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"maw ar -ai , oixcxnuiTioa Avartg for March, 1923 SiradaT- entr- -.'. - . XV TEX CXTT 07 HT.m tad b(wlir l ' Varies Po!t Owrttltt : The Oregon Statesman TRB HOST aTSWSPAm 8825 Ararat for six BienUt 4lac TmbnuT . 28, 1922 . S48S Ban Jay " ' - - -m DaUy sad Saaday H40 2 SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR ".rL-"fc f rj SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1922 price r tjve enrrs PlTDT v 51 if i X I- ( mrSgherty Subordinate. Supplies Infor mation Relative to Prose- cution or War Cases and Dismissal Follows. PREACH OF TRUST IS GENERAL ACCUSATION Proposed Promotion Of Major Purcell Apparent Basis of Trouble 'WASHINGTON, ;. April 28. W. , Df Watts, ay Vpecjal agent of the V department of Justice, was" dis j inlssed from ithe, government's service" yesterday!, ''tor good and sufficient reasons," Attorney General Daugherty said late to- . day. V :- :r t The , announcement ot the dis missal was made' earlier In the : day at the capital through the making' public ot ft letter to Mr. -Watts from Assistant Attorney General Ilolland which declared that the action was taken because of "disloyalty to the department,. ' Dta Given Ctangreme .;. .' 'At the same time there was nhUfi a. coot of ft memor- andum from Mr. Watts to the de j. partment which said that the .dls- j missal had been occasion, f his supplying Representative Tteonblican. t 6outh Da- I kota, with Information which the ; latter attacked tne pwinw -1 Justice In ft speech la the house. t "I ordered Watts to be dis- fct all Hwant to say about lt,f ; Attprney, ? General Daugherty sal A today; ?We can t discuss the discharge ot people Ground here, r X hd d and V ftuttlclent reasons tor dispenain wltn bis terrices. ; TtenebertT Not Worried a. moment later, the attorney rnerai said In reply to a qnes tion that "whatrer congress tnlgh think does not worry me - minute." , '. nrtv rcmoTil was signed by Mr. Holland and said the, step was taken "inasmuch as yon haTe knowingly and willfully -violated the rules ot the depart--which as yon must be Mnstltnted ft breach Ot . trust.? ' '-: -1 fifBM of Duty FoHorml In Ws memorandum to the de partment, which It was said, was mfamltted ' under orders, : Watts said he had glreri information to Mf. Johnson regardlnc prosecu Hon of war cases and that he h'ad Tjeen "actuated in the public teresf in so doing because of the connection the information had with the proposed promotion of Major Lancelot M. Purcell of the quartermaster, corpp. TllAIlES OF 11E1I ARE ThW study of languages shows how the names of men often be come ft part of common speech. For Instance, our word : "dunce' comes from Duns Scotus, one of the most illustrious teachers of th Franciscan order. In his time theological controTersy- waged loud and fierce. Ills opponents, on hearing; an argument from one ot his school, would, say c contemptu ously. "Oh, you - are a Dun man" or more briefly, "Ton are ft Dnns." Finally,' the word came to mean ft dull,- Ignorant person and to be uoelled ' "dunee." We get "nico tine," the alkaloid derived from tobacco, " from Nicot, ft famous French physician, who introduced the tobacco plant Into Europe. ; Jt is not the province ot a dic tionary to go Into the origin and history. of words, but The New Universities Dictionary contains the definition of such words as hare passed into . our common speech. Besides this. In its appen dix It contains a real treasury of facts useful in eTery-day life., Our counon offer, published in to day's paper, explains 1 our, good fortune. in being able to present what is an encyclopedia and a die tlonary. combined and in convent ent form tor daily. use. We con gratulate both, our v readers and ourselves on this - stroke or good fortun." ; . d SEVERE STORMS ARE CAUSE OF 21 DEATHS NEAR DALLAS TEXAS DALLAS, Tex.. April 25. Twenty-one fatalities dad been reported tonight as a reialt of a severe storm In North Cen tral Texas today Seventeen deaths at Fort Worth, one negro man drowned at Waco, and a ne gro man and woman at Palmer, made up the list A Mexican was reported drown ed at Sonora, 125 miles west of San Antonio, matins the total number of deaths in'the stale 21. I Catches Himself Just in Time to Keep from Giv ing Whole Show Away At the KIwanis club luncheon Tuesday, E. Cooke Patton Almost gave away the whole snap, tor the Cherrlngo that Is to be staged at the armory next week. May 4, and 6, for the benefit of the Ealem hospital. Here is an ap proximation of his speech: "You might be surprised to know that the Fat Lady and the Tattooed Terror and Zuluel, the hungry cannibal J maiden and Martello, the Boy. Giant and the Man. WhoS Devours Raw .Meat Alive, is right here . at your midst today. There he is, right over but no, I daren't' give him away now. r Ton, might oe norrinea anq shudder yourself into ft fit it you knew that your nextdoor neigh bor, there eating salad and pie by your side is one of the barbar ous assassinators, who are going to "Saw the Woman in Two" in defiance of the law. It is-rit is but no, you might -tar and feather him and break no the ShOW.'?,' I." It l were to say that Slick Ike the lightning short changer, and Scotty, the musical, wizard who will charm the change t out of your pockets, are dining with us today, yon might call the police and ruin the hospital fund. So won't tell Just who they are. But HI guarantee that when yon See them in action at the Cher rlngo,. you'll wish you'd brought your whole bank ' roll and bor rowed ..some more from your neighbors, for the fun of seeing them work for it In a good cause. Ill give you, my personal gtfrrr antee that you'll be delighted with everything but the going home that comes so quick when a fellow's having, a good time." . Last of Ten Millions Soon to Be Delivered On Friday, the Oregon bonus commission Is to deliver the last of, the first 110,000.000 issue of bonus bonds to the buyers, Ralph Schneelock ft .Co., of Portland. This. last delivery ot 11.600,0(0. will make the whole sum of ten millions available.; It hasn't nearly, all been , apportioned. though the. board is passing on the applications aa rapidly as possible. . . f The board can Issue other bonds, up to the amount author ised by , the state, at the: special election last .summer. This? Urst $10,000, - however, is sufficient tor the present, . and the other bonds will not be put out until necessity, demands. ; v. ; Last week the board passed on more than 00 claims, in the one issue day, Friday. There la rea son to expect at least as many this week, probably more, as the detail work speeds up with fatal! larlty. . ' " Commercial Plane Wrecked ii Crash at Klamath Falls V" KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., April 25. A commercial airplane was wrecked here today by a fall of-50 feet Just after starting on a flight to Bend. Alva De Garma, pilot, and a mechanician - who were in the plane escaped Injury. De. Gar- ma said the Inability of a new pro-, peller properly'to lif the machine MM SPIUS lies causea tne crasn. The Red Cross will take charge of relief work tomorrow. . Millions of acres in Texas farm land, particularly cotton land are under water and cannot be culti vated before 30 days, John T. Orr, president of the Texas farm loan federation, said. Reports re ceived miscellaneously ; Indicated many cities were more or less flooded within a radius of 100 miles of Dallas except to the north of here where, however, ris ing waters were predicted. CUSS BATES IE Southern Pacific Company Seeks to Compete With Water Transportation SAN FRANCISCO. April 25. Water competition has made it necessary for the Southern Pacific company to ask the interstate commerce commission for permis sion to continue In effect its ex isting class rales between San Francisco and Portland,, it was de clared today if H 0. Hallmark. general freight agent of the com pany at a hearing before Exami ner Keene of the commission. ' The . rates to these ' ports are lower than t, hose to intermediate points on the railroad. Hallmark said they wee necessary for the ranroaa to get the Dimness, "He was cross examined by Jos eph K.'TeaUfttfofney ' for the Portland Chamber ot Commerce and by Ralph L. Sheperd, repre senting the Commercial club of Oregon City. The hearing will continue tomorrow. Pioneer Yakima Woman S Passes Away Suddenly YAKIMA, Wash,, April 25. Mrs. Anna Boyle 'wife of James Boyle,' of Prosser, died suddenly this morning; at her . home.! She was a pioneer of the Yakima val ley, having come here with her parents when ,a chUd. She was a native ot Vancouver, Wash. Mrs, A.' E. Larson ot ' this city, presl dent of the Washington State Federation ot Women's clubs, Is a sister. Austin Fiegel Resigns, Baldwin Is Appointed PORTLAND, April 25. News has been' received from Washing ton of the resignation of Austin F. FlegeL Jr., as assistant United States attorney for Oregon, to be effective May I. He is to be succeeded- in his capacity as federal prosecutor by E. D. Baldwin, formerly private secretary to N. J. Binnot, Oregon congressman. Venire Exhausted. Only Four Drawn In Small Case WAUKEOAJf, 111., April 25. (By the Associated Press.) With the first venire of 100 exhausted, the trial ot. Governor Leu Small adjourned tonight with only four men in the box, one temporarily accepted, by both aides and" three tentatively passed by the state. A second venire has been called for tomorrow r ... " - Governor Small followed the day's proceedings carefully, sit ting at his lawyer 'a table. Relatives Sought for Man Who Killed Set ST. HELENS OR., April 25.-T Coroner White today was trying to locate relatives of Carl Gustof Erlckson. . 69, logger, whose body with the throat slashed; by a. ra zor, was found in a pasture here last night. Despondency over failure to find work was believed to have been the cause ' of the supposed suicide,' said the coro ner. .-. V ',- WEATHER .Wednesday - fair; northeasterly winds. , moderate HELD nssir KU KLUX HJUT IS BUD BY .1 '..' ' White-Robed Raiders Held Responsible for Attack That Resulted in Shooting Near Los Angeles. INVESTIGATION BY GRAND JURY ORDERED Plot is Formulated in Under taking Chapel Where In quest is Held LOS ANGELES, April 25. The coroner s Jury which today u- quired into the tacts facts sur-' rounding the killing of Constable M. B. Mosher, slain by another officer while the constable' was participating in a raid of masked men Saturday night, returned ft verdict that Mosher came to his death while a member of a masked mob "presumably Insti gated and directed by members ot the Ku Klux Klan." The verdict said: "Melford M. Mosher came to his death from a gunshot wound inflicted by Marshal. Frank Woer- ner In pursuit of his duty while Mosher was acting as a member of an Illegal masked and armed mob, presumably Instigated and direct ed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Investigation Urged 'We recommend the, district at torney convene a grand Jury of this county to investigate the mat ter further and take, necessary steps to prosecute the perpetrators of this crime. r x " The verdict followed testimony n -which these facts. were sworn to: The raid was made upon a family ot Spaniards who conduct ed a winery nhdef federal license but who were asserted by mem bers of the mob to b bootleggers Plot Hatched in Mortuary: Plans for the attack were made Friday night at a meeting held In the undertaking chapel at which today's Inquest was held. At this same meeting, attended by 30 men, including one of the undertakers who own the chapel. several of whom took a "prelim- inary oath'.' which one witness de scribed as the first step towards Joining the Ku Klux Klan. N. A. Baker, "Kleagle,- or or ganizer of the Ku Klux Klan, at tended the meeting and was pres ent at the raid the following night. Business Men Called Six business men in Inglewood are represented as having attend ed the meeting Friday night. All were called to the stand and five declined to answer questions on the ground their answers might incriminate them. William S. Coburn, grand gob lin, and Gus Wlllard Price, king kleagle, of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, testified they went to Inglewood Saturday after hearing there had been a raid. They de nied all knowledge of the meeting (Continued on page. 6) HUG RETAINED; TEACHERS ARE ELECTED: SALARIES George W. Hug, superintendent of Salem public schools, will remain in Salem, members of "the school board announced last night after an executive session of the school board. Members of the board announced that the salaries of all em ployes of this district will remain unchanged; recommenda tions for salary increases totaling $8032 being disregarded by the executive body. " v .The list of faculty heads1 and instructors as approved by the board was returned after! the closed session with 23 teachers having been dropped. Members of the board indi cated that about half of these had been dropped upon Mr. Hug's recommendation. Others had resigned to accept posi tions with other schools. ; After last night's executive' ses sion members of " the board an nounced that W. C Hoppes, su pervisor of the elementary schools win not be retained tor 1 S 2 2 1S23. - The fight to dispense wth the office of supervisor of elementary grades was started two wee; a ago r ' ' '-" " - - SAYS WOMEN REGAIN LOST BEAUTY AFTER THEY DIE i ; 1 illf 'fr mi. fy , Ijl -,'-v 'u i V ' , . n "vJ ' l! IN ti-c; , fmm ? " - w; , If y8M?irrt--g4-H-ia aiiiiMiir!-"'- LADY DOYLE, wife of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, master detective and writer of several books dealing with the Great Beyond, says that only spiritu alism can console the stricken world. She also says that true soulmates will be united in heaven, and that woman, even if she dies at 90, will appear as in Head of Provisional Irish Government Ready to Resumd Conference DUBLIN, April 25. Michael Collins, head of the provisional government, returned to Dublin today from Tralee in readiness for the resumption tomorrow ot the conference between adherents of the government and Eamon. De Valera, looking to peace. The belief was expressed here tonight that the protest of labor, which culminated in Monday's one- day strike, has had no effect in influencing the .leaders on eith er side of the controversy to yield their viewpoints. Dublin Is Buzzing Dublin was buzzing tonight with rumors of a possible attempt to rush the Dall Elreann and"purge" it by military forces. Today the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, a body of mixed poli tics, held a largely attended meet ing at which deep concern was ex pressed for the lack ot security to life and property. Sir Horace Plunkett was the chief speaker. He said he thought the people of the United (Continued on page I) when Dr. H. H. dinger and other members took the position that the supervisor could be dispensed with and that his salary could be applied toward needed increases In other departments. When the board was asked to act upon a request that the high school auditorium be rented - to is i Sun the bloom of youth. First Violence of Longshorf men's Strike Occurs In Portland ' PORTLAND. Or.. April 23. First violence in the strike of un ion longshoremen, now in its third day, occurred late today when L. F, Winters, a non-union man, was attacked and beaten as he left Couch street dock where he had been working cargo, to get his lunch. Jack O'Brien, a striker, was ar rested by police officers who said they had seen him strike and kick Winters, aided by other strikers who escaped. Winters, seriously injured. was taken to a hospital. Upwards of 200 men were re ported to be working on the docks today but the handling ot cargo was proceeding slowly in moBt cases. FENCE CAUSES FIGHT COUER D'ALENE, April 25.- Followlng an alleged quarrel over fence wire. Jack Moesmer, 66, was perhaps fatally shot near here today. Frank Seidl is under arrest charged with the shooting. There were no witnesses, accord ing to Sheriff Quarlea. NO HIGHER Sacred Heart academy for the an nual concert In May, Walter Wins- low Interposed an objection: - "These people run in opposition to the American schools and never miss an opportunity to roast our school system and I, for one,' will vote against ' any proposal that would enabld , them to use these public buildings," said Mr. Wins- low, , The board adopted a rental charge ot $20 a night for the au ditorium with a charge of S5 for each rehearsal, and then acted favorably upon the academy's re quest, Mr. Winslow casting the only negative vote. Janitors employed at the high school were last night given in structions by. the board concern ing the disposal of a large pile ot wood . near the , building. - It was .(Continued on .page f) DOCUMENTS WHAM Completed petitions, upon which it is proposed to submit the question of recalling Fred A. Williams and Fred G. BuchteL, members of the Oregon public' service commission, . to the voters at an election to be held in conjunction with the primary contests May 19, were filed officially with the sec retary of state last night The petitions were presented for filing by W. E. Richard son, F. S. Myers and Robert G. Duncan, members of the so called recall committee. " Figures. compiled by the secretary of state last-niht showed that the petitions directed at Mr.' Buchtel contaiA 33,464 names. This is anrjroximatelv 800 Tmore altmat urt i than are necessary to refer Mr. at a recall election. The petitions filed airainst Mr. Williams contain 42,561 signatures, or more than 1000 names in excess of the number required by law.' - . IB! . t ' ' . :-i i 5T. r i Witnesses Review ' Circum stances in Preliminary Hearing in Portland PORTLAND, Ore.. April 25. Russell Hecker, alleged slayer ot Frank Bowker, was bound over to the Multnomah, county grand Jury today after preliminary hearing In police courr in which witnesses reviewed circumstances surround log the death of , Bowker the night Of April 16. ? U I, i ; Bpwker's body was found la the Calapoola rlrer ' a mile from the place where Hecker told the po lice he threw it from, a bridge . Unique Masonry, Record Is Borne by Dr. Lisle Pacific lodge No. 60, A, F. ft A. M., of Salem, boasts a new re cruit who comes with an interest ing- history. He is Dr. James Lisle, for many years ' an active or honorary member of Willam ette university faculty. He come on a long-slumberlnc demit from Arcana lodge, of Gordon, 'Neb. which he helped to found In 1887. He was the first member or tne lodge, and strangely en ough is the first one to take a fi nal demit or discharge I i the 35 years since the lodge was estab lished. Dr. Lisle is believed to be the oldest Mason in Salem in point of membership. . He be came a member of the order In an army branch of Masonry, while serving in the Union army at Little Rock. Arksansas. in 1864. it is prooanie tnat there is no other Mason lh the northwest of so long standing. Lane County Boy Dies After Teeth Are Pulled EUGENE, Ore, April 26. George Irll Johns, 15, son of Mr, ana Mrs. a. o. Jobns and a stu dent of the high school at Coburg, died today following the extrac tion ot two ulcerated teeth yester day. The boy was prominent in athletics at the school. An inves tigation as to the cause of death may be made, according to rela tives Of the boy. Search Still Fruitless for Missing Seaplane KEY WEST, Fla., April 25. Search for ' the commercial sea plane Santa Maria; ' which, with six persons aboard, has been miss ing since it leCt-here early yester day for Nassau, a flight ot ap proximately 300 miles, has been unsuccessful so far as was known here tonight. Naval and commer cial seaplanes left here early to day to look for the craft and ra dio stations both hero and at Mi ami requested all vessels' to re port any trace of the plane. ? UNDER KNIFE RIGA, April 25. (By the As sociated Press) Premier Lenihe of soviet Russia was operated on yesterday, says a report from Moscow today. - A " bullet which had troubled him for three years was extracted from his side. Last accounta - were that the patient was doing well MID issioras . ; - Buchtel'a name to th votpr Following official receipt ot the petitions 8am A. Koser, secretary of state, prepared letters address ed to Mr. Dnchtel and Mr. Wil liams Informing them that the re call petitions had been fUed.- ' -i: Large Hum Saved ; , Under the law providing for the recall of officials Mr. Buchtel and Mr. WiUIami have five days !a' which to submit' , their resigna- tlons. If they do not resign, then their names wlir go before the voters at the recall election. In holding the recall election in con nection, with the primary contents local officials estimated that the state would ' save approximately The actual calling ot the recall election byt the secretary of state will not be announced nntU' tt-j time la which the officials, xaay resign has expired. Under the law as interpreted by. local officii!?, the recall candidates must file td tween May 1. and May S with thi secretsry of state. It was said laM night thit apparently there an two methods . whereby., the recall candidates may': get their name! before the t oters. One of then 1 by filing certificates ot individual , electors and the other by nomtna- tlott by assembly. . Many Names Necessary -' Should v the t; individual certifi cate method be- adopted candi dates opposing Mr. Williams, who was elected from the state at large, will be required to secure, not less than '4771 signatures. Candidates opposing Mr. Buchtel, who' was elected from the terri tory west of the Cascade moun tains will be required to obtain . not less than. 6577 signatures to their petitions. ; Members of the recall commit tee said last night that no attemt wUl be made to recall IL IL Corey, . the third member of the commis sion. Reports reaching Salem re cently indicated that petitions for the recall of Mr. Corey were cir- . culated In different parts of east-' , era Oregon,' from: where he waa elected, bat that the response waa negative, t '-s? v-v: .. Ileslgnations Not Expected -Friends of Mr. i Williams and Mr. Buchtel Intimated tonight that either of the officials will ; resign, and that they, will allow their names to go on the ballot at ' the recall electjon. Both Mr, Wil liams and Mr.) Buchtel were out,, of the city yesterday, though Buchtel returned last night. . In case the I secretary -of state calls the election mandamus pro ceedings probably wlU be institut ed in the superior court by Horace Hurst, Portland attorney, to test the constitutionality of the recall law, and to determine whethert the petitions were handled legally by the state departments It will be contended by. Mr. Hurst, ac cording to reports received here, that the uncompleted Buchtel pe titions ferbugbt to the secretary ot state's office a week ago became state documents at the time and1 were filed officially, : The incom pleted petitions . contained 1200 ' less signatures than .required by, law.- ': .'f';:'f The secretary ot state has made It plain that the Incompleted Buchtel petitions were not filed when brought to his office a week ago but were accepted by the offi cial for safe keeping. - i i No intimation has been given as yet as to who will oppose Mr. Wil liams at the recall election. E. M. Cousin ' IS expected to oppose BuchteL Should the recall candi dates be successful they will hold office only until : next Jan nary, when i they will be " succeeded by the persons regularly elected to the office at Uegeherl election in November, ... - -. t -.' 1 .4-