Circulation
Average for i9S9 6880 1
Population of Salem 1900. MMf
1910, H.094; 1920, 17.679
Marlon County 1920, 47,177a
Folk county, 14,181
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OREGON: Tonight and Thurs
day fair; moderate westerly winds.
LOCAL: Maximum 85, mini
mum 54, no rainfall; river -1.3,
stationary.
jfrty3nrTw--No. 190
BIT SIX AMERICANS
Wrecks
Laid To
Current
THernvrv of Freak
Currents Due to Cross
Winds Believed To
Solve Disasters
Washington, Aug. 10. A baf
fling phenomenon or ocean cur
It tendencies, just discovered,
probably accounts for the low
Saturday of the steamer Alaska
t 47 lives on the California
coast it was announced here to
day by Colonel Lester E. Jones,
director of the coast and geodetic
mrvey. Winds driving parallel to
the Pacific, he said, set up new
currents which, unsuspectea ay
navigators, drift inland instead of
uactly in wind direction.
Girls's Body Recovered
Eureka, Cal., Aug. 10. - The
body of a six year old girl was
Identified at the Eureka morgue
today as that of Elaine Dyer, of
LaGrande, Or. Only two bodies ot
Ike eighteen washed ashore here
Iron the wreck Saturday night of
the steamer Alaska now remain
to be wholly identified. The bod
ies not identified are those of
crew members.
San Francisco, Aug. 10. The
tank steamer Oleum arrived tor
4iy with the bodies of Dr. J. A.
Moree, Spokane, Wash., and Miss
Itaft Hart, Pendleton, Or., vic
tims of the wreck of the steamer
Alaska off Blunt's reef, south of
Eureka, Saturday night.
The recovery of these two bod
ies and the two additional dead
wished up last night on the beach
near Eureka, bring the known
dead to 20 and the known missing
to 16, according to the records of
the San Francisco Portland Steam
ship company, owners of the Alas
ka. The official government inves
tigation of the Alaska's sinking
Is (scheduled to begin today be
fore John K. Bulger, supervising
inspector of hulls and boileri,.
Bodies of five of the Alaska'3
dead arrived here by train today
from Eureka. The bodies include
tht of Mrs. W. J. Grimes, Port
land. Defense Says
Trunk Body Not
Mrs. Mahoney's
Seattle, Wash., Aug. 10. The
Mutilated body found in a trunk
Uke Union here Monday is not
mat of Mrs. Kate M. Mahoney,
lthy Seattle woman who dis
appeared last April, Lee Johnston,
'orney for James E. Mahonev,
we missing woman's husband, de
wed today.
Previously a number of persons
1 Positively identified the body
"""at of Mrs. Mahonev. Ma
7. who has been held in the
ny jail here on several charges
orgery, was transferred to a
"J cell m tne jai, after h
T was found.
Johnston declined to state his
!zr for asserting the identifi
cation was erroneous.
The state cannot prove the
m to be Mr,. Mahoneys." was
would sav.
Royston Given
Liberty; Salem
People Go Bond
T Fred R Roycton, under tB.
jT" in the federal court in
J-"" on the charge ot violat
nB wa't slave act in
2?J"iDR Miss frankie Ed
"J thi, city from Oregon t-
W,,h nron, was released from
task a. county jail last
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Jitneys Constitute
73 Percent of All
Highway Traffic
Passenger automobiles bearing, ense, 29,949; pasenger cars from
Oregon license plates constitute other states, 5,964; light duty
72.8 per cent of the traffic overj trucks, 1,870; trucks of 1.5 toes
Oregon highways according to a' and over, 1314; motorcycles, 488;
iraiuc survey just completed ay
highway department. The count
which was made continuously be
tween the hours of 6 a. m. and
10 p. m. on uly 15, "16 and 17
covered 107 points on 29 state
highways. Pleasure cars from
other states constituted 14.5
per cent, trucks of 1.5 tons or over
3.2 per cent, motorcycles 1.2 per
cent and horsedrawn vehicles
3.7 percent.
A total of 41,126 vehicles were
counted in the three day census,
these being classified as follows:
Passenger cars with Oregon 11c-
Jim Lee Guilty;
Chung Freed of
Opium Charge
Jim Lee
local Chinaman
charged with frequenting
opium joint, was fined $40
an!
and
sentenced to20 days in jail while
Lee Chung, arrested in the same
raid was dismissed in the police
trial of the two men this after
noon. Jim Lee, operator of an opium
pipe found working in a room at
-85 South High street when Chief!
of Police Moffitt and W. J. Jef
ries, of the state narcotic squad,
raided the building last night,
spent the night in the city jail
when he was unable to furnish
the $50 bail asked for his release.
Lee Chung, also found in the room,
was charged with frequenting an
opium den, but put up $25 and
was released.
Judging from the two taals of
clear opium, half a pound of yn
shee, an opium pipe of expentie
quality, needles, eight lamp bowls,
alcohol lamp, scales and torn play
ing cards (on which the drug is
sold) the officers believe they
have put the lid on the source
from which most of the addicts in
Salem have been securing their
supply of the drug. The opium
seized is said to be worth ?d the
neighborhood of $100.
Chung is believed to have beeniTitle an(1 Trust association, will
peddling the opium to the lot;al
patrons of the dreamy pipe
Salemile One
of Reorganizes
mf IJ ,1 in the Marion hotel at 12 o'clock
IflOrnS DrOtnerS sharp, and will leave out the reg
ular order of business in order to
A. M. Fanning of Salem is one 'give more time to the speaker,
of the incorporators of the Morris I Besides being au authority on
Brothers corporation, organized (taxes, Mr. Gordon is a politician
for the purpose of taking over the'0f note arid is being advocated ca
defunct Morris Brothers bond
house in Portland, and for which
articles of incorporation were filed
with the state corporation depart
ment here today.
The other incoroprators are Le
Roy Chambers, J. D. Duback, S. ?
Jaggar, A. McGuin and H. V
Lake of Portland; Charles Cleve
land of Gresbam, J. M. Clapp of
Seattle and James C. Cunningham
of Walla Walla.
The new corporation is capital
ized a 12, 900,000 of which $1,
7OO.000 is common stock and $1
200,000 preferred stock, cumuia
tive, bearing 6 per cent interest.
The articles provide that no div
idends are to be declared on the
common stock of the corporation
while there is any preferred storl:
outstanding. Instead any surplus
accruing will be allowed to accu
mulate for the purpose of retirin;
the preferred stock at the option
of the corporation at $1.03 a share
and accrued dividends. . olders cf
nrefffrred stock which is called in
for retirement, however, are to be
nermited to exchange their stock
for common stock if .ey pre'.!rlcontJ.acted 'o tbe flrm of Ro"
rather than sell it outright. tejn and Greenbaum. filed their
The corporation has been form-jniwer to the complaint of the
ed, it has been announced, wi'h aHome pattern company of New
view to putting ibe trust in le--! York asking for a judgment V
form to bid for the assets of Uoi-,... due 0B bills,
ris Brothers. l ie. and to liquids:-; i Tnc ,nfIWer stated that the firm
the holdings of tbe company to the! M t3 nTe tbe patterns at
best advantage to the creditor. price. and that the New
York firm failed to send a list of
New York. Aug. 10 Boe kuu.
bit hffe forty-second home run of
ki .v,ni orfav In tne tnira in
,.v
nine of the Yankees game
horsedrawn vehicles. 1541.
The census shows the Pacific
highway to be the most heavily
travelled in the state, 1932 vehi
cles being counted at the New
Era bridge, south of Oregon City
on the three days, as against only
1335 counted at the west city
limits of Rainier, the heavy traffic
point on the Columbia river high
way. Only 15 vehicles, of which
13 were passenger automobiles,
crossed Sage Hen hill on the Cen
tral Oregon highway in the three
days.
Ward, Escaped
Convict, Still
Eludes Capture
Penitentiary officials are . still
looking for Jim Ward, convict,
tvhn fsfflnpri Fridav and was later
reported to have been in the vicin
ity of Jefferson. The report of the
posse sent to Jefferson, Monday,
where nothing definite was de
termined, is the last word that au
thorities have issued.
Authentic reports say that Ward
slept Saturday night and had
breakfast at a farm home near
Jefferson. Sunday he viisted in
other ranch about three mijes
north of that place, it is stated,
where he was well armed and car
ried a big roll of money. The de
scription of the man seen and the
convict are said to tally precisely.
Business Mm
Invited To Hear
Herbert Gordon
Known as the best authority on
taxes, Herbert Gordon of Port
land, president of the Lawyers
speak tomorrow at the regular
luncheon of the Marion County
Realtor's association on the rela
tion of taxes to the real estate
business.
The realtors' association has ex
tended an open invitation to all
business men of Salem to attend
the luncheon which will be heli
the next mayor of Portland
Big Audience
Hews Concert
Probably the largest crow! that
ever heard a regular band conceit
in Willson park was present at the
closing evening last night in the
summer's series. R was much the
largest that has attended this year
which is declared the best seyon
ever experienced in respect to the
size of the audience.
Mrs. W. H. Prunk, soloist, who
has been appearing with the local
band throughout the summer, re
ceived a cordial welcome from the
crowd and responded again and
again to tbe calls.
Salem Firm Files
Answer to Suit
stating that the plaintiff!
raised their prices on patterns
Ithe old patterns, causing a loaa
'to the Salem concern of I1S7.74.
The defendants ass inai me
K dismissed and wain
a juag-
t from the court of $157.74.
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, August 10, 1921
Repeal of
Profits Tax
Agreed on
House Repu blicans
Decide to Eliminate
SurTax. and . Trans
portation Taxes Also
Washington, Aug. 10. "Repeal
of excess profits tax and Income
surtaxes above 32 per ceriC effec
tive as of last January one, and
all of the freight and passenger
transportation taxes, as of next
January was agreed upon today by
republicans of the hou.-sQ wavu and
means committee, Chairmai rord
ney announced.
The committee majority also
agreed to increase ths normal in
come tax on corporations 5 per
cent, making a total of 1 5 per cent
instead of 12 Viper cent it sug
gested at the White House tax
conference last night. A SIOOO
exemption on corporation income
was understood to have been re
tained. Oppose Railroad Funding.
Opposition to the administration
hill for funding about ?r,oo 000',
000 for the railroads developed
openly today before tbe sonare in
terstate commerce committer.
Senator LaFollette, republican,
Wisconsin, opened fire on the bill,
while democratic senators charac
terized the proposal as a Ijan to
the railroads. Senator Pomerene,
Ohio, referred to it as a "hand
out."
Director Meyer, of the war fi
nance corporation, defended tbe
bill vigorously as a measure for
general country-wide as well n"
railroad rehabilitation and denied
that it was a" loan or a iiauilout.
Bankruptcy Followed.
Senator LaFollette refarred to
loans by the war finance corpora
tion to the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
company and a New Orleans street
railway company which he said
son afterwards became bankrupt.
The senator said he did that to in
dicte "how business was trans
acted." Director Meyer replied that he
regarded the B. R. T. loan as
"eventually good" and said the
New Orleans loan had been paid in
full.
Chinese Protest
Any
Renewal of
Anglo-Jap Pact
Shanghai, Aug. 10 The Shanghai
Chinese chamber of commerce
heads a group of twenty Chinese
bodies in Shanghai in a vigorous
protest against any renewal of the
Anglo-Japanese treaty. Messages
setting forth the grounds of the
protest have been forwarded to the
American congress at Washington
tbe assembly in Paris, the British
cabinet and to parliaments in
London, Rome, Ottawa, Melbourne
and Calcutta.
The protest directed to the
British parliament in part say:
"Tbe Anglo-Japanese alliance
heretofore has Weakened Chinese
esteem for the British people ow
ing to aggression of Japan at
tributed by all tbe east as bavin
arisen from the treaty. If renewed,
tbe feeling of Chinese citizens wilt
certainly be aggravated having a
direct influence on trade."
Ottenhimer Pays
Fine for Driving
Against Traffic
H. J. Ottenhimer of Portland,
formerly a hop dealer in Salem,
nipaded ruiltv to a charee of driv
ing bia automobile on tbe wrong
side of Commercial street beroro
before Police Judge Earl Race
yesterday afternoon and paid a
fine of $5.
The charge on the police blotter
against Ottenhimer, who said tha
he had recently presided over a
safety first traffic meeting In
Portland, was that of driving
tbe wrong side of Comnerr!a,l
trots at the rate of 3 5 aik Mrs
hour.
Mrs. Beatrice Newcombe. who
was overcome recently at tbe sum
mit of Mount Hood, reports fro as
; her Polk county home that so
' will again attempt the across. Her
trouble tbe first time was
exertion, she says.
Courses At
Junior High
Are Certain
Teachers for Manual
Training Selected by
School Board at Its
Meeting
With the selection of more
teachers for domestic science and
manual training in the junior high
schools by the school board at iti
meeting last night it has been as
sured that these courses will be
given in the second high schools
for the coming year, regardless ot
the failure of the proposed school
budget at a recent election. The
school board had previously an
nounced that if the budget failed
these specialties would have to be
discontinued along with the school
nurse and school doctor.
By requiring a teacher in he
senior high to. teach five hours in
stead of four customary during
the past year, additional teachers
which would be necessary under
the old arrangement to accommo
date the increase in enro""nent for
the coming yea.' are not necessary
and the salaries which they would
draw have been released to hire
the domestic science and manual
training teachers for the junior
high schools. In, explaining the
plams for next year. Superintend
ent George Hug stated last night
that if these courses were dis
pensed with other subjects would
have to be taught to fill the sched
ule of the students, so that the
proposed elimination of courses
would be practically no saving, on
top of the burden of holding tne
idle equipment now on hand. Vhe
problem has been partially solved
by the receipts of $3000 from the
county high school fund which
was not previously expected.
After a brief discussion of the
announcement that the govern
ment would no longer pay tbe tui
tion fee of $95 for Chemawa In
dians attending the local high
school the matter was placed in
the hands of a committee to make
thorough investigations before
final action was taken. Sentiment
of the meeting seemed to be in
favor, however, of extending the
privilege of the high school here
to the Indians.
Severe criticism of the condi
tions of school property in the citv,
particularly of the high school,
was launched by Dr. H. H. dinger,
who said he could find "from sixi
to 250 initials on every chair anc
desk in the high school." More
over It semed fo be an honor and a
distinction to have them cut the
deepest, he added. Plans were
made for a conference with prin
cipals to bniig up disciplinary
questions with tbe purpose of stop
ping the petty form of vandalism
Approval was given to the ap
pointment of Miss Gertrude Mor
ton as city librarian, who
will spend part of her time with
the high school. It was brought
out that the present high school
library comprises some 1 si, 000
volumes.
E. S. Barker and P. A. Foster,
whose re-election bad been put off
pending tbe final arrangements
about the manual training courses
In junior high schools, were
gamed last night for instructors
in that work. Miss Irene Curtis
was elected as domestic science
teacher, Miss Laura E. Peyton was
selected for junior high work ajnq
Blanche Isherwood named for of
fice work.
Eight Fires In
Siuslaw Forset
Eugene. Or.. Aug. 10. The for
ests are becoming dry and the fire
danger is Increasing forest offi
cials report. Eight small fires
were spoiiea nonuaj uj me iwn-,
out on Roman Nose mountain in (
the Siutlaw national forest. None
of the tires reported is believed o(
iiave gaiued any headway yet. For
est cflirlals feel that it they cab
get through August without any ;
Naorious fires. September will '.ring!
rain and lesren the dangVr.
Independence hopgrowers have
fixed picking prices for the season
They will pay SO coats a box for
picking and Ma day for common
labor. It Is expected that 50't
pickers will be employed when the
picking season opens, about
tember 1.
Six Prisoners Allowed
To Leave Russia Today;
All
Petrified
GiantFound
In Tennessee
Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 10.
Workmen of the Keene
Strauk Coal company at
Hellen wood, Scott county,
have found buried in the
earth and petrified a giant
six feet four inches tall.
About its neck was a beauti
ful chain. The fingers are
perfect with long tapering
nails. The hands are folded
across the breast. On either
side of its head are two
horns each about tour inches
in length. Its weight is about
450 pounds.
Dried Fruit
Market Now
On Up Grade
The market for dried fruits has
reached its lowest ebb and the
trend from this time on will be
toward better prices and a strong
er demand Earnest S. Sergeant,
president of Butler & Sergeant,
Inc., of New York, one of the larg
est firms dealing in dried fruits
In the country, told the 150 mem
bers of the Oregon Growers Co
operative association and others
interested in the dried fruit situ
ation, at tbe association picnic at
the fair grounds this afternoon.
"The dried fruit market has
reached, bottom and must soon be
gin its upward trend," Mr. Ser
geant said. "The growers of the
west are, of course, dependent up-
on the eastern markets and thooe
markets are rapidly coming out
of the slump in which they have
bn floundering for several ,
months."
Mr. Sergeant explained that
there was no reason to expect the
market to be as flourishing as
during the high tide seasons of
the war period, because of the
tighter money market. Crops
which were moved In three or
four months during those times
will now be stretched out over
seven or eight months he declared
Mr. Sergeant declared that the
hold-over prune crop would be En
tirely cleaned up before the new
crop reached the market and as
serted that there would be no dif
ficulty in moving the new crop,
claiming that his firm alone would
be able to handle the entire crop
of the state of Oregon.
Condemning co-operative asso
ciations of growers for tbe failure
to create sinking funds from year
to year to carry them over lean
searonr, Mr. Sergeant pointed out
that such associations must estab
lish themrelves on better business
basis and learn to take tbe losses
hi. h private enterprises expect.
Canneries Plan
to Start Pear
Operations Soon
Pears, now being picked at
Roseburg and other southern Ore
gon points for shipment to the
local canneries, are being loaded
Into cars and will begin arriving
here the latter part of tbe week,
according to Information received
today.
Allowing 10 days for ihe fruit
to ripen to the canning stage, it f
estimated that the canning opera
tions will begin about August Id
or 10.
Tbe cost of conduct most of the
state institutions has been vitally
reduced within tbe last year, ac
cording to the report of R. B.
Ooodia, secretary of the state
that tbe per capita cost is almost!
fit less than it was a year ago. I
Price Three
FR
Promised
Released Men Reach
Morning and Are Cared For by Red Cross;
Way Cleared for Operation of American Re
lief; Brown and Litvinoff Open Conferences
Riga, Letvia, Aug. 10. A guarantee that all Americans
remaining in Russia will be given an opportunity to leave
that country, if they desired, was offered today by Maxim
Litvinoff, soviet representative, at a conference held this
afternoon with Walter L. Brown. European director of the
American relief administration over the question of American
relief for famine strciken Russia
Riga, Aug. 10. Soviet Russia has released six of the
American prisoners, who have arrived at Narva Esthonia,
but the fact that only this half dozen of Americans were
sent out of the country was said here today to threaten a
long delay in and perhaps the abandonment of the negotia
tions for American famine relief for Russia. The six were
Captain Emmett Kilpatrick, Weston B. Estes, J. Flick, -X. B.
Kamatiano, H. M. LaMarc and Russell Pattinger, San
Francisco.
The prisoners were released un
der the promise made by the soviet
authorities at the time help was
accepted from American relief or
ganizations for famine suffering
Russia.
Of the released 'men Captain
Kilpatrick of Uniontown, Alaba
ma, was captured while on Red
Cross duty with General Wrangel's
forces In South Russia.
Dr. Estes and Flick of New
York are moving picture photogra
phers who went Into Russia and
were imprisoned last year. LaMarc
also is a New York man.
X. B. Kalmatiano of Racine has
been in Russian prisons for near
ly three years.
Brown in Conference.
Walter L. Brown, lluropean dl
rectoe of the American relief ad
ministration, Herbert Hoover's
organization, through which It has
been planned cjiiefly to admlnloter
the proposed famine relief, arrived
in Riga while the six Americans
set free were on the way to Reval.
Maxim Litvinoff, the soviet envoy,
reached here about the same time.
Director Brown, It is under
stood, will insist that every bona
fide American In Russia, either in
or out of prison must be given an
opportunity to leave Russia before
the negotiations can begin. Tba
state department has provided him
with a list of more than 100
Americans still in Russia.
Preliminary negotiations be
tween Director Brown and M.
Litvinoff were opened this after
noon. The American representa
tive asked M. Litvinoff what the
soviet government's intention were
regarding the freeing of the other
Americans in Russia. The con-
President Plans
Long Vacation
Washington, Aug. 10. Should
congress recess late this month,
President and Mrs. Harding may
leave Washington for an extendi 1
vacation. No definite plans hae
been made, however, it was stated
today.
Tbe president has hoped thai he
might make a trip to tbe Pacifl:
coai-t this fall, but It is not now
considered likely that he will ;-ct
that far away from Washington.
On Armistice Day, Nov. 11, the
president will speak at Arlington
cemetery here at a service for the
unknown dead and on the same
day is expected to deliver an ad
dress opening tbe disarmament
conference.
Weston, Iowa,
Bank Is Robbed
Weston. Iowa, .ug.' 10. The
Weston State bank was held up
and robbed today by two men who
escaped In an automobile. Tbey
secured about $2500. Weston Is s
small town on the Rock Island
railroad a short distance from
Council Bluffs.
Mrs. L. Purcell. leader of Clack
amas county school club work, an
nounces that Clackamas county
school children exhibiting at tbe
state fair this year will show noth
ing but purebred stock.
Cents Sf.,2fny, D XSSI
Liberty
Reval by Auto In Early
ferees were introduced by ths
Letvlan premier.
In Fair Condition.
Reval, Aug. 10. A special bol
shevist automobile, carrying the
six Americans who had been re
leased from Russian prisons, ar
rived here at S o'clock thi morn
ing, the American Red Cross will
supply them with comfortablo
clothing to replace their discarded
cossack uniforms and other queer
habiliments.
Paris, Aug." 10 The Paris
headquarters of the American Red
Cross today received a telegram
from Dr. Edward W. Ryan, Red
Cross commissioner to the Baltic
Btates, saying that the six Ameri
cans who arrived at Narva last
night reached Reval, Esthonia,
this morning. All of them were in
fair health, Dr. Ryan's telegram
stated.
His message gave the address of
Dr. Henry J. LaMarc as 241 Mar
ket street, San Francisco, and that
of Dr. Weston B. Estes, as 293
West 12th street, San Jose, Cal.
Hoover-Harding: Confer.
Washington, Aug. 10. Plans
for American famine relief in sov
iet Russia were discussed with
President Harding today by Secre
tary Hoover.
After the conference Secretary
Hoover said relief work actually
would begin when American pris
oners confined in Petrograd and
Moscow were out of Russia and
when other prisoners confined In
tbe Interior had been released
from custody.
Canneries Are
Silent As To
Prune, Prices
While admitting that they
would undoubtedly handle some
prunes this year, local cannery
men were silent today in the mat
ter of estimates of what their
packs would bo and whether or
not the price to be paid would
reach tbe $1.50 per bushel mark.
The prolonged drouth over tbe
Willamette valley is cutting to
till lower figures tbe prune crop
estimates, which were short cany
In the season, because of the In
creased dropping of fruit in tbe
orchards and many growers are
reported to be figuring on market
ing their prunes to the cannerii,
rather than assuming tbe expense
of operating their dryers to handle
the small pick.
In the Dallas district 'he Inlo
pendent growers, who own prac
tically all of tbe larger orchards,
have announced that they v. ill sell
to the canners If tbey can secure
$1 50 per bushel. Pew of tbeot
have made any preparations to
operate their dryers, man v having
cancelled their contracts for wood.
Should the cannery prhea fail
to a level which will making dry
ing financially preferable, it is ex
pected that the growers will pool
their crops and bando them la
some of tbe larger dryers.
tar. Z " tn1 dorin lke fa"
" in Portuand.
Chicago One maa was on base