The Eugene guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1924-1930, January 24, 1925, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textne County School Pupils are to Write Essays on the History of Lane County-It is Highly Important Work City News HOME EDITION THE WEATHER .-nu Rain wast: rain roricu""- .... ... of the Cascade! r snow r . ..a Gimdav. Moderate !onlni " emp.rature, fresh and atrono -j ....ihMnlarlv winds. bast ana .v.. temperature Friday: maximum, fc2 degrees; minimum, 44; pre r. on Af an Inch: direc VOL. 68 TODAY'S NEWS TODAY EUGENE, OREGON', SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1925 TODAY'S NEWS TODAV NO. 1G Stipliaiiw", - Ln o( winJ. uth- S'8 ' Civer. 5 8 jntr Is Wednesday ;,t. oluaus nuunj v f the First Methodist church ' sire a birthday dinner, rcpre-,!- tJie 12 months, Wednesday niuV January 2S at 6:30 o'clock in church. Trocecds from the affair lo ho S"n th6 0,(1 POOP''8 ,P In Salem. The dinner is given nally and large crowd attended one eiven ast Reservations add be phoned to telephone num- BStl J or 373 before Tuesday Lbration Planned final plans for tho celebration of icntli birthday anniversary on Iruary 0 were mnde by Four-Oaks Le in its session last evening. L oliservnnec will be held in the of the grange. E. A. MeCornnok . the surprise stunt nt last night's Ltinf. nud an interesting lecture was held following the business Lion. On Februnry 1!! the grange meet (lgnio with group 1 planning nil program of entertainment and bits. hinion Plans Made Who reunion of ex-service men of lie county, set for Februnry 12 at armory, will include from 20 to iiirofcssionai vaucicviiiK m-is, iu w- iked iu Portland and Seattle, it decided at the committee of vet- Ins, meeting last night at the cha'.n- nf commeree. Hands, sideshows, -essions and oilier forms of hsement will be kept fc"ing during reunion, wiich is to open nt 8 p. and close at 2 o'clock the next ruing. At least. 1200 ex-service Li are expected to attend. Lrtsmen to Gather Several local sportsmen have been ted to attend the annual meeting banquet of the Santiam Fish and me Protective and Propagation as- Mation which will be held at the Inny city hall next Monday evening Irting nt 7 o'clock. Captain A. E. ghduff, state game warden, will be ng the prominent speakers to be tsent, according, to the program pared by the Linn county organiz- nker's Article Published , l-'inaiicing Community Projects," 'the title of an article in the current of "Oregon Business," official iliration of the Oregon state cham- of commerce The article is a re nt of the speech of C. D. Rorcr. idcnt of the Bonk of Commerce Eugene, delivered at the annual ting of the stntc chamber held at tland recently Ilurn From Salem !udge C. I. Bnrnnrd and Comniis- r Clinton Hurd returned last ruing from Salem where they at- l.-il committee meeting to discuss proj osed chnnge in utate law por ing to market roads. Conimission- II. Crowe is now in "Western o on n road inspection trip mid iiiialile to attend the meeting Mi the slnte legislators. leased From Jail '. ,1. Fuller nud ('. F. MoCliinlnn i' released from the county jnil ng served out 'I heir fines of li mi elinrges of shooting phrnsnnts nf season. The men were arrest 1urinE Ihe henvy snow last month n Hie state game commission nnd rtsinen were oiiilenvoring lo save lives of the game birds by feed- pluming From Seattlo 1. Kirelmff, loeal insurance it, who will represent the Kugene (Continued on page five) Uory of One hdvcrliscr Who Ivcpl .tight ;1i it. 'tin' i,f hr most nersislent ad- rfivers in the history of success 's Ilohiiisoii Crusne. lie knew, ml he wanted-n. ship nnd put nil ad for one. lie flung a f irl on a pole, at the lop of his ;"ii'l: Hint, in the language of n son. was plain o every sea- iring innn. The circulation was all there was no other mod- '"it Crusoe kept at it, despite 't Hint he got no inquiries r a long time, lie rhHtigeil his I'V a- one garment after an- nor was f raved out and In the I; 1 g't what he wanted. !"iipose Crusoe had taken down ," siiinil nfter a time and dcclar p' "advertising doesn't pay." here would he and his story be l'ut np your signal and "P it there. Crusoe advertised ' der very discouraging circum-'.inec-.. YouVe got a sure thing r " ' only necessary to have the fc'iu-tVe. persistence and pluck of J I'in.on Crusoe, and the good f -P. (letter Husine,,, will soon f 'P 'lomidt jour pier. OREGON CIS SEEK OLD-TIME E' Steps Toward Constitutional Amendment Are Taken At Portland Officials Of 29 Cities Of State Attend; Others Send Messages PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 24. Steps toward submission of a constitutional amendment restoring to Oregon mun icipalities the right of "home rule" in strictly municipal affairs were tak en at the organization meeting of the Leoguc of Oregon Cities here today. Officials of 29 Oregon cities attend ed nnd muny other municipal officers wrote letters subscribing to the or ganization but stating that it was im possible for them to be here. Commissioner A. L. Barbour of Portland, father of the movement was elected temporary chairman of the association and Mayor W. H. Miller of Gold Hill was chosen temporary secretary. l. .ftevoral speakers complained of gradual reduction of municipal gov ernment by 'the legislature and Chris Sehuebel of Oregon ; City " 'suggested that a legislative committee bo named to visit the legislature nnd attempt to have the constitutional amendment, which could give to the cities supreme power to govern themselves within their own limits, submitted to the people by the lcgislatur. Game Refuge is To be Opposed KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Jan. 24. Vigorous protest against the establishment of the proposed game refuge in Klamath and Jack son counties was voiced by Klam ath county sportsmen at a mass meeting hero last night. Follow ing the general meeting the Klam ath Sportsmen's association, with but one dissenting vote, urged that the bilf now brjoro the legislature be difoiilcd nt this session. A petilion signed by approxi mately 7511 of the leading sports men nf this section will be for warded u 'ho legislators, prole-ding against Hil game refuge bill. 20 Autos Without Lights Are Tagged Twenty automobiles in Eugene were "tugged" by night patrolmen Inst iiighl. with die result thnl Judge fleorge A. tiilinorc in municipal court was kept busy this morning hearing the excuses, pretexts find alibis of fered by the- erring motorists. Without exception, earh man who brought in a tag, received a fine of ?2 for his mistake. Those who were fined were W. K Moxley, Clarence .1. Bradley, Thelma Kimherling, An drew Knrpeuslein, Arthur M. Miner, fleorge Willielm and W. A. Hummel. The remainder were cited to appear this nfternoon. Safety Engineer To Give Address Oeorge M. Ail ken. SHfely engineer of the National Pnfety Council. Tort land, will he the jpeaker at a meet ing of Ibe 4 1. foe-ety t the W, O. W. hall In Sprinjfield at 7:SO oYlo. k Monday eveninr. II Is announeed. Mr. Aitkn will lecture with st're optiron views, and efforts are being mnde to get nut a good audience for hi addres. RESERVE DECREASES NEW YORK, Jan. 2. The ac tual condition of clearing house hnnka and trust . companion for) the. week chow an eioesa In re-j serve of Jtl.SllIUO. This Is at decrease of J2S.61S.SSf compared with last week. I E ARTHQUOK E FELT TOKIO, Jan. 24 A aharp earth quake nf ten aeeonda duration was felt hero at 6:20 p. m. today. 1 Km K1 Sun's Eclipse By i I m f.: r E The "Creation," an oratorio by Hnydn, has been chosen as the major work to he given by the Kugene Ora torio soclr.v 'his spring. The selec tion was ii.mL ny the executive com mittee composed of Mrs. A. C. Dixon, Dean John T.aildsbury and C. I). Hov er, acting with tleorge II. .McMoiran. president, and .1 din Stark Kvuns, musical direetor. A very large membership has al ready been enrolled in the society tin.l the number will now be limited o 1.10. Members voted nt the lust ro-lieai-snl to purchase their own copies of the music Instead of paying dues, nnd it is expected by the committee iu charge to hnvc sufficient copiea of the "Crenth'ri" on hiinil at the re hearsal next Monday night so that each member can buy his own copy nt tltot time. Members who already have copies Jinve been asked to bring them ami will n'd need to buy new ones. Only n few more members can be taken into Ibe society and thoBC in terested are asked lo apply at on..e to the director, or lo some member of-the voice committee, composed of Mrs. Anih lloyt Itae, J-JlVt Washing ton Btreet, Mine. Itose Mctiraw, and John It. Siefert uf the university school of music. Census Takers to End Work in Week Seventeen federal farm cenms Ink ers are still in the field in I.nne, Coos. Douglas and Josephine counties and all are expected to complete their work next week and turn in the final data thnt will be the basis. for the government agricultural statisiica for the next five years, is he report of Italph I'. I.iiird. dim-tor, today. Charles C. Jones of Coos county Is the lntest lo turn in a report on his district having completed work this week, Mr. I.aird states. Pending Laws For Oregon Discussed To liriiii landing Jrginlnlion tint in of .ntrp'wt to the far mem of the xtate, rommittern of the J.ane county Orange ami the 1'armem I'nion in1! thin mornin with membem of the Lane delegation to the noue aud een ate. The meeting beM at th roni of the cliamber of coinmerfe and report" on the rogrra of ma urea favored by the agricultural In to re is were diJtcined. , ill' ttei j ! lfiJ . i i Mmtm vx I ffLl la Moon Observed From m i- . r, i LAW MAKERS FACE "With two weeks of the srsnion pnst we are now getting down to defi nite action and from now jim them will be a ooiii'tnnt proginm of legis lative work' i stbe coin me nt of J. S, Magladrv, I.ane county senator, who returned here lust evening fal lowing adjournment for the week-end. ' Whether the heavy- legislative inr-. tion in view will necessitate night '.-1 nioti8 of the huit.ie nud semtte hai not yet been determined, Mr. Mni Indry fan. The niriiHine providing for tuinit i tion of onto camp grounds of the state seems to have hid conidernlilc support Among the legislators, the senator states. TJiih mnisurn h hack ed by the Kugene chamber of com merce and Mr. Mnghiriry in chairman of (h committee of the local organ ization recently named to fnnnc the hill. Clyde N. Johnston To Attend Hearing Clyde N. Johnston, former district attorney of Iine, will appear before, th legislature's committee next Mon day in the investigation now under way of the state prohibition depart ment. Mr. Johnston was unable to be nt the. meeting of the committee Thursday having been at Portland at (he state meeting of the sheriff's Association. Mr. Johnston was also admitted to practice in the federal courta while At Portland. Home, very interesting facts on tho state, prohibition department as it in cluded Lane county in its program of enforcement will be told the state committee, Mr. Johnston said today. Many items in the report nf the prohibition department including amount of finca collected arc held to he misleading, in the opiuion of the former Ijtne official. County Agent Has Compliments Paid That I.ane county is to be congrat ulated nn baring (). K. Fletcher as new county agent here, is the word received by C 1. Korer, president of the Hank of Commerce, from J. II. Kearden, assistant state club lea I er of the t'nirersity of Idaho. "The j best county Agent in Idaho,' Is the compliment paid Mr. Fletcher by the state club official, commenting on bis work as county agent fur five years I at Moscow. f Land And Air f .Above is shown the tinted St n ten T)H'f, tllrtgihlo Ii'in AiiK'-lec, flying tvlglt nhove the clotula todny. beuriug bvientistg who nre obnorving tho ?dippe of the iuu. At tho left is Uie Loomis uiPiuoruil telescope at tho Vnle. ohsprvator.v, through which the olnr rc'ipsp was beit:g ybserved. Three Bridges ! For Mill race ! Are Discusd Krection of three new bridges ia .tliacnucd by members of tho city council to ppnn the mill race nt Alder, Hil.vaid and Patterson strceta to re place present; structures which are he'd lo be unsightly and although uot considered to be dangerous are i! o be such that exteuaivo repairs muy lij ncci-j-suiy i the near future. , 5 l'Ujn and - specification 1. of th threeMropoied bridges will be pre pared by Harry Dcvereaux, city en gineer, for presentation to the coun cil wJio will act unfile plan and dis cuss inc.'UB of fiuuncing the buildi-ig, it is annuuneed, The proposed briifxcs will be of timber construction and will be. erect ed by the city crews, according to present plans, is the opinion of the members of the council. , George W. Spores Of Mohawk is Dead George W. Hporcs, til, of Mohawk, d.ed this morning at the Springfield hospital from complications arising out nf an attack of blood poison in his linnd. Mr. Spores is survived by bla widow, Mrs. Joule Spores; a son, Mur v i it Spores; and a daughter, Mis. Carrie 1. Moore, nil of Mohawk. He also leavcH f-jir brothers and three sisters. Mr. Spores xvas horn, and spent his entire life on the farm at which he lived on Springfield route J. Me wan 6 member nf the Woodmen of the World nt Springfield, nnd the Metho dist Kpiscopal church. Th body is at the Vealch chapel in Kugeue, and the funeral announce ments will be made later. Damages by Iliver Are Told to Court That the Willamette river is cut ting away the bank one and one-balf miles east of lioshcn and that there is danger that farms there and ln the cftunty rond may be considerably dam aged, is the report received by the county courts p. M. Morse, county en gineer, on his return from Western I,nne where he has been impeding road work, will make sn inspection of the Willamette banks and determine steps to be taken to halt the inroad fif the stream, according to Clinton Hurd, county commissioner. Car Tag Purchase In County is Light So f.-tr this yesr the sale of tem pi. rary automobile licenses At the of f'ce of Sheriff Taj lor has lieen below IhM of a similur period last Tear, ac cording to a report today of Mtis Ilfiilub Weaver, In charge of the li cense issuing. Since )ecember 21 nkn the sale started a total of i-'K, have been told here. !,at year tbe totnt was 180 for simitar period, Miss Weaver states. The sale of the temporary tags for the first few dnv was far below the figures of but lately the business has been better. SENT DOORS TO TALK OF NOMINATION Close Vote Results In Ex ecutive Session To; Dis cuss Mr.. Stone . V Regular Business Taken Up After An Hour Of Secret Session WASHINtiTq.V, Jan. 24. 0 Itepublican lentils Invoked the aen ate rules today to shut off an lnclp ient discussion In the open of Attor ney General Stone's nomination to the mi pre me court. When Senator Heflin,. democrat, Alabama, one of those who have ad vocated further investigation of the matter sought to apeak, Senator Cur tis of Kansas, .the republican leader, made a point uf order that Auch a question .could be discussed only in executive aesmon. President Cuoimlna upheld the ob jection, but (Senator llcflin contend ed that ho wanted to correct a state ment In the New York World that he was opposing Stono's confirmation be cause he was an attorney for J, Plor- 'iont Morgan, ' Mr, Stone Opposed ;.)Yito Seuator; Overmnqj , democrat, North Carolina, Senator Iloflin said he opposed Mr. Stone only because of Ms arguments before the, supreme court fu the Ownhey caae, which In volved a Htlgnlion affecting the Mor gun e&tute. ' "That's right," said Senator Over man." ' , Senator Watson, republican of In diana, objected to further observa tions of that kind, but Senator Reed, democrat of Missouri, took lip the argument of the other side and Pres ident Cummins ruled that Senator Heflin answer the newspaper story. Insurgents Act. Objection again wns raised how ever, and then the l,al'ollftte insur gents and some others. Including Sen ator Horah, republican of Idaho, join ed with the democrats In on effort to go Into executive session. This was explained as a move to avoid techni calities, it being planned lo open the doors later so the discussion could go in "open executive session." The motion to close the doors car ried, ."-7 to :(. After it had been pointed out by a number of senators that tho senate had decided to postpone consideration of the nomination until next Monday "fennlor Heflin agreed to let the mat ter go over until that time. No Word Given There was no public announcement of what had occurred in the executive session, but Heflin announced later that be would preia bis effort to have Ihe discussion on (he nomination In the open. At the end of almost sn hour the executive session broke up nnd the senate proceeded with regular busi ness. It is understood Senator Walsh, democrat of Montana, brought up Ihe proposed new indictment against Sen ator Wheeler, democrat,' Montana, In the discussion. The general opinion wns expressed, however, that (his should be consid ered srpsrntely from tho uomluntion of Mr. Stone. Prisoner Admits Theft of Gloves Louts Miniehello hails from Coney Inland, New York, where selling a sold brick Is pert nf the day's work fnr Ihe "con men" who operate at the famous pleasure resort. !.oui tried sonie of his felling tac tics in Kugene last night, and encoun tered night patrolmen as he was at tempting to peddle a pair of light kid gloves to a prosper! for Tit) cents. He was taken to the city Jnil where he Admitted to having stolen the gloves from Ihe Y. M. C. A. in I'ortlsnd. The prisoner wns held today while officers tried to get In touch with the 1'orllsud 'V." 5) Rock Hurtles Into Home as People Sleep K1.AM.VT1I FAU.S, Ore., Jan. 2i. W) A ten-ton boulder, loosed from Its moorings on top of the mountain three miles north of Alfoma, ernshed down tho mountain side at exactly 1 o'clock this morning and struck the houso owned by AVilliam I'hrman of Algoma, but occupied by the family nf Steve Masters and Karl Krauss. Tho boulder panod completely through five rooms of the residence and demolished furniture and every thing in its path. It was a narrow es cape for the sleeping occupants. The rock struck and demolished the crib occupied by the Master's baby, but in some manner tho child miraculously escaped unharmed. The woman occu pants have not yet recovered from the shock. The' rock was about ten feet in diameter snd' after wrecking the house rolled outside and took off the corner of the garago but missed the car and crashed into the woodshed uhe.ro It came to rest. ' Organization of a Kugeno branch of the National League of Women Vot ers Is boing planned by local women, it is announced today. Work of the league will bo explained at a meeting at tho Oshurn hotel Tuesday after noon at 2:30 o'clock, and an invita tion is extended to all women inter ested. MiBS Hester Ilolfingshead, re gional secretory of the national lea gue, is in Kugene in tho interest of the organization. Among Ihe women of Eugene al ready interested in the league are Mrs. J. Bishop Tingle, Misa Gertrude Talbot, .Mrs. E. T. Hodge, M.S. Lynn S. Mc-Cready, Mrs, Virginia .Tudy Ka tcrly, Mrs. W. A. Lydick, Mrs. E. J. 1'roiier, Mrs. l-'rank l'"ay Kddy, Mrs. I-'. X. Scliaefers, Mrs. llruco J. Glf f in, Mrs. Louis K. Uean,"Mri. Eric W. Allen, Mrs. George. lichee and Misa Mozclle llnir. "The National League of Women Voters was organised In February, 1020," says Miss llolllngahend, "after the passage of tho suffrage amend ment, for tho unpartisan political cd ucution of women. It waa organized by women llko Carrie Chapman Cntt, who felt that If women's vote! were not to complicate present-day prob lems they must be used not only con scientiously hut Intelligently. The organization has bad a rapid growth and there l a branch in virtually every state In the union.' "Th. National League of Women I TODAY5 Tlr ARTHUR BHI8BANK (t'opyriaht, 102", by Star Company) If renorls sre accurate Irotzsy htis fallen from power. Ho la sold to acquiesce meekly In the decision of his noliticsl enemies, stripping of his .Utilities m head of Ihe Russian army. if that's true there la something the matter with Trotzky's mental fighting ipparstus. He had his chance when be had Die red army under hia orders, and Jnin, dying, left the whole of Rusjin lo Buy man able to seize ,h. power. Trotzky seems lo lack Ihe power of a Danl.m, Houesplrrro or Marut. Those men know how lo fight for what they thought was theirs and how to (lie cheerfully. ... Robert Reidl, who lives on Long Is land, is a Seventh Day Adrrntist, has sold his winter potatoes, bis house- bold furniture and all his property. lie believea that the world la lo end on February 0, Mrs. Roweu, prophet, fixed that a Jute. About rebruary 7 Mr. Reidt will wi.h that he had his winter potatoes back. ... . What this eccentric gentleman iinmI: exposures of lunar shadow Twelve Photographs Taken As Dark Wave Races .With Time Mercury Drops To 20 Dat grees Below Zero Aa J Sun Hides MITCIIEL FIELD, N. T , Jan. 24J W) An airplane directed from the ground by Dr. David. Todd, professor emeritus of astronomy at Amherst College, landed today with 12 ex posures of the racing shadow of thai moon taken of the eclipse from an altitude of 10,000 feet. The fliers said all the photographs should develop perfectly and show a shadow of the moon, a perfect circle of darkness 100 miles in diameter with a rim of flashing scarlet, snap ped aa it alid toward the Atlantic nt a speed of nearly one mile a sec ond. During the period of totality the fliers reported, when tho moon's re flected circle of darkuess was rush-' ing along beneath them, surrounded by ordinary duyllght, . the .mercury dropped to 20 degrees below zero. ... ... , ' By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ; . Dreams of astronomers of seeing a total eclipse of tho sun under Ideal conditions were realized touay In New . York and New England. In Michigan nnd Ontario and at Niagara Falls, however, clouds and low visibility frustrated scientific tests. Especially In New York City, wit nessing its first total eclipse In 110 years, was the spectacle magnificent. When the momentary blackness - of midnight nt 0:11 a. m. was accompan ied by the beautiful sight of the cor ona thero was enthusiasm. Watchers on akyscrapers and hilltops applauded and cheered. ( . Excellent scientific observations were made by home and visiting scientists at Cornell and Yale, almost in the center of the totality area, and also aboard the navy dirigible Los Angeles, The sky ship named for the angels hovered over the Island vt Nantucket, Mass., and sent word by radio through the heavens that the results of the trip were excellent. First reports of the ' results ot scientific tests concerned the radio. At Yerkes observatory, Iron Moun tain, Mich., a slight Increase In vol ume and clarity of the radio was no ted. At Waterbury, Conn., a marked departure from direction of tho tons wave was apparent. The Radio Corporation of America In New York reported that its tests (Continued on ;ge two) Trotzky's Ooodbyo Ho Sold His Tubers Guns To Stay Down does, aa an Individual, was formerly done nn a big scale. At the beginning of the year 1000, many got rid ot their property, put on white robes, nnd walked to the top of some hill, ready to be taken up to heaven. Yon can Imagine how they felt when they marched down again, and found 'others occupying their houses. a It serins finally decided (hat the guns on our battleships must not ha elevated. To elevate thrin nouid in crease their range, making them umra valuable in war. Rut Europe dn'.-iit want us to be loo strong. Experts say our guns, in range, are Interior to British guns, and i have the legal right to i-hango that. But wa yield to Europenn pressure. ... That's part of past history. Now the head of the navy m'ght give the country information on a statement recently published by Eng lish papers. The British have ar ranged their ships so that thry can take In water laillaat un one side or the other, and time, by making the ship tip orer, raise the guns to Ihe (Continued on page four)