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TODArS NEWS TODAY
EUGENE, OREGON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1025
TODAY'S NEWS TOD.VV
NO. 21
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touthwast.
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4 FK" Prison
wiher Theodore Balsden, IS'
I aa tuth who violateo a.. v"""
, tl.e ittte penitentiary u,
driving in his automobile, will
.the penitentiary a a resuu,
decided by county autnoruie.
, John S. Medley, district attot-
i.l
ruled that the city woum
.... ll.a MA hft-
i,ke tome aciiuu u .
It could be handled by county
J al.A vnllttl WOH
brities, ana
Ut back Juuf!e Ge0rg8 A"
in city court, v. no
fr the traffic offense. Judge
Lore yesterday remanded the case
uaile court, wnere u ... .u-
now be hamueu. it j -held
in the city jail.
tins l Tuesday
h, women of the Mooseheart le
, ffiU hold a session Tuesday,
.riirr 3. At present there is a
Lit on in the local lodge, the two
I . , U tlia a.ninp unit
fcn being aenuiu "i
nr officers respectively. ine
i of the local contest will give
Lis for the Eugene legion in tue
rail contest, in which tde tucsy
it roes to the convention in Bal-
,. Plans for the contest will be
utj at Tuesday's meeting. A
tred dish supper will be served.
Hinuah Johnson is chairman for
V.Miinmcnt.
llo Talk Scheduled
II Lane county girls clubs will
re the opportunity of hearing the
of Miss Helen Cowgill, of Ore
Agricultural college, in charge
girls' club work, who will speak
b radio station KGW next Tues-
ereaing starting at S' o'clock.
rd of the radio talk was received
Ly by Arnold Collier, Lane county
leader, from H. C. Seymour,
club leader. All girls clubs
re been asked to meet where there
h radio set to hear the talk and
in attendance at "Tho largest
is' club meeting ever held in the
It is expected that about
I) girls will hear the talk of the
worker, Mr. 'Collier Btatcs.
die Plans Prepared
'lans and specifications for the
Hendricks bridge to span the Mc-
kiie arc being prepared by the
e bridge department and arrange
tils will be made for the letting of
conrtact later, according to word
ired by the county court. The
n will be erected through co-op-
Ition of the state with I.auc county.
bridge will cost between $03,000
SHI.OOO, it is estimated. Steel
the spans will be hauled by truck
the railroad at Springfield to
rite of the bridge.'
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Fight Opens Over Loan Plan
BLOCKS
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ATTEMPTS 10
RUSH MEASUR
Representative Coffey
first To Oppose The
Rush Action
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Is
Itne Team Leaves
ie Eugene high school basketball
In left for Salem on the 11 o'clock
n thii morning. Tbey play Salem
30 o'clock tonight. About 30 stu
s of tin high school left on the
Irnoon train, and about 100 left
if Ibe afternoon by automobile.
students plan to return by a
rill enr on the train at 11:30 to-
N Union Meets
flte inninl meeting and election of
ers of the Lane county Farmers'
" i under way today at the W.
hall at Snrincficld. A mnloritv
e 2S I,. .Tig ,,( the county have
"'motives present. Italnh V.
(.' ntimifil on pnge five)
Matter As It Stands Will
Come Up For Action
Within Week
STATE HOUSE, SAI.E.M, Or?
Jan. 30. Attempt to rush through a
bill providing for $1,500,000 loan fund
to eastern Oregon fnnnera for re-
seeding purposes was blocked in th
house this morning by opposition
from representatives of many corners
of the state. Representative Gordon
sought a suspension of the rules to
place the bill on third reading.
Representative Coffey, Multnomuh
county, was tJie first to tnke the floor
in sharp, opposition to rush action. "1
am ngainst a hysterical way of push
ing business through the house be de
clared." A few days more Is not. go
ing to make any great difference to
the eastern Oregon farmers."
Uruham of Washington and Mutt of
Clatsop county, also opposed swift
action.
Shumway of .Morrow and Umatilla.
FitKmaurice of Gilliam, Sherman and
Wheeler; Tom of the silinc three
counties: Gordon and l.onergnn of
Multnomah lurgeil immediate nction
fur the relief of the farmers. As tho
mutter stands It wiil come up I
passage early next week. .
LIGHT BILL PROPOSED
STATE HOUSE, SAl.EM, Ore.,
Jan. DO. Regulation of spotlights
and headlights of nutomobiles is at-
toniDted in a bill introduced in the
bouse today . by' Representnti.'
Shrock at the request of T. A. Rut
fotv, chief of the traffic department.
Under the bill, automobiles may
only show two headlights in front,
with the exception of parking lights
and it is specified that only one spo;
light may, be used.
The spotlight must bo immovable
and must be attached to the left hand
side of to machine and focused diag
onally across tho road to a point par
allel with the right hand side of the
machine and not more than 73 feet in
front of It. The beam must not bt
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BULLETINS
M:V YORK, Jan. 30. Gaston B. Means, former department of
lf,! ag"nt, was found Kullty by a federal court Jury today on
lrge of conspiring; to bribe Kovernment officials and was sen-
nfd to pay a fine of $10,000 and to serve a two year penitentiary
' Thomas D. Felder, Means' attorney who wbs convicted of a
' charge, was fined 10.000. The sentences were Imposed by
'ral Judge l.lndlev nfter the tnrr had returned a sealed verdict
'h had found the defendants guilty but recommended clemency.
FORRES r.ARF r.nFS to JURY
nilCAHO, Jan 30. The veterans' bureau conspiracy case was
'n to the Jury In federal court here at 11:30 a. m.
MOP Timuiu di cini mill TV
YORK, Jan. 30. Moe Turman, v,ho recently confessed to
"v.oO jjf forirerte nfioi. n,a niianaA nt a ffpt-rirh-nulrk scheme
r'drd u',on MOO loan, pleaded guilty to second degree forgery
' '" tll he sentenced February . The prescribed penalty
' crime is fire to ten years imprisonment
Dog Teams
'Racing With
Anti-Toxin
SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 30. (A.
P-) While the fastest dog teams
of nothern Alaska, piloted by ex
perienced sourdough ru ushers,
were racing in relays today over
the frozen Tundra along the
Yukon river westward with a
package of 300,000 units of anti
tcxln to relieve a diphtheria epi
demic in Nome, final arrange
ments were being made to ship
l.HO.OOO units of the serum
from Seattle on the steamship
Alameda Saturday.
Tho shipment will go by mail
on the steamer to Seward, trans
fered to the Alaska railroad, tak
en to Nenana, where it will be
placed on a dog team. Another
relay race will then be run to
Nome
DOG TEAMS PUSHED
ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Jan. 30.
(A. P.) Reports received here
Indicated that 300,000 units of
anti-toxin for Nome, where deaths
In an epidemic of diphtheria have
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TO BE SATURDAY
The public inerting of both towns
people aid students, to be held Siitiir.
day night nt the ehnmlier of com
merce, is one of a series of national
mfiveiuentK to instruct the people on
tho (piention of the world court, Tho
movement is being sponsored by the
American l'ence Award association.
The meeting will bej;in at 8 o'clock.
The question of America's partici
pation in tiie world court has been
brought up before severnl senate
committed, but nerer before thy
senate as a whole, A resolution rec
ommending that congress introtjucu
m.rh a inetisore, may be brought up
before the discussion group tomorr-j-v
niff hi.
Dean William U. Iln'e, of iJie Uni
versity of Oregon law school, will give
the main address. "The logic 'of
events, places us nt the threshold of
the court," said Mr. Hflle in h state
ment today. "International needs dic
tate that we enter." 1 lis address wiil
review the history of international
relations in general, showing how the
world court Is designed to remedy the
weakness of the past. He will nl
describe the working machiin-ry i
the court, and how. ft functions.
Mayor K. B. Parks will give a short
talk, and, will then lead the dinrussioa.
U. A. Booth speaks of the wori-1
court as the 'best first utep to unitt
all the nations." "I regret," said Mr.
Booth, "that some of our leadhg
statesmen should oppone It."
CLEAVER AC
TS
HE TESTIFIES
Mr. Pierce And Mr. Herwig
Gave Instructions, Is 1
His Statement ' .;:
Investigators Agree That
Dry Chief Was Too Act
ive Politically
STATIC IIOl'SK, SALEM, Ore.,
Jan. 30. Just before the close of a
even-hour session of the legislature
proh.bition investigating committee,
near luiduiglit last night, tjeurge 1
Cleaver, state prohibition officer, who
was on the stand, was addressed by
Senator A. J. Johnson of Corvallis:
'Mr. (.leaver, it has been shown
that you have been active in the in
vestigation of public officials."
"L'onsidernbly so, yes," said Clea
ver. "Was this of your own volition or
upon instructions Trum . the gover
nor?" continued Johuson.
, "lu luont Instances cither the gov
ernor or Jlenvig," Cleuver answer
ed. "The governor instructed ine to
follow the advice of the Anti-Saloon
league very closely, because they had
I'O years' experience. Soinetimca I
(Continued on pige eight)
JURV Tlvea 1 r i Tn rnt I i vi a 1 tCC
COCKci!, BLUFFS, la., Jan. 30. The case of Kcilll Collins.
charged with looting; of mall sacks in the
'''O.noo
mall robber,
mail robbery here in 1920, went to Jury today.
FRED FULTON GIVEN FINE
ANtil".V3 Tin A J l-..tln , Innnaiwil i. tllsafftrpr.
feT l(vt M r HTU fUllliU, ,iiiiiiicbp'ib j....-.- .
t bo i y p,?d"1 Bul'ty to having violated the recently repealed
law against nrliefiEhtlns:. In his fight wlth'tonr Fuente
r ItT last Kimn... rinj t-.nA -lfh allnrnntlve
In JalL
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Transmutation of
Elements Possible
Declares Dr. Free
NEW YORK, Jan. 30.--A new riv-
itization wi'h a new cliemntry Dinn
ing possible the transmutation "t
elements, including the changing of
,ubtsnces Into g"ld. i" lik'ly a Ihe
result of an attempt to apply practi
cally the Einstein theory of relativity,
Jr. E. K. Free, Editor of The Scien
tific American, sniil at a luncheon
meeting of the Lions club today.
"We are on Ihe verge of entering
s new kind of chemistry," fir. Free
explnined, "nd with that perhaps, a
new kind of civilization. If, as we e
pect, we can give practical application
tn the Einslein theory, we will be
able to augment the world's aupply
cf certain things nt which there Is t
definite shortage. The world needs
more plaiinum, more Iodine, more hel
ium. As far as we knew, there ll a
shortage of supply."
TAKES UP DUTIES
WASHINGTON, Jan. 311. Presi
dent Conlidge today formally accent .mi
the credentials of Emile Daeschncr
ss the new French ambassador. He
represents the new French political
forces. It is the first diplomatic change
that country has made here In mo.-e
than 20 years.
Tie setting of recently stimulated
parliamentary and diplomatic debate
on matters having to do with the
relations between' the two nations.
has created an atmosphere of un'js-
ual Interest and expectancy.
Speculation as to whether M. Daei-
chncr might see fit il presenting bis
credentials today' to indicate any
liopes or plans- for a solution of the
debt question bad raised more than
usual interest in what is ordinarily
little more than a perfunctory ei
change of remarks between the presi
dent and accredited diplomat.
EXTENSION DE
OREGON
TRUNK
E PLANNED
Leaders of Rotary Clubs Hold Conference
Herrin Again Quiet
After Shooting Orgy
Victims Are Buried
HF.P.IUN, Ilk. Jan. 30. P)--Witb
the last of the victims of last Satur
day night's shooting orgy burlcii,
Great Northern And North
, ern Pacific File Excep
7 tions With Commission
Report Of Mr. Kephart Op
posed Because Of Plans,
Rail Heads Declare
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 30. (PI
Declaration of the liitcntiou of the
Ureut .Northern and Northern Pacific
systems to extend the Oregon Trunk
line from Hend to Kllilnnth Kalln.
unofficially announced some time ago,
ia contained in the bill of exceptions
of the Oregon Trunk filed with the
interstate commerce commission to
the report of Examiner C. I. Kepbnrt,
who last summer beard testimony on
the petition of the Oregon pub ic
service commission to require the
railways now touching the borders
of central Oregon tu build on east to
west line and also to connect Iten-i.
,-Kliiniuth Falls and Ijikcvicw'. ' :'
At Ihe outset the ciceptious of the
so-called uoiUicrn lines cite that Ex
aminer Kephart's report fails to give
due weight to their legitimate Inter
ests, sud of the group of railways of
which the Oregon Trunk is a piirt 111
the develiyaneut of the timber anil
other resources, there having been
expended ' IlliOOO.OOO in construction
of theirliregou railway lines. Then
foKoivs ft (Iccliinilii.n that approxi
mately 40,(I(KM00.000 feet of timber
is available for cutting In the Kla
math Fulls region snd that lurgc mills
for cutting this timber will he built
if they can lie servod by more thun
one rniiruad. 1
Extension Is Routed.
The line from the Columbia rlv.'r
south to Hend win built as a part of
a plan eventually to reach and serve
the territory in and about Klamath
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Publishers Found
Guilty in New York
NEW YOHK, Jan. 30. Sentence
will be Imposed tomorrow upon Hie
phen O. Clow, publisher of llroadway
Ilrevities, Andrew S. Hrown and Nit
Kunncss, advertising solicitors of the
magazine, who were found guilty yes.
terday by a federal jury on charges i
using the mails tn defraud. Charles .1.
Greene, another employe was scquit
ted. Clow is out today on f.'KKK) bail fol
lowing his counsel's promise that he
would appear tomorrow for sentence.
Brown is out on $3000 ball and Kun
ness on $."iO0.
New World Said
Coniing in Orient
WASHINGTON, Jan. -Wfc-s-Th
Thomas F. Darbnr, of London, England, one of tho founders
of the Rotary Clubs, Is shown in conference with Dr. Gilbert J.
Palen, president of the Rotary Club of Philadelphia. Dr. Barber
had Just addressed the Philadelphia Rotarlans. Ho was a member
of the executive committee that had charge of the recent Inter
national Rotnry Convention In Scotland.
POSTAL PAY BILL
PISSES SENATE;
MIS 70108
WASHINGTON, .lniu ..m Tli.
pnHtiil pay uuri rto innenne bill watt
pnti.st(l todny hy the nrimto.
It curries tho mime provisions for
unliiry .iniTonsrs, effective ns of .Inly
1, HUM, h the measure phhhpiI Ihm
session and vetoed by President
Conlidge,
The rate increases would npply to
practically every form of mail nervicrt,
but these were considerably modified
from the original recommembitious -f
the poKtofficH department, particular
ly on s croud class mail.
The measure is expected to bo chal
lenged in the huiise, as a ways and
moans sub-committee has already de
cided to urge Its return to the aeiute
as constituting n nurpation of the
house prerogative of inilinting reveuu
legislation.
The rate increases would become
effective April 1." of this year find ex
pire February 1.5. HK.MI. with provis
ion for an Investigation before a joint
ci'tigrpssionnl committee with a view
to ennctment next session of perma
nent Irgislation,
The vote on pannage was 70 to 8,
with Horn ll, Itrookbart, Norbcek nnd
Nnrris, repuhlicHns Hiid (Jlnss, Ilar
riton, Kwnnson nud Underwod,
democrats, opposing !t. The only
change today was the adoption of nn
amendment to cut from two to one
cent tho service conrgo on parcel not
packages.
T
Herrin today resnmed a quiet aspect power of Christian educational iu
and was preparing, for another ers of stitutinns in the mission field was
peace following the departure ol stressed by apeskers st I'kuij 's. ses
troops which had been on guard since; sion of the Foreign Miaslou. onncr;
early last Hatnrday.' ence of North America.
8. Gleno Yoing,. Ku Klui Klsn dry I Jnmes Henry, president of Canton
raider, who, vrith.Ora Thomas, dep- Christisn college, Canton, Chins, told
uty sheriff, an opponent of Young a t the conference that a new w orld is
and two bystanders were silled In a ; emerging in Ibo Orient. ' ' '
locsl hotel, was buried yesterday. I "In Inda, In China, a ' mlglili'er
Members of the Klan In full reg.ili transformation is taking place than
marrhed tn Ihe lunera) pr"cessinn. j the emergence of Knropc from .the
Meanwhile .members of the conr-. dsrk nges," he ssld. "The part ilsy
oner's Jury were, jrying to find wit
nesses to the. shooting In a final ef
fort tn clear up the affair. The jury
will meet tomorrow following today'
recess in what w'li probably prove to
b Its final session.
Unless some more definite fnforma.
tioB Is obtained, there appeared to b
little chance that the jury can mike
any definite findings, except that
Young was killed by Tboiuis.
ed by Christian trsined leaders in
this process csnnot be estimated.',
EDUCATOR TO BREAK
J. A. Churchill, stale superintend
ent of schools, will speak tomorrow
morning at lbs monthly meeting of
Kngene and Ijine county school teach
ers. The meeting will be held at 10
o'llfK k In Ihe Frances Wlllsfd Junior
high school building.
Plans for' eitenslve entertainment
of the New York and New I'.ngland
retail lumber dealers party who will
he In I'.ugene February 2S are being
made by the board of directors of the
Unue County lloo Hon, lumbermen's
organization, The parly traveling In
a speclsl train will liar an sll day
stay in Kugene and tht I.ane Hoo
Hons will take Ibein to the mills In
this vicinity snd oilier places of In
terest. The next meeting of the Hoo lino
will he held at Cotlsge (irnre st
the Itartell hotel the evening of Feb
ruary -1 In order that Ihe members
.may become better ar-ipialnled wilh
the Southern Lane lumbermen. The
club has received word from Con
gressman W. C. Ilawlcy staling that
he Is opposed to Ihe tlood'ng bill, a
sisnd also taken by lbs l,ane lumbermen.
REIMBURSEMENT ASKfD
STATK HOI UK, S.I,F..M, On.,
Jan. 30. lteiresenlntlve Collier to.
day introduced a bill to .reimports
Loiiia (lerlipr of Kinmntb county for
land purchased on which Ibe laud of
fice could not convey title.
CLEAR LAKE BILL
IS INTRODUCED BY
STATU HOUSIO, , S.VT.EM, Ore.,
Jan. 00. Tu make Clear I.ako avail
able aa a domestic water and power
supply for Willamette valley cities and
towns is tho purpose of a bill Intro'
lured in the sensto today by .Senator
O'nrlaud of l.lnn county and Senator
Johnson of Benton county.
The measure authorizes the va
rious counties of the Willamette val
ley to form themselves lnto a munici
pality for the issuance of bonda for
tho development.
Under the bill a petition must be
presented to the secretary of state
signed by not less than two per cent
of the registered vote in the territory.
It makes It the duty of the gov
ernor to call an election on the forma
tion of the municipality and if it car
ries the executive la to appolut a
board of five trustees, who shall serve
until I heir successors nro elected by
the municipality. This bosrd is em
powered lo make a survey of the pro.
Ject snd to call an election for the
issuunce of bonds.
The counties interested In the de
velopment nro Linn, Lsne, Marlon and
Uenton. ' . ;
WHEELER BILL UP
STATU HOL'HK, SALKM, Ore.,
Jan. 30, In cases of school district
failing to levy (en mills lax or such
amount that will give the district the
difference between $020 and the
amount received from the county
school fund. Ihe county court would
be authorised to make inch levy un
der house bill '.'00 Introduced by
Wheeler, Lsne' county.
mm snows
N YLARS OVER
NEW
ENGLAND
Schools Closed And Traffic
Blocked; Ice Floes Ia
Rivers Heavy,
Doctors Go About On Skiia
And Horseback; Trains
Are Delayed
' ALBANY, N. T., Jin. SO-One of the
worst snow storms in ten yesra swept'
and swirled across New York etste
todsy, paralyzing traffic, causing
many accidents and closing schools In
many cities. Mail carriers were usable
to mako their trips in many sections ,
and farmers' milk deliveries were slso-
msde Impossible by blot'sed highways.
Two feet or more of snow covered'
most of the state.
SNOW IS DEEP ,
BOSTON, Jan. SO. The heavlesi
snowfall of the season, Tanging front
five Inches in Boston to "three 'feet
in Vermont, hampered truffle in mai.y' ,
parts of New Knghmd today. 1
1 Several pointa in Verinout reported
the heaviest snowfall In ISO years. At
St. Albens threo feet of snow was re
ported. ' ',..''
TRAIN DELAYEC
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Jan. 30. An
east-bound New York Central passen
ger train, due here at 11:10 last night
arrived at 8:30 o'clock today. It. had
been stalled all night in a snow drift
at Woodward. - ' ' !
The drifts had mounted to' cine feet,
at some places and the snow was fire
feet on the level in the western part .
of the state, reports said. - -
ICE FLOES HEAVY
NEW YOHK. Jsn. 30. Ice floss, -reported
to be the heaviest In 20
years interrupted ferry traffic In the '
east and Hudson rivers today. Boats
with thousands of passengers aboard
were delayed for hours while tugs
labored to relieve them.
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DOCTORS BUSY
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Jan. 30. Be.'
cause of a large number of cases of
grippe, physicians hers made unus
ual efforts to visit patients today, al-"
tiiough heavy snow fall provented
automobile traffic.
Several younger physicians solved
the problems by using skiis and snow
shoes.
, Others obtained horses, but then
wss a scarcity of sleighs and cutters.
Some of the older physicians used
ssddlex snd went sbout like the oil
mountaineer physicians.
TODAY 3
100 Little Tics
Drifting to Longiio
nvnntion V n n t o d
Hy ARTHUR BRIHUANH
(Copyright, 1I12.", by Stsr Company)
A boy sends Ibis Information In the
United Ststes Agriculture depart
ment. Five yesrs ago when he was In
the public school he bought a pure
bred pig, femsle, eight weeks old.
Since then his pig has added 100
smsll pigs lo the, esrlh's porelne pop
ulallnn. The little boy writes: "She
pa!d for my clothes, three years In
high school snd I've me spending
money alio. I era now In my second
year In college and she Is still doing
the ssme,
.
This boy has Joined Ihe "Better
Sires Heller Stock" campaign and
will work hard to improve the pig
breed.
If it wtre possible to Improve hu
man breed as easily ts we Improve
cattle or swine cNllixatlon would pro.
gress. Hut something might be done.
That proud mother of 100 little p gs
in five years never smoked cigarettes
or drank cocktails. And Ihe father or
fathers did not set before their sou
Ihe example of bootleg lew breaki. J
and contempt for the Constitution.
,
In Ihe way of national news, if
that should interest you. it seems tj'.
the country Is drifting Inward Euro
pean entanglements, via the wn-ld
court and Ihe Herman reparationi.
agreement.
First, we threw billions upon bil
lions Into F.urope recklessly, squan
dering other tena of millions In graft
and wsste hero nt home.
Now, Itching for a fen miserable
hundred millions we send people to
I'sris to tie this country up In all
sorts of uncertain European obliga
tions. And this is done In spite of the fact
that the nation has voted twice, with
seven million voles In spsre aguint
(Continued on page four)