OIBCUXATXOV Arcraf for mntha adiaf JFaly '.- : SI, 1S23: , ;. - . IK THE CITY OS SALEM - and elsewhere la - station and Polk Conntlat ' . Nearly everybody reads The Oregon Statesman THE HCUIE JfEWSJPAPEB Sand? only Daily and Snoday L 5941 : 8457 SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 15, 1923 PRICE FIVE CENTC n n ET) Oj o uu. uw run 1 a. - J . 1 JJ Li i BED 111 THOUGHT LOST Thirty-Seven Known to Have Survived Terrific Blast That Entombed Kemmer er, Vyp., Miners i DEATH-LADEN FUMES : ' ARE FATAL TO MANY Victims Found Where They Fell in First Rush Fol lowing Explosion , KEMMERER. Wyo., Aug. 14. (By the Associated Press.)- The rescue of three more miners en tombed In Frontier mine No.l of the Kemmerer Coal company in an explosion early this morning, . bronght the total of survivors to . 37. It was estimated late tonight 'that the final death toll would be approximately 100. , At 5 o'clock rescuers found a man! lying in the main stop who was! n earing death from Inhala tion of smoke and gas fume. He ' waa revived with a pulmotor.and . brought ' to the surf ace, .where 'he was taken to a hospital. He is expected ' to recover. . 1 ; v." -rV 7 A short time later two men who' ; kad hidden in a remote corner of room off 1 the main stope wefe irought to the, surface, apparent ly not suffering greatly from their entombment. They had lain jon ( tbefloor of the , room, which; is ;. one" of inany; hewn out of coal in which the miners were working, to 'escape gas, after hearing the concussion of the blast and had turned Into the passage ways. I Dead Men Suffocated i . Another man. found farther In along the main 4 stope. -showed signs of life when rescuers reach ed him., but when doctors at tempted to revive him it was dis covered that he had died. On Its last few trips to the por tal the mine car has been empty. - Rescue j workers reported - to- uj&ut iu wiic ucau weio iiug iu ' the main stope, where they had . fallen, suffocated. , - 1 A check of the rescued shows that 26 were taken from entry No. 29, six from entry No. 28, three -from entry No. 30, and two from '. entry No. 9.,- ! .- ;; : wri;,:j Workman Proves Hero . " I ; '" 1-U'1- r John Pavlizin ,is being herald ed as the hero of. the disaster here tonight. Unaided, he Is credited with savfnr. the lives of 2 fellow m iners who. were, working - with him in one -of the rooms off the main stope. He had been through two such explosions and to vet eran miner. When the workers heard the blast, Tavlliln is said .. to have commanded the men to halt as they rushed for the door of the room toward the main pas- sage way. Hurriedly Pavlizin ex plained the danger, of aiter-damp in the : main passageway, and 4 cautioned the men .to t remain in x the room. ' Twentyslx heeded his advice and the others rushed out of the room to meet the death laden gases which, swept through the stope. ' ;- t -V"--: The 26; under Pavlitin's In structions are said to have barri caded I themselves in the room in which they; had1;; been working, erecting brattices of bits of can vas and their clothes to keep out foul gases. There the rescue : workers found them- alive hours later, lying on the floor, none ap parently showing any ; signs of suffering. I . As they walked down 1 the mala stope to the outdoors i they passed, the bodies .of their comrades, who had rushed un heeding to their death. - v V Reports of rescuewerkers In- (Continued on page 4) j THE WEATHER OREGON: Fair Wednesday; gentle winds, mostly west--; ': erly. pi p , ; ,p . "V " . y LOCAL WEATHER (Tuesday) , Maximum, temperature, 92. Minimum temperature, 59. Rainfall,: nons.' : River, foot. ' Atmosphere, clear. V.'ind. west. : -r FAMOUS TREE WASTES AWAY IN CAMBRIDGE Elm Under Which Washing ton Took Command of Con tinental Army Now Dead CAMBRIDGE, I Mass., Aug. 14 The Washington elm is dead. The official demise of the famed tree beneath -which Washington took command of the Continental army, was announced V yesterday by Dr. C. S. Sargent, director of the 'Arnold ; Arboretum of Har vard university. In a letter $o Mayor Edward . Qulnn of Cam bridge. ; : , ; Mayor Quinn, it is learned, is eager to raise a fund from the school children of the country for a shaft to mark the historic spot when the tree has disappeared, The trunk probably will' be cut into small bits to be distributed a si souvenirs ' among the museums of the country and the Cambridge schools. : An offshoot of the Washington elm was planted on the Cambridge common 40 years ago and now Is flourishing, j BIGCniT - eiig concert Trombone I Solos of Steel- hammer and Gingrich ; Songs Applauded . Judging from the. crowd In at tendance last night at the band concert there was. In the words of Oscar Gingrich's eong, 'No body ' home but kitty, . kitty, kit- cat." Everybody seemed to be at the concert from the tiniest young ster to the old tolas. . Av special feature of the con cert last, night was the trombone solos or -Oscar Steelhammer, di rector of the band. The numbers received generous applause. The second solo number was the pop ular number, "When Ton and I Were YoungV Maggie. Oscar Gingrich sang two solos the second . a , popular number be ing twice encored. A delegation of Cherrians came to the concert In a body last night and King BIng Hamilton 'public ly thanked the members of the band for, their part in the boost er trip to southern Oregon. That the Salem : band was re sponsible for: much of the praise received while the booster organ ization was in Salem, was the statement of King Blng. The members of the band responded by playing an unusually long pro gram. Four more concerts will be given before the concert sea son is closed, : '. - . ESPEEFIEB toco;, tl Will Spend Over 10 Million ' in Construction-of Na-. 1 tron Cut-Off Linev . ' NEW, YORK, AUSV 14J Conr struction of the 1 18-mile ! gap of the Southern 'Pacific railroad be tween Oak Ridge and Klrk,,Or.v will be recommended It was an nounced today by Julius KruU schnttt, chairman of the executive committee of the road. The an nouncement was made following the decision of the United ; States government not to -appeal to the supreme, court irom a recent de cision of the .United States court in St. Paul in the ease Involving the dissolution of the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific rail roads. . j- s . f The cost v of completing the line, which was. abandoned. 10 years ago when the court pro ceedings were started, win be be tween $10,000,000 andHl.000, 000. lit will; complete what was originally planned as the Natron gap, connecting Weed, Cal with .Springfield, pre.. , 'rf ;" . f f ' BIORE BOBIC3 FOUND KEMMERER. Wyo., Aug. 15. (By 1 The , Associated Press.)- At . 2 o'clock this . morning. 95 bodies bad . been recovered ' from Mine No. 1 of the Kemmerer coal company, whose workings" partial ly wrecked by , an explosion yes terday morning. At that hour the work of bringing out the dead Was continuing. '.-'"' PlfTEGf WINTER DARES SECRET WITH TAYLOR Passionate Love Scenes With Dead Director are Related for First Time by Noted Movie Star i i DREAMS OF MARRIAGE DECLARED IMPOSSIBLE Intimacies; Brought Quj Dur ing Financial Differences With Mother LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14 Mary Miles M Inter," motion picture act- resa, tonight gave to the Los An geles Times what she termed "the first statement that I have ever' given - out under : my own name!: regarding her relations with Wil liam Desmond Taylor, slain : mo tion picture director, and : differ ences which have arisen between her and her mother, Mrs. Char lotte Shelby. "William Desmond Taylor came into my life when I was 17 years of age. He was the first man to call me 'Miss Minter.'f : ' How do you do. Miss Mlnter,' he said to me when first we were introduced' and then he smiled Always before I had been called Mary and treated like a child. Marriage Only Dream "We never were engaged in the sense that ne naa assiea me to marry him. and I had promised. I had always; hoped that some, time we would be married.- But we were not engaged in the, sense of wearing a ring and' telling one's friends of an intention to marry or. of telling my mother. Marry ing Mr. Taylor was just my dream a dream, which voiced . to nlm always, met with, the answer that it' was impossible. . 7 -1 "Finally he told meI must not write him any more and must not call him up; that he would tele phone me. I waited ft week, two weeks, three weeks and he did not call. I swallowed my humiliation and called him. His butler an swered and told me he was ill. For five days he did not eat, and during It all I suffered more than can express.7 i Taylor Showed Emotion Finally, without word from Taylor,' Miss Minter went alone to his home, carrying with her a note which said: vi ?'Dear William! Desmond Tay lor: This; is good-bye. I want you to know that I wit; j always love you. Mary.' - I ! The result of this visit, she re lates, was ' a passionate scene, tjf which the 'director put his armS about her and kissed her, saying: KI love you Mary,' better - than anything in this world; more than God.. Swept by emotion in the course of this interview, Taylor clenched his fingers so tightly that hm nails drew blood, which he wiped from his palms with a silk handkerchief. This hand kerchief. Miss Mlnter says, she retained as a keepsake. "That was the last time I ever saw him- alone," she continues, I Several weeks later Taylor was found-dead on the floor of his home, shot to death. -: Could Not See Body ' . ; : Failing in her attempts to view the. body of her lover immediate ly. After, she learned of .the slay ing. Miss Minter says she 'strove to the house of -Mabel Normand, rushed into the rooms where the screen actress was ; dressing, grasped her by the shoulders and demanded: ' "What do you know about itt : "Nothing," Miss t Normand r re plied. ; "Not a thing but what they have told me." Uy 1 . " i -And I believed her, and still believe her," says Miss Minter. in concluding. . . i ' , : " Miss Minter will have no fur ther conferences with her mother to settle their differences -overman accounting of the former's earn ings as a motion " picture actress, she . announced tonight after dis cussing the matter with her at torney. ; . ; J' 'S AVIATOR KDLiED ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. Bertram M. Stewart of Washing ton was t Instantly killed today when an airplane he was piloting fell one thousand feet- near here. John WardMJr., of Harlan, Ky., was seriously Injcrel, " ' ZION RULER: . . SAYS SUNSET IS ILLUSION ; -1-v. n; - -- .j : t , ZION, 111.. Aug,: 14. Wilbur, Glenn Voliva, oyer- 4er of ZIon. and . aa: advo- . cate of the flat world theory . today . announced, that there . is no such thing as "sun- rise" or "suneet." "There: : is literally no sunrise and 'no -sunset." he said. "They are : only optical "illusions." The -sun is ' the same I height , above the earth at all times." " .', ! . "The devil at one time had 'many infidels to teach "the no hell doctrine," eald Vol-1 iva. 'Now he has hundreds ; .of university professors and l ' professed ministers of the gospel." I believe In hell.'Vhe aa- i serted. TWO ffi KILLED BY ELECnOCUlil Eii Davidson and M. L. Cole . Victims of Accident at ' Marion 'J - ; : - ': ; " ' ' ' EH" Davidson. 50. and M.- L. Cole, i 15. -'were both ' InsUntly killed by eleetrecution about H o'clock a. m.! yesterday at the sawraill oftF. E. Westberg at Marion. .'i-- The two men were working In conjunction with Percy . Chance. They were raising a gin pole and the small wire cable with which they were raising the pole sud denly broke from some unknown cause, altowins: the pole to fall across the high-power line whiih carries the current for driTing the saw. One bf the ' wire guy lines being held by Davidson came" in contact with the power line. Davidson fell, and Cole rushed to his assistance, came In. contact with the same guy line and also fell lifeless. Mr. Chance rushed to the men, but both were, dead. Dr. Riggs from Albany was Im mediately called, but . found no life in either body upon his ar rival and called . for Coroner Rigdon. at Salem. I Mr. KIgdon Immediately went to Marion and after a thorough investigation concluded that an Inquest was not necessary. . ' i The families of both the' dead men live in Marlon. ; Mr. David"- son is survived by his widow and seven children. Mr. Cole leaves his widow and two smalt children. CUE MEETS , fflSPiPEB MEN Outlines Policies at First . Conference With Gentle ' men of the Press , WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 Pres ident Coolidge today went through one of the. critical experiences that falls to the lot of presidents his conference with Washing ton newspaper men, since , taking over the executive office. '. The new: president had let it be known that he would follow the policy of President Harding of holding semi-weekly press con ferences after cabinet 'meetings with the correspondents privileg ed to present written queries and to ask verbal questions, once- a topic was opened up for discus sion. After announcing that he fav ored continuance of the custom of never quoting the president in press reports a policy that has obtained in the case of the chief executive Mr. . Coolidge , made a brief statement as to the cabinet meeting which had Just adjourned and then taking up the sheaf of questions which he had carefully sorted began 1 to answer them. He spoke slowly and distinctly and went from one subject to an other without-, hesitancy. His statements were so complete that none of the 150 newspaper men present requested amplification. FIGHTING REPORTED LONDON. Aug. 14. A1 Central News dispatch from Berlin says communists stormed the town hall at Alsdorf, eight miles north ot.Aix La Chapelle, with hand gre nades and that 100 'persons were killed or wouc2?d, ' OVER 11,000 GOTO SCHOOL REPORT SAYS Annual Accounting By Mrs. Fulkerson Will Be Filed . With State Superinten dent Today AVERAGE SALARIES OF TEACHERS SHOWN Total Receipts and Expendi tures for Year Amount - to ,High Figures ' Though there are between 14,' 000 and' 15,000 persons of school age in Marion county between the ages, of 4 and 20, 11,516 of these were enrolled in the various grade and high, school in the county dur ing the-school year recently com pleted, according to 'the annual Marion county school report com pleted Tuesday afternoon by Mrs. Mary L. Fulkerson, county school superintendent. . ' ', , When It Is ' considered that children are not permitted by law to attend school before they reach the age of 6, and that the average age at which a pupil completes the high; school course is 18, these figures are of particular si? niflcance. Of . the 11,516 in achool. 9060. are. enrolled In the grade schools and 246 in the high schools of the county. During the year 95 per cent of those enrolled in the county were. In attendance. Many Have Normal Work Another point emphasized by .he report is that- of the ! 409 teachers engaged last year.: 314 had. college or. normal work above high school courses, or a .percen tage of 77 of those teaching. . There are in the county. 128 school districts. Of this number 12 are high school districts and of the rural schools only 54 have not met the requirements of state standards. , -. i Heating of the buildings is ob tained In 60 schools by methods other than the old-fashioned stove while, two of : the schools have changed their: lighting system dur ing the year. Twenty-three of the schools are . two-room build- Owing to figures being ' given for both .the Salem and . county schools in totaling , the number who completed courses, onlyf ap proximate figures can be Riven. These are 900 for those complet ing the eighth grade and 325 re ceiving diplomas for completion of high, school work. . : Personal Calls Numerous ' , . During the year Mrs. Fulkerson made 249 personal calls j up$n schools, necessitating the. travel ing of 12.000 miles. In the same period W. H. Balllte. rural pchobl suprevisor, made 237v visits to schools. These calls varied be tween half an hour and all day, with an average of two hours at each visit. ; i Total receipts in the school fund are $882,871.46, ith total expen ditures of f $13,980.58. Bonded indebtedness in the ' county - ; is $328,620. An estimated value of school houses and grounds is 1700.000.; with an additional $200,000 for equipment and furn iture. .These figures, according to Mrs. Fulkerson, are low, and are estimated by the various school boards 'In the county. lt- surance to the amount og $71S 750 Is carried upon the school property. Monthly Salaries. Averaged , Men teachers received a higher monthly salary than did the wo mcn teachers. The salary of; the Men averaged $149.49 while that of the women averaged $98.40. The report of the county school superintendent will be filed with the office of the state superintend ent of schools today. Labor Council Endorses vii Solicitation for Hospital v The Salem Central . Labor, coun cil at its meeting last night , en dorsed ( the solicitation of funds among organized labor to com plete its quota for the Salem hos pital. Delegates : to the - central council 'were ordered to report back to . their, unions according ly. i- ; r-i. ; , v The action was : taken after Henry W. Meyers. "T. ; B. Kay and William McGilchrist, Jr.. repre senting the : hospital i board, had presented the case," ' MAYOR'S JAIL DOOR SEALED; CANT GET IN Long-6tanding Feud Results in Complete Lock-Out at . Suburb of Spokane SPOKANE. Wash. Aug. 14. Mayor. "Pat" Brown of the town of Ilillyard,'. adjacent to Spokane found himself locked ont of his own-jail today. Even his own special police officers are as pow erless to : get . in the jail as the prisoners are to get out. all be cause the latest wrinkle in the long-standing feud between the mayor and the town council. Trouble started months ago when the mayor named a new set of police officers which the coun cil refused to approve. In the conflict of authority, the old of ficers won the recognition of the courts. 'As the jail keys were then in the, hands, of the mayor's fac tion, the old of fleers, had the jail door burned off with acetylene torches and replaced the mayor's lock with another, to which they possess' the only keys. GAS PRODUCT IS PUBLIC INTEREST Ohio . Views Situation With -Alarm; Many Motorists Are "Rushing Can" DENVER, Colo., Aug. 14. In a letter addressed to oil men and refiners of Colorado, made pub lic tonight. Governor William E. Sweet, progressive Democrat, de clared that gasoline has come to be a product vested with a pub lie interest as much as milk or coal, and "those who control the supply cannot carry on an un reasonable and oppressive , monop oly without public protest which will lead to state control or pub lic competition." COLUMBUS, Ohio. Aug. 14. While the gasoline war Is raging throughout the west and central west, Ohio today officially viewed it with alarm and implored the federal government to step in and cope with the situation. CHICAGO. Aug. 14. American motorists from the Alleghenies to the Rockies today revived the quaint old custom of "rushing the can" as price-slashing tactics of competitors in the gasoline indus try brought about bargain prices and retail gasoline dealers report ed One of the greatest sales rec ords In their history. Program to Be Pursued Is - Satisfactory to Sports men, Officials Say That the state game commis sion would carry out a program this year that would prove satis' fscicry to Portland sportsmen and others throughout the state was declared last u.gnt oy ien -! ris of Eugene, who with three other members of the commission stopped overnight in Salem. With Dorris were Slate Game . Warden Burghduff. Matt Royckmaa, su perintendent of hatcheries, .and Harold H. Clifford of Prairie City. The party will be joined by Com missioners Fleischer and Maloney ard then proceed to southern Ore gon. Owing, to the inability of Coirimissio'Jr Price to make the trip, anotier tour will be mr.de ary In the fall. ; Hatcherias' on Gales, crock 'a Clackamas county and on Delph creek, near Forest Grove were In spectedTuesday; by the commis sioners. These, they said, were -found to beJn first' class condition.:-: . ' : "- ',':; ' All of the party were optimis tic over conditions in general, and the program to be developed .in the. future. . '(-r r " , CHANQ HU NAJtED PEGINO, China, Aug. 14. (By The Associated Press.)- Chang Hu, former minister of finance in the Liang Shih-Xtf, cabinet - and twice vie1 minister in the same department today .was appointed financial alal:ter.' WE BOARD IS VISiTiriG HERE mm mm Alien Vessels Have No Business Hovcrin 1 yond 3-mile Limit With Intent to Vic! Laws is Decision of Federal- Judcre Vc z rough Washington Officials Pierced NEW YORK, Aug. 14. Seizure of alien rum runnir vessels that hover outside of the three-mile limit wa3 h: legal by Federal Judge Woodrough today. s The decision V;: handed down in the case of the British ship Marion Iloshc seized while ' transferring a liquor cargo to the America owned motorboat J. H. B., eight miles off the coast near Fir island, July 27, 1922. IS HOT LEGAL Constitutional Bar to Plant . in Penitentiary, Says Attorney General. i . . - . ' On' grounds that-ft is unconsti tutional,, the state of Oregon will be unable to contract with a New York concern for the manufacture of shirts In the state penitentiary, according to an opinion of Attor ney General Van Winkle In reply to an Inquiry by. Governor Pierce. Salant & Salant of New York recently submitted to the goverv nor a proposal by which a shirt factory weuid be Installed in the state prison. -. The New - York firm agreed to employ 300 pris oners every day of the week, ex cept Sunday, over, a period of six years, paying the state 54 cents for each shirt with two pockets manufactured by the convicts and 61 cents for each with one pocket. rafTOSiET. OIIHILIED Glendale Merchant Dead as Result of Collision in Southern Oregon ROSE BURG, Or. AugI 14. George Humphrey, merchant at Glendale. was killed instantly this afternoon in an automobile collision between a car driven by Fred Xellington of Roseburg, a traveling salesman and a machine driven by R. D. Scarlet of Port land. . The two . cars met. on . a sharp curve about two miles below Can- yonville. - Humphrey, who 1 was riding with Kelllngton, was thrown from the car and his neck was broken. He was also . badly cut about the face and head. Kel llngton was slightly hurt and is suffering considerably from the shock of the accident. Scarlet's car . was occupied - by his wife and elster, Mrs. G. Hale. The latter received a deep gash on her head and was also cut about the face. Mr. and Mrs. Scarlet were 'cut and , bruised but not seriously - hurt. All the in jured members of the- party were taken to Canyonville where medi cal treatment was , given them, t Coroner, 'Bitter will , probably hold an inquest in Roseburg to morrow. Utah Guardsmen Search For Bodies After Flood WILLARD, Utah. Aug. 14. Searching for the bodies of per sons missing as a result of the flood which struct wis village last night, Rational (guardsmen late today began digging into the mire and debris In Mountain can on, near Willard, . believing other dead have been buried there dur ing last, night's storm. Three persons are known to have lost their lfves here last night. The village was covered today with the wreckage of its own farm homes and other structures. Great piles of mud and wreckage accum. ulated at places to a depth of be tween 25 and SO feet. ? SHIRT FflCTORY BMH9CCZ1. itonoa ,oi me ueirou iae;,:,' Surety company, given after t! seizure of the craft as a guarantee-that it would proceed to su" posed destination, St. John, N. 1:., were declared forfeited. It bt'r Vt J a ba. vw m sel arrived at the Canadian port, she did not have her cargo, the: by violating her agreement. TI Marion Mosher rase brought special eesslon of President Jls.il ing's cabinet -and an exctan-o conversations with Great Erl:. . The American government deci ! that the Mosher and other Am-: : can vessels seixed us rum runr. : should be released provide J proceeded immediately, to . the' avowed destinations. . - Intent Sufficient -- The -United States, attorney, ! his argument before, Judsa V.'c -rough, said today: " "It la clear that. Irrespective the cabinet's determination as ' matter of diplomatic, policy, to r -lease foreign ships having ca r :: of liquor when apprehended cut side the three mile limit, th r was ample legal authority for tl seizure and forfeiture of the Ilar ion Mosher and her cargo of liquor.--..', ' ..- Judge Wood rough held th.: seizure of foreign ships enga- in smuggling liquor into t: : country was justifiable evt . though they were on the high t "When a ship hovers arou. the Amercian coast," he said, "al though three1 miles from ashcr with intent to violate the laws an 1 is caught in the attempt to emu: gle Intoxicating .liquors and It I shown that it is in contact wit' shore, its seizure, though It Le c foreign registry and outside tl three-mile limit.' is Justifiable, OFFICIALS PLEAS IID WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. TI decision of Federal Judge V.'oc l rbugh at Brooklyn today that V seizure of foreign vessels ho crl near the American coast, altfcou outside the three-mile limit, l land rum cargoes Is justified, i : regarded by officers of both t' department of justice and tL prohibition bureau as one of the most Important handed down ly the lower courts in connection with prohibition enforcement. Prohibition officials hailjt tz highly important " from a stand point of a general enforcement of the "dry" law. At the depart ment of Justice it is considere I probable that it will furnish c vlhicle for a ruling by the su preme court as to the const!: -i-tionality of the more than Icca- tury-old "hovering act" wihh customs and prohibition authori ties invoked after the 18th amer. I ment became effective. Apollo Club Annual Meet Scheduled for Ten: The annual meeting of t? Apollo club Is called for tonight at the Chamber of Commerce dltorlum. This event, whkli should v usually be called Imr . diately following the last tprlr : concert-was deferred ths year t; . til almost the beginning of tl j new staging year. O. K. DeWltt is president, II. W. Bross vice president, and A. H. Gllle secretary and treasurer of the now famous musical orr " -ization. Their terms of office r : for one year, from the time t t their election. The terms of c! fice of two directors, F. G. D- ". ebach and J. E. Law, also ex; :r at this time, and those two r' are to be filled by election. INDICT STOCK BROKE!; LOS ANGELES, An. U.Z Los Angeles "county grand J late today returned an Indict: against A." W. Coote, I z z. .i Etochb re'rer,' carrlr I ' , Cl f". p!2t