Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, December 11, 1922, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextOREGON STATE V?& DEC l 8 1322 THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR CIRCULATION Dally average for November 6050. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. Member Associated Press Full leased wire service. U THE WEATHER OREGON: Tonight and Tuesday fair; eolder tonight east portion, with cold wave; moderate easterly winds. '''Local: Rainfall .04 Inch; mat. 43; m!n. 81; part cloudy; river 6.4 feet. 1 ;fiHl..-'tfi FORTY-FOURTH YEAR NO. 294 SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1922 IJMXjl'i XWKJ KjEjMIV STANDS FIVE CENTS Iffl xv k- F fi Fpsa Tsa FPX F!p-a r m v PIRFIwl rots ANTA CLAUS TO SUBDUED BY SALEM Ml Local Clothier Grapples With Thief He Finds In Store While Wife Calls Police. , While several men stood out side his store and declined to offer assistance, O. J. Schei, Salem clothier, yesterday afternoon grap pled with a burglar wcom he found in his shop and, single handed, detained the man while Mrs. Schel summoned the police. ' The burglar, whom the police believe to be Fred Barstow, waB discovered by Mr. Schei when he and Mrs. Schei entered the store about 5:30 o'clock. When he saw the man lying behind a showcase, Mr. Schel rushed to the street and requested persons standing near by to assist him, but no aid was forthcoming. In the meantime the burglar attempted to make his es cape through a rear door but was overtaken and overpowered by Mr. Schel. Talks to Prisoners. ; The burgar, who professed to be deaf and dumb, refused to give ibis name to the police. Officers said he registered at a Portland iotel December 8 as Harry Belh of Portland. On December 9, they said, he registered at a local rdoni ing house, but his signature was Illegible. s Although he declared he was deaf and dumb, the burglar was found to be talking to fellow pris oners thla morning, police said. He is about 23 years of age. I Burglar Not Armed. Mr. Schel first noticed that his taeh registered had been tampered with and it was this which caused lim to make a survey of the shop. In the fight which followed the burglar twice moved as If to draw a gun. Later, when searched, po lice found that he was not armed. 5A large crowd gathered in front -,of the store to glimpse the prison er. The man Is held on a burglary 'charge. f MUST SERVE LIFE J Greeley, Colo., Dec. 11. Bert ;Lowe, "convicted last Saturday night of the murder of his sister-in-law, Edna Fern Skinner of Le Roy, 111., today was in Jail await ing sentence -of life imprisonment In the state prison. , f Mrs. Lowe, who sat by the side of her husband during the first week of the trial but who suffered a collapse last Monday following the session of court, has gone into (Seclusion since the return of the verdict. Lowe likewise has made ISO statement regarding the verdict sor have his attorneys. It is regarded as probable that fientence will not be passed on Lowe until the expiration of the SO days allowed his attorney for tiling a motion for a new trial. GOOZE OFFENDERS MAY BE PUNISHED TWICE Washington, Dec. ll.-rConvie-lon in a state court for violating Btate prohibition law is not u bar to subsequent prosecutions i the United States courts for the me offense under the Volstead mforcement act, the supreme urt held today ln'a case brought hf the United States against Vico 1 nza, la the state of Washington, : ck Barto and others. 'XTS FREIGHT RATE ON FARM PRODUCTS GUT Washington, Dec. 11. A one ird reduction In freight rates on I icultural products was pro ved In a bill today by Senator vding, republican, Idaho. m CONVICTED Salem Elks, Assisted By Capital Journal, To Play Chris Kringle To Kiddies What Is Reeded , Food , Clothes Money Candy and nuts v Toys Use of automobiles, Sunday Afternoon and evening before Christmas and any part of an afternoon prior to that time. Names of needy families, to be held In strictest confi dence. Persons willing to help should get in touch with the Elks' welfare committee of 7 Capital Journal. . Campaigners For Willam ette Endowment Must Secure $32,858 Daily For Nine Days. "The question of when the Wil lamette, forward movement drive should begin was not left to the board of trustees but was forced upon us," Dr. B. L. Steeves ex plained today at the luncheon of the canvassing teams. "For the past three years the Rockefeller Foundation has been aiding, the college and this is the last year. If we lose in the present campaign we lose our standing and If we lose our standing we lose our stu dent body. To fail means to fall backward. We must win." To date a total of $954,280 has been reported to the office. Of this amount $12,745 wag raised since Saturday noon In Salem. Only nine more days remain in which to successfully complete the drive. To raise the full amount It means that an average of about $32,858 must be raised every day. Salem is now past the half way mark of $250,000 and reports coming from Portland state that the tide of sentiment is being manifest more (or Willamette than ever. The managers of the campaign while Btating that a big battle is ahead think that the people will rally to the cause and that the drive will succeed. SHIPPING BSLL ATTACK IS ON Washington, Dec. 11 The demo cratic attack on the administration shipping bill was started today .while republican leaders were atempting to get the measure before the senate. Chairman Jones of the commerce committee proposed that considera tion of bills on the senate calendar he dispensed with and the shipping bill be taken up. He asked also that the senate sessions be lengthened through advancement of the hour of convening. ' . - Senator Fletcher of Florida, rank ing democrat on the eomaiitt.ee, "and Senator Pomerene, democrat of Ohio, objected and in the arguments that followed other minority senators as sailed .the republicans for seeking to hasten action on the bill. TAFT READY TO GIVE TESTIMONY IF CALLED Washington, Dec. 11. Chief Justice Taft informed Chairman Volstead of the house judiciary committee today that he would appear before It at the heating of the Keller Impeachment charger agatnot Attorney General Daugh--?rty If the commute should see tit to call him. n no Mri 10 BE RAll VISIT EVERY SALEM HOME Determined that the big fellow with the white beard, the rosy cheeks and the sparkling eyes Mr. S. Claus shall not inadvertently overlook any little boys or girls in Salem fam ilies that have no money for committee of the local Elks lodge, working in conjunction with the Capital Journal, today began a movement to secure Christmas supplies for the needy poor. No one who Is willing to assist is barred from the movement. Co operation must be had if all Salem is to have the type f Christmas it should have. John ny.Nwhose shoes are worn thin; Mary, who has already written "o letters suggesting that she 5? da a cheap doll; seven-year-old who says his stockings are ? ' etty holey but that they'll still sin viuruit'H wieue ana ocner ases must be taken care of. Publio Asked to Help The Salem Elks' welfare com mittee, supplementing the work of the Salvation army. Is going to take care of it with the help of all Salem. Money, clothes, food, candy, nuts, and toys are needed plenty of each and with these the big brother workers hope to keep from every Salem home the despair, the disappointment that would come to little folk were they not remembered. If at all possible gift packages should be wrapped well and left at the Elks lodge. Packages should be marked, on the outside, so that the committee will know what they contain. In cases where delivery cannot be made, the Elks will call for the parcels. Autos Also Needed Automobiles will be used, and those persons who can offer them to the committee should communi cate with Fred Erixon, chairman. The machines will be chiefly needed on the Sunday afternoon and evening before Christmas, but they will also be used during the afternoons from now until Decem ber 25. Persons who can spare their automobiles for an hour or so of an afternoon will render a service by 'placing them at the disposal of the committee. Salem merchants are to be asked to give candy and nuts which will go into the parcels, and others who wish to help may do so. A careful survey is to be made of the entire town and only the deserv ing will be considered. Those in charge - are convinced that this Christmas is to be a real one for everybody. Will you help? Send In Names Now It is absolutely essential that names of families whose boys and girls might be .. forgotten, be learned early and such Informa tion should be given immediately to The Capital Journal. All com munications will be treated in the strictest confidence and no names will be made known to persons other tan those officially connect ed with the 'movement. Letters should be addressed to The Christ mas Relief, in care of The Capital Journal and should briefly iet' forth names, addresses and condi tions at the homes In question. Members of the Elks committee In charge- of the "big brother" work are Fred Erixon, chairman; F. O. Delano and Albert Downing. Members of the committee have anujunced that boys md girls at the state schools will be remem bered this year. GRAYS HARBOR TOWN HAS$15,000 BLAZE T acorn a, Wash., Dec. 11 The town of Elma in Grays Harbor coun ty suffered its second heavy fire of this year early this morning when two buildings in the business section were destroyed and nearby storei considerably damaged. The fir broke out in the partition between the Liberty cafe and the Men's re sort, both of which were wiped out. The total loss to the business dis trict ww 15,000. A heavier Iom wag prevented by a new fire fight ing apparatus, just pot ia sse. Earlier ia the night the home of Bomll Walker wa burned with lose of 13000. . Christmas gifts, the welfare SAYS BEARDSLEYS STOLE AFFECTION OF WIFE; IN SUIT Portland, Or., Dec. 11. Arthur' F. Beardsley and Harry Beardsley, Marion county farmers, were sued for $50,000 damages in an aliena tion complaint filed in United States district court here this morning by Charles E. Crites of Hoquiam, Washington. The plaintiff alleges he was em ployed by the defendants about May 29, 1922, as a laborer on their (arm and that immediately the defendants conspired to alienate his wife's affections.- As a result of the alleged promises of the de fendants to furnish Mrs. Crites with a comfortable 'home for the remainder of her life, she Is al leged to have deserted Crites on July 17. Crites charges that his wife Is now1 In delicate health and resid ing at the home of one of the de fendants. Mrs. Crites was Nora Darby of Paris, Illinois. She married Crites July 29, 1915, and has two children, Charles, age 7, and Lenora, age 4. cn !LU Discussing "The New Place of Labor in Business," Norman F. Coleman of Portland, president of the Loyal Legion of Lumbermen and Loggers, declared today in speaking to members of the cham ber of commerce that there Is a new relationship between employ ers and employes. That instead of the old relation ship of master and slave, there has now come into business in the lumber industry as well as others, that of assoclationship, in which the owners of industries confer with their employes. "No one, barring a few radicals think of distributing authority," declared Mr. Coleman. "The man ager has his peculiar position, and the working man is not asking to share in the responsibilities of sale or market. The producing end is the only one in which the worker is interested." Mr. Coleman referred to several large industries in which working men sH on the board of directors. and these Included the Pennsyl vania railroad eastern, the Phila delphia Rapid Transit company, Proctor ft Gamble soap manufac turers and the International Har vester company. As to the fear that working men would take over an Industry, Mr. Coleman- said he knew of no such case, but he did know of many in dustries, especially In lumber, wherein employers and employes met to discuss matters of wages. Asked as to whether there was opposition among working men to cooperating with the owner of mills, Mr. Coleman said that the socialist agitator was opposed to tbe plan of all working together. He referred to the I. W. W. In which Its members do not believe In cooperation between owner and working men. The I. W. W.. he said, still believe In tbe old idea of master and slave in Industries, and that the I. W. W. Intended to be the masters. Taken as a whole Mr. Coleman was convinced that cooperation between mill owners and mill workers was bringing results. iUSTIA nDnHD DIPTilD UI1UUUIU1U ASTORIA NOW mm TO REBUILD Call For $75,000 In Cash To Enable Merchants To Reopen In Tempor ary Quarters Issued. Astoria, Or., Dec. 11. Astoria's provisional government. In charge of a committee, of ten under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel W. S. Gilbert, was functioning to day and with the aid of the Amer ican Red Cross, represented here by E. G. Kilpatrick and a hundred bluejackets from the coast guard cutters Snohomish and Algonquin and the destroyer Yarborough and a volunteer organization of ex-service men, was taking care of relief and maintaining order. ... Patrol Lines Strict. Rigid regulations have been es tablished for the protection of the devastated area, where fortunes lie beneath the debris. Sailors patrol the district, and no person under any excuse is permitted to enter after 6 p. m. The searchlight of the destroyer played upon the ruins -last night. - Ex-service men havB undertaken to patrol the residence district at night. While immediate needs are pro vided for, the committee in charge of relief reiterated today that hundreds of persons and proprie tors of small business establish ments whose means of livelihood were wiped out, face a period of difficulty until normal conditions are re-established here. ' ? $75,000 Needed. The' executive committee has announced that approximately $76,000 Is needed for Immediate purposes. Shipments of further supplies will be requisitioned- by the Red Cross as needed to prevent overaupply and waste. Survey of the temporary busi ness quarter was begun today with a view to immediate con struction. REPORT IS MADE During the pant year, Marlon countx has paved 24.05 miles of road, according to the annual re port oil W. J. Culver, county road jiaster. The.Stayton plant paved 3.7 miles, the Scollard plant 5.2 miles, the Mt. Angel plant 6.86 miles and the Salem plant 9.30 miles. In entimating the cost of paving for tbe county, the costs as filed by Mr. Culver include paving ma terial, labor, trucks, rollers and crushed rocks. In all instances before paving began, tbe road had been graded, and this grading ex pense is not included In the 1922 annual report. For the 9.3 miles paved by the Salem plant, the cost to the coun ty was $65,624.72. The cost of the Mt. Angel plant for its 6.86 miles, was $54,328.82. The 6.2 miles paved by the Scollard plant cost $44,965.61 and the 3.7 miles of the Stayton plunt, $21,492.41. At the close of the tnree-year program of road building, the county had paved 64 miles of mar ket roads. This work has been donon SI out of the 34 officially designated market roads. SEATTLE HAS COLDEST , : DAUTREETS IGY Seattle, Wash., Dec. 11. The thermometer reached tbe lowest point of tbe winter here at 8 o'clock? this morning when it touched 25 degrees above zero, ac cording to weather bureau offi cials. Continuation of tbe cold spell -was forecast. ' The extreme cold, following a wet snowfall yesterday, caused sheets of lc to form over many downtown streets and traffic pro ceeded cautiously. -" COUNTY PAVING Armour Proposes Huge Packing Merger """"" i ' - 1 j .' ,rf kJ. O-rd en- A vm our. V?. y ttii Here is the latest photograph of J. Oirdon Armour, of Chicago, who recently held a lengthy conference with President Harding in Wash ington. Mr. Armour proposed a huge merger of the picking indus try, involving half a billion dollars. He likewise asked Attorney-Gener al Daughorty as to tho legality of is deeply Interested.- SPEED CURE Salem Violators May Be Made to Drive "Reform Auto" Telling They Are Learning Road Rules. "This Is a traffic law violator, being taught tbe rules of the road." f hese words, printed In large letters on big signs placed on either side of an automobile, will be seen in Salem soon. Pilotint; the car will be a man who has been arrested either for reckless driving or for driving at an ex cessive rate of speed. Passers by who see him will know he has had the opportunity to choose be tween driving the "reform car" and of going to jail. WRnt to Drivo It? The plan, designed to cure mo torists of reckless driving, wsb conceived by Judge O. E. Unruh, of the Salem justice court, and will bo put Into operation as soon as a case warrants such action, he announced this afternoon. No body is to be denied the remedy, provided his violation has been sufficiently flagrant. Danker and bakers and candlestick mak ers may get a taste of It. Kozer Approves Plan The traffic law violator, Judge Unruh said, will be made to drive the car about Salem's bus iness district for no less than 3C minutes and no more than two hours. It he doesn't care to com ply he can go to jail. The plan, it was said, has been approved by both Secretary of State Sam Kozer and T. A. Raf fety, chief of the state traffic di vision. The law violator will be ac companied by a state, county or city traffic officer, ! SUSPEND SEASIDE SCHOOL The Seaside high school was suspended from membership in the state high school athletic associa tion by the board of control of the association- In session here Satur day, Tbe action of the board was based upon a complaint filed by tbe Knappa high school in which Seaside was charged with the em ployment of an ineligible coach in the Knappa-Seaslde game at Sea side November 11. In a written statement presented to tbe board the Seaside school admitted that Dr. Frank Van Doren had been used as a coach tor at least a part of the Armistice day game. BUTCHER PAYS FINE OF $10 Charged with maintaining a laughter house pen in an unsanitary condition, If. O. MeDnwe.ll, Salem botcher, this morning pleaded guil ty before Judge O. E. Unruh in the Salem justie eourt. He was sentenced to pay fine of 10. British Prepare to Build BaltSeshfpa at Once, Doner Law Says . London, Dec. 11. (By As sociated Press) Prime Minis ter Bonar Law announced in the house of commons today that the government has decid ed to begin tbe construction of new battleships allowed under the Washington naval treaty AUTOS era, ONE MAY DIE Skull, Rib And Shoulder Of Aged Salem Woman Fractured in Collision Here Yesterday. Automobiles crashed again In Salem yesterday and a life may be tbe toll. Physicians were unable to say today whethor Mrs. Ferdinand Mickenham, 1265 South Twelfth St., 65 years of age, who suffered serious injuries, will recover. She sustained a fractured skull, a frac tured rib and a fractured shoulder blade. Today her condition was ery grave. According to the police report the car In which Mrs. Mickenham was riding waB driven by W. M. Mickenham. It was moving south on Capitol. Another car, said by the police to have been driven by 11. A. Stevens of Holbrock, Or., was headed east on Center street There was a crash. " The automobiles were badly damaged. .. KILLED BY MOB Streetinsn, Texas, Doe. 11 George Gay, 23, negro arrested today in con nection with an alleged attack on a young woman here, was shot and killed by a mob this afternoon. Oay was captured by a posse, but was not positively Identified by the girl, according to reports here. Tho negro, who unid his name was George Gay, wa taken to the girl's homo. A mob of about 1500 gather ed at Stroetmnn. The man was lock ed in a small house under heavy guard pending arrival of blood hounds from the state penitentiary at Huntsvillo, which will be put on the negro's trail. Tbe girl's condition Is not serious, the negro having been frightened Sway after throwing a eack over her head and stuffing her mouth full of cotton. E L For those who wish to qualify as first class waiters, as well as waitresses, a school of Instruction will be opened in Salem next Fri day at tbe Marlon hotel. Under the provisions of the Smith-Hughes act for vocational training, trained Instructors will be on hand at the Marlon to show just what efficient table waiting means and how It Is done. It is understood there will be 25 or more In Salem who will take advantage of the opportunity to learn the correct manner of set ting tables including the proper lay-out for various knives and forks and spoons, but also as to the right manner of Berving courses. FISHING SCHOONER SAFE Prince Itupcrt, B. C, Dec. 11 The fishing schooner Valorour re ported lost In . the recent heavy weather in Hecate strait, foimd shelter in a i emote anchorage and will return here late today or tomor row with 10,000 pounds of halibut, according to word brought here by the schooner Johanna, which spoke to the Valorour few days ago. Two Seattle finhlng vessels, the Morengen and Convention, are still unreported and It is considered cer tain they have been lost. NEGRO SUSPECT SALEM TO HAY WATER SCH 00 WISH ID FRENCH ARE NEARJSREAK Premiers' Conference To Adjourn While Peace Makers Attempt To Mend Differences. London, Dec. 11. (By Associ ated Press.) The conference of allied premiers, called to arrange the basis for an allied financial ana reparations conference in Brussels, has broken down. It was announced at 6 o'clock this afternoon that the premiers had taken adjournment until January 2. '" After the conference adjourned, Premier Poincare said; "It Is finished." The conference January 2 will be held in Paris, it was announced tonight. . London, Dec. 11. (By Associ ated Press.) Adjournment of the premiers conference tonight for eight days in order to avert an open rupture between England and France over tne ques-.- a of German reparations has been vir tually decided upon, it was learn ed today. The British cabinet rejected tbe measure of force for the Ruhr district upon which Premier Poin care insisted. Prime Minister Bonar Law in formed Premier Poincare that British publio opinion was over whelmingly opposed to any mili tary measures against Germany. Poincare had made a demand for the occupation of the Ruhr as a guarantee for a German mora torium. To Resume Sessions. The conference probably will resume Its session in eight days In London or Paris. Meanwhile it is hoped that some guarantees may be found which will satisfy the French and at the same time make military action unnecessary. It was stated in French circles that the imminent adjournment was merely a maneuver to prevent an open break among the allies, particularly between France and England and that there was lit tle likelihood of flndingt a com mon basis of agreement between England and France. It was further pointed out that in spite of Premier Polncare's de sire to cooperate with tbe new British government, he has been forced largely by the political.slt uatlou at borne to demand the Ruhr as the price of any conces sions to Germany. The meeting of the premiers scheduled for this noon was post poned until 4 o'clock.' It was ex pected that in the meantime pri vate interviews would take placo among the premiers in an eleventh hour effort to save the conserva tions from what seemed this morn ing to be inevitable postponement. HUNT FOR KENTUCKY MOONSHINERS HALTED Mount Sterling, Ky., Dec. 11. Repulsed with the death of one member of their posse who were endeavoring to capture slayers of E. Duff, killed by moonshiners Saturday, federal and sheriff's forces abandoned the attack today and counselled with state authori ties as to further steps. David Treadway, the member of th posse who was killed, was shot from ambush. Bob and Charles Ballard, bro thers and leaders of the Ballard gang, are sought. SENATOR URGES AID FOB FARMERS OF NORTHWEST f - Washington, Dee. 11 Senator elect Frazier, republican of Norffc Dakota, urged the senate agricul tural committee today to press leg islation which "will allow the farm ers of tbe northwest to put their grain and livestock on the market and get at least the cost of produc tion out of the sale of their pro duets." Picturing conditions on the .'arms ia the northwest, Mr. Frauer told the committee "many of our farmers are going broke tight now because of lack of ears, combined, with low prices."