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THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OKEGON SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1921 1 " . i sssfsl fquthem University Be Opened Next Autumn j ! 1SATON ROUGE, La., Jan.U The new j Louisiana State Univer sity and Agricultural and Mech , .anical College, designed to become ultimately one of the greatest edu ' rational institutions in the isouth, will bo opened in the fall ofj 1924, ; -according to plans of the jbulld '; ing committee. The complete pro- jeefcannot be carried out -it this timehowever.-becauRS of a ahort , ajce of funds. About $2,000,000 already has been expanded! :, Ten buildings have been ioni j pleted, and under, construction are two administration buildings, 5 the George Feabody hall with the teachers college; and fourj bulld- ings for i the agricultural depart-f- njemt..-'.,;. - J I Laying' of the drainage jsystem 1 on ither athletic field , is under way land 1 construction ' of ' concrete .stands wilt begin February ! 1. The jjnltial construction will provide for the accommodation of 12,000, and it is planned to build tempor ary stands to accommodate an ad i ditional 8000. . f The new university is two miles south of -Baton pies ' tract of Rouge and occu 2000 acres on a .plateau about. 30 feet above the normal water level of the Missis- ilooi river. ' The tract has . an ''abundance of magnolia and other semi-tropical trees. All of the principal building are connected by tunnels and arcades which per .rait passage between them without exposure to the weather. n Amoy, a city of 120,04)0 inhabi tants in southern China, has no picture; shows. ;; ' WiHanettc Yalley i 1 Transfer Ci. VI Fast Through Freight to All M Valley rotate Daily. 6pce-KfflcieTcy-8eTTlc8 . SaJem-Poitland-Woodbury Corralll Eugwne- Jef f eraom 'Dallas Albany-Monmouth i Independence Monroe V 8 pr las field SHIP BY TRUCK I THATBED r This cold weather with ; i a- . Westinghouse .Electric : Heating Pad ( : NONE BETTER Price Only 56.00 BROWNELL ELECTRIC CO. ," ; "Successor to ; , Welch Electric Co. 879 State Street. Phone 033 Phone 1219. I tMiit ; UNION ABSTRACT COMPANY Before parting with your money for a deed or mortgage, ; be assured that the title is O. K. by securing a reliable abstract. : i U. S. Page I . President mm f ' No matter where you see a -Mosher tailored suit you may recognize it by the outstanding merit : reflected in its every line. i ; Nowhere in all America can you buy. a suit with bettcr,fjt or tailored from better materials than right hero at our little shop.3 - D. H. MOSHER 471 Court St. TO FIGHT AT J. v. - J , -7" ? . V I y.- x, a 7 v. .,.. .. JUS J- Phil Bayes (right) and Benny Dotson (left) who will appear in main event at Armory smoker Friday night. January 11, Bayes is working out each night at the Armory at 7:30 with Harry j Nelson of Woodburn who will meet Jimmy Murray of Port- land In seml-windup. sun 'FOB ft 0.T Earl Shafer is Practicing ' -for ? Basketball at University UNIVERSITY OP OREGON, Eu gene, Jan. 5. (Special.) Earl Shafer of Salem has turned out for, practice with the varsity bas ketball squad 'and will likely play at guard when the University of Oregon tossers meet the Pacific UniversityJ team in Eugene, next ThmrsdayJ Shafer in veteran player on the varsity, having ydn his letter as a member of last year's quintet. He Is an excellent dribbler and is fast on his -feet. He is expected to Bhow up .better In thl seasons playing than he has ever done be fore and is regarded by Coach Bill Reinbart as one of tbe most valua ble men on the first string team. ' Basketball practice has started in earnest at the University. Coach Iteinhart has cut his squad down to a dozen men and' regards the 12 selected as first string material. From this; number the men who will represent the University on the floor this year will bo picked. Sir lettermen are now out for practice though none are certairJ of their' places on the team the coach declares that nil are doing excellent work. A vigorous passing practice has btwn tho order of the day. Basket shooting has not yet been taken up extensively. Coach Iteinhart preferring to give his mon train ing in passing the ball first. Iteinhart has about a month in 1? 345 State St W. E. Hanson Secretary; 1 Phone 360 THE ARMORY 1 i V - .' 'Vii..; -v-i u ft. which to get bis men into shape for the major conference games of the-season. On February 4, the varsity hoopsters will meet the Washington team and the coacV- hopes in the meantime to perfect his men for the clash. Japan Concentrates on Wireless Transmission (Br MU) (By Tha Associated Press) TOKIO, Japan, Dec. 6. Japan is doing much to improve her short wave wireless communica tions but thus far nothing to make communication, with the outside world quicker. The Funabashi naval station just outside Tokio is being mod ernized and new short wave sta tions are - being erected !n Cbiba and Niitaga but these are largely for communicating with ships and between different parts of Japan. The syndicate headed by ' Vis count Shibusawa, which proposed erection of a trans-Pacific station, was somewhat embarrassed by the disaster but. is understood to be inclined to go on with its project if suitable arrangements can be made with the government for a subsidy. TO Leaks From Foreign Sources of Rum Supplies to Be Investigated WASHINGTON. Jan. ,buse of immunKy prranted foreigi dip lomats in Washington for posses sion or transportation of intoxi cating liquors doubtless conld be met by action of the president. Secretary Hughes informed Repre sentative Davis, Democrat, Ten nesve, today in a letter replying to inquiries on the subject. ProhiDition agents said today a letter a Jt'aorizing" the release of three barrels of liquor from a bonded warehouse advised to a member of the.IIonduran leRation and signed by an official of the in ternal revenue bureau had been seized among the effects of John J. Lynch, arrested last night on a charge of violating the prohibition laws. Officials of the legation declar ed the letter probably was legiti mate, but denied uny knowledge of how it might have gotten into tho hands of Lynch. icq iiinui no 1824 Holds Many Interest ing Facts Within Its Volume Covers In 1821 Abraham Lincoln, a lad of fif teen years, was working on a ferryboat on tho Ohio for ?6 a month. The Marquis of Lafayette vislt ed America, and was received with tremendous acclaim by crowds of cheering people wherever he went. 4 .Steam ferries .'were operated tor the first tlmo between New sYork and Brooklyn. ; :4'v. i An cpidemnic . of .yellow, fever was "raging in Louisiana. ... Tho manufacture of flannel by I -r ki - i i - ' - i I X"v -I V 1 - j x . -n.4 - ' :r, t ' J Z DIPLOMATS LIQUOR NT DIKE HUNDRED YEARS water power was first started at Amesbury, Massachusetts. An English bricklayer named Joseph Aspdin, took ot a patent for a material he called "portland cement," naming it "portland" because when it hardened it re sembled a gray stone found on the Isle of Portland off the coast of England. The name has stuck ever since and the modern port land cement industry has been de veloped from -Aspdin's discovery. The Erie canal, connecting- the Great Lakes -with New York, was rapidly nearins completion. The first steamboat passed through the canal from Rochester to Al bany. Anthracite coal was used for the first time in New York. The Colorado beetle, commonly known as the potato bug, made its first appearance in Wisconsin. The first . three-story brick house had just been completed in Brooklyn, X. Y. The town had a population of 7.000. The houses had just beon numbered and some of the streets paved. M. Nieuco, a Frenchman, work ing with his countryman I)a buerre, discovered the science that led to the invention of the dit guerreotype In 1S3S. There was much excitement throughout the rountry over thn presidential election, 4ne to the lafge number of candidates. John Quincy Adams represented, the east, Crawford the south and Clay and Jackson the west. SWEDISH IMPORTS INCREASE (By Mail) (By The Associated Press) STOCKHOLM. Dec. 16. Swe den's imports for the first ten months of 1923 exceeded the ex ports by about 54,000,000. as against an excess of $10,000,000 for the corresponding period of 1922. The principal commodities that helped swell the import volume are grain, guel, illuminating and lubricating oils, coal and vehicles, including automobiles. The bulk of the imports in each class cited came from the United States. TWO-WAY CONTACT ACROSS PACIFIC ACCOMPLISHED TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 5. An unknown American radio operator situated in Tokio, Japan, recently sent a radio message to his mother at Cambridge, 111., through the amateuj radio station, ,7HG, in this CTfrjK operated by Charles York, marking the first two-way short wave communication across the Pacific ocean. With only i fleeting contact, barely allowing time for the message to come :ONVICTED CF MCOWSHINING. r Kc Jfx Bond. West Virginia moin tain girl, who lias begun a sentence t 34 years in the Stark county, V. Va.. workhousv, having been ;onvkted i,i t lie KeJt ral Co m -t Tharlestcti for moor.shinir.g. WISHING . jf - A 4 A " 1 .-' ia-ck InPst-i.w:ld chaipton prisn figbtcri docs not believe bp d4Uylrmiu; on Freddy, Welch's farm at-Sam mil, .W .1., t- keci if :vn.nii, U. 4., are tbwn prejmtius Jack with the imallcst pair Iq njoy jJbciaUasi with lxmrscy. -CLii --A. J, WORLD FLIGHT PILOT. ' fifth. X When United States A rmy planes take the air next year for the proposed. flight? around the world the most skilled and daring pilots of the serviccwill be aboard. To the few already chosen for the expedition the name of Capt. I&well II. : Smith above, holdervof eight world records for speed; dura tion and distance flying, was added. Capt. Smith originated the idea of .refueling airplanes in midair. , through, York had considerable ditticulty in distinguishing the foreign operator's callj JtJPU. While the signals of i amateur transmitters in the United States have been reported by Ship oper ators in remote sections of the Pacific, and as distant as the is land of Ceylon in the Indian ocean, this incident is the first in which an amateur has worked both directions across the .4,700 mue stretch of ocean. Tne mes sage was delivered via the Ameri can Radio Relay League traffic system. ; , J The contact hardly had been made and the message, copied when communication was inter rupted by heavy interference.' It was about 1:00 a. m. when York heard a station with ;pure CW calling on 200 meters and sign ing With the unfamiliar Japanese call. FoV a brief Interval signals were good at both stations. The station operated, by York Lis. situated on one of the highest hills In the surrounding ! country. He; has done a great Qenl of long distance work, his best two-way record being to communicate with Canadian amateur station 1AC sit uated in Nova Scotia. , He had al so worked 6CEU in ' Hawaii and amateurs in every raxlio district in the United States with the exception of those in the second and fourth. j ; His antenna i supported by a 65 foot nole at the free end and a 40 foot pole at the lead in end It is a six-wire flat top 50 feet! long with a counterpoise directly' underneath. The transmitter uses i the Hartley circuit with two Tele-j funken D.R.P. tubes. j Idaho Man Guesses Winter Will Be Mild Loses; Out WALLACE, Idaho. Jan. C. Be lief that this winter will be the mildest experienced in the north west for many years, has beenlex pressed by D. A, Parkman of Oro fino. Idaho.; who for the past 20 years has spent a greater part of the winter months in the moun tains of northern Idaho. He bas es his predictions on the fact that practically all of the wild animals throughout the; region, have poor quality pelts anci most' of them have not shed their summer coats. "All of the wild animals at thi? THEY WERE JACK hi A - iX A - - n ; : ; SOIE SALEM'S GREATEST 'i SALE At least 500 people were turned away the opening day Twenty salesmen could jibt begin to handle the crowds. THE REASON WHY : Everyone knows the reputation of this store and; know that this is a bona fide sale.. That there is no mis-, representations,- Be &ure to Uisit This The tiina of season usually are pre pared for winter," Mr. -Parkman satd, "but with the exception that they have added a few patches of fur none of them have changed from their, summer garbs." The beaver have made no effort : to repair their dams in Clearwater county and thy have become plen tiful as to become a nuisance, he stated. - jCveryone has sume love o truth! . .'in tho other fellow if cot in 'him-1 self. ! Spokane Cats Face New Grief Because of Licenses , ; SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 5, The feline aristocracy or Spokane today faces" a new grief, besides their na- tural heritage dogs according to owners, as 'the result of peti tions being circulated which call for the licensing of cats in the same manner. as dogs. Hitherto cats have been permitted to range unhampered. i Petitions seeking to tag tabby have been placed into circulation by the Spokane Bird club and bi ology lcasses of the two city high schools as part of a campaign, it was announced, to increase the number of common song bird3 and DEMP3jl1i in going stale, lie has just started hlmscir f.t at nil times The kidv of boxins gloves, ad thev com '.'jV, . SALE 'ale Tomorrow Mae9s Shop DUDS FOR MEN 416 State ' HEALTH AND HAPPINESS for your child will be increased if you buy him a Bicycle. We handle the good ones the DAYTON and COLUMBIA LLOYD B. RAMSDEN :187 COUKT ST. ! thereby check the spread of undc- 'sirable insect life which, it is I claimed, takes a large toil of crops in .this region, r THE NEW SENSATION FROM THE WEST; j&h'-i '!' ' 'iff Krnie- Goozrman, San I"ic?o A'cst, will be M;iu-!iiLe0 in n bout advertised weight title. Among- the boxers tones einee hp left California ri'Dowd. Hilly Lcvinc. Joey Fox, ur.K.r C.raviaeie. Amonff his k. Among his , Frankic Fiaco, ilddie- Anderson Signatures of voters and tax payers as well as those of young people will be sought, it was an featherwesgbt boxor 1 nks of the little fellows in the West and lh mMrfi ?h in act on shortly. He will W J m,ddl as bcinir In urn at over whom Goozeman rtJ. G- . tiurr are Frankie S,.K"",TJ, TIC- Jack HaUsner P.l ',ckcJr- knockout vt;m. raay and knockout victims , rj. .' nd Jimmy Muphy and Yol Kg-