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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1921)
Circulation C apit allfe) ournal '"EttTof Sa!m 1900. 4258: 'fMOMilMO. 17.679 County mo. 47.177; Pf rfudit Bureau of Circu ' aIc- Pre. FUH WMed Wire OREGON: Tonight and Friday occasional rain, moderate south - westerly winds. LOCAL: Rainfall .01; souther ly winds; cloudy; maximum 58, minimum 50, set 53; river 4.6 feet and rising. Salem, Oregon, Thursday, May 19, 1921 Price Three Cents OK TRAINS AND NSVfS STAHDa rtVB OBJ" a INTY TAX LEVY EXCEEDS LEGAL LIMITATIONS )riverot Wall Street Death Cart Arrested Estimates of Excess Vary ropicai isies Lures aiemite lyped' luyers Assert $150,000 In State Funds Invested In School Bonds Today Bonds of Oregon school district were given right of way over all other offerings this morning by State Treasurer Hoff in investing $150,000 of the funds of the in dustrial accident commission. A af total of $76,800 in school district uuiius. wcic pmuiiciKeu uireci irom this fi us St mian' ttttiucu "t . . 3 i : iW OVer-raicU UV ;ue aistricta, mis representing IB- i f arpri ftlropt and 17R flflft wao nie to Matron is tors' Claim n nfr rfiCeiUL Ul v. Borning that Yakima, Wash .. ,,irtmts are alleging that riidr Has Plucked the apple ting an Etlemc parau. Kb they bellevea iuey ej, a dozen-odd prommcui are today reiruspeti'-s groin, their purchases, made 1 days ago, ot lana uu - J ol Palmito del verae, u.i oi Mexico, wnicn wa mted by Mrs. una nai pci , -island queen" to be a tropi nrden of Eden." jssociated Press reports irom tinia state tbat suits uiuue- M Mrs. Harper by w. rer and Sam Patterson oi illma have been dropped oy me omen who, although they will their payments aireauy ... , (Uni. nntua f:iil- p" w 11 nave men uutwo led. They asserted that the land been misrepresented ana was lifting but a paradise ana i" Hition that "Mrs. Harper did not v and could not give clear title the property." Stlem investors today asserted islr faith In the prepossessing. tractive Mrs. Harper, who vislt- I this city about one week ago, id also spoke favorably of the is id which she was marketing to lose in search of a Utopian ren jtous. Frank Purvine, one of investors who has visited tho nd offered by Mrs. Harper, de- Bared that he believes the invest ing to be sound. Neither the exact number of lo- pl residents who invested with is. Harper, nor the amount of kid which they bought could be ermined this morning. Among e who are said to be interested In Charles R. Archerd, of the Ar id Implement company; David Bnger, county treasurer; Audrey iderson, a local contractor, and I Purvine. Attempts to locate Mr. Archera, Drager and Mr. Anderson' i unavailing today. Two visits to Salem are said to W been made by those who tared they had the attractive Pud for sale. Mrs. Harper's vis its made about one week ago, ills another man, said to be one ler co-workers, was in the eitv fortnight back. Reports from Yakima state that. porting to Mrs. Harper, about .000 acres of the land were sold UUma valley residents at a 1 of about 25,000. Shearer Patterson, in the suit thv fwskt. asked that she return to H48 and $700 which they Paid down fnr thoi- ,..!., v.,,i inujvira ncel their notes for $1400 13397, deposited in a Toppen- k. a number of Yakima ats are now on the proper- NIItg8ta!ed' aDd ther suits are Jm investors this morning kj to"' contemplating no ac , , rt Harper, as they ' reason to believe that 18 not well invested, t, represents to be Paradi8e i an EiT" near the mouth of of California. It was said hor.dPnr,eCt Climate and to 17 rich in rces. ?aIms droD thelr the Upa of the walt,nf. Jttn enrich. Wild gram kTs In abundance fat Krni herds of animals. All Nhvitl. by peons and all E"aiJe,t0d0i8t0 m taTL!. cllp conPn. or ... Wliarf and k tkT, the "oelands or ed through bond dealers. Issues purchased direct were: District 137, Douglas county, $3000. District $4000. District $48000. District $500. District $2000. District 000. 61, Umatilla county, 64, Columbia county, 18, Deschutes county, 44, Wallowa county, 14. Lake county, $40,- District 77, Marion county, $10,500. District 8, Douslas county $7, 000. District 18, Coos county $5000. The following issues were pur chased through dealers: Union high school district, Jef ferson, $3000. District 19, Lane county, $32, 000. District 31, Tillamook county, $9000. Union high school district 'one, Klamath county, $9000. District 53, Klamath county, $22,000. All the issues net the state six per cent and all were purchased at par with the exception of the Tillamook bonds whicb rbught par less one fourth of one percent and the two Klamath county is sues which brought par less one half of one percent. fishing in the Typhus Ellis TslonJ T, UUU1U Tr5"T ls Elis Wand 5th, under strict TTM T0" of the death TW T7.f from Ti detention 41 hours it was Community Sing Draws Big Crowd Committee Receives Objections to Street Dancing; New Ore gon Song Is Hit One thousand people crowded into the Commercial club last night at the second large commun ity get-together and were partici pants in one of the most, enthusias tic community sings that has over been held in the Willamette .-alley. Hundreds of others watted pa tiently on North Liberty street be low for the commencement of the street dancing which was an nounced yesterday but which was forced to. 'be abandoned because of objections received from a num ber of Salemites by the entertjin ment committee in charge. The club's auditorium, however, was put in shape and those w ho cculd be dragged away from the singing led by Mrs. Carrie Adams, Amer ica's premier song leader, were permitted' to darice to their heart's content. J. R. Ellison, of Ellison 4-. White Chautauqua company, spoke in place of Marshall N. Dana, and congratulated Salem on its grand start with community singing urg ing that It be kept up. T. E. McCroskey, secretary of the Commercial club, delivered an inspirational address, appealing to thejieople to keep up their enthus iasm and get behind the orgau Na tion in promoting the welfare of the city and making strangers feel that Saiem 1b the best and mcst hospitable city in the northwest. Introduced by McCroskey as a revelation in song leadership, Mrs. Adams proceeded to reveal her un matched ability in arousing en thusiasm in a crowd, by leading them in several old song selections and patriotic airs. She took the crowd '"round the corner song of "John Brown's Body," and brought them again for more, when they reached "the grave." Arthur Gille's solo was a pleas ant and unexpected addition to the program as well as the songs by fitt said, was last night positively accompanied by Mrs. Harry Hawk ins. C. E. Wilson accompanied the singing led by Mrs. Adams. Perhaps the greatest song hit of the evening was "Oregon, My State," composed by Mrs. J. M. Clifford of Salem and sung for the first time by any one last night. The dance music was furnished by an orchestra under-the leader ship of Arthur Steelhammer. Two Automobiles Damaged In Crash Automobiles owned by E. C. Cameron, 398 N. 21 street, and R P. Hiebert, 840 S. Liberty street, were damaged yesterday when they collided on Ferry street. Neither ot the drivers sustained injuries. Mr. Cameron was driving south In an alley between Stata and Ferry street. At Ferry street, ac cording to his statement, he was strucjc by the Hiebert car. Bent axles, damaged fenders and a broken wheel resulted from the accident. Wirth Plans to . To Pay Up All German Debts Berlin May 19. To keep right up to date with its repirnHou ob ligations or even a good bit ahead is declared to be the ambition of the cabinet of Chancellor Wirth. The reparations commission, ac cording to semi-official announce ment, is demanding surrender of all German rights and interests in concessions mentioned in arti cle 260 of the peace treaty, by which the commission under stands all shares in mines, oil fields, stone quarries and. similar undertakings are specified in the article. In the opinion of the repara tions commission article 260 cov ers not only territories ceded by virtue of the treaty of Versailles, but also thosi ceded in virtue of all treaties concluded between the allies on the one hand and the former allies of Germany on the other. The German government de clines to accept this interpreta tion and has heretofore includ ed in the list of securities for surrender only those which in its opinion fall without any doubt within the stipulations of that article. Great in the 'fire you forest build. fires from little Taft Held Probable Appointee Ix-President Looked Upon As Most Like ly Successor To White On Court Washington, May 19. The choice of a successor to Edward Douglass White, as chief justice of the United States, was one of the most widely discussed subjects to day in official circles of the capi tal. Although the speculation centered chiefly about the name ot former President William Howard Taft, there were many indications that President Harding was far from a decision and might find the selection a difficult one. All indications pointed to con siderable delay in making the ap pointment. Hushes Also Mentioned. Another whose name has been linked repeatedly with the high est judicial post is Secretary Huches. of the state department, a member of the court until he re tired in 1916 to afcceot the repub lican nomination for the presi dency, i One circumstances which Is sug gested as a barrier to such a trans fer is the prominence assumed by Mr. Hughes as secretary of state in view of the important phases through which the nation's foreign affairs are passing. Age Limit Recalled. In respect to Mr. Taft, some re publican senators were recalling today the bitter controversy they had with him as president at the time he promulgated his rule against appointment of justices who had passed the 60 years mark. It was described as an entirely ar bitrary ruling, having no founda tion in legal regulations. Mr. Taft himself will be 64 in Septem ber. In some quarters there have been suggestions that a temporary solution of the problem might be reached by the promotion of one of the present justices. The names most frequently mentioned in con nection with such a possible pro motion are those of Justice Day of Ohio and Justice Holmes of Massa chusetts.. Ex-Senator Possibility. Should a promotion be made, the vacancy thus created would be generally to go to George Suther land, a former United States sena tor from Utah, and former presi dent of the American Bar associa Girl Tots Annoyed; Farmer, 53, J,ailed; Sanity Questioned .!!rH. hut this afternoon a man was ap- John Holtmeyer, oo, -- ,r h,B rnnrh and tinea poiuieu Identity Certain IsClaim Federal Warrant Is sued For Truckman, Identified by Several Persons, Report New York, May 19. A federal warrant was issued today for Giuseppi De Filippo, Bayonne, N. J., truckman detained as a Wall street bomb plot suspect, charging him with having attempted to de stroy the United States assay of fice. The warrant was Issued by Com missioner Hitchcock on s com plaint of Charles H. Scully, head of the department of justice headquarters in this city, who said De Filippo had been identified by several persons as the driver of the death cart which figured in the explosion. At the same time pellce an nounced that Thomas Smith; re tired fireman, who several weeks ago identified Tito Ligi, a Scran ton suspect as a man he had seen talking to the driver of the deatn cart, bad told them De Filippo looked like the driver. Identification of De Filippo as the bomb wagon driver by three men was "positive" and the de partment of justice said no doubt it has the right man this time, It was announced at the depart ment's headquarters here. Bayonne, N. J., May 19. The police announced today that three persons had identified Giuseppi De Filippo, Bayonne truckman, ar rested yesterday on suspicion, as the man they had Been in Wall street within a few hours of the disastrous explosion last Septem ber. From$17,000To$33,000; County Court Claims Error moral nervert who was iden by several Salem residents follow ing his arrest by Salem police on a charge of indecent exposure last evening, will be examined by county physicians this afternoon in an effort to determine whether or not he is sane. Hoffmeyer, Chief of Police Mof fitt said, was last night positvely identified by several little Salem girls as the man who had annoy ed them on occasions in the past. He was arrested after he had ac costed a child on South Commer cial street. Hoffmeyer. heavily bearded, unkept, unclean, is a farmer resid ing about one mile north of Che mawa. Last night and this mora ine h wan allowed to lewu Hoffmeyer was lodged in the coun ty'jail. If Hoffmeyer should be found sane, he will be arraigned before Judge Unnih in the justice $20,000 Is Asked Far Extension Recommendation that the gov ernment spend, $20,000 on the Sa lem post office building Immedi ately to increase the present floor space, was made today by J. YT. Roberts, of the treasury depart ment who arrived here a few days ago from San Francisco having been Instructed from headquart ers in Washington to Investigate the need of the Salem office. The addition is to be one story high, and to run 40 feet east, by 60 feet running north and south on the east end of the building. This will increase the floor space so that no additional extensions will have to be made for souie time to come. It was at first thought that $150,900 should be expended in making the addition but to get such an appropriation from the government the office would have to wait fur some time. The funds to be used will be out of the bud get of the post office department fr"16J2, as the government fla eal year ends In July. The poit office department hai o use tor the second stoif of Boat offices, for the reason the handling of mail is thus made The case oh the Phei company mp , tn lmmtmli . .... WhiCB ..I- sucn as wouja kcuiuuiuuiiic me mail would cost between $10,000. Mr. Roberto I Thirtv.thrpp tViniisanfl dollars nf the 1921 tux levied bv Rivers Rising the Marion county court is illegal and will have to be returned at Portland to the taxpayers who have already paid their taxes and Portland, Or., May is. owing ' deducted from the statements of those who have toot paid, to continued rain and melting of jf became known here this mornillir. snow in the mountains the wii-1 Th ?33 342 in exact figures as it appears on the records lamette and Columbia rivers are 1 , ,, ... . . . . still rising. The Willamette to- Ol me State lax commissioner, repi enema an caccdo uvci anu day was two feet above official above the amount of the 1920 levy plus the six percent flood stage, but no damage was reported. The forecast today by the weather bureau was that the Willamette river at Portland will rise during the next three days, reaching stages about as follows: Friday 18.6; Saturday 19.3; Stin- day 19.9. Phez Company Suit Date Set Position of Street Car Lines Told T. L. Billingsley Says Company Has Not Paid Operating Ex penses In 12 Years Defending his attitude toward the proposed change in the re routing of cars of the Salem street railway, T. L. Billingsley, super intendent of the local company, submitted figures to the Marlon County Realtors association at their luncheon this noon showing that because of the financial .con dition of the company such a change was impossible. , According to Mr. Billingsleythc company operated last year at a loss ot $16,000, and within the same period of time has Invested $28,000 in new equipment and im provement. The present invest ment of the company In its Salem lines is $458,000. Assuming that the company should be allowed a six per cent return on Its Invest ment, Mr. Billingsley contended that the total loss of the company was $43,000 for the last year. "The street railways of Salem have not paid In the entire thirty years," said Mr. Billingsley. "I have been here since 1912 and the company has not paid operating expenses." In answer to the statement that the company Intended to tear up tracks on Summer street, Mr. Billingsley said: "We have no intention of tak ing up any of the tracks, except those allowed by the city ordi nance poesed a year ago which af fects five blocks on Summer street, between Market and Jefferson streets near the fair grounds. This the council allowed us to do because of the street being paved. Mr. Billingsley stated the com pany could not give as good serv Ice to the public should the loop system be put Into effect, for the reason the cars had no chance in making up time lost on the road. The terminal system offers the mo- torman to make up time at the end of the line and can keep cars on schedule. vs the 'Salem Fruit Union is up before the supreme court on appeal of the Phei company from the decree of the Marlon county eiwuit court, has been set for argument on Jnne S. Jhe case re volves about a disagreement over mntraru for the delivery of lo- court tomorrow morning ai i"ean berries by the fruit union to o'clock. His bail has beei set at tne phM company in 1919, the $250, which he was unable to fur- phel company alleging failure of nish. , 'the Fruit union to make good its Pnlice are convicea 1 Hofmeyer they Sulf-r $8000 and was unwilling to rMMamendation . make such a ' .,..t tn itliver 1200 tons of have a man for thit whereby. the whom they have neen "':,... alleges material 'ares resuuea for more than three months. ana resultea. several times in the past a man 01, McNarv, Wm. H. Trindle has been report 1 C. Winslow are attorneys 1 . 1 hme Hn renort nis aescr,. . . d W for annoying smau 1 .u..., . company with Oacar officers were unable .0 apprehend for the Phes eo P Hoffmeyer says but little and speaks broken English. Both last -ia-nt and this morning be de- companTof oicr. I c.ined food put before him Hay'."- aenting the Fruit union. Don't throw fire away woods or alone the road. in the Polish Troops Moving Toward Danzig Report Amsterdam, May H. Accord ing to the Berlin Kreuf Zeltung Acre has been a large movement ttTolisti troops in the direction of Bnnxig In the last few days. The Mwsparer adds that a number of kfMge over the Vistula river have Dec blown up and that the Oer Xsnns believe a Polish raid on Dan tig is intended. Cars with fire saves the for- Final Session Of Oddf ellows Closes Meeting Albany. Ore.. May 1 Final sessions were held here yesterday by the I. O. O. F. grand lodge and the Rebekah assembly of Oregon, closing the sixty sixth annual convention of the assembly. A membershin gain of 2,033 increase allowed by law, of between three and four-tenths of a mill. Judge W. M. Bushey declared this afternoon that the excess was something over $17,000. Although the attention of the county officials was drawn to the excess several days ago by auditors for the Southern Pacific railroad no announcement of the purported error in the tax roll was made until it was asked for by The Capital Journal today. Under the provisions of the state law governing the tax levying powers of county courts Marion county's limit for 1921 is $1,048,118.70 according to the records of the state tax commission. The levy now being collected by Sheriff O. D. Bower totals $1,081,460.70, or $33,342.00 more than the limit. When the error was made, or who is responsible for it .Tudtrfi Buahev said that he did not know, except that it was made somewhere in giving the amounts for the tax rolls and prior to the time when the rolls were completed. That the alleged mistake was made in the offices of the ., , ,, . - 2 T 1 - county court is "entirely possible,'' according to juuKs Bushey, who said that he was not positive that tne iigures were correct when they were sent to the county clerk. What, the exnense of refunding and adjusting the tax rolls will be Sheriff Bower was not prepared to say today. He said that he was using every means to devise a method wttereDy the county would be saved the expense of reprinting tly: tax receipts, but said that the refunding work would necessitate the employment of one and perhaps two additional men in his office. , ... Something over half of the taxes for the year, on all of which refunds will have to be made, have already been col lected, Sheriff Bower stated. France Insists On Treaty's Division Of Upper Silesia Paris, May 19. France insists upon the execution of the Versail les treaty in drawing the frontier line between Germany and Poland in Upper Silesia, Premier Brland declared last night upon receiving newspaper correspondents. He re Iterated his declaration of last Sunday when answering the ad dress of Prime Minister Lloyd Ueorge before the house of com mons Friday that invasion ot Si lesia by German troops would not be tolerated by France. M. Brland said he did not see the desirability of meeting Lloyd George before all the documents relating to the Silesian plebiscite had been received from the Inter allied commission at Oppeln. "I. too, want to see the treaty carried out," said the premier to the correspondent of the London Daily Mall, but there Is nothing In the treaty which stipulates that all the rich mining districts in Silesia, must go to the Germans while the Poles will get what Is left." When the chamber of deputies reconvened today after a recess of three weeks, the Briand cabinet was expected to be the center of a concerted attack. Friends of the ministry asserted it would receive a great majority when the ques tion of a vote of confidence was put. Xwelve Interpellations were In scribed on the blotter of Kaoul Peret, president of the chamber, when the session opened. Rene Vivlnai, former premier, was prepared to give an account of the recent mission to America. Premier Brland had declared he would not make a statement until he had heard all the Interpella tions, when he would make a com prehensive reply. It was not be lieved the putting ot the vote of confidence would bo reached be fore Saturday. The address of Prime Minister Uoyd-George on the Upper Siles ian question and payment by pay ment by Germany of the first rep aration installment of 150,000,000 gold marks were said by the pre mier's supporters to have solidified his position. Jury list For June Term of Court Drawn The jury list for June term of the circuit court was drawn this morning by Clerk V. G. Buyer and Sheriff O. D. Bower and con tains 31 names of citizens of Ma rlon county who will report for since the convention of last yrjduty on Mono.r morning at ten a? a a rsiM,riii i, v uiauu .... H. Johnson, who said the total membership of all lodges In Ore gon Is now 27,143. t.ni ma nmnfn1 for eight cups, of which four were awarded ;rp'Dter to the beat women's and o'clock. The following i a list of the names drawn Ralph Gilbert, far mer, Chemawa; J. F. Mollencop, Salem, No. 3; N. L. fmir tn Gamble, weaver, Salem, No. (; the best men's drill teams. The successful women's team were: City View Rebekah lodge No. 7. first; same Rebekah lodge No. 1. second; Portland Auxiliary. Pa triarchs Militant, third, and Sil ver Leaf Rebekah lodge No. 203. Portland, fourth. The winning men's teams are: Star lodge No. 2 It, Portland; City View lodge No. 201. Portlana. Nick Serres, farmer, McKee; Frank Hrubetz, farmer, Liberty; K B. Pat ton, farmer, Macleay; W. H. Bowers, farmer, South Sil verton; H. P. Cbaae, merchant, Salem. No. 1; C. M. Roberta, mer chant, Salem, No. ; Franklin B. Alford, tamer, Englewood; Thomas Skalfe, retired. East Sil- verton: Walter Roy, farmer, Sld- mmr: H. H. Vandervort, stock- head , farmer, Turner; Harry V. Porter, farmer, Aumsvllle; Rob ert E. France, farmer, East HuB- bard; William Slegmund, black smith, Salem, No. ; A. L. Fraaer plumber, Salem No. 4; Ernest W. Peterson, farmer, Shaw; Ocorta H. Claxton, farmer, Shaw; Giles E. Thomas, farmer. Stay ton; All'.a Will, merchant, Aurora; Grover Glesy, warehouse man, Aurora! Karl gtelwer, farmer, Jefferson; Henry Lehman, clerk. West Wood burn; Leroy Esson, farmer, West Mt. Angel; Martin Limback, far mer. West Mt. Angel; O. A. Loe, farmer. North Sllverton; Fraa't Bell, farmer. Sublimity; Fred F. Prince, fruit grower, Sa'sm No. 14; W. Desart, farmer, Central Howell. Beck Is Named For Solicitor General Job Washington, May 1 Jkro!r.t ment of James M. Beck of Near York as solicitor general vu an nounced today by Attorney Cener- 8Ur lodge No. 21, civilians, third, man, Salem, No. 10; J. W. White- al Daugherty.