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OHIO IHDEfJ I AMIICM II 1T1TEH FOR CONVICTS Pair From Penitentiary Tak : en on Canadian Fishing Trip as Servants; Says Has One's Pardon PROCEEDINGS TERMED AS "POLITICAL BUNK" Not Real Murderers Declares Warden; Canadian Offi cials to Probe CdLUMBUS. Ohio. Axis. 1. Without word from Governor Don ahey and Warden P. E. Thomas of the Ohio penitentiary wno wiui ihfl tnvsrnor'a six sons and the warden son started on a fishing rln into Canada! Monday, at taches of the legislative office this evening We're trying to figure the outcome of "international com: plications" which has arisen by the ' presence in the governor's party ; of.two convicts from the state 'prison taken along as cocy and chauffeur. Advices from Canada today, were that the dominion govern-! ment prohibits the entrance of criminals into its domain and that step may be taken by emigration omciais mere 10 ueun mew. : : Governor Responsible - r Price Russell. Vfonrier legisla tive clerk, to Governor Donahey and recently appointed chalrma of the state" board? of clemency, expressed the . opinion that there ire "no characterisation Inasmuch is the" two convicts riot "only ar.e In the custodv of ihe Warden but also of the" governor himself, and that two Ohio officials would have in a foreign country praellcally the same rignis as an araua- . ........ :ri- .. V I .4..".. . dor. t It was .suggested by others at the legislative office 'thai the gov ernor, if he so desired, could grant ih.e prisoners i f nil and uncondi tional pardon and 'restore them to eitizensblp. in tms connection it was pointed out the the gover nor? does not surrender any of his duties and powers as chief ex ecutive of the state by going out side the state. .. s VAIUEN PEEVEP -i TORONTO, OnC Aug. 1. Coventor Donahey of Ohio, in an Interview with the Toronto Star foday (chaVacterized " as "politi cal bunk" the prominence given the news that two convicts were accompanying his fishing party in governor, who was reached zt Cobocqnk Ont., was I further quoted, as saying: ' "This news was published to hurt 'me; ' 1 have signed pardons in my' desk; at the legislative man sion for Earl Jennings, one of the murderers, and Ct ZIprlani, the other, is employed as a cook. Both men' are 'trusties and have been for over five years. "These boys are not real mur derers. They were convicted of second degree murder, no first. Theyr started to fight in a pool room and in both cases their op ponents were accidentally' killed. I am personally responsible . for these men and I know them." i INQUIRY ORDERED OTTAWA, Ont., Aug. 1. W. R. Little, dominion : commissioner of immigration, announced to night that' he would inaugurate a -thorough inquiry tomorrow info the bringing into Canada by Gov ernor Donahey of J Ohio I of two second degree murder convicts, one as chauffeur and one as cook for the governor's fishing party. , : Once a criminal has passed the border, it was pointed out, he is no longer amenable to the disci pline of the United States Institu tion In which he was serving time a; J has the Btatus of an undesir able criminal alien at large. It the convicts were so Inclined It back to, the United Slates with the governor's party until i they had been formally extradited. : THE WEATHER OREGON: Fair Thursday; , moderate westerly winds. LOCAL WEATHER -(Wednesday) " Maximum temperature, 79. Minimum temperature, 49., Rainfall, none. River. .7. Atmosphere, clear. Wind, northwest. " i FRANCE CSITKKIB ON miWM TAKEN Manifest Aversion Toward Being Thrown in Company with Negroes From Colonies Brings Rejbuke From Newspapers; No 4CoIor Line" in Empire Declarej Editorial ; Cooperation Accepted During War. PARIS, Augi 1,- The following official warning regard ing the behavior of tourists who Had manifested aversion to being thrown into ) company with colored men from the French colonies was repeated in an editoriaTin the semi official Temps today with some explanatory comment. "BUCK JACK" PAYS RESPECTS TO CHIEF Pershing Makes Formal Call on: President; Pleased With Progress PRESIDENTIAL. HEADQUAR TERS,' Palace Hotel, San Francis co, Aug. 1. (By the ; Associated Press) General -Pershing who arrived in San Francisco tonight said on leaving the president's apartment after! a formal call to pay hie respectsi that his Impres sion of the president's condition was distinctly , encouraging. The general, did not go into the president's bedroom but saw Mrs. Harding and , Brigadier General Sawyer, the president's personal physician. General Pershing was reluctant to comment' on what he bad I learned but admitted . that General Sawyer had reiterated to him earlier expressions to news paper men the president was mak ing progress. Then he added, smilingly, "Mrs. Harding thinks so too.. ' - FREJGli STEAMED Los Angeles i Men Lose Out in Attempt to Seize Liquor On "Alaska" LOS ANGELES. Aug. 1. Cus toms and prohibition officers to day attempted to seize the French ship Alaska on the ground' it had brought liquor into Los Angeles harbor. After her master had protested to the s French consul, with the result the matter was turned over the United States public health service. Dr. R. II. Hetrick, surgeon in charge of that service here, ruled the liquor on the Alaska was for medicinal pur poses. The vessel will sail from here to Seattle and "thenreturo to France by way of the Panama canal. s- . Governor Pierce Praises Gardens at Colony Farm Governor Piefce lavishly prais ed the gardens and the farms of the state hospital for the Insane, Including the Colony ..farm, at a meeting of the ' state board of control yesterday. y "I visited them while you were away, Sam," he, said to Secretary of State Kozer,' "and I found them in excellent condition." , "I am glad you finally got over there," said Kozer, referring to the Colony farm. "It's great," said the governor. "My only regret was that It does n't belong to the state." The Colony farm is 'owned by Super intendent Steiner of the state hos pital and Dr. J.' C. Evans, one of the hospital staff, and the fact that the state under ihe previous administration ' made a -J farming agreement on the land has led to some criticism, i Municipal Barn Blaze in Eugene Loss Near $6,000 EUGENE. Ore.. Aug. 1. City street equipment. Including a mo tor truck Btree f lusher, . and . 1 2 tons of hay were lost in, a blaze that totally destroyed the munic ipal barn shortly after 10 o'clock tonight. .The fire is believed to have been started by hoboes ' who have been in the habit of sleeping in the loft, and was highly spec tacular and : drew i'.. hundreds of spectators. City ofriciais set the loss pf .equipment at about DRY FORCES RAID ... 1 I The . editorial makes special reference to "those very particu lar race among our American guests who had forgotten that the French make no distinctions between the Inhabitants of its im mense empire whatever their race or color. ; , "They will-undoubtedly hence forth," adds the article, "see In them nothing but Frenchmen like other Frenchmen and win recall that their own country like ours, accepted during the war the co operation of black troops1." s It concludes by pointing : out that Frenchmen . willingly submit to the '.'dry" regulations .when in the United States and adds "our foreign fiends' will as willing sub mit to a regulation not imposed by law, but by our charanter. Called Home for Conference "On Various Matters," It Is Reported , WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. Am bassador Crowder's sudden return from Havana is being interpreted here as - the nature of a protest against the trend -Of Cuban legis lative action in recent weeks. Whether it foreshadows any fur ther developments in relations be tween the two governments, ia.not being disclosed. State department officials will not dlspuss the de velopment and hold to their ori ginal guarded statement that gen eral Crowder has been called home for conference "on various matters.'! Recent enactment of the Cuban lottery bill was counter to the ad vice of the United States goy em inent. , Amb-issador Crowder went to Cuba for . the specific purpose of lending such aid as he could as a special representative of President Harding in shaping a Cuban legis lation program that would aid in the recover of the island.. He, un dertook his mission at the request of the Cuban government. 1 ' CHEWS FROM CUBftfJ POST PRESIDENT HARDING ENJOYS SHORT VISIT FROM SISTER PRESIDENTIAL. HEADQUAH TERS, Palace Hotel, San Francis co, Aug. 1. r?y ibe Associated Press) President Harding was resting comfortably tonight after, a' day described by his physicians as "somewhat restless" v but yet marked by many indications that he was slowly but surely winning bis way' back to health. The restlessness of the day was In part due, it was said by the physicians, to a slight and only temporary attack of Indigestion. This unfavorable condition, how evr was more than overbalanced by the decline of the preeidenfa temperature to normal for the first time. Mention of both these elements in the president's condi tion was made , by the physicians in a bulletin issued at 4 : BO o'clock this .evening. The bulletin added that there was evidence of "slight improvement" in the condition of the1 lungr, where central patches of broncho-pneumonia have exist ed since Monday. The putee, ac cording to the bulletin, had varied during the day from IK to 120 and the respiration from 36 to 40. ' Improvement NoteI . Every official .statement today contained evidence of Improve ment.' The result Is that tonight the cautious persons are almost ready o announce that all dan ger is passed. They recognize, however, they said in a bulle tin issued shortly after 10 o'clock J tqday, lhatlexerj care ,is neces- POOR EARWIG BLAMED FOR . i COP'S ERROR Mrs. .Officer Thompson Still Believes Bug Ate' Hole in Nice, New Tablecloth .While the "earwig is deserving of little or no sympathy, still It is a shame to use the defenseless in ectaa an alibi for the careless- "- of a big healthy man. espe- daily when that man happens to be a patrolman. I Ofriwr "Walter Thompson took his family and a! few others on a picnic last Sunday and when he attempted to cut a cake the knifo slipped and; cut a hole 4n Mrs. Thompson' mice- tablecloth. Though Officer Thompson is not afraid of Crooks and other things, he greatly disliked t,o hear what Iis ,.w)fe would 'j say ..when she found the . hole, in the ..cloth. . . tVednestday Thompson ; thought it about time to explain to his wire . ho,w the accident occrreu. and arpjed 'with, ft, bouquet of loses to .preface pla explanation, entered bis. house. I iri' Before he had an opportunity to make his ' Uttle ' talk, Mrs. Thompson discovered that one of toe roses was intestea wun ear wigs. . She immediately placed the Diame .or lap poie ; in me iaww cloth upon the Insect, and Officer Thompson, .for once in his life. neglected to 4o,hiSduty and clear the , innocent , animal, but , quietly lftJLhe. residence. '" ' END TEMPLAR SPEECH President Harding's Talk to Hollywood Commandery , Given By Proxy SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1. (By the Associated Press.) O. B Christian, Jr., secretary ; to Presi- dent Harding,' left San Francisco tonight Cor Los Angeles to act for the president In the presentation tomorrow of the Knights Templar traveling beauseant to the com mandery at Hollywood. The president, who is a Knight Templar, with Marion, Ohio, his home commandery, had planned to make the presentation as one Of the features of his visit to Los Angeles and vicinity. When he bec&me ill and realized he. could not go to Los Angeles he directed Mr Christian to act for him. Dur ing the return trip from Alaska the president wrote the address he planned to make in presenting the eauseant, and Secretary Chris tlan, who also is a, Knight Tem plar, will read this address at the ceremonies in Hollywood bowl. Mr. Christian today carried a per aonal message from the president to the clergymen of San F.rancis- to who gathered in Grace Catbed ral to pray for the speedy recov M y1?. 5,lie' executive. The iijettfag) Yfes held at the hour the preldenra original schedule call ed for'" him to" receive the San Francisco ministers. sary to assure freedom from fur ther complications." With this situation existing, there was a set tling down during the day to task of bringing about! a complete re covery) a task, that will require an Indefinite number; of days, most of which will be spent here in San Francisco. The headquarters, hurriedly established here last Sunday - morning were altered In some respects to ptomote efficien cy and "so that there may be' the same 'smooth running condition that obtains at the White' House in Washington. i Eats Light Foods if-The formal day bulletin spoke of the president as being fairly comfortable. It gave his 'temper ature as 99 degreespulse 114 and respiration 30. The amount of nourishment taken by the" presi dent during the' day was ' still small , but as one , of the' physic ians said "quite sufficient." It continued to consist of milk, soft boiled eggs, a little toast, and fruit Juices! Elimination was sat isfactory and for 4he ist time was described as r'?gular' Sister is Caller i j Another Indication of progress was" tha he received his first vis itors in two days, Mrs. E. E Hemspurg, , of Santa pa, Calif., his sister. She with her daugh ters, Katherine aid Nell Marie, arrived in San Francisco early in the 4ay, and shortjy hefe noon (Continued oa page 2) IXIOUS SWAIN T LOOK AT E E bmau boais Hired and Bridegrooms-to-Be Flock to Ship With Candy and mm. m mm m Fruit; Chased Away i INSPECTING FORCE IS i DECLARED TOO SMALL Only 2000. Per Day Can Be (raascu iiiiuujjii tin a Island at' Present NEW YORK, Aug. 1. Nearly 2000 ' immigrants were added to the population . of the United States! io4ay at the port of New YorR.t between iz.ovo and is. 000 other 'aliens waited in line their turn ,t pass .through .Ellis Island. They came frpp 22 coun tries, Asia and "Africa. ,; Immigration Commi eiioser Curran, yrftk what" he stated was a "distressingly inadequate" force of Inspectors, did: his utmost, to pass the immigrants 'through the station with, the least possible de lay or inconvenience. May Wait Week The largest number that could be handled In one day. was 2,000.' At this rate many of those, who have already come will be forced to remain aboard their ships for a week. Other; thousands were reported racing for port. Four liners reported by wire less that they would arrive either tonight or Thursday and at least three others, with approximately 1500" passengers will appear Fri day, v. ,. '.;.. -I ( : : The commissioner estimated that between eight and a dozen August quotas, of amall countries were expected - tonight. He said he could not give' definite figures until Washington had notified him that the month allotments were filled. i Wooed by Letter Fifty Syrian and Armenian pic ture brides, ; arrived on the liner Madonna from Mediterranean 'and Black Sea ports, v Many of j the prospective bridegrooms hired small boats in which they cruised about the liner seeking a view of the girls they hed wooed by letter and trying to throw aboard boxes of fruit and' candy.' The conges tion about the ship was so great that a police launch was called and chased away the excited swains.- i , fl Charlton of Prineville Be comes' Principal Keeper; . DavisonOut ; i r O. M. Charlton of Prineville has been appointed by Warden Johnson; S. Smith as principal keeper at the state prison to suc ceed J. W. Lilly, i The latter; was promoted to deputy warden.! to succeed R. E. Mantor resigned. Smith yesterday ; let out John Davison, one of the famous peni tentiary guards of the northwest, and ' also ' Yardmaster ' Palmer. TbesQ a.re some of the changes Smith !s 'making because of criti cism ' that has been directed at the prison management " since the es cape of a large number of con victs In recent moinths. ' The war den has indicated that he would make several more v changes. ! Davison has been employed at the penitentiary f for more than five years, practically all the time as an armed wall guard over pris oners on the inside and he never has let a man escape him either at the Oregon prison or at other penal Institutions In the northwest where, he has been ; employed. Davison has been for a long time guard over the "bull pen" where the most desperate convicts are kept at times. lit was while guarding the "bull pe'n" about a year" asp that Davison shot; and killed Jim Ogle, confessed slayer of J. N. Burgess and George E. Peringer of Pendleton, Davison claimed . Ogle threw a rock at him ; in an attempt to knock him from the wall. While a guard at Walla Wallah Davison killed "Tiger" Johnson,', a notorious, convict, IN PIGTUR BRIO mm MAKES 10 cm s ENGLISH STILL N DARK OVER NEGOTIATIOIS Closing Session of . Parlia ment May or May Not Dis close Next Move Upon Part of Government RESTRICTED DEBATES ARE EXPECTED TODAY Baldwin Gives No Indication ' Concerning Nature' of His Statements LONDON, Aug. 1. (By The Associated Press. ) Whether the closing sitting ot r parliament to morrow will reveal the next step of the British government in the difficult European question is still unknown. ' 'The cabinets prolonged -discussion today has only , brought thus far the announcement that Pre mier Baldwin and i Lord Curzon will make simultaneous ' v state ments in the House of Commons and Lords respectively tomorrow, but not the slightest indication of the nature of these '.statements. The prime minister's a&mission in the commons today that in the absence of permission from the French and Belgian governments tor publication of ther notes, the debate would be restricted, seems to point to the fact that the gov ernment dfoes not believe the time has arrived to take any new line. ; ' ' May Call Extra Session. M. Poincare, the French pre mier, has all? along insisted on the secrecy of the negotiations and until he lifts this embargo or the -British government decides that it Is impossible to suffer fur ther delay it is difficult to see how there can be any publication of the , communications which have passed. - The prime minister will prob ably appeal to the house not to embarrass the delicate and diffi cult negotiations by hard criti cisms, he having already under taken that a special session of parliament shall be called if a new situation arises requiring the sanction of that body. . Unemployment Discussed How carefully the government lias to proceed before risking an open breach with France Was il lustrated in the parliament to night. Though Mr. Baldwin's pol icy has the support of a large sec tion of the country. The house tonight was duscussing the grave problem of unemployment, and Sir Clement Montague Barlow, Minister of Labor outlined the various government plans for re lief work. Sir Clement Mon tague urged the government to keep in mind the situation. . " 5 Fears Competition " '..Ha .proceeded to argue that both' bermany find France were likely to' be Britain's . greatest trade competitors; "' they were both largely in Britain's debt and were, making no effort; to pay thoeo debts. He contended that if Germany escaped paying she would become the most powerful country in Europe. Germany had (Continued on page 2) Letters From a By GEORGE H. GRAVES ROUND XXVII SALEM. Ore.. July 30. The ity of Baker. Ore., I found to be i city with wide streets, old build ings and out of date hotels. I parked my car In front of the Geyser Grand hotel, head in. and might remark right here, that of all the place I was In, In five states, Salem is the only place where they back the auto into the curb. f ; '. When I came out from supper I found a man hanging around old 'Tootsie." I could :, not divorce him from that car, he admired It so much. I had to ,tell him all about It. It's past history and a whole lot of things J did not tell him. ' He drove up' to the curb in his car with his wife,' son and two daughters, and they had to drive away without, him. I had to take him for a ride, and then he In sisted on my putting the car in his garage for the night, and he was there when I went after it at 6 In the morning. I believe he Is going to build one Just like It. believe he would have gone on with me if I had invited him. Leaving Baker I was soon climbing over the Blue Mountains Some climb, but such a beautiful road. ' Just another sample of the BANKERS ASK HARDING FOR GRAIN RELIEF Would Ilaye Government Agency - Buy Crop Based Upon Cost, of Production FARGO. N. D., Aug. 1. -More than. COO farmers and bankers at a . conference here today unani mously adopted resolutions' call ing on President Harding to call an extra session of congress to enact laws to create a governmen tal grain agency to buy up this year's wheat crop at a price. based on cost' of production, plus a, fair profit to the grower. The resolutions regarding" the proposed government . grain agen cy argued that the agency should be authorized to sell the wheat surplus abroad at' the world mar ket rrice and the home consump tion at the price paid,. to the growers; v the legislation to be effect until present critical con ditions of the farmers have been remedied." - tl E Millionaire Silent Upon Rum ors of Separation From ; Irene Castle NEW YORK,- Aug. 1. Robert E. Treman, wealthy Ithaca manu facturer, smiling . and' urbaqe, courteously refused, when he re turned on the Majestic to day ac companied by bis attorney to af firm or deny that the courts of Paris had divorced him and Irene Castle. Mr. Treman returned to Amer ica two days after Mrs. Castle, but the dancer-was absent when the big, liner docked, -t - - . Mr. Treman said he would rath er not talk about the divorce. . "I would rather not say any thing abaut the affair," he said. "I trust I may be excused. I ex pect to return to Ithaca tomorrow sometime." . First Conviction arid Fine Under New Law Is .Re- ported From Olympia OLYMPIA, ash., Aug. 1. Report was received here by State Forester Pape today of a forest fire over the 'week-end which damaged 6,000,000 feet of cut logs and burned tip equipment be longing to the Lyman , Lumber company near Hamilton, in Skag it county. The blaze is said to have started from a locomotive. No report has been received as to whether the fire is. under con trol. . The ' first conviction under - a new law prohibiting smoking In forests during a closed season was made in Clallam county, Pape announced when Pete Peterson was fined for smoking in the storm zone of the Olympic: Seven other arrests have been made for smoking or for throwing away lighted material. Salem Fight Fan wonderful Oregon roads, around and around on a beautiful grade and as smooth as a floor. -Any car can 'make it on high. "2 ' I finally came to' the town of Meacham came nearly going through it without seeing It, but finally did notice a water tank and then wandered what Presi dent Harding thought when r he stepped from his train at that place. Shelby was some ..small place, but this was the deuce in comparison. At the top of the mountain I found a few miles 'of rough road, not so bad in dry wea ther but God forgive if it .should happen to be raining. ! Then I commenced , to slide down the other side ofvthe. moun tain and there before me was one of the most beautiful sights I had seen on the entire trip. The wheat fields of Umatilla 1 county, layed off In squares as though they had been ruled and. measur ed. Some green, some golden and some partly harvested and stacked. I cannot find words to describe this beautiful sight as I stopped and stood probably a mile above it . ' At the bottom of this decline I rolled Into Pendleton. "Tootsie" running ' so smooth I could' not (Continued on page 6) j T M W T DISCUSS DOC SMOKED FOREST MEN IE ARRESTED TELLS Breathing of President Less Labored and Outlook De scribed Favorable By At tending Physician NEWSPAPERMEN TAKEN TO TASK BY DOCTOR Unwarranted! Storiss of Sickroom Held Being Printed Without Basis PRESIDENTIAL HEADQUAR TERS, Palace Hotel, San Francis co, Aug. 1. (By the. Associated Press.) Brigadier General Chas. E. Sawyer, personal physician to President Harding, after "taking stock" as he said, at the condition of his patient, declared be f pre 10 o'clock tonight, the president's temperature .was norma) and had been iso all day; his. breathing was less labored than any evening since be became 411; -his respira tion .was less frequent and his' pulse between and 12 0. as previously, reported, . . . . , Nap Is Enjoyed 1 General Sawyer presented hia report to newspapermen. He said that he had s had a nap this, after noon and felt better, which was taken as an Indication of his own confideac.e in the continued, prog ress of his patient toward recov ery. ' , "The president's condition : ii Just this," he went on. "as I find it on taking stock, as it were, for the night: v . , '.'The patlenfa temperature is 9$ -In round I numbers. I do not wnt in Ko - inn fanlmlKiil Tn other wprdSj, U Js normal. - Thia we may cane as an- inaicauon teat the fabrile condition wa have been; combatting Is checked. . "The fire is . out. We ean't say it will stay out. Nobody can say that. - iJSkj Pre Given "Razz "The president's breathing.ls less labored than, at any time since his illness began. His res pirations are a little less frequent. His pulse Is as in the bulletins this afternoon (between 116 and 120. . ' "Now you'd all as laymen interpret such things as. wa have been saying as favorable, wouldn't you? Yes. Well, that's my Judg ment, too." ; ' " Dr. Sawyer took to task certain newspapermen who, he declared, had. been printing , unwarranted stories of what -went on . in the sick ' room, ' and ' possibilities . of business conferences between the president and his advisors.,' "ThereJ is no basis In fact for such statements." he declaxedx "This man has been a sick man. -He is not capable of transacting any .business." OHJ mm DIES M EDGES Joshua McGee, , Resident of "Donna for 60 Years, r Passes Wednesday EUGENE, Or.. Aug. 1. Josh ua: McGee, 86, Oregon pioneer, and resident of the Donna dis trict near here, for the past, 60 years,' died , at his home today. Mr. McGee came to San Francisco with his parents from the Missis sippi valley in 1849.' He was one of an escort of soldiers for Wil liam. A. Cody, "Buffalo UIl. when the latter was a rider In the pony express service. ' AmericanfYachts Losers In First Round of Races RTYDE, Isle of Wight. Aug. 1. -(By the Associated. Press.)- English yachts today took the lead over the American six-meter boats in the first round of, the races to be sailed for the British American cup. The Englishmen made ,23 points to 13 won by the Ameri cans. Five races are yet to ha sailed. ' Large crowds front lh hora and; aboard vessels ,of all kinds watched the little craft as thej; traversed the i 5-mlle course, j SAWR TO REPORTED t