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MM V&:Efaow:itfoQfr the opundo dr(y& Qcm1t&S3:c& HibQEioBo oowal ill .1.;. j - r.&r.'- FIRST SECTION Pages 1- to 8- SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY MORNINU. MAY 3, 192:1 PRICE FIVE CENTS . r -, f UVJ rro sECTious "Tn jit nrnii: . bwiyj U U U: Li U VI Ls) L; uiy3 .. pi .i i i " i . ; i 1 i " rn LD Fn n;n.n . i 1EI1 NOTE OREGON: MAN LEADS i r n r n n n n r n n n j titbHUum nar IMPOSSIBLE Terms Declared; "Preposter ous" By French Officials; Little Hope of Acceptance Seen POMCARE RESERVES COMMENT OM ANSWER France HasTIaivf or-Settle ment ot Keparanons; ii Holds in Reserve i PARIS. May 2.- (By the As nociated Press). The proposals contained- in the German! note : whlh was i delivered at the for eign office at 4 o'clock thisj af ter- 1 noon in. the German language, are ! regarded in French official jcircles ; ' for " Anglo-Saxon and neutral con : sumption only. - The. terms of the r note appeared "so i preposterous" I to the members of the French gov- ernmenf thatlt was assumed there vas no bope r desire on. the part i of Berlin that they be accepted; fh ?Tbe scnepie amount to jibe re- opening of the whole question of s . reparations as, settled by the trea ty of Versailles. a high official of the government said. "The plan is aggregated by the suggestion . that in case lot failure of loan, which no one, here thinks ican be I floated successfully,: the question ' of payment by Germany wuld be ' referred to a commission on which would J be. - represented neutrals who are loaded, up with marks and hare erery Interest of : boosting them hy getting -Germany off as easily as possible." , Reply U Withheld Another official said: "There' isL not the slightest pro gress toward,- settlement jln this proposition, Onf, tbm 'contrary, thpre Im an effort at d. moTement I backward and It is Impossible for, the French government to cbnsld ir It for a moment."'. 4 Premier Poincare Is studying the tjran8lationf the note! aa It.is feeing made, and 3s reserving icpm ment nnU he has the w hole doc tj ment before Wm, bat "those about him did not conceal the unfavor i able Impression which the note ( J had made. JThey are al of the ;' opinion that the reply wjlljhe. flat ly negatlTe-s5: v'. h " U The French government - has a i plan for 'the settlementi of , !the rep- : atation problem, which It lis hold ing in reserve, to bring otittwhen the tlm,4 thought tA-be opppr i tune, but It will be only when Qer- many has ceased resistance to the i allied action in the Ruhr rand has t manifested a desire.;.to- reacV-a r'. serious agreement v a i - so ?' J r. - May Boost Sfju-k From information at the foreign ' office there : is belief that the reichbank will, as a sequel to the ! note, make id renewed effort to boost the, mark, and thus. convey the impression - that 'the! German tpfyMals,hav ha4-a-goodfetfect m oil the , market, and It iwaa marked at r the foretgnvoXfleethat if Germany would use Its. resources f to begin payment' of ttsl-debta ft would restore!. credit, much,s0Qner f than by endeavoring to keept up . the mark ; w.hJle lesirins paper tnoney in trillions. r V New Home, Being, Built f - On.BensoniBfnd Farm SIL.VEKTON. Or,, May 1. (Special I toi The ; Statesman, )- The foundation of the Hew home being built j -.by Carl Benson on "his pheasant farm one mile west ' f SHwton- i&i now- under, way. ine bouse is to be a ten-room af fair and modern in every way, Freeman. w Strpbble of Salem i are the architect and 0 Satern nda Wj, Larson. ot Silvertonvhave : charge of the- building.. -' - THEVEATHER . OltEGOM Thursday, creasing cloudiness. ' LOCAL WEATHER i (Wednesday.) .. ' Maximum -temperature, 54 Minimum temperature, 34. in- River 3 feet, rising. Rainfoll-f-.Dl inch. Atmosphere Partly cloudy. Wind West, ,'. ALL: IN GO : SANDWICILEngland, May 2. (By Assocfated Press. American, amateur golf ploy ers tonight at the ' end of the first day of play in thte .tipurnament for the St. Georges gold challenge cupj stood first and second over Great Britain's per formersand were tied for'third place with two Englishmen. Drr O. E. filling, the Oregon state champion, led the field over the 18 holes with, a score of 74 and Robert A. Gardner, captain of thej American team, turned in a card of 75. Right behind themi pame Francis Ouimet, former, American cham pion, with a cardtof 76, tied with Roger Wethered and Michael Scott. ' j , . ' - -. 'vr, - ; ,'! RECORD CROi jall 1 1 6 1q R S Audience Generous in En dorsement GiyenApollo ; Club Concert-- ii The, bIggestcrowd on record attended the 'Apollo club concert at the; armory last night. It, is their last appearance for the year. It was a good program. It the singers had put on a little more steam, it might ; haye seem ed a little more. In part A big male chorus seems at, its best with ! big, virile stutf, 'instead i ot love sonnets. ; They sang it beau tifully..,and It brought a choruf of Oh'a" and .'Ah's" from ail over the" room gut for 50 husky men f to be chatting secretively with a squirming fittle Glow worm.", about love and beaMty i eyees, i' isnt what - one might ex pect.! If some woiild break in with a loud and racuous yell, and clat ter a sword, or pound an anvil" or rattle a. fire-engine i across the musical .atage, thatr would seem "morei like men's singing." The "Sea i rever". song wf splendidly done. It doesn't howl through the rigging like a ty phoon, it doesn't crash like a tidal wave upon-a 00,-foot. cliff ; butrit ebbs and ; flows c with a constant farjoff boom. likeUhe. waves of a grown-up seal - Music is nothing but noise if it doesn't tell sa,reaj story. What they told of the sea In this, mystical song, was worm the-, whole concerts - One aimos? wondered if: the singers could rtrim it the ship, should sink unt dar lhem. i... v ' ': sTwov"Rose Songs." from a sycle of composition by Dr. John Sites, director of the chorus, were es pecially fine.1- A. rose" authority in Salem: recently .identified lU kinds of roses, named and indly dualistic in their form and color, nO :.would wish that Dr. sites would- dedicate one oO tnese beautiful compositions to , every one of these 100 varieties oj beautiful flowers. What a spien-f did garden it would be! i The soloist, Constance Horn Of Seattle is an excellent church , or parlour singer; she has a clear, musical voice, wilhout fire, hut nlasine. and? welli trained, t It hannened. that the. club program was grave father than even mod lately gayir arid; asi most of her selection, verged on, the somber. the effect waa not quite iuu just Ice toj either j , : The, lady . can rise (Continued (OBv page 3) ESTATE OF JUDGE S UIIU IS FILED Roy Hoffman Appointed, Ad- : ministrator Appraisers AlsoAppointed , "The estate of. the late Judge G E- Gnruh waA, filed, for probate in the countyi clerk', office yester dav. ' :'!' i V' Inasmuch as Judge Unruh died intestate and hiaiwife. Maude Z. Unrulv and (daughter Zilda Unruh are the only inembers of his fam ily they are declared to be the law, ful heirs of the estate. Real prop erty is listed at $7000 and person al property, at $8500. ', : Roy Hoffman, brother of M,rs Unruh. has been appointed admin istrator f o the estate, and W. E. DeLOng. Obed Fragley and Zola IF MEET The.St. Georges cup is among England's finest golf trophies and In the 35 years, ot its existence, it, never has passed into alien--hands. This evening everybody In this golfing country, wants toi. talk about the short, stocky Oregon physician, who, turned Jn the, day's best score but nobody knows quite what to say about him because none but his partner and their caddies "Witnessed his fine perf forraanre. ; - ' ; " I'rom etart to finish he made the 18-hole journey unhonored by a gallery. - Tomorrow when ' he sets forth on the last 18' holes of the , jaunt around this famous course whare last year Walter Ha gen won the British open cham pionship, Dr. Willing is sure to be the ' cynosure of holders of tfyea that today chose to' look- on the play of the" amateur champions of England and the, United States, E. W.i E. Holderness ' and 'Jeis SweetEer, the cards of both of whom revealed: the unsatisfactory total of 81 strokes ' -1 " Expresses Surpriw j Only one other United States golfer aside ;from Williag.l Gard ner and Ouimet", broke below 80 strokes. Hewa the tall Texan, George V. Rotan who goC a 79. Dr. Willing was surprised on the way "home when told, by the correspondent who chatted, with him for a moment at the tenth teefTthat thus far he was In the lead. He said he "had been Just plugging along" -and v seemed' not to telieve It when he was told.his 35 was ther best figure yet record ed for that distance. All the way around , his drives . were, straight; his approaches covered the pin and his putts . consistently ' rolled straight into the tin cups. , Has Great Rise NEW, YORK, May 2 . (By the Associated Press) rDrO. F. Wil ling. Oregon state golf champion for the past two years who led an international field today at the end of the first-day's competition at" Sandwich, England, tor the Royal St. George's challenge cup, has had a remarkable, rise in the Royal and Ancient game. ' , j ' Though be learned the -funda mentals of the game In his caddy days. Dr. Willing did not play a full iDund of golf until about five years ago when he joined the Portland," Or., Golf clab. He quickly demonstrated " unusual playing, ability and attracted i at tention not only for his long driv- ng but -for . his accurate approach Work and putting. : ' ; ' ' Dr. Willing wonf the first Port land city championship in; 1920 and repeated "in 1922. Besides winning the state I title two years in a row, he won low; medal hbU- prs at the annual Pacific Norths west championship at Victoria, &. C, last year with' a card, of 147, (Continued on Page 8) TEMPUS TODD WAtT A MINUTE. .1 - INQUEST OVER SKELETON IS DISCONTINUED Coroner Halts Proeedings to Question Students Con- -cerning Class Rush CHICAGO, May 2. Convinced that college hazers saw Leighton Mount die. if they did not actual ly kill him. Oscar Wolff, coroner of Cook county, halted he inquest over the bleached skeleton of the long lost Northwestern university freshman today to question every student who took part in the freshman-sophomore rush in 1921, which preceded Mount's disap pearance. - Authorities also . questioned Doris Fucha, to whom . Mount wrote a farewell note before h?5 vanished. She said she and Mount were merely good friends and that she did not know whether the note she received was actually written by, him. She said he. must have at least dictated It as It referred to a conversation they had 'the day before. : Rate, Between, Salem and Portland Now $2 Other Reductions are Made necomlng effective thin morn ing, the Oregon Electric is mak ing a considerable cut in passep ger rates between some of - the valley, points. The., old rate i. of $ 2.50; for, a round, trip, between Salem and Portland is cut to $2, The , rate. t rorti Salem to Forest FARES CUT BY . " s ...... l Gjaiiand-return-Ha now, $3itt,eiljamin HarrisortA The avlatora where It -has been $3.40; to Hill boro it Is. now $2.75 instead of $3.10.: ; No change, ia announced be tween, Salem and Eugene, or CorT vallis, or Albany; the rates stand as they have been to and from these points. The big travel, of course, is between here and Portr land, where the main cut is made, Itfis understood that the stage lines have already reduced their Portland; fare ta this; same figure. It has never been,, lower since walking- went out of style because beave; skin were too" bulky to carry for money. Passenger and freight, traffic on the Oregon Electric is said to be increasing; rather noticeably, Especlaliy is this 'understood to be the case with the passenger business.. There has been enouga agitation over locar licenses for stage lines" that operate within the. cities to make a perceptible Jause., ,n the extension and con-i Eojidatlon of the stag lines," all of which means business for the railroads that no one seems to want to think of putting out of business. rThe 'railroad peopfo are gaining heart over the situa tion as it is developing in Ore gon. EXqiXEMA.V KILLED t DENVER. May 2. Two en jinemen were- killed after 11 d'clock tonight . near Woodside. Utah, when Denver, Rio Grande and Western passenger train No. 2 eastbound struck a rock slide. according; to reports reaching here, late tonight. Tempus Receives awExplanation GIANT PLANE TRYING TRIP "p Pr DIEGO Army Lieutenants Attempt Second! Right to Coast; Hope to 1 Attend Legion Banquet Tonight THIRTY-TWp HOURS SET AS TIME GOAL - r v-- I-! i : . . Squadrons of Planes Greet Aviators as Fast Flight Is Continued ST. , LOUIS', Mo., May 2. Maintaining ; a speed of approxi mately 100 times an hour, the T-2. a giant army monoplane to night, was speeding toward the Bnow-capped Sierra- Ncvadas. . 1 Taking off from Roosevelt field at Hempstead, , N. ' Y., at I:3j5 o'clock this! afternoon, the plane pasted , over; St. Louis" at :15-i p. in. tonight on a trans-continental nonstop flight to Sn Diego, Cal., within 32 hours, j v ' Carrying Lieutenants John A, MacKeady and Oakley G. Kelly, the plane Baared- over i the AHe- gheaies, .dropped Snto the Ohio valleys auuV passed: over Dayton, where it was greeted, by a squad ron of planes, from the Wilbr Wright and McCook fields at 6:5'J p. in. ' , . ' ; : ' 5' At Indianapolis the sky voyag ers; were, greeted by. another squadron ii of . planes from .Fort reported that thej motor of tha trans-continental ship was; run ning perfectly. Almost a thousand miles of the approximatp'jy '2400 mile journey had been left behind when the ship was! f wallowed up by -the mists hanging low over St. Louis. Take-Off Spectacular " ; HEMPSTEAD, X .Y., May 2. Lieutenants i John A.- MacReady and Oakley G. Kelly took off from Roosevelt' field at 1: 36:53 p. m. today in i.he army monoplane T-2 in their second attempt ' to make a non-stop trans - continental flight. - They hoped to reach San Diego from ' which theiK first at tempt was made, in 32" hours and attend a dinner of the American Legion tommorrow night. - i Spectators of the take-off had. a momeat of horrified suspense when it appeared; that the heavily loaded-ship could not rise In time to clear "the hangars at the end of the field The E-2 with Lieu tenant Kelly in the pilot's seat, cleared the .hangars by inches, however,, and began , making ele vation. ; ; ; One false start .was made be fore the i get-away, Lieutenant Kelly . turning back, for a longer run when he found he could. not lift the" plane poon Enough to clear the hangars. ; The pilots will alternate dur ing the tripwith Lieutenant Mac Ready at the wheel entering San i Diogo. if all goes well.. The T-2 has rip wtrclesa and messages will i I be. dropped, it was said. i. ,W. fl ASKS DU MISS CAilAEL,Dir7 ' TiSa W TRY TO INJULT ME WHrN yj YOU REFUSED TO SPEAK, ' CHILD MAKES DECISION AS . TO PARENTAGE Judge Declares That Iaw in Case Is Subordinate to ' Wishes ofYoung Girl CHICAGO May 2. Alice Xut tall, 12 years old, who ; has been the center of a battle in the courts between her real and foster . - . , . i -. i mother, Mrs, James Nuttall,; was today awarded to the latter by Judge Joseph B". David. The deJ cislon came after the child had been placed 'on the -witness stand to decide between Mrs. Ada t Morris,-' the mother who found her after 11 years' search, -and -the couple who adopted her. J J ""l prerer to live) with Mr. and Mrs. Xuttall' Aliqe said. "I think I could learn to love my real mo ther, but notis I do 'mother' and 'daddy " i , ' : ; j And then Judge David, revers ing the decision over King. Solo mon, declared Chat the law Jn the case would. (be considered subor dinate to the child's' wishes. ' : "The child's welfare is the par amonnt issue in this case." Judge David ' declared and- added that this had been lost sight of. by the parties concerned owing to the heat 'of the contest. . I '"It is apparent that the baby, bcrnlout. of wedlock," he said, "was- glwn to the IliinoiH .Home and Aid society by relatives of the U-year-bld mother in order to ayoit scandal.,' iThe mother may be,, thankful , that-. Jier child fell into; the hands of the Xuttalls, who have given It a splendid home and upbringing.' y Prisoner Testifies Whitfield Confessed Murder While" t Confined fn Jail , y VAXCOUVER, Wash., May 2.- The prosecution late today pro duced a surprise witness at the trial of George E. Whitfield, ac cused of j the murder of sll-year-old Anna Nosko. He" was A. Roy Moore, a prisoner who has been in the county jail here with Whit field field Moore testified, that Whit had confessed to him on the nighfi of April & last that he had slain the .Nosko girl fHe told me,"j said Moore, "that he had met the Nosko girl on the rail road track. He seized her, he said, and she screamed, where upon he struck her with his fist and with a sap. He then car ried her into a nearby" woods I asked him. why he had cut her throat; and f he said , she was moaning and injured and he then kiUed. her to put her out. of her misery.". , - '- - - : ' ..- Whitfield leaped to his feet at ohej point ip Moore's testimony, shouting, "'You lie." but was calmed by his attorneys. - ; Mpore Is awaiting trial in jail here on a charge of participating in" f he robbery of the Sells-Floto crcjus ticket wagon here ' last year. - l - ' U, - - I r , f that: MiSTtm roTi. is, the one. GliTL SLAYER . 'IIITSIjIIIE THING I DID'NT TRY TO DO NOTHING FtSE-BUT . -1 " 4 -v v-r i.-, :. jf . " , . verdict wmm AGAINST AFTER THIRD: BAEI ST. JOSEPH, Mich., May 2. Charles E. Ruthenberg of Cleveland tonight was found guilty of violatiing the Michi, gan law against criminal syndicalism. c ! Ruthenberjg faces a prison sentence of ten years or a fine of $5,000, or Ixfth. j ; - The jury was out four hours and fifty minute3 and took three' ballots. . ; , i - . The first two ballots stood 9 to 3 for qonviction, three jurors arguing that1 the state ; had not conclusively shown Ruthenbergs state' of mind on the Communist propaganda and plans at the time he attended the party's convention in this county last August and was arrested. V ' " On the third ballot the- three were won oyer by tfca majority. - . : " -j----. ' ' - v ': , Ruthenberg sat unmoved as Thomas Smith, a farmer arose as foreman and pronounced theone, word- guilty. . ' nr. i . Expansion of Wood Products Company Important Bus- -iness Announcement One of the. most important bus iness announcements made In Sa lem of recent weeks, is the expan sion of the .Oregon i.Wood Pro ducts company In West Salem, a '. The company has been running along steadily and securely on a small capital,' buying Its ' stock and working it up, collecting its bills, and : making an . excellent showing, but never with enough money In sight really to expand and handle the trade that conies in with tears ? In its ; eyes asking to be supplied. . But now, the showing of the past yea 1 and a hair has borne fruit, and enough cash has? come in to give the com-, pany" all the money it needs for any kind of an expansion. ,The company has been making broom handles and general wood novelties tent toggles,; bucket balls', mop handles, and a general , line of turned, work. Paper plugs and adding machine 'paper tolls have come to be one of the finest of the company products, from the standpoint of profit. These are made literally by the millions, the. orders now in sight covering about 5.000.000 paper;, plugs; tor this year. These? are of many sizes; the largest; being up to six inches in -diameter, each a single cut from ' a f ale-sized tree, j The broom handles are made of fir wood; the plugs are made of both fir and ajdex, the alder making the smoother, better fin ished article.. Some maple is used for other!' products; '. a very) large quantity of ash is to be used, now that the company has the jmoney to expand into the, hardwood bus iness. , Oak, aldo. Is' to be used in large quantities, the Oregon oak making a wonderfully, good tool ..handle," some - claiming it to be superior to the best hickory for many tool handles. Including those for ' axes . and picks. . The company, recently set up a sawmill of. Its own, that will handle-logs a little more than two feet in diameter. . There? has been (Continued on page 3) Story by WEST SALEI - IN THAT CASE I JUST WArVTFD-W ' TO INFORM YOU. THAT'YOU C I f4 -v SUTTINLY SuCCtf CCD Ja "T t EOlliJISf r , ........ . . . There was a brief pause as the defendant stared, at. the jury, and then . the court clerk read in a droning voice the, printed formula to which" the jurors respond that the verdict given was their unani mous decision. v ' Thef 12 'jurors had. retired at 4:35 p. m'.j ' . , : -' . The' court 'instructed the. Jury that Ruthenberg and other Com munists who attended .the second national convention of the Com munist party in this country last Augusfviolated .nolaw In assem bling here, unless they advocated a crime in carrying out the doc trines they propose for the1 refor mation7 of the government of the "United States. . j " ) , Judge Charles White ordered Ruthenberg to appear June 4 for sentence.. ; The -defense is plan ning to move an appeap to the suv premia cou rt j before sen tence . ia entered, rbut the court said he had fcpt decided yet whether he would permit that, or send the defend ant to Marquette, prison pending hearing on his appeal. f ... This is Ruthenberg's third con- 1 viction in recent years because of his radical activities and his ninth arrest since he entered the Social ist party a dozen years ago. f During tlie war he was found guilty of obstructing r the draft and) sent to an Ohio 'workhouse. After the, way he was convicted in New York of writing the left wing manifesto by which; the radi- ' (Continued on page 6) What Have You To Exchange? .- Try a Statesman Want Ad The Results Will Surprise ; You Below is one of the -" Want Ads. appearing in r today's Statesman ; Classified ' Columns. One a Day. Will it be Yours Tomorrow? ' : ..; ' ' - FOR SWAP or sale Mower, iteel take, dilk, ! ; kcreril harrowa, aprins tooth, bnf gy, small team and harnrsa, . circular j wood aw, I want cat tle, gat, money et your rate if good. John H. Scott,. 208 Oregoa . Building. OCTAVOS ROY COHEU XUnatraUona by H? Weatoa Taylor Birdwell, appraisers r4w W