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rat 15 1 10 -; . ; ' 'V' Residents Organize fori Self Protection Against Bands Of x Unemployed .Work- men i RESTAURANT OWNER IS SHOT AND K LLED -' rr ; n;Urrioi I Many tnyaycu hi uwi uci o Believed to Be Commun ist Members muiaieim, Aprri 20. (By the Associated Press.) The" citizens J of. Mulheim and its vicinity to 1 right are organising for jaelf pro tection, against tie , unemployed bands which were dispersed this nornioie from the center 'of the town and now are assembling: - int the outskirts. 1,1,. i Anned : with axe - handles and other improvised weapons, the ! people of Mulheim. are going bout the; streets ready! to, repel . tny further invasion of the town bf the malcontents. : i 7 The Red Cross . society's repre- r-. tentatiTes say that more than 1 tenons are dead and 70 j wounded !a consequence of three days of ilraob rnle; but this coun Is not much, ail la accurate one, n those who ha'd besieged jthe Rath- tt t os and other pans - of the town nd injured. Most of those among i the unemployed who were injured war beaten Over the head with clabslf fTen of the defenders of it RaLhaus ' received ; hullet wounds. --t -; Kill Restaurant Man la the suburbs wherej the hands criven out of the townf are gath rlngit is reported that they are holding up pedestrians j and plun-j dinr. Somk at the men entered ' a restaurant owned by B man - named Rosenthal and. orderted ; meals and drinks. When the bfll f waa presented a fight wasstarted ;i and Rosenthal was Xilled and his sen shot four times. ! German officials ..assert that , i rome of those engaged in jhe disr : orders are Communists. r aoouc j of the leaders have been ar- lj rested but some of them are stiU t large. The officials ft both ' Molhelm nd places Inj this vicin- " 5ty asaert that they Intend to take measures tomorrow (which - will entirely end. the Communist moye- BERLIN, April 20.f(B the 'Associated Press)f According . to newspaper accounts I published - here of the disorders 'in Mulheim there is little doubt that a regular (Communistic "putsch"' had been arranged in the Mulheim district. Those who participated in the 't oatbreak, the. correspondents Say, f were not . unemployed as they ' claimed to be but criminal ele- i meats under Communist leaders. forced Into military organisations and plentifully supplied with: arms looted from the shops. Silverton Actress Tells ; How She Got Drug Habit SILVERTON, Or., April '20. fftnAtaf n Tha cfntnftman.) Silverton friends are in, receipt ' r m. t m m of copies of the Los Angeles Examiner in which JauniU Han. a, motion picture sar, uuco Silverton girl, tells off how she became the slave of . narcotics Miss Hansen was recently ? ar- rested' and acaultted i in New Tork City on the charge of hav ing dope" i In her possession. Miss Hansen describes how she . fcesan to use narcotics after an Illness to retain her strength to complete a valuable contract; It la said that Miss Hansen la j now cured from the; use of drugs. 'Miss Hansen at one time niade her hnmi at silverton and : still has several relatives ' here. .A- - THE WEATHER OREGON: Saturday, rain east: clearing west portion. LOCAL WEATHER (Friday) Temperature, Max. 52. i Temperature, Mtn. 42. River 3.6, falling. -Rainfall. .11. j Atmosphere, partly cloud. Wind. stuth. j ' ElE CANDIDATES ARE 1 JUSTICE P. L Frazier, Paul Burris, B, S. Martin and P. J. Kuntz Latest to1 Enter No Appointment to be Made Before Monday says Judge Bushey Race Warms up With MudsIingingJ With the entrance of at into the field yesterday for OI ine Pce, that ottice promises to become one ot the most hotly coirtes contested in the annals of fronir the comments which have reached the official ears j of the countyeour, may not be without its mud-slinging.' x Additional contestantswho yesterday made known their desire for. the office to the county court, either by letter! or oral application were : P. 3: Kuntz, Lyle J. Page, B. S. Martin, P. Li Frazier an'dVPaul Burris. Executive 'Holds Lack of In formation Responsible for Heavy Opposition WASHINGTON, April 20. Convinced that the lack ot infor mation is responsible for much of the opposition' to the admln- Istratlon plan forx American mem bership In I the permanent court of international Justice, Presi dent Harding ' is understood to have decided to explain the pro posal carefully; and in detail at the first favorable opportunity. The explanation , contemplated by the chief executive : is .expect ed to take the form ; ot a letter or j an address, more probaniy the latter. ; It is considered un- likely that , the presidential an nouncement will be delayed un.-- til i the -. proposed western speak ing trip to start the middle of June. . "i . - - . ; ' ; Issue Held liirhgwHis Some oi the president's advis ers are f the opinion that it should be made in the near fu ture and- this opinion became more decided after Representa tive-Will: R. Wood of Indiana, chairman of the Republican con gressional committee, during a dinner at the White House to day, asserted that the world court nroposition had arousea more opposition among Republi cans in the. middle west than the league of nations. Mr. Wood on leaving the wnne riouse explained! that the views that he had presented were pure ly his personal ideas but added that scores of f telegrams from Republican leaders and confer ences neia aonog a in Indiana naa convuceu mm that he stood far from-alone Jn believing that the , court issue was freighted with danger to the solidarity of the Republican party -and to its success in tne 1924 campaign. CONFESSED SLAYER Lewis Franks Who Says He It LI r- II. fn'. Miiea rnizi rviamii oan fornia Auto Thief CANADIAN, Texas, April 2 0. Lewis Franks, arrested yesteraay at Miami, Texas, on instructions of California authorities for al leged complicity In the slaying of Frltsi Mann, dancer at San mego, January 14, is one of three'men arrested at Miami, Texas, about . n.nth am in nossession of a Ill U : " D " stolen automobile, bearing a Ba r.riaU Tal.. license tag, tele- nhonic advices from the Robert county I sheriffs office today re vealed. I ITnoa receipt oi tne uescniiuwu r?aUfrrnia. authorities of the man -wanted In . connection with ' the slayer of : the dancer. Sheriff Logan Coffee who made the arrest yesrerday, said he be lieved! fthe evidence, sufficient to I Justify Franks Veturn to Califor : - i . '.-.,-. - PLfl T 0 RETURN i nia. WD FOR OF PEACE least five additional aspirants the coveted position of justice Marion county, and judpjihe I The entrance of B. S. Martin. P. L. Frazier and Paul Burris late yesterday afternoon has thrown an additionally interesting aspect to the already complicated situa tion. August Huckestein and Ronald Glover last nfght declared they were not aspirants to the office. 1 Supporters of L. H. McMahan have been -besieging the county court with recommendations j for his appointment, while Lyle J. Page, deputy district attorney, is apparently also f making a par- ticularly strong bid for the of- f ice. The contest is not without its throwers of mud. Yesterday a Jetter was received by County Judge W. M. Bushey to this ef fect: "- , if appointed,! will do less grafting than any man in Marion county. Whatever you do don't appoint Thus far applicants who have entered the race definitely num bering and check up as follows: Iyle J. Page, B. W. M acy, Donald Miles, Frank Davey, Thomas Brown, Henry J. Millie, B, S.i Mar tin, P. L. Frazier, Paul Burris, P. J. Kuntz and L. H. McMahan. Meanwhile the county court is resting on its oars and taking things easy.:: For, according to Judge Bushey, no selection will be made before neit Monday at the earliest. Circus Is as Clever as Ever, But Attendance So Far- Real Crime Bad weather Interfered serf iously with the crowd at th Chejringo last night. Circuses dread the coming of rainy days, almost as much as do kids hate a ; rain ." for Saturday 1 or picnic day. But they haven't been able to help It. ' j The show itself was as good as ever. The clowns put on their patter, the gymnasts ' and the rubber-jointed people and the tumblers defied the musclebound laws in a thousand ways; the peanutters and the lemonaders and the ballyhoos made jracous music in a bewildering chorus of appeals but still It j rained (continued on page 2) POOR WEfiTHER HITS CnERRH BLAZE WIPES OUT AT MILL! BLUEFIELD. W. !Va April 20.M6re than a thousand persons were rendered homeless and property valued at a million dollars destroyed late today by a fire which complete- ly wiped out the town ot isurKe, Mcuowen county, mnes west of Bluefield. r The fire was checked tonight after it had spread to the adjoining village of . Keystone and had destroyed three build ings therev - More than 100 buildings in Burke were hurned, including 25 cottages, belonging to the Houston Coal and Coke -mm - , J il. A 111 " 1 . company. Two small structures m ine enure vniage aioiie escaped damage. : , , '"'-if - The town was without fire protection and mostiof the buildings were of wooden construction. - - - . fi McDowell county; authorities were making every effort to provide shelter for those homeless. The fire was believed by officials to have started from a defective flue. OLD VIOLIN IS RECEIVED AT SILVERTON Instrument Sent to Dr. S. H. Sauve in Family for Hun,, dred and Ninety Years " SILVERTON. Or., April 20. (Special j to The Statesman) Of considerable interest to con Jioissfiusj is the. violin which Dr. S. II. Raiive of Silverton recently received from his mother who lives in Denver, Colo. The violin eri has been in the ; Sauve family . for 190 years. When members of the family came from Paris to th United States ic 1878 the violin; was brought along. . The lettering i on the violin re-j veals the name of a famous violin maker of the 17th century. Hi name was. Jlovan Paolo Magini; auu ai3 oome was at uresciaji Italy. The violin is dated as com pietea m tne year 1715 The instrument is one of artis4j tic beauty. In place of the scroll, there is the figure of a manV, head, the. face of which is'beard- ed. On the back is a picture done in inlaid wood of an ancient fort ress. It is said that the voilin re- tains is original clarity and purity with an added mellowness and fullness of tones gained by the years. ( For the present the violin' Is kept in the vaults of the Coolidge & McClalne bank of Silverton. Aurora, Mt. Angel and Ger vais to Be Vacant -TestsAre Announced The city of Aurora is about to have a new postmaster, "who will be worth to himself exactly $1900 cash on the federal scales. Mt. Angel also is to require. an $1800 postmaster, and Geryais is to have a public servitor at $1300 in. fed eral money. It's dead easy to get fhese jobs. AH one has to do Ms to be above 5 ' years old and . under -65; to be of sound mind ajid physique po that he "can rassle the heavy mail sacks and win; to have lived for ot lea3t two years with in the ken of the desired postof fice as a patron; and then to pass the proper examination and hook the prize against the two or two dozen other applicants. Examinations are to be held at Silverton and Salem ' for these other three vacancies in Marion county. "The candidate should write in to the office of his choice, asking for a blank) . and on that he will designate the place he desires to go for his examin ation. There are really almost a, score of Oregon towns where the examinations will be held, but Salem and?3ilverton are the near est to these two prospective va cancies : ".,',!. j The examinations are not! civil service affairs. They are mere indications, and the. Great Whits Father at. Washington need not regard them. But he offers every tody a chance, without regard to politics or color or anything much except the ability to write and look intelligent. j The examinations are, held .on Saturday afternoon. May 12. The actual vacancies occui later in the year. , v 3 ponsns ; HEEDED IN COUNTY LOSS PLACED iQN DOLLARS 1 TOiROONED Occupants Report Seeing People I on f Isle in Ice Locked Lake Michigan; Planes) Wrecked CARGO OF FOOD IS j DROPPED ON ISLAND Ten Men and j One Woman Originally Reported Lost and Starving s CHICAGO. April- 20. (By the Associated Press) After two gov ernment :;, airplanes , had .. been wrecked on the mainland and an other forced to make a landing be fore reaching its destination, two planes from Chicago today suc ceeded in carrying; food to the ten men and one woman reported ma rooned and starving to death on South Fox island! ! in ice locked Lake Michigan, j j ' A de Haviland from Chanute field, Rantoul, 111., carrying 200 pounds of food and a reporter of the Chicago' Tribune left Chicago early this morning, and passed over the island and dropped its cargo of food shortly after 4 p. m. The plane piloted by Lieutenant Harry E. Woodridge atter'passing over, the island j and dropping its food cargo, flew to Gaylord, Mich., where it landed for the night. Its occupants reported, seeieng six persons on the island, ; . ! H . . ' . - One Machine Stripped Miller'splanej parrying the pilot, a newspaperman! and a photog rapher landed here at 10 a. m and set out for the j island soon after wards. . ; j v- . At 4 p. m. two! more planes' from Chicago, flying jv together, passed over Northport; without stopping, headed for the island. One government mail plane which was piloted by E. Hamilton Lee, was accompanied by a news- peperman and the other by Lieuten-J w w- 'mm a 1 ant H. J. jWoodhridge of the army, who also carried a newspaper rep resentative, ji , Lieutenant Meridith was the second army flier from Self ridge field to attempt their rescue. His de Haviland bomber was stripped of its propeller and landing gear as it landed on the shore here at 11 a, m. The pilot iand a Detroitnews paperman , who accompanied him were unhurt. j,H ,Village is Excltel ' Lieutenant E. O. , Whitehead's Jenny army airplane from Self ridge Field, which crashed through the ice in Traverse bay yesterday was sinking deeper into the water tonight.; A crew of men spent the afternoon chopping the ice in an effort to extricate the plane but were halted by darkness. Xorthport, a quiet little village ordinarily, was seething with ex citement today. School children refused to attend their classes and teachers were; forced to close the schools, whllej the business of the town was practically at ' a stand still. Nothing Due Plaintiff , Is Decision of Court That there; -was nothing due from the defendant to the plain tiff and that! the plaintiffs com plaint should be dismissed, was the decision reached by , Circuit Judge George Bingham yesterday in the case- of T. L.' Benedict against G. W. Hoffman, which was tried in j circuit court recent- 'r. ' i !, ; , ... According j to the facts of . the rase the plaintiff and defendant entered into; a , contract whereby the defendant was to raise, culti vate and harvest a crop of logan berries. A total of S935 pounds were raised.' for whjch, the de fendant spent $378 and! received JS5S.20. After an accounting it was decided that there was noth ing due. from the defendant to the plaintiff. SXOW IX BAKER BAKER.! Qt.,' April ?0.WIn ter came back into Its own here this morning when snow fell for several hours and the temperature was' downj to ' the freezing mark. The minimum temperature' this morning was 29.' ; CALF WITH TWOiHEADS SAID BORN Cardena Ranchman Reports Freak Aaimal Which Lives Only Twenty Minutes: WALLA WALLA, Wash., April 20. A calf ; with two heads was horn on the ranch of Leon Schabre at Gardena recently; according to' a story brought to this city today. The animal lived only" about 20 minutes. Both . heads fwre nor mal and 'joined to form one neck. The rest of, the calf's j bodyf was also normal. While It! was alive, breath was evident in both heads, Schabre reported. '..." I PRESIDENT OF Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook of Cooksburg, Pa Will , Head Organization - ! WASHINGTON, April 20. Election of Mrs. Anthony.JWayne Cook of Cooksburg, Fa,, as pres ident general! of the Daughters of the American Revolution, ,was announced i at' today's session oX the society's annual congress. Tabulation! of the ballots east yesterday jby delegates showed she had received 940 votes, to 779 recorded for. Mrs.. O. Wal lace W. Hager of Washington, her only Opponent. Announcement of .the result, which: wili place Mrs. Cook at the head of the. organization for the . next , thTee years as a suc cessor to-! Mra. . George Maynard Minor of f Connecticut, swept away the! hitterness that marked the trennial ; election campaign Mrs. Cook and other executive ojfficers whose election also wis announced, will be inaugurated at - the concluding session of the congress tomorrow. i ' j Want immigration Support ! A number of resolutions em bodying principles of policy for the new 1 administration . . . were adopted today. , The delegates spent the after noon on a pilgrimage to Mount Vernon, and at tonight's session were addressed byj General Per shing and Baron de Cartier, the Belgian ambassador. Secretary Davis l of f the labor department, at tiis ; morning's session asked the delegates to support proposals for selective immigration and the enrollment ot? aliens, in . the ; United States and Immediately i after his ad dress a resplutlqn endorsing "restricted selective Immigration was adopted by acclamation. A resolution favoring the plac ing , of government aid to dis abled soldiers in the hands of state officials and their- treat ment in their home states was referred ' to the .(organization's legislative committee with power to act. ? 1 - - : FOLLOWS CINDERS Merchants Declare Some thing Must Be Done Officials Say it Will Assertions by city .officials, In cluding Mayor John 'B. delay, that they are determined to run' down the source of, cinders that have been snowing down upon the City in recent days; is ithe latest devel opment In the" campaign (o stop precipitation of soot" that is fallr ing Info the eyes, ears and noses of Salem people, damaging goods on the counters and falling into the; ice -cream and' sherbet recep tacles in the confectionery stores. Merchants, without exception, declare that something must be done. ; They estimate f that dam age to goods has amounted to sev eral hundred dollars already. ' ' The xity officials are still In vestigating .the source of the cin ders," but the managers of all the big industries declare . they are not guilty. " ' DAR ELECTED n of WRATH H AIIER'SMYER: IS REPORTED ;ATHOWDUM!TO SACRAMENTO, Cal.; April 20. A woman closely re sembling Mrs. Clara Phillips,; convicted hammer murderess, who escaped from 'the Los Angeles county jail, is a guest at the Tegucigalpa Hotel, Honduras, according to a telegram received here today by Governor F. W. Richardson from the state department at Washington. f- ,' 'I v " The telegram was as follows : ' , ; ) "American legation, Tegucigalpa,- Honduras,' telegraphs Clara Phillips reported ta be at Hotel Tegucigalpa, under name of Mrs.i Robert Young, accompanied by couple registered ; as Mr. and Mrs. Carson. r j j v! ,. J .. , , "If you desire this department to request fugitive's j provisional arrest and detention with a view, to extradition please so state and add that she had been convicted of murder in California - - A I .; , ! Minister Preached Yesterday in Pulpit He Filled Fifty Years Ago Fifty years ago. Jay Bowersox was commissioned pastor of the Evangelical church in Salem. He came to the 'little church on. Lib erty street, pulled off ' his coat rolled up his ministerial sleeves and went to work. Yesterday he mounted the same pulpit and preached to the same congrega tion after five" decades of. continu ous Service.. :' ' :!' During that long ministry he saw the old church divide, and now icome togethefr again, the first actual organic ch,nrch re union in the history of church divisions since church history be gan. Fifty years In. one locality, and then; to preach again In the same old church, is a record pos sibly, without parallel in the his tory of the. American pulpit, : ' Detailed Work Planned '. , The' Evangelical conference de voted most of yesterday to tha work of 'committees on the vari ous church, activities. The for mal reorganization of the two branches into one united church has been-accomplished and now the detail Work of the church or ganization is being laid out. j A strong resolution was passed Friday by the conference ' com mending Governor Pierce's- stand on law enforcement. The confer ence ; followed this by an invitation- to the governor to address the conference this afternoon, which he will do at 2 o'clock. . A special service Is to '.be db voted Some time during .the con ference session to Rev. Jay Bow ersox, pioneer pastor. The date of this .service has not 'yet been fully determined, : ; 3 Salem X.ative Preaches , Friday nisht Rev. F. D." Culver of Portland preached a - strong evangelistic sermon for the con ference i Rev. Mr. Cufver, Iwas born within five miles of Salem a brother of "Jimmy,, Culver, the efficient county road engineer, and he has a host of friends here. He ranks now as one, of the really strong men of the conference. . The j election of a conference board of trustees was held Friday with trustees .representing both the original branches . but now standing only for' p.tjfi , reunited chu rch. The board ; now - consists of S. D. Sacster of Portland, J. O. Loyell of Salem, F. D. Culver, . H. H. Farham and lJ. L. Luckel of Portland, VVK. Lucke of Canby, and . F. H. Monthan of Portland.. S'pcker 'Talks Tonight , . Rev.-' Jacob ' Stocker, now ot Portland is jo preach the sermon this evening, to which the public is invited. ' " ; Rey. i E. Fischer of Dayton was -called-, to Forest - Grove to preach the funeral sermon over me wue oi iter. v.. a. Moag oil Lafayette,, and so has been ab sent from tne conference. AA- - A: , MAlUOBIE DAW MARRIED LOS ANGELES, April . 20. Marjorie Daw, motipn picture act ress, was married tonight tol Al fred Edward Sutherland,.1 screen actor and director. The wedding took place at the Beverly ' Hills home of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. ' ' rST0FIfJi The governor's office Immedi-- ately notified . the . Los Angeles county sheriff, of the receipt of 4.1 J 1 . . W . V . iub iciegraui buu uiea io luc governor be-formally notified of Mrs. v Phillips' conviction, it the . detention of the suspect in Hon duras was deslrecLi ; Dr. Mi Rr Rodriguez, Honduran consul here, announced he had cabled. to the secretary of state of Honduras asking the authori ties of his country to apprehend Mrs. Phillips and Carson and held them for.deportation to the United Statesj i . .. .. ... ........ V , , The arrest, of. Armour Lee Phil lips,., husband , of t the. . -"hammer,. murderess,", as ., a material . wltf ness was decided upon tonight, and officers were sent out tojooh: for him. He has been detained on: the same charge several timet since njg wife s escape but airayf released in a short, time.. . Telegraph Notlf If at ion . LOS ANGELES, VApri ,20. Th Cherltrs office late today jele graphed; to Governor Rlcbardsos at Sacramento formal notification of the conviction of Mrs, Clara Phillips, for ' the: murder of Mrs. Alberta Tremaine : Meadows, 20-year-old widow, who was.', beaten to" death with a j hammer here July.,12, 1922. j The. message also told of Mrs. Phillips escape from the Los Angeles county jail December 5 last land asked that a woman known at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, as Mrs. Robert Young, be arrest ed and detained in the belief she is Mrs. Phillips. ' j j BeIieved WiUi Helalivc . . . it; was stated the .man named Carbon; who, with Mrs. Carson, was j traveling with Mrs. Young, was believed to be Jesse C. Car son, said. to be a distant,. relative of Mrs. Phillips, j He is taid to have! left Los Angeles January 2 for Mexico City, j He . is wanted here; to answer an arnon charge, and the message from the sheriffs office to the governor asked that the :man . at Tegucigalpa - be de tained on that- charge, and also -n the further one of aiding and ibetting a prisoner to escrpe. . The officers did not ask; that the woman known as Mrs. Carson be held, as they were unable even to guess her Identity,' as the wife of Jesse C. Carson is in Los An geles. They '. said Carson had served terms In the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, and the Oklahoma state penitentiary. Second Year Men Get Head' Start Toward Intercjass . 1 Rivalry-Honors In the first debate of the In terclass series at WHlamette uni versity last night the sophomores scored a clean and unanimous vic tory over the freshman team. The question for debate In the Berles Is, .'Reolved,VTLat the United States should establish a Judicial court with power to. en force its decisions in 'the adjustment of labor disputes The sophomore speakers. Raw eon Chanin and Robert Forkner. had the negative side. The fresh man speakers were Victor Hicks and Warreu Day. , ' i The next debate In . the series between the senior und the Jun ior teams will come a week from Monday night. The speakers are cot yet announced. .The winnlns team in this, debate will take on the sophomores, who won la.n night, and the tenrnament win ners will gather in the big points for the interclass rivalry ot ta Tr. . .,t.,,i