GOVERNOR
CITY EDITION
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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
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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
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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
. .
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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-
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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
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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
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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-
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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.