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VOL. 6S
TODAY'S NEWS TODAY
EUGENE, OREGON, "WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1925
TODAY'S NEWS TODAY
NO.
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wM Flower Studied- -
,VW i it l "
.... i.mh toneue grows in
noun . .. .
,ot colors in var.oua porn
Students in the botany de-
. . . ...tLariltr under Pro.
.jrtacnt oi toe -c
A. Sweeioer aro seeking an
"" to this problem in a series of
?rimfts worked out this week.
1, al too
. on ,be coast. In Southern Oregon
i. .!. Willamette valley
.pwimtn is cream
colored and in
tu lipiwtit -Tellnw.
,l,tn urrgou ii. ,
ih.mirple specimens were discovered
(it Asulaud normal school campus
te Louis lkndeMon, research worker.
II, nt a specimen lo the HurvnrU
Ktbsriuu, where it received the name
, frytbronium llenuersom. oiuuems
.,. enclfavoring to find the lines of
ration of the areas in which the
different varieties grow, by sendiug
ulilisg cases for specimens, to inier
Mtid persons in the state.
S.ifding Permits Granted
He first 10 days of .March have
tl seen any new records in building
mits granted, according to the list
,he office of W. H. Alexander, in-
,p(cIor of buildings. Lnless the monlb
rich up considerably in tnc remaining
: days it will fall far short of equal
ise, last year's record m point oE ln-
creaic. Today J. '" u(i....u
lor s permit to erect a, new IfXiOO
tame at 17-S urcuara sircci uuu iu
11. U. Elba for a $750 bungalow at
H42 Twenty-second avenue. II. I).
Klba was also grunted a permit to ,rc
nodtl bis dwelling st lUiVl Twenty-
iturad avenue east.
Georie Turnbuil Speaks
Looking i On Journalism was
die stfoject of an address by George
S. Turnbuil, professor of journalism
at the University of Oregon, nt the
meeting of the ltoundtable at the Oa
kum hotel last night. Coming news
papers will be diminished in sue, but
with higher advertising Tales, sum
JI". Turnbuil. Need of greater aecu-
.... f.... th..
racy and neuer lireyuruuu" .,.
profession of newspaper work was
ilmsed by tbe speaker.,.
Strut Opening Begins
First steps In the opening of Thir-
iwnth avenue west' from Willnmotle
tn I'lmrnehon street, began yentor
diy. J .It. MrKy lms the dirt moving
job on b sub-contract from Stirn
1-rotbors. The mon anil horses started
k yesterday on the block between
niiie anil ('hnrneltnn, next to the i
junior biKh urbool.
Eitension Disapproved
Pisnpiirovnl of the ir'i"P',rf v'
tension nf lhi producprs' puMio mnr
kft bark of the county jnil nloiiK
1'ari street is expressed hy t he I.nne
nunty court. A new lniiUlinf', how-
'vrr, Hi Hie pouthwest rorlirr of the
rt park fitpinre iniRht he fensible,
tlte I'fiiirt tielievew.
Administratrix Is Appolntod
ail'iiinistratrix of the estate
I'layten Karl Itaheoek. arconlinir to
n order of the probate court filc'l
"lay. The appraisers of the estate
"t: II. A. Kstes, .lames Kishy ami
I. tirimes.
Flu Fire Reported
A flue fire in the Schneider block
' Eighth avenue wet and Olive
'1rft owned by ('. B. C'hristensen.
'iltwl in a fire run by the fire de
triment yesterday afternoon nt TkIIU
Work.
M"kt Is Incorporated
Articles of incorporation of the
alare market were filed today at
'k office of the county clerk. The
'''"dors are W. II. Lord. Carl My
'1 and W. W. Green. The firm is
"Piiilized at $.1000.
fl Worker Hurt
A- t'n.tpy, mill employe of Wend- 1
Continued en pajt five)
PlISll
Warren
President Advised not to
Re-submit Nomination for
Attorney General
Judge Wlace McCamant
Of Portland Mentioned
As Possibility
WASHINGTON. Man'h 11. OP)r
Presiilent t'ooliilge was nd vised today
by republicnn lenders in the senate nor
to resubmit the nomination of Cbos.
B. Warren of Michigan to be attorney
general, because it could not be con
firmed. Tbci leaders, who visited the White
House early in the diy said the chief
executive bad given them uo indica
tion nt) to -what hit course would be,
but some were of the opinion that he
would make another. selection.
Full Support Counted.
Mr. Coohdse was informed that thn
full support for Mr. Warnn had boen
counted in the vote yesteYdny when
the nomination was rejected 40 to 40,
the absent republican senators favor
able tu confirmation being paired with
senators in opposition.
indications that a new niinc might
be sint to tbe senate revived discm-
! sion aui'ng senators a.i to the possi
' Iii I it tr of cotifirminc such a selection.
siimild It be umik from among lite
list of men who were under considera
tion when Mr. Warren 'was chosen.
These included Arthur 1. HiiBii
chief justice of the Massachusetts u
nreiue court: Governor (jrocsbeck f
Michig;in and others.
Mr. McCamant Mentioned.
A new name which appeared today
in speculation vr: tin vacant poni
was (lint, of .hidge Wallace McCam
ant of I'ortl.tnd. Ore., whnse n-leclion
is said to have been urged vigorously
FULL SUPPORT
COUNTED. SAY
PARTY FS
Ambpr Habcock has been nppniuted lfn uo ....... . . ,
$ .Met allWHIt W41' IICWIIM-O I hp 1'iniin u.
(Cuulinueij on pane l
EUR
I'OHTLANI. Ore, Mrrh; 11.
Charges nRflinst Chester C Burnt.,
fireman-firpbug. arc being heard by
the county grand jury.
Bucbtel confessed letting firm
during two years, but evidence con
cerning only three or four, in which
cvidenre to corruborite his confen
sion has been obtained, will bd pre
sented. The district attorney'! office has
decided to leave the mailer of an ci
aminstinn for stinity entirely to the
' defense.
The defense ia expected lo ait un
til after an indictment haa been re-1
turned before asking for an eiaroi-i
, ,. .. ...a Iturhtet's i
family has announced they want the i
i kent in ciHloilv unui
his case ia properly disposed of.
i If be is indicted ami a sanuy oo.ru
' holds him sane, he Is then -expected
to go to tr.al on a defense of ln
! sanil. the merita of which must finla-
ly be decided by the Jury.
'Samuel B. Martin
, v -I i, ca il sn. Immediate exrra ses-iou i
Dies in Portland nor iw. i n ined '!,.,, , CB, f.r, rei,ef iei.i..
i S'al'ra yesterday, snnouneed today he ; (j u aj(
! had taken rooms at tbe K-yea apart- , KumM t ,tM,mrnf l.,i,a,ive relief
pORTNASn. Ore.. March ll.-jmenu on Perry street near i prou,b1, wl C)Int loo a ,r next
Samuel H. Martin, s'rr.ng b.s lour.n
trrra f rounty i
..iiif nf Mu 'Domin
ki. hnm. brre today, '
. ir.aa of evcrl roonibi. :
He was first eletcea 'u .o.... .
PllO. The county .ron.a.i.ii..ner. wiU
a.- i. -
successor to r.e atn
name
Defeat
I Gains Promotion I
Jamos E. Fechet
WASHINGTON', March 11 The
6cnatc today confirmed the nomina
tion of Lieutenant-Colonel James K.
Fcrhet to lie assistant chief of the
army air service w.tu the runk of
briaadier-generul.
Train service on the Coos Ray
branch of the Southern 1'aclflc
railway Is temporarily crippled
because of a washout of 175 foot
of trestle work on the track nt
Ilauser. six miles from North
Bend, according to Information
reaching Kugene today.
K. Stroud, yardmaster at Kit
gene, and a crew of workmen, and
Robert Holmes, traveling freight
itnd passenger agent, left for the
sceno this morning. Thn wash
out held up both night trains to
and from Marshfiuld 'lust night,
and tho morning train left this
morning carrying' a load of pas
sengers. Trains will be run from North
nend to the scene of the
wash-1
out, Btid rmsaenBorB. baRgngo and
freiihl will do transferred ncroH
the water. The track where tho
washout occurred la built on low
lands near an arm of the lake.
Wljen the lake reached flood stage
because of heavy rains recently
it broke over Its bunks and flood
ed the tracks
There -will be no night aervlce
either way from Coos Bay to
night, it U believed. The track
should ho repaired tomorrow, ac
cording to word from the yard
master. ,
Ferguson Victory
Virtually Assured
AI'STIX. Tejas. March 11.
James K. Ferguson lias virtually won
h:s long fight for vindication from the
legislative court "f impeachment, '
wnicn seven year. nR.. r....-.. ,
from the governor's chair and de- .
prives him of the right of eer again ,
holding
slate off i
vote of M) lo 5.1 the house of
representativea last n'ght passeil lo
third reading, Ihe bill, already passed
by the senate, granting legislative am
nesty tu the deposed chief executive.
Governor Pierce to
Occupy Apartments
U ft I I'M lire. Marrh 11. f'lOVer- !
ette i nirersny ..... .... ....
home tnere in me uiurr. ju. s'"
trnor'a brlonginn are bing mored j
into the irlmnti twUy. Un yo'jni-
... ,1 , ..sFi.t r. ii i .sirrain f f rrt.
.'".' . . . , '
who .s a senior m Salem h.gh school.
" ""-
S5
is Held Final
THREE DROWSY STATE HIGHWAY
WATCHMEN ARE BONDS WILL BE
OUSTED AT PEN
Investigation' Reveals Trio
Of Guards Napping in
Their Chairs
Two are Replaced, While
Third ; new man is to
Be Selected '
SALEM, Ore., March 11 Three
guards at the state pentltentlary
have been discharged In the last
weak for sleeping at their posts.
Warden Dalrymple said today. All
were on night shifts.
Guards, when on .duty, are re
quired by the prison rules to
punch a dial every half hour,
which registers In the turnkey's
office and Indicates whether the
man Is on the Job. The posts
occupied by the three guards had
been skipping one or two of the
half hour Intervals on several
nights recently and upon Investi
gation they were found napping
in their chairs. All of those dis
charged live in Salem. Two have
been replaced by C, A. linker
and I. W. Hubbard, also Salem
men. the former hnvlng previous
experience as a guard at tho
prison. The third man needed
to fill a vacancy will probably
bo employed today.
TAKES HEAVY TOLL
INDIANAPOLIS, March 11.-Indiana
and southeastern Illinois today
were taking stock of the damage done
by the severe wind, hail and rain
storm, which swept over there states
late jreatredoy and last niplit and eana-
ed property damage estimated nt
more than a half milhiai dollar".
Several persons were injured, none of
them aerioucly.
The atorm apparently atruelt In
l.'.ln Mnnir 111... find then moved
i i .t.H nnP.i ,iipnii,.n '
Terre Haute, Ind., unroofinit houses.
blowing down trees and barns. Tele.
phone, telegraph and rail service was
impaired.
In Ivlgar county, where the damage
was estimated at $TB,IKMI, about a
doien homes and the Methodist church
levelled. Ten houses were destroyed
near Taria, 111.
At Terre Haute. Ind., the storm
blew down several houses and un
roofed aeveral buildings causing dam
nge estimated at more than $.Vi,'KK.
At Itochcster, Ind.. where the storm
a,inlP, proportions bordering on
tornado, mm.erous barns were raied
,,d the grandstand at the county fair
grouna ueinonsneu ana many irer.
,1rod. Many other towns reported
housea and barns unroofed.
Farm Legislation
Will be Requested
WASHINGTON, March II. The
fnrrapm' mtionnl lounfil announcfd
i (odiy that It had rtifufd to co op-
Itratioo of ieveral inmrn of th
j prMiriVnt'l njrirultnral ronfirrnr in
I mrrkiut (O llflv Pf-MUknt ( Vilidlt
.....
year crop.
LORD CURZON BETTER
LONDON, March 11. CP) The
cood'tion of Lord Curson conliuu-s
satlsfaitory after his recent operj
tion, tlie attending surgeons announc
ed at nouu today.
K1
RETIRED APRIL 1
Mr. Kay to Inform Banks of
State of Plans to With
draw Funds
Interest Aggregating More
Than a Million Dollars
To Be Paid
SALKM. Ore.. March 11. State
Treasurer l,a.v,vill this week official
ly notify Oregon banks holding stnte
deposits that H will be necessary fur
the atate.to draw from the banks bc-
tween -5 nnd 30 per cent of all state
inoury on deposit, or a total with
drawn) of about $1,750,000. The mon
ey is to be used for the payment in
New York on April 1 of interest on
stnte bonds Aggregating $1,325,000
and the retirement of state highway
bonds In tbe mi in of Sl.:i00,000. Of
the bitter amount, however, $1,000,
0H) will be refunded by the eubstltu
tlou of stnte bonds on which tit'
state rt .have to pay only 4 pr
cent Interest as itguitut 04 per ceiil
paid now, thereby r living 1 pel
rent Intreest,
The intereMt payment of $1,5,000
will be on both higltwxy mid veterans
dlntp aid hmidft.
Stnte Treasurer Kay says that be
en ute many banks in the state c
pecinliy in enMcrn Oregon, are hard
pressed for money nt I be present
lime, the withdrawal of $1,750,0011
will work something of a hardship on
them, hut thai the willn.rawal cannot
Ik avoided. His notifit-at:on in amine
time prior to the withdrawal dole If
to enable the brinks to meet the sit
uation. Children's Hospital
Fund to be Started
Throughout Oregon
I'OIfn.ANO, Ore., 5Iareh 11.
Tlie (inodfellow department of th
I'ortlanfl Trtejtrnm today issued ar
invitation to ail newspapers in Ore
jton to appeal to women'a clubs, Sun
duy selioitls and nil other orxaniaa
tions and individuals in the state tn
purtieipute in mining a $(iO,tXK) fund
for the children's hospital which baa
been donated lo the stale by the heirs
of the late Frank S. Iloernbecher.
A legislative appropriation nf
rxKl for operation of the institution
the first year failed lo become a
law and the hospital will lie idle 1
mouths after completed unless this
amount is raised by other meons. r.
Richard II. I'illehunt. dean of the
University of Oregon medical college,
who will bave charge of Ihe. hospital,
haa stated that there are lutai child
ren in Oregon w ho need Ibia hospital.
Rents for Stalls
In Market Change
All nt n lift at the puMir market will
b rontrd by th month only from now
on until the buftinmii ulnHeni in lh!
fill, it in nnnounrfd. This monthly
rnte bani bn in rfffrt lint summer
ind protrd $ n:te)i. During tbo fail
and wintrr itnnth when th d-rnan-l
for mare bv trofffri wt not no to
, ,(ie c.B1(a,!,r or ,(,,, market duy to
L,flJ, Tf.ntmitl of tfl) Mvct W(ill Mow,(y
j -pj, iurrf iflirj ffinand with th- ,)
j proa(.i, u( uprinic, rnvtrmWy on Satur-
,U, 1... I.. I t.. th. 1. i
tabliah thn m'uUy rrrvatbn pint
attain. VrnriUnWf all talli ar filb-d
fTry HtmrdBy and tbe )! r
untA to rromm;idat tne overflow.
Eugene Meyer is
Re-Nominated
M'ARHIMJTON. Marh 11. -Ku-
eene Mier wan r-nonuna-fd lodny
by PfMidDt l oolidc aa director of
ibe War Finance corporation.
Son Tries to Save his
Harold and hl mother,
Confession Adds Angle to
Los Angeles Murder Case;
Two Stories
,Tty A. 11. FREDERICK
(NKA Service Wrllct ) "
i.OS ANUIOMCS, March 11. A mo
ther's love Is It great enough lo hold
silence through accusation, trial, con
viction? I'pon the answer may depend nn
ravelment of the trunk murder of Dr.
Ilenjninin Ilnldwin in Ijis Angeles al
most a year ago.
Once Ihe atale thought it had the
mystery solved. It piled high evi
dence ngnilist Mrs. Margaret II. Wil
lis, securing a conviction with life aen
lenee. Now, Just ua she was lo atari
for San tuentin, her son declared
SAI.KM, Ore., March 11. Altor-ney-deneral
Van Winkle today re
ceived a letter from bis assistant
William S. Moore, who ia In Wash
ington, P. f, to appear before Ihe
I". S. supreme court In Ihe perochinl
and privute school- bill case, saying
that the case will probably be argued
Ihe latter part of this week. Moore
is representing the attorney-general's
office, while (Jeorge 1.. C hamberlain
represents linvernor Pierre, and Stan
ley Myers, district attorney for Mult
nomah county, represents himself.
Van Winkle, Pierce and Myers were
all named as defendants In the ense.
Mrs. Stokes on
Witness Stand
CHI'.' Alio, March II.- Mrs. Helen
Kllwond Stokes, of Heliver, waa call
ed lo Ihe witness stand this morning
in the trial of her husband, W. K. I.
Stokes, cbargfd with conspiracy lo
defame her.
Mrs. Sl'.kes was on the witness
stand 30 minute and waa not cross
examined. She made a general denial
of all accusations made against her
by Mr. Stokes and J. P. Purl; and C.
V, Hanson, Chicago sleeping car con
ductors who testified she bod traveled
overnight with a man companion. She
denied she ever had been an inmate
of the Chicago Everlelgh club, a re
sort. .
American is Shot
By Greek Bandits
ATIIKNS. Mifh II. 141
Jvbn I-cnn nf (;aluevill, i
-Dr.
whs
khot tbrotib tbe rifht lung jftr
dny by band. is who wre holding up
tbe automobile in bU'b be an'I thrt
ntber Ainrine, ail tudenta of the
Anieri-n Hchool of An haerdony were
trael'r; :a em.J:ern Kpirus, Greece.
Convicted Mother
Mrs. Margaret B. Willie
Differ Widely
I
that he, and not his mother, killed
Bnldwln. ;
Faced Reform School
"Phe didn't want tn to go to reform
school. She (old me it would spoil my
life. She made me promise never to
tell that I shot him," saya Harold
Willis, in.
"Rut I couldn't' bear it any longer.
I bad to tell Ihe truth."
Thia truth, according to young Wil
lis, It that Ihe fatal shot waa fired to
savo bia mother's honor.
"Once sho was sick and I called
(Continued on page eight)
KPOKANK, Waah., March 11.-
More than 100 farmers and livestock
men of the Pacific Northwest gather
ed here today for the ninth annual
Northwest Livestock conference, and
discussed problems of the Indus'ry.
The horse found his champion in
Pcan V.. J. Iddinga of the University
of Idoho college of agriculture who
declared horsea are cheaper than ma
chine traction on the fsrm.
(). M. Pluramer nf Portland told
how farm life may be made more at
tractive to boys and girls than the
call of ihe city, and .1. F, Hievers of
Washington Stole College, spoke on
"Soils and Livestock."
Hr. K. K. Weggncr of Washington
State rollego disciiaaed "Disease and
Control."
Thought Cannot be
Voiced Without use
Of Proper Words
Awny back in the early alxteen hun
dreds (ieorse Lierhert wrote "Vnr,l.
ar. omn .i.i. .r. iv. .,n
dtr wjiat be meant, "Action ipiaii
louder thun word-," ; an old pro
verb. Then aaid ltemorritua; "Vonifi
ore but (be ebadowa of ai tlnnti,"
These are only bnlf trulbn, and ill
of tl.rm routd Jtmt le well be revrrseil.
How can there be any action without
a thought bvbind it? And ul courne we
cannot voice a thmiRht without word").
So the dii'tloiiury ihould be n daily
compiinion. Hhotild it be within rea-b
every day and every hour, freiiucut
cooRultnti"iia would produce surpris
ing result n lu a short time.
Tbe offer of tbe New L'niverfiiliea
! dictionary will be of hinting beuefit to
an rcaaer. x ncre is noming inni
could be more welcome at this time In
lu school, home, shop, and plitce of
tuiineii, 'J'be ciiMn printed els-
! where in this Issue explains tbe
if rm.
HOKUYD MARU
N DANGER OF
HITTING HOCKS
Salvage Steamer Is Sis-
patched to her Rescue;
Radio Mast is Gone
Rudder is Broken, and Ship
Is Zigzagging Under her
Own Power
VICTOnU, B. C, March 11. OP)
With distress signals flying, tbe
Japanese steamer Hottuyo Maru lay
one mile due west of latooah today in
danger of running on the rocks of the
Little Inn, said wireless reports re
ceived here. The Pacific Salvage com
pany dispatched the salvage steamer.
Tees to her assistance.
MESSAGE RECEIVED
BEATTLB, Wash., March 11. A
wireless message from Tatoosh Island
rcporta an unidentified ahlp in distress
dreftlng toward Catfish island. Com
munication with the ship could not be
established and it Vrns believed her
wtrelesa mast bad been blown away.
Another message from Tatoosh is
land which is in the Pacific ocean at
the south side of the entrance of the'
Strait of Juan De Fuca, said that the
name of the vessel had been diclpher-
cd as Hokuyo Maru, and that the ves-
ael was a mile west of Tatoosh island.
Coda Flags Read.
Code flags flown by the Hokuyo
read;
."My rudder Is broken. I can't
steer. Vessel zigzagging under own
power."
The Canadian fisheries pstrol
steamed Thlepvai, from Bamfield, on
the west coaat of Vancouver Island
and the American coast guard cutter
Snohomish, from Port Angelea, on the
south aide of the atralt were reported
hurryng to succor to llokuyo.
Bound for Vancouver.
The llokuyo, under chsrter to J. W.
Allen, Inc., Seattle, ia bound from
Mllke, Japan, to Vancouver, I). C
and Grays Harbor, Wash., to load a
full cargo of lumber for Japan. Al
len said he had a measage Indicating
that tbe Hokuyo would bave to bo
towed to Vancouver.
Uncle Sam's new
Submarines Pierce
Lines of 'Enemy
ABOARD U. 8. 8. 8EATTLB, AT
HEA, OFF THE COAST OB" LOW
Kit UAI.irOKMA, JIarcb It.
Uncle Sam's newest submarines,
Ihoae of the "S" type, after cruising
J.fliMJ miles from the Panama Canal,
pierced the lines of "invading" bat
tleahipa in the greateat naval sham
battle ever ataged in tbe 1'aclfie early
thia morning and left a much har
assed "enemy" at, his baao on tho
west coast of Mexico.
' One hundred and nine ships of the
American navy, divided into the
"Black," or invading fleet, and the
"Blue," or defensive fleet, came trt
hlnwa on the moonlit sea off tbe Mcx
Icnn coast last night, and until au
hour before dawn today tbe engage
ment went on over hundreda of
auuare miles of ocean.
This morning found the great prob
lemthe defense of the Pacific coast
A airiin-t invanion finally worked out
Thn deciition on tbe result of tU
brittle will come later.
Nominations of
Ministers Given
WASIIINUTON, March II. A--President
Coolidgo today ni'iiiiiiul..!
Chnrlea C. Eberhanll, of Kansas
he minlMter to Nicnragvi'l nnd Ururge
T. Suminerlin of Louisiaul, to be
minister to Honduras.
MR. RIOPLE RESIGNS
WASHINGTON, March 11. I're.i
dent Cooli.lge has accepted the reaig
miti.'n of Jnnn W. Kiddle as ambas
sador to Argentllis.
Ambassador . Kiddle's resignation
was received before Secretary Hugh
es retired on March S. Ilia bonis la
at i'armingtou, Cuius.
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next general election.
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