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Newspaper Page TextCITY EDITION Daily average net paid circulation Cor month, ending January II, 11$ FAIR TONIGHT and Sunday. Slight Chans' In tamper lure. lUht northern winds. 6548 Local r Max.. 58; mln., IS; rain, tracea river, 6. ft .falling; at mo., clear; wind, west, . . j . AvoragQ daily distribution 7071. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 51 SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1923 i-.y,,t-i mnncci PMT(! ON TKAI.NS AMU .KIWI mice, innciu vaamu stands fivb cunts apixaimy owe ma c'fW POWER LINE IjiYSIEM EXTENSION luLIGHIG AfMQRIVFR F(1R OPPOnN J. I IUE1UUU 111 I L.I1I I Ull UIILUUI IK mm HUH I K ' Mountain Slates Company To Extend System From Independence To Salem To Irrigate Low Lands. Announcement that an electric line for power, heat, and light would be extended from Indepen dence along the county road to Brunk's corner and thence along the highway to Salem, tapping one of tho richest farming districts In the state, was made today by an official of tho Mountain States Power company to H. N. Ord, sup erintendent of the Eola ranch of 1000 acres, 1 miles east of the county road, and one of the larg est plants to be benefited by the proposed project. This decision on the part of the power company has come ns a pleasant surprise to the farmers In this section and comes only as a result of a decision by the Moun tain States company to extend a 60,000 volt trunk line through as a unit in the huge trunk line to extend from Canada to Mexico, now virtually completed, which will give an unbroken "tie in" to all power companies along the coast, making interchange of power pes Hble. Only through construction of uch a trunk line could the light er voltage local lines be strung, as the erection of the polca is the greatest expense Incurred, and the light lines will find the poles al ready set. A 2300 volt line, strung on cross bars four feet below the SO, 000 volt line, can be transform ed for tho power, lighting, and heating of farms with a $50 trans former, giving every farmer an opportunity to get a connection. To Irrigate Land Proof that tho Willamette river bottom land can b successfully ir rigated is said to be one of the fac tors that has brought about the decision to build the power line this spring. Activities lost sum mer, ono of the driest encountered : Continued on Page Ten) PARTY BOLTERS Washington, Feb. 28 As a fur ther step in denying republican arty status in the senate to Sena tor La Kollette and his chief sup porters, the republican committee on committees had tentatively as signed the Wisconsin senator, to gether with Senator Brookhart, of Iowa, and Ladd and Prnzer of North Dakota to places at the bot tom of tho list on committees on which they now hold membership. The action, which was taken yesterday over tho written protest of the three senators who support ed the La Foiiette ticket in the presidential campaign, would give them the samo committee statu as though elected on an Independ " ent instead of republican ticket. Senator La Foiiette himself made no reply to the committee letter asking In the case of each senator, whether they desired the demo crats or republicans to make their committee assignments. The committee's ac'ion Is sub ject to approval by the republican party conference, to be held early next month, and later by the sen ate itself. Although some opposi tion is expected at both stages, ad ministration lea-le.-s believe they ran carry out their program. Wife of Governor Pierce Lingering At Portals of Death liic condition of Mrs. Wul ler M. IMtTtv. w'fe of Gov ernor rrrcc, hail taken an other rrlilr.it turn today. It wtm sn:d .it ib executive of Tim. Mrt. IMrrrp lin been In IM ltrnhli for move than tun year-. At noon It him stated that th end was only m mat ter of Imiir. perhaps of mln- tiles, and there win little hop or lier surviving the Jar. I " I Legislative Enactment Goes Into Effect August 31 Similar To California And Idaho Laws. . Reform in the motor vehicle lighting system of Oregon is pro vided In house bill 264, by Shrock which passed the legislature and which will become effective at midnight August 31. Prior to that time Secretary of State Kozer may institute a campaign of edu cation through the etate traffic department to make the motorists of the state familiar with the new lighting regulations. The new system is now used in California and Idaho and is being adopted by Washington. It is in use elsewhere the United States ana its purpose is to bring uni form lighting regulation through' out the country. Headlights, spot lights and fog lights are affected and signal lights on busses. The position of bead lamps is fixed at not less than 24 or more than 5C inches above the surface of the highway, and the act pro vides that It be impossible to move them so the beam of light can he rj.i.u above t'e center of the lamp. The act will apply to the "eight-point test" which is ap proved by the Illuminating Light ing Engineers' association of the United States. Adiustinp- Stations. The act provides for adjusting stations. Any garage or shop which will provide itself with the necessary equipment may make application to the secretary of state for a certificate as an ad justing station. The act requires the adoption of certain lenses and reflector device3. At present there are 27 different makes of lenses and reflectors that meet require' ments in the state that have the law. Practically all new cars sold in the last two years have lenses and reflectors that meet the re (Continued on Pago Four) STANDARD GIL FIXES GAS PICES "Washington, Feb. 28 Independ ent gasoline interests generally Uok to the Stindard OH company of Indiana for the establishment of price levels an 1 endeavor to prevent cutting .below those levels, the federal trade commission to day reported to the senate. The report, submitted by Presi dent Coolldge as a result of a re cent eeiute request, covered an in quiry by the commission into mar ket conditions in 1923-24. While the several Standard Oil companies since the dissolution de cree "generally operate less con sistently as a group," the report paid, tho more Important members of the group as "fortifying them selves by obtaining control of In dependents and entering new branches of the Industry as Intug rated and dominant units In the territories in which they operate." Twj compmtes the Prairie Oil company and Standard of Indiana were declared "in a substantial degree to dominate" the price of crude oil and of gasoline in the mld-contirental where about one half the crude is produced and nearly one third of the gasoline produced is consumed. BORAH TO FORCE VOTE UPON SALARY RAISE Washington. Feb. 2.8. Over the protest of many senators, Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, nave no tice today In the senate that he would pr'ss hla proposal to repeil the recently voted congressional salary increase. A 'snenslon of the rules by J two-thirds rote would be neces sary for consideration of the re pent. To ave time Senator Borai asked unanimous consent for Its conldcration but Senator Heflln. democrat, Alabama, objected. Ohio Congressman Wins Speakership of Next Session LUNUl! BE SPEAKER OF NEXT CONGRESS Washington, Feb. 8. Nicholas Long worth of Ohio will preside as speaker of the house in the sixty ninth congress and John Q. Tilson of Connecticut will be the repub lican floor leader. The present majority leader was selected by republican members- elect in the house In caucus last night as their candidate for speak er on the first ballot by a vote of 140 to 85. The causus decision Is binding on the majority members and his election to the speaker ship Is certain. Martin B. Madden of Illinois, for whom the 85 votes were cast, immediately offered a motion by which the selection of Mr. Long worth was made unanimous. The choice of Mr. Tilson was by ac clamation. Other selections made by the caucus at which all but ten of the 234 republicans qualified to at tend were present, Included Repre sentative Hawley of Oregon as chairman of the caucus and Representative Sweet of New York as secretary and Representative Vestal of Indiana, as republican whip, a post he now holds. Democrats elected to the new bouse will caucus tonight to select their candidate for speaker, with Representative Garrett of Tennessee, tho party leader, as a certain choice. Upon his defeat when the house organizes, he will automatically continue as the minority leader. Fair Inauguration Imy Washington, Feb 28 "Fair and rather cool weather" was forecast by the weather bureau today for President Coolidge's Inauguration. Pierce to Operate New Seven Story Hotel in Corvallis Changes in Marion hotel man agement effective May 1 were an nounced today whm H became known that A. N. Pierce, manager of tho hotel for the past five years, will go to Corvallis to take charge under lease of the new seven story community hotel being constructed there, which will be christened Ho tel Benton, and James R. Linn, principal owner of the Marlon,' will assume personal management of tho hotel here. Mr. Linn stated today that with slight exception he will maintain the same organization that has been functioning under the man agement of Mr. Pierce. Harold MacGrcgor, one of the clerks under Mr. Pierce, will go to Corvallis with him. Dean Fowle, who has been niht clerk at the hetel will become auditor and William Cain, day clerk at the hotel, will have general charge of the offices and room management. Mr. Linn stated that while some improvements were contemplated in a general way at the hotel these are all more or less in the air and in a formative stage just nt present. Thn new hotel at Corvaliut which Mr. Pierce will manage and con trol under a 29 year lease will be WEEKSDENIES MUZZLING OF ANY OFFICERS Neither Mitchell Nor Others Gagged Says War Secretary But For mer Disobeyed Orders. Washington, Feb. 28. Secre tary Weeks today told the house aircraft committee that Brigadier General Mitchell, assistant army air chief, had directly disobeyed President Cool id ge 'a order In writing magazine articles with out obtaining the approval of the war department. The general, Mr. Weeks said, had the articles published with out war department approval, de spite the fact that President Coolidge had written him cau tioning him against It. After the 1921 tests, Mr. Weeks said, the secretary of the navy ob jected to several articles writ ten by the general and in order to prevent further controversy with the navy he was ordered to submit further articles for ap proval. Last fall, the secretary contin ued, Mitchell went to the white house accompanied by a repre sentative of the Saturday Eve ning Post to discuss with the president some articles he pro posed to write. The president in formed Mitchell he' had no ob jection to the a r tic Ien provided they were passed upon by the war department and later wrote Mitchell cautioning him against publishing the articles without permission. They subsequently were published, Mr. Weeks said. without being submitted to the war department. Mr. Weeks explained he had issued the order regarding Mitch ell after the secretary of the navy had objected to the articles on the 1921 tests as "reflecting on the navy." Secretary Weeks added that he wished to etate "emphatically tho war department had not muzzled either General Mitchell or any other officer to keep them from telling the truth, to congression ai committees. He read the war department order on that subject made public yesterday and said if any officer did not know he was permitted to give his person al views," be must be a tlm'.d soul." The discussion shifted to the question of war department ap nronriations and Mr. Weeks tee tified flie department had asked for approximately $280,000,000 for the next fiscal year and had received $192,000,000. The air service allotment, he said, had been curtailed from $26,500,000 to $18,000,000. The ordnance bu reau was reduced 13 per cent more than the air service. a fire proof structure or seven stories, with 125 rooms. 70 of them with baths or connecting baths, The new hotel will have a beautiful dining roo:n, ball room, mezzanine floor, two private dining rooms and will contain a coffee shop And two stores In addition. The building Is locate 1 ac Fourth and Monroe streets In Corvallis on the Pacific highway and also on the street leading from the downtown section to the agricultural college. The building will be ready for r.ccupancy about May 10 and open for business My 20. Mr. Pierce plans to leave for Corvallis May 1. He has had a long and active career In hotel management, start' tng in the game as a bellhop In the old Cutler housi at Grand Haven, Mich., where Mayor Brown of Seattle started in the hotel busi ness, becoming a clerk under J, Poyd Pantlind, one of the best known hotel men In the middle west, proprietor of the Panillnd hotel at Grand Rapids, Mich. For 10 years before coming to Salem he managed the Seward hotel In Portland. He has benn active in various community affairs while here and Inst year served as Kin King of the Cheirians. Want Sheriff f to Guard Hen Coops ; As Well as Sheep Threats of an organization of chicken raisers throughout the county as a chicren protective so ciety to not alone guard hencoops against raids, but raise a, voice of protest eo the sheriff must heed! every time a chicken coop is ma rauded, are voiced In a letter re ceived from Mrs. Charles E. Allan- bach of Gervais, Oregon, sent to The Capital Journal. This appeal to poultry raisers places the eehriff, as It were, lit erally between "hell and high- water," as the echo has scarcely! died awa:' from tne clamor of H.! H. Vandevort about the annrehen- sion of sheep-killing dogs. bilggestions are offered that tho sheriff divide hs iorce of four deputies Into two squads to be known as the chicken thief squad SUIT 10 FORCE 10 PAY Portland, Ore., Feb. 28. Suit to force Ladd & Tilton bank of Portland and associated defend ants to pay back money Invested In the Oregon Kings company of Delaware was filed in circuit court today. Tin, demand Is based on charges paralleling those made In reports of Oswald West and George Black committee of the governor which investigated various corporations recently. Agnes Boyd WIgle, who de clared she bought stock In her own right and has also been assigned stock of other purchasers, asks $30,620. The defendants on whom the demand Is made are Ladd & Tilton bank, S. L. Eddy, Isaac D. Hunt Cameron Squires, F. N. Clark, E. A. Clark, Mary A. Wittenbere. Mason Wittenberg, Ralph S. Wit, tenberg, t. c. Stettler Manufac turing company, Walter D. Whit- comb, William J. Picpenbrlnk, national Commercial company A. L. Dundas, G. F. Martin, Mult nomah Lumber & Box company F. A. Douty, George F, Judd and Kings Products company. Two principal charges are made. The first Is that the dependants sold stock to the public on the basis that the money raised was to be used In developing the com pany, -whereas It is asserted most of It went to the bank, the Wit tenbergs and the company treas ury. Most of the stock sold, the com plaint alleged, was not treasury stock but was actually owned by some-of the defendants, particu larly by the bank. With a Inftt minute campaign that netted 260 members in three days, the KUem porit of the Ameri can Legion closed the two month drive for members with a rush that la expected to aid In putting Oregon in line for the stale trophy In the national race for member, according to Charles Goodwin, ad jutant of the Salem pout. Celebration of tho successful close of the r.-arnpaiKn will bo fit tingly observed Monday niKht with a special Imported vaudeville pro gram, and a banquet In the legion hall, according to Mr. Goodwin. Every ex-service man in Salem Is Invited to the entertainment, whether he has Joined the Legion or net, says Mr. Goodwin. TY COBB HIT OVER HEAD BT WAITRESS Atlanta, On.. Feb. 23 Ty Cobb, manager of the Detroit Tigers, is under bond to appear before the city recorder 4oday to answer to a chargr of disorderly conduct crowing out of a depute with a waitress over the amount of a din ner check last night. Police reported that Cobb'i dis pute over the dinner cheek was re ferred to Ihe wife of the restaurant ma natter, and that she hit the Georgia peach over the head with a arlass and calk- 'he police. LEGION DAM 260 MEMBERS and the sheep-killing dog squad, these two squads or two apiece to spread themselves over the coun ty, on j squad roosting In chicken coops all night and the other dis guised as sheepuerdcrs, crouching on the thousand mils armed with anvjonia guns lying in wait fur dogs. By adroit use of a serleB of disguises It Is believed the depu ties could operato in this ma n nor to the eternal terror of chicken coop looters and carnivorous dogs. ?.:ra. Allenbacb In her letter is quite pronounced in her views. She addresses It to -the readers of The Capital Journal and the sheriff of Marion county. "1 wonder why we pay taxes to support a sheriff supposed to pro tect u from lawhiear.era and then (Continued on Page Ten) 00L A potato apiece to be taken to Sunday school next Sunday school attendant Is one of the plans for securing food for the Associated Charities to carry on its work dur Ing Its present drive. Tho lowly potato is the most needed of all forms of food Just now, Mrs. John A. Carson reports and It Is believ ed if every child docs his or her duty in the premises the necessary spuds will become available. Tha work for next week, to be known ns "Charities Week" is lak ing on definite form. Sunday morning pastors of nil churches Including those not af- filiatea with the ministerial asso elation, will as their congregations to bring to their respective churches on Thursday, March 5, clothing and beans. Tho potato situation It is expected will be tnk en euro of by the children. On tho .following Sunday, March church members wll be asked to bring money to assist. Other organizations are slated to gather up shoes and clothing for women and children and any such staple food as may bo available. The stream of money and food is to converge Into the Associated Charities at 640 State street. $151,000 PERMITS More than $151,000 were repro wentej in building permits Issued at the city recorder's office dur ing the month of February, doub ling tho amount ropresented in permits filed last month. In the February permits, 32 of the 4 issued were for residences. Those filed yesterday and today were by vn Pahlburg, S. O. Hen kle, A. W. Myer, Charles Evans, and A. J. SehurHJiker. All the houses are to le constructed by .Mr. jfamnurg, his own at 440 Hurai avenue, to cost $2500; Mr. Henkle's at 660 D street, to cwt $3400; Mr. Myers at 725 North luth street, to cost $4400; Mr. Evan' at 1770 South Church to cost $35i)0; and Mr. Rchumaker's nt 1475 South Commercial, to cost Visou. Mr. pahlburg has Also fll ed a permit for the erection of i noue at 1025 Belmont street, to cost 14200. FARMERS' BALLOT To ascertain the sentiment of farmers upon the auto parking limit in the business district of Salem, country readers are requested to cut out, mark with an X their preference and mail this ballot to the Capital Journal. n Favor one hour parking limit. Favor two hour parking limit. 'o limit. Name Address , DICKINSON BILL CALLED CAMOUFLAGE Market Measure Passed By House Declared An other Effort To Kid the Farmers Just Mush. Washington, Feb. 28. The Dickinson cooperative farm mark eting bill, substituted by the house Cor the Capper-Haugen bill was described today by Chairman Carey of the president's agricul tural conference as the "cleverest piece of camouflage ever drawn." Appearing before the senate agricultural committee, he said it was drawn by Henry C. Taylor, chief of the jurcau of agricultural economics, who, he Buid, was an antagonist of the conference and would stir up "one of tho greutest fights ever seen in Washington," if enacted into law. The Dickinson bill would pro pose to extend aid to farmers without the. regulatory provisions of the Capper-Haugen measure. It will be just a step toward killing anything that may be done in the future, Chairman Carey de clared. "The bureau of agricul tural economics which will be giv en all power by this bill has this power now. The bill merely pro vides two junkets annually to Washington for GO members on an advisory council. They will be pat! $25 a day on these trips. The hill alo gives four other men $10,000 a year to give advice which the he.:d of the bureau of agricultural economics ran veto. (Continued on Page Nine) HARBORS BILL Washington, Feb. 28. Notice was given to the senate today by Senator Gooding, republican, Ida ho, thut unless his long and short freight rate proposal Is attached to the rivers and harbors bill that measure has little chance of pass ing at tills session of congress. When he made his declaration, Senator Uoodlng had been speak ing for more than three hours In fuvor of his proposition, whicn as rejected by the house at the last schhIoii. There wus no indi cation how much longer he ex pected to hold tho floor. The conference agreed that the chances of the $41,000,000 meas ure had been endangered by what was termed "the filibuster nuw proceedings against the Cape Cod purchase," and the proopsul to prohibit the charging of a higher rate for a short than a long haul. Senator Hobinson, Arkansas, who presided ut the meeting said it was agreed that each of these rid ers should be treated "as sepurutc measur?s." Leaders on both aides of the chain" er withdrew both the Good ing proposition and the Capo Cod can I purchase atrendments as siders on the bill, as they had re ceived word from hoiine lcadern that If theso were added the rivers and harbors bill vould fail. "The west hasn't got a chan..e h'Te," Senator Goodnight said in announcing that he had been in formed thut Chairman Jones of the commerce committee would love to lay on tho tuble both of the in tended riders. EBERT DEAD FROM EFFECTS OF OPERATION President of Germany Dies From Peritonitis Following Operation for Appendicitis. Berlin, Feb. 28. (By Arsoct. ated Press) Frlederich Ebert, first president of the German re public died at 10:15 this morn ing from peritonitis which fol lowed an operation for appendi citis five daj's ago. The former saddle maker, whose skill in guiding the Infant republic through the first turbu lent years of its existence, was acknowledged even by his bitter enemies, made a gallant fight for life. But his system bad been un dermined by an attack of influ enza before the operation and hla heart was not equal to the bur den Imposed by the poison which had spread throughout his sys tem. Around his bedside when the end came were his wife, their daughter, Amalie, and her hus band, Dr. Wilhelm Jaenecke, and their sole eon to survive the war, Frlederich, Jr. State Secretary Meiener was the only other per son present aside from the doc tors and nurses. The political attacks upon the president which culminated In the Madgeburg trial, and the ef forts to connect him with the Barmat loan scandals, added." greatly to the burdens imposed upon him as chief executive of a (Continued on Page Ten) E Forging the name of Charles K. Spauldlug, locul lumberman and capitalist, and representing him self to be a log scaler employed by John Kohling & Son, a man who registered as F. D. Miller of souttt San Francisco succeded In getting two nights' room rent and the change from a $20 bill, out of A bogus $20 check drawn on the Sa lem Bank of Commerce. The check was returned marked "no funds' as Spuulding does not carry an ac count in the bank in question. The stranger evidently Is a slick forger of somu renown In the northwest as immediately after Manager Pierce nad called Detec tive Tom Swenness of Portland and advised him of the man's age and height Swenness had hint spotted and said he could round him up In a short time. No word of his arrest had yet been received this morning. The check pas-jr was a smooth looking individual, 60 years of age, ti feet 2 inches In height, weighed 190 pounds, bad a ruddy complexion, wore a blue serge suit and a black soft felt hat. Ho stayed at the hotel two nights, ran up a bill of $0 or $7, presented the check, which was ft perfectly good looking document with a signature attached of which Charles K. Spaulding him self might have felt proud and got the change. He also left his for warding address as the Umpqut hotel. Koseburg. Nothing could he learned today of any other operations on tht part of Miller in Salem. LUUI Ui WHILE IH JAIL NVii:hbor look 47 chicken! from the premlscH of Albert Old, while he waa in Jail, according to complaint filed yesterday at th, i Ixtrkt attorney's office by Mr. Olds, who Uvea out near Talboi. A quli by the attorney disclosed the fuel that Mr. uida hod prom ised the chickens to the tnkcrs. Vern Collins and John Doe Collins. 11 n exchnnpe for some money ha owed them, and the two men wer, simply seising an opportunity and the chickens. The case has beea dropped.