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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1921)
i . - THE DREGtffl .STATELAN, SALEM, OREGON SOLDIER'S BODY II ARR VES TODAY Arrangements; for . Military Funeral of Aubrey Jones Next Sunday This afternoon at 4 o'clock the body of Aubrey P. Jones, popular Salem youth who wan killed inac tloa in France at the Battle of the Argonne, will arrive In ' Salem. From the time of reception here the1 remains will be kept at the Rigdon parlors until the special eerviceg that will be held 'at the armory Sunday at 2:30 p. m. . Aubrey P. Jones was born .'In the Waldo IIllls,' Marlon county, Oregon, December, 27, 189 4 Ills parents removed . to Salem when Aubrey was 7 years old and he at tended the public grade and high schools here, residing at Eighteenth street. lie enlisted In Company M, Third Oregon Itfantry, March 27 1917 At the time of his -enlistment he was employed with, the Price Shoe company of Salera. He arrived In France with, hta com pany on New Year's day, '1918, and for fire months wag stationed at Nevera. France. - - ' " Fearing that his organization would never be sent to the front, Jones, who rated as mechanic In hi company asked to be transfer red to a replacement unit, on July 3, 1918, and at bis own request was reduced to the rank oi; pri vate and attached to O company, lolat Infantry, of the " 21th or 'Yankee" division. ; He partlcl- coats and hlrn- silk tats! He also observed many , people wearing formal dress clothes during the day. In Edinburgh the trolley cars ran so slow that It was cus tomary for; passengers to hop off and on while the cars were In mo tion, he said. " 1 put taking-things a3 a whole. Mr. Bale declared the Scotch and English , wero most considerate every way of the visiting Iiotari ans. ; ' , The program of the dinner. In cluded the directing of several songs by Mrs., Carrie B. Adams and solos by Allyn G. Adams and Mrs. A. J. Ilahn. Fred O. Schmidt reported on the entertainment glveui lor the Boy Scouts. At chairman of the program commit tee, tho program was In charge of H, S. Gile. r ! TEN APPLICANTS ARE ADMITTED ; (Continued from page 1.) mixed up on American history, it Jacob Blersack had his applica tlon continued, until the Febru ery term o court. gome lk Xot Appear f The following who had applied for citizenship, did not appear: Charier Johnson. Herman Fre- sfa. William Weinrlch, Henry Pardey, William,. Wengewrotn Frank Gringshgl ' ' and Edward Klimmek." r W. Baumgar tner, ,UJted States ... naturalliatlon . examinerj aid the questioning, ana occasion ally Judge - .Kelly. Efforts, were made to find out from each appli cant as to his ideas of citizenship, what he. had done for the country during the war, and his knowl edge of American institutions, f Good Knowing Made i "The applicants were much bet ter posted than 1 have found iin the average. As many applica tions were held up during the war the examination Was much more difficult than , ordinarily. We endeavor ; to . learn by our questioning, 'Whether "the appli cant will make' a good citizen and whether he has any conception of our government and institutions." pated in the JfS' the examiner, said. "Their educa Thierryand St.Mihiel andon Sep- d und;rstandIng 0f .AmeH- tember 26. his company was sent -.,,,,,,- .linrinr t IUU1B ArKUUUB DCVVUt was slain October 26. 1918. The following named relatives survive hlmi Mrs. Minnie D. Bak- er, roomer, e&iem; inumu m.. Jones, father. Lebanon,, and, Mrs. Sarah E. Jones, grandmother, Sa lem. A special turnout of all former meembers of old Company M is exnected at the . service Sunday. Capital post No. 9, and the local post of the Veterans or Foreign wars will have charge of the cere monies,; The ' pallbearers will be former comrades - of tne tsaiem youth. Arrangements are being madA bv a committee of which P&fcl Wallace is chairman. Rev. A. Ted Goodln, "Tne uoy Evangelist minister of a Chris tian church at Eugene, ana Kev. n.t Tm. Putnam, of the Bungalow Christian church, Salera, winv OVER 2000 ATTEND SING (Continued from page 1.) for progress and something that will build the state. 'I regret to say that in Port land we have not the wonderful community spirit that you have in Marion county. 'We have all kinds of clubs and booster organizations, but we have not a great community or liciate at the armory serrices. In- eanlzation as you- barer. -Jlnltno- terment will be at City View"$em- linab, county has not representa etery, the graveside service be- I tlves that' come in together as one in 2 of a military -character and from the ritual of the American legion. '.t great federation. ; ,'lu: ! 'Portland, like other cities, has been declared a selfish city But roruana cannot proapar . unless Oregon prospers. Salem cannot prosper unless Marion county ATTEMPTilS MADE ? TO KILL HERRICK prospers. I rnnirn.,l frrtm nartt 11 V I KUtf Needs Advertising, t . , " I t r "We have the greatest country would be made to apprehend the here on the coast there there or tutlty. .. . -i I in the world, If Columbus had .- Many Mmmit receive I landed on this coast, the Atlantic premier , Briana, lxson ".u.r" J shore would now be a wilderness. geo'a and many members or the .Ypr few peopie jn the east diplomatic corps seni sijuubi-uko-iaiRn and throughout Paris the most Intense Indignation ' is nressed at the act f Mr Herrlck has refused to fata Mrtouslr scores of letters be received protesting against the conviction of the communists in th United States. Some were know anything of Oregon. They I even . think Seattle built the Co lumbia River highway. We must do something to advertise the state to the world ."I'm tired of standing still and marking time.' We must make ourselves known to the world politely' phrased bnt others mad3 I You will have opportunity soon to I li i .a w bv v ' ytvo. and blow up the embassy.'-' DIE MESSES ; . ROTHS III President of Portland C'ub Tells Experiences at : Edinburgh Session i t Jack Bale, president of the Portland Rotanr club, delivered the address yesterday at the Wed nesday noon luncheon of the ba tm Ttntarlans. Mr. Bale told of his observations while attending the international meeting of Ro tarians last 'summer at Edin burgh. Scotland. :v? f 'From the time of our arrltal to the time of departure It was one great ovation of English and Scotchmen to the American rep resentatives." declared Mr. Bale The British people are very much like Americans in having the same Ideals. And they are regular good fellows. . -' , ;in the' great pageant of 25 na tions reoresented in the cpnven tion hall at Edinburgh, when the emblems of France appeared there was great applause, and the same with Canada, Mr. Bale said. But when the American flag and .rep resentatives appeared, pandemon lum broke loose and cheers after - cheers were given America.; In fact, in all their travels as ' Rotary representatives, the Amer icans were given the greatest con sideration. This included official receptions by the British govern ment, and a reception by King ueorge. J . Many, uotarlans ; were - taken Into Scotch homes in Edin burgh, and were treated with true Scotch ;hoapitality he said. jWhat struck Mr! Bale as strange in. mmaourgn, ana in tact every where in England was the num. ber of bicycles. Automobiles are not so numerous as In this coun try, and those who didn't ride bi cycles, walked, aa walking is a treat custom with the Scotch and the English. fi i - . ; . The fact that all professional nun in England wore high silk fcata and Prince Albert coats Etruck Mr. Bale as queer, also the appearance of students In some schools wearing long coats and V ' -li hats, also the queer look of ! yi rt r v "V tV-fr Ehort as to whether you want to stand still or have the state grow. Of course you expect me to say something about the 1925 exposition, and I'm say ing It..- People will come to Ore gon for three years previous ; to see what such an energetic people are like and then for 20 years after the exposition, having seen and heard of the great state. ' McCroskey Is Happy In speaking of this first great county community sing, T. E. Mc Croskey. manager of the Salem Commercial club, said: "We have demonstrated to the world that an entire county can join in one great community sing, That a whole county can get to gether, and sing together." maintenance' of way vice presi dent tonight. j ! Mr. Jewell repeated his state ments that be was opposed to the strike. l! ! i " . , . j The-! labor board will go into conference; With assurance of full support froni etery interested gov ernmental department, its mem bers said tonight, following an executive session.- One member intimated j that he believed the board had i found a legal method of enforcing Its ruling. Here tofore, the board has maintained it bad no power to carry out its tfectsiona and ! anions and rail roads each have charged the other j with violating the board's rulings. j j i- ! : j Board Is Silent j j The board had no announce ment to make; tonight as to its procedure tomorrow other than to say that! the situation would be gone over very thoroughly." It was ; Understood, however. that a plan similar to that pro posed by the public group In Washington- calling for accept ance of the last wage cut and can cellation of : the strike order by the men, with the roads immed ately ' reducing! freight rates 'and temporarily ; postponing further wage cuts would be the basis Of discussion.; i ! Board members admitted they realize that j the board really was fighting for its life and that much of its future depended on Its abil ity to handle the situation. ; : h (iroup Iroposal Causes Split ; In connection with the possi bility of this conference averting a strike. It was pointed out, bow ever, that many railroads have announced; positively that the pub lic group ! proposal is impossible,' in , their; opinion, while few labor leaders have expressed very warm approval, of it. , , .,, - In this connection, S. O. Dunn, editor Of Railway Age. issued a statement I i tonteht following I a conference with local rail heads, enouncing the plan as "involv ing a complete surrender by the roads to the labor unions." The statement declared, "labor leaders' opposition to the plan was a bluff, as it was exactly what the Unions want." Additional Cat Bothers Possibility of immediate steps to bring about a labor board hear ing on the proposed 190 per cent wage cut which the roads recently announced they would seek, was reported In rail circles, but lo cally no action yet has been tak en,1 Informal meetings of pres idents of : railroads entering Chi cago are being held almost daily. however, and it was said definite announcements would be made Bhortly. ; Presidents of railroads center- ng here have not yet advertised for men ; to man the trains in case of a strike, as has been done in.Netr York, bnt this action also will be taken' within a ; few days. U was aaldU' ,..,'v I " Method Not Fixed Uoon At the informal meetings plans of combatting: the strike have been discussed, s hut it was said no complete final method had yet been adopted. Recall of all men on pension, appeals to the public to help ran trains, ultimatums to the , unions that men who do not return to; work within a specified time after the walkout will be virtually blacklisted, and distribu tion of circulars among the men pointing put that they lose their seniority rights are some of the steps contemplated, rail heads said. ; j ! i Officials Show No Concern Railroad ; officials professed to be little ' concerned about their yard forces, on announcement that 30 locals of the Railroad Yard masters association had voted: to stick. . ; 1 At the sarnie time J. F. Welch, an organizer for the Seamen's union, hinted that the railroads need not; look to coastwise ship ping lines to move passengers stranded i by the strike. ' He said membersj of the union would re fuse to man coastwise vessels in the event of a railroad strike.' i) I Washington Watchful ? j WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. In terest here in the strike situation was centered today in the confer WOULD EP, VESSEL HERE McArthur Will Ask Olcott to Recommend Appropriation for Battleship $15,000 YEARLY NEEDED Bulldog of Navy Held Practi cable for Reserve Train ing Purposes FIVE HEADS MEET IN CHICAGO TODAY (Continued from page l.K C. N. (Pat)McArthurjepresen tative in congress from the Port land district; was in Salem yes terday to confer with Governor Olcott with relation to providing funds through legislative action tor the maintenance of the battle ship Oregon. Representative McArthur re cently telegraphed to Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary oi the navy, for information as to the probable cost of maintaining tht b&ttleship in the Portland harbor. In reply to this message Mr. Mc Arthur yesterday received a tele gram to the effect that the annual cost would not exceed $15,000, plus the wharfage. Representa tive McArthur said today that the city of Portland probably would donate wharfage facilities. Olcott Is Absent Because of the absence of Gov ernor Olcott from Salem Repre sentative McArthur said he had obtained an appointment with the executive for later in the week. At this conference Mr. McArthur will ask the governor to recom mend an annual appropriation oi $15,000 for the maintenance of the battleship in Portland harbor bnouia tne legislature meet in special session this winter, Mr McArthur said the appropriation could be considered at that time. Besides being ushed for exblbi tion purposes Representative Mc Arthur said, the battleship could De utinzea lor training purposes by the naval reserve and naval militia. Mayor Raker Favorable. Mayor Baker of Portland previ ously was Interviewed by Mr. Mc Arthur with relation to maintain ing the battleship in Oregon wa ters, and he was said to be favor able to the plan of providing the necessary funds through legisla tive action. The battleship Oregon now is at uremerton. the railroad labor board tomof row In Chicago. Hope that a def inite program to avert the strike .would result was gen-sral in gov .eminent circles. with President Harding and several members of the cabinet out of the city, there was no an jiouncement of further initiative by the government. The inter state commerce commission also maintained silence on reports that the tentative program of the Chi cago conference would include a provision for a reduction in rail road freight rates in proportion to tne July wage cut. Daugherty Watches Case Attorney General Daugherty said that the department of jus tice wa giving "considerable at tention "to the matter" of the threatened strike. He declined to elaborate, but there huve been reports that department agents have submitted reports based on investigation of the activity of both sides. The suggestion that certa'n provisions of the Adamson act and of the Esch-Cummins railroad bill were impending "a prompt re turn to normalcy in railroad rates and service, was made to Chair man Cummins of the senate inter state commerce committee by the American Farm Bureau Federa tion which served notice that "we will move at an early date for the repeal of the two , measures, in wnoie or in part.- .! :' : , CT THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20. 10 1 ; , ; t i , . . i - - ' . .1 -. i i . j - -!,.. ; . . J 4 : Ptrmraifl f ! " aef (&tfd $W : i . . 1 i ? "..!'.;....: ? . j - . - v . :. -,t . 4- . in EDISON Tone -Test :; t u;! 'Vu.e .!:!M,'.-,'fW..'l fi:U I 4 . . j : : i: .t , . M . yi ' i. i v- J d ' "" V. : ..- 'I 1 ence of (brotherhood leaders and cm suunnaa cuMtrtad Ads. ROSEBURG JURY BRINGS ' VERDICT FIRST DEGREE (Continued from page 1.) is erica, and E. P. Curtis, yice pres ident of the Order of Railway Conductors, left Cleveland tonight for Chicago to met with the la bor board at the latter's request tt E. Sheppard. president of the conductors' . organization also expected tomorrow. Jewell is Watched Willie this conference waalook ed on as the most important the neace moves, railroad men to- nieht orotessed to see signs of Deaccable settlement of the dlffi cultles in the attitude of B.; M Jewell, head of the 476,000 mem bers of the, six railway shop crafts organizations and of J. Smock, vice president of the" main tenance of way union which num bers 300,000 men. . The shop crafts executive coun cil met today, but took no action other than to call In the confer ence committee of 100. The com mittee, while having power to mil & striks, also is expected to defer action by calling In 1.000 general chairmen for a meeting may when the final attitude of these groups probably will i be made known. b Formal Session Today . Tho maintenance of way exe cutive council met only tnf ormal- W torUv. tr formal meeting com ing tomorrow. "1 cannot spealc for my entire Wgnnlxation now, but personally I will say we do not want e strike, that we would never strike on the wage question unless forced to and tht w- will not o into fenT walkout with, the brother hoods unless we have . definite promises of cooperation which so tar have not been rortneomms from them," said J. C. Smock, her husband. The fact that relatives of Russell had positively identified the Ifody as his and that physical peculiarities bore out their claims, failed to alter her attitude. The body was awarded to the Russells and buried as that of Dennis RusseU, but Mrs Brumfidd in sisted until after her husband's arrest that her husband was dead and that the body was his. Brumf ield was captured by members of the Canadian Mount ed police near Calgary, Alta., Canada, on August 12. Tho scene of the capture was a rarm where Brumf ield had been work ing as a laborer under tho name of Norman Whitney, r He denied bis identity at first but Boon con fessed it and was brought back without extradition proceedings. ' Testimony Voluminous The prosecution brought testi mony i that Brnmfield had been seen In his automobile between Russell's cabin and Roseburg on thfr day of th murder, driving furiously and . carrying what ap peared to be a body partly in and partly; banging out of the front part of bis car; that a pool of blood i near Russell's place indi cated ! that he had been slain there; that bullet boles in his body and bullets found 1 corre tn the calibre of a rifle witH nminfielrt owned: that dvnamite had been used to Tdow th head from the body in an ap parent effort to destroy Its Iden tity; that Brnmfield had recently bought dynamite and had nego tiated with Russell aDoux uiasuu -Rome stumps on the Brumfield farm; that prior to the murder, Brumfield had written to a steam ship agency inquiring about the cost of passage to Australia from Victoria: that Brumfield's finances were in bad i condition and that he carried heavy life in surance. Defense Mainly Insanity The defense was mainly one of insanity, i The accused dentist himself took the witness stand at the trial and told the jury that he had been seized with complete loss of memory for two days be fore Russell was killed, and that with the exception of a brief in terval when he was in Portland and another when he was in Vic toria, B. C-. he had no recollec tion of anything he had done or anything I that happened to him Ijetter Pamajrlng i Confronted with a letter which the Canadian police had found In his bed on the Calgary ranch, and in which, over . the signature of Dennis Russell, the writer had attempted to make it appear that Russell was living and Brnmfield dead, the dent st admitted the bandwTitinr was his bnt testified that he bad ' no recollection of having written it. j Big Audience at Grand Theatre Hears Helen Clark and Joseph Phillips nWdfAW oft! mtU' .!:i',.,V.-,-viUT ft:!!.! " In a test of direct comparison, madje-yester-. day at Grand Theater, before a large audience, the New Edison scored a complete and! con vine- triumph. L Helen Clark, the famous contralto sang in direct comparison with the RE-CREATION oi her voice by the New Edison. To every ear, there was no difference between her living voice and her RE-CREATED voice, j This is the most drastic phonograph test known." No other phonograph has $ver sus tained it. No other phonograph has: even at tempted it. The New Edison's marvelous performance of yesterday vindicates everything that lias been said or claimed for its perfect realism. Helen Clark stood on the stage next to a shapely Chippendale cabinet. She began to sing. Her golden notes soared over th theater, bring all under its magic spell. f Halfway through her song she suddenly The NtiW stopped singing. The New Edison at herjslde, 1 took up her song and continued : it alorie.r, ': Singer and phonograph thus alternated, throughout the song. , . i - i . . 1 " '!' 'The brilyvway the 'audience ' could be sure which was singing, was by . watching Miss Clark's lips m exactly like the living:; voico W Tt Joseph Phillips made the same test of com parison with the RE-CREATIONS of his bari- i tone selections. Again the same result there was no difference between the RE-CREATED ; , voice and the living voice, ' Proof was piled upon proof 1 Evidence was massed on evidence! The end of the concert i found the audience absolutely and completely convinced, through its own personal evperience, : that there is no difference between an artist's living performance and; its RE-CREATION by the New Edison that I listening to ' the - New h Edison is, in literal truth, the same as listening ; to the living artists. - V . . i. . ... "The Phonoeraoh with a Soul" Only one question can still, bother your mind. This question we now answer. j The instrument used in yesterday'stests was not a special model. It was an Official Labora tory Model, taken from regular stock. Every Official Laboratory Model in our stock is guar anteed to sustain the same test of direct com parison with living artists. You can have an Official Laboratory Model in your home. You can own an instrument which will do everything done yesterday in: th test. Come in. Hear the wonderful t)f f icial Laboratory Model fori yourself. Learn about our Budget Plan, which puts our Official Lab oratory Model into your home for no more than you would "pay down' for a talking machine. Try and ask one of the many! attending this concert, and you will get the answer. It was one of the best Musical concerts Salem ever. Lad. f ' ' GEO. C. WILL,' ... Salem Music Dealer 432 STATE ' STREET 1