Prgc Two
The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon
Monday, June 13, 1921
Latest News Covering Willamette Valley Points
Insurance Firms
Organize to Fight
Compensation Law
Three Thousand Feet Down anil Ground Is Hard
Casualty insurance companies
operating in Oregon are now en
gaged in the greatest organized
drive against the workmen's com
pensation law in this state that
has been made since the compensa
tion law went into effect nearly
eight years ago, according to a
statement given out by the state
industrial accident commission
here today.
In their efforts to break down
the compensation act, the state
ment of the commission point out,
these insurance companies have
brought into Oregon some of their
highest paid and most effective
organliers and solicitors and have
laid their plans for a highly inten
sive campaign.
Spread Is Feared.
The attack on the Oregon law
at this time, the statement ex
plains, is prompted by the fear
that the wonderful record made by
the Oregon compensation act,
might lead to its adoption by oth
er states. This record, it is point
ed out, is shown by a report com
piled by Carl HooksUdt, compen
sation expert, for the bureau of
labor statistics for the United
States department of labor places
the administration of Oregon's ex
clusive state fund far ahead of of
not only the' ' competitive fund
states but also ahead of the best
casualty insurance companies in
the United States.
"Information confirming thes
facts have come to the commlssioi.
from 10 many different sources
that we are postive of their cor
rectness," the statement of the in
dustrial accident commission
reads. "Wo have also been inform
ed that these companies, if they
find it necessary, are prepared to
cut Insurance rates far below cost
to them In order to Induce employ
ers to break away from the com
pensation la In ih Ik state, while
this temporary loss will he made
up by profits in other states where
the companies have a freer hand.
Reason for Attack.
own figure. Please bear in mind
that the area of Massachusetts is
small and the industries compact.
Both California and Oregon are
large states and In each state lum
bering is one of the principal in
dustries. It take3 a longer time to
obtain reports and to make pay
ments. Under the circumstances
one would expect to find much
better results In Massachusetts.
But what are the facts?
"The percentage of cases In
which the first payment had not
been made within six weeks are
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I. II I . p . .r.r-r.--
Nurseryman of
Salem Is Dead
Herbert H. Cross, nurseryman
of this city since 1889, died Sat
urday afternoon at his home at
1987 South Commercial street, at
the age of 6s years ana nine
months. Funeral services were
held today at one o'clock in the
Rigdon chapel. Rev. B. E. Kirk
patrick of the Methodist chureb
officiating. The body was taken
to Stay ton for -interment there.
The deceased is survived by his
wife Dora Cross; a son, Earl Cross
of Prineville; a daughter, Mrs. J.
F. Lau of Salem; a brother, Del
bert Cross of Sherwood, Mich., and
a sister, Mrs. Mattie Megley of
Battle Creek, Mich.
Kins Btnk Knowland is back on
the job again, after having been
ill for a week, and stated this
morning that all business would
be transacted at the meeting in
time for those who wished to at
tend the band concert and flag day
exercises In Willson park could do
so.
Rain and bad roads worked
against the success of the stock
men's convention at anyon City,
and there will be a deficit of $500
when all the bills are in.
The photogTaph shows Sergea nt Prochaski dropping 3000 feel with parachute during army fly
ing circua performance at Chanu te Field, near Chicago, recently. Note the other aviator crouch-
as follows: Liberty Mutual 20 per, ed on the wing of the big plane, all ready to jump. Altogether, three men leaped from the one
cent; Oregon state fund 18.9 per
cent; California state fund 22.1
per cent. Oregon in spite of its
large area, had a better record and
California almost as good as the
Liberty Mutual.
"Now take the percentage of
cases where first payment had not
been made in ten weeks: Liberty
Mutual, 6.3 per cent; the Oregon
fund, 3.9 per cent; the California
fund, 6.5 per cent. Again Oregon
has a much better record and Cali
fornia equally as good as the Liberty.
"There you have a fair test. It
seems to me, and It shows that the
best state fund has a better record
as to promptness of payment than
the very best insurance company."
"bus," two from the wings and one from Jie fusilage.
D
etours
6 fended
ByNunn
eventually patented to the state, ! uent breeders of Marion county.
Van Winkle declares. A nine-months old boar was
The lands to which the state's bought by E. C. McClaine of Leu
cialm has been rejected subject to
appeal, it is explained, are con
fined almost entirely to the beds
of Pelican, Nugwump and Ander
son lakes, the rejection alleging
that the state has mailed to fur
nish sufficient proof of the swam
py character of the lands involved.
The attirney general states that
he has not decided yet as to wheth
er or not he will appeal to the in
anon for $75 which Thomat
Brunk, Poland China breeder and
judge, declared to be worth $500
as a herd sire. A total of 39 head
were sold, averiging $37 a head,
including pigs.
Recover $39
In Civil Suit
State Engineer Says
Temporary Routings, ter-?a STSS
Safe, Sure, and Well
Defined
Suit for the recovery of $300
alleged to have been forcefully ex
torted from his wife was won by
Koehne of Hubbard from J. K.
White, who claimed that the mon
ey was paid to him with the per
mission of Koehne whom he states
assaulted and made improper pro-
posals to Mrs. White
There is a reason for the casual-) Testimony in the case started
ty insurance companies centering Friday afternoon Jn the circuit
their attacks on the Oregon com
pensatlon law at this time. Ore
gon Is one of the few states which
court before Judge Kelly with
Koehne, who stated that some
time after the alleged assault was
have an exclusive state compensa-' made he was met by White who
tion fund. By this we mean that
in Oregon casualty Insurance com
panies are not permitted to write
compensation insurance under the
compensation law hut Instead all
employers and employes who come
under the compensation law must
look to the state accident fund ex
clusively for their protection. Na
tion wide attention has been call
ed to the fact that the Oregon
compensation law Is hettvg admin
istered more efficiently, from the
standpoint of the promptness In
payment of claims and the scope
of the service rendered, than any
insurance companies in the United
States.
This fact was made known as a
result of an exhustive Investiga
tion conducted by Carl Ilookstadt,
compensation expert for the bu
reau of labor statistics of the Uni
ted States department of labor. Mr.
Hookstadt's report was first given
publicity at the San Francisco
meeting of the International As
sociation of Industrial Accident
Boards and Commissions Last Sep
tember, and later his report was
published In full in the December.
1920, Issue of the monthly Lazor
Review. In hU report. Mr. Honk
tart said:
Comparison Made.
"Probably the fairest and motl
convincing method of comparing
atate funds with private carriers
would he to compare the best In
each class. I jet ns. thes, compare
the competitive fund of California
and ih. exclusive fund of Oregon
with the Liberty Mntual company
of Massachusetts ass hown by Its
threatened to kill htm if he ever
entered his house again, and that
h was going to sue him for $5000
and have him placed in the peni
tentiary if he did not pay $500 at
once. The witness stated that
Mrs. Koehne later visited White's
and was forced to sign a check for
$300, forging her husband's name
in doing so. Her action was not
discovered until Koehne made a
trip to the state bank of Hubbard.
He then started suit for the recov
ery of the money from White, who
his attorneys charged with having
tried to obtain money by extortion.
The verdict of the jury was ren
dered in one hour after the final
arguments were made Saturday.
Lumber ' Company
Returns To Fold
company of Wallowa, one of the
ten eastern Oregon lumber com
panies which recently filed notice
of rejetlon of the workmen's com
pensation act, Friday notified the
state Industrial accident commis
sion of Its desire to withdraw this
rejection and to continue under
the protection of the act.
At the time the ten rejections
were filed requests were made for
a reduction 111 the rates of contri
butions paid by the ten companies.
These requests were denied by the
commission on the ground that re
ductions in rates were not justi
fied. JOURNAL WANT ADS PAT
JOURNAL WANT ADS PAY
Complaints registered by tour
ists anent the lack of proper de
tour signs and the condition of de
tour roads are cot justified by the
tacts, according to State Engineer
Nunn who returned today after
five days spent in touring the
roads between Salem and the Cali
fornia state line.
All detours on state roads cover
ed by Nunn, he declares, are prop
erly and conspicuously marked
and the detours arc passable in ev
ery instance.
"1 do not mean to say that the
detours are to be classed as good
roads," Nunn explained, "if they
were good roads wc would improve
the detours rather than the main
roads. But they afford safo aad
sure passage around censtiuctiin
work and certainly allow no roori
for just complaint when It is con
sidered that these detours are!
merely temporary provisions ror
passage around permanent con
struction work. And as to signs,
selection list filed by
the state, comprising the 32,000
acres, the state has made claim to
every acre of possible swamp land
in Warner valley," the attorney
general states, explaining that the
final outcome of these claims will
forever establish the state's claim
in this valley.
Senators
Child To Face Jury Again
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Star Game Legion
Succumbs to Keene
Salem fans held their breath
in the first inning when the Ain-
! erican Legion nine lammed out
enough bits to net them two runs
he added, "there is absolutely no in the game e"" organ-
excuse for any motorist missing a ,zauon 01 "iiana, a me en-
Iriot,,,,.- ,ii th ,1, hou ators played yesterday at Oxford
purposely misplaced oy some prac- Dark- lB tne "m frame lit the
tical joker as is sometimes the Bi"ue inning, the excited spocta
case." tors gave their first, last and on-
Nnnn htatei ttm vmria-ra: lu owl oi detent when McKeu
difficulty is experienced witulna romped up the home path tor
boys who find B"li sport in nc Salem's first score and liayeo, af
ing detour signs aud then watch- ter a daring steal of two bases,
ing the unsuspecting motorist turn 'reached the plate. Af.tar that tue
off onto the wrong road. game was a bore, and enaed 2 to
Considerable Jutieuit;, ii ali.o ' in favor of Salem,
experienced with tuotorusU wliol The American Legion boys
refuse to heed the detour tigus couldn't gat on and ride. Orteil
posted along the highway. In one in left field Beemed to have
instance which he Mentioned,' weights in his suoes and when
three automobiles drove around a!he did get under anything it was
barricade on which was posted a usually a safe bet that he droo-
The Nibley-Mimnaugh Lumner conspicuous detour sign, only to ped it. Donaldson, made a couple
be turned back when they came to 0f wild pitcues with men on third
the construction work a half mile' which were responsible for two
farther on. In another instance a scores made by the local team,
tourist coming up from the south Garner at first base, played a
ignored a detour si&n and ran into goou steady game and did some
the "hot stuff on a paving Job for niUing. but with Keene, suoati-
......... ...ivn tuted for Kuudsou. at the mouna
proceeded to administer a verbal , the fourta luniug tlle blktUt
cuasiisemeui puueiuatea WHO al the Legiomures was
wuiue lamer empaaiicany pomieu
opinions of the driver. This tour
ist, who was clearly at fault, Nunn Keen
lusisia, pruceeaeu on nis way pro
claiming Oregon as one of. the
"meanest states in which he had
ever toured." .
"I do not mean to convey the
impression that our engineers are
not sometimes at fault," Nunn
concluded, "but I dn sav ihnt in
great majority of cases the fault WDen wiellnS ick did son.
lies with the tourists themselves r'al amS-
many of whom wilfullv ienore our Tne baae Da" Public likes tj
efforts to direct them on the prop
er way. Our engineers arc doing
everything in their power to aid
the tourists but they have other S00 real competition, if it can
California
Favored By
Rate, Claim
Strenuous protest against the
apparent discrimination againsl
Oregon fruit interests, is registered
by Chairman Fred A. Williams, oi
the public service commission, in a
letter to H. A. Hinshaw, general
freight agent of the Southern Pa
cific company.
"We are advised that the South
ern Pacific, placed in effect about
the first of June a 95 cent per
cwt. rate on dried fruit in boxes
from California points to New
i oi k and Eastern points via Gal
cstoa' and New Orleans," Wil
liams writes. " The best rate
Edwards nits Home 1 ,hat the drled fruit men have in
T -6jT tr tai ! Oregon to date is $1.66. It
Attll ', mCJtVenna JrlayS itands to reason without argument
that this is not only basely dis
criminatory and preferential to
California but hurtful in the ex
treme to the fruit production in
the state of Oregon.
"We are very much surprised
that the Southern Pacific line
which traverses Oregon from north
to south through the heaviesl i
dried fruit section should counte
nance such a difference In rates,
especially from the Willamette
valley.
Cherrians To Drop
Regular Meetings
For Summer Months
Adjournment of the regular
meeting of the Cherrians during
the months of July and August
will be brought up at th meeting
to be held tomorrow evening in
the Commercial club at 6:30..
ame
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Worsteds
Imported Scotch and English
Tweeds and Worsteds, and
finest blue serrres-tailored to
your entire satisfaction.
flavo you
tried tbs
new 10c
package?
Dealers now
carry betbl
16 for 10c,
20 for 20c
It's toasted.
IvSTRIKEyi
Rill
, " . an ih,.
" ana k,ea
Lake county by "'i,
during a quarrel ow, .
bottles of Lash'.ft
ivuuaes had purcha ' Sltr
the Indian claimed 0 ,luts
George H. piTZTT
Condon Glebe.Timtn!?Mt'
cott. and W. r0 liC -ownersof
th.Auro.ftj
Charles Ballard h.. . ..
Halsey Enternris t tT ""!
the man who establislle
TONIGHT
and . 1
TOMORROW
ONLY
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Farnum
In
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SACRIFICE"
The Best He Ever Ma
AL. ST. JOHN
In
THE SIMP
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Where the Big Shaw,
Play
Exclusive Representative
Salem Bk of Commerce Bldg.,
Phone 80
This rate Is so manifestly
preferential to California and dis
criminatory to Oregon that it
hardly seems necessary that this,
commission should pursue it fur
ther than to call your attention to
the situation.
' The friut situation is in such
a critical condition anyhow that
it seems that the railroads would
try to encourage it rather than
discourage the producers.
"It goes without saying that we
shall expect Immediate equaliza
tion at your hands."
The ferry at Ballard's Landing,
on Snake river, went ont while
crossing five men and six horses.
?oing down the river several miles
The men and iiorps
nil.
As far as playing went the Sa
lem nine worked well. tboug
was a little wild
oa played a star game and Was
responsible for a couple of dou
. ble plays and a bunch of regular
I hits. Edwards knocked the only
home run of the game, winning
all the prises in sight. Knudson.
though knockot off the mound
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BASE BALL
Two Final Games
Twilight League
STATE HOUSE
vs.
Y. M. C. A.
Tuesday, June 14
AMERICAN LEGION
vs.
STATE HOUSE
Thursday, June 16
Game called 6 o'clock sharp.
innings
Willamette Grounds
Admission 25 cents
Proceeds to provide banquet
for all participating player3
in the league.
There Is An Elusive Charm
About a Tailor Made That !
Quite Defies Description
It is more than mere style or fine
workmanship can impart, and it is
more than the mere beauty of a rich
ly woven fabric.
It is rather the combination of all
with the added grace of skilled
designing and the personal touch
that is seen only in a suit that is
made to order.
LET US SHOW YOU the beautiful
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lately, they will surely please the
most fastidious.
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addition you get an
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see Salem win. but tley like to
see a real game of ball better, no
matter who gets the top score.
STOPS STOMACH DISTRESS
IN TWO MINUTES
work to do too.
,be had. In the next game would
i n't go bad at all.
Little Land of
Value Lost To
State, Opinion
Only a small portion of the
swamp lands in the Warner valley.
Ike county, to which the state
has laid claim under the congres
sios act of 2S60. and that the least
valuable, is affected by the final
rejection of the commissioner of
the general land office, according
to Attorney General Van Winkle.
The attorney general explains
that only 3000 acres of the 32.000
acres claimed by the state as
swamp lands have been finally re-
!d C4
mr a
it) four hear aeba a over the tste of eleven vr
BarkeS. obarced with :e urder of hi nlii hn.
. at Knox. Indians, twe le weary jurymen told Jwdn I 'orney general s office Is now pre- Poland China hogs. Dixie Olrl.
that an agreement on a i"dni would be ; '- parrn to furnish eartlf!rate. .if Rir Rnh w.m.Ur ,.,h
.tn.-is J. r!JTr"i,? iZZ P"-. ""T?T complete claim and evidence thstj nlss at 12S. being purchased by
surk r,ui). I.4UM., ciroitt co met The tfeMscras shows, frwasi I" notlf"l ,n riparian own-lN. G Cree of Yakima, Cooaig.
left t rihl. Ocfl BarkeU's sxand fattier, his mother. Cecil aad tre P" ,n the state's rights to these' en; to the sale-war C. K. Lo, E
(MM witness. j lands will be fully protected aad j O. Loe sod Ray J. Tox, all prom.
Bee Raisers To
Organize Soon
Beekeepers of Maridn county
met ia Silverton Saturday to ef
fect a county organization of those
inter, si. d in Bee culture, but due;
to the small number present, the!
actual organisation was postponed
until a future meeting may be.
called in Salem.
G. A. Bock of Silverton was;
named temporary president and '
W. H. Bowers secretary. Mr. Bock
and George Weeks of Salem were'
selected as a committee to arrange
foi a meeting at which the final J
organisation will be effected.
I Watch
I For
I "Skirts"
jected by the commissioner and' .
the state is given sixty days in finv Oofc of 19i
which to appeal from this decision, W V
to the department of the Interior.
In compliance with the request
of the general land board the at-
at Saturday's Sale
At an auction Saturday on the.
C. K. Loe farm near Silverton of .
Babe.Kjjth
has nothing on
PostTdasties
the superior am flakes
"lTVeyre both there
art the home plats
mi
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Diamonds
o
Kimberley was going back. The farmers were dis
gruntled. They said they couldn't eke a living from the
rocky soil.
And all the time, their ragged youngsters were playing
with diamonds!
But the fanners didn't know. Many of them died poor.
They thought the priceless gems were pebbles.
Borne folks are just like those Kimberlv fanners. They
seek opportunity in some distant place and overlook the
wealth that is daily within their grasp.
Advertising is a diamond mine of opportunity. It tells
of values you would probably overlook if it was not there
to guide you.
Don't miss the advertisements in this paper.
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