Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1922)
TV o a AJ: ScP 2 0 1922 I There is no substitute for I , CIRCULATION Daily average to August, 03S. j Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. Member Associated Press Full leased wire service. - JT TIIE WEATHER OREGON: Tonight and Wednesday fair; moderate westerly winds. , .- Local. Rainfall, none; max. 84; mln. 47; fair; west winds; river -S.t feet. 3 i Jl! .11 i FORTY-FOURTH YEAR NO. 223. SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1922 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NKW8 STANDS FIVK C HINTS FT3 11, ','U I ET3 n n HP A pi Han MA jijU A J ll J U Izj li mngvet Foreigners Tarred From Membership in the j Ku Klux Klan Wow Being Organized as fdjiinct of Etan to Provide I Golden Revenue for Officials Under Name of ..'.; ; Royal Riders of Red Robe I By Harry N. Crain. Klanitlcs, like the politics for hich the Ku Klux movement in egoa has become synonymous, nkes queer bedfellows. Witness the attempt of the Ku lux Klan,. with its fundamental feed of anti-alienism, now at anptlng to create a political alli ace with the foreign born voters t Oregon, and incidentally fatten le imperial treasury through a eretofore untouched source 01 vitiation fees, assessments and a ligin market for the Atlanta tlghtshlrt factory. I Since Colonel Simmons, imper il wizard, first started to coax buckles out of the gulliable Amer san public by propaganda calcu jted to inflame their racial and shgious animosities, the invisible mpire has been held up as the nemy of all things and persons Men. In their constitution the JOO ner centers" have decreed wt their ranks shall not be taint- by the presence of foreign born, I they naturalized citizens of the -Bited States or not. I Harvest Is Reaped. Clothed in such an array of i'ue" American"" principles the u Klux Klan has been the means building a seven-figure fortune r its founders.. Each outrage jainst the constitutional rights I foreign born brought a conse- tent influx of golden fleece Kh night-riding demonstration I its anti-alien doctrines brought sires of new recruits, each wav e his initial donation. .Simmons and his followers Siped the harvest. But their reed for easy gold had stunted aeir vision. Their Imagination r (Continued on Page Eight.) ADJUSTMENT OF EXPECTED SOON f f Chicago, Sept. 19. Adjust ment of misunderstandings and tfferences which delayed the ex ited settlement of the railway Sopmen's strike on some of the 9ada favorable to the Baltimore sace arrangements was apparent oday. mere were rising hopes that rt if. Jewell, the shop crafts' aer, would confer with officials the New York Central lines, inferences which nrevented an jrreement between striking shop fa and the roads which form the York Central system. I These hones were ntrenffthened hen the Southern railway, the bile & Ohio, controlled by the uthern. and the Monon, fell in "! with roads accepting the Bal- ore plan and signed the agree Sent. Many strikers on these ads were expected back at work ftday. I Reports of a general return to work by shopmen on roads which Jereed to the Baltimore plan, "-ought predictions by union lead trVhlt the ""mated number of J.B0 returned strikers on vari roads uld be doubled within few days. I F;hop frces generally were esti tvi1 'n railroa1 circles today at 3001 85 per cent of normal. B&be Suth Eita Hsmer. - "ntr0itl Mich- Sept- I Babe f it iT'" out tis 34th home rua ea,n in the first inning "'.liT7'' New Y"-k-Detroit game. Ud ' " iteJ,iS tor Detroit co man was on base. N ID WIN HELPINEAST British Seek Poincare's Sup rt at Dardenelles Fre -l ii Profess no Fear of .Tirkish Aggression. Pa h Sept. 19. (By Associat ed P; .) The center of the al lied ,L liberations on the Near East: , problem shifted to thle capital today with the Journey here of Lord Curzon, British for eign secretary, and the Jugo-Slav premier, M. Ninchltch. Lord Curzon's task, press dis patches Indicate, is to convince Premier Poincare that the British do not intend to make Another Gibraltar of the straits of Darda nelles, but that bigger issues than Turkey are at stake and that the whole future of the Balkans and the relations of soviet Russia with the Near Eaet depend upon safe guarding Constantinople . from Turkish occupation. At this morning's cabinet meet ing, Lord Curzon, the secretary tor foreign affairs, received final in structions for his coming confer ence with Premier Poincare. The report that the - French would withdraw from the Asiatic neutral zone was not taken as raising serious issue, since the French had many troops there and In the dis trict is in the hands of the British. Balkans to Follow France. The Balkan states are expected to follow France's lead and thus Britain hopes, by swinging the latter to her point of view, to present a solid front to the Turks. Premier Nirichitch is quoted in a dispatch from London as declar ing "I am inclined to think after my interview with the British ministers that England and France can yet agree on this thorny question." Kecepit of further assurances that Mustapha Kemal Pasha has no intention of attacking the neu tral zones of the Dardanelles or of crossing to Thrace has served to strengthen the French' attitude and it is said here that Lord Cur zon, far from converting Premier Poincare,- is more likely to he-converted himself. No Fear of Trouble. Indeed, the French government is eo confident that there is no fear of trouble from the Kemalists that two French battalions have been or shortly will be withdrawn from Chanak, the key position on the southern shore of the straits. The Italian detachment also has been withdrawn, and com Detent opinion here is that the British may leave also, as, accord ing to the Paris morning newspa pers, signs are not wanting that the government, or rather Prime Minister Lloyd-George, is already backing water and that Saturday semi-official policy no longer rep resents the British attitude. The British cabinet now is un derstood to be largely concerned with political preparation for pro posed general conferences for set tlement of the entire question. POLITICAL CHAOS DUE TO PRIMARIES John L. Rand, Justice of the Oregon state supreme court, speak ing at the weekly luncheon of the Klwanis club today noon at the Marlon hotel, credited mucn or the Dolitical trouble that is going nn In Oreeon to the direct pri raary. According to Judge Rand. Oregon has departed from the in tention of the founders oi ine constitution in having me airoci primary. He advocated representa tives who should voice the opinion of the reople. The meeting today, tne nrsi iui . lowing the anniversary m adoption of the constitution of the United States, was what might be termed a constitution anniversary meeting. Owing to the fact tnai eek is etate fair week no lunch- ... . . O V. IK. flllll on win oe neiu u its 77T) oesinoiwis President States Congress Failed to Provide Revenues Washington, Sept. 19. The sol diers' bonus bill was vetoed today by President Harding. In returning the measure to congress without his approval, the executive, in a message to the house, declared that he was in ac cord with the avowed purposes of the bill, but that he could not sub scribe to its provisions. . Outlining his reasons for the veto the president said that con gress had tailed first of ail, to pro vide the revenue from which the bestowal was to be paid. He add ed that the ultimate cost could not be estimated definitely, but that the treasury figured the total at $750,000,000 for the first four years with a final charge in ex cess of $4,000,000,000. Mr. Harding told congress the proposed service certificates sub- stiuted for the original cash pay ment would constitute borrowing "on the nation's credit Just as tru ly as though the loans were made by direct government borrowing. He added that this Involves a "dangerous abuse of public cred it." The executive declared that it was essential "to remember that a more than $4,000,000,000 pledge to able service men would not dim inish the later obligation," which the veterans contributed to the "rolls of the aged, indigent and dependent." This obligation, he said.' "would cost more billions than I venture to suggest.'-' In the house where the leaders say more than the necessary two- thirds will vote to pass the bill over the president's veto a roll call was postponed until tomorrow noon on the motion of Representa tive Mondell of Wyoming, the re publican leader. The president said in part: "It Is worth remembering that the public credit is founded on the popular belief in the defensibility of the public expendtiure as well as the government's ability to pay. Loans come from every rank in life, and our heavy tax burdens reach, directly or indirectly, every elemtn In our citizenship. To add one one-sixth of the total sum of our public degt for a distribution among less than five millions out of one hundred aiid ten millions, whether inspired by grateful sen timent or political expediency, would undermine the confidence on which our creait is ounueu and establish the precedent of dis tributing public funds whenever the proposal and the numbers af fected make it seem politically ap- oealing to do so. It is some times thoughtlessly urged that it is a simple thing for the rich republic to add four Bil lions to its indebtedness. This Im pression comes from the reauuts6 of the public response to tne gov ernment's appeal for funds amid the stress or war. It is to be re membered that in the war every- hndv was ready to give his all. Let us not recall the comparative lv few exceptions. Persons of ev ery degree of competence loanea and sacrificed, precisely in the same spirit that our armed forces went out for service. The war anlrit impelled. To a war neces sity there was but one answer, but a peace bestowal on the ex-service men, as though the supreme oi feriag could be paid for with cash, Is a perversion of public tunas, a reversal of the policy which exalt ed public service in the past, and suggests that future defense is to b inspired by compensation ra ther than consciousness of duty to flag and country. The oressing prooiem oi me government is that of diminishing . i .t.AM addlnF our Duraens, raiucr ui. thereto. It is the problem oi ine world. 'War' inflations and expendi tures have unbalanced budgets .nH odrtprf to indebtedness until th whole world is staggering un der the load. We have been driv ing in every dirction to curtail our expenditures. It has been a dif ficult and unpopular task. It is vastly more applaused to expend than to deny." . , g jL- Fulton nd bia wife had a narrow escape from death when fire destroyed their koine at Turner re ecatlr! When they aweke the roof was eovtlpprd i flames and prt of the builidng had fallea in. Bill Americans Request 5 tal's to Rescue Refugees Washington, Sept. 19. Rear Admiral Bristol, Ameri can high commissioner at Con stantinople, informed the state department today that he had deferred his recommendations as to relief for refugees at Smyrna pending the outcome of negotiations with Mustapha Kemal, the Turkish leader, for permission for Greek and al lied ships to enter the harbor and take off the refugees. TARIFF PASSED BY THE SENATE Washington, Sept. 19. Final legislative action on the tariff of 1922 was taken today with the adoption of the conference report hy the senate. The measure now goes to President Harding . and will become effective the day he signs it. Under the law, he has ten days In which to attach his signature. Favorable action war regarded as a foregone conclus ion, as was the approval of the measure by President Harding. The tariff, the first republican protective measure in nearly ten years, has been twenty months and more in the making. The house ways and means committee began hearings on January 16, 1921, and the bill was passed by the house on July 21 of the same year. It then went to the senate where it remained. The senate vote was 43 to 28 and came exactly one year, eight months and 13 days after work was started on It. Five republicans voted against the conference report and two democrats supported it. Three re publicans, Cameron, Cummins and Lenroot, who voted for the bill as amended in the state, opposed it in the lorm it came ironi center- ence. SEVEN INJURED IN MOTCRSHIP BLAZE Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 19. Seven men were injured today in a fire in the engine room and crews quarters of the motorshlp William Donovan, a lumber car rier, which was saved from de struction by flooding the hold and permitting it to sink in the har bor here. Damage was estimated at 175,000. SISLER UNABLE TO PLAY TODAY'S GAME St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 19. (By Associated Press.) George Sisler, of the St. Louis Americans, star major leaguer, did not play in to day's game wth Washington on the advice of his physician, who stated that the Injury to his right shoulder, suffered eight days ago was of a nature which .admitted of complications. . Sisler agreed to stay out of the series with Well ington, but his physician has ad monished him to remain off the field the remainder of the season. ADDITIONAL CLAIMS PAID EX-SERVICE MEN The directors of the bonsu com- Kisncn or toe veterans oi x ureiu Wars yesterday voted to pay th:r-j David Driseoll, matchmaker, ty one cash claims aggregating gave as the re-ason the misunder 7,750 and forty two loans fur a standing by the public as to total amount of 2fi2,500 were ap- whether O'Dowd would be permit proved at the meeting. ; ted to fight Rosenberg. The meeting brings ibe totals for 1 money paid to 18,7 applicants to. The firit school in Marion roun t4,234,462.S3. Ore thousand four.ty to epe for the new choul year houndred have asked for loan tot-'were those at Woodborn and Hub alinjt 3,509,300. New lor. to the bard. Moirt of the olhers have be-n number of 3,1P1 have ben apprev-1 ptp,B-d to give the children an ed and are yet to be paid. The amount is 7,529,300. . for War. Veterans i m died s Bedies of 47 Entombed Men Found in Argonaut Killed by Gas; Attempt ed to Save Selves. Jackson, Cal., Sept. 19. (By Associated Press.) The first of the 47 bodies of the Argonaut mine disaster was brought to the surface in the Kennedy mine this afternoon by a crew of the United States bureau of mines in charge of Byron O. Pickard, district min ing engineer. Jackson, Cal., Sept. 19. (By Associated Press) Jackson, min ing town in the - Mother Lode country, has paid the toll demand ed of those who delve In the earth for gold, and stands unafraid but not dry eyed today. Forty seven of her men died in the Argonaut mine early-on the mornjng of August 28, she learn ed last night, and today she awa ;s the bringing of their bod ies from the rock tunnel walled in with flimsy bulkheads of their own building that has been their tomb' for three weeks. But her sen showed they knew how to die. Moreover, those who did cot meet that fate showed they knew how to live, for they gave of themselves without stint in the effort- to save their entombed fel lows. It was California's worst mine disaster, in one of California's greatest gold producers. Discovery of "Blaze- Three weeks ago last Sunday night men deep in the Argonaut believed they smelted smoke. A (Continued on page two) KGRE COMMODITIES t. ON PREFERENTIAL LIST Washington, Sept. 19. The in terstate commerce commission to day Issued a new service order covering preferential shipments eastward from the Mississippi and adding mine supplies, medi cines, fertilizers, seeds, news print paper and petroleum to the list of commodities to be given priority movement. The order, ef fective at mid-September 20 also permits UBe of open top cars af ter the discharge of coal carried in thm for transportation of road and building construction mater ials, ore and mine supplies. ITALY FAVORABLE TO . - FREEDOMOF STRAITS Rome, Sept. 19. Foreign Min ister Schanzer's attitude regard ing the Near Eastern problem is approved by the cabinet, it U an nounced. Italy, it is stated, is in agree ment with ber allies, insisting up on the freedom of the straits of Dardanelles, and hopes that the questions outside the Creco-Turk conflict and having a larger scope. will be solved at a conference. O'Ora-ROSENHERG ? BOUT IS POSTPONED New York, Sept. 1. The bout between Mike O'Dowd, St. Paul, former middleweight champion, and Dave Kosenberg of Brooklyn, recocnixed as world title holder in New York state, scheduled for to- night at Ebbetts field, Brooklyn, D&e neen maeiimieiy poeiponea. opportunity to t m tfce prone harvest. m AFTER WED General Bandholtz May Succeed Wood Vt H' ai v . . '- ' Brigadier General Ilarry 11 Bandholts is reported t be slated to succeed Major-Goncrnl Leonard Wood, retired, when the latter leaves his post as Governor-General of the Philippines to bocomo head of the University of Pennsyl vania. General Bandholtz is a close personal friend of Manuel Qucnzon, President of the Philippine Sonato. Ho was Inspector of tho Constabu lary in Qucnzon's province when Quenzon was Provincial Governor. EXPECT ARREST il New Brunswick, N. J., Sept. 19. (By Associated Press) All members of the families of Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, the minister and choir leader whose bodies were found Saturday in an orch ard near here, were notified to appear for questioning at the dis trict attorney's office today Im mediately after the funeral of Mrs. Mills. All of last night, investigators questioned two persons. It was learned that one of them was Willie Stevens, the dead minis ter's brother in law. Prosecutor John Toolan announced that "be fore the day is over a man will be arrested in a short affidavit charg Ing suspicion of murder." Another bit of evidence was placed In the bands of the detect ives by George Deinser. It was a woman's handkerchief pierced by three holes, around which the de tectives said were powder burns. STEVENSON TRIED FOR STOMP MURDER Everett, Wash., Sept. 19. The trial of Don Stevenson, accused of the murder of A. A. Almour, Seat tle salesman, early in March, be gan today in superior court before Judge Ralph Bell. Almour's body was found concealed in a stump in the woods in the northern part of the county. Stevenson and Al mour are alleged to have left Bel- lingham together by automobile, bound for Seattle. Almour's body was found several weeks later. It is believed all day will be required to obtain a jury. Trust Geti Busy With Lead New York, Sept. 19. The Am erican Smeltitt? and Kenning company today advanced the price of lead from to C.1Q cents per pound. MM TO FIGHT ALK INDEPENDENT OF ALLIES TO HALT Over 10,000 British Troops Noav Entrenched And Great Fleet Assembled Insures Freedom of the Dardanelles French Cabinet Goes Firmly On , Record in Support of Pacific Policy of Poincaire. London, Sept. 19. (By Associated Press.) The British cabinet takes the attitude that Great Britain will undertake military action alone if necessary, independent of France and Italy, to protect the freedom authoritatively . stated after cabinet meeting. Paris, Sept. 19. (By Associated Press.) The French cabinet today unanimously approved what is characterized as the "pacific" policy of Premier Ppincare the Near East and the withdrawal of the French French side of the straits of went firmly on record aa being opposed to any form of military action as a means of situation. It emphasized the ment through diplomatic channels and eventually by a peace conference. -'.. Constantinople, Sept. 19. (By Associated Press.) British mili tary experts here believe that whatever opportunity Mustapha Kemal Fasha had for a coup against Constantinople has been lost iu view of the quick strength ening of the allied defensive forces In the neutral sones. All the available British war ships, with the exception of the battleship Ben bow, which is lu drydock, have-loft Malta tor Con stantinople and the Dorsett regi ments from Egypt and the Staf fordshire regiment from Gibraltar are on the way. 10,000 Force Laiided. Forces landed from eight Brit ish ships have alroady entrenched themselves at Chanak on the Asia tic side of the Dardanelles, bring ing the strength ot the British land forces to 10,000. Two Italian battalions are expected from Rhodes. The advance guard of the Turks Is reported to be 30 miles south ot Chanak and the army EO miles. Jugo-Slavia has mobilized three divisions on a line extended from Uukub, in southern Serbia, to PIrot, near the Bulgarian border. This is evidently to guard against possible attempt at the reoccupa tion of Thrace by the Turks or their allies. Greece may be requested to par ticipate In the defense ot the straits. Assurance that the Brit- (Continued on I'aga Klve.) LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO AID IN RESCUE WORK Geneva, Sept. 19. (By Asso ciated Press.) The assembly to day adopted the report of the hu manitarian committee in favor of the proposal made by Dr. Nansen of Norway that the relief organ izations ot the league in the Near East be used to help the refugees In Asia Minor. It was decided that the proposi tion to have the league intervene for the stoppage of the hostilities In the Near East will be discussed tomorrow. ASK LEAGUE TO PROBE NEAR EAST CONDITIONS Genera, Sept. 19. (By Associ ated Press.) A request that the league of nations send a neutral commission to Investigate the al leged atrocities by Turkish nation alists In Asia Minor was present ed to the league assembly today by the Persian delegation on be half of the Turkish national par liament. TWENTY INJURED IN MEXICAN RAIL WRECK Mexico City, Sept. 1. Twenty persons, among which are thought to be eeveral Americans, were re ported dead, and a large number injured la a railroad wreck early today ot a Laredo-bound passenger train, which left Mexico City last nlgbt, at a village near Queretaro. TURKISH DRIVE of the Dardanelles, it was this forenoon's protracted toops from Asia Minor to the the Dardanelles. The cabinet settlement in the Turko-Greek necessity of reaching an agree . MINERS'WIDOWS AS San FranciBCO, Cal., Septl 19. Thirteen checks, each cclerlng four weeks compensation, are to be mailed today to as many wid ows of miners who perished In the Argonaut mine dlsaxter, it was an nounced by Claude W. Fellows, manager of the state industrial compensation fund. Checks will be mailed to the dependents of the remaining mine victims as soon as the extent of their dependency has been established. The total compensation will ex ceed $100,000, the weekly checks ralnging from $17.50 to $21. SO each, and the individual compen sation, ranging from $1000 to $5000. The Argonaut mine officials paid the victims' dependents on a three shift" or 24 hour baais for the whole time that the men were entombed, Fellows was informed. As a result the dependents of each man drew three times his usual daily pay. In addition, the com pany gave $10,000 to the Amador county Red Cross for relief pur poses. "The Argonaut disaster repre sents the biggest single claim on the etate compensation fund In the history of the fund," Fellows said. "It leaves the fund virtually un impaired, however, and as well protected as ever." WAGE SCALE AGREED UPON BY FRUIT GROWERS Wenatchee, Wash., Sept. 19. At a meeting of representative growers of the district at the com mercial club, the following wage scale for orchard help was agreed upon: Picking 40 cents an hour or 5 cents a box; sorting, 35 cents an hour, packing 5 cents a box oft the grader and seven cents a box oft the bench; all other orchard and warehouse labor 40 cents an hour. These wages are about the same as last year. They were agreed to after discussion of the prevailing prices for labor at the present time. CHARGE CONSPIRACY IN MURDER ACQUITTAL Spokane, Wash., Sept. 19. Charges of conspiring to commit a crime and to pervert justice were filed in superior court here today against attorneys, wtinessea and detectives for the defense la the trial ot Maurice Codd, acquit ted here last winter ot a murder charge In connection with the death ot Frank P. Brlnton, a sol dier at Fort George Wright. COMPENSATION