HotsonE 3 11 ftb 21 T MF T i ti VOLUME II BOAKDMAN, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEB .21, 1922 NUMBER 3 ins m CTION ON MARKETING BIL r I C : E '- "ST LIKELY Harding Advises Bonus Sales Tax. E ut Farm Bloc Op poses Such Plan. Washington, D. C. Final passage liy congress of a soldier bonus will not come for two or three months. The situation remains so confused that it is impossible to make an ac curate prediction whether the measure will be passed at this session. But the fact stands out that there is no hope of passing the bill with In the next few weeks. Pay the solders' bonus with a gen eral sales tax, or postpone the legis lation, was President Harding's advice to eongress. The president's letter, addressed to Representative Fordney, was read at a joint meeting of republican members of the house and senate committees dealing with the bonus question, who agreed after some discussion to lenve the matter in the hands of the ma jority members of the house commit tee. " Chairman Fordney of the house ways and means committee and Chair man McCumber of the senate finance committee said they did not think the j bonus would be postponed, but were silent as to a sales tax. Leaders of the agricultural bloc were outspoken, however, against this tax and threatened to counter with a programme which would include re enactment of the excess profits and higher income surtaxes and an in- crease in inheritance and some other such taxes. This plan also was favored by some democratic leaders. Proponents of a sales tax professed to be confident that because of the strong desire in both the house and senate to put through the bonus biii at this session, a majority of members would come to accept this ievy rather than see the bonus programme defeated. Measure Legalizes Co-Oper.itiye Aisc tions of Parmers ar.d Producers. Washington, D. C. The Capper-Volstead co-operative marketing bill, which legalizes cooperative associa tions of farmers and producers for marketing purposes and exempts them from the Sherman anti-trust law, was signed by President Harding, The signing of the bill, one of the m -sures especially sponsored by the agiicultural bloc, was witnessed by Senator Capper and Representative Volstead, its authors: Senators Mc Nary, Oregon; Lenroot, Wisconsin, and Kellogg of Minnesota, and by Charles S. Barrett, president of the National Fanners' Union, and other heads of farm organizations. The act limits the profits of co operative associations to 8 per cent and stockbolderi to one vote each, no matter bow much stock they may hold in such organization. Its ad ministration is under the secretary of agriculture. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS HAI tfKfl I UNO inn Fc-' Y.sy !r. Valui t ju In Be Air tie ta FARMERS ORGANIZE NEW ASSOCIATION Chicago. Plans for a new farmers' organization, to be known as the uni ted farmers' national bloc, were made here at a conference of farmers from more than 12 states Among those present was A. C. Townley, president of the National Non-Partisan league. The articles of association adopted at the meeting provided for organiza tion from precincts up to a national committee with a committeeman from every state, although it was declared that the association would generally indorse candidates already in the field. Chicago was selected as the national headquarters. The platform of the association as given out called for government guar antee of the cost of production of sta ple farm products, taxation of excess profits, and heavy income and inheri tance taxes, government conservation and operation of natural resources. H. Wells Andrews of Genesco, 11., was elected president of the organization. Washington Taxes Cut $4,459,010.13. Olympia, Wa3h The total taxes of this state levied in 1921 for all pur poses and extended on the county tax rolls for collection in 1J22 amount to 168,206,809.98, as against $72,665,820.11 for 1920, or a reduction of $4,459,010.13, according to a comprehensive state ment issued here by the division of municipal corporations in the st;.te riuditnr's office. Citations for gallantry in service have been forwarded to several en listed men of the navy by the navy department, the awards having been made by the commanding general, second division, American expedition ary forces. The following Oregon men are included In the citations: Alvin L Bowman, Falls City; Benjamin P Rogers, Salem. More than twice as much home building took place In Portland during 1921 than in any other northwest city, according to a report made by S. US. Hege of. Bpokane, chairman of the pub licity and advertising committee of the Portland Realty association. The re port shows that of the $22,241,091 spent in the 17 leading cities of the northwest, $10,100,700 was spent in Portland. The state highway commission will conduct a hearing at Albany Satur day to consider a petition asking foi permission to create the Aitoany-Lban on-Foster read improvement district It is the purpose of the district, ii created, to improve the so-called San tiara highway from Albany to the San ti .m ii .tioi.al forest. Eventually, i; is proposed to extend the Bantiaru highway to P-nd. The value ot livestock on farms and ranges In Oregon decieas d fr im $101 681.000 to 163,834,500 (87J per cent), during ;he two yean from January 1, 1920, to January 1, 1922, according to re,.rtr just issued by the Uniti . Btntes i.ureau of markets ami cr i estimates. 1'iis decrease in tola! va'ue Is due mainly to decrease In va'.ue par head, although there his be;n tome decrease in numbers in mcst cb.sses. Buffering from lead poisoning In duced l.v shot which had accumulated in his intestines through rating wild ducks, John H. Bell, a fisherman, taw be n at St. Mary's hospital in Astoria for several days in a critical condition. Already strong purgatives have re nicved 200 or more shot frcm his In tesiincs and an X-ray examination showed ihat there were at bast 100 more o.r th little leaden pellets lodged in a large intestine. A fig'it to have the battleship Ore gon, which may be prf served under the naval treaty, sent to Portland to be kep.t there permanently, was start ed by Representative McArthur, a member of the house naval committee. The transfer of the old ship was taken up by Mr. McArthur with the navy department and it is understood she will be ordered to Portland If the poo- 1 pie of Oregon guarantee to pay the r.-.. casi of maintenance. The half-mile dike which the netted Statist engineers have been building at Harrington point in the Columbia I river has been completed This dike ts one cf the largest and oust im-1 portant works ever undertaken in the Columbia river. A modern eld p:e r'-'s hQsui erected in Salem at a ccst cf matflly $55,000. . The monthly payroll at No: from mills and othor plants to n ttrly $118, COO. American I.eg'en Wiir.he held la Tfcl Ealles, July 12, 13 and .14. Taxpayers of Linn county met in Alba: y Monday to consider msars e. bringing about a reduction. of taxes. The state Irrigation securities com mlssi in has certified to $2JO,000 c(. bonds Issued by tho Mcdford irrigr i tlon district. . is! Seventy-five pn perty owners met at Salem dud organized What will n know a ;s the Marion county tax re duction league. Charles Hall, state senator, ef Marsh? field, has announced his candidacy fo? the republican nomination tor goveW nor of Oregon. Mllwaukie refused Friday to rccalj Jchn M. Snyder as mayor, voting lj to 105 against the recall which was cir culated last month. The population of the state hospital fo.- the insane at Salem totals 1S70 p:4 thnts, tho largest number in the his lory of the institution Marion county poultry raisers lieW a meeting at Salem and organized H blanch of the-' Pacific Co-operative Poultry Producers' association. Main line traffic n the Souther' Pacific was halted several hours oo accoant of a heavy slide of dirt about throe miles east of Grants Pass f A special election held at Drain re sulted in the authorization of an $18, OOO bond issue for the purpose of buy ing and improving the water plant. Mount Hoo 1 is 11,253 feet high, or 25 feet higher than the generally ac cepted altittile, according to new figures annoueced by the forest serv ice, a Orand Rond valley wheat was some what damaged by the frosts of the past few months, but so far as has bees re ported the crcy us a whole will not suffer. Governor Oi ott has announc d thai he has called a conference of western governors to be held In Portland Sat j urday, March :. to discuss the narcotic drug sit nation. i Between 600 and 800 members of the Oregon Christian Endeavor union from all parts of Oregon met in Salem to attend the annual convention of the organization. io prctc g. n caves ntrar.ee, to the coa-:ty, Re coi imlttee of t' win lo to the lti m of $400,000 in t: Interior daparliuen: appropriation IU1 for the Baker Irriga tion project fn Baker county. A resolution opposing the cons -.'.Ida lion of the I 'lilted States forestr; bureau with the department or the interior was adopted by the board of directors of The Dalles-Wasco count chamber of co: lmerce. Asahel Busii Jr., prominent Salem business man, expects to le.v eaflj In March for France with a cargo pf fruit and other Oregon products which ho Will introduce in the foreign markets. Tho Douglas county Jail has become filled almost to capacity during the past two moitlis and the county has been forced to buy new furniture in order to provide additional acconi- The output of butter in Oregon it. 1921 was greater by more than a mil lion pounds tl u that of 1920, accord Ing to the am ual report made by C. L. llawley, state dairy and food com niissionar. Lena Joyce, Camas valley girl who recently received considerable promin ence by killing two large wolves single handed, added to her laurels by bring ing in to Ror burg the carcasses ot two large cougar which she killed near her home. The live prtrol beats of the state lsh commissi i aio being conditioned to patrol the v. aters of the Columbia and Willamet! i rivers beginning with the closed salmon season, March 1, according to Master i'i.ii Warden Shoemaker. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Kuaer, until re cently of Eldore. Ia., have assumed charge of the Oregon state training school for boys at Salem. Mr. Kuaer is superintendent of the institution, while Mrs. Kusor will act as matron. They succeed Mr. and Mrs. I,. M. Gil bert, who have been employed as sup erintendent and matron of the school for the last four years. ve.t o." ( wi I bill lng ut c waj thai pas; w ri Tah try was pec unli Ore S Tali Ore rnr exc Mr.: 1 Ore afii iual of F tin i the " knswn Ihat republican members he senate ..nance committee in re Wg the s called permanent tariff had agreed tentatively on contlnu- the present principle of basing es on foreign market value, h ilrman Fordney of the house s and means committee declared If this kind of tariff measure was lad by the senate, the house would ; ) a new bill with an American tation clause and "let the senate ugatn." If this should happen, it said, the j would bo little pros t of a tariff bill at this session IBS congress remained on the job Ughout most of the congressional ion camp i 'gn. H LIVES LUT ITl ' AIRSHIP WRECK Roma Plunges 1000 Fttt tf Ground and Burns at Hampton Roads. on Phone Race Reduction DenlSt :!eni, Or. Patrons of the P.icll'i iphone & Telegraph company i on must continue to pay rate ;ing from 30 to 200 per cent i ss of those in effect prior ti h 1, 1021. lis was announced here when tin on public service commission re mad in every particular its orlg. order Incr asing rates under date 'ebruary 28, 1921, and at the same scored the petitioners who asked n hearing, Cr !.-; ?83.;.89 inhabitants of On gon. 295.723 or 1.7.7 per cent wen natives of thai state; 880,022 or 48..' per cent were natives of other states or of the outlying possessions; am 107. 'I'l l or 13.7 pi r cent, were born ii foreign countiies, tho census bursal reports. There were two fatalities In Ore gon, due to Industrial accidents, dui lng tho week ending February 10, fee cording to u report by the state In duiit rial accident coinmfsslon. Tie victims wete Melvln A. Smith, stce worker, Portland, and Sidney A. Coop or, laborer, Pendleton. A total of 293 accidents ware reported. Four Marlon end Polk county town! ha' a ottered Inducements to obtai. the scutching and retting plant to 1. cot trncted tr, the Willamette Vallej Flax & Hemp Growers' association Th : towns t' it would welcome tie plir.it Include Dallas, Turner, Aumi vlllo and Rid .( all. It was estimated thrt the plant will cost approximate ly Men. ono. ( po :aby Hears Market Reports By Wireless aftllllllaW i iff C 1 m rr SSS fir When radiophone wireless stations ot the F.ast recently started diiia out daily market and weather reports even Uncle Sam's cab ,.:I C could in. loneer resist the radio "bug." This new picture , Secretary of Navy Denby at his desk, carrying on government ;. ,, ive news, educational and entertaining prograaii srs . r for amateurs by bioadcasting stations in tiic Eat. si rs have lieen con s: Charles W. Hald in, ..in, Astoria; in Wimbsrly, Drain; re 1 Weatherr, Entarpriwj Harry K. Jones, Jefferson; Robert .1. Mclsase I 'ark dale; Charles A. Slrirk, .Sulliet lin; l.eon W. i.undell. Weston; Dili I,. Gillespie, Willamiua; l.yman II Sherey, Woodburn; Thomas Tliomp son, Psndh ton. With the p. ii i' of wool 011 the up grade and vital questions of disease control, range allotment and manage meat virtually settled, central Ore gon sheep raisers, after a two das' coiii'i 1 enei at iii'iid, believe I lie) lia left safely beiii.id tin 111 the difficult tint: a of the readlUStmanl period .me that the letnie promises prosperity l ti..;.. , :th the coming season. I" .iiy Indians, forming a ttmuan Of the 01 ce pOWSttUl Pnii(pia tribe controiii ik praotically all of ths land west of the Cascades, from the H:,;n river north lo the talis ol the Will mi ette, met at Hosi burg to consider the methods of presenting to tim goveva meat UMif claim for 112,000,000 grow ing out of 11 'treaty alleged to have been made In 1847. The Indians elect ed 11 eonunlltf e composed of Isadore Rondeau of Tiller, Kdward Dompler of I ugi-lie, Mace Tipton of ilide, Joe Brown of Roseborg and Pross Pleh ette of Oakland, to handle the affairs of the organisation, Tipton is the roco'cnlzed chief of the tribe. Norfolk, Va. Thirty-four men were killed, eight were injured seriously and throe were uninjured or only slightly bruised when the giant army airship Roma with her crew and a number of civilians, totaling 45 in all, plunged from 1000 feet or more In the air to the ground at the Hampton Roads naval base. The accident presumably was caused by a broken rudder and as the huge dirigible plunged to earth it capsized across a high tension electric line, bursting into a roaring furnace of blazing hydrogen gas. Ban ly a dozen of those aboard were picked up alive and one of these dlod on the way lo the hospital. All who survived the fire escaped by jumping as the ship struck. The others, pennei In the hull of tho fallen bag, were burned to death. Accounts of survivors and eye witnesses as to what had happened appeared to agree that the huge, kite like structure of the stern rudder. It self as large as a bombing plane, had flipped to 0111; side as the Itoma drove along loop feet above the army baRe. She was making a trial flight with a new battery of Liberty motors. They v. ere installed lo replace Italian en gines bought with her in Italy. LONG DISCUSSION OF TREATIES EXPECTE: Washington, l. C. Despite the pres sure of both republican und democra tic senate leaders for prompt action, controversies are developing within tim foreign relations committee which may lend to a long discussion of the arms conference treaties before any of them are brought to the senate floor for ratification. BotnS members of the committee predict' that the effort to obtain a de tailed explanation of the negotiation! leading to the four-power Pacll treaty would in Itself mean 0OI I able delay. Senate debate on the four po. citie treaty began with a prelit till resulting in a request to Prssld Harding for nil available Information us to bow the treaty was negotiated The resolution of request had the sup port of republican und democrat leaders alike and was approved Wltl out a record vote. President Harding, replying to the senate oil the Hitchcock resolution, asking for Information relative to the negotiation of tho four power Pacify treaty, stated it was Impossible t , furnish the requested Information be cause most of the negotiations were conducted without maintaining of a record. Finance Corporation iuna o3, 136,000 Washington, 11. 0 Wnarwlal assist ance aggregating M3,llfl,000 has been given by the war finance corporation to American exporter! and farmers since e&aCtlBSnt of the law reviving the corporation, according to a state ment from Director Meyer, submitted in the senate. 44f, Now In Oregon Penitentiary. Salem. Or.- 1 he population of the Oregon state penitentiary is now 445, which is the high mark for a number of years. This figure shows a gain of 1.13 prisoners during the last It mouths. HOME SWEET HOME gosh! BROKE, AND I PROM IS to BETTY A J BOX OF CANDY! 1 e - 4 Se.U rVHBBs. 14k, , .E- F. Parks llt I VOJ'LL HAVE TO LEAVE j.t'rU'( : ' ' I YOVHl IN HOU? 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