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CIRCULATION
Dally average net paid circulation for
month ending November 30, 1925
CLOUDY WEATHER
tonight and Wednesday, normal temper
ature, light variable wlnda.
7317
Local: Max., 68; min., 20; rain, none;
river, 8.4; atmos,, clear; wind, south
west. Average dally distribution 7714,
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i FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 309
SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1925
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BELOW
ZERO
WAVE RULES
GULFJM
Killing Frosts In Florida
Bring Out Smudge Pots
To Protect Big Orange
Groves.
Washington, Dec. 29 (A.P.)
A gradual rise In temperature to
morrow in the- eastern part of the
" country was promised today by the
weather bureau, but frost was pre
dicted as probable tonight as far
south as central Florida.
Elsewhere it was reported there
would be little relief from the cold
wave.
There "has" been somewhat war
r.ier weather In eastern Montana
and Wyoming, the western Dako
tas, the southern plains states, Mis
souri and the southern states ex
cept Florida, but the weather still
Is abnormally cold over most sec
Hons east of the Rockies.
Heports this morning disclosed
that the temperature Is below-
freezing along the gulf and South
Atlantic coast except In southern
Florida, while hilling frosts pre
vail In northern Florida and light
frosts as fno south aa Fort Mycr.
Louisville, Ky., Dec. 20 (A.P.)
Traffic on the Ohio river here is
paralyzed from the bitter cold Hint
swept the country over the week
end and the cofferdams construct
ed last October on tho Indiana side
of the river and a hydro-electric
dam here are endangered by the
heavy Ice floes.
Tampa, Fla., Dec. 29 (A.P.)
Hot blasts from hundreds of
smudge pots early today were
sweeping many citrus groves In
Florida to combat the onset of chil
ling winils from the north. The
burning of smudge pota was in re
sponse to a warning of killing
frosts and freezing temperatures
Issued by the United States weath
er bureau. Assisting In the prevent
ative work were the Florida citrus
exchange, which last night issued
teleEranhlc warning to many of
Its members and through radio
station WDAR of the Tampa Daily
Times, which was broadcasting
warnings every half hour.
Fort Worth, Texas, Dec. 29 A.
p.) Freezing temperatures have
led three girls to annoymously
write to Police Chief Henry Lee for
permission to wear boys trousers.
This, they Intimated, would allow
them to wear winter length under
wear, without jeopardy to artistic
effect, probably not so easily solv
ed with sheer hose visible to the
knee or thereabouts.
Chief Lee stipulated that the pe
titioners reveal their indeniities be
fore he gives the request "due con
sideration." MS F
PAID SHOT
Portend, Or., Dec. 29 (AP)
Business routine and reception of
Teports of various officers rnu
committees of the Oregon State
Teachers association occupied the
full session today of the annual
convention here. Tomorrow the
convention will divide into groups
for department study.
Election of officers will be the
mtstanding feature the latter part
Of this afternoon.
A full time secretary on salary,
l publicity organ to appear regu
larly, increase of the dues of the
Oregon State Teachers' associa
tion from $1 to $2 per year and
the necessary constitutional
changes to bring this extension of
the organization about were rec
ommended this morning by Mrs.
' Mary L. Fulkerson, county school
unerintendent of Marion county
and chairmen of a special com
mittee on extended program.
The representative counc.il of
the association acted favorably on
the report this forenoon and this
afternoon necessary amendments
to the constitution will be brought
In.
The representative council this
morn ne Indorsed tbe FuiKerson
report recommending that the
name of the association with Its
abbreviation "O. S. T. A." be re
GOOD EVENING
WORDS and MUSIC
By Stoddnrd King
APPRECIATIVE LINES
(Acknowledging receipt of "Dr.
Miles' New woatner Almanac
and Hand Book of Valuable
Information, 1926.")
On Mnrch the seventh, 1802,
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are prone
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11ml throat:
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Colin,
Whose unsolicited note of thanks
we quo to.
In January
storm waves, first to
third,
The Itlsl, the
birth of James G.
limine:
Try our Pink Pellets If your sight
is murrcu:
Ammonia will remove an ncld stain
Joseph It. Woof, who lives In Kan
kakee,
Says: "To your remedy 1 owe my
life."
Tils mid n hundred letters free;
Use fuller's earth to clean a rusty
knife
Dear Dr. Miles, you generously dis-
nen.se
Realing and knowledge to u needy
rnee;
Roth health mid Information you
condense
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Wc read the facts nud figures of
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eined!
At this time of year it should
be pointed -out to schoolboys that
if they work hard, save their mon
ey and brush their teeth they, will
some day become prominent cit-
izeng nnd get first choice of, the
new auto license numbers.
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FOR STATUES 10
That the state of Oregon should
erect statutes to Colonel James W.
Nesmith and George H. Williams
was the conclusion drawn by John
McNary. Salem lawyer, in a speech
before the Salem Klwnnis club this
noon. Tho entire speech was de
voted to a recounting of the lives
of the two men, and their connec
tion with Oregon and United Stites
history. 'They' were two of Ore
gon's greatest men," said McNary.
The two men were on opposite
sides of political controversies at
times, said McNary, but became
friends shortly before their deaths.
At one time Nesmith stated that
in Oregon' Williams "rode along
the roads of the state on the hur-
ricane deck of one of those useful
animals which have neither pride
of ancestry nor hope of posterity."
Nesmith, said McNary, had a keen
wit, loved his friends and hated
his enemies. He was Irish by birth.
Both men were early pioneers
in Oregon, crossing the plains to
settle here.
Williams took a strong stand
against the slave faction in the
early development of the state,
when the question was a vital one,
and by so doing defeated his first
chance to become a United States
senator, but was finally elected to
that office in 18G6.
Pre -Glacial
May Have
America
New Haven, Conn., Doc, 29.
(A.P.) The problem of '.he origin
of man is engaging the attention
ot some 5D0 scientists here today
for the dedication of the Pcabody
museum at Yale.
One section of the museum has
exhibits outlining the theory of
evolution. The visiting scientist
already have had disagreements at
meetings.
Dr. E. P. Goddard of the Amer
ican Museum of Natural History
in New York, aroused a mild con
troversy by his assertion that man
may have existed in America prior
to the last glacial period, contrary
to prevailing scientific belief,
which holds that man crossed the
Bering straits from Asia after tbe
S
SUPPORT FOR
NEW BUDGE!
Premier's Threat To Re
place Radicals with Con
servatives Forces Hand
Of His Cabinet.
Paris, Dec. 29 (AP) The
French cabinet at' a meeting this
morning agreed to support tbe fis
cal measures of Finance Minister
Doumer.
The ministers unanimously ap
proved a scheme for balancing
tho budget and stabilizing the
franc, and authorized the finance
minister to Introduce tiie urns m
parliament.
It is understood that M. Dou
mer will submit his measures this
afternoon and the chambers fin
ance committee will discuss them
during the new year's parliamen
tary recess.
Today's decision by the cabinet
brought an end to the sharp race
of the last 10 days between Prem
ier llriand and leaders of the ma
jority on which he has relied in
the chamber of deputies.
Premier Successful
Tho premier, although distanc
ed in the first stage by the hasty
introduction of financial bills
prepared by the coalition leaders
as substitutes for the governmen
tal measures won. tho final lap by
a vigorou and daring maneover
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SOUTH GREG
ROAD D1V1SI
TO BE ABOLISHED
Effective January 1, on account
of curtailment of tho new con
struction program of the state
highway department, the south
ern Orecon division will he dis
continued and Klamath and Lake
counties will be consolidated with
the division now supervised by
District Engineer C. W. Wanzcr
whose headquarters will bo transferred-
from The Dalles to Bend.
Jackson and Josephine counties
will be consolidated with the
southwestern Oregon division un
der the supervision of W. E.
Chandler, whoso headquarters
will be transferred from Marsh
field to Grants Pass.
Under this new arrangement
the northern boundary of Chand
ler's division will he the Douglas
county line on the coast highway
and lloscburg on the Pacific high
way. District Engineer J. S. Saw
yer's territory, with headquarters
in Salem, will be extended corres
pondingly south to the Coos
Douglas county line.
The change reduces the num
ber of divisions in the state. from
six to five and leads to the resig
nation of C. C. Kelly, who has
been district engineer for the
Klamath division nnd who has
been with the department since its
organization In 1917.
Man
Existed in
Says Savant
Dr. Goddard cited the finding ol
fllnte found under 26 feet of gla
cial gravel.
Dr. Walter Hough, of the United
States national museum at Wash
ington, took exception to Dr. God
dard's conclusions on the ground
that the examples found were eo
advanced an to preclude the possi
bility of their being old and in
quired If It were to be assumed
that man sprang full grown in
America without undergoing the
usual evolution as examplifled in
Europe.
Dr. Goddard retorted that west
ern Europe In primordial times
was notoriously backward. "He
may provoke me Into saying that
man originated in America, and I
don't want to do that," be de
U WIN
clared.
First Baby Born In
1926 Will Receive
Complete Equipment
There is a eoninleto ten rite-toe
outfit, Including all of
tho accessories, awaiting tho
first baby, hoy or girl, born
In Polk or Marlon county In
1920.
In cooperation with Its ad
vertisers the Capital Journal
will on Thursday uiinotinee
a list of gifts, suileienily
complete to care for the Im
mediate needs or any baby,
to bo given to the first baby
born In either of the two
cmuilicri after the stroke of
midnight December It I, 1U25.
Knelt of the advertisers co
operating lu the liin will
give one gift the nature
of which, along with the de
tails of the contest will be
published In the Capital Jour
mil Thursday.
y LETTERS
OF
II
Minion, Ohio, Dec. 29. (A. P.)
A check of the index o the cor
respondence files of the late Presi
dent Warren G. Harding reveals
that many letters have disappear
ed, says George H. VunKleet, edi
tor ot tiie Marion SUar, in an ar
ticle published in the Star today.
Mr. YanFlcet, who Was for
many ysare associated with Mr.
Harding in uhe publication of the
Star, declared that lite cnarges
that Mrs. Harding destroyed mauy
valuable official papers when s-ne
brought his correspondence
Marion following Mr. Harding s
death, are erroneous.
Mrs. Harding, Mr.. - VanFleet
said, brought five boxes of letter
of the late chief executive to Mar
ion, which she either saved or de
stroyed, at the same time checking
them off the index. This check
shows that many of Mr. Harding's
letters never reached hero. Where
the tnisiing letters went Is not
known.
The charge that Mrs. Harding
had destroyed important official
papers followed failure to locate
some documents which had been in
possession of tho chief executive.
What letters Aire. Harding did de
stroy were these of a very personal
dnd unimportant nature, the check
shows. She saved those which she
considered of interest to posterity,
VanFleet said.
T
COMING SAYS
IS.
T
'Madras, British India, Deec. 29
(AP) At the conclusion of
the Thcosophical Society's jubilee
convention here, Mrs. Annie Bc
sant, the president announced the
expected early coming of a world
teacher." Declaring the world
now stood at the beginning of a
new age she added:
"Whenever a world teacher ap
pears for the purpose of founding
a new form of the ancient truths
upon which a new civilization is
to be built, a new type of human
kind a sub-race, as wo call it
Is born. ' There is definite scien
tlflc evidence that a new type Is
appearing within the great Aryan
type.
"We stand today at a critical
point. The world teacher will
soon be among us. It Is known to
very many of us that he has
slightly hastened what we call the
date of his coming because of the
troubles of the modern world. It
Is the world's grent need that calls
him from his own great retreat
in the Himalayas to rescue the
world."
BIDS RECEIVED ONLY
FDR NORTH AIR MAIL
Washington, Dec. 29. (AP)
Three bids were received today
for one Chicago, St. Paul, Minne
apolis air mail route by Irving
Olover, third assistant postmaster
general. There were no bidders
for the Cheyenne, Denver, Pueblo
route which also had been adver
tised. Mr. Glover announced that the
Chevenne-Denver-Pueblo route
would be readvertised Immediate
ly as it was understood at least
one bid wan en route to Washing
ton and that other companies
wished to compete for the con
tract.
GIANT-BANK
TO BE CREATED
BY MERGERS
Country's Largest Finan
cial Institution Rumor
ed With Capital Of Bil
lion And a Half.
New York, Dec. 29. (A. P.)
What may bacome the country's
largest bank, an institution rival
ling the gigantic financial institu
tions of Loudon, began to take
vague eli ape today out ot the mul
titude of rumors in Wall Street
pointing to uhe merger o several
existing banks and trust compan
ies of New York city.
Given impetus by a $30 raise lu
the stock of the Mechanics & Met
als bank, the report runs that a
consolidation of that institution
with the Chasa National bank is
imminent as a preliminary step in
he building of a large financial
structure. John McHugh, presi
dent of the Mechanics & Metals
bank, admitted that negotiations
looking toward amalgamation
have been begun.
Five oliher institutions are men
tioned as being involved in me
banking venture, which it is said,
Clarence Dillion, of Dillon, Read
& Co., is sponsoring. Their total
resources when and if combined
will be in excess of $1,300,000,
000. The other institutions men
tioned are: The Chatham & Phoe
nix, the National Park, the Chem
ical N., tonal and, tho Central
Union J rust comp-t. ,y.
A denial that the Central Union
Trust company was Interested in
the reported bank merger wag
made by its president, George W.
Davidson.
Categorical denials that their
Institutions were involved in mer-
;er discussions also were issued by
Percy H. Johnston, president of
the Chemical National bank; John
H. Fulton, president of the Na
tional Park bank, and Richard N.
Higgins, first vice-president of the
Chatham & Phoenix National bank
and trust company.
WITH HIS STILL
Although he had a nice little still
In Linn county, hidden in the
depths of a strnwstack, Jim lien
derson of Salem and well known
here, Is today in Jail nt Albany
Tho chnrgc against him Is setting
up nnd operating a still,
Henderson has been under sur
veillance fo raomc time. Yesterday
Officers It. S. Amy of tho state
prohibition force nnd C. L. Hick
man of the Salem police, who also
has a state commission, followed
Henderson out of Salem and nab
bed him In Linn county about six
miles from Corvnllfs. His still was
a small one of the wash boiler var
iety. Henderson had the still Ingen
iously hidden. Ho had mado a cave
in a strawstack, but had it girded
up so there wha no danger of a
cavo-ln. ' Calves fort constantly
about tho stack, so that to all ap
pearances In was tho last placo in
tho world where a still would be
located. Henderson was surprised
when tho two officers walked In
on him.
Henderson Is a previous offen
der, having been convicted In Sa
lem of selling liquor.
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Washington, Dec. 20 (AP)
There will be no withdrawal of
President Coolldge as arhltrntor In
the Tacna-Arira question. It was
made clear today at the White
House.
Tbe president feels that the
arbitration Is proceeding In
cordance with the original plan.
It was said that the executive
would not consult General Pcrsh
ing in regard to the Chilean ap
peal against one of the general p
decisions, because under the terms
of the award only Chile and Peru
could be legitimately consulted In
such a matter. Briefs from these
countries will be filed.
Pierce Proud of
Picture with Bull
He Tells Riwanis
Tm extremely proud of this pic
ture. 1 Intend to hang It up In my
office," said Governor Walter M.
Pierce at the Salem Klwanls club
luncheon this noon, In accepting
the framed portrait of a weeping
whlto faced bull presented to him
by the club.
A formal speech of presentation
was made this noon by Judge Cos
how of the state supreme court.
In accepting the picture Pierce
related his version of the origin of
the reason why his white faced
calves stick to him through his
political career. "I think It was
about In 1019," said tho governor.
when I was a member of tbe stair
SUBMIT PLAN
TO END STRIKE
New York, Dec. 29 (A.P.)
Alvan Markle. chairman of the
joint committee of miners and an
thracite operators today submitted
to the joint conference ot the two
sides a proposal which he said
would Insure permanent peace In
tho Pennsylvania hard coal field.
Marble's proposal contained elev
en points which will bo discussed
by the operators and tho miners'
representatives in tneir joint nego
tiatlons.
One suggestion was that the Joint
conference ratify and confirm the
provisions of the award of the an
thrncite coal strike commission
and tho subsequent agreement ns
well as the decision of the board
of conciliation, except as may be
modified.
This ratification, he proposed
should extend until September 1
1935. nnd be subject to renewal
every ten years thereafter.
It wns proposed to extend
September J, 1920, tho contract
and working conditions that were
operative when tho present suspen
slon took place. Markle also pro
posed that the miners and opera
tors select a fact-finding commit
tee. consisting of three miners and
three operators.
Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 29 (A.P.)
Jesse Ingrahani. itinerant team
ster, was found guilty of first tie
gree murder by a Jury In supeiioi
court this morning. The Jury Impos
ed the death penalty.
Ingraham who wan driving over
land from Texas, shot nnd killed
Joseph C. Hedges, a Seattle attor
ney, last September 19. The shoot
ing occurred on the Pacific high
way near here, nnd Ingraham said
that he shot because the I ledges
car had jumped into his wagon
Flo claimed that he had been hi
by motorists many times on his trip
west.
The Ingraham case was the first
time In more than thirty years
that the death penally was Impos
ed In this county.
Opponents of Science
In Category With
Witchcraft Believers
Kan&as City, Mo., Dec. 29.-(A.
p.) Abundant product of untir
ing research was laid by scientists
today before section meetings of
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and re
lated organizations. Scientists
from widely scattered parts of the
country brought contributions a
widely different In character.
Dr. Edwin I.tnto, parasitologist
of the University ol Georgia, plc-
u red before the zoological sectfou
f the association, anti-scientists
of today, Imbued with a spirit of
persecution comparable to that
manifested In the witchcraft
hangings at Salem.
legislature, that some legislation
was put through that I disapproved
of very heartily. After It was all
over, I got on my feet and roasted
'em. At the conclusion of my
speech I said I was glad the legis
lature was about over, bo that at
last I could go home and look some
honest white faced calves In the
faco.
"Those white faced calves have
stuck to me. People have guyed
me about them ever since."
. Examining the picture Pierce
declared that he did not know
"what the bull could be crying
about."
"He's crying because ho misses
you. governor," said Coshow.
LOSES USE OF
IERLI
Plymouth, Vt., Dec. 29. (A.P.)
-While the condition of Colonel
John C. Coolidge, father of the
president, was reported improved
today, his physician, ur. Aiocrt w.
Cram of Brldgewaler, said it was
improbable that ho would ever re
cover liiily the use- or nis tower
limbs. Colonel Coolidge has been
unable to walk for several days.
Colons .P'.;dldgo, who it) 81
years old, bad u severe illness sev
eral weeks ago, when he suffered.
from a recurrence of "heart
block.' He has had slight heart
ittacks at intervals since, the
physician said, and at the cud of
last week lost tiie use oi uis legs.
Dr. Cram attributed this to tauity
circulation but today admitted
that the condition was not likely
to show much change.
'Colonel Coolidge's general con
dition Is better than It was yes
lorday," the physician said. "He
Is unable to use his lower limbs,
but Is' fahiy comfortable and hlh
appetite is good. He has had no
heart block for several days."
Dr. Cram said he wns keeping
White House fully Informed of de
velopments here.
PUZZLE PAGANS
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 2!). (A. P.)
George W. Creel, former corrc
opend for tho Globe Trotter In
Asia and t lie South Sen Islands, be
lieves that "moving pictures and
the glaring inconsistency of
Christian nations in waging ruth
less war after stressing the com
uiandment 'thou shalt not kill,
hove done more to retard the pro
green of Christianity among -tin
non-Christian races ot the Orir-i
and destroy their respect for the
white man than any other cause,
After viewing American-nmu'
motion pictures these people hav
com 3 to look upon tho United
Statue as a country of glittering
palu-f cs inhabited by gaily dressed
plcnsuro loving men nnd women
who must have some hidden roo
;lve In trying to Torce Christianity
upon the heathen.
They are bas oning "to their
task of exhortation ugalnst knowl
edge," the fipcaker declared as are
vested interests who truffle In in
iquity Is threatened by scientific
ally framed pure food laws, ven
dors of quack medicine and prac
tlcers of magic, who hate the sci
ence whose light Is as deadly to
them a the light of the sun to the
Anaerobic bacteria.
"If those people who have ap
propriated the name fundamental
1st would consult their common
ense," he added, "and apply the
scientific method to anti-ecience
tenents of their theology, they
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CONSPIRACY,
INDICTMENT
DISMISSED
Senator Wheeler Wintf
Long Fight To Have
Charges Filed By Gov
ernment Killed.
Washington, De:. 29. (A.P.)
Senator Burton K. Wheeler ot
Montana today won his long fight
to have all charges brought
ugalnst him by the government
wiped off the books.
The District of Columbia su
preme court upheld the contention ,
uf the senator, who had already,
been ucuuitted in Mm tana, that
the uluivgts cMiUiiiicd lu a conspir
acy indictment, returned uBa.in.3t
him hero should be quashed.
A uomuirer to the indictment.
filed by Senator Walsh or Mon
tana, Mr. Wheeler's counsel, wfls
upheld.
I he court also threw out the
charges against Edwin S. Booth.
former solicitor of tho Interior
department, and Gordon Campbell
ot Montana, who were Indicted
jointly with him.
They were charged with con
spiring (o defraud the government
in connection with the obtuining
of oil nnd gas land permits.
Joday s decision loaves Senator
Wheeler free of all charges unless
tho government should succeed in
winning an appeal to the higher'
courts. Whether such a step will
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EARLY RETURN
TO
Washington, Doc. 20 (A.P.)
Formal announcement of tho early
return of General Pershing to tho
United States was mado today at
the state department.
The purpose of tho trip of tho
general from Africa where he id
endeavoring to compose the Chile-
Peru moundary disputo was said
officially nt tho department, to bo
for tho purposo of allowing him to
receive dental treatment and offi
cials would not go into tho ques
tion or his genernl health, known
to have been Impaired during his
long sojourn in South America.
Tho position was taken that tho
condition of General Pershing's
blood pressure which has caused
noine anxiety among friends here,
was a subject on which the depart
ment could not comment. It was
merely stated that ho had been,
awnltlng an opportunity to return
to the United States to receive tho
care of his own denthd.
It wns emphasized that General
Pei-Rhlng'H return had no political
or diplomatic significance nnd that
there was every indication that ho
would return to his work at Arii.
Paris, Dec. 39. (A.P.) Tho
flood situation, due tj the recently
heavy rainfalls and the melting
snow, is getting worse. The river
Khone, which last night apparent
ly wns nbout to recede, suddenly
started to rise ngnln early this
morning and moro rapidly than
over, owing to tho waters comnff
down from various tributaries.
All the low-lying country around
Lyons Is flooded. The water has
formed a vast lake three miles
wide. Numerous points where there
are no flood watcra, nevertheless
are cut from direct communica
tion and wide detours are neces
sary to revlctual them.
In Touraine all the rivers axe
rising rapidly. Acre after acre of
the rlversido meadows are flooded.
The (taone river has flooded all
the region around. Chalons. Al
though the Seine and Its tributar
le, the Yonne and the Marne, are
sttll rising, the wnter as yet hai
done no damage and river traffic
continues.
tained.
last pre-hletoric ice flood.