw ful. Not even a coat rack to hang my clothes on, and the plaster all off the walls. Spent the evening RECOMMEBIB Murderer Waives Postponement and Decide to llz z it OrerTVithj enlebce is Passed bjr Julzs Percy ll KeUy; R Large, iWHl II-vo to Stand Trial for Same KHrhe. 1 ALBANY, Ore;, July 19. George Parker was convicte J in the circuit court here today, on a charge of first dcrci murder arid after waiving postponement to next llonday, rt which time sentence was tp have been passed, was sentence ' by Judge Kelly to be hanged ori August 31, for. killing Sheril. Dunlap on May 20 last. The jury was out one hour and fir- teen minutes.' less .Than Hour Required to Get- $200,000 Elect . : Officers Today- v ' . PORTLAND, Ore., July. 19. Fifty-nine minutes were required for the raising of S200.000 ; to complete thl purchase of the na tional clubhouse of the American Association of University Women, situated ,ln Washington, p. C, at today s. afternoon, session of the annual convention of - that body. This sum will wipe out the debt sustained, in 'connection with ihe house and will make all non-real dent ; members of the association automatically members of nation al headquartera and ' the club house. ' . , Election of officers will be the matter of greatest importance FrI day. Dr.. Reinhardt is expected to be proposed ; for the presidency, Her's will be the only name of fered by the nominating commit tee for that office, insuring f unanimous election unless other nominations are - made from the floor. The committee will make Its' report just .before election takes place. One name will be nrnnrtRAii for ' each office. Pro- r - r r posed amendments and , by-laws also will be voted upon, tomorrow nplpeates and visitors will leave Friday afternoon for. a trip up the Columbia river highway. FHdaVa session WiH; conclude the convention. V Kansas Vets Get Bonus; , x Must Wait Many Months TOPEKA.V Kas.,1 July; 19. (By the Associated Press), As affect ing the interestes of the more than 70,000 - world, war; veterans in Kansas, the outstanding effect of the decision handed down by the state supreme court today, deter mining various issues of the state bonus,', is .. that it will ; result lh months possibly many month's - of delay In the distribution of the bonus checks, . Salem Fight at the city camp grounds visiting with , the campers. , The following morning I was up at 6 and off a-flying. as it was cloudy and I knew if it rained I would be strictly up against it in that gumbo mud. Passed through the town of Ringling, owned by Ringlinz Brothers circus. I had raced with the' clouds for 40 miles but finally they beat me to it, and it commenced to, rain. Up went the top. and then the: car com menced to skid.-" I got out to put on the -chains but as soon as my feet hit the ground they t went from under me. I found out I could not even stand on. Montana mud. 1 1 managed -. Xtf HL- lip, a wheel and get one chain on. Then I went to take the jack from un der the axle. Do you suppose I could move it? ' I should say not! That mild was so sticky I could not. get the jack from under it. tt was glued to the ground so I had .to knock it out with; a stick. t The . chains on. I started again and then found out I was no bet ter off with them on than I was with them, off. Anything would skid on Montana mud, I went down a hill and came nearly skld- (Contlnued on page 6); iii iff' Rulie Johnson, jcir.i! charged with the murder c . the sheriff and Parker brc! : jail while awaiting trial her:. Parker, was recaptured at cr.: : but Johnson is still at large. . It was alleged that V. . sheriff was killed in a run ning fight with the two rr.;: . wheri he was trying to arrc them on suspicion of robbery, s Hire f TO BE SOLICIT? Salem jHospitai Workers t; Take1 Recess and-btart f Again Tuesday Additional , subscriptions c . 12230.05 to the Salem hospital, announced at the luncheon at tl . Marlon hotel yesterday - noon, Y. brought the total amount to $2C, 500, . about, 112.000 under th f needed ;35000. Following tl announcement of the workers 1 1 to amounts received in their ca- vasaing. it was decided to call r breathing spell of a few days, dui ing; which time ar complete chec". upon cards and subscriptions will be made, and everything in readi ness for the work of "flying squa 1 rona" to take the field in clean up work next Tuesday. All 'of those present at V. Thursday meeting were optimli tic over the general outlook. V, was stated that many publla spirited citizens who would 1 1 anxious to to contribute 1o t. fund' are out of the city at pres ent, and though the committf have worked diligently during tL s mornings of the past four days. cards turned In to the general cora- mitteo show that only 315 people out of Salem's 20,000 have con tributed.. This, was haled as as excellent sign that the city tad been, but partially canvassed. ."Many people ask the question, Why 4on't the doctors build tits hospital ?! Jr.,W. B. Morsa de clared. J'Few people realize t-? relation between 1-he .doctor e the Vpabc. 'he a,L ,a ESWr to this question., "As far as fin ancial, returns. are concerned tta doctor, will Jmake as much from his office, practice as he will frori ooerations at a hospital, ttoc'i an Institution of this kind docs provide an excellent workscr. The better, class of the meci nrofession never turns a persoa away simply because he has no money with which to pay for pro fessional services. The put.;:, retd the benefits from a hospital, as it gives them an excellent place in which to Stay and receive tb? proper care and attention. k "The doctor Is tne poorest rnau in the world to solicit for sub scriptions, but he should ba be hind .the movement to his limit. No matter what argument he puis up, it is believed he is after a workshop where, he can naLs more money." "Teachers are not asked t ; build schools, so why ahouia i doctor be expected to bulll t' hospitals," was the point ral bv Dr. Clemens. "People t"'' from the lack of proper facilities. he aid, "and- not the cactr . While many-operations, partlc -larly in the past, have been ma in private homes where many r convenlencea . are lacking, tl are only done, at an added rl !i t the patient."' In dosing. Dr. Clements c ed that a general tax to bull ! m nnn m L UUU IlLl . t