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UficJci'c FIRST SECTION Pages I to 6 SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1923 PRICE FIVE CENTS rn TWO SECTIONS 10 Pages -f l r rn tP a1 i ri n ' QR1GKJATQR OF n South Dakota Governor. Con sents to Increase in Price After Meeting .With State Oil' Jobbers LOW POINT JS, REACHED IN MOUNTAIN DISTRICT Cut of .One Cent Made; Auto mobile Man Wants Re lief by Congress: WltRSE. S D Aur. 15- Governor w! it. McMastef, who precipitated the present gasoline price "war" more than a week agowheri he Inst roeted the state highway commission's supply de pot at Mitchell to jsell gasoline to the general. public at 116 cents a gallon, retracted from his original position today when he consented to increase the price to 20 cents, following ; a conference with a committee representing the Inde pendent oil Jobbers of the state. Late this afternoon the gover nor announced informally that In Tiew pf the 6 6-10 cent cat made in the retail price of A gasoline throughout the middlewest by the Standard Oil of Indinana he and the 'committee which confer red with him on a fair price had agreed that a similar price was Justified in South Dakota. Begnning Saturday morning, therefore, the governor said, the price of gasoline at Independent filling stations In South Dakota, Including' the stations at the Mitchell supply depot, will be in creased from 16 to 20 cents a gallon including the state road tax of 2 cents per gallon, so that the prevailing price will have the same relative reduction as in oth er .states.' ,.f"V-""-:"-s' ""'i-.; Prior ta the present contro versy over prices the average re tail price for gasoline In j South Dakota, including the ' road tax, was 26.6 cents a gallon. LOW PRICES BEACHED ; DENVER, Cold.. Aug. 15. In making public a cot of one cent a gallon In the price of gasoline to Wyoming points today the Con- internal compaif, one 01 ine largest distributors in the dis trict, announced v that gasoline prices now hare reached a low points for the year in the Rocky Mountain district. There Is a pos sibility of another cot in Montana, where, it was announced; invest!- Tank wagon prices, which are about two cents a gallon' under service station, Quotations, an nounced by the company for western states late today, follow: Colorado 17 cents a gollon; Montana (at Helena) 21 cents; Utah 22 cents;-Idaho 21 W cents; Wyoming (at Cheyenne) 16 cents. i PROBE ADVOCATED - WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. In vestigation of the gasoline price situation by congress "to the. end that I positive and lasting relief may be had by the consumer," was 'advocated today by Thomas H. Henry, president of the Amer ican Automobile association. He wrote to the 300 clubs affiliated with? the association urging the members, to impress upon .their representatives in ; congress the need of such action. . r . "The; ultimate; solution of the control of the price of gasoline. said i Mr. Henry "on a basis fair to the consumer and the produc er and distributor, lies in federal action." . ) V THE WEAtHEH OREGON Fair Thursday; nearly stationary temperatures. - LOCAL. WEATHER , 1 'Wednesday) Temperature; max. fl 7. I Temperature,' mln. ,"56. " River, -l.s. . Rainfall, none. 1 ' : Atmosphere, clear.. , :' : , Wind, west. ; IS RETRACTOR . ; , . I - KU ICLUX KLAN KASH KONSIDEftATION KOMPLETE INFERENCES KURBED KOLLAPSE INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 15. Negotiations have been completed Tor the taking over of Valparaiso university at! Valparaiso, 'Ind., by the1 Ku Klnx Klan, It was an nounced here tonight by Milton Elrod, editor Of the. Fiery Cross, official publication of the klan. The university, which is one of the oldest institutions in the coun try will be called the National uni versity, Mr, Elrod said, j! i The purchase price was an nounced as $350,000, which rep resents an : amount about eual to the , indebtedness of v the institu tion. Five hundred thousand dol lars will be spent Immediately for improvements of the university buildings and in addition an en dowfent of another' half million dollars will be established, accord ing to Mr. Elrod, who added that the school would be strictly non sectarian, f f i - ! , Announcement' of . the taking over of the university which re cently was: reported on the verge SI(ELET0;i FOO; S ffl Charred Remains of Portland Man Found When Fur nace Is Cleaned: PORTLAND. Aug. 15. Discov ery ot the charred skeleton , of Frank Waldorf, 48, in the furnace of his apartment house here to night brought to light the mys tery of his disappearance July 27. Waldorf, who had been in ill health, escaped from his nurse on that date. Apparently Waldorf had crawled Into the furnace and killed himself with a butcher knife. Later a fire was built in the furnace j by the janitor who did not discover the body, because It was not necessary to open the fire - box I where Waldorf had crawled in order to start the fire. Tonight 'when a workman started to clean the furnace he discovered Waldorf's charred body with a butcher knife grasped Jn his hands. Waldorf formerly was a prominent resident of Butte, Mont. -, i . Memorial i Issue Will Be in Black and for Two-Cent Denomination WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. President Coolidge approved to day the issuance by the postoffice department of a memorial stamp bearing the ! likeness of- the late President Harding. Designs for the new stamps, which will be of two-cent denomination, were sub mitted to the - president by Post master General New. . v The new stamp will be Issued in large numbers but will not re place the present two-cent stamp. It will be black In color, the only black stamp Issued by the post off ice 'department, and will bear a profile and bust ot the late pres ident, the name "Harding," the denomination": and probably the years of Mr. Harding's birth and death. :. ' i -,?,.-; y Winter Wheat Acreage Shows 1 5.5 Decrease WASHINGTON. Aug. 15. The department i of agriculture an nounced today that a canvass on August 1 of 25,000 farms showed a reduction of 15.5 per cent, or 7,177,000 acres, in the acreage farmers intend to sow ; in winter wheat this fall as compared with the -area ) aown last year. " .The crop reporting board 1 explained the report was not a forecast but simply statement based on the expressed intentions of ' many thousands ot farmers on August 1. Their Intentions, it was added, are subject 'to change., IIIWT1P KORRAL KOLLECE of financial collapse, came after a series of conferences between of oficials of the klan, which . lasted more than two weeks. ; i Mr. Elrod and C. C. Watkins of Columbus, Ohio, an official of the klan, will leave tomorrow for Valparaiso, where final articles of the agreement will be signed with trustees of the university. The preBent trustees of the school will submit their resigna tions Immediately, according to Mr. Elrod and five new trustees from the Indiana realm 61 the klan will be selected to take their, places. - These five will constitute a quorum until other realms of the klan throughout the country can be called 'on' for representa tives among the directors of ' the institution.; .- -? . - h :: ! The institution will be run along the same lines as hereto fore and will be open to all per sons meeting the', educational re quirements, regardless of race, color or religion, it was said. 1 FiS' RELEASE Disabled Veterans Raise Money; Government Also Wants Bergdoll? CINCINNATI, Aug. 15. The United States government not only will do everything it can to obtain the release of Lleutenont Hooven Griffis, Hamilton, Ohio, from prison in Germany, but will exert all its power to bring Grov er Cleveland Bergdoll, draft eva der, back to America. This was the gist ot a telegram from Secretary- of State Charles E. Hughes to Raymond A. Lasance, national adjutant of the ' Disabled 1 Amer ican 'Veterans of the World, war, received today at National head quarters in Cincinnati. Griffis was imprisoned in Mosbach, Germany following an attempt to kidnap Bergdoll. . J - More than $500 already has been received at Rational head quarters from, various posts and individual members of the Dis abled American Veterans ; to o to tin counsel for Lieutenant Griffis and indicators are that a fund of not less than $10,000 will be raised within a few days for his defense. The disabled ' veterans have ; declared their intention o back Lieutenant ' .Griffis to Hhe limit and, they say, that if $10,000 is not suf ficent they, .will , raise more. ' - J ' ' ' i - ... J Ford Plans on Spending 'm! Huge Sum on Advertising v DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 15 The Ford Motor company has clodded to spend $7,000,000 in advertis ing In various newspapers and magazines throughout the coun try during the next year. Norton T. Brotherton, advertising mana ger for the company, announced late today. The' company has done no advertising for the last five years, leaving it to local deal ers throughout the country. WILL HI D BOG OTMS TO B MEESTED, ASSERTS YOR! "Dosr owners have been; IM police department will rigidly enforce the ordinance prohibit ing I these animals from roaming at large within 'the city limits' Mayor J. B. Geisy, declared last' night. 'Through the courtesy of the city council at a meeting nem two weexs ago dog owners were given warning that on Ausrust 15 the nolice would becrin their pflmnnicrn This time has expired4 and the timer forth the dojr which wanders without his master will be the cause of his owner'sarrest and subsequent fine." . V ; Bicycle owners tvho continue to ride at nights without proper lights will also receive the attention -of the-police, it .was stateat . t - FREE STATER S HIE CUSTODY OF DE VALERA Arrest' Marie When "Pres ; ident of Irish Republic" Starts Election- Address to, Constituents ;; LEADER COLLAPSES AS SOLDIERS MAKE RUSH Faint Mistaken for Shooting Troops are Calm and t Restore Order ENNIS. Aug. 15. (By the As sociated .Press.) Eamoo ;De Va lera. "president of the . Irish re public,' at last is in the custody of the Free State authorities. He was arrested here today as he was starting an election speech to his constituents. He had boldly . an nounced his coming and when he took his position on the rostrum in Market Square,: Free State troops threw a cordon about him. The crowd that had gathered had given Mr. De Valera a tumultuous- reception, and be had just started his address in Gaelic when a shout rose, "The soldiers are coming." . Simultaneously with the coming of the soldiers were armored cars that rattled noisily up to the vicinity of the platform; The crowd fled in all direction! as the soldiers fired several vol leys over their head3. Many wo men fainted. j Offers No Defense j As Several 'soldiers rushed to ward the platform De Valera was Seen to sway and then ; eoliap'se. At first it was thought the re publican leader had been shot, but it turned out that he had only fainted, probably in consequence ot a blow he received during the stampede. . : When he recovered he was as sisted down the steps by troops. He waved aside a number of per sons who seemed desirous of try ing to rescue him and surrendered to an officer who received him with a kindly-"Come along." When the first panic had sub sided the people returned to Mar ket Square. Many of them hurled insulting remarks 1 at the troops. The troops, however, took things calmly, fixed their bayonets and oon restored a degree of order. Mr. De Valera was then taken to the eosnty jail. ( ARREST NO SURPRISE -. e DUBLIN,- Aug. 13. (By the Associated Press.) News of the arrest of Eamon De Valera, the re publican leader at Ennis; reached Dublin today when the city was crowded with visitors who had come to attend the horse show, The newspapers were eagerly bought up but the news seemed to have caused no real surprise, although it had been . anticipated that once parliament was dissolv ed the government would with hold Its hand. The public appear ance of De Valera may have been due to the fact that Prof. John MacNeill, minister of education. who is being opposed by De Val era for MacNelll's seat in Clare, recently has been challenging' the "president of the ' republic" to (Continued on page 4) Ji B: GIESY kriven amtle notice that the for action has arrived. Hence - Barents ask DAUGHTER TO RETURN HOME f' - ": , " t- Accusation Made Against Em ployer Byj Girl ; Surprise to Joplin People JOPLIN.,Mo., Xng. 15. The Ftory of how an attractive, home- Joving girl of 23 left her parents ti reside to make her -own way in the world and of her going to Portland. Or., against the wishes of her father and mother, was toKl tonight by Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Dickens, living In a suburb of Joplin. ' ; . Mr. and Mrs., Dickens, expressed complete surprise when informed that thjeir daughter, Miss Ellen Dickens, had sworn to a com plaint charging Glen C. Tobias of Los Angeles, her employer, With violating the Mann, white slave act. " "Ellen had intimated nothing of the, Bort in any of her letters," Mr. Dickens said. "We received a letter from her this morning. She said she would like to come home. but that' she . was In fine1 health and was getting along fine." The parents then related how their daughter went to Tulsa, Okla., in quest of employment; of meeting Tobias, there; of her being employed by him and thin of receiving an attractive offer tc do stenographic work for him in Portland. ; ; iMr. and Mrs. Dickens said they were, anxious for. their daughter to return. The girl was graduated from a local business ' college two years ago. She worked at several local business houses. union Apollo Organization Pre pares for Winter's Ac tivity, Then Has Banquet If Apollo sang as gleefully as the Salem Apollonians ate their tlub luncheon last night after their big annual meeting, he was all the joyful and Interesting singer he is reputed to be. When the Apbllo club trooped over to the Spa, after electing- officers and laying out plans for the com ing musical year, it was one hap py occasion and not a groan or beef or ghost of a. kick. They all sang the same satisfied note, in a mighty cohrus of good fellow ship. ' ' , -r ::. A, B. Hansen was elected pres ident for the coming year, to sue ceed 6. K. DeWitt. C. N. Cham bers is"" the ;hew vice president; and Albert H. Gille succeeds; him self for the fourth time as sec retary and treasurer." These three elective officers automatically be come members of the board of directors. II. H. Glalsyer and P. G. .Deckebach are the other two members elected to the director ate. , E. H. Leach was chosen II brarian. ; . - : ' It -is the consensus of the club opinion that three concerts shall be given during' the coming year. the first and the last to have the very best imported assisting ar tists that can be secured, and the mid-winter concert to be strictly local. The club has a number of excellent : soloists, and there are other Salem artists, vocal and in Bttumental, who could be secured to make a delightful program. It is - the opinion of critics outside the club, that ' this .will be the really ' bigf concert of the' year, the one that the people really crowd the hall to hear. 'President Hansen appointed R. h; Robertson, ,H. W. Bross. O. K. De Witt and William McGllchrist Sr., as the committee on voice, and Dr. L. E. Barrick, C. J. Mus ton, J. A. Weber and R. D. Bar ton ' as the committee to select the music These committees will at once get to work and re hearsals ' for the winter's pro grams ; will begin about the ' last of September, -: --, : The thanks I of .the; club, were formally extended to the retiring officers, and Dr. John '.Sites, the director ? for the 'past several years, waa "liberally ; commended. The club plans to take up some new sociability , stunts this year, to make the meetings a little more attractive : and Inspiring; I ; ' DOKKIES ' PACSB ' ; i jpORflAND, Or.. Aug. IS. Merrymaking , hosts r of , . Dokkles paused tonight while memorial services were held for the deotri ed members, UO SB DNEBDDr YET HELD II 1NE mrnmm Thirty-Seven ; Rescued; 97 Dead and One Missing Is ; Toll of Explosion in Wy ; oming Property ODD FELLOWS HALL TEMPORARY MORGUE Plans for One. Big Funeral Discussed; Company Provides for Widows KEMMERER, Wyo.,Aug. 15. (By the Associated. Press) Kem merer tonight was in mourning for the miners 97 of them who are known to have lost their lives in , the explosion at' Kem merer Coal company mine No. 1 at Fron-. tier, near here, yesterday. Throughout ' the day and to night hundreds of relatives and friends thronged to the IOOF hall which has been turned into a' tem porary morgue and also to a local undertaking 'establishment, where about half of the bodies are being kept. ; ' - ' Tonight, however; there' were but a few people congregated at the portal of the minewhere last evening thousands crowded for news of endeared ones trapped '-vhfle working In : the bowels of '.he earth. ; The latest report of the coal company is 97 miners dead; one is 'missing and 37 have been res cued 5 alive '' "' T : " ' Cause Undetermined . ' What' caused the explosion in the mine has not been determined, but officials of the company an nounced that the pumps for wat er and air are not 'damaged in the l?ast and - that work will be commenced as soon as possible. ' The mine in -which the disaster occurred is considered one of -the deepest in this section of th coun try If not in the entire United 9tates. The main shaft goes down at an angle ot 16 degrees to a depth of about 6,00 o feet,' and it was on the lower levels, or about one mile underground, that most of the bodies were found. Search for,the:body of the one missing" miner is being continued at all possible speed by picked crews of mine workers. Shortly after dark last night the grim task of removing the (Continued on page 4) - 'i ; ELLA nUNN IS GO iiyooiOEO And the Slogan Editor Submits That This Will Be Go- ing Some The Embryo Candidate for the Class of the Plutocrats Is Starting Her Fortune in Her Mother's Washtub BY EL.X.A M'MUNN I do not wish to write this arti cle. I would rather Co anything else but. -And-to fake matters worse a bat kept me "awake last night, bumping bis fool head against the celling, hunting flies where there was none, and threat ening to; land-on my nose when ever I made bold to remove the pil low from my face. Someway I can never sleep well with a six pound pillow on my head in Aug ust and nobody need ever ask me to try." I wish I had wrltten'this piece last Christmas. I knew per fectly well at that time that I should write it, and then I might have taken my time for it and been deliberate and put in the de tails. ' Now I hare less than an hour to think it up and write it down, and put on my other shoes and take the letter to the mail box, before the carrier come along with his white horse knock ing his hoofs against the cobble stones. - And 1 after all my hard- work who is going to believe what I am about to relate? . Nobody believes Iti Not even my mother. Indeed, I can hardly believe it myself. It Is about pansy seed. It costs $217 a pound. Well, go on and say it. My mother said it first. And what is more to the point I have Just uiw mil .MTI10 mot Negotiation Extendihg .Over. Period - of 13 Weeks Terminated - When Agreement is Signed; Delegates Heave For Home to Sub mit Records to President Coolidge; MEXICO CITY, Aug. 15. Representatives of the United ' : i 1 1 - XI 1 B sixueu nie recui-ua oi in cunierence mat, nas ueen in pro- gress here,' embodying the agteemerit designed to make pos sible a resumption of diplomatic, relations, between the two nations. , . ' ' ,, . , . . The signature brought to -a "successful conclusion the negotiations extending oyer more-than 13: weeks between Charles B.;Warren. and John .Barton - Payne,-personal repre sentatives of the American President and Fernando Gonzales Roa and Ramon Ross for President" Obregon. The actual signature; however," was by Juan-F. Uruquidi and J: Ralph Ring, secretaries of the Mexican and, American delegations. respectively. ' ; VESSEL 111 PORT Tropical Storms Encounter ed; Food Supply Runs Short; Cook Dies SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18. The four-masted schooner Annie M. Campbell, after having en countered many hardships - and misfortunes in her 110-day voy age from Kawieng, Solomon is-: lands, arrived here today. Capt. H. Fobs, relating the ex periences of the ship's company, told of having encountered heavy tropical storms which tore away, rigging and sails and made the vessel almost helpless in mid ocean. To add to their troubles, the schooner's supply of food and water ran out. Had It not been for the aid rendered by the steam er Mojave, which responded to the schooner's distress signals. Captain Fobs said it was doubtful whether any member of the crew would have survived to tell - ot their hardships. The Mojave sup plied the schooner with food and water. !: ''-- One member of the crew, the ship's cook; was taken ill and died from an infection caused by the bite of a poisonous tropical moB quito.' . lie was buried at sea. bought some. And a bat had not kept me awake the night before either. : I did not ot course buy a pound. ; Nor half a pound, but contended myself with one-sixteenth of an ounce, which, cost 83 cents.. ; However in addition to this, Mr. Steele, ot Steele's Pansy Gardens, gave me several thous ands of dollars worth; of seeds in another teaspoon. After such generous treatment on his ' part it seems hardly fair that I should enter the list as a seed grower, al though not as yet a formidable competitor, as my entire seed bed is In my mother's abandoned washing machine. I sifted all the dirt through her collender which she uses to remove seeds from jam and jelly. I wanted the flour sitt er, but she drew the line at that. Mr. Steele sells plants, cut flowers and seeds, but from his blooming plants alone one-third of an acre he received 16000. He raises them as large as a fried egg so I am ambitious to raise some the size of a pancake. . When I have, made enough money from my tub full of plants to buy a house and lot in Salem, where black soil overlays sravel and water is plentiful I plan to es tablish a pansy garden, which ac cording to figures, will profit me about 118,000 per acre.- AFTER HARD IP mAimi: (By1 Associated Press.) States and Mexico today iL.1.1 1 ' - The American' delegates will leavfe ehortly for Washington for; submission of ' the ' records 'to gether with 'the lt accompanying claims, .conventions', to . President Coolidge and Secretary of ' State Hughes. It' is confidently expect ed here ' that . the Mexican ; govern menu's Interpretations of the sub. soil-petroleum legislation; and, agrarian laws contained In the re cord sighed' today' will be accept able to the American administra tion, and that the appointment or a United States ambassador tq Mexico will not long be delayed, Indications are that the twet claims conventions, which are in timately related 1 to ' the ' "Cnite, States' determination to aecura guarantees' for American tlglis in L Mexico, wilt likewise soon t a submitted to the American - an; Mexican senates for approval, cor tingent upon the extension of ra cognitioni Sub-sail Righto Intact Ki The conference records contain' Mexican government interpreta-l tion of . the . sub-soil-petrolea: ; and agarian legislation acceptable to the American delegates and an, expression of the government's in tention to follow these interpre tations In good faith. Under tt a sub-oil-petroleum section, . Am erican ; oil companies rights to sub-soil acquired prior to the go ing Into effect of the Quertaro constitution In May, 191?, remain, intact. After that vlate the pro visions of. the Quertaro constitu tion relating to the sub-soil pro vail, although the soa-retroactS vity of these provisions.' notably the much mooted article 27, l firmly- established Under the agrarian eectlon the understanding, American rights acjuired prior to the 19 17, constitution remain Intact under, the laws then , in force and th provisions of the constitution 1857 " but lands acquired since 1917 it Is agreed, are subject to. the provisions f the latter con stitution relative to the provis ions of the latter constitution re lative to the division- of huge es tates and also to subsequent agra rian reform laws. V W ill Slake Restitution While the American delegates have been disposed not to press their viewpoint regarding imme diate cash compensation for Am erican owned lands . - which the government . - la expropriating In pursuance of its policy of restor ing communal lands to towns and villages from which they were taken, a strong stand ' has been maintained - against expropriat ions illegally made under "color, of law." It is understood assur ances were obtained that the gov ernment will make Immediate and just cash payments for lands il legally taken or make lmmedlata restitution, drive ' oft squatters and annul the decrees of local agrarian commissions. The mixed claims conventlcr: are intended to play a most in portant part in settling American, claims for lands- unjustly expro- priated. WOJIAVS BODY FOUND PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 15- -TI pody of Mrs. John Guiry w::- found In the Willamette river to day by two boys who were swlra ming. Identification was made t the widower, who gald that I wife ... had threatened 'seve; times to commit Bulc!i, 1