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SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR: SALEM. OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 1.-1923 PRICE FIVE CENTS J uVuu.U il A 1 4 ! PBESIDEOTII bSdreh (Serenade Turns into ,-WiId n scramoie v; n en -sooo I m a m a ai Toungsicrs husit lor r.ir. and. Mrs. Harding 3 I LARI M E CORPS U H ABLE t TO; WITHSTAND iticrcis'lfif Beileu -'Woods 4 He!p!ass;;; Kiddies: Hurl WASHINGTON.? May 31. -By The Associated" PressO Eight. . thousand i school - children , gather-! . ed ;jizt American, league Prk to .jlay Jta. serenade , President , and , Mrs. Harding: as , a feature lot Washington's 'music . week, broke - awtf front their teaehers and through a marine guard before the program was ended, and rush ing good naturedly v but : wildly . across the field, laid down a bar rage of flowers, on ?the) presiden tial party. , ' . What had started as a quiets serenade was pureed. Into a wild tush of eager jthlldrea, when eaeh anxious to present a bouquet to either the president -or Mrs.-Hard Ing, took the short f fSOujiaV'Af hurling the flowers af them. The president and' nl Vita were .com pelled to ward off the rain of blossoms -. .! . . I . llassedl ; for Serenade The children had been massed for the serenade In the right cen ter, and left field bleaeehers of ; the ball park, f Parents and, oth v trs Interested in music week fes tivities were In the grand staTnd. !J President j and- Mrs. .Harding Occupied a : small Improvished Stand near the center at the field. 1 r' '- j . .':o ;( Most of the program had gone r off aa scheduled. Then came a. number , designated pn the pro- 'rant as "the president's "f sur prise - It proved to be V drill by several hundred tots 6f kih ' dergarten age,' -.who after -eom-y pletlng their exercise, gathered around the presidential stand and seated themselves . on the grass. sThe .president (spoke and shook hands with, a. number of them. as .preparations were being made for the nex number. . -' I -:,,' Many are Jealous J'Thesigh t, of : the little . ones basking la the presidential favor" , was '-too' much tor the other chil yiren and with; a wild jvhoop they rushed fronv the, bleachers to the ifield. i Marines i from the bafSr; iracki here- bud!, been j stationed before 'the.' at'ands an - dalthpugh they stopped the "Germans, at Bel- I lean tWS6d77 they found i them selres helpless rhen charged by ' thousands , f i rushing - jlbjldren. aThey atempted to hold the boys and girls back,but the young sters slipped through their legs, ducking under their outstretched ; arms, j dodging .( around them and ; left ; them standing! 'guard erer empty bleachers. ' The children" seemed to hare only tow purposes. ; One was tq rat as near the president as pos- slble and the other- was to 1t jxim their flowers, xney were khiA to do both, crowding up to iiV Presidential atahd until both ih president and Mrs. Harding feared, for the safety of 4 the Vu ones in the crush. . - - y ! Flowers Fly Fast 'a boy In the rear, con cluding that it was j hopeless for him to . try, to hari his flowers t0 the- president, let go with a big I bunch of .daisies which; sailed OTerahe crowd and landed on the president's shoulders. That gaTe the others the ildea they needed an4 soon the air was tilled with (Continued on page 2 ) THE WEATHER OREGON: Cloudy and warm- er. Friday; moderate west ' eriy winds. , JLOCAL WEATHER , (Thursday) Maximum temperature. 63. f Minimum temperature, 48. r.alnfll, - .07 Inch. -Rlvcrfcl4.S; feet;, rising. ? Atmosphere, cloudy. ... ' V.'lnd,- south. . - GREEEE&P EUGENE. ( Ore.. May 31.Colonel WiUiam B. Greeley. chief f orester o the United States, here today predicted that the lumber , business in Oregon times as great; in ten .years from; now than at present, due. to the rapidly diminishing timber in the east and middje west. Trie chief forester is on a tour coast. He went to Oakndge 685,000,000 feet of fir timber offering for sale. A OUT OF COURT Judge Bingham Dismisses . Suit.Seeking to Restrain Payment of Fund Judge George G. Bingham of I the circuit court for Marion coun- J ty today signed an order dismiss-1 STOIIISUIT Ingthe action - brought by S. R.men who wnirecejfv their de- Dieienaon oi f roruana to strain the state from remitting tola the city tt, Astoria Its state taxes rLl?!!? S.tm I PiHoff. tataf tre&Bnrer were I w- m - t- " m fc - t - made defendants In the suit which I fpeclfically sought to -prerent Ko-J cerJtrom signing a warrant and Rof f from paying the city's first half of state taxes for this year. amounting to -about $38,500. As relief to Astoria because of the fire last winter that 4jd dam age amounting to f 1 0,0 0.0 ,00 0, the legislature ' appropriated a sum equal to the -city's -state taxes cot erlng . a period of seren years amounting,. to an estimated half million dollars. In bringing theeult against the state of ficlala, Dielendorf, a Port land man acting , In the capacity of a, taxpayer, alleged that )he money was not to be used, as represented to restore public property, but to improre .streets that .primarily would benieflt prlrate property. TEI1EII lil ILIGI0U5 RIOT Federal Troops' Sent to .Ou- . M ti.in.. 'I rango, rviexieoi 10 rre- : , vent Outbursts MEXlcpCTT,.3Iay1lr--(By The Associated Press ) Ten - per sons were killed and-' 17 were wounded In a religious riot at Du ranso City this venlsg hen a mob attacked the i prerlBClal pal- ace .and started o disarm, j the J mounted police according j:o spec i lai aispaicnes u Jne , newspaper i uuHuwr. x uc ialci uuvucu tire- Federal troops, are being concen t rated in pu rango for the purpose of preventing' i further disorders. All places of -emuseemnt.v have been closed, and, soldiers are pa- troling the streets. Slayers of I Sheriff Dunlap - maicxea ax special ses sion; Thursday : , ALBANY. Ore., May 31.r Geo Gilraore, alias George Parker and were indicted tody; by a special grand jury charged with first de - gree murder '.and also of larceny. The murder charge was returned because of Sheriff Dunlap's death following the shooting in which these two men are alleged to have opposed the sheriff and Deputy Sheriff LUlard,; who later captnr- ed the two men single handed and the larceny charge was returned because of the theft of an auto mobile. ' f - . EhJrVk MURDER RED CIS iUTKR and Washington will be ten of the national forests of the today to.. inspect, a tract? of which the forest service isJ : . Large Number- From Here included in Large Class at State ColJege O R E q O N AGRICULTURAL. CILLEGE, Corrallis, Or., May 31. Among the. .522 men and-wo- 8SSBtes re-igrees rrom the ooueg jcoaoay are number, from Salem and other points In Marlon county. Those from here who will W graauated WWmer W VrrP u.VWV bell and Hilbert Tasto;( agrteul- ture. Royal t Emmal, u Ronald Hogg, Herbert Michelbrook, Al- onzo " Patchtn all or saiem ana Cecil Scollard., Woodburnr Salem young women ; who will be graduated in hbme economics are Virlan Marsters, Vera Smith, Julia Patchin, Nellie Patchin and Wllma Miller of Macleay, and Anne. Hobart of : fillxrton. tiMary Bayne will be graduated In voca tional education. , ; f ? j Caryl Carson of Salem will be graduated ; in, chemical .engineer ing. Louie Klingle ,and Irrlng Roberts i of galem will . recelre their degrees In electrical engin- and George: Elbert '-will finish , in meehanlcal engineering. Harold Olsen. and Lee lms of Wood burn and Laurence Purrine of Salem will complete the work in Industrial arts. Raymond Leon ard of Gerrais Is to b graduated ini mining engineering.- H'.;; h Hugh, McKenna.of .Portland, who bras played Quarterback on Ante -. football team for . .; three years and Is captain ofthe base ball team, has been awarded the lorlng cup giTen each year to- the - - i k: 1 a mma i,b ww ZmT astic activities; Percy Locer president 4f the student body ffr the coming year wiU be awarded the A. J.' Johnson prize , for un lor men The .Dickson $106 'scholarship in dairying which Is awarded an- nnallv to the best all . around man the Junior dairying class goeB tnj8 yeer to .Percy,; Murray ftf OT wa.it. nni DUnU II WIS DOORS Manager of Morris Brothers bays . AnairsjVYiir oey Liquidated Soon PORTLANp,,Ore., .May jSl John Ij. Etheridge, manager . ot Morris Brothers Corporation who succeeded 'the firm, j : of Mprris Brothers after Its failure 'three years ago, announced tonight that the arfalrs of the concern-wWl-be llauldated and the house closed. I He estimated the remaining assets lof the firm at 1150,000 to szoo. 000. v-.i .;:.--; -I V . . Etheridge was placed in charge of the re-opened bouse .following a reorganization by the preferred stockholders. Under his manage ments more than. $1,000,000 has been paid to "creditors It was said. Etheridge was recently acquitted on-trial of a charge of embezzle ment I of the! funds of the house prior to -its .failure. . - ... n:i 0USEIVH1 FLAG IS NOT TO BE USED AS SCARECROW Local Lesion Committee Visits Farmer Who Hoists j Emblem in Berry Patch ' Even tnough a man may be ig norant , as to the proper use of the American flag, he should hot be permitted to employ 'It as a scarecrow. This is the opinion of the Salem post, American JLegion. : Upon complaint that a man near the city was using the flag as a scarecrow to frighten away birds that were' eating his strawberries, several local legionairres paid a visit to the scene.. After' delivering a talk on flag etiquette. Its proper . position and the respect that should be ac corded it, - the ex-service men re- urned to Salem. ' t 4 MM. WW Chiropractic E x a m j n e r s - Changed Ellsworth ot o Pendleton Restored ' Governor Pierce yesterday ' re moved ' the entire state board of chiropractic examiners and ap pointed new members. He re stores to of flee Dr. TL C. Ellsworth of Pendleton, .who .was removed by former Governor Olcott be cause of Ellsworth's alleged ac livitlef : with the Cu Klux Klan. The member ,; removed to give place to -Ellsworth is Dr. D. T. Brown of The Dalies,' whose term would not have expired until June; S 1924. - !f ; r .Dr. C. A. Jhpsof Albany Is ap pointed to succeed Dr. W. G. Hoff man ot.McMinnvllle, and Dr. F. T. Kotz of Portland is named to succeed Dr. George Hoeye of Ore gon City, Tne latter : is riot ef fective until. June Hoeye being allowed to serve out his term. , If Governor Pierce also removed Dr. John r Besson, j formerly of Portland now of Bend; as a mem ber of the state board of medical examiners, ; and appointed in his place Dr. - Arthur; N, Cant ield of Portland. Beeeon's terra r would not ,have expired until February 28, 1824. .. ... When asked about jthe changes on the . chiropractic and medical boards. Governor Pierce .said rel ative to Ellsworth that he simoly was . restoring , the ,man , former Governor Olcott -fired. Concern t the other two, Uxe .. governoi sid.lie ad r his Ireasbns but, de clined to . state : what . they ; were. The removal of .Besson from the board j.of medical, examiners, . the governor said, was due to a re cent disturbance among the med ical fraternity; at f Bend., ..Pierce said all Uie appointees named to day are .Republicans , r ninM .1 City Attorney of Astoria Lies Paralyzed n , Portland i 'Hospital PORTLAND. Or., May 51. - Joseph Mannlx, city attorney ; of Astoria, Or., who is at a Portland hospital; suffering -from injuries receivedv Tnesday in a friendly wrestling match with Leb Carl son,' former-chief of police of As toria, at Carlson's home here, is paralyzed from head to foot, ac cording to a statement at the hos- ' pltal today. An X-ray examina- uon reveaiea inai me neca was broken In two places and liga ments were torn from the spinal column. VETERINARIANS PROSPER LONDON, May . Despite the much threatened, extinction of the horse by, increasing use of motor vehicles,1 there Is no falling off in the number of veterinary surgeons In London., n This Is attributed .to; the great er attention now paid to cats and dogs, and to jthe,Xaet,that while the number of horses decreased, the number of Individual owners has Increased, Mm vKinii ALBERT PRIZE . Miss, Esther JErickson, Win i ner aSalem High School, Overcomes Hardships of Circumstance r GEORGE OLIVER WINS . AT THE UNIVERSITY Pomeroy, Wash.; Man Is Ad judged to'lHave i.lade i Notable Progress ! i "I never had a chance! I had to work all the time, and I couldn't get an j- education!" -" - The 'l coward's whine and the weakling's wail as they pass in review among the down-and-outs and the derelicts and the shift less ones, got a death-blow in the Salfeftn high school election for the Albert prise, Thursday, when the senior-class votedthe high est award to Miss Esther E rick- son of Salem. I i . "For the highest ilype of de velopment, -unselfish ;- devotion, scholarship' andi' reneral - - moral character," the award reads. ' i Cares-For Family ;;...-f -Miss Erickson was left mother less " several years '.ago j; when she was in the seventh grade , in school. There werte " two young Children In . the family, and no mother or 'older slt- to care for . them. ' The lather lis an em ploye in the Spaulding; mills, and he is only "a man" i at that: lit tle children need mothering. ' Esther "has taken' jeharge Of these , younger children; kept them conspicuously . ! neat and clean, and mothered ,tem in the way that so! many real mothers never know how to da. And she has carried on her school work, too, i with consplcuvusly - high grades , through practically her whole high sdhool fourse. She has been shy, . anJ ; self-effacing, bnti the .school found hen out, and 'has honored, itself in honor- Ins ' her.. : . ; a At the election, held by ; the senior .class, Thursday, she ; was almost the - unanimous : choice of the elasf for this ! notable ' award it carries. 9Z m. cash, and , a character .testimony onl ; ythat lis 3beyond price. . Prof. J. C. Nelson wanted to ward i her , a Willam ette, scholarship, hut! because ot the family needs, she feels that she will - hate to stay out J and work.. ; She , Is" a graduate of the commercial department, and some one is going to find a jewel lot an office assistant. Thw'univer sity women hkve taken a deep In. terest in the' girl, and she Is like ly v to have her college chance little later. , Award Made at WUiamette The Albert prize in i Willam ette university, also' the gift! of Josephk 'Albert jof-Talem, and based on the same line of excel lence I eharaetM, 1 1 scholarship, high Ideals was; awarded i to Georga. Oliver, a member of the junior class. Oliver .was a farm boy who started). in at a little country school, worked j on through' he Pomeroy, ' Wash., high school, and; Is now finishing his third year in Wtllamettb. He has been earning his own way, and finding: much time for var ious activities.. He is president of the - university TMCA- has played steadily on the football and . baseball teams, has -had charge of the textensive .Christian . deputation work that has. been carried on in many small towns and communities within reach of Salem and , has . never been too busy to help . In1 any personal or university: activity. ' . i Several to Select From "' There was a -fine j field of can didates. In the i three names sel ected by the faculty to be voted on by the ; students: but Oliver baUots' were the .more numerous, and he is ' awarded the . . honor. Mr. Ollverfls majoring In history1, and taking a j specially heavy course lnssocial science, with the YMCA work as a; probable life objective, ' If - ' j IOtckob City Girt Wins i -'Miss .Olga Samuelson of Ore oa" City won' the Joseph H. "Al bert prize at Oregon Agricultural college. - Miss -Simuelson is a senior and hasidonwi what is rank (continued oi pago3) SMUGGLERS ALONG RHINE USING RAFTS Seek to Avoid Export Tax On Goods; One Killed When Soldiers -Fjre in Flight i MANNHEIM, May 31. (By the Associated Press.) Smugglers along the Rhine are resorting to the .use of rafts n trying to avoid the Franco-Belgian 10 per cent ex port tax , on, goods t going out. of Germany. . This fact was revealed today in dispatch from "Roxheim .which said a party of citizens of Roxheim were surprised Wednesday night while , attempting to take goods across the river from the .Palatinate- ' ' , . Soldiers .opened fire ' when- the smugglers tried to tlee, and two of. the smugglers .were wounded. One' of them has since died. liSIEIB j DEMANDS PROBE Letters Written Him By Slaughter Are Placed Be- i - fore .Grand Jury I T ' . -i, A series of letters written to Pr, R. k , Lee Stelner by .Dr. . A. Slaughter, ot - ; SaUm,. containing what.amaunt to pbsrges, and n slnuatloni relative to Dr. Stelner and, ills management of the state hospital for the insane,, have been placed , before the, Marion , county grand-,Jry by v Stelner, with the request that anlnveitlgation be made. The last of the letters written by Slaughter is said to contain a long list of questions which he in sists that Stelner answer. Slaugh ter avers in the letter, that three packing- cases were removed from Dr. Steiner's residence at . 9:45 o'clock on the night of March 21 and asks , that Stelner tell what was in them ; and why they were taken away at that hour tf the night. .: :. . Another question Is whether Stelner allowed some tomatoes to rot at the state hospital, and asks further whether Stelner entered into an illegal contract with the state. ' Another question : is whether Stelner sold vegetables to the state hospital and received pay for them asking particularly If the same kind ot vegetables from the same field were sold at different prices. : Slaughter also alludes - to .the Stelner cottage at Neskowin and wants to know if it was builf with material belonging to the, state. Also he asks If it was built bv state emsloyes who were on the state -payroll, whether It was paint ed Ibry hospital painters and whe ther these painters painted anoth er' cottage near Steiner's. . 'Another question is whether i team of . horses belonglnr . to the state was lost while hauling ma terial to the Stelner cottage. . ": Members of the grand jury which convened yesterday, are Ce cil R. Sischo, Mrs. Eva Keene, John W. Hunt, G. N. Ireland, Alice Budlong. Mary E! McKlnney and Ida M. Keene. JERSEY JUBILEE TO CLOSE Fifteen Hundred People Present at Barbecue Din ner at Marion i ' Fifteen hundred people or more attended, the great barbecue din ner of the Oregon Jersey Jubilee at Marion, Thursday noon. They ate $00 pounds of the finest bar becue meat ever served to such a hungry crowd It .was prepared by A. C. Bohrnstedt of Salem, who volunteered to do it for the Jerseymtn 'and for the general public, and from the report ' of those who came home, with belts let out .about three extra holes. It rwas a huge success. - ; The Marion-Polk Realtors made and served the coffee, which along with the Bohrnstedt barbecue was made the subject of a special res olution of thanks by the jersey reeders. , A hard rain that came just as (Continued on pafe 3) COMES FAILS I mmm WiU He Sign or Veto?" Question Asked by Supporters and Opponents as Smith Walks Away After listsnir: To Flood or Oratory Lasting ; Four - and Oss-IIcIx Hours4 Speakers Denounce Volstead Act ALBANY, N. Y., May 31 (By Associated PrcJs.) Governor Smith today listened, inscrutable of feature, but attentive, to a flood of oratory- for, and against his aisninj of the legislative repeal of the Jiullan-Gage state prohibitic enforcement act for four, hours and thirty-four minutC3, with, one five-rninute interludev speakers in turn presented their arguments. When both sidest, had talked their fill, and; weighted him. down with briefs,-the governorjvvalkcd client lysfrom the .room without having betrayed a gesture or a word the ansrwer to the momentous question : ; ,V :-i "Will he sign or veto ?" BULLETINS WAGES INCREASED i'LST.'.PAUU :Mlnn.. May 31 Wage .Increases to lO.OOONorthsJ ern. Pacific railway maintenance of way employes were announced today which w41I add approximate ly; $300,000 - annually to . the pay roil-lt waijestimated by operat ing executives; ;' '.'.'" . .. . ,i ROSE QTJEEX NAMED ,; -POHTL.Air). Mar i 31. Mrs. I Lucy Thomas a.atudent.repr&ent- ing the Kooseveit nign scnoui, kb today elected queen of the coming rose festival here . in a contestat which one candidate had been en tered by each, of the high schools of the lty. ; WEAIiTHY MEN "INDICTED DUBUQUE. 'Iowa. ' May. 1 (By the Associated Press.) A. A. and W. T. Cooper, v wealthy Du buque manufacturers and Jauainess men. were; found guilty on .thj-ee counts on a conspiracy Indictment which charged them with ms.ang false and fraudulent Income tax returns during the years 1. 1918, 1919 and 1??Q. by a federal court Jury here tonight. . vililj RELEASE PRISONERS. TIENTSING, May 31. (By the Associated . Press.) All the for engn captives now held by the Suchow ; train bandits -In their Paotzuku : stronghold, will ? be re leased in a lew days, according to Major Robert A. Allen, U S. A medical corps, , who arrived hete tonight, accompanied by W. Smith an Englifihman. the two men hav Ing been released by the outlaws yesterday.' - Concert Given for Enjoymen of Patients at Tubercu losis Hospital v :; The -Progressive Busintess club of Portland oresented Ihe Ore- state training school -with. 23 band instruments' the first of. the year, and the boys are doing won derfully for the short length of time they have, been practicing Assistant Company Commander, Hill, their band Instructor, . is bringing the boys around in fine shape. , They made their appear ance for the first time at the state ' tuberculosis ' ' hospital on Monday afternoon and gave the people there a short concert, whieh was a delightful treat, and greatly appreciated by all. .. From all appearances the,, boys ages seem to range between 15 and 17, although a few appear as young as 12 or 13. The boys all : show great pride and seal In the part they take in their band. The prediction' is that before many months have passed, the bands in the small towns the vicinity will set-up and take no tice of the little lads from the training school, who are so man fully struggling to master their instruments, ' .J TIB SCHOOL 11 111 IKES GOOD MEZL His decision will be announce! some - time I between tonight an 1 midnight Sunday, at which hour the , repeal bill, , if the governor does not act, will automatically die. - ! . , . The great importance of tha decision he is to make was driven, home by speakers for both sidt with- all .the fervor and earnest ness at their command. The principal arguments of the enemies of the repeal, who num bered In U about 3 0 speakers, , were that to sign the measure would beto turn loose on the stats rapacious gang, of bootleggers, bandits ,and crooks of every de scription; to nullify the -18th amendment: to "secede from tta union and-to. deprive the federal government of the most powerful nstrument now being used to en force prohibition. ? :. Arirnments Advanced, The principal .arguments of tha proponents of repeal whose speak ing: strength about matched that of the opponents, were that tfca MuUan-Gage act ought to. he re pealed because it subjected per sons acensed of violating the dry law. to f doublejeopardy" In tha ourts; .that It was exclusively the government's function, to enforce prohibition and that shoulderina part of the burden Df Ui coTern- ment entailed a necessary ana uss less expense. '. ' j; i , Several of the pro-repeal speak ers evendenounced the Volstead act and the. 18th aidendinent as iniquitous and subversive of state rights, urging the governor;to ap prove the repea as tne nrst step In a campaign to wipe the fede ral enforcement law ana tne am endment off the books.. nnmnifTTiRTTI Pf hUHKUUlMUaia TEII ROUuD DOliV urtrrT.iVTi XTnv SI. Joe-Gcr- man of Portland and Bud Ridley of Seattle fought 10 rounds to a draw here tonight. Ridley had Gorman on the canvass for tii count of nine in the third round. Otherwise the bout appeared to be about even. Gorman weighed 129 andltidley 128 pounds. Frankie Grandetta took a six round decision from Abraham Gordon, the boys fighting as fly weights. This was a hard-fought contest from first to. last, with Grandetta having the best of it throughout. ' - YJANT TO SELL A TRUCK Try a Statesman Want Ad The Results Will Ton Surprise Below is one of the , Want Ads. appearing in "today's 8 lata sm an Classified Columns. One a Day. j Will i h 2 Years' TcncxTCv? roR , sale Hi ros trcck-. font eli condition. MinciV Bpir Chop, cor. lferry I " llish.