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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1922)
CIRCULATION ' - fnr December 6613. JM. 4258i ou . w"ITS p0,k JT THE WEATHER OREGON: Tonight and Thurs day (air, continued cold. Moderate easterly winds. LOCAL: No rainfall, westerly winds, clear, max. 35, mln. 17, river 3.8 teet and falling. OEF1DI- T.1HMl Wlrp, jTYOUBTH YEAR NO. 27 SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1922 PRICE TWO CENTS KKvTcS at 1L " OS 39 jt - SPECIAL TREATIES PASSED Party Harmony Great Blessing For Huckestein Limiting Use of 0" : i Submannes ana u& i. Warfare Given Formal Approval ff.,hi;ton. Feb. 1. iBy Asso Med Press.) The fifth open of the arms jlUd to order jusi m". dock today ror uib 1 the na'al limiiatlon treaty, si the special treaties limiting I,, uie of submarines and poison . . . ... A The exact moment 01 me upou ..nfthn session was 11.06 a. m. firman Hughes began with the solution adopted in me rui Mem committee. He Drougnt, , first the resolution or uecem- rl2 (or withdrawal of foreign) ustofflces from China. "Open Door" Approved. Without discussion the postof Si resolution was adopted ana le conference then went on to ier Far Eastern resolutions. In miick succession the two tpen door resolutions and the two solutions pledging against cus iklnatory railroad practices in Una were adopted without de- Ma. livery jseat in the hall was oc ipled and many spectators stood, 'lie audience included cabinet ot itis, supreme justices, members M congress and other officials. .The committee resolution pro ving for withdrawal of foreign nop! from China also was adopt- i unanimously. Chinese Tariff Passed TJj. lir. Hughes then announced .iat the Chinese tariff resolution tould be passed over for the pres ut because of special considera- 10ns affecting it. It would come (lore the conference later, he alii embodied in a customs trea- The declaration of the powers sting China to reduce her mili ar forces and the resolution tor Sibllcity of foreign commitments J China followed the same rapid athway to adoption. The conference then adopted ie Chinese radio resolution of De ber 7, with the accompanying Mirations of principles by the Wrs and by China already fade public. Man Falls 25 Stories To Street New York; Feb. 1. Jones Marsh Libby, editor and interna tional authority on industrial mat ters, plunged to his death this af ternoon from a point high upon the 25 story municipal building. His body fell in the midst of lunch hour pedestrians. Says Soldiers Were Killed For Assault Washington, Feb. 1.- lle committpo torses of illegal excutions in the McAdoo Says Federal Rail Policy Rf gt Washington, Feb. 1.- Democratic Incumbent Retained 15 Months by Republicans Who Can't Agree j Postmasters may come and! postmasters mav co. hut Anenst Huckestein, democrat, is still on the job at the old stand, function ing satisfactorily as of old, despite the fact that it is some fifteen months since the republicans! elected a president for no other! purpose than to turn the rascals' out and reward the faithful. Mr. Huckestein's term expired! last summer, some months after numerous "plications had been filed by i e ambitious to secure his job. n rtly inspectors ap is lalem, and after ex rr. 'bes Into the records 5 '.s of the candidates, " eport at the nation's d still there has been 2 lent. ement Rumored. !rom Washington as e reason for delay Is Building Here Shows 400 Per Cent Increase Wherein building actlvites were concerned, the city of Sa lem showed in January, 1922, an Increase of approximately 400 per cent over that of Jan uary, 1921. . Thirty-five thousand two hundred dollars was spent last month while only $9100 was expended during the same per iod one year ago. These figures were complied today by Maris. Poulsen, deputy city recorder. Only three new residences were erected in January of last year, while 11 new homes were put under construction last month. A total of 14 permits were issued during January of this year, as against six for the same period In 1921. City of ficials predict that this year will find all local building rec ords shattered. 44 MILLION EXPENDED FOR ROADS Highway Commission Report Shows Over $18,000,000 Spent In Year of 1921 ' Packing House Workers Voting On Strike Issue peared i haustive and abi filed the capital, no appol Disk: Rumor -Measures' sert tha; ARBUCKLE EVIDENCE ALL TAKEN taken during federal control or the railroads "call for no apolo gies," William G. McAdoo, war time director general of railroads, declared today before the senate Interstate commerce committee, ana suueraeuis ul a.nv fpIenrt,v Th .i.n -rv. in iub uu.i. the fact that the various persons and parties interested cannot agree upon a choice. Postmaster General Will Hayes Is reported to have definitely promised the ap pointment to a prominent local politician with whom he is per- ablest railroad men States" were presented by him to support his declaration. These measures, Mr. McAdoo quoted the railroad executives as saying, "were caused by war con ditions and the efficient operation of the railroads in support of .the government during the war Justi fies every act of the administra tion during that period" Mr. McAdoo, who appeared at the committee's Inquiry into re cent railroad conditions, also quoted the executives to the effect that "It was impossible to avoid the Increase of wages which were granted, and those which are pending are inherently a result of the same causes." The executives ascribed the necessity for wage increases to "war industries surrounding the railroad on all sides paying war prices for labor and depleting the railroad supply of labor, particu larly the supply of skilled labor." Daughter Released In Murder Trial Mrs. Bertha Wilkes Everett, Wash., Feb. 1. On comnletion of the state's case against Mrs. Bertha Wilkes and her 15-year-old daughter, Treva Pote, In superior court this morn ing, atorney for the defense movea ), Hicmiasnl nf the daughter. The sen- wm... - onmised of shooting investigating and' kming Gus Danielson at her in , 1 nome wovemoer o, su uu ut, ,,, R as tola t"day by William tw )g accused aB an accessory. er of Dallas, Texas, that he Th(J defense argued that no evi en two soldiers shot without1 dence had tended tc show guilt '"""alities of a court-martial , on the part 0f the daughter. Judge aur-inie m August, 191ti. Alston granted the motion had rnmmlttpil statutory crime against two aged ck women, he said. The wlt- i Wid the soldiers were shot, "ought, by a group of ten or !''e men , .v . ; wuum yveio ' Captains "T .Li.i. n ''Won. "tw - ''diers group oi Hcmit i 1 uamg common believe I would have done two men were intoxicated, 2, aSSMted' and before the "wine tnnk i ... j l "L-e were Deaten 'keaii lne solOiers. The HW i a sobered them," Miller ai. th admlted the accusa- 22 Marriai wcenses Sold During January 't taM iW marrage licenses . li during the month of 'tierk T "iCe of the coun ;di, entire number was "rjarT . 1 lnree weeas. i ul Brooms applying i5PPerniIlg- Reuben Da"a8 Z"1 a"d Bertha Kauf Wjf ,,?"Terton. Ralph M. Lea- "uard with Ethel MurIe, htLla da M('KeJ cf Wooi- K the three cj uplea. The defense then urged dismiss al of the charges against Mrs, Wilkes arguing that with the dis missal of the daughter the jury would be in doubt as to what part each nlayed. Thereupon the court ronorspd his dismissal of the girl After a recess had been takenthe defense renewed the motion for Treva's dismissal and the court announced that he would order a directed verdict for her if no fur ther testimony were Introduced oitorlnir the situation The morning the will of Gus -!.. waa admitted as evi- the protest of the de fense. The will gives $1000 to fnr her education and the n Mrs. Wilkes. The es tate is said to be worth about $4000 Testimony of the execu tor of the will indicated Mrs. Wilkes knew of its contents after it was drawn. Four Auto Bandits Rob Chicago Man Chicago, Feb. l.-Four auto mobile bandits early this morning held up Joseph H. Sthwartz, a station employe of the Pennsyl vania railroad at Whiting Ind t. silvering mail to the as -lie " - , t ,,t ice board, acting upon the report of its inspectors and examiners is reported to favor the appointment of a different candidate and to have refused to recommend Hayes' friend. Senator "McNary, who or dinarily would have the courtesy of naming the postmaster In his own home city is said to favor a third candidate, while Congress man Hawley, who also claims Sa lem as his residence, is reported to have recommended a fourth person. Confusion Reigns. The postmaste general must appoint, the civil service board must approve, the senate must confirm, and if Hayes choice is spurned by the board, and the board's choice spurned by the postmaster general, and the sen ate refuses to confirm either choice, and both Hayes and the board reject the senator's choice, we have an interesting situation, interesting at least for the incum bent. The situation is still more com plicated by the fact that Hayes has resigned as postmaster gener al and soon goes out of office, the Prosecution Opens On Final Argument In Trial of Comedian for Manslaughter San" Francisco, Feb. 1. The taking of testimony ended at 10:25 a. m.-today in the second trial jt a manslaughter" charge against Roscoe C. (Fatty) At- buckle. A fifteen minute recess was taken before finar argument began. Final arguments for the prose cution were opened by Milton T. U 'Ren, assistant district attorney. Each side has four hours to argue. The defense said it did not expect to take more than two hours. " COUNTRY STORE" MAGNATE OFFERS "FATTY" CONTRACT If "Fatty" Arbuckle is acquit ted by the San Francisco jury that Is hearing evidence on charges of manslaughter filed against him, he can have a job en tertaining the people of Oregon at $2,500 a week, says the Oregon Journal. Arbuckle, in fact, has actually been offered a contract to work in senate and the civil service board Oregon and the Northwest by Ed are at logger-heads, and all the dje' LaMontagne, owner of ' the The tremendous growth of the good roads movement In Oregon is shown In the annual report of the state highway department which was filed with Governor Olcott Tuesday. In summarizing expen ditures for road work in this state under the supervision of the state commission the report shows total expenditures since 1913 aggregat ing $44,149,673.09. , Oregon's start In road develop ment was made in 1913-14 with an expenditure of $1,200:686.09 of which amount $1,00,000 was county money and the balance state money. In 1915 road expen ditures were limited to $574,- 977.45 and in 1916 expenditures for road improvements Blumped still more to a total of only $296, 028.86. From that year, however, expenditures hav saown a steady gain, reaching the tremendous sum of $18,245,821.37 In 1A21. In the four year period 1913 1916 road improvement work done under the supervision of the com mission was limited to 7.3 miles of bituminous pavement, 14.3 miles of concrete pavement, 19.8 miles of broken Btone or gravel surfac ing, and 160.2 miles of grading, In the year 1921 alone road work completed under the super vision of the commission Included 125 miles of bituminous pave ment, 61 miles of concrete pave ment 433.9 miles of broken stone . 1 .if. T or gravel surracing anu hj.i miles of grading. Up to the end of the fiscal year, November 30, 1921, road work completed in this state under the supervision of the commission In clude 489.8 miles of bituminous pavement, 105 miles of concrete pavement, 914.9 miles of broke stone or gravel surfacing and 1422.9 miles of grading. Of the $44,149,673.09 expended on the road of this state by the state highway department $36, 195,034.08 have been state funds, $4,887,763.65 county funds, $3, 502,835.58 government funds and $64,039.78 railroad funds. Chicago, Feo. 1. Packing house workers throughout the country are voting today on. the question of calling off their strike which started In fourteen packing centers December 5, 1921. Inter national headquarters of the un ion here last night telegraphed all locals recommending the strike be called off and that the striken seek their old positions. The strike affected plants In Chicago, St. Paul, Albert Lea, Minn., Kansas City, Omaha, East St. Louis, Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, Sioux City, St. Joseph, Den ver, Wichita and Nebraska City. CARFARE RISE NOW SEEN HERE FORMAL ASSENT TO NAVY LIMITATION PLAN GIVEN BY ALL Applause Greets Announcement by Hughes That Battleship Oregon Will Be Refined for Sentimental Reasons for Non-Combatant and Purposes Under Scrapping Rule latter's appointments being held- up, while numerous protests against some recent postmaster appointments in this section have stirred up a mess that is doing the party no good. Meanwhile August "sits tight' and views the situation with phil osophic complacency hoping that the grand old party harmony con tinues. Street Car Fares In Astoria Raised Patrons of the Astoria street railway system will pay seven cents a ride on and after Monday next. An order or the public serv ice commission withdraws the sus pension which the commission or dered shortly after the filing of the new tariff by the Pacific Pow er & Light company last May and permits the tariff to become ef fective. This action of the com mission is based upon their find- i.., after a thorough investiga tion of the street railway situa Hnn nt Astoria. The new tariff which increases the cash fare from five to seven cents also increases the 50-tickel books from $2.25 to $3 and the 40-ride students ticaeis wum $1.25 to $1-75. Strike Called On German Railways Berlin, Feb. 1. (By Associated press.) The executive commit tee of the railway men's union has decided to proclaim a general rail way strike at midnight tonight The government today issued a warning to the railway men de claring the strike moye illegal and announcing a penalty of im i.m.nt or a fine to a maxi- Whiting post oince ' o B0,000 marks ror inoi from his push cart one pouch of ,mum t work or incit- -i.o mil and six tie sacks .viauai f.i. conr parcel post and paper. ing otners to - Country Store" attractions. which have successfully been play ing the smaller cities of the state for several months. In a wire to the rotund comed ian Monday La Montagne pro claimed his anticipation of Ar buckle's acquittal and asked his prompt Consideration of a contract to come to the Northwest. "I really believe Arbuckle will be acquitted," La Montagne said. "and If he Is he will be a great drawing card. So good a drawing card, in fact, that I will send him a contract for $2,500 a week as soon as he Is freed." Salem Student Initiated Into Aggie Fraternity Oregon Agricultural College, Corvaliis, Feb. 1. ; (Special) Roland V. Hogg of Salem has just been initiated into Alpha Zeta, national honorary fraterni ty in agriculture, at the Oregon Agricultural college. New mem bers are chosen on the basis of scholarship, character and lead ership, the purpose of the frater nity being leadership In the fur therance of scientific agriculture. Other men initiated at the same time were, Ernest V. Abbott, Ash land; Bert G. Babb, Eugene; Por ter A. Brimmer, Rialto. Cal; Law rence isrown, Troy; warren Daigh, Ontario, Cal; Ferris Green, Phoenix, Ariz; John Burtner, Du fur; Floyd M. Edwards, Monroe; Fred Osborn, Corvaliis; Charfes Storz, Portland. Preachers Won " War, Welfare ' Worker Holds Influence extended by the church to the community was dis cussed by W. H. Johnson, presi dent of the Presbyterian Moral and Temperance Welfare associa tion, for Rotary club members at, their luncheon in the Commercial club this noon. "The time Is coming when banks will refuse credit to the man who buys liquor from a boot legger," said Mr. Johnson In speaking of prohibition. "By breaking the eighteenth amend ment the whole constitution Is trampled under foot." During the war thf influence of the church was brought to bear at the request of the government andV, men were enlisted in the services of their country because of the oratory which thundered from pulpits. - In the sale of the liberty bonds, said Mr. Johnson, the preachers -nA tha nrnvlnrpR of the banks vuicivu . " - y on ,1 war A leaders In promoting thi sale of government securities. Hoover recognized in the pulpit a means by which he could instill into the minds of the American public the idea of food conserva tion. The preachers took up the cause, and food was conserved. , By no means could the war have been .won without the aid of the pulpit, the speaker intimated. "Business depression follows moral depression," said Mr. John son. "When people lose Interest j In the church, business is bad Woman Is Acquitted Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 1. Mrs. Bernice Vallance, slayer of her former fiance, Floyd Barn am, at Memphis, Texas, last year, wag acquitted by a Jury at Memphis late yesterday. Jury Finds Murphy , Quilty; Fined $25 F. T. Murphy, a driver for the Great Northern Transfer com pany, was sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and Costs by Judge G. E. Knruh yesterday afternoon. Mur phy was found guilty of speeding by a jury In the Justice court. Dave Brown, state traffic of ficer, arrested Murphy several days ago. Arraigned, be entered a plea of not guilty. Company Is In Grave Need; Probers Find; Removal of Certain Lines, Possible Despite the fact that the Ore gon public service commission re cently denied the Southern Pa cific company a proposed rise In fares on its street car lines in Sa lem, it will be necessary for the city council to grant the street car lines some relief In the near future, according to members of a special council committee, recent ly named by Mayor Halvorsen, to make an investigation of the fi nancial condition of the company. What form the relief will take, committeemen do not venture to say. The company may be granted a six cent fare. It may be permit ted to remove its track on Sum mer street, or the north Seven teenth line may be dispensed with. It Is understood that the prob ing committee will mKe no defi nite recommendations to the al dermen at their meeting next Monday night, but at the same time the investigators are thor oughly convinced that the street car company cannot continue to operate on its present basis, loses $5000 Yearly Figures on the books of the Southern Pacific company, which, for the first time since the fare controversy arose, were last week opened to city officials, show that the local lines have lost approxi mately $20,000 In the last four years an average of $5000 each 12 months. It may be said, how ever, that the company went "in the red" to a lesser extent last year than it did during the three years preceding. No formal request that the com pany be permitted to take up Its Summer street and North Seven teenth lines has been made by T. L. Billingsley, local manager, but It is understood that the company feels t's would be one means of solving the problem. That a problem does exist, that the street car company cannot go on in the future as it has in the past is freely conceded by members of the council committee. Solutions Are Lacking A rise of one cent in car fare, It is said, would mean an additional revenue to the company of $18, 000 annually. This estimate Is made with due consideration of the fact that a certain per cent of the street car patrons would re fuse to ride If the fare were raided "The street car company has submitted no proposals to us In writing," one member of the committee said this afternoon, "and consequently it is probable that we will make no recommen dations at the next council meet ing. The problem is one for the council to take up as a unit." Relief Held Necessary Members of the committee, some of whom had vigorously opposed the proposed fare rise when It was' considered by the public service commission, admitted to day that the city could not ex pect the company to continue re I pairs on its lines when It is stead lly losing money. The $20,000 loss experienced by the company during the last four years does not Include inter est on its heavy investment, com mittee members said. Members of the committee are Dr. F. L. Utter, chairman; Hal Patton, John Giesy, A. F. Marcus, A. H. Suter and City Attorney Ray Smith. (By Associated Press) Washington, Feb. 1. Formal assent of the five powers to the naval limitations treaty was given at the plenary session of the Washington conference today. The action was taken after presentation of the treaty by Chairman Hughes land his brief discussion, followed by an address by M. Saraut of the French delegation, expressing the adherence of France. The separate treaty regarding sub marines and poison gas was then presented by Elihu Root. On a roll call of the five delegations, the submarine treaty formerly was approved. The session adjourned at 2 :36 p. ,ja. to meet again at the call of the chairman. - - The naval treaty was not read, but Secretary Hughes outlined its Treaty Text Washington, Feb. 1. The draft; treaty for limitation of naval arm ament submitted today to the plenary session of the Washington conference contains only the fol lowing preamble in explanation of the purpose of the five contract ing governments in reaching the agreements set forth: "Desiring to contribute to the maintenance of the general peace and to relieve the burdens of com petition in armament; "Have resolved, with a view to accomplishing these purposes to concldde a treaty to limit their re spectlve naval armament, and to that end have appointed as their plenipotentiaries (The names of the delegates of the powers follow.) Three Chapters. The treaty is divided into three chapters. Chapter one contains the general language of the agree- atricles. Chapter two cqntains the do- tailed, specific agrements on naval maters, many of them in compli cated tabular form, which ampli fy and complete the meaning of the general agreements of chapter one. Chapter three Is devoted to (Continued on Page Two.) Stronger Railway Crossing Barners Needed Is Claim The need of a more substantial type of crossing barrier, especially at grade crossings subjected to heavy traffic, is called to atten tion of the Southern Pacific rail road company by Fred G. Buchtel, nubile service commissioner, in a letter to E. L. King of Portland, superintendent of the Oregon di vision of the road. ' Buchtel calls peclal attention tn th East Morrison street and Hawthorne avenue crossings at which points the present wooden barriers are frequently wrecked by automobile drivers and sug gests that the railroad give con sideration to a type of barrier so constructed as to withstand the Impact of a moving automobile and at the same time function as a mechanical means of stopping the same. terms and declared that so far as capital ships are concerned "the integrity of the plan proposed on behalf of the American govern ment has been maintained." Descrtpton of the terms of the naval limitation treaty, which will be found in another column, outlines the results agreed upon between the Big Five, following the dramatic announcement of the American proposals by Secretary Hughes at the opening session of the conference on November 12. Just before the presentation of the naval treaty and after the resolution affecting China had been quickly adopted without dis sent, th Shantung agreement was announced and described with satisfaction by the representatives of China and Japan. British Spring Surprise Arthur J. Balfour, heading the British delegation, described It as "the crowning work of Secretary Hughes and the representatives of China and Japan" and then threw In another surprise by the flat announcement that Great Britain would hand back to China her lease on Wei Hai Wei. There was a ripple of applause when Mr. Hughes announced that the old battleship Oregon would be retained for non-combatant purposes because the state of Ore gon wanted to keep it for histor ical and sentimental reasons. Touching on the system of act ual scrapping of capital ships, Mr. Hughes said: "I might call this the denatur ing of capital ships.'" The phrase was greeted with laughter. One lighted gas Jet consumes as much air as four adults. McNary To Head Agricultural Committee Now Washington, I). C, Feb. 1. By the retirement of Senator Kenyon of Iowa from the senate to become a federal Judge, Charles L. Mc Nary, senator of Oregon, moves up to ranking place on the senate agricultural committee. If the senate passes the proposed meas ure for the enlarged budget or ap propriations committee, Senator McNary will be one of the agri cultural subcommittee of the big ger committee. Senator McNary has long per formed the duties of ranking mem ber of the senate agriculture com mute, presiding in the absence of Senator Norris, of Nebraska, the chairman, because Senator Ken yon found much of his time ab sorbed as chairman of the com mittee on education and labor. President of Fiume Target of Assassins Flume, Feb. 1. (By Associated Press) An attempt was made on the life of President Zanella of the Independent state of Flume when a bomb was thrown at his automobile. The president was not injured. Professor Rlccardo Zanella was one of the leading opponent! of Gabriel D'AnnunzIo while the lat- tor was In Fiume. He occupied the Fiume city hall by a coup d'etat lata year and was elected presi dent of the Independent state by the constituent assembly on Oc tober 6. Kay Undergoes Operation; Is Doing Nicely, The condition of T. B. Kay, Sa lem manufacturer and representa tive In the lower house of the leg islature, who underwent an oper ation for hernia yesterday at the Salem hospital. Is reported to be good, and the patient Is recover ing nicely. There is nothing nn UBual concerning his condition, hospital officials stated. Efforts are being made by the American Legion to secure Fort Stevens as a location for a voca tion and rehabilitation school for ex-service men.