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TODAY'S NEWS TODAY
EUGEXE, OliEGOX, "WEDNESDAY EVENING, APK1.I, 2i
PR IfF ON STHFFTS 3c: ON THAINS
1 tMv-i-. AM' NEWS STANDS Br.
NO. 97
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, with E. J- M'e- county
.rmtendent. Of .his
'!, 4d in the grades.
a0" , ...onHnnce number
trrt shows. Glrls
riw number f ,pup
la. 2032.9 in the elemen-
: iools and 95D in the nig..
J lie P cent of attend-
pup"3 num'
1691 were neither absent
W 1691 ! .,. w month.
. we during i"
1 109 lts by parenU 1
,1,, and three visits from
-fflbcr. of the school board.
Mren
Funeral services iur
. . Cvonr-nld SOn Of
r Ud Mr. Luton Ackerson of
im City, Iowa, ho died at Eu
,a, iospital Tuesday morning.
a malting the arrival of the
,' pare"'8' whicb 18 e3tDected
Frilly. The body is at ine .raiu,
ijprt The boy had been visit-
bis grandparents, sir. ana
yn J. C. Ackerson, 21, a Lincoln
ant since last fall, when His
ate, Mrs. Merle Stearns Ack
jjitt, was visiting with her par
in Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Bristol,
,5! Thirteenth avenue east. Pro-
Hot Luton Ackerson, a mem
Id of the faculty of the Univer
ii7 of Iowa, and Mrs. Ackerson
m to coma soon to take their
m home after spending the
iter with his grandparents. De-
tdti Ms parents and grandpar
iitt, Donald leaves a year-old sls-
, Harlan Jean, and three aunts,
Ha Grace Stearns Schlska, Jo-
!on Ackerson, and Justine Ack-
tm
Mull is Urgod
flit the cutting of the (litrli ncrnss
pt county fair grounds property for
'.t drainage of the Amazon should be
sw bow as much hotter results cnu
y obtained than waiting until full, U
i; opinion expprcssed by Krnnk I,.
timbers. The county court whic'i
iai.urvfy completed nf the pnrt of
vwcfliary ditch ncrosa the county
perty planned to do this work
:My in September after the clos?
tie annual county fair. Mr. Cham-
n who has completed the cliten
im his property went of the fair
:.)! intra that now while the
'nd it wet to a considerable depth
tie best time for blasting as when
ir.'uud is dried out in the fnll
results are not olitnincd. The
'0g now would also loosen til.
ill ud when tl Is is dried out in the
'arr it will be casi'y washed out
' Ike foil rains, Mr. Chambers
It bis been suttitpsted tbnt Ihe
tf rriioners be employeil on the
'n the fair grounda and thi
a to be convdereil by the coin.
"I Leave May 28.
""id John Jones, nrint-lnnl of
Eurene high school, and su-
tendentelect of cltv nrhonl-..
'ileare Eugene May 2S for the
'ring booked passage on
1 S. Montclalre for Uver
ere he will loin Mm.
? l! visiting In Wales.
' "a Mrs. Jones ttt r.t
!" Tork from Southampton.
July is. stnppln(! ,n
'f'Won, D. c. and other
cities, al,d returning to
"ciflc coast over the south-
"Wte from New Orleans.
"U to v,,,.
rj i , "nTtai aystent
Hared before the nniver.it,
t ,,,prnv, or d!
rvi r . j n h r j g t r-j
IS EXONERATED
BT committee
Former District Attorney
Of Lane Absolved of
All Blame
Dismissal of Case Recom
mended in Report as Filed
At 'Salem
Exoneration of Clyde N. Johnston,
former district attorney of Lane, oil
charges filed against bim by Lawrence
Edmuoson with the state supreme
court has been made by the grievance
committee of the state bar association
and this report also recommends dis
missal of the case brought as a dif
bnrmcnt proceeding. No action has nn
yet been token by the court.
Petition Similar.
Tfce charges filed against the for
mer Lane official in the disbarment
attempt are similar to those contained
in the petition for a writ of mandamus
recently filed by Paul Dormitzcr,
Portland attorney, in behalf of Leon
R. Edmunson, brother of Lawrence
Edmunson, now under sentence on u
Hcjuor charge. .
These alleged charges made nRiiinst
Mr. JohnKtoD arc that be failed- to
prosecute one case brought to the
district attorney's office an.i 1hnt hi
knew of the law violations of others
and used this information to force
tvstiinony to obtain convictions in sev
eral liquor cases.
Answer Coming.
The answer of John S. .Medley, dis
trict attorney, to the mandamus peti
tion wi:l be made next month, accord
ing to the time set by Judge Jnhu I.
Kendall of Coos county who will be
here to hear the case.
Mr. Johnston appeared as one of
the principal witnesses in the race of
former Prohibition Director Cleaver,
recently under fire during an investi
gation of his office. The former Lane
official at that time stated on tiu
stand that several attempts had bem
made to "gel" hi in while he was serv
ing as district attorney.
First Picture of Huge Dirigible Which Lost Her Nose in the Wind
I I
FRENCH SW
Twenty-nine hours artei i was torn from its moorings, the R-33 returned to Pulham In Norfolk, Eng
land, after having been blown out over the North Sea. The nose of the craft was torn when the
high gale snatched her away from her moorings.
El
STREETS OF SOFIA
SOFIA, April 20. GP The' Jiul
garian government is considering call
ing one of the nrmy classes to the
colors, as it has been unable to get
the ten thousand additional volunteers
recently Authorized by the council of
ambassadors At Paris to pacify the
country.
LOS A.ViELES. April 'JO. One
dead and tVi injured are listed on a
casualty list of the wreck of the
Santa Fe train last night, 20 miles
north of San I'iego, as published to
day by the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe railway offices here. In
addition four persons were reported
injured whose names at 0:30 o'clock
this morning were not learned by the
company officials. John Warboys, en
gineer. Los Angeles, was killed. The
locomotive and five cars went over
the grade.
OUTBREAK RENEWED
HOME, April 2!. A dispatch to
the Tribuna from its Sofia .corre
spondent reports a renewed outbreak
of fighting between Itulgarian gov
ernment troops and communists. Cas
ualties are unknown, but this dispatch
says they are believed to be fairly
heavy.
The dispatch to the Tribunt sa.vs
a sanguinary battle was fought
! throughout yesterday between gov
ernment troops anil communists.
' The population of Sofia became
i panic Btricken because of intermittent
I muffled explosions and all street traf-
1 fist was stopped. A strict censorship
prevails, the dispatch adds.
The Tribuna dispatch says the ex
plosions were caused by attempts of
government forces to blast the com
munists out of underground tunnels
where they had taken refuge.
Contract for Sale
Of Shipping Board
Vessels Executed
WASHINGTON, April 20.Cn-
1 tract was executed today for sale by
j th shipping board to the Hollar in
terests of the five president-type ves-
ACTORS IN WRECK
HOLLYWOOD. Csl., April
Four motion picture players and
a till f rm , ,K . . ... nn u nt.a in;,,rH ni SIO.. I ... .1 .u. .An u ,.f it,. I -n.frni-,.
IN read at the nominatini 000 of niotion picture equipment was orient line.
v if 7. nd voted n. destroyed in the wreck of the Santa; Annmral of the shipping board was
Fe train lat night near San Diego, ; BjTcn to the contract as drawn by its
it was announced here today at War- j roun. snd II, Stanley Dollnr, vire
ner Brothers' studio from which ' president of th Dollar lines, and it
party of 22 was on the train. ( wn signed by Chairmnn O onnor Iir
Mary rrevoht, Louise f aienda. ; tn(l hoard, and by Mr. Hollar.
.'.e.iton, M,y n Th(, phn
, '"rt f.r.1,,,. fr,mfn wno
at t ,.t ir,, ,:,; . .
. t' I fa tltiti,. The firot
-a sr. t ... . 1
l'-n,,rm in, ato.tl'
Orchards Hard
Hit by Weather
. In Washington
VANCOrVKU, Wash., April 20.
Damaging effects of the extreme cold
of Inst December on young orchards
has hncitine apparent in this vicinity,
W, II. Wood, manager of the Wash
ington Prune Growers' corporation
turd today. The freeze resulted in torn
sap in young pear and prune trees,
and the shot hole borer, n worm that
works limit r the bark, killing a shoot
or litnh, has become active, he said.
Culd wenther recently after the
fruit formed in nuirure orchards has
caused prunes to drop to some extent
but whether it will shorten the crop
materially will not le known for nn
otiier week, growers report.
ELUSIVE STATE
' "XT Ihi
' "ran
' "'"", 5r men who
Knn,th Harlan and Walter, l.n.
"". of ...
playpr,. kptp phi by atlas, and nruip,.
and Bob Wrhb, pr"rly man. ai
burwrf in att.mptinit to aave Knin
""ant m.inaa,r.
w;tl u. .v.. .land nob Wrhb. nr"lrly man. a
It rn,Mi
mnrf
Thft will r. ""r "arbny,, it naa announrra.
'frrn.i,-, or rlr-
' r,. atinninl.H K
" the (tradn.itfi
" n,rutire
oun?il.
Two are Dead in
Texas Tornado
KYLE. Texas. April 211.- Two dead.
Butte Soft Drink
Parlors He-Opened
cw. -
J W.. .dmini.twtion.
j!.ifi meeting of 1
'Cv ' !
Bl TTE, Mont., April 2!. Tempo
rary injunctions, under which three
local soft drink parlors were closed
and padlocked here yesterday by Dep
uty I'nited Sratea Marhi) Kelsey.
were a'ed t"day by Federal Judge
one probably fatally Injured, and more; (.orge M. Houn.uin sno" proefsaea
than a "core hurt, was the known toll thereunder recnllrd and quashal,
of a otrnado that .wept the outskirt"; The three pla.es reopened tlay.
of this town last night. Humors that Jmig liourquin ruled that muter and
severHl were dead at Fhland. a nearby closure on mere Information and be
.:,i. , ..rtu,n-,i a l.ff. which are pending in court, are
,.,u L.hU and wire cm. a ' ro.s abus of the law of injun- j Canning rompany
muuication disrupted. ti'-na.
SALEM, Ore., April 29. Follow
ing n formal demand made April 0,
District Attorney Join II. Carson to
day filed In the circuit court here a
petition for an alternative writ of
mandamus requiring Frank C. Hrani
well, state superintendent of banks
to return' the slate banking depnrt
ment from Portland to Salem.
The petition is on relation of
George Put nam, publisher of the
Capital Journal, w ho made the de
mand of the district attorney.
Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state,
is also tnndf a defendant in the esse
and the petition demands that he fur
nish quarters for the department in
Sale in.
The proceedings cite the law whi h
requires that the state banking de
partment hov it offices in Salem.
The bunking roil was amended by
the W2.p legihlnture, but when the
amended code goes into effect May
2, will still require the department
to bfivc (ta offices in Salem, only a
branch office being allowed in Port
land under the amended code.
Since the removal of the depart
ment to Portland a hour March 2f,
the superintendent of hank; establish
ed a dek in the state house and oc
casionally a ilerk of the department
comes to Saleni. Thin, any a the peti
tion filed today, "is a subterfuge nml
is for the purpose of only makii.g it
appear that said feuperintendent of
bnnks and said stnte banking depart
ment maintain an office tn jd city
of .Salem."
GUY
POSSIBILITY GF
GOLD STANDARD
Minister of Finance Cail
laux Intimates Neces
sity of Step
Apartment House
Swept by Early
Morning Blaze
People Flee to Streets From 49 Apartments
In Building; One Man Killed in Leap
From Flaming Structure
Great Britain Well Pleased
With Step Taken by
Mr. Churchill
FAR IS, April 20. (P) The estab
lishment of a gold standard by Orent
Britain will necessitate France taking
the same step In the opinion of the
best French financial authorities.
Minister of Finance Cnillaux, already
is studying the question and has in
timated that It Is necessary for the
French people to make sacrifices to
accomplish the return to the gold
standard.
The resumption of specie payments
by Knglaml, It was stated nt the Bank
of France today, will be n good thing
for I ho United States because it will
increase the value of the. Immense
stock of gold held in America. France,
it was said, cannot continue to strug
gle along with depreciated currency
while nil the other important commer
cial and financial countries are work
ing on a gold basis.
That the city planning commission
as provided in the new ordinance that .
will probably be acted on by the city
council nt the next meeting should be ,
representative of the entire city and
be selected with care is the opinion of
Mayor F.. B. Parks. The new ordi
nance, redrafted from the first one
prepared on this plan, provides that
the appointment of the commission
members of which there will be five,
will be made by the mayor.
Mayor Parks states that he will
probably have the Federation of Wo
men's organizations or olhers make
recommendations for appointment as
he hopes to see men and women who
really are interested in civic beauti
ficatinn both now and for the future
take an active interest in the pro
gram provided under the ordinance.
Although no definite plans as to the
selection of the commission have as
yet been made. Mayor Parks states
that the I'nivcrsity of Oregon will
undoubt edly be represented on t he
commission,
''The powers conferren on Mrs new
eonimUwion and Its benrings on the
future civic plana of 'Kugene meant
that the personnel should be of men
and women who have nhitity as well
as time and a desire to devote them
selves to the many problems that are
to be solved,' the mayor said.
STERLING ADVANCES
LONDON, April 20. M5) rent
Britain': return to the gold standard
is bailed with general satiufnclion in
the exchange market, where, the pound
sterling took another strp nearer par
ity this morning nud touched $ I.S I Vi
under strong buying from practically
all sources.
BUDGET PLEASES
LONDON, April 21. (P The
London stock exchange showed evi
dence today of being generally pleased
with the new British budget, which
it was considered, will carry on the
policy outlined by Premier Baldwin
at the beginning of his administration
auguring well for the financial nnd
commercial community of the country.
The downward adjustment of the
income tax and the absence of the
expected raid on the sinking fund
caused fractional gains in investment
securities, especially government is-
much. while those securities affected
by reimposition of the McKenna duties
moved up well, especially tho various
motor car and cycle shares.
I Hasehnll Scores
4
NATIONAL
At Brooklyn
Boston
Brooklyn
Batteries: Barnes and
PORTLAND, Ore, April 29. (By .The Associated
Press) Four persons died in ft fire that consumed tho
Hendricks apartments, Fifteenth and Flanders streets,
early this morning.
Two young women were burned to death.
A blind man died near the window from vhich hia
wife bad just been rescued.
Another man dived threo stories, and missed a life
net. . , , . ....
Tho dt-ad:
Miss Clara Short, 20, wnltrra'.
Miss Bornlce Frazlor, employe of
I.tpmnn nnd Wolfe company, nbout 20
yonrB old.
E. Sullivan, R5 yearn old. laborer.
William H. Lawr, 0'.', blind.
Mrs. M. II.' I.awr, Buffering from
smoke naphyxintion, wns it. a aeriona
condition this morning, but attend
ants said she would probnbly recover,
"Buddy" Sought.
Sir... A. Ilpnnctl, occupying tho sec
ond floor facing l'Innder. street, es
caped to the porch nnd was carried
down a ladder by one of the firemen.
Sho was much worried over her pet
rat "Iluddy" nnd firemen thinking she
wns concerned about n child, made
several futile efforts to locnto the
baliy In (lie burning room.
"Iluddy," wns finally discovered
after tlio firo was out, badly soaked
and badly scared, biding under Ihe
bed.
Knds of ladders placed agaitiat the
third floor caught fire nnd bad to be
drenched continually with wntcr.
Fire Spreads Rapidly
The flnmcs swept rapidly through
Ibo frame building and tho forty prr-
(Continued on pag? six)
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Thominhlcn, . I(uh,
gr and Tcylnr.
It. II. K.
Ill IS J
:i is n
(iihaon;
Hublirll, (leach-
E,
Postmaster at
Crescent Ousted
MKDFOHD, Ore., April 2:. - Pos
tal Inspector i. K. Ilnugnn returned
to Mfdford tod-iy after a trip to Kla
math county wh re he ordered the re
moval of Po-liiiiiNter K. .11, I'leves f
Crescent, and named a "tetnp'-rary
postmaster to take hi place. ('leave,
it ia said, was xliort in his account
I and his ran? will be brought before n
federal grand jury in Portland net
week.
In addition to charges of mi,i;i-propririti'-n
of public fundi, Cienvra i
charge.! with LotUgging and bring in
ftxicated in a public place, scrorlurg
to the official.
I At New York
Philadelphia 1H ! 2
! New York 0 2
Batteries: Fillingiin, Couch, l lrich,
! Knight and Menliue; 1 eau, f recti
'field, Barnes nnd Devine.
DISMISSAL DENIED
SALKM. Ore., April 2'.. The r..
prema court has denied motion to
flimniia tti appeal in the rase of Vaw-t-r
against the Itfgiie Kiver YalVy
nppl from
Jackroa count. Vawter ia appellant.
j ST. LOI'JS, April 2fl. ( National,
- Pitt"biirg-St. Louis poNtponed, wet
' ground and cold.
CINCINNATI. April 2H. Natioti
' all Cincinnati-! 'hicngo grime post-
poned, rain.
In observance of American Forest
Veek. the F.ugcne chamber of com
merce has prepared a special pro
gram on forest preservation for the :
noon luncheon of the organization to
morrow, (ieorge W. Peavy, dean of
tho school of forestry of the Ore
gon Agricultural college, will bo the
principal speaker on tho program.
Dran Peavy, regarded us one of the
outstnnd.ng experts in the imi'llnvct
on forest fire protection and refores
ti'inion. will (ell of forest protection
methods in iimc mid the need of fur
ther aids in thin work. A musical pro
gram will also be presented by
Charles Hunt.
Three Accidents
Reported at INI ill
Death List From
Explosion Grows
MALDKN. Mass.. April 211. - The
denth t.st from an eKploion which
wrecked part of the plant of the p,o.
ton Kubher Shoe company tod;iy may
rcLih three, offi'iali nmiounT-d. Two
employes nre minsing nnd a third ia
d.vii.g at a honpltaL
AMERICAN
At iN-troit - II. II. i-:.
St. I.oii Tt in 1
Detroit II I't 2
Batteries; Wing'-, Vang ler, Dun
forlh. (Irani nnd Severed; While
rill, Doyle, Stoner and Hauler.
BOSTON, April 2t).-- American
Washington-Boston game poHpoifd,
cold Weather.
piiiLADLi.PniA, Apni vri.
( American. t --New York-Philadelphia,
poRtponed, wt ground and cold.
SPIUNCKIKI.D. April 2. yPe
in 1 1 Only three mi nor nccidenta ibif-
ing the entire month of M;iirl, were
rep 'rtrd in the meeting of Ihe IL aif
! ety-firnt council nt tin mess hull in
i the lornl Booth-Kelly r'aw mill at Tt
I o cbn k jemterdiy afternoon, ccotdi ;r
I to Clayt n Barber, secreitrr, Thes '
jneridetits entailed but a few days' lost
i of time for the injurrd employes. The
j fact th;it the injuries were slight, and
'decreased in number i attributed t"
the enre taken biih in safeguarding
1 the men from the ni ichim iy. nnd in
dividual! cure t.lkcn by the im-ll.
Edwin (J, Davis is
Named to new Post
WASHINGTON, April 2!i. -F.dwin
(. DavU, I niteil S'oles district attor
ney for Idaho, whoMp nppointmeiit nn
aHsistnnt attorney general had been
was rmnt'd tod
CHICAGO, April 2J. -i American l
Clevclaiid-t.'hicago game postponed,
rain
urgcii, was tiiimcu ton iy as special
I iMistant in Ihe justice department's
; n'ar frauds division. No au-cMor has
' yet been selected for the Id.ihu posi
1 tiu.
BFRLIN, April 20. OP) Ger
many's foreign policy will not b
changed, Dr. Hans Luther, the Ger
man chancellor declared emphatically
todny In an address before the annual
congress of the League for German
industry nnd commerce,
, This declaration is understood also
to reflect Ihe viewpoint of President
elect Von Ilindetiburg, with whom tha
chancellor conferred yesterday.
While Dr. Luther did not refer tn
the recent election, it is generally un
derstood ho spoke with the full au
thority of Hindenhurg and the group
promoting the field marshal's candi
dacy. Evacuation Stressed
In order to bring about stable con
ditions the question of (he evacua
tion of the Cologne area by the al
lies must be speedily settled, Hr. Lu
ther declared.
"For more than three month." he
said, "we have wailed in vain for tho
reasons held to jueiify the non-evac-uislion."
"The people of Kuropp desire the
removal of uncertainty nnd luck cf
clennn'KM." Dr. Luther had previoudv
di 'dared. "A policy having that end
ill view must naturally be governed
by (he law of continuity nnd cannot
arbitrarily ciine its direction."
No War Desired
That (iermany does not desire war
was a further i at rgoricnl decliiintin
by Ihe cluiiiielbn-, who laid great
sires upon t ler ninny's adherence to
the aeenrity p tct idea.
"(Iermany dcMtre to proti-cf herself
by treaty." he observed, "and a t
wish to emphasize at th' lime, doii
ii'jf desire to conduct war."
With regard to the failure tn settle
the evacuation itir.-i'.n. Dr. Luther
declared:
"The whole f'.ur'ipenn policy nuffera
from delay on thin iuestrn."
Securities Touched
llevi-rt'iig to the yc-'iirity problem
he reiterated:
"It In nelf ritlciit that the stand
point d"ped by th government re
main urn harmed."
The clinn.ell'or followed wfih a
pledge for international cooperation.
"(iermr u intentnen nnd German
men of iiidutiiy a.sd cMiimerce wl
neer fail," he mi.!, "to eontribnte her
Hhiin tit peaceful tinilerstandinj and
locil cooperaiioti for the inletnatiou
nl cooperation of nation."
Turning to internal problems, he in
ainted thai nil talk ah nit n -w itifla
tion Win criminal.
TWO PAY FINES
HFItlNCFIIXD. April 2!. (Kpe
cinll Two Springfield men paid finea
In the local police court thin mortiini(
for diHobcdicnce lo the city imliiiaru-o
nuniber 4SI which prohibits parking
an flutmnobile on Ihe st recti of
Springfield without light, duliun Fu
toy noil W. K. Nelson each were fined