The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, August 28, 1925, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextU 0. iiAD.W UaLNLNG, AUGUST VJ23 ; f 1 f : i i-! 1 I' 1 ; I ' r '" " 1 L.i.i!,!U2,.gd Wat wa today f Biff Program Is ArranowU'l for Fourteenth Street - Grounds for; AH Day t 1, ' Will bo in Salem on Saturday - , - V - - 1 An, all-day program of sports and games will feature the closing here Friday of the two city play grounds at Lincoln school and on Fourteenth street.' The . Friday program will be. a combined affair to be held at the Fourteenth street grounds. An invitation has been extended to the general public to attend the closing program which will be well illustrative of the .activities that hare been carried on during the summer. .The playground is lo cated, on Fourteenth street,. next to Mill creek and southeast of the Parriab Junior high schooL f The program " for the' day fol lows:. :' -VV. ' 10.. to 11 a. m Exhibition of games. Including prisoner's ball, artillery ball, and bat ball. v : ; .11' a. mT to 1 p. m: Swimming and picnic, especially byttie child ren from Lincoln, who are expect ed, ;' for the tnost s part, ' to bring their lunches with them and stay throughout the day:1 " ""1 p. ra.- Dress up parade. v " IS 45 p. m. to 3 J 45 p m.Races, to be divided into three classifica tions. Both the boys and girls will be divided Into three classifica lions -midgets, juniors and inter mediates. The midgets' races will be 30 yards in length; the junior races 50 yards,, and the interme diates 65 yatds. Boys' and girls will race separately. Following the foot races will be staged a bi cycle race for boys, and a sack race for' girls. .3 p. m- -Water events, includ lhg swimming, free style, for the separate classifications, a diving exhibition and " scow Joust. ? The scow Jousts will be similar to a canoe war, each team seeking to u pset the other's boat by means of V long pole padded at the end, All water events wilt be staged in the creek that runs., beside .the playground. : I It is estimated that a total at tendance of nearly. 10,000 has been .realized at the two play grounds' this season. The figure is compiled by adding together the total attendance; each individ ual' day, and Includes some single children 30. or 40 times. On the whole, however, the : Fourteenth street playgrounds has seen a con stant change In the' personnel of children attending. It is stated by Leslie Sparks."''; "Almost any' day I 'go down there I find about half of theboys are new ,,r said Sparks. He has charge, of the boys at the Fourteenth street' grounds. Miss Grace Snook has charge of the girls. " ':' " ' " - Various, athletic events bare been . staged at both playgrounds throughout the season. ' At Lin coln, tennis and other tourna . ments bare been ' held ynder the direction of Miss Dant Itohbins, who has charge of both boys and glrli at the grounds. Robert Hill took 'the tennis tournament, win ning over Delbert Viesco 8-3. 6-3 in the finals. In the semi-finals Delbert JV'lesco won from. Louis Schrfebner by default, and Robert Hill"; won over Paul Tyler by , a score of 6-1,' 6-1. . ..'.'. l' . , Grand prizes have been put up by Ideal 'sporting goods stores tor the winners la tomorrow's events. jnaklns purposes only, of all items of property comprising the Eugene Street Railway used and useful in the service of-the public and thus constituting a developed street railway utility, was, on December 31. 1933, 1541,000.". Uud l',iLL Left 111 lllffflll FILLS t . .-JC.J 'Jever hear an elephant broad cast? -, : '?"?' ' -T I To watch 'Dolly," the two-year-old baby with the Ringling Broth ers and Barnum & Bailey circus trumpet before the "inike" is even more fun than listening in.? Geo. Denman, boss of the big herd, uses a very simple method. . He shows thelittle shaver a. carrot and,then drops the tid-bit behind the magic disc. After which Dolly talks un til she gets the carrot, j While the big show was at the old Madison Square Garden In New York this spring a test was made to see which of the animals registered most satisfactorily for fans. Each of the 43 elephants was led before the microphone. Albert. John, Babe and Romeo all being old and rather sedate, mere ly grunted and then returned to their respective bales of. hay. " But the twelve babies were all willing to air their views on circus . life That seemed quite - understand able, since j being merely young sters , of the jungle they entered into the, fun as readily as then play at "London Bridge Is Falling Down" in the' circus rings.' The seals registered best of all. probably because their voices are most penetrating. "Big Nep" was persuaded to play the solo on the electric piano, which he executes as an accompaniment for the com panies of nigh senool horses " on the'big show program. "Shagg, the giant bruin who drives his own automobile , in . performance, . ap proached the "mike J', . gave i couple of loud "sniffs" and. honk ed vigorously.' Upon being shown the lofty towers which, they scale in their act, Alf Loyal's - police dogs yelped with Impatience and so broadcasted in very able fash ion. - -1 : ' . . There will; be no broadcasting locally, but all the various sounds that go to make up the circus will be in full swing when the great combined circus comes to - exhibit here next Saturday, August 29. British Lords Defeat Living Farm Wage Bill , LONDON". The Marquess of Lincolnshire, owner of 23.000 acres, surprised bis political friends as well as foes by pleading recently In the house of lords for bit bill designed to giro a "living wage" to. farm hands. Many of the members, land-owners them selves, twitted . the '-. 80-yea.r-oId marquess tor bis sympathies with the working man and his cause. but his reply was: "Tut, tut I was one myself two or three gen erations ago.: " -; The. Marquess of Lincolnshire said he knew what was a living wage on the land in England, and he made it plain that be practiced what he preached, for his farm bands t-cre' receiving 4 6 ' shillings week, considerably - more than made necessary by law. As a re sult of bis consideration, the mar quess explained, only 19 families out of all th03Q bundreds on his vast estates bad left the land dur ing the-last 60 years. '.'Only six hours have been glv en to discussion cf agriculture in the. house of lords since 1905 said the marquess, and I consider It more than a national scandal; it is a national crime and. a na tional disgrace. The bill was defeated by a sub stantial majority. . alowed. In ' common with other I public uses,k the 'right of use of the public streets. " Such a con tention that the publle ehould pre sumably pay a- return upon the right' or gift extended by it, does not merit the serious consider ation of 'k rate' regulatory body. "However, the railway" company is not alone in its. conception that the franchise or privilege to oper ate in the streets has a value, for the city of Salem requires a fran chise tax to be paid in return-for the privilege or occupancy of the city streets, j Such 'a requirement has little Justification if executed after the state assumed regula tory powers over its ' public utili ties. It means, in effect, that the rider upon the street car indirect ly, pays for the privilege of use of the 1 public streets, while others moving over! such, streets are un taxed.' We Woulf recommend that at such future time: as feasible, the requirement for franchise tax of utilities be rescinded and the users of the utility service there by relieved from the payment for this cost of : service, which is in consistent ., with our American 'From the foregoing presenta STREET RAILROAD PROPERTY VALUED Btandard8 of falr.play " (Cotm froi ,1.) would' have been received by the peller.'tjhere is applied" various fac tors until there 1 built up a claim for value, amounting to 351, ,9Mz.';' --V--; - :'' ' ."Tbfscommisslon cannot coun tenance the' acceptance of the ap plication of factors which would so Increase value, as exemplified in tnls- case. 3 The' item "under con tfideratlon Is not a parcel of right-of-way "for whicb condemnation proceedings are necessary, nor is it. the only parcel jbfjand swhich would serve the railway com pany's' purpose,' as Is very often the Instance where, rights-of-way must be"secured. . .' "At the time this site for car barn was purchased the seller was in competition;, with th owner of cvery;ofher parcel, of land of the same "size and similarly Jocated from one to two blocks away from the street railway lines. . It is true thai, the location : in . Salem at a point relatively near the Junction point of -the Jlnes has a conveni ence value to. the railway com pany, because, of this fact. How- - ever, there .are , and were many other tracts of- lands with loca tions .equally advantageous.. With these facts in mind the commis sion will not apply factors in ex vess of the normal overhead al lowances for the value of car barn lands. . .'. . : - "Another feature which,, nas 1 novelty of being entirely new, is the claim for franchise values based upon the number of square feet' of street ; space requited for ; passage of the cars over the' pub lie streets' and at: a rate of value equivalent to that of the adjoin ing property fronting tho atreet. - "It is the commission's concep tion that a franchise is a mutual agreement betm'een the public and an agency ' undertaking- public rervlcei" whcTeby ' the? medium. i - CRITIC IS n E Acquittal of Alleged Liquo Transporters Brings Note hrom Wilbur maintenance question. On the basis of - state figures for 1924 the suspension would af fect 828 mines operated by -135 companies, controlling altogether 272 collieries. The maintenance problem involved is 3iown la the fact that 3,362 pumps must be kept ln continuous operation to prevent the mines being flooded. Less than a dozen of the cor porations and only three of the ten aatiracHe counes . produca the bulk of the hard, coal shipped. Lusern. Lackawanna and Schuyl kill counties accounted for about 67.00. 000 gross tons of the 1934 gross tonnage of 77,929,249. Hartwig Refuses Re-election . Salem Man Nominated .for Vice President MARSHFIELD, Ore., Aug. 27. j (By Associated Press.) After nominations form whicb the exe cutive heads of the organisation will be chosen by vote of the mem bership on December 15 and after unanimously choosing Klamath Falls as the place for the 1926 meeting, the twenty-third annual convention of Oregon state feder- tion of labor came to a close here. today. The surprise of the convention occured just before adjournment when President Otto R.1 Hartwig of Pdrtland. arose and declined to accept the nomination which bad just been offered him ' for the ninth 'consecutive time. He was followed by E. J. Stack, Portland, who has faeen secretary of the or ganization for 16. years and who also declined-the nomination for another term. Eleven laws and amendments were written Into the by-laws and constitution of the organization during the four-day session. Thomas Hunt, Portland; D. E. NIckerson. Joseph Reed, Bert Slee- man and C. O. Taylor, all of Port land, were nominated for presi dent; J. S. Haughey, Portland; Harry H. Hill, Salem and Richard Whttty, Marshfleld, for vice pres ident and C. O. Taylor, G. A. Von Schrtltz, and Ben Osborne, Port land, for secretary. tion : of the several measures of value the commission will deter mine the value of the fixed capital of the-utility,' used and useful as of December 31, 1923, to be the sum of 3560,000. "At the time of the hearing It was proposed by the Southern Pa cific company , to abandon ; the Summer street and the Seven teenth street car lines, the value of which is included In the above mentioned amount and to substi tute for such fixed lines of trans portation automobile busses which would serve approximately the same districts as served by these car lines. This 'abandonment has occurred subsequent to the dates of these appraisals and the fixed capital of 1560,000 should be re duced by an amount of 334,000 and in lieu thereof, the added in vestment in motor bus equipment be substituted. . And the Southern Pacific company is hereby re quired . in its j next annual report to show the exact amount credited to fixed capital for the retirement of these lines.".. ; In a second order today the commission' ruling on the property value of the Eugene Street Rail . way held that "the value, for rate 17. WASHINGTON, . Aug. 27. (By Associated Press.) Lieutenant Andrew L. Gordon of the marine corps was admonished by Secretary Wilbur recently for his conduct as prosecuting officer in the recent court martial proceedings which resulted in acquittal of two navy nurses," Miss Ruth M. Anderson and Miss Catherine Glancy on charges of bringing liquor illegal ly Into the United States on the transport Klttery. The secretary took this action, he said, because of Lieutenant Gordon's failure to cross examine Miss Anderson and present to the court a statement he bad In his possession. The leter will be filed in bis record, . " ". Z The findings were disapproved recently by Mr. Wilbur, who beld they were not justified, but Inas much as a court martial acquittal eliminates the possibility of a new trial, his action has no punitive effect. - , j In the letter admonishing Lieu tenant Gordon, Secretary Wilbur declared that, "It is perfectly ap parent that there was no effort up on your part to establish, the guilt of the accused." False Top in Trunk jound Storing Place for Liquor VANCOUVER,. B. C, Aug. 27. Customs officials in making an examination of a truck for valua tion because it had not been pro perly cleared at the border, 15 miles' east of New Westminster, discovered a false top where 120 bottles of liquor were concealed. The truck was owned by C. M. McKenna who was convicted of illegal entry into the United States several weeks ago, but the false top was overlooked by the American authorities.' IRISH FRUIT CROP A FAILURE DUBLIN The fruit crop this year has proved almost a com plete failure, the Free State de partment of agriculture reports. The yield is the smallest in many years. COAL MINE STRIKE ORDER IS ISSUED ' (Continued from pace 1.) prepared to hear of such a move as yet. Their Impression seemed to be that they were being disci plined for opposition to the de mands of miners made on the : - SMiEiiOF USED fililfnKi FROM OUR USED FURNITURE DEPARTMENT, BUY NOW Convenient Terms Extraordinary Values Big Savings WE MUST HAVE THE ROOM Below are just a few of this sale's Irresistible Values Study them Solid Oak Extension Table 48" I round top. good value... i. $22.50 Square Oak Table, 4 8' square ' ClCfift 10 ft. extension ldUU I ' ; : r Round top Extension Table . QC 42" top 37Od 36x45" top Extension q Qf Table vJJD ..$2.75' $4 .. $35 ' $50 Used Kitchen Cabinet : Breakfast Tables finished and unfinished . . . . . Used IToosier Kitchen Cabinets ......... Complete Used Library Tables ! like new . i Used Dressers, in Oak and Ivory Used Dressing Table3 triple mirrors ; Iron Beds full size . . 1 Dining Chairs,' each Commodes,, each i Small Tables, each $11.95 $6.45 10 $18.50 .... $15 w $35 . $14.95 l; $26 .... $l,50lo$9 85c i'0 $3 $1.00 ..$1.00 Bed Springs, full size, each ... ...$1.00 id Writing Desk. $10.95 to $18 Combination Book Cases and in full quartered Oak ; Sewing Machines in good order and good makes $9.85 ,0 $35 .Kr:..u......... $2.45 ,o$i2 'Large selection of Buffets in Walnut and good value . . . . $18.75 lo $4.50 Bed Davenports In Imitation Leather and Genuine Leather, good Oak ends. First class bed in large and small size,. marked i $29.50 " $44.50 i Child's Crib 27x54. Ivory finish, in good re pair, 'including full Cotton C1Q QC Mattress dlOaOD ' Used Baby Carriage in Reed and ln ' ; $17.50 w $27 : Used. Axminster Rug 9x12 size good repair and newly cleaned Another Axminster Rug 9x12 size Used Body Brussel Rug 9x12 size Couches In Velour and Leather $20 .....$12.50 $10 $8.75 10 $14 You can take advantage of our charge account service with terms arranged to suitv your convenience. So don't let anything keep you from this sale tomorrow and Sat urday and all of next week. j j ' . j AM Every Value' Exactly as Represented . .i IV FM1T1M CO 340 COURT STREET FRUIT RATE PROBED YAKIMA ' Aug. 27. Members I of the Yakima Traffic and Credit association ' will meet Monday to make plans for contesting a pro- Y posed freight rale on fruit,.it,was announced tonight. If the rate the rdads are -petitioning for should be granted It would mean more than half 's million dollars added to . the annual transporta tion bill of the valley, it was said. .r filter;. V . - J. t ' rv A i j 'i.i nmsW :: g a : . 'j . .. I -r " i j '.CD ) ' '. I'. V . j--" : r u ' fr V-- i21 SOUTH COM! lEtlCIAL Specials: for Saiwdlay - All 15c Bread 12c ... . ! ... . .- Rye, Whole Wheat, Raisin and Honey & Milk, ' fresh, hot Bread, at 9 a.m. ' ' daily All Cookies 2 Dozen for 25c All large, fresh Cookiesyour choice Light Fruit Cake 20c Each JUvt full of nuts, raisins and cherries, with a rich 'spice flavor. A cake that " is sure' to" please. " ? Quality Supreme Our Motto . '-; - ! Free Indian, War Bonnet ' CALL I o) HOP OF T C. O. D. Orders . Given Prompt Attention FLICKERS TAME NOTICE HESE WEEK-END PRICES Specials for Friday and Saturdayi GROCERIES Soap' Crystal White", 6 bars ......... Creme Oil, - 4 ' bars ......... 25c 25c Pork and Beans medium,' jq' . 4 s Campbell's, 5 cans Corn Flakes Kellogg's, 3 pkgs 29c . Butter Best Creamery,. . per H. ......... 52c Pure Cane Sugar '10 pound CO ack OiJC : . . Salmon ; Medium red No. 1 as can,. 3 cans ....... frC at. ; Peaberry. Coffee per pound, 39c; 01 '1 C 3-lb. sack ...... vllw Blue 4-lb. . Flour . Ribbon. CI QC sack ..... vitWd Snowfall, (hard, wheat) 49-fb. sack $2.15 01 ACk wheat) 4 5-lb. sack $liV No. pail Compound 89c Rolled Oats 0 pound J "" sack 48c PeetV Granulated 2 Pkgs. for . . . 69c BARGAIN BASEMENT SPECIALS 500 j Blue Denim claimed hats, ; Basement ., re- army ...5c CanTas Glores for Men, Q women and children.. C Summer weight . shirt and drawers., 39c Women's Kahkl COTerallj . . . . . 98 c Children's heary san dals, red and blue.. 79c Men's heary all leather out ing fho"e. no" Basement ylvO Leather lined coats for good wear, . . qo' Basement $dmJO Canvas white shoes V oxfords. Basement 49c Large heavy white cups and saucers, regular 23c, Basement . .'. 15c Men's blue work shirts. Basement .. light weight 49c Men's black and brown cot ton socks. Basement 10c Boy's Blue Denim Overalls, Basement. 89c Felt Slippers, leather bottom 49c Women's Oxfords 'all Leather. . . $1.69 Men's heavy Blue - Denim Overalls. riveted ..$1.19 C.O. D. 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