The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, August 11, 1923, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text1 . OZEOULATZOX Ararat far months caJlnf July SI, 1923: TS THk CITY OF na eUewhcr la Mrion and Polk Coantiel J j - , N-rly vary body rad Ihe Oregon Statesman? THE HOiDB KEWSPAPE8 J . Sundays only Daily, aod8ondy .5841 .5457 SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 11, 1923 i' i it A S ; t i 1 V,'- 7l H0F.1AGE PAID . J TOHflRDIiOi :! UlliDSEfi Great Cities Call Halt Upon Activities and Shaw Re spect as Body Is Placed in Marion Vault MEMORIAL SERVICES 1 HELD Of J LEVIATHAN Passengers in Mid-Atlantic .Honor. Chief;. England Also Mourns Loss KEW YORK. Auk. 10. Hashed ; -with a reverent stillness unparal leled In her history as a metrop olis. New York today paid sorrow- ful tribute to the memory of War ren O., Harding. ; 'f Her great banks, her brokerages, s . her ' stores, . her. harbor ' deserted. ; the city turned to her myriad ;I churches, where the sad ceremon ies at Marion, Ohio, were being echoed.' '-. VI '" 7 7"' It was more than a Sunday hush Jhat fell. I i - Sunday, to New York's mllllpns is a day aa much for relaxation an for worship. It is a day for the beaches, the parka and the coun try; a day for motoring, car rides and golf. ' ; y ; t Traffic Motkmleea j t Today" It was almost as If tEere was a funeral In-" erery home. Broad thoroughfares were strip ped of their traffic" Subway and elevated trains running on reduced ' schedules were sparsely occupied. Trains to the s'Eore resorts were ; almost. empty. ? The resorts them i selves were aa quiet as If In win ner, j. - j; The apex of the day of mourn '. Ing came at boon when, with mll ; lions assembled fa the city's churches to do sorrowful homage 'to the dead president, with the guns of the surrounding forts and t military posts booming' the presl , : dentlal salute and with hundreds ' ; of church bells tolling, tho city's transit lines ground to a halt, and 'her connections with the outside J world were temporarily snapped. Subway, elevated and railroad i trains, trolly? cars and automo- biles stood motionless for two 1 minutes.- Telegraph and cable in struments weta stilled for like i eeriod. Radio ceased. Telephone I operators sat motionless at their - switchboards. - Alt thoughts had - turned toward Marion. . J : T- - ( -V -. , J FRISCO BOWS : , i k'- ' SAN FRANCISCO,- Aug. 10. This city, where 'death had reft its I swift and world-stunning rendex - vous with Warren 0. Harding a ; scant week ago, bowed In deepest ' t reverence as it envisioned today" i the last act of the solemn drama f of his passing. In' spirit Itseiti- ' iens had gone along the requiem . lane with him. from the quiet ho- i tel room from which he. was borne i oae week ago today to the lvy- 'covered house of peace and death ; In the cemetery at Marlon. ' In person today they filled the great civic auditorium while the prayers . were said and the bells tolled and i the strident whir of the city's ln- dustries died down to deathly stillness. ;-" ' ' I : Former United States Senators ? James D. Phelan, a man of dlf f err i ent nolitical belief from the famel departed, but one of his staunch est admirers, spoke the eulogy to ' the hushed throng' that packed . the great civic temple. I , "7 '. IV IID-OCEA?r ABOARD THE i STEAMSHIPJ IVIATHAN, Aug.'l 0 -( By wire less to the Associated Press.) Out here In mid-Atlantic. ; long ieasues from that little church yard In Ohio.' where Warren G. Hardin went to rest today., a fear auadred Americans fkced the set "g sun and breathed out upon the waters a fervent Godspeed to aepartinr soirit. x ! ; Nor were the Americans alone J their jrief. although theirs, the loss of a friend more Intimate, T have been the more poignant, Nationals of a score of other na- 'TJontlnued on page 5) THE WEATHER OREGON Fair Saturday. " . - I ' - :. .; - - - LOCAL WEATHER (Friday) Temperature, max. 87. Temperature, mln, 49. Reinfall, none. " ' River. 1.. Atmosphere cleax..... Wind, west. - - BASEBALL ; F0R: STATE FAIR IS URGEB BY OLD FAN Revive the baseball tournament for the Oregon state fair.- , ' ,,: ,.v ii ' ; ; isr'i-.;. So urges a Salem man in a letter to the Statesman, signing; himself "Old Baseball Fan." r The old fan reminds Statesman readers that the baseball tournament was once an annual feature of the Oregon state fair. He says there are some people who do not care for the horse races, but who would attend the fair to see the ball games. :'l .' ; : : . What do you think. Everyone who thinks the state fair board should put on a baseball tournament Jet the States man know about it. Here is what the old fan says: "Editor Statesman One of the most pleasing features of the state fair years ago was the baseball tournament dur ing the week participated in by the amateur clubs of the state. The board offered a suitable prize for the champion club, and a reduced sum for the second best organization. The contests were certainly enjoyed by the spectators and were witnessed by large crowds. . ' ; r ui . "Cannot this feature be revived for the approaching fair? Many hundreds who attend the fair do not care any thing for horse racing, but would greatly enjoy a good base ball game. 7 . v . "What say you, Secretary Curry and other members of the board, to this suggestion? "OLD BASEBALL FAN " ir HJiUUt lit HELD BY in Blake Held Memorials' for Lincoln, Garfield, McKin- . eyr naming , TUALATIN, Or..1 Aug.. 10. (Special to The Statesman.) , Beautiful and impressive memori al services for the late President Harding were conducted here to day by Rev. H. P. Blake, assisted bv Rev. Mr." Carlos of Portland. Rev. Mr. Blake,, who is approach ing the 9 0-year mtlepost of life's Journey, yet hale and hearty; and mentally strong and -dearly be loved by everyone, has the dis tinction r of havine officiated at the memorial services of four dif ferent presidents Lincoln, Gar field, McKinley and now Harding a service rendered probably not equaled by another clergyman, in Oregon,' and possibly not in the United States. ACE TO GROSSING , , IS WON BV DEATH Boy Killed, Another Injured, When 0. Er Train Strikes ! Automobile PORTLAND. Or.," Aug. 10. Loyst Johnson. 17, was Injured fatally and Byron Leedy. 16 was injured seriously late today when their automobile was struck by an Oregon Electric limited at Met ger road crossing ' near herei Johnson died of a fractured skull before reaching a hospital. Both boys were students at Lincoln high school, Portland. Their auto mobile was wrecked. It was said that the boys tried to beat the train to the crossing. , The boys were on their way home to Metzger after a swim in Oswego Lake when the train hit the automobile. Geological Survey : Makes Progress on Valley Map , i j, ' . . . A section-of the topographic map, of the Willamette vaUey on which the United. States geologi cal survey has been working for several years' In cooperation with the state will probably be com pleted this year, according to Thomas G. Gerdlne, representing the geological survey, who was in Salem last night. The party work ings on 4his survey is, east of Sa lem and i between Silverton and Stayton.; ! - Mr. Gerdine makes regular in spections i of geological survey work in Oregon, Washington and California, and recently has been la the Columbia basin district and in the ' vicinity of Mitchell, Gr ottier surveys are in progress In Southern Oregon and in Lane county. The topographic maps are used, in making soil surveys, reclamation and drainage surveys, road building, etc '.:---"r'.-A ' Mr: Gerdlne's headauarters are at. Sacramento. He is accompan ied" here Ty wra. Gerdiae. irnmirn CORD TOUME' MARIOiJ VIClfJllY STILL1BED Exact Nnmber That Gath ered for President's ' Funeral Unknown ... MARION, O., Aug. 10. (By the Associated Press)- How many of Ohio's and the nation's citizens joined' with the thirty thousand Marion neighbors and friends of Warren G. Harding never will be known.. Tbey . could only , be roughly estimated. .They came and. came and came from everywhere tihtfi they liter ally crowded every street, and by way which the late president knew and loved so well. ' Tonight, they are going, each to his separate home, sad of heart for him whom they loved. Mingled with all the sadness, however, is a measure of Joy that it is all orer for the frail woman shrouded in black who is speeding back to the nation's. White House to turn it over to its new mistress. ; ' Thousands are still strolling the streets tonight or "were grouped about the little home In East Cen ter street which has been the shrine of the nation's sorrow since early yesterday afternoon when the body of the dead president was brought to abide among loved ones at home. They seemed un willing to forget. L0G6ERSCD1UCT iMemorial for Dead President Held in Camp on Grande Ronde River There are those who profess to believe that a logger is against ev erything that bears the stamp or even the suggestion of govern ment. But out in! the Spaulding logging camps, on the Grande Ronde, the men" stopped their work during' the hour for the President; Harding service Friday and there were as sincere prayers for the soul of a great man and a , good friend of the man who works, as ever ascended ' from church or senate or school. U. G. Holt, who reported the incident, said that the ceremony was most Impressive. ' If The groves were God's first temples," these Oregon lumber-jacks in such a service had about' the 'most wonderful temple in the world for their tes timonial. " 8POKANK MAN DIES , , SPOKANE. Wash.. Aug. 10.1 C M. FassettJ former mayor of Spokane,- died; this afternoon- at his summer home at Spirit Lake, Idaho. " He. was walking near his home .when suddenly seized by a heart attack, and died before med ical aid could1 reach him. ' : .1 , RUHR WAGES INCREASED DUESSELDORP. Aug. lO.i-i Wages of miners in the Ruhr pits are to be Increased 245 per cent J The increases to go into effect Immediately and. bo retroactive from August 0." " " n SERVICE PRODUCTION IS UNUSUALLY BIG IN THE VALLEY Hay Crop Probably Makes Record Some Discolored By Weather, But Little Damage Reported FLAX IS CLASS OF ALL 1923 FARM CROPS Teeming Fields, Green Pas tures and Good Roads Lure Calif ornians A tour of Marion county just now will convince any one that whatever may be wrong with the financial system, the middleman, politics, or business . in general, there's nothing at all wrong with the productive powers of Marion county soil. 7 . There never was such a quan tity of hay grown in the valley as during the season of 1923. A re grettable quantity of it has been discolored and some really dam aged by excessive . rainy and cloudy, weather during the haying period, but the aggregate quan tity is immense. The grain crops, taken as a. whole, have not been better, if as good, in a quarter oi a century, considering both fall and spring-sown grains.' wheat, uata attd rye. - ,. , . Prunes Variable Prunes are spotted, some orch ards being as full as they can hang, and others being myster iously short of fruit. The total yield is expected to be very large. Apples are unusually good, after tho terrible blow the apple orch ards received in the hard winter of 1919. There will bo a good crop of peaches in almost every orchard that lived through the big freeze four years ago.;." f Walnuts and filberts promise very well. The filberts are . still limited in number, but the trees are remarkably thrifty and look to be well filled. - . Flax the Big Crop Flax is the class or the whole farm crop list for this year.' It is estimated that there will be 4000 tons of flax delivered, to the state penitentiary plant this sea son. The state is paying $20 a ton for the cut flax, and 135 for what ia long enough to pull. The exact proportion of the two kinds is not yet known, but it is believ ed ' that the percentages of short flax that must be cat is so small that the total crop price will run close to $125,000; This is the rlnest, cleanest I money that the tarmers will be making-this year. The yield of seed is expected to be extraordinary, as it has been a flax year from the first of Janu ary until now, and the heads are filled to Indicate a seed yield com parable to wheat or oats. . Pastures Unusually Good Not since the days of Noah and his flood have the pastures of the Willamette valley been as good as they are this season.' While the creameries have found a regular summer shortage of cream, this year as of other years, the short age came a full month later than usual, and has not dropped to nearly the usual distressing late- summer figures. The cream checks have been better for 1923 than the dairy farmers of Oregon ever knew and the country looks greener and moro inviting than anybody ever saw it at this time of tho year. The number of California auto mobiles touring Oregon is a real revelation of comparative cli mates. One interested driver, one day this week.-'counted 47 Cali fornia cars coming north in his drive between Salem and Albany. California Cars Numerous Of all the cars one sees on the road, almost one-third bear the California label. Some drivers Jn- sist that fully one-half of all the cars are from California. They come up to see the beautiful green fields and forests and to ride over the wonderful state highways of Oregon. They may boast of their sunshine. ; and their bulging wealth and their cities prurient with sweating humanity, and their movies and their morals and their oil and a that, but when they want a breath of fresh air and a smooth, easy drive, and a glint of green: forest and rippling waters, they hold their noses .and hang on tbl the, life-lines on their bumpy cars - as they 'rattle aers their own. state line roads into JJeauti ful "Oregon. " "" r " ' CASEY JOKES AS DATE OF DEATH NEARS fFix It So It Will Last Two More Weeks, He Tells Doc tor Dressing Wound "Just fix It up so it will last two more weeks, doctor." Dan Casey, one of the Inmates of the state prison death cells, jocularly remarked when he was taken to the Infirmary to hare his shoul der dressed yesterday.. Casey, who is under sentence to hang on August 24, complained to Deputy Warden Lilly that the wound he received at the time of his arrest, had become sliehtlv in fected and needed attention-.- He was given medical attention by the prison physician. Though he has. but 13 more days to live, Casey appears fairly nappy and continues his light vein of demeanor. Each mornlna he remarks that that is one less time that he-has to dress, and at night " one less time to undress. Prison authorities declare he has maintained this attitude - ever since he . was received at the prison. ; COOLIDGE FACES Appointment of. Secretary and Personal Physician are Slated Soon - ONt BOARD PRESIDENTIAL. TRAIN, EN ROUTE TO WASH INGTON, Aug.-10, (By the As sociated Press) Leaving behind him in Marion, entombed with ten der; care, the body of his late cap tain. President - Coolidge tonight was returning., to the capitol to face the problems of office. With him returned admirals and generals, members of con gress, representatives of various states who had come with him to participate in the burial ceremony of Warren Harding. ' Mr. Coolidge, who has left Washington last night expects to reach the capitol early tomorrow. With the week facing him, it la probable jthat administrative acts will, not be forthcoming before next Monday, although facing him Immediately is appointment of a secretary and personal physician. "Questions which callers In the temporary White House already have placed before Mr. Coolidge include the possible need for an extra' session of. congress, the fact that , his predecessor had planned to call another conference of gov ernors to discuss prohibition en forcement and the coal situation. Memorial for Harding Is Held at Silverton SIL.VERTON, : Or.. Auk. 10. (Special - to the Statesman ) Nearly: every -Silverton citizen and many from the country attended the memorial services honoring the late President Harding. The services were held at the city park at Silverton. All the ministers of the town took part in the services. The Silverton Choral society sang the hymns known to be President Harding's favorites: The Silver ton band took part in the services.' PROBLEMS MOH FLAX SCORE HERE EXP By CHARLES J. LISLE. The ; Statesman representative has spent two days this week out la the if lax fields of the Willam ette ; valley.' from Turner to Stay ton and down almost to Marion. These visits were, made with vari ous flax experts, and covered "the investigation of many fields, from many different points 'of view- social, financial, agricultural, me chanical. -- ' i If flax isn't one of tbt biggest, beat, crops that the Willamette valley farmer ever tried, then the fields are liars and the thousands of tons of sturdy flax stalks are myths and hasheesh dreams. There are fields that should produce up tr four tons of fiber to the acre: not many, but stilt they are there, and the weight; slips will prove It. The farmer who gets four tan to the acre wilt receive $140 spot for his crop,4 without any partici pation in the profits. of spinning ork ultimate weavln&rr Tie 'state S STATE JUDGE Important Interpretative Let ter Upon Subject Is Writ ten By Supreme Justice John McCourt CLAIMS IT AS RIGHT; NOT AS PUBLIC FAVOR Uncertainties Dispelled Re garding Present Enact ments on Statutes Charles Langdale has applied for parole under the law. . No action has as yet been taken upon the application, but Judge Mc Court of the supreme court has rendered an exhaustive opinion which gives such a clear and much needed interpretation of the .law that The Oregon Statesman pub lishes . tho letter in full. t In these times when the parole law is the football for all sorts of interests, when the law is kicked about like a friendless thing, it is timely to have this great Jurist render an opinion that is so clear that it will sweep away the cob webs and let the people see tho law as it actually is. - Judge McCourt heard this case when It was originally, tried, -but inasmuch as there was a plea of guilty he could not have taken any great concern. His opinion is based on the law as it was passed by - the legislature; and this in terpretation will receive the con sideration to which it is entitled. The entire letter is as follows: - August 1, 1923. Parole Board, : Salem, Or. ; " ' ' ' Dear Sirsi Charles Langdale, who is confined 'in the peniten liary under a sentence of eight years, is an applicant for a parole, On February 6, 1920. Charles Langdale, together 7 with Robert Hall and Russell Higginbotham, appeared -before me, as circuit judge, in Multnomah county, and each entered a plea of guilty to the crime of robbery, with which they were Jointly charged. I Im posed a sentence of eight years upon Langdale, as - he was the leader of the trio,' and appeared to have been engaged in two criminal enterprises before' that time. I had no evidence that his associates had committed any crimes previously, and accordingly I: imposed a sentence upon each of them corresponding to their connection with the offenses in which they had participated Joint ly with Langdale. Hall was sen tenced to six years in the peni tentiary, and sentence of two years was Imposed upon Higgin botham. 5 Langdale has requested me to recommend his parole. Ordinar ily I have refused Buch requests where the prisoner applying was guilty of criminal offenses com' mitted previous to the one for which I, as circuit judge, imposed sentence,' for usually in such cases the right of the prisoner to- a parole depends largely, if not wholly, upon the record which he makes while .an - inmate of - the penitentiary, and concerning which (Continued on page 8) S HIGH' , ERTSSAY stands' to make from 15,000 to $200,000 a year, after it gets fair ly started out of machining the crop:' " '' 7 Better Profits, Coal .. The old Willamette Valley Flax a Hemp association sought to combine the growing and .the man ufactUTing ends Into the one en terprlse, and so double the profits to the growers who were to be the whole show. The crop failure of last year left the association in a '- hard way so that it has been selling- all Its flax this - year to the state.' and the -state prison promises to reap the reaf harvest which the growers had foreseen in the flax manufacture. But the Willamette farmers will get all the way from $25 to $140 an acre for their crop, without the manu facturing adjunct, and they will get back their proportions in tho remission of taxes .If the peni- PAROLE LAW EXPLANED BY ( Continued on page 3) WA " , . - RREW MRD1G IS NOW SLEEP1G. KEAi IS WTMER'S Mi Thopgandi of Ohio People Gather at Marion to Saj final Farewell to Beloved Citizen; No Syinbcl cf Mditary Marks Funeral Other Than Hcnsr Wnicli cf Soldiers, Sailors and Marines. MARION Ohio, Aujgr.10.r-(By Associated Press.) wardingof Ohio, is home tonight; sleeping time away near the mother at whose knee his first childish dream bf great ness was prattled. . Before his tomb, as the chiming voices of the choir sar. softly among the .trees "Nearer My God to Thee" another tender, brave woman stood with aching heart, her veiled race lifted to the sky. A moment later she stepped into the dim vault where the husband's journey of life had ended. Then she turned away, brave to' the last, to face the lonely years ahead. . She waited not to see the iron nates cloa softly upon her dead. " cm council to SHOW ITS STUFF Amusements for Next Indus trial Exhibit Discussed r By Federation At a meeting of the Salem Fed eration of Clubs ' held , last night at the Chamber of Commerce,- a suggestion was made that when the Industrial exhibit is held next November under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce, each evening should be devoted to a certain form of entertainment. At a recent meeting of the. di rectors of the Chamber of Com merce the matter ' of holding an industrial exhibit this fait was dis cussed. It was proposed that this exhibit be held in the armory for several days in' conjunction with the annual corn show. Members of the federation In session last night expressed . the opinion that a special program each evening of the exhibit would aid in bringing ? out - the town folks. As outlined, it was sug gested that for the first evening the city council, with the mayor presiding, should be given the armory stage and show folks just how a council meeting is con ducted. Then for the other three evenings It was suggested that the Rotary crub be responsible for one program, the Klwanis club for another and the Lions club anoth er evening. By this plan , the people of Sa lem would be given an opportun ity to visit the industrial exhibit, and each evening be given a pro gram of entertainment that would be educational as well as interest ing. ; 5 OFFER PREMIUMS l(S Idle Printing Presses Bring Hardships; Prussian Po lice Payless . BERLIN, Aug. 10. (By The Associated Press.) Premiums of 100 per cent were paid freely on the Bourse today for paper marks which now are so scarce that a man with a check book does not hesitate to pay for them at the rate of tw for one. 'The strike of the printers which ended today had complicated gravely the moneyless , situation by tying up the uncounted bat- lories of - the reichsbank's print ing presses The reiebbank and all the big and little private banks locked their gates at noon to es cape the long lines of clamoring patrons. While the, currency shortage is not void of humorous phases, it nevertheless is contributing a ser ious aspect to the prevailing ner vousness and irritability since it is inconveniencing the workers and middle classes who are accus tomed to ready cash. The Prussian government today was unable to mobilize enough currency to meet its police payroll and the officers are now in much the same plight as tourists who are unable to lay their hands on sufficient currency to pay their hotel bills and railroad fares. The General Electric company was the first of the big Industrial plants to organise a food distribu ting bureau; for tho benefit of its employes. 0 PAPER ID Harding is home forever fro ra life's high places, where the rest less, heavy winds of ambition blow? home beneath Ohio soli, for above him the vaulted roof 13 mantled W,I grass-grown sod; home among the neighbors and friendV of his youth, the kindly people of a kindly town. Time la ended for him and the sTioutlns and clamor that surrounds tho great Is done. ..j'ia.U'.. . It was a long road to that silent Tauft; about, which there closed tonight a guard: of the citizen cf soldiery of his. own state. . There was endless: ceremony of the na tion's and the peoples making to markjhe way. Cut It ended eln ply, calmly, as the dead woull bare had It end. ... .. Funeral IUtes) Simple Aside from the multitude that walled the long way from t!i father's home to the" vault an! those -others close-packed-to mak a living setting for the funeral rites, there was not much to marl: it as tho burial of one who ha . I held -highest power 'in his gra?p. There - were the- tanned men t? his guard; from the sister service bf .the nation, the admirals sr. the generals who formed his hon or escort, the friend-and comradr who now Is president in his stea d, the colleagues of his grief-strict: i cabinet. That, was all, except at tho last, distant gun i fire u h came to his tomb and the soft tones of a . bugle sounding a eel. dier requiem as the gates were closed., i . . Otherwise the- funeral service was that of a simple and much loved, citizen of Ohio. All Ohio seemed to have come today to V.l him farewell.. Throngs who-3 number will , never be known passed . beside . . his casket an I looked their last, upon the deal face before the time for the Ia-.t Journey. came. , , ,. f- - Military Pageant Tracking From his .? father's -. house- he went out agalnii carried by ! tL a stead fast "men uwho have stood constantly to guard a dead com mander. No solemn musla of bands or military pageant marke 1 his going save the great flag cf the president dropping In mourn ing and carried before him to tta gates- of the tomb as he went. In cars behind the simple hearsa that carried now this honorel leader came President Coolidsa and the cabinet and the friends and close kin. There, too, came Chief Justice Taft and General Pershing. The last to leave the memoried house was Mrs. Hardies in black and With veil drawn close and just ahead of her walked the old father, his face plainly show ing the agony of his grief. . . ! Through the silent, face-wallod street, the cortege passed around the corner to the quiet cemetery. As it came toward the gates the guns spoke afar in honor. . ' Cabinet Family Closo i The vault stands Ivy-wrapped and set bade into the gentle Hill withf little space before it. So the funeral train was halted at a distance and the casket lifted down to be carried to a resting place before the open' entrance V3 the tomb. Already a group of senators who knew this "dead pres ident under the capitol dome be fore he passed to the Whlta House were gathered in waIfTh2 in line across the roadway that runs before the entrance. With them stood the comrades of camp. Ing days.- Ford, Edison and Firestone.- '.' J Tho cabinet family came to stand closer, at the foot of th3 casket with their new chief stand ing sorrowfully among them. The admirals in gleaming white lined the way to the left, the general! to the right and beyond, behfr 1 the cabinet stood the little party of intimates and friends who mar! -j 7 ICCflUaUfi f 3 a? 31.