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THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. ORE. SATURDAY. MAY 11. 1918. M ME GOVERNOR JUGGlfD ORKON'S FLAX - (Continued from page one) I 3 DAYS STARTING TOMORROW DOUG' 3 DAYS STARTING SUNDAY I I 'si . I f I ; j i I if . v -A I I- handled by Crawford. At the time Craw ford was discharged he said the profit would approximate $30,000, and the fig ures now published by the Statesman tend to substantiate this. But the gov ernor stoutly maintained that the indus try was a financial failure and giving that as his sole reason he refused to live up to the conditions of the eon tract made between the state and Craw ford. It was the 1915 legislature which, at the request of the governor, appropriat ed (50,000 for the flax industry and road building. About (40,000 of .hat sum was spent for flax and the other (10,000 for a rock quarry and roads. Left Entirely to Executive. As Governor Withyeombe had long f ill III IS MowwMenr.-.e :yn. c i, ' $ "? aiXifeSateafc j ' " 4 ainawnww y X IN You'll Like Doug' in Even ing Dress better than you Liked Him in Chaps and Sombrero BORGLUM DECLARES (Continued from page one) jvto wore for the purpose of trying to discredit him in the eyes olf the people and prevent public knowledge of the real condition existing in the aircraft production program. Ho said: "The charges of Mix and Mix's en gineer ero li unreservedly." Honglwm asserted that 3000 airplanes might foiave been am Franca in March to help stop the German drive if the Curtiss and the Wright-Martin com panies, who. ha claims, were the only ones prepared to construct planes, had been ipermittted to go abend on con tracts. He says they have been prevent ed from going ahead by "the opposi tion of a group in Ohio." An aibsolulte donial is made in hia statement, in every detail, that he was i evor secretly or otherwise intereatad in the manufacture of airplanes or that I he ever offered to use true confidence, me prerufm ior una pvinuiiui . vantage Ho Bay that he first met j Kenyon Mix through Mix's own eharg- j es against the aircraft board and 3 The OREGON DIRECT FROM HIPPODROME THE ATRE, RINALDO DUO Harmony Singing and Piano Novelty "WILD A RIOTOUS 5-ACT HIS LATEST AND GREATEST MR. FIX IT SAto: PRICES 1 " Colonel Deeds and Deeds' partners" . He repeated his charges of the mis managcauent of aircraft production . called the charges against him a "co lossal blunder," asked why a billion dollars in eleven mouths had produc ed nia .pianos aid demanded: "There has a :graver question aris en: Who is it that is so powerful that makes it dangerous to the character and honor of men who shall dare to ask this question!"' ARTILLERY USED (Continued from page one) positions behind Pare de Grwvesncs,. Bois de L'Alval, Framicourt and other places fronting the American sector Thursday night. New fires were observed in Moa.- didier and apparently a- ammunition dump was burned in CanMgny. A German patrol renewed the attempt to capture an Amr,fu outiiost but wus. repulsed. Cantigny is slightly more than fhr"C mjicg nort'heast of Moxdioier. Grieves- SPECIAL SUNDAY SHOWJ CARLOTTA THE HUMAN DRAGON WILD WOMEN" COMEDY DRAM A WITH HARRY CAREY BIG BILL HART In a Big 2-Reeler, "His Pal" via THEATRE Other Attractions PATHE WEEKLY EDUCATIONAL-SCENIC ncs park is about a nuio and a half i.vonsibility for harvesting it. Ohat north and slightl wObt of Cantigny i forced t",- isu of got uig a competent L'Alval wood is n mil; north of Can- superintendent. Some of tho board mem tigny. Framicourt U the sauio distant i bers who knew of Kobcrt Crawford sent cast of Canticnv. i f r him. He camo to Salem, looked over Wrting Letters to Mother. Wi Ui lia AnioriQna in PinvHv Affiv 10. Hundreds of letters will leave Pi- cardy for American mothers Sunday. In dugouts, on tables made from box.es, sol diers could bo observed writing today in their spare moments. Some were puzzled by the most touch ing of predicaments their mothers had died since tlwy had come to France. They asked if :hey could write to some, one else. Y. M. C. A. and Salvation Army work ers suggested the boys' Bisters or theit bunkies' mothers. BOISE WOMAN SUICIDES Rochester, Minn., May 11. Miss Tsa bell Savage, agod 22, committed sui cide by shooting hero early today. She left information indicating that Boise, Idaho, was her home. PORTLAND BROWN and JACKSON "The .Suffragette .and the Clubman" n -friv been an agriculturalist, the other two i members of the state board of control, which at yliat time had full supervision of the penitentiary, left the flax busi ness to the governor, who was taking 'particular pride in it. The board o. a d tne employment ol J. C. Cody, who was selected by the governor as superintends of the flax plant. Cady was pnl on the payroll at (3U00 a year. . The first year, in 1915, a fine crop of flax was grown. Every flax man who saw it praised its quality. Cady under took tn prepare tlwo flax fiber for mar ket. He chose the d.-.'w reting system for treatine the flax. He put tons of it Ion.; in the field in the fall after the fall rains had begun. The flax lay in i the rain and mud and, instead of ret ting, U-.-gau to rot. Reports of its con 'ditiou reached other members of the state board. Secretary of State Oleott j began to invesligate, and on November 1 24, 1915, he called the other two mem bers of tlw board iuto conference and !made a protest against the manner in which the flax was being handled by 'Cady. Cady Kept on Job. Governor Withyeombe defended Cady and' said he was satisfied atli coudi- !tions, i!iid said the flax was all right. I Sta ie Treasurer Kay sided witli th.3 gov , eruor. The result was no change was 'made, Conditions coutinucd to grow ! worse. Ton after ton of flax was ruin ed. The stacks of flax straw were not ! properly thatched and began to heat, ' and had to be removed and restacked. I Although a fine crop of flux had been crown, the first year 'a exuerimea; was Dracticallv a complete failure. I The flax crop of 1916 was planted by the farmers and made a good growth. About the time it was ready for harvest- ling, Superintendent Cady went away on 'a vacation, leaving no one to take care cf the crop exeep the warden of the i penitentiary, John Minto, who mado no pretense of knowing anything . about Warden Minto undertook to pull the 1 tin- and haul it in from the fields, bu. !l.e soou'ieporied to' the'stato board that jthy flux was so foul with wild oats anu ' weeds that ho would no longer assume the flux fields, which he found had be, n improperly prepared in tho first place and many of them were overrun with i weeds. But he suid he could save much of the flax Cady'Flred-Orawford Hired, Wken the matter came before the board, Governor Withyeombe iusis.cd on retaining Cady, but State Treasurer Kay, by that time, was ready to voto with Oleott to make a change. So Ol eott and Kay voted to employ Craw ford, while tho governor vojed to re tain Cadv. Tho W0,000 appropriation had boon all spent and tho board had borrowed approximately $10,000 to pay tho far mers for the crop they had grown in 1915. So when Crawtord asked lor tuo same salary that the governor had given Cady, namely $3000 a year or $250 a month, tho governor objected. He took the position tha the salary should be cut, and Kay offered as a compromise that an agreement be made whereby ! the state would pay Crawford $200 a ', month, but if ho pulled the industry out !of the hole and turned it infp a finan , cial success he would be paid the re maining $50 a month, to make his salary the snuie as hed been paid his predeces sor. That was the contract as finally 'made. Crawford was immediately placed in I charge of the work, and began harvest ing ths crop. Then he threshed it and Stored some in the penitcnijiary build ings and the nest was stacked in the field, where it went through the win iter without the least damage. ' He built retting tanks and )o a large ; extent substituted the tank retting for ithe dew retting method of treating the 1 flax, and rented all that portion of tho 11916 crop which has been marketed, j Governor Gets Complete Control ! The 1917 legislature met and the gov iernor asked that this penitentiary be taken from the control of the statu board of control and be placed under the ' exclusive aulhority of the governor. The legislature passed a law making the change. This gave the governor com 1 plete authority over the flax plant also. 1 Last fall Warden Murphy . of the pen itentiary and Crawford began to clash over the management of the flax plant. He and Crawford had several tilts over the mater. j On several occasions Crawford took these matters up with the governor, jwho usually backed him up. But as the 'friction between the warden and Craw ford became more acute, the governor ; sid?d with the warden, who was his own j appointee, and against Crawford, who I was forced upon him by the other .wo ; members of the state board. Murphy and Crawford Clash Crawford had most of the 1916 crop retted. A good grade of fiber was be ing turned out. The industry had been brought out of debt, and enough won,"? was on hand to repay the (10,000 which the 1917 legislature had appropiiatci 5o pay the money the board had bor VL I LlSaiPMHU.j SALEM Wants a man to by right ought to have. SALEM is entitled to a place in the sun. What governor has given this a thought? Not one! Ex-Governor Moody more than thirty-five years ago became one of YOU, and erected a stately home befitting his position. -What other Governor thought this worth while? LOUIS J. SIMPSON thinks it WORTH WHILE. He is now arranging for the purchase of a home in Salem, and if elected will make it a dwelling-place for the chief j executive of this state second to none elsewhere. He will live with you as one of you and will contribute his energy to make things WORTH WHILE. SALEM has had too many NON -INTERESTED, AB SENTEE and NON-RESIDENT governors. L. J.SIMPSON. (Paid adv., Simpson for Gov. Com.) rowed -when Cady plunged the industry into a hole. Crawford presented figures to show he would nt for the state a profit of about $50,000. Crawford Discharged. As a result of another elush between Murphy and Crawford, the governor dis charged Crawford. He said Crawford had made a failure. Crawford asked for the $50 bonus the 9tate had agreed to pay hiin. Tho governor refused ,0 give it, although Inter he offered to pay him $400, or half of ft. This amount Craw ford refused to accept, saying he was either entitled to nothing or tho entire amount. Crawford presented a stntemont ''o the governor showing that the stato's profit would reach approximately $30,000. The governor denied the figures and made a statement t show-that the indus.ry was a financial failure. Crawford Loses In Court Crawford took th matter to court, seeking a writ of mandamus to compel tho governor to live up to the state's contract. The case never went to trial on i s merits as the governor hid behind the technicality that tho governor, in his official capacity, could not be sued. The court sustnined this contention and dismissed the writ. Now, on tho eve of the primary elec tion, the Statesman, which is urging the governor 's re-election, publishes a flam ing editorial heralding th,e great suc cess the governor has mado of the flax industry, and point out that after all bills have been paid more than $22,000 is in the flux fund, and all the 191 crop has not yet been worked up. Only .liat portion of the 1916 crop which Crawford retted has Uocn worked up and marketed. Only Political Dodge. This is an eleventh hour attempt of the Statesman to overcomo the injnvy which has been done the flax industry by the governor's insistence that a fail ure was made of the flax business. The flux indusry in the Willamette vulley is not a failure. It is a proven success, and its greatest success has been achieved by Robert Crawford, evnn though ho was deprived of his wages by a chief executive who branded the in dustry a failure. Stocks Are Active In Wall Street Way New York, May 11. The New York Kvenirrj Sun financial review today said: Today's stock market was unwont edly active for a Saturday half ses sion, but price movements' were mixed with firmness underlying the general list. The Mtnndnrd issues were in but limited demand. There was brisk buy- j ing of some of the specialties. Cains wore one to about thrco points. Unit ed States Ste1 was irregular within more or loss narrow limiits, as were the other steel shares, the coppers and tho railroad lists. At the eral of the first hour news strength momentarily lifted the indus trial list to top prices for the day with steel above 109. Mtixed and un certain movements again supervened, however. Trading cnntinucid in goou volume with cross currents and profit taking. Further readjustment following the weeks relatively h-avy dealings was much in evidence American Ku matra Tobanco, after reacting to 113 responded with tho other totac0 shares to the removal of government restrictions on tobacco luaf imports. There was a trend to lower levels in all groups towards the closing. Many a Yankee soldier will take great pleasure in shooting a Onrmao tank just below the third vest but ton. - cut SALEM on the mac. and LABOR ADHINSTRATOR Fefix Frankfurter Will Have . Task of Whipping National Policy Into Form By Robert J, Bender (United; Frees staff correspondent) Washington," May 11. President j Wilson today placed in the hands of Fhx .Frankfurter, of New York and Wash.ing.ton, tho difficult' task of whip ping into definite form a national la bor policy for the war. Frankfurter's appointment makes him "ta.bor administrator" under Sec retary of Labor Wilson. Ho will imme diately co-ordinate under his direction the. work of all the numerous labor ad justment bodies now existing in tho government. Frankfurter 'a appointment is an acknowledgement of tho quasi-radical element in tho Mor movement. He ho been associated with tho so-called litboral element in the south, was a member of the president's investigat ing oommiitteo wihich went west and Inquired into the Mooney case, among others. He returned recently from a trip to England, whore he mado a care! ul study of labor conditions. MAY VOTE FRIDAY His Is Figuring On Basis of Primary Returns of Last Primary Election Secretary of State Oleott has just issuc a statement of the approximate regiwtration at tho close of tho regis tration books' 30 days before the coin ing primaries. This shows a t"tul of 305,778 registered voters divided among the parties as follows: Republi can 17S,80; democrats 8-U!.1; pro tfreorivPH 1270; prohibition tklMI; so cialist 7202 and thoso who declined to name uny polite- al preference, ii.'Hifl. ! At th 1916 primaries approximately! 100,000 of tho republican registration j of 101,819 vote); and of tho democrats appronimatoly 30,000 of'the 60 570 reg istered attended tho primaries, nn this basis the republicans this year should poll 123,000 vote and the democrats about 45,000. Tho total- roifist ration ot Minrion county is 11,171 of whom , 702 are republican and 3053 demo- ra'a. Tho registration in 1910 was H, 753, ftiwl tho increase in two year is 18. MuRnomah county's vote in creased from 77-408 in 1916 to 95,203 thU year. Tho total registered vote of tho stato increased from 241,474 in 1916 to 300,776 this year. NINE MEN COMMENDED Washington, May 11. Nine men wo axhibited special bravery in rescu ing survivors of th steamer Olenart Gilrttc, whmh sank February 28, were eommeniled today by Secretary of the Navy Daniels. TRY JOURNAL WANT ADS AI Ac. yvAKs H P II BELOVED TRAITOR GOtDWVN PICTUKty Ccnring to the Liberty theater tiert Thursday, rnday and Saturday , WHEY For Feeding Hogs CAN BE HAD AT TEE Marion Creamery Call or Telephone 248S .t 1,. Used FuTEflcre Warted Highest Cash Prices Paid foi Used Furniture E. L. STIFF & SON Phone 941 or 508 OREGON TAXI & 'BAGGAGE COMPANY Phone 77 Try Cur Checking System on Bnggngdk . Claim Checks for Every ParcU Handled. UNDERTAKERS '. W. T. BIG DON L. T. EI G DON Culls answered all hours day and night. ' Eea phono 111; Office Phone 183 252 N. 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