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SILK
CITY EDITION
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FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 53
ROBBERS PICK
ONLY QUALITY
MERCHANDISE
Dresses, Coats, Suits and
Hals Valued At $1000
Taken In Robbery of
Director's Store.
AI'ltOH A STOItU ROBUi:i
Aurora, Or., Mar. 3
IlunrlnrN luHt nli;ht stole
about $1000 worth of uior
I'tmudiM? from tlie giH'r.tl
stuiv of Will and Snyder.
Befom leu villi; lo f'ar tltt'ir
loot nuay in III auto Ui
roliliern h'lii'l tht'iiitii-lve tu
a licin-ty luucli lit the groc
cry riepurtiiu-iit.
The "silk stocking gang" ia at
work again.
After months of respite from
the activities of this clever group
of merchandise thieves the Salem
police were again called upon this
morning to attempt solution of the
latest coup of these master sky
light operators.
Director's department store was
entered sometime during last
night and goods valued at $1000
were removed, including 100 silk
dresses, five women's coats, 22
women's hats, five aprons, 10
men's suits and three suitcases.
Old Gantr Susuected
Police investigation this morn
ing revealed the Job to have all of
the ear-marks of the work of the
"silk stocking gang," to which has
been laid the robberies of the
Milter store and the West Fur
company last spring and summer
and no less than half a dozen sim
ilar burglaries fn Eugene, Corval
lis, Albany, Silverton, McMInn
ville, Astoria and other points.
Entrance to the Director store
last night was gained through a
skylight reached through a hall
way and stair entrance opening
out on Commercial street from
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GOVERNOR KILLS
BILLS TO SPEND
All armory approprlatiion bills
passed by the legislature were to
day vetoed by Governor Pierce,
aggregating $100,000. These pro
vided for the conestructlon of ar
mories at La Grande, Cottage
Qrove and Forest Grove.
Through the Item veto privl
lege the governor lopped $20,000
from the approprialon for the
University of Oregon medical
school in Portland, and cut $10,-
000 from house bill 491, which
appropriated $50,000 for de
struction of predatory animals.
He vetoed an appropriation of
$6925 for a supplementary Ore
gon law code, provided in house
bill 274.
Tbe governor's veto messages
on all three of the armory bills
are Identical.
Concerning his veto of the
supplementary code measure the
governor says "I am convinced
that this i one saving that can
m made without great lnconven
ience to anyone."
PIERCE FREES
Bend, Or.. March 3. Mrs. Loic
Duval, serving a 60-day sentence
In the Deschutes county Jail fol
lowing conviction on a possession
of liquor charge, has been granted
reprieve by Governor Pierce
Authority to release Mrs. Duval
was Terelved In a telegram to
Sheriff 8. E. Roberts this morn
ing. Mrs. Duval was sentenced on
January It and bad served 45 ot
the S0-dy sentence. A fine of
1500 was part of the sentence.
BANDITS ROB STORE
1 fiY
AH : ged Slayer of
C ; ppled Daughter
f Pleads Insanity
Denver. Colo., Mar. 8 First de
gree murder charges were tiled
against Dr. Harold E. Blazer, re
tired physician at Littleton, near
here, today, In connection with the
death of his invalid daughter,
Hasel Blazer, 32 years old.
Denver, Colo., March 3. "If 1
killed my daughter I did wrong."
This Qualified confession came
from the lips of Dr. Harold Elmer
Blazer last night in the first ex
tended statement he has made
since his daughter. Hazel, was
found dead in the family home one
week ago today.
His next sentence was:
"If I did kill her I have no
recollection of it.'
Hazel was 32 years old. She
House Measure Assessing
Heavier Fees On Motor
Carriers Unconstitu
tional, Is Opinion.
House bill 413, the bus bill,
which is being watched eagerly in
all parts of the state, is unconsti
tutional, according to an opinion
received by Governor Pierce to
day from Attorney General Van
Winkle. The bill proposed to in
crease the fees of motor busses and
trucks and to apply the same
regulation to delivery vehicles
operating in a radius ot more than
five miles from the establishment
employing them. Defective title
and text are the basis of the
opinion, more than one subject be
ing covered by them. Governor
Pierce would not say today
whether he will approve or veto
the bill. Should he approve It,
the act doubtless would go to the
supreme court.
The opinion quotes the const,
tutional provision which says:
''Every act shall embrace but
one subject, and matters properly
connected therewith, which sub
ject shall be expressed In tbe title,
But If any subject shall be em
braced In an act which shall not
be expressed in the title, such act
shall be void only as to so much
thereof as shall not be expressed
In the title."
"An examination of the title and
text of the act under considera
tion," says the opinion, "reveals
clearly that this provision of the
state constitution is violated hy it
In that it contains provisions on
two or more subject?, and at least
two subjects are expressed in the
title. One Is: To provide revenue
for the use, maintenance, repair
and construction of public high
ways by imposing a clifl ?e
upon motor vehicles.' The other
is: 'Froviilng for the supervision
and regulation of such motor ve
hicles, and the operation there
of.' "It a.ro Includes, a. germane to
the foregoing subjects, tho raiding
of revenuo to defray the coat of
administering the act and confer
ring jurisdiction over such mat
ters upon the public service com
mission, and other adjective pro
vision se. That these are separate
and distinct subjects cannot well
be doubted. The first is a revenue
measure, while the latter is an ex
erciao of the police power and not
necessarily or properly related to
each othr, consequently, If either
is taken as the subject of the act
the other ca.inot be considered
gcrmajie to it."
House bill 21, a companion
measure. Imposing a 60 per cent
increase in fees on peddlers ve
hicles, was signed by the governor
today.
GERMANY TO SELECT
PRESIDENT MARCH 9
Hcrlin, March 3. (By Associat
ed Press.) The date of the Oer
manprestriential election, at which
successor to the late President
Gbert will be chosen wss officially
rbnsen today as Marcb .
AUTO BUS BILL
HELDJLLEGAL
apital JU iir mat
was reformed and neighbors
knew her as, "Hazel, the little
child woman" who had never
grown up.
Authorities said she had been
suffocated by chloroform. Dis
trict Attorney Stone of Engle-
wood, a suburb, where the Blazers
lived, said that a warrant charg
ing the father with first degree
murder would be served today.
When he greeted newspapermen
late last night, Dr. Blazer was
lying In a hospital bed, apparent
ly recovering rapidly from what
his brother-in-law, Roy E. Bishop,
said were three attempts to en;l
his own life. Twice he had taken
poison. Bishop told the authori
ties, and the third attempt was
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Eleventh-Hour Effort Is
Made To Enact Modif
ied McNary - Ha u gen
Measure As Rider.
Washington, Mar. 3. After a
fairly peaceful day, spent in
cleaning up odds and ends of
legislation, well developed eigne
of a senate filibuster began to
appear late today to trouble the
dying hours of tbe out going con
great.
Washington, March 3. An
eleventh hour attempt to pass
i a nil legislation was made In the
senate today by Senator Howell
republican, Nebraska, in propos
ing the modified McXary-Haugen
bill as an amendment to the naval
omnibus measure.
After forcing reading of the
long bill, Senator Howell launch
ed into a discusoion of agricultur
al conditions which he said bad
not been given sufficient consider
ation. The bill was In the form intro
duced this session by Senator Mc
Nary, republican, Oregon.
"We find the farmer today on
the road to peasantry," Senator
Howell declared, "unless society
and Its representatives here are
willing to come to hie aid."
The somewhat leisurely fashion
in which congress has neared the
adjournment hour at noon tomor
row, promised to give way today
to sessions extending well Into the
night for both houses in the last
minute rush to ciear the calendar
of alt bills having any chance of
enactment.
With all of the regular appro
priation bills safely cleared of the
legislative jam, the senate and
house set what is declared to be a
precldent by adjourning without
night sessions yesterday, with
only hours remaining before sine
die adjournment. The senate call.
ed it a day shortly after 7 o'clock,
after Senator Pepper, republican,
Pennsylvania, had called up ttie
house branch banking bill as the
unfinished business.
Tbe only one of the important
money bills still held up In tbe
rinal deficiency measure.
Legislation In the senate to car
ry out the co-operative marketing
recommendations of the prosi
dent's agricultural conference now
faces practically certain failure
Columbus, Ohio, March 3. Un
precedented cold weather for
March prevailed throughout Ohio
today, the temperature dropping
to near zero In many places, it
wm five above here. Weather bu
reau records show it was the cold
est March 3 here In history.
Two deathers were attributed
to the cold. Tbe frozen body of
ai j, Jones, so, was found at Can
ton. John LaFountain. 46. w
found frozen to death at Rossford.
A!
RELIEF
BILL PRESSED
SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1925
STATE MONEY
FOR HOSPITAL
DIES BY VETO
Governor Applies Axe To
Bill Appropriating
$52,000 To Maintain
Memorial Hospital.
The Dornbecher Memorial hos
pital project In Portland Is
knocked out by, Governor Pierce's
veto today of house bill 467, which
provided for appropriations for
salaries, wages and operating ex
penses of the institution when It
shall have been built.
The governor also vetoed house
bill 19.1, which provided an ap
propriation of $15,000 for the
state land settlement commission
to clean up its debts and get
back again on an operating basis.
The governor recommends that the
the commission sell one of Its
model farm projects to acquire
the necessary funds.
Relative to the Dornbecher hos
pital bill the governor says in nil
veto message:
"This bill appropriates $32,040
for salaries and wages in connec
tion with the Dornbecher Memor.
ial hospital In Portland, and
$20,020 for operating expenses in
connection with the Dornbecher
Memorial hospital. This hospital
Is not yet constructed. I do not
believe that money should be ap
propriated from the general fund
for the maintenance and support
of a hospital in the city of Port
land at this time."
The bill provided that the sums
appropriated should not be avall-
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OF
New York, Mar. 8 William A.
Clark, 86 years old, former sena
tor from Montana and pioneer of
the copper mining industry, died
In his Fifth avenue - home last
night of pneumonia, following a
cold contracted a. few days ago.
Mr. Cla -k, who was vice-president
of the United Copper com
pany, maintained a residence in
Butte, Mont., his home city, In
addition to one here.
An Idea of his wealth is given
by the fact that as far back a
1889 he refused $50,000,000 for
one of his copper mines. This rise
to wealth was during a career
which included the occupation of
a farmer's helper, school teacher,
law student, miner, prospector,
banker and art collector.
Mr. Clark's widow was Anna
LaChupelle, a Canadian physician's
daughter, who became his ward
on the death of her father and
who was married to Mr. Clark In
Marseilles In 1007. MP. Clark was
first married to Knte L. fitauffer
of Connellvllle, Pa., In 1869. She
died in 1893.
Mr Clark's residence was one of
the most pretentious structures In
M.-W York and at Its completion In
1912 It was said to have cost $5,
000,000. In It Mr. Clark housed a
great collection of art which had
been a hobby with him.
Mr. Clark had an aversion to
traveling about New York In au
tomobiles contending that it wavs
too dangerous. He used Instead
the subway.
SOVIET PLANS TO DIG
FOR HIDDEN LIBRARY
Moscow. Murrh 3. (by Associ
ated Press.) The soviet govern
ment today took steps to eicavate
under the towers of the Kremlin
for the famous hidden library of
Iran the Terrible (1530-1584),
said to include 800 volumes bound
in pure gold and many Arabian,
Persian, Assyrian and Byzantine
manuscripts and parchment of
priceless value.
The existence of tuch a library
has been known for centuries, but
its precis location has never been
accurately determined
Smokers Pay
For Increase
Given Judges
? When Governor Pierce yester
day signed the bill increasing tbe
salary of supreme court Justices
from 15,259 to 17,600 a year, a
puff of smoke, figuratively speak
ing, went up all over the state.
The total increase for the seven
Justices means $8,760 a year.
This further means, under the
terms of the new tobacco revenue
tax bill at the rate of 2 cents a
package for tax, that 437,500 ad
ditional packages ot "fags" must
be smoked in Oregon next year to
keep the wheels of Justice revolv
ing smoothly. Add to this an ap.
proximate 10 per cent for ex
pense of collection it would be a
total of 441,875 packages of
"fags" to cover the additional sal
ary costs.
There are 20 cigarettes In a
package, and the salary boost,
thus translated into terms ot
cigarettes under the new tax law,
means that a total of 8,837,500
cigarettes extra will have to be
smoked by the good people of Ore
gon a year Just to cover tho cobI
of the increase. This is a little
over eight cigarettes for every
man. woman and child In Oregon.
And it will be a few more than
that for some man, woman or
child, since Brigadier General
White has quit puffing tbe pernic
ious pill.
DRUNKEN DRIVER
Rules were suspended last night
In the city council to permit of
the immediate passage of an
ordinance- prohibiting intoxicated
persons from operating a motor
vehicle In the city of Salem, and
setting as punishment for viola
tion, fine from $50 to $500, plus
Jail sentence from five days to six
months, and revocation of driver's
permit from three months to a
year.
Three readings of the ordinance
were followed by a vote, which
was unanimous In favor of the
ordinance. Alderman Johnson
urged the necessity of such a law,
and asked for immediate enforce
ment. A salary Increase of the city
treasurer Is embodied In an ordi
nance brought before the city
council last night, and read for
the first and second time. Alder
man Rosebraugh moved that the
rules be suspended and immediate
passage of the ordinance be voted,
but one vote defeated the motion.
It was explained that this In
crease was provided In the city
budget, but the ordinance was re
ferred to committee action, pend
ing the third reading at next
council meeting. The ordinance
would Increase the treasurer's
salary to $1,650 per year.
Mais
' PROBE FAILURE
Washington, March 3. Secre
tary Mellon In a letter to Presi
dent Coolldge today Informed the
executive that the treasury 's
"accusers," charging irregulari
ties In the handling of federal
securities remain "as far now
from proving their charges as they
were In 1920."
Tho secretary added that with
the exception of a "petty theft"
Involving $130,000 In bonds, the
two and one-half years of Investi
gation by Char.'es B. Brewer, de.
partment of justice agent and the
more recent investigation by a
special house committee had de
veloped nothing further than a
reiteration of the original charges
made in 1920 by J. W. McCarter.
a former deputy register of the
treasury. .
Mr. Mellon ' letter, written as a
reply to the report submitted by
the house committee yesterday ad
vised the president that the treas
ury administration regarding the
handling of the federal securities
aa having been remarkably free
from Irregularities.
DURING NIGHT
mi mMlM 1
INAUGURATION
0FC00LIDGE
TO BE SIMPLE
Showy Splendor of Past
Events To Be Entirely
Absent; Capital City
Unusually Quiet.
Washington, Mar. S (By Asso
ciated Prew) In setting that re
flected only dinly the showy
splendor that has shone upon in
augural htiiory for a century and
more, the American government
brought to completion today Its
plan to install a new national ad
ministration at noon tomorrow.
Everything considered it was
the quietest March S of an in
auguration year that Washington
has seen in many a decade. Tho
ceremonies tomorrow will be some
what more extended than those of
four years ago when President
Harding ordered that the whole
inauguration be attended by utter
simplicity but on that occasion the
Impending change of government
stirred the capital to a high pitch
of expectation and brought here a
tremendous crowd of spectators.
City Quiet Today
Today the wide avenues of the
capital were almost barren of pre
lnaugural crowds and only a few
scattered reviewing stands and a
profusion of red, white and blue
which draped almost every build
ing along the line of tomorrow's
abbreviated parade evidenced the
near approach of an other inaug
uration day.
At the While House President
Coolldge was & Utile busier than
ordinary,, receiving distinguished
visitors and keeping pace with the
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SENAIE AGREES
ID GRAZING FEE
CUTS THIS YEAR
Washington. March 3. The
senate today approved a houe
resolution authorizing the eecrc
tary of agriculture to waive one
half the grazing fees charged on
public lands during 1925.
Washington, March 3. The
final deficiency appropriation bil
was sent back to conference today
by the houwe with a rider to au
thorize expenditure of $150,000,-
000 on public buildings.
Washington, March 8. The
house toduy adopted a resolution
expressing "an earnest desire
that the United States adhere to
the world court protocol. Senate
action or presidential approval is
.iot necessary ou the resolution
vhlch simply expresses the opin
n of the house.
OREGON-AGGIES SERIES
TO OPEN ON THURSDAY
Eugene, Or., March 3. Another
change was made this afternoon In
the schedule for the championship
series of the northern section of
the Pacific coast Intercollegiate
conference, between the Univer
sity of Oregon and the Oregon
Agricultural college basket bill
learns.
According to the Intent agree
ment reached between the athletic
officials of the two schools the
first game of the series will be
played In Eugene on Thursday
afternoon at 6 o'clock. The sec
ond game will be played at Cor-
vallis Saturday evening, and the
third game, should a third gam
be necessary, wl!l be played eithj
Salem or Portland.
JAPAN FAVORS CONFERENCE
Tokio, Jupan, March 3. (Hy
Associated Press. Baron Rhlde-
hara, the foreign minister, reply
Ing to a question in the uppei
house today, said Japan was pre
pared to participate In an artna
ment conference, should America
call one, but preferred that' the
agenda be discussed in advance,
PRICE THREE CENTS &Na8A,"Vb Ve"
UNDEEWWS
fS OF IOWA ARE
I ?W CONTESTANTS
mm
REVENUE B LL
Suspension of Accident
Commission Levy And
Bonus Millage Slash
Win Approval.
Governor Pierce today signed
two of the revenue saving meas
ures approved by the legislature.
They were house bill 500, whlcu
suspends state aldn to the indus
trial accident commission for two
years, amounting to abuut $175,
000, and house bill 497, which re
duces the millage levy fur the
state bonus commislson from one
to one-half mill, amounting to
about half a million dollars.
The governor has signed tbe
following appropriation bills:
H. B. 488 Fur Btate and su
preme court libraries.
H. B. 499 For Installing (ire
exists and rupnirlng elevators in
capital and supreme court build
ing. II. B. 479 Salaries and ex
penses of state livestock sanitary
bourd.
H. B. 473 Salaries In attorney
general's office.
H. B. 490 For eradication of
rodents. -
H. B. 486- -To pay sundry
claims.
H. B. 495 Expenses of general
and biennial elections.
II. B. 470 Salaries and ex
penees of educational department
11. B. 472 Salaries and ex
penses of supreme court.
II, B. 492 For transferring
convicts.
H. B. 468 For support of
homeless, neglected and abused
children.
H. B. 476 Salaries and ex
penscs of labor department.
H. B. 481 For Oregon Agrleul
tural college under Smith-Lever
act.
II. B. 475 Salaries and ex
penses of Oregon national guard
II. B. 493 For payment of In
terest on irrigation district bonds,
H. B. 477 For Baiaiios and ex
pennes of state engineer.
Other bills signed today were:
H. B. 170, Lone rg an To ex
empt from estate and Inheritance
taxes property previously taxed
within five years.
H. B. 132. K II ham For unl
form system of accounts for state
institutions.
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.
11 Favor one hour parking limit.
Favor two hour parking limit.
No limit.
Name
Address
UNSETTLED TODAY
Probably rain In. north ana waat portion
tonight and Wednesday .So chance In
temperature; fresh, strong aouth win da.
Local: Max., &S; mln., 42; rain, .OS;
river, s.t, falling; atmoa., . part cloudy;
wind, bou kh weal.
Accused Senator Says He
Will Carry Fight To
Home People To Prove
His Republicanism.
Washington, Mar. 3 A contest
of the election of Senator Smith
W. Crook hart, republican. Iowa,
was filed with the senate today by
officials of the republican central
committee of Iowa.
At the same time a copy of the
papers were personally served up
on the senator by B. B. Burnqulst
of Fort Dodge, chairman and M.
K. Spongier of Cedar Rapids,
counsel for the committee. Sena
tor Brookhart had .announced
earlier that when the senate ad
journed he would go to Iowa to
make a contest against "that
gang" with "no quarter" asked.
Senator Brookhart, who already
has been read out of the party
councils by the republican senate
organization, previously had de
clined to accept service unless by
a United States marshal. Just as
he wus leaving his office for the
senate chamber today, however, .
Hurnqubft and Spankler handed
him the formal notice of the con
test.
Half an hour before Senator
Urokhart had announced that he
would take his fight against the
stato committee to the people of
Iowa by campaigning. He said
Int?r In reply to the charge that he
had been elected through fraud
and deceit by representing himself
to be a republican, that the peo
ple of Iowa had passed upon his
republicanism at the polls.
The charges brought against
Brookhart are these outlined in a
formal resolution adopted by the
state committee at Pes Moines last
January. Burnqulst asserts that
the meeting of the committee was
duly constituted one, but the
senate asserts that a number of
members of the committee already
have informed him of their re
pudiation of the action.
HOMING SAYS
F
San FraJi Cisco, Mar. 3 Richard
M. (totaling, wealthy clubman and
land owner went before the county
grand Jury last night and denied
in detail the charges made by
Ralph King, an acquaintance, that
he hid conspired to kill his flstei-in-la
w, M r. Fred Hotatlng, be
cause of m grievance against her.
Asked to explain his acquaint
ance with King, who Is a former
Hllo, T. H, j.ill keeper, Ho tiling
jtald:
"I am & bachelor without any
family to support and I have fre
quently befriended young men In
whom 1 have taken an interest.
King was a delightful companion:
full of wlerd stories. 1 liked him.
He Interested me very much and
no I aldej him with small sums of
money when he needed aid."
Hotallng said that he once gave
King $250 for a trip to Honolulu.
The grand Jury, after hearlns
Hotallng'a story, continued Its de
liberations for one week.
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