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Newspaper Page TextLegislative Committee Confirms the Public Knowledge That Cleaver is Unfit-Now let the Governor act liy News THE WEATHtn .,,.: Generally flr to 7,ri S.turd.y; .flht Mm- .nil. Tmpratur iy, Uavlmllnl :.,., 40 it"" - " fiwy, p ' M. today. .02 of an inch. VOL. 68 TODAVS NEWS TODAY EUGENE, OREGON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY l;?, 11)25. TOOAVS NKWS TOHAV NO. 33 T" .. rlvr, 6-4 tei. . .1 ld. oum.. if HOME EDITION Bulbt Saved wring 1" i,hli buIb" to ti0 krourt the winter, Ben F. ,, one of tho few an count, of th"e Pla'"s belieTe" that .nv of them from freeiing .loeeold peU inirtcemoer. i nWiined many ol toe puma ana Aem in Pftct condition dome, us "S si'11" about two km The covering of snow st , round protected 'the bulbs. n-.r who Btored tho bulbs . or basements have lost ir Keeney said. About Jo .jM of dahlia bulbs arc grown n president Writes it Jlr. oud Mrs. Kverctt Uill of fin- tin ioved their brief . r-..-mo oml thf hasuitalhv dij- jiius""- - ; imlicaiod in a letter receiv- r D. Horer from Mr. Hill. The ,, i president of International .,i rnntlv on iiis wav south . meeting at Portland stopped on ihe Shasta. Eugene Rotarians -Dtfd Mrs. Hill with a bouquet of h:ch she appreciated highly, i'Dj to ilr. inn. mt. norcr anu Hill were formerly business as- ... :. nl-lilimna improvement oai ia Hit 00 iue hiiiiiuviiicuv ii iui i ...4 -Ul Btnrt Metnrinv Thv tho j crews, according to aunounce- 01 l- ""''I s-uumj vufeiu- Ttc bids for the handling of the or tli is road and also for maiu- i. I ...... 1 DM WOrit m uu uiicuuu "tuuvo- About two uiiles. of the road will rtded and rocked, according to . M..:..nn. . 1. :.. aed for the route a further dis- 01 scvcrui uim-a, in me uu- cemeot. wav Commission To Meet suae nicuway commission wiu I at Portland Thursday, Feb ju. ftccoraiDK to worn receivea It is not expected that there be auj thing of importance to t county to come before the meet iccordiog to present indications. judge states. Uilla- lnnrAul.n i to the Pacific Christian bospi- fw the past week as the result of iad witliin another week he ex- to be able to return to his sup- mil owr iuc road improvement "p"-- wmvvu diuic auu . ivju jl iikjiii ia rwjnty. Church of Christ will bnJd ser- ' " M. W. A. hall over Griffin's iuie aniuruay evening at niiig ni iu onu on n day si a. Stephen ycttle of Cali- It tn . i rurnana H . ... 'ft for I'urilimrf UKt Minin :f,e for the next fow days on a - !. .ai ,ook have return .I,a a ""''e wreka trip up the .r nvpr. Mr (Writ 1ifi Tn..m. P""iimn at the Eugene Gun I i " Home " M Mr,. (1. s. Fletcher, who from Mo.cow, Ma., L,k' thrir homo in Kuitene, are into tb roniilence at 16CS '""t. Mr. Kletchw is the new "f Hcus, SniH ni tli nrw apartment Wni fii.i,he,i hy c. I. Kerser Jflr. . . . ... . rl i. oeiween mxiii -"titm:fJ on pnge five) ' I I 55 HOT IMVOLVE !ht DELAYS THAT "jyABlABLY ATTACH jSHNCODTBAHNG -WacMaJ U mm lTL mm L MENTS AREMADEFOft FARMERS L 0 AN Committees To Be Named In Each of Counties Affect ed By Measure Rules Laid Down For Ap plications; Sworn State ments to be Required STATE HOUSE, SALEM, ,Ore., Feb. 13. A committee of five per sons in each county where state funds are to be loaned farmers for re-seod-ing their crops under, the $1,500,000 relief act will assist the state board of control in making the loans ac cording to rules promulgated 1y the board -of control. The ru!es include the following poiuts: ' A county committee of five persons appointed by the board of control to assist in the loaning of Btate funds to farmers for re-seeding purposes must pass upon recommendation ap plications for loans before finally ap proved by the board. Blank applications for loans, print ed forms of notes and crop mortgag e's, waivers of liens, etc., vtfl be, fur nished hy the board of control to the county committee for .the use of ap plicants for re-seeding loans. ' i Notary Necessary. All applications for loans must be sworn to before n notary public. Where tho land to be re-seeded is held under lease or contract of pur chase, the certificate forming a part of the. application must be signed by the lessor or vendor. ' Tho certificate of committee rec ommending loan must be signed by at (Continued on .jnce two; Kitty Collars Fail to Find Any Support HARTFOIUV Conn., Feb. 13. A bill for taxation of cats was vigorous ly opposed at n heariug before a Con neciticut legislative committee. William Eairchitd, a justice of New Kairfiekl, declared that every pair of rats permitted to live produced des cendants to the number of 250,700, S42 in three years, and that the sur est way to limit the rat population was to encourage cats. He said that if cats were taxed "you'd have to put collars on all the C8 tf and it would be some job for the cat waidens." Mrs. Ellen T. Lewis, representing a humane society, deplored the necessity of collars for cats because they would be in danger of hanging every lime they climbed a tree. No one favored the bill. SAX FRANCISCO. Mm Li Northern and central California were leenvrring today from the preliminnry .litifets of u storm severe enough to lip numerous huilding ' from their f.nind.ittonf, cause at least one traiu wreck, wash out railmada and High ways at Inlervo's for n collective .total of man j- miles, prontr.its lishl and power wires and even charge the contour of the InnnVcupp In places hy causing tremendous landslides. The Morm is not yet over, accord ing to the Vnited Ktates weather bu reau here, but it is generally believ ed that the peak has paused and tJiat there will be a quirk subsidence of the elemental joust that thus far has caused many thousands of dollars dunage and indirectly -tak'n one life. ,7ohn Watson, a former marine mid fonn.T resident of Aberdeen, Wash., nix killed in a cellar cave-In near St. ltd -Ha. nrth of Nnpn. Two fell., I w.trkpit. It. S. Whic and l I. Clnrk j were injured. While nerloiiIy. Th cellar -had been undermined by fluo.l J water?. j The flood, v .iters were receding grad-ully. hut the railroad nnd higJi wayi of the storm jrea, partieu'arly j in th- const country, presented n ser-j les of miniature lakes, washouts an-J , landslides. . FOR DIVISION MEET OF STATE DEALERS Questions for discussion at the di vision meetings of the Oregon Retail Merchants association 21st nnnu.il convention to be held here February 15 to 18 bave been prepared. The division meetings will be held bv (k-nlers in various lines. ' Thf following are the programs of each division: Grocery division", Operating costs" Professor Aythur B. Stillman, Uni versity of Oregon: Address, F. 1. Oonuoly, isin Francisco. Xry goods division Executive committee, ' J. C. Mann, Medford, chairman; R. E. Siason, Salens Wil liam F. Kennedy, Corvallis; George H. McMorran, Eugene; A. F. Hoffman, I'oreMt Grove. The meeting will be called to order by Mr. McMorran. "Do depuitmynt stores departmentize er ptnsesV" , Profossur Franklin U. Folta, University of Oregon. General store division Jonas M. Will of Aurora, Oregon, will jict as chairman and will conduct - the con ference. Hardware dealers division Ad dress, E. P. Lewis, Medford, Other divisions of the state asso ciation for which special conference Lave- been arranged, the complete IiroKirfins of which have not yet beea tiriiounced, are; Furniture, fuel deal ers, shoe dealers clothiers druggists, crcditvaud collections. Ride on Clouds to California Put Off As World Wags oh LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13. OP) An old msn nnd his wife, residents of an eistern stale, wJio expected to be wafted to Ciilifornla on a cloud in tht hur rf fulfillment of .Mrs. Mar garet Itowen'i 'end of the world' propheny, nnd vbo passed up the cloud and came to Log Angelet in a train when the prediction failed to materi-ilUe last Friday were among tin witnesses slated for n,uesli(niiirf by the city pronecutor tod.iy in nU investigation hit ft finnnciaj feature of the dooms day prophesy. Compliments Paid City by Magazine Ferguson Amnesty j ' JJill is Worthless, AUSTIN. Tel., Feb. M The am nesty bill restoring political rights to .tames E. Ferguson, former governor. , passed last week by the state sen- j ate. was held unconstitutional in an . opinion announced today by Attorney ; General Pen Moody. The opinion ; was prepared at the rnuet of th . I bouse of represents tires. Complimenting Eugene on its excel lent facilities as a uvrtition city, th current number of "The Oregon Mer chant,' published hy tJie Portland gro cers and merrhants ansoeiution. con tains on article on Eugene and Line with numerous illustrations of their attraction. The f dlowing compliment is paiil the city ly the PortUod publication: "As a convention city Eugene Is ideally situated and offers many at iraetions, that cannot be duplicated elsewhere. The requirements for a convention, city are accessibility, suit able auditoriums for meeting places, amp'e hotel space, e ntertninment fea tures, ami the desire and tMlity on the rt of the eitiien to make their vititors feel welcome and at home1 FLAYED; FARM LEADER T Secretary Seeking to Dom inate Agriculture, Is Charge Hurled Revised , McNary - Haugen Bill Could Be Passed, Says Charles Hearst WASHINGTON. Feb. 13. The charge . that Secretary Hoover "ia seeking to dominate the agriculture of America' was made before the house agricultural today, by Charles E. Hearst of Iowa, chairman of the legislative committee of the American Farm Bureau Federation. - In explanation of the assertion the witnesses produced a magazine ar ticle in which he said the secretary claimed authorship of suggestions contained in the pending Capper-Williams farm relief legislation, ' , While Mr. Hearst was testifying the senate committee continued exam ination Into suggestions of President Cooliilge's agricultural conference with Chairman Carey of the confer ence as a witueas. ... Delegated to Protest. Mr. Hearst declared he had been delegated to protest against delay of legislative assistance congress might be able to offer. ' A revised McXary-IIaugen bill, au thorizing a farmers' export corpora tion, could be passed at the present session, he declared, adding however, that he was in favor of any cooper ative measure. The witness asserted that tlie ag- (Continued on page six) BE HERE FEB." 25 Chris Johnson, formerly with the dairy division of the United States department of agriculture, and now inspector for the newly-organized North Pacific Co-operative Creamer ies association, will be in Eugene Feb ruary 25 at the nnnual meeting nf the Farmers' Union creamery, It has been announced. Mr. Johnson w:is a visitor here for a short time last Saturday Organization of the association of wtiicJi the local creamery is a member was Initiated through efforts of the Portland chamber of commerce, thi dairy and food commissioner of Port land, and Oregon Agricultural cul Ir ge. The Immedinte goal vt the asso ciation is to vtnndnrdizc and raise th quality of butter mndp by its members with the ultimate object of finding a larger outside market for Oregon but ter. . Creameries now belonging to the ai'Sorinlion include Eugene Farmer; Capital City Co-operative, Silem; St. Paul; Hood River, Hood River; Lower Columbia, Astoria; and Raven Dairy company, Porlland. Bend Water Bill Passes in Senate HOUSE TAKES UP REPORT OF INVESTIGATORS Special Order of business To See Disposal of Dry Department Query Two Sets of Recommenda tions Promise to Keep ; Things Stirred Up STATK IK.Il'SK. SAI.KM, Ore, b. III. Kfnate bill V, providing a! pure witer tupplr fur Hit ciljr of j llrud bjr irranginK an enliinfe nf i wntrr from De.rhutrf Hvrr for wn(er from Tiimnlo crffk, panNcd thi. urnate toilay 'over lite veto of Governor Pierre. Zimmerman of Yamhill ami Urown of Marion fought the hill Garlnml and i Tarl"r. hotk democrat, aiatr-d Sen ator t'pton in defrnding the measure agninit the veto. Joepu mi Kith the minnriljr In oppo:nf the hill, declaring It aa fraught with litigation. Itroirn, Joaeph, Kinner, Htrayer and Zimmerman votrd to auitoin the veto. STATE IIOVSE, SALEM, Ore., Feb. 13. W) The bouse aa a spe cial order of business at 2 p. m. to day bad before it the recommenda tions of the investigating committee of the state prohibition director. The report was road late yesterday after noon. The findings, signed by nil the committee members, were adopted by the house.. The- two sets of recommendations promise to stir up considerable ar gument. That the bouse is not unan imous for either set of recommenda tions was ovidenced yesterday. Difference Is Seen There are some who will stand for the continuance of the department as it now exist but with another man in Cleaver's place. Others believe in a re-organization of the. department as the other half of the committee recommends. That i,:fc. orguniznrion of a flying squad ron to move about the state assisting sheriffs and district attorneys in en forcing tho law with the main burden placed on the' shoulders of the county officers. . Two Bills Up Two bills affecting the prohibition department hove been iutroriuccd by the senate committee on nlchollc traf fic. One of these provides that the moneys derived from fines under the prohibition act shall be divided equal ly between the counties and the state, whereby the prohibition department will have fit) per cent 'instead of So per cent for enforcement of the Inw. Tho other half is divided between thi sheriffs and tho district attorneys, 75 and 25 per cent respectively. The other bill would repeal the present law whereby the governor Is allowed to tnke money from the pro hibition fund for enforcement of the nnrcntic drugs Inw. Tho governor said today thnt be has not made up his mind as to what ho will do about removing George L. I'leaver aa prohibition commission er. The investigators urged Cleaver's removal or resignation. State Bank Near Portland Robbed By Unmasked Men rOUTI.AM), Ore.. Keh. fa. The I'arkrose Htnte Ilnnk, located in a business community on Ihe outskirts of Portland, was robbed of be tween HS00 aifd 17"0 today by two unmasked men who .held up Charles P. Crura, csshler, while he was alone in Ihe bank shortly before the noon hour. The robbers escaped. While one nf the men who entered first asked Ihe cashier if he could cash a check, Ihe other drew a re volver forcing Cruni to hold up his hsnds. The first man leaned over a runnier gathered up about I5, and he pair then forced the cashier In open a compartment in the safe from which the robbers took the rest of the money. The robbers walked some dis. tunce from the bank nnd'enterrd an auto in which they disappeared. Memorial Building: Drive is Planned William K. North, president of Ihe O. A. C. Portland Aluninl associa tion, and C. W. Hall of the memorial union building committee, are In Ku gene today to confer with officers and leaders of the I.ane County ). A. C. club with regard lo Ihe campaign to be conducted for funds to erect the big memorial in Corvallis. The meeting will be held tonight in the office of Charles M. Emery, 117 Ninth avenue west. Mr. Emery is president of the local O. A. C. club. Stokes Trial is Opened in Chicago Court V "i . m 3 BREATHING Gin MED mwmmm TO BE HEARD Tunnel Gives Rise to Hopa Of Rescue, But Proves To Be False ' Above, Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes; be- JURY C0W1PLETED ."" Is FOB STOKES CASE jiM IIU CHICAGO COURT ( fi CHICAGO, Feb. 111. UP) The jury in the trial nf W. E. I). Stokes and others was completed at 12:2S p. m. today. . (Hy N 10 A Service) , CHICAGO, 1'eb. l.'t. A sensntion al case is scheduled for Hal before Justice William N. Gemmill, . W. E. I). Stokes, muHi-millionalrc New York hotel owner, nnd five others, inclining Dnnlel Nugent, New York attorney, are accused of con spiracy to defame Stokes' young wife, Mrs, Helen Stokes, from whom he re peatedly has tried to securo a divorce in eastern courts, Chsrges, colled "too utterly false and terrible lo print," by State's At torney Crowe, will be aired in an up roar of alleged chicanery, and plots within plots. Claim Conspiracy. The prosecution nt the triol will contend that Stokes entered Into a conspiracy to brand Mrs. Stokes as a former Inmate of ihe notorious Ever leigh club, whlrh In the old da.rs was (Continued on page ten) Wire Fence Used To Protect Bank From River Wash Senate Approves Columbia River Power Measure RTATB HOUKK, BAMttl, Ore., Feb. 33. Tho senate today adopted house concurrent resolution No. 12 providing for a committee, from Ore gon, Washington, Idaho and Montana to study and consider tho develop .ment of the Columbia river for agri cultural and power purposes. House joint resolution No. 13, in troduced by Carkin, memorialising thn interstate commerce commiHHir.n to urge the construction of n railroad In southern Oregon was adopted by the senate today. Shaft Continues to go Deep- er as Rescuers Work Frantically CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 13. Andy Disig, Louisville, said be heard Floyd Collins cough twice at 4:30 o'clock this morning. Bisig t'dd this afternoon of going into the Uiain pussageway to Sand cave with several other men and said that while in there he heard fnint coughing. Ho called to Collins sev eral times, he said, but received no 4 answer. BREATHING HEARD RAND CAVE, Ky., Feb. 13. Aa officiul announcement made at 3 o'clock this afternoon by Drlgudler Geue'rul H. H. lX-nhardt was Unit Floyd (jJollius had been heard breath ing at 0:43 o'clock this morning. The announcement was made after Ed Brenner, Cincinnati and A. Flev ius had given a Htutemeut at tho military court of inquiry at thu cave aide, which was put intg the record. V TUNNEL HOPES DASHED ' CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb.' 13. OP) -H. T. Carniii buel, In charge of opera tions, and other officiuls who went down iuto the shaft being dug to wards Sand cave, where Floyd Col lins has been imprisoned for two weeks, came out of the abaft at 1 o'clock this afteruoou and announced that the hope of rescuing Collins through a tunnel discovered In shaft f0 feet down, would have to be aban doned. The tunnel exploration failed to disclose n passage way. Re&cuo Is Remote. Digging was resumed In the bot tom of the shuft Itself and Mr. Car miclmel said that It probably would t.,e two of three days to reach the 70-foot level, where they plan to be gin lateral tunnels in au effort to strike Sand cave, Hopes of the rescue of Collins by noon today through the new tuouel attracted hundreds of persons to tho cave. For a time the crowd, Includ ing newspaper men, was kept away ' from tho opening but when the crev ice failed to develop Into anything passable all were allowed to again ap proach the shaft. Officials Discouraged. The failure of the high hopes rais ed by finding of this tunnel noticeably discouraged the officials of the rescua party but "digging as usual" began again at once, in the hope of finding (Continued on page six) BULLETINS l.sne farmers who fear the action of Ihe rivrr may wash' away their land and cause damage to their prop erty arc advised by George Melvin Miller to take action similar to a ptnn of bis 15 years ago. Ordinary woven wire fence rolled and filled with rocks has proved a success on a piece of property on the river about three miles from Eugene owned by Mr. Mil ler. "This wire fencing has been in the river for more than 15 years now and 1 is In fine condition," Mr. Miller said. . The plan lias been suggested to P. M. ) Morse, county engineer, who w ill In , sped Ihe success of it at the Miller , property. j "The wire is rolled out into the I river from the bunk where it is an ' cliorcd. Itocks are piled on the wire ' net and then the sides are bent up I over the rocks to form a sort of long ' tube filled with rocks. These rolls ' set at an angle down the current I turn the water away and will save the bank," Mr. Miller declared. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. Thn Bcmita commerco department to day approved these projects: Oakland harbor, California; Tillamook Day entrance, Oregon and VVrangcll Narrows, Alnskn. EXECUTION STAYED AT WASHINGTON PRISON WALLA WALLA, Wusli., Full. 13. Execution of Gulda Grassl, convicted Italian slayer, scheduled to havo been held at dnwn today at thn statu prison, was Indefinitely postponed as a Tcsull of Ilia Insanity hearing belli I" tho superior court hero yesterday afternoon which 'Influenced Governor Hartley to Issue tL stay of execution by telegraph Inst night. Six physicians who questioned Grussl pro nounced 111 in Insane. DRIGAOIERGENERAL MITCHELL IS CALLED .WASHINGTON. Feb. 13. Ilrlgndler-General Mitchell, nsslstant nrmy air chief, was recalled for the fourth time today, by the house aircraft committee fur further questlonlnK In the aircraft control versy. Other witnesses summoned Included Edward V. Rlckenbacker, army flying ace In the World war, and a number nf officers of the navnl air service. FOO CAUSES SERIES Of ACCIDENTS IIENI), Ore., Feb. 13. A heavy fug which hung over the town last night was responsible for a series of accidents at the Newport bridge across the Deschutes river within the city limits. District Attorney A. J. Monro ninnnged to save himself from going over (li'i slda of the bridge when he enmn suddenly upon n crowd around the car of Lloyd Mnglll which hall Just turned complete around and finally stopped crosswise of the road at the approach to tho bridge. a