The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, March 14, 1924, Page 1, Image 1

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    The Country: has never been so
prosperous "Opportunity is work-
vinfc from sun-up to Bun-down, yes
and working overtime, too. There
: are many; opportunities in this
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SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR
SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 1924
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Pilot Rock' Unable to Code
With Fast Valley Boys in
- State Tournament Big
Court Bothers
PLAY TO BE RESUMED -IN
AFTERNOON GAMES
Fast Five From Both , Sides
of Mountains Will Be in
.Action Today
TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
TODAY
i
- - Afternoon
2:30 North Bead vs. McMInuville
3 : 3 0 Eugene vs. St Helens J
I ; f r I . Evening - ' '
7:30 La Grande vs. Medford.
8:30 Bend vs.; Independence.
, Independence , high school won
an easy victory over the Pilot Rock
team in the first "game of the state
basketball tournament last night
on the .Willamette . gymnasium
floor. C The score was 18 to 5. A
capacity, crowd Of "over 1500 peo
ple crowded , the bleachers and
cheered excitedly throughout the
, contest. - " ,." '
' ; tlos Checking First Half
' During the first half close check
ing marked the play of both teams.
Pilot Rock started ft strong by
converting a. free throw the only
one they scored during the game
and followed few minutes later
with a . basket. Independence,
while playing a good floor game,
was unable to connect with the
net. - The - quarter ( nded Pilot
Rock 3 1 Independence 0. .
Pilot Rock was handicapped, be
cause of the size of the floor. They
' are jised to .ay- much .smaller play
ing court, and time .'after time
blazed away at , the basket from
hear the . center of the floor t6
. have shots 'drop far short of the
back board. , A.feature of the sec
ond, quarter occurred i when Stan
ton, Pijbt Rock forward, attempt
ed a shot from near the opposite
foul line. : Much to , the surprise
of the crowd the shot struck the
Tim and nearly dropped into the
basket.' , Near, the end of th first
half Independence suddenly un
corked l a" fast offensive' ' wljlch
wept th buhchgrass boys off
their feet The half ended Inde
pendence S, Pilot Rock 3.
Winners ''TUy. Easily
.Once under way, the Independ
ence crewwere nevert. headed,
flaying .with evident ease to save
their strength for the strenuous
games aheadr they steadily drew
away from tne"tr less clever oppon
ents. Pilot Rock fought a game
battle but were- simply outclassed.
Their foul shooting was especially
poor.' Altogether they missed 12
free tries at tthe basket which, had
they been converted, would have
put . them In theunning. ,
"Tbe' trowd waf extremely partir
san at all times during the con
test. .Independence was represent
ed by a large delegation of high
school students ' and townspeople,
but were "nearly drowned out in
their 'cheering by the Salem root
ers who yelled .quite; as vehement
ly for Pilot Rock: M
1 ' ; Pilot Rock Is Out
1 By virtue of their defeat In the
first rame Pilot Rock'Js elimlnat-
A rmm ill tournament. The
other 4 eight -teams' will enter the
preliminaries' on an 'equal' footing.
This ' affertroOn North' Bend will I
play McMfnnviHe, and Eugene will
meet St; Helen.- "La Grande will
tackle Medford tonight, while Bend
wilt fight it out with Independ
ence.' ' '' r "'-'
. The lineup
Pilot Rock ' Independence
Condra . . .V.F.. - i Schrunk F
Stanton '.. . ... T. i ..... Baker
Smith B. ... . C V. . .iSchrunk W
Kvans '. . . . 1 . . . 0 . w w . Byera
Smith T. -v-; . i :. . O . . .'. v. . ; Rlaser
V Substitutions: - Pilot Rock: Oal
brcath fort Kvans. , Independence:
Smtley for Schrunk. '
-' Referee 'Ralph Coleman. r.
rTHEWEATHER
'oRESpN-rFriday Fair, mod
derate, northwesterly winds."
; .n;; LOCAL WEATHER
. .. (Thursday)
Mximnm-tempfratare, C4.
Minimum temperature 3 9..
;Rhrer. ;1.8. - .., ;ri;-.'v ?
3 Rainfall, ' none.- s?- ''r;:.
Atmospnere, elear.V,,
Wind, northeast. ,
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
REFUSES TO PARDON
ALMA WURTZBARGER
Mrs. Alma Wurtzbarger's plea to the president of the
United States that she be pardoned from the Oregon state
prison, where she is serving a ten-year sentence as a federal
prisoner for the murder of her husband, has been denied by
President CooHdge and the department of justice has dis
missed the case, according to information received by Warden
A. M. Dalrymple from federal authorities at Washington,
D. C.
Mrs. Wurtzbarger and friends working in her behalf
I made the plea for her pardon
health. There was opposition to this, however, particularly
from the Spanish war veterans, of whom her husband was
a member.
Mrs. Wurtzbarger killed her husband with a hammer
while he slept at their home on the government grounds at
Chemawa. Her story of threats made by her husband against
her life proved to be of much weight in the legal proceedings
following her arrest.
11 HI MEG
n
rj SOUTH
Man Under Life Sentence
Here Accused of Califor
nia Bank Holdup
LOS ANGELES, March IS.
Secret indictments returned
against eight individuals by the
county grand Jury which for two
weeks has been investigating
charges that policemen and deputy
sheriffs participated in the holdup
of the Arcadia National bank near
here, April 5, 1922. included the
name of "One-Eyed" Tom Gray,
how serving a life term In Oregon
state prison for robbery it was
announced here today by county
authorities.
"i Gray's'name was the second to
be made public in connection with
the investigation, it having been
made known during the day that
Hubert Kittle, former police inves
tigator, who now is in custody
here wa3 among those indicted.
Names of the six persons indict
ed besides Gray are being "with
held pending an effort to arrest
them.
SHEET POLICY
E
People of Ward 6 Want
i Home Aldermen to Ini
tiate Improvements
Voters from ward C met Wed
nesday evening. at the Englewood
school where a discussion of the
initialing of city street improver
ments by city councilmen was
held.
' The report of the committee ap
pointed was given out as follows,
signed by Mrs. J. F. Unruh Earl
Race and J. E. Galloway:
5 "A full meeting of voters, both
men and women, of ward 6, met
at Englewood schoolhousc last
evening to confer with their coun
cilmen,. Sutcr and Van Patton,
with reference to street improve
ments and other matters.
"It was the sense of the meet
ing expressed by motion that our
councilmen should initiate all pub
lic improvements in their ward or
at least be consulted by the street
committee before it orders or
recommends public improvements.
It'was suggested also that a com
mission form of city government
might bo prcfcrablo to the present
form."
TAX PEON OPPOSED
.WASHNGTON, iarch 13. I'ro-
posal by some members of the sen
ate dinance committee that the
program of public debt roduction
bo curtailed to permit further re
duction of taxos, was opposed by
Secretary Mellon-
iThe treasury secretary appear
log before the committee pointed
out that such action could not be
taken without changing the- law
and expressed further objection on
the ground, of its effect on gov
ernment bouds. Committee mem
bers favoring the idea suggested
at the committee's executive ses
sion that the payments made by
Groat Britain and other nations
on loans might be applied either
tut tax reduction or a soldiers' bon
us. When It was explained the
law specified that such payments
must be used to buy up bonds
from which" the loan mdneywas
tbtainedltws suggested 'the law
IINC
FAVORED
igM- bo changed.
because of her exceedingly poor
1
E
Delegates From Over Ore-
err
on Gather at Meeting in
tugene
EUGENE, Or.. March 13. One
hundred delegates attended the
opening session of the Annual state
convention of the Daughters of the
American Revolution here this af
lerrioon. The afternoon was taken up
with the registration of delegates,
enrollment or visitors and com
mittee conferences and a tea from
tour to ir o'clock tonight-
Miss Hermine Schwed, of Wash
ington, D. C. field secretary of
the National Association for Con
stitutional goverrimeht.' spoke to
night on "Enemies of the Consti
tution." She will take a promin
ent part in the sessions through
out the convention.
E
Olympia Woman's Body Is
hound in Lonely bhack
15 Miles Out of Town
OLYMPIA. Wash., March 13.
Noclue has been found by offi
cers investigating the slaying of
Mrs. Ottolianna Ailand, it was an
nounced by Roscoe Fnllerton.
prosecuting attorney tonight. The
body of Mrs. Ailand was discovered
today in a small shack near the
old Tacoma-Olympia road, about
10 miles north of here, with a
heavy home-knit stocking tied in
a squaro knot tightly about her
neck.
Although robbery was-thought
by officers to have been the mo
tive for the crime, the dead woman
is not thought to have possessed
anything of value, accoring to
Harry Parr, attorney in charge of
her legal affairs.
F. T. Albertson, fingerprint ex
pert of the Tacoma police force.
found few finRfrprints. A print
of part of a hand, which, was on
a writing material cabinet, does
not compare with that of Mrs. AI
land's hands, and may prove a
clue, officers think.
The shack in which the body
was found Is hardly more than a
hovel and was probably built 20
years ago when'the land was ob
tained on a patent from the gov
ernment.
NEWS MEN GATHER
SEATTLE. March 13.- For the
twelfth time, Washington state
newspaper men1 gathered at the
opening session of the annual
newspaper institute and meeting
of the Washington Press associa
tion at the University of Washing
ton here today..
IXIJICTMEXT RETURNED- 1
H E R R I N 111.. March 13
Niney-nine Indictments were 1 re
turned today by grand jury
which has been investigating con
ditions In Herrln. The jury's re
port made a number of recommen
dations to bring" about' conditions
thatt wonld avoid -recurrence of
riots In Williamson county.
Mi
El
Nil
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THPOTDME
OIL DRILLING
TO BE HALTEI
Temporary Injunction I s
Granted Government By
Federal Court in Sinclair
Naval Leases
RECEIVERSHIP ALLOWED
BY JUDGE T. B. KENNEDY
Admiral Strauss and A. E.
Watts Named Joint Re
ceivers for Properties
CHEYENNE. Wyo., March 13.
(By The Associated Press) All
drilling operations of the Mam
moth Oil company on the Teapot
Dome oil reserve are halted and
the operation of existing wells is
reduced to the minimum deemed
necessary to prevent loss, or dam-
ago under the terms of a tempo
rary injunction granted today by
Federal Judge T. B Biake Ken
nedy at the request of the United
States government. Judge Ken
nedy appointed Rear Admiral Jos
eph Strauss of the United States
navy and A. E. Watts, vice presi
dent or the Sinclair Consolidated
Oil corporation as joint receivers
to lake charge of the properties
and sell oil from producing wells
pending final settlement of the
governments suit for annulment of
the lease of the reserve to Harry
F. Sinclair and the Mammoth Oil
company.
Fraud Charged
The injunction and receivership
were granted ' by Judge Kennedy
after a preliminary hearing which
followed the filing of the bill in
equity In which the government
alleges false representations "Tn"
the transfer of the Teapot Dome
reserve from the navy to the in
terior department and also char
ges fraud in the execution of the
lease to the Sinclair interests.
Besides the temporary Injunc
tion and receivership the govern
ment in Its complaint asks that
the court enter a final decree can
celling the leases and contracts
returning the property to the gov
ernment and enforcing accounting
No date was set for further
hearing on the request for a final
decree opposing attorneys taking
the stand that the involved na
ture of the action made it impos
sible a,t this time to say when they
wouldibe prepared to continue the
case- Judge Kennedy granted
the defendants 30. days to file
their pleadings in the case.
The complaint was filed shortly
before 10 o'clock by Atlec Poinc-
reno and Owen J. Roberts, special
government counsel, and Albert
D. Walton. United States district
attorney for Wyoming, Imme
diately afterward attorneys for
both sides wont into consultation
with Judge Kennedy and the pre
liminary court hearing was not
called until after a conference
lasting nearly an hour
Mr. Roberts representing tho
government, then requested an
order granting the injunction and
receivership and asked that Rear
Admiral Strauss be named re
ceiver. Receivers Xaincd
J. W. Lacy of Cheyenne. :-prak-ing
in bohalf of the Sinclair in
tercuts, answered that his clients
were neither "consenting nor ob
jecting" to the appointment of a
rereiver but were suggesting a
joint receivership in which both
the plafntifr and t he defendant
would he represented, lie declar
ed that the Sinclair interests
suit for annulment on the claim
would base their defence in the
that the Teapot Dome lease was
legal and valid and that their sug
cstion for a receivership was
merely In order that all interests
could be. protected. Mr. Laccy
then named Mr. Watts as the de
fendants' choice fo. receiver Judge
Kennedy then ruled in favor of the
joint receivership. Neither party
objected to the candidate for re
ceivership named by opposing at
torneys. I'ipe line and storage
facilities of the Sinclalr s Pipe
Line company and the Sinclair
Crude Oil Purchasing company lo
cated on the Teapot Dome reserve
are excluded from the control of
tho receiver unless further court
onlers are Issued.
In requesting that these prop
erties 1o excluded Mr. Roberts
stated that the operation of a
pump house owned by the Sin
clair Pipe lino compauy would be
necessary to the receiver for the
removal" of ' oil" 'from completed
wells.
JUDGE WILBUR
WILL SUCCEED
EDWIN DENBY
California Jurist Accepts Sec
retary of the Navy Posi
tion in Cabinet
SAX FRANCISCO, March 13.
Curtis D. Wilbur, chief justice of
the California supreme court, an
nounced tonight that he had re
ceived a telegram from President
Coolidge tendering him the office
of secretary of the navy, made
vacant by the resignation of Edwin
Dcnby, and that he had accepted.
Justice Wilbur said he tele
graphed to President Coolidge that
she would arrange to . como to
Washington as soon as his ap
pointment was confirmed by the
senate.
Chief Justice Wilbur has been
one of California's leading lawyer-jurists
many years. He is
known especially well for his work
In behalf of child welfare, bdth
as an official and as a citizen.
While he was Judge of the su
perior court In Los Angeles he or
ganized the , juvenile court there
and dratted several bills which lat
er formed the basis of California's
juvenile court law. The judge
also is prominent ag a Sunday
school worker.
Judge Wilbur was born in
Boonesboro, Iowa, May 10, 1S67,
and wes educated at the public
schools there. He attended high
school at Jamestown, N. D. He
graduated from the United States
naval academy at Annapolis in
June 1888. Later he studied. law
and began his practice in Los An
geles.
WASHINGTON, March 13;
President Coolidge's tender of the
navy secretaryship was declined
today by Federal Judge William
S. Kenyon and the chief executive
prepared to offer the portfolio to
Chief Justice Curtis D. Wilbur of
the California supreme court.
Judge Kenyon, himself, an
nounced the declination, declaring
in a formal statement that he
could not escape the conclusion
that he did not possess "the essen
tial qualifications or training for
the office.";
Chief Justice Wilbur, although
identified with the legal profes
sion practically all of his life as
Judge Kenyon has been, would,
in the opinion of the president,
be able to adapt himslf to the
task of administering naval af
fairs because of his acquaintance
ship with the navy resulting from
his course at the naval academy,
where he was graduated In J.888.
He is understood to be the presi
dent's first choice for attorney
general should that place be va
cated by Harry M. Daughcrty and
for that reason was not first con
sidered for tho navy post.
ROOSEVELT UNDER
Order Sending Marines to
b u a r d Teapot Dome
Challenged by Wheeler
WASHINGTON, March 13. :
Theodore Roosevelt, acting secre
tary of the navy, came under fire
again today before the oil com
mittee. His order sending a detachment
of marines to Teapot Dome to
clear it. of "trespassers" In tho
summer of 1922, four months af
ter the reserve had been leased to
Harry F. Sinclair, ws character-,
izd by Senator Walsh of Mon
tana as an "outrageous use of the
military powers."
Secretary Iloosevclt also was
asked about the circumstances un
der which lie requested Sinclair to
give employment to his brother.
Archie, whoso startling story to
the oil committee led to the most
sensational disclosures of the long
investigation. He explained that
when Archie returned from the
war in 19114 he 'cither saw or
telephoned Sinclair, asking that
he employ Archie.
"What was his salary?" asked
Senator Dill, democrat, Washing
ton. "Ten thousand dollars a year at
the start," said Secretary noosr
velt. "I think that was increased
to $1G.000 later on."
Secretary Roosevelt told the
committee that his order for the
marines to elear Teapot Dome had
been Issued at tho request of Al
bert H. Fall, then secretary of the
interior, under what he understood
was an agreement between Fall
and President Harding.
MAT BE SAFE
NEW YORK. '.March 13. The
finding of two life boats contain
ing JO men each led officials of
Hit Ward line to believe today
that possibly only three men lost
their lives when the steamer San
tiago was sunk off Capo' Hal teras
Tuesday night.
CQMM TTEE IDE
JUSTICE QUIZ
III I I I . . W . ..v . f
UNCOVERS BIG
SENSATIONS
Miss Stinson Tells of More
"Deals" Said to Involve
Attorney Genera! Dar
den'ls Sought
FIGHT PICTURES STAKE
FOR WHICH MEN PLAYED
Divorced Wife of Daugher.
ty's "Bumper" Says They
Had Lots of Whiskey
WASHINGTON. March 13
More "deals" of a highly sensa
tional nature all represented as
Involving Attorney General Daugh
crty were alleged today before
tho senate investigating commit
tee. Again Miss Roxie Stinson,
divorced wife of the late Jess W
Smith of Washington Courthouse,
Ohio, the attorney general's
"bumper and friend," was the wit
ness relating, with accompanying
insinuation -and inference, stories
which she said Smith bad confided
to her about "deal3" in which
Smith and the attorney general
were engaged. She was accom
panled by bodyguards.
These "deals," according to Miss
Stinson's testimony, ran the gamut
from oil to shirts, and included
prize fight films, whiskey, varidus
stocks, and a parole for a federal
convict.
Fight Pictures Stake
The most specific allegation in
her testimony was that Smith had
told her he was acting as a go-;
between for Attorney General;
Daugherty and certain motion pic
ture companies seeking to exhibit
the Carpentier-Dempsey tight" pic
tures without incurring prosecu
tion under the law which forbids
transportation of such films in in
terstate commerce.
Smith told her. she testified,1
that the "dear proposed that;
Daugherty would see to it that
there was no prosecution and in
return ''we" (Daugherty and
Smith) would receive $180,000.
"Whether that was consummat
ed or not, I do not know," she
said.
From that Miss Stinson's testi
mony jumped to another "deal"
which Smith, she said, told her,
was on between Daughcrty and
Colonel" James G. Harden, said to
be president of the Mutual Oil
company. Dardert was prominent
in the Harding entourage when
the late president came to office,
but later disappeared from Wash
ington. Darden's name also has
figured in the Teapot Dome in
quiry. The senate committee in
vestigating that affair has been
attempting for a month to serve
a summons on him without avail.
Darden. said Miss Stinson. had
been, according to Smith, "try
ing to get through some liases
some way through wasningion
prior to this administration."
Houses Invotvrd
As the result of conferences at
the mysterious "Little green
house in K street." Washington
and the "shack" near Washington
Courthouse, owned jointly by
Smith, Daugherty and others,
Smith and Daugherty cch gave
Darden $2400 for investment, ac
cording to the story which Miss
Stinson said Smith related to her
Then, according to the same
f tory, tfin details of which she did
not know "they" dropped Darden
with whom, she testified, "they
had a deal in an oil proposition
ont west." Smith, sho testified.
had told her: "If this isn't a pipe
dream it may probably make us A
lot of money."
"What brought this about."
said Miss Stinson, "was that Dar
den did not measure up."
"Measure up to what?" de
manded Senator Ashurst.
"To them. They just dropped
him."
The committee decided to add
its efforts to the oil committee's
in, the attempt to subpoena Dar
den. Parole Sought
From, that point the testimony
jumped to an alleged "deal" to
get a parole for a "Mr. Solomon,"
a brother-in-law of Joe Weber, the
actor. Miss Stinson testified that
she wa in Now York with Smith
when they met Weber. .Smith and
tho actor, 'sb said, discussed the
possibilities of getting a parole for
Solomon. The conversation she
said "was about fixing ' it with
Daugherty."
Was there, any w reference to
anymoney transaction - in-"It J"
asked Senator Wheeler.
(Continued on page 4)
THURSDAY IN
WASHINGTON
Federal Judge W. S. Kenyon
declined appointment as secretary
of. the navy.
The house ways and means
committee ordered - tho soldiers'
bonus bill reported.
The ship liquor treaty with
Great . Britain aimed at rum
smuggling was ratified by the
senate.
Secretary Mellon gave more
testimony before the senate fi
nance committee in regard to the
tax bill.
.-.
The senate defeated the Nor-beck-Burtness
bill designed to
help farmers diversify their crops.
Internal revenue officers were
summoned for questioning tomor
row in the senate's investigation
of their bureau.
A federal grand jury began
consideration of charges developed
by a Chicago grand jury -in re
gard to misuse of congressional
influence.
The army board investigating
military prisoners indicated in its
preliminary report it would recom
mend clemency in a considerable
number of cases.
.
Consideration of the nomination
of Samuel Knight to be oil counsel
In the Standard Oil company of
California cases was postponed in
definitely by the oil committee. '
The senate oil committee delved
into the sending of ' marines to
Teapot Dome, examining assistant
secretary Roosevelt- and Major
General Lejeune, commandant of
the marine corps.
The senate committee investi
gating Attorney General Daugh
erty had another sensational ses
sion, delving into "deals" alleged
by Roxie Stinson, divorced wife
of the late Jess W. Smith, the at
torney general's bumper and
friend.
Ed
Government Plans Confisca
tion of Liner Which Car
ried Drugs
NEW YORK. March 13. The
government, which yesterday seiz
ed the Royal Mail liner Orduna,
today demanded $1,000,000 bond
for permitting her to sail next
Saturday, ordered her officers to
trial tomorrow on liquor and
narcotics smuggling charges, and
accepted pleas of guilty from two
members of her crew. Tho two
to plead gtflley were Ship's Store
keeper Charles Dawe and his Hm
assistant, Harry Osman. They
confessed to smuggling into the
United States the liquor aud nar
cotics confiscated by federal dis
trict attorneys and special cus
toms agents aboard the ship yes
terday.
Federal Judge Garvin remand
ed the two for sentence next Wed
nesday saying he would then con
sider any disposition the prisoners
might Bhow "to tell the whole
truth and enable the government's
attorneys to apprehend the men
higher up."
Assistant United States District
Attorney Clark later declared
Dawe and Osman had made con
fessions which would facilitate
his efforts to prosecute ship offi
cials and confiscate the Orduna
for violation of this country's
laws governing the importation of
narcotics and liquor and tho eva
sion of legal revenues.
Mr. Clark appeared this morn
ing before Federal .ludgn A. N
Hand to file a libel suit against
tho Orduna and demand her con
fiscation.
Ho charged that the ship had
been a vehicle for smuggling
drugs and liquor 6ince national
prohibition became effective on
January 26. 1920; that Captain
Walter P. Warner, knowingly had
signed false manifests and, with
the consent ot the Orduna's own
ers., failed to declare the contra
band.
TRIAL bET
MISSOULA. Mont., March 13.-
The fAid against J. F. Scott at
Thompson Falls, charging . him
with arson in connection, with the
burning of the Ward - hotel, of
which, he jwas proprietor, Febru
jjrvily. ast;' wlir.atjo'fiat
tomorrow "at TETom pson Fal Is be
fore Judge James M. Self, of tho
district court. " T
BOND
SDEIil
FOB 1
incoSess
Ways and ' Means Commit
tee Orders it Sem to
House Hope to Limit De
bate and Hurry Vote ,
PRESENT FORM DIFFERS
FROM VETOED MEASURE
Additional Taxes Unneces
sary According to Report
of Chairman Green T
WASHINGTON,- March ! 13. ;
The new soldier Don us bill Jwas
ordered sent to the house; today
by the ways and means committee
and a plan was generally' agreed
upon to push the measure fdrward
next week' under a suspension of
the rules which would permit a
rote In one day and prevent'
amendments. . --V;
Three - committee members op-
posed " the bill Representatives
Mills, New York; Tread way, Mas
sachusetts, . and Tilson, Connecti
cut,' all republlcans--and Repre
sentative Oldfleld. democrat.' Ar
kansas, reserved thov right to ob- ;
Ject on the floor to omission from
the bill of aa option for full' cash
payments.-'"'-- - '. . "
' Insurance Provided i ,
The new measure, f dif f fering
materially from the bill vetoed by,
President Harding, limits the bo
nus to paid up 20 year endow
ment life Insurance policies, bit
provides cash , payments to veter
ans not entitled to more than 1 50.
The same basis of adjusted
compensation allowed in the old
bill, $1 a day for home service
and $ t. 2 5 for overseas -service; "Is
provided.5, ?In figuring t thai face ,
valne or the policy, however. 25
per cent Is added to the adjusted
service credit and also th Interest
on the total amount compounded ,
annually at 4 per cent for twenty
years. ... ' ' V'''':
Loans after the first "two jearf
would be allowed on the policlct i
np to SO pet cent of the paid o
valued , V;'-:,
Revised estimates show J tbv
maximum total cost of . the mea,
sure would be $2,119,000,000. j
spread over a period of 20 years
Chairman Green' declared ; thai
careful Inquiry has shown the-cost
could be met-by the government
from current revenue without ad
ditional taxes. ' Mr. Green f said
that -the necessary funds for
meeting-' the annual payment
could be met out of appropriations
available as a result of the dis
continuance within the next year
or two of the vocational education
and war relief welfare programs
of the government.' '' ' " '
To provide for costs of the ..mea
sure, a sinking fund 'of IllojoOO.
000 for the first tear lss provided.
This amount, Mr.' Green "'said,
would decrease annually until the .
payment in the 19th year would
be $91,000,000. . j '
In computing the adjusted serv
ice credit, the f irBt 60 days of
service would not be counted. AH
veterans, Including officers up to
and including the rank of captain
in the army and marine corps and
lieutenant Id tho navy, would be
eligible T6r the bonus and also de
pendents of veterans wno " have
died since the war.
Williamson Jury . Fails t
To Reach Agreement
Night court was necessary to
complete the case of the city vs,
Art Williamson, local cigar store
man, charged with being' drunk
and disorderly and resisting an
officer, only to have the Jury turn
in a verdict of non-agreement.
The case got under way about 2 : 30
o'clock In the afternoon and' was
continued straight through v,until
8 o'clock, when It "went to the jury
The Jury returned a verdict a. lit
tle before 9 o'clock. Of the five
Jurymen; three are; understood to
have held out for a verdict et
guilty and two for not guilty Af
ter six or -seven ballots had been
taken. Frank JaskoskI,. foreman,
reported to Police Judge 'Marten
Poulsen that an' agreement was
impossible." Williamson was ar
rested about 2 o'clock the morning
of . Biarch" 7 i after a woman's
screams from their apartment had
aroused other occupants fot too
hoflding, who called th police.
Mrs. Williamson took the witness
stand, but her testimony was more
f averablto Jier husband nfn it
wa Wind-city"! Wfiefngr the case
wiu oe re-irtea or laaen to ine
Justice court under another charga