SSI?, f- - CTECTJ1ATI0X ' ATerr for AagmaW 122 - - Hanimy . "If . 5814 " Daily d Sunday 6467 Average (or six moBthi ending July 80, ; . 122 . ' . , fianday ent - .. 5853 ' Pily and Sunday 5494 -.:.. . or thb citt or aausf - ai lae-a'kor iat SUriM til OoaatUa The Oregon Statesman in SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR ,, .SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1922 4 ' PRICE: " FIVE CENT3 rui Ln rn ) CD - . . 1 BB' HOWARD PAYS r PEiLmOB Youth of 25 Year's Swings to , Death from Gibbet at v State Penitentiary Early ; Yesterday. . . nhhMED MAN CALM f AS LIFE GOES OUt 1 ; Affability of Prisoners Wins Friendship of Officers w " ; . At Prison ' : r . , George Howard, .youth Of .2 ;, though doomed to die In the early v . mornlnig:. slept' like a child In hlfl narrow cell, at thestate peniten- Two hour bef or the execution : he talmlr t Ms breakfast of bam f-and' and cot fee. - ' At 8:30 o'clock yesterday morn - ne coolly,' almost cheerfully, but without bravado, , Howard ' walked unassisted up the IS atep3 - to the death trap. ' v ' - Doomed Mnn a-iys V.ciod-bye . At 8:31 an unseen hand press- i ed the trigger and Howard's body swung beneath the flbbet. Ten 'minntai'ini IT KACondr. later Dr. w. Carlton Smith. prteon . phy-1 n aictan, and Dt. Earj i?mith, coro- ' ner pi MuitnomaH-county, i pro-1 nouncea mm aeaa, ana nw u had met hla ' punlshraent f or the ' . S, r - eoiM A XT a la Killing Oi. UBUrgO i cjicj vii. 4 nriVan. nntv ': TIiai crime was committed - . 1920. ) -i i .Howard ; did not; flinch - on the scaffold, i and without halting speech Jspoke,hI$ lat,words t , "la there anything you want to aay George V i astoed Warden . James , Lewis. j "Nor much. mt. Lewis," how- Jrayer for Early Strike Set wered. , ?i m aorrr, tor . , tiement Given at' End off; 4 . ' ard answered. . what 1 hare done. I.forgire er l eryone. t Good-fcya to you all.' . ' , . ; Stlemt SI scnal GlTen ; Then the black cap was slipped over the youth's bead and the . noose adjusted abont his ; neck, The executioner silently gave hj8 . timI . wtfii'. mtifefti timoinlftti. . -rTn-o.T- ,.,rAninini n.lhouse of deputies of the ,txien- - tA Bteno. yf iha Wr two t prison of Ucera and by Father.Ru- ' x bla of Lebanon. ; Father . R. Buck of Salem had dmlnistered to him at his cell before he was ' led to the death? chamber. . ' .Theiboy was freshly shaven and! - hla hair newly cut. and he was! . dressed neatly In a black suit, dark tie. and wh'te collar. When the doctors opened the shirt front "to apply tthe stethoscope itol the nuttenng neart a - a malt. ,erncuix was revealed, suspended from the neck and, against tbe broad, bare ' I chest. ,...! ;(, ; . v :; j ' ITanffmAn's Nboso Slips f There waa only one unusual de- tail about, the hanging. t The big knot of the noose waa' properly adjusted ! under the left ear. , As l : the body dropped. It slipped , be Vy, neath the, right, ear, ; However, It r A. number of officers , from , about the stati " attended "d-a present.' Incidents to attract par. tlcnlar, attention were not numer. ous. . ,f " : One prison officer. Teald:,, , -r y Veteran Sheriff Faints ., Howard ha ten writ; nice H t w.nf t Mm .V. He left'the charter two;m!n- Yntei before Howard waa brought j v i . , m - A grizzled sheriff' from an east- ; em Oregon county fainted after the drop ' ' ' : One man inadvertently exposed a pint bottle in hi, hip pocket. He w tnvn' - ii.- i. Some bf those who were' prev Tt .. m . nft p,,i 'c;iik'-.i: w.k noraah county, Deptuy sheriffs Christofferson and Beeman A of Multnomah : coun.' Assistant Chief of Police C. r. KUngen- smith nfPnrtior t 'of Malheur county, Sheriff Chris- nvestigatlon Is planned by Superr mau of Morrow county. Chief of efldent J. L. Deforce for tomor - Police II. M. Robinson of Denton ro morning, and the ether hear- . county,' Sheriff Frank Ferguson : of Yamhill ; county, Pity Marshal Farmer of Ontario. Sheriff S. M. Warfield of Denton county. S. S. Harralson of ConralHs. Manager Paul Nobler the Liberty thea- v ter. of Portland;. , I. Jordan, of DAVID A. REED, WHO -IS NEW SENATOR FROM PENNSYLVANIA i; ! j: I '. '::h ; 4 ' ' ; ; , ----- - ' . , I i ; ' ''Ji ! - ' ,;vl 1 "? 1 l l "-I- ; if .- i it k- ii i n . - nn . Senator David A. Reed, Pennsylvania legislator who haa jjjj appointed to fill the unexpired terra of the late Senators Knox and' Crow, He served as a major in the world.war. : Active Day PORTLAND, Sept. 8. Prayers for peace In the - railroad ahop- r'a strike were . aald at the loe the .house ot j. blshopa and the nial conTention'; of the Protestant Episcopal church here today. The aotloa waa taken as a resuU of a resolution indorsed by Courtney Barber, af lay delegate from Chi- Icago. .Mr.: Barber 'a resolution called for prayers by both houses of the I conventiott tomorrow at 1.0 o'clock I, but under- the Impression that the prayer might then be too late, j the suggestion wai made that they (Continued on page 6) TiOW TOTAL SIX TWO Off ICial Investigations rfc Be Held in Spokane TO- day to Find Cause SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. I Three Investigations of the wreck of . NorthWii;clfic'tvMisit ; slppUVafley llmuea nere last night are-pUnned tor tomorrow, two of them nndtr tto anspiceaot the county coroner and Interstate commerce commlssioa to.be held ?TT'A ' ,v , , , With the death tonight of.Eu- ?okr' ftE?t(l."V ffSp5ka,e: totality Mat totalled six. There are still four injured men. tbPee fhP rk"a 'nd I man, in the hospital. They are I expected to recover. . f11"4 examination, of th VZT mt ill r' nnouncemenM-f the pi was made. The officia ln "7" "TT V . The liaitted, a fast train from St. Louis and-Kansas .City to the coast; collided with a .work train carrying shop workers, at Park water, four miles' from Spokane. Both engines and 4 foveral , cars wer ewrecked and both engineers n ns PL - i ' NOT TO Coal Agreement Reached IflVUIVIIiy ruur,lWHHiuu iuu ri mm ill Am I aaj A Henrys Agenxs biieni - CINCINNATI, &pt. 8. Accord- ing to a . telegram given out here late today by Ernest F. Peaslejr. president of the American Export and Inland Coal company, with of-1 rices In this city, an . agreement ;iAr inin'withrTPnVe- sentatives of Henry . Ford of - De trolt by which a sufficient amount of, coal, will be forwarded to the manufacturing plants of the Ford company to obviate the shutdown that was scheduled for Septem ber 16. Agreement Accepted j Representatives of Ford Inter ests came to Cincinnati yesterday, acceding to Mr. Peaaley. jan.d hinu) They were j; r, Cochran and Mr. 1 Moore, the laUer In charge of the coal purchases, he said. ;'-'--.:-;'"-."'.l"$ :i. They returned to ieiroii laaii night, and 4he telegram nbtifyihg J Mr. iPeaaley that the tqmauve agreement had oeen accepieu was received late today. This,,, uie telegraini etated, had been agreed to by Mr. Simmons- one . of . Mr, Ford's' confidential men. .. , . ' The telegram, which bore the name of J. R. Cochran, gives an Intimation of the volume 'of eoal that is to be forwarded under the agreement, that has been made. ITS lo Jl-.8' if voir Rhin- Mra.-;Wlnborn has taken Lieuten--Simimons says if y0.,8"0-L., int, v.. menu go strong. jmmeaiaieij nis ;TT.TJ7T--order will be increased with Jou f?1 J from.250 to.300 cars a da, Mr. i,.f Moore aska no conflrmatioa.ior .mt with Ton.'iM ka oi marS: nere.BarV. .Simmons and .Moore ship cars as fast as you can car numbers and weighU. , This . M.a.AM Me -riri rnnw inn t:i- possibly, more, Nothing oouM be learned of the prices naaaed in the contract that was made nor was there any n- timatJOti3 given a me oiutw. ui - . - mt. ' the American luxporc ana inisna Coat company. - ' r- -eaey auoui vub scram i was received, left for ! diaAapoUs and expected to be aa-Ell2abeth"- Skartolla be away for a day or two, so that u mant when ' e there was no amplification of the menUoned -vfrrVftn a1 telegram telegraa felfirred Jo.' ' . CAMPAIGN FOR --,- t i- UNIVERSITY IS Kick-off for Wilianieitd Unl . i versify ' Endowment ' Fund at. First Methodist Church . Ust Night. - - OREGON CONFERENCE. JS BEHIND BIG MOVE Booth, Piper, Shepard, Don-" ey and, Other Speakers ... Reveal Pfans , WHERE TO GO SUNDAY ' Appointments at visiting Methodtat preachera for the rarlou8 churches of the ,city -for Sunday are aa follows:"; First Christian church,, fter Clarence True Wilson o . Washington D. C. ' i - "First Baptist church, Rev. ; C E.' Powell,' formerly of India: - V ' - - . First Presbyterian church Rev. J. H, Secor of Pendle ton. iV" - ' First Congregational,' Rev, IL T. Greene of Portland ' . C e n t ral Congregational, South - Nineteenth street. Rev. N. W. Byars of Port- land. " ': r -ti i Bungalow Chrteattn church. Seventeenth etreet. Rev. J.R.; Jeff fey of Seaside, i Highland Friends church, Rev. J.'; S. .Pettlx.',,,'i;'.i . South , Salem Friends. ' church, Rev. "R. S.' Blahop. . Nazarene church, Rtjv. S. - Ilamrich.. y..'?- i'-;2 :v Chemeketa , Street Exan gelical church, Rev. Thomas Tames. ' - a new endowment fund of oooo: ; i - . - A new gymnasium to cost $50,- 1 The"balance"6f the' total earn palgn fund of $1,250,000 for buildings 'and .a working fund, to I ut uniyeraity uPto Its p ei: jainion-dolbi' stride. 1 . v prop- , The money to be subscribed be- j "re wcwemoer u, These are the general condl- . (Continued on page ) PAL Mrs; Card VVinbOm BelieVed to; Have Had Accomplice ? fl MUfder 0T Old Man , OAKLAND, ' Cal., Sept. 3. In tunation, that Mrs.. Clara E. Ska $in winborn, confessed slayer of i Ferdinand Hochbrun, Seattle real estate dealer, has disclosed to tJat. W..B. Kent of the Seattle police, informtation concerning;, a supposed male , accomplice in jUie crime, and. that Lieutenant Kent U conducting . an independent search for the man believed to be Involved, la. the case, .was" given - today by Chief - of : Police - James " uw-. W reSB- ' ' . i the Oakland, depart- raeni 7 Tf""1 IOI "e ."PTt mB . ,ise. said : Chief fei-Jr i ' . sr- , uia ova t 41010 rWsa IfoKnr TravKArf Vr5fs nt ft eM,.i." a., -J. f here laX0 tonght f or tomorrow Ing Vuh extradition papers , - Vl..n,.m , tft I i...a a ? aa m a v m gy. Portland Police Called SEATTLE," Sept: : Enoch ,,n,, w. wtu-mi J 'XCoaUane on page 6). Nl IN SWING POLICE HN'S AN. GIRLS ASSAULTED BY MASKED BRUTE Seven Persons Are Severely Beaten by Pervert Follow ing Outrages Against . Mother and Daughters. GIRU 14, MAY DIE FROM FIEND'S ATTACK Posses With . Bloodhounds Lose Trail of Suspect Short way from Scene of Crime OLYMPIA. Wash'..' Sept. 8. A masked man who perpetrated a brutal attack on the O'Hare fam ily,' eight miles" west of heVe last night, beating aeven persons Into unconsciousness,.. - was , still at large , late today although armed posses were scouring the hillsides and bloodhounds' had arrived from Seattle. The dogs were put on the scent and followed' a , trail leading from' the house across the pasture and through ifti der brush. but lost It on a paved highway and were unable to pick it up agaln.:--.--:V.' ;-; J t Only bneof the assailant's sev en victims is now reported in a critlcaL(con.dUIon; although . .all were more or less seriously In jured. w ,v , 4 i , Younaj Girl Mny Die The report tonight was as fol lows:' Mrs. 'Kate O Hare, widow, 54, .possible skull fracture and bad, bruises; ; Agnes O'Hare, 25, severe head and body bruises; Te resa. O'Hare,' 2 i, badly beaten About, head and .body;. JFraaces u'Hare; 14, still! unconscious, sfcuu proDaoiy rracturea ana may not Jive; Emma OHare, llalso In serious condition; Joe O'Hare, 14, -severely brplsed; Joe Dobson. 21, badly bruised, about head. All of the victims, except Joe Dobson and Teresa O'Haro. . are still In the 'hospital, : c A report x that a man answering the ( description of the assailant, had' been seen in Maytown, seven miles from here was received by Chief of Police Troxeil and an other, from a resident a few miles south of the city, but no further clues were available. If the man had a, car, the chances of capture are ; Bald to be considerably lea- i (Continued on page 6) Attorney General Rules That property of Church of . Hungary not, Attachable WASHINGTON Sept. r 8.r (By the , Aasoclated Prese.l-Holding that'.ln' the finaj analysis title to church property Is vested 4n Go.1 and that it would be eacrillglous to hold , this an enemy interest, Attorney General Daugherty in a formal opinion has acquiesced In the return by Allen Property Cus tbdian Thomas W. Miller of prop erty seized by a former alien pro perty custodian from the Reform' ed Church of Hungary In Ameri ca. IV:---'- - -s-., -''Who holds the beneficial, in terest in this trnstt" the attorney general asked. "If it Js held by the deity then surely it would be sajcrlligious to hold there Is an enemy lnteresL" The question before the depart ment, he said, waa whether church coulji have its property returned to ir could the cnurcn, he assea be considered an enemy-under he trading with the enemy act and did the fact that some of the eon trlbutora' to the ehurth are ene mies "taint this church property" to the extent that there could be no return of the iproperty ? ..The property, amounting to. ap- 5woxJmfi(tey $ 2 0,0 0 9 in. mort gages and certificates of indebted ness to the mother eh'urch in Hun gary, secured by church property here, was seized at the outbreak of the war from the Hungarian general credit bank at deland, acting as agent for the church ta all financial matters. The decis ion in this case will serve as precedent In other church, prop erty seizures, i KNOT... '' ENEMY INTEREST RECOVERY IFE' IS Mrs, Warren C Harding Wife of , President who is dan gerously ill and whose recov ery is still doubtful; ; ; VI ; Men Working Knee Deep in Muck in Effort to Reach mm fa s. A a i r I CIllUlllUcU mlllcld t - ' -I-'' . JACKSOX, Cal., Bopt. 8 (By Associated ; Press.) A signed statement WhW company, govern- meut and state officials plan to J make public tomorrow morning, I will declare the belief that every, one of the 47 miners entombed in the Argonaut mine is alive, it was learned lato' tonight. , The 'con- elusion, it" was asserted, is based I on a chemkal test made this even- ing. ; T. V. "We believe that every man is the mine Is alive," the statement will say. "Cnemical tests made at 5 p. m. today prove this. In substaatiation of oar belief we now'; offer $5,000 reward to the firsttcrew ; that breaks into the Argonaut mine.' JACKSON, Cal., Sept 8. Res cue crews working to save the 47 men, entombed Jn ; the Argonaut mine ? here, emerged from the night after sixr hours of gmeiiing VXTJ gress toward the Argonaut on the! 3600-foot level and 20 feet on the 3900-foot level,; This leaves res cue workers on the former level approximately, 3 00, feet from the entombed men and about 245 feet on the 3900-foot level. 1 . . Each, crew comes out dripping wet and covered from head to foot . I. a - wa slimy mna. r our crews are working. 24 hours a day in six - hour shifts. '- Because of the in - tense heat, foul air and working condltions are so exhausting, each! WfimS 'Sf fit i wot ; v BATTLE SHI man works only 20 minutes at a I of the senator's victory in the Wls stretch and - rests 40 minutes. I consln primary was' greeted with Both the Argonaut and Kennedy companies assert they have an abundance of men for the rescue work. - i Iffrc sfpnr.rlrt' fJofc .... w ivi iv a . wi at; - at a Mlltnuny iruril AniSU OAKLAND. Sept. 8 Mrs. Nel He Kendrick, " who recently ' sued her husband, Podney Kendrick, newspaper artist for divorce In a complaint asserting that Mrs. Ed ith Sprockets Wakefield, San Francisco society woman, offered her $100 a month for lite if she vnnlil iwrmff Vn TCiV.flsM tn marry Kendrick, was granted $75 a month temporary alimony to- Viay. The court announced, that the date for the divorce hearing- h?tH?in wurl r of rROSPECTOR'S BODY fotjxd FPRINCE rtjpert, B. c, Sept. 8--The . body of, Joe Lapple, an u.t t;r TL Muwt. i v.. aAiloi prunes. aaaii wim .tiitm.t ij.nni. believed to have Jost hia way on 4 trij cut ot Jerrace PRESIDENT'S ROTfiYET ASSURE PHYSieiANS WASHINGTON. Sep 8(By Tlie Aiatea Press) The condition of frs. Harding, wife of the president was so serious tonight that "recovery is not yet assured, a statement issued at the White House at 9:30 p. m, tonight by Brigadier General C. tE, Sawyer,, the family physician said; Complications which developed yesterday and last night, thestatement said, makes Mrs. Harding's condition "criti cal!, it was added. . ' . v ' ' r The statement; timed 9 pV nW issued by Dr. Sawyer, fol lows : -.'.'.', , , , . "lira.', Harding, whose illness, is a recurrence of attacks . experienced before coming. to the .White House, developed complications, Thursday and Thursday night which make her condition critical. These complications are so serious that recovery Js not yet assured. Dr. John Einney of Baltimore, was called in consultation tonight, and Dr. Charles Mayo is enfoutG from Rochester, Minn, Dr. Carl W. Sawyer and Dr. -Joel T. Boone have joined in the attendance on Mrs. Harding today, i -. : , " V- y; " " 'Vi V . "Dr. Finney, reached the AVhite' House at 9 '.o'clock to night.? . v w:v-'- - BEATSTATE, MAN WOULD MAKE AMENDS George Strauchon " Confesses in Letter That He Was Not .. Entitled, to Pay ; Because he has been converted from his old manner of living and is connrlancA trlkn flanrrm H Strauchon of Seattle has Intorm- r J""?". S vvaumiaotvui iy .ua aa acv the state out of 1 2 si .6 6 after ah talB1Tin xiLana wisnes to mate Strauchon, according to his IeU ter, was working In the Northwest 5hip yards in .Portland. On No- vember 23, 1917, after .Working hours : he was. .doing some work for himself about the yards and accidently cut off a finger. He swore, says ' the letter, tat he was working for hi employers at the tlmeof the accident, and as a result drew'two months compos sation at $45 month from the state and $191,156 damages. I The commission: will i .s inform I Strauchon that his check for the full amount will be P"ceptable. UFOLIETTE IS ; " LABOR'S CHOICE J Predictions Are, Made That Senator Will Be Candidate. tOf rreSldent in 1924 1 ATLANTIC CITxY Sept.' 8. J Predictions that United States (Senator Robert M. . LaFollette 1 would be organlted labor's candL I date for the presidency: in 1924 I were heard in labor circles here 1. ... . . .. .. .. 1 tomgnt as in-3 exacuuve council 1 of the American' Federation of 1 Labor gathered, preparatory to the I formal opening of the councils an- nual session here tomorrow. News I satisfaction at convention head' I quarters. Samuel Gonpers, president of the American Federation of Labor declared that while "discussion of benaiot-Laroiietta in this connec 1 flnn 1 h,Amfn.A 1 vnM I .. " - w that the Wisconsin senator is a great American." i THE WllAlHUR Fair and warmer.' WHERE YOU CAU FIllD Prune picking begins in some. others it would begin if V -'It's every body's business money crop of the year. These calls for help are free. Tell ple' the office when man nave ms cnance. G. H. Wolfe, a half mileeast of Liberty hall, route A, box 32, phone 108F31. wants1 a dryertnan, . a trayer and eight pickers. R. A. Aiifmru-. ' mik 66F3 wants f0UT Pickers, or a i.l R. V. Bates has all the I ; . J. p. Alexander, route 4, prune dryer, "9 mw Mrs. Harding felt the first ef- 1 foots of her present Illness near! two weeks ago' while on a wk end cruise on Che Mayflower. Last week she was reported to be suN ferlng from a severe cold, and early this week felt suf Hciently recovered iobe again about the White" House. A setback" occur red with' complications. f During the paet two days Dr. Sawyer has been in almost con stant attendance at her bedside, his son, Drt-Carl -W. Sawyer of Marion, Ohio, arriving today for consuUation. Dr.' Joel T. Doone. naval medical officer on the May- power, a staff of laboratory tech nldana and two trained nurses aV so have been In attendance. The president rpeat part of thi morning ttoday at Mrs. Harding's bedside. ; After the cabinet meet, lng he again' left his office to be with her, and late in the after noon laid aside ibis official duties to return to the sick room. President Harding remained continuously x at the bedside to night, never havtnjr left the sick room since late today. Secretary Christian and several attaches remained at the White House tonight where there was evident a feeling of apprehension. It waa the impression that a defi nite turn to the illness might be expected within the next 24 hours. BOoze Hound Uncovers Moonshines After Chas3 BILLINGS, Idnt.. Sept. 8 While assisting in a search! made by a posse and police officers fa a weed encumbered field near here today for a man suspected of be ing an auto thief. Al, the new po lice, bloodhound, struck a trail which led into a thicket of sun flowers. From the midst of the weedy Jungles an exuberant howl suddenly arose above the tumult. Officers hastened to the dog's side to find that he was standing over a sack. Within the sack. the of ficers found a gallon Jug -partly filled with moonshine. ; , The man sought was picked up later in the day in another part of the city. Boy Second to Die in Week from Bug Bite - TJKIAH. Cal., Sept. 8.-Robert Waugh, 7, Is dead today, the sec ond boy to succumb In Uklah this week to poisonous insect bites the nature of which is puzzling to physicians here. The child, son or Mrs. Stella Waugh, was stung on one of his knees and died of a Tlrnlent blood infection which at tending doctors said they were unable to diagnose. Last Tuesday Jack Ley; 14, expired after being bitten by an insect while hunting near here with hi father, Carl J. Ley. . '-,,''.:" V!.:"t ""'" WORK PICKING PRUUES mitny orchards riext week. In the crowers had Dickers. to helo harvest this only real you're supplied and let the next wist nf the crkitentkrv. nhoT.a family to camp. ISas 12 acres pickers wanted. pnone xzrt wants two men ic