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THEATRES SPORTS EDITORIAL CITY NEWS ; SECTION ONE TWENTY PAGES TODAY Ml A S AX.EM, 07.EG0N, SUNDAY MORNING; DECEMBER 2, 1923 SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR. i PRICE FIVE CENTS BUILDERS OF OREGON NAVAD COURT : ENDS SESSION INDIANA -LAD ! 1 WINS TITLE OF CORN PRINCE 13-Year-Old Iloy Wins inter national Prize for Best 10 ; Ears of White Dent AT SAN DIEGO r , I Four Officers Receive Full Ac . quittal By" Court Eleven Were Tried ITALIAN DIKE li - , -.. - - ' ' - -,- ' f 0y . I 'm ' i ; a I 2 3 I h X ''A '--! v - 11 I It i I : r. Secretary's Speech Called Wiisonian in Type Ai though Admittedly Intend- ed to Be Impartial AMERICAN IS GIVEN . CREDIT FOR MISERY Editorials Say That America Plunged Central Europe Into Trouble BERLIN, Dec. 1. (By the As sociated Press) -- Secretary Hughes' Philadelphia speech cabled-, here In brief draws adverse criticism from the conservative vand junior organs which purposely complain that the utterances of the American cabinet chief.provide no concrete help for Germany in her present sorry plight. - "The conservative Tages Zeitung says Mr. Hughes statement is ob viously intended as Impartial, but it is regrettable that, Washington remains "under the 'Inflnence of French propaganda and fails to rec ognize that not Prance, but Ger many is threatened and needs se curity for the future." "! Prosperity Doubted "If what Poincare ! understands by security, becomes a reality, namely, the complete" and perma- nent subjection of Germany for America's toleration," the news paper adds, all good wishes for Germany's 5 prosperity amount to naught." The pan-German Deutsche Zeit nng says the speech was of the "Wiisonian type" and the monar chist Reich Bote exclaims bitter ly; "American statesman are fond of making high, flown speeches. but when they com to deal with 1 Polncare's tyranny and oppression of defenseless people they shrug iheir shoulders and say that Eur ope! Is not of their business not withstanding the fact America by ts participation in. the war plunged central Europe into mis ery." - - ' Thought New Policy The Vossische Zeitung, the only other commentator, declares : the speech Is the starting point of a new, American, peace policy for Europe and emphasizes the im portance of the fact that France and Great Britain have been driv en to the recognition of the neces sity of applying new methods in solution of the reparation problem- .. . ::.. -,,,r-j.::; 'K-;:if v The Boersen Zeitung's interpret tation of Secretary Hughes speech is thai it. shows clearly the United States is keeping a watchful. In terested attitude. . America's . so licitude, says the paper, remains as before, mainly concerned with military armaments. " If the. race tor armaments is not halted, then the United States "will simply throw over its expressed desire for a peaceful. Just solution of all dif ferences, and revert to a ruthless policy of power.. Hawaiian Man Accused Of Murder Is Stowaway - VICTORIA, "i B. C.,, Dec. 1. Cataline Bitonio, alias Luis Labor, 19 years old, a stowaway, was ar rested when the trans-Pacific liner Niagara arrived , here today , and held on a .charge of a murder in Honolulu. He. was' identified by a tatooed steamer on a shoulder and three vaccination marks, this de scription having been cabled after be boarded the vessel in Honolulu Catalino Bitonio was . one . of eight Filipinos who recently went on trial in Honolulu charged with slaying Francis Wright, a Hawai ian of-mixed blood. . v Bitonio faijed to '. appear in court after the court recessed November 23. He had been at liberty on bail of $10,000. ' THE WEATHER Oregon: Sunday, fair except ; rain northwest portion; in creasingly southerly winds. LOCAL WEATHER .-'..', .-I j j; (Saturday) r . . : '. Maximum .temperature. 50.. Minimum temperature, 29. River. 6.4 feet; rising. Rainfall, none. . , Atmosphere, clear. I Wind southeast. - "M for The woru view I I At,. ejy YMAff -ItAWMS EVONETC OF OtiNt CrniEHSMff fcC!tf POfc Of George A. White, Adjutant General Bv W. McDOUGALL "Prophets are not without honor sae in their- ewn country." The true meaning of that quotation came to me most forcibly after reading Marquis Jame's official history of the American Legion and learned of the remarkable work credited in the book to an Ore eon Resident, George A. White, of Salem. In Cal- ifornia and other states I have visited seems to be known of and appreciated to the full est extent and yet little seems to or said about it here in his own home. I As a matter- of fact the very . tioned in the history of that great organization; written by a New York novelist is that of .-George A. White and as you read on through the first chapters which tell of a vision, conceived and then moulded into such a wonderful reality you find that his name appears about as often as marks.-,! .-. - . -" llis w'ork for' sound citlzeflrship within aua r tbrouxh' that - organization is indelibly .stamped upon the National ; mind and I, am certain after i reading the interesting historical book, of Marquis ; James, that George A. White has a larger place in history than that merely associated with his work in the state of Oregon. ' As a citizen-soldier he has had career, devpted almost entirely to service and in service I refer to it in its broadest sense. Most of his life has been spent as a .newspaper, man and writer. ; His hobby since boyhood "has been that of historical study and of preparing himself as a citi zen soldier for the National defense. , He left high school as a boy volunteer of field -artillery in the ican wari - When -the- -Mexican crisis came he was , Adjutant! General of the state, to he had worked his way up through the ranks, ana when the Oregon boys were jent.to the border he put aside his duties to take command of the Ore gon cavalry t which he led in hard Doraer pa- trol duty for nine long months. -. -When the Oregon . boys returned An February, ; 1917, he resumed his duties s Adjutant General with a firm conviction that war with Germany was sure to come. It is to bis everlasting credit that he immediately started preparing standing the fad that many people laughed at.hiin and a few newspapers poked fun at his activities. ILL FOREIGNERS HIT IN IH Watkins of Oregon Proposes Tax 'on Immigrants to Raise Soldier Bonus i WASHINGTON, I Dec. 1. Pay ment of a soldiers bonus with funds raised by a poll tax of $250 on each ; Immigrant and $50 on every alien resident, a tax of two per' cent; on gross Income of for eign ' corporations in the United States, an increase in the inheri tance tax and an excess profits tax is proposed in a bill drafted by "Representative Watkins. Demo crat,; Oregon. , , . - The bill provides for compensa tion to former service men at the rate of $1.25 a day for foreign service and $1 for home service, the maximum cash payment being $625. , Six methods of ..receiving the bonus are provided as follows: : Adjusted service pay. adjusted services certificates, credit on any form of ' government . Insurance held by, the veterans, vocational training, farm or home aid and land settlement aid. , . OLDEST v MASON DIES SYRACUSE, N. Y-. Dec. 1. David H. Waterburyt believed here to have been the oldest Mason in the United States, died today at Brewerton at the age of 102. - . ..He was a member of Fort Brew erton lodge No. 256 A. F.' and A. M. M fa fm jsmwmi . y ma 1W NEV SoRtl- his great work have been done first name men the punctuation a most useful to enlist as a . Spanish Amer which position for., it notwith Idaho Sheriff Notifies County He Expects Pay SAND POINT, Idaho, Dec. 1. Sheriff William Kirkpatrick of Donner county who was recently convicted In federal court of con spiracy to evade the prohibition laws, today, warned the board of commissioners by letter that he would 1 not reiinquish his office and if he were removed, and his appealto the United States cir cuit court of appeals successful he would hold the county responsible for full pay, loss of time and ex penses, .-v '.'. . Persons of School Age Total 15,41 1, Mrs, Fulkerson Reports V enr eras IS REPORTED fl A gain of 467 in the. school cen sus is shown by the reports just made up by Mrs. Mary" Fulkerson county school superintendent. The complete census for Marion county shows that there are 15,411 per sons between the ages of 4 and 20 years. The .figure ;last year was 14,94 4, according Jo Mrs., -Fulkerson. : -j' . : : '; ;I: i ; ' j i; ' Each 1 district's appropriation is based oi the number, of pupils en: rolled, the county .providing $10 for each child In the annual budg et and .the-library book fund is also - based ' upon the number of pupus..-.., v - V51UE STUfcl OF of Oregon Some criticized him for preaching preparedness for a war that couldn't possibly come but he calm ly '"carried on." - ' And what. was the result? -It is history now, splendid and . glorious history of a state that was ready when war came with all of the suddenness and fury of a storm. You all remember when the call came how he mobilized his troops overnight, bow in a very few days he had the machinery ready to take the draft census,' how he put over the, draft army; organization and in every case beat every other state in the' union." ''No. man ever, did' a big ger thing for Oregon or gave us a finer tradition than that of putting "Oregon First" in our greatest National Crisis. In Charles H. Carey's notable history of Ore gon's part in the World War, I find that General White's name is. the only one mentioned and while Judge Carey gives him scant credit, yet the work he did In those dark months, eating his meals at bJs desk and' pTten-going for weeks 'with scarcely an hour's sleep a day, is generally recognized in Oregon and especially by the Legislature of 1921 which presented him with an engrossed resolution of appreciation for outstanding services to his state. As in the case of the Mexican border trouble General White left his duties as Adjutant Gen eral to go with the Oregon troops to France and while he was overseas his government promoted him and the President of the French Republic dec orated him for distinguished services as a soldier overseas. He is still very much in the saddle of useful service. He has placed the Oregon citizen-soldiery second to none in the country in his position as head of the National Guard and he is the outstanding foe in the Northwest today of red radicalism, using both his voice and his pen most effectively' against a sovietism which he terms a "red nuisance rather than a red menace" at the 'same time explaining the nature of the nuisance and putting good Amer icans on guard against the perils of unrestricted emigration. " " He is a native of Illinois where he was born 43 years ago coming to Oregon when he was 21. He is married and : has two daughters. Mr. White belongs to the several veteran's or ganizations, is a member of the Salem Rotary, Sa lem Elks Club and the Woodmen of the World. He is a member of the 'Methodist-EpUcopal church. SCOUTS RETURN FROM PORTLAND Instructive Course of Studies Taken at Conference of Leaders 1 Scout Executive Howard Zinser and the Salem Boy Scout patrol leaders who attended the patrol leaders conference in , Portland returned to Salem last night. Of the 175 who attended from the Willamette and Columbia River valleys 25 were from Marion and Polk counties and nine, besides Mr. Z'nser were from Salem.. The leaders were Frank G rover, Hugh Shattuck, Kalph Purvlne, Gould Moorehoise. James Falrchild, Donald " Fleming, Roland Graber, Kenneth Graber and Ivan Ka foury. . - ! The 'conference was the first ever held in this district. -; Simul taneously another' for the north ern part of the northwest was in progress at Vancouver, B. C. ' ' , " The Portland conference' was carried on . almost enUrely by boys.;- ' '( . O 'i r One of the most interesting fea tures was the outdoor cooking; of which motion pictures were takfn. The recreational method of teach ing haa emphasized strongly dur ing the conference. s The boya ex pressed a desire to Itave .the con ference repeated next year. j i v-.'v' . - i - t . - - : .- '. t ( SAN DIEGO. Cal., Dec. 1. Witlf the full acquittal of Lieu tenant Commander Richard H. Booth today the greatest series of rourtmartlals in the history of the navy came to an end. Command er Booth,, who commanded the de stroyer Chauncey when that ship with six others crashed to de struction on the rocks at Honda Hontember S, was fully exonerated of the negligence charges against him, released from technical ar reit -and restored to duty. Wh?n the verdict fully acquit ting Booth was returned the vin dicated officer thanked the mem bers of the court and was con gratulated by his friends. The acquittal, came after only a short deliberation by the court, which had just heard the arguments on the case. In the argument of the dpfoiise It- was hrought out that the loss of the Chauncey probably saved the lives of all the sailors clinging to the overturned de stroyer Young a few hudred yards distat the night of the disaster. With the completion of Com mander Booth's trial, the court's work is over and "Its members are on their way back to their sta tions. Formal dissolution of the court is to be ordered, by the con vening authority. Admiral Samuel S. Robinson, battle fleet chief. Convening November . 5 v the court tried 11 officers, found two guilty of culpable inefficiency, one guilty of negligence, fully acquit ted four, and returned; acquittal verdicts in the four other cases. fJCE Parking in Business District 4 for More Than One Hour I Prohibited Monday morning will see Salem assuming true metropolitan as pects when the 60-minute park ing ordinance goes into effect. This will apply every day except Sunday. Advocates of the ordin ance point tothe fact that it will permit out-of-town visitors to park their automobiles close to the stores. A majority of Salem medical men are against the ordinance, as they will be' forced to leave their automobiles some distance from their offices. The city council stands ready to amend it, but has decided to give it a fair trial first. - The district governed by the new ordinance is Commercial from the north, side of Ferry to the south , side of ChemeTceta; Lib erty from the north side of State to the south side of Court; State, from the east side of Commercial to 'the . west side of High and Court, from the east aide of Com mercial to the west side of High. I Chairman Meyers Reviews Activities of Local Red Cross Chapter The Oregon Statesman in its de sire to be fair, publishes the state ment. H, W. iieyers refused to give the paper until after it was news. The statement is not one of which the author would be ex pected to be very proud. It deals in glittering generalities and skill fully evades the issues that were raised by Miss Holsinger. Before leaving town Saturday morning. Miss Holsinger . came to the .Oregon Statesman office, and stated: that she. bad. been fairly quoted Jn every particular, and left other information whlch it, is not necessary to publish , at this time. The Oregon. Statesman has only one "purpose ; tp serve and that is to have the Red Cross do the . work of which it Is capable. It seems that the time has come to make ai change in the presidency and Mr; Meyers should, permit his resignation to ..be accepted. He wUl if he is sincere. . The letter in full is given,. below: .'...,;. , "An irreparable injury and in justice has been done by the field, director.of the RedCross, .$a.taa s'erts, Henry WJ Meyers, chairman' of Willamette jChapter since 1 9 1 7 J It is needless for anyone to be re minded ; of , what a godsend the Continued on pace 3) :-. PEW 111. BOES NMOiAY UUffifflBT GIVEN STAT ESMil Lodge Reappoints Old Com mittees With New Assign ments for Places Left Va- . cant by Election r GILLETT NOMINATED OVER.ALLOPPOSITION Democrats Decide on 1 Gar ret for Candidate for, . . . ,S jieaker of. House "WASHINGTON. 'Dec. l! The progressive ruuc wane u mot. major attack .today hi its cam paign of Insurgency v against the Republican leadership or the new congreiis. ''."'.':" In the house, where its numeri cal strength is greatest, it openly but unsuccessfully opposed nomi nation of. Speaker. Gillett .as .the Republican candidate for the speakership, and announced there were votes enough in , sight to block his election unless import ant, concessions' in committee as signments and . modification of house rules , were made by the party organization. : . . f, , On the senate side," the opposi tion was of, a passive character. When the Republican senators 'as sembled, to-re-elect Senator Lodge to the majority leadership, , they fpund that not a single member of the bloc. had responded. to the party conference - call . and that Senator Borah also was numbered among' the "missing. ' . : vWhile the-breach In tjie major ity party, thus was : widening, the Democrats , were consolidating their, position in the hoJ?e ot tak ing, whatever advantage may be offered by the situation of the op ponents. i -i .i i f;.i Garret Xomlnatcd House Democratic members met tonight and agreed, on. Representa tive Garrett of - Tennessee . as t he party candidate for speaker, but the meeting was only a formality. since the selection had - been agreed upon months ago. : i The Democrats of the senate. who also . have settled all - their difficulties .over .leadership, ;will hold a brief conference ; Monday, just before the 68th congress con venes. .. ,; .. v , ,-. Developments of the day Indi cated no disposition toy Republi can organization , leaders of - the house or senate to make conces sions to the insurgents. On the contrary, house leaders declared they would be. a party to no nego tiations and were prepared to let the progressives show what strength , they could poll on the first, ballot, for speaker. . . While organization leaders in the , senate made . no pronounce ment, they adhered to their, ori ginal plan of leaving to the oppo sition the initiation of any senate organization fight. Also, Senator Lodge in filling the two vacancies on the committee on committees, did not give representation to the progressive bloc. - . , . longAVorth licader Longworth of Ohio was elected Republican leader of the house without opposition, but two candi dates .were nominated for speaker against Gillett Cooper of . , Wis consin, a leader of the progressive bloc, and , .Madden' of - Illinois, chairman of the , appropriations committee.,. Gillett. received 190 votes. Cooper. IS, and Madden 8, while one vote was cast for Little of Kansas. ' . t , . . : Voting for Cooper were Clague, Davis. Keller and.. Knutson ,of Minnesota; Laguardia of ,New York; Sinclair, of North, Dakota, and all Republican members of the Wisconsin i delegations except Cooper, who cast his ballot for Madden as did Gillett, James and Woodruff . of Michigan;.. King, Michaelson and Reid of Illinois, and. Schall of Minnesota, Sproul of Kansas cast the one ballot for Littia. -,;.;; w . Leaders of the progressive bloc asserted that when- the votes come for the election of a speaker they will be able, cot only to hold the 1 5 who voted today f o'r Cooper, but will draw enough strength from those supporting Madden to make certain a deadlock. Many Are Absent With 11 Republicans of the to tal membership of 225 absent to day, Republican leaders, estimated that- et least, half the number, would . be -. unable . to . attend the opening . session of the house. thereby making ; the prompt re election of Speaker - GiUett stitl more doubtful The organization had ' counted - on the support, of a (Continued on page 2). ' CHICAGO, Dec. 1. . Maurice Lux, a - 13-year-old boy. from Shelbyville. Ind., tonight won the title of "corn prince" of the In ternational. .Grain and . Hay, show here' when his ten ears of , white dent corn won over, several hun dred other junior entries. Upsides winning a part of the $12,000 prize money given by the etneaso iioard or Trade, .young IjUx also annexed the junior corn cup won last year by Glenn Tbares also of Indiana. TIEE DELEFT BEFORE ELECTIONS Free Trade or Protection Will Be Decided By 18 Million -: Voters LONDON, Dec.' 1. Ry the As sociated -Press.) England's op posing political armies ot protec tion ond free trade are having a final resting spell' tonight ond tomorrow In preparation for the three strenuous fighting days be fore Thursday next, when approx imately IS, 000. 000 :l electors Jn England, - Scotland, . Wales and northern Ireland will go to the polls and cast their votes in the third general election since the war.- 4 ' ; ' -.:'-""":.' -; c :"'"; All forecasts of the results have been "extremely cautious and even those political ;'.' proghosttcators who seem certain that the present governjnent .,'VPi.n .be returned, to Westminster: are not ; at; all sure that its majority, in the house ot commons will be sufficient to put through its program of, tariff re form, an . issue which - brought about the dissolution of parlia ment and the appeal to the voters; . The. Issues of the "present cam-? 1 palgrt ' have cut "across" the' "Ira ditional party platforms, making predictions -as to the outcome dif ficult and inability to gauge the women's attitude adds to the un certainty of the result. On gene ral lines the return of the con servative ; government with a workable majority in the house of. commons means the- beginning of a tariff wall around England, somewhat similar to that around the United States. Victory for the Liberals means that England will continue as a free trade coun try: with the magnetic personal ity of Lloyd George dominating the .cabinet, although Mr. Asqulth would head the government for a time at least. If the unexpected should happen, and the Labor party be returned victorious,- it would mean that the rule "of the two ;, historic parties which ; have alternately governed England for two and a-half centuries, would ed, and Westminster palace would house its first socialist house of commons.. - ' E TO WIN DiliDS "Get on the Honor Roll" Is Slogan in Statesman's Big Contest ' ! Miss Glenna Russel of Marion, Oregon, leads" the contest today with 298,500 votes. .7, Miss Nellie Paumala of Salem", Oregon, is close second with 298, 425 votes. ; Mr. William: If unt of Salem. Oregon, 292,000 votes. "And once again the scene was changed." Out from-the maze of heavy voting unbounded enthusi asm and untiring efforts there springs to'the front today another leader, another candidate, who shall set the pace for the next twenty-four hours, another candi date by her own efforts and the enthusiasm of admiring friends shall dictate to the public for the next twenty-four hours, the man ner of a prospective of a capital prize winner. The leadership hon ors today go to the towns of Mar ion, Dallas, Aumsville and Salem. Several New Candidates . There are several new candi dates on the list today. Some of them assume high positions ? for their first appearance.; This shows that there is absolutely no limit to the- interest one's friends will EIGHT Til! S take in the campaign when they are boosting for a popular friend. When one stops to "consider that (Continued on page S). . Artificial Lake at Dezz Over, flows and Breaks Thresh DamThree Villages arc Swept Away 300 PEOPLE ARE LOST SAY MILAN REPORTS Lake Situated 500 Fc:t Above Sea Level Tresis Scenes Follow Break ROME, Dec. (By The Asso ciated Press ) -A grea t d i ke has burst . near Bergamo, about- 40 miles northeast of Milan, flood ic -three villages. .The dead number 300,, accord ing to a Milan dispatch to Tha Tribuna. MILAN, Dec. 1. (By The As sociated Press)--The huge artifi cial lake at Dezz, near Bergamo, has . , overflowed and broken through the dike, the water sweep ing down through the valleys, overwhelming villages and drown ing inhabitants by the scores. Tha number of victims is computed at 300 or more by some of the auth orities. The heavy. rains whicli nave been falling for the put few weeks, caused the atreams t3 overflow and filled the lake to tba bursting point. Millions of cut ic years of water were let loose, ar 1 the terrific force of the floci swept everything before it. Tl village of Dezzo, originally con taining 600 inhabitants, and tx adjacent Tillages of Mena-io e l Teveno, were directly in tt a i: of the rushing waters and wtra inundated. ..Many of the peo:"', however, were apprised cf t break in the dike and fie J to: -er with other refugees to tie Li;: , .Above 8ea Level . . ' ' . . .. Red Cross relief. has been or ganized . and . the government i t using all efforts to aid the sufTcr ers. . d - ' The artificial lake was situate 'T In the fertile valley of Camenica, about 500 feet above sea level. The bursting of the dike was fol lowed by tragic scenes. The who: j valley of Dezzo is devastated, a: ' eight villages at least have beca blotted out. . i ; Dezzo, itself, was completely destroyed by -the waters, which covered every . house, .Only tt church steepU can.be seen. Fiva generating plants were so bad! damaged that the city of Bercar o Is without lighting power. The stricken people number 1 1 to the thousands, and army ucf have been dispatched to the C vastated zone to open kitcbecs. Army engineers will give every possible aid in the reconstructic a work. The dike was 50 feet in height. Reed Not Candidate ' . For Governcrch'i SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 1. T! s second announcement by a men generally expected to seek the Re publican nomination for governcr in a campaign next year that l a would not do so was made y Mark E. Reed of Shelton, speaker in the., house of the Washington legislature, in", a statement tt?.t will be published tomorrow morn ing by the Seattle Post Intelligen cer, v 31 r. Reed's atatement laude i the administration of Governcr Hart, who announced Kovemt r 19 that he would not seek re-election. -' ' , .. 'in part, Mr. Reed's , stateme.t follows: "The' business enterprises cf which I am the active head ara passing through a period of de velopment , which calls for t' 3 closest attention. - My partners I a business are not actively engar i in the management. Within t! a next two years my "boys, who . been fitting themselves by educa tion, will actively enter the busi ness organization. ; "I feel that my first duty Is to my family and to those who havg trusted me." ", TWENTY. PAGES TODAY CONTEXTS Section Oae : Section Two Society Churches Radio Classified Special Arilc! i Telegraph Local, News ; Editorials ;1 ": Theatre Sectloa Tliroc Antomobilo I