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Circulation ..erase for "50 riltion of Salem 1900, 4258; 14.014: 1920. 17.679 'County 1920. 47.177; Pol ..mber of Audit Bureau of Circu 'ation. Leased Associated Press Full Wire. ;rdYear". No. 76 Capita ournal Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, March 29, 1921 77i Weather OREGON Tonight and Wednes day generally fair, cooler to night east portion, Heavy frost early morning, moderate wester ly winds. LOCAL: No rainfall; northerly winds; clear; maximum 70, min imum 35, set 45; river 6 feet and falling. Mce Three Cents MT-?, tS8 enDieln Chicago Explosion; Many Hurt i actics Scored icient Manage ment. Not Working reements Is Need aims Lauck . . i an ...... t tlcago, warcu . uc iuui l railroad problems is not Lai agreements but in the Ijuacies ol management ue- I yv. Jett i.auca, consulting nist of labor organizations, tinning presentation of rail-' iployes exhibits before the j d Stales railroad labor I today. i taiservatively stated, if rail- I management was charaeter- hy reasonable efficiency and available lor its use proper k or credit, labor costs would bhown a radical decline un- I national agreements," Mr. ti declared. "Savings in op K txpenses of at least one i dollars annually would b! We shall demonstrate this py reports prepared by reput- liailroad engineers, and ex- John Burroughs Famous Naturalist, Overtaken by Death; Was enRouteHome POET PROTEGE OF OF BRYAN VICTCIM OF TOO MUCH ALCOHOL Chicago, Mar. 29 Will it-ed Dunroy, poet and widely known press agent, died here las' right of wood alcohol poisoning, j'.ien with whom he has been asso ciated lately said that he had not taken a drink for years but yesterday he asked a frier d fot one to cure a cold. Dunroy was 45 years old and l .. i. : .. j ' ma younger aays was a pio tege of William Jennings Biyan who paid his way through the University of Nebraska. UtJca, N. Y., March 29. John Burroughs, naturalist, died on a New York Central train near Kingsville, Ohio, on his way home from California at 2 o'clock this morning. He had been very ill for six weeks with an abscess on the chest and heart and with kidney complications. He was so eager to get home that the long journey was undertaken with the hope that he could survive. The end came suddenly, a few minutes after he had asked: "How near home are we ?" ft seek to establish these Demands Reasonable. -Thep oliey of establishing agreements or uniform (pay and working condi- in conformity with cus I precedent In the traspor- Industry and in accordance Ithe best public policy, as h by the awards of boards of ttion, and the acts and ec iations of other official les during the pre-war per- -In other leading industries I country collective bargain- i a national scale, and na agreements as to working I lions and relations, have lound to he the best means of Iking conditions, promoting trial peace and accelerating action. iBareainintr Recognized. -mat m (ireat Britain thesi Ihave become so clearly recog- I by both employes and em- ! that national agreements immured bv the Fedrat ' pies and the Federation of i Unions as a t. . I Is being exerted to make Icompulsory upon all employ- Id employers in a given indus- -That the former railroad titration in entering Into al agreements therefore recognized a tendency I had almost reached com- Idevelopment prior to the war hich was sanctioned by en- opinion both within and t the transportation indus- Conspiracy Charged. -That the representatives of Mroads have eiven their Poo to national rates of nay Porting conditions of engine Wins crews. -We shall further show that fWiments of the railroads are ae which have been urged years to nrevent the cs- fbment of human standards prustry and shall demonstrate the railroads ' are now con- WJ and deliberately taking PJM of temporary industrial "on to destrnv human tls which are sanctioned ov fought and practice of the p industrial nations of the Tariff Price Basis Meets Opposition Washington, Mar. 29. Protests against the legislation agreed on by the republican leaders to pro vide tariff taxation at American instead of foreign valuations are being received by members of the senate finance and house ways and means committees. Those criticising the American valuation system contend th- American values of merchandise differ at Boston, New York, San Francisco and New Orleans and other ports of entry and that no inflexible standards ot valuation are feasible. The price differenc es, it is contended, would e greater in the middle section of the country because of the trans portation distances from the seaboard. Prominent republicans of the congressional taxation committees concede that there is some nnrlt in the objections to the valua tion legislation but believe that its benefits would be much great er than any harm which would result. The report says a woman physician, who was accompanying Mr. Burroughs took charee of the remains and continued east. Mr. Burroughs boarded the train at Chicago and was bound for Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Dean of Nature Writers. John Burroughs was the vener able dean of nature writers In the United States. Through a score of books he shared with countless leaders his lifelong intimacy witn birds, bees, flowers and the whol i out-of-doors. His highly develop looking the river just about Poughkeepsie. When rural civili zation pressed a little close about him, he built his "slabsides" Rabin a mile or two back in the woods. ife did not go at his studies with the set determination of an herbal ist hut took life easily, and wrote breezily when the spirit i?iov him of the secrets of nature. Ho never made much of the discovery of new species, and nothing of cataloguing them, but delighted in finding for himself and revealing to others the charm of close con ed powers of observation and thai tact witn the birls' bees and flow charm of his Interpretations wern the marvel of his critics. He was born in 1837. In 188S he went to Washington with some thing of an inclination to enlist in the Union army, but he decided to seek a government office. It is re lated that with only a few of his poems as credentials he walked :n to the treasury department &nd asked for a job. It was agreed that his veneral verse really amen of the woods, and smacked of sin cerity. He would be a safe Man to watch the treasury vaults. He agreed to take the place. At a lit tle desk, facing the huge iron vault where he kept tabs on those who went to handle the $50,000, 000 stored there, he began wfit'iig of the birds, to relieve his home sickness. The result was his first book, "Wake-Robin." Business Tired Him. Some years later, after wort; us a treasury clerk and a national bank examiner had netted him some savings, he bought a few acres at West Park on the Hudson, where among the loaded trellises of a vineyard he found "more pleasure than in the closets ni greenbacks." There he renewed his emotional intercourse with ers. The essence of his philosophy was always bright, in agreement with Browning, that "All's woll with the world." McFarland, Promoter, Is Freed Today R. D. McFarland, arrested here several days ago after he had at tempted to promote a plan for thu erection of an $80,000 cooperative apartment house, was released from the county jail this morning. He had been held on a charge of obtaining money under false pre tenses. McFarland was released, it is understood, because of an insuf ficency of evidence to warrant prosecution under the "blue sky" law. Five hundred Carolina poplar trees have been received by the Linn county fair board and will be planted at once around the fair nature, building a real house over grounds. ie Patrol ForestsTo e Continued hwrmntinn of the aiane FBre patrol in Oregon on the (le as that of last year is assured Oregon thla ding to a telegram re 'V by State Forester El- Scnator McN'ary. The 'he patrol are entirely ef the ninth r,,r,lc Mwfc K 'ratine. ii A , M.VUIUIDg tO ThiS Official WI1 TT,. ... "rtkution of th J0 the limited approprla- peironnel available for k- While it is expected arr.e tprrttnrv wtn k r was covered last year Employes Claim Closing Of Mill Plain Lockout; Arbitration Is Sought . , -wr I iJ JL Oregon Student Talks to Salem High Students Urging all students who can possibly do so to attend some high er instituion of learning, Carlton Savage of Salem, president of the University of Oregon student body, adressed Salem high school stu dents at their regular student body meeting this morning. Savage, who is a senior at the university, Is here to spend the spring vacation, and will return to Eugene next week. Alleged Slayer Of Cronkhite Is Released on Bail New York, March 29. Robert Rosenbluth. former United States army captain, charged with hav ing caused the murder of Major Alexander Cronkhite at Camp Lewis, Wash.. October 25, 191. was released today by Federal Judge John C. Knox on a $23,000 bond. He agreed to return to Seattle to answer the charge pending against him there In the United States district court. rwia-;r,r that TViarlos! V Snaiilrlintr. oresident of the 1 v I ti 1 1 J. ''..'- ........ . - x Qnaiilfll(r T.nrnW mmnflTiv has instituted a lockout by clos- i.;puuiviiifl .uw... 1 v- inp; down his mill yesterday evening and refusing to arbitrate the matter of the reduction ol tne wage scaie irom .?o.ou to $3.00 per day, employes of the company will take steps to ward bringing the matter before the state arbitration board at meeting to be held at the Salem Central Labor Council tonight Stillman Father of Boy, Claim Guardian Alleges Pos itive Proof of Par entage of Baby Awaits Hearing Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Mar. 29. John E. Mack, guardian al litem for Guy Stillman, 28 months old Infant, whose legitimacy is ques tioned by James A. Stillman, pres ident of the National City bank of New York, in his divorce suit, against the former "Fifi" Potttr. announced today that he was in possession of proof that the bank er is the child's father. "At the proper time," he added, "we will establish this fact by competent evidence." Proof Held Conclusive. This statement was made while both sides were awaiting decision of Supreme Court Justice Mor schauser on alimony and counsel fees. It was understood here that "competent evidence" of Guy's pa ternity will be presented either a referee hearings or before a couvt by several witnesses, both men nnd women. Some of these, it was un derstood, will be servants in the Stillman household, but at least one is said to be an outsider who visited the banker's home early In 1918. Previous to his statement today Mr. Mack had not claimed posses sion of postive proof that the fi nancier was the father of the in fant, who, Mr. Stillman alleges, was born to his wife by Fred Beau vais, an Indian guide, employed by the banker. PAINTS TAXICAB TO PAY HIS FARE Paris, Mar. 29. Paris prob ably has the only futurist taxi- cab in the world and it occupies a prominent place near the Opera. A few nights ago an artist, returningt o his home by taxi, found that he had no mon ey to pay his fare. He suggest ed to the chauffeur that he "work out" the sum by painting futurist designs on the sides of the taxi. The chauffeur con sented and held a candle while the artist worked. I Dawes To Head Investigation Of Relief Work Washington, March 29. A committee of eleven, headed by Charles G. Dawes of Chicago, who served as a brigadier general with the American Expeditionary Forces, was appointed by Presi dent Harding today to conduct f!JDryrisr ,i u taM for I outside of the open shop 11UU n a.i vocational training and care and nt founded or impaired i reuiiii'. service men generally." Overland Plant Reopens. Toledo, Ohio, Mar. 29 Bet ween 6000 and 7000 employes will return to work at the Overland An tomobile plant here Monday, vice president Charles B. Wilson an nounced today. The plant closed j-r, KVvemher 1. 1920. Mikado Asks Former Greek Premier to Act In American Dispute Athens. March 29-Former Premier - Jjg J Japan to be the guest of the m.kada wi - "JJ jjtftai arbitrate difficulties pending between " S a es, says the London dispatch to the newspap.r Patns. The employes base their state ment that Mr. Spaulding agreed to arbitrate all differences be tween them before the Salem ar bitration board in a letter ad dressed to O. J. Simeral. head of the Central Labor council, after all auestions of wages had been settled in October 1920. The letter reads: October 26, 1920. near Sir: You state there Is some quesiton amongst the men that we will not do what is right in placing them back at their old poistions. Wish to say If the men go back Monday morning if there are any masters that are not satisfactory we will inn In to the Salem Hoard of Arbitration and abide by their de cision. Very truly yours, (Signed! Chas K. Spaulding Lumber company, by Chas. K. Spaulding, president. W. F. Bramerd, vice-president. Whteher or not the employes of the mill will join the International Timber union is a question which has been under consideration by tome since the meeting last Thurs day night. At present, howevr, the altercation concerning the wage scale is in the bands of the employes as a whole and not the union. Among certain of the employes there is talk of placing the mill on the uniair list, oui ue mnimu- ee selected by tbem to confer with Mr Snaulding concerning the re- A .. . V. rjuoion are nox id " move and will do all in their power to prevent it, they say. Hun Riots Continue Unchecked Fifteen Killed and 40 Wounded When Radicals and Police Clash Essen, Germany, Mar. 29. Fif teen rioters were killed and forty others wounded In a clash with the security police here. The attempt to bring on a general strike in this region has so far failed. An "exceptional status" has been proclaimed for Dortmund, Bochum, (ielsenklrchen and other points in llhenish Prussia. The "exceptional status" re ferredt o presumably Is similar to oridentical with the "non-military state of siege" which has been put Into force by the German au thorities in parts of central Ger many affected by the communist disorders. Halsey Bank Burglars Are Sought Here An attempt to rob a bank at Halsey proved a failure last Bight, according to information received from the Linn county sheriff by Sheriff O. D. Bower here I his morning. Local officers were re quested to be on the look-out for a Studebaker automobile owned by E. B. Penland of Halsey in which the would-be thieves are believed to have departed. Parents Contest Custody of Child Fight for the custody of Mary Elizabeth Hobblns, daughter ot Mrs. Irene Etta Robbins-Cave and Winwood Bobbins, divorced In 1917, continued In the circuit court this afternoon before Judge Bingham. According to the petition filed by her mother, when the divorce decree was granted to her parants the child was given into the cus tody of her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, who -was then a resident of Marlon county, but who later removed to TyKh valley, Was M j county. Since her aunt's removal the child has been, it states, in the custody of her father who allowed her mother to take her to Tygh valley on a promise that she would be returned In ten days. In getting control of th? child Mrs. Robblns-Cave refused to re turn her and has petitioned the court for her custody. The divorce was granted to Mrs. Robbins in 1917 on her cross com plaint and charging inhuman treatment. The custody of the child was granted Mrs. Taylor OS the stipulation of both parties, the father agreeing to pay $25 a month for her support. Big Warehouse Is Wrecked; Police Say Bomb Cause Building Reduced To Splintered Pile of Debris Covering Mangled Remains of Persons Caught In Catastrophe; Suspects Released After Examination Mown 5q An exnlosion which wrecked a ware- IMVUf-l'i - , house at 779 Barber street today caused ten deaths and in juries to several score other persons, according to first re ports received by the coroner's office. City police and fire men said they could see bodies in the ruins of the building. tne warenouse couiuiucu ww,c sale grocery stock, lncludlug con siderable starch and flour. That the explosion was caused Punic Rules Streets Effects of the explosion were felt for blocks. A big department store at Twelth and Halsted stree s was the scene of a panic when the concussion shattered plate glaris windows and startled clerks and shoppers. The neighborhood confusion hampered the police and firemen until the fire lines were establish ed, men and women running about the streets screaming about "bombs." Building Demolished. Of the building where the blast originated there was left only a pile of broken timbers and plaster. Half an hour after the explosion three bodies were taken from the rutns and four persons, severely injured, were sent to the county hospital. A dozen others were treated at a neighboring drug store. Two more bodies taken from the ruins brought the known death list to five. Parts of another body were also recovered but the corpsun were ao badly mangled that the coroner's assistants were uncer tain whether this latter discovery actually Increased the death list. Bomb Theory Advanced. The police were informed that by gas or a bomb were the early theories of the police. The warehouse was a one story brick structure with a 35 foot frontage and about 160 feet in length. The explosion apparently occurred in the rear of the build ing. Substance was given the police bomb theory when a percussion cap Avas found In the rulnB and firemen searching the ruins were reported to have found parts of a supposed bomb. Searchers continued to take from the rulnB parts of bodies. The uper half of a body so muti lated that It could not be Identi fied was taken out and a mutilated leg was also found and removed to an undertaking establishment. A branch of the Chicago pubne library was converted Into an emergency hospital and twenty nine men, women and children were quartered there. Harry Well, son of Joseph Well, proprietor of the Well & Sons pa per house, was taken into custody by tbe police and taken to a police station for questioning. Former Senator Is Near Death Walla Walla, Wash., Mar. 29. No change is reported In the condition of former I'nlted States Senator Levi Ankeney who is critically 111 at his home. Senator Ankeney Is very weak and the end may come at any time. No hope is held out for his recovery Inheritance Tax Exemptions Must Not Pass $10,000 The supreme court this morning denied a petition for a rehearing in the case of the John Clark es tate vs. State Treasurer Hoff In volving an interpretation of the law of 1919 relative to Inheritance tax exemptions. The Multnomah county circuit court had construeJ the lav, as granting an exemption of flu. 400 for every direct deced ent in computing inheritance tax return. State Treasurer Holt ap pealed to the supreme court which in an opinon ba"d-d down several ..,..!, . am, reversed the lower court and held that only one exemption of 110,400 was to be allowed on estate, regardless of the number nf heirs. The estate had applied for a rehearing of the case which was denied today. While the amount involved in tbe Clark estate was comparative ly small the principle inrolved is' regarded u.f of vast importance. It: h.lr,i? . .!irrialef by Hotr tnat tt opinion of the supreme court will save to the state approximately 50.000 In inheritance taxes an-, nua)l - Oth'-r opinions handed down by i the court this morning were: llna l-hman vs. Georre c Knott, appeal from Clackamas county; action for damages J against a physician. Opinion by Justice Bean; Judge J. U. Camp bell reversed. Crosby Tailor vs. W. C. rtuck ner and wife, appellants; appeal from Jefferson county; suit to foreclose mortgage. Opinion by Justice Harris; Judge T. E. J. Duf fy a f 1 1 rui eil B. P. Sayles vs. Daniels Salts Agency, appellant; appeal from Multnomah county: action to re cover for giMxls sold. Opinion by Justice McBride; decree of Judge Oeorgc W. Stapleton slightly mod ified. Kate Hamilton vs. J. F. Hamil ton. appellant; appeal from Clat sop county; suit for divorce. Opin ion by Justice Johns. Decree of Judge j. A. Kakin affirmed. Will Montgomery et al vs. Oant & Russell, appellants; appeal from Multnomah county; suit to collect on lumber deal. Opinion by Jus tice Johns. Judge Kred W. Wilson affirmed. E. E. Chapman, appellant. t. "ity of Hood Itiver; appeal from Hood River county; proceeding to review action by city council of Hood Itiver In undertaking to lay out and establish two streets Opinion by Justice Brown; Judge Kred W. Wilson reversed. Man Is A rrested On Second Charge While First Officer Waits "All right," said W. J. McCal luin, of Portland, when he was taken to the police station on u speeding charge yesterday after noon by Traffic Officer Miller Hayden, "If you'll allow me Just a minute or so to go over and see a man, I'll be right back." Approximately three minutes later Mr. MrCallum drove around the corner of Liberty and CkWMk eta streets In a manner which caught the attention of Patrolman Porter. He jolted down the car's license number. When Mr. McCallum returned to the station a short while later, ba was confronted by two charges In stead of one. He laughed. "I've got It coming, all right," be observed. Twenty dollars bail was exacted from the Port land when he was taken before Judge Knee. Tbil ha forfeited this morning when he failed to appear ut 10 o'clock. Herbert Gordon, also of Poit land, forfeited flO when he did not appear In the police court Ibis morning. Mr. Gordon, who Is a member of the slate house ot representatives, was charged with, speeding on Capitol street. Man Is Jailed Twice, Pays $75 for Spree; 'No More Is Promise "I just took a couple of drljks to quit on and they knocked me out. But never again for me," deolared W. C. Wright, a Salem auto top worker this morning when he was arraigned before Po lice Judge Karl Race for the sec ond time within 24 hours. W'rUli' was charged with being intoxicat ed. Yesterday afternoon he pild a fine of "I'll Just give you a $S0 fine to; help you to remember," Juie Race said. "You remember ,'ou told ine the same thing yesteiday." "Yes, but I mean It this time," Wright Insisted. Saturday evening Wright was arrested and Jailed on a charge of being Intoxicated. Saturday r.igbl he spent in Jail, but he was ball"d out by friends Sunday. Monday be appeared In thep ollce court at 2 o'clock. "This Is a mighty poor way for you to appear before a court you're half drunk now," Judge Race accused. "I'm not half full, judge." "How full are you?" Wright considered. "Well, I can walk straight," he declared. And he proceded to prove this to the court. It was only a few hours after be bad paid his first fin that be was Jailed again. Through tbe failure of tbe city to answer four different suits filed In tbe circuit court last year, many mi reel and sewer assessments la Astoria are said to have been ren dered void. Miners Killed by Suffocation When Shaft Was Plugged Dowel!, 111., March 29. The bodies of seven men, entombed in the Katleen mine here February 23 when fire broke out in the colliery, were taken from the pit today by rescue workers. The bodies were not burned and death apparently was caused by asphyxiation, following sealing of the mine twelve hours after discovery of the fire to prevent the flames from spreading. r "rted that any new ' "in be patroled thia year