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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1921)
Tte Weather OREGON: Tonlgnt ud Sunday gonrraJly ekmdy, moderate west erly winds. MM' AT.: No rainfall; northerly winds; clear; maximum 56, minl mnm S, set 43, river 7.2 feet and falling. Circulation for 1920. of Salem ?... 1920 1900, 4258; 17,679 . ...... 1920, 47,17?; Polk I county, udit Bureau 01 v--u-fcer of uoii Full I Htm Associ leased Wire. Price Three Cents Salem, Oregon, Saturday, February 26, 1921 api t ainri our nal pital Journal Installs High SpeedPress if l ires nun Portland rgain Rush i Battered In Ef to Curb Riot; dows Broken and nen Faint Ore., Feb. 26. More . omen tainteu, ti and otherwise in- hi. , , ,, dn nn poll , automomie .....- en climbing over it and Iscemen battled to control I estimated at 8,000 seeking) admittance today at the I 0 a five-ten-and-fifteen Lra which had advertised bargains aluminum at 15 cents, cotton bed 1 15 cents and ladies silk cents a piece. Many -,,mn were eared lor at drag (torea and some were o the emergency hospital. I was completely blocked , rjway and Aiuer streets, He main corners of the L district at 8 o clock. Some umin hunters arrived be- Ebreak, it was said. When were opened there was a i rush. Plate glass wln- L, smashed by the jam. land women who succeeded log purchases had difficulty Wealing themselves wn.i and some lost their lids of the tea kettles. 11 was roughly handled by man who charged him ijut exertions in the crowd. i who was hatlcss pro- was trying to get the lid which he had lost. I not say anything about Mem at the emergency kuw cauliflower ears this iiswering telephone calls 1,41 of whom hud just lis to ask: "Have you Ink there ?" Roosevelt, Jr., and Denby Both "'Accept Posts St. AMsrustme, Fla., Feb by-'l'uSSnt 26 DefinMt anawancement was mails hroi4paijKnf-0leet Hard. Ing today that Tie had selected Edwin Dtrrby. of Detroit for secretary of the navy and Theo dore Roosevelt, son of the for mer president, for assistant sec retary. Both have accepted. St. Augustine, Fla., Feb. 26. Edwin Dehby of Detroit talk ed over naval policies with President-elect Harding today in a conference that was ex pected finally to seal his ap pointment to the cabinet. Neither the president-elect nor his conferee would com ment on the subject matter of the talk, however. Imnmwpmpnk niirincr Pacrf Year Make Plant Best Equipped In State to Serve Patrons; Time Saving Is Big Factor Two Views of High Speed Perfecting Press Installed by The Capital Journal Term lain Issue In Slverton Case a) ssuililisn tne uu-ainu'. I Kuuls 1 vu i. inn' ;r: . n' - f Iwth Bides in the one tdil Isjauiu dollar bieacti ol con- t of the dilverton Lumlei Ifalnflt the fr.ve," , alill coiupaiiy. have lieei, jt loa ms fur the past two days as Broceedt! before Judge tm in the circuit court de nt No. . fys for the plaintiff iusi-i lei'm means a fair avarair Itlie logs taken from the van- liiiiis ui iht logging company, lot those from any nai tic ilai KiuciiiR of evidence in the f! letters and ; lie testimony of wiiden. president of the lion oompany, into the case Padt to anew in ,1 .vas what miMiiiy unui .stood liie term pn vnen th, contract were I to years ago, I ill e QUaillM nrld this rnnminir m the acceptance of logs I were nut supposed to conn: 'the terms nf Ihe ennli-:ict. Iht failure ut the plaintiff to 1 the Silver Kails Timber coll,- ! the alleged disqualification logs Within 4 hone Mll- I the right to suit. claim of ihn nil I fr $4000 for damages done EWr Utlni Ui-m rrri'ia MMff F-y in court, and Huh L.a- I "UberinteiHlt-nt nf Dtp mmn. pd that the engine' was in bad When if Mac tnr.in.i sowaaa t,i lilver Kalis Tim bar mrnilK Fing the greater part of the ""ms .!..,!., v concerning: rm of "woods run" the jury Interest On Loan May Go to Bonus Fund Tax Provision Elim inated In Bill As Reported To Senate by Committees Washington, Feb. 26. Use of the i interest on the $10,000,000,000 of American war loans to the allies in financing adjusted compensation for former service men is one of the plans under consideration by congress. This was disclosed to day when the soldiers bonus bill itas fuvorably reported by the sen ate finance committee. Bill Reported In. Washington, Feo. M.-aVWlth the tax provisions eliminated, the sol diers bonus bill was reported to the senate today by the finance com mittee. The cash bonus would be payable January 1, 1923. The question of taxes to meet the cost of the bill was left i'or the next congress. Aside from sinn ing out the tax provision, the com mittee made little change in the House bill, retaining the five op ..,M3 of a cash bonus based .igth of service, deferred certifi-.-.ilea, farm and home and aid vo litional training. liurly Action Promised. Senator ilcCumber, republican, North Dakota, in charge of the bill, plans to call it up in the senate at lie first opportunity, probably next week. Several senators gave nonce ol liieir opposition and Senators CSci , Rhode Island, and Jones, Now Mexico, democrats, reserved the , ight to offer amendments on the loor to have the bill made imme diately effective by restoring the taxation provisions. Senator Thomas, democrat. Colo rado, who opposed the bill, expects to file a minority report. One of the amendments added oy ,he committee provides that all claims must be filed by July 1. 10';-. six months before any of th;.- Pro visions go into effect, so that the ..,.. -m mav know what pro portion of men file for the cash cr other options. War and Autos Are Blamed for Girls' Mis-steps m.iie r:itL N. J.. Feb. " - -War and automobiles are re sponsible for the -appu.....B immorality" among high school students, Miss IJUian K. mitt, dean of women ai ingslde college. Sioux City, Io wa, declared yesterday in address before tne v; . Council of Deans of Women. As a corrective she suggested that women's colleges aane closely to the old standard of chaperonage for students. - . . .. i.. I havnC "The war nas imi,...,--ith nnr ethical standards. ..m ui. nimmitt. "and atter four years of killing It is only natural. It is response" -k .v. rinmis license found pin i hi i . Merits In the Junior v,ih schools. Thhe number of cases of Immorality Is appall ing." Potter perfecting press with capa city of 20,000 eight pace papers an hour or 10.000 sixteen page papers. cott Selects Pish and Game lomrmssioners Pernor oieott has announced "nwrmel of the newly conati- "!h Commissinn fnr C-aftr tP new st.a,e eame commission "lows: commission Frank I Ponldnd: Chrimian Wk Astoria Al u ' cvunty M. F. Powers, ame commission Colonel . Kellv Pnrtlun frnm '" large, t N. Klesih'ner of Mo an.l u.,. , .. ... . 1 . AllUCI II ' , ,rrn came dislrirt 'n. 1 : Lynch of Redmond and "llock of Baker, from 'dis o I -riiiiiiu oy Attorney n Winkle, no member of 'ature which created the JT? """missions are eligible llip triereon Thi ln- I . -. i . t u i ii e e i i 1 1 1 1 - ifH "ator Charles Hall of Little Girl Still Is Missing; Case Baffles Officers i iiTnu fmm the lustice court and sheriff's office here admitted today that they have tnus iar oee. baffled in their attempt to get some trace of 15-year-old Jennie LaFlemme, of Brooks', Oregon, i , n.e from home whose ui.-.i j'" --- . weeks ago nas wide interest in this vicinity, and . nith winch O. - " . inhorer. is charged r recti, a i.ii ' ' , ,, . ' iu..,i, to the delin- witn ronu i- r Q minor child. qU.e"lL"' v.. declares he knows nothing concerning the ' fe'rl g whereabouts, is out on $400 cash t .E-.mme first dropped from sight about February 11. . wnrtiea wnw rt rptnrn rrom sne lanw : z .-r one eveniiiB ntiflPfl. A " .. j npiiher ner days loiioweu, Mr. ana Aim. . I-""' ' ... oflrnpa Flemme, nor oinc.a.s vthlnc which migni ie- nt her whereaoouw. Sr-i - al've. however. the belief expre-- u-: r. Furtlier aeinur"" . url a hv officers with case are eipe - in the next few uajs. Paper Shows Faith In City By Additions Muli-Magazine Lino type, Typograph and Rule Caster Added to Serve Patrons The Capital Journal has shown Its faith in the future of Salem by the installation of a Potter Per fecting press with capacity o' iO.OOO eight page papers an hour or 10,000 sixteen page papers, and as soon as the force becomes fa- iiinrized with the new system ol rinting from stereotype plates ln- ,i or tvue bed, early delivery oi iho nauer and Improved appear ance Is assured sunscnoe.., hile the kind induigeme iblic is asked. To install the press, and the ne ssaxy stereotyping equipment, n ',..., tr. hnild a 60-foot ex- ivw - e rea, was done hast fall and in. .e; cember the p.t for ne v, -. ompleteu. - ,,.,,,. mechanics have been ousy . . moehinerv, which is an driven by i-dividual motors. The Zt Press printed to W the new from p. ; To nU. these plates, n """TT. Lumh make matrices, .or n - hiXte Tressed oU; the tyi-e :Z by a matrix roller, then baked page oy . coml,leteil ing box ami m pourlng in moult." me a pill was the Charge .JV. -C - - Brings uny H Who waa a . w , f U f,.t rin.nri n c on w " ' "mission, and Sena who was a member E. D. Cook, of this city, yester- irnucned in the police court OTe Race. He pleaded guilty charge oi pn-...o- . jn.n" aid Judge Kac His fine He was air. yru t - . . .v.. frtr 11.1 rt of arreslea m L" . hv Traffic Officer Miller Judge to Mean uf the Panama Asks Guns to Fight Costa Ricans United States Asked To Return Seized Rifles: Hostilities Begun, Report r,irton Feb. 26. lmme- ... ,irn nf several thousand .i.i.. ..1,1 in 191B DV tne iiusi ..,h,ieitle(i In the Panama ICllll nun,"'" i In nKkeil hv tne goveiu .t 11.1 i .mi- " " - ment of Panama wnicii m use them in repelling tne repo.v nvasion of Panama by -osia Cl eans. Pansma, Keb 25. Hostilities , ..,r, Keiwen Pananian uno Costa Rlean forces in the vicinity of Coto, on the Pacific enu i . .i i. i h d ill advices re- irumici. - . , eeived hei-e. Official confirmation ihec renorts. however, is i"-c ...........t ,lee iil-il lion Ol ng. run" - V...X aI heen made UP tiniu i""' am"- er More than 2000 men euro.. nilltary service here yesterday and , . e,o. mher units of the re public' told of citizens volunteering . i ...... it neneveu v.,- tor me . ...j. - - . .a ,.ftr l olo or en Illllllllit .Wl.SB known bacon. Th base of Pananian operations ,in i,e In the town of 1'iogieHo, r-,.,ir lie iniice. wnicn is con near uu"u - nected by narrow gauge railway wilh a port constructed by the 1 an ama Sugar company. An interesting phase of the situa tion results from Costa Rica occu pying territory under the arbitra tion decision of Chief Justice Whi.e of the 1'nlted States supreme court, which wiib handed down In 1914. while the United States herself, has, by virtue of treaties, guaran teed the territorial integrity of this country. The Pananian govern ment claims, however, that Just White's decision contulned a clause to the .fleet that If his award should not be accepted by both par ties the territorial status would re vert to the conditions laid down by the decision of President Loubet of Krnnee. It is under the Loubet de cision that Panama claims the land which Costa Rica has seized. i i. Imam ihe Sinclair oil Inter ests have been conducting drilling ..,i,..,u in the a me general lo cality where concessions have been granted a llritlsn coi poi anon "i Costa Rica. Woman Ends Own Life To Save Husband Inhales Gas So That Mate May Be Free To Marry Girl He Assaulted San Francisco, Feb. tt. Mrs, Ethel Younger, 26 years old, ended ' her life by inhaling gaa today in or- ' der, she wrote to save her husband ) from the penitentiary by permitting him to marry a 17-year-old girl against whom he is cnr.rged with a statutory offense. William Younger, 27 jears old, the husband, is under arrest on tho statutory charge, which he denied. He and his wife had been marneo two years. Mrs. Younger s letter to ner iunu lady reminiscent of the scripture dictum "greater love than thio hath no man that he lay down hl life for a fellow man ,' said: "Destroy this. Don't let the po lice see It. Please forgive me for messing up your kitchen and for using so much gas, but you see It had to be don. "1 have figured and thought un til my brain will not work. It ab solutely refuses to do so and thio is the conclusion I came to. "With me gone, my Bill can mar ry the girl and they can have their little baby and he won't have to go to the penitentiary. I simply can not stand that. I could not have my Billy locked up for five or ten years. "He wan irond to me. He wu 1 Just as nice as he could be and I loved him so much and he acted he same to me. I have no coni- niiiint. lie cave me all his money and he was awfully good, so I love hiin still. This is tne only way i can help him. Why I couldn t sleep nights if I thought he was In Jail. "Please send my body to the medical colleire If 1 sure die and they can do as they see fit. I did n't do any one any good living, so see if I can dead. "Please write my mother and tell her not to be sorry. I wanted to die. Don't let her bury me. "As for Billy, well I guesa there in nothing. I only hope this keepa him out of Jail. Tell him to think of me once in a while. "P. S. If there Is any such a thing as coming back I'll try and communicate with you. Who knows, perhaps I'll talk over Mr. Edison's machine. ''ry any way. If the world I am going to Is any worse than this, good night, 1 11 come back. I'll seo you later. Colonel Hofer and Frank Davey Tell Mm. m j I Of Early History of Capital journal Governor Signs Bennett Bill ,nIs by a r living knife in what hiT.k nnn in- It is then p.aceu ... - - and shsvea i" i-m- i. ... .re then attached neSS. evlinder on the press, to the form W it ,he cranks on tne m - turned and the -- - - It all sounds r 11 ? .. .. i. dron around to the equipment ren- - ,he wheels .ur.. -- ,., T" rna.'not only has outside oi modern ' an 1 equipped and most ne CmPrhaP. adde a mu.U-mag.v- rm Ludlow ttpo- ,ined nnotyPV ' . mmwH graph for - and ctln(t and an rT'", its le.ds. slugs, borders and e rmVrn-7 "7 with steel form r.b.es No of the f ' (Continued on !. ton ) New Cylinder Press a Far-Cry From First One Used Declares Davey By Hon. Frank Darej. ! in TannarV. 1888, I WMM , . ' j ... - employed on the Sentry, an evening paper conducted bv M. C. CIay) Starr In a ground floor room of what was then Reed s opera hoiwe. later becoming the McCornack block, all the ground floor having Keen since transformed into a Dig mercantile establishment. The pa per was a sort of free lance ana had a precarious existence. Mr. Starr was a pronionionisx, im leanings toward that policy ana iu allied forces, and as the general nentiment in those days was not that way, the subscription list of the sentinel was not large and the advertising patronage not exten sive. Press 'Hauler." The press was in the basement and waa an old rattletrap that wac provocative of more profanity than was good for the operator. Some times it would work and sometime it wouldn't and waa a eonataol .e of severe trial to John P Veatch. t a gioou ooy. who eat circulation manager," delivery boy and collector, and who has since developed Into one of the best id vertlsing men In the west at Doise. Idaho. Boon after I Joined the forces of that Sentry another addition wxh made In the person of Will H. Par rv previously of Independence and (wnlat who in later yeara be come prominent In Seattle, later a rocmlier of the federal trades com- mJawiiin. who died a few years ago ot. .our Mr Parrv's arrival ...ienia began for the reor ganization of the Sentry and the re salt was the formation or me com pany that founded me apiii Journal In March. 1888. Or.iy a few men figured outwardly in tne enterprio. but several prominent px,ple contributed to n ana en couraged it- Mr. Starrs sentry in terest were merged into tne new paper in some way. but he had no more to say about Its managemei t r policy, the sentry passing out of existence when The Capital Jour nal appeared. Mr parry ana my olf made up the name. Parry Asmew HHm. Mr Parrr became managing edi tor for a time, but early in the life at the paper. Freoenca iocaiey came from U Lake, where be hd baca an editorial writer on the Tribune and he waa Installed as (Coauaaed on page rive.) Paper First Pnnted In 1888; Many Prom inent Pioneers Had Hand In Making By Col. E. Hofer, The Capital Journal company waa organized by Surveyor General W. H. Uyars. State Printer R. M. Walte, County Judge Tom C. Shaw, and County Clerk M. L. Chamber lain all passed on but General fiyais, atill residing In Salem. The first nu in her appeared March I, 1888. as a six-column quarto. Will H. Parry, manager. His name re mained the head of the paper until April 14. when it was dropped -un- - r. i ii 1 1 . . eil lie I -ui crnne Ilk iden tify himswlf with the then young and struggling etty of Seattle which he helped build, managed Its cham ber of commerce and amassed a fortune in that windy city. The paper came out without pub llahinc the name of anv sponsor un til October 2 when W. H. Byarft editor, and Claire B. Irvine, city editor, annear at the head of the editorial page. Irvine's name .drops out March 18. 188. March ii The Journal waa enlarged to seven col umn form but they forgot to aet up the aa mr of the editor, and on May (Continued on Page Two.) oieott today signed tin .......... kiii iit.g the states title to lands Included In the bcdi ..e meandered nan -navigable las and the bill becomes operative on ...... .-. iv,e , niei irem v clause tached to the original bill havlnrf been eliminated througn a monu ment before the measure waa pass ed by the house. This measure which saves to in hi children of Oregon thou- xands of acres of lands In the bed f lakes valued at approximately 12,000.000 Is regarded as one or the mnt Important nieces of leg islation enacted by the recent '- ion. The bill was drarted by At torney General Van Winkle and Hi assistant and embodied the Idena of these officials as well is tho.e of former Attorney General Brown who. while in that office, made an extended Investigation Into the tichool land situation and decliKd that Immediate action was neces- arv in save theae thousands of uim to the irreducible school fund from which so many thousands of acres of other lands had been tak en through fraud in form' r years Although the bill maker, ample t.rf.v-lainn for the protection of the verted rights of present settlers on the lake shore a well aa glee to them priority right in the acquisi tion of lands formed by future re liction of waters in the lake and there waa no opposition- -oi prac tically none from the settler 1 hi aaaaasaaa a ilrinumn fienl tk made in both the house aril senate Bank Offers To Be Lenient With Boy Thief Chicago, Feb. 26. The North ern Trust company, from which William Dalton, 17, took $772,000 In Liberty bonds, will urge the police to release him if he will re turn tho securities, aceordliig to word today from W. S. Miller, vice-president. "I will help him to straighten out and get settled hack In tho right road. If he will bring baeg ihe bonds at once we will urge tho city officials to release him," Mr. Miller said. "We will do all wo can to help him." Chicago, Feb. 28. Two clews io the flight of William Dalton, IT years old bank clerk who escaped from the Northern Trust Bank yesterday with $772,000 In Liberty bonds, the largest bank rohhery in Chicago' history, were being traced by police today. The youth, who last night drovo up to a garage In Waukegan, a northern suburb, and asked to leave his new automobile all night was Identified a Dalton. He drovo north the next morning. Previous ly a youth answering his descrip tion had offered Liberty bonds in payment for an automobile at a Chicago sales agency. Investigation of nations nomc bonds, the largest bank robbery In ton threw no light on th theft, police said. m IK. hMl fund through tho to defeat passage of the measure, of sand and gravel." Oieott Vetoes Two Measures Two measures enacted by tka late legislature went down under Die veto of Governor Oieott Friday. One of these was Sonata Bill number three by Ryan exempting sand and gravel used In construc tion work on roads, bridsws anal public buildings from payment of the stale royally. The other was house bill 24 by HIndman relating to th office hour of official of Multnomati county. In hi veto mass ago attasaod M aenato bill D u tabor tfere two gov ernor declare that "Ifca bill wooM deprive th scaoel .nn of Ota state of I das thrnus-h the irrsdaaioi fund, by diverting to other raised from roysKMo 'la " a m same commLssion. Hayden.