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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1918)
lHi ?TAmMAN RECEiyES THE LEASED WIRE REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS; THE GREATEST AND HOST RELIABLE PRESS ASSOCIATION IN THE WORL SI VTV.i-iiiiirn Yi Jyjy k 1 : "- 1 : - - ' V 1 ' ! KAI.KM. OUKHOX. St XI.V MOUMXti. MAY 'J, I91H . ritlCK FIA'E CENTS r W. R. Horner, Taken in Cus tody in Seattle, Tells of Murdering Mrs. Bassett and Two Daughters at Night in Tent SHOOTING FOLLOWED ARGUMENT IN NIGHT Man Reluctant to Make Con fessionSays Husband's Death While Hunting Was Accidental SEATTLE, jWash.. May 23. W. R, Horner, a mill worker, who was arrested Friday night in ' Okanogan county by officials investigating the murder of Mrs. Nellie Basset and , her two children at Kelso, Wash., 1 on May 17, at midnight confessed to the trlpli killirg, according to Sher iff John Stringer. The confession, according to Sher iff Stringer, was made when Hor , ner, after stoutly maintaining his in nocense after a severe cross-examination, broke down when the pictures of the bodies as they were found In a tent near the Pacific highway, were dramatically thrust before hia eyes. "I did it! I did it!" be is alleged to have declared brokenly. "We were sleeping: in the tent when sha woke up in the middle of the night and Insisted on my marry ing her. I refused, and we got to quarreling. I remember, seising the rifle and shooting all of them as they lay in their beds." Horner, however, stoutly protest ed that he did not kill Fred Bss- sett, husband of the murdered wt- (Continued on page 6) 1 MEN'S EXTRA TROUSERS i Every thread of Wool or Cotton is extremely valu able these days. Many fa coat can be made to do j double duty with an EX- ! TEA PAIR OR TWO OP ! TROUSEES. We have on han4 a splendid line of these "extras" a good assortment of patterns and qualities at prices that look like special bargains compared with manufac turers quotations. Buy Pants and save a Suit. KHAKI PANTS BETTER, STRONGER, CHEAPER THAN GOOD OVERALLS Boys' Sizes $1.65 and $2.00 Men's Sizes ;....... . ... .$1.90, $2.25 and $2.85 . Sizes up to 48 waist. We. C er; rzy Complete lire of -THOMSON'S -GLOVE-FITTING CORSETS KNITTING YARN We have just received a fresh supply of genuine Flcisher's Grey Knitting Yarn for Socks. Do your knitting for win ter storms while the sun shines. The supply is limited. SPORT STRIPE PERCALES 15c Good quality Percales worth several times the price. Come in combination stripes of white with various shades of blue, red and green, also black. Former price, 30c a yard, now 15c Some Dealers in Danger ' of Violating Orders! "jF uiaipr id nour wno tooK a flour dider yesterday or before and deliveries it tomorrow will be violat ing orders of the federal food admin istration, for a wheat S3 period has been declared from May 27 to May 31. This Information is furnish I by P. W. Steuslorf. food administra tor for Marion county. As soon as announcement was made that the period from May 27 to 31 would be wbeatless some people bepan hoard ing wheat products. A meeting of all dealers and retailers is called for 2 o'clock. May 31, when further de tails of the order will be given and a positive plan of action arranged. During the stated period all sales ai stopped except to bakeries and logging camps. The serious shortage of wheat is the reason. WOMEN BURNED IN WORKROOM Red Cross Bandage Makers Caught in Fire One Loses Life in Smothering Blaze NEW YORK. May 25. One wo man Red Cross worker was burned to death here today and another bad ly seared In a fire which destroyed the printing establishment of Walter N. Brunt, where 40 of the workers were engaged in turning out Red Cross bandages. Mrs. II. M. Lambert sacrificed her life when she attempted to smother a pan of flaming celluloid with her apron. The fire caught the dress of Mrs. Kate Brand, who was working along side of Mrs. Lambert. Miss Marg aret Morgan, secretary of the com pany seeing her plight, rushed to her aid and carried her to safety. Mrs. Brand was badly burned, however, before her clothing could be extin guished. Miss Morgan was unin jured. Six Hundred Men Taken : In Custody Jy Posse PHOENIX, Arix.. May 23. More than COO men have been taken into custody by a posse acting under the direction or United States Marshal Dillon in rounding ut alleged draft evaders !n Phoenix tonight. Squads of deputies invaded motion picture shows, billiard rooms, restaurants and clear stores, arresting all men of draft age- who were unable to i show classification cards. As fast as arrested the men were placed in a stockade. IP v i iv'. DEVOY CALLS SINN FEINERS PLOT A FAKE Editor of Gaelic-American Brands Exposure False Denies He is German Inter mediary CONSPIRATORS ARREST CALLED UNJUSTIFIED Only Opposition to England Avowed Movement Against Conscription NEW YORK. Mar 25.- John De voy, named in the British press bu reau's official exposure of alleged German Sinn Fein Irish uprising plot, as an intermediary, in America be tween Germany and the Irish leaders, issued a statement here tonight branding 'the London announcement as "an Impudent fake." Devoy is the editor of the Gaelic-American, an anti-British weekly newspaper pub lished in this city. Declaring that there was no con spiracy justifying the arrest last wee kof 500 Sinn Feiners, Devoy also asserted that the "never ' had any dealings directly or indirectly with and agent or emissary, official or un-officlal, of the German govern ment since the United States entered the war." Devoy termed the British announce ment a "re-hash of old stories' and said they were brought up to date "by the addition of the later inven tions." . Iledirules Announcement. He ridiculed Premier Lloyd George's announcement of "a con spiracy for a great rising in Ire land" and the statement that "no taunts would drive the government to give away the sources of its in formation" as an admission by the prime minister that "the evidence will not stand the test of an exami nation of court." The sole object of the charges made officially in London, Devoy said, is to create antipathy to Ireland in America. Irish leaders In the United States have bad no dealing with Ger many since this country became a belligerent, he stated. ' The only opposition to England In Ireland, he continued. Is an open and avowed movement to restrict con scription. " Devoy first obtained nation-wide notoriety when after the unsuccess ful Irish rebellion of Easter week, 1915, he accused President Wilson of giving information to the British government which betrayed Sir Roger Casement and frustrated the German plans to land arms and munitions in Ireland in support of the uprising. Later be modified his accusations, naming state department officials in stead of the president. STATEMENT IS BELIEVED LONDON. May 25. The bulk of the newspaper opinion In London ac cepts the statement issued by the Press Bareau as convincing proof of the guilt of the Sinn Fein leaders and of the probable guilty knowledge by their followers of the progress of the conspiracy. Accordingly, the government's ac- rtion is endorsed as wholly justified. Some regret is expressed that evi dence of the latest Incidents cannot be dtvulred as fully as in the matter of Sir Roger Casement's plot, but mis is not held to Invalidate the case against any of the men under ar rest. r. S. GUy BOAT STRIKES ROCK SHANGHAI. Wednesday. May 25. An American gunboat proceeding to Chung King struck a rock ten miles from Ioring Tuesday. Al though badly damaged she succeeded in returning to port. SOLDIERS AND MOB IN FIGHT- Rioters Attempt to Burn City Hall Garrison Regiment Called Out , HALIFAX. N. S.. May 25. The wildest riot in the history of this city occurred tonight when returned sold iers attempted to rescue other sold iers who had been arrested by the po lice. ' The mob tried to wreck and bum the city hall and the police headquarters, cut the hose when the fire department arrived, and forced tha firemen to retreat. The mob held sway until the gar rison regiment arrived with loaded rifles. " Hundreds of marines with loaded rifles and fixed bayonets. landed from warships, secceeded in dispersing the crowds. Several persons were . Injured, in eluding three police officers. The damage to the city hall. will amount to several thousand dollars. SALEM TO GET . WAR CONFERENCE Two-Day Session Early in June Is Plan of Gill and Steusloff The Salem citizens who attended the war conference In Portland, this week brourht back with them an impress and impulse of patriotic en thusiasm which is to be projected in to every section of. 'Marion county if plans now forming are carried through. It is the desire and pur pose of the Salem delegation that the inspiration or the conference shall bear fruit here, both in de vising ways and means for war serv ice and in stiffening the morale of war workers. Manager R. S. Gill, of the Salem Commercial ? club, and Chairman Steusloff of the county defense coun cil are now bard at work upon the arrangement of a two-days war con ference to be held in this city in the fore part of June, with the determin ation that It shall bring about a closer coordination of forces in all branches of war activity, in short to put Marion county on a war basis. It is the plan of the Commercial club and defense council to secure some of the best .speakers obtain able to follow out the lines of the Portland conference In discussing' the work of the food administration, war savings. Red Cross work, the home guards. etc These subjects have been thoroughly canvassed from the platform and through .the press. What is now needed, it is held, is to briqg them home to the heart of the individual citizen as matters of vital, personal Importance. To make the conferences more at tractive it is proposed to introduce special musical features and patriot is demonstrations calculated to stir the blood. Efforts will be myJe to secure the heartiest cooperation in this event on the part of every circle of life in Salem. DEFENSE YILL TRY TO PROVE TEACHER INSANE Mental Disorder Thought Inherited-Miss Lnsk's Moth er Attempted Suicide DOCTOR GIVES' OPINION Murderer of 'Mrs. Roberts Constant Sufferer From Headaches WAUKESHA. Wis.. May 26.- Grare Lusk. completed telling the story of her life at her trial for slaying Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts today and the defense immediately began the examination of expert .tes timony to prove her Insane. Dr. H. W.. Powers, formerly of Chicago, and now a resident of Mil waukee, in answering a hypothetical question nearly 5000 words In length, declared that in his opinion the defendant was not of sufficient mental capacity at the time of the tragedy to distinguish between right and wrong and that she was suffer ing from paranoia. The question cited at great length Miss Lusk's early History, the fact that she frequently suffered from headaches which rendered her un able to perform her duties as a school teacher; that there was an apparent strain of Insanity In her family; that Just before meeting Dr. David Roberts she had suffered a nervous breakdown, and her rela tions with the veterinarian. Earlier in the day the prosecution succeeded in Introducing a copy of "Love and Marriage." a book by El len Kay. which Miss Lusk reviewed In a paper for a woman's club. Miss Lusk. who was on the witness stana. protested against questions regard ing her review of this work, declar ing tJhat the had written other things, asking "why don't you bring those up?' After Miss Lusk left the stand her aged father. A. P. Lusk. was called when he was on his honeymoon his wife attempted to commit sulde because of some trivial remark he had' made. More alienist! will be called to testify for both the prosecution and defense when court opens Monday. FUND PASSES QUOTA. WASHINGTON. May 25. With subscriptions to the American Ued Cross second war mercy fund esti mated now at more than the mini mum quota of $100,000,000 workers in the campaign rested tonight in preparation for a strenuous closing day Monday. Officials-expect a big outpouring of dollars at the finish and ezpressed confidence tonight that the fund would be baTHy oversubscribed. WARNYOUTHS EXCUSES ARE OF NO AVAIL War Department Will Not . Tolerate Slackers on Pay Set for Registration CR0WDER URGES STUDY OF DRAFT REGULAT0NS Burden of Performing. Duty Rests on Individuals For getfulness Banned WASHINGTON, May 23 The war department today issued a warning to all youths attaining the ages of 21. on or before! June 5 that they Must present themselves for regis tration on that day. No excuses will be tolerated, the department said, except when the person is actually In the military or naval service. The department's warning says: "Draft officials wish it clearly un derstood that no person who has at tained the age of 21 since June 5, 1917. or who will attain that ace on or before June 5 is excused from reg istration on June 3 unless on that date he is an actual and active mem ber of the military or naval serviee. Persons not subject to registration on account of being in the military or naval service become subject to registration and are required to reg ister Immediately upon leaving such military or naval service. Any such persons discharged after June 5 must register immediately after their dis charge." Provost Marshal General Crowder urging young men to study the draft regulations, today Issued the follow ing statement: "It 6hould be clearly understood that registration is a public duty. It Is distinct from selective, service. In that it is fuerely preliminary to the later process of selection. For fail ure to perform their duty congress has provided a penalty of imprison ment for one year. Furthermore, such iilure may result In the loss of valuable rights and privileges and immediate induction, Into military service. "No delinquent can be excused for not registeYing on the grounds that he forgot or d'd not realize his duty. The burden is on him and on hhn alone to perform that duty, and he alone is responsible." Submarine U-65 Forced Inside Limits of Harbor MADRID. May 25. The German submarine U-65 which entered the port of Santander yesterday morning was forced to come into the harbor because the accumulators of the ves sel had been damaged. The sub marine is one of the 500-ton class and acrries one deck gun and two torpedo tubes. A Spanish gunboat has. been sent to Santander to convoye the sub marine to Ferrol for Internment. The crew of the U-boat has been intern ed In the inner of the country. Baker Defends "Work or Figkt "War Regulations WASHINGTON, May 25. Formal denial that Provost Marshal General Crowder's "work or fight" regula tions were promulgated with intent to affect labor conditions was made are purely military measures, tne, secretary said, designed to . modify certain provisions in the way of de ferred classificrfjon in the draft now granted some registrants and are not intended as an Indirect conscription of labor. GERMANS OPEN SHIP PASSAGE Vindictive, Sunk at Ostend in British Raid, Shifted To ward Piers LONDON, May 25. The Germans have succeeded In' shirting the con crete laden cruiser Vindictive sunk in the harbor or Ostetd on May 10 by British raiding forces. The Vindictive, according to the Tithes, is now lying close alongside the eastern piers leaving a passage about 30 feet wide. This Is enough to allow destroyers to go In and out but nevertheless the Germans are not using the harbor. . Unsuccessful attempts have been made by the Germans to dredge a passage between the two old cruis ers sunk in the harbor or Zeebrugge. A German destroyer sunk this week by bombs dropped by British naval airmen lies close to the cruisers. The basin at Bi ugeeJ which is con noted with both Ostend . and Zee brugge Is full of German shipping but the canal Is not being ased. More Peasant Uprisings Against Rule in Ukraine MOfCOW. Saturday. May 18. Peasant uprisings against the new government In Ukraine are reported In the evening papers. In the Tchernigov government, the peas ants drove out the new officials and dereated German-Ukrainian troops s?nt to suppress the movement la Poltava. The peasants were victor ious in a battle with the troops which lasted three days and resulted In heavy lossesp ; Peasant opposition and a strike by railroad men as a protest against the new regime are greatly Interfer ing with the export of grain to Ger many from Ukrainla and the special commission in charge of exports Is temporarily Inactive. General von Eichhorn. the German commander In Ukrainla. has urgently requested that a large number of railroad men be sent there from Germany. GRANDJURYTO MEET MAY 29 Several Interesting Cases to Occupy Attention of Com ing Session There Is prospect of a busy ses sion for the grand Jury which will convene on Wednesday. May 2f, though the majority of the matters coming before the body will be of minor Importnee. Otto Bark is held to the Jury on the charge of burglarizing a school house sear Woodburn. The case of Saun Louie, the Chinaman who was as saulted some weeks ago in the eat ing bouse in the basement of the Hubbard building, will come up for Investigation. A case on non-support and a ease of adultery are in view, and there will be the Investigation of a druggist-accused of selling a certain brand of "bitters' In too generous quanti ties to certain customers. NAVY RESERVES HAVE QUARTERS AT 385 STATE Class A-l Men Who Can Se cure Release 'Are Eligible For Enlistment TEN DAYS BEFORE CALL Government Navy Yard at Bremerton Is First Desti nation Rrecrulting headquarters for .the United States naval reserves who are due to arrive here Monday for a three-day campaign for recruits will be located In the Red Cross head quarters at 35 State street. Men who are registered In the Class A-l draft and who can secure a release from their local board ma enroll In the naval reserves. Those enrolling In the naval re serves will not be called for a period of ten days after which they will be sent .to the ruret sound navy yard at Bremerton. Wash., for detention of twenty-one days. At the end of this period they are transferred to a naval training station either at Bremerton or to the naval training station at Seattle for their training. The period of training la these training stations avearge from three to five months after which tb& men are sent to sea. While In deten tion the menare given the manual of arms, squad 'movements and all mil itary drills. They are given amuse ments with "mo vies, smokers, rac ing crews In small cutters on the har bor, basketball, baseball and attend dances. Uncle Sam's tars receive the best of amusements, food and drill. The best of medical care is provided. FIRST y. MC. A. 3L1XKI LLED. PARIS. May1 23. Rer. Robert Wellwood of New York City, was killed Mar 1 by a shell fragment while working among Chinese coolie laborers behind the British lines. He was the first Y. M. C. A. secre tary to be killed In France. Mr. Wellwood was a British subject but for a lone time had been a resident of New York. The man who has charge of the lake on my place Is an original chap. I told him not to allow any stout persons to go on it at present, and he put up a sign Thin ice for thin peo ple. M Boston TranscrlpL Ouimet and Anderson Lose in Red Qross Golf Match NEW YORK. May 25-Jerom Trsf ers of the Upper Montclalr. N. J Country club, and Oswald Kirby of the En el wood Country club, defeat ed Francis Quimet. the Boston golfer. and John Anderson of the Stwaooy Country club. Mount Vernon. N. .Y.. in the four ball Red Cross match at the Garden City Golf club today. U. S. ALSO liODI .1MB Severing of Diplomatic Rc! tions Between Cuba tz Mexico Felt to Be Indlrc: Action Ak?t This Ccz: try ' , i DETENTION 0FFABELA HELD REAL GRIEVAKC Minister's Luggage Sesrc!:: by Official Thcagbt Gv. eminent Agent Setkbj P: pen WASHINGTON. May Ui, suaden breaking off diplomat; relations with Cuba is roea an lni. reet action against the United State Those here most familiar with Lati American affairs profess to see la ! the forerunner of more direct aeticr possibly an interruption of Inter course between the United States an. Mexico. Although without official Infor mation of a detailed character, it t understood thst Mexico's real grier nce against Cuba Is tha recent lac: dent la which the Mexican mlnlitc to Argentine. Senpr Ysldro FabeJ.i wss delayed la IlaTaaa while son, official, ostensibly a Cuban cnttor inspector, .reached his baggage at probably removed some papers s&! to be of an International character This Incident Is believed here t he -the real cause of the break an: those who entertain tls belief ar firm In the conviction that MexJc was convinced that the United Statr was responsible for the Incident, ILgrals Is Rasperted. " When Senor Fabela's luggage wa searched It was maintained by son: that the person who did it was not Cuban official at all. but some tfct agent in the disguise of a Caban ia spector or gendarme.- Later, how ever, it seems to have been aatUfa' torlly established that .the man nil ly was a Cuban Inspector. A break between Cuba and Mexico It Is felt disrupts practically notblc but a long-standing friendly relation In the opinion or those in close tour1 with the subject. It niir jrtni!' give Cuba a free hand, as the Mexi can fr reign minister says la his an nocneement. but perhaps not In tt maner sugicestcd. America area? for some tine have beea report! ar German agents operating In Cuba some of them crossing frequently t the United States as Cuban cMlier or Mexican citizens. A. wTfranc n' diplomatic relations probably won'. ! leave the cunaa government reelin- more at liberty to Investigate the ac tivities. When first class novrrt mrm ma- cerned. a break la diplomatic rela tions inevitably has been followed by war. Between leesser xtowers til rule often falls to hold good. IXTERPRETATIOX8 DrFFETi, HAVANA. Msy 25. The exact sit nation with reference to the diplo matic relations between the Cubaa and Mexican republics Is difficult to define in view o fthe wide diverg ence of interpretations placed on tb departure of the Mexican eJurge d affaires from Havana who btfore tailing paid a courteaus and frlenl) visit to President MenocaL Apparently his departure tad nc more significance than that of am other diplomat returning home t make a report to 4s government That the Cuban charge In Mexico ia been recalled recently Is merTy coincidence and not connected wltt anv question pending with Mexico. Sob-secretary of State Patteror stated to the press that the report! that the diplomatic relations hav been broken off were groundless anf1 showed a dispatch from the Cubar charge In Mexico. Senor Santa Maria stating that the latter bad been in formed by the Mexican minister o foreign relations that the recall o the Mexican charges does not contl tite. 4i rupture of dlnlomat'e tela tions. THE WEATirEK Sunday fair, except shower ft treme northeast portion: moderat winds, mostly westerly. . T,