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Newspaper Page TextGOVERNOR CITY EDITION Dill? aTeraga nai paid circulation (or month ending December SI, 1924 , 6366 Average dally distribution 6,766. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations, FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 21 SAYS BOARD L' LY FIGHTS tQ REAFFIRMS LEGISLATIVE 0 HOSTILE IN PROSPECT WORLD COURT WORK HARDLY F FORJELIEF NEXT WEEK m m ADHERENCE UNDERWAY Governor Threatens Wholesale Pardons As Only Way Out In Case Appropriations Cut. Governor Pierce declared today that because of the hostile per sonnel of the new state emer gency board he will not call upon that board for ny relief in the next two years except in event of fire or other disaster. "What chance would I have," the- governor wanted to know, "with Tom Kay, Sam Kozer, Den ton Burdtck and (I us Moser on the board? Why, I couldn't get anywhere." The governor om second thought said that pot-sibly Mo ser might not be so hostile as the other three. The governor's remarks arose from a discussion of the appropri ation requested for maintenance of the state penitentiary, which the ways and means committee threatens to cut. "If they give me less than I have asked," the governor said, "I'll Just have to pardon about 50 prisoners. I don't see any other way out. The emergency board is com posed of the governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, president of the senate, speaker of the house, and the two chairmen of the senate and house ways and means committees. If the gover nor Is correct In his listing of the four host ties there will be a ma jority against him. MOUNTAIN TOP Klamath Falls, Or., Jan. 24. A ten-ton boulder, loosened from its moorings on tup of the mountain three miles north of Algo:na, crashed down the mountain side at exactly 1 o'clock this moraine and struck the house owned bv William Uhrman of Algonia, fc'it occupied by the families of Steve Masters and Karl Kraus. The boulder passed complete' through five rooms of the resi dence and demolished furniture and everything in its path. U was a narrow escape for the sleep ing occupants. The rock struck and demolished the crib occupied by the Masters' baby, but In some manner the child escaped unharm ed. The women occupants have not yet recovered from the sh )Ck- The rock was about ten feet in diameter and after wrecking the house rolled outside and took off the corner of the garage but iu'ps ed the car and crashed Into the woodshed where it came to res. M HUH H Pendleton, Or., Jan. 24. heavy snow commenced falling In Pendleton at 7:45 this morning. It rained heavily last night aud with the ground wet and wain, the snow was me! ting almost a? fast as It fell. Bend, Or., Jan. 24. A l'ghi snowfall lay on the ground this morning but was melting fan, having disappeared entirely on downtown pavements at 8 o dark Snow begin falling again about 10 - o'clock. The fnow was unacc m panlej by wind. Klamath Falls. Or., Jan. 24. After a week of comparative! ralmy weather, the mercury tovk a suaVen drop in Klamath tndav and a light t now b-an fair t v late this morning. Loral pr. '': tinns were for ni' re sn' W an' collier weather. C apital Direct Primary Law, Child Labor and Fish and (Jame Promise Fire- Works at Legislature. By HARRY N. CRAIN Heated battles on the floor of both houses are in prospect as the legislature sets itself for the third week of the session, and by the middle of next week the fuses al ready sizzling should be burning dangerously close to the dynamite, j Developments of the past week have definitely established the certainty that consideration of the problem of modifying the direct primary law Is to resolve itself into one of the big fights of the session, and will center on the floor of the senate. Two resolu tions proposing such modification, one the Mills plan for post primary party conventions and the other the Jackson county, or Day scheme of pre-prlmary con ventions, are in the hopper and preliminary skirmishes on the al ignment of forces have already attracted considerable attention. In the house It Is plainly evi dent what disposition is to be made of the problem. A quiet poll conducted among the representa tives on their attitude toward the two measures reveals an almost unanimous dcire to let someone else do the tampering with the state's "sacred cow." Perhaps It was coincidence but. If so, one strangely uniform, that 39 mem bers of the house should declare themselves as voting for both plans. In short, the house members plan to avoid getting their feet tangled up in the controversy by passing both schemes over to the senate, where the forces at this writing appear to be about equally divided, with eight or ten senators undecided as to whether they will favor either plan. It would appear that the Jack son county plan la holding the (Continued on Page Seven! Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 24. Eugene UUe) SHecker, who aided Cirover C, Bergdoll, draft dodg to escape to Germany nearly five years r.ro and who voluntarily sur rendered yesterday, will be tried at the March term of court. He said today when brought from prison to the federal building tint he would plead guilty and have his trial over with quickly. Mrs. Emma liergdol, mother f Grover, said that so far as the knew, her son was still In (Jer many. She said she had a letter from him recently dated Weingar ten, Kurtemburg. "I am sick and tired of the whole business," said Mrs. Be.-g- doll to federal agents. "I wisn Grover would have sense like Ike and come home." GAL'S TELESCOPE Washington. Jan. 24. Presi dent and Mrs. Coonuge with pieces of smoked window glass i.s their only fccicntfic apparatus, viewed today 3 eclipse of the sun from the south lawn of the White House The chief executive and his wife appeared on the lawn at 80 oeiocK, the president carrying a window pane with a big smoked spot in the center. Mrs. Coolidge trd a small pit 'e of glass similar ly prepared. Mr. CnolWce went to his offke efore tne erlip-e reached its mix- nnim a..d Mart--, to work evidon v m :-f"'l with his view of ;he -Pv.u.-iry part of the spectacle DRAFT DODGER TRIED !N MARCH TO IGNORE EMERGENCY BOARD . . jCv " A v Mrs. Charles Manning, of Cin cinnati, Ohio, has filed suit for dl- vorce because, she alleges, her hus band forced her to shave him three times a week for the past three years. She never cut him, she told the judge. SEEK TO REPLACE SPEED COPS WITH COUNTY PATROL A bill will be Introduced Into the legislature In the near future 6 Ing away with all county road pa trolmen and providing for deputy county road masters In their places according to John H. Porter, now county commissioner from Silver- ton, who states that the present county road patrolman plan Is un- atisfactory and that the propos ed new plan would bring about vastly better results. Passage of such an act would do away with about 90 road patrolmen In Marion county. 'There are many good road pa trolmen In tills county and many bad ones," stated Mr. Porter In discussing the proposed new leg islation. "For instance I was at a place a few days ago on a road at a dividing line between two road districts. You could tell as plain ly as though a chalk line had been marked across the toad where the supervision of one patrolman end ed and the supervision of another one started. Up to the definite mark one road was In splendid condition, the other was la deplor able shape. "Patrolmen, being elected by their neighbors, are" governed of ten by tocnl factionalism, and oftentimes display favoritism or laxity In their duties because of local complications. All of these things would bo done away wltii, if patrol work was done by deputy road masters who had no thought of local conditions and were op erating directly under the county court, with the thought of secur ing as nearly a good uniform road condition throughout the county as posible.' TREATY LOST Washington, Jan. 24. The original copy of the treaty be tween the United States and Cuba ceding sovereignty of the Isle of Pines to the latter country h ta been lost. Senator Copeland. democrat, New York, declared 't day In the senate. Intensive starch of the state department files by himself and Chairman Borah of the foreign relations committee, Senator Cort land said, had tailed to reveal the copy of the 20-year-old treaty which is now up for ratification In the senate. Senator Copeland offered a reso lution calling upon the state de partment to furnish the senate with copies of the treaty, If possi ble and also (n submit copies of all data bearing upon It which might be found in the department al files. The resolution was re ferred to the foreign relations committee. Roner to FieTit Gibbons. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 24. Captain Bob Roper of Chicago and Tommy Gibbons, St. Paul heavyweight, have been matched for a 12-round bout at Lou An gelea, February 21, Mike E. Cnl- ins, Koper'a manager, announce i here today. SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1925 President Says Next Move For Peace Should Be Joining Judicial Tri bunal for Problems. Washington, Jan. 24 The ad ministration's stand In favor of American participation In the world court was reaffirmed today by President Coolldge in an ad dress delivered at the White House to delegates attending the national conference on the cause and cure of war. This step, the president char acterized as the next move that should ba taken by the United States toward outlawing war. He suggested also that the na tion and the world should "turn the light of more Information and better understanding upon the problems of diplomacy." Meantime, the president declar ed the United States should In the Interest of peace continue Its read! ness to associate Itself with what ever measures would tend to main tain security, but should avoid the danger of "a super-government." - "If the lesson of this Inst and greatest war shall be lost, then in deed will this experience have been almost In vain," said Mr. Coolldite. "It Is for the generation which saw and survived to devise meas ures of prevention. If we fail In this, we shall deserve all the disas ter which will surely be visited upon us because of our failure. Kvery organized movement to keep alive the realization of war's destructive ness serves a helpful purpose. The responsibility to end War was described by the president as a national responsibility. "That question must be answer ed by us as Americans for our selves," he continued. ' There may be temptation at times to Inquire whether others have played their part, but our responsibility Is for ourselves alone, for doing the part mat tails to us because of our place in the world. "I believe that just as the arma- (Continued on Page Four) T. M. Hicks was yesterday se lected to head the Hed Cross mem- bershin rlrtvn In Mirlnn an r..ii. counties. The drive, which will begin February B and continue un til PAhruarv IS will V.-,, ... goal the raising of $4500 in the iwu counties, xnat sum will be required tc continuethA nroni !lcf program, and to meet over- neaa expenses of the Red Cross of fice in Salem, It is stated. Last year more than 1800 calls were ma do at the Ited Cross of fice, a large proportion of them being by service men who needed help in making out their applica nt. iur aujuwca compensation. Durine the month nf itnnnn,KAP alono 60 outside calls were made oy Alias ueorgia Pettft, executive secretary of the local Red Cross. iTuseni pians can for a contlnua tion of the Ited Hro. nfri only one more year, it was stated by Red Cross officials this morn ing. COOLIDGE TELLS COLLEGE BOYS TO WEAR SUSPENDERS Waahfngton, Jan. 24. pros! dent Coolidge doesn't think mm:h of the prevailing styles In collcgr student apparel, particularly tlje wide flowing troiifltr legs aud suspenderless waist lines. Three members of the Amorio in Whig club of Princeton called on Mr. Coolidge today to axk him to speak before their society, onl when th.ey had presented the mat ter, the president Inquired of them if they wore surrenders. They admitted they didn't ar.l Mr. Coolidge told them that when his ton came home from Mercern burg academy similarly arrayed he promptly advised him to gt some tiK:endrs and -hitch up hi.-: trousers a notch or two. it Coming; Week Expected To Furnish Big Issues of Session Resume of Accomplishments. By the end of the coming week the setting will be pretty well fix ed for the big grappling matches of the session's latter days, and most of the bills that are to fur nish the Issues will have been in troduced in the legislature. The fish, game and port meas ures are scheduled for Introduc tion some time prior to next Sat urday. These will provide that ap pointment of members of the fish and game commissions and the port of Portland commission be taken away from the governor and vested In the legislature. A canvass of the members of both houses In dicates enough votes to sustain the veto of the governor, if the fish and game bills pass and reach the executive, possibly the same may bo true relative to the port bl;l, but there Is a feeling that the leg islature should accede to the wishes of the Multnomah delega tion concerning this measure. The governor has been approached bills. Of particular imp rt will be with a proposal of compromise on these measures. The nature of this proposal has not been divulg ed. 4 Feeling over the three pend ing measures is a trifle chaotic at present, and Introduction of the hills, if they attempt to take all this present authority from the governor, will be the signal for counter-measures to place the ap pointive power for all three com missions into the hands of the state board of control. Among other Important legisla tion to be Introduced the coming week will be several irrigation (Continue! on Pago Eight) Washington, jdn. 24. Repuh Hcan leadens invoked the senate rules today to put off an incipient discussion in the open of Attorney General Stone s nomination to th: supreme court. When Senator Ileflln, demo crat, Alabama, one of those w!io have advocated further investiga tion of the mutter, sought to speak, Senator Curtis of Kansas, the re publican leader, made a point of order that surh a question could he discussed only in executive ses sion. President Cummins upheld th-j objection, but Senator ileflln con tended that he wanted to correct a statement In the New York World that he was opioslng Stone's con firmation because ho was an at torney for J. Plerpout Morgan. With Senator Overman, demo crat, North Carolina, Senator Ilef- Un said, be opposed Mr. Stone only because of his arguments before the supreme court In the Ownh ;y case, which Involved a litigation affecting the Morgan estate. Objection again was raise J, however, and then the LaFollottu insurgents and some others, In cluding Senator Ilurah, repuhli can, Idaho, joined with the demo crats in an effort to go Into execu tive session. This was explained i' a move to avoid tehnicalUIw It being planned to open the ioorr, later so the uisciHiHon could go on in "open executive session. Th motion tu close the i!wa carried, 37 to 36. Auto TTsint? Much Asbestos. The present day highly develop, ed automobile calls for a large use of ashes t os und It wns recently 'sLimatcd that the automotive in dustry uses &U per cent of the as (lent os products made In the cmin iry. For brake lining alone ft is .'iid auiwiuoijiles ue 70,000,000 V et yearly. IDEAL CONDITIONS OR OBSERVATION Animals In Zoo Terror Stricken by Darkness of Eclipse New York. Jan. 2t (Ity AhsoWu ted Pre ) lKvr in the. niHMi at Bronx zoo tumb led over one another in ter ror during the durkiicHs of tlio eclipse. The great aretiu owl hooted and flew alKiut. Tito heavy weight alligator bellowed ns at niht. The chattering monkeys wero awed and quiet for the fiist time In tlio history of the zoo. Song birds front all parts of the world dipped their heads under their wings and slept. OF CLEAVER'S OFL Portland, Or., Jan. 24. Mem bers of the state sheriffs associa tion, holding their anual conven- lon here, today conferred with Representative A. O. Rushlight of Multnomah county concerning their resolutions asking -abolition of the state prohibition enforce ment office. Rushlight invited them to attend the hearings of he legislative committee whirh is in vestigating the state prohibition department. Formal resolutions wero adoot- ed this morning asking the legis lature to abolitih the office now held by State Prohibition Enforce ment Officer George L. Cleaver, and asking the legislature to past law giving the sheriffs bO per cent of fines collected from liqiur law violators to make it possible for the sheriffs to employ more ef ficient help in the enforcement i-f the law. The sheriffs also went on record for legislation requir ing more rigid regulation of dunce halls throughout the state. Sheriff T. M. Hurlburt of Mult nomah county was re-electet! president of the sheriffs' associa t'on late yesterday. Sheriff Chr.s man of Waaeo county was elected vice-president and Sheriff Aschiin of Tillamook county was re elected secretary. The Portland Chamber of Com merce and the Portland Traffic and Trannportatlon association, have gene Into the fight In bch.ilf of the public service commission, which is In danger of being wiped out be cause Governor Pierce persuaded a mojorlty of the budget commis sion not to recommend an appro priation for the department. The commission today received a resolution recently adopted by the 'ortland Chamber of Commerce requesting the legislature to appro- prlato the needed $140,000 and go ing on record as against any at tempt to finance the department by levies against utilities. A letter to the same effect has been sent out by the traffic and transportation association to mem bers of the legislature and influ ential men throughout tho state. PRESIDENT URGES ACTION ISLE OF PINES TREATY Washington, Jan. 24. Presi dent Coolidge called several sia tors to the White House today to urge action on the long delayed treaty confirming Cuban sover eignty over the Isie of Pines. Ho believes ratification would greatly promote friendship with Ijntin-Ainerlf a but some senator including Chairman Horah of the foreign relations committee hiv indicated that a vote will be Im GOME TO r possible In the awar future. PRICE THREE CENTS PREVAIL Corona of Sun Perfect Bailey Beads Sparkle And Shadow Bands Flare Forth. New York, Jan. 24. The mar velous spectacle of the total ecltphe of the sun wus observed here tod iy under perfect conditions.' Crowds of New Yorkers turned out eurly today to witness it. People gathered iu hundreds in parks, squares and at street inter sections; they clustered on ruof tops and in windows throughout the city. The largest early crowds wore on upper Riverside Drive aud In Van Cortlandt and Bronx parks which were considered, unusually good vantage points. Activities in the bustling ousi uess section of Manhattan were suspended. In the skyscrapers, where hun dreds of thousands of office work era ordinarily are at their desks at that hour, the typewriters were silent. Mo tor men on trolley cam aud elevated trains watched the eclipse. The Wool worth tower, the higu- ost office building la the world, was crowded vith spectators. Viewed from this height, the forest of spires below were bathed in a dull, silvery light as the eclipse approached Us maximum The spire spectators remained un til the final curtain of the spec tacle, despite the bitter cold ami cutting wind. Not a cloud scicened the pass lng of the moon before the sun's disc .and all the attendant phe noinena Bailey beads, the shadow hand and the pearly corona ware observed by thousands who flllp.i streets and house tops in the northorn section of the metropoll: Mercury, Jupiter and VeniiH were as clearly visible as at nlgiit. Green, pold and srorlet colors (Continued on Page Seven) Circuit Judge L. H. MeMnhan has sustained a demurrer of state officials In the habeas cor pus proceedings Instituted by Alta Gaffney against J N. Smith. superintendent of the state school for feeble minded in which she endeavored to secure the release of her two daughters, Alma Mil! and Mary Hoi brook, in males of the school. In an answer by the state It Is set up that the girlts were examined in Portland by Dr. Archie Van Cleve, physician and Samuel C. Kohs, phycholo gist and physician and both found feeble minded. Mrs. Gaff ney, In her petition, alleged that the girls were committed tempo rarily to the institution by th-.-court of domestic relations in Portland as juvenile delliuiunntu and that there was no finding thaat they were either feeble minded oridlots. Under the court's decision the giris will remain in the institution. COLONEL S. G. SIMMONS, PIONEER OF '54 DEAD Portland, Or., Jan. 24. Colonel SylveHter C. Simmons, 84. a pio neer of 1854, who cume to Oregon wtlh his parents from Missouri in in ox team, died here today. Fo. 20 years he has been cuiitorldn of tlio city hall. He went to s hool at Bethel lr.- stftuto In Polk county. In lS.'.y he married Julia A. Iturford, her ielf a pioneer of ls',2. Tine years later he was drawn to the ;;ol 1 fields at Salmon river. Id ho, hut before long berame a st t driver. Armv Bill Passes. Washington, .Inn. 'H. Tli an mini army supply h'll, c.-f.-ni. I33J.1SU.O0O was pa.-ihid lu..y hj the senate. THE WEATHER OREGON: Rain west. Rain or anow east Moderate temperature, (reab and strong east and southeasterly winds. Local: Max. 48; mln. 37: rain, traces: river, 9.7; atmos.', cloudy.' SrAS5, ON TRAINS AND NEWS F1VB CENTS ML IN EAST Scientists Secure Fine Photographs from Zep pelin and Observatories Tests Concern Radio. (By Associated Press.) Dreams of astronomers of seeing a total jelipao of the sun under ideal conditions were realized to day in New York and New Kng- Lund. In Michigan and Ontario and at Niugura Falls, however, clouds and visibility frustrated BCieutt tic- tests. Especially in New York city. witnessing Us first total eclipse in 119 years, w.'.b the spectacle mag nificent. When the momeuur blackness of midnight at 9:11 a. m. was accompanied by the beau tiful sight of the corona there was enthusiasm. 'Watchers on sky scraper and hilltops applauded and cheered. Excellent scientific observa tions were made by home and vis iting scientists at Cornell and Yale, almost In the center of the totality area, and also aboard t:.e navy dirieible Los Angeles. The sky ship named for the angels hovered over the island of Nun tucket, Massachusetts, and sent word by radio through the heavcus that the results of Us trip wera excellent. First reports of the results of the scientific tests concerned the radio. At Yerkes observatory. Iron Mountain, Mich., a slight iu crease in volume and clarity of the radio was noted. At Waterbury, Conn., a marked departure from direction of the tone wave was ap parent. The Radio Corporation of America in New York reported that its tests showed that a short wavo length follows the eun and that static is not entirely a local condition. The eclipse averaged four sre- (Cnntlnued on Page Seven) EARL OF OXFORD London, Jan. 24 (By Associat ed Press) Herbert H. Asqulth, former British premier, has ac cepted the offer of an earldom. Newspaper reports of Mr. Asqulth's acceptance of promotion to the peerage were confirmed late to day. The passing of Mr. Asqulth to the upper house with the title ot Karl of Oxford terminates the an omalous situation which arose at the last general election when the leader of the Liberals fulled to ob tain a scat in the house of com mons. Acceptance ol a peerage which ilr, Amiulth so many times has re fused In tho piMt may almost cer tainly be taken as meaning that the active leadership ot the Lib eral party parses to Lioyd-Gcorge. OPIUM CONFERENCE SAVED FRuM COLLAPSE Geneva, Jun. 24. (By Associ ated Press. The International opium coiifercuee was ttaved fr.)ni -ollap e today v.-hen a resolutlju, introduced by Finland, providing for a Joint committee from the first and second conferences to .n (lii ire into opium smoking In tiia Kar East wns approved by Stephen U. Porter, he.id of the AmerVan delegation, and unanimously adopted BREAD AT 2 CENTS A LOAF ON SALE U.h-h n, .tan. 24. Bread at two .'i n;s a loaf v.cnt on ale in Poj ton today. Hiiked freh at lha Kt S'nitiR bakery, Boston, It was . : iii l'i otittcc loaves at t it ; v quai t-ruiHster sale store i t,-1 or- e n-vordirg to t!ii qunr t, r 1 Mtnr d- iiTtment, Is what it en i to tntike tho bread.