FIRST SECTION Pages 1 to 8 ? SEVENTIETH YEAR SALEil; OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19,' 1920 : :: ;;VV: ' ' v v V , V PBICE; FIVE CENTS ANARCHIST PLOT IS DISCOVERY Brailoviky, Publisher of Radical Newspaper Ar rested Last Night After 8 Hours of Questions DAMAGE WILL EXCEED MILUON DOLLARS l Every Possible Means Jo Be Used o Locating Bosh Plotter! .NEW YORK. Sept. .18, Inves tigation of the explosion In Wall street Thnrsday noon which cost 3S lives and did property dam see exceeding $1,000,000. broad ly divided itself tonight into two seDsrate channels. ' Firm In , their belief that the disaster was - caused- by a time bomb planted by a band of an archists, who were also implicat ed in the mall bomb plots in June, 1119, department of Justice In vestlgators, headed by Attorney General Palmer and William J Flynn. chief of the department's bureau of investigation, have cen tered their efforts in seeking the identity of the person or persons who deposited five radical circu lars in a mail box near the scene just a few minutes before the ex plosion. Sure Death Is Threat. These circulars, printed on cheap paper' and signed "Ameri can Anarchist Fighters.? threat ened "sure death for all of you unless the "political prisoners' were treed. They bear striking likeness. Chief Flynn pointed out, to those found in the invest! ga t!ons of Jtlne. 1)19. Meanwhile police investigators Were eoncen trating their attention on trying to establish , the identity of the driver of the dilapidated wagon, abandoned near the J. P. Morgan , & Co. bank a few minutes before t. explosion . and' which-Is be lied to have contained the In l.rTial machine. -, '.Experts In the police bomb , squad, who have examined and 'pieced together metal fragments believed to have been part of the bomb, declared the deadly mlssTIe apparently weighed about 500 pounds, 200 of which were the explosive itself. f V ! ' Italian Is Arrested. . it Department of justice agents late today arrested an Italian stowaway on 'the outgoing steam ship Cedrie on suspicion he , may have been Implicated In the plot. He was questioned and later re leased, agents stating he had es tablished his Innocence. .'.The only other man detained is Edwin Fischer, lawyer and for mer employe or the French -high commission here, who sent post card warnings of the disaster to friends In the financial district. He was turned over o the police of Hamilton. Ont, yesterday Fischer was later adjudged men tally Incompetent by a lunacy commission and temporarily con fined in the Hamilton Jail. ? Fischer .Not rn Vnion. ; r Local police investigators have been' sent to question him, and If . he has direct knowledge of the explosion, to bring him back' to New York If possible. Fischer claims to have received notice of the Impending disaster by "men tal telepathy." Chief Flynn ex pressed, the opinion that Fischer is in no way connected with the explosion itself. ' . -. . Police department officials ad mitted tonight they had uncov ered nothing new during the day which would aid' in solving tha mystery. No one, has been found, they said, who knew the owner of the horse and wagon which ere blown to pieces by the Wait. --.- f ' Developments Slow. One blacksmith, after -being "own tha shoes and hoofs of the dead horse, told the police he be , iteved he might throw light on e Identity of the horse and its !f n.ev At noon ho went to look uaaij aismembered car .ffJ'J wnea he ,eft the police Heads of the various detective conferred' with Chief In tKl, Uhey' but apparently th. a on.f,rence added nothing to ay'a developments. i;,ti,e,.of rood, five by WIlTed to be part of the fi5raJfn,w,5on;" wa foond y to?.. enJ ot in8t,ce operative zitfc B the w,ado ledge ot the ll Sn?031".0! the inkers' Trust Riding at 14 Wall ,treet T. Anonymous Letter. WreiTl,terJ0f the anonymous Rnmt!1 the police that he H v ,n l tno comer of Pine 18faa streets, near the -teV.JS? tx,OBion about 20 Vir ik r tbe etonatlon took f , ; vrUervdeclared that LJpf to be In a jubl- tl t poIice said, aamit- - . the place but saTa tiJued on page 1. WOMAN IN COMMAND SIBERIAN BOLSHEVIKI .MR. BAKER SAYS JAPANESE ATTACK FIRST Chine Mariners Saved British f and . American Residents From Slaughter HONOLULU. T. H., Sept. 18. That the massacre of Japanese at Nikolalevsk. Siberia, last March when several hundred persons were put to death by the bolshev ik i. was in reprisal for acts of the Japanese military forces there wa declared today by Edward H. Bar ker, a mining engineer, ot Van couver. B. C, who arrived here today on. his way home from Si beria. , ... :' Mr. Barker.) who had been sta tioned at Orksk, a town on the Ural river, 155 miles southeast ot Orenburg, said he and Mrs. Bar- ker had spent some time in Niko- laievsK ana naa oeen eye witness es, or the events he recounted. According to Mr. Barker's ac count, the Japanese "forces at Nikolalevsk attacked the head quarters of the bolshevik I. and. when the bolshevik! sent out en voys unaer a wnite liar to ar range a truce, killed or tortured them. It was reprisal for this, he said, that the bolshevik! attacked the Japanese forces and residents In the town. Chinese marines, landed from gunboats, rescued the British and American residents of Nikolalevsk from the bolshevikl. he declared. The second in command ot the bolshevikl. he said, was a woman who: personally shot many pris oners . in the Nikolalevsk jail for her own amusement. SIXAQUTaTED AT SEATTLE Found Not Guilty by Feder al Court on Charge of 1 " False Claims SEATTLE, Sept 18. Six indi viduals and the Grays Harbor Motorship ' corporation, charged with conspiring to defraud the government through the presen tation of false claims for bonus in connection with war-time ship construction were found not guilty by a jury in federal court here today. The defendants were Bruce C. Shorts, Montr Ward. A B. Shay, and A. S. Hoonan, officers of. the Grays Harbor corporation," ant! Captain .W. A. Uagee and A. E. Hunt, former north Pacific dis trict of the emergency fleet cor poration. Albert Schubach, pres ident of the motorship corporation indicted yesterday on the original charge, was released yesterday af ter a direct verdict of acquittal. Indictment of - the defendants followed an Investigation by de partment of Justice officials of al leged frauds in the Pacific coast war-time shipbuilding program. Other indictments returned charged officers of the Seaborn Shipyards company, Tacoma, Wash.. Captai Magee and Captain John F. Blair, former shipping board official, with having pre sented false claims to the govern ment In connection with ship con struction. , i-OT. In the trial concluded today the government alleged the Grays Harbor corporation and 'its offi cials sought to procure $7,500 bo nus for advance delivery of a hull on rwhlch extension of time had been granted on recommendation of; Captain Magee and Hunt. ;The defense argued that the extension ot tlm was necessary because of 'ailure or the government to de liver steer necessary In the build ing of the "hull. The government contended the steel was delivered In advance but was used to make a record construction- ot another1 hull. . t . ;:'V; Trial of charges against the Seaborn Shipyards company and its oficials is expected to begin next week. Captain plain's Is set for September 24. ; : 'V7 ' ' '. ' ' rr1 Fischer Confined to p Hospital Two Times WHITE PLAINS. N .Y.. Sept 18. Dr. William M. Russell, med ical superintendent of Blooming dale hospital, said today that Ed ward P .Fischer, who issued the warning concerning the New York bomb explosion, had - been con fined In the hospital in 1905 for about 18 months and again In int. ;, ? -y.- J. R. dela Torre Bueno. of White Plains, saM today he at tended Columbia University with Fischer in 1886. ' " Covernor Harding Speaks For Senator Harding HOOD RIVER, Ore.. Sept 18. W Hard Ins. governor of Iowa, standing on an Improvised plat form in the center of the grounas. today was greeted by a crowd of persons attending the Hood River fair as be addressed them in an appeal for their support for Sena tor Harding for the presidency. Governor Harding's speech was chiefly taken up with a scoring ot President Wilson's league of na tions. -"V! ' - SILK TRADE TS IHKJST, TOKIO. Sent 18. Business leaders todar welcomed the ov eminent announcement that It would assist efforts to remove de- Dresslon In the silk trade by ex tending a loan of 65,000,000 yen. GOVERNOR ASSAILS THE PROFITEERS He Would Have a Rotary Fund Placed in His Hands lor Purpose De feating All Sugar Profi teering ' GOVERNMENT BLAMED FOR RADICALISM Ohligarchy Fiddled in Glee While Great Mass of Peo ple Suffered OAKLAND, Cal., Sept 18. Sugar profiteers were arraigned here tonight by Governor James M. Cox, Covernor Cox reviewed attempt b the president to de throne profiteers who have reign ed for "five long years, sordid, soulless, ugly and hateful.' . "I am in favor, in circumstances like this., the governor said, "of the government, through congress, supplying a rotary fund . to be placed in the bands of the presi dent tor the purchase of as much ot the sugar crop as is' necessary to prevent profiteering. II elected In November I shall recommend to the congress that this be done for future emergencies In food supplies. Strikes at Profiteer "The extent to which profiteer ing prevailed during the war. and especially since the signing of the armistice, has been outrageous, The amount stolen from house holders of America In that time by the profiteers would pay off the greater part of the funded debt arising from the war Itself. "It must be more than a coin cldence that the many profiteers who were protected by the sena to rial allgarchy in the present congress are paying their share into the Republican campaign fund, which I charge will not be leta than 815,000.000." ' Governor Cox pointed out rela tion of radical activities to pritl- teering. "Whenever sober thinking peo ple develop resentment against government. ' he said, "you al ways find that the case has been one of government impotency or neglect in the face ot a crisis. When conditions are obviously wrong and unjust, the great mass of our. people look upon tbe gov ernment tor the relief on the oc casion that Individual action or community co-operation is net ef fective. . Speaks of Radiral!ni In my travels through western) country I studied carefully the symptoms of so-called radical movements. Leaders ot them. In some instances, are radicals in the truest sense, but the. rank and file I have foound to be a sincere, well intentioned people who complain and complain bitterly of abuses which the government could have corrected but did not because it was in reactionary hands. Sites Itefjrn or Sugar. "The recent reign ot the profi teers who oowned the supply ot sugar is an impressive instance. Definite remedial jneasares were suggested and submitted, anad as definitely rejected by a Republi can congress in a aasiaraiy . at tempt to keep the people in dis tress hat reactionary influences might win a presidential election in 1920. The senatorial oligarchy, which . has '' assumed Republican leadership fiddled gleefully yt hlle the great mass of our people was in distress. With full knowledge of the tacts, they , looked calmly upon the" most shameless proofi teerlnr which . indefensible greed could impose upon Its helpless vic tims. Has Harding .A Remedy? -uAnd now comes , forward the candidate of the senatorial oli garchy with the mere statement to the people that excessive profiteer ing is criminal and should oe stopped. "He presents no sugges tions for the prevention of crime or the apprehension ot the crimi nals." What In 'reality he does is to prepare the way for a new era of high prices and profiteering by announcing his intention of chang- Ing our tariff rate3 to tnose or. a highly protective system," SA NFRANCISCO Governor Cox, in an address here today De- tore a luncheon of business men, referred to Herbert Hoover as the type of trained mind he would like to have in his cabinet if elected president. He rested this morn ing, made two luncheon speeches, made a brief talk at a reception and then left for Oakland to visit wounded soldiers at a hospital. PraJsie 3Ir. Hoover. "Mr. Hoover's effective service in the war was largely due to his thorough training as an engineer, he said, "and if I. can induce him. one of -the best engineers in the country will sit in my cabinet The governor also-favored In his speech the abolishing of the ex cess profits tax, which he said was justified during "the war but no longer necessary and the substitu tion for It of a tax ot one or one (Continued on page 2) ACTION TAKEN AGAINST OPIUM PRODUCTION WANT TO PREVENT GROWING of new i-orrv crop Appeal? Are Made to World lYes ami Welfare Societies to , Suppress Evil t AMOY, China.; Sept. 18 Or ganized action Is being taken by Amoy to prevent the planting in Fukien province of a new crop of poppies for the purpose of , pro ducing opium. ' - In a world-wide appeal it Is de clared that "the South .Fukien Opium Prevention society, realis ing that during the past year en ough opium was produced for five years and that another crop will supply the men tor 15 years. appeals to the world press and all welfare organizations, now that the planting season for the new crop Is at hand, to aid in the sup pression of the great evil." -. , LM.I0JNGER1 PASSES AWAY Salem Capitalist Succumbs in Local Hospital After Short Uness Ernest Maurice Klinger. aged 36. who was born and raised in Salem, son of the. late Maurice Klinger,. who was a well known capitalist and one time prominent brewer, died of heart trouoie caused by asthma after an Illness ot four days at a local hospital vetterday. Air. Klinger leaves a wire, ms mother, and one son. Maurice Ed ward, and one sister.' Miss Bertha KUnger. Funeral services will be Tues day morn In r at 9 o'clock by Rev. J. R. Buck at the catnouc church. Interment will be in the Catholic cemetery. . . r Mr. Klinger inherited half the wealth of his father. The estate Tts one of the largest ever left in Salem and included Important business -buildings on Commer cial and State streets. STATE TITLE t IS AT. STAKE Honeyman Club and Sena tors Will Battle for Championship Today -4r - The baseball team of the Hon eyman Hardware company of Portland, champions ot the Port land city league, will be in Sa lem today for two games with the Senator In a series to decide the independent championship ot the state. ;" ' ' The Hrst game today will start at 1 o'clock and the second at 3. Should the team: break even to day a third game' will be played on - Portland' ground at a later date. " Walter Kracke, manager of the Senators, assures' the fans that the Senators will have the same lineup that earlier id the season cleaned up everything in the state in Salem's class. President Campbell Will Address Club ' A special feature of the Monday ncftm luncheon at the Commercial club will be an address by Presl dent P. L. Campbell of the Uni versity of Oregon. President Campbell will mention the grow ing oossinilitic of the University of Oregon, since sufficient sums have been provided to help, place it as one of the greatest univer sities in the; west. New Crater Lake Road Opens Scenic Country ' MEDFORD. Ore.. Sept. 18. A road from the rim of Crater lake to the north boundary ot the park, six miles south ot Diamond Lake has. been completed by a crew un der the supervision of Superin tendent Sparrow of the Crater lake national park. This road opens a scenic country and gives access to Diamond lake. TO NATIONALIZE FOODS. ' WASHINGTON. Sept. 18. Drastic measures to enforce the nationalization of food have been lopted by the soviet authorities at) I'etrograa. a state aepartmeni telegram received today through Baltic channels said. Three commlssairies have been designated to take complete charge ot the enforcement of the prohibition .against private tran sactions with a view to soviet mon opolization of all food business. Squadron on Cruise to Hawaiian Islands SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 18. Advices received from Admiral nugh Rodman, commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet, and com manding the battle squadron on cruise at the Hawaiian islands, indicate- that the squadron will leave. Hawaiian porta -next Satur day for San Pedro. Calif., encas ing in maneuvers en route. DE PALMA MAKES THREE NEW RECORDS TIME II EATEN OX DIRT TRACK AT X. Y. STATE FAIR WorM Champion Driver- Beat All Irerlou Records Against - Racers SYRACUSE, NVY.. Sept. 18. Ralph De-Palma established three new world's records on an oval Cirt tract at the stato fair here this afternoon against one of the fastest fields In the country. In cluding Gaston Chevrolet. Eddie O'Donnell and Jimmy Murphy. In the 10-mlle race De Pal ma set a figure of 7:47:40. against the old record of 7:56:40. For the 20-mile stretch the official time was 16:08:98 aralnst 16:25 66. the old record. The new 50 rolle record Is 40:49, against 40:58. 1000 ROOMS ARE WANTED Residents Having Avail able Apartments for Fair. Should Call Club For the purpose of providing lodging for the multitudes that will visit Salem during the state fair the Commercial club has made arrangements to list every available room. In previous years hundreds of people have walked the streees, slept in depots or on park bench es because tbey could find no more comfortable place. ' This .year Salem proposes a better reception for its visitors a room for every comer. This can be accomplished if every per son in Salem who has or can tit up an xtra room will telephone the fact to the Commercial club committee. All this week the committee will receive listings In the club rooms from 8 to -12 o'clock in the morning and froln 1 to 5 In the afternoon. During the fair the committee will be on the job every minute. PRUNARIANS LOUDLY LAUDED Salem Cherrians Can't Quit i Talking About That Trip to Vancouver Every t member of the Salem Cherrians who went to Vancou ver Wednesday and most of them went Is going around shouting his love for the Vancou ver Prunartans. the boys who en tertained the Cherrians In the lively Clarke county town. The Cherrians are worried just a lit tle bit. too. because they know their lies ahead ot them the job of entertaining the Prunarlans, Just as adequately on Booster day at the state fair. ' ' About 50 Cherrians. including the band, , made the trip to Van couver, a lrge number going, by automobile. At 10:30 o'clock the Cherrians paraded the streets and .then went to the new co operative packing plant and as sifted in dedicating it King Ring Claneey made a speech In behalf of the Salem boosters. Luncheon was nerved the Cher rians at the St. Elmo hotel and they were then taken for an auto ride over the city, the military reservations and through the prune belt. J At the Standifer shipbuilding yards the Cherrians were shown all through the plant and taken aboard the ships under construc tion. The plant is building three big steel tankers for the Stan dard Oil company, each ot 12.S00 tons, and eight other steel ships are under contract In the plant 3400 men are employed. At 5:30 the Cherrians assisted In a reception to the queen of the festival, who flew by airplane from Chehalis. A parade follow ed, wfth the queen featured. At the Oregon Packing com pany's plant a banquet was serv ed from 6 until & o'clock, which was very elaborate. King Ring appeared on the program with a brief talk and there was music ot several kinds. Including an or chestra. The affair was made particularly lively with the or ganizations present competing with each ether In improvising yells and slogans. The seating arrangement alternated Cherrians and Prunarlans with their ladles. A number of army oflicers from the military reservation and offi cers from the two navy destroy ers in the- harbor were amon? the clients. About 225 jxreons sat down at the tables. Dsnre Honors Salem Crowd. Automobiles took the party hick to town and the evening Parade took place, proceeding to the park where the queen was crowned. The day was rapped off by a dance in honor of the Cherrians and the queen at tho inks temple. All members of the Prunarlans were on duty throughout the day and devoted themselves entirely to entertaining the ChorrTans. and set a pace the Salem men declare that will he hard to follow. The Prunarlans promised to attend the state fair In a body on Sep tember's, promising more than 100 Tlsltora.- . " REPUBLICAN VICTORY IS HELD SURE East and Middle West Read Great Significance Into Decisive Victory of G. 0. P. in Maine FACTIONS UNITED AGAINST DEMOCRATS Cox Campaign Fund Charg es Cause Damper on His Party Contributions By WALTER L. TOOZE, JR. (Mr. Tooxe, who is an attorney of Mcl inn vine and a on of Wal ter L. Tooze -Sr., of Salem, was one of the Oregon delegates to the Republican national conven tion. He now has a position in the headquarters of the national Republican central committee in Chicago.) f CHICAGO. Sept 14. (Special to The Statesman.) "As Maine goes, so goes the nation. No better Indication of the. feeV Ing 04 the voters in the east and middle west can be had than that evidenced by the sweeping Re publican .victory In Maine. It was figured that it Maine went Republican by 20.000 majority. that would Indicate a Republican victory In -November. Btft lead era acquainted ' with eastern po litical conditions took the stand that the Republicans should carry Maine by at least 30.000 In order that the result might have some rearing upon the national situ ation. .To carry the state by 5.- t-00 was beyond the fondest hopes cf anyone. It was a complete landslide, and In view of the tact that the campaign was waged wholly upon national. Issues, and with prominent campaigners from both of , the major parties taking the stump In the state, the results are all the more gratifying from a Republican point ot view. The handwriting Is on the wall and the Democrats must see It National Republican leaders are jubilant over the Maine . result, and they see in It the true Indi cation ot such a landslide to the Republican party In November as has not been witnessed in this country since our beloved Teddy went to the mat with Alton B Parker. iVrabt Eliminated. The remits In Maine should put an end to doubt la the minds of all as to how the east and middle west are going to vote In November. Ohio, much discussed outside the state itself, will du plicate the Maine victory. There Is no doubt about that. Harding Will carry Ohio Just as surely as the sun rises; It Is only a ques tion ot how large his majority will be. It Is estimated all the way from 50,000 to 200,000. The Republican organization In that state is highly perfected, all fac tions hare united and are work ing hard for the success of the national ticket, and the campaign Is marked ' by a confidence, as well as a determination, which cannot be defeated. And what Is said about Ohio, applies equally as well to Indiana. Somet questions has been raised about Illinois by persons not fa miliar with local conditions. "Big Bill" Thompson and his city machine are in a death grapple with Low den and his state ma chine for control of the state. The fight is very bitter, and has developed Into a campaign ot per sonalities between Thompson and Lowden, neither of whom Is a candidate hlmeelf. but -each of whom is sponsor for a complete ticket in the Republican primar ies. However, this fight, bitter though It is, will have absolutely no effect upon the national tick et in Illinois, regsrdless of who wins out at the primaries. This fight, and a discussion of Its ef fect upon the political situation. Is a story in Itself, but a story which can better be written after the primaries are held. But to any political observer familiar with the Illinois primary fight it is a simple thing to see ow thlfc fight cannot affect Injuri ously the chances ot Harding and Coolidge In Illinois. The Repub lican national ticket will win In Illinois by a tremendous major ity. The downstate portion ot the state has always been heavily Republican and will continue to 1. and "Big Bill' and his ma chine may be . depended upon to bring. home the bacon this year in Cook county, despite the re sults of jhe primary election. Hcarfct.Fiahts League. inviting attention to but one fact will show this to be the situ atlon. "Big mil- Is very much against, the league ot nations The Hearst newspapers are fight ing. the league, and are also fight ing Cox: The Hearst . Chicago newspapers are. backiuc Thomp son In his fight against Lowden. When the campaign is over, win (Continued on page 8) MACSWINEY MAY DIE 1 WILL HE BE BURIED? BRITISH j.Y REFl'SE IILS BURIAL IX IRELAND AR Hanger Strikers at Cork Are Alire In 39th Day of Their Faatlnft- CORK. Sept 18. Doobt who- ther in the event of Lord Mayor Mac Swiney's death the British government would permit the body to bebrouxht to Ireland for burial was expressed br munici pal officials today. It was sug gested that Inasmuch as the gov ernment, la order to avoid demon strations, refused rctblsho? Mannix permission to come to Ireland, the same course was like ly to be followed in this case. On this, the 29th dar of the huager strike of the Cork pris oners, all are alive. The home physician. Dr. Pearson, was as re uctant as ever to hazard an onin- Ion of how much longer they might linger, but said that all might conceivably remain alive a week or more. MASSACHUSETTS BACKS HARDING . . ..- Convention Adopts PLmks ,of Party and Its Can I didates BOSTON. Sept Is. The Re publican state convention today adopted, by unanimous vote a plat form which accepted "with fall approval- the declarations of the national platrorm on the . league of aatidns. endorsed Hardini: and Coiaidge and favored a protective tariff. A sepasete resolution com mended the record of Senator Lodge; particularly specifying nls senatorial activities . In the . last two years. . w- Among those who addressed the convention wer j . Governor. Cool idge. Senator . Lodge. Si-eaker Frederick H. Cillett. of the na tional house, of .representatives; Lieutenant Governor Chanclnc H. Cox. nominated by the Republi cans for governor at the primaries last week, and Congressman John Jacob Rogers, who served as per- maaent chairman. Senator Lodge, la his address. remarked that President Wilson's request for a solemn referendum oa the league et nations had been answered in Maine. He said that human natare might be consid ered much the same throughout the' country and asserted that "the sentiment shown in the Maine election will be found fair ly general' throughout the United States." "The senate, la Its considera tion of the league of nations." he continued, "has been misrepre sented: it has been abused. But the results of primaries held so far has been a two and one-half to one majority in support of the senate's position, o "I regard the treaty almost as a betrayal of the rights ot Amer ica. I am a good party man. but If my party had sought to make me accept the treaty as Mr. Wilson brourht It back from Parts would never have voted for It, party or no party. "They talk of my personal hos tility to President Wilson. I have none: he has never crossed ray oath. But I retarded htm with that treaty In his hands as endan xering the country and I did all in my power to stop It When we elect Harding aad Coolldxe we shsll have men at Washington who wilt not endanger our eov erelxnty and independence. The Republican party Is to be congratulated on its choice of candidates: not so mrch with the Democrats. When I read in the morning what the Democrats have said I become prouder ot our can didates, who discuss Issues with sobriety, while their opponents va porize, boast and resort to person al abuse, which is never an argu ment and always degrading. Aviator Clashes Into Telegraphic Wires -j. i SAN FRANCISCO. Sept 18. An airplane In the mai lservlce In a forced landing a hair mile east of Elko. Nev late today struck a string of telephone wires, break ing aix overland circuits, accora lag to reports received here to night, crippling telephonic and press telegraphic service between the west and east for several hours. The reports did not say whether the aviator was injured or give other details. Darts Not Indicted by Marion County Grand Jury A news article which appeared in The Statesman. Saturday, stat ing that Bart F. Davis had been indicted by a Marion county crand jury on a charge ot forg ery was erroneous. The Jury did not indict Davis, returning i not trne bllL He was accused ot forging on a promissory note the name of his divorced wife. Eletha Pructt CHANGE EMIGRANT WAVE TOKlO. Sept. 18. Government authorities will seek to divert Ja panese emigration from North to South America, and induce some Japanese settlers now In China to proceed to South 'America.' accord ing to Toklo newspapers. HYPHENISr.1 DESTROYS DEMOCMCY Senator. .Talks o Forei-n Born Delegation About Americanism and Dctics of Citizenship. HARDING STANDS FOR ""REAL 'AMERICANISM Seek Loyalty at Home Then We Can Meet and Solve World Problems MARION. Sept 18. American ism. Its meaning to the forelm born citizen and the dangers of a hyphenated citizenship, were the keynote of an address delivered from his front porch today to del egations of forign-born tltlieot by Senator Harming. . The delegations comprising sev eral hundreds, came from New Tork. Chicago and cities of the northwest and Cleveland. While declaring that "It is not possible, and ought sot. to be ex pected, that Americana of foreign birth shall stifle lore tor kins folk In the lands from which they came, .the senator asserted that we area nalterably against any present or future hyphenated Am trtcaAJsnV. . . - , llavdlac ! Applaaded Senator Hardin- was la terms t- ed many . times by arplsese. touchlag upon foreim relations, he declared that "nothing helpfal has eojca trozx the wlllf al assump tion to direct the affairs of Ear ope, but that on "the contrary, the mlMakea policy of interfer ence baa broken the drawstrings of good tense and spilled bad council and bad manners all over tho world. - "Meddling abroad." he assert ed, "tends to make Americans for get that they are Americans and to arouse the old and bitter feel ings ot.tac.epL former nationality or foreign aneeatry In the hearts of those who ought never to have been forced to turn their hearts away from and 'Tided loyalty and interests given "to America first- - HypbenUm la Mewace Wars Lev against ' hypbeaism. Senator Harding said that "the time might come when. a groat or. groups ot men and women ot foreign birth or foreign parentage not organized for the interest ot America, but -organised around a resentment against oar govern ment might press, by propagan da and political hyphenism. apon our government to serve their own interests rather than the In terests of all America. It Is not beyond possibility, he continued, "that the day might come and may God forbid it when an or ganized hyphenated vot In Amer ican politics might have the bal ance of voting power to elect our government It this were true. America might be delivered out o the hands of her citizenship and her control might be transferred to a foreign capltaL" i Introducing the various dele-, gates to Senator Harding. Senator MedUl McCormlck. of . Illinois, said: Every I tare rrewevt "We are come to bear. witness to oar faith that the success of the Republican party and your own election in November holds forth the certain promise ot re establlshment of free and repre senltatlve government at home, no less than the re-aseertloa abroad of those fundamental principles under which the American people have become great and In the pur suit ot which the government has enjoyed in ever-lacreaslng meas ure the respect and regard of the people of the world." He told the candidate that well-nigh' all the peoples of the old world were represented in the delegations be fore him. Senator Harding attended a re union ot Marion county Knights of Pythias ot which he Is a mem ber, at a park here this afternoon and made a brief speech oa fra- ternailsm. ' Fraternity of Nations Senator Harding said he not only believed in fraternity of cit izenship, but a fraternity of na tions, but that In playing Ameri ca's role, caution should h exer cized. He alluded to efforts to have America accept a msniate over Armenia and said "whila I. want America to do Its share. I do not want somebody else across the sea to tell ns what to do or how to do It." He declared France aad Eng land had withdrawn their troops from Armenia in an effort to force America to accept a mandate but asserted that America would do everything tor Armenia except involve America five thousand miles away "and plant the sons ot this republic there In the gate way between the Orient and Occi dent to Involve ns la etery con flict of the old world.' lfoiaa Shortage. Senator William M. Calder, New "York, conferred with Sena tor Harding on a number ot mat ters, particularly the work in which he is toga zed as chairman of the senate sub-committee to Inquire Into housing shortage. After leaving Senator Uardlcg. (Contlnoed oa page I)