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Newspaper Page TextThe Statesman receives the leased wire report of the As sociated Press, the greatest sad roost reliable press 1 as sociation In the world. THE WIllTlIKU Fair; moderately Bortheter!r rind a. 6IXTT-E1GHTII YEAR KALKM, OREGON', FRIDAY M()U.MS(i, MAUUIl 21, IBIO rnjcE five o:vr Dim DIES AT HOME IK OREGON (M Clackamas County Senator afid PiatlVe OX Marion Conn-) tv Known Widelv for Wnrlr iy Inown niueiy I0r WOtti in State Legislature. NEWS RECEIVED HERE 1 BY GOVERNOR OLCOTT Constitution of L e g li la tor Weakened by Labors at Recent Session 1 ; OREGON CITY, Ore., March 20 , (Special to The Statesman) State Senator Walter A. Dimick, once rep resentative of Clackamas county in .the Oregon house of representatives and a member of the state senate at the las, five sessions of the leg Mature, died, at his home nre at had been, confined. to. his home for two weeks. Senator. Dimick. was 40 years old.(, He was torn In Marion '.county.. t '.... : - ; After taking an active part rathe laat session of the legislature. Sen ator Dimick was In a weakened phy slcal condition during the last, days of the session.! Several times he was absent from the senate chamber at roll call, which was commented upon as unusual. s Returning to his home here at the conclusion of the ; session he resumed his law .practice with his. cousin and law partner. Judge Grant B. Dimick. Tw weeks ago his physical, condition became such that he was compelled to re main at his home and had not. been at his office since., Tit's nature of his ailment was not ascertained, hut is believed to have -been complica tions arising from , a stomach .- all ment. : ' ! Senator Dlraicsf was born Angus 20, 1879, at Hubbard. Marion coun ty, on the old Dimick donation land claim. His early education was re ' celved fn the public school at Hub bard. Later he entered Pacific uni versity at Forest Grove wh?re ho was graduated wllli the class wf 1902. He was admitted to the orac tlce of law fa 1904 and immediately entered Into a partnership with Judge Dimick, his cousin. He b. ' came city recorder for Oregon. City In 190S and in 1909 was elected to the lower house of the legislature. , He was elected state senator for the seaslonof 1911 and had served in the senate . at every session since that time and was a hold-over sen ator for the session of 192 1. Senator Dimick was married in 1908 i to Miss Oro Caples of Forest Grove. Besides 'Mrs., Dimick, one -son, Norman, survives. ; i. .Senator Dimick was member of V the Elks lodge at Oregon City. Ar rangements for the funeral have not ' been announced. In th cemetery at Hubbard is 4be. grave of a younger brother, Ralph .Dimick; famous ia i (Continued on page 2) OCEAN SPADO) BY HUMAN VOICE Washington Officials, Using Wireless Telephone Converse With President Wilson on .Transport in Brest Harbor WASHINGTON, March 20 ! Should occasion i have demanded .- it- ' officials fn the country, could have talked directly to President Wilson by wireless telephone at any tima while he was returning to France on the George Washington, per. chief of the radio division of the naTy dePartment bureau of lteam engineering, said tonight that wireless telephone - message were sent .dally to the ship from the New Brunswick high power sending sta-i tion and thatxhe voice of the speak-1 e could be heard plainly on board ' a RACE RIOT DUE TO NEGROES IS STATE'S CHARGE I St Louis Blacks Are Said to Have Stored Arms in. City' Saloon DENTIST PUT ON TRIAL Slaying of Two Policemen Precipitated Trouble End ing in Thuty Deaths ST. LOUIS. March 20. Testi mony that arms and ammunition were imported t East St. Louis three weeks prior to the race riots and stored In a saloon operated by a negro was Introduced. today at the trial at Waterloo. 111., of Leroy N. Bundy, negro dentist, charged with murder? ia connection with the kill ing of two policemen July 1, 1917. which it Is said, precipitated ihe race riots the following day in which more than thirty- negroes were kill- sd and scores wounded. Witnesses declared crowds of ne groes were seen gathering in var ious parts of the ciljr in tne eariy part of the night and assembled in the Ghetto following the toiling or. a church bell. It was testified one gathering assembled at Bundy's gar age, but It was not ascertained that Bundy was In the crowd. More than 2,000 shots were fired following the murder of the police men, according to witnesses and the shooting did not stop until four o'clock in the morning. . Negro women with shotguns Wire as conspicuous as men. Jacob Schpck- harrit. a tmfer. testified. o . 'Special Prosecutor James A. Far mer said in his opening statement he would show ammunition was stored in Bundy's home and that Bundy was Instrumental In inciting the riots. The defensa will show Bundy at tempted to keep order among the negroes, attorneys for Bundy, said. German Delegation Leaves Posen Enroute to Berlin POSEN. March 20. (Havas)- j The German delegation left Posen i (today for Berlin." The allied mis- sion has returned to Warsaw. A Gentleman's Stylish Spring Shoes - Th Shoemaker's Triumph Zl - A very high grade chocolate Kid. backed with the 2 highest grade lining a very Important feature In ', 2, any shoe. Best oak soles welted. Workmanship. ' - thoroughly good. A pompous shoo at a; very Z humble price Indeed. Now being featured here at Seven Dollars Eighty - Five the transport even after it arrived to Brest. As the George Washington was not equipped with apparatus' power ful enough to send telephone messag es, the communications from New Bdunswick were I acknowledge br Wireless.-1" Commander Hooper stated. While the mesages were sent only as an experiment, he said, it would have been possible for Important communications to have been trans-J mitted In the- same manner. The use of wreless telephony over sucn a distance, - he said, did not constitute new record. COhIPTON IS RENM1ED AS Y SECRETARY Army Officer Returns to Duty in Salem When Discharge 'Is Received HIGHER PAY IS ALLOWED ' I Soldier Has Served in Philip- pines, on Boraer ana France in After ha had been over a year in France with the 162nd Infantry, Lieutenant II. Compton was last night reappointed to his position as general secretary of the Salem Y. M. C4 A. This announcement was made following a meeting of the board of directors. His appoiatment carries an Increase in salary. Lieutenant Compton arrived here only a few days ago from Camp Lewis, to which place he must re turn today. Within a month he ex pects to, receive his discharge and come to saiem per-manenuy. ne came to Salem about five years ago from Boise, Idaho, where he had been engaged in Y. M. C. A. work. He was here In the local branch un til the Oregon infantry was sent to the Mexican border an v again until the men left for France. Previous to coming to Salem Lieutenant Compton served in th Philippines with the regular army cavalry in the island campaigns. However, he received his commission in the na tional guard, when he became a member of the staff of Colonel Carle Abrams pf tha Third Oregon. He was wounded in action in the Philippines and als in his recent service In France. 439 Heirs Discovered to Estate of Hetty Green NEW HEDFORD. Mass.. March 19. William M. Emery of this city, a genealogist employed by the trus tees of the million-dollar estate of Sylvia Ann Jlowland, aunt of Mrs. Hetty Green, has prepared a list of 2,200 descendants cf Gideon How land. Frim this list h traced 39 heirs to the trust estate which was released for distribution by the death of Mrs. Green in July. 1916. X 4 Cents VALIDITY OF DRY STATUTE TO BE TESTED Distillers Will Attack Con stitutionality of the Federal Prohibition Amendment in Courts. SUIT TO BE BROUGHT WHEN PEACE COMES Emergency Prohibition Law Also to Be Tried Out Before Tribunal NEW YORK, i March 20. The committee or distillers of the Unit ed States, representing the entire distilling industry, announced to night that steps were being taken to attack the constitutionality of th? prjjiujj-jrt . Tt Mir nf Phiraen rn.iniul aTar.iTMt Instructed to test the emergency prohibition law after the treaty of peace had been signedAc tion :o bring about a judicial re view of th) eighteenth amendment, it was stated, would await the out come of referendum "elections la IS states v "atre petitions rallini for a popular. rote on the "bone drr ' en actment have been filid or are in circulation.- ; .Majority Vote Xeressiry. Mr. Mayer advised the commit tee that in states having referred tun laws and whose legislatures have ratified the amendment, the ratifi cation would have no effect unless a majority of the votes cat! In the elections favored tha amendment. The attorney al?o gave an opinion that if the war-time prohibition act i unconstitutional, manufacture of distilled spirits, forbidden by. the president under the fool conserva tion laws, could be lawfully resumed as soon as the war is ended. . In their discussion of measures to nullify , the federal amendment, ihe distillers named California. Wash ington, Orefon. Nevada. Idaho, Utah I Ohio, Missouri, Maine and Nebraska as states where referendum petitions have been circulated. An forty-five state legislatures rati f lid the amend ment, nine more than the necessary threefourths, the distillers', announc ed plan of action could not be car ried out if the people of more than lour states approved the decisions of their initiative bodies. The distillers' attack oo tho war time prohibition act follows the lines laid down y counsil'for the brew ers in their test suit filed hen- ys terday, alleging that tha lw had been enacted after the signing of the irmiatic-?. Tben it was beyond the power of congress to adopt mtsuren for the national security and de fense. Litigation I PoKtponcd. Members of the distillers com mittee declared that decision to with hold their litigation until the com pletion 'lof peace negotiations was based on a desire to proceed only after thj war emergency was for nialy dec a red a matter of history. It was,aid the suit would be brought against the collector of Internal rev enue and the federal district nttor ney "In some appropriate district." .While no distilled beverages fiare been manufactured since July first. 1917, under the food conservation regulations, no ban has been placed on marketing of stocks except that In the war-time prohibition act. which forbids sales and all with drawals from bond except for export purposes after June 30 next until the demobilization of the war-time mili tary forces. The distillers' committee wUh George F. DIeterle. of Cincinnati, as secretary has been in conference for the past two ays with members pres ent from all sections -of the country.' Big Naval Gtats Do Great Execution on West Front LONDON. Marsh 1. The blx United States naval guns, some of which have a range if 26 miles. dropped 789 shells on serent oUJec- uves on me western ironi aunns; the last few weeks of fighting with what a naval ruport prepared at headquarters here terms "remark able accuracy." Tha report says that they were among the ttrongest guns on the western front. Washington Towns Pledge Selves to League Idea SEATLE. Wash.. March 20. Twenty-tWo towns and communities In Washington at a. meeting here today called by the Leaen. to En- ! farce Peace, were pledged throurh their delegates to a campaign of ed ucation In behalf of the principles underlying the covenant of league of nations. !BAR TO ALIENS JOHNSON'S PLAN Representative Will Seek to Suspend All Immigration for Next Four Years ABERDEEN. Wash.. MarciJ im. Representative Albeit Johnson, who will be chairman of the house Immi gration committee in the .next con- grtss, will reintroduce on the first day of the session tbs bill provid ing for Ihe suspension cf all immi gration for the next four years, he announced on his arrival home to- day. , He will add ta the bill a clause providing for the deportation of all1 aliens who withdrew their applica tion for citizenship in oroer to evade the draft, and another clause pro-i vidlng.for the cancellation of. the i citizenship of naturalized citizens who agitate revolution and preach the overthrow of the -American sys tem of government. DUDLEY STORRS SURRENDERS TO SEATTLE POLICE Husband of Slain Woman De- nies Part in Alleged Plan to PoiSOn I GIRL STICKS TO STORY C 11 a r's- f "1 c J I thi city' the creJenli,' be aaid, he had sent a report on con Lallers at Lily Jail oenalditions in Russia as an explanation of his government's drire,"t Flowers and Notes to Miss Garrison SEATTLE, March 20. Voluntary surrender to the police of Dudley M Storrs. Okanogan, Wash., automo bile mechanic, and forwarding of a charge or abduction aralnst him by Prosecuting Attorney W. A.Gresh am of Okanogan coyny from here, were new angles In ttw eaje today Id which Ruth Garrison. 18. Is charged with first degree murder for the death of Mrs. Storrs yesterday by poisoning. " t -.- Mrs. Storrs died a few minutes af' ter eating a poisoned fruit cocktail in the restaurant of a department store. Yesterday MIm Garrison, the police announced, confessed to stir ring poison Into the cocktail be cause )f her infatuation for Storrs. Stoirs arrest ended a 'search for him that had been on ever since Mrs. Storrs' death on Tuesday. To officers who grilled him at police headquarters tonight he said he had come to Seattle as fast as be could upon learning of his wire's death. He denied, the police aid. that be had anp knowledge or Mis Garri son's alleged plan to do away with Mrs. Storrs. and corroborated fea tures of her story concerning his re lations with Miss Garrison during the periods when she visited him at Okanogan. All day long a stream of callers came to si'e Miss Garrison In her quarters at the city Jail. Flowers and notes expressing sympathy were sent in profusion. To caller ie said: "Now I know who my real friends are. . Prosecuting Attorney Drown to day endeavored to close all avenues of escape acainst Mi3s Garrison should she plead "not guilty. to morrow. A well known alienist, called to examine her, pronoutfeed the girl sane. . ' Should Miss Garrison plead guilty the laws of the stare require sen tence of life Imprisonment, no modi fication being permitted.- The new law restoring the dath penalty, has not yet come Into affect. COAST HIGHWAY TO BE TALKED Oregon Representatives to Thresh Matter Out To day at Portland PORTIND. Or.. March 20. A meetiag will be held here tomor row of representatives of seven Ore gon coast counties to organize a campaign of publicity for th Romc- yelt Highway project, which Is-to be placed before the voters next June for approval or rejection, earn tag a prsposed bond Issno for $2.100, 000 to finance the highway. . The project contemplates a paved highway along th Pacific Jcean from end to end of Ahe state. It is' planned as a link In an all-coast road which Its projectors hope will be extended from the Itritish Co lumbia to the Mxlcan border. German Workers Gain by -- Higher Wages of Wartime CO RLENZ." March 15 Saving's of German workers who profited ly the high wsr wages. Increased from a total or 25.000.000 marks In 1914 to 48.000.000 marks, in 1918, as thai shown by Coblenx bank reports now I t.it a puDiisneu. RUSSIA ASKS STATES TO RECOGNIZE SOVIET GOVERNMENT Representative of Socialist Republic Declares Russia Is Pre pared to Deposit Two Hundred Million Dollars in Gold for Purchase of Supplies Needed in Work of Reconstruction; Credit for Additional Purchases to Be Sought Later. FIRM FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA DECLARED LAID BY SOCIALISTS Peaceable Withdrawal of .'American Troops Is Desired; Investigation of Conditions Within Country Courted by Element Now in Power i " NEW YORK, March 20. As Ibe by the United States, the RuvUn iwviet povernraent U prepared t' deposit $200)00,000 in pold with American and European Lank for the purchase of supplies needed in reconstruction work, aeeurdins to a formal statement issued here tonight W L. t A K frir American representative of the Demidoff Iron and Steel Workrers llfi,0;! Asserting that he had received ficial representative ofthe soviet Mr Martens MiJ h forwarded t orimrui nu- mranwnue naa openea xemporaryr headauarters in re-establish normal relations between the two countries." Mr. Martens said In addition tc- the 1200.000.000 to be deposited to defray the oqst of Initial purchases. the soviet government was prepared to submit various propositions which he said hj biped would prove ac ceptable to American manufactur ers and exporters, looking toward establishment of credit for addition al government purchases. Ilorct of Trade t'Uanrtl Outlining his plana Martena said he Intended soon to establish per manent headquarters In this city on a scale commensurate with the pur chases he Intended to make. Ills plans, he added. 'called for appoint ment of a commercial attache and organization of a "board of tride ol soviet Russia. According to Martens, who assert ed that despita "silly reports con cerning the soviet government. It bad "laid firm the foundations for a well ordered developnent of their socltty." he was "empowered to state" that his government "is sin rerely anxious to hat hostilities cease In Russia and to enter Into agreements with the American gov ernment for the peaceable withdraw al of American troops from Rus sia." Projer IlrUtkm Ierr4. "On the part of the Russian so cialist federal soviet republic." re said. "th?re thus exists no obstacles 10 rne estaoiisnment or propr re lations with other countries, especi ally with the United States. The soviet government' of Russia is will ing to open its doors to citizens of oiner countries tor pursui. or. op portunity and it Invites any inves tigation of Its conditions, which in vestigation certainly will prove that peace a ad. prosperity la Russia will follow on the cessation of .h pres ent allied policy of nosr-in'ercourse with the soviet ."Russian government and by. the 'establishment of mater ial and Intellectual intercourse. Mr. Martens asserted that his gv ernment was prepared to purchase in this country great quantities of such commodities as railroad mater ials, agricultural Implements, ma chinery,, tools, mining machinery and - supplies, electrical sniplies. printing machinery, textile manu facturers, shoes and clothing, fsts and clothing, fats and canned meats, rubber goods. tyRerit-rs and office supplies, automobiles and' trucks. chemicals and medical supplies. Russia, he said, was prepared to sell flax. hemp, hides, bristles, furs, lumber, grain, platinum, metals and Kmlnerals. Scoff Admirers Purchase Author's Personal Effects LONDON. March 9.- An ancient Cheraton table, en which Sir Walter Scott wrote bis novels at 29 Castle street. Edinburgh, was sold here re cently at auction. With It went Sir Walter's chair, his Inkstand.- a Pn stand and a portfolio, bringing 270 guineas. Among other things which once belonged to the famous novel ist a pair of worsted slippers. Unemployed in Portland Are Fewer Than Week Ago nniwf ft vn tl.trh A T . I mimUr "nf nnrfnttlnwd In Portland dropped last week from 12.0' to 9.000. according to the weekly bul letin ti the department f laor. Th figures were received hr today In orlvato telegraphic advnees from Washington. D. C. Thre was large Increase. In th number of un employed In all other Urge cities of the Pacific oast. UNITED fin step to oblahnns rrroirtiition thU week EU anrointment a4 nf- eovernment in the Unit-.! Siat.- his credentials to the state dc IFIGHT ON DRY LAW IS BEGUN Washington State Secretary Declines to File Ref erendmn Petition OLTMPIA. .Wash.. Jlsrch 29. Attempt today by John F. Murphy. f Seattle, to file a petition for a referendum at the next geaesal el-c-tlon on the action of the recent leg islature in ratifying the national prohibition amendment, met today with -refusal by the assistant secre tary of state to except the pt-Ution. Court action to force acceptance of the petition will follow. , Grant Ilinkle. the assistant secre tary, made his decision after a con ference with Ira Ilonefinger. thief of the election division. Murphy was t!ien referred to Attorney Gen eral Thompson where arrantem i'a for a test suit In the courts were made. If the etrt o:ders the ref erendum petition flic d. Washing ons ratification of the national pro hibition amendment will b held up pending submission of the question o popular vote in November. 120. NE.YSPAPERf.IAN UNDER ARREST Bntte Editorial Writer Is "Charged With Bolsnerik Actirities nCTTE. Mont., i March 20. James II. Fisher, editorial write of the Rutte Daily' Rulletin was ar rested today on a federal warrant by officers of the department cf im migration, lie was glTen a prelim inary hearing on a charge of advo cating the overthrow by force o th United States government and ad- mitted to bail on bonds of 11000. Fisher. It is said, entered t he- United State? frim Cansa. July 2 v. 191S. under protest of the Immigra tion authorities. It Is charged that Fisher addressed a meeting of min ers telling them our day has corns, the day of revolution Is here. Conrf Decision Sends Up Price of Bootleg Staff CHARLESTON. W. Va March 19. Sine the deeuion of the Sarrm Court of th United Stat for? la ding th" transpo tatlon f Intoxicat ing liquor Into Wet MrZioli. th prire of "bootleg" wtUkey" na been frotn tS to 19 a pint In ChsrWt'-n. says Cbief of Pllre William A. Sparks. Christ Statue to be Cut to Crown Mount Rudidoux RIVERSIDE. Cal. Manh 20. To eriwn tae sunrrt of Miutt Ra t.Houx. near her. eallM -the Sintl nf Atneriea." a roale statu- o? Christ ia white ma"! l4wlJa b- fMv tied according to the plans 'of Fred erick Heath, artist and anhiutt. It became known recctitly.