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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1921)
Weather OREGON : Tonight fair; Friday fair and warmer, heavy frost in morning ; moderate southeast winds. LOCAL : No rainfall ; northerly winds; clear; maximum 62, mini mum 19, set 35 ; river 3.2 feet and falling. ournal . 1 Vnnr Nil. O' Salem, Oregon, Thursday, April 7, 1921 Price Three Cents JT tf? ffl orty-iniru auahertv Warns Profiteers To Go Easy Circulation for 1923, 5250 AVerHtion of Sa.em 1900. 4258; population oi 47177: P0Ht county, H.181 t.r nf Audit Bureau of Circu M,on Associated Press Full Leased Wire. Capit sifnn Facing Crisis t Atrort.inff Gen- I IV, ui ILi evikA Fades AS IK ir ivn ,lon. April 7. A compiew akup of the conference be en representatives oi me the owners and the govern- ...i.i, iho v ew to semniK i"f i strike, was annouucwu m bv Premier St UL yd-Geor&e tbls afternoon. . ii tho ami ffwpnre. 0oyd0eorge declared; cn consequence or the refusal pump men to return to work i it,, Mnil nf A 1 IK Hi " M- i -J wi - - ional wage system and a na- . i tttr. nfiil hnfl liPn JlP- hi iimiio "-'" aA Thf nrpniicr added that .. it honn mrw'p flour th eVJmw Inn ..,.:,( t i i v t i iitl- any settlement except on conceding1 or ineir ut'inanuH full, the government, reiyinff the assistance of the great means in its power to meet situation. The view of the era federation. Mr. Llovd- rire asserted, was that to Der- the pumpers tv, return would to relinquish the weapon with c,h the miners honed to hriner government and the mine eh wirier i i, .n i h -i t t n n. .L an mini iiii iiii on rne " -v.w... V- I, I , II, u I -- " iiv mill, i.i II fill injury and misery to their tuivuguvui LI1C v,,, ut, n, , . i . 1 1 ' i 's . Former Emperor Charles Fails In Attempt To Regain Throne; Late Photographs Presented Budapest, April 7. Reports that former Emperor Charles has reached Switzerland have been re ceived here and his arrival in that country is considered by Count Al bert Apponyi, former Hungarian premier, as closing the incident arising from the ill-starred at tempt of Charles to reinstate him self as king of Hungary, in o. versation with the Associated Press yesterday the premier ex pressed the opinion that Charles was "probibly duped by a colassal hoax the work of foreigners for the purpose of promoting some de sign not understood here." "This regrettable incident, which is over," he continued, "at least proved the stability of the Hungarian state." Failure To Heed Own Warning Fatal State Traffic Chief Raffety Is Hailed Into Police Court m Rnhhprv . Ant UUL LlAl.ri'S Half Million -w- "" . 1UUIV.U11UIID V WWii thai lk 1 4. Uii j - - i icmccu oe evidence that the loss en tho imIIa. ... .. rn that h.,,1 i -i v ICCU 1 I If P . Pri an1 1, . .. I vjUn dsiue, ii. con- mm money wrappers which imui ueen one pack- or m i... onn . hi uiie iiiuusanu lar hiiio -1 . . -uuiuci Ul . 1 ' , 1 1 1 1 v one dollar hills and a third of I nnn lie Bnnh in t. j . . . I AIDU una contained ! v- sfwu UPfl nnlrtinn n 1 haps . "i-iniiig currency and i nai members. Most ot the " tousisnen to Minne- .., Wtts executed with uciiiuils. une ' . lui tie quartet had , ""B ual1 tor some timi Ul station and suri- . . """ over with rev... . .r up me station anri maii TanearditK "ed With the an automobile and ... nf ,. hia0nf.Mh0t- suPP1'y at one auu escaped. 1 l "UL11 II J Of Soldier Aid Bureaus Asked .Whingion. April I , - ui a veteran t . -iion and suicrnmpni.i , 9 - uo WiIK . . Z fe ffiec. -in --wn submitt T. A. Raffety .'chief traffic in spector of the state of Oiegon, and Instigator of the traffic "clean up" campaign which has been un derway in Salem during the last two days, will appear before Po-, lice Judge Karl Race this after- j noon to answer to a complaint signed by Chief of Police Moffitt, charging him with operating au ; automobile with inadequate lights, j Havden Makes Arrest, Chief Inspector Raffety was, apprehended by Motorcycle Pa-i trolman Miller Hayden last night. Patrolman Hayden first observed the "one-eyed monster" as it made its way north on Commercial Ktret. Commandeering a motor-! cycle, standing near-by, Haydeu gave chase and stopped the Raf fety machine as it proceeded east on State street, between Liberty and High. According to Officer Hayden the car had only a spot light burning. The headlights and tail light, he said, were dark. "Sign a complaint and I'll ap pear," Inspector Raffety remark ed as the grinning traffic officer accosted him. The inspector was informed by the officer that fui ther orders would be awaited from the police department. Disregarded Own Warning. "I don't think, we .should show discrimination," Chief Moffitt smiled this morning when he was informed of the details. "I will sign a complaint immediately. In spector Raffety will be arraigned this afternoon." Failure to heed his own warn ing which, he himself declared, would probably go unheeded, proved Inspector Raffety's undo ing. Prior to the launching of the "clean-up" campaign, motorists were warned that they would be arrested for every conceivable form of traffic law violation. At least four motorists were arrested here by Inspector Raffe ty and charged with operating their cars without proper lighting facilities. In Pendleton, it was re ported, the police commissioner was haled into court through the action of Chief Raffety's forces. Seven Drivers Get 'Jolt' For Traffic Errors; 2 Arrested Six more men were arraigned yesterday afternoon before Police Judge Earl Race, charged with having violated traffic ordinances, and each paid the fine he was as sessed. One motorist forfeited $10 ball. Two more men were ar rested in the traffic "lean-up drive which has been In progress here during the past two days. Following is the list of those who appeared yesterday together n-tth th fines they paid: R. S. Hancock, Salvation Army captain, 15; E. Stevenson, $10; Karl G. Becke, $5; C. B. Osborne. $5; Everett Givens, $2.50; Earl Yarhell, $2.50; Omer Digerness. of Silverton, forfeited $10 bond which he had put up when he failed to make his appearance. Wilbur M. Hunter was cited to appear in court today. He is charged with improperly parking a truck at the corner of Court and Commercial streets. L. Gowing, of Portland, was ar rested last night by Traffic Of ficer Hayden. Gowing is charged with operating his car with no tail light burning. He is cited to appear today. Approximately 30 motorists have been arrested in Salem dur ing the last two days for alleged violations of the traffic laws by the forces of Chief Inspector Raf ferty and Chief of Police Moffitt. Seen In The Crimelight Louisvile, Ky., April 7. Bank robbery became a more hazardous occupation in Ken tucky with offer of the Ken tucky Bankers association today of a standing reward of $1000 for every robber dead or alive. Eureka, Cal., April 7. William Clark, 16-year-old bandit suspect, who has been sought by an armed posse since his escape - from the county jail Sunday night was taken from a train at Dyer ville, 50 miles south of here, today, after having been cow ed by a broadside from the gun of the station agent. Landis Refuses To Give Kauff Permit to Play Chicago, April 7. Benny Kauff, star outfielder with the New York Nationals, today was declared ineligible to play in or- i ganized baseball by Commission- j er Landis because of the indict-: ments returned against him in New York charging him with the theft of an automobile. In rendering bis decision. Com-i missioner Landis said: "Of course, the mere return of an indictment does not imply guilt. The grand ."ury Inquis.t.on is ex-parte. The defendant h.n M opportunity there to defend him self against the charge. But In dictment does not imply that in the judgment of the grand Jurors there is probable cause to believe the accused guilty." Confession of Man Who Claims Hand In Murder Doubted WageCut IsDenied Railroad Federal Labor Board Denies Petition of New York Central to Make Slash Chicago, April 7 Permission to make provisional reduction of the wages of unskilled labor on the New York Central railroad was de nied by the railroad board here today. The railroad recently requested permission to put cuts of from 17 to 31 per cent into effect April 1. The dispute was taken to the la bor board after the railroad and employes lad conferred. The dispute between the New York Central and its uhskille I workers over a permanent reduc tion in wages will be heard April 18 in connection with similar dis putes which have been filed by other railroads. Old Chinese Committed To Asylum Ung Soo, aged Chinaman, was committed to the state hospital for the insane today on the complaint of public authorities. Ung Soo is familiarly known as "Monk." Ung Soo, as diagnosed by Dr. Byrd, is affilcted with the unpro nounceable cerebral arterios scle rosis, giving evidence of this men tal disease by wandering around the streets and getting lost. The Chinaman has been in the United States for 40 years and spent the entire time in Oregon. He is 78 years of age and has been confined to as asylum once before many years ago, but was released. He has no relatives, and his only friends are two of his countrymen George Sam and Hop Lee. ISteiner Recovers From Illness; Out On Street Today Dr. R. E. Lee Steiner, head of the state hospital for the insane, was sufficiently recovered from his ieeent illness to be on the streets today. Dr. Steiner had been confined to his home for the past eight day?. Scouts To Launch Clean-Up Survey Of Salem At Once Every Salem Boy Scout will be thrown immediately into the field to begin the clean-up survey of the city, it was announced this afternoon following a meeting of a committee composed of Paul Wallace, Mrs. A. F. Marcus, Mrs. F. L. Purvine, Dr. R. E. Pomeroy, Carl Pops and Harold Cook, which is in charge of the preliminary work. The first of the survey will be made either this afternoon or tomorrow. Each Scout will be furnished with a chart on which he Is tt make a detailed report of two blocks to which he will be assign ed. Each scout will be account able to his patrol leader, each pa trol leader will be under the or ders of his scoutmaster, and the scoutmasters will in turn recetv instructions from the committee A diagram of each block as it is found will be drawn, and these re ports will be transferred onto a huge map at headquarters which will depict the condition of tin city and which will give those in charge a definte information as to where their hardest work lies. Both the hope and the belief that many Salem residents wll take it upon themselves to clen up before the campaign gets un der way, was expressed by offi cials. The initial survey will be completed by next Saturday, it was stated. No Five Cent Bread For Salem; State Law Prevents Cut Buffalo, N. Y., April 7. Al though B. Harris, alias G. E. B. Leonard, who made a confession last night that he and another man had been hired by a woman for $5000 to kill Joseph B. Elwell. New York turf and club last June, still held to his story today, the police found discrepancies in the confession. The murder occurred June li but Harris gave the date as June 1' in his confession. He also said Elwell was shot with a small cali bre revolver whereas the wound was caused by a bullet of large calibre. He said his pal. Bill Dunkin, fired the shot. Tbey we-e hired, he said, by a "Mrs. Fair child " Police here and in New York have no record of any wom an of that name known to Elwell although he had numerous affairs with women. Mexico Denies Relations With Russ Resumed Mexico City, April 7 Relations have not been established between Mexico and the soviet government of Russia, and the administration has not named n Mexican minister at Moscow, It was declared at the foreign office last night. This statement was made in denial o: a purported official announcement to that effect published br El Uni versal yesterday morning. There is no present prospect for the return of the 5-cent loaf ot bread in Salem, according to the statements made by local bakers In commenting upon the appear ance of the loaf selling for thii price in other parts of the coun try. To substantiate the predictions they cite two reasons: Law Limits Weieht. Under the laws of Oregon bak ars are allowed to market only .oaves weighing one pound, a Afleged Negro Slayer Denies He Is Guilty Covington, Ga., April 7. John S. Williams, plantation owner, on trial for the murder of one of 11 negro farm hands allege to have been killed through fear of expos ure of peonage conditons on his farm, took the stand here today in is own behalf. e'Like most farmers, he said, I hare bonded out negroes and worked them," adding that "most Georgia farmers" were technically guilty of peonage under defini tions of that term given by fed eral agents. The witness denied knowledge of the killing of Peterson, Preston and Price, thre of the dead farm hands said by Clyde Manning, Williams' negro farm boss and star witness for the state, to have been bound and thrown into a river with sacks of rocks tied to them by Williams' orders. Discovery of the bodies of ePterson and Preston in the river led to the present trial. "Whoever put the bodies in the river did it for a purpose," Wil liams said. "If I had done this crime, gentlemen, I mould have bad plenty of time to get where they could not have pu their hands on me." The defense rested without call ing any other witnesses. pound and a half, or multiples of those weights. The price of eastern hard wheat flour, used exclusively in the man ufacture of bread here, has not reached a price which will allow of the manufacture of a one-pound loaf to sell at 5 cents. Pointing out that the loaves which are being sold for 5 cents in eastern and middle western cit ies weigh less than one pound, the bakers contend that the present prices of bread in Salem are the lowest possible under the law which prohibits selling bread in loaves weighing less than one pound. Wrappers Add Cent. A reduction of one cent a loaf could be made, one baker explain ed, if the buying public was will ing to accept unwrapped bread. All attempts to eliminate the sani tary covering have proved so un popular as to make the -itep inad visible. . The bakers agree that the price of bread will prohabiy fall, bin when the cut will bt made they are unable to say. The Insist it cannot come until the market price of hard wheat flour becomes stabilized at a lower level than has yet been reached. Getting approximately 270 loaves of bread out of a barrel of flour, the bakers point out that flour will have to drop around $2,70 a berrel to bring the price of bread down one cent. Failure of Lever Act Not To Block Federal Action Department of Justice To Countenance No Violations of Law, Attorney General De clares In Announcing Probe of Practices In Building Material Trades Washington, April 7. A general warning to business that the department of justice will countenance no violations was sounded today by Attorney General of the law Daugherty. Grain Pool Fight Still Undecided Chicago, April 7. 4 P" of the committee of seventeen on the pooling proposition taken this att ernoon showed twelve for optional pooling, four for compulsory pool ing and one, a government em ploye, not voting, according tc Chairman Custafson. The fight over compulsorv pcnl ing of farmers' grain, wuii'ii be gan yesterday on presentation of the committee of seventun's re port on a national coojeii'ti, e f rain marketing system, broko out immediately today on reconvening of the farmers ratification eoaftrr once. The attack on optional iool:ng was opened by L. P. Bailey, chair mat of the Kansas organization committee of the Wheat Growers Association of America, which stands for 100 per cent pooling but. is willing to compromise on 33 1-3 per cent. He declared that effec tive regulation of wheat supplies could not be accomplished with out a pool. Twenty-three states hare names derived from the Indian tongue. "The country," Mr. Daugherty said, "should take notice of a new day and a new way," and that those who had been guilty of il legal practices shoujd not "close their eyes." His statement, he added, was a "modest, but em phatic warning" to those for whom it was intended and could be regarded as an opportunity for any of these who should mend their ways to do so. The attorney general said the aeparimenr. 01 justice nia not in tend to harass business in 'any way but that it did intend to en force the law. He pointed out that while the profiteering sections ot the Lever act had been declared unconstitutional, the department still could proceed under the Sher man an ti-trust law. Investigation of illegal practices in the building material trades is tO be undertaken at once in all parts of the country where necos bary, Atorney General Diugherty announced today. Reports from some seirloii? ot tLe country are that the buiitilLg material situation is "In to;e uOie." Mr. Daugherty- said, and the de partment of justice desires to con tribute in any way it can to im prove it. The attorney general announced that it was the purpose of investi gating conditions in the building material trades wherever an in quiry was warranted. Indictments already have been returned la New York and Chicago, he said, and complaints have come from Pittsburgh, St. i.mils, Cleveland and other cities. Gilbert Is Again Named As Regent The reappointment of William S. dilbert of Astoria as a member of the board of regents of the Uni veristy of Oregon was announced by Governor Olcott, Wednesday. Gilbert's present term will expire on April 15. Action Taken for Rehearing On Phone Rates Portland, Or., April 7. Notice was served on the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company to day by the city attorney's office that on April 18 Portland and other municipalities will file with the public service commission ap plication for a rehearing of the telephone rate case in which In creases recently were granted. Albany, Or., April 7. Commit tees representing telephone users in Linn, Lane, Polk and Benton counties will meet here Friday to consider unity of action in the protest against the new telephone rates established recently by the public service commission, it was announced today. Fire Destroys Home; Family In Dire Need Because fire completely de stroyed his little dwelling on a garden tract near Halls Ferry, Amos Brown and. his family of three children and his wife, are In town appealing to flie generos ity of the Red Cross and' other charity organizations. ' The fire occurred day before yesterday while Mr. Brown was away on business, and the house was consumed by flames before anything could be saved except one mattress and three chairs. The family is badly in need and the Red Cross and county of ficials are attempting to relieve their situation. Any donations such as clothing and provisions, and also any furniture which Js useable will be gladly accepted at the Red Cross headquarters. Registration Books Opened Voters registration books were opened today by the county clerk for the election to be held ka June. County Clerk Boyer said that those who did not vote in 1919 and 1920 will be required to re register, because their registra tion cards have been removed from the files. Half the people born die before the age of twenty-three. Four Sergeants Win Promotion Sergeants seem to be coming Into their own in the Oregon na- i tlonal guard. Four have been elected to captaincies witbin the past few weeks according to an announcement made by the office of the adjutant general. Emerson E. Grover was elect ed captain of company K. at In dependence last night, receiving the majority of the votes from the enlisted men. Grover was a ser geant and served overseas. Sergeant Harry Hanson was elected captain of company E of Portland. He also served over-' seas. Sergeant Frank Watters was elected captain of the quartermas ter'8 corps, while Sergeant Fer guson was made captain of the Marshfleld company of the guard, receiving more votes than the two lieutenants. State Y.M.C.A. Official Here In search of a summer camp for associations throughout the Wil lamette valley, A. E. Yount, head of the boys department of the Y. M. C. A. In the state, was In Sa lem today and will be the guest of the Hi Y club tonight at a banquet given in his honor. Mr. Vount will visit Silverton, Woodburn and Stayton on his quest and will see the official of the association in the differ ent places regarding the summer encampment. John E. Rude, head of the boyy department for the state of Ida ho, is in town also today and con ferring with the county commit tee of the association regardin; the coming of H. K. Growley who is to take the place ot W. P. Walters. Lightweights to Met. New York, April 7. Midget Smith and Jack Sharkey, aspirants to the flyweight and bantam weight boxing titles, will meet here tonight in a flfteen-rounU bout.