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;TneTeatlier-0 moderate- temperature- and fresh south., "winds. Tuesday Max. 62; Mini. 52; River 18.1 rising; Rainfall .66; Atmosphere I part , cloudy; Wind Statesman? Classified ads bring results. Every day some one comes in and tells of the splendid results obtained. See pages 6 and 7 of today. , west SYENTy-FOURTH.YEAK SALEM,. OREGON; WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 1925 PRICE FIVE CENTS mm PRICE OUSTER IS D1IDED: - vU''-- j I : -! : ' ' ' ' 1 ' K" i- i -"' ' ! ;!" . i -' .f . I'- Measure to Place Game Commission fa Hands of Board, of Contro Awaits Executive Action COMPROMISE EXP CTED TO, SAVE ; SI UATION - -s Bill Withdrawn Tuesday: Sev eral Measures Approved By Lower House Removal of R. W.f I Price bf Portland as a member of the state game commission and the appoint ment of a successor . who , meets the' approval' of the sportsmen of the state or else the. dumping 'of H. B. No. 19S, placing the appoint ment of. the game commission Jin the. hands of the. board of control, Is being faced by Governor Pierce, -who has been given . until 10 o'clock this morning to' make his actions, known to those sponsoring the measure. .;! j .J While those seeking the ouster of Mr. Price are ' non-committal upon his successor, it; is under stood that the name of William Lee, of Klamath Falls, is being mentioned s for the vacated placd on the board if the governor agrees to the compromise. :l 1 1 The measure came .up for j Its third reading in the house yester day but upon request of its spon sor. Representative j Kirkwood, chairman of the game committee, the bill was withdrawn and is slated to come up again today! Congestion Is Passed I With a short house sesstmi in the afternoon and Speaker Bur dick calling attention to more action by committees as the (ses sion is facing the usual congestion toward the close, the legislature did little of Importance. Tuesday.' At the opening of j the session yesterday a joint memorial, delet ing from the constitution of the state that section relating to suf frage by negros, mulattoes and Chinese, was adopted, while one measure, HB No., 400. by Carkln, overlooked Monday, j. - was? Intro duced.' This measnre seeks the repeal of section' 4443, Oregon laws, the quarter-mill road tax yielding about $250,000 each year. . , - Committee Reports tA reporf to the governor from his special, committee appointed to revive administrative: laws and to submit several consolidation plans, was read and tabled. ' The letter said that legislation recommended was approved by the board but that the lack of available j time prevented the mission from being accomplished. Members of the committee were F. J. Tooze, chair man; J. P. Newell, , Fred FIsk, W. H. Strayer, A. K. McMahan, It. A. Andrus and R. L. Sabin, Jr. ' Bills Are Passed Bills passed by the house yes terdayi included HB No. 128, by Graham, permitting counties to move county highway construction equipment over state highways, the limit, upon weights proving a .(Continued on, pact 2) : RAINilil' TWICE '24 RECORD Precipitation Is 6.75 Against ncnes n ver-uon- .tinues: to Rise 1 The average amount of ratotali for the month of January, 1925, was twice the amount for. the same month during 1 2 4, as indl cated by the report of the weather man. The average for the ' past month was 6.75 inches, compared with the 3.54 Inches which fell during 1924, 1 During the year 1923, however, both records were gone one better and the rainfall measured 10.17 Inches for January. This Is the high point year for the first month as shown by the records. The Willamette river at Albany, last night was reported to be ris ing steadily from 17.5 mark.: and at Jefferson it was reported that the river stood at 11 feet, but has been rising since 3 o'clock in the afternoon. According to the wea ther reports the Willamette river at Salem will possibly reach 20 feet by Thursday. A depth of 18.1 feet, and rising, was reported for Salem, Prison Policy by Governor Hartley; . Reformation Is Aiiri OLYMPIAj Wash., Feb. 3. Gov ernar Roland JI. Hartley outlined today the policies of his adminis tration, on pardons and: paroles. "In dealing with those convicted of criminal offenses we must not lose sight of the humanitarian side of the question.7 the governor said. "Reformation of the wrong doer should be made paramount to his punishment, but at no time should society: be made to suffer nor the commission of crime en couraged by too lax use of the executive pardoning: power. "The Indeterminate sentence must! of necessity carry with it the parole system. . Except in ex traordinary cases, where evidence not available at the time of trial makes it apparent that - gross In justice has been done, It will be Senate Postpone, Confirma tion of Supreme Court Justice Until Today WASHINGTON. Feb. 3. Action on the nomination of . Attorney General Stone to be a supreme court justice was postponed today until tomorrow by the senate., i j While normally nominations are considered behind closed doors, a move will be made, to have action on this one in the open since the attorney J general f requested an open hearing before, the judiciary committee on the reasons why the department jot justice Is bringing a new case against Senator Wheel er, L1 democrat, Montana, . in the District of Columbia courts i . Senator Cummins of-the Judi ciary! committee said he expected the nomination to be confirmed at tomorrow's session, and those sen ators who bavej interposed, objec tion, io favorable action gave voice to a similar opinion. Some discussion is expected to Dreceda the vote, however. Sena tor Walsh j democrat, Montana; counsel for, his colleague, in the case j noW j pending in Montana against Senator r Wheeler, plans to make clear' his position with ; re spect to . his! protest against the presentation of a new case against his colleague I in Washington in stead of in' his home state.' 1 Senator lleflln democrat, Ala bama, and j perhaps one or two others j expect taj revert to-; the Ownbey case which proved j the first stumbling block to quick ac tion; by the; senate and in which Mr. Stone appeared in. the supreme court as counsel for the executors of t!he ijEsie of J. Pierppnt .Mpr gaoi in i !a idaiHage suit' against Owiibey. j,T ; .J -J; . . j . ii:e jppfl Senate4 : Foreign Relations . Committee Reports Fa- ' vorabiy ph ! Policy I :i !:: ' i;; IT 'il j, i . j i ! WASHINGTON,! Fel). ; 3.-r-The German comraefciaH treaty was favorably reported j today by the sooate foretgnj : relations commit eej with j If frtWitj approyed; by the' state depaTtment, which fail, however,1 to rejne tlie objection which has j prevented ratification of, the con vent lop j for more than a,year. i I : h ; J . '. - ? i " Under, the reservations, the state; . dcPAftmentj's policy, against diacximJn&tion Ini favor- ot Ameri can Ishippin wicul remain, in full force for at : loast- a y?4r, but thereafter it coulfl changed up. on ninety days notice to Germany; j After the,, committee had acted chairmaa Borah Bard the reserva tfcona left the matter of policy with coneresW I but opponents ; of ! the treaty took the opposite view and made it; ptiin I that they would launch a fight Infthe senate for a speciric statement that the determination-lot future policy should rest j with congress and not with the executive department. V( Some prpponents of the treaty said favomble action ; had1 been taken In the committee merely to get the treaty oh! the floor of the senate 'for threshing out of differ ences as' to whether the door Is to - be ; cloed.i to the - stimulation of the American merchant marine through the; Imposition of prefer ential tariff! duties! on imports in American. bottoms,!. , Dgjjfl. Given. my policy to expend j executive, clemency, only, where the. Inmate of ; a penal institution has served his minimum,. sentence.- , t "Scant . attention, will be given to 1, the j requests of,, trial Judges, prosecutors and members pt juries for the parole .or pardon o.f ; any convicted crimina.L v The time2Ior prosecutors, to . plead for, clemency Is before sentence has been passed And judges should not, expect the governor to mitigate- punishment which they have pronounced on an individual convicted in their court. My advice to trial judges is 'if-ypu do., not . believe . a convicted , felon should serve his time, don't .give him the sentence and 'then expect the governor to 'modify it. After all,; the best way, for the individ- . (Con tinned on ps 7) ADMITS tins Seven Year Old Girl Said to Have Confessed i to t Poisoning Sisters LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3. Seven year old ' Alsa Thompson, who is alleged to have confessed to po lice last night that she killed her twin sisters in Canada two years ago, tonight had authorities puz zled over her case despite the be lief expressed by her father today, that Alsa's story was merely the product of a vivid imagination. Russell Thompson, the f girl's father, labelled her statement that she had put ground glass into her sisters' food as utterly absurd. , "The twins,", he said, "died when they were about" two year3 old We had two doctors and ' a nurse in constant attend ance and they said death was due to Intestinal trouble. Alsa could not have anything - to do with that." . ' ' ' f H That the twins' death could not have - been due to ground glass was; disputed; however by County Autopsy Surgeon A. iP, Wagner. Dr. .Wagner ventured no opinion as to the credibility of the girl's story; but declared that if she had put ground glass in the infants food an .intestinal, disorder might have resulted which could very easily have been mistaken for one of a variety of intestinal diseases. .Teachers who have Alsa under their instruct ton areMncllned to doubt her "confession on the ground that she is not only bright, but obedient and industrious In school. , They said they were pux zled however, vhen Alsa stuck to her story and added: f I just like to see, them die, that's all." ' William Kearns, fireman, one of the persons who brought Alsa to the attention of the police told investigators that two weeks ago he was a dinner guest at the home where Alsa is boarding and that he was taken sick after j eating preserved peaches "that I tasted terrible." ? J ! '"Afterwards we learned," he said "that Alsa had Ttut sulphuric acid in the peaches.: FDR SEWER SYSTEM Vote Yesterday Was 276 in i Favor? of .and Only; 47 ; Against the Project 1 i Monmouth was rejoicing last night over the result of theelec tion there yesterday on the ques tiont of giving the ; city council power to issue bonds to build a complete sewer system. The polls were open from 8 In the morning till S at night, and the votes in favor of giving the power were; 276, to only 47 against the proposition. No specific amount was voted; but the majority ballot authorizes the city council to sell enough bonds from time to' time to put in a complete sewer system for the city of Monmouth. "' The progressive people of Mon mouth are pleased with J the ; re sult, as showing that the city is progressive, and a suitable place for the state normal school. ELK SHOOTI XQ A ASKED - YAKIMA., WashI, Feb. 3. Yak ima county game commissioners todav voted to request the state legislature to declare an open sea son on elk fn Yakima countjr. iHiTES Hiilill mm REPORT SIS All Members of Crew Found; Schooner . Jakes . Aboard ' Captain .and , Eight Men Near Wi'IIapa Bar t SEVERAL VESSELS STAND BY TO GIVE ASSISTANCE Attempt to Tow Water Logged Steamier Faii;,yeh Are Exhausted PORTLAND, Ore., Feb.. 3. A message from the Algonquin reads: ' ; "Boat with missing men from Caoba picked up by? schooner Pes cawha off Willapa bar. We now have Captain Sandvig and eight men aboard Algonquin., This ac counts for all the crew. Algon quin proceeding to Astoria." PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 3 Cap tain Sandvig and eight men of the crew of the steam schooner Caoba, abandoned Sunday night at sea. were rescued today by, the schoon er Pescawha off Willapa bar, ac cording to a wireless received to night from the coast guard -Cutter Algonquin at the North Ileatf, Wash., radio station. The Caoba men were later transferred to thf Algonquin and were en route t Astoria. I L ABERDEEN, Wash., Feb. 30. Details of the disabling of the steam schooner Caoba, now adrift off the Columbia river, were given tonight by.First Officer A. Rignal, who with nine members of the crew, was picked up and brought to Grays Harbor today in an ex hausted condition. "Early Sunday afternoon' when we were about 20 miles below Tillamook Rock, Ore., we discov ered- that our' rudder shaft was cracked," Rignal said. "We work ed two hoars, but our efforts at repair were futile. Meanwhile, the ship was rapidly filling with water and the engine room pumps were not equal to emergency. , "We labored for nearly nine hours and the-ship, battered and smashed ; by -waves and wind. seemed doomed. Finally Captain Alfred Sandvig ordered us to the life boats. The captain, with eight men, was in one boat and myself and nine men in boat No 2. The crew was exhausted and we just floated near the Caoba. "Tossed by the waves, but keep ing afloat by constantly bailing we remained near the Caoba until early yesterday morning when a new wind carried us away from the Caoba. We rigged a small sail and were carried swiftly along by a southwester. We hoped to reach Grays Harbor some time this morning. We heard the whistling buoy off the bar at 4 o'clock. A big ship passed by us or either did not see our flares or else took us for fishermen and not in distress. "But with the change in tide, two more ships came in sight and stood by. One was the Anne Hanify, which picked us up and kept us aboard until the tug Cuda hy arrived and took us up tha harbor." PRICE OF GAS TO UREASE 2 CENTS Standard Oil Company; An : noun'ces Raise for Stations on Pacific Coast SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 3. An increase of two cents a gallon on the price of gasoline and from 25 to 58 esnts a barrel in the price of fuel oil. effective February 4; was announced today by the Stan dard Oil company (California). The oil increase will range from 25 cents to 45 cents a barrel, ex cept for crude oil of 36 per cent gravity and :. above - in the Rose- craus-Athens field' in Southern California. Here, where the high er priced light oils predominate, the increase will range from 46 to 58 cents a barrel. The fuel oil Increase of 25 cents a barrel will b? effective at all points ex cept El Segundo and SanPedro where-the Increase will be 20 cent per .btrrel. The company did not state the reason for the increasees. The Increase will be effective at all points served by the com- pa.U7. in,. Pacific, coast stt. ATTEMPTS TO Supreme Effort : Is Being Made to Rescue Impris oned Miner; Human Chain Pass Dirt and Rocks PRISONER MOTIONLESS FOR OVER 100 HOURS Leaders in Party; Collapse; Human Endurance and Fidelty Shown CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 3. (By the Associated Press). What was considered a supreme effort was being made late tonight to rescue Floyd" Collins, pinioned in Sand Cave since Friday morning". A fresh crew of men, headed by William B.1 Miller, staff corres pondent of the Courier Journal, Louisville, formed a human chain from the imprisoned man to the mouth of the cave and laboriously passed out sandstone scooped up by hand from around the body of the victim It was estimated that two bushels of earth had been re moved from around him late to night, thejj object being to get at Collins' feet, where a boulder has held him (almost motionless for more than; 100 hours. One by one the leaders of the Various rescue parties have col lapsed and been led or carried away under the care of physicians. The man most concerned, however, clings grimly to life, and as Miller put it "he; doesn't know it, but he is playing a very, very big part in his own rescue." Collins I repeatedly asked that some one remain in the cave with him and pleaded for his chum, John Geralds, according to Nelson Jones, a miner, who was the last man,' to leave the cavern this afternoon .The dozen men in Jones' party made little progress between 10:30 this morning and 3:15 this' afternoon in widening the cave and none of their work was done; in that section nearest (Oon tinned on pag 2) LIME INDUSTRY T Plans for Non-Competing In dustry Presented at Bureau Meeting Here Following a meeting of the lime bureau in Salem yesterday, Sam. H. Moore one of the proprietors of the Oregon-Corvallis Hatchery at Corvaflis, presented plans, by which a non-competing industry could . be introduced at the state penitentiary. Mr. Moore suggests that the high price of lime for Willamette valley farmers can be solved' by the Installation of lime crushing machinery at the state penitent- . (Continued on Pe 2 . Klan Makes Contribution To YWCA Budget Campaign ; v The budget fund of the YWCA took another step forward yester day whefi a total of $5000 had been subscribed. The workers have beeh In the field and every effort isi being made to secure the full amount. Pledges from the Womans as sociation ot the Congregational church , amounted to 125. as did the Womansv organization of the First Methodist church. Pledges were also received from the Salem chapter of the OES and a group of Salem men; who stated they were friends of the organization contributed 119 and signed KKK. The workers are much' pleased by the showing, made by the Womans associations, which are headed by Mrs.. Mark McAllister and .Mrs, George. II. Alden. Purebred Livestock Men i To Meet Here Next Week The serai-annual meeting of the Oregon Purebred Livestock associ ation will be held In Salem Tuesday.- February 10, at the state house. The session will convene at 11 o'clock.- ' ! Matters - of -; importance - - being considered by the legislature wlU be given consideration' by-the as sociation! Every member who can is ured to-attend; the meeting; PEN Gjedsted Charges Called Irresponsible Muttering of Disgruntled Employee Charles E. Gjested wa "fired" from the staff of the adjutant gen eral and did not "resign" it was announced yesterday by local mil itary-officers, who characterized his attack upon Brigadier General George A. White as "the irrespon sible mutterings of a disgruntled clerk." y j. Until Monday Gjedstedj was em ployed as a clerical assistant and 24 hours after he had been dis missed, following a probation per iod of several months, his "resig nation" was received at the Na tional Guard headquarters, accord ing to records shown there. Copies of the letter were broad casted by the ex-employe to news papers, the governor 'and officers of the army. One of the 'principal causes of his discharge, it was Infringement of Exclusive Right to Originate Rev enue Laws Held WASHINGTON. Feb. 3. By a vote of 225 to 153, the -house to day sent back to the senate the postal pay and rate increase bill on the ground that the; measure infringed on its exclusive right to originate revenue legislation. With the way barred to house action on this proposal, the house post office committee Immediately set out to draft a salary rate bill of its own with republican leaders planning to bring it to a vote be fore the end of the week If agree ment can be obtained as to its provisions. j The committee went into execu tive session tonight with members predicting that a measure similar in its main "provisions to the sen ate bill as It was reported from committee would receive approval In this event, leaders are pledged to give it right of way under a rule limiting debate and shutting off amendments from the floor. Joining with Chairman; Green of the ways and means committee. and Representative Garrett, the democratic leader, in urging pas sage of the resolution which re turned the postal bill to the sen ate, Representative Liongworth. the republican leader, said such action would pave the way for final action at this session on a salary and rate measure, j He de clared he favored bringing a bill to a house vote, but insisted it would have to provide more rev enue than It was estimated the senate bill would ralse.f- "There's no use passing a bill," he told the house, "that the pres ident won't sign." i 1 At the White House it was made known that President Coolidge felt that rate provisions of the senate bill would ' yield Insufficient rev enue and was looking to the house to take care of this angle of the problem. j Attempt to Be Made to Lift ueot on boiaier Monu ment in. Court Grounds With the object in view of rais ing enough money to pay off the debt on the soldier monument in the Marion county court house grounds, the American Legion will give a dance at the Crystal Gard ens, on February 14. -The amount yet . to be paid is 11320.. and it is proposed to sell enough tickets to enable the debt to be taken care of. . Arrange ments have been made for a bril liant affair, combining a celebra tion of St. Valentine's day, with a Saturday night dance. - The McMinnviile Legion realiz ed a. sum larger than is con tern plated here, by the same means. and for the same purpose. STORY HELD FAKE ; EUGENE, Or., Feb. 3.- Deputy Sheriff Earl Luckey. who investi gated, this morning the kidnapping etorv told bv a 20-vear-old Univer sity of Oregon girl student yester day has branded . the story, aa a (akef in hi opinion, i; AMERICAN LEGION WILL 01 DICE said, was his querulous attitude in dealing with the public. - In his letter Gjedsted charged that certain irregularities, had crept into the conduct of affairs of the military department, and that General White, isi "to put it very mildly, unreliable." He"'also charges that "subservience is re quired in. preference to service." No specific explanation of his allegations were given by Gjed sted in his letter and he says that he is waiting his command to lay the charges before him. He gives no specific reasons for the resig nation. - The letter of resignation sent to General White is as follows "Conditions in the military de- (Coa tinned on pmff 7) Foreign Affairs Committee of House Adopt Favor able Resolution r WASHINGTON. Feb. 3. The attention of the house was direct ed twice today to. the foreign af fairs of the nation, with the ap proval by the foreisn affairs com mittee of a resolution favoring ad herence to the world court and to discussion of this subject on the floor by Representative Burton of Ohio, a republican member -of the committee, and Representatives Wingo, Arkansas and Connelly, Texas, both democrats. The reso lution would place the house on record as favoring adherence to the court with reservations recom mended by President Harding and President Coolidge, the committee taking the position that the house should express itself on a matter of such importance, even though it Is not, like the senate, charged with responsibility in the handling of foreign affairs. ; I Mr. Burton hrought the .sub ject up in the house during con sideration of a rider to the naval appropriation bill to authorize the president to call another inter national arms invitation confer ence. The Ohio member, who is assigned the task of drafting the committee report on the resolu tion, 'declared the court "goes far ther" toward outlawing war than any. proposal which ' has been brought forward,, and explained the president could not sign the protocol before senate action was taken on tnv recommendations that had been made. CHIIUW OF LEGISLATORS Representatives and Sena tors Dismiss. Law Matters and Enjoy Evening Entertaining the legislators and their wives with a complimentary dance, Cherrians and their wives spent a . Joyous evening at the chrystal garden dance hall last evening. ' - Senators who have been pon dering over mighty state problems and, representatives ,with the fur rowed brow of the cares of state, both laid aside their arduous du ties and enjoyed themselvea as guests of the Cherrlans. ' .King Blng Perry and his recep tion committee made it their spe cial duty to see that the legislators danced . and enjoyed themselves while the night was young. Cherrlans responded in . goodly number with their wlvea and when the many legislators arrived after attending the penitentiary show, the dancing haU was well filled to capacity. "The Cherrlans have surely shown us a fine time," declared one of the senators who had not missed a single dance. "It Is a sure 1 thing that we 'will return home, singing the praises of the Salem Cherrlans." The general expression ot opin ions of both senators and ; repre sentatives was that ' the friendly spirit of the Cherrlans waa most deeply appreciated. - -.; And the general opinion of all was the legislators could without doubt, throw aside tha cares of state and, enjoy themselves when under the friendly ' care . of the Cherrlans, - v STiiira R PROBE Report Witt Be Submitted to Committee Today; Rec-, ommendations to Be Mads to Legislature PIERCE, CLEAVER, AND HERWIG ARE WITNESSES Successor, to State Day Com missioner Is Expected to Be Asked Final taking, of testimony in the joint senate and house Investi gation of the activities of the state prohibition enforcement law was completed at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and as soon as Mr. Cleaver completes his report, ' which is to be submitted to the committee after the adjournment of both houses this morning, the committee will begin to formulate its report and get this in shape for presentation, together with recommendations, to the legisla ture. Governor Pierce, Mr. Cleav er and Mr. Herwig were the final witnesses to be heard. Word that Mr. Cleaver had bean Indicted on two counts by the federal grand jury in Portland in connection with the raid upon the British steamship "London Mer chant", did not reach the commit tee until after the session had ad journed for the day. Recommendations Expected With Mr. Cleaver under fire from this source and from , the testimony given, in aU probability the committee will recommend that a successor be appointed and he be relieved from his duties, as state prohibition commissioner. Whether the law- itself will be recommended for the discard and its I enforcement given into the hands of the sheriffs and district attorneys of the various counties is debatable and doubtfuL How ever, it is expected that certain alterations will be suggested by the committee, including the plac ing of burden of cooperation upon the prohibition commissioner and not upon the county, officers. Some new change in the division of fines and a re-allotment of tha moneys may be recommended by the committee. Two Witnesses Heard . . Members of the committee be lieve that to do away with a law already enacted, providing It Is a good law, weakens the entire so cial system. Efforts should, be de voted toward the source and dis tribution rather than petty cases of hip-pocket possession, it is be lieved. R. I. Keator, former district attorney of Umatilla county, was recalled before the committee to state that in; the last two years there had been no enforcement of the law by the sheriff and that the only enforcement was through state agents, paid by Mr, Cleaver. CCA. Kratz, city manager for As toria, testified in favor of the pro hibition commissioner regarding cooperation with state agents. Governor Is Present Upon invitation of the commit tee. Governor Pierce appeared and said that he had no feeling that the committee had been discour teous to him and that he had been treated fairly. Friendly relations have marked . the keynote of the Investigation, though Senator Gar- (ConUnue oa pan TUESDAY IN WASHINGTON Senator Mayfield. Texas, was seated by the senate. - The house sent the postal pay and rate increase blU back to the senate. New hearings were ordered by, a senate committee on the Mc Fadden national basking bill. A federal grand Jury began hearing evidence ln the. new pro ceedings in the Wheeler case. The house foreign affaire com mittee approved a resolution fa voring American world court ad herence. - The '.German commercial treaty with reservation was approved by the senate foreign relations com mittee. ; A resolution for a federal tra la commission inquiry Into control c tl-e power inquiry was rtportei ! a senate conatttee, i TE 1 ESTOE D