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t foyou Follow The Guars Feature Page These Days? It has Something Good for Every Member of the Family City News THE WEATHER 0re8o..Rl ' " rln ,now t portion, to i.ht "" Wedne.day; .light !le. I temperaturo. Strona ,7..ny ' "1,h " ,rc. tfct co.t. Temp.r.. un today, minimum, 37 ' , (Hjxlmum Monday, 81. Precipitation today, .26 of an lc. Stage of river, 7.7 foot. Direction of wind, north. t.. ) i - -JJ3:' EDITION JQL- 63 todav's kew3 today EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, FKBKl'AKY 10, lVj.j toimvs news today n-q 3Q ii. inctpnr.ted Rotary 0 ' Complete personnel of. the class unra nf thfl Eucene Dew roeiuuv.. - u u nrara nreROnt TO Rotary l CIUD " their Instruction in ko- iriceive . history loro and etmcs at dinner given last Friday night . follows: Or. Royal Glck, Lnr Orln F. Stafford, Mahlon fsweet, Carl Koppe, Fred Moxley, w T. .Gordon, rum n.. . i Miicvitt, Arthur ilorrls and ipean B. 0. Robbins. DuiiiiB' re ,nt months the education com mittee of the club under direction Ql Dr. C. B. wiuougnoy, us chairman, nas Deen mamns upe HI efforts to inculcate a work in knowledge of Rotary among U members, and the process Is Lw regarded as well along to- Hard completion. trncber Uses -Aviary." A new use lias been found for The aard Aviary, the illustrated poem Lppeariog daily on the feature page. h Corvollia woman, who is principal Lf the primary department . o the jlkristinn c-jjirdi Sunday school in Lit city, clips the poem every day, ltd at the end of the week has the terses and pictures stenciled fur use j the Sunday school youngsters dur- nj their Uible study hour. "Children ive to work with colored crayons," lie explains, "and the outlines of these birds gives them something to riff, while the poem fixes the name f the bird in their minds. This can f easily tied up with the Sunday chool lesson, and we find it a big ftdp in providing something to keep children's interest.'' V Watchlnn Railroad That the Y. M. C. A: is looking for ward to Uie completion of the new Southern Pacific cut-off between Kn :?De anil Klamath Falls with quite a tt of interest, is the report of YV W. St billon of Portland, interstate seere- nty of tlie VY" for Oregon mid Idaho. Mr. Dillon is here in the interests of j e onuiial fiunncial campaign of the Itigcne association. With the com pletion of the new rail line undoubted- there will he a Y. M. C. A. estuh ihprf at Kiamnth Falls," Mr, Dilli'n id. Tlie establishment' of railroad socin lions such ns are now orgau eluiig many large eastern rail Ijstems liaa never been started on :e Southern Pacific as the road laimains its own clubhouses for cm inyos, the secretary said. Census Schedules Sent Mure than 7000 schedules on the der:il fiinn census in Lane, .laclt n. IlnuKlas, Coos and Josephine 'unties were sent yesterday to the nsiis Imrrau from tlie local census J.'-3d,ii.irtiTS. This is the final ship- nt of tli c sriiedules; nnd as soon as filers are received from Washington ie local offire will be closed, nceord ! to Ualnh p. I.aird, director. The iipinrnt nf scliedides was sent out rrsistnr,.,! ninil, nnd is the lar- Jt consignment to this division of ' piwtal service here in Mine time, 'fording to reports. f Classes Enroll W:th Uie oii'iiinj of the second sem- ? Of Klliene Schools Mnnilnv thee,. is bfen n renewed interest ill the 'rt-iliy llihie classes which proved ' wrcessful (iurinK the semester just "''(irding to Frank Kberhart, irman of the committee in clinrge 1 Hie relilioUS rliuoa An onrnll. f pnt of ,",.,(( was recorficl ilneim, the t ieme,ter ,! Bolne increnc Is kul for bm nrcseiit nians are for " n't course next year 1 for n increased enrollment. f ""ly Reports Made "fmi- nnnsl report, 0f the count. "rk fffep, tap sheriffs office nnd'M'K) as aRflinst an expected ""O'nrer'ii offir? were completed "i earn on ire lor Jnt;i:ued on page five) "t6t THEYCOML Uiva WatTHY GO importunities IN THU I T7 L X B .1 I 1? COLLINS STILL BREATHES SAY GAVE WORKERS Military Court of Inquiry 'Calls Witnesses For Its Investigation Shaft Goes Down; Work is Rushed as Hope Renews For Rescue tAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 10. OP) Another amplifier test today convinc ed experimenters that Floyd Collins still breathed in his Sand cave pris on. Itespiration is about 14 or 15 times a minute, it was indicated. COURT ADJOURNS CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 10. OP) The military court of inquiry investi gating circumstances surrounding the imprisonment and rescue work of Floyd Collins in Sand Cave adjourn ed shortly after noon till a p. in., after hearing two witnesses. More, testi mony was in prospect when the ses sion "was to he resumed: SHAFT SINKS DEEPER CAVE1 CITY, Ky.; Feb. 10. OP) A depth estimated nt more than 38 feet had been reached in the shaft at Sand cave nt 10:13 today. Itescuers continued their efforts to reach their rave 'prisoner but spectators had largely moVed to Cave City where the prel. miliary sessions of the military court of inquiry were being conducted. WORK GOES FASTER CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 10. OP) The heroes of tlie Collins rescue, the volunteers, who are driving the shaft toward his underground prison, today were more than XI feet down, after five days of ceaseless labor. The work was progressing slightly fnster, as much of tho material to be tCiuitinued on page five) KELLY POSTAL PAY BILL IS PASSED BK E WAS 1 1 NCTON, Feb. 10. The Kelly postal par and rate increase bill wns passed tod.iy hy tbc house and srtit to the senate. The bill wns approved after less than two hours debate under rules requiring n two-third vote for pas sage it nd barring anicndmcnU from the floor. Finn! notion wns without a roll call, Speaker (iilleite holding that n the viva voop. vote more than two-thirds of the house memhers present sup ported tJie hill. Carrying the oame pay increase a provided in the bill vetoed by Pwmi dent or!idge, the measure proposes rate advances estimated tn yiied ?H,- crease outgo of H.rtfMi.OOt) in salar ies. It is a substitute for the mcnure passed recently by tlie senate which the house declined to consider on tlie ground that it infringed on the house's pielusive right to' initiate reven.i- j legislation. Pacific Highway Is Again Open j HOSKHI'Ri;, Ore., Keh. 10. The Pacific highway is again open be- . tween Dillard and Myrtle Creek, and ears are experiencing little difficulty I In getting by the slides which liavr , been f f frequent occurrence during j the past few dnys. Passageways wide enough to accommodate the big p"' ; sengcr busses anil freight trucks have been opened, so that there are no hindrances to traffic. It will probably require several more days to remove the dirt from the pavement, but a I large crew of men w ill be maintained 'by the stnte until the slides have been j removed. j : li : 11 ; - : '. ". i : i . Scenes at Sand Cave, Above Is pictured the entrance Sand cave, near Cavo city. Ky.. whero Floyd Collins was trapped by an eight-ton bouldor which dropped from the roof, pinning his toot. The diagram shows how Collins was trap pod. The dotted line Is whore .work ers hoped to clear space In their ef forts to freo Collins, The smaller In set shows Jewel Estcs. 17. wh odls covorod Collins' plight. Below Is Homer Collins, center, who collapsed after he tolled three days without stopping in an attempt to free his brother. Ho is shown being car ried from the oavo by comrades. FAIItllANKS. Alaska. Feb 10 (P) Although Hov S. Darling, for mer navv aviator, and Itnlph V. Maclt ie. an emplcve of tlie Alnskn rail road, were prevented bv intense cold from leaving here vesterdav in an. air plane with n consignment of (10000 iin.ts of diphtheria onti-toxin for Nome, the men nnnouneed last night thev intended to leave today. "We experienced great difficulty ;n regulating the temperature of the en gine. ' said Darling. ' Our nirplnne. de Mgnrd for summer flung, is not cipnppcd with a radiator sJiutter. ; c?.peetrd to leave as soon as mechan ics of the 1' ail-banks Airplane cor poration construct n radiator abutter. "In lests (luring me last five (lays tlie'fiigine has been freezing or over heating. We sat for two hours in the plant yesterday nnd tried vainly to adjust tlie temperature of the engine. One limn .froze his fnce holding the tail of the fuselage down while the engine ran nt full speed. The tem perature yesterday wns 4fJ degrees below zero, and moisture escaping from Uie exhaust manifold froze to the side of the fuselnge. "Hoth of us were keenly disappoint ed in our inability to hop off yester day ns grrat preparations bad been made for our departure." Old Ninth Avenue Bridge Torn Out Tearing out of the old bridge over the millrnoe on Ninth avenue east to make room f"r the new concrete structure has resulted in changing the route of the Pacific highway through the eastern part of Hie city from Ninth avenue to I'.ightb evenue. Cars headed north turn nt Kijhlh and Wil lamette, travel Willamette two blocks and turn a( Sixth avenue. M. (). Hessonette, coin rector, says the new structure will be reaoy by Mny j j j, putting on three Fhifts n, ,1( ,ji ra, wj ,p rt ((( during the con-lnn'tinn work, ..e(.(ric power will be used instead nj wal,.r power for the mill. LYNX IS KILLED , spkin;kii:i.ii. Feb. in tspc- r'al).-John W. t'ar.-.n. of Spring field, an etnph'e of the Kischer Tim ber company of Marcoln, reports til ing a lynx near Marcola on Kridsy. The animal has beep .kinncl, and the skin sent to Kugene to be tanned. H- is ssid to have killed two martin in that psrt of the country recently. PLANE DELAYED IN FLIGHT TO NOME; mL M Where Floyd Sollins urn f Mf I? 4m ifs4 hi li V i 4 T RELIEF OFFERED TO VALE VICTIMS VALE, Ore., Feb. 10. No one ts suffering from lack of fond or shelter in the flooded district iiirrounding Vale, as neighbors of the flood suf ferers hawj given assistanre, it wnf reported here when a meeting of city and chamber of commerce officials was held late yesterday. Kcpresentn tives of Ontario were present and said they would send theii mayor, W. II. Doolitlie to assist farmers of Vale and the district west of here to obtain state relief. The county court has or dered that carcasses of nil dead ani mals be buried and purchased twenty five, barrels of lime to be used in pre. serving sanitary condil Urns. This Amount of lime may not be sufficient, County Judge Ne said, na the car raises west of Vale are ipread over a distance of four or five miis. Only some jnggi'd edg'-s of conrret ii all that remains "f l!n'ig;iri dam, wbih was washed out, ra using the flo''d; the cnti-r of the dam being washed down to bedrock, according to Percy Purviti, on bis return from the ; s.te of the PJO-foot structure. Ilo re-I ported that the Warm Springs ranch, five mile down frnm Itully creek, ! was gone. All the buildings, even the stone house, were washed level to the p round. All the ditches were so filled with mud and debris that no trace could be found of the former ran'b. The railroad bridge two miles west of Vale U expected to be ready fr trains tomorrow. About two miles of the track washed out b.is b'--D repaired. is Lying, Trapped t'OLUMnrS, O., Keh. 10. Louis Fish, JO, freshman in tho college of pharmacy at Ohio Stnte university, was held in city jail today for furth er questioning in I he investigation of the deaths of two students nnd the Illness of others, following bis admission last that without permis sion he had dispensed poison capsules to I'avis L Puskin, n fellow student, which raused his death. Fish, while, admitting he failed to tell nil be knew of facts of first j being questioned, denied he put pois i on in the rnpsule bottle. Puskin, I Fish I old the city prosecutor, "was his best friend." roLfsrnrs. o., Feb. in. (p Arrem of another Ohio Stnte 1 n 1 versify student in connection with the investigation of the poisoning of two students wns forecast today by Pros ecutor Chester. He said evidence M ,,Pf,n fmh(, a(rnillM, A ),!,., who pr(,ri,lwy hn(, tMified before, the investigators, NEGRO ROBBER SHOT 1'F.H .MiilNKH, la., Feb. 1(1.-An unidentified nnro wan idiot to death when bit and three other torn at tempted to hold up the bank at llooneville, In., today, according to in formation received here. Two of bis companions were caught while the otber fucopeiL- DEBATE HELD Ti Mark Taylor and Walter Durgan Discuss Proposed Amendment No Decision Given; Debate Holds Interest at Lun cheon Hour Presenting a clear and conriae sum ming up of both the inerita and the disadvnntnges of the proposed child labor amendment to tho constitution of the United Stntcs, two high school atudenU, Murk Taylor and Walter Durir.'in, debated the question nt the noon luncheon meeting of tho Itotorj club todny. The boys represented the Order nt the De.Molay and Mr. Taylor upheld the affirmative in the debnto nnd Mr. Durgnn the negative. No decision wns given in the debnto but that tho talks wore appreciated by tho Jlotnrinns wns indicated by the generous op plnuso tendered both spenkers. The arguments for tjio nfrtrmntiva wero based on tho need for protection for tho new generations and the fact was stressed that the greatest amount of child labor illitercy and tho greatest amount f child labor coin eide in the aome states, mostly in th southern factory centers. "We owo It to future to protect tho boys nn.l girls nnd if slules will not offer thU it will have to be done by tho federal government," Mr. Taylor said. The answer of Sir. Durgnn wns that state laws are sufficient for pro tection, that too iiiucJi federal Inter ference is obnoxious and not to tlie best interests of tlie nation, and that if the amendment passed that there was danger of "roaring a generation .if loafers" owing to the prohibition of employment to tho."o under ' tho age of 18 years. Rep. Sinclair to Attend Caucus of Republican Party WASHINGTON', Feb. 10. A break in the ranks of the Ial'ollottc insur gents in tho house developed todny, ltepreseutntive Sinclair of North Da kota announcing that he proposed to attend the republican cnucus Febru ary Some house members wero inform ed that Representative Lamport of Wisconsin also would holt tho insur gent bloc to cast bis lot with organi zation republicans. Illinois Murderer Given Life Term (ilCNKVA, 111., Feb. 10 Warren J. Lincoln, lawyer-florist, wns found guilty of murder of his wife, I.ln.i, whom he confessed he killed with Hyron Slioup, her brother, whose bod ies he burned nnd whose heads he sealed in a concrete block, by a jury last night, and wns sentenced to life imprisonment. The jury tn Uie first ballot una nimously decided Lincoln was guilty. Tiic second was divided ns lo his sanity when tlie crime wn-s cninniitlM t.d Ihe third unanimously declared lie lll is s.me. Two other ballots fixed the pen ally. Frances Lowden and John Drake to Wed ('llll'.Mi' i, Feb. 10. Mim Fnini . l.owl(,ii. hiMi(li!er of Former (lovei nor and Mm. Frank . I.iiwden, an-l .1 ill n It. Uinke, Jr., .on - f John It. I frnke, enltliy Chieaoan, will he married . might in Ihe Fourth I'reH- t t i-rin ii church lu re by I(r. Krc-1- Mick F. Shannon. The bride'a ni.terK, .Misses 1 lii r - rift an. I Florence, will be neiiils of; iionor sin) (tie htidrKrooin' lumber, WillUm. will he best man. Tlie couple will spend a honeymoon in AlRtrrs ichirniliK tlirouuli llnlv Hwilrerlimil, Fmnre and Knl.-tiid ir April. AT RDTARY M CHILD LABOR Colonel Mercer To Give Talk on Abraham Lincoln STATE ItorSR," SALKM, Ore., Keb. 10. Colonel (L. I). Merce;, chaplain of the state house, will nd drews a joint mewing of the sennte and it on bo in tho liall of represent... tives on Lincoln's birthday, Thura dny, February 12, ut 2 o'clock. Ilis ad dress will bo a description of tho en tire night of July 21, 1S(U, when President Lincoln snt on a lounge in the White House throughout the night talking to soldiers and representa tive men of the nation. Colonel Mer cer was present on that occasion nnd will describe the quaint humor and other characteristics disnlnred by Lincoln at tfiat time. EDNEJ STATE HOUSE, JfALEM, Ore., Feb. 10. T'nnblo to muster enough votes to pass the fish commission bill over the governor's veto the senate orgnnizatlon yesterday postponed ac tion on the measure, until Wednesday nftetnnon when It will come up under a special order o business nt 2:)10 o'clook. The measure, which transfer! the fish commission from Qio gover nor to the board of eoutrol, was Intro duced several weeks ago by Senator Itltner and last week It wns made specinl order of business for yester day afternoon at 2:,'10 o'clock. Wbcn the leaders of the aennlo or ganization mndo n canvass of the sit uation, however, they found that n group of 1.1 independent senators hfld agreed to sirpport tho governor's veto of (ho measure. Eleven Is enough to sust-aiu the veto nnd hence tho sennto organiza tion decided to postpone with the Jiopo of bringing sufficient pressure on the lit senators to break their com bination. Two Men Held in Tacoma Bank Case TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 10. Two men, arrested In Seattle, early this morning ore in the Taebnia city jail, being held for invest lgnt Ion in con nection with the holdup of National Hank of Tacoma employees Saturday and the slaying of Harry H. Schmidt, agency niuimger. The arrest, of a third ins ii, companion of the two al ready held, wns expected momentar ily. The two men now In custody are Charles Kinney, 2-, and Guy JMitli erford, l!.'t. Police refused to divulge their evi denee ngaiiiNt the men. BULLETINS VASIIINfiTON, Ffh. 10. 8iiKgonllons In conKreas for nhamlon mnnt of tho flexible provision of tho tariff act are disapproved by Prosldont Coolidgo. ARMED MEN ESCAPE WITH WINE CIllCACrO, Kelt. 10. - Klftoon nttnid men In five automobiles early i today raldf'd a Chli-nKO, Mllwnukoo and St. l'nul railroad rnmptny wnroboiiae horo and em-apod with in barrels of port wlno after tlH'y forced Dan Kollelier. warehouse eiiKlneer to aaslst tltoni. Tha wlna was valued at $12,000 and wan tho property of the Italian Vineyard company. HOUSE NAVAL COMMITTEE HAS WORD WASHINGTON,. Feb. 10 . Taking a h.iml In tho aircraft contro versy," the house naval committee today iinunlmoualy adopted a reso lution declaring that so far a lis meniliera know no naval officers had ever appeared before It tinder any restraint whatsoever, from , t1(, nftVy department. . ' AVIATORS KILLED IN CRASH AT FIELD $f; ANTONIO, Texas, Feb. 10. Major l.eo (). Wht of j l.yonH, Ind.. nnd Lieutenant Arthur U Foster, whose parents llvo ! nt Weir, Texas, wero killed and their liodlea burned in an nlrplana crash near llrooks field todny. ' ' DR. MARX ELECTED PREMIER OF PRUSSIA nKKI.IN, Feb. 10. I A. P.) Tho 1'russlun diet today elected llr. Wllhelm Marx, former chancellor of the Heidi. a premier of l'rua sln. Dr. Marx received 223 votes against 1'iJ for llerr lllchler, of tho peoples' party. The new premier will try to form a goverumuut from the parties of the lol MILLER Gl! 0 HIS STORY OF El Describes Shooting Down Tunnel and Coming Up-" on Trapped Man' Talked With Collins, He De. clares to Investigators At Cave Hearing CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 10. OP William B. Miller, reporter for the Louisville Oourier-Journal, wns tho first witness summoned before the military court of inquiry today. i "Skeets' Miller was one of the leading rescuers and made repeated trips into Sand enve in the efforts to free Floyd Collins before the cavo passageway was blocked by slides and a rising of Uie floor. No announcement nnd been made aa to who will be culled as witnesses lu the military investigation into fact connected with the imprisonment and rescue efforts at Sand cave. Ilriga-dler-Oenenil H. II. Denhnrdt, com mander of tho national guardemeu, was in charge of the court. Meets Brothers, "I arrived in Cavo City about 0 o'clock on the morning of February 3," nit id Miller, in opening his story "I met Homer and Marshall Collins, brothers of the entombed man, Floyd Collins. They enme up out of the cnvv entrance and Homer said he had sueu Jiis brother. "I went down In the hole with Col umbus Iiyel, who directed tho way. Ho stopped nt a narrow , passu i; where it was two hard for him to gst through nnd I proceeded farther jy worming my woy rtown on my stom ach. "I went down through he pasfloge head first until, without realizing it I was right on top of Floyd. I had be-' gun calling wit en about ten feet frvirt him and received only a grount for an answer. Slips Down Chute. "Itefore 1 realized it, I had slipped down tho chute. All I could see w.t Floyd's 'head covered with an oil elolh, which was wet." Miller wns asked whether at this (fine he bad received any informal! in. from persons who had already been in to see Collinn, He snid he had been told that Collins had been fed Satur day evening and nUo that John Ger ald -had been digging around the pris oner, "Oli, you and the stone re hnrtinj me," were tho first words Miller heard front Collins, ho said. Tift came when he slipped down tho chute oiilo tile prisoner. He lifted the cover from Collins' face and Collins asked him to put it buck to protect OMinued on page five) CAVERN CASE
