RAIN TONIGHT
And 8uaJty, alight ehanga In tempera
ture, moderate to fresh southerly sale
aln the eoaac
Loc): max., 17; min., 43; rain, .2;
river, 4.1, falling; atmoe , part cloudy;
wind, south. . ... ,
CITY EDITION
Dally ivinii net pais dreulatloa for
month ending January 11 1921
6548
Average dally distribution T7t.
Member Audit Bureau of Circulation.
FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 45
SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, ' FEBRUARY 21, 1925
PRICE THREE CENTS stands "five cent
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OF UTILITIES
Objections To Ultimatum
By Governor Voiced In
Both Houses In Consid
ering Gross Earnings.
Governor Fierce and the house
organization will again come to a
test of strength this afternoon
when the ways and means com
mittee Introduces Us bill to tax
the gross earnings' of utilities
amounting to over $5,000.
Objecting to what amounted to
an ultimatum from the governor
lf.st night, President Moser of
the Senate and Speaker Burdick
of the house declare they will not
stand for the utilities tax bill
being put through both houBca
under suspension of the rules :
and sent Immediately to the
governor and In the house Bur
dick will have the Influence of
Representative Gresham, who
says be will stir up a fight on
the floor.
The governor has In his
possession for the fifth day the
bill appropriating $100,000 for
the public service commission.
He told the ways and - means
committee last night that he
will veto the bill today unless It
Is withdrawn and sent back to
him with the utilities tax bill
accompanying It. But the bill.
It develops, cannot be with
drawn unless there Is some
change to be made In It, and
there Is none. So If the utilities
tax measure Is not hurried
through three readings and
passed in both housea this after
noon the service commission
measure will get the ax before
midnight.
Reluctantly did Representa
tlve Gordon accede to the pro
cedure of trying to get the bill
through today, but the ways and
means committee by a vote of 8
to 6 Instructed him to move
suspension of the rules when the
bill Is Introduced "and keep on
moving suspension of the rules
until the bill Is passed or de
feated." The same instruction
was given Senator Tooze, chair
man of the senate committee, If
the bill reaches the senate.
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LABOR PARIY
Chicago, Feb. 21 (By Associat
ed Press) Anticipating that the
railroad labor chieftains would
succeed today In crushing any
third party proposal before the
conference for progressive politi
cal action, the socialist national
party Is ready to call a convention
to organize a new party to be
known us the American Labor
party.
This much executive committee
ei embers of the socialists let be
fcnown today before entering the
sontei-erce In which tiie various
X roups which supported La Kol
lette's presidential campaign last
Tall are represented.
The American Labor party,
ahlch the socialists will propose if
the nil road men throttle any new
party movement, would be pat
rnej after the English labor par
ly, founded upon group represen
tation. This woald squarely oppose the
idea of United Slates Senator La
KolieUe for a new party to be bas
d on geographical representation
dmilar to the present old parties.
The brotherhood leaders agreed
restcrday to oppjse any new par-
:y Idea but voted to attend the con
"erence todiy and prepared to p
lent a resolution outlining th
'lews.
iAMBLE ACQUITTED .
OF MURDER CHARGE
La Grande. Or., Feb. 21. U S
.amble, sged 68, of Union. Or.,
iras cleared today of a charge of
first degree murder, a Jury ar
rive hours deliberation, returning
a verdict of not guilty of killing
his friend and neighbor. William
WIggiesworth. Wlgglesworth was
mot In s rnysteriotifl manner nt
his home November 18 last.
The trial started Tuesday, and
has been attended by large crowd
each day.
22 OUT OF 5!
BODIES! IN
E
Possibility That Many
Victims of Explosion In
Indiania Colliery Will
Never Be Recovered.
Sullivan, Ind., Feb. 21. (By
Associated Press. ) The seven
teenth body was removed from the
City Coal mine today.
Cobb Lamb, u member of the
rescue team, after an exploration
of the workings, said there was a
possibility that some of the bodies
would never he recovered. There
were many bad fulls, he suid, that
had covered some of the bodies,
making It aim; ;t Impossible to re
trieve them.
Weary, grief stricken wom?n
waited at the top of the City Coal
company mine today for their
"hoys,' while a score of men toil
ed underground to recover the
blackened and bruised bodies of 34
of the 51 Di ners entombed In an
explosion yesterday.
A cave-in early today halted
for several hour me work of res
cue after sixteen uodies had been
taken out. After-damp, the dread
poison gas of the miners, made
first attempts to recover the bod
ies precarious and part of the
night was spent In repairing the
mine's ventilating system.
The blast trapped all the men
vorking in little rooms off the
third and fourth and seventh and
eighth entrances of the mine. A
f a3h of f tames quickly consumed
all the life sustaining oxygen nnd
the concussion of the explosion
brought loose coat and a shower
l'. timber down on the workers.
Mine experts said a cutting ma
chine, working crose to the wall
of an abandoned mine had cu
through a partition, releasing a
fljod of gas that had accumulated
in the old workings. A flame from
a miner's lamp ignited the gas and
caused the explosion. In four in
stances fathers and sons were vi
Urns.
FATALLY HURT
N
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 21. Doth
Colonel W. J. Simmons of Atlan
ta, founder and former bead of the
Ku Kiux Klan and Morris Moore
of Hopston, Texas, who were In
jured in an automobile accident
last night hear Gainsville, Ga., ar
in a precarious condition and hard
ly expected to live, it was said
late today by a physician attend
in g them.
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 21. Colonel
W .J. Simmons of Atlanta, form
imperial wizard of the Ku Klu
Klan and N orris Moore of Hons
ton, Texas, supreme knisht record
er of the Knight of the .i; luminal
Sword, which Simmons low heads,
were probablv fatally injured n
an automobile accident last nlgnt
twenty miles from Galnsville, Us.,
it was learned here today.
The two men were taken to a
hospital at Gainsville and It wis
reported that Colonel Simmons
had suffered a punctured lung and
that both collar bones had been
broken. Mr. Moore's neck was re
ported broken. J. J. Rainer of At
lanta, who Is connected with the
tvi-'ghts of the Fl ming Sword, es
caped Injury.
The three men were en route to
l olonel Simmons' borne in the
N'acoochee valley in northern
Georgia on an organization trip
1
j and In traveling over the highway
vM')out 20 miles from Gainsville,
the machine strum a sort spot J"
the road and plunrd down an Jin
'aii" nit nt.
$52,900 SECURED BY
INDIANA BANK BANDITS
South licnd. Iml.. Feb. Jl
Pour men held up the Suite (tank
of .Mills High, Mich., east of lien
ton Harbor, today and escaped Ir
a motor with $2900 In cash and
150,000 In negotiable aecuriiler
according to word reeelTed her
Police ot northern Indiana eltle
were co-operating with Michigan
authorities In searching the coun
try for 'ha four men.
Who Runs
Grocer or
Neither-the Pupils
Allegations and counter allega
tions were flying back and forth
this morning between high school
authorities and Klrby Rose, opera
tor of the store behind which 13
high school boys were yesterday
arrested for shooting dice. State
menu by the high school authori
ties Indicate that Rosa' store has
for a number of months been a
source of annoyance, and that
Ross hat not cooperated - with
them in suppressing such Juvenile
vices as crap shooting and cigar
ette smoking. They express the
suspicion that petty gambling has
been going on Inside the store with
the full knowledge and counten
ance of Rosa. They even state
that Ross has sold tobacco to min
ors without first taking proper pre
cautions that could easily have
been taken.
On the other band, the general
trend of Ross' stand Is that his
The house this morning Dassed
house bill 132, by Representative
Kiiham, providing that the state
board of control shall have direut
supervision over the preparation
of budf ets rather than the budget
commission. The board of control
ouiu ue given power through the
bin to prescribe a uniform systom
of account keeping by state Insti
tutions and departments.
The bouse tii.s morning nassod
bouse bill 460, calling- for the
election of Multnomah county's
school superintendent from that
part of the -.ty outside the cor
porate llimts of Portland. The su
perintendent shall only have au
thority over tiie territory which
elects him, under terms of the bill
The house this morning passed
house bill 447, providing for an
Americanization commission an J
an appropriation of $2500 for
1925 and 1926 for carrying on
educational work among foreign
population of the state. The
Americanization department will
be conducted In conjunction wit.'i
tbe public schools of the state, the
state superintendent of public in
itruction having charge of It. The
commission is authorized to name
an Americanization commissioner
to assist the state superintendent
of public Instruction.
The sum of $500,000 would be
appropriated for the children farm
home In Benton county by house
bill 86 passed by the house this
morning. The money is for the
building of cottages and school
rooms.
The salary of Sheriff Hurlhurt
of Multnomah county will be
raiBea irom i4;.uo to $5100 a year
if house bill 4C4 is passed by the
senate. The house passed the bill
this morning.
GLIMPSES
CONTROL BOARD
GIVEN CHARGE OF
BUDGET MAKING
fiSli! Jw& till
KATCf- f M CAREFUL- W V V
isMir - y v. ;cck rHM up if v'.H
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School?
Teachers?
store Is open to the general public,
and that he has been running It in
as respectable a manner as pos
sible. He is unable, he says, to
"be mother to 40 or 60 kldti."
While not denying that gambling
has been going on immediately be
hind his store he indicates that
the IS apprehended yesterday
were a small proportion of those
who have been guilty he never
theless Insists that whenever boys
began to gamble in his store be
has ordered them out. "And 1
have several witnesses to prove
it,' he states.
The case Is expected to come up
before Judge Poulaen some time
next Tuesday. A complaint, al
leging that he has allowed gamb
ling on his prperty. has been sign
ed by J. C. Nelson, high school
principal.
"I don't know what will become
(Continued on Page Nine-)
BILL REPORTED
iRABLY
Washington, Feb. 21. A favor
able report was ordered today by
the senate agricultural committee
upon the Haugen bill to create
federal co-operative marketing
board.
The masure Is designed to carry
out the principal plank in -the pro
gram of the president's agricul
tural commission. It Is also pend
ing In the house.
Adoption of th report was pre
ceded by a lengthy executive ses
sion in which the bill was vigor
ously attacked by opposing com
mittee mem.iers.
The co-operauve marketin;
board proposed under the bill
would be composed of five instead
of three members to be apopinted
by the president, each to represen
principal agricultural industry
livestock, grain, dairy and poul
tr, cotton and tobacco, fruits and
vegetables. The salaries of the
commissioners would be $10,000 a
year Instead of $12,000 originally
proopsed.
I
HEARD IN SENATE
Washington, Feb. 2 1 Proposed
legislation in several states to tax
cotton oil products, was declared
voday by Senator Smith, democrat,
South Carolina, to constitute
most serious situation in the :
latlons of states."
It is inevitable, he said in
senate speech, that the states ad
versed affected by the proposed
legislation will attempt "retaliatory
measures.
OF LEGISLATORS BY MURRAY WADE
ARANDONTAX
ON COMICS
KEEPTOBACCO
Governor's Threat of Veto
Prevents Additional
State Levy Kill Nor
mal Bill.
There will be no additional
state tax levy. This conclusion
was reached by the ways and
me'.ns committee last night after
Governor Pierce appeared and
said that he would veto any meas
ure of the kind that provided for
more than one fourth of a mill.
Since this would not be sufficient
to restore the normal tax making
base for the annual levy next
December the committee decided
to drop It.
Members of the committee are
still divided In their opinion
whether there will be enough
money without It to tide over the
present biennium, but It now ap
pears there will be, with probab
ly $300,000 or a little more to
the good If the proposed reve
nue bills are accepted by the ses
sion.
As for the tax making base un
der the 6 per cent limitation, the
governor told the committee he
did not care anything about that
and laid the blame on others than
himself and Jefferson Myers for
making a short levy last Decem
ber. The governor said he and
Myers acted according to figures
that were brought to them.
Veto Assured
The' above was one of the de
velopments of the ways and
means committee last night, the
last meeting of the session. An
other was a decision to drop the
proposed cosmetic tax. This was
result of the appearance of
about 50 druggists from as many
towns who declared war against
the proposal. Also a verbal opin
ion from Attorney General Van
Winkle was that the tax would
probably not be collectible.
Another decision last night was
to save the public service com
mission appropriation of $100,-
000 from the veto by withdrawing
it from the governor today and
holding It until it can be sent
back to the executive accompan
led by a bill to tax the gross earn
ings of utilities to the extent of
180.000 for the two years, which
would come within $20,000 of
covering the appropriation for
Continued on Page Ten)
BEND TO VOTE BONDS
FOR WATER PROJECT
Bend. Or., Fen. 1. The cly
council !aet night voted to adver
tise for bids for a $600,000 Iron'
issue to be used for the purchase
of the plant and equipment of the
Bend Water, Light ft Power Co..
and general expense with which lo
carry through the Bend Tumalo
water project for which authoriy
was recently given by the legislature.
ntr. PiSHtri
A vnnMf. MAN
WHO HVj A MT OftOMMOM
NO 1HB ABlllTy To USE tr
Averted Wreck
Ernest Peerson, seven years old,
of Jasper, Oregon, proved himself
a hero by flagging a Southern Pa
cific railroad train and notifying
the engineer of a elide of rock and
earth on the track whl 2h would
have cauH'.'i serious catastrophe.
He was rewarded handsomely by
the railroad company.
TO BUCHTELBY
FIRE MARSHAL
Portland. Ore., Feb. 21. Fire
Marshal Grenfell, who has been
directing investigation of Incen
diary fires which Chester C.
Buchtel, Portland fireman, hat;
confessed starting, declared today
he believed that Buchtel had been
responsible for nearly 100 blazes.
Huchtcl has confessed 42, most of
them small fires, and has refused
to admit any connection with sev
eral large Incendiary fires. Losses
from incendiary fires In Portland
during the period in which Buch
tel admitted operating amount to
more than $1,000,000 said Gren
fell. Buchtel remained In Jail today.
His father, A. L. Buchtel, asked
officers that his son be held with
out ball, declaring he did not con
sider It sare for him to be re
leased. Grenfell declared he knew of no
parallel case. "This Is the only
Instance on record where a man
within a city fire department
turned firebug and started fires
with such heavy loss," he said.
Buchtel continues to declare
that he does not know what actu
ated him In bis fire starting
activities.
Thres Killed On Barce.
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 21.
Three men were reported killed
and a number Injured today wh"n
an oil barge moored in the Sch;y!
kill river near the city's garbag
reduction plant blew up.
PIERCE VETO DEADLOCK IN
TRAFFIC BILL
Questions of What Con
stitutes Two Thirds of
Majority Raised By
Vote of 38 to 19.
The question of just how niauy
votea constitutes a two-thirds ma
jority of the house arose In the
body -this morning when senate
bill 34, increasing the size of the
state traffic department from 6 1
to 25 men, came up for passage
over the veto of the governor.
The vote wis 3$ to 19, and
friends of the measure are now
v ondering just where they stand
t' jpite the rutins: of Soeaker Bur
dick that the two-thirds require
ment applied to the members pres
ent at the time the vote is taken,
and that It does not require two
thirds of the full membership of
the house to override a veto.
Iu this connection some of the
older heads are recalling the spe
cial session of 1921, called for con
sideration of he 1925 exposition
proposal, when 14 members of the
senate blocked the measure. A
that time only 29 members w m
present, owing to the death of Sen J
ator Hume, and proponents of tbe
fair measuro h d 15 votes, a ma
jority of those present. But it
was ruled at that time that on
stittuional majorities are major
ities of the full membership.
Speaker Burdick declared the
bill was not political. "No priu
ciple is Involved of taking power
fro:.i the governor," he declared
"he traffic officers alone will
suffer If the veto prevails. TUey
are entitled to decent salaries and
the people of the state are entitled
to adequate protection on tiie
highways.'-
Representative Hamilton also
argued for the bilh "Is tills the
legislative branch or Is It across
the corridor?" he queried, pom
Ine to the governor's office. "The
hill makes no change in the pros
ent status of highway traffic law
enforcement."
Representative Carkin contra
dicted the points the governor
sought to make in h!s velo mes
tage.
8 SEN! UP FOR
Medford, Or., Kcb. 21. The
gales ot Oregon penal Institutions
opened toduy for eight men and
boys sentenced from Jackson coun
ty and. while their misdeeds
ranged wide In fields of crime. Hie
automobile was a heavy contribut
ing factor In their fall.
The prisoners range from Klruer
Howell, a bashful boy of 1 1 years
lo Kolund Kiistvood, 35, a meta
InrgiHt, who graduated from tiie
Unlvcratly of Kdlubugh. Scotland,
and held responsible positl'jns
with llritlsb r iulng concerns In
many lands.
The others ordered conimlt'-d
to the reform school are Julian
Dally, 12, and Fred UeavlB, 14, of
Mils city, accused of stealing a car
,nd starting on a world tour reaen
:ig Ashlnnd Dernrc being cap
red; J.ime Mobley, 17, and
liarles Simpson. 15, of Seattle.
.vho ran away from their homes
and also stole an autoomhlle.
Sheriff Jennings left for tbe
stato prleon with Roland East
wood, sentenced to 16 year!-.; Sieve
ICIek. sentenced to 10 years, and
' bert IMitf. sentence to & yeu.-s
for tbe holdup of the Union oil
station In Ashland. The car In
which the trio were traveling wan
ctolen In I.i Angfies, or-ording lo
t tie authorities.
generaFwood's SON
DISAPPEARS IN PARIS
Paris, FH. 21. (By Aoc:ate.i
I'ress.) The police lot todiy hi
xan investigation Into the disap
pearance of Osbf.ru C. Wood, son
jf Leonard Wood, governor rn
eral ot the Philippines, who has
been missing since Monday from
his hotel. The Inquiry was Insti
tuted at the request of his vaUt
OVERRIDDEN
tininilO OnmirP Continued on Page Bleven)
FROMMEDFORD . m mm
PROSPECT ON
TAXJSSUE
Hold Over Session Forced
In Both Houses By
Financial Crisis Pro
posed Taxes Objected to
(By Harry N. Craln)
A hold over session ot both
houses of the legislature la a cer
tainty today, but the duration ol
such a session le another matter.
From ever corner of the lobby
comes a different story as to how
long the colons will remain on the
Job. Some say next Tuesday night
will see the necessary business
consumated, some say Thursday
and still others can weave a very
logical tale as to how It will taks
an entire additional week.
There le, however, a marked
silence on this subject by those of
the legislators who know the real
inside of the situation. To them
adjournment depends upon the
time It takes to straighten out
the financial tangle with which
the ways and means committee
has been wrestling for weeks.
Few there are, even around the
legislative halls who have any
conception ot the seriousness of
the financial tangle that Is fac
ed. In a nutshell, the tax levying
commission last December levied
a state property tax that Is found
to be about $1,000,000 short of re
qulrements, leaving that amount
to be made up. The governor ba
issued the ultimatum that the
deficit must be made up through
indirect levies, which the legisla
ture is willing to do If a meant
can be devised, except for one
thing.
There Is a serious question at
to the constitutionality of some
of the indirect taxes that have
been levied, and the question ha
also arisen as to whether or nol
such levies can be considered In
determining the basis for the ell
per cent tax Increase limitation.
If not the taxing power of the
state will have been placed on a
deficiency basis from which it
will take years to recover. The
si: uatlnn would be particularly
acute should anything arise to In
validate the Indirect levies that
are contemplated.
The legislature, were a poll to
be taken today, would unqucstion
ably favor the safe and sane
course of a direct levy of at least
half a mill to safeguard the state
Washington, Feb. 21. The air
ship Los Angeles, which flew to
Bermuda during the night from
Lakfhurftt, left on her return at
10:10 o'clock this morning, the
navy department was Informed by
radio.
The great airship did not attach
herself to the mooring mast of the
tender Patoka as had been In
tended, owing to weather condi
tions. Arriving In sight ot Bermuda st
4:45 o'clock, the Los Angelei
cruised about over the islands tot
several hours. The sky was over
cast, and it was found that diffi
culties In the way of mooring were
too great.
The officers of the Los Angelei
followed a previously mapped
plan, navy department official!
said, which provided for a quick
return If weather conditions were
not favorable to the program
originally outlined.
A later dispatch to the navy
from the Patoka said It was eleven
a. m., before the dirigible finally
squared away and disappeared on
her return flight.
0. A. C. DEFEATS OREGON
Kugenn. Or., Feb. 21. In a
lene battle on the local floor, the
OreRon Agricultural college bas
ketball team defeated the Univer
sity of Oregon last evening 34 to
30
The first half ended 20 to C tor
the Aggies, and the final trams
saw a desperate attempt by th"
Oregon men to catch up with the'i
opponents. At one stage of the
second half the score stood 25 .3
24 for th" Aggit. but a final min
uts rally by the visitors gave them
the game.