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Circulation for. the , Oregon Statesman average for the month of April. 1924: : ; Dally and Sunday ........ .6337 Sunday Only . . . . . . .7090 Knowledge of many a new home comfort, is gained from j the advertisements. ii SEVENTY-FOURTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1924 PRICE FIVE CENTS. If ! f id) ID 1 llj III I . Fight Between Two Presi " idents and Congress Fin- ally Ended By Enactment of Soldier Compensation FIGHT NARROWS DOWN TO A 2 VOTE MARGIN MsUJinutd Efforts, of Pres. ident ana Administration Le ifli Cll UUI a 1 (Ml 'WASHINGTON. "May 19. The soldier bonus bill finally has be come law. ; ".'vyj ' The measure which has be3n the subject of a fight between con gress and two successive presi dents was repassed today by the senate over President Coolldge's veto by a vote of 59 to 26.; '-.i This was a margin of two votes more than tbe - necessary . two third i majority as compared with the 52 votes there , were to spare when tbe veto was overridden in the bouse last Saturday. ; President Coolidge made a futile last ciiaute effort to have his vi to sustained la the senate, calliaj to the White House for a breakfast conference seven Republican sen ators. . Four of these who pre viously had voted for the bill cast their ballot in sujpott oT the fcre.1 eutive, - Altogether, there were only five senators wSo -had supported the 'bill on its first passage to vote against It today. They were Colt, Rhode Island; Keyes, New Hamp shire; McKlnley; Illinois; PbiipT. Colorado, and. Sterling, South Da kota. All except Senator ' Colt were at the White House confer ence, y. The others attending, the conference were Cameron. ' Ari zona; Harreld, , Oklahoma, . and Dale, Vermont. -V. The last move of the adminis tration was to seek' delay in the vote until Saturday, Senator T.eed, Republican; Pennsylvania, asking unanimous consent to defer action until that time. The senate was in too mood for delay, however, and as Senator ' Ashurst, Democrat, Arizona, objected there were Im mediate cries of 'vote, vote," from both sides of the chamber. Senator .Curtis of Kansas, as sistant Republican leader, who bad charge ' of the - bill, moved for a vote and was Joined by Senator Robinson,. Arkansas, the Demo cratic leader, in suggesting ' that debate was unnecessary. : Sepator Lodge, Massacbnsett. and other administration leaders, joined with. Senator Curtis in vot ing against the president, how ever. -' - v s While house officials In discuss ing the senate action emphasized that the Mellon tax reduction pro gram was predicated upon the as sumptlon that there would be, no bonus legislation. "Whllo they re fused to say so directly they left' the impression that congrea hay ing decided on a bonus hope of material tax reduction must be ! abandoned.. . . i . -..." -" ;;; . ! Secretary Mellon was not pre- pared' to discuss the effect of the bonus upon the treasury's finan cial program but he said that "sooner or later there must be provision for payment arid it can be met only by new taxes." Mr. Mellon said he could m.tke no intelligent statement concern ing the whole situation until he had received from big assistant Information now. in preparation (Continued on. page ) THE WEATHER I ' OREGON TiIf. TiMirfu . cept cloudy or foggy near the! AA.M.a -- a . T vuai; coniinuea arm east portion; moderate . westerly winds. ;'. LOCAL, WEATHER (Monday); " , Maximum temperature, 71. Minimum temperature, 50. River,' .4, falling. Rainfall, none. . ' ' Atmosphere, clear, Wind, northeast. MSSrS FATE 10 E fflwIINCEB BY wmm at Pierce Will Decide Today Whether Albany Youth ii to Hang for Bowker Murder Del egation of Portland Ministers and Labor Representatives Wait " At , noon today Governor cision whether Rassell Hecker the murder of Frank Bowker, . . -A- BILL PASSED No Car to Stand More Than : Two Hours Anywhere During Morning Hours Parkins of any motor vehicle on tbe streets In any part of the city for a period of more than two hours between the hours of 1 o'clock and 6 o'clock in the morning is prohibited Is an ordi nance passed by ; the city ' councl last night.' vi,;.';': The old ordinance governing the location of filling stations was repealed to take care of aa emer gency at Commercial rvnd Owen3. The filling station ordinance has been changed 'three tnnea in the last year for specific' instances. Routine Business Heavy Routine business occupied the greater . portion of the meeting. Upon recommendation of the street committee, the bid of the Feenaughty Machine company of Portland was accepted for tbe da livery of a tractor, to cost 13500, f. o. b. Salem. It was reported that a thorough test had been giv en the recently acquired . $6075 street flusher. ' ; - There was on hand March 31 a total of 179,616.30 arter dis bursements had been made, ' ac cording to the Quarterly report submitted by C. O. . Rice, , city treasurer. January 1, 1924, there was a balance of $88,244.81, with receipts amounting to S 196,324.- Plans and declarations cf In tentions to Improve certain siree's were approved. .; The streets fol low: Hood, Broadway to Capitol; Falrmount, Superior to "Luther; Luther, Fir to Falrmount; Rural, Commercial to High; Falrmount, Luther to Rural; Leslie, Church to High; ' Shade, Capitol to Stew art; Stewart, Lamberson to south line of Parrish Grove and alleys in blocks 89 and 67. Other petitions submitted were referred .o the street committee. .. - ;V" It would cost the paper com pany $40,000 to cover the Dizislon street ditch, and rather than make this expenditure thev company of fered to give the race to the city. including the dam and extending to Front street," according to a communication received from the paper company. The matter was referred i to the special committee on the Divislo'n street ditch. Only lack of finances fa as kept the city from Improving a part of South Twenty-first, a delegation of property owners from that street was informed. The delegation de manded : that action be taken, as the street was impassable a great portion of the year. ' . Day Officer Elected S. A. Cannon was elected reg ular day traffic officer. He has been on special duty. r The Oregon Electric railroad has been notified to Improve its street crossings and Front street line, the" council' was informed. Contract with the PEP company to furnish power to the city after June lj 1925, will be investigated at an adjourned session of the council J Tuesday night. May 27. The new contract must be signed or rejected a year prior to ita go ing into effecti x I- I -i.si.ZK.. Alderman Hal s D. Patton was granted a two months leave of ab sence to attend the Shrine and Re publican - conventions and for- a trip through the east mm Upon State Executive. Pierce will announce his de is to be hanged tomorrow for a Portland musician. ... . j . - - j Tnree alternatives are novp ' ne fore the governor. He may allow the law to take its course, In which event Meeker will be executed at 10 o'clock tomorrow in the state prison. He may yield to extreme ly heavy pressure that has been brought upon him and to a careful consideration he has been giving the case for months and commute the sentence to life imprisonment. The third possible course Is to re prieve Hecker and all other con demned men now in the penlten tiary until the people have I chance to vote again on capital punishment at the November elec tion. Strong pressure also is be ing brought for the latter course The governor's statement that he " would announce , bis decision at noon today was made yesterday to a delegation of ministers and labor- representatives from i Port land. They are urging reprieve of the condemned men until: after the November election. They de clared r that; Jf the people at that time vote to retain capital punish ment In the state constitution they will have nothing further to say, The members of the delegation were: G. A. von Scnrlltz, presi dent of the Central Labor council of Portland and Tlcinlty; r Rer, Walter A. Allen, pastor of . the Sellwood Methodist church; Rev. A. W. Bond, pastor of the Unirer- slty Park Congregational . church and Rev. H. A. Schlatter, pastor of the Church of God, at Union and Falling streets. li Glfll . TRAFFIC VICTIM Margaret Miller Killed When Auto btalls on Railroad ; Prossing : f WOOD BURN. May 19 Confu sion In crossing Southern Pacific freight yard tracks resulted fatal ly last night when Miss Margaret Miller of this . city was instantly killed by a switch -train which backed Into the car in which she was riding. Jess Flkan, driver of the car,' escaped with slight Inter nal injuries .when he was thrown clear of the tracks. Flkan became confused, : wit nesses say, when he saw the train approaching and stalled his Ford coupe on the tracks. Before eith er occupant could jump the train struck the car, hurling them to one side. Miss Miller was instant ly killed.- The car was dragged 50. feet before the train could be stopped and was completely demolished.- :: ' -TV ' 'Miss Miller was the only daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D, Miller of Woodburn. ; She has been, em ployed for the jast' two years, as teacher of the Hall school a few miles from this .city. Miss, Miller is survived ' by - her mother - and father and a number of relatives la Montana:-'." "'-:' ' ', ' FRENCfDIAJT IN CHINA HON'O KONG, ; May 2 0. X By The Associated Press.) Captain Pelletier Dolsy, French ' aviator, who is attempting a flight from Paris to Japan bopped off at Can ton at 7 o'clock this morning for Shanghai. ., '., : : - rJ. SRIKGK CLAIMS KKTTLED - KELSO, Wash.. May 19. Twenty-six Kelso 'bridge accident damage cases have been settled by stipulation, payments totalling $99,674.38. It was announced here today. -v A few claims still remain to be ettled. - - 0 BI raiirs lead UTS HIGH; mmim Senator Building tip Tremen dous Majority Overv Ba ker; Coolidge' Swamps Johnson By 63,176 MILLER ANDSTRAYER IN VERY TIGHT CONTEST Returns in 192 Missing Pre cincts way Overcome fA li ter's 338 Vote Lead PORTLAND. May I. (By Associated Press, j) Milton A. Miller of Portland i and W. . H Strayer of Baker, in the race : for were still close the democratic nomination for United Btates sen ator on the face bi returns from Friday's primary ' tabulated ! to night. With 199 of the state's 1763 precincts still to be heard from the figures I stood: ; Miller 1U.Z33, 'Btrayer ueorge K. Mansfield, 7.821, W. H. King, ..7; 022. Miller's lead being 33S. " Qf the missing precincts 192 are in the counties whose returns have been favoring Strayer, No reports on this contest had been received of (he 16 precincts in Curry coun ty up to tonight. The figures rep resented' in the tabulated count Included, twenty of the thirty-six counties in the state complete un-r official. , , The latest figures tabulated for the republican endorsement for the presidential nomination! were from 1537 precincts, giving presi dent Calvin Coolidge 91,179. Senator Hiram Johnson 28,003. . For the republican nomination for United States senator 1556 precincts gave Senator McNary 77,565. Mayor George L. Baker of Portland 20,435. ; ; Fannie K. Bishop of Salem was running sixth in the list of can didates for delegates to the re publican national1 convention to night. Seven are to be chosen. PLANES REACH MJXATO MINATO, Japan, May 20. (By Associated Press.) The three United States army airplanes arrived here from Yetorofu island, on their , flight around the world. The distance from! Yetorofuf is about 354 mileW. 4 ' WOODS RESIGNS TOKIO, May 2b. (By The As sociated Press) Foreign minis ter: Matsui, talking to Japanese .newspaper men today regarding the. resignation of American Am bassador Woods, ! said that in his opinion, the fundamental reason wag the ambassador's disappoint ment over the action of congress in passing the Japanese exclusion measure. ... " J . i ' i IJGM C IF AT PfflIM W MIES 8IG SJUG It Will Make a Difference of Running Expenses m the Be a Total Saving of Over wnen the New Water Wheel fs Hooked Up With the Electrical Equipment , A new Use has been, found for the refuse of the state flax plant, that 'will make a saving of about $15 a day, or 450 a month,, or over $5000 a year; to say nothing of saving of a lot of labor of cart ing it out of the! way , f The flax chaff is now ; being burned in the boilers, and it Is taking the place of about $ 1 5 worth of Wood or crude oil each day. .;' - ' 3 There will always be flax chaff to burn out thore. Threshing will go on. all the time. It will take all the time there Is left to thresh MAN IS KILLED i BY HUGE STONE i FROM VOLCANO Bookkeeper Dies From Injury; . ,Two Soldiers Missing Near Crater HILO, T. H., May 19 (By Associated Press.) Truman ' S. Taylor, a bookkeeper ' of Pahala, who was Injured by a stone thrown from Kllauea volcano on Sunday, is dead and two soldiers, Privates Edward Hlnman and Howard Simmons, who are believed to have visited 'the volcano on the same day; are missing. Taylor Is the first victim in the history of Kllauea. He. had both' legs crushed and died from the shock of amputation. : '' 1 . ' ."' . The' soldiers "who are missing left the military camp on Friday forva hike." 110 f.IISI IfJ Churches ; Gain Members Thru Demarest Meetings That Ended Sunday A total of" approximately 28, 5,,wfs raised tor the evangelis tic campaign in Salem that closed Sunday night. The thank offer ings ; to l the Demarest party amounted to 83900, with possibly a little more money to come In as yet unchecked. The collections tor running ex penses amounted to, 34600. This paid for the advertising, the rent of the armory, the new tabernacle, the lights,' the traveling expenses one way for the evangelists, the pay of the secretarial and assist ant .evangelist, and all the many small Items of cost in running so elaborate a campaign . A few small ; bills are still : coming in, but .as the collections somewhat overran the cal for funds, it is believed there will be no deficit. No -collections have been taken for the past two weeks, it having been promised from the first that these would cease as soon as the, campaign needs were met. As . the evangelists came here with no guarantee, express or im plied save their traveling expen ses and the items named, and were willing to take the special thank- offerings' collections for" the last day : as . their - full pay for their work.! v The biUs are setled and every' condition has " been ' Com pletely met.'" 'Some quite ridicu lous stories have been circulated, maliciously or ignorantly, as to the "guarantee"- 'demanded and the" vast sums that the Demarests would take away from Salem. The above figures show them to have been" without possible foundation. If 'Salem" didn't -'get '.more than its money's wbrtW then a city never did buy a bargain in goodrcitizen ship. - - - vr-- -- l The net results of the five weeks campaign are 1200 converts to the. better life, and hundreds if not thousands of professing Christ ians and good moral citizens set earnestly towards ; better citizen ship.; There hasn't been a broken heart, a theft, a girl or boy gone . (Continued on page 2) II BOIL Over $5000 a Year in the fhstitution. and .There will a Thousand Dollars a Month the .flax that is on band now, from the 1923 crop, and the threshers will - have to " go right onto .the 1924 crop as soon as it begins to! come In, some 60 to 70 days from now. ' ' - ( ; ;)::: j it was Piun up -: .: : , The flax chaff was piling up, outside of the bag . warehouse be yond .the east wall, and it had to be. disposed of... So Chief : Engin eer' John Quinland got an idea into his ingenious head that it would (Continued on : Page Six); EDS GATHER HERE 1 Enlightening Program Given at Statehouse By Forestry Men From All Parts o Northwest BANQUET AND MUSIC MARK CLOSE OF PAY Governor Drops Hints,: of Severance Legislation to Be Proposed The second annual fire ward en's conference .convened in the state house - yesterday : morning with 19 of the 22 wardens Fpres ent, as 'well as 20 other represen tative forestry men from Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, State Forester Elliott" opened the conference, outlining Jthe wotk of the state and gave a short talk on what It was "hoped would be accomplished in forestry mat- tera In the..' next few years. He emphasized the fact that the 'fire wardens of the state had more natural resources to. take care of than any other class of men In the United States, excepting tbe United States forest service. , Pierce Hints Legislation Governor, Pierce was called on and he brought the attention of the men to the fact that indications at the present time point to the most serious fire season that the state has. had in several years. He as sured: his hearty cooperation In fire protection measures ' when ever it was considered necessary and advised the state forester to keep him informed of conditions In the state. In discussing legis lation he stated that the coming legislature would probably see the passage of laWs that would vastly promote - forest protection In the state. ' In a discussion following his address, Governor Pierce Stated "that there would be 'ho Severence tax law Initiated at the coming November election, but that he had been urged after a conference with ' lumbermen ' and others interested In forestry to urge strongly the passage of : for est legislation Mn his message to the coming legislature.. Outlining his views in the matter, he stated that he expected strongly to rec-, ommend a severance tax, part of which, was to go' to the reforesta tion of; the denuded lands of the state. Further discussion brought Out' the fact that some of the men were opposed-to the severance tax If It tended toward more destruc tive logging methods, the claim be ing that ; by additional tax the lumbermen in order to reduce ex pense 'would speed output and thereby leave merchantable timber in the woods. ..V 1 ' ' . Educational Angle Given Dean George W. Peavy. head of the forestry department of OAC, in taking, up the subject of forestry education, called attention to the fact that the conference 'In Itself was for the purpose of education. "Forests can be perpetuated." said Dean , Peavy, "and ' It Is the duty of you men to Bell this idea to the - people of the state. , By burning the slash following the logging and then keeping the fire out the timber supply of the fu ture will be I insured. There Is enough seed ' escapes the fire in most cases that" the establishment of a future is assured with regen eration by any artificial means." "He called attention , to the fact that 43, 60 0 men'were employes in the forestry Industry in the state and that 65 per cent of the states Industrial payroll depends upon forestry and allied Industries. Operators Have Responsibility George T. Gerlinger, a member of the state . board of forestry, gave an address on 'ItesponsibiI ity of the Operator." stating that public opinion is demanding pro gressive forestry legislation i and that it Is the duty of jthe operator to push public opinion. He also, said that it was the duty of the operator not only v to live un Ha the letter "of the law J but to the spirit o r the - law, He further INCOMER i . !F 'lContinued on page 2 mmm mam SAFE; KASSIi! Vote of Measure Was Special Election, : Attorney Bids on Aerial Hook and LC: To Be Advertised For In Two Vec!:3 Purchase. Will Be Speecied Up. The special jcity measure for a bond Isstre of $10,000 t purchase additional equipment for. the. fire department : ried in the special election Friday. This was officially r nounced from the city , hall last night. On Saturday . : again yesterday announcement had been made that the ir. ure did not carry f or lack of a two-thirds majority of t' vote cast in the election.,' '., . Tollowino; the council meeting last night it was di:c. ered that the first announcement was made on the basii 11 a two-thirds majority of the vote cast in the nominal! election was required. -But City Attorney Smith has 1 " officially that the. vote on the. two city measures that . . up Friday, was a special and, riot a "regular election; en 1 t! the two-thlrds applied to the vote cast in the special elect! On that basis the fire equipment measure carried with 2 votes to spare. ' . ' The' total vote on th measure was 3632. The vote r sary to carry was 2420. The" vote actually cast in favcr c ' was 2652, so that it was easily carried. - The two-thirds majority ordinance applied only to i enue raising measures. The bill increasing the jail scntc and fines that might be imposed by the police court rc only the regular majority and carried easily. . Members of the fire and water committee said 1-t : that no time would be lost in arranging for the purci; the new fire equipment, which includes a truck with : hook and ladder. Bids will be advertised, for in - ' t weeks." ' - - -r- . Keuran Man Who Shot Traffic Offi cer Is Taken ; Charged ; i With Assault to EUGENE, Ore., May. 19 Les lie Parmer, 30, who last night shot Earl Humphrey, Eugene traffic of ficer in the mouth while he was trying to effect Farmer's arrest on a charge of transporting liquor in an automobile, was captured about noon today and has been charged with assault' with intent to kill. Farmer was found under a barn near his home In the north western part of the city. Humphrey will recoverr the at tending physicians Bay. The bul let, fired from a small .25 caliber revolver, was found lodged in the back of his neck, - after it- had gone through 'his upper lip. Knocked two teeth out and ploughed through" the roof of his mouth. ;"- . BREAKS PRISON GATE Host men attempt to break out of the penitentiary but not E. L, McClure, Marshfield attorney, who Monday morning attempted to break in to the institution by driv ing his automobile through the Iron gate that la at the enrance of he grounds. Not only did he attempt to storm the institution, but he backed his automobile into another machine and hen 'made hree distinct attacks upon the automobile ' owned by Robert Crawford, superintendent of the flax mill at the state-prison. Mc Clure was arrested by the 'police and later in the day. was . fined $100 for driving while drunk and for having, liquor in his possess ion. A full bottle was taken from his suitcase. 12 -' DENTISTS INSURE SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, The State Dental association is ex pected to. taker out a blanket In surance policy, for $760,000 to save 4entists from fighting their own . battles when patients claim in court that the wrong tooth was pulled, it was said today by Dr. p. J. Selferd, financial secretary of the San Francisco district dentUts organization. The. 'state conven tion "will be assembled May '36 to 29, , , IS APPfiEIIEf'DED Am) Christian Science Pco Salem Ratified Cont u Last Night "The Christian Science chur i a meeting last night aeeepte I ratified the report of -their ! ing committee, closing a cor. rr wltVWenger Bros, for tta struction of their new cL j building," to be finished ly ; ember 15. " The ..new building will ( when completed ubout $4:,.. The old building will be pre- , as a matter Of sentiment, t it was the first Christiau V church to be erected la Or The part of the new bull;: which the old building will tor, i part will tace on Liberty strt bat the new construction v front on Chemeketa, corner Liberty. 2 ' The new structure will handsome building,, with Gr; style architecture, confern: to the design of the old tail"' ; Christian Science church L . : . Ings are generally built a! those lines, .without steeples, ir with' only one story. - The new- Christian Eci church'ln Salem, will be a L some structure, a credit to t part of the city, and to the c'A? a' whole. ' Excavation will commence V morning, and the work win rushed; the contractors hcrir finish well within the time 1L Expense Statements Filed. By. Ccnd-l: The following statements t! ( penscs by candidates ia U. i j mary election, or by persura ! their behalf, have been filcl'?,;' the secretary of state: Will E. . Purdy, candidaf j f Democratic representative in c gress. fGG.57. . Robert S. Farrell, repu"' for delegates to the national ventlon, state at larga, $0. Eates Snedecor, democr?. candidate for presidential t!. nothing. John C. - Veatch, t'rmocr: candidate. for presidential : nothing. Wlllard H. Wirtz. t Ur,cr: : candidate for district hturmy Crook county, uotliin. i II 111, III i 11