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EDITION
VOL. G3
TODAYS NEWS TODAY
EUGENE, OREGON', AVKDXKSlUY EVEXlX(f; l'KBHl'AKY -JS, lH'J."
TODAY'S NEWS TODAY
NO. 43
Law "jIZl
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Fin Dimd Heavy
in .veraje of I"00 forest fires a
,,ir b" bea "corded in the state
t Uti(0b tor tlie last 15 years, ac
i ril.u to Ne'sun Macduff, super
ior of tlie Cascade national forest.
I'm average area burned over yearly
i, UO.OOO acres, or a total of 200,
WlKiO board feet. Including tlie tiiu
J,r dfitrojed, the logging and mill
iss burned up. the yearly loss appro
Iffljltl 425.000, bays Mr. Macduff.
iii lumber destroyed by fire in one
kr would operate a Booth-Kelly
Jumill for four years, or would fur
iuh the lumber to build a city uf
M bouses, having a population of
proximately D000. "With these fig-B.-ei,"
s8s Mr- Macduff, "it can easily
.Vject of forest protection tuj
:roeglj"
IBO Baby Chicks Here
Two hundred fluffy baby chicks
icied a railroad journey from Cen
t-ilia, Wash., to lCugene, yesterday.
'titj are all thoroughbred St. Helens
SC. chicks, and were shipped to J.
. Wells of Eugene from the St. Hcl
b Incubator company. Mr. Wells,
io is mechanical superintendent of
Guard, raises thoroughbred
:ckeos as an avocation. He gets an
.erase production of 34 from 3t
and expects to build up his
V;h-prodticing brood from tlie -00
;cki that have just arrived. They
l:e of 300-epg ancestry, a strain that
l first place in Washington egg-
iriag contests. There were no
frong fonts" in the entire 200
icks, ttheu they were checked over,
rt Mr. Wells.
lumber Speaker Scheduled
Chris Johnson, representative of
ie North l'at-if it Cooperative eream-
tt of Oregon, will be the speaker
the noon luncheon meeting of the
:jeDe chamber of commerce to
rrow, according to announcement
-Jay of K. Kugeue Clmdwick, seere
7, Mr, Johnson who will be in Hu
nt for the next week visiting va
ui dairy communities in company
ib M. M. Honey, manager of the
ijeue farmers ereumery. Mr. John-
ii is visiting various parts of the
f ile in the interests of tlie Oregon
turnery organization and lias full
itliority to enfori'o the association's
:ulati(ins in regard to cream grad
Slid butter sandurdizutiun.
nil-Crossing Asked
Applii-atioi) for permission to in
i railroiid crossing across the
Jtue ciuinty i-oiid one and one-half
&u west uf West fir is to he made
!the imblic service commission and
t county. The road is to be built by
if- -ust.ir 1. umber company is to
:nm frum the main line of the
itlipru 1'arific to a site of a gravel
Try where a rx k crusher is to be
galled. At the hearing before the
I'-ice niuiiiiisrMin the county wil'i
f -t oppurtuuity to protest the (;ross
Sf if ilesiml hut it is believed that
4 Krmission ..f the county will l-e
f: ntnl. ui cording to members of
k ourt.
Mng To Be Talked
i jX(l
f t'
Nelc.Ml F. Mili'diilf. KintPrvUiii- nf
noal.' mitionul forest, leaver
ifc.orrow innrnitie fur ltnml u-Iutp
lill attend n conference of
j'.ifi fnret officials and sheep men
J ei5,prn Oregon who graze their
Jf'P on the enstern side of the
'Vv and Sstiinlay, by the nupcr
r of the Oeprhutes national for-
J Somf? of th,, (iheep graze upon
J'chutet turret I nnd, and all must
riven through that forest's terri
T . vfn vlien tnken to Cascade
Jr,t lnd to graze. Mr, Macduff
in .,. it-mru in i
rio To Be Hot-
" "f I'nliph Ornlto of the
"ie frd-r nf t, Veiled Trophns
I1" Knrh,, , jj,.im w, he
- '""ins to C hnrlox Miningor of
j"1""1- tra"'l Ktnmlnrd brarer of
J"1"' "I"' will he hre on an
JJ1" ' An cntortainment pro-
Elates!
.TOsaW? NOT HAVE
fcrWANTADuMris
PuflfriFTI riAKTi'Vinittpns
JT!-;njd on page five)
House Adopts
SENATE IS TO
VOTE BEFORE
Overwhelming Vote Greets
Measure; Majority is
370 to 8 Votes
i Present Bill Nearly Identical
With One Passed a
Few Weeks Ago
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. OP)
The conference report on the postal
pay and rate increase bill was adopted
today by the house.
Senate concurrence is necessary
before the measure can go to the
president.
As revamped by the conferees the
bill is estimated 10 raise about $00,
000,000 in '.evenue annually to offset
in part an outgo of 580,000,000 in
cresed salar,i.
Representative Bell, democrat,
j Georgia, one of the house conferees,
sought to have tlie proposal recom
mitted to conference with instruc
! lions to the house managers to re
Jduce the two-cent service charge on
i parcel post packages to one cent. His
motion was rejected 53 to 2815.
The house then adopted the confer
ence report by the overwhelming vote
of :!70 to a.
As approved the bill is identical
with the one passed several weeks
ago by the bouse, except that three
cent rate on Becond class mails and
periodicals hi the first and second
zones, was scaled down to two cents.
2 MEETINGS ADDED
TD LIE SCHEDULE
Two mure meetings li:ive hern add
ed to the schedule of 6. S. Fleteher,
I .ii ne eountj imricultural nsent, who
j n cutiinn.v with V.. II. Jockinnn. crop
'expert of the (Iregim Agricultural
enllejc, 'has heen speilkiug befure
open pesfiiiins of the Grange and Fnr
I mera miioti. An added meeting will he
held at '-' p. in. Friday at the Hanish
hnll nt .lunetion City, and a meeting
of the Farmers' union is slated for
Danebo next Tuesday, aecordlng to
nnnouneement today. An evening
meeting will be held Friday at L'lo
verdnle. A meeting this evening is at
the I'leaJiint Hill high achool by the
Fr er' union of Trent. At the
Het...n .hurrh a meeting for the
Coast Fork Farmers' union is arhed
uled for tomorrow evening. Much in
terest has been displayed in the meet
ings and good rrowds have attended,
Mr. Fletcher atatea.
Muscle Shoals is
Regarded as Dead
Issue This Session
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 Muscle
' Shoals, the Cramton bill for re
; organization of the prohibition unit
and the migratory bird bill are re
garded now by administration lead
ers In the senate as dead Issues so
far as this session of congress Is
concerned.
Besides the pending hill to
amend the national banking laws,
concentration now will be on th
Capper-llaugen co-operative mark
eting measure, designed to carry
out at least a part of the farm re
lief program recommended by
the president's agriculture confer
ence and the rlgers and harbors
bill.
The last deficiency appropria
tion measure will be passed and
It Is the expectation that the con
ference reports on the postal pay
and rate Increase and the Interior
and the Independent offices sup
ply hills ran he gotten out of the
. way by noon on March 4.
PLAN GOES Oil
Eugene Farmers
Holds Annual
Chamber; to
Directors for the coming year
will be elected lnte this afternoon
at the meeting of the Eugene
Farmers Creamery. The following
are the present officers and direc
tors: Frank Needham, president;
H. L. Plank, vice-president; T. L.
Ohlsen. secretary; H. M. Peters,
director; George W. Piatt, director.
With a total of gross sales for
the year of approximately $370,000
the Eugene Farmers creamery In
1924 had the best year since Its
organization, according to the re
port submitted at the annual meet
ing of the organization under way
today at the chamber of com.
merce. The co-operative creamery
has a membership of more than
500 stockholders at the close of the
year, is the report of T. L. Ohlsen,
secretary.
During the year the creamery
paid out approximately $270,000 for
EUGENE PLANNED
Erection of a new thenter on the
south side of Eleventh avenue east,
opposite the Sigma Nil fraternity
house near Alder street is contem
plated, according to steps that have
heen taken by those interested in the
proposition to obtain a city license
for the house.
Although definite plans have not
yet been completed to the point
where announcement of building is
rea'dy. it is understood that the pro
posed theater will be devoted to mo
tion pictures and that a plot of
I ground sufficient for the building has
been obtained through Mrs. I). A.
Paine who is said to be financially in
terested in the project.
Clly officials today staled that
Ihere was no further information
available with the exception that an
application for a permit was expect
ed. If the permit is asked it undoubt
edly will be granted as there is no
zoning ordinances in Eugene ard the
building of a theater is not prohibited
in any residence district, according to
Mayor E. H. Parks.
Frank B. Kellogg
Is Resting Before
Going to Capital
NEW YORK., Feb. SR. Frank B.
Kellogg, retiring ambassador to
Great Britain who will succeed Char
les Evans Hughes as secretary of
state, is spending a few days here
before going to Washington.
Mr. Kellogg said he was com tnced
that Europe in the last year had tak
en a great step forward.
Pointing out the effectiveness of
the Iiawes plan in the stabilization
of currency be said:
"There is nothing of greater Im
portance to the American people than
that Europe, in fact all the world,
should go back to the gold basis.
Fluctuations of currency make It Im
possible to earry on commerce and
as the I'nited States always has been
on a gold bais, it is goml to hare the
whole world on that basis."
Grand Jurors end
Labors for Court
After being in semmn eigM Any
and bringing in 1'J indictments the
Line rounty grand Jury wm discharg
ed (his m vniiig by Judge tl. F. Skirt
worth. The prernt jury was rail I
nlrftut a .far ago. No new grand jury
hi ben appointed as yet and -,io
plans f r this have been mad as yet,
arfrdir:g f Judge Skipwnrth. The
Jury wm rompix'l of (. W. Mullen,
fnremsn: Maude T. Ilryan. D. D. Dic
k;non. Will Grime, Will IIMen, It.
F. Murley and Frank Xe'dhiin.
Postal Pay BUI
Creamery
Meeting at
Name Officers
cream to farmers, the majority In
Lane county. Butter manufactured
during the year totaled 640.000
pounds, the annual report states.
The pay roll for the year was $20.
000. The value of the plant including
all buildings and equipment Is set
at $7S.000. A majority ot the 600
stockholders attended the annual
meeting and the election of the
board of directors for the coming
year. The organization Is capital
ized at $75,000.
At the session this afternoon the
stockhodlers were addressed by
Chris Johnson, formerly ot the
United States department of agri
culture, who was recently appoint
ed to represent the North roxlfic
Cooperative creameries organized
among eight creameries of the
state. Mr. Johnson Bpoke on
"cream grading."
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SAI.KM, Ore., Feb. 2.1. Shortage
of $.".Oi H in the Mate's funds, dis
covered by a check after State Treas
urer T. Ii. Kny, took office the first
of the year, was confessed by Clar
ence W Thompson, cashier in 'the
state treasury under Treasurers
Iloff and Jefferson Myers, Mr. Kay
announced today. Thompson, who in
nt present calendar clerk in the bouse
of representatives, hn been given a
few days in which to maku good the
amount by his mi rely, the Fidelity
and Deposit company of Maryland,
and Mr. Kay said he heard today
that the amount of the shortage may
be restored to the state by Thomp
son. No formal chargeB have been
lodged against Thompson.
Treasurer Kay said the defalca
tions had covered a period of about
four years. Small amounts were
taken nt a time.
Thompson was uncommunicative
when asked for a statement today.
"The newspapers have tried to get
me (n bad," an id Thompson, "and I
have nothing whatever to say. I am
here and I expect to stay here."
Franchise Granting
Bill is Furthered
By State Senators
STATR HOUSE. SALEM, Feb.
25. The senate today paused house
bill 437, which empowers county
courts to grant franchises to pri
vate concerns for the construction
land operation of toll roads. While
j the bill Is general In application,
jit applies particularly to a pro
j posed road from the coast In the
vicinity of Tillamook across tho
mountain! to Korest drove and
I Portland. It Is said that a con
1 cern, the name of which has not
; bepn divulged, plans to expend
i several millions of dollars on the
( mountain road, which will ,!re!iily
shorten the route from Portland
; to the coast, while If It wi j Wt
to the state to build the road. Us
'construction would be beyond ynn
' slblllty. The right of eminent do
. main goes with the bill.
Another Quake is
Felt in Alaska
AXOIOHAfJK, Alaska. Feb. 2.V -
'41 -A hrj enrth shork began here
; nt 8:,M this morning and continued 10
! seconds. I.ittl or no dnrnig
d"n. A lighter siiock bad occurred :
Si26
mm bill
mm on
PRIORITY LIST
Preferred Status on List of
Less Than a Dozen Meas
ures is Granted
Principal Recommendation
Of Agricultural Confer
ence Embodied
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. OP)
Taking up the Capper-Huugen bill to
carry out the co-operative marketing
recommendations of the president'
agricultural conference, the house to
day rejected on a point of order the
Curtis-Aswell co-operative marketing
bill which was offered by Representa
tive Aswcll, democrat, Altibama, ab a
substitute for the pending measure.
MEASURE SUBSTITUTED
WASHINGTON, Feb, 25. OP)
The house today substituted for the
Haugen cooperative marketing bill a
measure drafted by Representative
Dickinson, republican, of Iowa.
The action by a vote of 138 to 78,
places the Dickinson measure, which
provides for federal assistance to
cooperate organizations without fed
eral control before the house as the
order of business, another vote on it
being necessary for final action.
PREFERRED IN STATUS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. OP)
t'nder a rearrangement of the senate
legislative program fur the remaining
week of The season, legislation em
bodying the principal recommendation
of the president's agricultural confer
ence the Capper-Huugen coopera
tive marketing bill has been given
preferred status on a priority list of
less than a dozen measures.
Decision to place the cooperative
bill behind the general omnibus pen
sion measure, which has right of way
after disposal of the pending banking
legislation, was reached yesterday by
the republican steering committee.
The action was taken after .Senator
IWah, republican, Idaho, characteriz
ing the t npper-Huugen bill as "make
shift" had again demanded an extra
session of congress to consider a pra
gram of farm aid.
House Plan Favored
The farm bill was placed on ths
list where action on ibe legislation
by the house could be awaited, lend
ers explained, with the idea of expe
diting fiutil action by substituting the
house measure for that pending in the
I senate. The Haugen bill was again be
1 fore the house today for action un
; der s special rule adopted last week,
j When the river and harbors au
thorization bill, fourth on the senate
! list, is taken tip, proponents of the
It'ape Cod canal purchase bill and the
Gooding long and short haul meas
ure will attempt to use It as a vehicle
for putting these bills through as
riders.
Other Measures Up
i Other measures in the priority list
of the senate include the deficiency
appropriation bill now under consid
eration in the home, the bill for re
organizing the prohibition enforce
ment agency, and the nsval omnibus
bdl.
H. K. Yokutn, chairman of the far
mers to consumers league, filed with
the senate agriculture committee to
'day, a protest against the Copper
i Haugen measure and repeated con
sideration for the Curtis-Aswell bill
whfrb would provide for s national
' farm marketing sj stem, owped and
controlled by the farmers themselves.
I Mr. Vokum said the condition of the
I farmer was "deplorable
If the eon g reus believes, he said,
in Ibe enactment of tu h d-i rurtive
hills as the Capper-Hsug'-n bill, who It
lulls are wholly In the Interest of the
dealers, Ibere ia a sorry day ahead of
those who support them.
Report
SENATOR
WASHINGTON
AT AGE OF 4J
Medill McConnick of Illinois
Found Dead in His
Room at Hotel
Wife is Prostrated by the
News of his Death;
Senate Adjourns
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2H. OP)
Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois,
died here early today.
The senator was found dead In his
room nt the Hamilton hotel at 10
o'clock.
Circumstances surrounding his
death were not immediately available.
His office declines to make any state
ment. It was said nt the hotel however
that the death was the immediate re
sult of gRBtritis hemorrhages.
Rooms Are Locked
Henator Met ormick s death was
discovered when Dr. Noble IV Harnes,
who had been attending him was call
ed after hotel attendants found his
rooms locked and couhf get no reply
to requests for admittance.
A few intimate friends were ad-
vlspd of the death but under a prom
ise to say nothing about it in order
that Mrs. McCormack might be ap
praised in Chicago.
Henator McCormick, who was de-
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SAN KKANCISCO, Cl.. Feb. 25-
Nouihcrn Pacific railway officials
were today awaiting further wo:1
fr'Sju Xogales, Ariz., concerning two
men arrested at Kspernnzn, Sonorj
Mexico, supseeied of being Hoy anil
Itay DeAutremont, two of the thr.-
brothers wanted on indictments ch.ir
ing them with the holdup of a South
ern Pacific train hi the Siskiyou
mountains in southern Oregon, in Oc
tober, 10'JH, in which four persons
were killed.
Three Southern Pacific ogeuts were
reported to have left Nngnles to make
an investigation following the report
that the two men hsd been arrested
by the chief of pdlce of Hermonillo.
Famous Harber is
Dead at his Home
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 25.
Rernhard Rernhnrd. H7, manager ol
the Falser hotel barber shop since it m
establishment in 175 and credited
with having shaved six presidents
and former presidents of the I'nited
States and scores of visiting members
of royalty and other notables, died
nt his home here today.
fternhard claimed to have she veil
over 100,000 niHtoiners end to hove
dealt out more (ban fMi.000 haircuts.
(Jloria Swanson is
j Greatly Improved
I l'AKIH. Kfb. L'.V- (!iri Xwmi
arm, Ainrriran film lnr, wlio mulir
j i"nt an nrrrntinri la! wi'ck, iiansprl
, an eirHlrnt nijlit. A report frnin
, the rlinir whrr "h (a rn"1 injr. Hrr
condition tliia morninK wan Rrefltly
improved, hr-r fi-Ter having flintinr-tly
' tliinininhr d.
A mrdi-nl hiilktin Upurd thi. forf
I noon 'HArdina; th A-trr' condition
pay:
" Improve miMit rontin'iea. The pA
i tiftit in out of datiRiT. 'I'rtnperA-
t;irr ccnlinrnde, (IW.l) fnihrn-
hlt)."
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I TTt s; sci"mviiiv n;,c 1 1 1
SENATE I0TES
( . APPROPRIATION
DESPITE VETO
Senator Medill McCormick.
TESTIFY; ARRIVES
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CHICAGO, Feb. 25. The trial of
W. E. D. Stokes, Xew York hotel
owner and three co-defendants charg
ed with conspiring to defame his es
tranged wife, Mra. Helen Kllwood
Stokes of Denver, received Increased
attention today after the unexpected
arrival from New York of W, K. D.
"Weddio" Stokes, Jr.
No Hint Given
No announcement was forthcoming
from prosecution or defense as to the
probable part of the young man who
was mentioned in the defense's open
ing statement In the present trial, and
who was sued by his stepmother in
I after a letter a I leged to ha ve
been written by him in revelation of
intimacies with Mrs, Stokes was read
in (he first Stokes divorce suit in New
York. Mrs. Stokes' suit for $1,000,000
alleged churacted defamation. It never
has been brought to trial.
Intorvlew Reported
Stokes Jr., was not quoted, but the
Chicago Tribune today said that be
had s heated Interview with his father
upon arrival yesterday, and "there is
every indication ho will take an ac
tive, if not sudden, purt In the trial
presumably to clear his owii name of
any alleged misconduct with his step
mother." Mrs. Stokes uday declined to con
firm rumors that "Wcddie" might tes
tify in her behalf. She said she knew
nothing about her stepson's intentions
and had not seen him for a long time.
"Poor Fish" Holds
No Application in
Case of Mackerel
KKDONDO, Oil., Feb. 2Tt. The
adjective "poor," as applied to fifth,
scarcely applies to the three-pound
mackerel F. J. Hennett honked here
yesterday. It was found to contain
o 25 cent piece, a nickel, ten pennies
a gold ring and on inexpensivo bond
necklace.
BULLETINS
RAN' ANTONIO. Tex.. IVIi. 2B. Conntilul ionnlity of tho Texas
rmiKor Inw wah uphold today ftnd Btuta ranRors restored to thelp
former lenal rjlatun. In n derlHlon handed down here by Chief Jiia
llro W. K. Kly, In fourth court of civil nppenla. Tho decision raver
en tho Judmnent of the fifty oventli district court, sot aside an In
junction granted by Ihut court nnd dismissed the rnsn.
PORTLAND FIREMAN WILL BE EXAMINED
rOKH.ANl), Ore., Feb. 25 Chester C. Iluchtel. who confessed
to settlnK 5 fires with property damnco reaching nearly fnUO.OOO,
while he wiia a member of tho Portland fire, department, will he
taken before a sanity commission, tho district attorney's nfflco In
dicated today. If the board decided he Is unbalanced he will ho sent
to the stale hospital for treatment, It was said. If he Is found sane,
an arson chnrno will be pressed.
RESIGNATION OF PRISON OFFICIALS ASKED
AC8TIN, Texas, Feb. 25. (Hy the Associated Press) The ma
jority report of of the Joint Investigating commltteo demanding by
name resignations of approximately 25 prlnjn officials and employes
was adopted today by the house, 93 to 12.
HONDURAN GOVERNMENT IS SEEKING ARMS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-Formal request of tho new Honduras,
government for the purchase of 3,000 American military rifles, J.000.
oof) rounds of small ammunition and 20 machine guns has bean ap
proved by the state department and Is befuro Secretary Weeks, who
w ill work out the terms of the aalo.
Revenue From Utilities Plan
As Furthered by Senate
To be $40,000
Service Commission Fund3
Are Approved by Senat9
In Bill 419
STATE HOUSE. SALEM, Ore.,
Feb. 2j. The senate today passed
house bill 4S5, which places a tax on
the gross earnings of utilities design
ed to be sufficient to pay the greater
part of the expense of the public
service commission. It is expected to
produce about $40,000 a year.
The senate passed over the veto of
the governor house bill 410, wbich
appropriates $100,000 for the service
commission. Pass use of the utility
tax bill fulfills a condition imposed
by the governor to approve the ap
propriation measure.
CENSOR BILL KILLED
STATE HOUSE, SALEM, Ore.,
Feb. 25. OP) The motion picture
censorship bill sponsored by the house
committee on health and public mor
als was killed In the senate today by
indefinite postponement.
ltepresentative (iraham of Wash
ington county today succeeded In hav
ing houso hill 111, providing for an
armory appropriation rt Forest
(irove, taken from the table and
parsed.
The bill, along with Severn) others
seeking armory appropriations, had
reposed on the table, apparently given
up on account of the recommendation
of the ways and means committee
th.it all armory appropriation meas
ures be withdrawn from this session.
La Grande Bill Next
Xext Ilepresontntive A. It. Hunter
ot Union got house bill 74 providing
for u ti army appropriation fur La
Urn nde withdrawn from the table and
put ui for final passage.
The house passed the bill appro
priating $10,000, providing that the
sum tmiNt he matched by private sub
scriptions. Xext Representative Mott sought
to have house bill 4 I, providing for a
I $-11,000 appropriation at Astoria. The
measiiro was voted down on Flip"
I ground (hat the military affairs com
millce had not recommended fiivuu'i
ably on the hill.
Klepper Bill Killed
The house this morning killed sen-
ate bill 227, by Senator KlepjuT, call
ling for the holding of a constitution
(convention. Representative Cttrkn of
Jackson county gave the principal ar
j guiiient for (he measure.
Senate bill -It by Senator Upton,
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