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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1921)
cmCl'liATlON F iP91 I 14.094; 1920, l7,T. Leased Wire. ' THE WEATHER OREGON: Probably rain went! unsettled, probably snow eAst por tion; moderate easterly winds. LOCAL: Rainfall :. 05; northerly winds; cloudy; max. 39, ruin. 21; river 2 feet and stationary. FORTY-THIRD YEAR-NO. 308 SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1921 "p-RTfr rpTTrn npvrpC! on trains and news MJ-viJ J. n s vjjj.i STANDS FIVE CENTS 1 fP -dd UK .0) ARDON SOUGHT BY DEBS fdalist Leader Calls fpon President and ittorney uenerai lot Satisfied " f'ashington, Dec. 26. Eugene tiebs, in th8 irst statement la id gince his release from Al ia penitentiary at noon yester I announced today" that he Jjld dedicate his - newly ac ted freedom "to the freedom political prisoners and the cauae ll prisoners." lie statement was made after ts had conferred with Presi It Harding and Attorney Gen I Daugherty. His future acth -h, Debs said, would ' depend Irely "on how long I will be I Must Redjusf Self During his confinement Debs I everything in his world had feme chaotic and undergone pgss which would make it fesary for him to readjust hlm I to the conditions of the pres- before he could foresee actual what his future activities ld be. Arriving in Washington at 9 kick Debs went first to a hotel, tre he breakfasted and then jed., upon Attorney General togherty and later President sfding, spending about one half it with each. t. Daugherty, in a statement d after his conference with 6b, declared the socialist lead- visit was Upon his own voli , that he had asked for no ad- and that none had been giv . No statement was made at the Site house after Debs call. Returning to his hotel from the Jte house Debs received . the tspapermen in his room and je his version of his release p Atlanta penitentiary, where served nearly three years of I ten year sentence. I Tells of Release jWhen I was advised by the fden of my release by commu on," he said, "it was coupled fh the request of Attorney Gen f Daugherty that I come to fhington to meet him ' and jident Harding. The warden fished me with a railroad tick to the capital city for that pur- $r. Debs explained that it was fomary upon the release of a foner for the authorities to I him his transportation to his e or the place from which he I sentenced as he -preferred, but I he was given no choice by f warden at Atlanta., fc ordinary circumstances he I he would have gone home as J ngements had been made for to return to his home and a Sonstration of welcome was duled for him at Terre Haute I his plans were set aside be e of the request of the at ey general. fl was courteously received by f attorney general," he con ted, "and expressd to him my frest in and my devotion to J fellow prisoners who were no fe guilty than 1, and who still IMP In prison." By fellow prisoners, he ex foed, he meant both "politic 'fenders and prisoners in gen- At the white house," he said, as received very cordially by I'dent Harding with whom I f anged opinions and points of 3 80 that he might perfectly '"stand my attitude in refer f t0 my future activities. Dur f the visit I took occasion to f my appreciation Of his federation. both the offices of the at ey general and the president 1 ? assured that my release was t m 0nal and that- ot urse, 1 m DOt be "Pectel to depart g iealgrinciplea' convictions Plying to a question as to his "WP status Mr. Debs.de his citizenship was "non- L, .the rnited States as the "at.on does not restore the , .J c'zenship but a citizen ' World. i!n?De7 26. Eugene 2'lst 1?aer, whose ten 5'inued on Page Seven.) Arrested As Bomb Plotter li ..., SlLS Wolfe Lindenfeld, former New Yorker, who is under arrest in Warsaw, Poland, as a suspect in the Wall street bomb disaster. Lindenfeld was traced to Poland by two Secret Service agents who gained his confidence by posing as Communists. He is said to have confessed to knowledge of the plot. EGYPTIANS RIOT FOR FREEDOM National Disturbances Against British Rule Reported at Suez, .Cairo and Port Said Cairo, EgyptDec. 25. (By As sociated Press) Rioting broke out at Suez this (Sunday) after noon. Several demonstrators were killed and a number wounded. nisoatches to the Associated Press have reported disturbances In various parts of Egypt, notab ly in Cairo and Port Said, after the forcible removal Irom iairo m Suez of Said Zagloul Pasha, a nationalist leader, and five of his followers by the British military authorities last Friday. Twelve oersons were said to have been killed In the Cairo rioting up to Saturday night. Alovnndria Eevnt. DeC 25. Associated Press) Consider able excitement prevailed through out the day (Sunday) due to nationalists agitation. Police pa troled the city in armored auto mobiles, frustrating attempts w stage demonstrations. A general strike is reporieu bo planned. The British cruiser Caies has arrived nere. Is Any Baby Like Its Father? tj tw 9R The difficul- ty which Solomon experienced when he was asked to decide Whose is the child?" confronted three judges in the King s bench divisional court. It presented itself in this form. Can you tell the father by an in fant's looks? And is the resem blance evidence? There 'was much amusing dis cussion crystallized in two parallel views. . . ..... Babbies resemble notcins u. m Mr. Justice Darling while Mr. Mickelthwaite, who was counsel in the case, followed with a comment that made the judges and the lawyers shake with laugh ter "My contention, ne 'i that babies at a certain emu v, " , . if age are like nothing on earth. Mr. Mickelthwaite. vl " . . t.i.n f trraminin, asked ea on ueiian - ' " the court to set aside an order made in favor of a girl. "The girl showed the baby to the young man and said that it spoke for itself." RAIN NOT TO DELAY BIG GAME Centre College and Arizona Elevens to Play Today Despite Flood Conditions San Diego, Cal., Dec. 26. Eight days of rain which was still falling, a field resembling a quagmire, and a comparatively small sale of seats were' not on sidered reasons sufficient to cause the postponement of the Centre Arizona football game scheduled to be played here this afternoon. The committee in charge of the contest announced that it would be played regardless of weather conditions. E. B. Gould, president of the San Dieeo chamber of commerce, called a meeting this morning of his associates who are promoting the Centre college-University of Arizona game to decide whether, under the circumstances, the con test should be staged this after noon as scheduled. Tha game is insured for $25,000 against rain and the money will be paid if one tenth of an inch ot rain or more falls between 8:30 o'clock this morning and 2:30 this afternoon. Coach J. ,F. McKale of the Ari zonians and Coach Charley Mo ran of the Centre Colonels were both willing to play in any sort of weather. City Is Isolated San DieEO.-Cal., Dec. 26. San Diego is today almost completely isolated from the outside worm as th result of nine days ot rains. tin trains were being operated over either the Santa Fe or the San Diego and Arizona, due to washouts. Automobile traffic is also practically at an end be cause of bridges and highways having been washed out. Serious flood conditions prevail in sever al parts of San Diego county and warnings of danger to me ana property have been issued to res idents in the San Diego ana san Louis Rey river valleys. Reports from the mountain districts are to the effect that heavy rains are falling today and all streams are overflowing their banks. The peak of the flood waters is expect ed to reach the lower end of the rivers late this afternoon, or ear ly tonight and possibility of great damage to property is feared. In San Diego the rain continued un !(r,tert tnAav. Street car traf fic in the city is being maintain ed but suburb service is seriously crippled and in some instances has been entirely cancelled. Lenine Tells Russia's Need of More Food f tw (Tiv the As- ia pi-oce i in announcing HULlttlCU - to the all Russian soviet congress Soviet Russia s accepiauue i ic American Relief Administration's proposal to give Russia nn ...fii nf erin on condition that Russia buy $10,000,000 more a mnntro Premier lenme umiiv estimated that this total of $30.- 000,000 would buy aDout au.uw nnn,lc nf zrain. (This is approxi mately 18,000,000 bushels). The soviet premier saia im& would help the famine situation in vnia district but declared the soviet government must con tinue to exert every enort to coi fll craln lew. He said It would require 18.000.000 poods more from abrod to bring the total available before next harvest to 215.000,000 poods, wtiicn was 15 000 000 poods below the mini mum 'necessary to carry Russia through the famine crisis. S. R. Backer Bead San Jose, Cal., Dec. 26. Sam ..i v R.irker. well known San Francisco business man, president of the Pacific Coast urnnure Dealers association, died today at his ranch at Saratoga, near here of a disease of the heart. He was .... ! Jnae in 1862, was UUl U l - elected to the state legislature at the age of 11 ami wnen i old became may of San Jose. GERMANY PLANNINGTO RUIN ITALY Campaign of Peaceful Destruction Launch ed Against Commer cial Life of Kingdom Washington, Dec. 26 A sweep ing campaign of "peaceful de struction" has been launched by Germany against the commercial life ot Italy, it was learned from a sacret document of the German foreign office. The document, revealing Ger many's plans for commercial ag gression in Italy, was laid before the armament conference, it is said, and materially influenced the decision not to reduce the stand ing armies of Italy and France, Revealed by the Italian govern ernment, the document is a report forwarded by Herr Stroheker, commercial counsellor at the Ger man embassy in Rome to the Ger man minister tor foreign affairs at Berlin. The German plan, according to the report, was: . ' 1. To flood Italy with "made in Germany" goods at "below cost" prices, thus ruining competi tors in Italy. i. To purchase Italian indus tries through Italian sources. 3. To further discontent among political feudists in order to create poltitical situations favoring Ger many. . "The figures of -German com merce in Italy show that-after the armistice our traders were not in active in reconquering the Italian market compared with France, England and the United States," began the report. "In order to create a favorable political situa tion for "ourselves, taking advan tage of the malcontents, a political situation which might In due course be favorable to us when Germany should be faced by fresh complications, it is necessary to strengthen this discontent in order to consolidate our situation through economic action." Youth On Sled Struck by Car Badly- Bruised The second Berious accident to result from coasting within the week past occurred on the Lip coin street hill last night when Robert Dow, 14 years of age, was struck by an automobile said to have been driven by Ralph Col lins, colored chauffeur of this city. Young Dow, according to the police report, suffered severe body bruises and several ot bis teeth were knocked out. The accident occurred about 8 o'clock last night. As Robert was coasting down the hill, his sled and the automobile came together. Young Dow I3 a nephew of B. E. Sisson, of the Miller Mercantile company. Elmer Falk, 14, was struck by an automobile while riding a slert down a South Commercial street hill last Monday afternoon. Al though he suffered concussion of the brain and was unconscious for four days, he was reported today to be much Improved, and will probably be taken home from the Willamette sanitarium tomorrow. Falk is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Falk, residents of route 3. The car which struck him was driven by L. W. Swlgert of Port land. Tea Drinkine Decreases. London, Dec. 26. -Consumption of tea has materially decreased during the year just ending. Job bers attributed a large part of the decrease to the l-fluenre of Amer ican troops stationed here en route to France during the war, who re fused to drink tea. Hold Revival Meeting Revival meetings are being held every night this week in the West Salem MtthodlKt church. They are being condurtfd by the regular pastor of the church. laundries in Alaska. Nome, Alaska, Dec. 26. An nouncement has been made that the salvage division of the United States quartermaster corps will in stall mobile laundries at all prin- sipa! posts in the territory. These laundries will be similar to those used by the American army in France for delusing purposes. FREED FROM IRISH PRISONS f . H ""'i Tf 4 . . AT J 'JR. 4 ?V- Li - A 4 following the signing of the peace treaty between Ireland and England there were many stirring scenes in Dublin. While the Dail Eireann cabinet was meeting at the Mansion House political pris oners were being released from camps and jails and were given cordial receptions by relatives, friends and thousands of sympa- v i 1 v eTtrtit M,v rt-v.' iLfe. j vs.-i I nnnPHi M' Ml ( t . - I . "r IT 1 1 -lwrtii lafca WitrtuMit.nNww' iiifcMM.a thizers who flocked to the lockups on receipt of the news. The ubove photo shows two ot the prisoners being greeted by friends as they left Kllmainham prison, Dublin. A prisoner is shown, in the lower right-hand corner, being given a ' railway warrant by a soldier, those who lived any distance from These warrants were given to all the camp. High way Commissioner s . Son Ends Life By Shooting Eugene, Ore., Dec, 26. Floyd Booth, .aged thirty five, son of R. A. Booth, chairman of the state highway com mission, was found shot to death in the basement of his home here early today. Authorities said he had shot him self and that it was a case of suicide, though no reason for the act was given out. Booth was married and had four children. The family had a Christmas party the night be fore. No one heard the shot that ended Booth's life. The fatal wound was in the neck. Man Seeks Wife Here; Xmas Is Spent Jailed; Loved Ones Not Found The Salem police blotter will tell you that Anthon Anderson spent Christmas "night in the city jail. Coldly, tersely, as la the wont ot police journals, it will ex plain' that Anthon is accused ot stealing some fruit. The theft was admitted, so Anthon went be hind the bars. A police blotter is a journal of row words. Its stories are told simply and without literary ele gance. On it is recorded a little of all that comes within the blue- coat's ken, but frequently It does not tell all that It knows. Reverses are Met The mere fact that Anthon An derson, Norwegian of Grant, Mont., spent Christmas night In the Salem Jail is of no interest, perhaps, for recently Anthon has spent other nights in Jail. With out funds, without work, suited tor nothing but farm or common labor, be has suffered reverses and must sleep where a bed is of fered. In Salem, unil. last night, Anthon had gone almost unnotic ed. Up Jn Grant, Mont., it Is dif ferent. There Anthon says he has 640 acres of irrigated land. There his friends would not mind If he helped himself to some fruit which might tend to dull an ap petite which was becoming in creasingly sharp. There, he says, he has the confidence of neigh bors who sympathlie with the story which he tells In broken English, Why did the big Norwegian leave his (homei Other' Yuletide Recalled For eicht years Anthon Ander son spent Christinas with his wife and seven stsp children. For eight years there were the usual festiv ities ihe stockings, the Christ mas trees, the gay decorations. In the hope that the ninth Christmas , mitiht. too, be spent with those whom he cares for, Anderson came to Oregon. Three months ago, Mrs. Ander son and the children left his home. His wife, Anthon says,' told him that she was coming to Oregon to visit relatives who, he believes, live near Salem or Eugene. Ac cording to Anthon, he and his wife had experienced no domestic strife of a serious nature and he Is at a loss to know why he has received no word since their de parture. Nearly a week ago Anthon sought the Salem police in the hope that they might aid him in locating his family, but efforts made by Chief of Police Moffltt and his officers have been un availing. Anthon, who had arriv ed with scarcely any money, spent the nights In jail and the days in search of any who might give him some clue as to bis relatives' whereabouts. Utter failure has been his reward so far. The rest of the story is difficult to understand unless Anthon i known. Utterly unsophisticated, apparently trusting everyijpdy with whom be comes in contact, unconscious ot the fact that be Ik doing any wrong unless be mater ially injures somebody, he la a big, simple, uneducated foreigner. Was Hunery He Says. I-ast night the police were noti fied that a man had stolen gome fruit from the Sweet Shop, 53S State street. An officer, detailed to the case, found Anthon eating near-by. His only excuse was ttiat he was hungry and thirsty. The fruit satisfied his desires. , The ninth Christmas was spent by Anthon alone in the city hall, where the children Archie and Kermit and Florence and Mac Murchejr and Agnes and Franc and Allen are he does not know. The fact that he may be charged with larceny does not appear to worYy him. good,", he said this morning. "It wasn't worth nothing." No charge has been preferred against htm, but he is being held for investigation. Murder Ends Romance That CausedDivorce McMlnnvlIle, Or., Dec. 26. Mrs. Effle Hlckson, 39, was shot and killed Saturday afternoon by her hUBband, R. Hlckson, 38, who shot her as she was writing a let tel. Hlckson then shot himself through the head and is thought to be fatally wounded. The shooting took place In the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. Bloom, where Mrs. Hlckson was employ ed as a servant. Mrs. Hlckson was Effle Ether- ton of Ballston, Or., and her di vorced husband was Charles Fisher, alBO of Ballston, and it was there, it Is said, that Mrs. Fisher and Hlckson decided to cast off their present marital af filiations and wed. The Fishers were divorced at McMlnnvlIle on October 28 last, and the Hicksons at Dallas on October 31. On No vember 6 Hlckson and Mrs. Fish er were married at Vancouver, Wash., returning Immediately to McMlnnvlIle, where Hlckson ob tained employment on the con struction of the new national guard armory being built here. The short domestic life of Hlckson and the woman he kill ed was turbulent. Immediately fol lowing the Vancouver wedding there were repeated violent quar rels which resulted In a separa tion about ten days ago. Investigation showed that Hick son planned deliberately to slay his wife, waiting until Mr. and Mrs. llloom both were aJisent from the house and finally, at the op portune time, stealing into the house through a rear door and creeping upon his wife from be hind. Hlckson says that MrB. Hlckson had not the slightest warning of her impending doom, and this seemed to be corroborat ed by the posture of the body at the table. Both Hlckson and his wife were well known In Iia-llston, their re spective families residing near that town. Domestic Fowls Increase. Calgary, Alta., Dec. 26. Do mestic fowls in Alberta have In creased from 2,500,00 to 425.000. 000 In the last ten years, accord ing to statistics ot the depart ment of agriculture. This Is al most 1300 per cent and testifies to the rapid agricultural develop- Tbe fruit I took was not very ment of the province. SPEAKER HAY ALSO DECLINE Bean Expected to Fol low Kitner's Lead and Fair Backers Prepare for Court Action Portland, Or., Dec. 26. Promot. ers of the world's exposition pro- posed for Portland In 1925 wer today considering the next stv'ps to be taken in regard to submit ting to the people of thn tnt th proposed exposition tax constitu tional amendment provided ftr !n a resolution adopted by th. state legislature in special session last week, concerning which a question of the legality nf ito .. arisen because it was approved by mieen memuers of the state senate one tuna tlmn u, . . ., . " unuai con stltutlonnl majority. ine vote on adoption in the Ben ate was fifteen to fourteen, but on account of tha font senator had died, leaving only 23 active, president Ritner, who represents a district in ,.. em Oreercn whr. a mlnst a state tax for the expo sition Is straits' miarf i ua to pass, holding: 16 votes necessary - ."wumj, e was overrule) by a vote of fifteen to fourteen and todnv annmmxaif l . , . - uua ileum- ed not to sign the resolution and auuompanying bill levying a tax of a cent a gallon on gasoline to raise $3000,000 toward the fair menses, whether mandamus pro ceedings against Ritner to force him to sign the measures or against Secretary of State Kozer In connection with the placing of them on the ballot, had not been decided today, but some court (est of the question wa, expected to be made. Bean May Not Sizn. Louis E. Bean, speaker of the house of representatives, said be fore leaving Salem Saturday night that he would probably refuse to Blgn the fair tax bills. The measure wan rfnpiu,,t r, ei over President Ritner's ruling - nau not received a consti tutional majority, as the ,15 votes it received were not a majority of the senate as recognized by tha (Continued on Page Seven. Germany To Welcome New Ambassador New York, Dec. 26. Germany is eagerly awaiting the new Amer ican ambassador to Berlin, who will be given a cordlui welcome and greeted as the official repre sentative of a friendly country, ac cording to James W. Gerard, who was withdrawn from Berlin as am bassador there when the United States entered the war. Gerard said one of the major problems facing the new ambas sador at Berlin will be settlement of the American claims for dam ages In connection with the sink ing of the Lusitania. He saw no difficulty for the new minister in tblo matter, however. Kills Lorlng Diesel, a Boston lawyer. Is now In charge of Amer ican affairs at Berlin, with the ti tle of charge d'affaires. "Germany," said Mr. Gerard In an Interview, "wants our friend ship. This county stands next only to Great Britain in German regard today. All the German 'hate' of the war period Is now de flected agaiiiHt France, and Great Britain and this country are look ed upon as friends. "Germany," he said. "Is eager to go more than half way with, America." Mr. Gerard refused to comment on Premier liriand's statement be fore the conference on the limita tion of armanienrs that Cermany continued a military menace, anrl also on the proposed Harding "as aociation" as It would affect Germany. to his home Sunday night, Geo. Wolfe, a rancher, drove his au tomobile off the grade and land ed In the Icy wafers of the Wal lowa river. Wolfe escaped with a few bruises.