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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1922)
..A' CXXCT7XJITX0K Trr for Jhr, 1822 tf tn crrr or ulxxsi " and leKr ta KarWa and Folk 0Ua a Jfwly Trykdy raada : The Oregon Statesman WW t naaday enly I)ailv and HundtT 5631 Avar- tor.ftix month ending Jul 10, Sunday 0nlr MM Daily and Suday 6434 SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1922. , PRICE: FIVE CENTS TO mm -. i .1 pmm f H1D!jt "f ' j " ' '' ' r y if it s. t 4 i v . i t- J V r . i I f " : 'J i . i. . M i ; i, y : ' r T f tf; a tf' a-. K , t 1 :k ' e 4 i i t L ft IS MYSTERY IN SEATTLE Revelation ?That Hobo King ii is Captain lohn J. ? Roche 5; Costs Soldier Large Sum -'in Wagers. v BRIDE OF TWO DAYS CONFIRMS IDENTITY Soldier Stabbed When He Attacks Man Who Insu't-', i ed Young Woman , SEATTLE. Wash., Aug. 25. That a . mysterious stranger who reftatered at V a leadinc Seattle hotel, as "Hobo Kink, and who figured In slabbing here early this week is Captain John J. Ho che. a Canadian war hero, was de clared today at her home by his bride of two days, Mrs. "Alice Marie Jordan Roche. '( Mrs. Roche is the widow of Cap tain Lewis Sidney Jordan, com mander of the U. 8. S. DaunUesa. who was killed In va brush with a German ratdor March 20, 1918. ...''lligObp.lln;ilett'' ' . ,The revelation of hta JdantUy, said Mrs. Roche, cost her husband 138,000 In wagers with New York clubmen that he could travel the circuit pf.NNorth -America with out his name becoming known. Mrs. Roche explained that, when Captain, Roche got pu Seattle he Insisted on an immediate wedding. At the marriage license window he gave : his address aa S8 Rox horpugh Drive, ;;Jor onto. w When the news of who be -was got out lie went to Vancouver, D. C, she said. .. ..; .. ;; :.- , .'., : Wono Not Serloiw, . s ,. Monday evening Roche In the lobby of the SeatUo Post-Intelligencer, grappled with a man whom he asserted had 'made an nngentlemanly remark to young woman.'. ',t;. "-,;:..; Roche was stabbed, not serious- - i . . -. , , i World's Eminent- People , Buy Hobson's Fish Rods Harry D. Hobson, of Lyons, Or was a Salem visitor, Friday. . Mr. Hobson has ' developed an lto gether unique Industry out in the wilds of Marion county that ot making trout rods to compete with the highest priced T rods In the world. . He started in a number of (Continued on page 2.) 0 VOTES TDRWEli EROI .... . .. .. . .. . Si ' The grand jury Investigating the precinct 201 election ecfihdar today 'pointed its accusing finger at W. H. Emrick, cKalrman'of the night board. , , i Emrick ia.underk.arrest."; ' y , 7 ; - 1 Five indictments charging him with responsibility for the frauds were returned by the grand jury. Four of them accuse him of "willful neglect in the dis jcharge of duties as.an election officer.' " " .. The fifth charges him with 'willful neglect and corrupt tOTiduCt,". : ; . ; ; V';-.v - .-. s - .a V-r cv , - Ball was fixed at 25W.-'vSt'--;,- ,;.vv':U: ::.Y::-r The true bills charge that Fjmrick threw yotes from Ben Buchtel, from T. II Kerrigan j. vxney uj ti. j. xurKwood, and i ram u. it. uram io vv. a t-i:-i , - ....... Emrick declared after his ar- rest that be r could hbt' dear ' the mystery of the shuffled v6tes. . "I didau nhe -explaining I icould to the grand Jury,-; he said. , la the first four instances he is Recused of "wtlful neglect. - AUTO PLUNGES FROM r i t ROAD HEAR EUGENE; WOMEN 1 EUGENE. Ore., Aug. 25 Mrs. B. E. Townsend, 15 East Scventy-secortd street, Portland, and her mother, Mrs. L. L. Smith, yere crushed to. death on the Pacific highway, when a car in which they were traveling, with L. G. Jordan, also of Portland, plunged from the road 10 miles north of here short ly, before 6 o'clock this afternoon. Jordan is at the Eugene hospital as the result of Injuries and the only details of the accident are contained in his state ment that accompanied by his fiancee, Mrs. Townsend, and her mother, they were on a motor trip to California and at the time of the crash Mrs. Townsend was drivinc. , A search of the car revealed a bottle partly filled with moonsmne liquor, according to the sheriff. Motorists who passed the machine shortly before the accident stated to the sheriff that the car was traveling at terrific speed, some es timating it as high as 60 miles an hour. The two women were frightfully mangled when thrown from the machine and their camping equipment; was scattered along the road for a distance of about 100 feet. As the stretch of highway where the accident occurred is without curves and the view is unobstructed both ways, it Is the belief of the sheriff that the high speed of the car re sulted in loss of its control when it attempted to pass an other machine. i Coroner W. W. Branstettej has charge of the bodies. ACTOR KILLED : fly John Bergen, Motion Picture . Player, is Victim of George Klein EDGE WATER, N. J., Aug, 25. -John Bergen, a inotlon picture actor of New York city, was shot and ktried tonight and George Klein,' a motion picture director. Is under arrest, charged wtih the shooting. 'Just before he died In 'the Edgewater police station : Bergen fumbled through his poskets, brought out a ; bloodstained piece of paper, and scrawled on it: "George Klein killed me." , The police do, not ' know . the couse or the circumstances of the shooting, which occurred shortly after. Bergen ... had arrived at Klein's home this evening. .: The driver of the taxi which took Ber gen to the Klein home heard, the shots and hastened away for a police officer. I Klein, according to the .police, admitted the shooting, but de- ( Continued on f age 2.) DIRECTOR lOHALLIS JURY FINDING to Fred A. Williams, from John In ' the Gram-Dalziet race for labor commissioner ho is accused pt "corrupt conduct." ; ... , Personal sympathies or per sonal , Interest was, according ; to , ..(Continued oa page 5 ARE KILLED KLAN 1EN ARE FREED BY JURORS LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25. The 25 alleged members of the Ku Klux Klan, tried on felony charges growing out of the Inglewood raid April 22, last were acquitted tonight by a jury in the superior-court. The acquittal covered , all five points in the indictment returned against them by the Los Angeles county grand jury. PBlCfcS SOAK BERLIN. Aug. 25. (By Asso ciated Press.) Prices are soar ing in consequence of the collapse of the mark. Comment' on all sides reflects widespread disquie tude and the urgency of remedial measures. BOULDER IN .. .PARK MARKS FAMED TRAIL Daughters of American Revo . lution Place Larfee Monu ment in Willson Avenue To mark the old pioneer trail through Salem and to honor the pioneer fathers ' and mothers of Oregon, a giant boulder, was yes terday placed in Willson park by the local chapter of the Daught ers of the American Revolution. The boulder: weighs three tons, according to the . committee, and It has been placed in an open space In the park opposite Waller hall. , - j - j. C. Jones of the Captai Mon umental works was in charge of tranfifering the boulder from its original resting, place to the park. Dedicating services - and the placing of a broaite plate on the boulder will take place ; early In October, according to members of the local, Chemeketa chapter of the D. A. R. ; Other chapters of the organiration have also placed great, boulders as markers of the old trail, down the valley.- The hedford and Ashland chapters unltea in placing . sucn marser at a historic point on the trail a year ago. f' . - ONE CO IT IS KILLED: 3 ERARREST Flight of Sioux Falls Prison ers Who Knifed Deputy and Kidnapped Warden Comes to End. ATTORNEY IS FATALLY WOUNDED IN BATTLE Flight Yesterday Through Three Counties After Ap pearance at Murdoc KAPID CITY. S. D., Aug. 25. Halted at the borderland of the Black Hills, four escaped convicts from the Sioux Falls penitentiary ended their terrorizing . drive across South Dakota about 50 miles east of here late today with the death of one of their number and ' the capture of the. pther three. : Their wild flight was begun August 17, when they knifed a deputy warden, kidnaped uthe warden and escaped in an auto mobile. Official Mortally Shot -. ; Through three counties they streaked today, probably mortal ly wounding a county official and injuring two others In a clash near Stanford, and finally stop ping when a shot from the she' ltf's rifle toppled the driver of their car and sent it into a ditch. f The other three convicts scur ried into a cornfield beside the road, but, they aobtt were routed oju and captured, though not un til they had put up a fight in which another of ther number was shot and wounded. Leader Badly Wounded - Henry Coffee, s alias Hickman, a negro, was the convict killed, and Joe Foreman, - recognized leader ot the gang, was seriously wounded. i ' The two convicts taken unin jured are Joe Teel aad J. B. King.' All were sent ta prison upon con viction ot grand, larceny. It rras said the last convict captured begged his comrades to shoot him, rathe. than permit his surrender. Airplanes circling overhead and heavily armed posses headed by state and county officials) marked the end of the chase. Early this morning the convicts were discovered at Murdoc, in Jones county, and when they left . (Continued on page 2) PLAY PARK GIVEN OVER FOR CIRCUS Regular Schedule of Games for Children. Not Given To day, Management Says j Because of the circus contract ed for the use of the high school athletic park, sow municipal play ground, for the show today, the playground Is officially declared closed for the day. lt is urged that all parents and guardians take note of this fact and not send their children to the playground under the misunder standing that the ground will be open for their reception. While the Y. will have its representatives I here to look after and send home any stragglers who might not have known of the arrangement. It is up to the, parents to look after their little folk in what will probably be a colossal jam of people. s Let. them go to the circus, but look ' after them in person. ' The playground is closed for 'today, because there is no room for both the players and the circus, and the circus is the biggesC WEATHER OREGON Saturday fair and continued warm. . - i CIRCUS FANS OF ALL SIZES IT RAILWAY YARDS SEE BIG SHOW COME FOR APPEARANCE TODAY :.K II B I - T . 'A n at .Y-rj, L' iZX. Possibility That All Initiative Bills May Be Quashed Pointed Out Should the court uphold the al legation made in the attack on the interest rate reduction bill, it is believed that the same allegation might' be used with reference to every other Initiative measure that has been prepared for the general election ballot in November. The political sensation in Sa lem now is the possibility that not a single Initiative bill or proposed constitutional amendment wilt' ap pear on the ballot. By the time the courts get through with them it is entirely within the realm of possibility that not a single meas ure will be left. Seven Initiative measures, five of which are proposed constitu tional amendments, have been ac cepted at the office of the secre tary of state and printed in the official voters', pamphlet. Two Already Attacked. Two of them already nave beeu attacked in court, and the papers attacking at leas, two more are in process of preparation in Port land. It is said authoritatively that every measure on the list is to be attacked, with the exception of the compulsory public school bill, and it Is believed that the al legations made in injunction peti tions against some of the other measures could also be applied to the school bill. The charge that, names were certified illegal ly by professional petition circula tors wHh notarial commissions might be used against this meas ure, it Is believed. Grange Bill Under Fire. The so-called salmon propaga tion bill initiated by G. C. Green was the first to be attacked. Fraud was alleged. And the latest de velopment in that case. Is the dis appearance of Green. One of ' the . other measures which attorneys in Portland are now preparing to " assail is the grange Income tax measure. What the other measure is has not been made known here, but it is be- (Continued on page S. ONHSUilES MOTHER. . BABE-t ' irf. fcH-,',,,w ,trt A. 'AT 1 fDTT HEIGHTS 1 - 2 t IS Ovation Given Salem Music ians on Final Night of Summer Schedule Playing to perhaps the largest audience which has attended a band concert this year, the Salem Cherrian band last night closed its summer concert series The program was made up of numbers especially requested by those in terested. . When the first bars of Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever" floated out over the great audi ence in Willson par5, both State and Court streets were lined with automobiles, while a second line was beginning down the other side of State street. Weather Aids Attendance The unusually warm evening. added to the fact that it was th4 last concert of the year, tended to increase the crowd. Mrs. Hallie Parrish HingesJ sang "In the Garden of My Heart" aand "Swanee Riyer," re sponding to an encore. Oscar Gingrich sang "Tillthe Sands of the Desert Grow Cold" and "Three O'Clock In the Morning." He responded with several en cores, which were received with great applause. The concert season closed and with it the summer season for 1922. by the band playing the "Star Spangled Banner." Train Hits Open Switch, Members of Crew Injured MOBILE, Ala., Aug. 25. Three members of the crew of train No. 3, fast mail train o nthe Mobile and Ohio, were injured tonight and scores of passengers iescaped injury when the train hit an open switch on the Bay spur near Whitler, a few miles from 'here. The engine and seven coaches left the track. The injured are: En gineer Charles Conner, Meridian, Miss.; Fireman Lee Oliver, Meri dian. Miss.; Baggageman L. Craft, Mobile. SEASON CONCLUDED CIRCUS FACTS The circus is here. Biggest circus on earth the two biggest cir cuses on earth, all in one. It landed in town about 3 o'clock this morning, with 104 cars of magic It unloads at Twelfth and Union streets, on the Southern Pacific line sid ing leading to Falls City and Dallas. This is only about two blocks from its . show ground, the high school athletic park, or the mu nicipal playground as it has ; come to be known t thiss summer. Eight hundred labor ers will get the tents and ; everything in order. ' The big top is 640 feet long. This is the biggest tent ever made. It can hold 20,000 people, and seats are carried for that many in - this vast, .bil lowy amphitheatre. . I 'v There is no street pa . rade. " , While circus fans of all sizes and 1 ages are gathered at the railroad yards this morning, a hundred gayly; painted, cars will be coming to town ; and Ringlirig Brothers and Bar num & Bailey combined makes its first appearance here since the consolidation, of America's two big circuses. Five trains are ; required to move this great show with . its recently added European wild ani mal circus and newly acquired troupes of performing horses. All these are coming here from Port land over the Southern Pacific railroad. t . x CSrcns Real City -, A-3 qulekry as the trains are "spotted" the work of unloading will be commenced and continue until all the wonders and para phernalia bae been moved to the show grounds. The inhabitants of the giant circus city are now equal In num ber to those of at least 15,000 towns in the United States. The show's latest census gives a total population of 1571 persons. This has required the addition of larg er dining and dressing tents. The: (Continued on page 2.) RAIL STRIKE PEACE EFFORTS AREBiOra SKY-HIGH AT PARLEY NEW YORK, Aug. 25, (By rail strike today developed into a fight to the finish, when peace negotiations were blown sky-high. ' Heads of the big five railroad brotherhoods, acting as mediators between executives and striking shopmen in a final effort to effect separate settlement with individual roads af ter the Association of Railway Executives as a whole had re jected the running trades first peace overtures, reported to the representatives of 75 roads at the Yale club' this morning that the shop craft3 had turned down a proposition made to them yesterday bythe carriers. "V?-- :vv.Tf 1 Test of Endaranoe On Negotiations were sharply brok en off and -executives, strike leaders and brotherhood chiefs packed their bags , and began leaving town prepared for a test of endurance. Befare he departed for his headquarters in Chicago, Bert M. Jewell, official spokesman of the strikers, asserted that he believ ed the ' executives' who had lin gered for parley on individual settlements would soon be "en abled to bring home to their hard-shelled colleagues the rail road cituation In its grim reality." 1 Will Fight For'Term 'Wa ehall be content to let the condition of equipment prove that the railroads cannot operate with .(Continued on page 2 1 J SlIDLEEffl iSRIlDOni BY HDRFLEET Man Once Victimi2ed by . Confidence Men Gets Some of Them . and is After. MorcJ- . -t , '. HARRIS AND HAMLIN STILL ON HIS LIST Arrests Made . by District Attorney's Office After Ojear of Inquiry : . :: i-.M. v t' T . : "-. : ' DENVER, Colo., Aug. 2S. J. . Frank Nortleet of Texas, one time victim ot the Joe Fwrey gang of confidence men and who has since devoted much of his time to hunt ing down men engaged ' In swin dling -others, furnished Informa tion to District Attorney Phillip Vancise that lead to the arrest last night and early today of 33 per sons alleged to have operated con fidence games In Colorado, Flori da, Cuba and elsewhere. The arrests were amde by dep uty district "attorneys and stat rangers and the prisoners . were kept In the basement ot a church ' all night to prevent them from communicating with prisoners In the city Jail. ' ' Two Under Bonds. lxu Blonger , and " A. W. Duff, two of those arrested, C were . re leased today on bonds of $25.00t. each hut the others were, held It jail in Adams and Jefferson coun ties, adjoining Denver. pNorfleet. discusslnr his careet as a "man-huBter" tonight said: "I had never known a crookcl man or dishonest woman in my life until the day Furey took me for a sucker. We ma, my little girl, my boy Pete, and I-r-Uved on a ranch at Hale Center, Texas. Pete was ambitious and wanted to go to school. I So ma and I, who had saved quite a ' little pile. agreed he should go. We picked out the school at Plalnview. Aft er settling -Bonny' there, I went on to Fort Worth.' 7 Meets Vp With Farcy. It was there he met Furey and first was swindled. After telling of this affair, according to ior fleet's story, " he finally wag "frisked ot very cent he owned and left up to the "neck In debt." Norfleet continued: "Somebody's got to dear the earth of these vermin. They prey on the Innocent. I know 24 trcn in Texas and elsewhere who have ' been robbed, broken hearted and ,; (Continued on page 2.) The Associated Press) The Trolley Car Runs" Away, ..V i No One Seriously Hurt SYRACUSE, N. T., Aug. 2S--; A trolley car ran wild down Wal-; nut hill during a terrific rain and electric storm here tonight, jump ed the tracks after speeding three city .blocks and -,: was wrecked againrt concrete and metal light- , fng poles on a corner, v Twenty-two of the passengers were removed to hospitals. .. . Reports ..from ' the hospitals were to" the elfect that none of the panengers had been serious ly injured, the majority suffer ing from bruises and shock.