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511:1' -CibVi' LF'D':'Xf"l- Q?.,;-,r-;: :Mo,.;nnnrrn; rr- - t aw 4 J If ho -!o;;i ' BiuUcIiKa'-cdord -lo'Couino to 05,000,000 . Zlnrk for. thd..car i Better moner haa hn nuta with a , t tv --- - - ------ - i " - : . - J .... .. f AMMM 1 .1 engraving method, bat It .won't hay any temperature'? "southerly galea on" the coast, " Maximum yesterday, 49: minimum, 34; rlter, 8.T; -ralnfall,..33; ; Atmosphere, cwore. -inaianapoua. bur. - - . . r. '" Some otTJncle Sam's money has boen abroad so long: that It doesn't know the way home.-Pittsburgh. Chroaicle-Teleyraph. . HAudr: wind, southwest." - -t r 4 -SIXTH YEAR ? - Si SALEM. OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, .1927 PRICE FIVE CENTS it, , i- y i ! i" " -". - fEVENTY ...JIHEFflUGE Tl Sf SOOU MIC Fourth Regiment Being Pre- ? pared for Immediate vl Removal to Orient nowUt WAR STRENGTH 'ortjiwn And Southwn Chinese ' fjoverninents Will Soon , Bo In uprenie Struggle For . ' ' . Mastery 'fOrl'iat ,' SAN IDIEGO. Cal., Jan. 31 CAP) Evidence that the fourth regiment o( marines, recruited to rull wae strength, will sail from San i Diego for the Orient wlthfn the -next 72 hours on the naval transport Cha'uniont. : was given today iijl the active preparations for embarkment. , . Truck loads of 'equipment for the 'i expiditionary forces began movlns out of the marine base to the i municipal : docks soon after day ibreak. The trucks continued to haul ; tentage; amunltion. 'and field supplies tonight and will con tinue tomorrow. .1 The inhaumont is due from Mare Island tomorrow morning. Th! fourth regiment has "been recruited to fulr war strength by officers and men sent to San DIega from western mail guard duty and various naval ' posts and stations throughout the United States. The regiment will go to China or Guam in command of Colonel Charles p. I 111. ' ,"B" . tompany. which wjll be here when the regiment embarks and which will be here when the , regiment returns, will : Include fewer than 100 officers and en listed men. the smallest number that has been stationed at the I marine base since it was commis sioned. ; 11 1 Jrhe Foochow correspondent of the 'Associated Press arrived here to rt ay by jsteamer with a, group of from Ftkieu province in' accard ance with consular orders, The -correspondent described the mis sionary J exod us j from : FugiSn, which is typical of what is hap peulng In nearly every province under nationalist control, - the abandonment at least' temporarily of every mission station'in the in terior of the province. ; Many of these - missions have been built up -as the result of a S. P. PL ANS NEW ROUTE JO EAST jTROPOSED "XIXE WOUXD GO THROUGH JKL.5UTII FALLS ' I . .Raiiwayi Pin ; Faith In OreRon Future, "President Tells i St ate. Chamber PORTLAND Jan. 3 1. ( AP) A new transcontinental connection to the east, through Klamath Falls is another contribution . , to the prosperity of Oregon that the Sou thern Pacific'' railway :i hopes to make in the near, future, Paul Khoup, execitive vice president of the Southern Pacific company, said today in an address before the joint luncheon of the Oregon State Chamber of Commerce and the members" forum of the Portland chambeR. ,: . i i.;: v.;'4'.i-:; , "I hate high hopes for the state or Oregon, and the railway com pany wfth which ! am , associated Las pin bed its faith to jOregon's t iMture') Shoop asserted, who was a ' resident of Oregon during his early railroading days. !To the $130,000,000 we had invested within the borders of Oregon a year ago we have, with in the last year, added a great 5many more millions. We have lmilt a new north and south line connecting the sister states of Ore gon and California. , - V 1 "We propose,: if the final de cision of the interstate commerce commission is favorable, to give ou aaotber transcontinental line to the east through Klamath J'aus." i PATTERSON SIGNS : BILLS ?4Aad I IB 87 Receive Gov rrno."' Signature Yesterday v I v. . I'" ' - -. ' r. governor .jfaiierson yesterday 1 signed senate 'biir 24 and house I bill 87. J . -v,.. If Senate blU 24aa introduced 1 vr Senator ; strayer aud provided I tor the I payment of traveling ex lpetues of county Judge and county i commissioners of- Baker cohnty." I Bouse bill 8J was introduced .by the 'committee on railroads and transportation and 'removed "the limit on the number of railroad valine offlfers that may be detn- tized by theiate.4 The officers ire paid by the railroad corpora- xtr-T i- . TnSHANGHAU Jta-'-Sl-r-P'r-Fhere. JACKSON COUNTY ; OFFICES TPJVIOVJE MEDPORIf iviW HAVE COURT UOtlSE BUILDINGS i J. Senate Paies Unanimously, Bill i Xow Denls on Governor's , - Signature . I' j The senale, by unanimous vote, yesterday -ithorUed the removal of ' the cofnty ' sea of Jackson county fro Jacksonville to Bed ford. The bill i previously was passed by the house and will be come a lai 'when signed by 'the governor. Senator .Dunn explained that the, electorate of ; Jackson county soma time ago authorized the transfe of the county seat to Medford. btt. that the courts later held the election to be invalid be cause of aj flaw in the election notices. 11 f said the bill at Issue was in the feature of remedial leg islation. anf had the support of, a large majority of the people of Jackson ccfinty. ' f It was tt-ought out by Senator Moser that the Judiciary, commit tee had added an emergency elapse to the bill 3n order that the trans fer of . the. county seat might bef made on Jily 1- t Under" the pro visions of the bUl 'the city of Med ford has agreed to erect a new city hall, which ? will honse the county offk'eg for a period of five years. At the expiration of that time a court-house will be con structed. ': I ' ' s: The principal debate In the sen ate yesterday cen tered "on a" bill Introduced, by the committee yon repeals providing that a law .relat ing I to common law i marriages should be purged from the statute books. This law made it possible for certain illegitimate children to participate in the estates of jther their father or mother. - . ' , Senator Banks declared that the law should not be repealed in that It protected illegitimate children j . ' (CoiUqb4 ea page 2.) CHINES PIRATES ACTIVE British Steamer Taken by Jfen Disgrasea as Passengers t .. ' . . 1 1. . .i .S': - I HONO KONQ. Jan. 3i.-lfAP) A pirate rew brought the steam ship Seanr Bee into their? notori- aSfMBiewouatrBiaiibarHar todavi kidnaned fiv t Co Chinese passengers to be held for ransom, ' and' made -oft iwlth money and'iewelry valued at .$40 000. "MT-l--lj' r - I The Seang Bee, owned :by.Chln- ese, but fliingjthe British flag, left Singapore, ; in Hhe Straits Settle ments, January 24, with , more than 708. Chliiese passengers aboard the .6, 00 0-ton vessel. .She was bound -for Hong Kong. . When three; days from Singa pore, 35 pirates .who had come aboard " as : deck passengers, took possession of the ship. ..While the captain apd Officers were - eating breakfast in theJ salon, six pirates suddenly f appeared -and " fired re Volver slots over -'. the officers heads. -, Simultaneously four pir ates .rushed theibridge, complete ly surprising the third officer.- ! - - ' ' ii i SALEM. BUILDING GROWS V.-'-i.'-i f It m,f:J- permits for January Show Huge 1 ' Increase Over Last Year , ' C If the; remainder " of - the "jrear shows increases , in building ac tivity comparable to the January increase over "the same' period last year, theim?. total will be some thing like fire million dollars,, it was revealed Monday when the figures for the first month of the year wero given out. January permits added up to $207,104 : worth ' of construction Started, ;as compared to $112,660 for the same moath' a : year ago. Residents permits showed a de crease, tiiere ; being only 32 for a total alue of $99,850 as com pared td 3D with values estimated at $104,700 in' January, 1926. The last inontB's list includes two ajirtmentf houses costing 1 6 4.0 00 one store and apartment honse posting 914,000, four ga rages totaling S12,000, two till ing stations costing 54,950 and re pairs amounting to $9,450 YESTERDAY T IN WASHINGTON JUiocit4 PrM i O The , bouse considered miscel- laneous bills. Two American destroyers were oraerea- to Shanghai. - ' w The naval supply bill was laid asiae. by the senate;' : General Andrews declared a new war atalnst moonshiners. Hotse republican .leaders have agree - to expedite consideration of thl McNary-Hauaen farm bill. Thl f senate" ordered an "Investi Esctk')f lhe Herrick lumber con cessit in Grant icounty, Oregon. Important : amendments' to the aliart property bill were approved by tn senate financa committee. ' " , , - , Vlliam J. Tllaon's nomination to be a jv:?e in Oer-r?ia"was ad versly reported by the tcaate ju dick -y- cosnltta,-1-' --K. T!uE ULiiTED; BlLLSCOOIiOOE TDF1D0D HOUSE Expect -All Previous Records to Be BroKen by;0veV ; ' -300 Measures - " PROPOSE BONUS CHANGE Voting Machine Repeal Bill Meets Opposition Jly MuItnoraaU 1 .Men, Referred To Com :i " f mittee On Elections . -The time, for tiling bills with the clerk of the house' will be ex tended bey end the 20th day of the session, in all probability, due to the fact that there ahe reported to,, be about i 100 bills with the committee on legislation Which it has not been able to pass ;on to the filing clerk yet. ' . ; Bills have flooded the house this session tn"a record breaking, number.' ; On hundred and sixty nine : more bills than ever intro duced at ' any session previously have already been introduced for first reading, and it-is expected the record will be broken by about three hundred bills .by the time POWER TAX BILL POSER Jlydro-Electrlc Companies pose Schnlnierfcli I'lan op- After a hearing that lasted for over three, hours last night ;; the committee on , taxation! and rev enue failed J to come to a decision on 'house : bill number ' 22 I t by Schulmerich. The - measure pro poses to levy ji tax of 50 cents per annum on s ? every : kilowatts of hydro-electrje power" or" energy produced, x - . ;.i Representatives ' from power companies r frpman -parts of the state were, in attendance. ' They pointed .out that v the bill - .was class legislation and - discrimina tory.:; That they were ; taxed over 1 0,: per eent;.of , their, gross - "earn ings which was .more than., .any other utility company! ; ? ;i . s Under -ihe prpvlsions of the bill the companies developing juiee out side of the state and import ing it vould U escape I the . staxJ Others said that .their companies were; already paying a lax that was a burden that they could scarcely" bear. " ', ' " " : ""Tl , It would ; shut but, Indus tries that would otherwise f come : into the state that would pay taxes far in excess Jof those that .would come in " under this ; measure, it was pointed out by State .Treasurer Thomas B. Kay. ' The ' committee will hold ' an other meeting at 7 o'clock Wed nesday night and definitely decide the fate of the bill. - i P...'.-- '.,1,. I , TT Mid XfAXm M. JLJ V1UU4 1. -v.- 1, ' I" - '' V; 'r$i&-iw ' We lot y ' ' CONVICT'S CLAIM DISCOUNTED JHERE STORK BELIED DUE I TO . SPITE OR lOLITICS ' Turner Had Xo Diamond to. Klamath . Falls, Inquiry 1 JJiscloses" - ' - r'l If the suit filed yesterday by thl Merchants Credit bureau against Warden J. W. Lillle of the Oregon state penitentiary is, won, the war den will have to pay $400 to G.iE. Turner, California criminal, fori a diamond ring which Turner claims was .taken from hint, and in addi tion will lose a thoroughly clean reputation established ter sever al years of public service. J . The. 'Merchants' Credit bureau claims in the charge that Lillie took the diamond from their client October 28, 1925 when he was nrougnt from Klamath Falls ito serve 18 months sentence for pb talnlng money u&der false prer tenses.-- t' fjt Learning of the possibility of & lawsuit, the warden .wrote at once to Sheriff Hawkins of Klamath county who stated that to the best of his knowledge Turner never had possession , of such a diamond while in the Klamath Jail, v i ' . G. E. Turner, alias G. Shaw,1 is a man with a record which airy; criminal would be proud to carry He served two stiff county' Jai sentences before getting his first prison sentence, that to San Quen tin on a charge of receiving stolei; proDertv. " A Drifting to Oregon in 1924 falU was .ursi apprenenaea in aeptera ber, 1925 and was brought to Sa lem the, next month. 1 Turner serv ed only ten months of his sentence before returning to Stockton. Call.. where he received a -scsntence jto the Folsom peniteptiary on a ior-y' gery charge. Only the habitual criminals with two or more sen tences are sent to Folsom. i' ; Warden Lillie declares emphati cally that he knows nothing of any diamond and haa the evidence, to back him on the charge. Hej stated last niaht that in his be- Jief the whole thing was. a straight attempt at blackmail either by ' ' ' ' (Oatlanitd nm fin B.l ; PRUN-P0RT MEETING - -- r "' Support for New Company iff He Discussed1 Thursday K!jCf ;f . - . ' . -i Discussion ' of support for . the Prun-Port manufacturing program originally set for, Wednesday . eve nt ng.c will take place at a meetins Thursday evening at the chamber of ..commerce rooms,' it. was an ncunced Monday afternoon." .' ; This meeting; was called follow ing; a talk at 5 Monday - chamber tf .commerce luncheon ' by Fred Erixon, chairman of the industrial committee, .who urged that' the Prun-Port venture be given the support that It' asks, -r ' 1 ; So far, about half of the $15.-. 000 needed has been' subscribed, Erixon said. George Yick, iiead of the agricultural Committee,' sec ended Erixon's remarks. - : At the meeting Thursday eve-' nlng, R. L. Holsclaw of the Major Fruit Products company, which lis sponsoring the Prun-Port plan, will Dresent full details of the ? proposed development. ' i "WE MAY BE CRAZY' M'NARY-HAUGEN BILL UP SOON I'ARM iVSLIEFj MEASURE .GETS RIGHT-OF-WAY IX i HOUSE Debate to Be Fixed at 12 Honrs; . Senale Sponsors Desirous of S ' Quick Action " WASHINGTON", Jan. 31 AP) The McNary-Haugen' farm re lief bill is to ; have tight of way in 'the house next week, and its sponsors in the senate intend to call it up there at the. first oppor-: tunity.; I . The house program was arrang ed today by leaders after the rules committee had -voted fto give the measure preferred status. It was tentatively, agreed to call the bill up Tuesday with general debate fixed at 13 hours. , The; senate was notified by Chairman" McNary of the agricul ture! committee, who ; Is co-author of the bill,, that he would press for early consideration and Would insist that it be taken' up before T I i " '' ," In mappiUK ouXxC1cTi,r&ic for. procedure today, farm. leaders In the house decided to make fight for (felief legislation inde-i pendent of other questions. Inl so doing they turned a cold shoul der to the- -suggestion of Repr sentatlve TJavey, democrat, O hi for a coalition of the reductlo and . farm relief advocates in a effort to orce action before a journment of both. r MAN FOUND AVITH STIi Raroled, Ex-Convict Arrested . (jabin Acar JMjTtle Creek RQSEBTJnG, Jan. 31. (AP)r Arrested at his cabin north of Myrtle sCreefi today charged ..with possession of a still, Henry Corn- stock .told officers after his ar raignment that he was a paroled convict." Officers charged that they found a complete till .and a quantity of ? mash .in .his cabin. Comstock , told officers that he had been sentenced to three years for ba.4 5hkLfaiatIonjfcibeinc4ent up irum xtue cqudij. - siu ervea one year and was paroled. , Prison officers .have been notified.7 : - k Warden' Lillie of the state pen itentiary4 tonight sent a man to Roseb-urg to get Comstock and bring him' back - to Salem.' Com stock was paroled last fall, prison officials-said.. r . . : j LEAVENS REPORTED SAFE Man Believed Arrested by Chi inese Said ltd Have Escaped ! NORWICHi Conn., Jan. 31. (AP) Dickson Leavens, .treasur er of Yale-in-China, whose arrest by the Chinese was ' reported to day in Associated Press, dis patches j is safe in Chahgshaw, ac cording '.to a. telegram S received from U. S. Senator Bingham by Leavens father-in-law Frank W. Browning,' of Kitemaug, Monte- tllle, near here. ' , OliL BASE 1 iSKED; JOSEPH AFTER !01 Weed Control Provides ;for Organization of Seven' , Property Owners THREE SAURY BILLS UP Senate Approves M.easnre Giving - Courts Discretion in ForfeiU ing Hunting hnd Ang- . :IInjg .Licenses ; Appropriation of funds by the federal' government for the de velopment' of the :naval .base al ready established at Tongue Point near Astoria, was urged . in a me- X morialt introduced-, in the senate yesterdaytby'Senator Norblad. " The memorial requests that the proposed development' be suffi cient to accommodate the person nel of the Pacific submarine fleets, 'and that the base be used both for training and .recreation al purposes. t It also was v pro posed that the base "be adequate to accommodate . light cruisers, destroyers and airplanes used by the .navy; department in .intelli gence' a operations... Equipment necessary .for emergency repairs also is sought in connection with the base development. -' The senateKwas requested to re move Senator -Norblad as .chair man of the committee appointed to investigate the. affairs of the state fish commission in a resolu tion introduced by - Senator Joseph. ' It was alleged in the resolution that' .Senator Norblad had refused to ' subpoena certain witnesses, and had ' attempted, to block the Investigation by- ? ne glecting to call meetings of the committee. .: 4By such conduct," read the resolution, 'Senator'Nor Mad -hasdisqualif led" himself and violated .the confidence imposed In him as a member of -the com mittee." . ; - . It - further was. .charged t that Senator Norblad was involved with packers . operating . ; on the Columbia river either . as attorney or lobbyist. Three salary; increase bills made their appearance in the senate yesterday. x ' One of these bills was intro duced by Senator Hall and pro vides for salary -increases for of ficials of Curry county. The sal ary of the treasurer would be In creased from 1 f900 to $1200 a yean the sheriff from $1700 to $2400 a year and the. county clerk to $1500 per annum. In addition to his annual . salary of .$13 5 0 the county superintendent iwould be allowed traveling expenses in an amount not -to siexceed ;$250 -per year. - - ;;- ,-.;';'. - . A bill, introduced by ; Senator Moser would increase .the .salary of the constable of ; the Portland district from .$2400 to $3000 per annum. The i salary; of- the . chief (Comtlaaed aa pifi ,4.) - ' DANCERS FOUND tN ZI0N Members -of -Only Lodge in Pure -. - City Arrested for J.1aying : y ZION, 111., Jan: 3i: (AP) Unlawful dancing. Illegal pool games, and entertainment -without city license were the charges en tered in police coure here .today against tour officers and a mem- ber of the ZIon lodge of the Mod ern Woodmen of .America. Auth orities of this little religious comi muhity, founded by the late ;John Alexander- powie, said .that Jail terms," fines, or. both may be im posed on the five when they .'come to : tHal Friday and that efforts will be made ;to secure revocatton of the lodge's charter. r; ; The five were arrested in,a raid Saturday night,; and the names of 87 other men and girls aU the lodge dance .were faken ; by the police. Dancing and ,pool are for bidden under tne city ordinance of Zion, two-third of the 1?opulatlon of whichare .members ,.of the Christian - Catholic A- p o s t o 1 1 c church.- . ';.; ::?'.,; -;,:'' POST GAINIHQ aHEMBERS Total Xotrttl,fcTpcct 700 By End ;:';w of ;Veck, jl'porti : : i' - Membership of Capitol Post No. 9; American Lerion. will pass the 700 mark before the .end ; of the week, it was Vindicated Monday night .w hen, at a special meeting, it' was reported that 544 paid up memberships were in as a result of ; the competitive campaign now under way. ' ' At tiie rn?tins next: Monday nht, 'speclr-l iCtertainment - is planned, it was iirsounced. ." - 4 "AYord la3 t-a received' from CI'T'ord oi'i r '. re now i i.:: -i r. . : ti:a c-::.. rcrn, Salera :legion ti e east, -that le-'is-- c-.- TTica nea' to t!. :r rcr.:rensa a t'.roui tte vet erans' bureau icill vrobably soon be .enacted. - LAD INCOME TAX BILL COMES TO FRONT NEW ; SCHEDULE OF RATES PROPOSED " AS .RE1D2DY Committee Considers . Measure , . Relative to Penalties on - . Delinquent Taxes Old man income tax. that much abused and kicked about piece of legislation, has again appeared, in the staid halls of the state house; clothed in new and radiant gar ments, which it is the hope of its fathers -will meet with the ap proval :.of i tho ; jna jority of ' the legislators. ..' - k . f -When the solons . wended their way gaily . homeward ., for -the week-end many of : them were thinking of -the promise made by Governor .Patterson that he woulcf have something to say on the tax ation quetion during the ; fore part of the week. " Some of them were content to watch. and wait to see what the -. governor would propose.. vJiowever "- some conr tinued their work and as a result Representative King .and Senator Hall placed . in the hands of the legislation : committee - a new in come tax "measurer- ' . They realized that -the " name "income tax,"; was distasteful to the majority of Oregoniana as shown in several elections ana so they sought to find the cause tor this. : Their conclusion was that in many Instances the measures had been aet forth ;In radical forms - and in some cases politi cians had made use of the Income tax measures to gain their own selfish ends. - The sponsors of this ' new bill immediately set -about ' drafting one which-. 'would eliminate the objectionable : features of the many, rejected' measures and one which they. hoped would prove satisfactory to the several fac tlons in the two housesu Under its v provisions .5 the exemptions would he';$1500-for single ; men. $2500 for married men with $300 additional . for each dependent. -' A further provision, forms of which have been the cause of much con troversy in the past provides for a tax -limit of ,42500 pn corporations.- This -fact alone -will sllmi- nate considerable opposition is the sponsors." ---; ' : -.The bill -provides for the rate of tax Ito; increase as the income increases." ' There would be a tax to . increase . as.', the income In creases There .would be a tax of one jer :cent. eh the first; thou sand, two on ihe second thousand, three on the third thousand and fourth thousand and four per cent - - -, .'. ii ' ' (Goatiav4 ea pags 8.) . ARKANSAS' FLOOD FATAL Several Members of Family XIe : , .Crpssing Unsafe JJritlgo ', '-: -: '::-' i 1 -,- .-. , , LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 31. (AP) Several members .of the family of rGrpyerale, .a tenant oa the Pioneer plantation,: lO rmiies northwest of Cotton plant, are he lleved. to-;have. been. drowned today In crossing a - precarious : bridge oyer a. awoolen, bayous 7 At the same time conflicting re ports pointed. to a total death list of nine, of several missing, and of scores of persons marooned at var ious points. in a flooded area tak ing in Tarts of Woodruff. Prairie and Afonroe counties. -4 ? ; ' ' f Thfe ; sheriff's office at Cotton Plant vstinderstood. tonight ' that Mrs. -Ruth mlth, 18, 'Ola Clem, her sister, and Darling Clem, her brother, - had -; been - drowned . in a tenant house on the Griffith plan tation, but newspapermen said the three children were brought In safe Jate this afternoon. HIGHWAYSBILL PASSED . t - - ' r. .!- t. ' . ".i i-n '' .. 4WiIl Give Commission Right to Uuild Aiauitemancei snops A House blll 141, providing for an act -which would give the. highway commission authority to acquire, in the name of the state; land or ground .necessary 4Cor the construc tion ..and - maintenance of shops useful in the building of "highways and their maintenance, was passed yesterday- by thehouse- and will be submitted at once to the senate. The second clause -.of the bill provides' that when propetrty is no longer needed it may be sold and the proceeds turned - over to the state treasurer, to be credited to the .state highway commission's funds. .. .' . :, Should- the bill pass the senate and- be, signed by the . governor it will be presented to the public for their approval at 'the next general election in, November. 4928. The measure" wasIntrodueed ; by Rep resentative -" Howard - of Lane county. , . '.' . .-. -c SILVERTO N.MAN INJURED Farmer Breaks s Ia"Z in Seven Places While PulUns t'.tun5 EILVERTOX, Ore., Jan. 31. (SpeclaL) W.' II. Teriar hal hi3 leg broken in seven different places "below the , knee ? Saturday, whileworklag on a stump puller on hia farm south of town. Te clevis of ' the doubletree broke tlirowing the .sweep of tlie stump rul'.t-r- back against him. yeriar-vyis brought to tho Silver tea hosj-:' ... . ,; ;-;'v; ; .,.; STATE LIBRilHY fPBOPJH.HH! EETS lllEiiSE $10,000, Added Vith Pro viso That Salary items Be Cut $15,000 - FIX AMOUNT .FOR FAIRS ramhill County Senator Objects i Supervisory Boards tiet Funds; -Budget -.Officer ' Bill Reported t)ut Tte joint ways and means com mittee last night increased the ap propriation for- the state library for the current sfeiennium troni $75,000 Jo $85,000, with the provision-that the Item of -salaries shall be reduced from $71,320 to $S6,320.- The appropriation for maintenance ' was fixed at $28. 680. i - , - - - - v- The J state library originally asked . for $121,000, but this amount; was cut to $115,045 by the state budget Commission. The further1 reductions -were ordered by the ways and means committee. Members 'of the committee es pecially) objected to some of . the salaries! paid' to library employes. A -sub-committee reported that un ites the budget of $75,000 was-increased,; it would be necessary to close the library for three months during the biennium. or disperu- with : virtually all of the trained workers; in the department. Appropriations of approximate ly ,$100,000 were authorized for the various ".county , fairs. . These appropriations, follow: .:, , .; . . Jackson county . : f air, $ , 0 0 0 ;t Josephine ; county fair, $4,000;' Oregon Interstate fair, v$4,000; Coos and Curry fair $6,0 00;-Union Livestock .show, $6,000; .TUIa moqk county f air, $ 6 . 0 0 0 KJ a m -ath county fair $6,000; ;Poll County: Iair,v$2,000; Grant county fair, $4,000; Wallowa county fair $4,000: Malheur county fair, $4, -000;. Linn, county fair, $2,000; Lane county fair, $2,000; Clacka. mas county fair, $2,000; Clatsoi county fair, $4,000; -Columbia county .fair, $3,000; Smith .Itivei fair, 4800; . Multnomah countf fair, $4,000; Lincoln county fair, $2,000 ; Lake county fair, $3,0 0 0 ; Wasco county fairi ,$1,000; Gil liam county fair, $1,000; Wheeler couhty lair, $1,000; Sherman county fair, $1,000; Union county fair, $1,000; Deschutes county fair, .$6,000; Washington county fair, -It 2,0 00, and -Baker !county fair, $6,000. .Senator Butt of Yamhill county , ..- !. - . . - - : -: ".(Cjntia4 jpb para S.). SISSON SPEECH OFFENDS, PASTOR :T'" pROFESsoii's RE-uimra o ;X-iycttLCno3r start eow Minister of . Church Walks Out -; When jlible lield Not Liter- . V - V -ally Trno '; ' ; ; PORTLAND. Jan. 31. ( AP) The meeting of the Congregational Men's club of Oregon, held at tba Sunnysid: Congregational church, ended, abruptly tonight when Ilev. John J. .iStaub, pastor of th church,, walked from the room in1' protest against remarks made by Dr. E. O. Slsson, Reed college professor. i . Dr. Sisson had jast launched into an address as the principal .Speaker of the evening. JJe had. protested against. a move ment to curb the teaching of evo lution and had declared it wa a mistake to accept all of the Blbla as the word of God. "The Word of God," he said, "is exemplified in the life and teaching of Jesus Christ. Toput. the- books of .the - old tpstarnf-nt such as Chronicles and Judges, on a ;levet with the .Sermon oa the Mount, is heresy." At this! point Rev. Staub rose from his iseat among about 1C) men representing Conirrerat" -: 1 churches 'of Portland and otLor cities of Oregon .and walked frora the room.' " Four or five members of 11. a church . iollewed bin and t!: f y held an" Indignation council ia tLa hallway - : v -.After a tense interval of silercf. Dr. Sisson expressed regret tL it his remarks had given of'trse. Rev. Mr.' Staub returr.cl to t;.i room and declared ttat it C ' - corrteous, ".to . say tha I , to make such, statements la a 1 r; . 1 where' -he ' had prc-ache I ' . r c ; ' years that the DiUe v-" ? t - cf God frou cover f . -There wss f -2 of .er .car adjourning the 1 ' t i buiiding, f3 the ill. c the r ? t tr. t:- .'3 - r, iT adjourn ti tl' cr and. II o s e w a y . r c-hurrli ' in v i 1 f .5 l : liver his. ..!!:' to ' cm.