The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, November 25, 1924, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTlie W eathercioU?yREpGrobNabiy rain extreme northwest portion; fresh southeast winds. Monday Maxi 43; Mln. 39; River 15.4 falling; Rainfall none; Atmosphere cloudy; Wind southeast. -' i EIGHT PAGES TOD.'. Twenty-six shopping days before Christina. I J your Christmas gifts early this year. Mertl.a. bow have on hand the very best assortment f choose from. 'Iiet their ads guide you. . SEVENTY-FOURTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 25, 1924 price five czirrs LABOR LEAGUE III-PiTISI If! ITS FIELD American Federation Votes ' to Adhere to HorvPartisan Political Policy; Condemn Soviet GOVERNMENT INVASION OF INDUSTRY OPPOSED League Proposes to Use All Parties But Will Be Used By None LE PASO. Texas, Not. 24. (By The Associated Press. The American Federation of labor Tot ed In its annual convention today to adhere to a non-partisan poli tical policy, rejecting with only one opposing- vote two resolutions which would have committed, the membership to support a new poli tical party.- , Opposition to governmental In vasion of the industrial field was approved as a fundamental guid ing policy of the federation. In rejecting a resolution urging trade agreements, the United States and Russia, the convention unanimous ly reaffirmed its opposition to relations with the soviet regime. A resolution commanding mili tary' training camps was referred to the executive counsel for action with an expression of approval of the principle of preparedness and denunciation of pacificism. Acting on a score of questions of lesser importance presented to the convention in reports of two of Its most important committees, brought the assemblage tonight near the end of Its business pro gram. .. "Our non-partisan political pol ler does not Imply that we shall Ignore the existence or attitudes of political parties," the commit tee on resolutions reported. ; "It does mean that labor proposes to use all parties and be used by none.' " f..-V Two delegates spoke against the committee report but when the chair called for a viva voce vote only one dissenting voice? was beard.' , :, Matthew Toll, sixth vice presi dent of the federation, and chair man of the resolutions committee said in urging acceptance of the committee's report that the vote for the Independent presidential ticket in the recent election "de monstrated that labor will not be led Into a separate independent political party." I 1 He pointed to a continuance of nonpartisan activity as the most effect policy. : omrarafi of ; , pom ABED Much Land Being Cleared 1 and Lots of Money Saved By New Methods A slump blowing demonstration to : show thai effectiveness - and methods of using pyrotol, the sur plus government war powder being distributed at cost to Oregon ranchers, will be conducted on the C. J. Channer and McClain ranches located one-fourth mile west of the Salem Heights school houses on the Liberty road at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow. The demonstration has been 'ar ranged by the United States Ra tional bank in cooperation with the extension service of the Ore gon Agricultural college and will be conducted by Geo. W. Kable and Win. L. Teutsch, both of the extension service. - , A Rig Saving The United States National bank of Salem has been pooling orders for this powder, and to date Ma rion county ranchers have ordered through them 65,900 pounds of this powder at a saving over the price of commercial stumping powder of approximately $5270. Last year a similar surplus war powder distributed to Oregon ranchers by the government through the state college exten sion service. , Nearly one million pounds of the powder was used last year by Oregon rancher at, a saving of $87,000, and even a greater amount will be used this year. ' ::' In the distribution of this pow der at cost the government is re turning to the farmer tax payers of the country some of the sur plus war materials. The avail ability of this cheap stumping powder, it is pointed out, bas stim ulated land clearing in the state. "BKAJf KING" ARRRSTKO TAMPA. Fla.. Nov. 24. "Bean kins" Lewis" K. Sands, misslnc "world bean king," was arrested hpre tonight by Hillsborough county deputy sheriffs at the Un ion station. A ticket to Rochester, N. Y-! was found pn Sandst APPLE TREES IN NORTHWEST WERE PLANTED IN 1821 Anniversary Celebrated Monday; -. Willamette Student Body Pres idents Use Gavel from Trees One hundred years ago Monday a sea captain touched at Fort Van couver in Washington and planted apple seeds which had been given him at a dinner party many months before in London. Today the apple . trees at Vancouver are carefully guarded and a tablet tells the story to the Eightseers. . After the j trees had reached their growth at the fort cuttings were made from them and taken to the . Whitman settlement at Walla Walla. I Here the fruit trees grew for many years and only re cently was it. necessary to cut down the last tree of the original plantingsj ; j ; In order to preserve the wood of the Whitman settlement orch ard it was made up into various objects. It was the good fortune of the Associated student body of Willamette to secure n gavel which had been made from the wood of one of these trees, it is used by the student body president during the associated student body meet ings. -..;.- Loan to France Is Over Subscribed, Bankers Say NEW YORK, Nov. 24. The $100,000,000 loan to the republic of France, offered here today through J. P.: Morgan & Co., was from three to four times over subscribed, bankers estimated to night. - i' . i -: ' v . , ; Wide distribution of the Issue was assured by the response , of Investors from all parts of the country. Subscription books were held open for 45 minutes to re ceive the flow of buying orders, most of which were said to repre sent purchases for investment ra ther than for speculation. JIK STILL REFUSES PLAN Sensational Conference Fea tures Second Attempt to End Opium Menace GENEVA. . ov. 24. CBy The Associated Press.) The palace of the league of nations was the scene today of another sensation al public meeting on the opium problem when the far eastern op ium ' conference was revived. Af ter words accusative and almost violent in. nature between the Jap anese, British and Indian dele gates, an agreement was reached in principle on the matter which was one of the causes of the col lapse of the first opium confer ence. i This matter concerns the free dom of Japan to import opium and recognition pf import certi ficates by British authorities when Japan trans-ship her opium at Hong Kong to be sent in various directions. ; Despite this accord, however. the first conference is generally regarded as practically a complete failure because it provides no ef fective system for putting an end to opium smoking In the far east. It was that object for which the first conference was called. WThen today's session opened Mr. Sugi mura of the Japanese delegation announced Japan would not sign the convention as drafted unless Japanese certificates were approv ed, i He continued his offensive so hard that the British delegation finally gave in to the extent of agreeing to recognize the validity of all certificates vised by a Jap anese consul.' This was considered a victory for Japan. ' - ' k Sir Malcolm Delevlnjje of the British delegation repudiated charges that Great Britain s was discriminating against Japan. He insisted it was unjust to bring such an accusation against a friend ly government. CIHWIED; LICEIiSE IS GIVEN Comedian Attempts to Have Ceremony Performed in Mexico : v, LOS ANGELES, Nov. 24. If Charles Chaplin, motion picture comedian marries Lita Grey, his leading woman, upon his arrival in Guayamas. Mexico, tomorrow, it will be the couple's second at tempt to go through a civil mar riage ceremony in Mexico within two months, says a Guayamas dis patch to the Los Angeles Exam iner. - i Chaplin and Miss Grey came to Guayamas 30 days ago and re quested several magistrates there to marry them according to the dispatches, but the request was re fused. ' A marriage license was later is sued to them, however, with the explanation that a notice of their intention to; marry must be pub lished in Mexico and that the cer emony must take place not sooner than 18 days after the publication of thi3 notice. Dirigible Industry Will be Centered in America States German Designer NEW YORK, Nov. 24. Dr. Karl Arnstein, designer of the ZR-3 arrived on the George. Wash ington today with a staff of 12 engineers. They wiil go to Ak ron,1 Ohio to begin constructing, in the name of the Goodyear-Zcp-pelin corporation huge commer cial dirigibles for passenger, ser-t vice, domestic and trans-Atlantic. "I am certain that the lighter than air craft industry of the world will : be centered In Amer ica," said Dr. Arnstein. "You have here all the best conditions for dirigible manufacture capi tal, engineering talent and favor able public spirit. I hope to make America my home forever." A mild mannered man of 37 years. Dr. Arnstein smilingly spoke of great fleets of helium filled gas bags which in the neaj future will get the cream of the passenger and mail business of the world. . ; ; For ten years he was in the business pf designing me Eucces- CLEAN CITY Prosecuting Attorney Makes Statement as Criminals Run at Large CHICAGO, Nov. 24 Major criminal depredations continued in Chicago today as State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe-announced that he would end "all violations and wipe this county and city clean," he made his statement before op ening a grand Jury joint inquiry into the murder of Eddie Tancl, Cicero, roadhouse owner yesterday, and slaying of Dion ; O'Banion, florist-gunman, two weeks ago. . Three holdups which netted cri minals $10,700 and a $50,000 of Jewelry was the day's total. That the O'Banion killing would be subjected to inquiry by the grand Jury at the same time as the Tancl murder was indicated when William F. Schofield. O'Ba nin's partner in the florist busi ness and several children who saw the flight of the murderers ap peared before the jury when the Tancl witnesses were dismissed. PLI DETAILS FOR CONGRESS Coolidge Confers With GOP Leaders on Program at Next Session WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. A legislative program for the Im pending congress is expected s to emerge from a j series of confer ences being j held this week by President Coolidge with republi can leaders of the senate and house. 1 ' The president coferred on leg islative plans late today with Senator Curtis of Kansas who is expected to be named the next party leader in the senate. He also had similar discussions with Representatives Longworth, Ohio; Madden, Illinois, and Snell, New York and he is expected to con sider the ' problems involved in greater detail at similar confer ences as soon as he has completed his annual message to congress on which he has been working for several days. t FAUEISIW OF JURY Train Robbery Trail Ends . After Seven-Hour Argu ment By Counsel CHICAGO, Nov. 25. William J. Faby, former postal inspector and James Murray, politician were found guilty on five charges of robbing the mail with a gun, five chargtfe of robbing the mails, and one charge of conspiracy to rob the mails, each in connection with the $2,000,000 Rondout mail rob bery, by a federal jury hero early today. ,. .-, CHICAGO. Nov. 24. A federal Jury at 8:30 o'clock tonight re ceived the case of William Fahy, former, postal inspector, James Murray, Chicago politician and Walter McConib, accused In con nection with the $2.0000,000 train robbery at Rondout, 111.. last June, and retired to deliberate the case. O l' " tin IS sion of war and peace zeppeljns turned . loose upon the air 'at Frledrichshafen on Lake Con stance and of accompanying them on trial flights. He designed the ill-fated. French record breaker, Dixmude, the model of the Amer ican Shenandoah, and the newest record holder, ZR-3. With the Friedrichshafen works about to be dismantled in accordance with the Versailles treaty, he comes here as the technical brains of an industry being transferred to Am erica for perpetuation. Dr. Arnstein considers the trans - continental demonstration flight of the Shenandoah "very important and very interesting, chiefly because it demonstrated the practicability of the American mooring mast and the American condenser for preserving ballast." He was convinced that the fu ture of the dirigible rests largely upon the enlarged sources of he lium supply and upon the cheaper methods of producing. ' ' POLICE PATROL! WRECKED AGAII Oregonian Delivery Truck Features in Early Sunday ., Morning Accident One of the Oregonian Reo speed wagons turned over on North Capitol street early Sunday morning, when it came unexpect edly upon the police auto which had Etopped 7 to permit Officer Wiles to arrest F. J. Richards, another paper truck driver. , Oa account of the fog and the wet pavement C. E. Biddle, who ws driving the rear Oregonian car rier, could not bring his machine to a stop when it came upon the police machine. , In the effort tp avoid a collission the big, carrier was turned over on the street and the driver had to escape from, Jhij wreck 'by climbing" ' buf through the top of the overed truck. No injuries were sustained by Biddle. The truck, however, had a broken front wheel. The arrest followed many com plaints which, have been turned into the police office concerning the excessive rate of speed which the Oregonian trucks have been traveling. . ' In the meanwhile, a wrecking, machine had been brought to the scene and efforts wpre made ' to get the machine from the road. It had turned over inl such a man ner that it blocked traffic. Officer Wiles was guarding the approach es to the wreck and .arrested Har old Cherry for breaking glass in the street. Cherry was exceeding the speed limit and Officer Wiles brought him to a stop and when the offic er approached the car the door was opened and the glass was thrown onto the pavement. Only the fumes of liquor were secured for evidence and they soon faded away.' GUNFIRE NOT USED WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. Navy department officials declar ed tonight that thus, far no gun fire had been employed in the trial attack on the uncompleted battleship Washington off the Virginia capes. AH of the exper iments up to the present time, it was said, have been In the nature of bombing attacks. WILL ,NOT PROMOTE FIGHTS LOS ANGELES, Nov. 24. Re cent reports from the east that Jack Dempsey, world's champion heavyweight fighter, intended to become identified with the fight promotion business in Southern California were flatly denied in a telegram received here tonight from Dempsey. Loeb and Leopold Were Classmates of Attorney Who Has Located Here Clarence B. Phillips, Formerly of Silverton, Knew Both Chicago Boy Murderers While Studying Jurisprudence Clarence B. Phillips, attorney at law, who has recently established offices in the Bank of Commerce building, has the distinction of having been in the jurisprudence class with Nathan F. Leopold. Jr., while a studenti at the University of Chicago. Phillips Is a gradu ate of the 1924 class and met the two murderers in classes previous to their arrests and conviction of the most dastardly crime in his tory. He was a senior in juris prudence, while Leopold was a freshman. . t , Leopold and Loeb were average students and did not atract noto riety by their scholastic .. ratings, neither did they attract undue at tention to themselves by their ac tions or cause comment by their characteristics. Phillips reports that the two men acted the part of gentlemen and the several occa CONFESSES TO , TWO ,; MILLION DOLLAR FRAUD KoreU Said to Have Told Police of Alleged High Finance Through Mails HALIFAX. N. S., Nor. 24; Leo Koretz, alias Lou Keyte, to day confessed, according to police, to perpetrating mail frauds which netted him approximately $2,000, 000 and for which he was indicted In Chicago a year ago. He dis appeared at the time of his in dictment and no trace of him was found until he was arrested here last night. Koretz also revealed today that when he was arrested he was pre paring to leave for South America. He said he had come to Nova Sco tia in order to obtain passports. In a statement concerning his alleged fraudulent land deals, Koretz today made mention of "my beautiful wife and two chil dren,' whom, police said he left' destitute when he disappeared and with whom he has never communi cated while playing the part" of a free-handed millionaire here. Assistant State Attorneys who came here to arrest Koretz reveal ed today thai Chicago police have known that Koretz had been in Canada since January, but did not say when the exact place of his hiding place was discovered. ; The officers said Koretz had been traced through hospitals and physicians to whom he had been after treatment of a malady from which he had suffered for years. The first request he made after his arrest was that his beard. Which he had grown after leaving Chicago, he shaved off. "The whiskers have served their pur pose," he said. - : m EGfPTlEETS Premier Resigns After Com plying With Great Brit ian's Ultimatum CAIRO, Egypt, Nov. 24. (By The Associated Press.) A new government, headed by Ziwar Pasha, president of the senate has taken control of Egypt. Zagloul Pasha haying complied with the British demands as far as he deemed expedient- an apology, the payment of indemnity and the promise to punish the assassins of Sir Lee Stack, sirdar of the Egyp tian army withdrew from the premiership and his resignation was accepted immediately by King Fuad. Ziwar Pasha also takes the of fice of foreign affairs until it is known whether Ahnied Zulficar Pasha, minister at Rome, to whom the portfolio has been offered will accept. '-.: -i .- - ' : On the assembling of the cham ber this evening the former pre mier, Zagloul Pasha, received an ovation. He announced that he had tendered his resignation be cause of: Viscount Allenby's note on November 22, but the king asked him to reconsider his de cision. He was notified today of the seizure of the customs by the Brit ish, and he informed the king that he would do everything for him except remain in power. His min istry he said had endeavored to deal with the' critical situation arising in the deplorable crime, but Egypt could probably be ex posed to danger which could be avoided by the cabinet's resigna tion. , ! Zagloul exhorted the nation to preserve the utmost calm in these anxious times and promised , to support the f new government. Opposition speakers attacked Zagloul, accusing him of weak ness and failure to protect the country's dignity against Great Britain's onslaught. BANDITS KILL DOCTOR NEW YORK,, Nov. 24. Dr. Melvil Sayes, a physician here, was shot through the heart' and killed in a pistol battle with three ban dits who held up a drug store in the upper section of Manhattan tonight. The holdup men escaped. sions that they were together he did not find reason to criticise them. - Phillips reports having had a seat sometime next to Leopold during classes and at times two or three seats removed from him. Both men were enrolled ' in the jurisprudence class taught by Floyd R. Mechen. The local attorney paid close attention to the case after it had attracted nation-wide attention and has formed opinions, from per sonal observations. Phillips also reports that he was present when the bar association of ChlcaRO set the fees forthe case at $2i0.0f0. Phillips, although he has been away from Salem during the past three years, was born and raised near Silverton and for 10 years taught school In Marion county. Former Premier Stanley Baldwin, Who Forms , ' New Cabinet After Labor's. Defeat, and His Wife arte ? 4 "" ' ' fr-1 ' x As the result of the conserva - tives sweeping victory in the Brit - ish general election. Mr. Baldwin's party again comes Into power, this irs. mi LAID TO REST Body WHi Lie Beside Re mains of Late President; Funeral Impressive MARION, Ohio, Nov. 24. (By The Associated Press) Under a leaden November sky, Florence Kling Harding was laid to 'rest in Marion cemetery today beside the mortal remains of her husband whom she helped rise from coun try editor to the presidency of the United States. i Grouped around the gray vault with heads bared to the chill wind that carried a nurry : vOf . , snow flakes, Htmdteds. paid ?a last tr? bute to the widow of Warren Q. Harding twenty ninth' chief exec utive of the nation. Inside . the vault, few . relatives and the friends who were with her in her last days listened to the brief services that preceeded the final commitment of her body to its last resting place. The casket, a veritable mass oj flowers, was carried Into the nar row room. The Rev. Jess Swank, pastor of Epworth Methodist Episcopal church read the burial service of his church. The Rev. George M. Landis, who had been President Harding's pastor, pro nounced the benediction and hard ly his words ceased when softly on the air, swelled the refrain of "The End of Perfect Day," from two scores male throats. The brazen tones of bugles sounding taps ringing throughout the cemetery and the final notes ended, the vault doors gently clos-' ed and the silent crowd turned away. - r , i The funeral services which were held at Epworth church were equally simple. There the Rev. Mr. Swank delivered a short ser mon and prayer was said : by Dr. Landis.. It was Mrs. Harding's wish that "The End of a Perfect Day be sung at her funeral. The Colum bus republican glee club, number ing more than 40 voices, furnish ed all the music at the services. The club had sung at virtually every important occasion through the political career of Mr. Hard ing, journeying to Washington, when he was inaugurated. Mrs. Harding's body will rest beside that of her. husband In the receiv ing vault at the cemetery until the proposed Harding memorial, which will be erected on a high bit of ground outside the city limits, is completed when both will be moved there. GOES 11G n Police Say Oklahoma Sus pect Was Seeking Free' . Ride to California McALESTER, Okla , Nov. 24 Five postal Inspectors today failed to identify a man held here as Ray "Nick" D'Autremont " wanted ; in Oregon ; in connection with the robbery of a Southern Pacific pas senger train and the murder of three trainmen at Siskiyou, Ore., In October 1023. D'Autremont was arrested here last week and confessed, accord ing to offirers that he was wanted in connection with the crime. Of ficers Bald they gave small cred ence to the confession and be lieved the man was seeking a free ride to California. He is being held u.nde bogus check charges. J i m v fir t - .-m-A - ?s- - 4 , fk y -I t I? -' - J ,- ' - W ) 1111111 CASE - i i :. ; A : - - r ! ........ i Hi! . 1 M A -IS. ... 1 time with a majority of more than J 200 in parliament. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin are shown here in the gardens or their home. FLUX INDUSTRY , S'SORJECT Plans for Factory Plant Pro gressing; Market As sured for Product Two-thirds of. the $150,000 ne cessary to equip a twine manufac turing plant here has already been subscribed, according ' to B. C. Miles, who spoke at the Chamber of Commerce lorum luncheon Monday. Mr. Miles spent, four months this summer in the flax centers of Europe studying condi tions' and obtaining information relative to aplant in Salem.. Flax is of ancient origin, he said; point ing out that King Tut was wrap ped in :iinA and quoting Biblical references to the fabric. Records on the flax industry are not avail able since the war, but in .1913 between 4,000,000 and 5.000,000 , acres were planted in , the world, j Belfast, the center of the indus Jtryt grows but 10 per cent of its fibre yet manufactures 50 per cent of the finished products.- "In 1882 flax was introduced to Japan by a Belgium, just two years before Mrs. Lord sought to interest Oregon, in this crop," Mr, Miles said. "Today Japan has 250.000 acres in flax and -had Salem grasped Its opportunities at the same time," sufficient flax products would be manufactured today to exceed the present reve nue derived from lumber, or more than J 7 5,000,0 00 annually. ' The United States imports about $60, 000,000 worth of products . each year. The flax can be grown here but should. also be manufactured. Mr. Miles took 100 pounds of flax fibre grown in the Turner district with him and had it test ed and examined in Ireland, Scot land, England and. Belgium. The reports in all Instances were that the fibre was .equal to any other in, -the world.' Mr. Miles inter viewed a large number of manu facturers, who sought to discour age him. Weather conditions in Oregon were not favorable, they said. Mr. Miles produced records to prove that the Oregon rainfall was approximately the same dur ing the growing , season and that during ' the harvest were much more favorable. The - labor prob lem was also offered as an ex cuse. , Spinners and skilled work ers had been developed from gen- (Continued on pagt 3) . SflYSWHTS RESULTS ARE JOKE Governor Pinchot Appeals to Public to Put Bootlegger Out of Business - COLUMBUS, Ohio. Nov. 24. The work of the federal prohibi tion department was declared to be a "bitter and brutal joke," by Governor Gifford Pinchot of Penn sylvania, in an address before the Methodist Episcopal Men's council here tonight. ' lie appealed for "public condemnation of buyers of of illicitejl liquor whose money is the sole Incentive to the boot leggers." ' Crediting teaching of tempe rance in public schools with dev eloping public sentiment made pos sible enactment of the nation's dry laws, Dr. William S. Bovard, Chicago, corresponding secrotary of the board of education, M. E. church, predicted world peace will come only when children of the world are "prejudiced unswerving ly against the use of physical for ce lq fettle international disputes, tit IE BE1E0CF. SHOWS ke; OFFICERS Si. Finding of What are Cc';:v: I to Be Blood Stdr.a c,i Furniture Is Recounted Cy Deputies ARTICLES SUBMITTED TO CHEMIST FOR TECT Investigating Officials Bizi ' Mrs. 'Addle Shcatsley Was Murdered COLUMBUS, Ohio. Nov. 24. (By The Associated Press.). i dence tending to show, that 2Ir : Addie Sheatsley, 50, found part! cremated in the furnace ef t' Christ Evangelical Luther; church parsonage la Bexley, week ago, was murdered, was u" earthed today In a minuta scare of the house by 'Jnvestsat: : i " ficials, according to a stiu -tonight by Co nty Proscc John R. King. Dark stains vl' may be spots cf human t':--found on a table covering stuff: away in an upstairs closet, en j pair of blue trousers, on a floe rug, on the asbostos covering c a heat conduit directly above tL furnace door, and In other r'" Prosecutor King Bald, proves t him, with other evidence is t' in his possession, that Mrs. : : ley was murdered and tiat I. body was cast into the furnace : an effort to hide all tracs t crime. ' , - The only other possible tbecr; which Prosecutor King has i mind is that she might have cc mitted suicide and her body i in the furnace by some j-ers r who did not want it to I : : known that she had taken L life, be said tonight. Find Prints 1 Other i discoveries, terr :I ' . the prosecutor as -'irsror:: . " ' eluded the finding by Davli rack, Bexley marshal, of f i r turned fruit jar lid cental:. about, half an ounce cf rei fl which Chemist C. F.' Locs z: closely resembles human tl: Bits of tissue, which raisbt 1 been scraped from the body cf human were found on a step cf t stellar stairway. Red finger pri were found, on the door cf t' clothes chute in the basement I . Detective Harry Carson. The supposed blood and bloc ' stains will be analyzed by Che: ist Long to determine whether c not they are from a human belr -it was announced. He said his i port might be made in 48 hours The bottle of poison which v missing from the medicine cab! In the Sheatsley home last Mor..: night, according to author!! was found in the medicine cati: today. According to Mr. King, t Rev. C. V. Sheatsley, husband : the victim told him it was missi when he went to look for it, not;: ing acid fumes in the house af: he bad discovered the body. Au! orities say they are unable to l count for-its disappearance &i. reappearance. ' Shot Rabbits -Informed of the day's devel: t (Continued en pg 6) GRAirJ RATE PROBE IS ! POoTPi: Idaho Grain Growers Protect Freight Rates; May Ship East By Water BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 24. He ing on the application of the pt lie utilities commission for red:: ed grain rates from Soutte Idaho to Portland. Or., which to have started here today 1: ra 3 &3 been postponed until some ti: In March it was announced at t office of the commission. The: Idaho commission whi initiated the connection with t federal regulatory board, conten that rates on carload lots of gra from southern Idaho points Portland are too high and p. lude the possibility of Idaho r'. growers shipping their pre;, to eastern markets by water. . !9 la :; s i:i t ? Christmas Shopp; Number t The Oregon Statesman t ill je issued next Sunday, Novcn ber 30. A cut of Santa Claus v. ' ! iecorate the first page. Thrra will be Christmas news ar I Christmas stories and Chr; -nas advertisements. This i will afford an excellent dirt -lory for shoppers and off-r many suggestions that will -list those, undecided on wt t :o give. : '"":: !