The Eugene guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1924-1930, January 12, 1925, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextA he Legislature is now in SessionThe Eugene Guard Was Superior Facilities for Covering the News of its Doings 1' CUy News Items About People You Know and Happenings That Reflect the Life of Eugene and Its Var ied Daily Activities. VOL. 68 TODAY'S NEWS TODAY ' EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1)''3 TODAY'S NEWS TODAY NO. C HOME EDITION THE WEATHER nrmon: Cloudy tonight and Tuesday; oolder In tha north and nortions tonight: atrong west and northwest winds. Temp- .ntura Sunday: Maximum 43 de grees; minimum, 39 degree. Pre- cioltatlon, .12 of an inch, stage jef river, 5.8 feet. Direction of wind, south. turn From Visit- Mrs. I-illie Hothaway and Miss Alta !1,sod have arrived ia Eugene after visit taking tliem through the caat- ond. southern parts of the United f tr-s. nicy visueu m new iun, ston, Washington, D. C, and ro ncd by way of New Orleans and Angeles, visiting in, San Francisco I a short time. Lk to Be Shipped carload of ahcep and hoga will be pppeu iroiu i.uuv vuiiuij iu uiv i.rth Tortland yards Tuesday, Jan- Srr -0. accoruing lo announcement liar. W. I Fowler has been sp linted as manager of the Lane t,oun- Co-operative Shipping association ring the illness of W. A. Ayres. 1 liat Installation Planned joint installation 6f officers is knncd by members of the Modern loodmen of America and the ltoyal fighbors at their haU, formerly the ghts of Tytbiaa hall, tonight: For rs of the camp met at 2 o'clock lay for drill on initiation work, ttel Picture Displayed jA large architect's drawing of the Eugene hotel under construction Ninth avenue east and Pearl street been placed on display in the lob of the United States National bank John Hunzickcr, architect of the Iding. ' thlans to Install liuights of I'yUiias sjsters will hold Joint Installation of officers in the ft K. of P. hall "Ricsdny night, it is nonced. Following the ceremonies ccing and cards will bo in order; thian sisters are putting on the kgram. I ves for Spokane rank A. Page, insurance, agent, Sunday for Spokane for a few !' business visit. Mrs. Page and sister, Mrs. Adelaide J-ailcy, will t in Portland while Mr. rage is in hiugton. nd Table to Meet il'lic Itound Table club will meet at '.o'clock Tuesday evening Instead of .30 at the grill room of the Osburu rtel. This is due to other attractions te members desire to attend. i aclcty Meets Wednesday TTlie Iowa Woman's society will 't Wednesday at the home of Mrs. K. Slnttcry, 322 Eleventh avenue il', instead of the home of Mrs. Stel- Diamond as previously iinnouiiced, K-atue of illness. xiliary to Meet jplic Ladies' auxiliary of the F.u- In clminlier of commerce will niel f iidtor here Sunday on his way to ' in where he is attending the opeii- f the session loday, v ped for Speeding Mirnnca. rrtland nnd Salem. In 1021 on n chnrge of speeding. The Er"-t was made by Karl Humphrey, te traffic officer. 1 fr Vets Install Veterans of the Spanish war will (Continued on page fiv) P'he Giianl Will live tHe News of SUUc Legislature The Ouanl in peculiarly fortun- in its farilitirs for covering fhe news of the Oregon legislature h"W in fession. As a member of the Associated fress, The finard Arrives the exclusive Mate wire krvicc of tbntgreat newtt-gath-ring organization, as well as its frrld-urws service. During the legislature session Ihf Assnciatril iVess will maintain In office in the Mate cnpitol. This frffire is manned by a competent fercc of trained news men. They 'tl filec.n tlio state wire the lews about every outtstnnding iTfnt of the Irgislalurr as it de rv!nps. The (iuard will receive it tUI and publish it all. Read The Guard for today's ws todar. 5 Eugene T YEAR OF 1924 All California Cities Are . . Bested In .Percentage ; Of Increase Total Of Building Here Tor 1924, Beats All Other Cities Of Size- Kugenc shows (ho second highest ratio of building increase for . thp',yeyr 1024 of the entire list of S3 major cities of (Jie seven Pacific coast states in the S. W. Stnius and com pany survey, it was announced today by V. II.'Alcxiiuder,1 'city 'inspector 'of buildings. ' ' ' With a total of G(JU" builcliug" per mits, totaling $2,71-1,715 iu estimat ed cost, Eugene's total. was 13S per cent more than iq 1023 and l&t per cent over 1022. The figures -u 1023 were $l,fuS,553 nnd in 1922. Record Is HiGh. - "AVhen it is considered that, -the Straus report includes such cities as .San Francisco, Ios AngeleH, IMsi dena, Santn Monica, Portland; Salt Lake city, Seattle, Spokuue and Ta roimi, the accomplishment of Eugene is something to feel proud over," says Mr. Aloxauder. 'tKhimath Falls showed the largest percentage of in crease, jumping from $300,000 in 1022 to $1,082,771) last year." Kugene's total' building for 1024 ex ceeded that of every city in the states nf Idaho, Nevada, and Awv.ona. It bent every city in. Vtah with n single ex ception of Salt Lake, and in Washing ton with the exception oj Spokane. Seattle and Tacoina. Many Permits Issued. ' lluildiiig permits to the number of 1K0.O-K1 railing f r a total coust'U': tiuii cost of $105,2.j4i.iM)4 were issued during ih" yciir in liie W cities cuv i.nxl In ih Si cms n inirl. While this MARKSFGQNO 7 :.'.() o'clock 'ednefday evening i grand intal is U' per cent less llun the chamber of comniem; rooms ' the toliil of 1023. tlic rmiurtiui. is Inr r a program and cards. .Mrs. Karl ! g(..y i.nrihtiltd t-i a nlowing dmvn of ibertfnn is chitinuan nf the cru- j bniMing iu the Lm Angeles ami. ttee in charge. . t ! In raft" of im-reuM- in building acti vity. Hie six Oregon cities comprised Irpslator s Here I jn the Mirvey. n a wlio'e, showed the lienrge W, I Minn, member of the j bent ri-rurd for the year, 23 per cent ;islature from Jaokson county, was gain over 1!23 and 41 per ceut gain over 1022. All made appreciable gains over 1022; all but one showed mark ed gaftis over 1023. Thce cities were Astoria, Kugene, Klnmutii Kails, I .if . I. Iavis of S:ui Francisco was these cities Issued 17. .".13 building per d ?10 in justice court at Junction, mil's calling for a tntnl construction cot of $37,111,320. Third In Dcoembtr. Des-pitc Ihe -.wt that Kugene's De cember building rerord dropped to $7o'.02."i, it was only third in ill' t.tle, Siitrm and Tortland showing n greater total figure. "I knew that Krgene made a g"od record in102l." said Mr. Alexander I'mIhv, in coimnrnliiiR nn the report, "but I wasn't ojiite prepared to learn that we placed second in the sevi-n states on the coast. N"v I'm glad I got tins job f"r an -ther year."' Fire Loss During December Reported SAKKM, Ore., .Tun. VJ.The total j fir lss in Oregon in Deeember ex cluiv of rortlaiA ivt-orditig to a report by Will Moot", state fire mar shal, was JJCVK.t'l. Fires rnusiui; losses of $KMHtO or more were: Chirkaiias c iinty, duelling an.l greenhouse, JJM.itOo. Hood Ilivir, warehouse and con tents, .:;mhmi. Juutura, factory, honey, ect.f 10. 000. Molalla, sehool, flO.(Of). Hoy, utore nnd pOHloffic. $2.000. Hilverton, ahool building, $15,000. Building ' Increase Is Klamath Posse Is Closing Down On Cabin Of Slayer .- -j- k Confession Wrung From Leader Of Trio .By Newspaper Men; Statement Signed By Confessor, Who Is Jailed ' KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.,, Jan. 12. How two Klamath Falls newspaper men, commissioned ns special state agents by Governor Walter M. Pierce, made an arrest and obtained a confession concerning the killing January. 4 of Oscar Frickson in the robbery of, a card room, was revealed here today when officers arrested two men and held them under a charge of first degree murder. A posse is now closing in upon a lonely cabin in which the alleged actual killer is reported to .be hidden, and other officers in this city are searching for two other members of the gang named in the confession which the newspaper men Obtained. The man wlio made the complete J ; ; , 7. ;; ; arrest nnd procured Iiib coniensinn. confession, iuiplicitting the others, is thus bringing about a solution of the John Taylor, !!(!, a son of a highly re. spected and pioneer family of Jackson county. The two men who made the IHI6 PLAN WILL BE TAKEN UP A new parking ordinance with sweep ng changes over the law now m force Is the headline Item of busi ness for tonight's session of the citjy council. Itamey Hugh, chairman o tlje police committee, and K. M. Calk us, city at torney, have framed the new law, who h if parsed by the council to night, w 11 result iu the following: 1. One-hour parking limit on main streets of the city, instead of 20 inin tiles. 1 2. 1'urallel parking un nil streets of Kugenc. Axglc parking abolished. 3. No li iu. t on purling after 0 o'clock p. in. 1. Ninth avenue west from Wil lamette fo Olne, and Tenth avenues, both east and west, from Oak to Olive, added to the restricted jsntie. Streets included in the restricted zone are Willamette street from Fifth to Kleventh; Kast 1'ark south of Kighth avenue and South I'ark east of Oak; S xth avenue. Olive to Wil lamette; Seventh avenue, t ak to Olive; Kighth avenue. West Tark to Olive; Ninth avenue, Pcnrf to Olive; Tenth avenue. Oak to Olive; Kleventh avenue, Oak to Ollvp, except parking permitted for one hour on the sonlh side of Kleventh in front of K. C. lake's Monument More; Thirteenth avenue, K'ncaid to I'ni versify. Ordinances w ill be passed lon;ght for paving assessments for Hive street, from Seventeenth avenue to Twenty -fourth avenue; Fair mount boufevard from (,'oliimhia to Moss; alley between Twelfth aid Thirteenth avenues from Ferry to Patterson, Iiwrenee street, Kleventh avenue north to the city limits. A sewer as sessment ordinance for the l!ne be tween On.rx and Fniversity slreets on Twentieth anemic also' will be passed. A garbage incinerator for Kugenc may also be disi-ussed at tonight's meeting. NEW STORE TO OPEN Plans for the opening of a nw men's furnishing store in this city in a store in the Mcl Mnald-Kchncfers building are being mnde by It. De N'eff, now in biisine- st Oregon City. It is expected that arrangements for a lease on one of the new stores will be completed in the near future, it is announced. . erstwhile baffling murder mystery, are W. II. Perkins, news editor of (Continued from page two) M PROBLEMS OF MOIL FOREST To disciins mutters ronrcrning use and protection of nntionul forests with particular regurd to the Cascade na tionnl forput in Iiinn county, a meet ing has been called Thursday night at the chamlier of commerce by Neluon I'. .Macduff, supervisor of the Cas cade forest. Itepresetnatives nf the Hnv Scouts. tjirl Scouts, (iirl1 Itcservcs, Kntiiry, Kiwanis.and Ionn .clubs I'ioncrr boys' clubs, Comrade clubs, lli-Y club, the Cniversity (if tlrrfon stu dent assembly and Ixiyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen have been invited, and a round table discussion of plans and policies will take place. Suggested names for the ne-.- Southern Taciflc railroad stations along the new Natron I'ut-off through the forest lands hnve been reipiesKd of .Mr. .Macduff by he railroud com pany. . ItcquiromentH foY the names are that they must be short, easily pro nounced," have reference to the ad joining territory or its historical fea tures, and preferably not a name that is being used on the Southern Pacific system or any lostoffice in Oregon. Mr. Macduff will invite the coopera tion nf Will Steele. I', S. commission er for Crater hike national park in preparing the list of names. E T T Cinned fruit arfVI filberts are the outstanding food products, of ban ounty and these will be on the "All- Oregon' menus of the dining cars of the Northern ruilronds that are ro opcrntiiig In a campaign of public, iy for the Pacific northwest, accnrdiiu to word received today at tJie 1 " aene chamber of commerce from llu Portland chnmber. The month of March Is lo be devot ed to Oregon and publicity fn regard to the stale and Its various atlrae- tb-ns mill, be hmdlrd h? (he railroadn. The food served In the dining cars on all the three big trunk lines out nf the northwest will, be from the var ious court It i of Oregon fn March. CLUB LEADERS TO ; fmrliP V.S ;. WiFl Til s L Six Per Cent Limitation Is Said To Be In Way Of ' Present Budget Opinion Of Attorney Gen eral Received By Lane County Assessor . That the I,anc tax levy for the coming year as prepared by lit coun ty court exceeds the, six per cent lim itation is the opinion of the attorney general, according to a statement this afternoon by Hen V, Keeney, county assessor, who today received a reply fromlthe state official. - " ,' "I have contended nil the while that a levying body cannot legally levy a tax in any one year greater than that levied the previous year plus G per cent thereof, except for the purpose of the payment of bond ed indebtedness or interest thereon or for the purpose of raising funds flujrhorljsed, ..the, 'majority 1 .of the legal voiery. voting upon tue question, for I can not see how any other con struction could be placed oo that part of the Constitution of Oregon refer ring to taX'limtations. ' Budgets Are Checked v "After checking forty or fifty school districts of the county from exceeding the six per cent limitation no ipiestiou arose as to my being wrong in my interpretation, until the city of Kugenc prepared and adver tised its budget. 1 went before the city council and explained the matter, as I saw It, and was sustained in my construction by both the retiring and Incoming city attorneys, and follow ing this I discovered that the county Continued on page three) E ROTIRI T About .'lO members nf the Kugenc Itotnry club have already signified their intention to attend the meeting and banrpiet to be held at Portland next I'rtdny evening at which lime a greeting from the Oregon Itolarians will be tendered to Kverelt Hill of Chicago, president of the intima tions order. Mr. Hill is on a trip to the Pacific roast nnd this will be his only s'op in Oregon. A banquet will be held at the Multnomah hotel at 0:110 p. m. A committee of (he Kugene Itotnry club U making ar rangements for the (tip of the local delegation. Child Labor Law is Favored by Women Indorsement of the child lsbM- law was voted by the Kugene chapter. American AMorinlion of I'nWersity Women, at Its meeting Saturday. Mrs. Kric W. Allen addressed Ihe members on the subject, pointing out arguments both for and against the amendment. It wns voted to send rop. ies lo cat h of the five members of Ihe ,anc count; delegation. In the legislature. V The revolution reads as follnnrs: "The Kugene chspter of the Amer ican Association of Vniverniy Women hereby offers unqualified endorse nient of the rhild labor amendment to be considered In the present sension of Ihe stale legislature. "An organization inlerenled not inly In the welfare of the indivtdnnl children affected by litis law. but also in the ultimate welfare and progress of Oregon, this aociation earnestly urge favorable action of the legis lature upon the amendment." LANE TAX LEVY IS HIGHER THAN IIVilT ALLOWED Record TAXATION AND LAW STRESSED I. RC LI Expresses Regret Over Re peal Of Income Tax In ' His Message Gives Plea For Support Of Citizens In Enforcement . Of All Laws STATE HOrSK, SAI.KM, Ore., .Ian. 1-. UP) Uovernor Waltci M. Pierce read his message before the senate and house in joint session in the limine chamber at - o'clock this afternoon. Senator Moser, president of the senate presided, and the gallery was packed with interested spectators. The governor posed for the regula tion flashlights just before he began his message. The governor was around the house during the recesses greeting old friends and shaking hands with Htrangers. lie wore a smile as wide as his eastern Oregon bat. If the chief exec- 'tit. re is worrying about what the law makers may do to any of his hobbies at this sesniota, he -did not show the fact. 1 ' MESSAGE GIVEN SALKM, Ore., Jan. Taxation nnd law enforcement occupied the lar gest sections of the message of Gov. Walter Mi Pierce, which ho delivered today (o the. legislature. Itcfcrring to his campnign promises, Jia enid that lie could point to a substantial meas ure of achievement in tax reduction. He stated that in 1022 the slnte tax levy, Including fixed millagcs, was $l),:vra,2bUll, and that this year the state levy is $7,102,701.47, a reduc tion of substantially $2,000,000 lo state taxes. He expressed regret that the vot ers of the state hud repealed tho state income tax law, and nsserted he still believed iu such a tax., Law Enforcement, Referring t)' law enforcement he said, "there has been most certnin ly a decided improvement In this state" (hough "much still remains to be done." He declared "the state pro hibition force is the terror of the law breakers. It una been conducted in a clean, straightforward, business-like manner, and I Invite your body to in vestigate the moneys expended. In the enforcement of the prohibition and mreotie lows." (iovernor Pierce pleaded for all persons in the stare to share in the duty nnd responsibility of law en forcement. ''When (he anarchist appears in the so-called lower stratum of society, we id ii y depend upon it that he has also m fl fie Jus appearance Into the so-called upper stratum. This country has more (n feur frm Ihe Isw violator in Ihe nisrble office than from the rag ged leader of the miob in the street." Dry Power Increase. The governor aked the legislature lo Increase the power of the stale prohibition depigment, and give It ul per cent of Ihe fines collected frou, violators of the prohibition laws, Legislation recommended in the governor's meaMice included: Initialization of aseHsments In var ious counties. Pnxagc of iJie hilli introduced at the lant sescion based upon tbe re port of the tlx Investigating com mittee. Competition among banks for de posits of state funds. Appropriations to- reel ore to the irreducible school funds moneys lost "due to years of well-nigh criinin-il mgicct snd negligence nn the part of (Continued on page seven) LAPR00E STOLEN J. (!. lUlard reported the theft of a laprobe from his automobile while it was parked at Tenth avenue and Olive street, to police headquarters last night, . . . iJsii ? j ja" ili1 &l i? TT7 in-; I -iUSlSEHIS S3 PRESIDENT OF mwm WW Koppol nicr, veteran butcher of Iloboken, N. J. celebrated bia one hundred nnd fifth birthday by shovel ing the snow off the aldewnlk in front of his grocery store. Ho playfully rolled Bnowbnlls nnd threw them at photographers, who wcro sent to "shoot" him. He keeps young by keep ing actively at work In bis butcher shop. Child Labor Resolution Is On File SALEM, Or., Jan. tr. (A.P.) A Joint resolution calling for tha ratification of tha proposed child labor law amendment to tha con stitution of tha united States was filed with Fred Drager, ohlef clerk of tha house, by William F. Woodward, Multnomah oour.ty, this morning. VETO FI0HT SEEN STATE HOUSE, Salem, Ore., Jan. 12. UP) One of the early fights of tho session will be over. Governor IMercc'a veto of the Daly inheritance tux bill of tho last session. Too estate of Dr. llcrnnrd Dnly of I.n ko county, nmounting to about 000,000 wns loft ns a charity to send young men and women of Lake county to the institutions of higher lcsrninj in Oregon. The inherilnnce tax nn Uie entnto amounted to about $L'00,000. Senator Upton, Inst session introduc ed a bill for the remission of the tnx (Continued on pan three) rn S TP A . r I V ) 1 J f I - lif ARTHUR BRISBANE (Copyright, lO-fi, by Htor Company) To avoid trouble, keep your bands off three things, a man's money. family and religion. The bolshevik government, needing money, nnd receiving communist com plaints of rertnin monks at reeherskl monastery, arrested !I0 of the monks snd' seicod their gold treasure of (400,000, bidden in the monastery belfries. In addition to the money the soviet government got 300 big din mnnils, saored images studded with gold, murh gold and silver plute. From the soviet point of view, so fur so good. Hut when the inouks woro sentenced lo long terms at hard labor and put to work on the ronds In their rsssooks the peasants, deep ly religious, started killing comiuu ulls snd burning tneir buildings. To fight any religion is dangerous for any government. One of Napoleon's first nnd wisest arts was to rostoro the status of rhiiroh ami the salaries nnd d guides of the clergy, saying t hat he also neofled a spiritual gendarmerie. ' All the world roads about the mar velous racing Finn. Nurini. On Tues day evvuing lu New Vurk, be broke SENATE GROUP Representative Denton Bur. dick Is Chosen Speaker Of Housei Both Leaders Chosen With out Opposition; Mr. Up ton Calls Order . SALEM, Ore., Jan. 12. OP) The thirty-third session of the Oregon leg. !.T....- i . . . ' jsmiuro wm organized nere today with Senator Gus C. Moser of Mult nomah county as president of the sen ate and Representative Denton G. llurdick of Deschutes county as speoker of the house. Neither had opposition. Senator Jay H. Upton of Bend, who wns president of the senate at the thirty-second session, was named at a. caucus Inst night to call the sonato to order. Ordinarily this duty falls to tho oldest member in point of service, but this was Senator Moser, who is to be president, so Upton was named. Two Votes Oppose. Moser received 28 of the 30 votes for president of tho senate. Joseph voted for Senator Snm H. Dro-, "of Marion, and Moser himself, out of courtesy, voted for Corbett. Corbett placed Moser in nomina tion. The nomination wns uecoudeil by Eddy and Klcpper. After the vote Tomporary Tresis' dent Ititncr appointed Kleppcr I'isk to escort Moser to tbo chair. -.-' "That I am deeply and ainccrely grateful for this Jiigh honor is need. less to sny," remarked Moser upon taking the gavel. "This is not a timo for speechniaking and I will be brief. I think we are meeting today under the most auspicious conditione for a profitable session. At tho start wei ore a harmonious body. Factionalism has been dissiapted and baa disap peared, we are starting as a big hap. py family each determined to d tJioie things that will rebound to th credit of the state. "We have many important measi ures to come before us and tka.- Vooner we get to work the better chance wo will have to make the kind1 of a record we want to make. I under- i stand the organization in the house Is starting out in the some favorable way and I believe there is going to be harmony between the two homos. It will be my aim to endeavor conscientiously to perform the duties (Continued on page five) 3 Dangerous Things Two Wonderful Legs -No , 1925 Drop Yet the two world's Indoor records. He'a an iron man. He ran the mile in lour minutes, 13 3-5 seconds, cutting a sec ond off the world'a record. Then he ran five thousand metres in fourteen minutes, 44 3-8 seconds, again break ing the world's record. This man has wonderful legs. , f Hut you can buy for a few hundred dollars nn automobile Hiat will do for civilitntion a thousand times what Nurmi could do. Honor him, his logs, 'heart, luiii and courage, .but honor still more highly such men ns the lute iti-ln-mets. A crippled hunchback, he con M, not have rtin fivo thousand luetics in two hours. Hut his brain ran as well os 'NurmiVIogs rnn. If. by the way, Sleinmett came to the I'n.ted States today, a crippled Jewish boy, as be did forty or fifty years sgo. He wou.d be sent home. . , Why does the crowd pay to seb fast legs snd care loss for a v thinking bruin? Because the crowd can all run. Not all can 4hiuk. If you want a string of pink pearls for your wife, orfiend, apply to (Continued on page four) ;