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Newspaper Page TextOHECON STATE LIBRARY MAY 2 2 192 C apit am Journal CITY EDITION Dally average net paid circulation (or month ending April 30, 1924 THE WEATHER OREGON: Fair tonight and Thursday except cloudy or foggy near the coast; moderate westerly winds. Local: Max. 81;: mln. 49; no rain fall; river 0.2 foot, falling. 6055 Average dally distribution 6412. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR No, 122 SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1924 DDTfP f UTT?T7i TRAINS AND NHW8 FIVE CENTS & 4 i ft 1 iM li Conferees Provide 40 Per Cent Maximum Surtax And 50 Per Cent Cut On Small Incomes. Washington, May 21. Unan imous consent was reached today by the conferees on the tax re duction bill. The Simmons democratic in come rate schedule providing for 40 per cent maximum surtax rate and a 60 per cent rcuuctlon In normal taxes on incomes under $ 8:000 was accepted. Senate amendments providing for full publicity of tax returns and a tax on undistributed cor poration profits were rejected. Hope was expressed by senate republican organization leaders that the bill as now framed would meet the approval of President Coolidge, who has declared oppo sition to both the publicity and corporation proposals, which wero eliminated. Publicity Eliminated The house provisions for a 40 per cent Increase In existing tax rates and for the Imposition of a gift tax with rates similar to the estate tax rates were accepted. Senate democrats, in yielding their proposal for a substitute croporatlon tax and full publicity of tax returns, explained that they did so in expectation that the bill would not be objection able to President Coolidge. The provision for a 25 per cent reduction on earned incomes was retained but the scnato amend ment restricting the amount to which this cut could bo applied to $10,000 was accepted. A compromise was reached on n cut in the jewelry tax. All arti cles selling for ?300 or less were exempted from the five per cent tar. The house had set ths limit at $40 and the senate at $25. To Limit Deduction rnnsnls to CXemnt produce and merchandise brokers from the broker tax ann 10 rcsioru the full level on billiard and pool tables nnd bowling alleys were approved. The treasury proposal to limit deductions on account ot capital losses to 1214 per cent was re stored to the hill by demand of house conferees. Secretary Mel lon has estimated It would In crease returns in revenue by $25, 000.000 annually. Chairman Smoot of the senate finance committee estimated the bill went $100,000,000 below the treasury surplus available for tax reduction. Tills did not take Into account the cost of the bonus hill, which It has been estimated will require an annropriatlon of $150,000,000 for the next fiscal year or other pending measures railing for special appropriations. BRITiSfTFLYER REACHES BURMA Shanghai, China, May 21. (By Associated Press.) Stuart Mac laren. HritiBh aviator flying around the world, arrived at Alcyab, Burma, today from Cal cutta, said a dispatch from the fnrmer place received here t night. The route he will follow, if he uses this plane. Is as follows: From ShnnRhsu to Nanking, T;:inanfn. PekitiK, Mukden, Seoul. Fusan, and NaKanakl to i'oklo. Active preparation of landing places at such ot these points as u re not already p rov I ded with them have hern begun on the as sumption that the Frenchman will (ly on. Doipy In a statement today strongly reeommanded that air p'anes usfd for such Might asIiis lie fitted for either pontoons or landing Rear, so that they can r-ome down In cither land or wat f r, as are the machines of tin American round-the-world flier?. New York Eddie Burnbroek. Camp Holahird, Md won the right to challenge Mickey Walker for the welterweight title when he was Riven the decision over Paul Do vie, New York, In 12 rounds. GLOBE FLIERS LEEILE AT DM Tomorrow's Erf.ht Ex pected To Biv;. Avia tors Within 50 Miles of Tokio Japs Excited. Aboard the Destroyer John D. Ford, Kusuiro, Japan, May 21. (By Associated fress.) The American round-the-world fliers liopo to start from Kurilo islands Thursday morning at daylight and fly to Kasumigaura, 50 miles northwest ot Tokio, m one day, stopping cither at Kusuiro or Mi- uato, Japan, to refuel. The 'ord, which arrived here at 12:30 this afternoon, made the 200-mile trip from Hitokappu bay in a heavy fog, which prevented the filers from starting today, Tthe flight from Hitokappu bay to Kasumigaura is expected to oc cupy 12 hours, with only a brief stop at either Minato or Ksbiro. ReceDtion Tendered. The Ford received a great re ception here. Almost the entire city turned out to welcome her, probably the first foreign war res- sel that has ever visited the port. The mayor, council men and lead ing citizens boarded the ship to extend an official welcome ami present the keys of the city to the officers. Counties school children visited the ship lustily singing the national anthems or America and Japan. Entertainments are being arranged for tonight. When informed that the fliers might land hero the citizens as serted that it was the greatest honor eve accorded the city. Lieutenant Lowell Smith, act ing commander of the flight, re ceived a congratulatory cable gram from Secretary of War Weeks. Jaos Disannointed. Tokio, May 21. (By Associated Press.) News of the accident to the airplane of Captain Pellcticv Doisy, the French aviator, at Shanghai was received here with much regret as it had been ex pected that he would have arrived here nearly simultaneously wit a tiie American and British arouiri-the-wcrld fliers. With A. Stuart Maclaren, tho British aviator, still in India and Doisy detained in Shanghai, the Americans seem assured of an easy victory in the race to ToUio on which many wagers had been made. Public interest in tho flights has been intense. The newspa pers placed immense scoreboards throughout the city with the routes traced on them and tho progress of the flights marked with tiny airplanes. DRIVER oTDEATHCAR IS HELDJ-OR MURDER Portland, Or., May 21. Paul Hnrtman, 26, is being held by the authorities under J2500 bail oi: charges of manslaughter growing out of the death of Peter Greer;, an employe of the Portland Elec tric Power company, who wa struck yesterday by a car alleged to have been driven by Hartman at a high rate of speed. Green and Walter Matach, fel low worker, were working on the pavement at a street intersection, according to tho police, when the car struck them without warning, fatally injuring Green and bruU ing flatsch. Hartman was examined follow ing the accident, police say, and was said to have nocn intoxicated. DOISY TO CONTINUE FLIGHT MESE PLANE Shanghai. May SI. (I!y Asso ciated 1'ress. ) Captain I'elletier Doisy. French aviator, who dam aged his piano In landing bore yesterday, has overcome his dis appointment at the Inlerrunlirn to his projected flight from I'ai-.s to Tokio and Is considering seri ously the offer of a Chinese plane tor continuation of his flight. The offer was made yesterdnv hy General Hoefene-I.ing. millury governor of Shanghai. It Doi.iy accepts It. he will proceed toward Tokio within a week. A survey of the situation re veal that there are available only what I)olsy terms "rcconnalsanco" airplanes but he believes that on; of them, a Breguet, la capable of carrying him on If hi" Journey is re-arranged Into shorter stages. Miller's Lead In Senatorial Struggle Firmly Established Portland, May 21 Addi tional rctuvim compiled up " early this iiflcrnooii. liK'liul JiiK Curry county complete, orilclal, gave Miller 10.507; St raver, 10,303, n lead for Miller or 204. Klphty pre cincts wero still ii 1 1 report cil, Including 10 in CIntFon couu ty, where. Miller had been leading two to one, and 45 In Coos county, where Miller had been leading- by a third, in earlier returns. Seven pre cincts were missing from La no county, where. Miller and Strayer liad been run ilng alHiut even. In (Ikj other undecided contest In last Friday's prim ary elect ion, that for tho seventh place in the race for delegates at lurfo to the re publican national convention, S. 1. Peterson wan in the lead today with 1-1UH pre cincts reported. Peterson had 4.P,571!. Dr. Henry Waldo Cue of Portland, his nearest coiuieiitor liad 42,017. RELIEF BILL IS Washington, May 21. DIrcus-! slon of tho McNary-Haugen farm relief bill was sidetracked in the house today by an agreement for consideration of miscellaneous measures. The debate will be re sumed however, under tho pro gram accepted late yesterday al lowing fifteen hours for general discussion and calling for day and night sessions in an effort to get action by Saturday night or early next week despite the delay yes terday in making a start. The bill received only slight dis cussion after it was reached yes terday afternoon, running into a series of quorum calls which con tinued for more than two hours after tho dinner recess until enough members had been round ed up by the sergeant at arms to permit the chamber to proceed. Representative Volgt of Wiscon sin, a republican member of the agricnlturo committee, opposing the bill as a prico fixing measure, made the only address at the night session, which ended short ly before midnight. GREAT ACTIVITY Honolulu, H. I.. May 21. (Ty Associated Press.) L'nusually heavy nteam clouds were emitted from Kllaucfi volcano, now under going a period of great activity, throughout today. There wore explosions within the crater at 2:49 and 4:40 o'clock this after noon. Four heavy earthquake shocks were felt at Naalehu (sta tion, Mrs. W. J. Stephens, wife of a sugar company overseer, report ed over the telephone to Hilo, MEREDITH PLEADS FOR CLOSER COOPERATION Kansas City, Mo., May 21. plea for closer co-operation be tween hankers, business men and farmers and for greater effort on the part of the banker to stabil ize and sustain agricnlturo wn! made before the convention of tho Missouri-Kansas HankerB' associa tion here today by K. T. Mere dith of Des Moines, former secre tary of agriculture. Bankers and business men, Mr. Meredith said, should meet Ui-J farmer on a business bards, take him into their councils and joint ly work out solutions to problem 3 that effect the country a basic in dnstrv "It Is true that the farmer fdiould practice diversified farm ing and he is rapidly learning his IcPBin," Mr, Meredith said. LAND NEW PACIFIC CABLE Seattle. Wash.. May 21 Th new pacific ocean cable, bein. laid between Seattle and Ketch; l:an, Alaska, haR been landed nt Trocadero hay. K2 1 miles north o! hero bv the cable ship Hclwoud. according to a dispatch received by the Alaska cable office of the United Slatea signal coips in heat tie. Laying of the cable across Prlnco of Wales Inland, beln-s done so that the entire cable will bo In American territory, will completed rapidly, A tren-h across an eight mile section at rrocacjjo has been dug to receive the cau.e. KILAUEA SHOWS niK JEGTBOr SOFF Senate Committee Turns Down Muscle Shoals Lease By Vote of 10 to 6 Norris Bill Favored. Washington, May 21. A mo tion to report the Ford bill pro viding for leasing of Muscle Shoals was lost by a vote of 10 to 6 today In the senate agriculture committee. After the vote indications were that the committee might report the Norris government ownership bill. In this event, if the Ford bid is brought up in the senate ft would be In the form of a sub3ti tute for the Norris bill. letter it was earned that those voting against the Ford bid were benators Norris, Nebraska; Mc Nary. Oregon: Capper. Kansas; Gooding, Idaho; Norbcck, South Dakota; McKinley, Illinois: llar- reld, Oklahoma, republicans: Itansdell . Louisiana, and Kcn- drick, Wyoming, democrats, and Johnson, farmer-labor, Minnesota. LobdeH's Slush Fund. An account maintained by former Chairman Charles E. Lob dell of the farm loan board in a local bank was used "at times,'' as a slush fund, Senator Howell, re publican, Nebraska, charged in the senate in continuing his op position to confirmation of four pending nominations to the board. Senator Howell explained that by a slush fund he meant "a fund used to grease the wheels so as to smooth things; a fund expended when you wanted to be generous with those who could be helpful to your objects." "This fund was so used at times," be continued. "I hold such action should be severe iy condemned when taken by any government instrumentality." Attack bv Howell. Senator Howell obtained the floor as soon ns the senate con vened and resumed his elaboration of criticisms enumerated yesterday against the hoard. Selection of Mr. Lobdell an fiscal agent with a salary of $25,000, loose handling of public money and misapplica tion of funds were included in the charges he filed. Favorable report has been made hy the senate hanking com mittee on all four of the nomi nees, who are Lewis J. Pettyjohn, Kansas; Elmer S. Land1, Ohio; Morton L. Corey, Nebraska, and Edward E, Jones, Pennsylvania. Los Angelefl, Cal., May 21. One woman Is dead, " her ox husband, who Is said by the pollen to have run amuck, is declared by police surgeons to be dying and her present husband Is seriously wounded as tho result of a tri angle shooting here today. Mrs. Edith MUIigan, 40, Id the dead woman. Ike Iliko, alien Charles Johnson, Armenian an to mechanic. 34, is believed fatally self-wounded, and William Milli gau, 42, has a bullet wound in th groin. Tho Milligans who came from Bismarck, N. I)., were married prior to the world war. He went to tho front and was reported killed. Mm. Mitligan then mar ried Hiko. Later the marriage wan annulkd when it was alleged that Hiko had a wife and family I:. Armenia. Later Milligan turned up the report of his death had bi'f-n tfror noons and last Monday the pair rc-marrieu. This morning, according to Mr. Harriet L. Goodull of Iioston, who in visiting thm, she and the Mil It garni were coming out of a cal? aft or breakfast when Hiko ao ppared. nhot the two Milligans and then turned the pistol on him. self. Chicago, May 21. Jdfiitifha tion of Jamr-it Osey, one of 31 al leged ber runners, arrested In a raid Monday as they prepared ti. send out 13 truck loada of beer from the Bieben brewery, en Dan iel O'Connor, political lieutenant, has been announced by the police O Connor was formerly secretary to William V. O'Connell, who di rected the McAdoo orlmary light. Secret Service Agents Used to Spy on Senators Washington, May 21. The sen ate Daugherty committee was told today that representatives of the department of justice not only had Bought to "frame" Senator Wheeler, its prosecutor, but had spied on its members and its wit nesses and had spirited away the famous diaries of Gaston B, Means, working with it na an In vestigator. One of the witnesses was W. O. Ducktitein, who eaid ho knew about whole proceeding because his wife is a secret agent ot the department. It was she, he said, who identified in his presence the records of Means after they had been scoured by a ruse. A description of extensive de tective operations conducted by the department of justice with re gard to Gaston II. Means, star witness in the senate Daugherty investigation, was given the in vestigating committee today by It. P. Unrrus, a special agent of tho department. As "chief shadow assigned to follow Means, he said, he had five assistants, one of them a woman. Between March IS and April 1, when the work was disroutinucd, he eaid, every move of Means was "covered" nnd every v ltd tor to his house was followed up and iden tified. Means, who lias told the com mittee of collecting money for Jess W. Smith and of many oth er sensational activities, sat in the committee room, grinning broadly nt his "shadows" while Pi Kill T WaFhington, May 21. The sen ate foreign relations committee devoted two hours today to a gen eral discussion of world court pro posals but adjourned until tomor row without having reached a de cision on any Important point. An effort to obtain the commit tee's Immediate endorsement for the proposal of President Hard ing and Coolidge for membership In tli o present court with reserva tions, rctiulto-d In failure. None of those present would venture more than a "hope" of early action on any of the plans now pending. The meeting was the first nt this session of con gress on the proposals for Ameri can membership in the world court, Tho meeting called nt the re quest pf Senator Swanson of Vir ginia, was preceded hy a lengthy white house conference last night at which President Coolidge reit erated to republican members his stand in favor of conditional mem bership in the permanent court of international Justice set up by the league of nations as recommend ed more than a year ago by Presi dent Harding. The three world court plans pending before the committee nnd a compromise proposal being worked out by Senator Pepper, republican, Pennsylvania, were considered at the white houf-'c conference but no derision wan reached In favor of any spcuitlc plan. imprisoIesToT leaders protested Dublin, May 21. The contin ued 1 in prison rue nt of DeVab-ra, Austin Stnek and other republi can leaders Is bilteily cond'-mn-'d by the republirans. It was supposed that pledgi -t had been given for the release uf DeValera and the others by hau ler. Now Hiiro is a rumor thai the priti'ineis who are uri'ried un to he reb-ased b -fore the luUteann games early in August. KLAN RECORDS TO BE OPEHEDTO PROBERS Wa -ihingtnn. May 21.-- Addi tional record of the Kn H l i.r Klan are tft be brought to Well ington under an agreement reach ed today for Itippe tinn ,v !" elal senate convention investigat ing the election ronton broiigh? flKatnat Senator Mayffeld of Texiu. No hearing was held trday be cause of the Absence of importnnt witnesses. they were undergoing examina tion. Ex-Senator G. E. Chamberlain, counsel for H. M. Daugherty, ask ed Burr us if the watch on Means was not placed becauso of New York indictments against him but tho witness did not know. Orders to stop the watch came to him April first, ho said. Duckstelu described an espion age system of great proportion which he said had been thrown about the committee's operations under the direction of H. C. Todd, special assistant to Attorney Gen eral Daugherty. He said "the crew of detectives" used In the case had come largely from New York, under the direction ot two men named Pet tit and O'Brien. Their activities included wire tap ping and many other methods of obtaining information. The purpose oi tne "crow' the witness declared, had been de scribed by Petti t and O'Brien as including tho "framing" of Sena tor Wheeler, who has been Indict ed in Montana and the "railroad ing" of Means to the penitentiary. Duckstein said it was Pettit and O'Brien who got the Means diar ies, which tho tnmous detective had declared would substantiate his stories about money payment to Jesse Smith. Tho two men, lie said, called him and his wife out of their home at night, took them into an automobile and opened Ithreo suitcases full ot "little 1 black books," wli ich M rs. Duck stein identified as the diaries am) files ot Means. E II Washington, May 21 Veterans bureau actuaries informed mem bers of congress today for tho first time that tho lfst of "factors" prepared by them and recently made public for computing the amounts of Insurance duo under the bonus law took Into account the extra 25 per cent of adjusted servlco compensation allowed by tho hill on Insurance certificates. This means that a veteran, In computing tho value of tho Insur ance policy ho will receive, simply will multiply his credits at $1.25 a day for foreign service and $1.00 a day for homo servlco by his factor, which previous had been made public. The extra 25 per cent Is not to bo added as, heretofore announced. As an ex ample, If tho veteran has the maximum amount of homo serv ice credit, $500, the Insurance policy would nmount to about two and one-half times that amount, or $12r0, according to tiie age of the veteran. H. P. Brown, veterans bureau actuary, explained the table of factors romntly mnde public had been based on values of $1.25 In stead of $1, ns iisu;il, nnd thin took Into account the ext ra 25 per cent allowed by the bill, and saves a double computation, Tliis will result In lower valuea for insurance policies nil nlong the linn than figured by conrres, Brown said, but would make no difference In the estimated total em;!, of the hill, since all these facta have been taken into con sider.'! t inn by tho actuaries of both the v tenuis' bureau nnd the treasury department, who figured on the expense. OLE HANSON CHARGED WITH STEALING HORSE Los Angelea. CuI., May 21.- Ole Hanson, war time mayor of Scat tie, and now a Los Angeles real estate sub df id r, will have nn opportunity to prove that ho Is not. n borne thief when bin eac conies up in a Pasadena Justice court tomorrow. Hanson hint nlpht Joked about the charge filed ngain-t him by Clarence Bnreti, who ft lb gefl the former Seattle, mayor stole a strawberry roan from his pasture. Hanson admitted tnking the hnrse but Pi plained that It was one which bad been r.tolen from him IS months ago and no doubt been purchased Bules and models destroy genius and art. HIP BOD COIN USED TO AVERTSTR1KE Investigator Reveals Use Of Federal Funds To Prevent Labor Disturb ances On Coast. Washington, luay 21. Investi gation of the Ship Owners' associ ation and tho Pacific American Steamship association, on the Pa cific coast, for "possfblo violation of tho Sherman law," is under way, Thomas F. llico, Hpeeial- as sistant to the attorney general, testified toilay before the house shipping board investigating com mit lee. It ice said he was sent to the Pacific coast in April, 11)23, nnd assigned to the general work of prosecuting anti-trust cases. H-j was there 13 months, returning last Saturday. I Itico testified he had received information ttiat the shipping board had spent 7100,000 to pre vent a strike in 1910 on the Pa cific coast by "opening up opposi tlon offices and conducting joint ly Willi private owners to the ex penses of these agencies." Although no direct Information had shown money to combat the strike wa3 authorized from Wash ington, tho witness said, his Im pression was that "disbursement were made by the district manager at Han Francisco on Tnstructlona from Washington." Itlco testified r-at tho Tund to which shipping board operators were contributing for a general fight on organized labor amount ed to approximately $1,250,000. lie believed that the various in terests opposing organized labor Include all of the largo commer cial and banking organizations on the coast. Indianapolis, ind., May 21. Indiana republicans went Into state convention hero today to ratify the action of tho republi can voters of tho stato at the pri mary In selecting Calvin Coolidge as their preference for tho presi dential nomination, select seven delegates at large to tho national convention In Cleveland, adopt a platform and name a complete state ticket. An asi.ault upon the work of what were characterized the de structive forces temporarily In control of tho situation at Wash ington and a re statement of re publican principles const! luted th main themes of the keynote addrvKH delivered ny the tempo rary chairman. Senator James l- WalHuti of Indiana. The senator assaib-d the senate investigators as seekers of politi cal propaganda, regard bus of the effect of their work on their na tional government. Ho declared the s' nato investigations were not only obstructive of the enactment of needed legisla tioti, but ab'o de signed to break down tho faith of the American people in their na tional institutions. "Tho attempt to make It ap pear, (in no larger grounds than yet have been developed, that the government is reeking with rot ten ih .n, is a kind of politics which strikes not so much at the party ht power iih at the heait of government Itself," he said. OIL OPERATORS ARE" HEARD BY GRAND JURY Wellington. May 21 . .lohn 1). DarKe, of the Standard (til com pany of Indiana, nnd Frank !! Kin I ler, of the Pioneer Oil com pany, were among witnesses today before the special oil grand Jury In the Dl strict or Columbia su Heme court. Otners called wero ;fr:ild Hughes, a Henver lawyer, and B. B. Brooks and It. E. Werts of Casper. Wyo, The Pioneer tti company wan one of the concerns asserLlng claims In Teapot Dome whoso in terest wus purchased by Harry K. Sinclair after he leased the reserve. DM) FOR Restaurant Proprietors Reject Utimatum From Culinary Union And Strike Looms. Demands nf ihA 1ZGU CUllnnrv wnrbpra' ....I.... i Salem for closed shop operation of .... ui i.iu luo ui u rums and eating houses in thn ritv orn tn l. H.u ku uu iiuuy rejected, according to an Informal leacueu uy tuo proprie tors of tho principal houses this mornlnir. And iim ..itin. t bo delivered to the workers this uiieruuon. ItcftlHfLl flf Mm nn.n.1.1 "Win up means n walkout, William "iipiuricK, secretary of tho local union, said this afternoon. Killlntriilr utii.l tl,.. uri.i.- House restaurant Is the center of tho storm, declaring that working conditions and wages there aro not "e suid mat there was no Inclination to prevent any of tho restaurants from hiring students Who need tlm wnrU mwl tl...t union will not Insist that tho closed shop provisions of tho pro posed contract bo strictly ob served. V P. fieiirirn nrnnpUl. ... il White House, said that the con troversy wim not n h ... wages wilh lilm; that he hart nl- ivuys u mi would always pay thn best wuges possible und that there WOllld 1)0 till illur.rl,.,(nnlln against union employes In his cs- ILIMIinillllL'lU. "At n meeting hi men two weeks ago every proprie tor present, with tho exception of one, voted to reject tho demands, and wo will stand by that deci sion, sain flir. tieorge. our o'clock this afternoon Is tho limo tenliitlvelv a,., lit, union for tho acceptance or ro Jcctiou of the contract submitted y mem 10 tne proprietors. Declaring Hint Mm mado upon them oro unreasonable. nmppHcaiiio to local conditions and would prove ruinous to their business the restaurant men tnko tllO Position Mint thorn fa cuso for a union ot this kind here, nnd that they will not ho forced to neci'pt regulations designed to i coimiunns in Inrgo cities which do not exist locally. TIlOV miMnrf llml II.... .in t - ..... .j mm uu no discrimination prnrtlccH against union workers in their places of business, anil that members of tho union oiny retain their places as long as iney clioosc, so long as their work Is satisfactory. Hiirhcr Wnccs Paid Now Examination nf thn ni,n asked by tho union and those now befne n:id In mnut nt lt,n u..in. eating bruises reveal thnt the rates or pay now in rorce averago slight ly higher than those demanded. An accurate rnnparlson, however. Is not possible, because the de mands of the union are based up on a system of hours that aro not observed here, lly demanding premium for employees working split shifts, there Is nn apparent attempt on tho part of tho union to forco tho restaurant owners to adopt the policy of working nn straight shirts which, tho proprie tors declare. Is Imposi-tlile. In tho ease of waitresses the union demands are for n $15 wngo for straight eight-hour shirts nf six d.ivs a week. Where the eight hour working day Is split up over ft 12-hour period a bonus of Is demanded. Due to peculiar conditions here, whtch mnke the buslni'm heavier during certain hours of the day ond prnctlraMy nil at oilier times tho split shift has been In foreo to provide ndeiiuato servlco for customers during rush hours. Un- f t'olitlnued on I'nijc l-'lve.) CREDIT BIG RAILWAY PROBLEM, SAYS GRAY Katman City. Mo., Mcy 21. Tho oulHtaudliif; problem of American railways Is that of credit, and that credit depended on nn nde quatn return from operation. I'rfaidrnt ('i,r' tlray of the Union I'jclMr Fyntem, told a Joint conference nf Mlneourl nnd Knnnai bankers here today. Ho declared that in no year sinco the trans portation Bet has been In effcof hnvn railroads earned thn "fab turn" established by th inter state commerce commission.