: ',' SEVENTY-FIRST YBAR 1 jSlEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MQRNMBER 18 1921 mCgy, FIVE CEm:' - 1 ' - ' " ; ... i. ,, .. , . . . . I 1 1 i .: CABINET ID I BE IFJ PARLEY Latest Note of Eamonn de Vaierav Indicates Early Conference Phrasing of : ' Letter Shows Caution. ' BRITISH PREMIER (S ; IMPROVING In health Hurried' i Consultations in Dublin Precede Sending T Of the Missive LONDON, Sept. 17, -(By The Aiwoclated Preen) A conference between the llritish, cabinet and , representatives' of the Sinn Fein teems assured. Eamonn De Va lera, Irish republican leader, dis patched & telegram to Mr. Lloyl ' George tonight, which apparently cannot tail to achieve this result. His message was : in, - reply to one from the premier which de clared firmly the Inability of the British government to meet Sinn Fein plenipotentiaries on the baa. is that they were representatives ' of an independent ' nation and '4 rointIng4)ut consequences of anch recognition. , -vr-,. , . "; Wording More Careful - There i were . hurried consulta- a, r-w t n -f 1 .1 n . I lions among biud r eiu iwubib t Dublin from which emerged the ' latest, message 1 declaring -their t earnest wish to meet the British government's spokesman, a ! i i; Mr. DeValera passed over th ' question of recognition as an tra? portant state and made rercrcnc to 'self-ecogttition, ? which is considered - so far . outside the ' terms of international detlnitions that It ta hardly expected to raise an obstacle to the conference. r---T. Conference oertalii---" -i There has.-been , ' . strong de mand tor a meeting between Bri t tlshand Irish representatives by : Irish newspapers and it is believ 'cd the present Irish public opin- Ion, tending to a resumption negotiations. In (London nawijpapern or::tos tonight a conference is considered f- certain. . -'. , " 1 - . ."; Early today- Premier Lloyd George pent a telegram to Mr. De Valera. . which followed . on the heels of the Sinn Fein response , to 'his cancellation of the, Inver ness arrangements. Without de lay. De Valera dispatched his re ply, announcing "we have aecept- ed your Invitation into the exact t word, whichr you re-quote from. I your letter of the seyenthi',' ; ;K . I. Prejudice Necessary '; The premier In rplrlnc to tUa 1 Irish leader's previous insistence that fce meeting be held "without prejudice and untrammeled by ' any. conditions' declared: 'It would be "idle to say a con - ference in which we had already met your delegates as representa tives of an independent and sov ereign state would be a confer ; enftd without prejudice'." f Such acceptance of the dele gatee be pointed out, would set ' an example to ' other- powers to treat Ireland as & sovereign and Independent state, and he em phasized that there could be no abatement, however Informal, of the principle of allegiance to the king. . ' - - -' I ? Premier Improving t Reports tonight from : Galrloch Indicated Mr. Uoyd George con tinues, to improve. It 14 thought Continued on page 2) 1 1 i YODTH:WALKS FROM ' ST0i OF HIS WRO : ! . A desire to live'on a ranch as a genuine cowboy im pelled him to Bet fire to his brother-in-law's shop in Salem in 1913, Robert C. Strong, ,28, told Chief of Police Verden M. Moffitt yesterday. ' " " , J . ', Footsore and weary, Strong walked into, the Salem poc lice station and announced that this, was the end ot his long journey from Stockton, Cal. He had become converted at a Stockton mission of the Pentecostal faith about two weeks ago and had made up his mind that he would never have peace until his Salem wrong-doing had been made known. ' "Put me in prison or give me what, punishment J de serve for this offense' requested Strong after relating his story. "I have wandered all over the country for eight years in an effort to forget this and I am convinced that nothing else matters in all the world but a sqnaring-up with God." j (Continued on O'LEARY COW DIDN'T START FAMOUS FIRE Committee Investigating Con flagration of 1871 Finally Files Its Report CHICAGO, Sept. 17. Mrs. O'Leary's cow, famed in legend as baring started the Chicago fire of 1871 by kicking over a lamp, ac tually had nothing to do with the conflagration, according to com mutes which has conducted an in vestigation. The committee's report, made public today, declares that the evi dence tends to show both Mrs. OXeary and her noted cow retired early on the night In question and that the fire was started by some means not discovered. The investigation was made m connection with a miniature re production of the fire which is to be given at its semi-centennial in October. The legend that Mrs. O'Leary went to the barn carrying a lamp and that the cow kicked it over is exploded, according to the com mittee, but positive proof that Mrs. O'Leary was confined to her bed that day with a sore foot has been found. STILES DIES Oil E Tragis End Comes to Denver Man, Recently Married Second Time DENVER, Colo., Sept. 17. A man identified by the police as Frank D. Stiles, was found dead today on the grave of his first wife, Mrs. Josephine Stiles, in Crown Hill cemetery. The first Mrs-Btlies was known as "the belle of the west." V Stiles' wife said today she was not surprised to learn of her hus band's death, according to the police, as she, said that though only recently married to him, her husband "mourned for his first wife." The police said today that Stiles was the third husbandof the dead woman, once famous as a beauty in the west, who had taken their lives through their love for her. The Mts. Stiles was also said to have taken her own life as a result of mourning for William Wardell, a former husband. Who, the police said, was a suicide.' Mrs. Stiles took her life on May 23, 1920. She told friends, the police said, she heard the spirit ot Wardell calling her. Mrs. Josephine Stiles came west from Pittsburg, Pa., when fihe was 12 years old.j Iater, when she was a young woman she came to Denver and . won in a beauty contest "here. After that she. was known as ''The telle of the west." ' Coroner Woods said today thai Stiles' death was probably due to i "continuous drinking of bootleg whiskey." Mrs. Stiles said her husband left home last Tuesday. ENGINEER KILLED EDINBURGH, Ind., Sept. 17. An engineer was killed, fouf per sons were severely injured and several others were less seriously hurt when a passenger train en route to Indianapolis from Louis ville went through a bridge into Blue river tonight. THE WEATHER ' Showers, cooler; southerly winds. moderate TO TELL past 2) HOTS MP Senate Finance Committee Fails to Reach Decision On Measure LIQUOR CLAUSE FAVORED House Provision for Issue of Securities -j Receives Commendation WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. The senate finance committee failed today to reach final decisions on the Smoot tax simplification bill embodying a manufacturers' sales levy, and on Senator Calder's proposal to impose a tax of $6.4 tt a gallon on all alcohol liquors withdrawn from bond for other than manufacturing purposes. The committee will meet again Monday. Senator Smoot's bill wa,s said to have been favorably received by several senators but the con census of opinion seemed to be that the committee would reject It. Automobile Men Heard Reiteratine that he would Of fer the bill in the, senate, the Utah senator said: "We will aee what will happen there." The American Automobile as sociation today announced it?fav ored the manufacturers' taxLre peal, declaring it would give bus inessment Just what they feel is needed to set In motion the wheels of industry that will give employ ment to more than 5,000,000 idle men." "Whiskey Amendment Discussed Senator Calder's whiskey amendment was discussed by the committee and slid to have been accepted in principle. The sena tor sa:d he had. been asked to re draft the amendment to avoid any construction that jit might tax in dustrial alcohol. The proposed amendment goes further than the house provision which would tax at the $6.40 rate only alcoholic liquors diverted to beverage purposes. Senator Cald er would tax Hqnors withdrawn for medicinal purposes as well. The Calder proposal to tax i.7 per cent beer was said to have less favorably received. First Minute Changes Made The Smoot and Calder propos als were taken up after the com mittee completed; Its revision of the house bilL I Last minute changes included a new provision requtring hotels to pay a tax ot 10 per cent on. the amount In ex cess of $5 charged to transients for single rooms and on the am ount in excess of $8 charged for double rooms. Tk -nmmtttp aimroved the house provision granting the trea sury authority to issue $7,500, 000. 000 in short1 term securities instead of $7,000,000,000 bit re jected the ways and means com mittee plan to create . a tai Invest igative committee to study means ot taxing Income .from tax-exempt state and municipal secur ities. A new proposal adopted would require the government to pay one-half of one per cent In terest on taxes erroneously paid and refunded. Many Others Agreed On. Aside from these changes in the 1918 revenue act, the committee agreed to halt a hundred others, many of which were Incorporated In the house bill. " An official statement issued at Chairman Penrose's office, show ed it had been agreed to accept the house provision repealing the policy taxes on life Insurance and the. premium taxes ofother insur ance companies on next January 1, and to Impose a 15 per cent tax on the investment income of life Insurance companies from last June 1. In considering! administrative sections of the house bill, the com mittee restored the provisions of the present law permitting manu facturers' subject to taxes and do ing both a wholesale and retail business to compute the tax on re tail sales upon the basis of their wholesale selling prices. Responsibility Placed . Accepted the provisions author ising the commissioner of internal revenue, with the approval of the secretary of the treasury and tbe consent of the taxpayer, to make final settlement of tax cases. Adopted the provision that If the personal service corporation, provisions ot the . 1918 law are held unconstitutional such corpor ations shall pay the tax imposed on other - corporations under the 1918 act, unless they elect to pay taxes under the personal province corporation provision of such act 'Approved the house method of treating personal service corpora- (Continued on part 2) SIOTS BILL UNDER PROBE i t COUPLE INVITED TO LEAVE CITY TALE PROVES FALSE "I've been held up and i Freeman Price, of 253 Sixth. tors of a locaL hotel frustrated hostelry, with bag, and -baggage Price and' his wife were taken into custody bv Chief or f once Moffitt. while Price's yarn that iie had been robbed of his money vesterdasr evening on State .Etreet between Commercial and Liberty Two men. one a "tall guy j in a light suit. ' . and the other a "short, bird, in a. dark suit, nau watched while he stopped on the street to tie a shoe lace and had "lifted" his, wallet fsom his hip pocket, according to Price. He later left a $15 watch with the hotel management as payment. Price's story was doubted .by the police when it was learned that he had produced a $10 bill at the Southern Pacific depot in put chasing a ticket to Eugene fol lowing the holdup incident. At the Elation the couple's 6tory failed to make an impression and ! tneyi ifinally admitted that thQ daylight robbery tale had been worked on the hotel man in an E Literally thousands of people ' have left the hop yards within the past few days, more ot them per haps on Saturday than any other day. The harvest is practically ended in Marion county. Only a few fields have so much as a sin gle hop left except where the eagle eyes of the pickers failed to find it. A traveler in from Indepen dence Saturday , night passed 12 wagon loads of pickers, some of them with half a" dozen or more persons aboard, and not one wagon bad a light. As it was a dark and drizzly night, the autoist came within a foot ot a head-on collision with one team outfit. A whole chapter of accidents was doubt less averted only by the fact that not as many autoa were out as usual, because of the rain. Pickers Going Home But the pickers are soing home, in pairs, in families, in squads of a dozen or 20r They're off for Keeney and Mooney of Mine workers Included Amon rr Accused Men LOGAN, W. Va., Sept. 17 Thre hundred and twenty-five names were Included in a blanket indictment charging; murder; re turned by a Logaa coonty grand Jury today. The Indictments rol lowed an investigation of dl8turb. anf es on the Logan-Boone county border. Among the names are those of C. F Keeney and Fred Mooney, presideat and secrets rv of District No. n ft Worker of America, and H W. iMizzaru. kisu a United Mine Workers official. 1 ditkn 200 Indictments charging jnsu rection. and "pfctol totSg. returned. us were The blanket indictment charging- those namd with being prin cipals and accessories to the kill ing of John Gore, ffeputy sheriff of Logan county WaP8 J, an alleged 'tion of the Red man act. hich classifies euch dea.tns as murder m the first de gree. Gore was killed August 29 in an exchange ot shots between armed men and deputy sheriffs In the eastern part of LogaB connty during the attempted1 march across that county of a number of men who had announced their Intention to proceed "int0 Min' county and there protest state martiaf law invoked several months ago. The remainder ot the int. I ments charged "conspiracy tn fo ment revolution and insurrection" and the carrying of weapons in Tiolation of the Johnson, law . ' hop pices PI LEI 325 IICTED AFTER robbed of $45" moaned Theron street, Portland, when proprie Price's efforts to leave the without paying his bill. effort to evade payment of hU claim, Give me a light from your ci- 'gar, chief!" asked Mrs. Price. when Chief Moffitt attempted to interview her in regard to the in cident. She produced a cigarette and proceeded to whiff away dur ing the officer's inquiry inte the movements of the couple. After telling Chief Morfitt that she had lived at Astoria for several months under the name of Fay Martin, and establishing that she was really married to Price, she re quested permission to smoke an other cigarette and then said fare well to the police. ' The couple were piven five thours in which to leave town. they having purchased tickets for ithe Southern Pacific train leav ing this city at .3 o'clock this morning. Price registered at the local hotel as T. F. Freeman of Seattle. FOR HEW PLAGES their permanent camping place. Blanket-stiffs have headed north or south on the railroad, on every freight car that has an open door or a good hand-hold. Scores of little camp fires along the railroad show where the .pickers have trudged afoot, and gotten a dozen or fifty miles towards the new goal, wherever it is. The wagon campers have made better time. Some of them are out of the state and some of the auto pickers, who halted their gas pilgrimage for a few weeks where and while the wages were good, have gotten out of the state. , Trouble Is Scarce. The season ended with remark ably little trouble. Bill-jumpers and thieves and fighters and gen eral agitators for the fun of mak ing trouble, have been hardly known. The picking has been ex ceptionally clean, so that the hop crop, though not in all cases of unusual weight, is of better qual ity than usual. E Jess Tetherow Falls Into Crevasse Near Top of Mount Bachelor BEND, Ore., Sept. 17. Jess Tetherow, Deschutes county rancher, sustained severe injuries yesterday when he fell into a crevasse near the top of Mount Bachelor, according to word brought here today. He was brought into Bend by forest ser vice men and cared for at a local hospital. He will recover, the at tending physician stated. Tetherow accompanied Mr. and Mrs. John G. Luelling of Madras on the climb up the mountain and when near the summit lost his footing and disappeared. Luelling and his wife clambored some 20 feet to the bottom of the chasm, found Tetherow senseless and un able to move him, went for "help. Five hours later, with forest employes found near Elk, lake, Luelling began the ascent and met Tetherow just below the timber line. His head was badly bruised and lacerated, and he was in a badly dazed condition, having no recollection of the accident nor of how he had climbed out of the crevasse. He collopsed shortly after being found." Today he had regained consciousness. PARADES PROHIBITED. CHICAGO. Sept 17. No Ku KIux .Klan parades will be per mitted in Chicago, Chief of Police Pitzmorris announced tonight In a statement, which added that he had been informally approacnea on the subjOTot Such parade. WORK HUNTING TRIP IS DISTURBED Hotel Physician Toid to Hur ry Home to Testify in Arbuckle Case ACTOR AGAIN IN COURT District Attorney Brady Gets Secret Information from Mrs. Taube SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17. Finding of Dr. Arthuf Beardslee, missing Hotel St. Francis physi cian who attended Miss Virginia Rappe before her death, was the outstanding development tonight In the Roscoe Arbuckle case. A telegram to District Attorney Matthew F. Brady from the sher iff of Douglas county. Nevada, at Mlnden. stated that Dr. Beardslee had left Mlnden yesterday for Bridgeport, Mono county, Cal.. on a hunting trip. Brady instructed the Mono county sheriff to order the physician to return at once to San Francisco. Dr. Beardilee's testimony is ex pected to shed light on the condi tion of Miss Rappe the day fol lowing the Labor day party In Ar buckle's suite at the St. Francis, at which she suffered Injuries which caused her death. Beards lee was summoned as a witness at the coroner's inquest, but did not appear and police detectives re ported they were unable to find him. Arbuckle appeared in the su perior court today to obtain a con uance on the manslaughter charge against him. He will not agatn leavp the city prison until next Thursday when hkj preliminary examination is to begin before Police Judge Sylvain Lazarus on the murder complaint signed by Mrs. Bamblna M. Delmont. a mem ber of the party in the comedian's rooms. Mrs. Taube Questioned Mrs. Mae Taube, another mem ber of' the Labor day party, was interrogated today by District At torney Brady, who asserted after ward that she had clung to her original statement that she was the woman who summoned Assist ant Manager Harry Boyle of the St. Francis wlren Miss Rappe became ill. At the inquest Mrs. Delmont declared it was herself who telephoned for Boyle. District Attorney Brady paid he obtained other important informa tion from Mrs. Taube 'which he would not divul&e and vhkh. he said, may lead to taking up cer tain new phrases of the case be fore the grand jury on Monday night. IJquor Inquiry Made Manager Thomas J. Coleman of the St. Francis and other execu tives and" employes of the hotel today were called before Robert H. JtfeCormack, assistant United States attorney in charge of liquor prosecutions, for questioning re garding the origin of the 20 quarts of liquor &?.ld to have been consumed at the Arbuckle party The manslaughter charges against Arbuckle. preferred in a grand jury indictment will be called tor a hearing on Monday, September 26, It was agreed to ri a v. r County Completes Job From Twelfth Street South to Potter Farm The county has completed its i paving from the end of Twelfth street extending south to the Pot ter farm, and It will be thrown open to the public today. The paving on South Commercial street will probably not be open to the public until late Wednes day or Thursday morning of this week. r The county plant haa com pleted ita .paving to Silverton. with the exception of a short dis tance on, each side of the Pudding river bridge. As, the bridge Is undergoing some 1 renairs, a de tour I necessary. . , with.: the completion of ; the mile of paTtng towards the state feeble minded institution, the paving program of the season will - to over. - , - I HBH TODAY MEET MF.BF. ON MONDAY Federal Prohibition Director for Oregon Calls Conference of Peace Officers PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 17. Sheriffs of Polk. Yamhill. Wash ington. Marion, Clackamas ' and Tillamook counties will confer 4 Monday at Salem with Dr. Joseph A. Linville, federal prohibition di rector for Oregon, according to announcement today by Dr. Lin ville. "There should be closer co-op. eration between county officers and our department," stated Dr. Linville. "I believe that this co operation is at present greatly re tarded by a misunderstanding be tween tbe two enforcement bodies The sheriff feels, I think, that 'his rights are being encroached upon when federal agents move. Into his county to make investigations.M Ideas on enforcement and meth ods of procedure will be exchang ed, stated the director, and the ut most co-operation between county and federal officers will be sought It is planned to hold other like conferences over the state. Iran TO BE DEBATED Baptist and Episcopal Cler gymen Will Meet Here In Discussion For the first time Salem will have the privilege to hear the Irish question debated by two authoritative speakers from the same stage. On Sunday, Septem ber 25, Rev. M. L. Brandon and Rev. Ward Adams Cantrell will appear at the armory and will de bate two propositions relative to the Irish question. Rev. Mr. Brandon is a Baptist minister of Kansas City, and is lecturer and editor of national re pute. He edited a paper which had a larpe circulation in north Ireland, England and the United States. Cantrell, who is from Los "Angeles, is also a speaker of national repute. He is an Epis copal minister, and spoke in Sa lem a few weeks ago." - The first of the two questions which will be discussed is; "Resolved, that the republican movement in Ireland Is a relig ious movement, " the object of which is to establish Catholic dominancy and. as such, should not receive the encouragement of the Protestant peoples of the world." ' In this question Mr. Branson will uphold the affirmative, and Mr, Cantrell the negative. The second proposition Is: "Resolred. that the republican movement in Ireland is a nation al economic movement for Inde pendence, and, as such, should re ceive the encouragement and sup-i port of the liberty loving men and women everywhere." Mr. Cantrell will argue for the affirmative and Mr. Branson will maintain the negative. The timeliness of the question, combined with the broad view which a debate offers Is cal cil iated to draw a large Salem audi ence, the people 'having 'been deeply interested in the several former lectures given here on the 8Ubjectr ' ? Some of the Salem ministers have agreed to announce the de bate from their pulpits. An effort will be made to ob tain three unbiased Judges to pass on the debate. Local Man Must Answer to Charge of Assault With Intent to Indictments were returned &y tbe Marion county grand Jury as follows: Hammond Bennet, charged with rape. , J. M. Brown charged with as sault and intent to kill. Brown was arrested on tbs night of Sep tember 7 when he shot Arthur Lewis. i "Richard Burton, charged with rape. i Antonio Martinis, charged with larceny, carrying away $108 worth of goods from the Portland 8uU &.' Cloak company; In the case of Dean Rogers, charged with non-support of, his wife, Lena i May - Rodgers,, the grand Jury found not a true bill. He was i released and his bonds men freed from further responsi bility. - - - - s Entertainers Declare Photo i graphs Those of Leader of Trio Who Took $30,000 From Sells-Roto. OFFICERS REFUSE TO' COMMENT ON THEORY Trio Believed Picked Up As Vagrants in Portland . Previous Night PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 17. The three bandits who rob bed the - SeUa-Floto shows, of $30,000 last night at . Vancouv er, Wash.,! were today believed by the police to have stolen their auiomobile. in' Portland Tuesday. -I I .U-i .. ' ' ;v. - In addition, authorities be lieved they were ; picked ,'up as vagrants j that night v and re quired to appear in police court the following morning, where they were- released after- they had shown they had moneys J., R Sniith. a cara fireman here,. reported that three men of - corresponding - description had rented a machine front his place Tuesday, pajd a $35 de posit, then failed to return the machine! The men who , took the car, Smith taid, gave the name of J.-L. Hodgeson and said the trio came from Seattle. All six of the women of the circus who were in the truck when, it i v&s stopped bytbe highwayman, declared their be lief to the sheriff at Vancouver and the Portland officers, that Roy Gardr er, escaped McNeil's island convict was the leader of the robjber trio. They said they recognized him from pub lished photographs. ? The officers declined to ex- Brcss an opinion as to the like hood of, this theory being correct.- ' I' : -Holohan Returns SAN FRANCISCO, Sept, 17, Belief that jrtoy Gardner was not wounded seriously, it at all. and that the fugitive did not make hi escape from iMcNeJl island the aft ernoon of Labor day, was expres sed by United State Marshall James B.? ijolohail of San Fran cisco on his! amiser late to day from the prison. "While I jwaa qnoted with nav lng gone north in connection with the hunt fof Gardner, my mission was only td deliver prisoners." Holohan, safd. 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