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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1921)
Circulation 1,10 U.094; 1920. 17,679 aHo Count, 1920. .7.177; Polk county. 14.181 k-, nf Audit Bureau of Circa MS.on A-ciated Press Full leased Wire Capitatftf ournal The Weather OREGON: Tonight an Wedr nesday generally fair) moderate southwesterly winds. LOCAL: No rainfall; southerly winds; olearj maximum 80, min imum 42, aet 64; river 3 feet and falling. -r-7-nYcar No. 130 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, May 31, 1921 Price Three Cents J5Fii? ffffi BOMB EXPLODES IN PLANE: 2 DEAD. 12 HURT Freight Tariffs To Drop Informal Feelers Already Sent Out On Disarmament Washington, May 31. "Informal feelers" with respect to already have been put out by the American government, it XJUQ 3 lfmrriAH trra T in ViinrVi a rim in I ofr-o i-n nnortoro T'ho purpose, it is understood, was to develop the attitude of Thomas foreign governments on the question before any formal negotiations are unaertajcen. Alleged Pervert Caught Fe President (Hi W a- - gays Rail Rates To n Cut to meei com petition by Water ...w,... Mav 31. Trans- yvaauiufcw. , ; tontinenUl railroad treigm I being altered to meet ocean tompetition via the Panama canal, Edward Chambers, vice-president t the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe declared today before the sen ,te committee investigating the nilroad situation. "We shall fix tne raies irum San Francisco to New lorn 10 meet the water carriers," Mr. Cumbers said, "and then modify tie interior rates structure so that Kansas City. Chicago and Cincin nati for instance, will get the aerate as that to New York and producers in all points will be nlir-wi on a competitive basis." "What that means," said Chair man Cummins, "will be that you will then be carrying freight from Chicago or KaKnsas City to New York or vice versa, for nothing." Senator Pomerene, democrat, Ohio read into the records a series ot rates, showing that Interior cities pay greater freight rates on I number of commodities than coast cities pay ror longer hauls on the same products. Mr. Chambers discussed Panama anal competition, declaring that the water rates should hp reculat- ed b the interstate commerce com mls.inn nnH tliit T m ratM ahnulH be high enough to allow the Pan- definite and uncertain" and the ima canal to pay interest on the Anti-Saloon league lobby, "per costs of construction. nicious." - Attempt to Cut $1 5,000,000 From Navy Building Fund Fails WaoViincrfnn Mav 31 An effVirr in rnf SI R nflfl 000 from thof Via SQO Ann nnn nrnddod in rhp naval nnnrnnrifttinn hill "l.tv Vu,vvutUU r .. ..... .. ... "I'l" "I for continuing the 1916 building program failed today in the senate. The vote was 35 to 20, ten republicans and ten demo crats voting to reduce the building fund and seven democrats voting with the majority of the republicans to stand by the commitee recommendations. Mail Privileges Restored To Newspapers by Postoffice WocV.iTion Mav 31. The Milwaukee Leader and New ii auiiuigwii) York Call were restored today to the second class mailing privilege, it was announced by the postoffice department. Use of the mails were denied those two daily newspapers by Former Postmaster General Burleson because of the character of the matter appearing in their columns in rela tion to American participation in the war. Governor Vetoes Wisconsin Dry Enforcement Law Madison, Wis., May 31. Gov ernor Blaine today vetoed the Matheson prohibition enforcement act, as in conflict with, the fed eral Volstead act, terming it "in- Plunge Into Cold Water Is Fatal To Boy's Rescuer Alliance, Neb., May 31. John V. Vance, 60, died suddenly yes terday a few minutes after he had jumped into a pool ot water to save a 3 year old "boy from drowning. Johnson, 75, Arrested When He Approaches Little Salem Girl Attempted assault Is charged to Thomas Johnson, 75, a laborer, who was arrested this morning, according to the police, whoa in the act of placing bis hands on an eight year old Salem gin. Johnson was arraigned before Judge Unruh in the justice court and nleaded not guilty. He will have his hearing this afternoon. With the arrest of JohuBon, Chief of Police Moffitt believes he has a man for whom he has sought for seveial days. A num ber of persons are said to have complained of a moral pervert answering the description of John son, who was taken into custody by Chief Moffitt when he made advances to the little girl. Johnson said this afternoon he is unmarried and came to Salem several months ago from Walla Walla, Wash. He is ot slight build and is gray haired. For three days Chief Moffitt has made a steady search for a man who was reported to be ap proaching little girls with the request that they accompany ,iim to his room in near the Pilot of Plane Lost In Storm Is Exonerated Washington, May. 31. Lieut enant Stanley Ames, pilot of the army airplane that crashed near Morgantown, Md., Saturday night with a loss of seven lives, was ex onerated of all blame for the ac cident in the formal report of the board ot investigation, submitted today to Major M. F. Scanlon, the commandant at Boiling field. The accident, in the opinion of the board of three army aviator offi cers, was absolutely unavoidable and was due entirely to the storm into which the airplane ran while returning from Langley field, Va., to Washington. Injuries Perhaps Fatal To 2 Others; Proving Ground At Aberdeen, Md., Is Scene Location Of Salem Explained Willamette University Center of Earliest Pioneer Settlement Here That the location of Salem was practically determined by the existence of Willamette univer sity here in the early pioneer days was the statement ot Jrs. Eva Emery Dye of Oregon City, writer and authority on Oregon history, who a lodging house 'spoke at the regular chapel serv- ,.t rV.mmnrial I 1 U7.ll., hall tnflftV Her UCni LUC MJIUCI W. UUU1UIVI MM J J UKO 1U Illll ...... - and Ferrv streets. This morning . lecture concerned the connection Moffitt saw Johnson making am between missionary kiuciuuh way toward a house, near tne;&nd the education oi me wrai. Break In Dike Floods 5000 Acres Near Woodland; Crops DamageHeldOver$390,000 nf..ji. . -. . nuwuauu, wash., May., 31. Flood waters of the Columbia river which broke through 75 feet of sii miles north of here last night, were spreading today after having flooded nearly five thousand acres t0 a deDth (if pieht tn in. foe Nn loss of life was suffered as warn- ' was given all residents of the flooded area. Damage was ehief lr to crops and was estimated at from 300,000 to $500,000. Town Not Endangered it five o clock this morning the wr oroke through a culvert on the Northern Pacific railroad fill, "using further spread of the nvd. The culvert hart heen blocked up with s-and bags against 'he rising waters during the waters. Neither the town of Woodland, which Is on high ground, nor the railroad track, appeared in any ser from the water today. L"P of wheat, oats and potatoes ere destroyed and some cattle Wern An . The water was expected to pread today over additional land Harvard Free-For All Fight Banned Cambridge, Mass., May 31. Harvard heads have put the ban on the annual tree-tor-all tignt between the seniors and freshmen on the steps of Widener Library, and on the equally celebrated sen ior pionic down the harbor. This action was taken because a vcr sve-o blood-curdling motion and came to the notice of some of pictures of the fray were obtained the university deans. May Delivery Wheat Jumps 12CentsToday Chicago, May 31. Wheat for made a sensational upward swing in price today as a high school he followed and made the arreet. 'They framed on me," Johnson said this morning. He admitted that he had taken hold of the lit tle girl, but insisted that he had no evil intent. Johnson says he has been about Salem all winter, working when ever the opportunity appeared. When arrested, he had more than $120 on his person. Budget for BryantoVote c , In Florida Is " AnnouncedSBoard sO.K. ." loaay over additional land ! upwaru ., - south of this town at the' result demand from shorts w of the water outside the T"" L, J1jE -- vaiei ouisiae me weak still i3 several feet above the iaside. Wameil in Tim. u llluc warning was given aH persons -anger zone in time for ia in .L. . i . . . i suoniy alter me about : o'clock last night about loou men hurried tc in tiaaji: ..u.ug area to render any r- aw. Hundreds of head of Wock were rounded up and irom waters m the land upon which , w. . "preaaing. adoui iTTT ueaa ot cattle still were today0 frm ,he noodcd dis Grant Burke, nnn nf i. a Woneer farmer of Kalama had a narrow es- T "TOn wing carried away by .. "aier when a mtmn 1 "brok ashed away M tne iTBnrke- wUh his father lll0, Burte of Oregon City, eepecting the dike when the e and was in the pump JT "trict No. 5, In which j"aters are spreading, in- uu to 7000 acres. .v. k.(r. fnlfllltnr contracts. UiUUlU .... - - Little was for sale and the marke ran up U ' IU ' . . compared with Saturday s finish. i Mav delivery of r. x( t'i v i ii 1 1 - . wheat prices although firm, kept within moderate limus. ceipts of all kinds of grain here today operated as a counterbalance against the bullish effect of the unusual upturn in the price of Mav wheat. About 2,400 carloads of grain arrived, i -.eluding 4o0 cars of wheat. New York, May 31. William Meeting Jennings Bryan will vole in rioi it, tho future. While here to day he announced that his actual residence in that state woum De come his legal residence. He was influenced in making the change, he said, by the state of Mrs. Bryan's health, and in his new home expected to concern himself as much as ever with public af fairs Tie said: "Mrs Brvan's health is such that it is necessary for us to live in the south, and having lived in Miami for eight years, we have chosen that city for our parman i ent home. For some time I have I been, politically speaking, in a i .., nf snsDended animation, liv ing in Florida but voting in Neb raska. Being as much interested oa ever in the problems of govern ment and desiring to make my re maining vears as valuable to my country as possible, I have decided to transfer my citizenship to Flo rida, and thus make my actual residence my legal residence also." Here as elsewhere In the Unlt- H states, the speaker said, the first educational institutions were started by missionaries. The old er schools of Oregon were denom inational schools, and they led In education and set the stand nf education in the west. American educational Ideals have been set largely by the early de nominational schools that were organised by the missionaries, Mrs. Dye emphasized. The spirit displayed by the early pioneers In the organization of their schools, and the hard ships that they withstood In .heir attempts, are true expressions of the Anglo-Saon race, she con tin nert. In speaking about local history .nd rtevelnnment she cited ine rase of Portland and its remark able growth. While Oregon City was then the biggest settlement it was impossible for the ships to reach the falls, and the fact that t. ,i.,,wi wan tn nutstrio It was I 111 11.11 "1 " " onlv because of her advantage ' n harbor Since her arrival In Salem Mrs. Dye has lectured before two of a fn- the historv classes ai ine univer- Salem public schools which calls ,slty on the gathering and assernb for $125,000 on which to operatejllng of data for historical wrlt the educational institutions for.lng. the coming year and which would! Troops Asked In Paper Mill Strike Trouble Madison, Wis., May 31. Re quest was made of Governor niaitiA tndav bv the Bherlff of Brown county for Immediate dis patch of troops to Green Bay to an.ii disturbances which are Bald to have grown out of a strike In three paper mills them. Governor Blaine Bald he woufll get In touch with Brown county officials at once and determine It state action is necessary. Green Bay, Wis., May 1. All officials, office employee and strike breakers employed at tne Nnrthern Paoer Mills were turn ed away this morning when they ,irht tn e-ain entrance to tne mill, by more than 1000 strikers doing picket duty at the mill, ac cording to Loiais Allard, local prea Ident of the paper makers union. Earlier two men said to be strik ers were slashed in an affray with four men declared to be mill employes. Train Drags Car 50 Feet; 3 Uninjured Two Women and Girl of 5 Years Escape Death In Crash On Capital Street Fifty-Pound Bomb Drops From Hanger On Big Bomber Being Turned Around and Bursts In Midst of Workers; Both Eyes of Officer Are Blown Out Says Report Baltimore, May 31. Two soldiers were killed and twelve, including three officers were injured, two perhaps fatally by the explosion of a bomb at the army proving grounds at Aberdeen, Md., today according to a Dnei oiucim omu-ci.... issued by order- of the commanding officer, late this afternoon Is Held By Committee of Ten; Approval Is Given i Ten Mill Levy Decision On Rail Wage Cuts Ready Labor Board Com pletes Work and Will Make Announcement Public Tomorrow Chicago, May SI. The United States Railroad Labor Board today completed work on the decision which It will hand down tomorrow cutting the wages of employes of 104 railroad. Eventually the new rates to be established will apply to every road In the country. Advance estimate of the slash to be ordered by the board place the figure somewhere between ten and fifteen per cent, with the general belief that It will be near er the lower figure than the high er. A ten oer cent cut would sub tract some $300,000,000 from the nation's railway wage bill. Tomorrow's decision will he ef fee live July 1, ust fourteen months after the $600,000,000 In crease of last year look effect. Woman Slayer Sentenced to Serve 10 Years Body of Young Boy Is Found Near Stayton necessitate a levy of 1 mills in excess of the six per cent tax limi tation law, was this morning for mally approved by the budget com mittee composed of members of the school board and fire Salem business men. Members of the committee are H. O. Whiee, Paul Wallace, Dr. H. H. dinger, W. C! Wtnslow, G. E. Halvorsen T. M. Hicks, Otto Hartman, U. G. Shipley, Paul Hauser and O. E. Price. In submitting the budget, which will be adopted or cut down, ac cording to. the vote of the people on June 20 the budget committee save out the following statement "T-ast vear the levy was 13.3 mills. This budget will only re quire a 10 mill levy. This Is the lowest school levy In Oregon In a district or ine ursi ciass rn.ua ia - .!,.. necessary In order to retain man- ed bv omer cormuuu.n '"alalTing and domestic aclene. the labor emeot jvas an Impo tan i laciui. ivc6aiu.B teles, should he be elected Labor Official Files Petition Containing the signatures of 250 citizens ot Salem, J. L. Simer al president of the Central Ubor council has filed his petition with. the school clerk as a candidate for one of the two vacancies of tha Salem school board. Mr. Simeral stated this morn ing that he felt that the interestt ,hirh he renresents as president of the Central Labor Council were entitled to representation on the school board of the city and that almilar policies were being adopt The body of an unidentified boy has been found on the banks of the Santiam riveT about one and one-balf miles from Stayton, .. , investieation is being con- . .j . i- k fnrnnpr Riedon. . i Mav 31 Mrs. auciea iuuj -j - Los Angeles. May 31; , ; AccordmK to the report received nf Clarence Hogan. salesmen -,.Iy Between i e - - pol- Mr Simeral, stated that he had made no definite pledges as yet. Oakland. Cal . at Pasadena ia. New Years eve, was sentenced to , term of from one to ten years imprisonment In San Quentln pen itentiary in the Los Angeles sup- 4. eleven mil inn, nri j"" fourths ot a mile Inland ! erior cowrt today. aaaks ot the Columbia first r s t wnnld take twenty and one rn i. nan h.if dollar bills to weigh prac- Population of 4,000.o00 Oeally the same as a silver dollar and had been dead at least two weeks. Nothing definite has been decid ed regarding the identification but it is thought that the body U possibly one of the two lads that recently escaped from the feeble minded school here. In the junior high schools-, the school librarian, school nurse and doctor, and to take care of the natural increase In next year's attendance. "The amount wnlcb could . f raised without exceeding the six kiwf f CVfC9X n-r cent 'limitation law would be 1 U Ol VVIIVV1 t. $107,000. The amount raised by direct tax on thU budget it $1JS, 000. The difference Is practical ly what the voters gave the teach- re two wears ago to the nature nf a bonus which has been retain er! in the salary schedule. Even this dves Salem a lower salary schedule than snot other ,iui districts in Oregon." The $187,000 which the board i. sunn red. regardless of the elec tion In June, Is raised by an 8 mill tax levy. Given Tonight The first band concert of the aeries to be given throughout the summer, will be given tonight In Wlllson Park, according to an nouncement made this morning by nvir Rteelhammer, leader of the 1.-.. 1 The funds for these con certs are provided for through funds appropriated by city couu-eiL Mrs. S. E. Drew, of Silver Lake, Wash., her mother Mrs. E. L. Drew, of Castle Rock, Wash, and her daughter, Dorothy, five years old narrowly escaped death yes terday afternoon when the auto mobile in which they were riding was struck by a freight train at m.r nf CaDltol anu union streets. None of three was Injur ed. Their automobile, in which they were dragged for a atsiance of 50 feet, was badly aamageu. Mrs. Drew was driving north of Capitol street and failed to hear . l. .i.ii.i' train. As she int. i'i 1 " neared the track and saw the loco motive she essayed to turn Bnarpiy but the attempt proved unsucceiw fi Tm wheels torn from, the automobile and the tonneau was badly damaged. Another accident yesterday In which a woman driver figured oc- a nr, ih. Turner road. An automobile piloted by Mrs. F. Hal , nf Ahnrdeen. Wash., was struck by a machine driven by vi, .,,r TaereKsell. according to the police report. Slight damage re sulted. Mrs. Haiberman tola ouicern the accident occurred when Mr. Taggessell essayed to turn his car about in the road. "Rnnk Store Host To Business Men Business men of Salem are en titled to tickets t the Liberty theatre either tomorrow or Thurs m .1.1,1 am ihj rnmnliments of U4J Ul " h'. Commercial Book store. Tickets have been passed out over the city In the business section, md all business men who have not received two tickets, the regular allotment, are asked by those in charge of the entertainment to call at the store and get tnem. On Wednesday the theatre win show "The Green Cabinet ana uii.ir HentT". the oleture that has been running for several days. On Thursday the bill Is scneauiea: Notorious Miss Lisle" and "Blue Sunday." The following list of casualties was Included in the statement: The dead. Privates A. W. Sher man and E. H. Grimmer, both of . the Fourteenth bombing squadron air Bervlce. Probably fatally Injured: Cap tain Joseph E. Hall air service; Private Samuel Welnstock, 34th ordnance company. Those injured less seriously: First Lieutenant Charles C. Ella son, air service of Hagerstown, Md., First Lieutenant L. R. C. Reeoe; Corporal R. F. Cohle, 34th ordnatve company; Private F. C. Naabe, 47th ordnance company; Private L. F. Hite, Fourteenth bombing squadron; Private L. J. Bigelow, S4th ordnance company; Private E. W. Hall, Fourteenth bombing squadron; Private . J. O'Neil, 34th ardnance company; Private M. D. Blevins, Fourteenth bombing squadron, Robert M. Herr Haltlmore. a civilian emnluye. Unofficial advices said that Cap tain Hall had buth eyes blown out and that Mr. Herr had his left leg blown off. The official report stated that three bombs weighing 100 pounds each and one weighing fifty pounds had been loaded upon an airplane for tests. As the plane was about to start its flight Is was decided to turn it around and all the injured and dead were about the big plane helping In the operation. As the plane turned the fifty pound bomb rolled off and an In stant later It was struck by the rudder of the machine as It swung around. ThU caused the ex plosion in the very midst of the men about the machine. Chester Takes Cj. J I- n Trial loday Debate Bobs Up naas 1 ,1 1 v . wo., may o i . i In Road Fight Kan Cltv. Mo.. May 31. The defense developed an alibi today in the trial of Densel Chester, accused of the murder ol Miss Florence Barton near here the nlrht of October 2 last, with testi mony that Chester was seen on a downtown street corner at about the time the state alleges Miss Barton was fatally wounded. William Neville, who testified he waaan automobile mechanic at the municipal garage and a friend ot the defendant, said he saw Chester on Grand avenue at 18th street at about two minutes be fore midnight, October Jnd. Kansas City, Mo.. May It, Densel Chester, charged with the murder of Miss Florence Barton, who was shot to death, supposedly by a highwayman the night of October 1 rest, while motoring near the city with Howard Winter ber fiance, came Into court today prepared to testify in his own be half at his trial which has been In progress the last week. The first lodge of Odd Fellows In the 11. S. was established at Baltimore, Md., In 1819, to work according tc the "Manchester Unity" (England.) Washington, May 31. The Issue of the rights ot the states as opposed to those of the federal government Is threatening to be come the subject of debate in con gress on the subject of highways. The Issue thus far has reached the stage of discussion only In the senate postoffices and post roads committee at hearing soon to be completed on the Townsend bill to establish an interstate high way system and to create a federal highway commission. Members of the committee from the south ern states have indicated, however that the question uf authority as between the states and the federal government will be raised when the Townsend bill reaches thut senate. Provisions ot the Townsend bill give the proposed highway com mission of five members authority to pass finally on the roads to be constructed with the $100,000,000 federal aid appropriation. Of the 75.862 American sol diers dead overseas only 1240 re main unidentified. Shopmen Laid Off Topeka Kan., May Ap proximately 60 men will be laid oft at the Santa Fe shops tn Top bm .nd a eorresnondtng reduction in forces will be made at various other points, A. O. Wells, of Chic ago, vice-president of the road, an nounced here today. British Soldiers Attacked; 4 Dead, Fourteen Injured nwr TnOonH Mav 31 Fnur aokiiers were killed, two WlBLf 1 VHHH ".J " mortally and twelve slightly wounded when they were at- . . . ... av si M . HT 4. 1 ft tacked this morning while marcfting from tne xougnai amr racka to the rifle rang. Near the golf links the road had been mined and an intense fire was opened on the soldiers. Bombs also were uad. Tha uninjured soldiers replied to the fire of the attacking party. A curate who was driving to celebrate fass got into the Mne of fire and was wounded. His driver was killed.