Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, January 27, 1925, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texta (I: irtlif'f ' in CITY EDITION Dally average t paid circulation tor month ending December II, lilt THE WEATHER OREGON: JUln tonight and Wednee day, warmer In east portion tonight. Fresh and atronc southerly winds. Local: Max. 62; min. it; rain, .1: rlrer, (.(; atmos., cloudy; wind, south. uiouumai 6366 Average dally distribution t,766. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 23 SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY; JANUARY 27, 1923 PRICE THREE CENTS ON TRAINS AND NBWS STANDS FIVE CENTS IF Ml JV JV ANTI-SALOON BILLS MAKE APPEARANCE Compulsory $500 Mini mum Fines and Impris onment For Violators Klan Bills Introduced. The first of the bills sponsored by the Anti-Saloon league of Oregon and other prohibition forces In the elate to make more stringent the provisions of the dry laws made its appearance In the house this morning bearing the name of Representative Hurl burt, one of the members of the special house committee Acting with the senate alcoholic commit tee in the investigation into the operations of the state prohibi lion enforcement department. The bill provides for minimum fines of $500 and maximum fines of $3000, and gives justice ennr' authority to Impose these tien- . fences. It also makes both fine and im prisonment compulsory and fixes the minimum jail sentence at six months, Instead of 30 days as pro- rided under the present law. Today also marked the Intro Auction of the first bill carrying Into effect the Kit KIux Klan program. The bill bears the name of Representative Lewis, who stood out In the 1923 session as the spokesman for the klan in the house, and was presented by Rep resentative Hurlburt. Illn-ws has kept Representative Lewis from attending eo far this session. Tax exemptions on church property would be cut down to $5000 property value and to one half acre of land under the terms of the bill, and It also provides that only grounds actuary used by charitable institutions should be exempt from taxation. It is aimed directly at the large prop erty holdings of the Catholic church in the state for edu:ation al and other purposes. B! PROSECUTION Portland, Or., Jan. 27. Cases atlll pending involving charges o bribery and malfeasance, develop ed in the investigation of. award of contracts and letting of the ob of bridge engineer for bridge cross the Willamette river at Portland, are to be wiped off the eourt records. District Attorney Stanley Myers announced today. He said this action would be t.ik- m at the request of the attorney reneral's office which initiated, at the Instance of Governor wai ter M. Pierce, the Investigation which resulted In the indictment at three -former county commie- doners, Robert Ej Kreiners and members of three bridge contract ing companies. ' A charge of giving a bribe still against Robert E. Kremere. bridge engineer, is the only one tot included in the wbolesale n:v niesal. , Dismissal of the Kremere case la held certain as the state has idmltted that it has no hope o sonvlcting him. PATENT RIGHTS HELD PROPERTY Washington, Jan. 27. Tlie board of tax appeals today placed ownership of patent rights id the tame category with tangibly or naterial business assets. In an opinion In favor of :h? Dnlon Metal Manufacturing com pany of Ohio it was held thrt a taxpayer holding patents and cx rcislng the rights under them in the conduct of hts business Is en titled to a deduction from grow Income for their exhaustion ur.t: the rcvenuo art of 191S. Failure by the taxpayer to claim uch deductions In the origin?! Iti rome return was held not to pr. dude deductions at a later d.nr BCASKBBROPPED E TO TELL fBRIBE 0 Federal Dry Agent Called Before Probers Cleav er's Report Declared Fraudulent By Sheriffs Portland, Or., Jan. 27. Fed eral Prohibition Commissioner J. A. Liuvllle said today that be had dispatched his legal adviser, Krauk 13. Mitchell, and one of hit? men to Salem to give testimony in the Cleaver probe regarding an effort that belays was made on tne part or Cleaver and thu Anil Saloon league to involve bis office in bribery charges. It is understood that Dr. J. A. Linville, federal prohibition com missioner for Oregon, will tonight be called before the prohibition investigation here to testify about a bribe that some of Cleaver's men offered one of the federal men. It Is hinted that about $100 of state money 1b lying in the office of the federal attorney in Port land that will figure in this ac cusation. George L. Cleaver, the state pro hibition department and its ageato, as well as Governor Pierce, statu tory commander in chief of the state prohibition forces, figura tively hopped from one foot to an other on a grill made superlative ly hot by the testimony of three damaging witnesses before the committee investigating the state dry squad and its operations yes terday. Adding to the allegations hurled at Cleaver and his aides during thu afternoon session by Sheriff Starmer of Douglas county, S. B. Roberts, sheriff of Deschutes county, and Clyde N. Johnston, former district attorney of Lane county, last night tore Into the assertions made In Cleaver's" bi ennial report in a manner that left it sadly riddled, and then proceed ed to lay bare the political and other operations of the prohibition department. Submitting facte and figures in rapid-fire succession they charged, in the main: That Cleaver's biennial report is false and padded to reflect un deserved credit upon his depart ment in practically every detail. That most of the arrests and convictions claimed by Cleaver should rightfully be credited to the local officers in the counties in which they operated. That instead of confining them selves to the $25,000 provided them by law, Cleaver and his. agents were actually paid ma used up $50,000 during 1924. That the state prohibition de partment was used as a political instrument to defeat certain coun ty officers in the primary and state elections, Sheriff Roberts ex plaining that he had been told by one of Cleaver's agents that Cleaver had asserted "we have got to get a sheriff or two, so that our records can show their con viction of some sheriffs for viola tions of the liquor laws.' That the prohibition department (Continued on Page Six) House Appropriation Passes Washington. Jan. 27. The house today passed the bill car rying appropriations for the de partments of State, justice, com merce and labor. Li LEAVER Tie-Up of Stage Lines Out of City Averted By Securing Licenses A tleup of all st.iRca operating In the city under the management of the Portland-Salem line and the West Coast line was threaten ed by Officer Ilicknifln this morn ing at 9 o'clock, as a penalty for their not taking out city license provided by ordinance, pertaining to all vehicle carrying passengers for pay. Prompt measures on the part of the bus managements released their machines Notification was sent Chief of Police Minto that the licenses would be taken out at once. Ton humn of the Portland -Palem line will each take a $25 license, .-iii four of the West Coast ri wit, h-tvc a $25 license each. VI! r: kui"k stagca are taking Voice Heard Upon Radio 9000 Miles O'er Sea and Land New York. Jan. 27. A human ! voice rode the air across the con tinent today, crossed the Pacific and delivered its message to hun dreds of thousands of persons in Australia, more than 9000 miles away. Officials of the Westing house company, though whose sta tion KDKA at Pittsburgh the test was made, declared the achieve ment to be the greatest in radio history. A cablegram received here sev eral hours after the broadcasting related that the voice had been distinctly heard by radio set own ers who had tuned in at Sydney, Australia, and at Rabaul, the capital of British New Guica. Two amateurs reported having picked the words winged nine thousand miles at Melbourne, al- HEFUN CALLS E Washington, Jan. 27. Debate on tho nomination of Attorney General Stone to be a justice ni the supreme court was resumed on the senate floor today while thi judiciary committee was complet ing plans to talk the question over tomorrow with the attorney gen eral himself. Declaring the attempt to return a second indictment here agaUst Senator Wheeler of Montana bud nothing to do with his attitude Senator Heflin, democrat, Ala bama, said be was objecting to confirmation entirely on account of Mr. Stones arguments before the supreme court some years h?o in behalf of executors of thd J Pierpont Morgan estate in a :vi brought by James Ownhey of Colo rado. He was convinced, he said, that in the Ownhey case "a citizen of the United States was denied his rights under V. e laws." "It Is a serious thing," he con tinued, "to appoint a man for life to the supreme court. No lawyer who aspires to that place ought to object to having his record dis cussed. 3 YEAR TERM Vale, Or., Jan. 27. Bert Law rence was sentenced to serve three years In the state penitentiary, and his brother, Mollis Law re ate. was sentenced to two years by Judge Dalton Biggs of the circuit court yesterday a'ternoon as a re sultof their conviction last week of assault with a dangerous weapon upon Ralph Harvey, at Ironside, 30 miles north of the railroad, October 16, when the pur a rope around Harvey's neck and hanged him to a cot ton wood tree until he confessed to having re ported bootlegging operations to the district attorney's office. Tho defense set up at the trial that Harvey had annoyed Bert Law rence's wife and that the brother were making him leave the coun try In order to do away with dis tention in the Lawrence home licenses as they come Into the city, and only two have not yet called. Last year the taking out of these licenses was deferred for three months or more by the stage com panies, but this year It was decid ed to be more severe with them. AH taxis have compiled with the ordinance, and are duly licensed. A close check up on all care In the city will be taken at the close of January, and any still carrying 1924 license plates will toe appre hended. If receipt can be produc ed, In the case of out of town ears, showing the application for 1925 plates, nothing will be done, but if no receipt can be produced arrest will follow, declares Officer Hickman. though the main stations there failed to receive them because of atmospheric Interference. The messages put on the air for the Australians were from Frank B. Noyes, president of the Associated Press; J. A. M. Elder. Australian commissioner to the United States; Herbert Bayard Swope. executive editor of the New York World; Arthur Bris bane, Hearst editorial writer; Frank Munsey, publisher of the New York Evening Telegraph Mail and the New York Sun. The tests will be continued the remainder of the week. KDKA sending at the pre-arranged time of from five to six o'clock in the morning at which lime it was between 8 and 9 o'clock in Australia, broadcast on a wave length of 63 meters. STONE'S OFFICE IS IN PROSPECT Washington, Jan. 27 Not only the attorney generalship but sev eral other key positions in the de partment of Justice are Included In the turnover of offoclal person nel In prospect for the next few weeks. August T. Seymour of Ohio Is expected to give up his post as assistant to the attorney general about March 1 and return to the practice of law In Columbus. The$e already are two vacancies In assistant attorney generalships and Mrs. Mabel Walker WUte brandt, In charge of prohibition cases. Is believed likely to leave the department in the near future, even should President Coo 11 due de cide not to follow recommendations that she be named to a federal judgdhip In California. In addition Herbert Votaw, superintendent of prisons has handed In his resigna tion. Attorney General Stone, whose nomination to the supreme court Is pending In the senate has decid ed to fill none of these places so that his successor, Charles B. Warren of Michigan, will have a free hand in re-allgnlng the per sonnel of the department. HELD ILLEGAL Attorney General Van Winkle today held unconstitutional a bill introduced In the house that would reduce the license fee on automobiles after the car had been used Tor a period of years. It Is based on the theory that this would be discrimination In favor of a certain class. Also It Is held that an ad valorem tax cannot apply to automobiles, since, un der an opinion of the supreme court. It Is not the car that in taxed, but the privilege of using the car on the highways. A simi lar opinion. It la said, was Riven W. B. Den n in. chairman of the special committee studying the auto license question, several months ago. and alyiough this opinion ie embodied in Dennle' re port be Introduced such a bill nevertheless. UNDERWOOD BILL T CONFERE Washington, Jan. 27. The house today sent the UnderwoiJ Muscle Shoals bill to conference. This action was taken In the face of a demand for reference of tho mean ii re to the military commit tee. Party lines were disregarded in the vote taken after two hours' debate. The vote was 181 to 41. Pro ponents of the action argued that It would pave thej way for final action on the nfeaxure, which would authorize private leasing tA the property, at this resslon. pro vided conferee friendly lo tV measure are named to ropr.v -v, the senate. PLAN CAUCUS UPON SPEAKER NEXT FRIDAY House Republicans to De cide Between Madden of Illinois and worth of Ohio. Long- Washington, Jan. 27. House republicans will caucus Friday night, February 27 to decide upon their candidate for speaker and a floor leader. This decision was reached today at a meeting of the republican committee on committees of the house. Representatives Long worth of Ohio and Madden of Illinois are candidates for the speakership. Under a resolution adopted by the committee, republicans who will serve during the 69th con gress and are not members of the present house will be Invited to participate In the conference. No action was taken as to whether LaFollette insurgents should be Invited to attend. There were Indications, how ever that a move would be made either before the caucus or after It gets under way to bar the Wis- consin delegation and perhaps one or two other representatives from that and future conferences of house republicans. HOUSE VOTES E MARRIAGE LAW . Vancouver's revenue from mar riage licenses to Oregon couples would be materially decreased under the provisions if bouse bill 120 passed this morning by the house becomes a law. The bill would do away with, the county resident requirement for women seeking to marry. Bailey of Multnomah county, explained that women coming from other states or counties almost fnevlt abiy dash for Vancouver for a li cense and minister. Other house bills parsed at this morning's session were: No. US creating a third stork district In that section of Malheur county lying east of the Snake river and west of the Idaho state line; house bill 8 providing for refund ing 173, 844. 3 to Multnomah county from Interstate bridge funds; No. 81 creating the office of meat and herd Inspector In Washington county. The house referred hourie bill 6d back to the committee on llve-e-lock. The bill would (rovlde for the eradication and control of bo vine tuberculosis and other live stock diseases. British Issue Challenge London, Jan. 27. (Ily Associ ated Press) Great Britain has Issued a challenge for the Davis cup, the world's premier lawn tennis trophy, It was announ:ed here this afternoon. Income Tax Bills are Barred by Resolution Sponsored By Carkin No Income tax legislation would be considered by the house or sen ate under house concurrent reso lution No. 4 Introduced by Carkin, Jackson county, today. The reso lution points out that It has been the policy of the house not to con cern Itself with legislation which the people have turned down at the polls. ''Oregon lsnow entering on an era of advancement and prosperity and that advancement and pros perity would be retarded by the fear of probable Injurious effect upon the people of Oregon of the passage by this legislature of an other income tax measure," the resolution points out. H 1 1 bill lfifi Introduced today by t:i'j J ark son county delegation Ohio Ninth State To Reject Child Labor Amendment Columbus, Ohio, lau. 97 Olilo today refused to ratify the federal child labor amendment when (lie house defeated the Joint resolution proposing rattflraUou. Oliio Is the ninth Mule to reject the amendment, with but two at a tea voting In Its favor. SPEED UP WORK Speaker Burdick yesterday after noon urged house committees to speed up their work on bills. He pointed out that more than 100 bills were In the hands of commit tees yesterday and that none were on the calendar for today. Senate bill 25 which makes legal teacher's agreement with a school board when It has been spread upon the beard's minutes and signed by the teacher, chair man and clerk of the board of di rectors was passed. House bill 66 which would have compelled Portland school district No. 1 to use the same text books as all other public schools of the state was defeated by a vote of 36 to 21. Representative Woodward headed the list opposing the meas ure. He pointed out that tho dif ferent situation of the Portland schools, particularly the fnct that Portland has a ten months term, as compared with many other schools of the state. He also call ed attention to tho fact that many supplementary books of regular text books were eliminated. House bill 91 authorizing the state board of education to enter Into now contracts for school text books not ordered changed when the board deems such agreements necessary was passed by a vote of 32 to 26. The bill states that such contracts shall be entered Into at tho best possible price. The bill Is designed to make It possible to obtain textbooks which have been raised In price. House bill 106 providing for an appropriation of $4500 out of the game fund for Mrs. O. N. Denney. of Portland, was passed by the nouse. Mrs. Denny Is tho widow of the late Judge O. N. Denny, who introduced Chinese pheasants Into Oregon. Representative Kirkwood of the game committee explained that Mis. Denny was In need of the funds and that her late hus band had spent around 150 bringing pheasants to the state. FARM RELIEF IS BREAKFAST TALK Washington .tan 97 D--.i dent Cool Id ge sought at a Whit House breakfast conference to pav the W&V for tmnumltuiinir n gress of the legislative recjm mendatioos of bis agricultura commission. Those present Included th rankinz memlipi-M f iim nnnr.ii nnrl hdiiGa a n-rf tttt It ...... I ices, secretary uore and Senator "hib ui naiiauH, ana Representa tive Longworth of Ohio, the re publican leaders of senate and house. The Ipmlera til f tiw executive proposals of the coni- iiimniuu iu oe maue puonc iottj row is a companion bill to No. 102 In troduced by the same group. It would provide for appointment of additional precinct committeemen In counties of less than 150,000 population making two such offic ials, the Intent being to obtain a larger representation of voters In the pre-prfmary conventions pro posed by bill 102. Another bill Introduced by Hurlburt, Multnomah county would make It compuleory for precinct committeemen to call public meetings to discuss ques tions of general concern and glv lng them authority of chairman in their parties In the precincts. Failure to call such meetings shall give cause for removal of the peti tion of five citizens. BUDGET HELD AMPLE FOR Governor Tells Commit tee Surplus Will Be Realized If Recommen dations Carried Out. Practically all state Institu tional Improvements needed can safely be authorized by the wayo and means committee. Governor Pierce told the committee last night. On the basis of the tax levy made in December, with the 6 nor cent Increase taken into consider ation, and tho elimination of cur tain funds, the governor told thi committee there was a surplus of S181.778.82 over the Institution al requirements. The budget esti mates that the governor said should be eliminated were: $30,- 000 for the battleship Oregon, $175,065 for state accident com mission. $20,000 for market agent, and the quarter mill road tax amounting to about $529,400. The governor also urged diversion to the general fund of balf a mil'. from the one mill veterans' state aid tax, which would moint iu two years to about $529,440. With the available surplus the governor recommended the fol lowing betterments: $64,559 for industrial building at state hoe pital, $50,000 for new building at feeble minded institution, $75, 000 to complete new training school for boys, $32,800 for new building at tuberculosis hospital, $25,000 for building at children's farm borne, $40,000 for county fairs, $65,000 for Pacific Inter national livestock exposition, $14 (Continued on Page Seven) REFUSE TD LET DAUGHERTY TELL OF "SITUATION" Now York, Jan. 27 Harry M Daugherty, former attorney gener al, called as a witness for the de fense today In the Means-Felder trial, wua refused permission by Federal Judge LIndley to tell the details of the "situation" existing at Washington during the eventti leading up to the Indictment of the defendants. M r. Da UKiieity said that for some time the state of affairs In Washington was such that there were men In the capital who were "hell bound -and spell bound." "I would like at this time to tell the true story of that iHuation If I am permitted to do so," said Mr. Daugherty. Judge LIndley, however, refused him permission. Mr. Daugherty denied that Thomas B. Kelder, one of the de fendants, ever talked to him about indictments then pending against the Crager system, a com pa ny manufacturing glaa caskets. Pelti er and his former client, Unston B. Means are being tried on charges of conspiring to bribe hlKh govern merit official Including Mr. Daimh erty In attempts to quajh the gUum casket Indictments. IKE London, Jan. 27. The electric lighting, Ii cut tun and other engi neering services at Buckingham palace, the house of parliament, Hampton Court and Kew Garden were run by volunteers today owing to a strike. Two hundred members of the engineering stuff of the office of works went ou because of the employment of non-union msn in the eastern d vision, and it was expected 900 In all would be Involved later. Volunteers will keep tho olf . Lrlcity going in the royal aparr menU, but as King (ieorge an A queen Mary are nt Sanriiig'inMi they are not likely to he effe.Hr 1 by the discontent of their sub) ei unless the strike is extended. The heating furnarc In h house of parliament will be cl a "I down this afternoon. STATE NEEDS NAMES PORT OE HHUN COMMISSION Governor Takes Aggres sive In Move To Deprive Him of Appointive Pow er By Coup. Tho following twelve senn ton tiro hmUI to liuvc in formally ngrecri to unite In opposing any legislative ef fort to "liuuiKtrhig" the gov ernor by removing his ap pointive Mtver: Joseph, Kin ney, SUipIe, Tooh, Miller, Dunn, Hare, Johnson. Stniy er. Ia Poll -de, l-'Mtc ami (nrliiml. With this opposi tion. It will Ik Importable to presu any mcnMiru over the veto. Governor Pierce took an active hand in the ltglHlatlvo controversy over the proposal to take appoint merit of the commissioners of tha I'ort of Portland out of his. hands nnd vest It in the legislature thlt morning when he announced tho appointment of new port commls sioner to succeed the five whose) terms expire on June 1 of this year. By taking the bull by the horn and making the first definite move the governor la considered to haver place il tho forces which would sheer him of theso appointments) in somewhat of a hole, and It nov? becomes necessary for the legisla ture to legislate thse men out of office If they are to carry out the program they have been working; on. In the face of the difficulty that has been experienced In lin ing up support for the plan to de prive the governor of this appoin tive power, this latest move is con sidered In some quarters as spell ing defeat for the entire plan. Ths five commissioners named by the governor this morning are: Clyde E. Lewis, to succeed George H. Kelly. Jefferson Myers to succeed Frank M. Warren. J. W. Ganong to succeed Phil Metwhnn. Drake O'RelPy to succeed H. S, Hargcnt. Gooigo M. McDowell to succeed W. L, Thompson. A desire to clenr the political at- (Continued on Page Seven) T Ilcrrln, 111., Jan. 27. (By Ansa nlatod Press) Testifying today at the Inquest Into the death of 8, Glenn Young, Ku Klux Klan. liquor raider, Deputy Sheriff Or Thomas, Young', arch-enemy, and two others, Henry Peterson of Herrin told the coroner's jury ht saw Thomas fire the first fatal shot In the fatal affray Saturday night. Peterson said he was standing on the walk near the European hotel when Thomas entered the Canary cigar store In the building. Tho deputy sheriff's hands wer in his pockets, his right hand gra.tplng an automatic, Peterson said. The witness, peering through the window, said Thomas walked past Young who was talking to "Up" Green, a miner. The) deputy then pulled his gun and fired, Peterson testified, the but let crashing through the window. As he dropped to the walk, Peter son said. Kd Forbes fell Inside tha building near the window, Peterson said he did not see th shooting of Homer Warren, whoe body was found later at the curb, some ten feet from the window. The witness said he did not seel any one fire from an upstairs window. He added, however, h believed he had seen gun flashOQ outside the hotel building. FIVE BURN TO DEATH IN FARM HOME BLAZE Barnum, Minn., Jan. 27. Fir persons burned to death here to d:iy when the farm home of Mt foim (ierurd was destroyed by fir Three persons escaped.