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AGRICUUUKAL CUUSE
FE3 2 1925
CITY EDITION
Daily tTtrait i fata eireuUlloa lor
month udlns Ucmbr 11, 1114
THE WEATHER
OREGON: Tonight fair and Sunday.
Moderate temperature. Strong souther
ly win. - -
Local: Max. ST; mln. 47; rain, ol;
rirer, 17.1, rising; .atmos., cloudy.
6366
Average dally distribution MM.
Member Audit Bureau of Circulation!.
FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. - 27
SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1925
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CLEAVER 10
KEEP BUREAU BEGIN MONDAY
Investigation to Conclude
Monday Evening Di
vided Report Expected
-Dry Agent Made Goat
The legislative Investigation of
the 6tate prohibition department
a administered by George L.
Cleaver during the past two years
le rapidly drawing to a close, and
ometlmc during the coming week
the committee may be expected to
report its flndlncs and recom
mendations back to the two
houses.
While there has been no direct
Intimation from the committee or
any of its members there is a feel
ing prevalent among those who
have been following the probe
closely that the public hearing
et for Monday evening In the
senate chamber is designed prin
cipally to gather up the tag ends,
and that about Tuesday night or
Wednesday the probers will wind
up their deliberations and set
themselves to the task of framing
their report, which promises to
be a more or less difficult task.
Continued on Page Ten)
GIBBONS CLAIMS
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 31. (By
Associated Press Tommy Gib-
bone marie definite claim to the
world's heavyweight boxing title
following hie defeat ot "Tiny
Jim Herman here last night.
Gibbons believe he la the man
whose record entitles him to the
crown Jack Dempeey hae not de
fended for more than a year and
which the champion Is declaring
he will relinquish next May. In
defense of hie claim, Gibbone pro
poses he le ready to meet any log
ical contender for the title. He
Indicated Harry Wills was at the
head of the list of men who might
challenge hie claim. He Is ready
to box Wills, be declared.
In making claim to the title.
Gibbons also announced he wae
out of the light heavyweight
ran he.
Gibbone decision to eliminate
himself from the lighter division
came at the end of hie training
for the Herman bout. He reduced
ie far as he thought desirable
ind dried out as much as pos
sible. The result wae 179 1-2
founds.
"I was open to meet any of
Ihem ln the past." Gibbons de
tlared In making emphatic decla
ration that he was open to meet
ny logical heavyweight con
tender, "and I am open now to
meet any men ot the class who
will get Into the ring with me.
Wills probably le in the lead for
consideration for a match and I
tm ready to box him. Firpo and
Jack Renault are other possibili
ties and 1 have been, and am, open
to meet them."
SECOND STILL ON
WINS
Walter C. Winslow, locil
lorney well known for his militant
ftttltu'Je toward all forma of In
toxlcatlng liquor and those who
eddts I., has Just been advised
that a still has been discovered on
land which he owns In Polk coun
ty, or at least immediately adacent
thereto.
Some time ago Winslow received
a similar Jolt when sheriff Bower
located a still on a plc?e of prop
erty owned by Winslow "tiot far
from the Bower place on the asy
lum road. This still was found In
an old abandoned cabin on the
place, hidden In deep brush.
"Just why they pick on me 1
don't know," wax the plaint of
Winslow today. "There seems to
be lomcthini salubrious ln the
tmrphre around my ranch
holdings which the moonshiners
like."
FIREWORKS
OF
Bills For Reorganization
Of Boards and for Pri
mary Modification on
Calendar Next Week.
Spectators In the legislative gal
leries will commence to have their
inning during the coming week
when the program In both of the
ho Ms calls for consideration of
measures that should provide ex
tended bursts ot inspired oratory.
Monday will see the house In
heated action, with house bill
2(31, extendiug state relief to
wheat farmers whose crops have
been frozeu out, coming up unJer
special order for consideration at
11 o'clock. No particular opposi
tion to this measure Is antilcpated,
as most of tlio members are agreed
that some form of relief should be
extended, but there la a serious
question as to whether the sinking
tund of the bonus commission
should be so used. The question
has been raised as to the feasibil
ity of so using this fund, a:id
there Is also some question as to
the constitutionality ot such a di
version. The bill provides for first
mortgage on the wheat crops- for
two years as security for, the loans
to be made but the law regulating
the use of the bonus sinking fund
speclfices that these funds shall
(Continued on Page Nine)
10 FORCE HAND
New York, Jan. 31. Intima
tions that Charles II. Duell was
engaged to Lillian Gieh, screen
star, whom he has sued to pre
vent from making motion pictures
except under a contract with him,
were discussed today In state
ment by attorneys.
"The wholly unwarranted pre
sumption that Mr. Duell hopes to
win the favor ot Mies Glen's
hand," said her attorney, "Is
some -Indication of the length to
which the gentleman now Is will
ing to go In order to coerce her
Into working for htm. It would
perhaps have been more fitting
It be had sued her for breach of
promise rather than having adopt
ed an Indirect meane of forcing
her to work for him "
In a statement In behalf of Mr.
Dutll It was said be made the
contract with Mies Gish because
he regarded himself as engaged
to her.
Mr. Duell, who Is a member of
an old Knickerbocker family and
a relative ot Ellhu Root, wae di
vorced by his wife ln Paris and
after the divorce there were re
peated reports that he and Mies
Gish were engaged to marry
Mrs. Duell was formerly Miss
Lillian Tucker of Pasadena, Cal.
She was an actress.
GLIMPSES
SESSION
iter Bergdoll'e Aid
Surrenders .
etjSEHE (IKEjSTSCKEgj
Eugene (Ike) Sleeker, the
chauffer who helped Grover Cleve
land Berg Jo tl notorious million
aire Philadelphia draft dodger, es
cape from a military guard at his
mother's home ln 1920, and who
accompanied Bergdoll to Germany
has returned to Philadelphia and
surrendered himself. In default
of $10,000 bail he was sent to the
Mayamenslng prison.
FORBES GUILTY,
SAYS-JURY.OF
G
Chicago, Jan. 31 (By Associat
ed Press.) Colonel Charles R.
Forbes, former director of the
United States veterans bureau, and
John W. Thompson, St. Louis con
tractor, were found guilty of con
spiracy to defraud the government
In contracts for soldiers' hospitals
by a federal court jury here last
night.
New trials were Immediately
requested and Judge George A.
Carpenter set February 4 for hear
ing the plea. Sentence was re
served pending disposal of the mo
tion. The maximum penalty Is two
years Imprisonment and a $10,000
fine or either.
The Jury Interrupted Its consid
eration of a verdict at the end of
tour hours to ask the court con
cerning Its right to consider overt
acts committed beyond the juris
diction of the trial court and was
Informed that the verdict must be
confined to acts within the Juris
diction of the court. The prin
cipal overt act charged by the
prosecution to have been commit
ted In this division was the alleg
ed payment of $5000 cash to
Forbes by Ellih H. Mortimer, chief
prosecution witness, In a hotel here
Juno 20, 1922. Mortimer says he
paid the money as Thompson's
agent.
At that time, the government
charged, there existed conspir
acy between Thompson, Forbes,
Mortimer, James W. Black, de
ceased partner of Thompson and
Charles F. Cramer, deceased, for
mer general counsel of the veter
ans bureau to fraudulently award
veterans' hospital contracts to
Thompson and Black Interests. -
OF LEGISLATORS BY MURRAY WADE
BRIDE LEAVES
CHAPLIN
ASKS
SETTLEiVIENT
Screen Comedian's Wife
Goes To Parents Law
yers Negotiating Finan
cial Arrangement
Loa Angelas, Cal., Jan. 31. Tlic
home of Charles Spencer Chaplin,
film comedian, likewise his studio,
might Just aa well be peopled by
the deaf and dumb so far as the
possibility of getting a statement
on the reported strained marital
relations ot the Chaplius is con
cerned. Attorneys tor the custard pic
joke-maker's receutly acquired
girl bride, Lita Grey Chaplin, have
announced that negotiations are
under rfay for a "financial settle
ment" between the pair.
The comedian's money eventual
ly may talk, but so far the com
eedian himself has refused to say
one word
A Japanese valet at the Chaplin
home Is loquacious enough in a
phonographic way.
The suave Oriental answers the
bell with a smile and a bow and
the statement: "Everything ail
right, Mr. and Mrs. Chaplin get
ting 'long tine. p(o news today.
Sorry.'
He has made the same an
nouncement possibly two hundred
times In the past six weeks, and
he le gcttlug almost letter perfect
in the role.
Meanwhile, attorneys who say
they represent Mrs. Chaplin, de
clare that they have been consult
ing for ten days on the subject of
a financial settlement. In these
conferences, Edwin McMurray,
San Francisco attorney and uncle
of the bride, has taken a leading
part They assert that Mrs. Chap
lin can add nothing at present to
their announcements, and she,
like her comedian husband, has
isolated herself completely.
The fact that Mrs. Chaplin bad
joined members ot her family ln
consulting attorneys became
known, according to the Los An
geles Times, upon the arrival he."e
of Edwin McMurray.
McMurray today Is quoted bv
The Times ss admitted that finan
cial negotiations "are in progress"
though declaring that "there la nn
connection between these negotia
tions and any contemplated action
for separation or divorce."
PAILS TO AGREE
Geneva, Jan. 31. (By Associat
ed Press.) The Joint commission
of the International opium confer
ence, composed of members of the
first and second conferences and
formed for the purpose of consid
ering the suppression of opium
smoking In the Far East this aft
ernoon failed to reach an agree
ment regarding the diverge at
viewpoints of the American and
European delegations and an ad
journment was taken until Tues
day. in i a ii i i
TAXES OF CITY FOR 1924
8 88 68 83 88 83 83
Highest in Salem's History
& 83 83 83 83 83 83
SHOW $14,023 INCREASE
Valuations, Levies and
Valuation
..143,724,719
. 43.724.7H
Stute
County
County, achool
and library ..... 43,724,719
High achool tuition
fund .... 19,705.491
County road 30.290.094
Total state and county
L'ouciency i23 high
school tuition fund..
Union high achool
No. 1 .
Cnlor. high achool
No. 3
Special s?hoct
Special road
1.357,4(1
1,773.466
1.453,0ae
Special city ....
Miller drainage district No.
Forest patrol . .
Total tax roll
The total tax roll for Marlon
county tor 1924 is SI, 817. 700. 14,
as compared to 81,610,127.62, or
an Increase pt 8207,677.52, ac
cording to the roll as completed
by County Assessor Oscar Steel
hammer. Incidentally the complete state
ment shows that Salem's city taxes
to be paid In 1925 will be the
E
-. Herbert Thomas and son Ray
bave.confessed to H. H. Pomeroy,
agent of State Fire Marshal Will
Moore, and Sheriff Aschlm of
Tillamook county, and District At
torney Barrick that they burned a
four-room dwelling house near
the mouth ot Foley river, 30 miles
from Tillamook, on the night ot
June 30, last.
The -property was leased by Ed
Vogt. The Investigation leading
to the confession was not com
pleted until this week. Thomas
and his son told how a basement
had been excavated under the
house In which a still was housed.
The night of the fire the owners
got a tip that the place was to be
raided. They were away from
home at the time, but hurried
back, removed the still, scattered
kerosene about the place mi set
firs to It. After the building bad
b'lrned they emptied ths barrels
ot mash that were In the base
tot, according to a statement
from the fire marshal's office,
rolled the barrels to the rler and
tilled the hole wttn dirt. The con
fession also Implicated Vogt and
Ralph Thomas, another son of
Ht.bert Thomas.
EXPECT ANTI-TOXIN
t TO REACH NOME TODAY
. Anchorage, Alaska, Jan. 31.
(By Associated Press.) Leonard
Scpilla and his team of 20 d"M
which were expected to arrivo ot
Nome, Alaska, today with anti
toxin for a diphtheria epidemic,
had almost reached Bering ea
when the latest report enme hero.
k
Taxes for year 1024
Levy
.0071
.0097
Tax 1114
t i32.307.lit
Tax 1123
t 327.712.00
3,33J.V6
156.232.47
51.17U.C5
139.137.10
1, 009,596. 67
.0037
.0033
,0046
Hl.781.43
45.S22.t
119.331.43
$1,102,870.11
.0031 I
10.407.81
.004
.0049
7.093,80
7,120.11
156.99S.41
68.207.62
172.804 85
686.70
1.507. 07
t.776.89
5,
374.68
296
780.21
309.89
44,
145
.104.16
686. 7Q
.500.53
8,S17,705.14 81,610,127.62
largest ln her hi-tnrv with
of 50.5 mills as compared to 45 9
mills Inst year. The total tax to
ue paiu ny saiem people this yeir
for city purposes will be 8212.
267.06. as compared to 8193.
243.20 paid last year, an Increase
of 814.023.86. The Increase Is due
(Continued on Pago Twelve)
SCARLET FEVER
Chicago, Jan. 21. (By Assoclat
ed Press) Successful results even
with severe and complicated
cases of scarlet fever as indicated
in a dispatch from Hartford, Conn
Thursday night have been obtain
ed by the use of the Dochese re-
rum , the American Medical asso
ciation announced today.
The results, as found by Dr.
Francis G. Blake of New Haven,
Conn., must be checked up, how
ever, according to Dr. Morris Fish
bein, editor of the Journal of the
American Medical association.
The scrum used was that of Dr.
Alphonse K. Dochese, a well
known mcdl;nl Investigator In New
fork city, formerly of the staff of
the Rockefeller Institute for me tit
cal research, who Isolated the tpe
cific scirrlet fever organism a year
and a half ago. Dr. Dochese was
born in San Francisco.
Presumably a strong serum was
used tn th; cases reported, accord
ing to Dr. Flshheln whose records
showed that while the general
death rate among children afflict
ed with scarlet fever, la from six
to ei-jht per cent, ln the compli
cated cases rhe death rate Is as
high as 18 per cent, while the
cases observed by Dr. Blake there
was only one death ln a total of
28 cases with compllcat'ons and
that death occurred among the 19
patients who were not treated un
Ul after the fourth day.
KILLS CHILDREN
WHILE IN LIT OF
Pottstown, Pa., Jan. 31. While
in a religious frenzy, police say,
Walter ilingaman, 30, a fanner of
Coventry, ten miles from here
killed his ten month old daughter
Anna and his five year old son,
Walter Jr., today. Illngaman's
father, Christopher, 72, died of
heart disease while battling with
his eon to save the children's
lives.
The baby was strangled In her
crib. The boy was killed by a
beating administered with the
handle of a carpet sweeper.
When state policemen arrived
at the farm house they found
Mlng-iman seated in the parlor
calmly reading a bible.
They surrounded him with
drawn revolvers but he manifest
ed no excitement.
"I know why you have come,'
the policemen said he told them
"I will go with you peaceably. I
did right. A spirit told me to kill
them and I did."
He repeated the statement that
"a spirit told me to do It," half
dosen times during the rids to
the county Jail.
VOTE ON PORT I GIVES LIST OF
BILL NO TEST
Outlook For Other Bills
Still Doubtful With
Governor Holding Nine
of Needed 11 Votes.
By Harry N. Crain
Governor l'iwce got little con
solation out of the manner In
which the legislature yesterday re
plied to the challenge he Issued
when he took It upon himself to an
nounce his appointments to suc
ceed the five retiring members of
th Port of Portland commission
four months In advance of the ex
piration of their terms of office.
Nor did the governor's explana
tion of why he had taken the ac
tion, as stated by Senator Joseph,
mitiguto to any appreciable extent
the chastisement that the sotons
handed out to the chief executive
in casting their votes upon the
proposal to remove the appointive
power from the hands of the gov
ernor, vest it In the legislature, and
reappoint the five members depos
ed by Governor Pierce.
In the house the battle lasted
about two minutes, and just that
(Continued on Page Six)
CHICAGO BLAZE:
Chicago, Jan. 31. Five persons
were killed, and two were missing
In a fire today In a four story, 16
apartment building on the South
Side. Four bodies were Identified
and one other was seen In the
ruins by firemen who were ham
pered In rescue work by fallen
debris and ice.
The known dead are:
Anthony Harde, 24, and Olive,
22, his wife, their 19 months old
baby Doris, and Lorotta Pryor, 16.
The missing: Mrs. Elizabeth
Pryor, mother of Loretta, was
missing1.
The body of a woman was seen
by rescuers on the third floor and
It was thought that others might
be uncovered when the wreckage
and Ice were penetraatcd.
Four Injured persons were tak
en to hospitals and other slightly
Injured were sheltered by neigh
bors and In an adjoining hotel.
Some occupants of the burning
apartment were rescued by guests
of the hotel who pushed boards In
to opposite windows and others
jumped Into the life nets of the
firemen.
The twn women were killed In
jumping from the third story win
dow, firemen said.
OUTPOINTED
Whining Bandit is
Back in Jail After
Spell of Freedom
Onco more the prodio.il son has
coma homo, lint this time there
Is no fatted calf for htm, nor
father's arm to rush to merely
the clang of the Iron doors at the
county Jail, Ucrt Foils, known by
his associates a", the peniten'.iary
as the "whining bandit" because
of tho peculiar whine in his tout-,
has once more come to the end
of his way.
The moral of the whole thing is
that IJert, af;cr nearly 10 years
working out a three year prison
sentence, and out and in the peni
tentiary off and on, hai accumulat
rd durlrvg his progress only one
hat and one overcoat, both of
doubtful value. This wna the ex
tent cf tho spoils on his person
when he arrived at the county Jail
from the city Jail yesterday, after
being apprehended for break ln
into the Fairgrounds store. K he
gathered In any loot at tho store
It was not evident when he tvas
"frisked" at the county Jail. The
balance of his clothe, union null
find all, were charitably preiM-nicd
to him by the ttata when ho left
RATE GUTS BY
COMMISSI
Corey Reputes Assertions
Made by Governor In(
Special Message Subt
nuts Statement. ,
H. H. Corey, of the nubile senrt
ice commission, today issued . jf
lengthy statement in refutation
of statements against the com
mission made by Governor Pierc
in his special message to the lego
islature Thursday. The governoi
said tliat "in not one single in
stance ln 1924 was there a rats;
reduction or any kind made in th
interest of the public by the pub
He service commisalou of Oregon.'
Corey's statement lists a iium
ber of cases which, he claims
show that Pierce was wrong. Thq
statement also defends the com
mission's action In the Pacific
Telephone ft Telegraph rate caa
and presents other arguments id
refute the governor's messaga.
"I wish to call to the public'!
attention the following list of rat
rcuuctions maoe during laaf,
year," says Corey.
"Substantial reduction In tele
phone exchange rates ln Albany,
Heppner, Hermlston, Wood bum
Marshflcld and North Bend, and
72 farmer lines, covering practi
cally the entire state, and involve
ing 8760 subscribers,- which re
suited ln a saving ot approximate
ly $56,000 annually.
"Reduced toll rates betweent
Portland and Oswego.
"Ordered refunds on charge fot
telephone jacks, amounting tf
$5000, as well as many othef
minor reductions in telephon
rates.
(Continued on Page Ten)
Portland, Or., Jan. 31. Th
sixteenth annual regional north,
west autoomhlle show opened heisj
today, ln a new building erected
here recently and devoted to thd.
automobile industry. The shof
will continue for eight days, A
total of 240 automobiles and 46
trucks are on display and 30.000
square feet of display room art
occupied by displays of accessaries
and products of the ludustry.
Today is children's day, wlttk
school children admitted free. Th
nnnuul style show will be neld
next Wednesday and Thursday
nights.
The Interior of the building
which provides three times th
space of any previous northwest
tmow has been transformed by ft
corps ot decorators tn a replica o(
the Moorish Alhambra In Spain.
the stato prison loM December,
lie still wais them, with no vislblo
"Igns that they had been sent to th
laundry since they were handed tv
him, dry and clean.
Kolrs came up from Wasco count
ty In the first instance for a thres
year jolt for larceny from a stors,
Paroles meant nothing In his young
life, as he wis onco pariled and,
came bak. Tim out on parol
docs not run against a prijoncr's)
sentence and as a result he was)
finally released troni the penlton
tlary ln December, 1523, as having
finished a thrcu year seatenc
started In 1913.
The famous whine Is still with
him. lie attempted to whine hit
way out of the prism at one tim
muler Warden Lewis by declaring
he lit,! t.iberculosis. lie stated h
fit i led fresh air. Ho still sesmstf
however, to be afflicted with on I
cite dlte.is'? constitutional ave
ln to work.
It Is contidircd highly probably
Kolts n.ay have bi en responsibly
fur numerous petty robberies per
n'tia rd l(l th;s vicinity tho past
few wevk.