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Newspaper Page TextAGKIl ltt ( MHAL COLLEGE DEC IX 1925 CIKCIJI-ATION Daily average net paid circulation for LIBHAKY PROBABLY RAIN tonight und Friday, moderate tempera ture, light southerly wind. Local: Max., 50; mln., 7; rain, ,01; river, 0.3; atmos., cloudy; wind, south east. uiuuin enainff November 30, 192ft ixamuJoiuLFiial 7317 Average dally distribution 7724 Member Audit Bureau of circulation FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No 294 SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY; DECEMBER JO, 1925 PRICE .THREE CENTS gP"" 0"BB cn Gap HMO mm . TE OPENS ASSAULTON Harrison's Satire On The New Don Quixote Brings Applause of Gal lery and Smile of Victim it . WaslkinBton, Dec. 10 (A.P,) Vice-President Dawes waa aplash d today by the first ripple of the backwash from his summers cam paign for revision of the senate rules. As a foretaste of what Is to come later in the session, Senator Har rison, democrat, Mississippi, treat ed the senate presiding officer to srood natured, -satirical resume of the events of the summer, includ ing the ride of a new Don Quix ote, "hell and Maria Dawes" from coast to coast and lakes to pulf to spread the gospel of senate re pentance. While the speech rollicked along to the accompunlment of many titters and some real outbursts of laughter from floor and gallery. General Dawes sat smiling at his desk, with clasped hands and cross ed legs and with his gavel lying Idle before him. In some .detail Senator Harrison reviewed the spoeches made by the vice-president (luring the sum mer and the history of previous attempts over the yoars to limit senatorial debate by revision of the rules. As for himself, said the senator,' he was one of those who believed that lithe old senate is getting along pretty well" as it is. Admonishing the general not to be deceived as to public sentiment by the size of the crowds that had come out to hear his speeches dur ing the summer. Senator Harrison concluded his attack by relating tho fable of an uncontrollable mule to which the owner was forced to fasten a yoke and tie a bell. "One day," he said, "tho mule broke loose and ran to tho city, where as he waved his head and rang his bell, great crowds gathe ored and Joined in laughter. And there was the poor misguided mule, waving his bell and accepting the laughter of the multitudes as plau dits and expressions of approval." raulLTli ROBBED OF $400 Troutdalo, Ore.. Dec. 10 (API Three young men held up the Troutdale State bank this morn ing ana escaped with $400 in currency, all-the money In sight. A fourth man remained in the automobile in which the robbers urove to Troutdale. H. E. Boyd, cashier of the bank was alone at the time of tho mh. bery. After taking tho money the men leisurely wnlkcd out the side door of the bank and stepping In- iv iu me car urove away. The robbers disappeared toward i-oruanu and as they entered the city they were seen hv rienntlna The men abandoned the car and took to their heels, eluding the officers. The oldest man, accord ing to Dloyd was about 26 while one or mem appeared to be a lad of about 18. WORTHLESS CHECK ARTIST CAUGHT IN CALIFORNIA Sheriff Bower has received word of the arrest at Riverside, Cul.. of P. G. Waglcr, for whom a warrant le held here charging larceny by Daiiee on Information of ()ie?e- rowers company, and It also is al leged that Wag-tor passed a number of chockn here, although no war rant lias been Issued for thfa of fense. According to information re reived by Sheriff Bower. Wagler was picked up In Riverside coun ty on a charge of driving while drunk, but that he has been trans ferred to San Bernardino county to answer to worthless chock charges there. The checks that Wagler t- alleged to hare passed here v-'jrn drawn on a bank at. ir.irrMi;:i7. Oregon, and It is enn BidTd simihr instances hare boor, reported In other Oregon count ley through whfrh Wacler na"-ed. He left here a number of months ago. GOOD EVENING WORDS and MUSIC By Stoddard King NARRATIVE WITH A MOKATj "Mothers ahoud guard their sons more closely, llapperltls Is a men ace.- statement of local worker. I do not say that Julius Might liave been less decisively in.au J uti If In his 12th or his 1 in. vmk lie had been fed the works of big tn una r'reud Or Hnvelock Kills. Still. It Is & fnoi .iiiuruH suuiciuing Hint- his early One must not blame his parents, tuoiiKii lllCy TO lied To realize that Julius when he grew xo manhood would need .bni-k ground that cn tnl led More knowledge than their own pure childhood knew. now could they know that lie would grace nit nee AVhen predatory flappers hold the singe 7 Julius first leu i ned the Joys of nicotine From Ccncvlcvc who taught him to inituic; And the lute books he borrowed from Irene Caused both his pArents to turn siiirmiv n le. Especially his father, who at I wen. ty una hardly lost his taste for G. A. iienty. The crisis came when Julius reach ca nts house Long after midnight (there had occn n bain He hart acquired what some would cull n soi me. And was discovered supine lit the HUM, Murmuring; sadly, throuch a in I hi or woe; ou never told me, How was I to Know" . - Well, It was sad enoucli the noy iiiui been Good till he met sonic debutan tes, whoso wiles Compassed him round with pitfall iiiui wuii gin (More gin tinui pitfall) nnd with iiKKiri-ii si vies ur utmctng. Wrinkles line his moti ei's ii row . She knows it is too Into to heln mi iiuw; So fur we have waited In vain for the completely up-to-date book seuer wno will recoen ze the nr. clousncss of the day by displaying during Children's Book week full nne oi me latest not mamma nov els. (Copyright 1925) E Washington, Dec. 10 (AP) Opponents of prohibition broke into tne newly stirred up wet and ary controversy again today, the Association Against the Prohibi tion Amendment calling for a "show down" on the Question And tho granting to Assistant Secre tary Andrews of the treasury, "every power and every weapon he asks for." A statement. Issued by W. H. Staylon, national chairman of Ihe association, gave qualified appro val to the provision in the next tax bill taxing cereal beverages of less than one half of one per cent alcoholic content, and de nounced suggestions for an amend ment increasing the limit to two and three quarters per cent. The association would favor the present tax provision, the state ment continued, if General Andrews wanted it to "help him try out his experiment to endeav oring to enforce the Volstead law." 15 Boys Transferred To New State School; Plant Nearly Ready Woodburn, Or, Dec. 10. Fif teen boys, the vanguard of some 120 from the old state training school south of Sulom, have taken prwsesaion of one of the units of the $ J 05, 000 Investment and are now domiciled on the 400-ocre tract along the Pacific highway just north of Woodburn. Four cottages, each a separate unit equipped to house 30 boys, an administration building, kitchen and (onimissary, power plant and huge modern dairy barn are rap idly being gotten into condition for occupancy at the close of the present semester. The advance detail is in charge of Mrs. Barkus, while Mrs. G. H. Bestow Is In harge of a group of boys engaged in waxing the floors and washing the windows. Only one unit will be occupied for a few weeks and $20,000,000 ASKED YEARLY FOR AIRCRAR Report Of Special House Committee Puts Avia tion in Control National Defense Department. Washington, Dec. 10. (A.P.) oAptMiuiiurcs oi zo,uou,000 an nually for five years tor procure ment of aircraft for the army and navy m recommended in the re port or tho special house aircrnfi committee as agreed upon today ino recommendations, which contemplate creating of a depart ment o national defense, covering land, sea and air, were concurred in by all members. It ep resen tutive Reid oi Illinois, court martial counsel for Colonel wuiiam Alitcl.ell, will file a sun- pleiuental brief asking a unified air service. Department of Defense. Tho proposed department of na tional dcelnse would supplant the present wur and navy departments and would not necessarily give aviation a co-equal status with land and sea armaments. Other committee recommeudutions in clude: A separate budget for all avia tion activities. A bureau of civil aeronautics in the department of commerce. One procurement agency for uil air activities. Increased representation for th air services on the army general start ana the navy general board, liovernment aid in the estab lishment of airways and airports, surveys or all airplanes now in use und destruction of those found unsafe. Creation and maintenance of an adequate air reserve. Increased promotion opportuni ties for air omcers and pay com mensurate with tno hazards their work. Experimental Work. The report also recommends tnat experimental and development work now done at the navai air craft factory at Philadelphia and at McCook field, Dayton, Ohio, be transferred as far as possible to the bureau of standards. It does not, however, ask for the closing of the factory or of the McCook field work. Legislation Is recommended provide a way for inventors in the aircraft industry to secure redress for infringed patents other than the court of claims. FERRIES IN BAD CONDITION Members of the county court who visited the ferries maintained by. the county at Independence and Bucna vista yesterday: found the ferries In rather rotten shape, par ticularly the one at Independence and Ateps will be taken at once to repair them in serviceable condi tion. The ferry at Independence is In worse shape than at Buena Vista, and County Commissioner Porter states it very likely will be neces sary for the Independence ferry to be rebuilt next year, with repairs made on it now to carry it through the winter. Both ferries carry heavy traffic, particularly at cer tain seasonr, of the year. the remainder as soon as the new concrete walks are ready. The buildings are arranged in the form of a quadrangle with the back of tho administration build ing to the highway. Two of 'the cottages arc placed at right angles to the main building and face the south. The other two face the north airo&q a large area that will later be planted to grass and shrubbery. Each cottage will house 30 bojs, a manager and a watchman. Food prepared In the central building will be carried to the units which have their own dining; rooms and equipment A special incline lead ing to the door permits easy access with the food. All buildings are of stucco, concrete bases and red tile roofs and arp girn Ample fire Continued on Page Eleven) OF Y General Patrick Says War Department Treated Aviation Service As a Step-Child. Washington. Dec. 10 fAPl While blaming tight purse strings ueiii ay congress lor a decided shortage of pursuit and bombard ment airplanes faced by tho army major lieneral Mason M. Patrick, chief of the army air service told the war department itself had not renuerea mm the assistance it cuuia nave extended. The meteorological service giv en army fliers was far. from sat Isfactory, ho said, and the radio service was not up to requtrc- luinut, uiu wnen questioned by the -court he said ho did not be lieve the department's treatment of him bad been "markedly dif ferent from that accorded chiefs oi otner Drancnes. " Short rtn tv.l. Asked specifically where In the war department had failed him, General Patrick said that when no asked for certain things he thought necessary for the air ser vice, the war department "has not one as much as I would hnvo 111.- ed." He added, however, that In the matter of funds, "thev have heen as noeral as they could." 'Some of my officers have been unfortunately placed on tho promotion list," he said. "I have made recommendations lor legislation which the depart ment has not approved." Major - General Robert L, Howze, president of 'tho court asked If the air service had been treated on tho same basis as tho Infantry, the field artillery, the cavalry or the engineers. 'I have stated before tho Mor (continued on Pago Nine) BEFORE KELLY District Attorney John H. Car son and his assistant counsel nnd Will R. King, attorney for Tom Murray, Ellsworth Kellev and James Willos, who are under sen tence of death for the murder of a guard in the state nrieon break of last August, will appear before rercy k. Kelly in Albany this alt- crnoon and argue the bill of excep tions prepared by the defense pre paratory for an appeal to the su preme court. . Whether the case will get Info the sunreme court depends on whether a certificate of probablo cause Is granted by the court. Should this be denied by Judge Kelly application can then be made to the chief justice of the supreme court. Murray is under sentence to be hanged De cember 18 and Kelley and Willie uio following1 month. Kingston, Jamaica. Dec. 10 (AP) A sharp earthquake shock was felt hero about 11 o'clock this morning, tho tremors beinE perceptible for about two sccnnil-i. No damage has been reported, al- llioiiKh many of the inhabitants were frightened. Chicago, Dec. 10 (AP) Se vers earth tremors wero recorded at 8:21 this morning by the Unit ed States weather bureau seismo graph at the University of Chica go. The maximum Intensity oc curred at 8:33, while the shocks wore still "going strong," accord lng to observers, at 8:40, when the recording photographic sheets were changed. The distance wn estimated at 2100 miles from Chi cago. Berkeley, Cal.. Dec. 10 fAP The seismograph of the Univer sity of California today recorded fairly severe" eartbouake be ginning at 11:21 a. m. and contlnn lng for an hour and a half. The earthquake was believed to have centered in Central America. CHEF PUIS BLAME UPON AM SHARP QUAKE SHAKES JAMAICA From Far Italy . Comes Offer To Marry for $400 Pclrddu Giuseppe, a young man of Sardinia-Italy, wants to marry "Jordan," the mystery woman who several weeks ago advertised in the Capital Journal for a husband Her proposal waa that she would pay $400 to a suitable -man whose name she could use as her leirni husband for three months so that she might Inherit an estate. Some 300 answers to the advertisement came from all parts of the United States. Now they huve started com ing from across the seas. If the Oregon woman cannot go to sunny Italy, then Giuseppe Is willing to come to Salem but In addition to the $400 he wants $1000 to finance the round trip and the expenses of his sojourn here. $4,590,385 TAX '.Washington, Dec. 10. (A.P.) Tims the Gulf Oil company escaped $4,590,385 in federal taxes during the years 1915 to. 1919 when Sec retary Mellon wan a chief owner. Is asserted by engineers employed by the senate committee investi gating the internal revenue bu reau. Tho record In the Gulf OU cus1. as made before the committee last March was made public today upon its presentation to the senate. The engineers asserted that the reve nue bureau made an erroneous re fund of $3,996,080 to the company and failed to collect additlonut taxes of $594,305, A. H. Fay, a committee cngl ncer, testified that the Gulf Oil company's case was rushed through the bureau and closed within seven working days be cause Mr. Mellon desired to have all outside interests with which he was connected closed before ho took office in March, 1921. Open defiance of both the inter nal revenue soliictor and Commis sioner Blair by division chiefs in the handling of tho (ox case of the Standard Oil company of Califor nia also was charged in testimony before the committee. The Standard Oil case involves an-over-assessment or refund for the year 1918 of $3,378,000 and hinges on whether the company had been allowed to change Its method of charging development costs from capital to expense. Commissioner Blair ruled that the change could not be made but the division chiefs disagreed and in formed representatives of the sen ate that they proposed to "stand pat. E E Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 10 (AP) Hed Grange was Injured pain fully during tho first period of the Chicago Bears-Pittsburgh All Stars football game at Forbes fleCd today. Dr. Guslav Berg, phy sician of the Pittsburgh club, Bold the former Illinois Btar lias sus tained a torn ligament and a brokr-n vessel in his right arm. Late in the period, the doctor said Grange had attempted to buck the Pittsburgh line. It was on this play that he was hurt. A hasty examination disclosed the torn ligament and broken blood vessel. Dr. Berg ordered the grid iron star removed to his room at Schenlcy hotel, and announced that an X-ray would be made to night to determine if there were a fracture. Officials of the. Bears, advised of tlifl injury, said that Grange would not appear in the lineup for at least several days. ' Champaign, III., Dec. 10 (AP) A check for $300,000, made out to Harold (Red) Grange was re ceived by the Illinois Trust and Savings bank of this city. The check was signed by Dr. W. B. Shallenbcrger of the Arrow Pic tures corporation. Miss Kloanor Mitchell, an Eng lish girl, recently won the Euro pean speed typewriting champion ship wltti 812 touchos -or 129 words a minute. The duration of the proposed marriage was to be three months, not four as the Italian correspon dent has been led to believe. His letter as freely translated from the Italian follows: Declmomannu. Cagliart Nov. 20, 1925 To the Most High Director of the Principal Journal Salom, Oregon I, the undersigned. Picrddu Giu seppe, son or tne late Antonio, re siding In Declmomannu, Sardinia' Italy, understand through the med dium of this journal, that there in a girl, residing in Salem, who ad vises through this publication, that through the medium cf four hun- (continued on Pago Nine) SLATE HIGHWAYS Portland, Deo 10 (AP) Very little new work will be undertak en by tho state hf-rhwiy depart ment in lUZfj, as the department has only $500,000 for new con struction, It was staled nt the meeting of the highway commis sion winch ended lato yostorilay. But as a large number of heavy contr.-tnts for road bulldlug rere let late tills fall, there will be plenty doing throughout the com lng year. The commission decided lo let bids at the next meeting, Janu ary iy, lor the .following now work : Five miles of grading on be Redwood highway nortli of Klrliy, 10 miles of surfacing on the Roosevelt- highway between Can non Beach and Hamlet Junction and the bridge across tho SileU river. The commission decided to oil C30 "miles of state highway next summer at a cost of some ?-IS0 -000. The following roads will be treated: ' AJ1 of the Old Oregon Trail that is not hard surfaced; Willa- mina to Hebo, Toledo to New port, Biggs to Wasco, Coqullle to Myrtle Point, the Mount Hood Loop; Medford Trail, Lava Butte to La Pine; Bend-Jtcdmond-Princ ville road, Soufert lo Dufur: Klamath Falls to Keno; Klamath Falls to Modoc Point, Island City to Elgin. DEDICATE SCHOOL AT SUNNYSIDE TONIGHT Mrs. Mary N. Fulkerson. couiiLy school superintendcrit -will give the dedicatory remarks for the new Sunnyslde school house, five miles south of here on tho Pacific highway tonight and F. J. Toozo will deliver the address of the evening on "Orc;inlzallnn, ilw Strength of the Community." C. Wilson, secretary or the cham ber of commerce, will give a few remarks. The oc:'aefon will he not only dedication of the new school, hut a meeting of the MaHon Coun ty Community Federation, nnd it is cxpecicd delegates will be pres ent from all parts of the county. Kiddies No Christmas Unless Public Helps Santa Christmas cnr:i:it i uni Capital Journal $ 2S.00 Bnlcm Ad Club 10.00 Tlcpuly Santa Onus.... fi.oo Mr.. Fnnny Tracy 8.00 Tulal today $ 43.00 Christmas morning will find 200 or more Salem boys and girls lnspcotlng empty stocking and looking in vain for the presents they asked from Santa Claus un less the Good Follows and the Good Girls of the city come to the aid of the Jolly old patron ot the yuletlde. . Based on their experiences of former years thoso in charge of TURKS GUILTY 15 ARE DEAD OFATROCITIES 47 MSSK mm 19 RESCUED Masscarcs ..Of Christian Reported By League In vestigation On Mesopo tamia Border. ueneva, Dec. 10. (A. p.) Atrocious acts of violence, going as far as massacre, have been com mitted by Turkish soldiers along me provisional irontler at Mosul, in northern Mesopotamia, General Laldoner of Kathonia. sneHnl league of nations agent, docliueci in a report submitted at today's 9'-iun oi iue league council. The Turks refused to attend th, meeting, complaining that the Mosul auulr had gone beyond thi powers of their mandate from tin Angora government which nermir. ted mediation but not arbitration by the leaguo of Turkish disputes with Great Britain. In his report. General Laldoner asserted that the Turks had carried out wholesale (icportmtlons of Christians from tho villages along the Mosul fron tier as defined at the Brussels con ferenco, for the occuylnc villages. gonflscntlng arms, Imposing heavy lines, demanding women, pillag ing houses, and in somo cases tak ing life. During tho deportations, the re port said, the sick wero nbanomleti to die. OthcrB perished of starva tion or cxposuro whllo the surviv ors were loft in an absolutely pill bio state. The deportations are contlnu lng. causing "fairly serious nglta tion and nervousness," not only among tno uiiristlims, but among the nioslcins favoring Irak's claim to Mosul. Regarding Iho reported border raids, General Laidoner found the situation was not serious but re sulted from mutual tribal quarrel lng. The council ' made note of the report but look no action on it. T Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 10. (A P.) U. F. McDonald, state prohi bition commissioner, snid today that an order book hud been found in the home of Uahney Hor- ton, gnduate' instructor In the English department ut Ohio Slate university, who is at liberty on $1000-bond on charges ot buviug Honor-making apparatus in his borne. According to McDonald, the book contained several names Willi numerals entered after them, which ho took to represent the quantity to he delivered. Reports of drinking pnrtiew nt fraternity houses, university dnnccs and social gatherings," and the possibility that any racuity rnrmbf'rs adhcro to communistfr principles were included in the governors orders for Invcstjiga limi. To Have the Fifth Annual Christmas Cheer movement of Iho Uupltal Journal and the Salem lodge of Elks esti mate thnt there aro mnro than 200 kiddles In Salem this winter whom Santo, will miss unless he Is given local assistance. Survey ing Ihe situation upon the occa sion of hla recent visit hero San ta rnn through tho stack of letters addressed to him and sold: "I'm afraid that Is a bigger Job than I can handle without help. It Is up to the Capital Journal and tho Elks and their friends, who have assisted me In past years, to take care of boys and girls I can not reach. I am going to be a lit tl short on toys this year, and my candy and nut supply is not nearly largo enough to go around. (continued on 1'age Nine) Workers 4artlabama Mine Buried as Result of Gas Blow-up Only Escapes Are Badly Burned. Birmingham Al TA .a A. P.) Fifteen miners are known tn hp flnail Al mlD.lnn ia cued, some badly hurt as a result of an explosion In Overton mine No. 2 of the Alabama Fuel & Iron company nenr here today. Rescue workers expressed the belief that 30 or 40 of tho entomh?d men were killed. Tho .cause of the ex plosion has not been determln-d. Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 10 (API lteeciip wnrbnFi halt.,,. that hetween SO nn,l An mnn dead and as many others badly nurnea as a result of an explosion in Overton mine number two, property of the Alabama Fuel and Iron company, 11 miles south of Birmingham this morning, which entombed from. 70 to 80 men. At iT.IO ftMn.lr 99 been removed from tho mine. fifteen of these were found near thA mnuMt nt ll,a nit thorn were slightly hurt. Five an negroes, were among the bodies rescued. The men who escaped with few Injuries wero working on a ledge. They said the explosion occurred some distanco below them and exnrensed th hollar nit ... working below them were killed or Injured. Officials of the company said 70 tn NO limn wnrn tn tl. ..ft A. least half of these wore believed 10 nave ueen killed outright. The personnel was about thirty per cent while. TAX VALUES FOR OREGON TOTAL The total value of taxable nron- orty in Oregon including that equal ised by the county boards of equal izatfon, nnd the utility proncnlti equalized and apportioned by the state tax commission. Is, accurdlng lu me assment roll summary for 1925 completed yesterday by the state tax commission, $1,084 517 - Thi Is the figure on which tho state tax levy for 1320 will be based after it linn been equalized by op p licu i ion or mo tux ratios of the prospective counties. The total ii an increase of &,orf6,882.30 over ho states asseHHed valuation ol lost year. The assessed valuation of the counties, exclusive of utilities. It $929,43.9.1.20, nn IncreaHO of $1, 008,120.88 over last year. The serv ice utility valuations are fixed by the tax commission total $135.llu3,. 707.71, and Increase of S6.59H.Tlll.- 42 over last year. These two totals make up the Brand total assessed valuation of the state. The slate tax levy will be made Friday of this week. Taxable property in Marlon coun ty is nssewsed at 138,981,780; pub lic "utility properties $11,800,097.67; total $44,781,077.67. Taxable property In Polk county Is assessed at $12,556,280; publlo utility properties $1,6 iO,072.!9; to. tal $14,206,352.59. Washington, Dec. 10. (A.P.) Another batch of nominations to public offices were ecnt today to the senate by President Coolide. Many of those named already aro hotdint? recess appointment. Nomination for United States mamhal Included Clarence R. Hotchkifw, Oregon. Nominations for registrar ot lnnd offices included Walter 1 Toozo Sr., Portland, Or.; H. A. Canaday, Roseburg, Or.; J. W. Donnelly, The Dalles, Or.; Grorg W. McKHght, Vale, Or.