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Newspaper Page Text1-tS 9 1925 CITY EDITION Dally average net pale circulation for month ending January SI, Itli RAIN lUla tonight o4 Sunday. IfodenU temperature. Freak to strong southerly winds. Local: Max. 61; min. SI; rain, .22; rirer, JO. 4 falllnc; atmoi., cloudy. 6548 Average dally distribution 7071. Mfmber Audit Bureau of Circulation. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 33 SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1925 PRICE THREE CENTS ON TKAINS AND NEWS ' STAN D8 KIVB CUNTS (uapitalAjomr w PROPHETESS RENOUNCED BY FOLLOWERS End of World Fails To Materialize Despite All Night Vigil Another 1000 Years In Pit. ' Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 7. (By Associated Press) If the predic tion of Margaret W. Rowen of Hollywood, eelf etyled seer ess and leader of what is termed the 'reformed Adventist church movement does not develop to the point of realization within the even days allotted, twelve to! lowers of the California culti3t are prepared to renounce her as their leader. This was the an nouncement of Joe Gammel, lead er of the College View group, af ter the midnight Friday, the time set for the Savior to begin his long journey frim heaven to earth. Members of the cult, gathered In their homes last night, and early today scanned the heavens through a cloudless sky "cloud less to the unbeliever" believers of Mrs. Rowen's faith are able to see the cloud and other eigne of the coming of Christ," Mr, Grtmmel explained to the expect ant, throng that surrounded his home in College View, a Lincoln suburb. Many persons were gath ered inside the Gammel home but only one other of the twelve of the College View believers In the prediction of doomsday was pres ent. That was Mrs. Gammel. Mr, Gammel went to the back porch soon after midnight to see if the first eign of the predicted mil Ionium Christ appearing as . small cloud was visible, but on bis return did not indicate what visions, if any, he had seen in the sky. According to the belief of mem hers of. tire Rowen faith, Christ's first appearance was to have been In the form of a small cloud de ecending at a rapid rate toward the earth. He was to make several tope, the first on a planet near est heaven to prepare food for the saints which were to join him and accompany the Lord to earth The descent was to take seven days and the return trip a like time, it was believed. Another 1000 Years Berkeley, Cal., Feb. 7. Elder P. W. Province, head of the Berke ley group of reformed Seven t.i Pay Ad vent lets who sat up until midnight to await the "end of the world" as prophesied by their (Continued on Page Seven! AT HAYESVSLLE An address by Mayor J. B Giesy of Salem on community lite and children as an asset to the community was one of the feature at the big chicken dinner and com munity meeting held at the Huyes Tille school last night. One nun dred and eighty-six persons wcrj served at the dinner and over 20i were present at the meeting. Among outside guests were Arthur Ed .aids and wife of Turner, Gor trude J. M. Page of Salem, Dr. am' Mrs. Beechler of Salem. Discipli narian Benvof the Chemawa In dian school and W. R. Fox, ruial supervisor of Salem. The Chemawa orchestra render ed several selections, vocal solos by Joe Foley were well receive'!, the Misses Lengren and Bailey ac companying, and Miss Coleen Minnis furnished a reading. "Guilty," which was warmly ap plauded and called for an enco-v. Eleanor Barth also gave IP s' excellent reading, and Ewing Mt Croskey gave hl novelty mono logue which was so good he cuuH scarcely finish ft because of ap plause between numbers. E. Cooke Pat ton also put on nearly an oou -of his famous magic. . It was announced that the Pop corn Parent-Teacher associa'.ion which put on a play last night a: Its school hrmse and will repeu it tonight, will give the play aga'. at the Hayesvllle school-on VXv dny. February 13. Because of i! activities the Haypsville club li f nanriaHy on it fee.. BIGACI UGE SU1TA FLAXGRUWING College Survey Shows Po tential Resources For Industry In Valley, Only 2000 Needed By Plant. Figures Jus, procured by B. C. Miles, president of the new linen and flax products mill to be erect ed heft shortly, the figures beiig furnished by Professor Hyslop cf the Oregon Agricultural college show that there are 247,000 acres of land in the state available foi" raisiug high class flax, all of this acreage being in the Willamet'.c valley. Segregation of the acreage shews thai Marion and Linn counties are the leading fu available acreage. Marion having 40,000 acres and Linn 45,000 acres adaptable to flax culture. Multnomah has i0, 000 acres, Lane 25,000 acres, Ben ton 16,000 acres, Clackamas 20, 000 acres, Columbia 4000 acres, Washington 36,000 acres. "All told our present proposed plan, will need at a maximu m only 2000 acres of flax to provide it to its fullest requirements," state Mr. Miles. "The proposed unit, which will be constructed an soon as possibe will manufacture only twines, shoe thread, hainesa thread and similar produces, the idea being to ma kg a success nut of the first unit before expand ing. Money already has been set aside to take care of expansions when necessary and the growta ot the business demauds it. Forty-two years ago a man from Belgium introduced the grow.:ig of flax in Japan. Last year I talk ed to that man s son and ho told me that Japan now raises 250,000 acres of flax and products from it can he bought In Portland sto.-cc "So grateful have the Japanese been over the development of thi; industry that they Lave erect'?.! a monument in their country to the memory of the Belgian who put them on the road to tte develop ment. "If Oregon had 250,000 acre? Of flax with the Industrial facilities to handle It, It would mean a busi ness of J75.000.00o a year for the (Continued on Page Four) WALL OF 1M RELEASED BY 01 Neppel, Wash., Feb. 7. A dam :it the foot of Mo3es lake here went out today and sent a 15-foot wull of water rolling down Craw creuk into the Columbia river at Bcver ly, 30 miles below, but did littl damage so far as could be ascer tained. Scvoral hours after the da.n went out the waters were still roll ing d wn the vancy of the creek The Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railroad runs through .he portion of the creek valley next the river and Inquiries were set afoot as to whether its tra-Ii hnd been daijiar;t1. Restore Sight to Blind Children Who Marvel Over Beauty of Earth Denver, Colo., Feb. 7 The com monplace things of life yesterday became a source of wonder to two children recently operated on In an effort to restore their sight, when, for the first time in their live, Peter Morrison and Viola Emour gozd about them and saw the blue of the sky, the won ders of the city park coo and even went into raptures over the warm color of brick. The children, two of the eleven from the Colorado home for blind and deaf, at Colorado Springs, who underwent optical operations, were irlen about the city, able for the first time to stand the strong light of day on their newly awak ened and sensitive eyes. "Woulti yen mind If I ask a great many questions?" Viola aak-f-d. ' fcvoryUiin;? Is so strangeso so .i beautiful." "IMek. bricks. the boy shout ed, "lii i?ki hr, I know the, Veteran of House Tells Congress of Good Old Times Washington, Feb. 7. Repre sentative Sherwood, democrat, Ohio, Civil war veteran and at the age ot 90 the oldeet member ot the house, today delivered his "swan eong" treating members to reminiscences ot yesteryears. He recalled that it was 62 yeartt eince he had entered con gress and that only one of hie colleagues at that time Is alive "Uncle Joe" Cannon. General Sherwood, who Is an ardent advocate of prohibition modification declared that in his younger days "those two crime breeders, the bootlegger's league and the anti-saloon league, had not yet appeared." The Ohio representative con trasted the present day with the days when he entered congress. "The country had no automo biles, no wireless, no airplanes. Reports received by .lie stain highway commission from Its field engineers indicates that the c?al of the flood has passed In the Wil lamette valley and in no place c-n the Pacific highway is the water over the pavement, and travel nuiv now pass without delay or danger. The Coos Bay, Newport and Tillamook highways to the coast have been kept open throughout the period of very heavy rainfall, with but tew minor slides. Roeoburg, Or., Feb. 7. A mum moth slide of rock and dirt if blocking the Pacific highway about one mile north ot My::c Creek, the pavement being entive ly block for about 300 yards. The slide occurred last evening shoi: ly after one of the big stages had passed the point. A big bluff ot rock swept across the road into the river and motor ists were forced to make the trt) south over the old Roberts main tain route which Is exremely dan gerous at this time of the sea son. The resident engineer states that the highway will be clcaivil late this afternoon. AMERICANS PRESENTED TO KING AND QUEEN London, Feb. 7. (By AssociU- who were presented to the king ana queen at me loriuui uuinti Kellogg and Mrs. Kellogg at Crowe house last evening caueu toua.v m Buckingham palace and signed the court register as Is customary after presentations. Many com pliments were heard on the que'it's delicate appearance In a p' ok sown of broadcaded satin, also her diamond tiara, which she wore at the dinner. Thought is often bolder thin rtcli hhapd of them; I knew how a brick felt but look at the color look at the color of them." As the automobile In which they were driven about rounded the first corner, Viola burled her head in her arms. Then she rained her head. "It's all right -I can't nee, because my eyes are so full of tea rs. They're net cry teari they're happy tears, and I'll never cry again." "Lovely houses, mostly of bilckV the boy kept murmuring. "Lovely, lovely bricks the color of them." Lakes, trees, street cam, people, houses, grins and shrubs, all came in for their share ot the delight ed attention. "ft was a great day f ir two chil dren and grown person!, blase city fmk, fell under the spell and saw beauty growing In the city streets where It never bad been seen before. FLOOD PASSES PACIFIC HIGHWAY . OUT OF WATER no canned music, prize fighting was not then our popular enter tainment. We bad no moving pic tures. Tainted actresses were not then our popular stars of the stage. We had no jazs music. The glorious old war songs ot heroic memory and patriotic inspiration had not been supplanted by 'Cap tain Jinks and the horse marines.' Hall. Hail. The Gang's All Here," 'Yes, We Have no Bana nas' and similar jargons, and the grand plays of Shakespeare an l plays ot high moral Import had not been supplanted by the vu!r gar and smutty vaudeville. "Utah was then a territory rep resented by the distinguished Mormon elder Cannon," he con tinued. "His four wives, sitting side by side in the members' gal (Continued on Page Seven) SUSPECT HELD FOR MURDER OF 2 LITTLE SIRLS Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 7 S. C Stone, 55, father of Jack Hoxle, film actor, employed as a night watchman in the residential dis trict from hlch May and Nina Martin disappeared last August, was being held In the county Jail today for further questioning xpn- cernlng the kidnaping and death of the little girls, whose bodied were discovered in a shallow grave not far from the home here laat Wednesday. Stone was arrested by deputy sheriffs last night. Under question' ing by officers ho declared repeat edly that he knew nothing of how the Mart. in sisters met death, and also maintained that he was lg norant of a statutory charge brought against him last October Involving another young girl, tie was held to answer on the latter charge but the case did not come to trial. Investigators announced, how ever, that they had found witnesses ready to testify that they had seen Stone talking with the Martin girls shorly before their dlsap pea ranee. They added that the s us -ect's automobile had been searched and "suspicious clews" revealed. What the clews were they did not divulge.. Stone told his questioners that he formerly lived in Lund, Utah, where he married the mother of Hoxle. They separated later, he said. At the tlmo of his arrest he occupied bachelor quarters. GET $3400 CASH Tacoma. Wash., Feb. 7. Thrci baneHts this morning held up tw employes of the National Ban o Tacoma, seriously wounded one of them and escaped with a satchel containing J34U0 in cash. The robbery was committed In trout of an agency of the bans at JMh and jakima streets, limy. Schmidt, manager of the agency. and Kuy West, a bank messenger. were taking the each from t he main bank to the a,'tncy. As the two men stepped oif a street ca the three bandits drew up in an automobile und shopped them. Schmidt wjg shot in the hrcU without warning and the bandits snatched up the satchel and fieri in their car. , Schmidt was tnkeu to a hospital where his condition was found . be serious. AM available polk were sent out in search of the bond its. Several weeks ago anojer agency of the same bank was roi bed 'n a similar manner. Bank Itnbhcr HHd Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 7 J"hn B. Davenport, alias Uoorge Williams of Minneapolis, alleged to have been one of the men who robbed the Northwestern National bank of Milwaukee of 127,000 In Liberty bond and $9200 In cash December I Is uwler arrest here, it was revea'ed today. Better a little well kept, 'U'l a great deal forgotten. E Only 42 Bills Out of G01 Introduced Acted Upon Important Measures Neglected. "With the end of the legislative session only two weeks away most of the Important legislation slat ed for lntroiuctlon Is still ahead, some not even having been sent in yet In the form of bills. The spec ulation Is beginning to be heard among the members that the ses sions business cannot be complet ed iff 40 days and that an addi tional week or two will be nsces sary. However, this speculation Is heard at every session, and doubt less the 33rd assembly will close at th-ifd of the 40th day, or per haps a day or two later. - Up to date 414 'house bills nod 187 senate bills have been intro duced. Of th?se only 42 have passed both houses. Eighty-two others have passed the house alone and 44 others the senate alone. The governor has signed 10 meas ures and 21 bills have been killed by Indefinite postponement, five In the senate and 16 In the house. Clovernor Pierce has vetoed two bills, the port of Portland bill and the Bend water supply measure, The formei was passed over his veto. The latter veto has not yet been acted on by the legislature. Only a very few bills have failed on final passage. Of the measures that have pass ed both hous-a a few are of some Importance, flop res-en ta live Wood ward's bill requiring the phylscal examination of school children emtlnued on Page Seven) PIERCE TO ASK : WHITE TO QUIT IF CHARGE TRUE Announcement mat Brigadier General George A. White, adjutant geuer.U of the Oregon national guard, will be asked to resign ii churgus made by Major Charles H Gjedbted, who resigned from the position of White's first assifcuir. lust Monday, concerning misap propriation of naMunal gu.ir-1 funds are proven true, was midi this mcrning by Governor Pie--ct. Thd announcement came during th course of a conference between the governor, General White, Ma jor Grdsted and members of the general stuff to examine evidence upon vhich Major Gjcdsted -bases his charges. Summoned before tl1 generat stuff lust night the major refused .o reveal his evidence un til he had been given aasu rare by the governor that the record. upon which he is basing bis case would be withdrawn from ih ad jutant general's office and placed In safe keping until the cce ha been d termincd. This assurance was f?iv-n this morning during tv conference, Governor Pierce a:i nou ncing: "I am going to take this evi dence aid lock it up in my priva' vault. I will be tuo busy J ti r i n t the next two weeks to go into tin matter, but Major Gjedstc-d miini prove his case. If he does prjve It 1 will have to ask you (be wat addressing General WhiU) to re sign; if ho does no, he will have to suffer the conseqiw-nres." Governor Pierce also gave Gen eral W..ite permission to release for publication a report on the fi nancial condition of his of rice compiled by a public accountant, but Major Gjedstcd declares that the evidence he has to offer will discount the auditor's report and reveal it to be only ptiporficinl. IDAHO REFUSES TQ . RATIFY CHILD LABOR noise. Idaho, Feb. 8, The lower house of the legislature today by a vote of 38 to 18 failed to ratify the proposed child labor amend ment to the" constitution of thr Lotted State. ff aho has not a dram nf folly .a his mixture, ha pounds of nmch worse matter In his composition. DILATORY ACHIEVEMENT Jack Dempsey And Estelle Taylor Take Out License to Wed . San Diego, Oil.. Fcb.-7 Jack IH'iniwy. heavyweight rltiinploii pugilist and liclle Tnlor, motion picture acl trrtts, shortly before niton to day secured a marriage li cense at the office of the county clerk Ik re. 'We do not Intend to get married until Monday nig hi, suiil Deuisey after (Ik II nennc had been bwned. "We have tun yet decided who will perform Hie ceremony. As It In. we plan on getting married Monday night nml then leave fur Lo Angeled, afler which we will plan our lie ncy moon.' Washington, Feb. 7. Making his first public statement regard ing the row that has centered, about Brigadier General Mitchell, assistant chief of the army air service. Secretary Weeks today de clared that those who disagree with General Mitchell had been the targets for unjust and "super cilious" criticism. Before passing judgment, the secretary said, it would be well for the country to remember that the opponents of the Mitchell air policies included Generul Pershing and many of the other great fig urea of the American war army. "It is Incredible" continued Mr. Weeks, "that these officers should wish to take any course relatifig to the development of the air service which would not be the best Interest of the future defense of the United States." The war secretary 's statement was issued while the house air craft committee was being told by Captain A. W. Johnson, assistant chief of the naval air service that some of General Mitchell's most sweeping statements to the com mittee about the results of joint army-navy maneuvers could not be substantiated by the facts. In an indirect reference to the general's charge that officers are "afraid to tell the truth, ' for fear of discipline. Captain Johnson said he had asked Secretary Wil bur whether there would be ob jection to giving the committee certain official correspondence and the secretary had replied: ''Tell everything you know." Secretary Weeks did not touch directly In his statement on the question of General Mitchell's re appointment as assistant chief of the air service which is being held in abeyance. BILL TO ENCOURAGE COOPERATIVE MARKETING Washington, Feb. 7 A bill 1c- slgncd to encourage cooperative marketing was Introduced today by Representative Dickinson, re publican, Iowa. It would provide for expansion of the bureau of economies and marketing In the department of agriculture ar.d for creating of a marketing council to bo composed of four member aopoiutcd by the president with senate confirmation to hold the po sitions permanently. , In addition nn ndvisnry body v ould be organized from various cooperative marketing groups. Oratorical Fireworks Order of the Day in Senate Next Monday Oratorical fireworks will be tlx; order ot the day in the state sen ate Monday, with at least three measures certain to provoke more or less argument holding places on the calendar for that day. There Is strong prospect that for the first time during the session the calendar will not be cleared during the day. Aside from Senator Itltner's bill to take the fish commission out of the hands of the governor, which has been made a special order of business for 2:30 in the afternoon, there are also the banking code and Senator McGladry's measure to amend the workmen com pensation act slated to be fought out. Any one ot these three bills contains enough dynamite for debate to tie the senate up for HFTD01 MENACE OF HALFWAY 10 HIGH HER CAVEVIC1 DISAPPEARS Troops Patrol Scene To Prevent Interruption In Work of Rescuers of Entombed Man. Cave City, Ky., Feb. 7. (By As sociated Press.) The measured treud of Kentucky troops beat u s'.uccuto today to the picking by miners digging at a new shaft to Sand cave where Floyd Collins, en tombed, has tain, pinioned by u boulder, for almost 200 hours. Determined that no efforts shall interfere iu any wuy witi the operutuns, the guardsmeu !asl uigh. ordered Homer Coliina, brother ot the victim, and J-ri Geralds away from the cave. Gei-: aids led the rescue party which curly iu the week made fruitless eft'orU to get to Collins through the cave entrance. lio'.b men were called to nation al guard headquarters und officers told them the boring downward was the last chance to reach Ltie cuveru prisoner. Their activity, especially Geralds criticism of th.' in cans being employed, made thtir presence undesirablo because it slowed the work. It ei'.her man returns he will be forcibly ejectcl. Both agreed not to offer further interference. Slowly the shaft was going down. Early today it hud gong lo the I'l foot level and wiUi at least that much more to go. It probably will bo 48 hours before an open ing is made. Testing drilling was discon tinued after a diuuiond drill ha'l reached limestone at a depth of 40 feet. Dr. W. B. Funkhouser, geol ogist, expressed the opinion -;jat the drill had reached the cup rock of the cave. Homer Collins, during the night made a forbidden trip into the cave a few hours before he watt culled to military headquarters. He found -he light near th'.' squeeze still burning, and by turn ing off all lights outfcide for a few moments, said he determined that tho entombed man'a light gtiil glowed. A truck load of ammunition and other supplies was en rou'.e to Cave City this morning. Additional guardsmen arrived last night and fourteen others were expected today. Large crown: are hampering the work. A Kcd Cross hospital unit hat been established on the grounds. Physicians are constantly on dutv prepared for emergency service. CHINA WITHDRAWS FROM CONFERENCE ON OPIUM Geneva, Fob, 7.- (By Associated I'rwB. ) The Chinese rieh'gu'.i.Hi today following the example set by the Americans yeserduy, with drew from the international opium conference. The chief Chinese delegate. S. Alfred Sze, did not appear for to days' plenary session and sent liix .secretary with a letter to Presidcn able saying he believed no guo-i purposo would be served by hi-1 continuance in the conference and that ho therefore felt obliged to erase participation. the entire day if the members are given full sway. It Is likely, however, that re Ktrirtlons will be placed on the debate. Twenty -eight bill have places on tile house calendar for Mon day, but most of them are of a minor nature and should be dis posed of in rapid order. Itepresen- tatlve Cnrkln's proposal to amend the statute' relating lo the re moval nf county seats m.iy stir up a ripple or two In the puddle, as It Is said to be the outgrowth of the fight between Ashland and Medford over the location of the county seat ot Jackson county, and Representative Woodward 'a bill pertaining to the sterilization of feeble minded persons Is expected to stir up some opposition froir the sentimentally inclined. Willamette Reached Crest At 20.7 Feet Last Night And Drops During Day Little Damage. The Wilamette river at Saiein reached Its crest ot 20.7 feet u!jgv normal Jate last night. By 7 - o'clock this morning It hud fallen to 20.4. At 2:i0 p. in. it passed the 20-foot mark. Indication pointed to a more rapid thop by uighUall. A report given out by the weather bureau this morn in a; stuted that the Willamette river at Albany had fallen 1.1 feet theie since last night, the record ihil morning being 22.3 feet. The Santiam river at Jefferson feil .8 ot a foot during the nigh., having atood at 9.3 late yesterday. At Spaulding's lumber mill only enough fires were kept In tho fur naces to keep the boilers wirm. Officials ot the company stated that the mill wouid probably have to remain closed down until next Tuesday, Indications being that it would be impossible to bring logs down the river until that lime Af-itfe from the shortage of log the flood has not resulted, in any damage to the mill. A drop ot five fee, below the present level will be necessary before more log cau be brought to the mill. Expectations are that the North western will resume operations between Salem and Portland e.irly next week, probably Mouday. Offi cials of the company stated this morning that a drop ot two and a halt feet at Oregon City would be necessary before the boat could be taken down through the locks there. Two and a half feet at Oregon City would mean nearly five feet here, they said. A drop in temperature last night, wlh the mercury goin;r as low as 39 degrees at Salem, was believed to mean freezing tempera ture farther back In the hill, which would cause the water to seep litto the streams more slowly than otherwise. ALL CALIFORNIA - San Frnncisco, Cal., Feb. 7. A storm that Is manifesting Itself la dally or nightly Installments has been over California for three de.ys and tho end is not yet in stgut. Last night it brought generous ruins to southern California where rain is badly needed, according to the Cnlted Slates weather bureau but it sharply accentuated .he many flood hazards that it had brought about in central and northern California. The great water sheds on the east side of the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys are spell ng: shets of wa'er into the rivers and creeks below them, and there were reports from the middle Sacra men to, the Napa and adjoining1 valleyH that some ot the streams had broken over banks and flooded the bottom lunds. The rainfall throughout north ern California was fuiriy even last night, ranging from .24 to .3 2ft inc h. Portland, Or., Feb. 7. Captain Robert Pamphlet and his crew of five men of the schooner Pesciwha were releaed from juil here today when bail was deposited on the federal immigration department charg j of entering the United Stutes unlawfully. This charge was iuaddition to one alleging the captain and crew guilty of violat ing tlie liquor laws. Bail on this charge has previously been posted. A full report ot the seizure ot the PeTawha off the Washington coast by the cutter Algonquin if ter the IVxcawha had rescued nine of the crew of the wrecked schooner Canba. has been sent to 'lie attorney general's office Washington. D. C.