Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, January 06, 1925, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textomraal CITY EDITION THE WEATHER Partly cloudy tonlfht and Wedneaday xcapt tor probable light local rains. Llfht westerly winds. Local: Max. it; mon. 88; rain, .24; river, atmoa., cloudy. Dally i)ti mat pal alrenUtloa for month racing Decmbar II, HI 6366 Average dally diatrlbutlon .76. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 5 SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1925 rjpifw TTJDT?T? prVTO ON TRAINS AND NEWS s7iHij lXln.ll.Cj liJliiNlO ' STANDS FIVE CENTS I Capital ml lira J MAYOR LAYS PLAN BEFORE C1TYG0UNGIL Biennial Message Urges Renumbering Streets, City Water, Permanent Bridge Program. HIGHLIGHTS IV MICSSAGK OF MA YOU GIKSV Permanent bridge program uracil In Interests of ccouo my, proirOM'd bond issue of speeliil levy to bo submit led to people. Plan for community house and exhibit room at auto tourist park atinoiinecd. jKstublMiiiicut of city plan ning commission, with zone system In view, ndvoentcd. Intension of North 17th street to fulr grounds, pofi sllily to connect with Silver ton rond, recommended. Need for reiiomhorlng residences In city emphati cally called to council's at tention. Preliminary action toward municipally -owned water system and imn mountain water advocated. Maintenance of pavement In outlying district a held necessary. Sewer policy declared to drniand construction where most people will be bene fitted. Mayor Giesy'8 message, deliv ered to the new city council last night, was brief. It contained recommendations and declaration of policy for the next two year! and reviewed Improvements In th; administration of the several city governmental departments in il.u last two years. The message in full follows: "The recent damage sustained by a number of our bridges on ac count of floating ice in Mill .rcck recalls the urgent necessity for Inauguration of a permanent bridge program. The policy of continuing to repair our old bridges Is an, extravagant ill wasteful one. By the adoption of a definite plan of replacing our old bridges with permanent struc tures a considerable saving o! money to the taxpayers can be ef fectcd. The cost of such a pro gram can be financed either hy (Continued on Page Five) A SECOND Til For the second time Dr. and Mrs. 0. F. Heisley, osteopaths of Suverton, are victorious in litiga tion with L. C. Eastman relative to the maintenance of a tile drain from their hospital across proper ty owned hy Eastman. Eastman was appellant in the suit decided today and the opinion, written by Justice tit-own, affirms Jud,: George G. Bingham of the lower court for Marion county. Eastman sued to enjoin the physicians from maintaining a tile drain acros. the east half of lot 12, Brown's addition to Silverton and for $500 damages arising from its main tenance. The lower court dismiss ed the suit and awarded cosJs to the defendants, from which dc tree Eastman appealed. Eastman asquired the properi trter the drain had been con structed. In the former suit the Heisleys sued to enjoin Eastxun from t. erferring with their na;n fence the drai.. and for a small am 'Hint Jn damages. No other opinions were bander! down hy the supreme court today DRY CONGRESSMEN ACCUSED "OF BOOZING Waehincton. Jan. 6. "Flag rant violation of the Volstead an" by "dry" congressmen was de clared to have added to the "al ready overwhelming contempt for the act by otherwise law-&b:ding citizens." tn a statement today hy W. H. Stay ton, piesident of the Association Against the Prohibi tion Amendment He refened specially, he said to testimony in the divorce action brought I y Rep resentative Frank D. Scott of Michigan. In which, he said, a witness ttifie1 that a enngrv.--man brought liquor into the coun try from Panama, F I LlESTALK Finance Conference Be gins American Atti tude Considered Repar ations Stumbling Block Paris, Jan. 6 (By Associated Press.) Tho inter-allied finance conference begins today, in fact if not In form. With the official op ening set for tomorrow, Premier Thcunla of Belgium is having a conversation with Premier Hcr- rlot this afternoon, and it is un derstood - that the British chancel lor of the exchequer and the French and Italian finance minis ters are also to have a preliminary consultation at which the question of lnter-allied debts will be dis cussed. Notwithstanding ihe American attitude. It is believed in compe tent circles that the conferees, notably the British, are determin ed to push the debt problem in un official conversations In the hope of at least abridging future work toward a definite solution. It is likely that Winston Churchill, the British chancellor of the exche quer, and his colleagues will de vote most of the time for the nxt week to these conversations, the (Continued on Page Nine) Pendleton, Jan. 6 The Rev. R T. Cockiiifihain started his term of office as sheriff of Umatilla ccun'y yesterday morning with a prayer service in his office. Later friends and backers gathered with the new sheriff in the court room ur.stairs and another prayer meet ing was held. Cookinshaii espouses the Metho dist faith and has been a preacher for many years. He has lived here for about two yearn. In 1912 he was elected to the legislature In Montana on the Bull Moos ticket and in 19!0 ran against William Lo rimer, republican, in Illinois for congress. Cookingham ran on the Pro hi ticket at that time and claims tho distinction of having defeated Lorimer, as the demO' era tic candidate was elected. Coohingham was elected sheriff ever Zoetli Houser, incumbent in November. He had the backing of religious and reform elements throughout the country. Late in 1924 Cookinsnam conducted a re vival service in the cast end of the county. Archbishon Moeller Dead. Cincinnati. Ohio, Jan. t. Arch bishop Henry Moeller, fourth bishop of Cincinnati, and the third to attain metroplitan rank since the creation of the diocese approx imately GOO years ago, died lost night. PREMIERS 0 FINANCES Sum of $11,774 in Fines Collected During 1924 By Police Court Here Annual report? were received by the city council last night from the chief of police, the police ma tron and the city park board. A total of $11,774 in fines was collected in police court during 1924, says the report of Chief of Police Frank Minton. Other sta tistics in the report follow: Number of complaints, 4293 arrests, 15S0; accidents reported 1526; specders arrested, 595; transients given beds at city jail. 957; stolen automobiles reported. 36 ; automobiles reco ered, 32 ; bicycles reported. 83 ; stolen bi cycles found, 83 ; burglaries re ported, 83 ; petit larceny casc3. 44; automobile accessories stolon. 64; arrests for I;ceny and burg lary 39; arrests for drunkeness. 127; arrests for possession of lq uor, 84; special reports by offi cers, 2?). The report of Police Matron Myra E. Shanks follows: Delinquency cases, 90; jI1 nc.iee cared for, 65; investigation of complaints. 164; office consul tation, 352; persons found home Leader of Strike Shot and Killed With14 Bullets Scrnnton, Pa,, Jan. 6 Samuel SpachJa vice-president of Ewen lo cal union. United Mine Workers, was shot and killed today near his home in Pittston, near here. Four teen bullets penetrated his body. Five men were arrested on suspic ion in connection with the shoot ing. Whuther the killing had any connection with the Btrike of the mine workers of the Pennsylvania Coat company has not been deter mined. COUNCIL KILLS PLAN TO PROTECT SCHOOL KIDDIES The proposed amendment to the city traffic code, requiring motor vehicles to come to a stop on north Capital street before passing the Parrish junior high school, both when traveling In a northerly and a .southerly direc tion, was put to sleep by the city council last night. The body adopted an adverse report on the bill by the ordinance committee, and later while the measure was in the process of third reading Alderman Rosebraugh interrupt ed by moving that it be tabled which was done. The measure has aroused wide interest in the city The plumbing hill was, on rec ommendation of the ordinance committee, referred to a special committee. Six ordinance bills were paes- ed last night, the most important- being a measure granting f franchise to the Capital Ice & Cold Storage company to build a spur track on Trade street. This was rushed through three read ings. Two other measures that were read all three times and passed were: Reducing taxicab liceieies from 100 to $25, the latter being the regular fee and the former being the figure fixed just before fair time each yeaf to ksep away outside competition, and a bill for the issuance of improvement bonds in the sum of (30,923.74, covering the following paving projects: Liberty street $346.26; Miller street $472.25; Bush $495.30; north 20th $817.44; north Church $206.41; south 23d $327.82; 21st $8520.58; Mission $157G.5G; Broadway $4S59.02 Hood $9313.95; Broadway $2. 710.14; south Cottage $1125.52 Mission $152.71. Bills read the third time and passed were: A measure more stringently regulating the plac ing of contagious signs on hous es where d isease exists. Aesees ing the cost of paving the allev in block 67, totaling $150S.36. Assessing the cost of paving the alley in block 81, totaling $1, 252.45. Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 6. The county grand jury today opened its inquiry into charges of at tempts to tamper with the super ior court jury which recently con victed Kid McCoy, ex-pugilist, of manslaughter in connection with the killing of Mrs. Thresa W. Mors here last August. for, 18; lost children returned to homes, 14; girls sent to industrial school, 8 ; girls sent to Indian training school, 3; calls on par ents, 136; public dunces attended. 146; insane caes reported, 5; per sons taken to health officer, 19; cases sent to Portland institutions. 7; feeble-minded caces report id. 3; small girls sent to W. C. T. U. home, 2; two women and one child returned to Portland, transporra tion furnished by the Aesoclttjj Charities. The park board made the t'A lowing report relative to the r.uto park for the period, June 27 to Decern bi- 31 : Balance on hand June 27. $415.71; receipts for period $3747.15; total, $4162.88; operat ing expenses, ? 2899.70; tran sferred from auto park fund to city park fund, $300; balance on hand December 31, $463.16. Relative to other parks the re port was: Expense, $2768.73; -receipt- from Salem park board January 1 to June 27. $1542.73; total ex penses for year, $4311.66. FEDERAL AID 10 DEVELOP I! I. N. Day Urges Governor To Call Conference To Petition Congress For Needed Assistance. Governor Pierce this afternoon announced that he will invite the governors of California and Wash ington and representatives of minor Pacific Coast ports having large areas of government timber adjacent to them to attend a two day conference in Portland, Jan uary 16 and 17. Governor Pierce named I. N. Day, of Portland, Louis Bean of Eugene, and Russell of Iteedsport. as a committee to arrange for the conference. Former State Senator I. N. Day was in conference with Governor Pierce today urging the calling of a conference "f the various port districts in the three states of Ore gon, California and Washington at Portland, January 16, to which the governors ot the three states will be invited, to prepare joint memorials for the three legisla tures memorializing congress to authorize the chief of engineers to survey the various coast port pro jects to ascertain the cost of com plete deevlopnicnt and outline a plan of financing.- The government owns GO per cent of the timber which Is, much of It, overripe, and there is no wr.y to get the timber out except through the development of the ports, which the property owners have assessed themselves to the limit for already, and some plan of federal co-operation must bo outlined to complete the projects. Reed T Outlined. Mr. Day's argument is set forth in the following letter to Gov ernor Pierce: "My Dear Governor: May I be pardoned if I encroach upon your time to call your attention' briefly as I may, to a condition of economic waste existing through out the coast counties of Oregon (Continued on Page Seven) J T OF KIND AFLOAT The Northwestern, new vessel of the Inland Waters Transporta tion company, is claimed by of ficials of the company to be the largest shoal water vessel afloat. The ship made its first docking at Salem last night at 11 o'clock and, according to announcement of officials, will make three regu lar trips a week between Salem and Portland. It has a maximum capacity of approximately 250 tons. Yesterday It carried a car go of 75 tons of salt and chloride of lime from Portland, starting at noon and making the run In 11 hours. It can make the trip back in about 6 hours, It is claimed. It was loaded this morning with up wards of 200 tons of paper, which will be reloaded at Portland and shipped to New York. The company expects later to carry passengers. The North western will make the trip from Portland to Salem on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday nights, re turning from Salem to Portland on the following mornings. The vessel carries a crew of 18 men, She Is a stern wheeler, and her power is produced by two power ful engines. The Northwestern Is more than twice as large as the Relief, which was sunk by the Ice a few weeks ago. In order that a schedule may be maintained both summer and win ter the old government dredge Matholoma Is to be rebuilt and keep the channel open. ' 'Captain " John Spong, local boatman has been engaged to keep lights going day and night at three dangerous points along the route. The lights will be main talned at Lincoln Rocks, Darrow Shoot and Rice's Rocks. A crew Is expected hourljr to raise the old steamer Relief sad take her back to Portland for repair. MED QUITS ATTORNEY GENERALSHIP TO TAKE PLACE ON SUPREME BENCH if". " OFFICERS JAIL BADMAN s'-8B m & 88 88 88 ' 83 Real ToLigh 88 88 88 HORSESHOES R. D. Highline, now In the coun ty jail, may be the father of a now fad that will take the country by Htorm and revolutionize the boot and shoe Industry. For It. 1). High line wears horseshoes on hi boots. They are not imitation horseshoes, but regular horseshoes which givo him a firm footing. The presence of the horseshoes may have been responsible for the way he rode roughshod over the community of gt. Paul, which re sulted in the people of the country side there tiring of his presence and Is also the reason why he is now In jail here. 4 It Is alleged that Hlghline, a one annoying instance, entered the home of Mrs. John McKay and stole a 44 calibre Colt's ivory hand led revolver. Incidentally the re volver haa three notches very dis tinctly carved on the handle. How they got there and what may be their history Is nut known. Then, It Is alleged, lI.Khline went from place to place in the St. Paul sector, charging down on people's houses, brandishing his empty revolver, and entering homes while people were a way. To cap the climax he took unto PATRO! MEN FOR The county court has namrd road patrolmen for tho coining.' vear aa follows: A. C. Snyder No. 1: It. C. Pain tor, No. 2: John II. Mlllir, No. 3; J. L. Cook, No. 4; W. K. Uavlil son. No. 6: John r'ahry, No. 6; J. W. Dart. No. 8; James MoCor mack. No. 6; Jos. A. Van Cleave N'o. 9; W. U. Annin, No. 10; C. I). Hartman, No. II; W. T. Ilocif. N'o 12: I'red Wom.Kk, No. 13; H. M. Kuonzl, No. 15: Andrew Lorcnce. No. 154: G. W. Vinton. N'o. 16: Romeo Couley. No. 17; Root. Cole, No. I; W. O. I'car mlne. No. 19: W. V. KapliiiRer. No. 20: L. M. Van Cleave, No. 20 H; M. M. M.isee, No. 21; Kred llech. No. 22; George Hchult thens. No. 23; J. B. Van Handel. No. 24; Chan. Porter, No. 23; Roy Wlli.l. No. 26; V. II. Oraben hort, No. 27: C. II. Taylor, No. 27ft : W. W. Westcnhouse. No. 28: J. O Walker, No. John Harrle, No. 29; Leo Well, No. 30; I,. 8. Lambert, No. 12. Julius Tine. No. 33; R. S. Mont gomery, No, 23 ; A. A. .Martin. No. 24: Georife McCurdy, No. 35; Roy Newport, No. 8; Geo. M. Hoyr, No. 87; O. V. Needh.im, No. 38; h O. Johnson, No. 39; B. F- RiihardB, No. 40; II. Welly, No. 41; 1. D. Clark, No. 42. Wai Was M WlBWIllaB WIBB x 1 SUCCESSOR TO T 0 PAS S B I LD l STONE BEGUN OVER THE VETO Character 88 .88 88 83 ON BOOTS himself a fee simple title to the residence of Peter Slute on the road between Woodburn and St. Paul, driving Stute out of his own premises, and taking complete possesion. When Deputy Sheriffs Smith and Burkhart descended on the Stute home accompanied by the .St. P.iul marshal, Stute and others, I'.urkhart asked Stute to point out the room where lilghllne might be concealed. "Right in there," Baid Stute, pointing in the general direction of the house, and then he turned and fled. Burkhart and Smith found High line in Stute's bedroom, sound asleep, his purloined gun on a tnblo and his horseshoe boots on the fl or nearby. HK'lillne had been making un Bucceshful efforts to secure ammu nition for tho gun he had teken, This procedure was another inci dent which caused the people of the community to dislike his pres ence. Officers huve not determined yet whetner fiUhllne is just plain crazy, or whether he is a throw back of the early days of the wild and wooiy badman. JUSTICE COURT i The following Jury panel han been drawn for department No, 1 circuit court, now in session: I'. P. Smith, A. N. Moorcs. P. L. rrauer, a. J VieK, c. G. Schramm a. J. Iloftn.tn, Leo N. Chiids, Chas. ElRin, W. V. KarBo. George Thom ason, II. S. Polsnl, J. W. Carson. A. M. Cloutrh, Karl Race, G. W, La.ri.ir, J. W. Herritt, I). A. White. h. A. Dennett, II. II. Boirud, 8 8. Hast, A. 1'. Van Slyke, A. J. Bar ham. A. J. Basey, C. A. Clark. I'rank l. Bowman, E. T. Barnes, ADncr Lewis, C. II. Kake, J. W. lielliiiiy, Joe Thlel. J. II. Baker. It. N. Hoofer; 8. p. Klmltall. W J. Llnfoot, H. L. Marsters, Ceroid Volk, J. K. Pettycrew. W. MeGil christ. Sr., Alex Daue, E. C. .Miller, T. w. Davie. II. P. Stilh, Z. J IliKlfs. W. K. Tomllnson, Joe LauitiKartner, A. R. Looney, Bar my WrlKht, Oliver Bears, F, L .Scott, D. l. Socoiofsky. SCIENTISTS PLAN LONO TRIP lutiiiturR, ueriiiany, A sea Kolnn vessel, equipped with scien tific Instruments and parapher nalla, Is to be built for the tier many Soclely for the Knowledge cf Kooeiun Countries. German scien tists and scholars will make the ship their home, travel around the world, and perform research work ShAKl.H WW wn President Looking For Right Man For Attor ney - General ; Many Names Considered. Washington, Jan. 6. Presi dent Coolidge today for the sec ond time within a year, set about finding a new attorney general. Harlan F. Stone of New York. selected as head of the depart ment of justice nine months ago. after the retirement of Harry M. Daugherty, was given appoint ment yesterday by the president to the supreme court consider ed by the legal fraternity gener ally as the highest honor within its reach. The nomination of Mr. Stone was sent to the senate within a short time after the vacancy on the highest court was created through the retirement of Associ ate Justice Joseph McKenna, who himself was appointed to the court from the attorney general ship twenty seven years ago hy President McKinley. While Mr. Stone will not leave the department of justice unlil his nomination Is confirmed by the senate, usually In su:h cases a matter of routine, thought must he given Immediately by Mr. Coolidge to the appointment of a successor. All Indications of an of ficial nature are that he has not even reached any preliminary conclusions, but immediately af ter the appointment of Mr. Stone was announced a dozen naiucc were being mentioned in connec tion with the office. Among these were some of those mentioned at the time Mr. Coolidge was seeking a sue os sor to Mr. Daugherty, including Arthur P. Rugg, chief justice or the supreme judicial court of Mas sachusetts; Judge Frank S. Diet rich of Idaho and Charles Xi. War ren, former ambassador to Japan and joint head of the special Am erican commission to Mexico. The Immediate speculation al so Included the possibility of pro motion of James M. Beck, now solicitor general and who will be come acting attorney general up on the retirement of Mr. Stone and of the transfer of Curtis D. Wilbur, former chief justice ol the supremo court of California, from the secretaryship of the navy to the department of jus tice. BRAMWELL TO REMAIN BANK SUPERINTENDENT Frank C. Bramwell will today he reelected as state superintend ent of banks. This was astutreJ this morning. The state banking hoird, composed of the governor the state treasurer and the sec retary of state, will meet In the afternoon to elect. HrumweU's present term expired January 1 Whether Governor Pierce will vote for Itramwell is a question Gay Kimona Parties Figure in Scott's Suit To Divorce Rich Wife Alpena, Mich., Jan. 6. Gay parties on which Congressman Frank D. Scott charges that bis wife, Kdna, went without her husband being present were the subject on which Mrs. Scott was cross-examined when the Scott divorce hearing was resumed to day. Much of the testimony was devoted to the questioning ot Mrs. Scott In connection with her al leged friendship with officers of the air service and their wives and social activities by Mrs. Scott, to which her husband objected. The names given by Mrs. Scott sounded like an army social register, Including the names of prominent officers In the air serv ice. They were Ilrlgadier General William Mitchell, Major and Mrs. Harvey Hurwell, Col. and Mrs. Robert Lynch, Col. and Mrs. George Hammond, Captain Wil bur Summer and Lieutenant Don Sautelle. "I liked them and found them President's Disapproval of Postal Pay Bill Sustain ed By Vote of 55 to 29 In Senate Today. Washington, Jan. 6. President Coolidge's veto of the postal par bill was sustained today by tha. senate. The vote was 65 to 29, or one less than the two-thirds majority necessary to pass the measure over executive disapproval. With the veto sustained, salary increases now are dependent upon the enactment of the pending ad ministration measure to advance pay and postal rates simultaneous ly. Many senators predict that thla measure will fail of passage at thla cession. The roll call follows: To override the veto: Republicans Prookhart, Couz ens, Dale, Edge, Elklns, Fraziur, Gooding, Howell, Johnson of Call fornia, Jones of Washington, Ladd, LuFollette, McLean, Mc Nary, Means, Moses, Norrls, Reed of Pennsylvania. Thortridge. Stan (Contlnue-.l on Pane Nine) PROBE OF DEATH OF HIS BROTHER Chicago, Jan. 6. On Monday before his brother. Dr. Olson died three years ago Judge Olson said a Mr. Newman and Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd had called upon the doctor and brought him fruit. Mr. Shepherd on I hat occasion after Mrs. Shepherd and Newman sttepped out of the room, engaged Dr. Olson In conversation about oil wells, the jurist testified. Chicago, Jan. 6. Chief Justice Harry Olson of the Municipal court of Chicago today at the coroner's Inquest Into the death of William McClintock, the "million aire orphan' asked Coroner Oscar; Wolff to examine tho body of hie brother. Dr. Oscar Olson, who died a few years ago. Judge Olson, the chief Instiga tor of the investigation of the death on December 4 of young McClintock, who left his fortune by will to William D. Shepherd, foster-father of young McClintock, testified to various circumstances surrounding the deaths of Dr. Oscar Olson, Mrs. Kmma McClin tock, mother of the orphan and her son. Judge Olson then asked that the Inquest be continued two or three months to allow time (or the states attorney to continue his Investigation and to permit of the exhumation of the body of big brother. amusing, " Mrs. Srott told I. S, Canfield, Mr. Scott's attorney. Hl Introduced them to Mr. Scott, and I told Miss Kennedy (Mr. Scott ' sisterl that they were 'up and go ing" people.'1 Mr. Scott was questioned about her explanation to her husband of the "kimona incident" In volvlng; an army officer and the clerk In the hot. In which the Srotts lived. "Mr. Scott did not question me", she said. "He just told me he was 'checking' on me." ''The kimona Incident was the only admission you made or tried to explain?'' asked Canfield. "Mr. Scott talked only about kimona,'' was Mrs. Srott ' re ply. The hearing was adjourned at 2:30 oVIork thl afternoon by Judge Frank Fmerick until March 10, when further deposi tions may be presented by the ilt fendauts.