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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1925)
G apita CITY EDITION Dally ft vents nt paid circulation for month ndlna April Si), 1925 FAIR TONIGHT Wednesday fair in it etowdy and corT ar in west portion, ni'idorots ' variable wind. Lacott JMit.. tlj mta., 4; tattt, nan; ?lvrr ai?uo9.f clear; wind, north. 6755 Average dally distribution 70S J. Membtf Aullt Bureau f Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 107 SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1925 TUDI?P rI? TTJ ON TRJLtfiS. AND rnlL i02Vrr sk& STANDS F1V0. CENT9 Mfo) UJ FUJI an i ... at i REFDRM Or NGOMETAX ED Mellon Tells Bankers of Proposed Changes To Be Sought; Lower Sur tax Rate Urged. Jackson, Mies., May 5. A "low ering of the maximum surtax rates and a radical reduction in rates or the elimination ol the federal and state tax," in all probability will be recommended to the house ways and means committee by tne treasury next fall. Secretary Mel lon today declared in an address before members of the Mississippi Bankers association The secretary said that while It would not be appropriate for him to set forth a "definite pro gram, until the treasury makes Its recommendations to the committee In the llirht of Income then avail able" he felt sure that the "mar gin or surplus" would be ample for these reforms. Theory Held Proper The levy of an income tax, at nrtrn r rates, is a fair and econom ically sound means of raising the immense revenues required for the operation of he government," (secretary fliuuuu anaciiw. "But the tax must not be levied at rates so high as to hamper busings, slacken initiative, distort Investment and encourage avoid ance of the tax. "If the position of the Income tax is to be made secure, we must preserve its essential integrity. We must give to the country a law which closes the most obvious, doors of escape from taxation,, without at the same time expos-, Inir the law to contemnt by load ing It with complicated provisions unsuccessful In stopping tax avoidance. "Our present law has many of these defects." The treasury, he said, has fre quently recommended to congress the adoption of a constitutional amendment restricting further Is sue ot tax exempt securities. This, however, can not be counted on for the present, he added. "Personally. I feel that this is the strongest possible test of whether it Is really desired to make wealth bear its share of the tax burden," he explained. "All that is necessary is to close the door and thereby cut off this In viting avenue of escape from taxation. Since this Is not now possible, he continued, there is "conse quently no Immediate remedy for the situation within the power of congress except a readjustment of the surtaxes on a basis that will attract capital back Into produc tive business and keep it from ex hausting itself in tax exempt securities or from taking ad vantage of the many other methods of Investment by which taxes are avoided." ADV0CA1 Revolver, Poker and Profanity Figure In Divorce Testimony A pearl handled revolver, talk about a woman kilting her father-in-law with a poker, threats to take life, profanity, physical en counters between man and wife, with the calling in of the police, these were some ot the features in the divorce procedings of Frank A Freiber, Salem fireman, against Rosa Freiber, sired in Judge Mo Mahan't court yesterday. The court took the matter under ad visement, Freiber started the proceedings by suing bis wife for divorce, de claring he had an ungovernable temper, that she used profanHy freely and that she repeatedly threatened to take his me. Me ae- HDt had killed bit father by hit elared In January 1923 the de- Ung hUn wtlh a itOT0 serted him. when M a matter of fact, she Tn an affidavit from the wife averred she had taken kindest she asserted that he was a Salem care of him. fireman, earning $135 a month, The case has created consider that he Inherited a $5,000 estate able interest because? of the hus from his father, that he called hr band's connection with the (ire bad names publicly and privately i department and the nature of accused ber of Infidelity, that be: the a!U gallons. Jardine Will RideBronc Satisfy E r j:-yf J Jk Ml' f ' i tor: :rvr. jaedine Mandan, N. D.r May S (liy As sociated Hre) Accepting- a "dare" of a boyhood chum, William "Hill" Jordlne, secretary of agri culture has been entered In the broncho riding event at the third annual Mandan round-up to be held here July 2. 3 and 4. "Mr. Jardine will be able to ride (Continued on Pajre Ten CLEAVER KEPT STATE J Governor Admits Former Prohibition Director Doing Special Work As State Agent. Although the state of Orvgcn las a prohibition commissioner that was appointed by Governor Pierce to succeed George L.. Cleaver, after Cleaver had been .subjected to a searching investi gation by the legislature, and al though the new commissioner. iiliam S. Levins, has a force of operatives to enforce the prohibi tion law, ft now oevelopes that Cleaver is still drawing state mon ey as a special prohibit .on agent i'ur the governor. State recordd show that on April 2 the governor drew $147.71 to pay Cleaver for work done as a. .special agent under a statute al lowing the governor a fund for that purpose. C it aver retired as it ate prohlibtion commissioner on March 15. The governor said today that Cieaver and some others are em ployed by him as special prohibi tion agents, tie said they are not en regular salaries, but are em 1 ioyed occasionally, and that their (mpioyment ha no connection wiin the state pronmuion commis. doner's department. The governor ;aid that today he referred a case to Cleaver for hie attention. struck her with a stove poker and a general fight ensued. As a re sult, she declared, she called the police find he admitted to the po lice he had etruck her. They then lived apart, but he was home one evening, she alleged and he again struck her and the police was j called. She averred he admitted i at ihat time he wat suffering from a social disease. On one of these occasions, he alleged, he gave her pearl handled revolver to the police, as it had ben lying around the house and he thought It was a matter of common judgment to get It out of there. She charged that he had alleged CONFESSION OF CONVICT IflK REAL Details Conform With In cidents of Murder Near Sacramento, Wire From Police Advises. A voluntary confession made by C. R. Moor- a convict at the Ore gon state penitentiary, that he kill cd Hurry Brow.i, son of a puttee eomin isloner at Sacramento, in September, J 92 J. is apparently con firms-1 by a telegram received by Warden PMryrople late yesterday from B. McShane. chief of police at Sacramento. The telegram stat ed that details in a lev.er sent by Warden Dutrympto to thi Sacra mento police jhe?ked with the kill ing of Brown at Sacramento. Tha confession was aubKta.Utateit by 35 ore 'a w i f e, Mrs. Ruth M oore, who is believed to be iu Eugi-nc at prese.it. The confession was null Friday after Moor had been visited by his wife and the two rind quarrel ed over the woman's dec la red in tention to go to Portland to stck work. She became hysterical. Moor became violent ni aske J to be tfiken before the warden. He was hand-euffod and In the war den's office signed a written con fession to the Brown murder. Moo- was sent up from Eugene List March for auto theft after he had been extradited from Uenver. FUgeie authorities yesterday plac ed little credence in the cofeasl(n because of a statement Moors made to authorities there th.U he had killed a man m n hoM-up In Port land. The te;gram received from Sacramento, however, appears to confirm the confco&ton made here Friday. Warden Dairy m pie has notified Sacrament o a u t horit ic that Moor will be turned over to them if they decire. The confea- ton was signed by bcth Moor am his wife. The- confession states that Moo and his wife drove from Krie, Pa te California, reaching Sacramen to Svptember 17, 1923. While at tempting to hold up a man on September 23 he killed the man who proved to be Brown, saya tne confession. Moor believes a young -woman was with Brown. Pursuit was begun at once, bu; because Mr. Moor had the car in :,.otion when the shooting look place the couple made their es cape. The statement says they drove t: Stockton and Fresno, lat er livid In California. Aiizona and Texas and came to Oregon in July, 1924, later going to Seattle. Wenatchee and Ynkimn. They re turned to Oregon and located near Kugeae. After the automobile theft at Eugene, Moo' escaped to Iowa, ard while bein:; returned to Ore son from CUntrn, la., attacked the deputy s'-eiiff who had htm in custoly with a monkey-wrench and fractured hie skull. He fulled to esctpe. Information from C. 8. Morrill superintendent of the C&fifornfa etnte bureau of identification, Moor has sered in various prieon In the last 10 years and has ben known by the names of R. C White, C. R. White, Mac .Moon md CUfforJ Holland Moore. Itec oids hcw that hs h.w done time at the Indiana reformatory. Fol- Continued on Page Eleven KLAMATH FALLS MILL IS BURNED Klamath Falls, Or., May 6. The iM! of the MikIoc Pine com pany was completely destroyed by f're early last nvgnt wtth a los o1 approximately $150. 000. Fire started when sparks from a h' box Ignited In sawdust, and the flames spread so rapidly that mill employe were unable to contio! iL The lumber yard ana office buildings were saved. The mill and equipment ere s 'otal loss, according to V. !. C. Ceach, manager. The loss was nearly completely covered by in sure nee. Portland. Or., May S. L. B Menefee, of the L. B. Menefee Lumber company, said today when afked whether the mill of the M- doc Pine company would be re built: "It Is uncertain but th mill probably will he rebnlil. It f impossible to ro;tke any definite announcement Just yet.' COOLIDCEIN FULL ACCORD TH ENVOY President's Hone For Benefits from Warning Voiced By Houghton Construed As Approval Washington, May 5. (A. P.l While Ambassador Houghton spoke on his own responsibility in hie address in London last night at the Pilgrims' dinner. President Cool i tig e is very hopeful that the ambassador's Interpretation of the American: attitude toward Eu rope will be heipful to European statesmen and peoples. The president feels that the economic situation Is Europe is improving. The return of England to a gold basis, and the probable early similar action in Holland are construed as favorable eigne pointing toward stabilization and recuperation on the other side of the Atlantic. iDifl lavora&ie outlook re garded by the president as im portant In considering loans by American bankers to European industries or govern me ate. He realizes, however, that American financiers must consider the sit uation in each country in rela tion to that country's economic policies and use discretion In de termtntng where their assistance ie to he in practical ways. Private American loans abroad, the president believes, would be helpful in some countries in re storing financial stability and cor reeling exchange questions, while in other countries such loans would be of doubtful value. fa the light of Ambassador Houghton's remarks In London, It is obvious that the administration here does not intend to approve leans that might be used to bolster up military preparations by any European country. DYNAMITE DIET FATAL TO CATTLE Medford, Or., May 5. E. B Day, a rancher in the Sams Valley district, found four of his beet beef cattle dead on the range few days ago and reported the matter to State Veterinarian W. H. Lytle f Salem, who came down and after an autopsy, declared the nnimals had been killed by eating dynamite. The wrappers of the dynamite with the maker's name t'lainly visible were found In the stomachs of the dead steers. Ac- lording to Mr, Day the state will assist Jackson county officials In prosecuting the parties responsible tor loaving dynamite loose on the rattle range. CHILD BEATER H PRISON HERE Mrs, C. A. Paton, aged Tilla mook woman, was received at the rtato penitentiary last nlrht to be- t'in serving time for manslaughter Mrs. Paton was convicted of caus ing the death of her granddaugh ter by beating the child so severe ly with a strap that she died. The woman was much dejected ien received at the prison and had nothing to say. .She was turned over to the matron of the prison aud Is imprisoned wtth three other women state prisoners and eight federal female prisoners that are now in the penitentiary. STEPMOTHER OF LATE MRS, HAROINS OEAO Washington, May 5. (A. P. Mrs. Caroline Beatty ruing, step not her of th late Jans, t ioren Kliog Harding, died suddenly to day on a train while en mule from Uaytona, Fla,, to ber home la Co lumhus, Ohio, Death occurred when the train we half way between this etty and Richmond, Va. Mrs. Kllng was accompanied by a trained curs and a friend who had made the journey with her from Fior ds. Mrs, KHsg was $0 years old. RAIL II -SOU RDM - BEND FIXED Plans For Construction of Road To Klamath Falls Announced In Applica tion For Permit Portland, May 5 The detailed route of the proposed extension of the Oregon Trunk from Bend to Klamath Falls is set forth in an application prepared for filing with he interstate commerce comi:i ion today, soya a special dispatch from Washington. Cost of con structing the extension is placed at J4i.t00 a mil. The plana provide for a single line sixty-five miles from Bend to Kkoolcum, formerly known a Udell At this point the line would branch off in t wo p&s&ble rout es to Klamath Falls. The petition t quoted as f-rilowsr "A line from Bend, Ore., south westerly, follewme generally up he Deschutes vaiiey, & distance of approximately 65 miles to the height of land r summit between the -Deschutes and Williamson riv er drainage; thence southerly and easterly approximately 40 miles to the summit between the William son river and the Sy can river; heflce in a southerly direction ap proximately 24 miles to the Sprn- gue river; thence in a southerly (Continued on Page Ten) HYLAN REFUSES TO BE SHELVED BY GRAFT R!NG ,X;W York, May S City Asso ciated Press) Mayor John fr liy- Ian announced todsy that he posi tively would be ft candidate to suceevd himself at next fall's muni Ujii election irrespective f whether or nit he received the sup port an-I indorsement of TammuJiy Halt. Reiterating bis ft-repealed charge that "certain interests were trying ta get me out of the way," the mayor said that his "bat is in the ring and f am in) the ring His declaration was made dur ing a bearing on the proposed tun nel connecting States Island with the mainland. The 'interests" the mayor said. sought his removal from the mayor's office and his transfer to a place on the supreme court bench in order "to put over a bil lion dollar steel, ' wherehy sub way, elevated and surface car transportation , fares would he raised and a great mass of anti quated transit lines sold to the city for $G50,O00(0UO. OWNS TO BE TOLD OF PAGEANT Cbf rrians will be told about Hip pageant "Kasaria," by S, C. Pier, prime m in fat er of t he Port la nd iiosarians, and four or five of hix henchmen at the Cherrtan dinn next Tuesday, May 12. J. r. Perry, King iiiivg of the Cherrians, has received a letter from Prime Minister Pier accept ing King Bins invitation for i party of Kosariani to join the Cherrians at dinner here next Tuesday. It is expecte.i at that time the prime minWiter will extend to the Cherrian their official invitation to participate in How Festival sf f aits this year. EASTERNER TO HEW PACIFIC UNIVERSITY Portland. Or., Msy 5. Tit. John Francis Uohtis, pastor of Klmt Congregational church of Maldn Mass., Was elesifd yesterday to ihp P rid n T of Pacific university hy unanimous vote of the board of regents. He wiii assume his new office June 1. Committee From Council Selected For City Planning A special city planning commit tee of the city couaeii was ap pointed by Mayor Giesy tost night at the regular session of the coun cil, and was requested by the may or to call meeting in the near future looking to the development of a definite policy relative to son. ing the city control of bunding construction. The meihers of the special com mittee are Alderman W. H. Daacy, chairman, and Aider men L. J. StmeraU Purvine, Paul Mf Johnson and Carl Engstrom. The mayor explained briefly the purpose of the committee. He spak-j of desirability of the city gaining control over construction work that Is undertaken iu Salem, par ticularly the construction of busi ness buildings, apartments, etc.. Self-Performed Wedding Ceremony Revealed In Court Media, Im., My A mnrrhigv eertmtmy jierfarm ctl by t iWHweh et f tmnen yean agu was rcvcateti UhI In .1 divorce grouted tt Judge itutuiHan to M ,jue phtne M. l.m-fM fit Ktoite hufrt, from Alpine !, ens, a real ontota operator ot St. Ittertrg, Fla. Mr. l.ui'itK, In her testi mony freftti-o a nutter wlio evemmuemteit tliat thp tsts Kv.mfetl a tlivme, Um pair had enpo to Wilmlfrgtrnt. Itl, In Stureh, IStrr Co tu' man fed, (nit arrived i Jatc at MlKht to oitfjiin tt iitti. Then tliy asttved to tHarry thomwelvcs, uKing wrtitttiig rlnrf glif tlirmrjrlr the trtttwmy without a clery tiunt. M'"s. FiUca' (ctlmmy lmvel tlwy believed tliertt-iclt-cs legally luarrUnt mat twit i,siivluNt a hmoe i rmiitttt Iphia, lie re they Hv cl tor -tmia time Tlivy p nmti'tf Htx years ago. 10 CONVICTS ROB MAIL STAGE Nevada City, CaL, Stay 5. Tw men believed to he Joe Tattko and Moyd flail, ear a tied murderers troru San Q dentin prison today held up the United Statris mat! stage between North- BFtJomffeM ,nd trantteville. They drove thv nachinc at high speed through the mm:n(ui, passco through Nevada t.tly and urates alley and a turn toned the ear on the road. Sheriffs of four counties-Sac- raMmtto, Placer, Nevada nnt .sierra had poos searching f ! mottntains witiiin au hour after the sloge was held up but at noon had not located them. The stage driver said the men reitemhted pictures ot the convict which he had et?n in newspapers. Sacramento, Cat, May 5, Shortly after 11 o'clock the Sacra mento life's corrfiJmdent ai Crass all?y telephoned that th stolen rsfl truck had been found abandoned on a side road tbre miles Irom (Irasc Valley, HALF WAY SIGN ' TO GO UP AT ONCE Definite action was takes fey the Koem Ktwants eluh at it meting this noon to erect a sign ieirie the Pacific highway north of 8atent st s spot exactly half way between the equator and the north pole. The suggention ha heen under consideration fr , numler of months, hut no dt!nit action was taken hy the eiuh unt'f totay. Several original loess wtli he worked out In designing the ttign. The apot which Is stated to b. within a few hun&red feet of th' etact halfway mark between th pole and equator. Is ZlVftft fee north of the miiepnst marking 4 mites north of Portland on the I aeifle highway. H 1 ijCRie'l v. ftntn half a mile of one of the ttilip farms near Kateou H.i la of committees oc npied most of tSis time at today's Ki wani meeting, which was a clewed meeting. so that In the future definite 1 Ian or system may ester into the growth of the city. It probable that the soning system tm bt adopted, since the mayor baa since be first took otiice, looked wtth laror on this modern method of city building. All details are yet tc be worked out, and this will be done at meetings ol the special committee from time to time. It is expected that other interested per sons will be Invited to attend these conferences and assist the city of ficial in the work. Mayor Gtesy said htet night that complaints arc being received al most daily at the present haphaz ard manner in which store ami other business buildings are al lowed to spring up in the resi dtnee district. CITYPAVING imzie Problem of Assessments On Three ProfMsed Pre- icrts Present Novel Complications. The city council le pussled over the problem of paving three Important streets In the city where unuuat conditions mast be contended with and where the aeeeeeroenf of costs may lead to complice tione. These ara Fair ground road. Myrtle aveime and Ferry street. The proposed Fairground roart tntprovement, on which the etreei committee- reported favorably last night, presents an interesting sit uatian hecaufie ot the trrpgalar conree of the street. The pmpoecd improvement would extend from Summer to Hood street. Fair ground road, fnetead of following regular tine, crosses property at angles, and intersect Shipping, Norway, Jefferson, Madison and Roosevelt streets at angles and not at the regular points where intersections ordinarily occur at the four cornens ot black. One quest Ion is who would pay for the paving at street erodings. None ot the five etreefce to be crowed J paved. Another owes- Hon is bow to assiws the cast where the abutting pmperty i small triangle left where tise etreet cot screws a block in katty cornered f.whion. The street committee has not vet passed on the Myrt' fcv&rase i i pr ov e m p n t pe 1 1 1 ion be c a i we of a fuur foot strip that extend along the newly surveyed etree! along the tntire length of the nrw ly platted WHllanwon tract. John V mammo and others last nfgh-t presented the city a Quit claim deed to the four foot strip, but the city doesn't Know whether to accept it. If If dac It appears that the city will be etoek for the col of paving Instead of the property that i saved front ebumng: on the street only by the ftmr foot Htrip. Why the strip was created ts s puttier, since tt cuts off from f Continues on Psjfe Ten Nursing Service of Child Health Work Inaugurated Today r,ctir of nmix prii fnr IS Marion countjr child health cient anKtrntlfin. rrived ttt 8atem ve..- work h head ot h,r dpartmenf. Rh hitt bestm st Stsjrtoir ntl 1H mate, cxAmtttattanc ctaattit ffIitlren twn Asy. nfir whieh h, mil hrr !! wilt , !o Au- ror. A hfntnnliDc milt b miie ,t 8lm om tim, n,3ii week. The rliy unit ccumji S!! b t& ,tde4 tnta tittrictc isos u th nervle Kt, completely organised. "Oar DuniafF terrtec wiit in rlude prna'sK fttetricJ, bafef. mlit lr. Walter Itrowit, head ol th, county fmntrat&. niornini. "Everjthini wiit he EXPLOSIVES SHIPPED 10 LODGE HEAD Infernal Machine Found In Suitcase Addressed To Spokane Lodge; Fails To Explode Spokane, Wash, May 5- As in fernal machine sent by exprrs to Electa chapter, astern Star lodge, here from Los Angeles, Col., was turned over to the police, who au- usiisjced today that bad H not fasf- cd to explode when opened, tt would have been a hie to kill &fr persons. The express eomp;iBy" tag showed thu sender as "H, S. Colbert, 527 North Iioa stree. Los Angeles. T he maeh lac enclosed in x egar box wbieb In turn was pojj tarned in a suitcase, was filled with gunpowder and sbotsus heiis, with a quantity of sivvaJi shot tt was so connected with am electric battery that a spark would ignite the powuer when the suit case was opened. Failure of the electric circuit to be- completed when the suitcase was opened lust night prevented an explosion, the police sold. W. Mttcomuer, warttty natron of the chapter, said that before be opened the suitcase yesteraay evening he had putted on a copper wire which Ttad protrHded- fri t ne He thought be had thus tifstrayed the electrical conn?c iios. He cwM ascribe no motiva tor nending such a machine to the local lodge I. os Angeles. Pal., May 5. Checking here of the name sod address of the supposed shipper of an infernal maehlne to aa Eastern Star Lodge at Spokane, Wash., revealed no If. E. Oolhert in the city directory nor any per son of that name living at S2T North Dillon street, the address oa the shipping tag. GOVERNOR SAYS CHILD WELFARE WORK TWADDLE OlympJa, Wah.. May 5. De claring that the children of today ar8 Uelnar made to pay tu? aT tftr an over abundance of 1 t rustic twaddle." Governor Ko tand H. Hartley has wired Mm. Stphl Irme F.oefr, president at the chiid welfare committee t America, with headquarters la New York city, that he would nt name a delegate to the conference on rMTd welfare, which will he h-eM In New York May io 2. Tits governor said that while there ;rre riotthilftvi thfss in sse who would gladly s'.ietl the conference, he believed they p&Sf$ best servs the state fey s y mg a home and attending :a their own affaire. Railroad and Kotel expense of the seiexMe were to be financed by the caat mittce. according to telegram re ceived at the exeeutivs office here. Wttriied out In fonjcl!w wSIft pFacttctnjt phytf tan, ta th eontt-ty-. r nr w wofx in ISv hfMiH Miiiier ijirertion or pnyi- lit ee of beiMtle tun te charge wfll be mail, ta tn iatiii;ti who can alttrrt to T'T. but ooa wiit he refnaed care. Th erSe Witt b, marked t.-'t to contunettoa wtth tt ?-. of pahitc health naming of (( trntyeritjr ot Oregon. tocat t Portiand. accordion to Dr. t. "Os o! the rtt ' Dr. Brown, "l the prosr tra.n Ing ot "tthllc health itnewe t tfo thl t?P of oervtte. I Pt th orshwt t drawn U'relj for ach trained nrB on e.t ;CoiiUnucit on Pa Ttat
