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4 r 4 cntctrxjiTiOH . JL.rr for September, 1912 . zx m ott or aixxit Varies 4 Pelk CcwktUg krly OTwyb? mta The Oregorr Statesman TKS SOXX XXWftTAJm Bandar y B74S Dally and Sunday .S3CS Xjrtf tor i monlhi anding V. Aiinn 0ii IMS- Dai ndmr only .6850 -54t Daily and Saadar '- .'-J, T t SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 192 FIRST SECTION SIX PAGES Gfl JVl IE Lm U Lsla i i t t i i :- - I . n , i ; Shields, Walsh, Pom erene, . ... Underwood! and Davis Mentioned 5 Successors as Possible to Day; -r ' FULL PAY ACCORDED A RETIRING MEMBER Time tO Be Given aS UmDireUIon apparently did not please and (ah 1 rAMVkn :Atvi;Ann Claims Commission WASHINGTON. Oct. 24. Associate JustlJe William. It. Day, ot the supreme court, placed his resignation, today in the hands of President Harding to -take ef fect Novemfber '14, and) It was , accepted, i u -; ; - : , w !, By resigning, Justice, Day will be able to devote his : undivided attention to his duties aa umpire on the American-German claims commission, :111a action. Will hare the effect of placing him on the retired list of the court on full ". pay...f'M:-y'.f ,V;t f':': - Last AppearajnceNoTember 13 By delaying the ? date upon which his resignation will be- ' com operaUve, Justice Day will be eligible) to participate with the other members ot the court dur ing the three weeks recess P re ceding the next meeting . ot the court on Novemter 13 in confer- ences tor the" decision, ot eases which have been argued at this term.,; It is expected, he will make his. last appearance on the bench of the highesttribtraai.on the daT it reconvenes, ' remaining while the ourt delivers its opm- lons. v ' ; ' . , Democrat . Possible In officlar Democratlcl circles here there is a belief tbat the va cancy will be filled .'by thei ap- rointment of s Democrat, wnen Justice Clarke, who was a Demo crat when appointed, recently re- signed, he, was succeeded oy jub- t.tsuinriana. wmw-. iTAmon tloso named as possinie selections in, the Democrauo cir - cles are Senators Shields of Ten - nessee; Walsh of Montaona; Pom - erene. Ohio, and underwood ox AlaiamaAJohn W. Davw or wesiiaotet ana then assaulted her. Great Britain also is -mentioned Vlrglnla, fonmer t ambassador to for ,tbe vacancy. Introdnoed by McKlnley Justice Day. who Is 78 years nld. was , introduced in nauonai life by President McKlnley who brought him to' Washington' from Ohio in 1897;. as asslstani secrer tar- of state. He soon succeeaea to the post of secreury of state hnr in a fA months resigned to becomo chairman or the r Ameri can peace" commission to Fans ai the close of the war wwn op- He was appointed to thei supree c6urt, by President Rooseveii n Justice Day has been regarded v. v. nd bar-as one of " . tie taost Talaale merooers vm the supreme court. 1 - XOlutO " ' . . i I In Ilia t.i llltllllHI Te denverea nu w"""" - United tinoe 77,,. Southern Pacific-Central ; cases, and wrote the MlJ opinion, in which Justices Fitney and Clarke Joined, in the II States Steel corporau v cided ta March. 1920,. when tne court divided, fou to three. Jus- wRrnaIda t and BrwoTO aot partlcipaUntv y- v " FINANCIERS WANTED - - rtroUM flirt. 2 4. -r-' (By The A..nHatA Pre0 It Is semi-of- fieially announced that the .'Ger man government ' will - Invite a ) prominent financial ) -.i- tome to Berlin and discuss measures for the stabai? ' ration of the mark. -; - - THE WEATHER OREGON: Wednesday rain. LOCAlT WEATHER f U " Maximum temperature, 68. uutnain tmneratnre. 9a. River. 2 feet below- normal level. Stationary. . . Rainfan.'.Ol inch. , Atmosphere, cloudy. , Wind, southwest. WALLAWALLA BOARDER HUGS HIS LANDLADY Woman Not Pleased at Show of Affection, But Judge ' Hisses It Off Lightly WALLA WALLA, Wash.. Oct. 24. Not to long ago a man was fined In the Walla Walla justice court for hitting his landlady! In the eye with a rock. Today C. G. Austa appeared in court on a charge of. placing his arm about bis landlady. ; He was freed. Austa, it is said, was a board ejr at Mrs. Edna F. Mulklus boarding bouse and when be left the yla.ee was so touched that he placed his arm about the waist of his landlady. The show of affec Austa was hailed Into court on a charge of third degree assault. Judge Wilbur announced that the evidence did not seem to war rant conviction and Austa was freed. , : Defendant -Says Actor Call ed His Wife a Bum, and Remark Angered Him HACKENSACK, N. J.. Oct. 24 Tne charge that bli-vlie was a bum" and not the knowledge that she had been criminally as- Isaulted infuriated him. to. a pro- (posal ol a duel, George Cline, mo- tion, picture location finder, who is on trial with his hrother-in law, Charles Scullion and Alice Thornton for the murder of John Bergen, motion, picture actor, ad mitted ojx cross-examination to day. , r.i ,'. : . Accident Claimed ' Cline . told on direct examina tlon that when, after months of suspicion he finally learned that his , wife had .been , assaulted, he had asked- Bergen, whom he said he had befriended, to come to his home in Edgewater and "ex k, partle8) aDd that Berea was accidentally shot Un a atruzele for. the nosseasion iof a .un which he had riven him 1 clne Mjd that wnen he con. I fronted his wife with Bergen she J broke down' and confessed he had i drugged her in a Saranac Lake i cilnesaid that Bergen then ad- mltted the charge, and said "I'm a dirty dog,-shoot me," and he ordered Bergen .out of his house. Remark Angers Clin "I had ao idea of shooting him," , . He said that it was a remark of the actor's as he was tSld to leave, the house which infuriated him. "Bergen said 'George, you know all women are bad, " Cline testified. " 'And Mamie is Bum ." It was then, Cline declared that he invited Bergen to go up stairs, where the shooting occur red. ; I rt I i.. i it yaugneriy insists Upon . Probe of His Denartment I " r - WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 Attor Iney General Daugherty announc- La todav he would insist upon the houae Judiciary committee making mto the conduct of his office as was demanded in the Kel- . wh,cn 80Uglt Mr r)ftMh(tT.1 lmDachmont. , "Ton may be sure, Mr. Daugherty said, "that I wIU not let that matter be dropped after the elections L KILLED PORTLAND. Oct. 25. Fire which broke out about 12 20 this m6rning fcompieteiy ae- stroyed the wasmngiun mgu (tr.hooi here. : " 0. B. Gabriel, f lresiyiri, was inirantlv ' killed by falling The cause of the f ire ia as GUI TELLS 0 BUS DOW ill EPISTLES OF FllAIM MADE PUBLIC Intimate Description of Pre sident Wilson's Cabinet Meeting Are Given in New Volume. ECCENTRICITIES OF WAR LEADER TOLD Cabinet Members Often Re buked for Differences With Executive BOSTON, Oct. 24. (By The Associated Press.) A series ol history-making letters, describing In detail the American war cab inet and giving an intimate pic ture of Woodrow Wilson as be ap peared while presiding over the secret meetings ol . nis oinciai family was made public today. The letters, written by the iat Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the Interior in the cabinet ot Presi dent Wilson from 1913 to 1920. have been collected and edited by his widow, Anne Wlntermute Lane and have been . puDnsnea vy Houghton, Mifflin company. The volume is Just off the press President Of ten Bitter The correspondence revfeals among other things, how the pres ident frequently lost patience with the tremendous; problems con fronting him, and how at other times discouragement' crowded him to such a degree that he was prompted ta turn bitterly upou his advisers when they failed to agree with hlra, The letters give a description ot Mr. Wilson's attitude on. prepared aess before America entered the wi: tell how he regarded the proposal to arm merchant ships; describe his opposition to any thing approaching "the code duel la" spirit at a time when the Unit ed States was neutral and when great questions, were pressing for decision, tell how he .encouraged bis cabinet to talk of trivialities while he went along on his own counsel to solve the huge prob lems facing his administration , . Preparedness Opposed "The president said he didn't wish to see either, side win for both had been equally Indifferent to the rights of neutrals. Mr Lane wrote to his brother on February 17, 117, commenting on a particularly animated cab inet discussion. On the subject of prepared ness, .even a few months before the United States entered the war Mr. Lane quoted President WU son as being "not la sympathy Writing again to his brother, Feb ruary 2C, 1917, Mr. Lane said; 'At our dinner, to the. presi dent last night he said he was not in sympathy wjth any great pre- narednesa that Europe would be mad and money:poor, by the end of the war," , Continuing, Mr. Lane added a few observations of his own. . Red Tape Decried "The army and the,navy are so set and stereotyped and stand-pat that I am almost hopeless as to moving them to the wise, large and wholesome Job," he wrote. "They are governed by red tape worse than any union. The chief of staff fell asleep at our meeting today. Mars and Morpheus in one." i Again to his brother February 2 S. Secretary Lane wrote: "On Friday we had one of tneicentage or morality. The reason. most animated. sessions of the cab-J there. is some times so much ad inet that I suppose has ever beenl'erse comment on the chorus tglr held under this or any other pres- Ident. It all arose out. of a very Innocent question ot mine as to whether It was true that the wives of American consuls on leaving Germany had been stripped nak- cd, given an add bath to detect writing on their flesh. an3 sub jected to other Indignities. Daniels Opposed Convoys "Lansing answered that it was trno. "Then I asked Houston . about the bread riots in New York. This led to a discussion of the great problem which we had all been, afraid to raise why shouldn't we send our ships out with guns and convoys? Daniels said we must not cduvoy that would be dangerous. (Think of a secretary of the navy telling of danger.) - The president said, that the country was not wiU - ins that we should take any risks (Continued on page MOTIVE FOR KILLING IS STILL VAGUE Witness Tells of Scene When Mrs. Rosier Knelt at Dyi ing Girl's Deathbed . ' J PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 24. Varied testimony aa to Mrs. Cath. erlne Rosier'a motive for killing her husband. Oscar Rosier, ajid his young stenographer, was giv en today when the trial reached its moat sensational development thus far. Mrs. Rosier, who is under In dictment for the killing of both is being tried forst for the mur der of Miss MUdred Geraldin Rec kltt, the stenographer. "l did It-r-I must have been crazy," one witness testified she had told him immediately after the shooting, which .occurred In the office ot Rosier's advertisi ig agency. ' . , Michael J. Toner, a policeman, told of a scene . in the hospital where the girl, Mildred, smiled forgivingly on Mrs. Rosier frojm her death bed. Toner related h4w the dying girl, supported by two officers, was besought to say something to incriminate her slayer. j, "No, I don't think she meant to shoot me," she said. ,"I know she didn't mean to shoot me.". Thereupon Mrs. Hosier -knelt and kissed the hand of the girl, said the witness. Mrs. Rosier, Shaking with cobs, burled her face in her hands as this testimony was given, i Norman McLeod, a reporter, recounted how the de- mendant knelt beside Rosier and cried: , "Daddy, dear, I didn't mean to do it." v i Rosier, he said, then lifted up his hand and pushed her away. Salvation Nell Declares That Their Morals Surpass Teachers and Nurses NEW YOK, Oct 24- Captain Rheba Crawford of the Salvation army, the .pretty lass ia. blue who is absorbing some of Broadway's limelight in her battle ta hold prayer meetings on the steps of the Gaiety theatre, today came to the defense of the much abused chorus girL , "Salvation Nell,'' made her de fense of Broadway morals when she recived a reporter at tea in her Greenwich village apartment where she is recovering from slight attack of nerves which she suffered after having been ar rested, fer obstructing traffic Discharged in court, she purposes to resume her meetings as soon as she again feels fit. Chorus Girls. Honest I have never known finer peo- pie than those I have met on I is roadway, deciared Miss Craw i lord, whose father heads the Sal vatlonlsts cadet school in San Francisco. "The Broadway girl is the big gest hearted ,the squarest and ab solutely the most .understanding girl I have ever known. It she's your friend, she's your friend whether you are right or wrong. Morals' lUnk High "I'd take a bunch of chorus girls and put them against a bunch of school teachers or nurses an' day as far ai morality is con- I eerned. I know the chorus girls iwoma ran with a higher per j is because she is so much In rth I spotlight. People know tverythin I she does. I "I have no kick with the me: on Broadway, either. Only once ill the two years that I have beeij holding meetings Ton Broadway has any man offered me anything that bore the slightest vestige o an insult. Country Towns Worse 'They often think that the cit is filled with far more evil tha m BBiiui town, nut laat is no i. ... .... . true. I know what small towns a'o "ke. for I have been In them Georgia and Florida, i "I a single year I have learned of more evil in a small town than II know of in a city in two years. One. reason that there is less evil I a city like New York than in a little tr-wn is because-here there are so many things to engross! the ieBb (Continued a page 2.) JURY HANGS IN CASE OF BANDIT GIRL Eugene Talesmen Unable To Arrive at Verdict After Trial of Mrs. Emmons LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24. A Jury of three women and nine men was completed late; today for the trial of Mrs Clara Phil lips for the murder of Mrs. Al berta Meadows. Deputy District Attorney Charles W. Fricke said he" would call as his first witnesses tomor row morning Mrs. Fred,'- Wertz and Fred L. Johnson, who found the body of Mrs. Meadows, on last July 12 on Montecito drive, where the young woman was beaten to death with a hammer. 13 'ormer Portland LawyeV is Nabbed as He Finishes Long Term in Prison ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 24. Vic tor E. Innes, formerly a lawyer of Portland, Ore., is held In the Pul ton county jail here tonight in de fault of 13,000 bond, following his arrest by Federal authorities two minutes after he had been re leased from the county chain gang, where he had just complet ed serving five and a half of a seven-year term. In j taking Innes into , custody, the federal officers stated that their action was based on an in dictment dated July 15, 1915, charging Innes with use of the mails to defraud. The term Innes had finished on the"-hahr. gang 'was. for larceny after, truth, after his extradition from Texas, where an- attempt was made to show that he and his wife had murdered Miss Beatrice Nelms and her sister, Mrs. Eloise Nelms Dennis, Atlanta women, and destroyed their bodies. Innes was sentence to seven years im prisonment and his wife to three She was released April 2,1920 and one and a half years were cut from his sentence for good behav ior. Conditions School Heads Have to Contend With Described at Meeting Tuesday night was trouble night with the Salem school board. The board had asked in all the principals of the city schools, find all but one were there to tell the good thing-, and the bad about their buildings. To tell the best first, they praised the janitors without stint. Who would have supposed there were as. many kindly industrious. all-round capable and wholly de t Arable children's Companions and exemplars anywhere? In rapid and unvarying . succession, they told that their janitors are "fine," "excellent," "so good with the children, and that's the first and biggest recommendation for such 'a job." Minor Supplies Sufficient -Most of them have all the minor supplies that they need. They have good heating facilities. at least for this mild weather? they have electric fan ventilators. Professor U. S. Dodson says that his Park school is the best venti lated school in the city through the gaping doors that need fix ing. Several of the schools have sufficient room for their classes, and some have play sheds or basements that can be used for play in wet weather. Certainly most of the schools have appre ciative, optimistic souls at their head. T . Crowding Unpleasant But there are dark streaks In their, horizon that look like storm. There are more Jthan S00 papUa in the Washington school -and it ia one of the oldest, most unsanitary and ill-lighted school buildings in the city. In the Highland school, one ARRESTED PRINCIPALS AT BOARD SESSION (Continued on page Papers Attempting to En ! join Enforcement of Liq i uor Ruling Will go Into i fcrandeis Hands. JUSTICE MAY AWAIT I CONVENING OF COURT In Absence of Restraining Order Lax Regulations Will be Allowed ir a o u ivr"rrvvT r t rn ' 1 .. le.Ml)oi1 Prasad TUn in. I lireme court of the United States Will be asked to issue an ordar 1-nctra.inlnp- the rftTCrnment from enforcing the prohibition laws against transportation of liquor on foreign ships touching at Am erican ports "and on American fmips outside of American coast al waters. Counsel for the ship lines Which instituted the original pro ceedings before Federal T.j.n t . a . I nr..). riauu in iew iuii, were m noi ington today preparing the nec- Issary papers for submittal to As - 7 . - . . . ' iociate Judge Brandeis. Rrandeis Has Rupervslon Being assigned to the second fin-uu m wpicu new iwra. uitenced to one to five years on a Cated Mr, Brandeis Will have C- pervision over matters before uuge nana s coun ana . pe or a superclass oruer w nam vv mai conns uhumdnu oi Ship companies' injunction would be filed with him. Tf 4 J -.1 1 with normal .operation of the fleets of the appellants until the lega) point at issue had been de cided by the supreme court. Unless counsel for the shipping companies can prevail upon Jut' tice Brandeis to issue the order, federal officers normally would be required to proceed to enforce the statute as soon as Judge Hand formally signed the final order Precedent Interferes Under precedents J u s t i ces of the supreme court are net inclin ed to grant injunctions while the courtaas not in session, preferring that such requests shall be sub mitted and acted upon by the court itself. At present the court is in recess and will not again meet until November 13 Administration officials Indi cated today that, even in the ab sence of a specific restraining or der the government was not In' clined to enforce strictly the liquor ruling promulgated by the department of justice so long as its legality was before the courts. 'Temporary regualtions, which would be in effect pending a final decision were laid before Secre tary Mellon today but were with- f Continued on are S) E is eon WELL More Than 175 New Mem berships Reported; Over 200 Expected Today More than 175 new member ships had been secured for the Chamber of Commrce up to last night. The exact number is not known, as not all the committees meet for a luncheon and to talk over the campaign, more than 200 names will be recorded. Thte means an additional revenue of $4,000 a year, each membership representing 120 paid In to the headquarters. Very few of the older names are being dropped. Some have been cancelled because of removal, but these are negligible as compared with the new memberships secur ed. The number of plain refusals Is very small. The drive is considered the most successful Chamber of Com merce or Commercial club cash paign ever waged in Salem. There was one great campaign a- few years ago for a "publicity fund, whon 110,000 was raised. The drive is being handled with the regular clerical force, but it has kept them busy, and they are not yet through with their books. 1 J mTT r s mnnnn JUDGE WHIPS UNRULY MAN Justice of Peace Hanby of Los Angeles Makes Defendant Apologize to Court LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24. J. Walter Hanby. justice of the peace, with two sharp lefts to the chin and a right smash to the mid dle of a defendant, enforced his official rulings today. Robert M. Kitterman. objecting to a ruling of the court in an ac tion In which he was a defendant, was said to have called out: "To Hell with this court! I'm going back to Illinois where they won't treat me that way!" Justice Hanby fined Kitterman 110 for contempt. Kitterman shortly afterwards applied what the1 justice 'said was an "oppro brious epithet" to the court. Whereupon the justice demanded an apology. Kitterman refused ann Than t h a itioiA ite&i4 VIa fifa ..vw uau uia lists and, lKttrmatt P his fine and Two Prisoners Escape From Walla Walla Pen WALLA WALLA, Wash., Oct 24. Snaking away from the po tato field in which they were working while the guards backs " - 9 land Fred Carlson, 20, alias Wil " T ly , f 'rom 18.ta.fA tunitAnttarv at nVlrwIr state penitentiary at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. ... n 1 f Both men were serving their rIr.t nrison terms. Holly being sen Chare of criminal .rndlcalijwn and r.riHon aerinr term f from Ana t0 15 years on a charge of second deKree ouiary, .tot. nn f...k A A &i ajui vii a a nuruuf vuuui;, I VUllOUU VVtaW i OMUVU SUAI Interesting Turns Taken in Formation of Sonar-Law Government 1SEW BRITISH CABINET " By The1 Associated Press LONDON, Oct. 4v-Th new British cabinet was officially announced this evening as fol lows: ' : ; t.t ' i ;. ' Lord president of the coun cil. Marquis of Salisbury. Lord high ' chancellor. Vis count Cave. ' Chancellor of the exchequer, Stanley Baldwin, ' .. ' Secretary for . home affairs, William C. Brldgeman. . ? c Secretary for foreign affairs. Marquis Curzon. Secretary for the colonies, the Duke of Dovenshire. Secretary or India, Viscount Peel. Secretary for war, the Earl ot Derby. First lord of the admlrallty, Lieutenant Colonel L. C. M. S. Amery. President of the board of trade, Sir Philip Lloyd Greame. Minister of health,' Sir Ar thur Griftlth-Boscawed. Minister of Agriculture, Sir Robert A. Sanders. Secretary for Scotland, Vis count Novar. Lord advocate, Honorable W. A Watson. President of tne board ot education, Edward F. L. Wood, M. P. for the Ripon division of Yorkshire. LONDON. Oct. 24. (By T'he Associated Press) -Premier Bo ner Law toaight issued a list of the principal members of his min istry. ; His own name is not men tioned In the official list, which leaves it ta be inferred that he takes no other- office than that of prime minister and first Lord of the treasury, the latter being post without specified duties be yond those, attaching to the 'pre miershlp, , , . : Curzon Keeps Place Marquis Curzon retains his post as secretary for foreign affairs and will be leader of the house of lords. Viscounty Peel retains the Indian secretaryship, t Stanley Baldwin, as expected goes to the exchequer, but it has not yet been (Continued cn page ) IS Brceo : in nil tpit in IT Til T 111 I III IU UILLIVI UJ MURDER CASE Supposed : Eye Witness of Hall-Mills Killing Sics Dcg on Newspapermen Yha Ask Interview. NAME HEARD AT NIGHT V fi MAY BEfATEFUL CLUE Widowed Farmer. Ridir.3 Mule After Thieves, way 'Have Seen Crinje NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J. Oct. 24.(By the ' Associated Press) Deputy 'Attorney, General Wilbur A. Mott drap ed himself in robes of sHencd oday and plonged into the in- vestioation of the Hall-Mill murder, to which he was as signed yesterday by Attorney; ueneraj uran. ' tf Mr, Mot spent . the fore noon closeted with , County Prosecutor. Beekman of Som erset learning "what the coun ty authorities have done since he bodies of x Rev. . Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Elea nor Rinehart Mills were four4 September 6. " This afternoon Prosecutor Strickler of Mid dlesex county, joined the con- erence. At its conclusion. Mr. Mott declined to makejany comment on any angle of the ,il Dog.1 Scare Reporter Newspaper men were particu larly anxious to . ask him about the story that Mrs. Jane Gibson, a widowed farmer out riding a mule n quest ot thieves who had loot ed her corn paten, had witnessed the murders. - v .;-.' ' ' - ' Prosecutors ' Beekman abd Strieker also refused to discuss this angle ot the ease, but It was learned from another source thai the prosecutors had had the story, fcr several' days.V' !- Efforts to Interview Mrs. Gib bon ended lgnomlnously fer the newspaper men - 8he closed the doors of hell little bouse and re leased 'three big dogs which de clined to permit the reporters to aught from their laxicabs. " ? One Clue Given : While Mrs. Gibson was said to have witnessed the shooting, It was said that she was unable be cause of the darkness to Identify the man and woman, who, ' She said, made up the murder party. She gave the authorities, how ever, one good clue to their Iden tity. . : After the minister and choir leader had ; been slain she was quoted as saying, the man tent over the- prostrate figures pre sumably to cut Mrs. Mills' throat and his accomplice cried out: Oh, -., mentioning the Christian 'name of the supposed slayer. Walla Walla Youngsters Raise Regular Old Harry WALLA WALLA, Wash, Oct. 24. City Commissioners here are in a Quandary as a result of com plaints registered today at their weekly meeting. A petition sign ed by. 2 people was submitted re citing alleged crimes of a band of youngsters in the southwest sec tion of town. , Every night, according to the charges, t band of from 10 to SO youngsters of ages ranging from S to 20 congregate for their playful tactics. Their variety of fun ranges from throwing rocks at passing automobiles to turning a stream of water upon anyone who makes an effort to make thorn be have. ; . City officials are planning - to take action against the parents In an effort to. calm the youthful out bursts. ' JjOA V APPROVED. V SPOKANE. Wash.. Oct. 24. A loan of $1,600,000 to the Idaho Wheat Growers association has been approved by Eugene Meyer, Jr., general manager of the war finance corporation, it was an- nounced here tonight. yet unknown, -'V'-