The Oregon statesman., July 03, 1925, Page 1, Image 1

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SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR
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SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY MQNItfG, JUJ.Y 3, 1925
PRICE FIVE CENTS
S ft IDE
JUNE VISITORS NEARLY
SEO TO
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
TRANSFER OF OIL LEASE
IS DISCUSSED BY WALSH
DEVELOPMENT OF POWER
RESOURCE IS ADVOCATED
.: . T"
EXPANSION OF NATION ELEC
TRICAL INDUSTRY ASKED :
IDEBSCOi
' POINT ATSESSIl
EQUAL THOSE FOR YEA?, r
fllL
ENTERTAINED AT DALLAS
OF SHOCK DAFJIAGES
FUFJDirJS BY STATE
AUTOMOBDLE REGISrHlATlOXS
SEVENTY MEMBERS OF TWO
STATEMENT WOCLD INDICATE
; CABINET RESPONSIBILITY
-FOR MONTH 12,C59
ORGANIZATIONS MEET
n ftnnn
11 Fill SALEM
, WITH PAPER MILL
: 4
ffli.orru
Tnlal I nee !ii Qanto Rj rhom
-vuu lit WUIIIU WUIWUIU
Is Now Placed at Ten ,
Million Dollars
RECONSTRUCTION STARTS
Scores of Engineers Working Day
and Night to Rebuild Electric
i and Gas Systems in .
.; , Ctty i ' . .... -f
California, Leads Outside States;
Ashland Station Is First
With 4137
The regiatraHon of foreign mo
tor ..vehicles visiting Oregon from
June i tqiJune sOiilnclualye. of
the present year, lacked but 2,274
i?"1!? toal number of
registration's for the previous five
montha, January.! -to May 31, ln-
ciusiy aa shown in a compilation
bJT rSftai . A. Xozer, secretary of
slate. The registrations for June
SANTA BAttBARA Cii ;,' July 2 were 12,659, while that for the
(By,Assoolated Pres". ) Placlnz I previous five months to tall a 14
. " " r?""" iea jniuu,n 833. ToUl for the six , months
S-w-KS, h-"r ,
y w r w vwivi- . . ... .
nia eglneen heaiied by Profes- ery 8taie m united States,
sor-C. K. Jlar.head of the engin- I wun ine exception or Delaware
eering department of Stanford I and Georgia, was represented in
university,- rnde Us first report the June registrations, and visit
iniB anAT-nAntl IhA n. i
i' YY- vvuiuic or from Alaska s Hannila . the
on ! public safety. Granada thea
ter, taIleBtbuilding in the city was
Teported jonharmed. The Lobero
and California Iheatera were also
reported safe.
canal zone, Hawaiian, Islands and
New Zealand were also included
Among the states from which
motorists registered. - California
Reclamation Projects Should
Be Left to Federal Gove
ernment, Said .
COOPERATION IS NEEDED
ConimisHionrr of Reclamation De
clares Government Better
Equipped to Handle
Work Than State
Matters of Community ' Interest
Discussed; Banquet Is Fea
tured By Speeches
-Dr. Elwood
YAKIMA, July
Mead, commissioner of reclama
tion, in an interview here tonight
declared he was
use by a Ft Ale of
opposed to the
public money in
Among hUdlngs reported ."to- leads ,n number ' for J,une with
Ul tosses? is Hotel Arlington, the!
county- tourt house and jail, and
oaiai- Francis hospital. . ,
, "We are not worried about the !
7,290, and for the six montha.
with 115,564; Washington is sec
ond with 2,475 for , June and
8,887, for the six months, while
Idaho is third with 834 registra-
purt housC' declared Leo Pries- " tl Zl i nio r Vr
,, . . fc, - tions for June and 1,548 for the
ker, chairman of the board of su- . ,., . .
... . w. w ii, 8ix months' period. From a dis-
' pervltfora, " as we were -planning , n .
to erect a new onft within a year Y 5Arc ;"rl
" , ru"fc motor vehicle visitors registered
soonsr. that is all." fmm M,iM aa trnm v- v,v
Work of destruction of danger-U3 trQm Florida. .90 ,from Illinois'
us overhanging walls continued and Oklahoma, respectively ; .88
today ana thousands r workmen from 0was and Nebraska, respec
carted away the debria until to- tivelyj 103 , from (Texas, 60 from
night State street was virtually Minnesota; 11 from Massachusetts,
cleared or all wreckage. 69 from , Missouri. 45 from Ohio
Many business houses resumed and 5 from. Washington, D. C.
today, but giving service from the There were 107 registrations from
rear doors only, opening on Chap- I Canada, three from .laska, three
la or Anancapa streets, parallel-I from the canal zone, 13 from
Jng State street on either side. ' I Hawii and one from New Zealand
"Surveys' were the Tfrder Lof Among, the registration stations
ihe dav. Insurance men. ftnetn-1 ne: aiaie Asniana eaas wun
eersvjf the California development Jue and the six months' regis-
awiociation. bankiAe rioresenU- nations wun 1,1 s? ana ,o ju. re-
tives and the board of volunteer spectively; Medford is second with
engineers appointed to determine 1934 for June and 4,4?4 for the
the buildings that must be torn six months;, rorUand is third with
down were all.at-work. It Is es-wf -" uu lur luc
tlmated that a million and a half jsIx months and Grants Pass
dollars in earthquake insurance u ? IJ-B A'"wf lur " "J18 "u
was carried.' and all of it wilt bet2.093 fo5 the six montha., In
eastern uregon me unwno sia-
Tonight all telephones were in fnr ,nna ofw1 n71v'fA. tha ,w
service except one th-ousand out of month Klamath Falls. is second
a toUlof ejght thousand In ser- wlth 515 for June and lfl84 for
vice when the quake, came. Ex- t. T,-naiiPa thirrt
cept fpr the street lights, the city w,tn m for jQne &nd 538 for the
had'o electricity again tonight g,x months and Baker is fourth
1 and candles were still in use. No wltll ,fta tnr ina 42 fnr th
Transaction Declared Debated Iu
At Least Two Cabinet
. Meetings
paid.
gas , has yet been turned, on but
,100 engineers are Inspecting the :
mains and private, connections;
As a result of the gas and Tight
situation, the majority of the pop-
ulatlon is still eating at improvls-
ed relief stations in the plazas and
streets. Ample food supples, milk
and Ice continued to arrive from
Los Angeles and other Icltles.
six, months.
FORD BID IS NOT FOUND
the settlement of. reclamation pro
jects, and said, on the other hand
that hp favored only the state's
cooperation in getting the right
kind cf Settlers on the land.
lie declared the Cramton am
endment to the, recently passed
Kcndrick bill was ill-advised and
would destroy real cooperation be
tween the reclamation service and
the state, which, I he asserted, is
the thing desired. According to
the law as passed the federal gov
ernment' builds the projects and
depends on the state to settle. "In
my judgment," said the cpmmis
sioner, "it is the federal govern
ment that can best lend this finan
cial assistance to the settlers."
"Our idea in putting the pro
visions originally into the bill.
which were jset aside by the am
endment, was that we would build
fewer projects and use some r
the reclamation funds in helping
along the settler - In ; developing
profitable farms. - v
!'It lsr of course. Immaterial who
does the financing as long as it is
done1: under- proper supervision,
with due attention to guiding the
settlement along such lines as will
assure the. success of the projects.
' "According to the provisions in
the Kendrick. bill,- which were set
aside by the Cramton amendment,
the reclamation service would
have advanced the settler 60 per
eent of -ihe-cost of vermanent'im'
provements and the settler would
furnish 40 per. cent.v The govern
ment," -said . Dr; Mead, "would
have had ample security for the
loan and would not have loft if. in
other respects, the settlement
were properly managed."
It Is essential, however, he said,
that the state assume the respon
sibility of interesting itself to the
extent of seeing that the right .sort
of men go on the projects and
that they follow practical methods
in7 farming.
Secretary Work today dedicated
the Tieton dam at Rimrock, near
1 The members of ; the Salem
Chamber of Commerce were royal
ly entertained by the Dallas Cham
ber at the Gail hotel last night.
Several autois carried the mem
bers from the local headquarters
to the, Polk county capital where
over,, 70' members of the , two or
ganizai ions feasted and discussed
together matters of ; common In
terest to each other and to the
Willamette valley.
Dr. L. A. Steves of Dallas In
troduced T. M.'. Hicks, president .of
the Salem commercial body, who
presided. After mutual felicita
tions between representatives of
hosts and visitors in behalf of
their organizations, a number of
persons were called on ; for brief
expressions.
.Among those who responded
were Conrad Stafrin, mayor of
Dallas; Dr. H. E. Morris. W. II.
Harcombe, J. C. Perry (King
Bing), Dr. V. C. Staats. Dr. E. E.
Fisher. W. V. Fuller. Cooke Pat
ton, Zadoc Briggs, JudKe J. II.
Scott, J.:t R. .Craven, Dr. A. B.
Muir, Grant Holt, L. C. Brown,
Ross Miles. Fred. Erixon, F. J.
Tooze and Oscar Hayter. ; -Amonn
subjects urged as bene-
ficial to the community were the
construction of highways to the
mountains" -and beaches; the re
moval of the state lime plant to
Salem and operation of the same
by penitentiary labor; complete
eradication of cherry pests and
lifting of the California . cherry
quarantine; cooperation between
ORDER FOR PURCHASE OF
SHIPS LOST IN MAILS
WASHINGTON, July (2. (By
Associated:' Press.) When the
fleet corporation offices closed late
today no trace; had been found of
RAILROAD WANTS TO QUIT the bid of Henry Ford for 200
shipping bpard yessels,for scrap-
lAINTENANCK OF IV. 8. V. 1 ping, which ! hs told the Assoclat
BRANCH. OVER REVENUES
t
f
ed -".Press" . at Detroit had : been
mailed several days ago. Pending
its receipt, officials declined to In
dicate -what course they . might
pursue toward, the offer. ?
. The possibility that the bid had
Petitions to cancel electric train
service on the Willamette Valley
Southern between Kaylor station,
In riipliama, mrntv anH Mf An-
- -ns.n. t ti mtioo bA- reached Washington and hd been
cause of continual loss since 19151 misplaced caused thorough, search.
.Wn'.hMii niar,i hefnr th nub, w be made without result.
He servle commission! - A hearihe Officers of the sales s&Tp diyj
prior lo August 1 Is revested. The sion 8ald n action could betaken
railroad line operates 1.9 miles of Mr. Ford's bid unless the 20
Bias, receivea were rejecjea.ana
others are requested. ;
President Palmer of the corpor-
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DISEASE ATTACKS FISH
THOUSANDS OF TROUT KILLEDi
- . , BY PARASTIC SCALE ' '
JACOMA, July 2.-i-AU the sit
ver trout in American Lake, south
of. here are dying, Dr. Hlntbn
Jonez,' county health officer, an-nobunced-r
today fter an lnTesUga-tion.-
: Dr. " Jonez found, he salb,
that the silver trout were" being
killed by a parasite or scale which
attacked the gills. So far none
of the other species of fish in the
lake has been affected. -
J There Is no cure, he said, be
cause any remedy put in the water
would have the effect ot killing
all the fish. He said that he count
ed at least 'one thousand dead fish
in an area no larger than the floor
space of a small bungalow and the
home owners along the lake had
counted an average of 50 fish each
day recently on shores of .each 25
foot lot. ,
NEW YORK, July 2.--(By The
Associated Press). Edward L.
Doheny's. recent statement on the
oil leases. If true, places some de
gree of responsibility for the
odious i transaction ' upon every
member of the Harding cabinet.
Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Mon
tana, chairman of the senate com'
mittee on public lands which in
vestigated the leases, said today.
Senator Walsh, who is on his
vay abroad, also regarded as im
portant parts of the Doheny state
ment which, he said, showed that
the leases' were not given Dpheny
to protect the oil lands from drain
age by outside wells. ; Mr. Doheny
asserts that the subject of the
executive order transferring ' the
control of the" oil reserves '.from
the navy department to the inter
ior department was discussed in
at least two cabinet meetings at
which Secretary of the Navy Den
by exhibitedl his desire to have
the transfer made. . the senator
said. The sources of Mr. Doheny's
information . Is not disclosed, but
presumably it came from Secre
tary Denby, although it is ineon
sistent with the testimony given
by the gentleman betore the pub
lie lands committee.
"According to my recollection.
Secretary Hughes and Secretary
Hoover at least were asked If the
subject was ever considered at a
cabinet meeting. Both , replied
that it was not, or at least that
neither of them had any recollec
tion of such, an event. It will be
interesting to learn . what they
Jiave to say on the subject, in view
of the DOheny statement. The
statement, if true, involves every
member of the. cabinet in some
measure "of responsibility for the
odious transaction. '
"In the second place, Mr. Dor
heny asserts that -when the plan
was, under consideration -t the
Pearl harbor tanks and paying for
pherii in oil that 'Fall said that
if my company or any other com
pany would undertake the work
contemplated (the construction of
the tanks) leases would be made
for drilling of 'such additional
wells as would be required to sup
ply the crude oil with which the
nav would pay for the fuel oil la
storage.
"This effectually disposes
$200,000 Plant May Be Lo
cated Either Here or at
Vancouver-Wash,
SITE OFFERED CONCERN
Pinehot of PennsjT-
vanin:. Explains "GUnt
, i Power" Program
Attempt by Fundamentalists
to Fefuse Seats to Dele
r gates Is Failure, ' :
Oregon Iulp & Paper Company
Donates Two and One-Half
Acre Tract at Front and .
Division for Site
Possibility of the establishment
of a $200,000 by-products paper
mill in Salem, with, Vancouver,
Wash., as the alternative site, be
came known "yesterday. The of
fer of the Oregon Pulp & Paper
company to give the new concern
title to the north power site on
Fronf near Division, a tract of
wo and one-half acres, makes the
selection! of this city the most
likely choice of the two. .
f he proposed mill would con
fine its activities to the manufac
ture of envelopes, paper boxes,
wrappers and kindred articles. It
would employ between li0 and
200 persons. i
Interested in the project are E
J. Moseley of Los Angeles, A. D,
Alpine, Seattle, and B. A. O'iseni
of the local paper mill.
Salem offers advantages over
either Seattle or Los Angeles
where plants are operated In that
paper can be received direct from
the factory, .while at the Seattle
or Los Angeles plants It is neces
sary to, ship the paper from a dis
tance. Because the new mill
would be a heavy consumer of pa
per. the site was offered by the
Pulp & Paper company.
Transfer of the equipment of
the other two plants to Salem or
Vancouver will follow "the selec
tion of the site, it is stated. Ar
ticles of Incorporation are ready
to file when the location is de
cided upon.
The new factory will be one of
the most complete of its kind west
of the Mississippi "river.
Possibility of utilizinj water
transportation is being taken into
consideration.
SPOKANE. July 2 Governor
Girfdrd Pinehot of Pennsylvania
came to the Pacific "northwest to-
ight on a crusade for a plan for
nitied development of the" na
tion's electrical power resources
which he haa termed "giant pow
er." He spoke here In the audi
torium of the new Masonic temple
under the auspices of the Spokane
Advertising club. s
The essentials of his ."glaht
power" plan he defined as: .
"First, the public must have a
ot
the contention that the Doheny
lease of December 12, 1922 tint
is the lease which covered practi
caliy the entire reserve was
made because the reserve was be
ing drained by wells outside and
to' protect the government from
loss from drainage so set up
SPEECH CAUSES FURORE
Baptist Convention Featured "by
: Canstlc Addresses; Evolntkm
Theory Cornea in for.v.
Much Discussion 1 -
, SEATTLE. July 2. Modernist
won two victories in sessions of
the northern Baptist convention
Voice in the nlans for the creat here today. Fundamentalists who
electrical developments which are sought to prevent delegates from
ust ahead: second, the puDUc rr" Ten v-iuiu v
miit sham hv raf rednetlon In W XOrk irom Being aeaiea wwi
the enormous economies which
consolidation of companies is al-
giant power plan will produce In ,"eld w" Toted dowB- 7i
down to defeat. 912 to 3 6, 4. A
resolution asking the recall of
modernist missionaries from for-
still larger measure; third, rates
must be based on money actually
to 574.
By rejecting the missionary res-
and prudently invested insjead ot option which was introduced by-
on watered stock or on j what It jr- f-V Z
would cost to reproduce the prop- hT?nlin IA!?
perty; fourth, the milking of th'"":?,
moderate and small users for the
benefit off the few exceptionally
big users must stop.''
ting committee recommended to
the mission board to take snca
action "as seems to them will nest
conserve our denominational In-
"We, could not stop the univer- tepSRt. anf, Cp,, a!v,nce the king
sal use of electrical power if we I Hn. nf rhriat
T:1 t?vGOTC Mr Pn? l d,f The investigating committee',
clared. 'e could not -stop the recommend,tloSn rolIowed a yeat.
coming of a gigantic electric mo
nopoly if we wanted to. - But we
study of Baptist foreign mission
fields, and declared reports of mls-
ean stop the extortion which the management and heresy among
forerunners of that monopoly are
already practicing upon the pub
lic. If we choose, .we ,can control
it instead of allowing it to control
and exploit all the rest of us."
"Giant power Is a plan for sup
plying electric current for every
OREGON MAN IS ELECTED
PORTLAND TEACHER IS HON
ORED AT CHICAGO MEETING
CHICAGO. July j 2. (By The
Associated Press). Mary C. Bar
ker of Atlanta, Ga., was elected
president ot the American Federa
tion of Teachers at: the closing
session of the organization's ninth
annual convention here today.
P. J. Mohr. California, and E. E
Schwartztrauber, , Portland, Ore.,
I were elected vice presidents.
foreign missionaries unfounded..
Seating of the Park Avenue del
egates came arter a prolonged dis
cussion i during the morning ses
sion. - . .
The rfinson resolution waa de
feated late this afternoon after
purpose and at cheaper rates than lhe ReT. Dr. Robert V. Meigs of
ever before." the speaker said. Qoincy. 111., had offered an amend-
"It includes the production of elec- ment which would have taken thi
trlclty In enormous quantitiea, atlng out of the resolution. ! -partly
from water powers . but "This is an , age of microbes,
chiefly at huge coal burning cen- monkeys and raen,'said Dr. Melgr
tral power : stations near the in offering his amendment to the
mouths of mines; the pouring ot resolution. "I'm . going to risk
that electricity as it were Into a making a monkey -pf myself to
great pool of power for the service keep this convention, from sending
of all. and the saving of the.val- t a lot of monkey business .tor
uable by-products of coal burned the world to laugh at."
for power. It seeks to assist and " believe In the pronouncement
hasten the rapid expansion of elec- of this resolution I'm a funda-
tric service. 1 . imeniaust myseu- six leet tour or
one and I want to live and die
a fundamentalist., '
"3ut I don't gve a rap whether
PLOTTERS MUST DIE
itnornnt i , ,r " m,n came from an amoeba or an
MOSCOW July 2(By Asso- orangonUn? whether man once
elated Press.)-The supreme court had a ull or Bot yon rB,0
today sentenced to death Dr. Karl God ont of the world wltn 4 ftw
Kindermann, Max Von Ditmar and microbes and monkeys. I once
Theodore Volscbt, three Germans knew- a bookkeeper who vent"
charged with plotting against the crazy trying to find a 15-cent dlf-
uves or Leon TrotzKy, M. staun ference in bis books. After he
and other bolshevik leaders.
WRECKAGE FILLS SANTA BARBARA STREETS, FOLLOWING SEVERE QUAKE
fit line between Oregon City find
Mt. Angel. .Total losses since
1915 are placed at $928,453.52.:
it is not necessary to maintain
service, thef petition states, as the
district is amply served by auto
: stage and truck lines. Competition
which is Increasing rather than de
creasing, and i branch line of the
Southern Pacific. There are no
"prospects of increased business, it
is arecrted, and to i keep the line
in operation it is 'necessary to
spend 186,000- for. .maintenance
next year. -y'" '' .;
PLANES TO CARRY PIPE
MIXE FTTTINqS TO BE TRANS
, PORTED THROUGH- AIR- '
'-. MEDFORD, Or.. July. 2.rrOne
hundred and seventeen thousand
pounds of Iron piping and "fittings
will be transported by : airplane
front' Iron mountain. Mont., to la
Placer mine In the Clearwater re
gion of Idahro. Ive McKinney,' ex-
Medford boy!, who has the . con
tract, announced.
Mr. McKKInney who has been
Visiting his parents In Medford ex
plained that he will use two
. planes to transport the metal over
the high mountain range to the
, placer mine. '
This la being done by the min
ing company to save six months
time by avoiding slow-going pack
trains, .
a tion however, declined to commit
himself to a course with respect
to the bid pending its arrival. He
has just returned from the Pacific
coast. The advertisement which
Invited offers for.' the shrpa con
tained this paragraph: -'f 7
I, ''Bids will be received . until 1 2
oc)ock noon, eastern, , standard
tme. June 30,i1925. but the board
may, ;af ter , consideration ot i the
bids received continue, negotiations
thereafter 'and all bids received
Btjor to final award or. awards
may be considered." ;
AMNESIA'-VipTIM PLACED
PATJEN.T AT STATE HOSPITAL
. ' IS LOS ANGELES MAN i
Authorities "t. the -state hospit
als after' several months, have fin
ally established Los Angeles as
the . home of , Eskil Strom. amne
sia victim, picked up by the Salem
police .with , several thousands of
dollars In his possession. He Is
said to be a laborer but efforts .to
find any relatives have proven to
be fruitless. ?
In occasional moments of nor
malcy the authorities were able to
ascertain' from various bits of In
formation "that -were' ; vofuhteered
by Strom, his occupation and place
of residence, -
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had been sent to an asylum,
preacher came there and. in the
course of his sermon, asked:
'What shall It profit a man if be
saves his lite and loses his im-.
j mortal soul? . ' , ' .
'Fifteen cents.' the bookkeeper
answered him; . ..
"That reminds me of this situ
ation. What shall it profit the
northern Baptist convention if we"
gain 15 cents worth of creed and
lose our faith and, brotherhood and '
love?"
: !-
RAILROAD MAY EXTEND
OREGON TRUNK RO.iD . WOULD .
TAP RICH TLMBER LANDS
PORTLAND, Ore.. July 2. The"
Oregon Trunk railway wDl build
approximately ,164 miles of new
railroad .tapping rich' llmberland -of
central "4pregon '. and Tlnklng
Bend and Klamath Falls, If per-
mission' Is gfan ted by the Inter
state, commerce commission, it
was announced here today by W.
F.' Turner, president of the line.
Mr. ' Turner : said the' Oregon
Trunk would press this portion of
Its ' application to the ' interstate
commission and would no longer
seek to link' up : with Klamath
Falls by resorting to common' user
service over the .Southern Pacific
line between Odell Junction; now
named ' Pauline, and -' Klamath
Falls. The application to. the fed
eral commission was a double-bir-
reled aftalr. seeking, entrjihee to
I Klamath Falls by . either .of the
routes. ... -. v
VICTIM OF -BANDITS -DES
FAT ALITTES OF- BANK ROB
BERY.A310UNT TO tttAti
Some visualization of the terrific property loss resulting from the Santa Barbara earthquake may be obtained from th'is picture of upper State street,
the principal business artery of the southern city. The search for bodies In the wreckage of the Arlington Hotel was in progress when this picture
was taken. The remain? of ih$ quirch 0f Qur Lady, of Sorrows on upper tat j street may be seen, .. t
TACOMA, Wash..' July 2 With
the death of William RoserBBCk-
ley citizen shot by bandits dnrlns
an attempted robbery of yie'Buk-'
ley State bank j?terday Tn Vhlch
coin roooers were killed he caa-
auies or uie.atiairtonisht;atood
at .three deaa - and one J wounded.
The bodies of the two desperadoes'
stni he in the packley morgue.
unclaimed and utidenttllecL - .
' Funeral services' for Rose will
be held Monday, He
I widow an$ 9 apes. ,
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