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.
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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