The Eugene guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1924-1930, January 27, 1925, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texthe Child Labor Amendment Will Have a Public Hearing at Salem Wednesday Evening-Its Friends Should be There fcjy News THE WEATHER rain tonHht B0 or(10 ton.Sh.. Fr..b . .oulherly MMft Monday: maximum. 51 ,S... .20 of inch; direction f wind, southeast. SUH ' j.r. ,ett- VOL. G8 TODAY'S NEWS TODAY EUGENE, OREGON', TUESDAY EVENING, JANUAKY 27, 1025 TODAY'S NEWS TOHAY NO. 13 in 1 rjCompli1" F""1- I" . r :n an if amended coinpi.'"' - - l IB. . Tu,l.(raB 1 ip Sip jl 'ac . n h value of r. ,o,i!,y-Tue piain,i" H " .. . j.f.nH.nt is holding M 1 3. .... the establishment krSerson Memorial home In ,uc v...,n renrescnts dlf. uonniu . plaintiff. . L,rS.alDe.ln.d- te,cbes or .u w -- and name oi uic - -, cwmerce lor use on the let- i literature of the ,rl, LebM)o, .....--- - - )( Portland. The new . -- ,od f a more ariuu.c u. tow in use. Less is Asked - . L E,scn.chambcr of commerce beer, requested 10 w - ,i of Arthur Nelson, formerly of .mB, Mout., where ne , Nelson Motor com- 1 believed tbat Mr. Nelson ,'m in Eugene and be is asked lo (uunicatc witU 'ibe cbamber. mbsr Directors to Meet .,e moDtbly meeting oi lue u.. ! f the Eugene chamber will be held next Monday Lg. The applications of a score ..ore of prospective hw.d .... Led ou by the directors, accord- .ncounecmcnt today oi u- L cbadwick, secretary. railnuj to Meet ... .,,vl installed officers of Leer llutte lodge of the Odd Fol- will have charge, of the conter 0f tbe first degree on a class iDdidates at a meeting to be held ..;,,,. Howard M. Brownell, L grand, will have charge of tiie inony. le Literature Asked . itcraturc of Loue county, for d.s- iiiou bv the Hoseburg chamber of merce bus been asked of the Eu- clmmbcivA supply of pamphlets Uuuglus county will be. sent for ibutlua here in plans being made ibe start of thu sumuR-r tourist .in. Meet Wednesday1 ic Ladies if Hie Elks will meet laesduy afternoon lu 'be ladioa is of the Kits temple to work on sewing of the curtains. Those ng arc asked to bring their thini. ml needle, l.uter in the afternoon .vill be served. Iner Is Tomorrow e birilitlay dinner, representing iwi'lve uioiitlis, to be given by the inn's Home Missionary society of First Methodist church, will be in the church lit U:o0 o'clock on nesilay evening. riase License Issued marriage lk-ene 1ms beeu issued lie office of tbe county clerk to in S. lie Tieime of Ujuevill., and C-Til Nclun of Kuycne. fc. to Portland I1 ancMistip sprvicrs nf t.io Sell-! Mt!i"iliM rhurcll in Portland ' '"iiis led by Dr. S. A. Danfnrd f ; (Lor.iinuod on rage fire) REATEST CHILD pATURE OF ALL P fiiianl is plrnd to an. ;n"' "'t It has aocurcd the fx '" iijht to an attractive il ;!i"d adventure atory WRIT s I:M'1:ciai.i.y for children, has to do with the thrilling fc'i'.liu... ..f ..... ' iwo in tie couKina, " "d l..ttr Inw. f M'r1 " w ith, thei are coiug """ "if Timb-rland of the "f Maine. 'r ramps, lumber mills 1 ridit.r ,reiT fumifh ' 1,1 ""lure to pack the fry ii.-:m- L rk dvenf.ire with Jack and j1-' Tlre win h, , r,p. '"..r ,t.rtii, Januarj- 1H. SB Auto License NO FAVOR FDR USED CARS TO BE State Institutional Improve ments Urged By Governor At Session Ample Funds At -Hand, He Declares; Other Proposals ' Are Given STATK HOUSE, SALEM, Ore., Jan, 27. Attorney General Van Win kle toduy held unconstitutional a bill introduced in tbe Ziouse tbut would reduce the license on automobiles after the car' bad been used for a period of years. It is bused on tbe theory that this would be discrimina tion in favor of a certain cluss. Also it is held that an ad valorem tux could not apply to autos sincfe, under an opinion of the supreme court, it 1b not the car that is taxed, but the privilege of using the car on the high wnya. IMPROVEMENTS ASKED STATE HOUSE, SALEM, Ore., .Tan. 27. l'ractiealiy all state institu tional improvements needed can safe ly be authorized by the ways and means committee, according to infor umtion placed before the committee by Governor, pierce. On the basis of the tax levy made in Iecemher, with the 0 per cent in- (Continued on jmse five) BE HELD SATURDAY The world court, and the attitude of the Cnitod S.tntrx toward it, will ho the snhjict discui'sed nt a public niasy meeting jointly aponsorcd by the Kupeiif Kederntion of Women's clubs and the American Association of Uni versity Women, at the chamber of commerce rooms Saturday night. i 1 1 i ii id li. Male, dean of the srhool of law nt the university, will be the chief speaker. Frank I,. Chambers and the Hev. K. V. O'llara will also give short addresses on the subject. The meeting is to follow a program suggested by the American fence Council of New York, and the public is invited. Springfield Smoker Postponed For Week ! srWXlil'lF.I.U. Ore., .Inn. 1!7. (Special) The smoker to be put on by Ibe Springfield post of the Amer ican Legion has been postponed from Friday evening. January 30, until Thursday evening, February C, ac cording to C. A. Swarta, commander. The reason for the postponement is due to the difficulty of obtaining cer tain persons for the program on the former night. The business men of Springfield are to be guests at the af fair, which will he held in the W. O. V. hall. Davis Cup Challenge Issued by Britain I.OXIMIN, Jan. ST. - irc.it Hrilain has istued a csallcnie fur the Pavia cup. the. world's premier In n tennis trophy, it was announced here this afternoon. Appropriations Hill is Passed WASHINGTON. Jn. ". The Jiouse !!. paed the bill carrying appropriations for the d'!"rlin"nl i of state, justice, commerce aud labor. ALLOWED M Farm Proposals Are Subject of Breakfast Talk WASHINGTON. Jan. 27. Presi dent Cuolidge sour lit at a White House breakfnBt conference to pave the way for transmiksinu to congress of the legislative recommendations of his agricultural commission. Those present included the raukiuj members of the senate and House agricultural committees, Secretary Gore and Senator Curtis of Kan una and Representative Longworth of Ohio, the republican leaders of the senate and bouse. TJlic leaders snid some of the legislative proposuls of the commission to be made public to morrow when they arc seut to the capital might be enacted into law bo fore adjournment of congress, but that differences over the majority recommendations might prevent ac tion on them at this session. Chairman . Norris of tbe senate agricultural committee did not go to the conference, although be bad been invited. T FOR FALSE ARREST That the arrest of II. H. Mason recently and his being held for inves tigation at the local jail was in line with regular law enforcement prac tice and in no way can be interpreted as 'fake arrest' is the wirrd i f Sheriff Frank E. Taylor tortny in commenting on Uic suit for $10.0(10 in daniag.s brought by Mr. Mason. "Tbe description srnf from I'ort rind tallied nlniost exactly and it wns i tot known that .Mr. Mnson was not the man wanted until an officer come I from Portland the fallowing day." the ) sheriff said. That low enforcement authorities nre empowered' in certain I coses to make arrest for purposes uf investigation and ttinl this has be -n i upheld in the courts, is the contention j ot the sheriff. ' I ''A mistake is made sometimes but th-s :n no way changes the need for inn U i us ikrests when it is believed necessary, tie wienti explains. The naming of the bonding com panies as jint dejeadnnts in the dam age action brings out another nngle i as it has been held by the court that the bond wnipanies are nor respon sible for injury to any individual but only to protect the state it is under stood. Clyde N. Johnston Back From Salem After attending a somewhat hectic session of the joint house and senate investisntipn committee, now probing the methods nf the state prohibition department, Clyde N. Johnston, for mer Iine district attorney, has re turned here. The former I.ane offi cial is well satisfied with his report to the committee and states that he has been asked to return and give fur ther details of the methods of the state department in law enforcement in Lane. It is expected that Mr. John ston will he called to testify in the near future. . DeMolay Order to Greet Candidates Initiation nf ft claws of five or six candidates is planned fr the next meeting of the Kugene chapter of the Order of the Ite.Molay. The meeting and ceremony will be held at the Ma- sonic hall next Thursday evening. The ! fin-t degree will be conferred on the 'class. The PeMoIay order, member ' hhip nf which is confined to boys be tween tlte ages of 10 and 21, is show- in g'Nd progress in Kugene, the Icral chapter having been chartered 1 about three years ago, according to ' Masonic officials, tpunsoriug the j chapter Ruling E WILL BE HELD 7 Republicans To Name Can didates For Speaker And Floor Leader Representatives Longworth And Madden Seeking Speakership WASHINGTON. Jan. 27. Home republicans will caucus Friday night, February 27, to decide upon .their candidate for speaker aud a floor leader. , . This decision was reached today nt a. meeting of the republican commit tee on committees of the house. Rep resentatives Longworth of (.Uiio and Madden of Illinois are candidates for '.be speakership. Voder a revolution adopted by the committee, republicans who will Berve during the GOtb congress and nre not members of the present house will be invited to participate in the confer ence. - . ; ' . ' ", No action was tnkeil as to whether LnFollette inn urgent 9 should l-i in vited to attend. There we(re indications, however, that a move would be made cither be fore the caucus or after it gets under way to bar the Wisconsin delega tion and perhaps one or two other representatives from that and future conferences of bouse republicans. . The Cascade nntionnl forest paid more t linn 10 per cent of the total cost of Kiippressing forest fires in Orcgou last year, it was shown today in a Htntistical report received from the district office at Tortland. Of the grand total cost of fire fighting in the state of $200,022, the fas-1 cade's part was $23,lti.1. Total damage to government and private lands in the state was $!.V .Vt-i, more than 47,411 acres being burned over, of which 112,000 acres were timbered and 13,342 acres tion timbered. National forenta in the state, other than the- Cascades arc as follows; Crater, Iescbutes, Fremont, Malheur, Mt. Hood, Ochoco, Kaniam, Sinkiyou, Siuslaw, Umpnun, Wallowa and Whit man. State Governors Invited to Attend Inaugural Parade WASHINGTON, Jan. .'7. Invita tion! have been sent out by the local inaugural committee to all atate gov ernora" to participate in the parade and other inaugural ceremonies In Washington on March 4. Attendance of the governor but long been a tra dition in the inaugural program and their esrorta In the past have lent much of the color to Inaugural pro cession,. Cleaners to Have Corvallis Session lietaili of the annual meeting of th Willamette Valley I'leauers and Iiyera association are being made ready and It ia ejpected that the date for the session at Corvallis will be early in February, according to Itsy niond Torrey, of the lllc-tric Clean ers, who has discussed the plana with officers of the organization. Kugene member! of the association are, Man j Dye Works, Usburn Clesners, Im perial Cleaners, Klectric Cleauera and City Cleaner. Given E 9 Radio Carries Message From New York Across Ocean To Australia Cablegram Tells Of Receipt Of Words Distinctly In Far-Away Land NEW YORK, Jan. 27. A human voice rode the air across the continent today, crossed the Pacific and deliv ered its message to hundreds of thou sands of persons in Austrailin, more than t,000 miles away. Officials of the Westinghouse company, through whose station KDKA at Pittsburgh, the test was made, declared the ach ievement to be the greatest In radio history. A cablegram received here several hours after the broadcasting related that thr voice had been distinctly heard by radio set owners who had tuned In at Sydney, Australia and at Itabaulv the capital of British New Guinea. T"wo amateurs reported liav ing picked the words winged nine thousand miles jnt Melbourne, al though the main stations there ailed to receive them because ot atmos pheric interference. The messages put on the air for the Australians were from Frank B. Noyes, president of the Associated Tress; J. A. M. Kid or, Australian commissioner to the United States: Herbert Hayard Swope, executive edi tor of the Now York World, Arthur Hrishane, Hearst editorial writer Frank Munscy, publisher of the New York K veiling Telegraph-Mail and the New York Hun. The teats- will he continued the remainder of the week. KDKA send at the pre-arranged time of from five to six o'clock in the morning at which time it. was between 8 and 0 o'clock in Austrutia, broadcast on a wave length of 03 meters. Owing to high water In the WiN lamette the ferry at Harrisburg has suspended operations and it may be two or three jlays before the service will be resumed, sccodiug to word received today by Judge (I. 1, Bar nard. The ferry hns been In opera tion recently hut during the high, wat er period in November it wna closed for a long period. Although the river is high due to steady rain and the melting of anew In the upper water shed It is not expected to reach a dau geroiM flood alage nt this time. Hold-Up Man Gets $1.50 at Grocery P. E. Uogers, owner of a grocery store at Fourth and lilair boulevard, was robbed of ll.tV) in silver yea terday evening at 7:4.1 o'clock by a burglar who held the store man up at the point of a gun. The bandit was apparently a tramp, and wore an army overcoat and brown hat, Mr. Uogers reported to night patrolmen. Misty-five dnltars in currency in another part nf the store was overlooked by the hold-up man iy bit hurry. Dr. Sun Yat-Scn Is Reported Dead T1KI. Jan. 'J7 OP) Dr. Sun; Vat-Ken, one of China's most noted politiral leaders, is dead at I'ekii g. j according lo a dispntch received here , this afternoon by the Japsneae semi-1 official news agency. I HUMAN VQIC Hi FOR 1ES RunsDown Scandal I Tbia is George X. Brothers, an as sistant district attorney of New York, who will investigate the alleged bribo offer in big league baseball, involving Cozy Dolan and Jimmy O'Connell ot the New York Giants. T STATE HOU8K,, SALKM, Ore., Inn. '27. Drastic amendments to the state prohibition law would he pro vided in house hill 104 introduced bJ Hurlburt, Multnomah county, today. The measure is one sponsored by the Anti-Haloon league. . It would make fines compulsory lu nil cases, with a minimum of $500 and minimum of $.3,000. The mini mum jail sentence for first time vio lators would be ruised from thirty days to six 'months. , A second offense violator! fine would be $."00 along with a peniten tiary term of not less than one year. A flock of other bills were intro duced in the house.. Among them were: Number 100 by Hamilton of Bend, to make it compulsory for assess ment life associations, operating on a mutual or assessment plan to use the word "assessment" on all circulars or certificates issued nod would pro hibit them from using the term "call premium" or other misleading words. Tho measure would except fraternal orders. Farmers would be relieved of the provisions of the motor vehicle law applying to truck nnd bun operation under house bill 100, Introduced by 11 ore her of Uouglas county. House bill UW introduced today by the Jackson county delegation is a companion bill to No. 102, introduced by the same group. It would provide for appointment of additional precinct committeemen In counties of less tbun l."i( 1,000 population, making two such officials, the intent being to ob tain a larger representation of voters in the prc-prfmary enuvcnlious pro posed by bill 101'. Nomination Rests With Committee WASHINGTON, .Inn. 27. Ibite on the nomination of Attorney Gen eral Stone to be a justice of the su preme cmrt was resumed on the senntf flnor today white the judiciary committee uni completing plans to tnlk the question over tomorrow with the attoruey general himself. Two Are Injured While at Work SI'ltl.NliKIKI.I), Ore., Jan. 21. (Special) Two minor accidents were given treatment In Springfield yester ibiv. when I). II. While ot the Fischer i Lumber company of Mnrcola received rare for an Injured hip and back, and I,. Amlerion of .Mabel bad fractur ed finger set. Mr. White waa injured while at work, when two timbers fell, tt'iking him across (he back and left hip. He sustained ,serioua bruises, though no bones were broken. MARRIAGE LICENSE ISSUED Jnmt-a K. Moore of Oakridge and Aluia I'nuline Callison of Full Creek were granted a marriage liceiue nt the office of the county clerk today. Clyde Johnston Takes Stand At Salem Hearing Sheriff Roberts of Deschutes Also Takes Stand at Hearing; Bitter Words Are . Heard in Testimony , STATE HOUSE, SALEM, Ore., Jan. 27. W) Sheriff S. E. Robert!, Deachutea county and Clyde N. John aton, former district attorney ot Lane county, were the principal witnesses laat night before the legislative com mittee investigating the atate prohi bition department, Johnston had arm ed himself by & thorough perusal of George Ia Cleaver'a biennial report and presented an array of stnrtling assertions. Tho Cleaver report, he as serted, waa "false, fraudulent and farcial." It was necessary for Chairman Garland to rap Johnston down when tho witness spoke of "Cleaver, the governor, Ilerwig and other damn tools." Also he liked to refer to Iler wig as "earwig." Soino ot Johnatou'a statementa were denied by Cleaver later In the session and Senator Staplea waa call ed to tbe atand to defend Cleaver in the Itcedsport affair. " . Mr. Johnston Ttestlfle, Johnston declared tbat 'he had attorney ot Lane county said ho had been bentcn in the primary election because ot his activity in the recall of two county commissioners. lie gavo figures to show Hint ho hod been extremely active in enforcement of prohibition laws, and aaid ho used men from the ahcriff's office nnd his own men to get evidence. Tbe only state agent be had anything to do with he aaid, waa ft woman he got Cleaver to send him and who worked ft month with no rosuli.e. Johnston then told the atory of Minnie Cadden Larkln, another woman who made considerable history In Lano county. "This woman," aaid Johnston, "coino Into my office one day, exhib ited a atate badge and wanted to go to work. I refused to take her on, but told her the county was open to all enforcement officora and It ahe want ed to she could go to It. It happened that night the sheriff had planned to raid a certain place and I went along. While we were waiting at this place, up drives ft big carload of booze. On the front aeat with tho driver, a man named Barker, sat Minnie Cadden Lo.rkin. Notwithstanding her state badge I told the boys to arrest her and take ber to Jail. While she waa In jnii the county . commissioners took her out and sent her to the poor farm to work. She cicnpcd and hasn't been iccu since." Called Up Mr. Cleaver, Johnston said it was found out that she had been driving with Darker for suveral days prior to this incident and Mint ho had looked up her past rec ord, After her arrest he said he call rp "" T" A I U JJ J- , lly ARTIIL'K BHIS3ANB i (Copyright, ID".), by King Keoturca Synuunte, Inc.) ) Men hsve spent most of their timi on earth figbtiug and murdering each other, Uut the r'sl Job of the human rsce Is to fight ngninst and conquer nature. Every canal dug, desert irrigated. awn nip drained, ia a victory iu the really Important war. The prediction wouli! have seemed as preposterous ns It seems now lo predict tbnt the entire siirfuce of t Ii s esrtl, will one tiny be ns completely culiivsted and under control ns Hie finest park, or to prsilict tint tnen will rrgtilnte the earth's climate, ua Ine excels heut at the equator to melt the Ice at the iwles. Nevertheless everything that mini can Imagine he can do. Sir Oliver Lodge, one of the grest- est living aclentisls, declares Hint the eye of niau was the first rutin inn chine. In conjunction with electrical power It conquers distance, through the ether, and actually throws out i ed Cleaver by telephone and ska htni !f he employed such a woman. "He said he did and wanted to gS her bond for $1,000. I told him he couldn't do it." Cleaver when questioned later in the evening denied tbat he had em ployed the woman or that h lad tried to perauade Johnston to allow him to go on hor bond. Cleaver said she waa employed by the governor ai.d furnish ed a badge by him upon recommenda tion ot Ward Irvine, then aecrctary to the governor, who claimed to have known her for two yeara. Agents After Him Johnston said that the only other atate agents he ever came into con tact with were those scot into l.uue county, to get evidence cgaiust him. i "i'hey triid to prji," he siiiJ, "that I was in league with tbe boot leggers, waa drunken whelp," etc. Johnston, went at length Into the character of persons who aigned 'Hi davits agaiust him, declaring tli.it every one of thein ho had prosecuted aud convicted. Thomas Kcenun and llarry Molson and others were mimed. "While Mclsou waa in jail," he sand "the county -commissioners .had him removed and went to the county burns to work. Then ono of my men cougu him bootlegging to County Columia gioner Sharp." , , Denies Report' Veracity. ' In discussing the Cleaver report which he asserted waa Vfalao and fraudulent from- cover to cover and lu no way .confirmed to law," Johnatou attacked the statement uf the prohi bition commissioner! that at no time did he employ ' more ' than ' eleven agents or more than five on salary. Johnston aaid vouchers in tho secre tary ot stale's office showed that in March ho had 13 or 14 and other months showed similarly. Alao he de clared Cleaver'a atatement that not more than one ot hia men had ever done time in Jail waa untrue, that ha himself had convicted Charles Vine yard. In about three-fourths ot the counties where Cleaver claimed credit for convictions and fines, Johnston aaid he was entitled to no credit at all because he had done nothing.'' Johnston assailed the financial .re sponsibility of Cleaver and challenged the right of Cleaver or the governor under tho law to have both a prohibi tion and ft narcotic fund. Claims Funds at Hand. ' Iloferrhig to Cleaver's report of very small balancea ' in his ' funds, Johnston demanded that the commit tee ask Cleaver to explain the large (Continued on page eix) 7 Wonders of Scienco T Also Vnssnr Girls Bomnncc of Bombay particles of mstter going at a speed uf thousands of miles a second. Dear young ladies of Vnisar col lege, with beautiful,, tall foreheads, nimble feet and nimble minds, tell what they think of tobacco. To l-'W who say they like cigarettes, ,VJI never smoke. ( ' No mutter what you think of wom en smoking, how would you auawef this questiou? Which will be married first, the girls who smoke cigarettes, or the "'H thnt don't amokc cigarettes! And which will niiike the bent moth ers? ltomnnce of the olden times cornea from ltomSsy. The Kiijah's favorite nautrh girl was mimed Miimlaa Ilcii um. There la delight in tbnt name nlone. Adbul llsulii. tbe rich mer chant, got the girl, l'atbnns hired by the enraged ltiijiih murdered the merchant in his automobile, stashed the face of the niiutcb girl, wounded (Ci'iitiuued on poge four)