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THE WEATHER. The Statesman receives the leased wlra report of th associated th createst and nott re liable pren association la the world. Saturday, fair;, moderate north 0 erljr winds. SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR, SALE1I, OREGON', SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 22, 1921 PRICE: FIVE CENTS pi IMS FREELY TO REPORTERS Lass Says She is Taught Useful Arts, Has School Privileges, Recreation and Wants to Be Nurse. NOTHING IRREGULAR IN COURT PROCEDURE Sister Marie Personally Re sponsible and Vouches For Treatment By WILL CARVER "Virtually a prisoner," "drudge for 'sweet charity's sake," "held Incommunicable." These and oth er phrases Are found In a Capital Journal story Tof October 20, In which some "sob" writer aepicis the forlorn situation of Thelma Perry, 15, and Violet Perry, 13. Th Canltal Journal story refer red to provides one with a rather i unfair and hazr Idea of the local Deaconnes hospital and of those In charge. The Statesman representative, ftor nnrntinv of the article de- dAd tn visit the institution. He undertook the pilgrimage in a rather doubtful mood, however. fni y,a nnt tho Journal stated that 4ts representative, even when aided by an attorney, had failed to secure a private Interview with Thelma Perry,. Reporter Qoee Unarmed Attorneyless and unarmed with any variety of a habeas corpus order, the Statesman's cub report er donned his best neck-tie and ther raiment and presented him self at the hospital's portals. In vain he looked about for the armed guard which the Journal story had " led V him to believe would be posted about the institu tion. Instead, he was met by one of the smiling sisters who are de voting their time to their task of charity and his request for an in terview with Thelma was soon granted. With, a representative of a Portland paper, he was ushered into the little parlor and Thelma entered after being excused from the usual brief evening devotional program. . Thelma Example of Good Care Here the reporter received an other shock for hfr had expected - tn niAAt a small, underfed and frightened creature who would scurry away from strangers in the manner of a wild partridge. However. Thelma is a living ex ample of good care. Neatly at tired, rosy-cheeked and evidently satisfied with her treatment at the hospital, Thelma herself is an emphatic denial of any published or verbal intimation that she may be ill-used at the hospital. Al though less than IS yeuYs of age she is large for her years. "Yes, I want to go home!" re plied,' Thelma, in reply to a ques tion. "I am given the same treat ment as the other girls here. We all are being taught to cook, sweep, sew and other tasks about the house." ' Recreation Honrs Allowed "Work all the time?" "Nn. tht is not true, for we go to the Salem schools during the day and then there is spare time each day for writing home, play ing on the hospital grounds or reading." Thelma told of her sister, Viol et, who she avers, is "different." According to Thelma and the hos pital staff, Violet does not wish to return home. At the present time she is staying In Portland, in the home of Sister Martha, of tho focal hospital. Violet has told Judge Bushey and Sister Marie Wedel that she Is happy under the new arrangement, it is stated by officials. "Are you receiving good train- " lag here? Would you become a nurse?" Thelma was asked. Wants to be Nurse ;Well- she ' replied. "I want ( to be a nurse, and the instruction interests me, but I am told that my mother Is sick at home and I want to help bo badly that I cannot keep my mind on my work.?' The interview with Thelma concluded, the newsmen talked ' to several of the girls now at the hospital home. One little girl of about 7 years was asked if it were true that the children were not allowed to talk or smile. "How tonld ? they thop uth?f (Continued on par Sj, LEADERS OF POWERFUL RAILROAD LABOR UNIONS WHO DECLARE NATION-WIDE RAILROAD STRIKE 1 't & ' K'ntiMn ii,W'- mmw. - m ' r- ' i : fAf BERT M. JEWELL j W P WACRFN S. STONE CHPJ W.S. CARTER JAP VESSEL ; HALTED BY YANK SHOTS Shots Whiz Across Bow of Kaisho Maru in Puget Sound But It's Mistake PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Oct 21. As the Japanese steamer Kaisho Maru rounded Point Wil son near here today, coast artil lery at Fort Casey, practicing at a moving target, fired shots that whizzed across the bow of the ves sel and ploughed the water in her The captain, thinking the shots a warning not to proceed for some reason, halted the ship. She drifted with the tide for three hours before a launch with a 'pilot explained the incident. . The Kaisho Maru proceeded to MuMiteo to load lumber for the Orient. BE1PT OUT Federal Judge Myers Rules That Cargoes Cannot Be Landed in Transit NEW YORK, Oct. 21. Intox icating liquod may not be landed at American ports for trans-shipment from one foreign country to another, Federal Judge Julius Mayer declared today in a decision In hte suit brought by the Anchor Steamship line, to restrain port authorities from seizing a ship ment of whiskey bound from Glasgow to Bermuda. Counsel for the Anchor line contended that liquor not intend ed for sale in the United States was exempt from provisions of the prohibition act and was pro tected by the treaties between the United States and Great Brit ain. Judge Mayer declared that Pre sident Cleveland and President Harrison held that the treaty ar ticles involved in this case had been abrogated and that he would not take a contrary view. The federal authorities testified that a large quantity of the liquor trans-shipped through New York had "become lost or stolen" and eventually was ; landed In this country. XOT GUILTY CLEVELAND, O., , Oct. 21. A verdict of not goilty was returned tonight in the tfial of Mrs. Emma Colavito for her alleged connec tion with the death of Daniel F. Kaber. a publisher, over two years ago. She was tried on an indict ment charging first degree mur der. uion MUST W. G. LEE BRUMFIELD YET IN DANGEROUS STATE FROM NECK WOUND ROSEBURG, Or.,' Oct. 21. Dr. Rl M. Brumfield, con victed slayer of Dennis Russell on whom the death sentence was to be pronounced tomorrow, was still in a dangerous condition today as the result night. Dr. A. S. Sether said there is ptill danger of infec tion. . , Not a trace of any implement by which two wfounds, one on either side of the neck, might have been inflicted, could be found by searching officers until the dentist, in delirium, reached into his mouth and pulled out a bit of gold bridge work. The authorities believe that he extracted the bit of inlay, armed with metal edges, and hacked away with it at his throat. . Sheriff Starmer thought that in spite of the convicted man's weakened condition, it might be possible to take him into court for sentence tomorrow. OAKS ADDITION - BY HIT AT The city of Salem will soon be in the real estate business as it is now the owner of 10 lots, nine of which are in Oaks addition and the other in Burlington addition. Deeds were filed yesterday in the county recorder's office, known as tax deeds, wheroln the sheriff of ' Marion county sold property for non-payments or taxes under order of judgment entered in favor of the city Sep tember 16. 1921. The city bid in the property for the amount or taxes due. The first property sold by O. li. Bower, sheriff, under order of the circuit court, were lots 1 and 2. block 3. Oaks addition, for delm- uent taxes amoununs iu LiOt 3, DIOCK. X, waa was bid in by the city for the de linquent taxes amoununs Skipper and Crew Ready For Gun in Sea Contest HALIFAX, Oct. 21. Skippers and crews of the racing schooner Elsie of Gloucester and Blue Nose of Uunenburg were ready tonight, for the starting gun tomorrow in j the contest of seamanship for the! North Atlantic fisherman's tropny. The international commission today decided that; the comple ment of each schooner's crew should be from 25 to 30 at the option of the skippers. of an attempt at suicide last LOTS BOUGHT SHERIFF'S SALE $126.86. This lot is on Capitol (street between Market and Bel mont. Lot 10 and lot 11 in block 7. Oaks addition, was bid in l" the city for the delinquent taxes amounting to $2."0.90. These lots are at Winter and D streets. : Lots 10 and 11. in block 4, Oaks addition, located at Winter and E streets, were bid in by the city for 1250.92, the amount of the delinquent taxes. Lots 1 and 8, block 11. Oaks addition was purchased by the city at the sheriff's sale for $256.71, the amount due on taxes. These lots are on Capitol street between Parris and Lanibertson streets. Lot 1 block 3, Burlington addi tion, in" the eastern part of the city, was bid in by the city for $63.35. Important Football Games Staged in East Today CHICAGO, Oct. 21. With Chi cago playing Princeton in the east tomorrow, western confer ence Tootball followers will find interest in th? Michigan-Ohio oatie at Ann Arbor and the clash between, Wisconsin and Illinois at; lTrbana. Indiana will meet Minnesota at Minneapolis in the other "big ten" frame while out side the conference Notre Dame and Nebraska meet at Notre Dame. ABSENTEES OF GOP ROASTED BY CHAIRMAN Many Not Present When In come Surtax is Debated and Penrose Declares He Will Tell the Country. LONG-THREATENED ftOW FINALLY BREAKS Few Desiring to Enter Dis cussion Have Opportun ity Before Recess ! WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. The long threatened fight over the in come surtax rates to be written into the new revenue law broke today in the senate, but despite a sizable opposition. Republican leaders expressed confidence that the compromise plan embodying a maximum rate of 50 per cent would be adopted, probably to morrow. Meantime, as a result of the defeat yesterday of the propos al to exempt from taxation in comes of foreign traders and for eign trade corporations received from sources outside of the United States, the majority lead ers sent out a hurry call to ab sent Republican senators to re turn. Republicans Absent. Absence of Republican sena tors was commented on by Chair man Penrose of the finance com mittee. "Questions of paramount im portance are being disposed of here while Republican senators are absent and indifferent." he said. "I want to call the atten tion of thfe country to it. It will meet with comment and condem nation." Senator Hitchcock, Democrat, Nebraska, called attention that 11 Republicans joined with the Dem ocrats in defeating the committee amendment yesterday which Sen ator Simmons, Democrat, North Carolina, said only 16 Republi cans were absent and not voting. wnue iz uemocrats also were: absent and not voting. Colonies Considered While defeated in the first skirmish over amendments ex4 plained as designed to aid AmeriJ can concerns in competing witbj foreign rivals for overseas tradei Chairman Penrose said today an effort would be made later to get a provision into the bill to pro4 tect those concerns, particularly those being in business in the Philippines and in China. j Only a few senators desiring to discuss the income surtax rate$ got the opportunity today before the senate recessed. Compromise Offered Senator Hitchcock proposed aq amendment to the compromise under which rates on incomes irj excess of $100,000 would be the same as those in existing law; (Senator Jones. Democrat. New Mexico, contended if rates wer to be lowered on large incomes they also should be lowered o incomes below $3000. Rathie and Owens Will Go to Pendleton Sunday John L. Rathie and El vie D. Kirby, alias James Owens, who were under sentence t obe hanged l for implication in the murder of bhenff Til Taylor of Pendleton, will be taken to Pendleton Sun day, where they will be re-sentenced Monday. This is necessary because the appeal to the supreme court served as a stay of thb execution and made a re-sentence necessary. s The supreme ourt upheld the conviction of the lower court and under the law thf sentence still must be the death penalty. American Girls Have World Champion Legs NEW YORK, Oct. 21. Maijy Garden, director general of the Chicago Opera company, returned from EuTope today with bobbed hair and conviction that Ameri can girls might well ignore th Parislene suggestion that longer skirts are the mode. j "Why should our girls give up short skirts?" she asked. "Th4y have the prettiest feet and the prettiest legs in the world," DEVELOPMENTS IN (By The Associated Press) Following are Friday's developments In the railroad strike situation: Chicago Labor board announces it has assumed jurisdic tion in the rail crisis, orders workers not to walk out and cites union chiefs. and railroad heads to appear before it October 2 for a conference which board members said should avert a strike. Both sides announce they will appear for conference. Maintenance of way union, with more than 373.000 mem bers, and stationary firemen, numbering 25,000, announce over whelming strike votes and prepare for a walkout. Others of the eleven "standard" unions expect to announce their deci sions Saturday or Sunday. Heads of roads entering Chicago discuss plans to combat strike. ' Packers begin storing all available meat supplies In prep aration for stilke. CLEVELAND W. G. Lee. head of trainmen's union, in a statement following labor board citation, asked by what author ity anyone can compel a man to work, pointing out that the United States supreme court has upheld the right t0 strike. WASHINGTON Learned that possibility of President Harding exercising war-time powers to run roadsi in case of strike was discussed officially but such action not yet contem plated. SAM ANTONIO Trainmen on the International & Great Northern, prepare to carry out plans for walkout Saturday de spite labor board's announcement. ; St. Louis Heads of southwestern lines announce every thing legally possible will be done to operate roads If there Is a strike. HA2ELTON. Pa., Anthracite mines pushed at full speed in preparation for strike. LAUHE IS MADE CHIEF DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE Sam A. Kozer, secretary of Ktate, yesterday announced the appointment of C. N. Loughridge a3 his chief deputy to succeed John W. -Cochran, who has re signed to become chief deputy col lector of internal revenue under Clyde Huntley. The change will become effective some time in November. J Laughridge is now in charge of the accouonting division of the state department and has been with the department since 1918. Before becoming connected with the department Mr. Laughridge lived at Condon, Gilliam county, and for three terms was county clerk of that county. Prior to that he was assistant postmaster at Condon! and a bookkeeper In the Arlington National bank. On October 7, there was a total enrollment in the Salem public schools of 3.326, according to the monthly statement of George W. Hug, superintendent, which ac cording to law, will be filed for record with the county superin tendent. Of this number, 1,664 are boys and 1662 are girls. In line with many schools in the county, boys are in the ma jority, although it will be noted that in the Salem district there are only two more boys than girla enrolled Boys Lead in Primary In the first primary grades in the city schools, boys are in the majority, as the total enrollment is 180 boys and 138 girls. In the second grade boys are again in the majority, as the enrollment in this grade is 167 boys and 119 girls. In the third primary grade, the girls are in the majority as the re port front all schools show that 145 boys and 155 girls are at tending in the third grade. In the fourth gTade, girls are in the majority. Here the enroll ment in the public schools was on October 7; a total of 231. of wfcVh 10!) were boys and 122 girls. In the fifth grade, boys are in the majority as the total enroll ment in .this grade is 294, of which 159 are boys and 13 5 girls. In the sixth grade, out of a total enrollment of 254, there are 120 boys and 234 girls. CiirU Ijead in Higher Grades In the seventh grade, the total enrollment Is 266. of which 124 are boys and 143 girls. In the eihth grade, the enrollment ds 296. of which there are 1.47 boys and 149 girls.J The school system of teaching is divided into 12 grades. The first eie;ht are up to what was formerly known ai the high 6chool, which had the remaing four grades. But with the organization of the jun ior high schools,, the high school consists of the three highest grades. Thus, the ninth grade known as the upper class of the junior high school was formerly the freshman SALEM SCHOOL NI SHOW STRIKE SITUATION Fred A. Everest now Washing ton county recorder, a position he has filled for 10 years, succeeds Mr. Laughridge as head of the ac counting department. Prior to that time he had Important busi ness connections in Washington county and in Portland. Mr. Condon was appointed dep uty secretary of state by Mr. Kozer when the latter became secretary of ftate. "I very much regret to lose Mr. Cochran," said Secretary Kozer. "Ho has been a faithful and effi cient assistant. Much to the credit for the prompt dispatch of the business of the department is due to his initiative and energy and loyalty to his work, and I be speak for him a full measure of success In his new connection." S TOTAL OF 3326 class of the high school. This class this year enrolls 4 07, the highest of all grades in the school In the ninth grade, there are 218 boys and 189 girls, giving the boys a majority of 29. Next year. this grade wtill be in the high school, crowding the building more than ever, j Attendance Dwindles Attendance in grades become smaller as the , high school Is reached. In the 10th grade, or sophomore class, there is an at- (Continued on page 2.) ENROLLMENT DRAMATIC SCENE AS RELEASED MINISTER MEETS DAUGHTER BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. 21. Reverend Edwin R. Steph enson was found not guilty by a' jury tonight of the charge of second decree murder growing out of the killing df-Father James, E. Coyle, Catholic priest, on August 11. The jury was ut four hours. !' v A dramatic reconciliation took place in the court room between the defendant apd his daughter, Mrs. Ruth Stephenson Gussman, whose marriage! to Pedro Guss man by Father (oyfe was alleged to have led to the killing of the latter by Stephenson. Re-appearing for the first jtlme since short ly after her father was indicted, the young woman, who failed to respond to a summons as a state's witness, bad taken a seat in the courtroom during the final argu ment by defense; counsel. Mother Entreat As she passed by- her father UNION HEADS , WILL ACCEPT BOARD ORDER Lee and Stone Declare Wil ' lingness to Confer I With Federal Officials and Chiefs Wednesday. ? TRANSPORTATION. ACT. RAPPED BY TRAINMEN Discrimination Against Wor kers Feared if Teeth are Put Into Law SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 21. R. D. Frame, general chairman of the Brotherhood Trainmen, members employed by the In ternational and Great Northern railroad, an all-Texas line, to night issued final instructions to the 600 members of the or ganization concerning .the strike called to begin at noon' tomorrow. He predicted that the walkout would be 100 per cent complete. 4 r ' J. R. Jones, superintendent of the I. and O. N.t said the company was prepared to movo. its trains, . ; CLEVELAND. Oct 21. (By the Associated Press). Although the official; order citing the railroad brotherhood chief a and railroad executive to appear before the railroad board Wednesday had not been received, local brotherhood executives tonight . said the would respond to the citation, W. O. Lee, president of thi trainmen, said: " I . "I will certainly be there if ordered," adding that! all the other chief executives" of th railroad transportation organ hat ions also "will go anywhere they are ordered to appear ia connection with a settlement of the strike. None of,the loc al brotherhood chiefs would make xther comment on to day's developments j Mr. Lee tonight issued : n statement outlining his position on alleged demands that teeth be put into the transportation act in which he asserted those making the demand should also demand a law for the 1'regula tion of his own business that will establish the samefrelatiotLa between himself and bis em ployees he demands for rail way employes." I ; The statement follows: "There is a demand; for con gressional action that will put teeth into the decisions of the railroad labor board. But, therejs no demand from other (Continued on page 2) and mother on tearing the court room after the morning session, the latter approached her with outstretched arms. The' daugh ter at first shook her head, but yielding to the. mother's simple entreaty "kiss me, darling, rest ed her head on the weeping wo man's shonlder. 'Kis9 father, too, the mother pleaded, and after a moment's ' refusal,- with the crowd urging the reconciliation, the ; daughter walked up to her father, who drew her to his breast for a mo-; ment, and then turned and left the room. . ;. . i