Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1922)
TfN STAT"! UARY' There is no substitute for CIRCULATION, Dally average for October 6122. -Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. Member Associated Press Full leased wire service. " ' ' THE WEATHER OREGON: Tonight and Saturday rain; moderate southwesterly winds. Local: Rainfall .84 Inch; max. 48; mtn. 43; cloudy; south winds; river .9 ft. ;. ' : . ' i FORTY-FOURTH YEAR NO. (IBM f Famous 'Tiger of France Recalls Early Visits To States Saw Fa Of Richmond. - Paris, Not. 10. (By Associat ed Press) Georges Clemenceau sails away for America tomor row, happy in the spirit of ad venture. Today he was gay in terested and interesting keen to be off. Considering his great age I he was 81 last September the eagerness with which the Tiger of France anticipates the experi ences that are soon (p come him in the United States is quite touching to those who see him and talk with him. What impresses the American callers most is his youthfulneas of outlook. He talks of the pres ent and the future in the manner of a man in middle life; he re fuses to be reminiscent. Third Visit Here "I never was much of a chap for the past," Clemenceau re marked to the correspondent, who Inquired about the former pre mier's earlier visits to the United States. This is not his first trip to America, as is commonly sup posed, but his third. "My father, who was" exiled by NapMeon III, thought it would be a good thing for me to ro to America and I went," Clemen eeau said. "I had been follow ing events of your civil war and my sympathies were with the north. Almost immediately after my arrival however, I went to I Richmond. There I met a good J many southern people and . soon I found out how delightful linw simply charming they were. $ wemenceau paused a moment I ana then with a gesture went on: anoruy before my ' arrival want had taken the city and n iui me iirsi lime wnat war and bombardment meant. Then I went to Washington and later out west as far as Chicago and from mere to Buffalo, and after while to Boston." " Taught in Connecticut a In conversation Clemenceau seldom alludes .to his subsequent experiences in America; first, as a young gentleman of leisure reading extensively for two years m me libraries of New York, and men as a teacher in a eirls school in Connecticut. It was dur tag his days as an instructor at we girls' school that Clemenceau met the young woman who be came his wife. At that time she was under age and her guardian refused to 5ive his consent to a civil mar "se only, insisting -on the lurch's benediction. Clemen au stoutly Reclined to recognize '"e cnurch as essential tn n urort 'tag. So he went back home still Unmarried. That wa in ieco ir ad spent four years in Ameri- lhe next year he crossed the Atlantic again and was married a civil ceremony. is stay in America gave the "ser that knnwlnrls-a r.f Wno-Hoh I which has been one of his most "iui accomplishments in his 'S public career. Always- he taken pleasure in the lan guage and in its literature. To Discuss league y intentions in going to ierica are good; I feel sure of the aged politician said, i see with considerable clearness It will be to the moral and StSf 1 intereati of the United fi n t0 examIne European dif ficulties with other conceptions " those they have at present." J-iemenceau expects to enlarge Z,Zn laments or European l'uatlons bT Putting his ideas w contact with American views. with v? not 60 t0 New York 10 his mind made up and clos- to.i W?at would be t0 mu tt, "d collective advantage of lLe1 States- France and rope generally. of BBf.haU talk about tn Ieaeue f3" but 1 haTe n 8Peclf" "1 C offer'" he remarked. believe in the idea of the lea- thin- World mu8t haTe onle n.t . Jeagrue M 51 nm exists is I Wr , ' ShouId adopt- 11 !air'Iamfor Vessel Gnan.ti'.l i "f1" 0T- 10. Discovery 1 M4 1!. UbnIc pUu 5 U Ufa . SPnwh trans-Ailan- y ,fc celon resulted to- i . v ' bi.g quarantin- Mariot for MTen days. sails ray FOR AMERICA 268. Complete Returns Show Republican Majority Is Safe Washington, Nov. 10. There will be twenty more republicans than democrats In the next house of representatives and 11 more republicans than democrats in the new senate unless results indicated by practically complete returns are overthrown. i In the house the republican ma jority over the combined demo cratic and scattering vote will be seventeen, while in the senate it will be ten. In the present congress repub licans have a house plurality of 166 over the democrats and a ma jority of 165 over all. . In the senate the republican majority over the democrats is 24 with no scattering votes. The lineup of the new house heretofore listed as including 225 republican and 207 democrats was altered to 226 re publicans and 206 democrats to day through a change in technical party affiliations by one of ' the successful candidates in Tuesday's election. Representative Guy E. Campbell of the 36th Pennsyl vania district who in the past two campaigns has run a "repub lican-democrat" but has been car ried heretofore on the official membership roll aa a democrat, requested--the house clerk to list him here after as a republican. The request was complied wit making the party division of t new congress as compared w the present division as follows:: Senate. Present Ne' Party Congress Cong Republicans ... 60 E Democrats 36 4 Farmer-labor . - Totals 96 Republicans ..........296 226 Democrats .......... -.130 Socialists .. 1 2C6-.1-W 1 1 1 435 Vacancies 8 Farmer-labor . . Totals 435 T TO KILL HEAD OF SGOTLAND YARD London, Nov. 10. (By Asso ciated Press) Sir William Har wood, chief of Scotland Yard and cemmissloner of metropolitan po lice is suffering from the effects of an insidious attempt on his life, it became known today. Last night he was seized with what was thought to be a heart attack but today it became definitely es tablished that he was the victim t malicious administration of poison, the origin of which is un known. .VALLA WALLA PLANS ARMISTICE DAY FETE Walla Walla, Wash., Nov. 10. Army men who more than 50 years ago pursued the Nez Perce and Cayuse tribes across the wilderness of early Oregon terri tory and the service man of today who whipped the boche in the Ar gonne each will be ' honored to morrow when tne Armistice aay parade passes in review before Walla Walla citizens. Elaborate arrangements are being made by local committees and special hon ors are being accoraea me ais- abled veterans of the United States veteran hosptial here. Stock Broker Expelled New York, Nov. 10. The ex pulsion of Cornelius J. Kelley from the consolidated stock ex change was announced today by President Silkworth, who said Kelley had failed to keep a book of transactions as provided by the constitution. : New York, Nov.. 10. Unfilled orders of the United States Steel corporation on October 31, made public today totalled 6,902,287 tons, an increase of 210,680 tons over September 30, which showed total of 6,691,607. ATTEMP MADE THIS COUPON AND FIVE CENTS will admit any child of 12 years "or under to the Special CAPITAL JOURNAL MATINEE Roy Stewart in The Radio King THE BLIGH THEATRE SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 11. 10 A. M. Preacher's Widow Takes Body Home :V a Mrs. Leonard G. Christler, widow of the late '"Bishop of All Out doors," who was shot to death in & home at Havre, Mont., by Mrs. -arlton, who then - committed sui cide, has taken the body of her c'jlain husband to "Waterloo, N. Y., "for burial there. "As long as we have boys and as long as we have parents who do not understand the boys and know how to raise them, there will be boy problems," was one of the many forceful statements of W. L. Kuser, "superintendent of the Oregon state boy's training school this noon at the luncheon of the Lions club. Mr. Kuser deplored the fact that Oregon has no reform school for the older boys who are Just between the training school and the penitentiary and also the fact that there are no juvenile homes for the younger boys whose minds are plastic and who if giv en proper attention could be very easily faced about and started in the right direction. "It is too often the case that the large boy gets to talking to the smaller boy and destroys In his mind in five minutes all that can be done in a month or more," he said. "We are advocating the cottage plan in 6rder that we may get away from many of the evils of the commu nity system. "What profiteth a man if ha gain the whole world and lose his own boy? The fellow that ought to be the paj to the boy Js that boy's own dad but so many are busy and the result is that some one else, maybe not more than two or three years older, is the boy's pal. He learns on the street and from vile sources what the fatheiought to take time to tell him but he hasn't got time, which fact in a few years often brings more sorrow to the father than we are able to imagine." Mr. Kuser spoke highly of the boy scout movement and said that it was his belief from a study of the boys in training schools that those that worked until they became first class scouts would be able to avoid the pit falls. IIAfxC DIU GAINS THROUGH IOWA ' Des Moinses, Iowa, Nov. 10. (By Associated Press) The dem ocratlc delegation in the Iowa house of representatives was al most trebled compared to two years ago, according to complete returns on legislature contests in Tuesday's election. KUSER TALKS ON BOY PROBLEMS TO SALEM LIONS SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY- NOVEMBER 10, JUDGE TELLS MESS It EOOMEi Mrs. Peggy Caffee Told To Use More Care Iii Answering . Questions Of Attorneys. Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 10. Arguments to the jury in the trial of Clara Phillips, charged with tne murder of Mra. Albeta, Tre malne Meadows opened today W. Maxwell Burke, deputy '. dis trict attorney, began his plea foi conviction. ' Mrs. Peggy Caffee, principal witness for the state, was threat ened with -Jail by Judge Houser when she testified on her final examination. She was asked on her direct ex amination whether she struck blows with a hammer that killed Mrs. Meadows, or whether Kue strucks any such blows. Before the defense could interpose an objection she said "no," but the court ordered the answer stricK en out. Denies She Drove. Mrs. Phillips had testified in her own defense that Mrs. Caffee came to her aid when she and Mrs. Meadows were fighting and struck the latter with the ham mer, blows from which causeu death. Mrs. Phillips had also testified that Mrs. Caffee drove the coupe in which the three went to the scene ' of the slaying when Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. Caffee were returning. Mrs. Caffee testified today that she could not drive an automobile. .." The outburst that caused the court to warn the witness came when after a series of questions designed to determine whether the witness was habituated to use of drugs or to association with drug addicts she was asked wheth er she and her husband had not been driven out of Taft because of their association with drug users, to which she replied: "No, sir, that story is a lie." , Judere Sounds Warning. ' "If you answer questions like that, young lady," said Judge Houser, "you ill go to Jail."" The witness spoke more calmly thereafter and waa soon excused from the stand. Mrs. William I. Traeger, wife of Sheriff Traeger of Los Angeles county, who accompanied the de fendant on the latters Journey back to this city after her arrest in Tucson on information supplied by her husband was the last wit ness to take the stand for the prosecution. Mrs. Traeger testified that dur ing this railroad journey from Tucson to Los Angeles, Mrs. Phillips appeared to be entirely sane and seemed to have ho diffi culty remembering events prior to her flight from this city, CHICAGO ROOTERS TO SEE COLUMBUS GAME Chicago, Nov. 10. University of Chicago football rooters with the 100 piece university band and the freshman grid squad will leave on special trains tonight for Columbus, to cheer the Maroons in tomorrow's game with Ohio State. Coach Stagg and the varsity squad left last night. The Chicago-Ohio State game is expected to be one of the most stubbornly fought battles In the big ten tomorrow, but the Wis consin-Illinois game at Madison is attracting much attention be cause the Intense feeling between the colleges since their dispute over professionalism. . Wisconsin is one of the unde feated leaders in the western con ference championship race with Chicago, Iowa and Michigan. Iowa plays Minnesota and Pur dee .meets Northwestern at Evanston. t Indiana goes outside the big ten for another battle, engaging West Virginia at Indtapolls. Michigan remains idle tomor row. NO NEWS CONSIDERED BAO NEWS BY BRITISH London, Nov. 10. (By Asso ciated Press.) It any messages on .the Turkish situation had been received from Constantinople up to noon today in official quarters no British official was willing to admit It to the press, one gov ernment official west so far however is to say the situation was "ominous" and that nothing hd bees received Indicating that condition were any better. DEFEND HEREIN (ILL.) MINERS t . n'-" . . i. im ... . , -w-.ui eqb A- ti. Lewis, A. W. Kerr and engaged to defend union minors indicted and tried for participation in the Herrin (III.) strip mine massacre. Mr. Kerr is chief counsel for the miner s union. , ' Mellon Modifies Dry . V Seas Edict in Order Washington, Nov. 10. Re lease of all foreign vessels seized outside the American three mile limit with liquor aboard where there is no evi dence of communication with the shore by means of the ves sel's own boats, was ordered today by Secretary Mellon. c F IS $287,887.67 An'unassigned surplus of 287, 887.67 is shown in the monthly summary of the state compensa' tlon funds just issued by the in dustrial accident commission as of October . 31. The statement discloses assets and liabilities of S4, 894,438. 62, summarized as follows: Assets: On deposit with state treasurer invested in bond9, $4,- 712,409.02; cash, $82,620.36; total deposited with State Treas urer, $4,795,029.88; cash in bank, $61,013.58; city and county war rants, $14,678.57; cash on hand, $7,750.25; total ledger assets, $4,878,471.78; premiums in course of collection, $15,966.84; total all assets, $4,894,438.62. Liabilities: Keserve catastro phe fund, $73,014.30; reserve re habilitation fund, $83,197.20; net special reserve for unpaid work men's compensation, losses and claims, account of permanent partial disability, $865,017.10: fatal cases, $1,902,235.25; total permanent disability, $318,787.97; depreciation reserve to take care of any loss that may be incurred in respect of realization upon in vestments $100,000.00; reserve necessary to meet claim pay ments covered by outstanding final settlement vouchers, $2, 416.68; reserve based on actual experience to take care of pend lng claims, $687,052.09; reserve permanent partial disability not over twenty-four months, $23,- 120.11; unearned premiums, $16,' 683.47; unclaimed warrants can celled, $6,090.57; unpaid bills as of October 31, 1922, $2,008.67; unpaid medical aid refunds, $2, 256.06; unpaid dividends, $224, 771.48; surplus as required by Section 6624 Oregon Laws as amended, $300,000.00; surplus, $287,887.67; total liabilities and surplus, $4,894,438.62. HARVARD ANO TIGERS "-- READY FOH BIO GAME Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 10. Harvard and Princeton had virtu ally) finished preparations today for their 28th annual battle. The Tiger squad planned to go to the stadium immediately after its ar rival In Boston this afternoon and engage in a short signal drill. The crimson players also will visit the stadium for a last light practice. Sniveiy right guard, a veteran of last year's victory over the crimson is expected to get Into the game but will not atart. Coach Roper said. Sniveiy till feels the effect of injuries sustained in the Chicago game. Harvard will have $ veterans available, four of whom started last year's came. OMPENSATION i SURPLUS 1922 Uoorge Stono, attorneys, have been Deficiency appropriations ag gregating $20,724.16 were au tnorizea Dy tne state emergency board in session here today. Of this amount $14,874.16 is needed to cover the state proportionate share of the care of homeless, neglected and abused children, foundlings and indigent orphans in benevolent and charitable in stltutions for the quarter ending September 30. The original ap propriation for this purpose was for $150,000. A deficiency appropriation of $5000 was authorized today in addition to the $32,600 authorized at the last meeting of the emer gency board to reconstruct the dormitory at the girls' industrial school destroyed by fire vwo months ago. Contracts for this work were approved by the state board of control today to Trancu ell & Parelius of Portland, for general construction; L. B. In- man of Silverton for the heating and Theo M. Bnrr of Salem for the plumbing of the new building, the bids aggregating $37,066.15 An additional $stu was aiso voted to the supreme court to coV' er stenographic and clerical ex penses for the month of Decem ber. ORYS ELATED AT Westerville, Ohio, Nov. 10. Results of Tuesday's election in Ohio, in which the wet and dry issue was involved, are more im portant than the results In other wet ifnd dry elections in the Uni ted States, it was asserted here to day by Dr. Ernest H. Cherrington general secretary of the World League Against Alcoholism. The way Ohio went is of "tremendous" Importance in the continuation of American prohibition and the world dry movement, Dr. Cher rington declared. He said the beer and wine is sue was tested out in this Btate because it is the home of the Anti Saloon League, the home of the World League Against Alcoholism, the birthplace of the W. C. T. U., the Intercollegiate Prohibition as sociation and other dry organiza tions and in- addtlion, because it is the home of (he president of the United States. Had the wets won, Dr. Cher rington continued, It would have meant the drys were defeated in their own headquarters. CODD CASE DATE SET FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY Spokane, Wash., Nov. 10. Trial of 16 attorneys, detectives, principals and witnesses in the case of Maurice Codd, acquitted last spring on a charge of mur der, will start next Wednesday, as decided by Superior Judge Llndsley here today. He refused a motion on behalf of defendants that separate trial be granted them, and ordered the trial of all of them to proceed. They are charged with subornation of- per jury and with conspiracy to com mit a crime. $20,000 DRAWN FROM FUND FOR EMERGENCIES mm PRICE TWO CENTS ALLIES CALL i TURKS TO REPEAL ACTS Withdrawal of Measures In Conflict With Mud ros Armistice Agree ment of 1918 Asked. Constantinople, Nov. 10. (By Associated Press.) The, allied high commissioners this after noon handed a note to the Angora government representative here demanding the repeal of all meas ures relating to the customs, the public debt and the sanitary and other services which conflict with the capitulations and the stipula tions of the Mudros agreement of 1918. Otherwise, says the note, the commissioners will be compelled to refer to their governments for necessary action. The allied generals also ar ranged a meeting with Rafet Pasha, the nationalist governor here, to whom they will submit minimum demands with a view to insuring the safety of the troops and efficient control of the police and gendarmerie. Ismet Off for Parley Constantinople, Nov. 10. (By Associated Press.) Ismet Pasha. Turkish nationalist foreign min ister has left here for Lausanne to attend the peace conference scheduled to begin there next Monday. He was accompanied by Dr. Rlza Nhr Bey and a suite of military, financial and economic experts. 1 The foreign minister told the Associated Press he wag sincerely anxious for peace and was con fident of achieving It if the allies adopted a resolute attitude. . O.P. Boise, Idaho, Nov. 10. The lead of C. C. Moore, republican candidate for the Idaho governor ship at last Tuesday's election continued to Increase today as re turns were tabulated. Unofficial count from 737 of the 814 pre cincts In the state showed Moore leading H. F. Samuels, progres sive and Moses Alexander, demo crat, by a large majority. The vote at 10 o'clock this morning stood, Moore, republican, 49,288; Samuels, progressive, 39,211; Alexander, democrat, 85,855. Burton L. French and Addison T. Smith, incumbent republican congressmen from the first and secon.'. districts respectively, have won over their progressive and democratic opponents and the re publican candidates for state of fices other than governor are victorious on the face of Returns compiled up to today. Idaho's state legislature also will be republican for returns this morning show 25 republicans, 14 democrats and five progressives for the state senate and 36 re publicans, 23 democrats and six progressives for the state house of representatives. Three women are among the successful candidates in the race for places in the lower house. POINCARE AND CURZON TO CONFfflNEJCT WEEK Paris, Nov. 10. (By Associat ed Press.) A conference between Premier Polncare and Lord Cur- zon, the French foreign secretary, and Premier Mussolini of Italy probably will be held in Paris the first of next week, it was indi cated in official circles today. France has approved the meeting providing it does not delay the opening of the Lausanne Near Fast peace conference beyond No vember 15. The purpose of the conference of the allied leaders in Paris, If held, would be to present a solid front at Lausanne on the chief peace terms. ANTI-PROHI VOTE IN CALIFORNIA GROWS San Francisco, Nov. 10. Over night returns from the California election last Tuesday swelled the majority against prohibition en forcement to 24,627 votes. The tabulation today from 6,265 pre cincts was for the measure 336, 421, and against the measure 361,043. IDAHO RETURNS SOLID FOR G ON TRjtlNS AND NEWS STANDS FIVE CENTS SAYSflEPORT California Drys Claim Enforcement Measure Carried; AM a me da Count Is Revised. San Francisco, Nov. 10. Pro hibition enforcement in Califor nia apparently has carried, as a majority of about 3000 in favor of the measure was revealed to day by a recheck of the Alameda county vote which showed a large error in tabulation at the county clek'a office In Oakland. Oakland, Cal.,- Nov. 10. The Alameda county campaign com mittee for prohibition enforce ment claimed today that the measure had carried In California at Tuesday's election, on the strength of a recheck of the Ala meda county vote made'by Rev. D. O. Colegrove, the county chair man who said that it reduced the county majority against enforce ment 24,279 votes, thus wiping out a previous state-wide unfav orable majority of 21,374. Rev. Colgrove said his recheck on the complete county vote show ed 42,840 votes for and 46,047 against, a negative majority of 2207. The unofficial election count made by county officials was: For 82,284; against 58,770; a margin of 26,846 against the measure. The county clerk re- checked with Rev. Colgrove, but declined to comment on the result. Ban Francisco, Nov. 10. The majority against prohibition en forcement in California was 21, 874, according to figures from 5416 precincts in California out of 6681 compiled at one p. m. to day, although these figures were disputed by the Alameda county campaign committee for enforce ment, which claimed that its re check of the Alameda county yote today would show a state wide majority for enforcement of 290S E Spokane, Wash., Nov. 10. Re tirement to private life that he may do work with whlh his pub lic duties have Interfered, was given out as his future plan by retiring United States Senator Miles Polndexter, 'believed de feated by C. C. Dill, his demo cratic opponent, in Tuesday's election, Saying he intended to make his home in Spokane for some time to come, Senator Polndexter de clined to discuss the possibility of his accepting a federal appoint ment under the Harding 'admin istration. He did not divulge the nature of the work he plans to do. "I feel deeply grateful to the thousands of friends who so un selfishly aided me in this cam paign," Mr; Polndexter said, in his first comment on the election. "The worst feature of the defeat is the breaking of these associa tions. I have never lost faith in the people and I accept their verdict in the utmost good faith and loyalty. "One compensation for the humiliation of defeat is that my time becomes my own instead of belonging to the public. I have long had in mind some work which I will now have an oppor tunity of attending to, and with which the cares of public life have interfered. I expect to de vote some time to this." Senator Polndexter will leave for Washington, D. C, early next week to attend the special and short sessions of congress. ROSENBLUTH HEARING DATEISPOSTPONED New York, Nov. 10. Federal Commissioner Hitchcock today postponed until November 24 hearing of an application for a warrant for the removal of Cap tain Robert Rosenbluth to Taco- ma where he is under indictment for the murder of Major Alexan der P. Cronkhite in a Washington military camp in 1918. If the commissioner issues a warrant Rosenbluth will be taken before a federal judge with tne request. that his removal be ordered. POiNDEXTER TO LIVE IN SPOKAN