The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, December 21, 1926, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textit BreedeieD ib jlVieet Tom District There Ard pniy Fddr Days Left to Add to the Christmas GHeef Fund arid to Give Food Fdi the IMeddy WEATHER FORECAST: Rains; fresh and strong west and northwest winds on the coast. Maxinium yesterday, 46; mini mum. 39; river, 7.0; rainfall, .45; atmos phere, cloudy; wind, southeast. : . SHOP EARLY: Only four shopping days remain, before Christmas. ..Dd your shop-i pins early and avoid the rush. You will find a, new delight in this early shopping, and also you'll bring- happiness to the merchants and the postoffice clerks. VENTY-SIXTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1926 PRICE FIVE CENTS SE W1 v 30IEIEN ICE ENGULFS FRAILHGH Unemployed Men Sing Over Prospect of Work as Disaster Occurs CALLS FOR AID IGNORED Investigations Started to Discover IUame for Tragedy and to Determine If It Might Hare Been Avoided NEW YORK, Dec. 20. (AP) A pitiful platoon of the army of the unemployed set forth across the Hudson river today, singing in high hopes, but evil fortune dog ged their path and the Icy waters engulfed them. Of the 62 who left Manhattan, 30 were known tonight to hare been drowned, seven were reported missing and 25 were under medical care for submersion. A hundred or more men, white men and negroes, out of work in the sadest season of the year to be without funds, answered a help wanted advertisement of the Spen-cer-Kellogg & Sons, Edgewater, V. J., plant early today at the 95th street pier. A cold wind blowing off the ice choked river and this was no crowd to have fur coats men on whom fortune had long since ceased to smile, many of them' gaunt fellows who asked only a chance to live and were willing to work hard for the chance. They were men of spirit, too, for instead of cowering in' corners from the biting wind they stamp ed about and sang and daneed as they waited for the launch which te 'ivertlsement had said would titf them across the river. itae launch came, the Linseed King, a frail 42 footer Of 10" foot beam. Captain John Rohweider of Jersey City, called to them to climb aboard. "Hurry it up boys," he' said, ' there's two loads here and I've got to get back for the second load. I ought to be over there ( Coatianad en pare 7.) H AUGEN FAVORS BILL OF M'NARY FARM RELIEF COMPANION MEASURE GIVEN HOUSE Split on Cotton Fee May Draw South and Mlddlevrest in Fight WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (AP) Terminating 10 days of uncertain ty as to his attitude ,on newt farm relief proposals, Chairman Haugen of the house agriculture commit tee today endorsed the new Mc Nary bill and. virtually unchang ed .introduced it as a companion measure In the house. His meas ure, like that of Senator McNary, republican, Oregon, provides for an equalization fee on five princi pal commodities including cotton, and this is expected to precipitate a controversy between Haugen and Representative Fulmer, democrat. South Carolina, who has intro duced the McNary bill modified to exempt application of the fee on cotton until two years after en actment. Haugen. who i an Iowa republi can, described his measure as "the best thought pf the farm leaders all over the country," and said hearings on it would commence January 6, with prospects of a re port to the house shortly there after. "There would be no reason for drawing out the hearings for weeks," Haugen said, "because the subject matter has been developed so often." There were indications, however that the difference of Opinion on application of the equalization fee to cotton might draw democrats and middlewesterri republicans iy" a serious fight jnpepresentative Fulmer is unal Vbly opposed to Immediate ap plication and Representative As- well, of Louisiana, ranking demo crat on the agricultural commit tee, declared that not One. member" from . cotton growing sections would dare to vote for tho bill", unless cotton is; exempt' for two i years. . ,t ' . On the other hand J Haugen, as .well as some' senate' farm leaders, consider postponement of the fee : would amount to a subsidy on cot Madame Butterfly" Wins Leading Role Played by Tamaki Muira Who Won Hearts of People by Her Wonderful Singing, Throughout Presentation of Opera BY AUDRED BUNCH Salem played hostess to a group of great guests last night when the Manhattan Opera company of New York and the Pavley Oukrainsky ballet stopped at the Elsinore theatre for an incomparable engagement. Madame Muira, the peerless Japanese prima donna, was here; and Andreas Pavley was here to conduct his gorgeous and tragic ballet. It was hard to tell at the close of the two-fold performance who was realy happiest, -the audience or the artists. The beautiful "Madame Butterfly" in her dressing room down the COUNCIL PASSES ZONING STATUTE 400 CITIES MAKE USE OF SIM ILAR ORDINANCES Members of Commission Praised for Excellent Work Done in Past The city council last night passed the zoning ordinance pre pared by the city zoning commis sion, after a public hearing at which only one man voiced pro test to the ordinance. The people of Salem are not yet fully aware of the ordinance's import, according to the lone ob jector, who asked that action on the bill be deferred. There are now more than 400 cities, with a combined popula tion of more than 17,000,000 persons that now have such ordi nances, said Alderman W. W. Rosebraugh, a member of the commission, in a brief speech be fore the vote was taken on the bill. "The . city zoning commission deserves a great deal of praise, and especially does the president, Lewis Campbell, deserve it." Mr. Rosebraugh stated. "These men have made this law at a cost of little more than 1 50. This is the same task Jot which the previous commission, the one that resigned, wanted at least 15000. These men have worked literally day and night on the job." Mayor Giesy made a brief speech In which he seconded the remarks made by Mr. Rosebraugh. Mr. Campbell also spoke briefly, statin gthaf the commission was not a one man affair, and that the other members deserved as much praise or more than he himself did. The public hearing last night was deferred from a meeting a week ago at which a quorum of council members was lacking. N0BILE CENTER OF RIOT Antl-Facisti Demonstration Held by SOO in New Jersey PATTERSON. N. J., Dec. 20. (AP) An armored car equipped with riot guns and tear gas bombs and manned by 25 police reserves were dispatched to the east high school tonight when General Urn berto Nobile, designer of the Norge the first airship to fly over the north .pole, became the storm cen ter of an anti-fascisti demonstra tion there as he was about to be gin a speech. More than 500 persons stormed the doors of the school and met with resistance on the part of the 1500 audience, composed princi pally of Italian-Americans. YESTERDAY in Washington AMoeUtad PreM O The house voted to restore the one-cent rate on private postcards. Senator Heflin of Alabama again assailed the Harding administra tion. Senator Harrison of Mississippi called for an immediate tax re duction. A Consideration ion of tnb rivers and harbors bill was senate.3 continued by the Cyrus E. Woods, fbrmcr diplo mat, was, nominated to be an in terstate Commerce commissioner. . ; J; ' The senate judiciary committee was directed to investigate charg es that a bread trust exists. - Repeal pf restrictions otf the manufacture' of medicinal whiskey was advocated by Senator Hawes or Missouri. - ' ' f . j 'Approval was given " by ; the house naval committee to the Butler bill to authorize construc tion, fif- tH Wghl cxttjserjfe . of Large Audience back stairway off stage was bub- bling with gladness when we found her busily attacking her theatrical gloss with cold cream. Beside her, In his dog-house, fash ioned like an over-sized lunch-box was Jiggs, the famous prima donna's constant companion and pet. "With that name he is truly American," we suggested. "Oh, yes," she answered in her soft, unaccountably sweet voice. "He couldn't be a Japanese dog, he doesn't like rice." Madame Muira reiterated her one message to Sa lem, gratitude for much kind ness, happiness over such a beau tiful theatre in which to have played, and love for her own countrymen who remembered her so lavishly with flowers. The opera itself concerns an American lieutenant; an ambassa dor to intercede; an immortally beautiful Chinese maiden. The American marries the maiden; de serts her; returns with his Ameri can wife, and breaks here heart, so of course there was a great story to hear. So poigantly beau tiful was the prima donna's voice that her story was too real for the curtain to alter the spell. Stand ing in her wedding garment at the window facing the sea on which her husband was returning, but not to her, she exemplified all the pathos that the world has ever known. Ada Paggi as Su zuki. Cho - Cho - San's servant, racked one's heart with the ftene- (Contiamad on oga 3.) BANDITS ATTACK RANCH Several Hundred Horses and Thousands of Cattle Stolen DEL RIO. TexaB, Dec. 20. (AP) The Cleote ranch, 90 miles from the border, owned by Brit ish interests, was attacked by bandits and several hundred horses and thousands of cattle were driven away, said reports re ceived here today. Soldiers at Villa Acuna, oppo site Del Rio, and Piedras Negras, opposite Eagle Pass were active. Additional troops arrived at Villa Acuna Monday. -''' S " 'I' I' V V y nH MARKET PUS Ratcliff Discusses Several Similar Ones Proposed Some Time Ago WANTS WORKABLE IDEA Second Letter Goes to . Heart of Prune Trouble in State, Co operative Plan Sought That Will Work Salem, Dec, 18, 1926. Editor Statesman: Since handing the article yes terday on a prune price fixing plan, I have seen the article pub lished In the Capital Journal which is W. F. Drager's plan. Be sides these and the California plan it is well know among prune men that Mr. R. H. Kipp of the mar keting department of the Portland Chamber of Commerce and Mr. C. J. Hurd of the marketing depart ment of OAC have been actively (Contianad oa pact 4.) SMITH MURDERED HEFLIN BELIEVES ALABAMA SENATOR ASSAILS HARDING REGEME Inside Story of Fall-Dohcny Oil Trial Would "Open Eyes of Nation" WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (AP) Unlimbering another attack on the Harding administration, Sena tor Heflin, democrat, Alabama, told the senate today that Attor ney General Daugherty's friend, Jess Smith, was murdered "be cause he knew too much," and that It would "open the eyes of the nation" if the inside story of the recent Fail-Doheny oil con spiracy acquittal here ever were told. Secretary Mellon was pictured by the Alabaman as receiving funds collected by Smith from "brewers and bootleggers" in pay ment of advances to the Harding campaign fund. In all, he said, the treasury secretary advanced $5,000,000 to the republican na tional committee and Smith was delegate to get back $2,000,000 of it from the bootlegger trade (Continued on pat DAD'S CHRISTMAS "SOCK!" RABBIT BREEDERS TO HOLD MEETING USE FOR FOOD AND FUR IN UNITED STATES GROWS Gathering Scheduled for Tuesday in Chamber of Commerce Rooms Editor, Statesman: I am prompted at this time to write you concerning the advance ment of a comparatively new in dustry for the Salem district. I refer to the raising of rabbits for their meat and fur. I shall only speak of it briefly here, calling at tention to the formation of an as sociation to foster the interests of the industry in this vicinity. Later I shall be glad to write a more lengthy article concerning it more in detail. All breeders of rabbits are being asked to meet at the Salem Cham ber of Commerce Wednesday, De cember 22, at 8 p. mi This is the third meeting of some of the breeders since the state. We hope to perfect a working organization at this time to further the in terests of the industry in all its branches. Some 16 or 18 known breeders have been notified, but a cordial invitation is extended to every one interested to attend this meeting. The use of rabbits for food and fur is growing by leaps and bounds throughout the United States, and (Continued from page 5.) GASOLINE PRICE ADVANCES CENT STANDARD AND GENERAL STA TIONS BOOST PRICE Other Companies Had Not Heard of Rise at Late Hour Last Night The price of gasoline in Stand ard and General Petroleum sta tions will be one cent more in Salem when they open this morn ing and will conform with a simi lar boost effective along the coast today, according to orders re ceived by the managers last night. Managers of other oil concerns up until a late hour had received no word of an advance and indi cated that the price would remain the same until orders were re ceived. At the time of the cut in gaso line prices a few months ago all oil companies made the reduction during the day and it iB expected the advance in price will be gen eral. PORTLAND, Dec. 20 (AP) The local branches of the Stand ard Oil company and the General (Ooatlauad oa pag 8.) REUS FMOR U GUDE SITE I Final Vote Five to Four With Pendleton Losing Out, 12 Applications THREE SITES OFFERED Selection of Site for New State Tuberculosis Hospital in Eastern Oregon Comes Next Week Following Report La Grande becomes the home of the new state normal school ac cording to a five to four vote of the board of regents yesterday in Salem. The decision came follow ing a tour of 12 towns in the east ern part of the state by the board of regents. Many favorable sites were offered the state by each town. The new normal school comes as a result of a measure, which met the approval of the peo ple of Oregon at the last election. The final vote was five to four in favor of La Grande over Pen dleton. Those voting for La Grande as the location were E. E. Bragg of Salem, J. H. Fuller of Ashland, Frank Miller of Albany, Governor Walter Pierce of Salem and R. R. Turner, state superin tendent of public instruction. Reg ents who voted for Pendleton on the final ballot were W. C. Bryant of Moro, George A. Hartman of Pendleton, C. L. Starr of Portland and Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state. The location of the new normal school was determined through a process of elimination. There or iginally were 12 applicants for the school, of which four were elimin ated from consideration early in the meeting. These included Ar lington, 'Weston, Redmond and Elgin. There was no discussion by the regents with relation to the merits of these applicants. Oxr the second elimination .ballot La Grande received nine votes, Mil ton one vote, Pendleton eight votes, Bend one vote. Hood River one vote and The Dalles seven (Continued on pa-a 7.) FISH COMPANIES MERGE Alaska Salmon Canneries Involved In MiUlon Dollar Deal SEATTLE, Dec. 20 (AP) Consolidation of the Baranof and Franklin Packing companies of Alaska, representing approximate ly $1,000,000, with headquarters here, was announced today Dy Lee H. Wakefield, following filing of ineorooration papers at. Olympla, Wash. Wakefield is to be presi dent of the concern which will be known as the Wakefield Fisheries. The Baranof company has a plant at Red Bluff bay, and the Franklin concerp has canneries on Saw Mill bay of Prince William sound, Shuyak straits, Izhut bay and at Seldovia. Wakefield said the merger will greatly facilitate handling of business. STORM, SWEEPS COAST Bureau Predict Unsettled Weath er for Western States SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20 (AP) A storm area which formed during the past 24 hours as far south as the San Francisco over the Gulf of Alaska, advanced bay region tonight. The United States weather bureau tonight predicted unsettled weather in the western states with heavy rains in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Nevada' tomorrow. Fair weather is promised Cali fornia on Wednesday with gener ally clearing weather elsewhere. Southwest storm signals are being displayed at all stations in Wash ington and Oregon. 8 INJURED IN COLLISION California Car and North Bend Machine Hit Near Eugene EUGENE Dec. 20 (AP) Eight persons were injured when two cars collided on the highway near Eugene today. E. E. Skip- worth, wife and two sons and one daughter of Tulare. CaJ werosin one car and A.' Fidler and his sis ter. Mrs. A. Martin, and little ston of North Bend, Ore,, were in the other. were , hadly bruised and: cut but none was seriously hart, the physicians said. They were all brought to s hospital in Eugene, 1 The Statesman Christmas Cheef Fiind Only four days remain in which to Join forces with Santa Claus.ln his efforts to bring Joy arid happiness into the world. ; The Statesman and the Salvation Army are cooperating with Santa Clans1 and every article of food or clothing contributed and every cent of m6ney go to those, who might not receive anything on Christmas day. Do not put it off anotbier min- . ate, bat jodn the Christmas heer crowd now. Krerioualy acknowledged .S7ft.50 Vh 2.00 At friend 100 Tbo. Fleming 1.00 A printar : l.OO A iriend 2.00 ' ONLY FOUR DAYS REMAIN TO HELP DOX'tT? IflSSAPPOIXT CHILD REN OX CHRISTMAS Clothing and Food Go to Salvation Army for Distribution to' Poor Only four days and Christmas will be here. On that day there will be two classes of people. The first, possessing those things which bring joy at this season of the year, will find great pleasure in the day, while the second class will be downhearted because they lack the necessary things to bring Christmas cheer into their homes. Those who have plenty aaid think they are enjoying the day very much would find greater happi ness if they would contribute something to bring Joy to those who lack in Christmas cheer. Santa Claua is working day and night in his eCforts to reach every one in the community. He enlisted the aid of The ' Statesman and the Salvation Army early in the month and then the Christmas Chaser fund was started. Those desiring to give money to this fund should bring or send it to the Christmas Cheer editor of The Statesman. Every cent will be used to make someone happy on Chrisjtmas day. Those, who desire to contribute clothing and food, should leave such articles with the t Salvation Army and everything will be given away to needy families. The time grows short and the list of needy people ; and little yodngsters, who really should re ceive something, is getting longer every day. Santa Just. must get down every chimney, but to do it he must have your help. Think of the little kiddies, who may arise on Christmas morn and find an empty stocking. Think of the great disappointment in store tor them on that morning. Such things should not be and they won't if you'll give a little toward the Christmas Cheer work. Join the Cheer crowd at once by sending in a contribution to the Christmas Cheer fund. ' COURT HEARS ARGUMENT Removal of .County Seat (o Med ford Under Question, ' The state supreme court yester day heard' arguments in manda mus proceedings filed by citizens of Medford to compel the county judge of Jackson county bo issue a proclamation authorizing the re moval .of the courthouse from Jacksonville to Medford. The voters' of . Jackson county recently authorized' the change of location, of the courthouse, but proceedings later were' filed at tacking the petitions' for the elec tion. These petitions subsequent ly were held to be legal by the su preme court, 1 ' It wis said', that the county judge has refdaed to issue the proclamation hased on the re turns of the election pending de termination by the supreme court of certain legal questions involved fn ; the courthouse controversy. CARiOL OfrFErlED THRONfe Ferdinand Tired "of Wearing, the Crown; TVante to Abdicate PARIS," Dec. 20.-i-(AP)King Ferdinand's prodigal son; Prince Carol, may go back to Rumania, to be given tho fatted calf in the shape pf his. country's throne, which he renounced last January. TheTting, sic in hody ahfr tired of the task of wearing the crown, wishes to abdicate the"; throne and have Carol succeed to his scepter. This wish he made known at a recent seoret council at Bucharest, it is learned here on high author-, ity, ..v:, - Carol Is taking life east at Neu illy and has not seized eagerly at ihis now lavUatjog ia ccjue baclu llOilfl POST CHEATED BY CITY B Permission! fiVarWetf South ern Pacific td Vacate Track on Sduth 12th. MANY PETITIONS HEARD Petitions Allowed for Improving Several Street, School Board' Deeded' Tract of Land for City's Use The city council last night passed an ordinance permitting the Southern Pacific to vacate lis track on South 12th street line. and to cover the tracks With a coating of asphalt pavement. Other ordinances passed includ ed one for the vacation of an alley in Block 17, Not) Hill annex, one creating the post of moving pic ture censor and giving It to the police, and another giTing the fire chief a raise in salary. i A request of T. A. Livesley that the council allow a claim for the cost of a sewer built by the First National bank to serve its new building was disallowed, except the item of $20.50 incurred by the bank in constructing a catch basin. ... . , A report of the city park hoard on the financial status of the city auto park was received and read. A report of the special commit tee on investigating a " proposed purchase of the city -waterworks was adopted with four-dissenting votes. The report suggested 'that the matter be submitted to the voters at a special election to; fca held as soon as-possible. ' "Bill ud for first reading last L night included' ordinances for im provemerit of Lee street, from (Continued oa psr-J-) . WETJEN'S POEM TAKEN BY POST WRITER OF SEA. STORIES gCORES OVER CRITICS Papers Throughout State Assail Salem Man for Simpson Criticism- ' a : Albert Richard Wet Jen,' Salem writer who recently called Samuel Simpson, author of "The Golden Gated West," a "fourth-rate poet,' and who has as a result been the recipient of scores of tirades In many papers of the" state, yester day' scored over the -critics '.who call him" "no poet, when his poem, "I Wish I'd Been In the War," was accepted for publica tion by the Saturday Evening Post. . ' t - Criticism of Wet jen f or. his article on Simpson has been grow ing more acute each' time it ap pears afresh, and In Sunday's Ore gon Journal appears the (follow ing by Robert Swayze, intimating that Wetjen knows no more about Tmntnr than a sjYiirl lm! ' i ' "Albert Richard Wetjen, spin- ner of yards, has attained more notoriety for his senseless and un- ' warranted attack on Sam Simpson as a poet than he will ever attain through the medium of his .own ' mpdlocrlty- Nearly every paper in the state has taken a crack, at Wetjen. not seriously, but as an object fitlfor; ridicule. The lad has evidently never spent a sober The Golden-Gated West, or -e never would have penned the rot -, which appeared in ; the' ' Albany Democrat-Herald several weeks ago under his name'. The editors of the paper have righteously re pudiated the article as something! that, was slipped over "sqrely" ,on misplaced trust,. The .boy should read some elementary book on the poetic principle, and: then, spendt several months trying to absorb! the beauty found in Simpson's poetry. On every page of that volume are lines of the sheerest poetic beauty, . Wetjen will per haps never be able to comprehend' it, for he is in all likllhood a poet aster 'who knows no better than to rhvme 'scieen" with ' dream. Of such compact Ignorance Is, the would-be poet made. ; ' : Wetjen is no novice at poetry, although he has gained his nation r" al fame as a writer of sea Stories. Before he began writing sea tales, he had several poems published In' various magazines throughout tho country, . . , " , ' . ..... I.