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SUPEHHERO IS
If MEDALS
Deeds tif i Frank i. Bart on
. Ffghting Fronts Overseas
Said to Eaual . Those of
York and Woodfill.
UNABLE TO ESTIMATE .
v NUMBER HE KILLED
After
Many Months Hunting
Work Soldier Gets Job
'ith . County Clerk
.a
;. , JERSEY. CITY. N. J., Feb. 28.
The war record ol a third super-hero,
Frank J. Bart of tWest
Iloboken, is being- prepared for a
place, lii the hall of fame today,
fnllnvlnr rwtmonT 1 , liere last
night tat which the Italian, , gor
emment added another medal to
Tiia alreadr Venerous collection.
- Bart's record is believed by of
ficers of the Second corps area ai
Governor's Island to equal those
of Sergeant Alvln York and Lieu
tenant Samuel Woodfill. j 1
t Enlfftts at 42 v r
Bart enlisted in the JClnth reg
iment at the age of 42. giving hl
age as 31, after ; recruiting of ti
cera repeatedly told him he was
Jtoo old, to fight" He doesn't
know how many of the enemy he
accounted ; for, or how many of
his wounded comrades! he rescued.
But In his old barrack bag he
has three Croix do Guerre, with
v afar, with, bronze , star and
'with i fcalrn-awarded, J "byH the 1
French government, me rutu
Medallle Mllitaire, the Montene
grin war cross, the Italian. Creice
- 1 Gnerra, 'and the American con
gressional MedaVof Honor. !
. He lifts his. customary yell of
modesty long enough to remark
that he Is glad to have a job after
,''15 mpnths of pounding the pave
ments looking for one and never
finding any ,t..
Another DecoraUoa Conferred .
Hart was . decorated , at the
Fourth .reziment - armory j here
' last . hlght by Colonel V. A. di
Bernezzo, - Italian military i at
tache at Washington, D. C. i The
ceremony was attended by several
congressmen, and state, county
and city officials. s. w f
. Bart went overseas In . 1917
, with the Second division, with the
marines, his record reveals.. ., He
served as a "buck private" refus
ingr several promotions during the
war. . because as he said, he !'did
' n't .want to be tied down to a
bunch of men.
He won his first decoration ear
ly in 191. when, as a runner
with the Ninth regiment; he went
Into ai line of dugouts that : had
been abandoned under shell fire
by his outfit and carried several
of his wounded comrades through
a" heavy, barrage to safety.'4
.i f ' AVaa Ilcro fanArjconne r:
- His 'second decoration he ' won
In the! Argonne, after he 'had
searched all night for a "lost" de
tachment of marines, captured by
th enemy." and escaped. ' He
fought his way back to the ma
rlnes andJoined his regiment at
Its next advance. : ;;.
Bart' was decorated a third time
by the! French In the Champagne
drive when he offered to go up
and get acquainted "with German
machine, gun nests." Armed with
i an automatic rifle, hed isposed of
a dozen .gunners who bad halted
the advance of his company. ,
J Idle 15 Hontlia 1
. His decoration by other of the
allied" nations. Including his own
country, followed. '. I
. .For the last 18 months,: Bart
, said he has been out of a job. He
began work today as 'a "utility
man" in the office of the county
clerk here.
Prisoner Asks Officer
I to Put on Wrrst Irons
I guess you had better put
those fhandcuCfs - on me" Bert
Merkle of Woodburn observed
yesterday to City Marshal Frank
Covey, when Merkle was being
brought from Woodburn to the
Marlon county jail. , !
'Merkle, according to Woodburn
officers, has been bound over to
the Marion county grand jury on
. a charge of assault with Intent to
commit rape. - - - r ;
v 'Before starting with his prison
er. Marshal Corey had asked Mer
kle if he would give his word of
honor hot to attempt an escape it
Covey "retrained from using wrist
Irons. -I- ' '-. -l - -
"Better rput on the irons, for
mieht yield ton temptation and
then somebody might shoot me."
Merkle said, v 'y'
Accoridng to officers, Merkle
had his own way, -
PERSHING'S NEPHEW HELPS
ENFORCE PROHIBITION LAW
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AMES F. PERSHING, Jr.,
accepted arr appointment
rector because he wants
ershing is 31 years old, a stock
witn distinction throughout
nri vat "t -r f . '
y ' ;
i ears moisten XstieeKs ot judge
Landis as He Bids Good -Bye to
Newspapermen at Federal Hall
t!HISAGO. Feb. 28. (By thei
Associated "Press.) With a tear
in - his eye, Kenesaw Mountain
Landia today walked out of the
federal building a private citizen
after 17 years as United States
judge for the northern district of
Illinois. -
Starting tomorrow, the fam
ous jurist, who recently resigned,
will; devote his time to the po
sition ot baseball commissioner.
0udge Landis swung through
the first part of "his final day on
the bench in characteristic fash
ion, disposing of nearly a dozen
cases in a typical Landis man
ner which once caused a convict
ed bootlegger to refer to him as
that white-haired hellcat in fed
eral court," and a pardoned
youth to term him the "whitest
guy that ever talked to a feller."
He fined one man one cent for
tax dodging, because, he said,
"you've, tried to be square," and
slapped a $5000 fine on the man's
partner because he "hadn't
played fair."
In the afternoon the judge sat
in his chambers watching his per
sonal effects being carted away.
Bank, presidents, society lead
MERCHANT
PLAN IS PRESENTED
BY MR.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.President Harding, through a
message which he read in congress in joint session, today
presented the administration
through direct and indirect
chant marine, and immediately after he hd outlined his
views, steps were taken to
into legislation.
Bills embodying the adminis
tration policy were Introduced
simultaneously before the presi
dent had left the capitol and ar
rangements were made for early
committee consideration. ; Joint
hearings by the senate commerce
and the house merchant marine
committees, to which the billi
were referred, were proposed, by
Senator Jones,. Republican. Wash
ington, chairman of the former.
The bill will bo taken up next
Thursday by the senate commit
tee and also soon by the house
committee. 5 .
Government Operation Wrong
' Iniaddressing the Joinl "session
of congress at 12:30 o'clock. the
president declared that the policy
nephew of Gen. Pershing, has
as Assistant Prohibition Di
to do his bit as a citizen.", Mr.
and bond broker and served
the war. lie enlisted - as a
ers mingled with day laborers and
occasionally a former prisoner at
the bar with whom the judge
had been lenient in an informal
reception.
Judge Landia showed the great
est emotion when the federal
building newspapermen presented
him with a signed testimonial
wishing him luck, saying that he
was "taking the life of the joint
away," and that they would al
wayB remember him as an "hon
est-to-God man and a judge with
the right kind of backbone."
. After . reading it the judge
swung his big chair around so the
reporters could not tree him, and
when he turned, back five minutes
later his cheeks and eyes glis
tened with tears.
"Oh, hell," he said, "I can't
thank you fellows, we've been too
good pals' and I just can't seem
to talk. Hut I hope that each
one of you knows down in your
heart how much I hate to leave
this building and you but no.
I'm not leaving you fellows.
"We'll have our reunions and
grow old telling each other how
we used to sit on the federal
bench."
MARINE
HARDING
program for development
subsidies of the American mer
translate his recommendations
of government operation of its
merchant ships had been demon
strated to be "fundamentally
wrong and practically Impos
sible." He proposed the pale
even at an admitted sacrifice of
tiro frovernment fleet built during
the war and the granting of the
direct and indirect , subsidies, to
gether with other aid, to private
ship operators.
This program, the president ex
plained, was advanced in lieu
of Ineffective provisions of exist
ing laws designated to aid ship
ping. These Included the "sub
vention" of tariff rebate provided
for imports in American vessels
(Continued Cm page 2
BOIU
S TROUBLE
TUSSLED WITH
Br
Ways and Means Republi
cans in House Grapple
With Question in Acrimon
ious Three-Hour Debate.
NO CONCLUSION, IS
FORDNEY'S ACCOUNT
Hanford McNider Spends
Portion of Day With Har
ding and is Pleased
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.
House ways and meaus commit-;
tee Republicans spent three hors
tryuing to reconcile their differ
ences over the soldiers' bonus but
without success. After they had
adjourned until tomorrow. Chair
man Fordney announced that he
had been "authorized to say that
the committee has arrived at no
conclusion."
There Is nothing to be given
to the newspapers today," he
added.
Discussion Acrimonious '
It was understood there was a
general discussion of the whole
question of finances, acrimonious
at times, and that at the finish
the s'tuatlon was just where it
was before the special sub-com
mittee tentatively agreed upon a
special tax program which sub
sequently was disopproved by
President . Harding.
Some committeemen were hope
ful that there would be some kind
of a conclusion tomorrow. - It
was said that the program In
cludes postponement of the whole
question for a month in the be
lief that the delay would serve
to clear the atmosphere, but sev
eral members were understood to
look upon such a program with
disfavor.
Kales Tax N'ot Pressed
The discussion was reported to
have revolved largely around the
proposition to write into the bill
some kind of a financing provis
ion that would meet the presi
dent's view at least . half way
The sales tax suggested by the
president and rejected by the spa
cial sub-committee last week by
an overwhelming vote, was not
pressed particularly, it was said.
and the impression went out that
some members had in mind a Spe
cial tax program. ,
Sales tax proponents wereiun
derstood to be hopeful that this
program would be worked around
to the sales tax, but leaders of
the agricultural bloc will oppose
that. They take the position that
the bonus can be financed out of
proceeds from the refunded ISrit
ish debt. j
MacXkkr Sees Harding !
As the Republican committee
men were assembling to resume
consideration of the bonus, Han
ford Madder, national command
er of the American legion, land
John Thoma,s Taylor, vice chair
man of the legion's legislative
committee, ''discussed the bonus
situation with President Harding
at the White House. They iaid
afterwards that they were "er
fectly satisfied" with the reult
or tne conference ana expreasea
confidence that there wouldf be
no delay in the enactment of jthe
adjusted compensation legisla
tion. They added that the prsesi
dent "was heart and soul" with
the legion and understood its impo
sition fully. . i
At the White House it was said
that President Harding in this
talk with the legion officials Sad
simply referred to his recent fet
ter to Chairman Fordney of the
house ways and means commit
tee outlining hos position on phe
bonus as favoring a sales tax to
raise the funds with which to fin
ance it, or else postponement of
such legislation. j
President Remain Steadfast!
The following statement iras
Issued at the White House onjthe
conference: '
, "The president made no com
mittment other than that in itis
letter to Chairman Fordney which
expressed an attitude which i re
mains unchanged. He proposed
co further statement ,and has
none to make." ; ,
Eight Men 111, Prison'
Still Under Quarantine
Eight men at the state peniten
tiary are now in the hospital with
influenza, but It is said they are
all on the road to recovery. The
prison is under quarantine and
IwlllTemala so for several days.
COMMITTEE
FIGHT PROMOTER IS I
ACCUSED BY GIRLS j
Vi' It
s p y S
J
nun i rtf il It TfMin'niiriitf 'I'fH i
George L. (Tex) Rickard
has been indicted in New
York city on charges pre-
erred by two young girls of
abduction and criminal as
sault. The famous sports pro
moter is held on $25,000 bail.
HAL HEALER
PUT Oil
Also Woman With Gift of
Sight is Witness in Oben
chain Trial
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28. A
mental healer and a woman with
"the gift of sight" were witnes
ses today in the trial of Mrs.
Madalynne Obenchain, charged
with the murder of J. Belton Ken
nedy. They were called by the
prosecution in support of its con
tention that Mrs. Obenchain con
spired with Arthur C. Burch to
have the latter kill Kennedy be
cause he refused to marry her.
William Iserloh, the mental
healer, said Mrs. Obenchain vis
ited him on July 12 to consult
on "spiritual matters" and asked
him if he could see me gettng
married tomorrow." Iserloh said
he advised her to wait until Aug
ust 10 for the marriage.
Mrs. R. B. Whitlow who said
she was "born with the gift of
sight," testified Mrs. Obenchain
asked her about the middle of
July if she would marry the man
she loved. "I told her things
looked favorable," Mrs. Whitlow
testified. Later, the witness said,
Mrs. Obenchain telephoned to her
and asked if she could bring her
"young man friend" to call.
"I said she could," Mrs. Whit
low said. "Then she told me she
wanted me to talk faborable to
him. About nine o'clock that
night she came to my house with
a young man who I afterwards
learned was J. Belton Kennedy
They sat down in front of me
and I advised them to marry and
go away before August 1.
"Kennedy said to me: 'Hav
en't I always mean t well towards
her?' and I said, 'yes .'
Mrs. Whitlow said she could
not remember the date of this
call. Deputy District Attorney
Asa Keyes read from a diary,
identified as having been kept by
Mrs. Obenchain, an entry under
the date of July 21. as follows:
"Belton phoned in morning,
came in evening, went to colored
woman." Mrs. Whitlow has the
appearance of being a mulatress.
Hubbard Garage Entered,
Valuable Loot is Taken
HUBBARD, Ore., Feb. 28.
(Special to The Statesman)
The Hubbard earace wa3 broken
Into late Monday night. A small
amount of cash, blankets and auto
npuuirioi and a. Chevrolet ear
were stolen. The garago is owned
bv L. T. HodKe. North Marion
county distributor.
The safe, which was unlocked
was opened and the cash register
was broken onen with some in
strument. The job was roughly
done. The loss of blankets and
auto accessories from the sales
room was considerable. The car
belonged to Charles Kinzer. local
barber, and was only stored In
the rtraw. No does as to who
the robbers might be
has been
i found- 5 :
n
TAYLOR KILLING MYSTERY IS
SOLVED IF STORY BY
IS CORRECT, , OFFICERS AVE
FLU CASES ME
NOT ALIUB
So Declares Dr. C. E, Cash
att, City and County
Health Officer
A survey of reports filed with
the county and city health offices
by physicians practicing in Ma
rlon county shows that there is
little cause for alarm concerning
the influenza situation in Salem
and vicinity.
According to statistics filed
with Dr. C. E. Cashatt, city and
county health officer, there have
been! only 10 deaths In Marion
county during February that can
be traceable to influenza. During
the month of January only fire
deaths could be attributed to this
cause. Of these 15 fatalities, IS
of the individuals were 55 years
of age or older.
"If there are,, more than 25
actual cases of influenza existing
in this city today, someone has
been tardy in making reports of
this contagious disease." Dr.
uasnatt said yesterday. In com
menting on statements by physic
ians quoted as saying that there
are between 400 and 500 cases of
influenza in Salem at the pres
ent time.
"There is much difference be
tween the common colds and
coughs known, to everyone and
the noted form of influenza which
confines the patient to bed and
involves a fight for health simi
lar to the attacks of a virulent
form of pneumonia," said Dr.
Cashatt.
Dr. Cashatt calls attention to
the general rules .to be exercised
in avoiding contracting the dis
ease, such as care to avoid close
contact with persons who sneeze
or cough.
The radical changes of weather
recently experienced in fhis lo
cality is given as one of the basic
causes of the epidemic of colds
in various forms of severity
Warm cloth'.ng and a care to
avoid exposures to sudden ex
tremes of temperature are sug
gested as methods to be used In
sidestepping attacks.
George Swegle Writes En
thusiastically of Recep
tion by Natives
George Swegle, one of the 16
Salem folks who went to Palmlto
del Verde, writes his son, Charles
Swegle, from Mazatlan, that when
Itfse ISalem colonists arrived 'in
that city the people came out to
meet them in a most enthusiastic
reception.
He writes that the trees all
around Mazatlan are loaded down
with cocoanuts and that they
found many wealthy Americans
living in the city. Also that the
natives, and especially Mexicans.
do all the manual labor.
In traveling ths distance of 700
miles from Xogales to Mazatlan,
they were met in many towns
by the natives who were quite
anxious to see them, Mr. Swegel
writes. When the party arrived
in their special car at Mazatlan,
tables were et for them our in
the open and they were treated to
Mexican hot cakes, pie and fried
chicken.
At Nopalcs they met officials
of the Sonora Bank & Trust com
pany ot Sonora. Arizona, this
bank, Mr. Swegle writes, guar
anteeing title to land when pay
ments are completed.
A letter is expected shortly
from Mr. Swecel. tell in r of his
first impressions of the Island of
Palmito del Verde.
E. T. HAY DEAD
SPOKANE. Wash.. Feb. 28.
Edward T. Hay. brother of form
er Governor M. B. Hay. died here
suddenly this afternoon, at his
desk in the Lincoln Trust com
pany. Ho was 48 years of age
1 and leaves a wife and four child
I ren. Mr. Hay was active in local
I investment companies,
ii RECEIVED
FROM ISLANDERS
Mrs. John Rupp, Landlady for Six Drug Peddlers Ac
cuses Them of Slaying Film Director in Hollywood
Another .Visit Will be Made to Mabel Normahd it
Result of Arrests Made Yesterday
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28. "The mystery of the murder
of William Desmond Taylor, film director, is solved, if the
story told by Mrs. John Rupp in connection with the arrest
here today of six drug peddlers is correct," tonight declared
Detective Sergeant Herman Cline, one of the police squad
assigned to the case. " ;
When Sergeant Cline, head of the police homicide squad,
made that statement, Mrs. Rupp, who told the police she had
"kept house" for the men, had been subjected to a rigid
questioning by two detectives of the district attorney of
fice, Her statements were taken down in shorthand in the
presence of officers who said they would check up every de
tail. - - - (--.?;t ''; - -
Another witness, new in ;the case and whose exact con
nection with it and whose name was not made public official
ly was taken before Thomas Lee Woolwine, district attor
ney, to whom he was said to have told a Very important
story. This witness is called Trenchy George by the de
tectives, who decline further information concerning him.
"Frenchy George's" story, however, was Believed to relate
to the arrests of the six men, who were accused of "having
sold drugs and liquor to motion picture actors and actresses
and others Jn the Hollywood district of tLos 'Angeles.
After "Frenchy George";
a detective attached to the district attorney's off ice said of
ficers would pay another visit
tress, who is recovering from "what her physician recently
declared was a severe attack of influenza and nervous break
down.
Stanford Professor to t
Give Lecture Tonight
Professor Edgar E. Robinson,
of the American history depart
ment at Stanford university, wity
lecture at Waller hall tonight at
o'clock. His topic, "Inside
Glimpses of the Disarmament.
Conference" will be of interest to
students of current . problems.
This lecture will tell of the im
pressions, glimpses, and observa
tions of an observer at the ring
side in Washington. D. C.
For two months Prof. Robin-
con was present at the arms con
clave. He was an observer of the
representatives of the different
powers. Many of the coonferences
were attended and the notes and
impressions from many of these
speeches anad arguments will be
told. A very Inteersting, instruc
tive, and worth-while lecture of
the conclave will be given.
WKATHER
Wednesday fair and continued
cold. Fresh easterly winds.
FIRST PAYMENT OF
BONUS
MADE ON
Final setting of the stage
soldier bonus checks was effected yesterday by the state
bonus commission which announced that bonds for more
than $3,000,000 will be delivered today to a Portland bank
which is to have the necessary cash ready for the state
treasury. The flood of checks will then be released on Thurs
day carrying reimbursement to 3210 ex-service men within
the state.
In an all day session the
other 800 claims which will
of state"s office for audit
ready been received from the
cash and loan law will be made hereafter as rapidly as. the
necessary legal requirements can be, met. The commission
has $10,000,000 available from the $30,000,000 voted by the
people at the last election and it is estimated that this sum
will carry out the work until next September by which time.
at the present rate of applications, another sale of bonds will
be required.
KerorI Time Made
That the bonus commission has
made record time in getting the
disbursements rolling is the opin
ion freely heard here. The halt
in the c&mmission's operations
brought about by a supreme court
test on the validity of the law wag
not ended until December 13.
Thereafter it was necessary to ad
vertise for bids in the eastern
bond market, receive and open
bids, award the sale, and then
have the bonds printed, signed
and delivered. The actual deliv
WO!
AN
had concluded . his statement,
to Mabel Normahd, ; fum ac
X
Miss Normand recently .closed
her Los Angeles v; residence and
took a house1 in Aludena, a sub
urb . of - Pasadena, where daring .
her illness she has been attended
by two. nurses and her parents,
who recently came here on a visit
from JTewT,-York r Her represent
physical condition . Is said to be
approaching normal. - u -Important
Witness Dies "
While of fleers declared the
day'sToevelopments in the Taylor
case were encouraging, they suf
fered one , misfortune in the re
port of. the death two days age
from pneumonia of Earl Tiffany,
former chauffeur to Taylor, and
declared to have been of the "ut
most importance" as a source of
information concerning y. Edward
F. Sands, missing former butler
secretary to the film director.
The felony charge pending sg
alnst Sands was said to have been
the result, ot information provid
ed by Tiffany, who was employed
by Taylor while Sands also served
the director.
.The six men. In custody were
caught in a raid,, by the' police
"narcotic squad" at, Mrs. Rupp's
home at 1 8 0 . West Washing
ton street. ' They gave their
names and ages as William East,
36; Walter Kir by.. 23; John Her-
(Continued on page )
THURSDAY
for sending out thousands of
MONEY TOBE
commission yesterday passed an
be sent at once to the secretary.
and payment, claims having al
applicants. Claims under the
'
ery of the first block of bonda
will occur today at 10 o'clock in
Portland. V
A serious delay was threatened
recently, it was learned yesterday,
when the printing ot the bonds
was undertaken. The commission
ran counter to a general strike of
lithographers but this was quick
ly met when, on appeal from tbe
commission and American Legion,
the Central Labor. council and
Lithographers union at Portland
(Continued on page I)