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Newspaper Page Texttrciuatton The Weather ou rival OREGON : Tonight and Wt-U-iicsduy rain, warmer t hi IjjcIii cast portion, fresh easterly gales. LOCAL: Maximum 46, minimum 40, set 42; river 19.4 aud rising. 10. 14 094- 19SO 17 ATS. mber of Audit Bureau of Clrcu- sed Wire. ty-Fcurlh Year No. 4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, January 4, 1921 Price Three Cents Var Finance Board Is Revived Over Wilson's Veto House Passes Proposal By Vote of 250 to 66 Ballot This Morning lir l.:...i.. T A rpLj-. Mncnliifin tAiriri-nrr thtfk l4f SU Finance Corporation became a law today with its readoption by the house over President Wilson's veto. The senate over-. , rode the veto yesterday. The vote in the house was 250 to 66, with three voting nresent. or 37 more than the required two-thirds majority. ,na wUknnl its.. lie vuic vic i.rn.i wmiiv. irif f Bill d Go Before Senate Soon tring on Emergen- Act of House to Be ened by Commit i Thursday shington, Jan. 4 Hearings HHpc emergency tariff bill kal upon today by the nance committee. They Thursday and end next Pf ' HBkimittee also agreed to Barings on the soldier HB January 13. Hpn Penrose, presiding for me In thirteen month:!, that his office had 're Bn' requests for further BBfry to discuss both the jjneftsm'o and the soldier aid P not oppose the hear Members of the committee however, that Ik. had made ! he was opposed to affirm Mh bv the senate on the Manure. - fm members of the com jWgClinod to discuss in de Hhad transpired behind Jdoors of the committee npression went out that lMi h.,rt developed some Dftrdriiee ,, ., row Ono asm "there talk " was some Bnunent Is fteld In Plan Rule Packers Commission Form Of City Government Plan Offered By New Mayor More Rain One. San Francisco, Jan. 4. A storm which was off the mouth of the Columbia river today necessitated the placing of high wind warn ings from Point Aerna to Cape Flattery by tiie Uni ted States weather bureau here and promised heavy rains for the northwest states and the greater por tion of California tonight and tomorrow. Shipping In the coast harbors was warned that the storm might be a hard one. Pioneer Woman Dead; Active In City's Progress Mrs. Emma Pringle Hughe3, widow of the late John Hughes, iiaid mother of Mrs. A. N. Bush and i". F. Hughes, of this city, died t her home in Portland this morn ing. She was 82 years old anu cilice the early pioneer days of Oregon her name, with that of her hus band, has been closely interwoven the history of tile Willamette valley, and until her removal to oruand a few years ago she was one of the most influential citi zens of Salem. Mrs. Hughes was born in St. Charles, Warren county, Missouri, in 1S53 and was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Pringle, who were influential pioneers of Sa lem. She came to Oregon when eight years old, coming over the old Upton, Jan. 4. Govern rlionst o stockyard hold- rcement plans submitted packers under the recent I trail by way of Fort Hall and the Applegate cutoff. She was accom panied by her parents, and a-large group of immigrants, among them beln her grandmother, Mrs. Ta batha Brown. They made a road of their own from Humbolt to free were sustained todav Stafford in the district court. Any acceptable 1st provide for earle and divestment of all obnoxt- Ings the court held. Stafford also sustained rnment's contention that of divorcement may be ?etive by receivership and ss the defendants are able a suitable plan for which tensions were given, the rved notice that such nc- lld be taken. Consideration of the advisability of adopting a commission form of government, as a specific sugges tion, and more care in the intro duction and passage of ordinance biHs, as a general caution, were the Outstanding features of Mayor George E. Halvorsen's message to the council t Its regular meeting of the year held last night. Other recommendationse had to do with the consideration of the necessty of a cold storage plant for Salem, appointment of chief of po lice by the council instead of elec tion by the people; expedition in the collection of liens for street im provements; legislation prohibiting the turning of vehicles between n tersections; prohibition of "jay walking"; discontinuance of the city's practice of hauling gravel free of charge for street improve ment; improvement in the equip ment of the fire department; and some move by the council to guard against the overburdening of tax payers in improving streets. Difficult Period Faced. "It has been a source of pleasure to me as well as an education to have been associated with you on this city council," Mr. Halvorsen said in his address to the aldermen. "I consider it a duty and a privilege to express to the retiring Mayor Wilson and to the councllmen who have served the past two years the thanks and the appreciation of their constituency, for the work done and the results accomplished by their efforts." I That the city is facing a period I of reconstruction and that the coun cil should practice economy to the Ifulest extent, were statements of Mayor Halvorsen. "At this time I wish to say it will be the policy of this office for each department to hold its accounts to the sums specified in the budget and not to overdraw unless neces sary." he said. "I feel that all means available have been set aside to the respective departments, and these sums must be adhered to and I trust you. will bear me out in this matter." New Equipment Favored. Further Mayor Halvorsen stated . lie was uwaie uiat me otiiuers ot Oregon, reaching Salem December the police department faced a dif mention !uba Is Not 'Contemplated ngton, Jan. 4. Assurances United States is not con ng military intervention In re given today to the Ou- tlisler by Actiti Secretary wns said at the state ac 2f., 1846, after a journey of nine months. Her father engaged Iti shoe making in this city until 1851 when he settled upon M donatio!, land claim of six Tiundred and forty acres, four and one half miles southeast of Saiem. There he carried on farming for a' time but later returned to Salem and was identified in business and public life for many years. For manv years Mrs. Hughes was a. leader ill the First Methodist church, taking a prominent part in nil church activities. She took an ficult task during the coming year. "Your department is limited to a certain number of men,'-' he said. "Regardless of this fact you. will be expected to police this city fear lessly and without partiality, and I urge a strict enforcement of all or dinances and statutes." Concerning the fire department, Mayor Halvorsen sairt in part: "The chief and members of the fire de partment have not the full equip ment necessary to a first class de partment, hut you have shown effi ciency and I urge upon you a dili active Interest in the early life of gent and careful performance of City Council Distributes Jobs for Year Smith New Attorney And Low Elected to Old Place; Mrs. Shank Retained Prolonged controversy on mat ters political, personal, : relevant and irrelevant concerning contest ed city offices ended last night when the city council; at Its first meeting of the year, elected Ray L. Smith as city attorney, and re elected Mrs. Myra L. Shank police matron, and Walter Low as street commissioner. Those unanimously returned for another term are Harry "Buck" Hutton, chief of the fire depart ment; Hugh Rogers, city engineer. Dr. R. A. Pomeroy, health officer: !lnd J. N. Skaife, sanitary officer. Utter Backs Smith Hottest of the pilitical fire crackled just previous to the bal loting for city attorney. Eight votes for Mr. Smith and six for B. W. Macy, present incumbent, were recorded after Councilman F. L. Utter had made a strong speech urging the election of Mr. Smith. "The office of city attorney is the biggest job which the city of Salem has to offer," Dr. Utter de clared. "The city attorney can save Salem thousands of dollars -I or he can fail to save the city j tnousanus or aonars. 1 know there are many persons opposed to my selection because there are many persons who do not want liens foreclosed." It was Dr. Utter who nominated Mr. Smith. Mrs. shank Elected Much discussion preceded the balloting for police matron. De claring that the council should back Chief of Police Moffitt with a view to insuring harmcny in the police department. Councilman H. H. Vandervort urged the election of Mrs. Etta Groves, the new chief's selection. Followed a round of speeches by several aldermen, headed by Councilman McClellan, in which the ultimately-chosen Mrs. Shank was praised for her work. Count of the ballots showed1 -the present-incumbent to have been re-elected by a vote of 11 to 4. Most decisive of defeats meted out, however, was accorded O. E. Hazelwood, nominated by Council man Harry Wenderroth, for street commissioner. Mr. Low. the pres ent incumbent, was again chosen for the office by a vote of 14 to 1. Rogers Is Engineer Hugh Rogers, nominated by (-Councilman Jefferson, was an easy favorite for city engineer. He re ceived 11 votes to two for Walter Salem, Estacada, Meet Here Tomorrow, Year's Schedule Made Public Salem HI Basketball Schedule. Jan. 5 Estacada in Salem. Jan. 8 Forest Grove in Sa lem. Jan. 12 Estacada at Estaea-da. Jan. 15 Corvallls at Corvai lis. Jan. 19 Newberg at New berg. Jan. 28 Corvallis in Salem. Feb. 4.- Newberg in Salem, Feb. 11 Roseburg at Rose burg. Feb. 16 McMinnville at Sa lem. Feb. 23 McMinnville at Mc Minnville. Feb. 25- Roseburg in Salem. The basketball season for Salem high school tossers begins In earn est tomorrow night when the local quintet will take the floor against the Fstacada five. The game will start at 7:30 in the Salem armory. That the game will be one of the most critical of the season, was the opinion expressed this morning by Capta'n "BUI" Ashby. Estacada. veports indicate has a swift aggre gation. Moral and financial sup port of Salem fans is urged and a plea for a crowded speetatorium was made this morning. Lineup Announced. Salem high school's schedule, as announced this morning by Captain Ashby, is one of the stiffest provid ed for a local team in year. Eleven citv ' games already have been provided lui, anu two upen uaiea must yet be filled. What soBool will be sign ed for January 21 and February 18, Ashby is at present unable to say. Hope that Eugene may be pre vailed on to sign was expressed, but to date efforts to get a contract with the purple and white man agement have been unaviling. The probable lineup for Salem against Estacada tomorrow night, as given by Ashby, is as follows: Rorwards, Staley and Randall; cen tor, "Bill" Gosser; guards. Max Jones and Ashby. Possible substi tutes are Socolofsky, Evan Jones, Claire Tucker, Wilbur Dalley and Asel Eoff. Vanguard of Big Atlantic Fleet Starts On Cruise New York, Jan. 4. The battle ships Pensylvania and Arizona, van guard of the Atlantic fleet, left here today on the first stage of the an nual winter cruise. Admiral Henry B. Wilson, fleet commander, aboard the Pennsylvania. Five de stroyers were prepared to set out later in the day. The ships will be joined by the remainder of the fleet off Cape Henry and then all will go to Cu ban waters and from there through me raiaraa canal to the or maneuvers fleet. with the Pacific Pacific piunists and lice Clash In Belgrade Today de, Jan. 2. In a clash to- leen communists and police the 0 communists and a dozen ire wounded. Manv Rns kre among (he demon-, the Oregon institute, of which H lamette university Is the successor. was a member of the Oregon Historical society and diligently worked during her lite for the bet terment of the city and valley. She was the mother of seven children, four of whom survive her and who were at her bedside at the eiid: Mrs. ft. N. !?ush of this city. J. F. Hughes of this city, Mrs. Wil laam A. Cjnrter of Portland and Mrs. D. A. Mackie of Portland. The funeral will be held in the ' irst Methodist church in Portland Thursday morning at 9 o'clock and buriol will take place In the family lot in the Odd fellows cem etery in this city, as soon as the ar rival of the 12:50 Oregon Electric train from Portland Thursday. your duties. As condtiions adjust 1 Skelton. nominated by Councilman themselves. I feel that the equip ment of this department should be Inceraaed to meet the growing needs of our city, and I soerecom-mend." 1st Month of 1 920 s Wettest December In Twenty-four Years rnonth which closed at mid st Friday was the wettest per on record for anJeea 89C. and only twice since ther office began" its obser hore In 1S92 has more rain tiring the month of Deeem- ltot.il precipitation for last according to the figures of i'hr observer, was g.2 or 2.7S inches above nor- that rronth. In 1896 the W rillfall was 1.11 inches. greatest rainfall for De was recorded ir. that month when 11.16 inches of rain he precipitation for the of December 1919 ws 6.05 M monthly charte showed only ii" clear day. Two days were part v cloudy and the sun railed to -.sake its appearance on 29 of the :i days. The greatest amount of 'tin to fill during a single day was I. SI inches, which the official re ording instruments showed for December 11. 1 he record of temperatures and rainfall for the month of December 1920. is as follows: Temierature Rainfall pared with December. 1919,1 g month of 1920 was a model 9 hitic perfection except for 10 plus of rain. The average 11 Jure last month was 42.3, 12 'grees warmer than normal. 13 lie a. (rage temperature for 14 th of the year previous was 15 7 degrees below normal, j 1 1 I December. 1929. the low- 17 9eratu recorded, on the' 13 l 26 above zero and only 1 19 es br-low freezing. In the 20 n.ling month of 1919 rm- ' neter dropped to 6 degress j 22 ero or 33 degrees below 23 Where there were 21 days 24 ember. 1919. when the 2S eter registered hinr on only five occasions below the 32 mark last two killing frosts were rl aunr.g December. 1929. and le Max. Min. Amt. 60 36 .92 56 38 .32 53 44 .91 49 37 .48 42 30 .02 47 tl .01 47 14 07 ...48 40 .12 46 40 .37 45 41 .45 .45 40 1.31 46 38 .32 4T 40 .36 40 26 .02 - 2 27 .00 - 47 27 .00 43 36 trace 47 37 .40 46 37 .22 50 35 trace 49 33 .04 50 33 .17 41 34 trace - .53 36 1.00 46 43 .15 .4 40 .20 52 40 .26 52 48 .25 58 49 .80 51 40 .42 .. 4 36 .20 Growth of City Library Shown In Year Report With figures and statistics show ing that In the ten years since the founding of the Salem public li brary the business of the institu tion has almost doubled. Miss Flora Cjse, public librarian, has present ed her annual report for the year ending December 31, 1920. On December 10, 1910, the Salem Woman's elub turned over to the city of Salem the site for the li brary building, a collection of from eight to ten thousand books and the offer from Andrew Carnegie of ?28.r,00 for the erection of the building. The collection has grown to 16.000 and during 1920 approximately 60.000 books were leaned for home leading, nearly double the number loaned in 1910. which was 33,857. The registration desk, during the tMUM year has added 1 923 patrons to the roll and has withdrawn 1118 mes of those w ho registered four vears ago and those who have -nov-rt awuy. At the request of N'orth Salem residents, a branch li brary has been established in the Highland school build. ng. A -.10115 the special features spon sored by the library during 19-H ivas the putting on of a course of lght lertunes during February. March and April. Approximately 175 meetings were held In the r!u'. ootnf and 46 appointments for tlu -ooms are now scheduled for each if the winter months. The school libraries have loaned 14.737 liooks for home reading and has added 623 books to their col lection, making a total of 10.905. From the public library 871 pic-"iive.- have been loaned for use in schools and 5 20 booVs have been leaned to teachers on special piivi-lege. Vandervort. No little haggling was indulged in when Chief of Police Moffitt's recommendations for police of ficers were announced. Argument seemed to center on the point aris ing as to whether candidates who have not resided in the city for a period of three years are eligible or not. Action was deferred when a motion that the selections be re ferred to the police committee for consideration was carried. At the next njeetlng the committae will report back with recommendations. Moffitt Satisfied "Although Day first selection, that of police matron, has not been approved, that is well and good with me," Chief Moffitt prefaced his talk to the council. "I am hoping my other suggestions will be more favorably received. But if they, too, should he rejected, that is also well and good." Chief Mof fitt voiced his approval of certain traffic regulations suggested by Mayor Halvorsen in his address t the council, and further advocate the installment of call boxes fo the police department. "There has been criticism in th past concerning the taxi bills in currert by policemen In answering calls." he said. "No doubt thh criticism is largely justified, inas much as the response to calls wai commonly without results. Ofte patrolmen are necessarily delayei' for long periods, due to the pres ent call system, and I therefoi 1 ask ftfr these new boxes. I als hope the council will see fit topn vide a motorcycle and side-car for the use of the department." Phez Changes to be Radical; Offices Moved That changes in the Phez com pany's business program for the future will be rndlcal, but that, at the present time, he can give out no definite information aa, to what specific moves will be made, were statements made this morning by C. M. Mi.UI, yesterday chosen gen eral manager of the company. Mr. Miall, formerly of Portland, an expert in reorganization and re financing and industrial plants, ac tively assumed his new duties this morning. First of the moves an nounced Is the transfer of general offices of the company to the Loju plant on South Commercial street. Only two rooms will be retained In the United States National bank biulding. "It will be two or three weeks before I get definite track of the company's business," Mr. Miall said and it will be three or four month, before we are straightened around.' In common with msny other manufacturing concerns on (he coast, .Mr. Miall said, the Phez com pany has suffered from the pre vailing severe conditions in Its line of trade. It has been doing a larg business in the east and laiddl west, as well as along the coast and has been affected by the slum; In buying of all commodities di rectly following a long period o; high costs. Mr. Miall stated that until he hai. made further progress in acquiring a detailed knowledge of the com pany's affairs, he would be unabb to make any statement rei.ardiiit any of the plans he has in mind Burnett Takes Place of Supreme Justice McBride Associate Justice George H. Burnett became chief Justice of the Oregon supreme court Mon day by right of priority. Justi. Thoi. A. McBride relinquishing the chief JusMceship upon the ex piration of his term, although h was reelected to succeed himself at the general election in November. Legion to Install Officers Tonight I-s.a!!ation of officers will be hlrt at the regular meting of Cap 'tal Post No. 9. American Legion. o be called at the armory tonight at 7:39 o'clock. Allan Carson re minded this afternoon. Other bust- '"8 will come before the meeting, htm at the cantlair or Brazil inJ a large attendance Is desired, iguay and Argentina. Colby and Party En Route Home Buenos Aires. Jan. 4. Bain- brirtce Colby. American secretary i of stete and his party left Buenoa , A'res last night on their return , recently Opposition To Immigration Bill Proposed Washington, Jan. 4 Vigorous opposition to any legislation re siding immigration will be pre sented today to the senate immi gration committer bv Louis Mar shall tf New Tork. representing the American Jewish committee. He said "many of the boys who carried the flag through the Ar icnne were immigrants." Cherrians Will Crown King Bing With Ceremony Having completed plans that will make the affair one of un surpassed brilliance in the annals of the organization, the Cherrians are awaiting the coronation serv ices at the armory tonight with varied degrees of expectancy. ' A new degree "The Lord of the Manor" will be bestowed for the first time, ten members being re cipients of the honor. Eight of the prospective "lords' are ex-King Bings. A royal banquet has been pre pared for the Cherrians and their ladies, who, according to a newly established custom will share in the festivities. C. B. Clancey is sending out no tices today signed "The Last Wail of a Dying King" urging all who plan attending to be present promptly at 8:30 as the ceremonies will commence at 8:45. Charles Ray In Salem Jail; No He Doesn't Act Night Desk Sergeant Davis was checking In his nightly lodgers at the Salem police sta tion last evening. "Name?" he queried without looking up. A greeter at a Jail, be it said, need not be particu larly affable. He examined the point of his poised pencil. "Charles Ray." "Beb pardon?" Officer Davis rolled his eyes upward. But he didn't see the movie rube. Officer Davis' guest was not an actor. Charlie was check ed In. Only two transient were given beds at headquarters last night. The other lodger gave his name as Walter Carter. vuaa Inken hateafter Representative Mtande.lt, the republican leader, had staled: that since all members realise that the president had raised no new question it seemed wise to pro ceed to vote wtihout discussion. Officials of the war finance cor poration said today the corporation would be revived immediately bnt that necessarily some tima nauat elapse before the making of new, loans would begin. Some of thera thought the time might be two, months. While the corporation has . . with the treasury about 3375,000.000, officiate the use of this money for loan ,..,. ui necessitate the ance of treasury certificate of In debtedness and that an issue of cor poration bonds probably would be decided upon Instead. ' Seventeen democrats and forry nlne republicans voted the veto. Voting to override wer 135 republicans. 114 democrats am one prohibitionist. . Dobbin Refuses Job As Commissioner On State Highway Board Four Routes for Highway Before Board at Meet Portland, Or., Jan. 4. Four" pos sible routes for the northern loca tion of The Dalles-California high way, between Madrar an4l The Da -les, submitted to the highway com mission yesterday by the engineer ing department were considered further at a session today. The costs of these four locations range from $1,070,776 to $1, 985,576. While the commissioners inform ally discussed the toutes, selection may be deferred for some time. Today's meeting of the commis sion was to be devoted to opening and awarding of grading bids and In hearing delegations. No paving contracts are to be awarded today, the commission having postponed for the time being its paving plans. Most of The Dalles-California highway, from Klamath Falls to Bend, Redmond and Madras, has been located. Work is under con tract on some sections, but the commission has never Indlrated what location would be made from Madras to the Columbia river. Mail Plane Is Destroyed by Fire In San Francisco San Francisco, Jan. 4. An air plane of the transcontinental air mall service, caught fire and waa destroyed in t. force! landing at tlough anil Fll streets, a few blocks from tne city hall today, but the pilot. . S. Boggs of Oak land was unhurt. Half of the 270 pounds mail crgo was burned. A fw moments after the air plane took off on its flight to He no the motor oKd and Boggs was compelled to doacend. He volplan ed for a few moments, but unable to find a suitable landing place, steered for a atreet Intersection. He crashed thiough a pair of trol by wires, which snapped and set his machine afira and also pulled telephone and light wires down with him. The machine sped for half a block aloi.g the street be fore It could be stopped. The fire department extinguished the blaze Timber Company Strikes back for $112,000 Damage That the Sllverton Lumber Co In the suit begun last month for (105,000 damages for breach of contract against the Silver Fal.s Timbei Co. started something that it will take a fight to finish, is in dicated in the answer filed today by Lhe timber company winch de nies all assertions mude by the lumber company and accuses it of violation of contract and file coun ter claims for (112,000 dar-iagea. The cause of the trouble Is a contract whereby the Tun tier Co. agreed to furnish logs to the Lum ber company, made in 11.4, Al though conditions ocoHiionod by the war made the contract a los ing one to the Timber 3mpany, the Lumber company insisted up on the fulfillment of the contract to the letter, at pre-war prices. The Lumber company alleges the contract was not lived up to and that inferior logs were furn Ished. The reply of the Timber mavaof ueciares mat trie con tract was lived up to in every re spect and that the logs delivered were of the same character as that it used In its own mill, and that the plaintiff constantly ha rassed the defendant Timber com pany, held up equipment for un reasonable length of time and thereby occasioned heavy loss to defendant. Furthermore, the answer al leges that the original agreement was not legally binding, but that in living up to Its moral obliga tions, the Silver Falls Timber com pany sustained a monetary loss 1 f from 1350,000 to $400,000. occrrs loned by war conditions and i's efforts to make good. Jay H. Dobbin of Wallowa coun ty, named by Governor Monday, to a place on the statev highway commission has declinedl to accept the appointment. In sv telegram received by the this morning Dobbin expre reirret at his inability to serve declares that it will bo impossible for him to accept the post. Dobbin, wealthy Wallowsj eoun I ty rancher and sheep raiser, wa 1 selected by the governor to fill th positron left vacant on the stale highway commission by the death, of Edward E. Kiddle, of IstaiM Citv. following a conference with R. A. Booth and John Yeon the other members of the commission. Dobbin's wishes In the matter were not consulted prior to the1 appointment and first intimation that he was even considered for the place was conveyed to him in the shape of the appointment. In a statement given out by Governor Olcott with the an nouncement of Dobbin's appoint ment the governor declared that this was one of the most difficult selections he had been called upon to make since he had occupied the executive office. Numerous candi dates had been urged upon him for ! consideration by friends through out eastern Oregon but Dobbin name was not among these. Prom- j incut among those who have been put forward for the post are Wm. i Pollman, Baker stockman and bank -! David H. Nelson of Pea dleton and Thomas McCann of Bend. Unless the governor should again go outside of the reconv- I mendatlons which have been made it is felt that his choice must upon one of these three. 9 m s Baby Committed to School For Feeble Minded Thre year old Samuel Rase cf Mehama. will be commas! to the state school for feeble nvnd -d as a result of a medical examination held. An order of com- trio to the United States. miltment was Tiled this 1 lornin.s Before leaving. Colby .told the b Cou , Bu Associated Press he had been tre- j meadously impressed bv the eor- Convulsions at tie ti-n aftet!' diality of the welcome extended in responsible far the child'! t r mental conditio 7, tue Z---T T-ani report statec. Mexican Bank Is Closed; To Reopen Mexico City. Jan. 4. The Paris Mexico Banking company, with a captial stock of 14,000.000 pesos, did not open its doors for business today but a treasury department in'iiairi-rtr.'iit last night said It was exjeet"d the Institution would resume operations within a month Hal liquidate all clalma. Loans of 4, 00. 000 pesos on cot ton 2.00A,9QA on sugar and 2.000. 00 on other merchandise, all of whp h products have decreased In value within the last month, were recently made by the hank, and caused a run by depositors Among the concerns having large funds In th bank were several important French companies. Council Didn't Favor Pap Attack, Claim Denial that it had sanctioned the attack of the Oregon Labor Pres? on the Metal Trades Worker, a newspaper in which Salem mer chants have extei.ively advertised, was made by the Portland Central Trades and Labor council at its regular meet last night, according to L. J. Kimeral. head of the loeai !abo- council. Mr Hlmernl returned to IbV. D bis morning after having attended h' i'oitl.md meeting. The Portland council declsred itself as being neutral, Mr. Hine-tal Relief Money Used for Pole Army, Charge Washington, Jan. 4. Forty mil lions of the one hundred fifty millions of dollars appropriated, by congrees for European relief was spent to "keep the Polish army tn the field," Senator Reed, democrat of Missouri declared today in the senate during the government economyv discussion. Senator Heed said he had documents In his offic io support his statement and ho promised to discuss them. t length latei. Etheridge Bail Reduced Tcday , iland r . .Ian. 4. Ball for ,vir 1 1: h-rj.'K.a under arrest on larceny charges 1.. connection ww the closing of the bond firm -e Morris Brothers, Inc., will be re- -tated. and claimed that it n , -,iueed from $1 10,500 to $. mad- no statements either favoring or condemning the Metal Tradts Worker. Mr. Slmeral aald he was lead to believe that the Portland Mattel nil) demand a retraction of statements made In the Oregon La bor Press of Portland. Interest was aroused among Sa lem merchants recently when news stories appeared In the Oregon La bor Press Intimating that the Port land council had frowned on the activities of the Metal Trades Worker and hinting that Its pub lisher. R A Vandershott of San Francisco, was not in good standing on the coast. Contracts of local ad vertisers, however, Mr, Slmeral said re made with the loca: 'at - r - unci!. nutrirt Attornev Walter H. Kvaaa) announcedtoday after he had been urged by attorneys to recommend such action. Etheridge said , he could not raise that amount bsrt thought hi friends might do so. Charles Hindman. a replies aria -Uve from Multnomah county, today agreedto act as attorney for Itllwi idge u nt d the legislature until another attorney hi South BeTld. Studebsker cor work on a sch ninety automo Ind. Jan. 4. on will 1 production of daily Jannare 10 it was announced here toeVrr The output will be increased ar-el- uilly until it reaches stl it was st.id.