Capital journal., February 13, 1925, Image 1

f BEND BILL PASSED BY SENATE OVER ETO
italAjoEFEal
OREGON
FAIR WEATHER
Tonight and Saturday. Alight tempera
tura change. Light westerly winds.
CITY EDITION
Dally average nut paid circulation (or
month ending January 31, 192ft
14 1325
6548
Local: Max., 50; min.. 94; rain, .24;
wind, northwest. river, 10.5, falling; a
tmoa., part cloudy;
Avcragu dally distribution 701.
Member Audit Bureau of Circulation.
FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 38
SALEM, OREGON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1925
PRICE THREE CENTS
ON TRAINS AND NBWS
STANDS FIVB CENTS
vUSCfj
i
iiill
ONLY 5 VOTE HlVOIES
10 SUSTAIN EXTENSION OF
PIERCE VETO BONDSALES
Measure Providing Pure
Water Supply For Bend
Passes Senate Second
Time; Others Passed.
Senate bill 63, providing a pure
water supply for the city of Bend
by arranging an exchange of w.i
ter from Deschutes river for wa
ter from Tumalo creek, pawed the
senate today over the veto of
Governor Pierce.
Zimmerman of Yamhill and
Brown of Marion fought the bill
Garland and Taylor, both demo
erats, ambited Senator Upton in
defending the measure against
the veto.
Joxcph was with the minority
In opposing the bill, declaring It
was fraught with litigation.
Brown, Joseph, Kinney, Strayer
and Zimmerman voted to sustain
the veto.
Other bills passed by the sen
ate today were:
8. B. 19, Magladry, providing
for sanitary regulation of all tour
1st camps under the direction of
the state board of health.
S. B. 164, Brown, prohibiting
by-bidding and false represents
tion at livestock auction sales.
S. B. 165, Magladry, for erad
ication of bovine tuberculosis
and creating office of dairy and
berd insnector in Lane county.
S. B. 191. Senator Dunn and
Representative Carkin (by re
attest.) relating to building an
loan associations purchasing
mortgage sales.
S. B. 189, Senator Dunn and
Representative Carkin (by
quest.) allowing building and
loan associations to increase loane
Irom 50 per cent to 66 2-3 per
cent.
A senate concurrent resolution
expressing the thanks of tbe state
to R. A. Booth of Eugene for the
statue of "The Circuit Rider,
which was presented to the state
by Mr. Booth, 'passed the senate
today.
TO RULE FARMS
Washington. Feb. 13. The
eharge that Secretary Hoover "i
eeklng to dominate the agricui
lure of America." was made befo-i
' the house agricultural committee
today by Charles B. Hearst
Iowa, chairman of the legislative
committee of the American Farm
Bureau Federation.
In explanation of the assertion
the witness produced a magazin
article in which he said the secre
tarv claimed authorship of sug
gestions contained in the pending
Capper-Williams farm relief legis
lation.
While Mr. Hoarst was testifyin
'.hie morning the committee con
tinued investigation Into sugges
tions of President Coolidge s asn
cultural conference, with Chair
man Carey of the conference as
witness.
LOOTED OF
Portland, Feb. 13 The Park rose
State bonk, located In a business
community on the outskirts of
Portland, was robbed of about
$1600 today by two unmasked men
who held dp Charles P. Crum.
cashier, while he was alone In the
bank shortly before the noon hour.
The robb?rs escaped.
While one of the men who en
tered firs: asked the cashier If he
couM cash a check the other drew
a revolver, forcing Crum to hold
up hl- hands. The first man leap
ed over a counter, gathered up
about $150. and the pair then fore
ed the cashier to open a compart
ment In the safe f.om which the
balance was taken. The robbers
walked some flint ance from the
bank and entered an automobile
In which they disappeared.
Warm Debate Over Time
Limit For Sale of High
way Securities Oppon
ents Fear Refunding,
Extension of the five year Urn
it et by the 1921 legislature tuv
the state highway commission to
sell a special $7,000,000 bond is
sue (or state highway work, wi3
authorized by the house this morn
ng after a two hour debate. The
law of 1921 stipulated that the
issue. In addition to the other
regular Issues permitted up to
the 4 per cent tax limitation meat
ure, had to be eold prior to May
28, 1924. The bill patted this
morning sets an Indefinite time
for the dispoeal of about $800,
000 left from the $7,000,000
amount.
The sum was authorized in
1921 to provide for emergency
eeds.
Tbe measure, house bill 324 In
troduced by Senator Hall and
Representative Ford, la designed
to clear up conflicting provisions
in the law of 1921, according to
its proponents.
The opposition however, rougnt
the bill vehemently, maintaining
that the amendment passed this
morning permitted the state high
way commission to refund on th;
$7,000,000 Issue and tesue new
bon ds.
'It makes the sky the limit,'
declnred Representative Cowgill
of Jackson county, who with Rep
resentative Carkin, the same coun
tv. led the fight on the bill. "As
soon as a million nonare is re
tired, another million can be is
sued. Let us pay as we go.
Representative Graham, Wash
ington county, arguing for tne
bill, maintained that there was
no danger involved in the legis
lation passed. "It is true mat it
Continued on Page Eleven)
CAT TA!
Hartford. Conn.. Feb. 13. A
bill for taxation of cats was vi?
orously opposed at a hearing be
fore a Connecticut legislative com
mittee
William H. Fairchlld, a Justice
of New Fairchlld, declared tll.it
every pair of rats permitted to
live nroduced descendants to the
numtx of 259,709.842 in th:ce
years and that the surest way 10
limit the rat population was to
encourage cats.
He said that if cats were tax?d
"you'd have to put collars on all
the cats and It would be some jab
for the cat wardens."
Mrs. Elkn T. Lewis, represent
ing a humane society, deplored the
necessity of collars for cats be
cause they would be in danger or
hanging every time they climbed a
tree.
No one favored the bill.
E
Foster. Or., Feb. 13 The San
tlam river Is being dragged today
fr.r the body of S. T. Rom, who
Is believed to have met death In
its waters Tuesday evening when
the boat in which he was working
broke away from the branch to
which It was tied ajvi was swept
down the swift stream. The body
his not been recovered.
Mr. Ross -fi-as last seen In the
water clinging to Jus boat, which
had tipped over. The boat was
later recovered Jn a whirlpool
some distance dowVi the stream and
no doubt is felt that he was drown
ed. The river Is at high stnge
and the stream ts very swift. The
accident occirred about a mile
above the Mealey Bros, saw mill.
Mr. Ross Iff survived by his wife
and etht children. He Is (5 years
old. Thf family came here about
a year ago from lone Oregon.
13th Prisoner in
13th Cell of Jail
On Friday 13th
Thirteen prisoners in the coun
ty jail on Friday the 13th, with
the further coincidence that the
13th prisoner was locked in under
the key numbered 13, have caused
deputies to keep a close villganee
on the place today. Nobody knows
what might happen.
Theodore Hurd, alleged chicken
thief, was the 13th bird to be re
ceived in Bower's bower at the
court house. While he has bo;n
in a few days, nevertheless other
prisoners are looking at him os
ance and praying that '.he sheriff
may bring In tbe 14th man before
the fates br'ng down disaster on
GOES CRAZY ON
FRIDAY THE 13TH
Brooding over the predicted end
of the world ana convinced that
Friday, the 13th, was the 11 ml
day, Mike Heine of Gates, Or., was
committed to the state hospital to
day, violently insane. So em
phatic was Rcine that this was the
fateful hour that he informed ?v
eryone within a raidus of two
blocks in downtown Salem today
at 1:30 o'colck after he bad es
caped from persons taking him
the asylum.
Disappointed a week ago when
the good old world kept serenely
turning, even after the dire pro
phesies of Madam Rowen and
others of her cult, Reine settled
on Friday, the 13th, for the evvnt.
Put he talked too much about it
with the result that be was
brought to Salem for an examina
tion, lie was taken as far as F.p-
ley's store, 1900 State street, when
he escaped from the car and fount!
his way downtown.
A call to the police station
brought Officer Thompson and Al
derman Roy Simeral who found
Rcine the center of attraction at
State and Church streets.
"Today Is the last day of the
world," declared Relnc as the two
men approached him. Reine is
about 50 years old and weighs 170
pounds. He was hard to handle,
although not particularly violent
just insistent.
"Mr. Simeral and I were warn
e dthat today was our last on
earth," commented Mr. Thompson.
"Well, it's a nice day."
FROM SOCIETY WOMAN
TO BANK EXECUTIVE
New York, Feb. 13. From a so
ciety woman who had never doa
any work as a wage earner until
12 years ago, Mrs. William La!:n
beer has advanced to a position !n
the National City bank of New
York, where she will have charge
of all business done by the batiK
with women.
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their beads.
The- physicians have not yet
probed for the bird shot that wa;i
received in Burd's back and ueau
when he was attempting to pur
loin some birds from a Wood burn
rancher, but officers predict that
when they do they will find 13
shot. There was talk among pris
oners today of holding a kangaroo
court over Burd to see if some sor;
of a punishment might be in Mice J
on him to propitiate the gods of
supcrstttutfon and alleviate the
dangers that might befall.
At the best the 13th prisoner is
considered nn unlucky Burd.
POEM ON CAL'S
HOBBY HORSE
S
Washington, Feb. 13. The
house was thrown into an uproar
today when Representative Vin
son, democrat, Kentucky, attempt
ed to read a poem entitled "Cal's
Hobby Horse," and Representative
Luce, republican, Massachusetts
sought to have him stopped as he
concluded the first line.
Mr. Luce contended It wis i
breach of house rules for a mem
ber to "cast ridicule" on the presi
dent. After hot debate in whioh
a dozen members participate J
Representative Snell, republican.
New York, presiding, overruled
Mr. Luce and Mr. Vinson con
tinued his reading.
Ruling that the prohibition In
the English parliament against
making uncomplimentary re
marks about the king did not ap
ply in the American house of rep
rpeentatives. Mr. Snell informed
Mr. Luce that another way was
open for him that he could de
mand that Mr. Vinson's "words
be taken down," paving the way
for a house vote on the steno
graphic report of the remarks as
to wbether they were out of or
der. Permitted to continue Mr. Vin
son disclaimed any intention of
ridiculing Mr. Coolidge pointing
out that the president was not
mentioned by name. He prefaced
hie poem, however, by reading ex
tracts from newspaper accounts
of the electric horse the president
rides at the white house for ex
ercise. At the conclusion of Mr. Vin
son's reading no effort was made
by Mr. Luce or any other house
member to have the poem and
Mr. Vinson's remarks expunged
from the records.
The poem recited by the- Ken
tucky representative made refer
ence to the many trials of the
prince of Wales as a horseman
and said Mr, Coolidge had profit
ed by that example. The white
house horse. It continued at least
shares its master's proclivities for
silence and It was suggested it be
given a name
OF LEGISLATORS BY MURRAY WADE
IIPCE
Future Course of Legis
lature As Concerns Dry
Bureau Depends Upon
Cleaver Ultimatum.
11 V Hurry X. Cm In
Wli.it happens to the state pro
hibition depart nu' nt rests largely
with Governor Pierce, according
the piognosticators about the
lobby, ft ho have been studying
and speculating about the report
and recommeijations of the spe
cial committee which has been in
vestigating that department.
All are pretty well agreed on
one point thnt every member o
the committee Issued a very un
derstandable ultimatum to the gov
ernor to the effect that Cleaver
most go. Should the executive ig
nore that edict it is not consider
ed reasonable that any of the com
mitteemen. with the possible ex
ceptlon of Representative Hurlburt
would go much out of their way
to iiead off the attacks that are
practically carta in to be directed at
the' department.
PntbciH Arc Consistent
I-or instance, It Is not conceiv
able that such legislators as Sena
tors Garland, Eddy, Hare, John
son and Itutlcr, and Representa
tives Rushlight, Swan Lonergan
ajid Filzntaurice, after they have
deliberately mado up their minds
that tiie prohibition department
cannot succeed under the direction
of Cl-Mver, nnj that he Is largely
responsible for the muddle that
has been made . of its affairs,
should deliberately elect to perpe
tuate the blunder, by resisting o
serious effort to take the depart
ment out of tils hands.
More or Ipsa they have atl won
reputations for consistency, and it
Continued on Page ttlevcn)
Washington, Feb. 13 Brigadier
General Mitchell, jnssisUiit army
air chief was recalled for the
fourth time today by the house air
craft committee for further qu
tioning In the aircraft contra
versy.
OMier witnesses summoned In
eluded E lward V. Kicken backer,
army flying a?e In the world war,
and a number of officer? of the
naval air service. Itlckcnbackc
told the committee today that the
policies of tho war and navy de
partmenrs showed a lack of know
ledge. Uevelopmont of an air pro
gram, he said, also had been
tardea by selfishness and Jealojsy,
but when asked to name those
responsible, he said he could not
do so. He disagreed with army
general staff testimony as to th
effectiveness of intl-alrcraft guns.
MITCHELL AGAIN"
BEFORE PROBERS
VET ME
Sand Cave Hero
William Burke ("Skects") Miller,
of Louisville, Ky., a newspaper re
porter there, proved himself the
outstanding hero of the efforts to
free Floyd Collins from Sand Cave.
Cave City, Ky. Miller made many
perilous trips to the imprisoned
man, and, being small of stature,
was able to do much of the -work
for releasing Collins. He had suc
ceeded In removing the rock which
trapped Collins when forced to
flee because of another cave-In.
ON NEW CODE
The biennial fish fight in the
legislature is on.
When consideration of the com
mittee reports on house bill 4)5.
the commercial fish code, came iir,
as a special order of business I it
the house just be: tire the non re
cess this morning Representative
Coffey aeked timl It be put over
until 3 oclo;k this afternoon.
abating that it was probable Hnt
the minority and the majority
members of the committee would
be able to get together on a bar
montous report by thac time.
Representative Mot, cha'rman
of the fish committee, and -Mir
signer of the minor! tv report,
jumped to his feet, declaring:
"As it is now nearly 11! n'cltic!;
I have no objection to letting thir
tnatt.tr go over until 3 o'clock, but
I want to state riS.V. be re and now
that there Is n) cliviee for h
minority and tbe majority to gtl
together.
Representative Mott objects to
the provision In the bill th.U
would allow aliens to fish in Ore
gon for a period of six years.
Two yearn ago Mott made
-.Ingle-handc.l fife t In the house
against the fish commission that
resulted In the passage of his btl
to lift the ban on salmon trolling
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1M ASS . BREATHING DF
CHALLENGES CAVE VICTIM
! SALEM, ORE. HEARD9A.M.
Local High School Asked
To Debate With Massa
chusetts High, Champ
ions of New England.
A debate between the high
school teams uf Salem. Oregon,
and Salem, Massachusetts, loo nib
l-, a result of a challenge received
this morning from the authorities
of the Massachusetts school.
"We have heard that the debat
ing team of Salem high school oc
cupies one of the foremost posi
tions among the high schools of
the far west," is the statement
made in requesting a contest be
tween the two schools.
Arrangements, if carried out in
compliance with the request of
the eastern school, will involve
meet la Salem during the first
part of next May, with a return
contest at Salem, Massachusetts,
during the trl-centenary exercises
uf the founding of the city.
If the Salem team makes the
tlrp as planned ft will be tbe lung
est debate trip ever attempted by
any Institution of any kind In the
west up to the present time. Th
debate trip by the Willamette uul
versity team two years ago has
been considered the longest trip
of its kind ever attempted by
western Institution, but tbe trp
of the high school team will tak
them considerably farther than
Chicago, which was the farthest
point east touchot, Dy the Willam
ette team. A trip planned by ure
gun Agricultural college for tills
spring will, It carried through, be
approximately the same leng'.h as
the trip to be tusen by the temi
of the Salem high school.
The team of Salem high school,
Massachusetts, has won 16 con sec
native debates, losing none. In tht
last two years. They havo bee;i
awarded the championship of Njw
Hngluud and New York. Tucy
havo defeated the freshmen
Yale university. They have be.-n
personally congratulated upon
their success by Calvin Coolid,
and William Howard Taft.
These debates will do Salem
more good In the way of advert!
Ing than It would to bring the
football team of Scott high school
out here." said Superintend;!
Continued on Page K I even) .
WALNUT TAKEN
FROM BABE'S LUNG
Saettle, Wash., Feb. 13. Fol
lowing the removal of a waluu
Uernal from her lung lust night
physicians of a private huspitu
here were hopeful today of savin
the life of Hernice Wehrli, aged 1
months, of Fort Angeles. Wash.
An X-ray examination reveal;
the nut kernel Ir the right bro'
.bus of the child, a short distiinr
below the right nnd left Inter-1
tlon, declnred physlicanH. Inflo
mntion was said to be present an
nneu.nrniia had set in.
In removing the nlMtructf.ui
physicians said they inserted
ftteel tube with a small electri
light at the lower end. By pas
;ns del irate instruments tliroul
e special tube the doctors assert
d tbcy were able to remove th'
. ernel and the surrounding in
; lamed tfsuc.
BILL REQUESTED
Wuuhtiigt n, Keh. 13. An ap
propriatiou of :iC.0i'i,(H)O to ca
ry put the naval construction p
gram recently authorized was re
quested of congress today by th
budget bureau.
Of the total, $14,000. 000 wuil
be applied toward completing tl!
airplane carriers Saratoga nn
Lexington, $3,0u0,00U for new at
planes for these carriers and $9
000.000 for repairs and chan":
on six battleships.
I -
Another Witness Her rg
Coughing; Tunnel In
Rescue Shaft Proves
Blind Lead.
Sand Cave, Ky., Feb. 13. 0
fficiat announcement made tt I
clock this afternoon by Brigadier
eneral H. H. Deuhardt was thai
loyd Collins had been heard
breathing at 9:45 o'clock thlfl
morning.
The announcement was mad
fter Ed Brenner, Cincinnati and
Blcvins had given a statement
a, the military court of inquiry at
tho cave side, which was put intsj
the record.
Brenner, a miner, and Blevinf
had been sent into the cavern fur
soundings from the rescue shaft
Tbcy also had gone in five hours
before with Andy Cisig and John
Scuickle of Louisville, who had
epurted hearing Collins cough
wice.
Brenner nnd Iilevins reported
penetrating the natural passage
,o the slide which last week blo2lo
ed the wuy Just ahead of the en
tombed cave explorer. They heard
Collins breathing, they told iha
court inquiry this afternoon.
1 heard Collins give one lo.iff
deep gasp, like a groan,' stid
Ureuner. "It was not like a matt
gives in a hospital, not loud."
Brenner and Blevlns tupped rn
the wall of -the cavern and work
ers In the shaft tapped on the well
wall. It was timuted by those la
the cavern and those In the shaft
that the distance between them
was ten feet.
Cave City, Ky., Feb. 13. (By
Associated Fross.) H. T. Car
ltilchael, in charge of operations.
nnd other officials who went dowit
nto the shaft being dug towaras
Sand cave, where Floyd Collins haa
been imprisoned for two weeks.
came out of the shaft at 1 o'clock
his afternoon und announced that
the hope of rescuing Collins
through a tunnel discovered in ths
shaft 50 feet down would have t
be abandoned. The tunel exploro
lion failed to disclose a passage
way.
Digging was resumed In ths
bottom of the slfit itself and Mr,
Carmlchael' said that it probably
would take two or three days to
reach the 70-foot level, where thef
plan to begin lateral tunnels tf
in effort to strike Sand cuve.
Cave City. Ky., Feb. 13 (By th
Associated Fress) A tunnel which
the rescuers hope may lead to th
cavern behind Floyd Collins was
(Continued on Page Seven)
SENATE PASSES
RESOLUTIONS
The senate today adopted noma
concurrent resolution No. 12 pro
vlding for a committee from Ore
gon, Washington, Idaho and Mon
tana to study and consider tha
development of the Columbia rir
or for agricultural and power,
purposes.
A senate concurrent resolu
tion, introduced by Hall, propp
ing that tbe state honor John B,
Yeon, noted road builder, by
naming a bridge on some scenia
highway the "John B. Yeon'
bridtre, p.iesed the senate today.
House Joint resolution No. I?.,
Introduced by Carkin, memorial
ising the Interstate commerca
commission to urge the construe
tlon of a railroad In southern
Oregon, was adopted by the sen
ate today.
Usury Law Amended
The usury of 10 per tent In
terest law of the state would bt
tightened considerably un-let
house bill 371 passed by tn
house yesterday afternoon aft or
la sharp debate. The measuie fur
tber specific what commission
charges and other expenses mint
be added Into the interest charge.
the maximum of which must not
exceed 10 per ceuU