Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, January 28, 1925, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextX yonir iial I CITY EDITION Dally average n.l paid circulation tor month ending Dcmbr II, 1124 THE WEATHER OREGON: Unsettled, probably occas ional ralna tonight and Tburaday. No change In temperature. Local: Max. Si: mln. 45; rain. .39; river, 11. S; atmo., cloudy; wind, south. 6366 Average dally distribution (.761. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 24 SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1925 PRICE THREE CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS FIVE CENTS C apitaUI (Winn m p mm TO FOLIO Open Warfare Is AuL.ed With Legislature Hold ing Whip Hand In Most Instances. (By Harry N. Crnln) Hostilities between the legisla ture and the governor, which have been smoldering and rumb ling just beneath the surface since the opening day of the ses sion, have broken forth into a full fledged war today, with neith er side showing any indications of giving quarter. From now until the clocks in the two houses are stopped on the fortieth night the heavy artillery, the machine guns, the grenades and the snip era will be in constant action, and there will be plenty of fire works to Illuminate the battle ground. Governor Pierce fired the first shot yesterday moning and, ap parently, it landed in an arsenal. The explosion was immediate and terrific. Not until this morning had the dirt and debris settled sufficiently to allow for any intel ligent survey of the situation as It has resolved itself. Today the two forces are lit erally resting upon their gun6 and in most matters the lines can be Baid to be pretty definitely drawn. Opposed to the governor on one flank is the well oiled and smoothly working house machine (Continued on Page Seven) SEEK PROBE OF SECURITIES SMS A special committee compostd of the speaker and two otuwr members of the house would be named to investigate and report to the governor upon any sales of stock, bonds or other securities lor which permits have been issued by the corporation commissioner dur ing the past five years under resolution introduced by Repre sentative Gordon, Multnomah county, today. The resolution would empowe; the investigation committee ti call upigi the corporation commis sioner for a complete list of per mits granted to sell stock, bond: or other securities. Bhowing which are still in force and which have expired, a list of applications de nied and the reasons therefore, and reports and other records up on which the corporation commis sioner has based hid decisions of approval or rejectiou. The committee would also hav? power to subpoena witnesses and to take testimony. HERRI SEEKS T Paris, Jan. 28. (Dy Associated Press.) In an address to tho chamber of deputies today. Pre mier Herriot declared that "the first 'thing I must say is that France does not it. tens to deny her debts. Continuing his comments on In ternational obligations, the pre mier said: "It is not this government th.i Will disavow the principle of 4e;tn contracted towards the allies and their arsoclates during the war." He maintained, however, there ought to be a redaction of the to tal that the United States claim. Laying before the chamber llu goTernment's policy on questions of foreign policy. M. Merrlot, In less than five minutes, . dlspon-l of the problem of Inter-allled debts. His general address on for eign matters lasted several hours. Bobbers Get SS500. W'ico, Texas. Jan. 28. nurnlig their way Into tie vault witii aertylene torches, robbers Ut night entered the First State ban of Rs!sel snd esapd with IS.iO'l, all the each In the bank. PffRffC STONE FIRM FOR PURSUIT OF WHEELER Attorney General Accuses Senator of Overt Acts Jn Connection With Oil Land Syndicate. Washington, Jan, 28. Senators who are blocking Attorney Gen eral Stone's nomination to the su preme court because of his part in the Wheeler case were told flatty by Mr. Stone today that the pro ceedings against Senator Whae.u not only would continue but that he, as attorney general, accepted full personal responsibility for them? Facing Senator Wheeler and his Montuua colleague and coun.se!, Senator Walsh, across the confer ence table of the senate judiciary committee, the attorney general said the evidence gathered by the justice department for presenta tion to a grand jury here next week not only indicated a conspir acy to defraud the government but led to an inevitable Imprcsson that Senator Wheeler was con nected with some of the actions complained of. While mentioning directly tlic charge of some senators that Sen ator Wheeler is being "persecuted by an attempt to try him far away from home In a case already pend ing in Montana, Mr. Stone de clared he regarded the two pro ceedlngs as entirely independent of one another. Senator Walsh cross questioael the attorney general at length but the latter declined to go Into de tail as to the evidence which Is In the government's possession and for the hearing of which a grand jury was impaneled today in the District of Columbia supreme court. Senator Walsh said he had heari that an attache of the department 6f juetice said as early as list June that Wheeler would be in dicted In the District of Columbia '(Continued on Pago Fye) E Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 28. Accom panied by snow, sleet, rains and lowering temperatures, a cold wave extended over the southern states today. Along the Atlantic coast states, snow Interspersed with cold rains was reported. Though Nashville reported snow, Memphis and Chattanooga had low tempera tures and overshadowing clouds. In Knoxvllle the temperature was 20 degrees. Richmond and Norfolk shivered beneath a blanket of snow after experiencing sharp drops In tem peratures. In Norfolk the merc ury fell forty degrees. Charlotte witnessed a decline of 23 degrees within one hour. Niagara Falls, N. V Jan. 23. Nicholas 1 vers on of New York committed suicide by going over the American falls today. He kit a note on the river bank reading: "God and everyone forgive me, for I, Mr. Nicholas Iverson. know not where I go or what I do." New York, Jan. 28. NIcholi3 Iverson, who committed suicide at Niagara Falls today was employe! as -a traveling salesman by the Mectrlc Storage Battery company. He had teen in ill health. Iverson was a graduate of the naval aacdemy at Annapolis, his friends said and served In the navy during the World war. He was about 28 years old and unmarried. His parents lira In Oakland, Cal. Cati Licensed. Everett. Wash., Jan. 28. An ordinance requiring every cat to oe ncensea, tne license costing 50 cents a year, was passed yesterday by the Everett city council. Cats without licenses are to be killtJ. Cross Word Puzzles Cause Man to Lose Knowledge of Identity Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 28 Surgeons today were try ing to help a cross word puz zle fnn to solve the puzzle of bis Identity. Tlie patient, ap parently a victim of amnesic, was found sitting on a down town curb late last night, la boring earnestly over a cross word puzzle and referring frequently to a dletionnry and a thesaurus held In his lap. When police Interrupt ed his studious vfgll, hoping to help lilm home, lie was unable to remember his name or address. UNDERWOOD BILL Washington, Jan. 28 The Un derwood bill authorizing the lease of Musclo shoals was sent to con ference today by the senate, which appointed as senate conferees Sen- la tors McKinley, Illinois; Keyes, New Hampshire, republicans, and Kendrlck, Wyoming, democrat, members of the senate agriculture .committee. Senator Underwood, democrat, Alabama, author of the bill, who had pleaded for the appointment of friendly conferees, accepted without protest the three senators finally chosen by unanimous con sent. 'The conferees were named on motion of Senator McKellar, demo crat, Tennessee, who made his motion a substitute for one offer ed by Senator Underwood, to name three other senators friendly to the legislature as It passed the senate. The votn was 35 to 33. Senator Norrie declined to serve on the ground that he was opposed to the bill ns passed by the senate. Senator McNary then declined to serve. 10 M Washington, Jan. 28 Christian churches and governments were declared by President Coolldge to day to have "no greater responsi bility than to make sure that the best, and not the worst, of which Christian society Is capable, shall be given to the other peoples." This with other views on the for elgn missionary question were pre sented by the president in an ad dress to the meeting here of the foreign missions conference of North America, an interdenomina tional gathering of the foreign mis sion Interests of the Protectant churches of the United States and Canada. "Not everything that the men of Christian countries have carried to the other peoples of the world has been helpful to those who havs re ceived It," the president said. "We know that the missionary move ments have repeatedly been ham pered and at time frustrated, be cause some calling themselves Christians and assuming they rep resent Christian citizens, have been! actuated by un-Chrltian motives.' Our missionary efforts will be more effective. Just in proportion as wo shall render them In the same spirit of brotherhood and charity which marked the earliest Christian mission." Thirteen States Reject Proposed Amendment Banning Child Labor Chicago, Jan. 28. (By Assoc! ated Press) Beaten In either state legislatures or by refer endum In 13 states, the child labor amendment to the federal constitution virtually has been defeated. The adverse action of the 13 has rendered Impossible the neces sary ratification by three-fourths of the 48 states, unless some of the legislatures opposed to ratifi cation vote to consider. Bo far no mora In that direction has been made. Blxteen states bar considered the proposal to amend the const! tutloa so congress might legislstae In regard to employment of chil dren under II years of age. One or both bouses of the legislature BR BERY PLOT E PUT Federal Dry Agent Tells of $100 Bribe Herwig Admits Cleaver Out lived Usefulness. That George L, Cleaver h&s outlived his usefulness as head of the state prohibition department was the opinion expressed by W. J. Herwig, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league for Orcguu, when on the wtiness stand Jus night before the special legislative committee investigating the pro hibition department. Herwig added that he had du cussed this with Cleaver and that they understood each other thor oughly on the subject. Hervig made the statement in Cleaver's presence, and without hesitation in reply to a question by Senator Hare, who told Herwig he need not answer the question If It would be embarrassing. Witnesses before the committee last night were H. L. Barker, for mer federal prohibition officer under Dr. J. A. Linville; Frauli U.Mitchell, legal advisor for the federal prohibition department in Oregon; Senator H. J. Taylor of Pendleton, Mr. Cleaver and Mr, Herwig. The examination center ed on the operations of Abe Wein berg, detective hired by the Anil Saloon league, and through the testimony of the federal witnesses tended to give Weinberg, whose alias was Hobinson, an unsavory reputation, Mr. Herwig declared at the conclusion of the session that he had full confidence in h'ni. The questions Involving Weinberg pertained mainly to a $100 bifl which he gave to H. L. Barker, federal officer. Herwig virtually admitted this was an attempt to bribe Barker, but asserted that the $100 was not from state money furnished by Governor Pierce for the Weinberg campaign and that no attempt had been made to 'get" Senator McNary, or. McFarlanJ, (Continued on Page Six) Chicago. Jan. 28. (By Asso dated Press.) A preliminary In junction to restrain the enforce ment of lower express rates In tb" western district has been denied by the United States district court at St. Louis, according to railroad attorneys here. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 28. (By Associated Press.) Western and southern railroads are denied a temporary Injunction to restrain enforcement of lower express rites in their territories, in a decision of the United States district court filed here today. The case may go to further hearings on Its merits of the railroads may appeal direct ly to the United States supreme court If they desire to take further action, but representatives of af fected roads here said the course of future action has not been de termined upon. rejected the amendment In North and South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Nortb and South Dakota, Kansas, Ohio, Washington and Delaware. In Massachusetts the proposed amendment was rejected by a referendum rote last November. In Washington, the state senate has sent the house a bill which would submit Indorsement to the people In 192(. The senate of Wyoming has Toted to postpone indefinitely resolution of ratification. California and Arkansaa were the only atatea favoring the pro posal. Reconsideration In several state ia unlikely because of the large vote against ratification. J LAM TO President Asks Congress to Enact Bills for Farm Aid 1 Washington, Jan. 28. Presi dent Coolldge asked congress to day to enact into law "at the earli est possible date" the measures recommended by the agricultural commUsion. The report recommends creation of a federal board to encourage co operative marketing; greater as sistance to agricultural experi ment stations, added protection under the tariff law for farm products and enactment of several nieces of legislation related to agriculture. "I am advised that while It (the commission's -report) does not refer to some legislation, which Is already pending, that the conference reserves the privilege I PRESSING FRANCE Paris, Jan. 28. (By Associated Press.) Refraining from sent. mental outbursts and treating the d;bt of France to the United States from what he characterized as a business man's viewpoint. Louis Dubois, former president of the reparation commission, de clared at the conclusion of a long address in the chamber of deputies today that the United States must considerably reduce her claims against France, not only in equity and right but also to safeguard her own interests. M. Dubois based his argument upon figures, the accuracy of which he voucheo lor through the knowledge he had acquired while heading the reparation commis sion. He could not believe, said M. Dubois, that America and England would demand from France near ly twice the amount which they themselves had determined France should receive from Germany un- tier the Dawes plan which he placed roughly at 15,000,000,000 gold marks over a period of 37 ears, while France's total debts to the United States and England is computed at more than 27,000.- 000,000 gold marks, principal and interest. TO BAR STATE The legislature would be cal le i upon to to go on record against the state going into any schemes of state ownership or operation ci public utilities under a resolution Introduced into the house this morning by Representative Ca kin, Jackson county. The resolution sets forth the fact that there are bills before the legislature which would put the state into the business of develop ing and marketing hydro-electric power. It points out the record of the federal government In rail way operation, and also calls at tention to the fact that such de velopments would be exempt from taxation, thereby putting adued tax on other property. GLORIA SWANSDN WEDS -MARQUIS DE LA COURDRAY Paris, Jan. 28. Gloria Swanscn, American moving picture act rims, wh ofor some weeks has been mak ing a production :n France, wan married at noon today to the Mar quis de la Falalc de la Coudray. The bride's witness was Halle't Johnson, first secretary of the American embassy, while Baron D'Alguy acted for the groom. COMPELlliSSlERS TO FILE MILEAGE RFCORDS County commissioner In all counties would he compelled in file ana verify an exact accoint of their mileage, per diem, and other expense under measure Introduced by Representative Fuller, Lincoln and Folk counties. lodsy. "It will protect honest commissioner and protect the county In ease where diihoneit rommlmlonera may be In office." Misjalnsd it author. of making further euggesllone at some future time,' the president said in his brief message of trua mlssal. "As I have great confidence In the personnel of the conference and know that they have given very thoughtful study to the in- tlre stiuatlon, I recommend that their report be embraced in suit able legislation at the earliest pos slhle date." The mcasnge was one of the briefest ever sent to congress by a chief executive, consisting of I'ut four sentences. Except for earlv action ,lt was devoted entirely to the formalities of describing the report and ot'icially turning it over to congress. SECURITY PACT Paris, Jan. 28. (By Associated I'ress) The French government has received from Berlin reliable information tending to Indicate that the German government will within a day or two make a move to feel out both France and Belgium on the question of secur ity pact between the three powers. "There have been Intimations "1tly hat I"' J " liciiufi illl BUl'j a step." There is no precise Indication as to the form the German move will take. On the basis of official In formation, however, the opinion of the foreign office Is that the Berlin government le paving the way for a round-about revision of the treaty of Versailles so as to get out from under the deterrent Influence of the Franco-Polish alliance. It Is anticipated that the offer of the Germans to guarantee the security of the French and Belgian ironuers will L'e made conditional upon the immediate evacuation of the Cologne bridgehead and the early liberation of the ontlro Khlneland. The French govern ment, It Is declared, will in no case conslde." a proposition that would Involve the abandonment of Poland to the mercy of Germany and Its first reply will probably b that France prefers the Geneva protocol for her security. EASTERN STATES New York. Jan. 28. Winter laid a heavy hand on the eastern states today, driving the temper ature down to as low as 60 de grees below sero in-parts of New England and causing New York city to shiver in weather one de gree below sero, the coldest since 1922. At Malone, N. Y.. ncor th.i Ca nadian border, unofficial records said the mercury dropped to sixty degrees below zero. The downward swing of the thermometer came as an anti climax to the snowstorm which visited the east yesterday. Drive for Passage of Child Labor Law Bill To Culminate Tonight The drive to obtain ratification of the child labor amendment to :n federal constitution will be crystallted tonight when a spe cial tralnload of Portlanders aug mented br those arriving by au tomobile from many points In the stata will appear befors the Joint seiwlon of the house resolution committee and tha senate Judi ciary committee. Woodward, who Introduced the resolution, believes that around 30 favorable vote are assured In tha house, lie, wl tit-Mrs. C. II. Hlmmons, who ha been working hard for tha measura, holds tha MINOR BILLS CONDITION mum Six Measures Amending Existing Statutes Go Through Senate Acts On Several . Measures. Six hills were passed by the house this morning. Most were of a minor nature amending existing laws. House bill 29, by Cowgill of Jackson, was passed, repealing the present law requiring the filing of reports with the secretary of state covering the chemical analysis of metals before such materials i could be sold to the state or its subdivisions. Other bills passed were: No. 95 tightening the law covering the payment of Inheritance taxes on stocks before their transfer; No. 41 making it unnecessary for courts In equity suits to make findings of fact; No. 42 provid ing that in trials where Issue of facts are concerned the court's decision may consist of either specific or general findings; No. Ill providing tor the excepting of stock from inspection by Linn county's herd Inspector when the state veterinarian or federal In spector has passed upon them; and No. 137 tightening the law cover ing stock Illegally running at large. The last measure would make It possible for one to sue for damage. courts other than those located tn the jurisdiction of the court where such stock Is owned. It would also provide for a fine of from $10 to (50. Senator Uuttlcr's bill Increasing the salaries of the Wasco county (Continued on Pago Kive) BILL CUTTING AUTO LICENSES SEEMS DEFEATED County Commissioner Smith who Is assisting In keeping an eye on road and other legislation of Inter est to the county Judges and com missioners association, states there Is little question that the bill pro posing a decrease In auto licences Is dent) for this session and cannot be revived. County Judges and commissioners have been opposed to thi? because It would militate severely against market road pro grams which have been mapped out In vnrlous counties of the atnte and arc dependent on leaving the automobile licenses wtiere they are If market rond development Is to continue. Word has been received here, County Commissioner Smith states, that courts of Polk and Linn coun ty are against proposed changes In the market roid bill which would give the highway commission great-r authority over the county courts In telling them how and where they should build markot roads and that Linn county Is sending a representative here to take up with their representatives in the legislature the matter of de clarlng opposition on the bill. The bill Is largely framed around recom mentations made by the highway commission to the governor. opinion that a considerable num ber of voles will be gained at the open hearing tonight. A considerable smaller per- eeniage ot favorable votes are lined up In the senate. The bark ers or the bill believe that sever al senators can be won over. No small number of legislators bellevo that the ultimate oulrome will be to refer the measura to the people for action. Opponents of the amendment believe that the action ot other states In turning down the propo sition has strengthened their own argument. PASS HOUS IS ALLEGED DEPLORABLE Gross Mismanagement of Prison Charged In Ef fort To Place Control With State Board. Charging grots mismanagement ftltvn VII U"l Tint. , f I . .' 1 . . unnui.c, otiicini mieconnuct, misappropriation of state fund ami an enure absence of discip line at thrt atnta u ... - vvuiKuuBry. critics of that Institution are to dny moving in upon the legislator wuu an insistent demand that the admin Intra t Inn l. - i be taken out of the hands of Gov ernor perce and placed in the board of eon (ml with v state institutions of a like nature. The agitation has been present tO a mom nr lrao avian -I prior to the opening of the ees sfon, but it is not until now that any enon 10 compel action' ha been in evidence. Without entering into the ques tion of the financial operations and expenses of the prison In tha conduct of Its prescribed work, which the critics are willing to leave to the wavi and moa,, mlttee to pass upon in due time, they are charging that conditions at the pen under the present ad ministration are so deplorable aa to demand an immediate change. They charge that there is abso lutely no discipline around the prison and that the convicts prac- tfpflllv run tha Innllrntl.. Ing to the fact tha 26 prisoners hnva MKannrl fm .1 at una UUUCi KUIt guard, many of them from inside the walls, during the past two years, and that throe of these lave broken away a second time Itirinir that narlml Ma iiaiaiuj count of the number of trusties to wuir. nwuy ui.r.ng mat same per iod has been kept, but It is known that they total in the neighbor hood of 50. any sufficient punishment been uiuieu out 10 1 nose escaped con victs who were apprehended and (Continued on Pago Five) E Charge that house bill 55 nrc vldlng for rigid regulation and high taxation against bus and truck lines was strictly a railroad measure to put commercial auto motile transportation out of busi ness, were hurled at the Joint roads and highways committee by John Logan, Portland attorney, last night, "There Is no use mincing words.'' declared Logan, renre- scntatlng the bus lines. "The bill was born and conceived especially for the purpose of helping tha railroads, whether Mr. Swan, Its author, knows It or not." Swan explained that he had drawn up the bill after long study of the matter. The bill would place a tax of H4 mills per pas senger scat multiplied by the number of miles traveled. On freight carriere, the basic rat would be a cent a ton per mil traveled. Representatives of the leasing railway lines In Oregon were oaf ' hand to openly advocate passagt of the bill. "We want a fal charge against common carriers H competition with the railroads, paying the heaviest taxes ant making the largest disburse ments," explained Arthur Spencer, of the O. W. R. A N. "We don 't expect bus and truck lines to pay as we pay. If they did. they would be put out of business." WASHINGTON REJECTS CIIILO LABOR LAW Olympia, Wash., Jan. 2S The house today rejected the Westtull bill by a vote or 69 to 37. The Westfall bill would refer the child labor amendment to the people at the next general elec tion nnd was panscd by th Set- ate y.-stcrday afternoon.