9 III FIRST SECTION Page I to 5 TWO SECTIONS 12 Fazes ' SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY -MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1922 - V "PRICE: -FIVE CENTS uv UUunJ iMFyia'i 1 College Witness m " Riot Case Tells of Whole- ' sale MUrder Weah Barbed Wire Fence. f WHITE FLAG RAISED ' - "BY NON-UNION! ME. , Crippled Superintendent is First Led Away and Shot Others Are Hunted MARION, iuv Dec.7 i9-(By the Associated Press.) The flret survivor to take the. witness stand Robert Officer, a graduate of the . University of Pennsylvania, testi fied today at the trial ot five men charged with murder in connec tion with, the killing of 20 non union men fa the Ilerrln riot. - , Attack Related Officer, a bookkeeper at . the uri ab , sua strip, mine where., the. trouble " waned, told ot the attack on the nMncrtw thn aft blriinn nf Til no 9(1. I arhca.k:thre..natoniiiiaer,,weriaAv- their first dav. thev firot in snot ana aiuea. ; v . . DOia J nicer oa vuiuutu - o Hunter, ot the adjutant general's ffice la Springfield; another wit ness, said that - there ; 'irere no agreements . between' the ' non onion workers and - the local , of ficials ot the UniUd.Ulne.Work era for truce and a safe conduct of the' , besieged -workers out of the district ' j " Officer sald,tfcat Cotonel.Hunt- er bad talked tentnrove " the telephohe and said fiat W. J. eLtt ter. the owner, bad authorized me surrender of the ii3perty- v 1 , mite FU lUlaed ; Just before nightfall, the wit ness testified, those In the mine raised a white flag but the snip- lag from surroundings hills con tinued all night and the flag was ; ldwered at daybreak when the non union men took refuge In some 1 i fmlrhl ears; ' Then the fierceness ot .the attick increased and the l A besieged decided' to surrender. riislnr a white flag, he said f After being assured of their 1 f' safety, according" toUhe' witness, "i the 48 non-union men were led n from the mihV C. K. McDbwelT, ' the superintendent, limping pain fully along on his, wooden, leg. The crowd consiantljr, ..increased ahd Officer quoted one of its lead : era whom he could identify ; snouting: r.-'f :tc .w vrfj-- 1 - Would "GItw cnanc' "They're nothing but ' strike breakers and we - ought - to kill them all." '':-.rUi About a mile from the mine the ; witness said.f McDoWell .was led l' away by two men. V Other wit- nesses bave testified that the , crippled superintendent was slain at this spot. (Then the crowd marched about : two miles further ea were it lined the remaining 47 prisoners up before a barbed wire fence in front 'of a, elnmn of woods'. Off ! cer -aaid.'- " ''v ? i "We're going to gire jrou ' chance for your lives," be quoted one of the leaders a fnoutlng, , , and , thea the tiring begin. H1 like Waive Officer said be dropped at1 the ' first discharge and , rolled under the fence, fleeing while the crowd C was hunting down those who had escaned the rain of lead. He de- ' scribed the crowd eia 'howling if like olTee." but lhl wai atrlck- a from the record on an objec tion by the defense, Only those who. hive guns can enter the woods," the Witness sua he heard one of tne mob leaden cry. It was at the barbed wire that other witnesses have testi- find ii bodies were found. Four 'V (Continued on page 6) THE WEATHER OREGON Wednesday, fair except rain In ; northwest por tion. " ; . '-' :;,'f L- ;,?' - LOCAL WEATHER -:. (Tuesday) -: ; Maximum temperature, 63. Minimum temperature, 41. iRirer. 1.5 feet- above normal level; rising. ' Rainfall, .0- Inch; Atmosphere, cloudy. '( Wind, south, '" WILLAMETTE'S DRIVE FOR FUNIS 100,000 Counsellor Hancher said ters since last midnight "Not ance, we have to get and pledged is reported, I am perfectly confidents of two things:- First, that the constituency at large, incldding Portland. 'Will respond with our expectations; second-that afresh Wednesday afternoon paper is necessary to cover all the home city. He further said, that "with Portland pledging a total of $350,000, as it will, including the Collins gift, it is un conceivable that Salem will When the Willamette endowment subscription totals got up to $1,151,177 fast night, the deeo sizh of relief. Less than $100,000 yet to go! Only Wtip on abort dav to do it in. - Less than $100,000 to raise. It looks easy, ror so spien a state and citv utilitv aa Willamette has been. With the rest of the million and a quarter already pledged, and reaay to be brought to Salem to work forever for the people of the community and for the people to be had merely for the asking. ' . .. . wwi. thev're flskinir: and The "200 club" made up of Salem women who expect to get . . - - 4- t L -A- VETl zyu more suhj night lor $loUU. ineir report I"" n lass .mnnrin Thpv organized Monday, ana oruiues- fA maVp it all nn todav. Moslem Fear of Outside Ag gression Threatens, Near Eastern Conference LAUSANNE, Dec. 13.-, (By the Associated Press) Turkish fears Of submarines, Turkish fears of Bwiftly flying military airplanes laden with bombs and, generally, Turkish fears of aggressions from without that will put Constantin ople In danger have tonight placed the whole lausanne conference in Jeopardy. . The United States is silent on the situation but the allied lead ers say tonight that they have ut tered their last word on the ques- ion of liberty of the straits. To morrow the Turks must say yes or no to the allied project. Few Already Gone The British experts. Admiral Keyes and General Burdett Stuart, already have left for England, be lieving their work to have been completed, and the French experts are "preparing to depart tomorrow night at the conclusion of the "last session" for discussion of the straits. Whether a rupture will come on the straits problems de pends chiefly on whether the en tente diplomats and their experts pti remove the ii Turkish : fears. This they are trying to do tonight. Turks Suspicion . : The diplomats are endeavoring to convince the Angora statesman that the straits project is essen tially framed to meet conditions in times of peace and that tne ai- ( Continued on page 6) IS L rae 0f QJaverS of ClTCUS pernor tn Ro PlaH n Hands of Jury Soon MOUNT HOLLY, N. J., Dec. 19. The fate, or Mrs. Doris Brunen and, her brother, Harry C Mohr, charged with the slaying of John T. Brunen, circus owner. Is ex pected to be In the hands of the Jury tomorrow. The defense has five more wit nesses to testify and the prosecu tion will then proceed with tho rebuttal, ' v - Brunen was shot on March 10, while reading a newspaper at the window ot his home In Riverside, N. J. v Charles . M. Powell, ' con fessed slayer, testified that he had killed the showman at the Instiga TURKS PflOi HOPE DOS - '.- t ' v ! w J A c . IB PR CR 1 tion of Mrs. Brunen and Mohr. . IS STILL FROM GOAL at the Willamette headquar withstanding: the heavy bal notwithstanding everything a (irand total fully equal to Salem will rally anew and and respond with whatever reasonable expectations from fall short." , campaign committee breathed but the coal that near! of the state ana worm, u ougni srettine at reasi pan oi v maaI tilfma1 t TlTWfTl MPQ IjIXl - ZrZZZJ their firat $1500. They hope Very little report came in yes terday from outside of Salem ex cept what came from Portland.- l Frfend Is Ananymous v The Salem' subscriptions be tween Monday and Tuesday noon amounted 'to - f 8,38S,lrat,'part of thift was .already counted, in the report issued Monday night ,.at midnight. One gratifying an nouncement was made that an anonymous frfend In-Salem had decided Monday night to make np the last 110,000 on top of his original subscription, to put Sa lem and the university to the! good. This will be available, if the others bring the. fund up so that the $10,000 will complete the fund. Mrs. Gertrude 3. M. Page was the record-making cap tain in yesterday's reports with pledges of $2,185. Senator McXary Hclp Announcement was made it yesterday's luncheon of a gratify ing subscription from Senator Mc Nary, now in Washington. An other report was made ot a Wil lamette alumnae, a widow, and ill down in California, who sent $10 which she said she didn't dare to spare, but she- must help jjr. the school that helped her Henry E. Morris, in reporting the amount,: told; that much of her story. It made a profound im pression. ,-It isn't over,", said Dr. J. W. Hancher, representing the Metho dist board of education. "We never thought we'd get ahead and have time to loaf on the-job. As it is, we're not yet near up. The money, will have to come in to day far faster than ever before If we save the university." It waa announced yesterday that every man in the Bishop store had gotten in on the honor roil, mak ing the whole big store 109 per cent for Willamette. This caused a hearty cheer. y- . Chairman Urges Haste ; There was still $38,408 to raise to complete the Salem quota, at the noon report Tuesday. Chair man John McXary urged the city to stand by its own good name and raise the last dollar as a moral duty. "Salem never did fall to do the right thing-in a big. moral ques tion," -be said. . The chairman, commended es pecially the work of Dr. Morris in the campaign, saying that the city should . be congratulated on having so worthy a citizen. He poke of Willamette a ; having furnished more big men for Ore gon than any other institution in the history of the state. President Doney expressed the heartfelt thanks of Willamette for the great work done by the Ro tary, Kiwanis and Lions clubs, and the Realtors, who have been Joining in with the endowment campaign so heartily. .Lockley Boost University ' Fred Lockley ot Portland spoke briefly, to tray, that Willamette is the one institution that made Sa lem the, state capital, and that sets Salem up above other cities of like size and mere business Im portance. v Joe Nee. Willamette student (Continued on page i) AUTO SPEEDER GETS SUMMONS FROM TtiE AIR Aeroplane Traffic Cop Ar rests Car Driver Who Thinks Himself Immune SAN JOSE, Cal., Dec. 19. Bad luck literally ratned on Dominic Bifiore today when a "John Doe" summons charging him with speeding fell in front of his auto mobile -on a highway near here. Looking up he saw an airplane circling about. It developed later that Robert Byers. traffic officer, was "taking the air" with an aviator friend. Byers saw Bifi ore on the highway far below him jroing at a comfortable clip. Pull ing a summons' from his pocket.1 Byers had the airplane swoop down and dropped the paper in front of the automobil?. Biffore stopped and picked it up: ROBBERS II COPPER IS BOLD Holdup of Portland Assay Office Nets Thieves $50.60 Metal Fools Them PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 19. Two -men tonight learned that all is not gold that glitters' when they held up the Montana Assay office here, robbed the manager, H- B. Williams of $50 and .carried off in money belts which they wore, several pounds of gleaming copper, under the Impression that it was gold. The metal was heaped in nug gets fresh from the purtryJng oC the blast furnace" in box upon ie assay-office counter. Manager Williams reported to the police that the men, armed wftfc revolvers entered shortly be tare closing time and ordered him' to hold up bis -bands. .They .took $50 from him, he said, and then proceeded . to fill their money belts with the copper. Williams said the copper was worth ap proximately 60 cents. . Following the holdup the rob bers left the assay, office and disappeared in the crowds, mi be PISSES BEET) LNewspaperman . Yields to Long illness runerai At Independence , Theodore M. (Ted) Irvine, 30 years old, newspaperman, died at the Deaconess hospital yesterday after an Illness of many weeks. Mr. Irvine' bad been employed as reporter and copy desk man on the Spokane Chronicle, Portland Oregonlaa, Oregon Journal, Tele gram, Salem Statesman and else where. - Six months ago, while living in Portland, be came to Salem and ' accepted employment on The Statesman. He was soon compelled to take to his bed, how ever, and though he returned to Ms work at times, was unable to continue because of his illness which .at first v waa not considered serious, v In addition to his news- Da ner work he had done some rltfng for-magazines and bad ambitions-for more extensive work at fiction writing. As a news paper -writer , and desk man ne was highly competent. During the World war he was a musician tn the In fan try service. ,'Mr." Irvine is survived, by his widow, Mrs. Sylvia Irvine; his mother,.' Mrs. Elia Hart.of Inde pendence,- and a brother, Roy C Irvine, -publisher of a newspaper at La- Crosse, Wash . The funeral service will beheld In the Presbyterian church at In dependence Thursday at 10 o'clock a. m, and ' Interment will be ia the L O.' O. F. ' cemetery at Inde pendence. TANKER ANCHORS PORLAND. Or.. Dec. 19. The . tanker Richmond, of the Standard Oil: company, due here early today "was anchored in the Columbia river near Walker's island, according to ; reports re ceived here tonight - The eteamer wa delayed be cause of large masses of floating ic9-ln-therlTer IMPEACHMENT Hi EN) Committee in Absence of Keller Proceeding With Hearing on Its Own in itiative 0HNS0N CLAIMS WAS DRAGGED INTO AFFAIR IVoodruff Changes Opinions When 6 of 8 Cases Are Found Prosecuted WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. Pro ceedings before the house Judi ciary committee with the impeach. ment charges brought against At torney General Daugherty by Rep-1 resentative Keller, Republican. Minnesota, appeared today to be nearing an end. In fact, it was indicated that the scope of future hearings would depend to a large measure upon the nature of In formation to be laid before the committee by Representative Woodruff, Republican, Michigan, after his examination of docu ment at the department of Jus tice. - Keller Withdraws After a brief public discuss to day at Which additional evid ence was received, the committee decided in executive meeting to hear Mr. Woodruff tomorrow. Mr. Kellei" having withdrawn from the prosecution of his charge the committee is proceed ing with the hearing on its own initiative,' had before it today Mr. Woodruff and Representative Johnson, Republican, South Dak- eta. Both emphasized that thev had had ne part in the drafting ot the Keller charges and that they were appearing solely tn response to ah Invitation from-Chairman Volstead. . - ? . . , War Department Blamed ! Declaring he Jad beehJ Vdrag- ged ttejfctiqs, nepresen tative Johnson sad the charges he bad made in the. house relating to alleged; war, frauds had been di rected at the war department. It the committee. wanted to go into these charges he waa preparing to give the names of. witnesses to support them., he continued. add ing that there were officers In? the department who "should be court- martialed instead of promoted." 6 of 8 Cases Tried Representative Woodruff .also told the coram ft tee that since, he made his charges in the house last April of a failure by Mr. Daugher- ty to prosecute war fraud cases, suits had been brought in Six( of the eight or nine instances he had cited and that necessarily this had changed, toe situation materially Ha added that it Jwas not his pur pose to embarrass tfie attorney (Continued orj page 2) EDI TO RIME . If the Willamette endowment campaign should-fajl to day ; "... . - And it might fail ; it WILL fail, if the money isn't put up. It isn't George's duty to pay this money; that is it t his any more than it is yours. Georera mv snffo. if isn the effort fails, but so will YOU. Willamette brought Salem into beinir. Willkmptt. h been the.city'3 greatest asset to a thinking world. Willam ette brought, to Salem the state capital, with all that such distinction mieans. Eola and Salem were once rivals for the capital, and Salem won; Eola lost and look at Eola today! He was a profound philosopher who said, "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless 4 child!" t The sin of ingratitude, of forgetfulnes3, of slackensm, of taking benefits and neglecting or refusing4o pay the honest price this is the great and Unpardonable sin. i Hundreds of splendid people have been paying their debt to the pioneers who founded Willamette and in so dding founded and glorified Salem. This appeal is not for them. But the Willamette campaign might fail, if those who haven't yet paid their debt, do not come through today. Estimates may vary a3 to the exact financial value of (the University to Salem, but everybody will agree that it is a valuable business and social asset. It' has been selling; its tuition for less than cost; the state, the city has reaped the reward, and. a few loyal friends have paidthe tuition deficit and given the state the splendid service, v It would be a fine thing to think back over these 80 years of service, and come in out of the fog, today; with a good-will offering and a payment on this almost century-old account. r - ; If the money isn't in tonight, the campaign fails, and it is all void. Salem will lose the $1,150,000 already pledged, most of which is from outside the city. ,y "FIREWATER" SO HOT THAT IT EXPLODES Dynamite tiootleg Sends 1 Of ficer to Hospital and Burns Hands of Another NEW YORK. Dec. 19. Patrol man Donohue. custodian of one of the police department storehouses tor seized liquor, today found one specimen in a five-gallon can which had eaten its way. through the container and was trickling out on the floor. Deciding it was too potent. for human consumption, be ' called James Puzio. an assistant and to gether they lifted the can and started to pour its contents into the gutter. , As they tilted It upi the "liquor" exploded and set fire to Puziqrs clothing.. He was burned so badly that he had to go to a hospital for treatment. The pa trolman's hands were severely ourned. L lllffi DEI Czar of Moviedom Wishes Actor -Merry" Christmas" V Reported Better LOS ANGELES. Dec. 19. Will H HaySi coordinating , head of the -motion picture industry, late today visited Wallace Reid, film actor, at the Hollywood san it&tiura where he is suffering from a nervous breakdown and expressed the hope that Reid would.. jBoon . be - fully recovered from his -illness. - , .. Haya met r Mrs. Reid at the sanitarium. ' and -accompanied - her to the bedside of her, husband. He shook hands with Reid . said that he hoped be Was .getting along well , and would soon t. be himself again and added that he had come to wish him . a Merry Christmas before returning to the east, . After" the.' Interview. which lasted.'.b'ui h. . minute'er two,', Mr Hays remarked, that the patient looked much . better than reports bad' )ed him- to believe.' Reid spoke t clearly, he said, his eyes appeared normal and m every v. ay seemed to be in an encour aging mental and , physical con dition. . : ' ' The motion picture head added that his visit had been impelled by a general Interest in any one connected with the film industry as well as his persoUalj friend ship and sympathy for Reid, whom he has met several times in the course of his association with motion picture people., t POSTMASTER INDICTED SEATTLE,' jYVash. ' Dec..lS. Francis M. Glenn, former post master at Willapa, near Ray mond, Wash., was Indicted by a federal grand jury: here; today. He is accused of ; . embeiiling $2,0o5 from the government. WS SEES WORTH $500,000; RUNNER NEW YORK, r Dec., 19.An ocean j goino; bajf;et laden with 4,000 cases of holiday whiskey valued by prohibition officials at half a million dollars, was captured inside Sandy. Hook tonight" by the former snb-chaserj Hanson of the pro hibition navy. . ' The prize was 3aid by Zone Chief Appleby to have been one of a fleet of rum smuggling craft which left Nassau, Ba hamas three weeks ago and has been off the coast outside the three-mile limit awaiting a chance to run the Christmas blockade. ' " '" j'--: ' The rum runner was seized after the government signal station at-Sandy Hook had tipped off the authorities that a suspicious looking erf t, with dim lights, jwas heading in v The vigilance of the prohibition navy - was at a high pitch tonight the belief, being that with Christmas only ta few days away, the liquor fleet halted in its efforts to get its stock into port by motorboats, would. now, take desperate gambles on their rich cargo. No Trace Yet Found of Fedf eral Reserve Robbers : Large Rewards Offered j DENVER, Colo., Dec. 19. -Denver state and federal authorities tonight after a day and a night spent In searching for the mask ed bandits who yesterday mdrnlaf shot and killed Charles (Linton stole a consignment of $200,0oi from' federal reserve guards and then made their escape in one of the. most .daring and sensational daylight holdnps ever staged ia the west, were without tangible clues as to the Identity of the bandits.. Rewards Large Police, spurred by the offering of a reward ot $10,000 for the bandits, dead or alive, by the city and county of Denver and by an additional reward aggregating $5000 offered by the Kansas City Federal Reserve bank, admitted that although they bad many clues that promised possibilities, they were still far from the solu tion of the holdup. Detectives and patrolmen, the entire department haying been on duty during the day, were ' dis patched throughout the city many' times today in investigating the numerous clues that came to the attention of the police. . Continued questioning of eve Witnesses and other persons throughout the day by Chief It. R. Williams and Captain of De tectives Washington Rinker failed to shed any additional light on the identity of the men responsible for the robbery. . TOM CAUFIELD DIES SUODliy Well Known Salem Man Passes Away Body Be Brought Here Thomas E. Canfield, native of Salem and well known to nearfly everyone who has been here for a period of years, dropped dead Monday at San Diego, Cat., ac cording to advice received by friends here. Mr. Ca afield is believed to have been about 50 years old. His home here was at Thirteenth and Cbemeketa . streets. . He la sur vived by one son. Earl Canfield of Los Angeles, who will bring the body to Salem for burial. probably the latter part of this week. Mr. Cau field was a mem ber of the Salem lodge of Elks. He left here for California sev eral years ago. His mother died in Salem about 10 years ago and his father about 35 years ago. SCHOOL CLOSED EUGENE, Or., Dec. 19. - The school in the Fairview district, a populous community west of Eu gene, was closed today on account of an epidemic of diptheria. One death has occurred among the pu pils and every one In the school was exposed. BANDITS STILL ELUDE POLICE S DESPAIR t Appleby declared there were at present) more rum smuggling craft eff the New Jersey and hong Island coasts than' ever before, with cargoes worth millions' bt dollars. ' The skippers are grow ing desperate' at their Inability to Tttn the gauntlet and establish, connection with, their bootlegging partners ashore, he asserted, . 1 1 1 DEFIES Imperial ( Wizard ' Doesn't . Care What Governor. Allen: Thinks-About Order j WASHINGTON, Dec, . It.- Eirt pbaslzing that he, had not sought the conversation he had- yester day with Governor Allen of Kan sas, Dr. Hi W. Etans of Dallas, Tex., imperial wizard of the Ku Klux- Klanj said today be bad "listened to; Mr. Allen'" two or three minutes fn. Which he said he was in hearty sympathy with, the klan principles, but register ed some objection to the klau regalia." . . . '..., Reealla to Buy The klau maskf will &ever..be taken off, be asserted, saying it was cart lot the organization's lodge regalia nd; nerer would be abolished! - -' "xt -V.'VV "I came to Washington on im portant business," said Mr. Evans "and had no intention of wast ing any time twlth Mr.. Allen, it makes little or no difference what Gofernor Allen says, "and what be does means even less. " , The .flew Imperial ; wizard r pt the Invisible - empire held con fab wUh klan otriclals' In bis hotel here today, but so bint of what was consWered was dis closed. HA was: accompanied Washington: by :a group bt blgH officials of the order. i :i Klan lMdnd . ' " -"The spirit, of klan kraft, be said, "has" enwrapped the United States In mantle of love J tor the country which deslgningvaftd ambitious, cannot , break, and in a few brief years the influence of the klan will have so engulfed the thougbt of. the country that we can expect Intelligent legisla tion from the. congress of , tne t nited States which ; will dra down the jwhite flag o? supine inerta from our legislative halls and raise Hn its place the mil-, itant flag of red, white and blue, which means the thing nearest, the heart can." lof every real Ameri- BABY ES SILVERTON, Or.. Dec. 19. (Special tojTbe Statesman.) The 2-year-old baby son of Mr. ad Mrs. Chester Johnson died at the Johnson heme east of SJlvertoa Sunday night. The' Infant had' been ill lot some time. - How Would You Spend: $50.00 for Christinas? Salem's Leadm 1 'Merchanti i ' ! Are gointf. to l Help you i solve this problem," and , carnfthe $50.00; v For the solutlou see page 4 1 . r " Second Section 1 ft KANSAS HEAD .1- -t y 'i m - :-Ly