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- ... ' .- I V . ' .. ...... ' ' - - "' ' ," 4" . 'tj '- " ' ' " i - " ' t . - ' s - 4 J 1 I . '.'Is, ( M t CXZCUULTZOBI Avms tor M7, X93S: , Ef TUS CTTT CT EIT-I , ad UTrhr la I Variok nd Polk Coast! a , JheK Oregon Stdtr-rr.r: .8040 IHily iu 8naUy L 5541 Avsraa for six MsOti adias Ux !. ... . im: 8'w aly. : , , ' 5g -"- Dily d -Sands? -5501 ' t. i - - i i SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR ' x SALEM, OREGON. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUN&27, 1923 "1 , PIUCD FIVH c: ,x ':-''-v ' v. ; lii; I ; ' - , - x r ... i t s r- 1MB! iTOCDRiOtJS U'rcsideht j Brings Question Before 1 2,000 People of ii - Utah irT Big Tabernacle; ; Thousands Wait Outside STATE GOVERNMENT J - :; EXPEflS$ GAINING r OnlY pve Have Hade py ; . Reductions v.DecIaresv ; --n .'Hording:: - ' " SALT tKE ClTXf Jnifc- CPy4 Mhe Associated I .Preisl): Prestem Hardinr ' broBgM Tt to UUh today ' an exposition of taa Yiews'of the administration on the - tax question ana- receirea ia x- ' tUTBi' renetred' faith in the f utiire of the republic through , the wel coie, accorded In Qsden Salt Lake City and a. half dozen small i 2Ikikg the alxth prepared ad dress er hts iwesternf trip, the ex- r. ccntlTe' in the Mormon tabernacle tpalht f dtscossed , taxation. The , cidreaa otf this. Question vaa m4de - - here becanae Utah la' : the"' home state of th,e chairman of the aen ' ate finance- com mi ttee, . Senator - Cznooti ?' '-.; - t; ..".'"""'''?.: . The Mormon tabernacle, which seats 12,0 90 "persons, was jammed to - the ; doors. Thousands V more vera.' gathered outside fthe taber- ' nacle grounds to hear the address. ty-'maana of rToIce'hmpllfyiBg':ap-;-raratas.-:; Tb aasembly hall oear- by in tha temple, grounds likewise was comfortably filled. " ' . I "Recently -1 hare' been furnish ed with some apeeifle '.figus' on . thU subject of thecost gorern- - dent by the bureau of the census r tie president sald -"I am not-pro-"T os!7t:-sc;.!'sca,'i7oiEr:jpa-' , t ; c .with an elaborate " presen- f ' '.'a of figures but I-want to aviivt VTe?f li i t wlir potnT my otserratlons about the enormous . 1 - increased cost 4I - gavefhme&t ererywhere. . Take the cost ' of sCate gOTernments. . I am inform- "' el that the rerenuea of the states la 191X aggregated $369,000,000, aad that in 1921 they had Increas el to $159,000,000; that is, they td Increased 161 per cent, and erery dollar of that, Increase had t come in some way "o mother . from the public; The expenditures et the sutes in 19 13 aggregated 1383.000,000. and tnl921 they t. ere $1,005,000,000;' an Increase et 163 per cent. The Indebtedness c( the statea In 1913 amounted to t ' 1123.000,000, and In 1921 td $1.J (12,000,000; an increase" X)f 129 i Z?t ceaV .' . jrv.'-' J - - ?; City Tx Ownrf.. ' Turi how to the costpf "city rprernment. - The census bureau t las complied data on the gorern zaents of 227 of the; jarge cities. : ; It la shown that these cities" In C 1913 coIlectjBd $890,000,000: Wall; t rarenues. and In 19 2 J they collect-" ei $l,567,000,OOOthatMi they, were compelled to take" 76 -"per cent more in taxes Ini,192l than1 tiey had taken In 1913. The same Croup ef cities expended 1n'19 12 f 1.010.C00.000. and In 1521, $1. 726,000,Otro an ncreise.o 711 ter cent. The total debt of this group of cities In 191$ waa $2, 01.000,000. which by 1921 had risen to $4,334.000,000 an in: crease of 49 per cent. , ("County administration appeara from the rather! limited ia forma tion which at this time the census authoritiea hare been able to pro duce, lo hare shown a much larg-- er propbrtlonate Increase . In cost land tax collections than did the torernment of cities. It is stated :. that for- 381. counties, distributed etnong 18 states, and regarded as i, fairly typical, the Increase in re ceipts from principal . sources of terenue: Increased 127 per" cent 2 from 1913 to. 1922; that Is. for : very hundred dollars of revenue 1 collected In 1913 $22788 colv "'beted lit 1922. And that ia not I tll.of It Tho total Indebtedness these same 381 counties In- (Continued on page 6) THE WEATHER , OREGON:; J' Fair Wednesday. LOCAL WEATHER ; f- r (Tuesday). . Maximum temperature, 76. Minimum temperature, 52. RlTf r, 1.6 feet. naiaTaTInoae.'--';--':;-' Atmosphere, , partly, cloudy." Wind, northwest. F!2faiSTlCT i'S HOwS EM. - ' ' ' Industrial Stride Declared to Have Slackened in Report " by Federal Reserve Agent ; Full Employment Reported From Many Districts'; Wheat Yield is Expected to be Greater Than That of Last Year. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.,. June 26. The bocm stride of industry throughout the -western part of the country5 slack ened sligbtly ; during lay" as f compared' with- the first Jfour months of. the year,' although most declines were 'largely seasonal,' according! to the" monthly' report of John 1 Perrin, San Francisco, federal reserve agent for the "twelfth c&strjct, made public here today. v! mum-: iiscrasysTEM City Gounctl Instructs Heajth and Police Committee to Take Action DALLAS, Or., June 26. (Spe cial to The Statesman.) At last night's meeting of the Dallas city council a number of heeded im prOTements were planned. .'. Fore most amonr the proposed Improve menta Is the Maple street sewer, which for -aereral years has been up before the council. ' " - The time has arrired when this sewer is badly needed and the health, and police' committee : was Instructed to: have the necessary preliminary work done relative to its construction. j " ;''' It waa also' decided at the meet ing to construct a strm sewer to take care of the surface water in the western ; part of town and In the business district where the streets axe Jjaxdaitf fAeadwVW'Ith the present sewer systems over loaded most xt the time the storm water clogs the sewer and In many instancea the-. sewage- flows outot the manholes- and along the Btreetsrmaklng it exceedingly un healthful. ! . It waa at first planned to build a combination ; s.ewer on Maple streetr"hut" afterrconsultlngr en gineers about ' the matter It waa found more practical and less ex pensive to build two separate sys tems. An -option has been se cured from Abel Uglow for' a site lb build a neweeptic- tank which wllli ba needed when the Maple street sewer Is constructed, and when plans and specifications have been prepared bids will be called for for the construction of the three projects i. - 1 The city council thought it bet tar to construct the storm sewer at tba time as it ' is' planning; the hard surfacing of some of the macadam streets in the , near fu ture, and thla would be Impracti cal 'uhleMff he sewer systems were taken care of first. V TO Court Decision Enables In ( terstate i Company to Compete in gtate , ' j A court decision In Portland yes terday will' enable the 'Interstate Stage company of Seattle to' op erate its sUges In Portland,. .. It was said at the offices of the pub lic service commission." The com pany .has" obtained permits- under the Oregon law and will operate a line ' or stages between Seattle and San Francisco. The company starts operations with eight stages, each of 20 passengers capacity. , , 1 n obtaining' . permits from the public service commission the com pany was 'represented by A. M. Schoenfeld. j The company operat ed for a time " lasi year under state V permits. - has" been de layed In' making a start because the city of Portland would not al low the company fo operate there. It ' Is proposed . to Operate cars through from Seattle to Portland and from Portland to San " Fran cisco, and to book passengers from steamships. ; Large booking con tracts already are claimed. J NURSES END MEET . --EUGENE. Ore.; June ; 25. The annual convention of 'the Oregon Graduate Nurses' association end- mm - A- j. . ...I .t el tcals&t, . , ,s : Mr. Perrin's' report, on. condl tions In California, Washington, Oregon. Utah v Idaho. Nevada and Arizona notes a spirit of caution prevailing in .the business and fi nancial eituatlon. Loans -of sixty six erportiBg member banks which had increased nearly $100000,000 during the first lour ! months, -ad- vanced ' oaly j $9,000,000 ' during May. Investment holdings of the same banks also declined $5,0Q0 000 in this month.- w- i ; Building is Active .Lumber mills of. the district were generally operated to- capa city:; mines produced metal in slightly increased -qua n t i t e a; building activity, the value of per mits for - which was tear-percent greater than and - the number the same as April continue unabated. Another new record of : petroleum production was set during . May, Full employment ef labor is re ported from all f sections of the dUtrict. r: r' I V Small. I-'irms PslV The volume of business trans acted during ' May1 was 20.8 perf ceht greater than for May, 1922, the increase being appfoximatelf the isama 1 as that Pita previous months- in this year over -the cor responding months of 1 92 1'. -; Ex cepting "the month of December, last, sales of retair during ; May were" greater than in any month of the-pasf four; year;, Wholesale movement of goods ; showed a slight seasonal decline. The num ber of business failures increased during the month bfftr small con cerns were chiefly concerned. The general level of prices declined slightly. m 1 - ' , j Weather conditions for the most part have been favorable for the growth of; farm crops and of feed for livestock; A yield of wheat well in excess of last year's short crop has been predicted. 4-DAV FLIGHT Five New Records Will Be By Two Army ; Aviators s SAN: DIEGO, Cal., June 20. CapL' Lowell H. Smith and Lieut. John D. RJdhter of Rockwell field, army aviators, went tp bed early tonight' to get-a good sleep, in preparation for a flight which they will start at dawn tomorrow, and in- which they hope, by tak ing on1 fuel in midair, to break several spepd. endurance and dis tance records and to establish five more records. BMOM . Ba rgai ns t Barga I ns ! ' Ba rgai ns ! Everybody will be having1 bar gains on next Friday and Satur day, when Salem merchants offer the public their Sixth Annual Bar gain dayv;v; . -j -i.. fi . ' This Is an event extraordinary, and will command the attention of ?the buying; public,- for f miles around as 'most every one I Is al ways on the market for' real bar gains In clothing, groceries,- fruit, drugs, meats and the minjr other things ' being offered by the . en terprising and live wire merchant. The history of bargain day has been told "over and over again and each year finds more merchants and a greater, buying crowd being PILOTS PUN ISTSE1NY f n PRI FOR COIIGT Scopolamin Test Clears Man of Murder Charge at San Quentin; Others Found Guilty , . : LYING IMPOSSIBLE . "I UflDER tTS lfQWER Reasoning .Faculties Djsap pear and Truth Alone ' Istold , . SAN QUENTIN, Cal., June 26 (By Associated Press.) Scopo lamin, an alakoid was used in ex "periments on three inmates Of San Quentin prison here today, as a fe au It "of which Job n L. Farrar, con victed of murder of a Chinese da Sacramento, was proved Innocent; Euegna O'Leary. a former service man? sentenced from Sacramento on a grand; larceny charge,-provided authorities with information as to his 'identity and John L. Johnson,. negro, admitted his guilt and confessed to participation in other crimes, according to the ex perimenters. Dr. R. E. House of Ferris, Texas, conducted the ex periments .before several prison officials and criminal investiga tors; , ' -- ' -y;w; ;j f . Tft SurreHaiux " "Dr." House declared 'the scopor lamlA rendered " the subjects ' inca pable of mental inhibltlon and de prived them of reasoning power so that they' were Incapable of ly ing while under its - influence. Other faculties, however remaJnf- 9d intact." heJsald.t"':w r '; Farrar,- while under the - influ ence of the alakoid, confessed that he participated in the -attempted robbery of a Chinese -merchant ia Sacramento during 'which - the Chinaman was' killed.' Farrar waa convicted, of the man's murder, but according to his' story told 'while nnder the drug's Influence, the fa tal shot was fired by Roy Carver an accomplice in the ' attempted robbery.; " 4 -. .- ? "Mystery-is Cleared? - j Much' mystery- had .surrounded O'Leaay's' case; His court test! mony" and ' war departmcnt'TeCOrds disagreed widelyr " " "' " " t Johnson ' .readily related inci rdents of: his career and admitted Other ; criminal - acts, according to the experimenters. " O'Leary declared he had been wounded-five 'times while fight ing In' the " Argonne forest. Physi cians examined him and found four wound scars.: ' ' -: STORY IS REPEATED BERKELEY, Cal.. June 2.-j- Henry wiueaa or. Ban ' fTancisco, who -waa -acquitted-of the mnxdar orrhfcrwife- Mrs;- Anna Wtlkens last March, was 'again, acquitted of the1 charge at Hospital hospital last night after he had submitted voluntarily to the scopolamin test; according to experimentors. Drf R. EJ House, of Ferris, Texas, conducted the experiment which was witnessed by several personsL According to tht experimentoYs, Wilkens while under- the drug's Influence, related ' in detail the Identical copy of the events lead ing up to his wife's death that he told upon the witness stand dur ing his two ' trials. . He was kept under -the drug's influence for four hoars. ftCliOONER BURNED PORTLAND, Oret.June 26. The schooner Vancouver burned in Honolulu today.' ! srases Bargain, ready to give a, bargain and ready to buy a bargain. j ! Every ' nierchant who ; has en tered the bargain-giving event will have ; hanging in hia window an authorltive card announcing that within : the store are bargains, put on especially ; for this city-wide sale, and that the man or" woman who- Is seeking flrst'quality "mer chtndfae at reduced . prices ' will find Just whaty they wanf -: j In the years previous this ant nual event offered opportunities that were taken advantage of by thousands , of shoppers, and " al though the. lime of , the sale is now near at, hand, and littl time SOI DOOR r ' ; t . - ; - ORPHANAGE COLLAPSES; 39 ARE DEAD Mohammedan Boys Asleep When K Accident ' Occurs; Many in J Hospital " j CALCUTTA; June 26. Thirty nine Mohammedan '"boy orphans' were killed', today In the collapse of a section of the orphanage building In the. heart of Calcutta. Thirty-three injured were' sen.t to the hospital and 25 others were slightly injured. . Two hundred ,and twenty-nine inmates from three to 18 years of age, were asleep In the dormitories wh en'thi! 1u Ilding, which recently had a,8econd story superimposed, eollapsedV 4urylng : about a hun dred of the children in the debris. The others escaped. LARGE PBOJECT Stayton Man Proposes Wat ; er Power Development ' , to Cost $250,000 A permit has been issued by Percy- A. Cupper, state' engineer, to A. r D. Gardner of Stayton to appropirate 1000" second feet of trater for! power development from the' Notth Santlam river. . Mr. Gardner.' -according to ! present plans,: proposes to develop a total of 13,636 horsepower at four points'-between Mehama and the present development at Stayton at an estlnmted cost of $25tT,0OO. - It is proposed to ' - utilize ; the power for -general commercial put poses aad Uf supply 'il additional power to the industries - at 1 Stay- ton which arerow using 1500 horsepower - that- has ' been1 devel oped - at Stayton- for a'-tfumber of years." Any surplus power that may be developed will be sold at wholesale; 'a ' '" -. The development of this power Is considered to be of considerable Importance- on account' xtf itBi ac cessiblllty to Salem,5 Jefferson; Al bahy end other' towns in the cen tral Willamette : valley: New Members Organizer arKi Old Ones Close Up Un finished' Affairs All the old members oKthe Sa lem -school board were onJiand at the regular .meetlpgTuesday- night to perform their last off ieial acts and!tos-up their .administration in. good form.--w i: ,:4-. . , They-discussed some of the mat ters that had been hanging fire with, the board, oyer which they had the rightful controL One was the payment of several bills for wood that has been delivered for heating the' schools for the coming- year. I Another was the ;order for the payment to Architect F. A. Legge, pf the contract "sum due htm for the architectural work on the new high school annex: And then the two retiring old members. Paul Wallace and Wal ter Wlnslow, retired. Clerk Burg- khardt read off the last minutes; Chairman Wlnslow 'signed them, and the board adjourned sine die. The new -board ' organized by nominating and electing Dr. H. .1I. Ollnger as chairman and , L. J. Slmeral Vice chairman of the board for the jar to come. Di rectors P M. Gregory and Wil liam Gahlsdorf were sworn fa. and the board is now a .working body o ff the hardest job In Sulem or any other town that of; making one dollar do . two dollar's f worth of service; while everybody expects them to make itdo the. work jf five or six, and stack In the bank and draw Interest all at the same time; li'TV.":; .v: 7;'' : .The; board . discussed a number of building conditions for the high school. The matter of a separate heating room plant was gone In to at some length, the board ad- ourning to the back yard to see ust ho It would" all work out. The Plans adopted for the apSez called for, the using of thb-y pres ent snfokestacksr for two ; of the present four hot air1 furnaces, and the installation of the steam boil ers for the new additlonto, be connected to the same stack, while two of the, present furnaces were tb be- diverted to I the old central stack that waa abandoned when the hew ones were built.' The board eiDButis (Continued Oh pto , LIQUOR flEED : '5f Ss Medical Men Declare Gov ernment Restrictions Are Hampering Treatment of Diseases RADIUM SAID TO' ERASE BIRTHMARK Scientist Reports Cure Is Ef fective; Apply When Young SAN FRANCISCO, June 26. A series of resolutions attacking the Volstead V act for hindering . the work of the medical profession was resented today to the house of delegates of the American Med ical association, r i ? ' - : : .Three offered by Dr. T. C. Chal mers. New York delegate protest ed 'that the government restric tions are hampering the efforts of physicians In treatment of disease; urged ' that patients be permitted to c obtain t through prescription generous quantities of bottled-in-bond whiskey with : the r original seal; intact; and requested expul sion from the medical profession ef physicians who prescribe liquor for other than medicinal purposes. -"Action is Expected - :'..Dr. V. O. Veckl, San Francisco, submitted a, fourth resolution ask ing modification of regulation so as to make unnecessary the sign ing of prescription by a, patient. ?To disclose ; the i patient's- name is a violation of medical confid ence,": he aaid.r Action on the re solution Is expected Thursday by the; house of delegates which the executive body ofrthe i organiza tion whose membership is com posed 6f 90.000 d,oc,torsv j' '--xC'Silx t , At the: first general meeting conference Dr. Ray Lyman Wil bur head of Stanford University, California.- was Installed tonight as president. : ' ; r REMOVK . BIRTHMARKS , SAN FRANCISCO,- June 26. Birth 'marks, notably those of the 'strawberry" -variety.' are being eradicated through application of radium. Dr. Lawrence R. 1 Tussig f - the University of (California told the American Radium society today at a meeting in connection with the American Medical asso ciation's convention here. Or Taussig? and Dr. : Sanford Withers, Denver, and Dr: H N: Cole of Cleveland, agreed that bet ter cosmetic results were obtained if children : were 'treated : as soon as the mark was noticed. In stances were cited where a brief application of a . tiny . amount of radium had in a few minutes re moved all traces 'of these birth marks. - " 41st Encampment Now in Session; 350 Are Ex-Soldiers SPOKANE, Wash., June 26.- More than- 1000 members of the Grand Army of the Republic and associated organizers assembled here today for; the 'first sessions of the 41st enacmpment. depart ment of Washington and Alaska. About ' 300 ex-soldiers of the Union armies belonging to thla de partment have passed pn since the last encampment, .Commander. En- bch Seers: told the combined as semblage at the Armory today. It is estimated that this leaves about 1200 veterans living. Three hun dred and fifty of those here today are ex-soldiers. The rest of the 1,000' are ladies of the GAR, Daughters of Vtterans,. Sons of Veterans, and members of the Women's Relief corps, in order 6f number. Excess LitTJors Are Takevrom vessels NEW YORK. June 26. The French Hn6r Paris and the White Star liner Cedrie, the third and foucth vessels to defy : American law! by bringing' liquor Into New York under-government seals to day lost their excess beer. ! wine and liquor when customs officials under Deputy Surveyor Curran went aboard and selaed all but tnedjclsal supplies, . MEET. SPOKE of mm Sci Soperinteodent )Yedel and Ncrses o( Deacczsss tion Aver Tfcat i?ijiis!pe Hetcd Ost to G::ls T V Severe f as Represented Refuj-J of Pcrsca -T.Ir.Ir. Complaint to Giye Naine Resented.' . Pirect refutation to a complaint filed yesterday in t! justice, court, 'signed by Chief f Police Eirtchet, in v i:.:. it -was stated that three of the Deaconess hospital crzzl: Mrs. Martha Rooney, Anna Dirkson and Frank Wedcl, v. : guilty of assault and battery upon the person of or.o cf t inmates, 15-year-old Allean Coxy," who, it was allege J, crueUr and brtrtally treated while punishment wa3 nd--: istered recently, is made by F. t. Wedel, superintendent c the Deaconess hospital. ; jy v; " , - ;i. I When interviewed yesterday afternoon, to give the I pital people an opportunitv-to state their side of the r tion, the attitude was tafcfo thst the Deaconess hospit-il L been openly and.publicljfl condeinned - before they had L; given an opportunity to heardk -v - '.- - ' ; - ;. r....J.JJ:J:."-:.'.. r - , Jl .cording to F. D Wed.l, t MJVICTJS fZ--; : George; McCallister, Pard oned trom Penitentiary, Accused of .Theft : DALLAS. Or., June 26. (Spe cial to The Statesman.) Sheriff J ohn W. ? Orr yesterday arrested George McCallister. who lives: near Reynolds station. 10- miles west oi SUverton,- on a charge of stealing In Polk county. . ;, ' McCallister, who is an ex-con vict, was sent to the state Dent tentiary - several years ago' from Malhenr0JUUy-for horse steal ing to serve a term of from one to 1 0 years; Mt is said ' that' he was anything hut a model convict while In the penitentiary, and af ter four years was 'pardoned. " " Last Thursday night or some time early Friday morning he Is alleged to have " driven to the ranch of Jessie Walling near Spring Valley and took a carbu- reator, spot llghtand wiring from Mr. Wallings car. About 10 days ago, he Is said to have stolen two front wheels, including the tires, two pipe wrenches and two cres cent wrenches and a pair of pilars front William Gausllne, living pear Spring Valley, and at the same time he stole the things 'from the Walling place he is accused of tak ing a five-gallon drum of lubri cat ins oil and a tent fly from the E. L. Gibson ranch In the Eola hills. ' ,m Sheriff Qrr bad been notified immediately after , the' thefts a&d took prints f the tires of the car the man was driving. - He also picked up a small combination tool;, McCallister had dropped ot one of the placesrand with this evidence and other information he bad picked up, proceeded, to the man's - home Monday' In 'company with a Marion county officer. Mc Canister at first denied the theft of the articles; but' afterwards ad mitted he took them, according to the of fleers. v """ "4 He will be given a hearing thts morning before "Justice of the Peace Ed F.'Coad, at which time. he states that be will plead guilty. BGIIS SHOT BY FATHER Parent Makes Denial; Says tlder Daughter Did Shooting OGDEN. Utah, June 26, A shot rang out in a leading hotel here today Just as the automobiles carrying members of - President Harding's official party were pa rading past the lines of hundreds of persons gathered to greet the chief executive. Police who' In vestigated found Sirron Mousigin; 12 year old, shot twice and in a serious condition in a room at the hotel, : 1 ' The girl's father. Madoras Mou sigin. a bacterologist, formerly of the University of California, and his eldest daughter; Nvart, 19, were detained by the authorities. - Mouslginv according to the Po lice,-asserted that Nvart shot her younger sister, while the two girls, . it was . alleged. . declared their lather dlj tlje shooUn.. "A fa J periatendent of the Deaconess L: pjiai, u .lrsx inumauon j i., . agemenrhad of anyttlc? c I c: the -way was when Chief cf I -lice t Birtchet, - District --Atfcrr John H. Carson. Sheriff O. D. I er. Deputy. District Attorney I and County Judge Bushey tl-I, the institution and asked to r the girls.. .The inmates were ti' to the basement of the bu'l according to Wedel, and t! : i questioned. Hospital peopla v excluded during the Interview r the girls. Serving of notices tl the complaint had been II against them were the flrEt ir'.'t -atlon that any charge had t made, declared Wedel. f i Hospital Not TalJ ;;' "These ' children are 1 glvca ' the 'hospital to' be raise 1 j t hospital kfter other eourcc i 1 been exhausted," Eut crlnt: Weder:stated. :Any; dec . . . sensible person who - under: ; . children . is -welcome to -cc: : the hospital at any time tkr.li r that the children are be!j r- -perly taken care of. sent to ec!. : . , and adequately clothed, - all er penses of which are borne by t! . hospital and without cost ta C. county. '' ; r - -t "But when a girt as tie c . In' question; who cannot ts ml ' by her own parents, ii receive 1, how much less: will che let ctl . people rule her. "It is not right." continued II Wedel, "for the hospital to 1 condemned openly before it tu ... been granted a hearing. The hes- pital haa been giren no epportss'. ty to say -one word in its defer:;. It is not Justice. "The delegation ot men cam a to the hospital Tuesday and t--': all the girls to the basement, in ¬ cluding the hospital poop la. Ttt was - said- and . what . was - d : r. 3, I do not know, for they never fi' a word to me. - The first we I r ' of what had happened was t-- we read the evening papers. Chief Did Not Know Inforrt-r t 't called Police Chief fclri.L I on the phone to learn Who- It'i that had made the complaint. II i told me he did not know, but tLt a woman who would not give her name had made the complaint ov er the telephone. The hospital t" j not - had a square deal. If tl name -of the -person making ti. complaint is not worth signing ti the complaint, is that cocspli- worth anything that blas;Lc-3 an Institution?" ' When asked lf,it was frue tLat it was the practice of the hoe-it; 1 to place the girls upon a diet cf bread and water, the reply was (Continued on pag9 2) r"OLD GLORY The out-' ward and visible sign cf inward and spiritual grace. EVERY FLAG flyln- V't Independence Day will ! 3 a tribute to the toys who f:U and fell "Over TLore." BED , FL.AG ANI.CU. -MENT on paga ...