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it-iJia,.i,i,.,'i?ii-VM, Ulllr Tl&'Xfr. . 3ftitti fr tBfaKM. .mama hA ffeif 0S&m tififsri&MP 4 i ei I to 5 y- SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1922 PRICE: FIVE CENTS LODGE WOULD 1 T WILSON PLANS KLUXER WITH DYNAMITE IS PUT IN JAIL Little Klansmen Found Lug ging 2 Suitcases of Ex plosives UnderBond OLCOTT DONS WORKER'S GARB TO INSPECT COAL MINE WHILE VISITING IN THE SOUTH CELEBRATION OF BIRTHDAY S 4 GOVERNORS DON WORKERS' GARB TO INSPECT SOUTHERN MINE. Ex-president 66 Years Old To day Delegation to Visit Washington Home Site State TWO SECTIONS 12 Pages NEAR ASTERN ; CHANGE PUN MOB ii :rw? rariHfew 'Sir i: .v . "4 V t H i vl.. .- 4' 4 i P.- A ii' '.: 1 L t ' . Massachusetts Senator to Strike Debts, . Immigra nun anu nciai cuiuns iruin ! : Amendment. ; I WNARY WILL FAVOR : PRESENT PROPOSAL i ! Return; of American Troops tr' on Rhine Urged John : son New Opposer WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. (By the' Associated Press.) The first ' official ' disclosure that President Harding Is negotiating toward an International conference for .the consideration of European econ omic problems was made by Sen ator Lodge of Massachusetts,, the Republican floor leader, during opening debate In the senate to day on the proposal of Senator Borah, Republican of Idaho, for the president to call an interna- . tlonal conference to discuss eco nomic' conditions and dlsarma- i ment, --" '' - . t Would Limit Conference t In opposing the Borah proposal, which Is in the form of an am endment to the ;lna val appropri ation bill. Senator Lodge urged that the sresldent be not emb&r- i rassed "in the efforts which ' He Is now making as a matter of fact." ' Senator Lodge, in the course of ; ' an hour's address against the . , Borah' amendment as presented, , : , aid not oppose the calling of an economic conference bat said it , should" be carefully and strictly ; ' defined with tfuch questions ; as reparations, allied debts and im -migration " specif leally, excluded (. from consideration. v ; . v ; Officials 8Uent' r -t The state danartment. whth has : consistently maintained sil- ,i :' ence as to any efforts the admin ,. fstration might be making in ref. '! erehce to improving economic and V business conditions' in Europe, de i .; cllned to add anything to the . v statement of ' Senator Lodge but it wag learned that President Har- a ding was considering most eeri- v ousiy transmitting a letter to the ' renate giving information of his ;? negotlationa and at the same time : . deploring any intervention from congress which might operate to ninaer his efforts. ''-: ' Jt is andemood that through . A "' 1 - .'at ' r ine siaie -aepartment" the" presl , .tT. dent ha been "sonndine out" mt ral powers regarding the desir ability of holdinr an economic it, conference. Whether the propos- eU conierence would be called by ; or held in the United States, or waemer this nation would be t participant , were, howerer, lm4 portent details not disclosed, Wsruiwion Lonir ' The Borah amendment was dis cussed for four hdnra In thm n Pte. Senator tLod Republican of Wisconsin, speak ing in opposition, andr' Senators Borah and Williams, Democrat of Mississippi, in behalf bf the pro posal. , No action, was , taken on the question and further debate went orer until tomorrow.- ; The opening debate on the am endment developed the full force of admnUtratlon disapproval for it as drafted, and also bi-partisan . support and opposition. Admin t lstration leaders mapped out' i l roar ram tt Aatcn fiA m m An A on a parliamentary point of oder ii poBsioie. and on a direct vote ir the parliamentary point should Xail. , Republican leaders said they nid not believe a decision on . the Point of order, which could 'e overturned t by a T maiorltv -rote Would be appealed,- and declared positively after a canvass that there were enough votes assured to dereat Senator Borah's pending motion to make his amendment in order by suspension of the rules by a two-third vote. - -A : Lode Lead Fleht The Borah amendment was dis- (Continued on page 4) THE WEATHER 4 OREGON: Thursday rain. LOCAL WEATHER " r (Wednesday) Maximum temperature, 55. Minimum temperature, 49. Rlverif 12 ! feet. aboVe' normal level. Stationary. Rainfall, .78 inch. , Atmosphere, cloudy. Wnd, south. "N- WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. Woodrow Wilson is expected to spend the greater part of his 66th birthday tomorrow quietly in his street home, though It is under stood he probably will receive a delegation during the afternoon. The -Woodrow Wilson founda tion, it was announced tonight, will send a delegation to the resi dence of the former president at three o'clock to . extend birthday greetings and inform him of pro gress in its effort to raise a $1,000,000 fund to advance Ideas enunciated by him while presid ent. The delegation will be head ed by Hamilton Holt of New York, executive director of the founda tion, and Mrs. Kate Trenholm Abr'ams, vice-chairman of the dis trict of Columbia branch of the organization. Poincare Would Take Ger man Timber ' Lands as Guarantee of Payments PARIS, Dec.27. (By The Associated Press.) Premier Poincare plans to follow up the reparations commfesion's decision declaring Germany In default o her wood deliveries, by present ing to the Allied premiers meet ing here next week a plan for taking over the German s:ta forests as a guarantee. It the other premiers T"l not; ar .-c tr this step it Is uit'orstood rrnne Is prepared to ct alone. i ; Poincare Plans Coup It now is fearHUthat the Brit ish and French attitudes will be as far apart when the pre- mlHrt TnpnnTPnft oa t Tl p v ' were when the recent London confer ence adjourned and the latest re parations developments Is taken to support this view. Sir John Bradbury went to London today to confer with Prime Minister Bonar Law and other members of the government on the effect of the reparations commission's action and on the question of the general British policy toward the premier's meeting. :,, France's' Tlctory jn the repara tions commission vote is ascribed to the personal efforts of Pre mier Poincare, who Is said to have carefully planned the coup. The action was so quietty adn swiftly executed that none of the American unofficial observers Lad the opportunity of being present. STILL AT OUTS Coastal , Republic Angered at Reply Received to Conference Invite SANTIAGO. Chile, Dec. S7. The sentiment . of the Chilean eovernment in favor of re-es tablishing diplomatic relations with Perue has undergone a de cided chanze. It is understood in view of Peru's attitude to ward the Chilean invitation to the forthcoming pan-American coneress. It was Chile s intention to re sume relations as soon as the ratification of, the Ancon treaty protocol, arranged at Washing ton, were exchangee. Ferns a. tnti(uiaor th a mistreatment of Peruvians in Chile, injected in to her reply to Chile's invitation have brought a revulson of feel-Ine-and It now seems to be felt that relations cna hardly be re established until the arbitrators make their award In the dispute over the provinces of Tacna and Arica. In view of the present sit- naflfin it is thouRht unlikely th- Peru will be represented in the Pan-American meeting. AUTQ BOMB-WRECKED SEATTLE. Dec. 27. he auto mobile of John Danz, who ope ntM several Seattle motion pic ture houses, t was wrecked by a bomb thai was thrown into n while it; was standing empty In f -ont of his : home this evening. Mr. Danz attributed the explosian to labor" controversies he has i . ... ; t fSsSi CHILI ID hid recently. . ; . . Day of Reckoning Draws Close Turks and Allied Powers Are Still Far From Harmony. BRITAIN' WILL NOT PART WITH MOSUL Further Meetings of Com missions Held Useless No Progress Made LAUSANNE, Dec. 27. (By the Associated Press.) Great uneasi ner is spreading throughout Near East conference circles as the time approaches when there must be a final reckoning on all im portant questions which have been passed by with only partial agreement or no agreement vit alt between the Turks and the allied powers. Little Progress Made 'Lord Carson's positive an nouncement today that Great Britain would not cede Mosul to Turkey and did not propose to diacu?s the' question further, was the forerunner of less positive statements from the other 'dele gations on various questions, which indicated that the confer ence was reaching a climax and that preparations were under way for a final showing of strength. The sub-commissions are mak ing little progress. Rlza Nur Bey was less truculent today in the sub-commission on minorities but the Christmas rest apparently did not improve the temper of the Turks materially, and the allied delegations are clearly - becoming less tractable in preparation for a final and somplete statement of the maximum '.they will yield. 9 Abdul traders Watched The indications are that the final roundup will come early next week and the contending parties are so far apart on capitulations. control of the straits and the rights of minorities that the outr come is uncertain. It is. clear that further meetings of the commis sions and sub-commissions will be of little use. Seemingly everyone is talked out. Kurds', Arabs, Afsyro-Chald- eans,, Armenians, Greeks, Turks, Bulgarians and Russians are now watching with tense interest as the allied leaders meet daily in private conferences whloh are reaiiy deciding what the mar of Asia-Minor shall be. Lord Cur son. Marquis di Carroni and M. Barrere had a long discussion to day on capitulations, which after Mosul oil, probably is the most stubborn question for settlement. Capitulations Discussed The three leaders made no an nouncement a to what decision had been reached. The American ambassador. Richard Washburn Child, and , the allied delegates met this evening and discussed capitulations and the general situation of the con ference. It was decided that the capitulations commission should meet tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock In an effort to reach some agreement with the Turks on the question of consular courts and other privileges of foreign resi dents in Turkey. E. OF Star Confident She Will See Footlights Again Condi tion is Unchanged PARIS. Dee. 27. (By The Associated Press.) Medical men atending Madame Sarah Bern hardt said this afternoon there had been no improvement In her condition since morning but neither4 had there been a hcange for the worse. The actress her self was optimistic as ever. r'Tell them in America." she said, "tell all my friends, how much I appreciate their kind in terest. I shall get well again, never fear." This" message was snt ont through Madame Normand. . the directress of Bernhardt's house hold, as the doctors forbade their patient from receiving aay Visitors.. , - .... . m BERNHARDT II RECOVERY SOUTH BEND, Ind.. Dec. 27. Wesley Hollyoke, 21 years old; who admitted to policet that he was a member of the Ku KIux Klan. is, being held here tonight following his arrest yesterday on a charge of illegally transporting explosives. Hollyoke, when ar rested was In possession of two suitcases filled with dynamite, j He gald he had assisted at the 1 ceremony on Christmas eve south j of here, when a blazing cross was j erected. He stated the dynamite, which he obtained in Culver, Ind., was used to attract attention , to the ceremony. He is bein held under high bond. McKeon Has Many Friends Who Will Oppose Extra dition Proceedings BALTIMORE, Dec. 27. Hear ing on the writ of habeas corpus obtained today by counsel for Dr. McKeOn was arrested here yester day on a charge of murder, by re quest of Governor John M. Par ker of Louisiana,' as an outgrowth of the Morehouse parish murder and kidnaping cases. The writ was obtained in an effort to ob tain ball for the doctor prior to his fight againSt extradition. Friends Will Support j Requisition papers issued by Governor Parker ' on Governor Albert Ritchie of this state for the return to Louisiana of Dr. McKeon are not expected to reach here for two or three days. GoV. ernor Ritchie today said he would await receipt of the papers, then hear both sides of the case and render an impartial decision. Meanwhile friends of Dr. Mc Keon are coming1 to his assist ance. Telegrams were received today from many persons pledg ing their moral and financial sup port. Among them was one from two physicians signing them selves as fellows of the American College of Surgeons, composed of many leading men in the medical profession. Another telegram from the Central Savings and Trust company or Mer Rouge, of fered to deposit any amount of money in a local bank in an effort to obtain release of Dr. McKeon. Not Klansman In an Interview with news papermen prior to his arraign ment in police court this morn ing, ur. McKeon stated he was unable to throw any light on the deaths of Thomas Richards and Watt DanlVls, whose mutilated tbodies were found several days ago in Lake LaFourchc, near Mer Rouge. "At one time," Dr. McKeon said, "I was willing to go back and tell them all that I could about conditions at Mer Rouge, but now I will fight the requd tion to the last ditch." While angered at his arrest. Dr. McKeon is inclined to treat the matter lightly. He said ha could account for every hour prior to the kidnaping of the murdered men and every minute since their mysterious disappear ance. When asked how he could account for all the time so accur ately since August, when the men disappeared. Dr. McKeon retort ed: "When the time comes I will show you." Dr. McKeon reiterated he was not a member of the Ku KIux Klan. Neither had he been asked to join the organization, ho said- Bezdek Invites Oregon Mentor to Attend Game EUGENE, Ore.. Dec. 27. Shy Huntington, head coach of the University of Oregon football team who was a member of the Oregon team when Hugo Bezdek, now coach of Penn State, was Oregon's coach, will leave tomorrow for Pasadena to witness the game be tween his former mentor's team and University of Southern Cali fornia. "Shy" and Mrs. Hunting ton, who accompanies him, have been invited by Bezdek to be his guests while at Pasadena. UNDERTAKER DIES ? OMAHA. Neb., Dec. 27. Henry M. Burkett, 72. Omaha undertak er and pioneer resident, died here this noon. He was vice president of the National Funeral Directors' association. -He came to' Omoha from Creston, la., in 1883. 1 (I :'-'frJm I " U; ..V lyHl t ".e-rT' ,rrcli From left to right Governor S. R. McKelvie of Nebraska, Gov ernor IX W. Davis of Idaho and Mrs. Thomas E. Campbell, wife of the governor of Arizona, who found time from the 14th annual governors' conference at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., for a lit tle diversion. BIG ILL Fit INJURES ii? 36 Hurt in Explosion and Conflagration, Loss Esti mated Near $150,000 KANSAS CITY, ,Mo., Dec. 27 More than 30 men are injured and burned, some perhapa fatally as the result of a dust explosion and fire at the mill of the Schrel ber Flour and Cereal company here this arternoon. The plant was destroyed with an estimated loss of from $125,000 to $150. 000. Twenty-six persons were given emergency treatment at the gene ral hospital and 13 of them were transferred to private hospital? (or further treatment. Several others wero treated at police hep.dQuarters. No one is known to have per ished in the fire. . C. T. Schrieber. manager o the mill, said late today all employes had been accounted for. The 50 or 60 men working in the mill virtually werj trapped, some of them injured by the con cussion. Then fire appeared to break out throughout the build ing. Men with burns and other injuries staggered out and were rushed to hospitals for medical treatment. 0 M OF BAFFLES POLICE Best Clue Reached is That Child Was Accidentally Shot by Friend NEW YORK. nx 27.--More flan 36 hours after they bepaM their investigation the poliro to night confessed themselves bat flfd in their search for a so lu'ion of circumstances surround uu; the death of Theresa Mc Carty. 10-year-old school air':, Lose body with a 2.2-calibn; bullet through the heart, was f-innd in a toy littered room of her Brooklyn home yester day. The investigation after the pol.'ce had laboriously dissipated a half dozen nebulous clews. sifted down to two theories. The first, the one considered most credible by the police, was that the child was accidentally sJiot by a playmate who had been given a gun of small cali bre - as - a Christmas . presents DEATH Xfy&J'iv icnnwcRQ cpt- t - ' - v- I II I I IHIII I I . I z y UIIUI1UIIU ULI f ' ' in Si ' Cct. Ben W. Olcott of Oregon. Many Men Apply for Help Daily at Local Headquarters Boys who have been through fire and all the heartaches that go with war are constantly appeal ing to the Salvation Army for help and are willing to do anything. Work seems to be the thing most needed and among some of the applicants who have recently ap plied was one boy who had three ound scars he received while on the firing line in the Great war. He told Captain Holbrook that he "had not had a hot meal in four days," and whf-n he told it it sounded to Captain Holbrook Just !jke the old days in France, when hot meals were" not easily had during -tho heavy engagements. This boy was hastening on to reach his home in time to meet a dying mother before she breath ed her last. Captain Louise li. Holbrook says that she will gladly cook up a kettle of stew so that those who are wet and tired tan have something hot in their stomachs before they have to move on if they cannot find work. Seven or eight persons a day have applied for help during the last few weeks and unless there are phoned in the many little jobs that a man can do many of these young men will have to go on their way broke and discouraged. Captain Holbrook says that it is his desire to give these fellows every chance that he can as there are so many of them that are so willing and want to do better. He says it is not his desire to drive them into things that men would not do under ordinary cir cumstances, and a hot meal and a little help given at the right time will, prevent -many a crime. . SERVICE MEN III WANT. SAfS ARMY ; UMIU1M Committee of Logan Men Named to Get Deeper Into Organization What looks like the one big thing in all the history of the lo ganberry business Is in process of settlemert this week in the or ganization of growers to establish living prices for their product. The delegate meeting, called in Salem yesterday, has1 made the big start, and it remains only for the working committee to lay out the definite plan for action. Practically every loganberry- growing district in Oregon which compripes most of the lo ganberry territory of the world- was represented in the meeting. Some of the cooperative and oth erwise organized districts and as sociations were represented, al though the meeting was primarily for the unorganized grower. The organized co-ops are all ready to join in any movement that will es tablish and stabilize living prices. Oregon (irowera Pledged ,M. J. Newhouse, superintendent of the prune department of the Oregon Growers, addressed the meeting on the Oregon Growers' attitude. He pledged the whole hearted support for every move that will put the loganberry In dustry on its feet. "We must have more money for our logans to save the industry.' he said. Frank Gibson, of the Produc ers' Canning & Packing company of Salem, commended the move to establish a better price through agreement of the growers. As a grower of prominence for years past, he was able to say that 4 ceht berries are an impossibility (Continued on page 8) YOUNG WEIfl GETS LIBERTY Father and Helen Leary Detained on Minor Charge Case is Dismissed PORTLAND. Dec. 27. As a re sult of revelations made today by Helen Leary, in which she brand ed as false tier earlier story of the murder of a 15-year-old girl by Cash Weir and the subsequent disposal of the body in the river by the old man and his son Earl, murder charges' against the two were dismissed in police court on motion of John M. Mowry, deputy district attorney. Young Weir was given his liberty but the fath er and the women were held on a minor charge. Scientists State that Spirit of Despondency, Unless Checked, Will Lead to Race Decline. j BRYAN AND KLUXERS BLAMED FOR UNREST New Discoveries Held Vital if Progress Is to Con tinue Longer CAMBRIDGE. Mass.; Dec. 27; The maintenance of the: energy cf the race la the real task ot pur civilization. Dr.; Thomas S. Baker, secretary auc acting pres ident of the Carnegie Institute ot -Technology, Pittsburgh, i. said la an address today at a sectional ; meeting ot the American Associa tion for the Advancement ot Science. World Charmed ' ts degeneration Inevltabler" he r.sked. "It would be a bold prophet who would say no to tlifa question . But to never it la. the affirmative means the acceptance of a form' of fatal ism that will ultimately . bring with It a decllno in human cou fidence and effort. "The world now shows aigna of alarm as it contemplates its many disorders. , TVo are forced to notice an Increase in a spirit ot morbid Introspection which it continued may lead to the de spondency which is a character istic of the people whose-culture a 'a'li. tr ..... a M ' n XVw Idea Xeeekry 'k "The Idea of progtesa has' ieen aimost an axlota ' in . th popular thinking for nearly a century, but. now in lit , stead, the conception of Inev, table de generation makes Itself beard from time to time. Oar feel ings revolt at this dotperatc view it th future. Ort'mlum l an essential, in the conservation " oi our present stock of human en ergy. Inertia will menake tht race If we lose confidence In th(t future. i A K "Than no- f v enly be preserved through new ideas, new discoveries and V.X application of these discoveries. Msnitind wjll dsgenerate inlcss thero Is a continuous flow'', 6t new ideas from the brains - ot great thinkers to fortlliio sni inspire) the actions and the. lives of the unthinking' masses. Education Vital "We often mistake restlessness for energy. We may be making a great display of i energy' on cubcriTiBea iu&i nave no per nranent value. The rapid in crease ot Interest In sports and recreation Is a natural collorary to the heightened feverishnesa ot our age. It we believe -that the convocation of, man's "energy -de pends on high thinking.", wo suould attach more v Importance to repose and contemplation thu we do at present. "Popular education can .' In crease the sum total of human energy by bringing to the sur face powers that otherwise would have remained latent. It can liberate the mini of superior en dowments. Bryan and Klan Hit "At the present time we ob serve the Increasing power of the mase.. We can Imagine that the power of the masses of un thinking people might be in creased that they might dictate more completely the path ': which thinkers .must rollow In order to lecure a hearing. Should this be the case, there would result a blocking ' of progress not dis similar to the circuits that . was. put upon the original minds- ot the middle ages. ' . "I cannot refrain from men tioning as recent samples of me dievalism the fight of Bryan to enlist the unthinking people in his struggle to stlflo freedom of thought In tbe field of science. and efforts of the Ku KIux Klan to i educe, the country to a state of mob rule. Salesman Theory Exploded "We have no assurance that our civilization will be perma nent. But so loi'g as we believe that oiir culture and our ideals of living ought to be conserved, our chief means of testing -vour success. In maintaining them will be the amount of energy $ and ebircciaiiy luiciirvtuai energy that Is being produced." At a business session the en tomological society elected as its president Professor, T.. D , A. Cockerell of tha University . of - . (Con tinned on page 8) . -