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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1922)
CIRCULATION ' The Weather OREGON: Tonight and Thursday rain; moderate southerly winds. Local: Rainfall, .12; southerly windB; cloudy; maximum, 57; minimum, 48; river, 4.4 feet and rising. , i 3 for April 6793. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. lher Associated Press Full leased fW service. ' ' ' ' -pTY-FOURTH YEAR NO. 105. SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1922. PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS' FIVE CENTS TO) A 0 RACY HlfillL.lU' C.IV i fffiS WRECK OPENING aFETY VAULT Bandits Secure $12,000 In Sensational JNight Rnhbery: Night Mar shal Bound by Thugs. Denver, Colo., May 3. After Atlas 9 shots of nitroglycerine which practically wrecked ; the frame building of the First Na tional bank at Lafayettd, 15 miles from here, early this ... morning bandits escaped with , approxi mately $12,000 in currency and liberty bonds. George Stubbs, night marshal was bound and gagged in the al ley while the robbers were blow ing the bank vault. - " ., . One Citizen Shot When released he said that four of them entered the town at 3 o'clock this morning and over powered him. 0. C. Alderson, one of the resi ients awakened by the blasts got bis rifle and attempted to drive off the bandits. He was shot In the leg and seriously wounded. The last of the nitroglycerine blasts was so heavy that the huge door of the vault was blown thru lhe plate glass window of the bank and across the street. Lineman Spreads Alarm ;' The robbers worked in dark ifts, having shot out the light in front of the bank building, and nre uninterrupted, haying cut ill the telephone wires leading out of the city. - , ' i. A. Mahany, a lineman ipread the alarm which brought I flying squadron of police from this place when he climbed a tel ephone pole and picked up the tonnection, cut into the Denver office. All roads leading into Den ver lave been blocked by the po lice. - SEATTLE ELECTS 8eattle, Wash.. May 3. Dr. Edwin J. Brown, dentist, yeeter- y was elected mayor of Seattle tja plurality of 11,915 votes wer State Senator Daniel Landon, Wording to complete unofficial iisures today. Mrs. Landes and Catherine Myracle and E. Blaine, former councilman, were elected io the city council. . Proposition VA," known as the Erlekson measure and which pro dded that cost of operation and maintenance of the municipal 'reet railway system be paid from me general taxation fund, was "'erwnelmingly defeated, the fin ite standing 15,281 In favor of 4 0,222 against. WILL ENTER SPELLIMATCH HERE Nearly 300 students of Marion "ty grade, schools will in all 'robabilitV entor fhc annual rn.in- jj felling contest to be held at Salem high school next Sat "day morning at 10:30 o'clock, unty school officials, said today. Pupils from the third to eighth "Mes, inclusive, will be eligible compete. Gold and silver med- will be given as first and sec J0' prises to the pupil' winning 'rom each grade. Much Interest has been mani in the contest, officials '. Baleni grade pupils will be Permitted t0 compete. frSOLDTEMlHALLEY MOTOR TO ENTER LEAGUE an!r?h tb8 AmericaI1 Legion post d the Valley Motor Car company halem will have teams in the w'"ght baseball league. ,t 'e " -service men took action arm regular meeting in the M ory laH night and are expect- Put up a strong aggregation. tii ttf v"ey Motor Car team will 1 ,ke P'ace of the Valley Pack 4i'mpany in tha leaBue, this h,l? beiDg "ached at a meet t held in the Y. M. C. A. recent- vtti'L ,irst me of the league Played on May 23. - DENTIST MAYOR Portlander Travels far To Learn Own Name Omaha, Neb., May 3. Ran dall Scott Perkins, 18, of Port land, Or., is in Omaha to find out, if possible, who he really is. He arrived recently, mak ing part of the way on freight trains, in an effort to find his parents or at least determine their identity, having- heard that he was given in adoption here 17 years ago. He received his name through adoption, H. A. Per kins of Portland being his adopted mother's fourth hus band,' according to his story. He said he had been unable to learn.. his real identity from Mrs. Perkins. . ' C Hi- T IS Washington, May 3. American financial conceptions need revis ion to provide longer term financ ing for agriculture, Eugene Mey er, managing director of the war ordnance corporation, declared today before the house banking and currency committee, which is conducting hearings on pending agricultural relief legislation. "Our fundamental conceptions are based upon the imported Eng lish and continental conceptions of what constitutes soundness In banking," said Mr. Meyer. "But the basic business of America Is the production and distribution of agricultural commodities and six ty and ninety day financing does not adequately meet the market ing need of the producers. "I maintain that six and nine months loans on wheat and cot ton are as liquid from the point of- view of security as the 90 day paper representing advances to merchants and manufacturers," he continued. The federal reserve system, Mr. Meyer declared, has partially rec ognized the need for longer term financing for the agricultural turnover, but the financial sys tem as a whole has not adequate ly recognized the necessity of co relating agricultural financing with the normal processes and consumption. TODAY'S BASEBALL SCORES Cleveland-Chicago game . post poned; rain. Petroit, Mich., May 3. St. Louis- Detroit game postponed; rain. - R. H. E. Washington 0 9 1 Boston 8 11 1 Phillips, Billheart and Plei nich; Quinn and Walters. " R. H. E. New York 2 7 3 Philadelphia - 8 1 Hoyt and Devormer; Rommel and Perkins. . . National. Chicago-Pittsburgh game Post poned; rain. R. H. E. Boston :... -- 9 13 2 New York 16 3 Rudolph, McQuillan and Gow dy; Nehf, Barnes, Shae and Smith. Portland, Or., May 3. Seattle Portland game postponed; rain. PRODUCERS NEE Man Injured in Auto Crash Here is Faced By 2 Liquor Charges Complaints charging him with driving while intoxicaiea a..u with the unlawiui pubo." - liquor were faced Dy na.u." Hatch, Salem electrician, who sus tained injuries in a car crash here last night, when he was arraigned before Judge G. E. TJnruh in the justice court this morning. Hatch pleaded guilty to the pos session of liquor, but was granted time in which to determine the nature of his plea on th of driving while drunk. His ball was placed at $200 by Judge TJn ruh and be will receive sentence tomorrow at 10 cclocs- (Li PRQMISESUIT TO MENDER UNFULFILLEDHEARD Offer of Members Who Took Part In Ingle wood Raid Fails To Materialize Today. Los ' Angeles, Cal., May3. The promised surrender today of 100 or more persons who took part in the Inglewood raid ten days ago failed to materialize today. It had been announced by W. S. Coburn, grand goblin of the Ku Klux Klan, that members of that organization and others who, ac cording to his statement, partici pated in the raid that caused one death and a wide investigation would march to the office of the district attorney today in a body and there surrender to face any charges that might be placed against them. The surrender was to be made today and the hour was set for ten o'clock. Ten o'clock came but the raid-. ers did not. Federal Employes Members San Francisco, May 3. A list of annroximately'160 alleged mem bers of the Ku Klux Klan in San Francisco most of whom hold of fices under the federal govern ment or in the police department, has been submitted to officials of the department of justice, by Thomas Woolwine, district attor ney for Los Angeles county, it was learned today. The names were obtained from the state headquarters of the klan in Los Angeles. No announcement of the names will be made here until those on the list have been questioned, it was announced by department of ficials. Announcement of any act ion that might be taken also was withheld. tt,o Hat names 28 employes in the federal post office building, about 50 holding otner reaerai po sitions, 22 employes in the city hall and 25 members of the police department, It was learned. 5 GENTSQUQTED Five cents a pound for cherries this vear will perhaps be the low est price received by growers, ac cording to Fred A. tangis, neaa of Mangis Brothers commission house this morning, which Is now for the Lioa- UUlllg HAW - s California Glase Fruit company of San Francisco. Mr. Mangis stated that he ex ,i tn handle about . 3000 pounds of cherries and that there might be an Increase in price De fore the season was over. If the present rain . keeps up for any , .w Hmo ft is exDected to prevent pollination and so cut down the crop estimate. In regard to strawberries and loganberries Mr. Mangis was of the opinion that the price for the former would be arouna six cents and the later around five. Packers and commission men seem to be unanimous in their opinion that the grower ought to receive more than four cents to make a profit on loganberries. Hatch, whose automobile crash ed head-on Into a larger machine on State street last evening, sus tained a number of lacerations about the face and he was taken to a local hospital for treatment. E C. McCallon, a resident of Dallas, who was driving the ear . . . i. Tjath automobile witn wnicn coliaed, was not injured. He told police that waxen the wrong side of the street O'ficers who investigated the case said they found a pint bottle, partially filled watt liquor. In the Hatch ear. - . AS CHERRY PRICE BONUS LAW IS Circuit Judges Reserve Decision After Hear ing Arguments Relative To Appraisal Clause. Arguments- in the "friendly uit instituted by the American Legion Post No. 9 of Salem against the veterans' state aid commission for a construction of the law relating to the 75 per cent loan provision of the bonus act were heard by Judges Bingham and Kelly, Who took the matter under advisement before granting the wTlt of man damus thismorning. ; Roy F. Shields, Salem attorney,- representing the American Legion, in presenting the arguments ot the ex-service men stated that to loan one applicant 75 per cent ot the appraised value and to deny an fother applicant a loan ot not more than 25 per cent was class dis crimination left- to the arbitrary whims of the commission. " t Holds Appraisal Binding. ; "The act provides for appoint ment of appraisers," said Shields, in making his argument. - "That their appraisement was not In tended to be advisory only, Is clearly shown., by the fact that the maximum amount of any loan de pends absolutely upon the ap praisers' report even though the commission might actually believe the security offered to be worth three times the appraisement made. If this appraTsement is fin al as to maximum of the loan, and there was an intent) to make it less binding as to the, minimum, the act would certainly have : ao stated." Mr. Shields admitted that the commission had a right to make rulings governing the-appraisements, but when an appraisement was made in accordance "wn these rulings. It , was 'absolutely binding. - Operation Explained." " ' Pointing out that the legisla ture in passing the act that loans made would approximate 75 per cent of the value and in many In stances be considered below the standard of ordinary commercial loans, Mr. Shields referred to sec tion 11 of the law which requires that on sale of any land mortgage to a person not entitled to a loan, the principal shall be paid down to 60 per cent ot the original loan. "If 76 per cent of the appraise ment amounts to the original loan, and it is paid down to 60 per cent under this section the principal would thereafter be 45 per cent ot the appraised value, or the cus tomary proportion observed in commercial loans," said Shields. "On the other -hand, the loan would have to be paid down to 20 per-cent of the appraised value, a result clearly not contemplated by the framers of the act. Loan Object Defeated. j Section 1 provides that the pur pose of the loan is to enable the applicant to provide a home. For this purpose and acting on the common interpretation placed up on the act before and after its pas sage numerous applicants have purchased property for homes ex pecting to get a loan of 75 per cent of its appraised value. A loan of 50 per cent or less Is of no use to them. "In other words, a person who is homeless, neither has the finan cial standing required by the com mission, nor the rear property of twice or three times the value of the amount of the loan, and as a result cannot use a loan for the purpose intended and therefor-, so far as saving the state money, it is obvious that if the applicants do not obtain satisfactory loans they will all elect to take the cash bonus, with the result that the money expended &y the state. If that course hi taken, will far ex ceed that required to make up the few losses, if any sustained, if tbe proper construction is adopted." J. A. Benjamin presented the state's side of the case and point ed out that many of the soldiers who were entitled to only $60 cash bonus were permitted to take the loan to the limit. , Brazier C. Small and Robin D Day were associated with Shield in presenting the case. DAY rMBER UNION OFFICIALS SA Y CHARGE FALSE Portland, Or., May 3. The Douglas Fir Exploitation and Ex port company was organized un der the Webb-Pomerene act and the' company has tried to operate according to its provisions, ac cording to a statement to the As sociated Press today by Ralph H. Burnside, president ot the Willa pa Lumber company, one of the trustees of the, accused Company. When the company was formed in 1916 a representative of the department of commerce was pres ent and the minutes and every thing pretaining to the organiza tionf were furnished the depart ment," said Burnside. "The com pany has repeatedly asked for ad vice, as the law provides that the commission shall act fn an advis ory capacity toward concerns en gaged in foreign trade. , "We knew this complaint was coming and applied for an injunc tion in the courts of the District of Columbia to prevent it being is sued until the federal trade com mission had acted in advisory ca pacity. The court, however, did not consider the injunction neces- sary and dismissed the case." F ORDERED TO PUT T Dublin, May 3. On motion of Eanion DeValera, the Dail late to day adopted a motion ordering the opposing sides in the Irish repub lican army conflict to cease firing immediately and arrange a truce. Mr. DeValera eaid he would like to see the army executive who had taken an independent position Is sue similar order and would do all he could to that end. Richard Mulchaey said his side had done all possible and Arthur Griffith declared their men were only defending themselves. Griffith pressed DeValera for a definite assurance, and the latter said couriers should be sent to es tablish an immediate truce. Grif fith ureed that DeValeri should speaker at the Four Courts in Dub lin, the headquarters of the Dissi dent army faction. - Richard Mulcahey seconded De Valena's motion for the order to cease firing and arrange a truce, and after its adoption the house at'6:05 g'clock adjourned until Friday. NEW LIGHT SHED E Newton, Mass., May 3. Will lam B. Powell. Boston district manager for a commercial agen cy, shot and killed his wife, Mrs. Lena E. Powell, last evening after he had called her and his butler, Michael H. Mahoney,' before him and accused them of intimacy, the nollce were told today by a maid In the Powell home. Powell first fired three shots at the butler who fled and escaped unhurt. Then he pursued his wife to the library, where he shot her three times, and went upstairs and killed himself. Miss Josephine England, the maid, said. Mrs. Powell was the widow ot R. H. White, a Boston department store millionaire before she mar ried Powell. 1922 FRUIT PROSPECTS FINE SAY JNVESTIGATORS Vrnm nresent appearances the condition of the prune crop In the Willnmette valley look very en couraging, according to C. A. Park of the state board or horticulture. H. P. Barss and A. L. Lovett ot O. A d who made a tour of investi gation last week. Danger from the tnnp la noi se.-Jsu?. though in some places It has' done some little damage. Every grower is advised to watch -Urely his trees and immediately he thrip occurs go over them with - pray. IRISH 0 FIGHTING ON MURDER CAS Seattle, Wash., May 3. The Douglas Fir Exploitation and Ex port company has acted "strictly within the law" and hopes to be able to convince the federal trade commission, of that fact; W. H. Talbot, president, declared today when shown an Associated Press dispatch stating that formal charges of conspiracy to restrict competition had been filed against the company. Mr. Talbot denied the - charge that the company had stifled com petition, asserting that when the company had entered the foreign export trade "exclusively" it has actually invited competition from other mills and that a number1 of other organizations had entered the trade since that time. "We have acted in accord with every provision of the law," Mr. Talbot said, "and we think we are strictly in the right in this mat ter. Our business has been con fined strictly to the export trade, placing us clearly within the Webb-Pomerene law. I am confi dent we can convince the federal trade commission that this is cor rect." Horses Left Out Officer Sent For But Does Naught Dr. A. R. Andrews, Salem hu mane officer, has a hobby. It Is protecting horses. He insists. however, this does not mean he is unduly interested in hobby-horses. "Hello, doc," a voice greeted Andrews over the phone this morning. "Some low-down cuss left his horses standing out all night on Ferry street. Didn't even have a blanket over 'em. Cold, too. Can you do something about it?" ' Andrews could. Stepping under his hat he prepared to take the air and the names- of the offending parties. At the armory, however, the humane officer looked in vain for some shivering plugs. Then, over at one side, he saw the wooden horses of a merry-go-round. They didn't appear cold. One of them even seemed to be smiling. Said Dr. Andrews: "Well, I'll be " . But that, as Mr. Kipling once remarked, Is another story. The steeds are part of the equip ment to be used at the Cherringo, to be held at the armory May 4, 6 and 6 for the benefit of the Sa lem hospital. LEGION SPLITS Medford, Or., May 3. Six mem bers of the Medford post of the American Legion publicly an nounced their resignations from that organization today following a meting last night in which a resolution condemning lawlessness and violence was defeated by a close vote. The resigning members in a public statement declared one of them had been threatened sup posedly by the Ku Klux Klan for supporting the same resolution at a previous meeting, and that un der the circumstances they felt they could not consistently retain membership in an organization which refused to gn on record for what tbey regarded as tbe funda mentals of good citizenship and true Americaniem. According to some members of the Legion who opposed the reso lution they did so not because they approved of the Ku Klux Klan but because they believed the or ganization should not take any stand on such a contriverslal ques tion. Colonel E. E. Kelly and Colonel Gordon Voorhies, both of whom saw active service in France, are the resigning mem bers. Two college boys, Leonard Young and Frank Anderson, are under arrest at Corvallls and have confessed to the theft of an automobile belonging to Dr. Harrv J. Anderson. KLAN ISSUE Valley Fruit Ira Good Condition, Is .Report Portland, Or., May 3. Fruit bloom in Oregon is very back ward but made considerable advance during the week, says the weather bureau's weekly crop report. Cherries in the Willamette valley are ap proaching full bloom. Pears in the Rogue River valley are mostly past full bloom. " Condi tions have been generally fav orable for pollination. Prunes are blooming well. Apple bloom is confined to the warmer sec tions. Frost did some damage to strawberries in Umatilla county. ' IN SOUGHT FOR T Ronton. Mav 3. An all-night search tor Edmond1 Pitlock of Chi cago by police Investigating the fatal shooting ot William B. Hub bard, manufacturer ot a vegetable germicide, by Mrs. Carrie N. Hub bard, his wife, at their Roslindale home late yesterday, ended today when Pitlock surrentterea at po lice headquarters tor examination. Tbe shooting was said by Mrs. Hubbard, who is 45, to have fol lowed threats by her husband on her return from a walk with Pit lock. The latter had gone when police came. Pitlock. 22 years old, a naval veteran under treatment at a hos pltal here, had been guest at the Hnlilinril home from time to time before he returned several "months ago to his wife and child at Chl cBrrt. Vlsitinir Boston for medical attention, he was invited, by the Hubbards to stay at their nome and had been a guest there foui days. Mrs. Hubbard said she and Pit- Inclc went walklnE for two hours yesterday and when they returned home found her husband awaiting them In an angry mood. Mrs. Hubbard pleaded not gull ty to a charge of murder, and was held without bail for the grand jury. M'ADREW LAID IN -ARLINGTON VAULT Washington, May 3. Another comrade from France joined America's unknown hero in Ar lington national cemetery today when the body of Major General James A. McAdrew, chief of staff ot the American expeditionary forces during all the days ot Its fighting, was laid in the receiving vault with full military honors. A squadron of cavalry and mounted band escorted the flag draped casket from the war col lege, where it had rested in state ail night under guard of the bronzed khakl-clad' men ot tbe line, to St. Patrick's church. Three long lines of foot troops stood at present arms as the gun carriage rolled to the steps and seven brother officers stepped for ward to lift the casket down and carry to rest before the altar. . L. J. CHAPIN DISCUSSES MUTATIONS FOR R0TAR1ANS Laws of hereditary, mutations and evolution were discussed by Luther J. Cbapln before the Salem Rotary club at Its luncheon in the Marion hotel this noon. Mr. Chapin's discussion was re ceived with enthusiasm, many of the club members commenting on his construction of Mendel's law and tbe short history of Its redis covery by two different men In different parts of the country. TRIAL OFlPEEDERlONOAY The trial of J. A. Perdue, charged with driving his automo bile at sn unlawful rate of speed, will be held In the Salem justice court Monday morning at 10 o'clock. It was announced thiB morning by Judge G. E. Unruh. Purdue was arrested several days ago. When arraigned before Judge Unruh he pleaded not guilty. GIVES HIMSELF UP DOUGLAS FIR ASSOCIATIO N SUIT TARGET Federal Trade Commis sion Alleges Coenin and Unfair Methods In Establishing Monopoly. Washington, May S. (By Asso ciated Press.) -Formal complaint was. Issued by the federal trade commission ; today against the Douglas Fir Exploitation & Ex port company and 107 stockhold ers and otf leers in the respondent association who are lumber man ufacturers in the state of Oregon, . California and Washington. The complaint charges conspir acy to hinder and obstruct compe tition and alleges that the re spondent association is not en gaged solely in export trade and that it therefore does not come within the jurisdiction ot- the Webb-Pomerene act. The re spondents are given the usual 80 days in which to answer alter which the case will be tried on Ju merits. Monopoly Charged. The trade commission In an nouncing the complaint said: "It is alleged that the associa tion controls the manufacture and sale ot 85 per cent of all the Ore gon, pine, red fir, yellow fir, Co lumbian pine, Puget Sound pine and British Columbia pine which is manufactured and sold in the United States. ; "It is further alleged that in or der to carry out the conspiracy, the respondents: "Coerced competing manufac turers to join their association and to abide by their plan of equaliza tion of distribution ot orders; "Attempted to injure competi tors in foreign countries by cut ting prices; Boycotting: Alleged. "Refused to sell to export mer chants unless they agreed to pur chase 85 per cent of all their re quirements from respondent; "Refused to sell to export mer chants who bought tor export else where; "Circulated threatening and co ercive, statements to competitors to become members of the associa tion; "Consplrtki with a British ex port association which they help ed organize In fixing prices ot lumber to American and foreign purchasers; "Prevented customers of com petitors from obtaining steamship facilities for transportation of lumber; Circulated False Rumors. "Circulated misleading and un fair reports concerning the bunt ness reputation of competitors and prospective competitors." Issuance, ot the complaint fol lows an investigation made by tLo commission Into conditions In the Douglas fir region of the Paclfio coast, on which a report was made to congress about a year ago. DEFEWB T Indianapolis, Ind., May 3. (By Associated Press) Albert J. Bev eridge, former senator, was lead ing by 18,725 when 2936 out ot 3382 precincts had been tabulat ed here today from yesterday's primary. The vote, which Includ ed 127 out of 207 in Marion coun ty (Indianapolis) was: New 149, 489; Beveridge 168,314. W1LLAMETTE-MT. ANGEL GAME TODAY POSTPONED A steady drizzle ot rain which fell last night and today made necessary the postponement of a baseball game which was to have been played between Mt. Angel and Willamette at Mt. Angel this afternoon. Coach Roy Bohler, ot Willam ette, said today that his men have shown but little Improvement dur ing the last few days and hs pre dicted a Bearcat defeat at the hands of Mt. Angel. The-local nine is held to be very weak is its bitting.