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About The Eugene guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1924-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1925)
President 'Coolidge Thinks City News Items About People You Know and Happenings That Reflect the Life of Eugene and Its Var ied Daily Activities. THE WEATHER 'Oregon: Cloudy; rain In tho west; rain and mow In the north eaet portion tonight and, Thura day; warmer tonight; aoutherly gales. Temperature Tuesday: Maximum, 44 delrees; minimum, 34; precipitation, .23 of an Inch; direction of wind, south; stage of river, 8.2 feet., Concerts Are Planned ' f Formal openirig of the new music 'auditorium of the university will be i-arly in February, according to the announcements of the faculty of the 'school of music. With the completion fof the auditorium and installation of -the new organ last term, all is in 'readiness with the exception of hang ings which have been ordered from New York. A. series' of four concerts is being planned when the opening lakes place. The first evening, Sat jirday, will be devoted to an organ .'recital by John Stark Evans. Sunday afternoon a choral and orchestral program will be given, and on Mon' :ilay and Tuesday, miscellaneous pro grams will be offered. Legion Prlve Starts The annual membership drive of if ugene Poat No. 3, American Legion, started at 10 o'clock this morning, nd canvasscra are reporting unusual success in signing up ex-service men tor another year's "bitch." Pour teams, representing the members of . the post, the officers, the drum and bugle corpa and the 40 and 8's, are handling the drive, which will end January 29, the next meeting night. The purpose of the concerted effort la again to restore Eugene post to its position as the largest post in the state outside of Portland. The, local post is now fourth, as it did not hold lW campaign in November, as did the otter posts in Salem, Eoseburg and Medford. Ford Cars Discussed Jnmprovements on Ford cars, addi- ; lions to lines and factory equipment, and estimates as to tie number of machines allotted to each county, were discussed by F. II. Hull, man ager or tho Ford branch plant at J'ortlaiid, and G. T. Henderson, his assistant, at a meeting in the Osburn , Mel grill room Inst night of Ford . agents from Lane,, Lincoln, Douglas "f umiuu counties, xne f ord com pany-wlll increase its use of news . paper advertising, gpaco in tho Kit . : geno field, it was announced. ' : Liquor Tested Monrraoantl. moonshine and other liquors, of various tastes, colors and . origin, taken by city and county i- licers in dry raids, are frequently tested by the. university chemistry de psrtniciit, says Professor O. F. Staf ford. This analysis, showing tho alco holic content of all liquids held as moonshine, must be stated in trials. and for this reason these bottles of evidence arc "sent to the university to be tested. Several bottles,' and two keps of confiscated liquor have just been received by the chemistry de partment. Womon's Meeting Planned A meeting of Eugene wouieu inter-! " ested in physical activity has been . called for next Tuesday evening at S o'clock at the Y. M. C. A. by Miss Spitzonburg of, the women's physi ; cial education department of the Uni versity of Oregon. .She is also inter ested in the women's work at he "I ." An extensive program of activis ts possible for the winter month 3Iihs Spitzenburg points out, and she looks for a large' turnout. Nurses Elect - Mrs. Alice Hilliard was . elected president of the Lsne county Gradu ate Nurses' association at the annual meeting yesterday. Otljrr officers named were as follows: Mrs. Flor ence Hendershott, first vice-president,- - lira. I.ulu Geil, second vice-president; Miss Iva Herrymnn, secretary, and Miss Grace Turner, treasurer. The --.o,., n.-aocmiion now bus 4:; mem bers in good standing,1 and holds Beetings regularly. Cash Gift Received i A donation of flOi;i in cash was . Bade to the University of Oregon gift eampsign by Kennell-Kllis studio. This was done by giving to the university receipts obtained from photograph ervices for the Orcgans. A second Jf - v - - i . . ... ., n-LTiru was iroln Jjielll Clay C.nson, former professor of Knglish and dean of women. .She gave 85 books, largely In the field of Eng lish literature, to the library. Students Take pottery i Sixteen students at the Iniver.irr o( Hi Hon are enrolled in a new two-7 term course in Ihe making of pottery. It is offered in the school of architec ture and allird arts, mid is tauRht by Professor . II. Zinc. Tkis ia the first time that lottery has been tauglit since tie fire that destroyed the art building three years ago. Tiles are now being made by the design cl;.. (Continued cn page live) VOL. C8 Tree Crushes Car; .Two Men FOfiC 0 OCCUPANTS TO ROAD BENEATH Clinton Bamber And George Hinkle Of Calapooya District Hurt Automobile Is Cut In Two By Trunk Of Tree As It Topples nOSEBl'ItU, Ore., Jan. 7. Clinton Bamber and George Hinkle, residents of the Calapooya district near Oak land, were seriously injured lnte yes terday evening, when a big tree fell across the automobile in which they were riding. The tree was being cut down, and in falling did not take the direction expected and dropped across the road. Bamber and HinkNs were driving homo and as the tree came down it struck the front of their car and' actually cut it in two. The two men were together in the front seat and the trunk fell across their laps with such force that it drove both of them through the bottom of the car. Hinkle was driving nud received a little protection from the steering wheel and post, -but Bnmbcr'a legs were terribly mangled, the bonce be ing completely shattered. Amputation may be necessary. The men wot-c taken into Oakland yesterday evening and then brought to the Itoseburg hospital last night. Finance Ministers Hold Brief Opening Meeting in France PAIUS, Jan. 7. OP) Tho confer ence of allied finance ministers called to consider the distribute of (Jcr many reparation payments and kin dred subjects, opeued its scries of meetings today with a session lasting forty iiiiuiiies. The priu'cedings'werc confined to nn exchange of formal ad dresses, the representatives present, anion!; whom was included an Ameri can diplomatic delegation, being wel comed by Ktiennc Clemrnlol, l'rcnch minister of finance, to wboitc address Winston Churchill, British chancellor of the exchequer replied suitably. The delegates adjourned until five p. m. tomorrow to give the members time to study the mass of reports and documentary points of views sub mitted by the various countries. Ex ports who bavo been active in work under the Dawes plan were given the task of drafting a program to be sub mitted tomorrow. They will recom mend the procedure to be -followed and. outline generally what nueations should be taken lip first. G. O. P. Electors to Hold Salem Meeting SALMM. Ore.. Jan. ".The repub lican president ial electors of Oregon will meet here .Monday to make a for mal ennrass of the presidential vote cast in Oregon at the election of .No vember I and to elect but one of their number as messenger to deliver the vote at Washington at the meeting of the ele-tonil college. The Oregon elec tors arc li.iniel liojd of Enterprise; r. ('. (ieorge of Portland; A. V. (iowan. of Ilurns; Harriett jine lticb ard of Portland, anl .1. (J. Stearns Sr. of Portland. Mrs. O. J. Borchick Victim of Illness !rs. Ollif .1. Hon-birk, 01, died at her h'-me at liexter today. Besides ,cr hiMbnnd. Alorizo Bor chick. Sirs. Bon-biik is Mirvivrd by three son-, l'orret, Claude and John, seven granddaughters and one great- i gnindIaughter. j Kunrral services will le held al II i o'clock Tbursdaj at the Trent church, j Co-operative TODAY'S NEWS TODAY M Lumber Cut In During 1924 350,000,000 A)irox!malcly IirtO.OUOfOCK) feet of lumber was cut in Lane futility dur ing tho year l'.)lM, nccordiug to an un official estimate to'dny by Kugeue lumbermen. Prospects urc for an un usually good year in 19-3 from a pro duction record, mill men say. In Lane county about 70 mills are now operating. The production record of the Booth-Kelly lumber company at Springfield during was iJ4, 000.000 it in shown in a preliminary survey of production records made by the Oregon Timberuiun. Among other Lane county mills in PAYE E SALEM. Ore., Jon. 7. The I.onc county court and the Southern Pa cltic company will not have to share in the expense of reconstructing the new overhead crossing near Divide, Ore., according to on order of the public service commission today, but tho state highway commission will be required to pay all of the additional amount. The originnl cost of the crossing was $2.'!,41W.S7 of which the South ern Pacific company was required to pay 40 per cent, Lane county HO pel cent nnd tho state !10 per cent. The cost of the ' reconstruction, necessi tated by a scltlnig of the structure, wns $."104. 74. The highway commis sion petitioned the service commis sion to odd this amount to the origi nal cost and apportion the whole sum on the forty-thirty-lhirty basis. The Southern Pacific comhatted this, claiming the settling was 'due to neg ligence in construction, nnd the Com mission says ill its rdcr: ''There is no testimony before the commission as to whether or not it would hove cost a greater amount of money than the original expendi ture of .2.1,4it.t.S. to have construct ed Nurd crossing originally in such a mnuiicr as to hove prevented the set tling of said structure, and thus avoid ed the additional expenditure of $.1101.71." J.mlgc C. P. Barnard stated today that the niLtter of the overhead cross ing enme up in 1020 and that in 11)21 after he had taken office that the county court objected to parts of the bill. The matter has been pcnd.ng since then. "The decision of the com mission is ju.-t what was asked hy the county conrt at that time," the judge stated today when informed of tlief action taken by the state body. New Lane County Club Leader Here Arnold I'ollirr, new iivxiKhint su periutenflrnt of scb ol for Iinn, ami roiiuty club leader, larlrd work (A day. Mr. i'ollier in receiving his in- tnii I innn com rntiitg the orgunizu Hon' of the 1m.vi am girl Hub work fr"in the itate rlub lenders at O, A (.'. and will io -n Htart nativity in 1J1.1: line in L.me. Thf nchouls i'f the coun ty will be viMtcd hy Mr. Collier start ing tomorrow, is the imnoumcmiut. Elsie Swcetin in Prison's Laundry HTATKVILLK. III.. .Ian. 7. KNie Sweetin. Cinvictril uf poimning Vi! fnrd Swpptin, hf t ljtirbiiid, MnNfil todiy hi th laundry of the vtnte pui tmtinry t work -otit .the 3"i years of br ffntrnre. By food rondurf tht will be eVgihle to apply Tr a parole in S yenrn. , GIVE TOXIN-ANTI-TOXIN pr. Seth M. Kerron and Miss 1M- ene Campbell, nure, todny,gsve 110 pupils of the Psttemon school innoc- illation of toxln-antl-toxip to provide imuiuuity from diphtheria. Marketing Offers Opportunity to Farmers Rdad Today's Editorial EUGENE, OREGON, Lane County Totals About Feet, Is Word cluded in this survey were the follow ing: WendKng. L. B. Menefiel Lumber company, 8,000,000; Cottage lirove, Wiese brothers, 3,500,006; Bohemia Lumber company, 2,500.000; Ells worth Lumber company, 2,500.000; Overholser Lumber company, 300,000; Veneta, A. M. Mattock Lumber com pany, 2,523,000. V ' 'lue mill sale to Thomas Morgan f (troys Harbor. Wash., recently re ported in Lane county, is considered i prelude to other large lumber deals that are now pending. B E After being clred down since De cember 1G the Hooth-Kelly mill at Wcntlling stnrted operntiona yeeter-, diiy and a number of pluus tiro under way for improvements, according to the nnnoiinceinent today of A. C. Dlx. on. manager. (, -.-; "The demand for hog fuel Jian sliuwu a big inij-eutie and additinufl equipment is "to be added to tnke cure of tbis." Mr. Dixon said. "The .Springfield p'nnt is now averaging about five cura a day and with the new machinery at AVeodling this will be about 'doubled,' is the announce ment of Mr. Dixon. Hog fuel from the Lnne. county pliiuta is used at the Oregon Agri cultural college, the L'tiiwrsity of Oregon and the OnbtiiD hotel nnd plans nre under way for the Terminil hotel to u?e tfie fuel. The hog fuel is bark, refaise, slabs and. other waste products of the sawing' which as ground up and fed to the fire boxes by meiins of a conveyor. The Booth-Kelly company is also installing rock crusher trt provide Lhullast for the logging rail Hnr of til-? firm in the woods at WendTing, Mr. Dixon states The plant winch will soon be in operation has a daily ciipu city of about 100 yards. Thin bilbist will be used on nil new linea that are extended by the compony into the timber area of the firm, the manager said. Golf Club Elects At Monday Meeting Two tickets for the annual eleition of officers for the Kiigenc Country club have been posted In the club rooms. The nominations were made yesterday and the list of names posted on the bulletin board today. ' 1'lection will take place best M"ii lay night. Following ore the candidates for the various positions: Presidents (leorge Hitchi-o,-k: vire- president, R. W. Prescott, tleorge Schaefrrs; treasurer. A. A.' lingers. .f. W. Slarlill'k; secretary, .1. K. Pratt; direc'ors (two To be fleeted). H. O. Immel, W. 1.1. Swan, (i. W. (iriffln aid (Jeorge M.-Cill. Ittbaf names may be written on the ballot., it is pointed out. Retiring of ficers of the club are K. . Immel, president; (ieorge P. Hitchcock, vice- prea'dent; M. W. Starbick. irfasur- tieorge Iiingle. secretary; ti. W. liriffin and i. II. Schaefers, direct ors. State Fair tfoard Will Meer Monday SAI.KM. Ore., Jan. ". -The ante fair board will meet here Monday, ami one proposal that will be token up will be that of holding a mid winter poultry wjiow in the poultry pavilion at the state fair grounds. Promoters of the show held each year at Hub bard for Marion and Clackamas coun ty exhibitori nre said to be amicus to have the show brought to the fair grounds ' because of the first-claa Itciiities, fur Uirir eibibits. o) r 0 J WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1925 n V D.S.FLETGHER T New Agent Has Been Lo- . cated At Moscow, Idaho, : For Past Five Years Is a Graduate 6f Washing ton State College; Will Be Here February 1 0. S. Fletcher, for the past fivo years coiinty ngent at Moscow, Idaho, has been appointed as the new county agent for Lane and will assume his duties here February 1, according to announcement today of If, I,. Ballard, Cfiunty ogent leader of Oregon. "We selected Mr. Fletcher from a list of eight or 10 applicants, nnd believe I.auc county "is fortunate In securing bis services, lie has a splen did record In Idaho, and is cntlcd by many leading agricnltm-ists of thut stole as tho best county ngcut in Idaho," ilr. llnllnrd said. W. S. C. Graduate. Mr. Fletcher is a ' graduate of Washington 'Ktntc "college lind was tornicrly teacher of agriculture lu tho high schools of Washington. lie was also engaged In boys and girls county club work in .Spokane county. The new county agent Is about 30 years of ago and has a wife and two children, according to Mr.1 Dullard. "A new county, ngent is also being obtained for Coos county as after two years .without this service they, like Lane, realize the value of the work. A county agent for (irnnt county will also be named in tho near future," the county agent leader said. Cost s Divided The county will contribute $2000 for the agricultural agent's work and the state and government will provide $1'(100. The offire In the courthouse now occupied for the federal farm census will be made ready for Mr. Fletcher1 when the census Is complet ed at the end of the prcscut month is the announcement. t Sixteen New Type Locomotives For' ' S. P. Are Ordered PORTLAND, Ore., Jim." 7. Six teen iicj t.ipe ItM'on.iilivf-H wilt be built by the AmcriTin 'Locomotive works for the SouihefSi Pacific rail way f'r life on mountain grades, nc ctirding to nnu'Him-cmriit by 11, L. K UK. Mtipcrinli'mh-iit of (be xyMcm'i Orpgnn line, loday. The will ,e ibo iimM powerful t'f nnu-arti'-ulatcd or ingle type engine, known as (he "I-lO-i.'" type, the feature of whirh is third cylinder placed In de the m.iin (rlllrH ,v(, ,PIM,,n ,wu outftide cylinder. They will be VH fent In Irngth. wpigbt 0,H0 pounds and linve IS CHOSEN AS UNMET. nvixiiiiiim power on lhe;nnd g,iKged by two masked and armed drivers of tio.lMH) pounds. School District at Westfir Is Sought Organization of new srhool dis- trirt for Weiiifir which Is now part of the Onkridge dltrkt Is he'ng unit ed by rexidenta of that oeclinn snd Colosr) (ieorge II. Kelly, of (be Westfir f. umber company, and W. J. Xorri. of the same firm, wt-re Iwre tod:y (o dim-iiM (he plun with K. J. Moore, county superintendent f schools. It is proponrd that tlx new Westfir dufrict include the territory ..... s.ue ... ...c ...u , r..rr mat me ct.iiiin-n ot tne seventu ami i eighth grades wilt not have to make the trip d'.ily to Oskridge through llu titnuel to school at Oakridte, The ue- I titiona will be in circulation aoyn oild the matter will come before Ihe boun- lary board at the February meeting is the announcement uf Mr. Muore. Injured BRIDGE COSTS Structure Would Cost New $75,00$ According To State Officials Engineers Here To Look Over Bridge Site Arid Road Work In County KstimatCB by the state-cnRineer on the cont of a new Hendricks bridgo nro being ninde as a preliminary for the erection of this new spnn which hna lieen Dimmed hv the Lnnn eotinlv court. An effort will be made to have. the state cooperate, in the building of the bridge, according to Judgo C. I. Barnard. State Mon Here C. 13. McCultough, state bridge en gineer; J. H. Sawyer, state divibioii engineer, and Knginecr Walsh, real dent representative of the stuto high way department, are hero today, to look over the bridge site and also inspect roiid work under way In Lnne. The present timber bridgo has two RpaiiB of -10 and ISO feet respect ively covering a main opening of 4.ri0 feet. Three Bteel truss spans of 1.10 feet each in combination with conoid oruble approach structure especially at the north end will bo uncd if the same amount of channel Jh crossed as at present, the engineer reports. This bridge will coat between $75,000 and $SO,000. Shorten Main Span It may be possible to shorten the main channel cpan nnd replace a cer tain amount of trestle approach at the north end with a fill embankment nnd possibly cut down the estimated cost to ftio.OOO, It Is said. "The state lias been cooperating in the erecting of bridges that cross from one county to another and on effort will be made to obtain stale funds also for the Hendricks spun although, this is a Lane county pro ject alone," Judge Barnard said. Canning of Tree Fruits Considered VOKTLANfl, Ore., Jnn. 7. Ilortl- culturo investigators in Washington and Oregon formed the vubjects of tnlks today before the aeventii annual convention of the Northwest Canneis nftftociution bere by hi, J. Johnsin of the State College of Washington anl .1. T. Jardine, Oregon Agricultural college. Ir. F. F. Fitzgerald, manager of the American Can company labora tory at Chicago Is to rpeak this aft ernoon on proper una of contnlnf rs for different products. This morning's resfdon was deroted to consideration of canning of tree fruits. Couple Robbed By Two Masked Men l.fIS, AN;i;i.l-:S. .Ian. T. IIoiidO i)i cn whom they surprised at work upon returning to (heir home late at night,' Sidney Herman, retired re.il etiite broker and his wile were r"b i h(d of furs snd diamonds valued at ; more than tl(MHl, according to a re i lmr o n dice. I.rfore Iravlna. the two men locked the couple In a bed room where two hours later Hermin managed to free himself and notify police. Salem Druggist Is Cherrian Head SAI.F..M. Ore., Jan. ".- J. C. Ptrry, last night a Astern druggist, was j(,rimn),il n KinK UinK n( tifr rians, succeeding Al N, Pierce, who hss held the office for the Inst year. The following new members were Ini tiated: Arthur J. It aim, C. A. Towns, llert Ford, Ilollis Huntington, C. II. Irwin, Jack Flliott, C. F- Uiese, A. C. Foff, lt"fd llowland and Lester .Si lilu.bcrg. ABE ESTIMATED TODAY'S NEWS TODAY o o Veteran Sergeant O O To Sergeant Michael J. Murphy, sixty-six yean old, of Bay side. Long Itdand, X. Y., has como a rare distinc tion that of being the first non- eoiy missioned officer to review a unit f the Xational'Ouard. He will review the famous JOotb infantry nt its New York armory as a reward for fifty years nervico in tho army, during which lie served in the Indian wars and the Spanish-American embrogllo. Murphy soon will bo retired with full honors. s Of inoro than 000 Chrlslman. pack ages, lnauffioiently addressed, that were left nt tho Eugene postoffice after Uio Yulctldo rush only 150 now rciunln as all tho others have been safely delivered lo their owners. Al though theso gifts were belated they seemed lo be very welcome, Postmas ter Dnriyin K, Ynrnn enld today. "The ISO pnc-kiiges that now remain bero ore being looked over carefully to find any traces of an address or tlie senders' address and tiiey will be cleared up within the neit few days, according to present indications," Mr. l'oron stated. One package had to be destroyed. This gaily wrapped parcel with no ad dress and simply the information, "fragile," withlk the past few days' begun to attract considerable atten tion due to a sweet aroma that was watted through the postal depart ment. An Inspection revealed that a big Yuletlde turkey had been awaiting (ownership In the worm room since several days before Cbriatmas. Tbis pnekuge was quickly consigned to tne furnace when it was opened and the content, noted. "The sender should have marked the package 'perahablo' instead of 'fragile', and some action would hare been taken at ouce," Mr. Yorsn soid. It should havo been marked "ter rible," Is the unsympathetic comment of the postal clerks. Dr. Paul Loebe Heads Reichstag IIKIIMN, Jan. 7. UP) Dr. Paul l.nebe, socialist democrat, a former president of the lleichstag, was elect ed president of the new Iteichstsg to day. TODAY Ily ARTIU'R llllISIIANF. (Copyright, 1112.1. IV Htar Company) ' The new ye sr Is under way. Soon wp shail have niulred the habit of writl.it H'-"'. instead of 1021, and then the new year will be an old stcry. . At the end of 102.1 you will easily recognise those unable to take a new year seriously. They will be about where tjjey were 1 year before. How big will Ilia Henry Kurd con cern be, when It Is full grown? Kurd begin. 1021 with six, million more square feet of floor space in his buildings, than he bad one year ago. That would mriin a new factory KK) fert wide, and fiU.OOO feet long. Quite an eituinslon. The bigger be grows the better, HOME I EDITION NO. 2 SET IN VOTB Postoffice And Treasury' Appropriations Passed By Senate Ballof , Underwood Bill Will Be Up' For Consideration At Thursday Session WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. OP) The-' senate set a new record for the ses sion today when it completed cons sideration of and passed the $1-3,-000,000 agricultural appropriation bill . in one hour and twenty-fire minutes. TREASURY BlLL MOVES WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. VP) In tic record time of15 minutes the Ben ate today passed the ?"63,000,000 ap propriation bill for the postoffice and treasury departments. Because of its provision for tho needs of trfo departments the meas ure is tho largest peace time appro priation bill in history. It carries ap proximately $8,000,000 less than the budget estimate but $12,000,000 moro than was appropriated for tho de partments this year. UNDERWOOD BILL UP WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (P) Tho senate will vote at & p. in. tomorrow on tho Underwood bill, the crux of tho Muscle Shoals leasing fight. An agreement to that effect was reached after a conference between Senator Uliderwood, demucrnt, Ala bama author of the bill, and Chair man Korris of the agricultural com mittee, leading the opposition. RIVERS BILL FURTHERED, WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. UP) Tn $30,000,000 rivers and harbors auth orization bill will come to a vote ia tho bouse next week under a program agreed upon today by republican lead ers. ARMY PLANS APPROVED . . WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 OP) Thai house today approved provisions of the war department bill for mainten ance of the regular army at its pres. ent strength or 12,000 officers and 110,000 men. rnuvisiun utrcsieu WASHINGTON, Jun. 7. OP) An effort by Representative Reed, re publican, Illinois, to eliminate from the a'rmy appropriation bill the pro vision to transfer the aircraft experi ment station to a tract donated by citiaens of Dayton, O., was defeated by the bouse today on a, viva voce vote. v WORLD COURT CONSIDERED WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. rreaident Coolidge's proposal for American ad- heranco lo the world court will be toWen up next Wednesday by the, sen ate foreign relations committee. . BOjUNTY S COLLECTED Trunk K. Gsgnon of Alma was at the office ot the county clerk today to collect the bomir on a bobcat. Ford's New Factory Frank Simon's Plan Th'o Fcnr of Truth while he continues bia efforts to give the people more value for less money, Tbey like to see big fortune, of the Henry Kord type. If Mr. Ford woald devote 1 few million feet of floor space to gurage use at low rates, for owners of llttlo cars In big cities, he would help the people and the automobile Industry, Car production la n problem solved. The cheap garage la still to come. Merchant, all ovef the country will be interested in a customers' garage. plan devised by Franklin Simon of Fifth avenue. New York. Mr. Simon baa employe, lo tk. charge of cars that rearh his store, (Continued on page fouf III Oil MEASURES
