The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, October 10, 1922, Page 1, Image 1

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SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR
SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY CORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1922
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$21 0,000 Will Go up on
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PLAN, PLACED BEFORE
- COMMERCIAL CLUB
Work Likely, to Begin at an
Early Date-Completion ,
; By Spring Possible
Salem.' hia been needing one
or two more gwod,' big apartment
houses. People : have been roost
ing. In the trees almost and
living . in attics and even tramping
' the streets for. lack of homes to
lire In, ' Single men and women,
yoting , married couples who hare
not yet: come, to, own their own
home, people who for business or
other reasons; cannot .well ' keep
up separate house establishments,
hare been praying for the com
ing.' of the apartment builder.
r Capital , Apartments Projected
' Well, he's come, at last. Mr.
Warren Armlngton of , Denver , has
Investigated Salem, and. finds It
all to the good In an inyestement
way. So pleated Is he j with the
prospect, that tir corporation has
secured an ' option on the old
Tbielsen home. Court and Capitol,
and ,1s. prepafjrig to finance a
. 7 2 -apartment ; eatablishement to
cost approximately $210,000. It
lsk to be finished; and ready; for
: occupancy within,; the, next fire
'months If all goes "well, accord
ing to . the present schedule.
Four Stories Contemplated ,
' The! plan is to erect av building
10ft by 110 feet, four, stories and
fulL basement, setting the build
ing back 40 feet on the spacious
lot so as to. give It a splendid
front lawn a lawn such as any
Teal home ought to have. The
, building will be of reinforced con
crete,' as fireproof, as a smelter
furnace. .The apartments are to
be of varying sizes, one two and
three rooms, to meet ' the vary
ing needs. of its patrons. .It will
be furnished throughout -with
disappearing beds, with electric
, stoves and it will be oil heated,
. removing the last trace of Boot
and grime, A grill, 30 by 80
: feet, Is to be established on the
ground .floor.
, 'At at meeting of the directors
of the Salem Commercial club,
last night they endorsed the pro-
Ject heartily, v The plan has been
mentioned ; tot a few other , Salem
men who have hailed it as .one
k of the real needs Of the city.
' f Iocal, Investors . Wanted
' ; The company Is bringing most
of the , money , required for the
project, but Is expecting .Salem in
vestors to show enough interest
In the venture to invest $65,000,
or a little less than one-third the
total coat. Fpr.a long time the
homeless ones have been waiting,
(ConUnusd on page J.)'
HER OFE
PotitiANDi Or. OcL 9.
Equi received a mailed letter
Klecan. ' It said:'
;P0RTLAMD PHYSICIAN
: AND SCHOLAR TAKES
"Dear llarie : I am -worn out and so am going for a long,
, long rest. You can have my books. Good-bye. Constance."
"T)r. Klecan's office was" several blocks away." Dr. Equi
. Hashed forth.1 hatles3 and hailed, a passing automobile which
1 she impressed her to take her
there she and the automobile
1 mittance to the office. Looking over the transom jhey saw
Dr. Klecan lying unconscious on. a divan They summoned
v help and : the doorway was
; work by Dr. Equi and other;
fc had taken poison.
Dr. Klecan wa vry distinguished scholar, physician and
? tethologist." A Pole bv birth,
f schools of Vienna and the f.ampus Virchow clmic. had studied
to Johns Hopkins university "in thir country and had special
v ize'd. in pathology and bacterioloffy. . -v . , T-' -
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COUNTY NURSE
Committee Appointed by As
. sociation to Wait Upon
County Court
At a meeting of the Salem Min
isterial asociatlon Monday noon,
the members endorsed the v idea
of a county nurse, and appointed
a committee to wait on the coun
ty court and ask tfaat the nurse
be engaged and installed. The
committee members are Dr. Al
bert Lougbridge and Dr. E. E.
Gilbert.
The-association also endorsed
and volunteered to stand sponsor
for Capt. Dan Morgan Smith, a
world-renonned lecturer, who U
to visit Sal6m November 19, to
speak for the World League
Against Alcoholism. Captain
Smith was a soldier, the com
mander of "The Battalion ' of
Death," and he is represented as
a wonderfully dynamic character.
' At Monday's meeting, which
was addressed by Prof. Donald
W. Riddell of Kimball school of
Theology, it was agreed to con
tinue the organization on a twice-a-month
instead of a weekly ba
sis., The next meeting, on this
schedule, will be held on Octo
ber 23.
1ub Endorses Move
At the rugular monthly meet
ing and dinner of the Men's club
of the Central Congregational
(Continued on page 2.)
BY POISON
-In her office today Dr.. Marie
from a friend, Dr, Constance J.
to her friend's place. Arriving
driver were unable to gain ad-
broken ; in. -After .three ; hours
physioans Dr. Klecan died. She
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- she had attended the leading
ROADS STANDS
Supreme Court Refuses Fur
ther HearingScott Look
ing for Harmony'
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. Al
though no opinions were deliv
ered by the supreme court today.
it cleared its doexet ot all mo
tions for rehe.irirgs which had
accumulated during the summer
recess and advanced for argu
ment the Pennsylvania anthra
cite and the Minnesota Iron tax,
the New York Telephone and a
number of other important cases,
besides issuing orders in other
cr.ses .
In denying rehearing in the
oases decided duing the- ctosing
U-ys last term, the court itiada
fLa&l Its de.-lsion? in such impor
tant litigation as the Southern
raci.'ic, the Corcnado Coal, the
Enurgency Fleet corporation.
baseball, and the Larnmle river
irrigation project ca?34, the lat
ter of vital importance as laying
down a governmental policy to
te observed in the diversion of
water for irrigatioA purposes
from interstate streams Several
of these caea hdl baen pending
In the "u:ts for man years.
Labor Unions Suable
The Coronado case resulted in
the supreme court declaring that
labor unions were c suable and
were liable to prosecution,, under
the Sherman anti-trust laws. In
applying the evidence In the case,
however, the supreme court re
versed the lower federal courts,
and held that ; the United Mine
Workers of America, district No.
21, the labor leaders and others
involved in the strike which
resulted in the destruction of
property were not liable for treble
damages under the Sherman law,
because not actuated by an intent
to restrain or monopollre inter
state commerce. The coal com
panies sought unsuccessfully to
have that feature of the decision
reviewed; contending that the
prime object of the strike was to
prevent the interstate shipment of
coal.
Unmcrjrr Must Go Through
After the decision of the courts
List June, ordering the Southern
Pacific company to divorce itself"
from ownership or control oveK
the Central Pacific railroad a
number of petitions were ' pre
sented to congress frpm commer
cial and other organizations dis
cussing the probable effect of the
decision. Some' urged and others
opposed its enforcement but the
supreme court,, in refusing 4tody
to reopen the-case. brought the
protracted litigation, to its last
stages and a mandate now will Ir-r-ue
under which, the United
States district court for' Utah will
: XCoattaued cipago IX
OFFICIALS TO
DEVISE IMS
OFUFOIITY
Secretaries of State and
Traffic Officers of West
ern Country Are Convened
in Portland.
VISITORS GREETED
BY GOVERNOR 0LC0TT
L. D. McArdle of Washing
ton Says Highway Spoon
ers Are Menace
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct, 9.
Traffic officials of western states
in conference here today heard
suggestions for making the high
ways safer, the meeting being
held, according to Secretary of
State Sam A. Kozer of Oregon,
who presided "to bring "legisla
tion up to date bo far as it may
be necessary to regulate the oper
ations of the motor vehicle in
safeguarding the lives and prop
erty of citizens and protecting the
highways. The meef'ng will con
tinue tomorrow.
Idaho Official Program
Robert O. Jones, secretary of
state of Idaho, suggested that the
conference establish interstate
uniformity on the following
points:
Speed limit, license of opera
tors of motor vehicles; standard
ization of signs at railway cross
ings; speed and method of ap
proach to and passage over rail
way crossings; turning and stop
ping signals; rights of way for
pedestrians; passing of motor ve
hicles ami lens for headlights.
Olcott Welcomes Visitors
Governor Olcott, who welcomed
the visitors, promised all the co
operation in his power. He spoke
of the need of better care of the
highways and said the west should
protect -tourists while encouraging
tourists to come.
L. D. McArdle, director of the
department of efficiency of Wash
ington, declared the courts had
been too lax in enforcing penalties
cn drivers who violate the light
ing rules. McArdle said that the
many Instances that the courts
have allowed violators of the
traffic laws to go free or to es
cape with a light fine has so dis
couraged the traffic officer that
they say "Oh, what's the use'
Auto Thefts Increase
McArdle referred to the rapid
increase in auto thefts, and urged
laws that would require the num
bering of all important parts of
a car. fie spoke against care
less driving by spooners.
"A thoughtless, happygo-lucky
spooning pair of young people.
engaged with thoughts of each
other, are not a rare occurrence
upon our highways," he said.
Liquor is Seized from
Shipping Board Vessel
NEW YORK, Oct. 9. The first
seizure of liquor aboard a United
States shipping board vessel under
Attorney General Daugherty's dry
ruling was amde today by agents
who visited the freighter Winona,
arrived from Smyrna after eva
cuating refugees from the ruined
city.
Four cases of whiskey and a
number of loose bottles were tak
en from the vessels hold. The
vessel's officers said they could
not account for the presence of
liquor and that it probably had
been brought aboard by refugees.
CHINESE OUT
VICTORIA. B. C, Oct. 9. In
accordance with an ultimatum giv
en last week the school board to
day declared public schools for
Chinese closed until January.
THE WEATHER
OREGON: Tuesday increas
ing cloudiness; followed by
rain, cooler east portion.
LOCAIi WEATHER:
Maximum temperature, 70.
Minimum temperature, 61.
Set. 57.- 1
River," 1.6 feet below normal
level. Falling.
Rainfall, none.
Atmosphere clear.
Wind, north.
MONUMENT TO
EUGENE FIELD
IS UNVEILED
Memorial" to Children's Poet
Uncovered at Lincoln Park,
Chicago, Yesterday.
CHICAGO. Oct. 9-A monument
to Eugene, Field, the "children's
poet" was unveiled today in Lin
cola Park., the gift of thousands
of school children who contribut
ed their pennies and of the Fer
tuscr memorial fund.
Melville E. Stone, counsellor
rnd general anager of Associated
press, who brought Mr. Field to
Chicago while Mr. Stone was edi
tor ol the Chicago Daily News,
and the Reverend William E.
fcfirtor spoke.
Jean Field Foster, and Robert
ugene Field, grand children of
tho poet, unveiled the statue.
In his" eulogy to the children's
fa-rcatc, Mr. Stone said:
I "Tuning his lute to humanity's
burden of care and grief, he sang
the song of the helpless. He was
Sbly the poet of sympathy. He
Was b many sided character. He
had a profound religious, even
spiritual nature. The Puritan
strain of his ancestry frequently
cropped out in his daily life. Tet,
over all there spread the warm,
mellow rays of human sympathy
which prompted some of the
sweetest and most pathetic verse,
of 6ur language. He sounded all
the depths of tender emotion and
voiced the agonized cry of be
reaved motherhood and sister
hood and childhood, with the tone
and timbre and temo of a mas
ter." I
The monument depicts a brood
ing angel bending over two sleep
ing children, dropping the flowers
of poetry upon them.
DEPUTY OFFICER
no-
Assistant Assessor of Baker
County Pleads Guilty to
Liquor Charge
BAKER, Ore., Oct. 9.-Deputy
County Assessor Osborne Orin
pleaded guilty today to a charge
of manufacture and possession of
intoxicating liquor before Justice
George E. Allen. He received a
sentence of 30 days in the county
jail and a f 300 fine, and tendered
his resignation from the county
position.
Orin's arrest is said to .be the
result of information furnished by
his wife, a prominent .church
worker who wa3 reported as say
ing that he. waa 'tlred of seeing
the still around the house."
The still, which was electrically
equipped, was seized in a raid by
federal and county prohibition
forces late Saturday.
Yakima Child Instantly
Killed by Heavy Truck
YAKIMA, Wn., Oct. 9. Dor
othy, aged 8, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. M. O. Langfelter. this af tex
tile accident. Thomas Wilson,
npon fell from the running board
of a truck cn which she was rid
ing nad was Instantly killed, ner
skull being crushed by the rear
wheel. Several other children
were in the truck, but none saw
the acident. Thomas Wilson,
driver of the truck was prostrat
ed by the shock. ' 1
Harry Poulin's Wife
Afraid of Foul Play
SOUTH BEND, Ind-, Oct. 9.
Police were called tonight to the
home of Harry Poulin, defendant
in the suH brought by Mrs. Aug
usta Tierman, in response to a
call from Mrs. Poulin, who ex
pressed fear that an attempt was
being made on the life of her
husband. Mrs. Poulin said she
had been trightenefl by some one
rapping on the windows and doors
of their homje. Police could find
no trace of the prowler.
MILK GOES UP
YAKIMA, Wash., Oct. 9. The
retail nrico of railk in Yakima to
day was raised from 10 to 11
cents per quart, a figure set by
a community fair price commit
tee; following an Increase in the
charge tnade by producers to dis
tributors to J2.20, per hundred
pounds.
PR SDN
TRIAL OF PfflLUP -WARREN FOR
MURDER OF TODD AND PRICE IS
BEGUN; JURY NOT YET SELECTED
ST 1
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Opening of Newly Completed
Unit Will Be Event of
Coming Week
PORTLAND, Or.. Oct. 9.
Wor on the Oregon, California &
Eastern railroad projected by
Robert E. Strahorn north from
Klamath Falls, with its ultimate
objective Bend, Or., is again ac
tive, j with steel now advanced to
tiuaeDrana ana tne opening oi
the last completed unit to be an
even of the coming week, accord
ing t,o Mr. Strahorn who was in
Porftpand today.
"The track from Dairy north to
Hildibrand," he stud, "has been
laid fcince August 1. This leaves
12 niiles of construction to reach
sprajue river, the main objective j
in Ilamath county, of which
three miles are graded.
"Efuilding in six mile units, the
next bix miles north of Hildebrand
reaches Squaw Flat. We expect
react there yet this year with
the grade if the weather is favor
able jto complete to Spraguc river
early? next summer."
STATE I HIVE
HUG FIELDS
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Emergency Accommodation
to
Be Provided at Inter
vals of 25 Miles
Emergency landing fields for
airplanes are to be established
everjf 25 miles In 'Oregon and
Washington, following in a gen
eral jway the railroad line from
Southern Oregon to Portland and
from
Portland to tho Canadian
boundary.
Thfs was announced, by the
state! department of forestry to
day lifter a. visit by Lieutenant
H. Q. Smith, of the federal air
servife, who has been in the state
with the forest airplane patrol
throughout the summer. All
othei members of the patrol have
left fhe state for the year, but
Lieutenant Smith has been left
here j to establish the landing
Held.
Thje measure is one of safety
ior the protection of airmen
i L i .
uuse uianes mienr e-o vrnnir
necessitating forced landings.
;fcajch field will be marked by a
large; white circle.
Three Servants Held in
nnnortinn With rtaith
I wviuiwvtivM II nil ugauiO
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GlkUCESTER, Mass., Oct. 9.
Three servants in the summer
hbm of Miss Caroline Sinkler of
Philadelphia, were held as ma
terial witnesses today while the
policj; and District Attorney Sr
Howird Donnel, pursued inquiry
iato jthe deaths of Stella Zeisloft,
!-. ma.id, and Harry Devine, a'
chauffeur, who was bplieved to
havej died from the effects of a
pbiscra last Saturday night.
; he bodies were, found In the
kitebjen yesterday. A bottle of li
quid! partly emptied was on the
tablet
I Thjose held for examination
werejBridget McCheehan, a house,
kk-epr; Helen Gorman, a maid,
apd William Elkins, the gar d ner.
Walla Walla Banker is
Dead from Recent Accident
: WALLA WALLA, Wash,, Oct.
10. Alvin A. King, 60 cashier of
the Farmers' and Merchants'
Bank: of Walla 'Walla died at a
local, hospital late last night from
ra juries received a week ago
Whenj an automobile he was driv
ing crashed over an embankment
near
bien
past
Athena, Ore. MrJ King has
in the local bank ..for the
15 years. He was unconscious
for (ours before his death, the
M sslfiil ci&g crashed,
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Attorneys question veniremen closelj as to ideas cn
capital punishment and prohibition law enforcement
Indian's family in court room and widows of dead of
ficers will arrive today.
DALLAS, Or., Oct. 9. (Special to The Statesman) He
uctance of women to serve on a jury in a murder trial delayed
selection of a panef to hear the case of Philip Warren, Grande
Ronde Indian who killed Glenn Price and Grover Todd, pro
hibition agents, to such an extent that only seven had been
passed by both counsels when the circuit court of Polk coun
ty was adourned by Judge H. H. Belt this afternoon.
In the first list of those called, for jury, service were 40
wqmen and 39 of these claimed exemption on account of sex
and the other wa3 excused upon examination because of ob
jection to the death penalty.
This led to rapid exhaustion to of the venire under the fire
of challenges for cause by both attorneys and a recess was
necessitated after a half hour "session in the afternoon to'
allow enough of those in the special venire to have time to '
reach court. Even then only five additional nf thnsi on tVi
enird had arrived
rived when the
U'cjnck and at 3?3A nnirH- wa
riiiawm,
F" f second
Clifford Hayes, 1 9, Accused
of Murdering Rector
and Mrs. Mills
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct.
9. (By The Associated Press. )
Clifford Bayes, a youth pf 19,
was held incommunicado in the
Sumerset county jail at Somervillo
tonight on a warrant charging him
with first degree murder of the
Reverend Edward Wheeler Hall
and Mrs. Eleanor Relnhardt Mills
on September 14.
But if the authorities who
caused h!a arrest have any evi
dence which would show a logical
motive for his alleged act, they
have carefully withheld it. ;
Motive Is Vague
The explanation of Rayond
Schneider, . 22, whose accusation
caused Hayes' arrest, was that of
a case of mistaken Identity. Hayes
he said, thought he was shooting
1 o-year-old Pearl Bahmer and
her stepfather, Nicholas Bahmer.
The only motive he advanced
for the rpckles8 crime was a sort
of quixotism on Hayes part-r-a
desire to right a supposed wrong
done a friend, Schneider, who, al
though married, admits he is In
love with Pearl.
Hayes' retort was that Schneld
er was a "damned liar." He ad
nutted going with Schneider to
the deserted Phillips farm, where'
the bodies were found, in search
of Pearl and her stepfather.
Shots and Screams Heard 1
They heard shots and scream
ing, he said and ran toward the
crabapple tree whence the, shots
seemed to come, observing an
automobile dash away as they
ran. ,
Beneath the tree he declared,
they found the minister and the
choir singer dead and he added
Schneider bent down and stole
the minister's watch.
This" Schneider hotly denied
during the long examination to
which the youths were subjected.
Schneider, in turn, accused Hayes
of having committed the theft.
One of the most glaring dis
crepancies in Schneider's story is
his assertion that neither he nor
Hayes touched the bodies, except
for the filching of the watch of
which b accuses Hayes.
Woman's Throat Cut
It has been established by a
belated autopsy that Mrs. Hills
throat was cut from ear to ear
and her head almost severed,
Schneider could not explain this.
Neither could he . explain how
the bodies came to be laid out
carefully, side uy side, as it for
burial, ,
He was equally unsatisfactory
as to how the love letters written
by Mrs. Mills to the minister came
to be scattered about the scene,
or who placed one of the minis
ter's cards against the sole of his
XGoatoued pa P.? Q
LURID TALE OF
KILLING TOLD
scsslnn nna im o.
afi:AMwi , a
rj1v""?v v wwa.
8Pecl venire?waa ordered by
Afll told, S 4 Jurors were ex-'
amined-today and of these 14
were excused .because of con-'
scientlous objection to returning
a vardirt which carries, with. It
a death penalty and the prosecu-.
tlon and defense each 'challenged
six foj cause. -.W
Opinions Previously Formed ;
The veason in the case -of each
challenge was declaration, of a
previously formed opinion about
the tssej.CecU . Entree of Hon- ,
mouth was excused when It was
made known that he was related
to Oscar Ilayter of Dallas altof
ney for the defense. ., - ;'
Walter U Toose.JJrv. special
deputy to District Attorney J.-N.V
Helgerson of P3k county, con
ducted the examination as to tht
qualification of Jurors tor thi
state. : .
Defense Course Indicated 4
Some indication of the prob
able basis of the case of the de
fense is seen in the questloninf
of Attorney Ilayter That this
will consist of an attack on the
methods used by the prohibition
agents in their attempt to secure
the arrest of Warren ' for boot
legging i held likely. '
A question asked by Hayter of
all jurors examined was, "Do yoq
believe In the use of "stool pig
eons' to secure the arrest of a
violator of -the law?"
Distaste for such practice was'
expressed in practically all ins
tances. Several Jurors said, how
ever, that expediency might be
served by the use of 'stool pig-,
eons' even though they personally
did not care for the idea.
Enforcement Ideas Asked '
Hayter also consistently asked
if the juror thought the prohib
ition laws more important than;
any othr law and If they should
be enforced In the same manner,
e answers were uniformly la
the effect that the laws relative
to Intoxicating liquor were Just
as other laws. :
"Do you not realize that much
more difficulty is encountered In
emorcement or , the prohibition,
laws than In the case of other5
statutes and that extraordinary!
means must be exercised In carry,
ins them out at times?" Is the
gist of a question put to the Jur
ors by Tooze. Most ot the men
replied that they did. rl
Excuses Follow Rapidly 4 44
When the court, adjourned at
noon six Jurors had been passed
by both sides. Of the 24 called
during the morning session eight
were excused at once because they: .
expressed conscientious objec
tions to Infliction, of the death -penalty,
such as must , be impos
ed upon, conviction for first de
gree murder.- Upon Judge Belt's'
suggestion and with the agree
ment of both counsels Jurors,
drawn were asked as . soon as
sworn whether they objected to
the death penalty In order to ex
pedite proceed u re. r . '
Two Jurors were challenged for
cause by the prosecution and one
by the defense In the morning, set
opinions of the men drawn being
responsible for their being ex
cused frpm service In each case.
One of-those so challenged by the
prosecution was George H. Ball -of
Ballston, a hop grower. .The
only woman drawn In the morn-'
Ing was Mrs. Elva Mortimer of
JContlnneo: pn gaga