Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, December 26, 1922, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextPI Oy "EBK 13 NO SUBSTITUTE FOR CIRCULATION average for November 6060. tomber Audit Bureau ot Circulation. Lnber Associated Press Full leased wire service ceo a 8 l2g THE WEATHER OREGON: Tonight and Wednesday rain; strong southerly winds, reaching gale torce along the coast. Local: Rainfall .22 inch; max. S3; min. 45; cloudy; river 12 tt. falling p5rTY-FOURTH YEAR NO. 306 SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1922 - - r . PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAIN'S AND NKWS STANDS FIVE CENTS D) ! IT TT -4 i n l 4 j'''- ill U I KJ J 1 IX ... Ull EM ; fill FUN FACES MUCH OPPOSITION Many Democatic And Re publicans View Arms Conference Proposal With Hostile Eyes. Washington, Dec. 26. Senate republican leaders conferred today in an effort to agree on what changes they will seek in the pro posal of Senator Borah for an In ternational economic and disarma ment conference. The proposal Is embodied in an amendment to the naval appropriations bill which is to come before the senate tomor row. A large part of the republican membership and a number of democrats are understood to be gainst the Borah amendment in nresent form. The views of President Harding, Secretary Hughes and other administration leaders have been sought, but sen ators who have talked with them will not disclose what opinions were experienced. Senator Lodge, the senate leader, was Baid to op pose the amendment as It stands, although Ue and other adminls- (Continued on Page Seven.) WEST MIMA TAKES GONZAGA SQUAD TO CAMP San Diego, Dec. 26. The West Virginia football team which de feated Gonzaga university of Spokane here yesterday 21 to 13, left early today for Los Angeles on the way to Morgantown, W. Va., where school will reopen January 3. The team plans to vis It San Francisco before starting for the east. The contest yesterday witness ed more forward passes than have been seen in southern California this season. The West Virginia mountaineers attempted 15 pass es of which eight were complet ed. The Bull Dogs completed 14 out of 27 attempted. West Virginia made 16 first downs and gained 136 yards from scrimmage. Gonzaga made 13 first downs and 98 yards by rushing. $2316 IS RAISED FOR RED CROSS In the Red Cross campaign for membership, the total amount re celved to date is $2316. As yet no report has been received from Dal las, West Salem and five small communities in Polk county. Reports from Dallas are that ef forts will be made early in the year to secure a Red Cross mem bership worthy of the county seat. From Monmouth there was receiv d $95; from Independence $127; from Valsetz $76; from Falls City $20, and from Airlie $21. The total membership from Polk county now stands at 364 but it is thought, this amount will be more than doubled when reports from Dallas and West Salem are re ceived. -" .. FOUR COUPLES GIVEN CARRIAGE LICENSES The holiday rush for marriage licenses containues. This after noon licenses were Issued to the following: Harold F. Perkins, Marcola, Oregon, garage owner, and Anna Capps, kodak finisher, of Salem. Eugene Hoefling of Salem, route 1, truck driver, and Ada Leopold, dressmaker, of 1000 North 14th treet. M. F. Nelson of Macleay, farm er, and Alice Koodell, also of Ma cleay. - Fori r HMiaa lineman. Of V.'oodburn and Rheuannah Whit ey, also ot Woodburn. Supposed Victim of Murder Writes Note Saying She Is Alive Wis Horses and Red Haired Girls Growing Fewer, Says Statistician Seattle, Wash., Dec. 26. Some Seattle statistician has discovered that the white horse and the red headed girl are al most extinct., For the equine fact the sapient statistician credits the automobile, and for the human phenomenon he blames the fashion of bobbed head. The girl who must get a trim and a neck shave every Satur day has no time for henna, he explains. j ' REV. POLING .. Q Rev. C. C. Poling, D. D., for merly presiding elder in the Pitts burgh conference of the Evangeli cal church and residing in Johns town, Pa., is on the way to Salem to take the pastorate of the Cot tage street Evangelical church. This church has been without a pastor since last August. Dr. Poling is accompanied Dy Mrs. Poling and "after spending Christmas with their sdn and fam ily Rev. D. A. Poling, the associ ate president of the United Socie ty of Christian Endeavor, who is staying In HolbrooK, ArizuiiB, through the winter, wll come w Salem this winter. Dr. Poling is well Known throughout our state. He served the Evangelical church in various offices in the earlier years, ing come to Oregon forty oo-n Ha now comes back, hav- years after spending a few years In his home conference, to tane Oregon conference and assist in uniting, the Evangelical churches in this state. Both Dr. and Mrs. Poling are speakers of more than uni ond th congrega- oramary " - . tion of his churcn is awaiting their comms- hoped that at the spring confer ' v . Tr..,coH-nl church- ence tne tnree of this city will ae uimeu their congregations merged mtu one church. Dr Poling will preach next Sun day morning at the Evangelica church on Cottage street, near Center. GUARDSMEN TO FEAST AND STAGE TOURNAMENT Next MondaTw d cnmoany F is to meet at 5.30 lo. C0V7 mot at the armory of after wfi hich a rounmuivu. al" . . nf wall scaling events cuuo.o- -- mili . (T,mpnt. races, mm- h, basketball game, and ... ii n-c.nnv the time usu ally taken on Monday evening by .. . !,. orppltlv drill. tne ics u" -..,.. the Yesterday being u. - - i ronnRsted to be at company i dofi- the armory in order that a defi nite program may be worked out for next Monday events. hartmeed" riiSS MARVIN ON BOARD Pendleton, oZdTc 2 6.-George A Hartman, retiring mayor of ,ni h anDointed as a Zl r 3 tne state normal school m . oH Miss Cornelia. A. boara tu Governor K.rt n. resigned, aciius Rltner has announced. AMERiGASSllWRANTEE FUNDS FDR RESEARCH aeu- vear for H years tee oi ,"- - -tnward the expenses of exeava- tions in the ruins V.rhO. DUl of Carthage. but according w says t. . -' Rabelon trie SavaD '. w.ded not to ac government - . the of. cept tne ou - -ficial red tape involved. Portland, Or., Dec. 26. Police ana the district attorney's officers were faced with another puzzle to day in their investigation of the story of Mrs. Helen Leary that a 15-year-old girl had been killed in the houseboat of Cash Weir, veter an river man, last September. The new development came in the shape of an anonymous letter re ceived by Chief of Police L. V. Jenkins stating the writer was the girl who was in the houseboat and that she had withheld her name because she wanted to spare her family publicity in connection with the case. Chief Jenkins announced that if the writer of the letter would communicate witn him ana ar range for a meeting he would see that her name did not become pub lic. me letter gave details of an altercation in the houseboat in which Mrs. Leary clashed with Cash Weir and the writer took Weir's part. Mrs. Leary was taken by offi cers today on a trip over the low er Columbia river highway to point out the spot where she said Earl Weir, con of Cash, had told her the body of the alleged victim of the house boat tragedy had been buried "under a ton of rocks." IRDERS THREE CHILDREN TO GET REVENGE Seattle, Wash., Dec. 26. The coroner's office here was seeking this morning to learn something of the history of Emil Neuriter, a ferryboat operator, who yesterday invaded the home of D. C. Engel, a woodworker, and slew three of Engel's children and himself. The only light shed upon the holiday tragedy was given by Helen Engel, 16 years old, sister of the victims of the suicide, who said the forty-year-old slayer had made love to her last spring, had shot at her when she repelled his advances, and had afterward writ ten letters threatening to Kin ner and her family. Funeral arrangements were be ing made for the three Engel chil dren, Anna, 17, who was shot in the heart when she sprang to the defense of the family after Neuri ter had forced her . father witn two leveled revolvers t admit him to the house; Lillie, 3, who re ceived a bullet in her forehead as she stood on a chair with two dolls in her arms while her parents ran out of the front door, and Hans, 14, who was slain in his bedroom, where Neuriter shot himself in the chest. E SHOW ING Washington, Dec. 26.- Exports of the principal fo0d products for November showed, with few ex ceptions, marked increases over totals for November, 1921, accord ing to an analaysis made public today by tne ueyai merce. . tt . , m..i nutirn lie sniyuu meats last month were - $11,204,731, against $b,4,( for Novemoer, iw Dairy products were , among Ghnwing decreases as com pared with November of last year lust lnonins - valued at ji,ua,J, with $2,7 3,332 for oveiuu year ago. Mineral oils and other hand, showed a fat on the substantial being $9.- increase, tne i's'" 806.811 ag!nst $7,704,912 for November, 1921. r,rt nreoarations of S2 Era.n ang'to $33,819,282 were exported, whi e vhile a year ago this group of (owu" CnnevSuhle, amounting to 1381 214 were exported, while 'U ' o the exports were ' 4o.n HIOO.OOO less- a fruit valued at W"" , -K,o last 875,858 wan SOlU mnntn KuiiC " . to 11.811,- the exports - 965. IAN AC I OB XPGRTS REASE TEN MILLION TO BE NEEDED i II ni IkI PTATr lUITOIAIt Cost of Runninsr Insti tutions And Depart ments Estimated For Coming Year. It will require 10,433,559.21 to run the various state Institutions and department during the year i-Jii, according to estimates upon wnicn btate Tax Commissioner Joveil has based his 1923 tax levy. This figure covers only such fixed items of expense as are provided ror by statute. Any annroDiia tions made by the ofrthcoming leg islature for activities not already covered By statute will, of course, increase the total state expend! ture'by just the amount appropri ated, but those appropriations will not be met by the taxpayer until in the levy of 1924. Fees Provide Part, Of the total estimated state ex penditure it la estimated that $1,- 598,26382 will be available from fees and unexpended balances from the previous biennium, leav Ing a total of $8,835,295.39 to be raised by taxation, $3,350,329.81 of this amount falling within the constitution limitation and the balance being covered by special millage taxes voted by the taxpay ers themselves. Approximately 42 per cent o the total estimated need of the state for 1923, or $4,455,514.64 will be used for educational pur poses. This item Includes the maintenance of the state's three institutions of higher 'earning, the state schools for the blind and dear, the department of education, vnnatinn education and the ele mentary school tax which itself accounts for $2,018,998.32. Operation of the state's five eleemosynary institutions and the state's share in the support of pri vate eleemosynary institutions will require $1,033,096.16. Million for Roads. Maintenance of the state's pen al and reformatory institutions and the state's share of the sup port of wayward girls in private insttiutions, calls for a total of $387,605. The judiciary department, which Includes the supreme court, attorney general's department and district attorneys will cost the tax payers $281,830. Roads and highways will re quire $1,261,873.95 from the tax payers, $1,009,499.16 of this amount being represented by the special levy of one mill for market road purposes. The remainder of the $10,000,- 000 budget upon which the tax levy is based is made up of the estimated needs of the numerous departments, commissions, boards and activities to whose support and maintenance the state is pledged by reason of exisiting sta tutes. The various items inciuueu in this estimate, together with the estimated receipts from fees, etc., for the year are hown in the folowing table: MANN LlVESlSTATE VALUED AROUND $3900 ' The last will and testament of James D. Mann has been filed and admitted to probate by the coun ty court. ' The will was made in 1909 After Droviding for the payment of all just debts, the will provides that all real estate and personal nnortv shall be given to his wife. Sarah W. Mann, aibu ui appointed executrix, and permitted t w thoui giving uunui The value of the estate is esti ot i3900. The court ap- nntPii as appraisers, Joseph N. Smith, Andrew Henderson and Re becca T. Smith. LARCENY CHARGED TO MAN Deputy Sheriffs Mffl Burkhart and Bert Smith, Saturday, ar ...o l.mM Rozall on a warrant charging him with larceny. The warrant was Issued out of the Stayton justice court and-Rozall rnr,hlv will be arraigned there. Rozall Is accused of stealing a drag saw. This morning Con ..hi Henry Smith ot Stayton was in Salem. Des Moines Drunks to Be Given Photographs J of Themselves In Jail V Des Moines. Iowa. Deo. 26. John B. Hammond, chief of po lice, has announced that every drunken man who is brought into police headquarters will have his picture taken. : When the offender has be come sober again he will be presented with a picture of himself so that he may know how he looked when taken to the jail. Hammond hopes the picture "cure" will be a potent weapon against drunkenness. Eighty intoxicated men spent Christmas eve in the city jail. FINE PROGRAM TO BE PRESENTED BY i . A program of unusual excellency aud one to which the public of Sa lem is Invited, will be offered by the Salem Elks at their lodge rooms on North Liberty street New Year'B eve. "We feel that the bill will be entirely worth while and it is cal culated to please everybody," I. R. Smith, one of the members of the committee in charge, said today. ' The program will -have several unique features which members of the committee have nolyet made public. Those In charge are Art Wallace, chairman, Paul Stege and Mri Smith. Tickets will be on sale at Smith's cigar store, at the Spa and Gray Belle. The program will be as follows: "The Novelty Trio," Inez Cham bers, violinist; Helen Walter, dancer and accompanist. "The Two Browustones, ac cordian players. "Five Hawaiians," music, sing ing and dancing. Fred Cutter in "The Professor," a comedy act. The Telephone Quartet. Stephen Juhasz In "Bunkology." Grand finale. HAWAII ELEVEN DOWNS POMONA Honolulu, Dec. 26. University of Hawaii won its first victory at football over a mainland team when it defeated the Pomona col- esce eleven fror southern Califor nia 25 to 6 here yesterday. The game was played under a burning sun and the excessive heat apparently affected tne romona s. The Hawaiians, nowevei, out-classed the visitors in an re spects. The islanders relied main ly on straight footDan wim lonal forward passes, i-omuna . , , tnn( TTownil's line. was neipiess - which broke througn reyeaiu., smothering Pomona plays almost hefore they were started. Pomona's only toucnaown w the contest. Daggs, ,,,, ball fumbled by Wise cc vrAu fnr ths score. This wus in the second penoa. BY OPE xji.iairnB-ffi. Okla.. Dec. 2-6.- Railway officials here profess to see in the wreck early today of a .v,.n,l MlBSOUn IM""- icrht train near ain in quoyah county, Oklahoma, an at . t derail the "Rainbow Cnorlal." a last tram between KanBaS Cnvfnirs. ArK. City and- Hot n-,o frpient. ruuuiiifi wv- v Rren. Ark., and Wagoner, Okla., ran into an ...iiKirn men. throw- accoruniB w , (La enirine. tender bdu mtn the ditch.. Engineer n Hedrick and Fireman tv,n,,n both of Van ieoi6 uv" - R,,.n. Ark., were pinned be neath the engine and ..rfnim InlurieB. sustained t, -Halnbow Special" from Hot Springs was due at the ...... ohn.it the time the ... .. ni,,r,?(d into the ditch inifiuv f bt was two hour late. elks NEV TRAIf WRECKED N SWITCH YULE SPIRIT HOLDS SWAY OVER SALEM Presents Provided For All In City and Food Sur plus Develops; Enter tainments Are Varied. If any youngster in Salem was overlooked this Christmas if any family failed to have all of the epicurean delights commonly spread forth on December 25, It was not the fault of Salem. For the city provided for all. Many hundred ot packages were dis patched to all corners ot the city and more than 90 baskets heaped with food went to families that might have hungered otherwise. The week-end was a full one. Never before had so many per sons banded, together for relief work. Donations were received from hundreds and scores labored to see gifts went where'they could be best "used. Journal Entertains Hundreds ternoon that Santau odo p Festivities began Saturday at ths offices of The Capital Journal. It has been announced that Santa Claus would arrive at 3 o'clock, but youngsters preceded htm by two hours. By 3 o'clock the front office of the paper was jammed. Each of the 500 youngsters who of the 500 youngsters who ap peared was given a sack of candy and unts. Saturday evening at 6:30 oclocg at the armory and mank hundreds ot boys and girls were In attend ance. An elaborate program was rendered which included opecful music, readings and other enter tainment. Presentswere given to the children and tickets were dis-j tributed for the show givwn by the Bligh Theatre yesterday after noon. Candy Is Distributed Many were the youngsters who crowded Into the theater and to each of these the Elks gave a sack of candy. . Thursday, Friday and Ratudday nights the Elks worked in segre gating presents and wrapping them for the needy youngsters of the city. Many hour were spent in the work and virtually every article was presented to some per son. Hundreds or sacKg oi canoy reds of toys were given and lothes were delivered in large quantities. Those in charge declared today that the movement had been an entire success. If any person or any family was overlooked they will be taken care of this week if they will write to Fred Erixon, chairman of the Elks welfare committee. Have Food Surplus One family of six which had been in dire straits for sometime was discovered this week-end. Members of the group were out- itted comiilcteiy and for them Christmas assumed a new aspect. So much food was contributed to the Salvation Army that some still remains and this will be ap portioned to the nedy as workers find them. The Salvation Army movement this year was entirely satisfactory, according to Captain M. Holbrook. Workers were assisted in distributing packages by members of the Salem fire de partment and by the Salem HI-Y club and to those who assmteu thanks was expressed today. Among Salem's more fortunate families Christmas was quietly ob served. Yesterday stores were closed and only a few pedestrians were on the streets. GREEKS REFUSE TERMS LAID DOWN BY TURKEY London, Dec. 26. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Atnens gives Premier Gonatas as autnor Ity for the statement that the Greek government has no thought of acceding to the Turkish demand fnr withdrawal of the Greek patri arch from Constantinople, even if the allied powers accept Turkey .. i r,t m pinressed at the lBf " i nntaiitiB conference. The premier asserted that hl government considered the ques tion a national one upon tfhich no Greek ministry could give way. San Diego, Cal. West Virginia ..iorDiv defeated the Gouzatja university football eleven 21 to 13 Distillers Gaze On Dead Victim; Others Blinded Shelby, Ohio, Dec. 26. For five minutes, Phillip Weiganott and Lester Elston stood at the bier of Robert Longley today, obs shawing their bodieB. Wordless they gazed upon the still form of Longley who died yesterday drink ing "moonshine" they admit they made. Police conducted Weiganott and Elston to the coffin and com pelled them to gaze upon the body of Longley as a "moral example." The two men are held on charges of murder. Two other men who drank some of the same liquor are totally blind today and little hope for recovery ot their sight Is held. The liquor Is said to have contained wood alcohol. INT The warm weather which this section of the state has been ex periencing for the past few days coupled with the rain that has been falling, has caused the sno'w in the mountains to start melting with the result that the river read ing here yesterday was 12.5 feet above the low water mark, the highest mark the river has attain ed hare this fall and winter. This morning the reading was 12 foot The reading on Saturday morn ing last was 4.2 and during the next 24 hours it rose 5 feet, an average rise of 2 Mi inches an hour. f he reading was 8.2 feet. During the next 24 hours, ending Monday morning, the river had risen 3.3 feet. Clarence Oliver, weather ob server here, reported .76 inch rain fall on Sunday morning and .03 Inch yesterday morning. : With continued southerly wind, forecasted for tomorrow and rain very little change in the weather is expected. BERRY PROBLEM TO BE DISCUSSED HERE TOMORROW Delegates from all loganberry growing districts in the state will meet Wednesday morning at the offices of the Oregon Growers as sociation to take some definite action by which they hope to sta bilize the loganberry market. At a recent meeting of grow ers, delegates were appointed from the various loganberry dis tricts, as fur south bs Eugene, and north Including the Sheridan district, and it la these delegates who will endeavor to present some nractlcal plan for improv ing intranherrv conditions, to bo later submitted' to a general meeting of all growers. This meet in v will called sometime " ..... - January. At tli a meetlne held a short time ago, growers went on rec ord as favoring community or ganizations of growers and then all communities -to get toge l.er In a central organization, anJ 'lth contracts that will hold. The opii'lrii was expressed at the last meeting ot growers, that the bushier was not ovri!,tie, but that some means gUouU be found of securing a wider distri bution. BURGLARS LOOT PASTOR'S STUDY Burglars broke Into the study of Rev. Martin Feresnctian, pas tor of the Unitarian church Here sometime last night and escaped with a good haul. Twenty dollars In currency as stolen, together with a watch valued at $90 and a gold chain. Police who investigated said that entrance was gained through a basement window. might lead to the thleveV Iden m gni ieao K'n -lw was found wnicn tity. RIVER REACHES HIGHEST EBBS AGAIN UDER IS CHARGED 10 If! Mill Executive Whose Edict Against Bootleggers Opened Louisiana Fued Is Located. Baltimore, Mil., Dec. 25. The Baltimore police department received a telegram from Got ernor Parker ot Louisiana request ing the arrest of Dr. B. M Mc- Koln mayor ot Mer Rouge, Ls., on a charge of murder, two headquarters detectives with a warrant started, at once tor Johns Hopkins hospital to arrest Dr. McKoin. Dr. McKoin is attached to th Brady urologlcal clinic at Johns Hopkins, where he has been since last October. Return Ordered Bastrop, La., Dec. 26. Sherift Fred Carpenter, on the advice ot Attorney General Coco today ad dressed a telegram to Dr, B. M. McKoin, former mayor ;ot Mer Rouge, believed to be a student -at Johns Hopkins university at Bal timore, instructing him to re turn to Louisiana as a witness at the opening hearing ot the More house kidnaping case which be gins at Bastrop on January 5. -Edict Started Feud Monroe, La., Dec. 26. In con tradiction ot the announcement last night by officials of Johns Hopkins university at Baltimore that Dr. B. M. McKoin, former mayor of Mer Rouge was not rng-. istered aB a student there and his mall had Been returned to th office as unclaimed, E. McKoin, the physician's father, today de clared here thathls son was at the university. ' , " . The elder McKoin denied the reports that his son had fled to Europe or had gone into hiding. He said the former mayor would not return to this section unless needed to testify. Dr. McKoln's edict last summer that illicit distilling and other kindred lawlessness must cease is said to have been the opening chapter In the scries of events that led to the kidnaping episode and the subsequent murders. An attempt made to assassinate ths mayor as he was answering a sick call, culminated in his de parture from this city in which he was born and his kin reside. Bastrop, La., Dec. 26, (By As sociated Press.) The state will be able to establish the Identity ot several members of the masked mob which last August kid naped five Mer Rouge residents, including Watt Daniels, and Thomas Richards, whose bodies were found last week, lnvestiga- ( Continued on Page Five.) BEARCATS PLAY TWICE THIS WEEK Tomorrow evening, Dec. 27, the Willamette (university bas ketball squad will go to Newberg where they wilt meet the Ameri can Legion team there in the third game of the vacation barn storming tour. Ou Friday eve ning, Dec. 29, the Bearoits will go to Sllverton to vio with the legion team thcr?. In both of the starti so far the local team baa been defeated. Last Friday night tli Indrpendeneo town team were the victors and on Saturday night the Dalina Le gion five took tho Bearcats down tho line S3-7. Hhepard, Logan er Robertson, first string men, were not present or the score migni have been more even. 'J ue lacK oi learn work and ability to convert baskets was the sad part of the Dallas gam. Vinson and Erick son played forwards, Caughlin center and M. Jones and Patton Ftarted Pt guard positions. During the course of the game Coach Bohler played a number of sub stitutes In order to get a line oa their ability. New York. It became known that Charles A. Stonham was to - resign,, the presidency of the New Uqt Nflt'xnal league club.