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LOCAL MOVE
FOR REFORM
IS
By Vote of 37Qto 18 Pre-Con-vention
Plan to Supplement
Direct Primary Is Beaten in
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House Cowgill's Efforts
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1 Fail Constitutional Con
vention Approved.
STATE HOUSE. SALEM, Feb. 18.
The bouse this morning by a vote of
37 to 18 defeated the pre-prlmary con
vention bill introduced by the Jackson
county delegation.
Representative Cowgill, .laekson
county, explained that he desired to
see the bill passed nnd sent on to the
senate, where objections might be
brought out against the bill.
"It will probably be put to sleep as
has the Mills bill," he said, "but it
will give opportunity to,, bring out
' points of the measure and later I hope
to be able to draft another measure."
Representative Shumway of Mor
row and Umatilla counties, opposed
the bill on the grounds that it would
tie a candidate's hands before he ran
for election on a party ticket.
TVhe house yesterday reconsidered
Its negative action on house bill 420,
providing for a remission of tax penal
ties for 19210 to 1923. Hollowing a
short explanation by Representative
Carkin of the real Intent of the bill.
designed to help farmers who found
themselves unable through bad crops
or low prices to pay ineir tnxes on ,
DEFEATED
mne, uie nouse guve me measure a iUo cf fecta of a compiicaiion of dis
tavorablo vote. . , . cases. He suffered his first illness hist
State Convention Approved.
STATE HOKSE, SALEM, Feb. 18.
With overwhelming approval the first
move for a constitutional convention
' for Oregon in the year 1930 was taken
today when the senate passed the
. Klepper bill, which is senate bill No.
227. Only Senator Zimmerman voted
o against the bill. The house this morn
ing passed senate bill 54, a voluminous
measure of 120 pages, umending the
present state bank code and Incorpor
ating new muterial taken chiefly from
the banking laws of New York and
California. No opposition was voiced
against the hill.
Sales and possession of revolvers
and pistols would be sharply regulated
under house bill 4G2, parsed by the
house this morning. In cases of peH
sons convicted of having concealed
weapons on their person when com
o mitting a crime, an additional sent
ence of not less than five or more
than ten years. In tho penitentiary
could be imposed.
Among bills passed uy the senate
today were:
S. JX. 2S6, Klepper Extending time
of making application under bonus
and loan act from December 1, 111&3
to June 30, 1927.
S. D. 195, Klepper nnd llepresenta-
tlve Halley Providing, for state flag.
Among bills passed by, tho house:
H. II. 444 Authorizing county courts
to pay for0 certain culverts which
legally could not bedone heretofore,
the measure particularly affecting
Umatilla county. -
H. 13. 458 1'rovidlng for the grad
ing of eggs offered for sale In Oregon.
S. 11. 73 Providing "more severe
penalties for persons driving automo
biles and having accidents while in
an lntoxicitcd condition.
Jnsippli Pleads or Bill.
.STATE HOUSE, SALEM, Feb. 18
Senator George W. Joseph niade a
plea before the senate Judiciary com
mittee last night In behalf of his reso
lution submitting to no vote of the
people a constitutional tmendment
authorizing the state to develop
power.
Mussolini Recovering.
ROME. Feb. 18. (By the Associated
Press.) Premier. Mussolini, wtib has
been suffering from a slight attack of
influenza, his passed the .critical
Btage of his Indisposition and will soon
be able to leave his bed.
E
o CHICAGO, Feb. 18. Paul The
Apostle ulways has been n favorite
Biblical character with Mrs. Alice
Roosevelt Longworth. it was disclosed
today and she would have named her
baby Paul had circumstances not dic
tated otherwise. . So the name
"l'uullna" chosen yesterday was de
cided for two principal reasons, her
friends said, because It Is a variation
of the name of the disciple and be
cause the name will provide no odious
comparisons as though the name were
IS
NAMED
Gloria Swansori, Bride
of Month, Operated
Upon, Paris Hospital
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PARIS, Feb. 18. Gloria B-un-
son, 4jjo movlnV plcturo star, had '4
to be hurried to a clinic In Au-
teuil last evening, where she was
oporntocbupon nt midnight. The
operation was a sequel to one
performed some months ngo, af-
ter which, It appears, she did not
take sufficient rest before return-
Ing her professional netlvllies.
I lor condition Onlay was pro-
nouneed satisfactory. 3
4 Miss Swnnson last mouth was
Q married here to the Marquis De
LalCttlnlse du La Coudray.
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Man Who Nominated oresi
dent Coolidge at0 Cleveland
Convention Succumbs to
Heart Attack Had Been III
Since October.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Fob. 18. Dr.
Marlon Leroy Burton, president of' tho
University of Michigan, died here
early today. Death came at the end
of a long fighfe.durlng which Di. Bur
ton r(lUied tlme nflPr tlme from the
May but recovered sufficiently to take
his usuift part In the June comnjonce
ment exercises of the school. He spent
the summer In rest, broken only by
the trip to Cleveland where he made
the sneech nominating Calvin Coolidge
for president. He seemed thon to be1
returning to the abundant health
which had carrled'hlm thVough four
teen years as a college head.
Tn Sentemlier. President Burton
again threw himself lnt8 the routine
duties of his office, wroking some
times eighteen hours a day. He suf
fered a slight illness, diagnosed as a
cold. In October, from which he again
rallied. His final Illness dates from
an evening early In Novemher, when
he appeared at the school auditorium
introducing Vilhjalmar Stefannson,
explorer. He collapsed following his
appearance on the platform and physi
cians. hurriedly0 summoned, found
him suffering from an affected
heart. It was this trouble which fi
nally caused his. death.
Mrs. Burton and a son and daugh
ter were at the bedside when the
end came. One daughter. Mrs.
George E. Stewart of Berkeley, Cal.,
failed to reach Ann Arbor.
Despite the years In which he wiPs
bofora the nubile, -little was known
of the Barton behind the scenes. He
was constantly upon the platform, but
with little being written or printed
about him.
MavJon Leroy Burton was boiQi In
Brooklyn, Iowa, August 30, 1874.
'Ac,mTr!Tow r.ivfl 18. Presi
dent Coolidge, on learning today o
the death at Ann Arbor of Dr. Mar
ion Leroy BurtBn, sent a message of
sympathy to Mrs. Burton In her own
and Mrs. Coolldgo's names. a
The friendship between Mr. Cool
idge nnd Dr. Burton dated back to
the time when the university presi
dent was dthe head of Smith college
at Northampton, Mass. Dr. nnd Mrs
Bjjrtonchnd on several occasions been
White House guests during the Cool
idge administration. o
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Attractive "Pubs" Opposed
LONDON, Feb. IS. Proposals to
make London's drlnkiryj bars more
attractive by decorating and improved
lighting effects have niet with pro
tests from many prominent people,
among them Lady Lawson, who con
tends that brighter pubs would tend
I to increase drunkenness,
especially
among the women.
that of a peVson of great achievement.
"Poor T. K. Jr.," Mrs Longworth
is said to have rfmi'rked, referring
to her brother, Theodore Hoosevelt.
"Everw time he crosses the street
someone has something to say be
cause he doesn't do It ns his father
would and if he navigates nicely
then- they say it wns Just as T. R
would have done It.
So, the baby, her mother desires,
shall grow up with a personality of
her own.
DFATHSUMMONS
DR. M.L.BURT0N
OF MICHIGAN "0"
CAN'T AGREE
Oil ASHLAND
SCHOOL BILL
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Senator Dunn FaiJ,s to'Secure
Favorable Report On .Re-
o establishment of Ashland
Normal, But, FinaUAction Is
Deferred Senate Sustains
Governor's Veto.
STATE HOlJfflra, SALEM, Feb. J8
That all farming operations, at state0
Institutions" should be placed under
the supervision of one man, to the
end of saving the state an estimnted
$100,000 a year, has beenj recom
mended to the ways and means com
mittee last night by a sub-committee
of which Senator Boals was. chairman,
and thisorecommendation will be sub-
mitted to the "state board of control.
Losses in the farm perations at
some of the Institutions, ascertained
in- an investigation by Beals and
others caused the recommendation.
In making allowances for Institu
tions the committee mude provision
for a new industrial bulliKng -at the
state insane huspltnl.othe purchase of
additional land at the eastern Oregon
Insane? hospital and ca?tle to stock it,
and a new building at the tuberculosis
hospital.
The normal school policy was dis
cussed nt length last njght on a mo
tion by Senator Dunn that the com
mittee report favoroMy on his bill to
re-establish an Ashland normal
school. The committee could not
agree and - further consideration oof
the bill was deferred until tonight.
Allowances by the committee last
night were:
Deaf school SI 13,000; girls' school
$63,840; training school o$10T,675;
state0 hospital $960,408; eastern Ore
gon hospital $61 7,800; Institution for
feeble minded J4 82,700; tubojculosls
hospital $216,000; Oregon National
Guard (reconsidered $185,000.
Text Book Veto Sustained
STATE JkOUSE, SALEM, Feb. 18
Prohibition law violators may be
put to work on the rock pile by sher
iffs if house bill 304, passed by the
house is passed by the senate and
signed by tho governor.
The use or seines on coast streams
entering the Pacific south ol the Co
lumbia Is prohibited by house bill 284
which has passed the hohse. The
senato has passed houso bill 4 pro
viding for creation of the Warner
game refuge in Lake county. c
Tho senate passed house hill 200
Authorizing irrigation districts to
eRter into contracts with the United
States government according to fact
finders' bill.
The house defeated the Banks bill
providing for appeal from council
license revocations. , .
Senato bill 173 requiring adjust
ment of claims under the Carey irri
gation act passed the house.
Tho housg passed senate bill lTff,
setting a speed limit of five miles an
hour for entering a"highway from a
cross road. 0
Tho veto of Governor Tierce was
sustained by the senate yesterday on
house bill 91, which had for its purs
pose the authorizing of a state text
book commission to obtain at the low
est possible price text books for the
purchase of which the publishing
companies refused to extend con
tracts. o
A strong fight was made" In the
senate yesterday afternoon against
house bill number 213, Increasing the
Lsalarles of the district attorneys of
uregon, but not quite strong enougn
to keep the bill from passing.
Ml OLDS AWARDED
Tn findings filed Tuesday, in the
circuit court by Circuit Judge Walter
H. Evans of Multnomah county, M. D.
Olds, timber capitalist and former
owner of the Med ford Logging railroad
(nee P. & E.). is allowed $2500 dam
ages against William' Von der Hellen,
contracted, and Eugene Dietz, truck
driver. The damage suit grew out on
the burning or the Hagle Point dejwt
August 13, 1923. Vcfh'der Hellen used
the depot as a storage place tor oils
and gasoline for work on the Trail-
Agate. Bection of the Crater Lake
highway. Negligence against Von der
Hellen and Dietz was charged by Olds,
who In the original complaint sued
the state highway commission, the
state engineer and three other truck
drivers. ,
12500 IN DAMAGES
.''Perfect Lovers" Marriage Seeret .
Qut, Hollywood Is All a-Fhitter
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The picture above shows Lou Tcltogroii and Gcrnlriluo Fnrrnr as
tlicy started, on Uu-lr honeymoon ft fc; years ago.
HOLLYWOOD, Cal.? Feb. 18. His
torians of Hollywood's romances to
day were waiting for Lou Tellegen,
Oeraldine Fa?rars former- "perfect
lover," to come forward and give his
own version of his mnrrlnge to Isabel
Craven Dilworth, known tn the, stage
as Nina Romano, ) u UtCltwSS'ow Jer
sey town morethan a year ago.
Nearly everyone concerned with the
wedding, save only the bride nnd
groom themselves, had verified tho re
potr that St haS taken place, but the
TELEPHONE CO.
10SPENDLARGE
.
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. IS. Plans
for expenditure this year of $3,000,
000 in .Oregon by the Pacific Telo
nhone and Telegraph company were
kinnounced here today by C. E. Hick
man, division superintendent. Lxten
slons and Improvement to planjts and
equipment in oPortlind and several
cities of the state are Included and
long distance linesare to be extend
ed and repaired in some sections.
Besides $500,000 ottfUe spent In out
ride plnnts and the central office In
Portland, more than $000,000 on new
toll circuits and rebuilding present
long distance lines, the announcement
told of work planned In several cities,
including Astori:?, Klamath Falls, Sa
lem nnd Eugene.
After referring to the need of
spending $100,000, in additions at
Astoria, Mr. Hickman's statement
said: . . .
"Klamath Falls is another city In
Oregon whoi(fi population has increas
ed beyond all estimates In the past."
At Klamath Falls underground ex
tensions are planned in some of the
down town section and extensions n,re
to be made in aerial cables. 0
Nearly $50,000 Is to be spent nt
Salem for under&rouml cables and
for plant 'improvemertt. Long dis
tance lines out of Salem toward Al
bany, Sllverto?i, Aurora and cMc
Minnjille are to bg reconstructed.
Similar conditions to othose exist
ing In Astoria nnd Klamath Falls
exist in Kltirpnn wRere the enmnnnv
has expended large sums In the
year and where it is necessary to pro
vide additional capital investment,
said the announcement.
'The Noted Dead
WHITE PLAINS, N. Feb. 18.
Messages from Crescent City,. Fla.,
brought the news today of tl?o death
last "night of William Ryan, former
congressman from New York, a re
puted founder of the city of Denver
as well as operator of the first print
ing plant in Colorado, andfta banker
atsi'ort Chester, JV.
Kartnqunkn In St. Vincent.
Kingston, st. vincent. Feb. is
Advices received here from Gre
nada (British' island in the Windward
groun) announce that a prolonged
earthquake wns experienced there aw
10:40 o'clock 1 u'stnlght. The advices
make no mention of casualties or
damage, . . . ,
SUM
IN OREGON
more prosaic problem of (tho where
abouts of Mr. and Mrs. Tellegen re
mained early today an unsolved mys
tery. 0
One report had IPthat the actor and
his wife were In San Francisco and
would return today or tomorrow but
efforts to find themolh the northern
city wer unsuccessful. It was gen-1
erally ongreed by their friends hero,
however, that now that the marriage
secret was ou, thuyvould soon cease
AT KLAMATH IS
DANCE FEATURE
KCAMATH FALLS, Ore., Feb. 18.
(Special.) Unable to detect tho dif
ference between tho finger of Bob
Thomason and his brother, who wns
aiding him in a rouglihouso fight at a
dance at Malm early this week, Fred
Liskey chewed off the index finger of
his brother, Dave Liskey, thlnklneaall
tho timo that he was munching on
the finger of Thomason.
Dave Liskey,0ln the turmoil, folt a
strong set of molars munching on his
finger and could not free his hand
Thinking it wns his brother's opponent
he grabbed Thomason's finger and
started to chaw away.
The three-cornered chewing mntch
lasted (uir flwe minutes hefofb by1
stanuers pulled tne tnree apart.
Fred's finger was hanging by only the
skin and had to be amputated im
Imiediatcly.
Thomason mayeretnin his finger, nl
though it is feared that an Infection
may seto in0 and necessitate amputn-
Jtion. The Liskey boys of Malin ore
known for their chewing proclivities,
according to reports, Fred Liskey al
ready having two cars to his credit,
hey McCall and Charles Wiley were
tlfe two victims, it Is said.
IC.
FOR OFFICE IN
STATE ASSOCIATI
EUGENE. Ore., Feb.. 18.--L. L.
Thomas of Marshfleld, W. F. Kennedy
of Corvallls and J. C. Mann of Med
tord are the nominees for the position
nf president, vice president and second
vice president, respectively, for tho
Oregon Retail Merchants' association,
Vhlch is now "holding its twenty-first
annual convention in Eugene. .
L. L. Thomas, only nominee for nextJ
year s president, is the present occu-
J pant iff the position.
me, Following list or directors is
reported by tho nominating commit
tee: K. F. Douglass, Portland: B. E.
Slssons, Salm: W. L. usborne, Mc
Minnvlllc'A Dr. Norton, Bandon: C.
Van Fleet,- LaGrande: George B.
Sehaffers, Eugene; A. O. Hoffman,
Forest Orovc9 Charles Fraor, Marsh
field; J. F. Gyirrett, Hlllsboro; C. L.
Kehoenfeldt. Portland; A. A. Hull.
Corvallloj W. A. Lovelace, Reedsport,
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Eric Nelson, World
'Aviator Decorated ,
' By King of Sweden
,
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NEW YORK, Feb. 18. Tho
American-Swedish New? Kx-
change today announced that
King Gustnv V of Sweden had
conferred tho rank of Knight of
the Order of the Sword upon
"lieutenant Eric Nelson, one of
tho American aviators in the
uround-the-world flight. -W
Ail F. Wallenberg, Swedish
minister In Washington, on whose
recommendation the decoration
was conferred, has asked, thru
the gtate department, for tho
passage Ivr congress of nn at
authorizing Lieutenant Nelson to
wear the decoration.
"
SMS SPYING .
ON WIFE TOLD
.BY
Ben Harrison, Colored Detec
tive, Formerly in AgedoMil
Jionaire's Employ Tells of
His Investigation in Under
world of Denver.
CHICAGO, Feb. 18. (Ply the As
sociated t-Tess.) Letters underscored
n green and red and purporting to be
written In 1920 by W. 13. D. Stokes.
New York millionaire, to a confiden
tial agent, making investigations con
cerning "our Hfelen," were read Into
evidence toduy, in the trial ot Mr.
Stokes, charged with conspiracy to d.-
fame his estranged wife, llelon Ell-
wood Stokes of Donvor. ,
The letters identified by Benjamin
Harrison, negro, the investigator.
characterized as "nonsonce" Harri
son's report that certain persons men
tioned by Stokes nevr existed and re
proached him for walling to glvo sat
isfactory developing evidence against
"our Heion." ,
"Find out when and where those
pictures were taken," read a letter
with which apparently photographs
had been ehclosed, adding lhak Infor
mation had been received to the ef
fect that one was bolleved sto have
been taken behind a house of cloudy
reputation In Denver.
" Colored Cook Is Wanted
This letter Instructed the recipient
to moke Inquiry at former Denver ad
dresses ot A. S. Miller, "party's fath
er," as to .whether "party was married
and to whom." It Instructed the re
cipient to go to tho Denver address of
"Mrs. 8," and find out from whomahe
is receiving Jotters and from whero-
"What you have told mo about Mr.
cMiller Is ull nonsense," said another
letter., ,
"He never was In the stool business
and he never left more than $40,000.
What I wanted you to do was to talk
wllh the Miller's colored cook!"
Tho witness said he gao Mr. Stokes
intormaiion anoui a nuinuui- ui ,cr
sons, "but they did not seem to bo the
right ones."
"Have" you received the. $2000 'Mr.
Stokes proposed to pa? you when you
started to work for him?"
"Not yet," said the witness.
Harrison, whose, wife on the stand
yosterday said she would say "yes,"
H the question "is your husband hon-
.. it ' ha wnan't An,1 nnld
Stokes did not at first disclose his
identity, but. represented himself lis
aircnt for Stokes, seeking to settle some
property to which the woman namea
Helen had fallen Heir.
Harrison said Stokes told him It
would be hard to trace the woman as
she had gone under the name of Helen
Ellwoofl, Huleji Underwood and other
nnmes.
NEAR-GOLDEN GATE
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18. The
Canadian steamer Coal Harbour, Seiz
ed as a liquor runner by0 the coast
guard cutter Cahokla near Bollnas
bay last night, was towed Into Jiort
here today, the 14 members of her
crew placed in custody aboard the
vessel and tho work ot checking her
cargo begun?
A preliminary estimate by customs
officials placed the cargo at 10,000
cases of liquor, valued In market
prices at more than $000000.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18. Tho
steamship Coal Harbour of 284 tons
registry, which sailed from Vancouver,
EX-StEUTH
(iN VANCOUVER
ARMS PARLEY
IS LAUNCHED
BY COOLIDGE
.
President Has Approached the
World .Powers With View oP
Real bisarmament Prjogram
o England Agreeable At
titude of Franco and Japan
Not Known As Yet.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. (By As
sociated Press. j Tho principal powers
have been npproaFhed. by the United
States on tho subject of a new arms
conference.
ThusOfar tho discussions have not
reached the advanced pOlnt charac
terized as "formal negotiations," but
they have been followed up quietly
nnd persistently in all tho principal
capltalssof the world.
Officials hore'wlll not discuss what
obstacles may have boon encountered
or what measure of success may ap
pear to bo icld out bythe exchanges
up to the present.
The state department, after belng
advised that an announcement of'tho
move nnu oeon made by foreign Seo
rotury Chamberlain In he house ot
commons in London, revealed, that
similar conversations,had taken, placo
in l'nns, Tokio and other capitals.
but would not comment further.
Tho 'foolers" that have been put
out by Washington are Intended to
develop whether there has beon any
cnange in tne attitude of European
countries who blocked at the time of
the WashlnKtoji arms oonferonce. the
limitation of any class of land or sea
armament except capital ships.
It Is tho first desire of President
Coolidge to secure an agreement
which will end competition in auxil
iary naval craft. If somothing can bo
done too to limit land armamonta,
such step would be welcome here; but
tho Washington government is in
clined to regard that problem as a
European question. ,
au recent indications from Euro
pean capitals have been that tho
move contemplated by Ooneva has dl
nfinishod prospects of. success nnd
now faces a likelihood of suspension.
LONDON, Feb. 18. (By Associated
Press.) A new armament conference
which President Coolldgo would sum
mon has been mentioned hero "In
conversations with the American am
bassador and Is at present under con
sideration," Foreign Secretnry Austen
Chamborlaln announced in the houso
of commons today tn answer to a
question by Commander Kcnworthy.
Questioned further, Mr. Charles
Chumberlnln begged to bo allowed to
confine himself for tho present to tho
foregoing statement."
Klan Claims Its
Name Is Worth
A Million Dollars
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb, IS.
Suit for $300,000 and an in.-
Junction against tho use of the
name or any "part of the name
of the Knights ot tho Ku Klux
Klan, a Georgia corporation, was
filed In tho United States dls-
trlct court here today on behalf
of the klan, naming as defend-
ants the Independent Klan of
America with headquarters at
Muncle, Ind. The suit states
that the defendant Is wrongfully 4
using the name klan, which It
Is asserted, Is worth $1,000,000.
, B. C. BOOZE SHIP CAPTURED
BY REVENUE CUTTER
February o4. with a large cargo of
liqdor for South American ports, was
captured by the coast guard cutter
Cahokla near Bollnas Bay last night
while attempting to unload liquor and
towed into port at daybreak.
The Coal Harbour has been stand
ing40 miles outside the Golden Gate
for the past three days.
The Cahokla has been watching for
an attempt to land and tho capture
followed. 0 o
The Coal Ilffrhour, according to
Seattle reports, wus operated by the
Canadian Mexican Shipping company,
Ltd., of Vancouver, owners of tha
Quadra, which was seized off this port
recently, with a $500,000 cargo of
liquor and of tha 111 fated Speedway,