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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1923)
n i CICU11TI0H Ararat far ma month ndiag July -.. - si. i2S: .: v : , Sundays nniy-' " , ,,,,,7. ,',.,-,','.'" ftit Daily and 8undy C 5457 IH THE CTTT OT 8ALKM : : and Uewbr I Marion and Polk CouatUf Nearly avarybody raada .The Oregon Statesman r TH BOMB M W&PA-PEia SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR SALEM, OREGON. WEDNESDAY MORNING; AUGUST 29. 1923 4 J I h I: 7 T BIBLE STUDY PLAN VETOED illo time Will Be Devoted for BY DIRECTORS V j Instruction During Regu- lar Hours Is Ruling of j v School Board ; I EXTENSIVE HEARING ' GRANTED EXPONENTS Gym Will Not Be Remodeled Though Machine Shop, to Be Enlarged By an unanimous vote the Sa lem school board Toted last night to allow the Salem Council of Re ligious instruction the same priv ileges that were accorded last spring.. The meeting was attend ed by a ; number of citizens ,whp came to represent the desirability of the school giving a portion, of ' the school time for instruction In agreed morals and religion, from a set of standard books that have beep prepared by the co operation of many denominations and that aimed to steer clear of controversial points while empha sizing the universal truths of re ligion and ethics. The board gave them & respectful and rather ex tended hearing, but voted against allowing any part of the school time to bedevoted to such In struction. . Subject Presented Dr. Frank E. Brown presented the matter 'very briefly, recalling the conditions of the former appll cation for school time to carry on the non-controversial religious instruction. He presented Mrs Mrs. J. L. Brady, recently from Salina, Kansas, a town of 18,000. where the - religious , Instruction has been . ia . force for the past year with remarkably good suc cess; 90 per eent of all the pupils being fn attendance, at the hours agreed upon, by the school author ities. She quoted statistical from a number of cities and towns where the plan had worked euc- cessfully. - - :'.- 1 Dr. B. E. KIrkpatrick of the First Methodist church presented the phase of the text books that were to be used; his personal ac quaintance with the author of a number of these works having led hlnvto think so highly of their fairness. He -proposed that if any school program of religious Instruction, should be adopted. It would be only fair to allow every denomination that did not accept the regular text books, to have its own school at the appointed time;, bo that all. should be served with absolote Impartiality. : Father Back Approve' Secretary Kells of the YMCA spoke j of having talked the mat ter over with Father Buck of the Catholic church, and Mr. Madsen representing te Seventh Day-Ad-ventist congregation, and both had agreed that It should be good. Father Buck bad returned only the night before from an ex tended visit to Europe, and had not seen the operation of the school, here; but he thought that If it was 'as he had had it repre sented to him. It should be a good thing, and he could hava special Instruction for those of the Cath olic children, that might wish any thing : other than the I standard text.;. . . f ;; -.'.- j Dr.. Brown asked. 1 when ' the motion, to grant only what was granted' last year, was made, whether, the board . would defer action and- consider , a petition. Director ' Gregory, who made the motion, said that he would do so If It comprised 90 per cent of the school patrons; but no action was taken other, than to continue the vote and spread the result on the records as the official action. , Heating Is Impossible f'l It would be possible to carry on the religious school, by private enterprise, outside of the school hour, as was done last spring in : (Continued on page 3) . THE WEATHER OREGON: Wednesday fair; - except probably showers In f southwest " portion; cooler west, portion. : ' LOCAL. WEATHER 0 . (Tuesday) i Maximum temperature, 96. Minimum 'temperature, 52. Rainfall, none. , . x River. 1. 4 ' feet. " -U-Atmosphere," clear. Wind, west. SS FLORA RESIGNS AT CITY Miss Flora Case, for 10 years librarian at the Salem libra ry, has presented her resignation to the library board and will leave September 8 for LaPorte, Ind., where she .will be city librarian, i ! i "Miss Case's resignation was accepted by the board with Tegret," said D. W. Eyre, president of the board, yesterday. I nnmcEiii Salem Band Program Heard By Largest Crowd Ever Attracted to Park Undoubtedly the largest erowd of the season, if not several sea sons, attended the Cherrian band concert In Willson park last night. The ; combination of the unusually warm evening and the last concert : of the summer was probably responsible for the high attendance record. Parking) space was at . a pre mium and j when the band started - i playing promptly at 8 o'clock every available space was taken up . and down Court street from Cottage street to Capitol' and the same distance on State street. Cars were' parked as many as three deep-at the Intersection of Winter and Court streets, while carsu were ' parked on either side of Winter and Summer streets from CourtrCnemeketa street. One of he busiest men outside of those actually engaged in en tertaining the large crowd, was the -traffic : officer at Court and Cottage streets who kept the cars from going up Court after the concert began. With an unusual number of folk desiring to ride last night and many tourists de Biring to so north on the high way, he was kept busy directing drivers how-to find their way to the Pacific highway. :J The program 1 last night was made up entirely of specially re quested numbers and Included those numbers which have been unusuallyj popular with the con cert public this season. Last night's program closes the band concert season 7 for 1923. Oscar Gingrich sang several popu lar solos last night", not the least of which was his favorite "Barney Google." I Miss Lena Belle Tartar has been : the other soloist this season. She sang the last time for the season last Friday night. Oscar 'Steelhammer played again the two trombone solos which proved so popular several weeks ago. ' Mr. Steelhammer has been director of the band for sev eral years. . ' '- HOT DRAFTS PUN OF ms Ml Both Sides Accede to Gov ernor's Request to Re- main in Harrisburg J. 1 HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug, 28. (By the Associated Press.) Suf ficiently Informed as to the issues of which a suspension of anthra cite' mining has been ordered for September 1, Governor Pinchotof Pennsylvania, today broke off the series of conferences. which be has been conducting with operators' representatives : and officials of the Miners union and went to work drafting a suggestion of his own. Both groups of men, who have been separately closeted with, him for prolonged intervals during the two days since he in tervened to prevent a, break, agreed to await the proposals he will make, but professed entire ignorance as to its terms. "I have conferred with both sides and told them I hoped they would remain In Harrisburg .to morrow, the governor said In a brief announcement, of his pur pose, s "within reach ' for consul tation and that I desire at the earliest possible moment before tomorrow .night, if I can manage it to have ready a suggestion, for settlement of the strike. Both sides have courteously acceded to tay request.. - '' mm BREAKS CASE POSITION LIBRARY "A successor will not be named until Dr. 11. II. Ollnger and Airs. Frank H. Spears, members of the board and composing the com mittee on employment, return from vacation trips. We have a number of applications for: the positions but no decision will be made for a few days." Here Ten Years Miss Case came to the Salem library 10 years ago . as school librarian, assuming the position of head librarian in 1917. ; The circulation of the library has. in creased, from 53,000 to 77,500, while the total number of volumes in the labrary has Increased from 13,000 to 18,000. The Salem library had been In the new build ing just one year when Miss Case came here to assume her duties as; school librarian. Returns From Alaska Miss Case returned Friday eve ning from a month's trip to Alas ka. The; new position in La Porte: is now open and: she will leave here Saturday, Sept. '8, planning to assume heri new du ties. Sept. 12 If possible, i One. of the attractions of the new post is that it is Bearer her home in. Illinois and also the sal ary is very much higher. ;i Assistants in the Salem library at this time Includes Mrs. Lola Bellinger, children's librarian; Miss Lucille Crockett, school lib rarian; Miss Sibyl Smith, catalog ing librarian, and Miss Helen Robe, circulation assistant. Mrs. Bellinger, who was formerly em ployed for some time in the state library, will assume her duties at the Salem library September i. after a year in the library train ing school in Los Angeles. REDDING OFFICER GETS FUGITIVE Quick Catch of Murder Sus pect Made By R. B. Ross . of Shasta County After having mace: a quick catch of a murder suspect In Co lumbia county yesterday, with the aid of Portland and Columbia county officers, R. B. Ross, a de puty sheriff of Redding. Calif., arrived In Salem ' last night'- and registered at the Bligh. The of ficer left his prisoner in the Multnomah county jail and came to Salem to visit his mother, Mrs. Susan Robs Ireland, 703 High street, whom he had seen only once in 18 years. He has a bro ther, Thomas L. Ross, at Che mawa. '" The murder suspect arrested yesterday , was a Greek named Peter Phillips, or Philip Peters. He is said to be the owner of an automobile that carried William Slater and A. L. Aubrey, two men now held at Redding, and one of whom is accused of firing j the sbot that killed Joe Bogdan, : a Slavonian, when the twoen held up and robbed about 20 men in a camp of the Pacific Gas & Elec tric company at pit No. 3, on Pitt river, Shasta county, a,week ago last ; Sunday night. ; The men were engaged in gambling when the robbers appeared. 1 i I ' 'After Bogdan had been killed and the robbers . had been dis armed in a free-for-all fight', the robbers ; escaped and ( were cap tured , after - strenuous searching by the. officers in the mountain country. A coincidence Is that the automobile owned by the Greek, and believed to have car ried the robbers, was purchased by him from a deputy sheriff who figured in the arrests. ; Deputy Sheriff Ross traced the Greek to Portland through Kla math Falls connections. Ross reached Portland from California yesterday : and is pleased at the quick time made in catching; the prisoner. PETITION' PEST, DISTRICT WALLA WALLA, Wash,. Aug. 28.-OnJe of the first, it not, tho first "pest district ever petition ed for by taxpayers in. Southeast ern "Washington was. asked for by residents of thelGardena district tdJ . ' - ' " . . SIX RECORDS BY AVIATORS New Marks for Duration and Distance .Set in Flight Which Lasted for, Period of Over 37 Hours DENSE CROWD GREETS PILOTS ON LANDING , Smith and RSchter Forced to Fight Way Through Mass-of Humanity SAN DIEGO, Cal., Aug.. 28, (By the Associated Press.) Cap tain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John Richter, army aviators who look xff yesterday morning at 5:07 o'clock, landed at 6:19:32 o'clock tonight, having broken six aviation records', according to unofficial computations. The flight started and ended at Rock well field here.' The aviators, who were In the air more than 37 hours, estab lished four new speed records as well as making new marks in du ration and distance. To complete the flight they ' made 15 contacts with another plane to take on gasoline, food, water and oil. Tired and stiff from their long grind. Captain Smith and Lieu tenant Richter climbed from the ship and literally fought ' their way through the dense crowd as sembled to greet them. Motor Gives Trouble -. According to a statement made by Smith, they battled a heavy high fog all last night and when they saw the same conditions ap pearing for tonight they signaled a landing was about to be made.' ; . During the history - making flight, 15 contacts, for gasoline and lubricating oil were made. .A total of 572 gallons of gasoline and 36 gallons of oil was trans ferred from the mother plane to the big de Haviland on its record- breaking trip. . : j Captain Smith said that con siderable trouble was experienced during the night by the gasoline strainejr . becoming clogged with some foreign substance and he smashed, his flashlight lapping the strainer to continue the flow of fuel to the motor. . " Aside from this strainer trou ble the powerful Liberty motor gave a wonderful ptofermance of mechanical endurance. Time Not Computed i Smith and Richter stayed in the air, according to unofficial figures, one hour, nine minutes, S3 4-5 seconds longer than did Lieutenants Oakley Kelly and John MacReady. who, made a con tinuous flight of 36 hours, five minutes, 21- seconds in the first on-stop transcontinental flight. Until tonight Kelly and MacReady held the duration record. Smith and Richter were up 37 hours, 1.2 minutes, 32 seconds. Unofficial figures showed. ' ? More than-i two hours after the flight was completed, official elapsed time, average speed and total mileage . had not been an nounced. ' However, as the . avi ators passed the 4500 kilometer mark about 1 o'clock this after noon it was certain that they had passed the previous distance . re cord. The jold - record was 4090 kilometers, or 2541.2 miles, and also was held by Lieutenants Kelly and MacReady. NEW SPEED RECORDS, SAN DIEGO, Aug. 28. -Speed records set by Captain Smith and Lieutenant Richter in the flight which ended tonight, follow: : 250 0 kilometers : 17 hours. 3 2 minutes, 44 4-5 seconds. Set at 10:37 p. m. August 27. I - 3000 kilometers: 21 hours. 11 minutes. Set at 2:15 a. m. August 28.-. , . : : ' 1 3500 kilometers: 24 hours. 37 minutes, 8 seconds. Set at 5:41 a. m. August 28. r . 4000 kilometers: 28 hours, 6 minutes, 48 seconds. Set at 9:13 a. m. August 28. ' New York to Be Only ! Recognized Roundup - T : NEW, YORK. Aug. 28. Score another against the "open spaces" of the old. west. Yakima Canutt. champion steer wrestler,, an nounced ' tonight that more ' than 100 cowhpya and ; cowgirls had signed, an agreement to recognize no other championship event other than the one held In New York each year. Championship, they agreed to decide here exclusively include steer wrestling; cal C rop ing,: broncho busting, and various others. . CANNED HEAT HELPS' MUNRO ' , KEEP COMFY Thermometer Is Not High . Enough to Suit Portlander '. Nabbed by Local Officer Ninety-six degrees - the , ther mometer -registered yesterday but even this was insufficient for C.'E. Munro of .Portland, who was so internally chilled that he was forced to resort to canned heat to warm him up. The thawing pro cess had just "begun when he was taken in charge by Officer. Olson about 9 o'clock last night and lodged overnight in the city jail. When Muuro, who gave his name as C. J. Munro, unloaded bis pockets upon request of Offi cer Smart, five full cans were re moved from one pocket and one nearly empty can. His original "still" wai taken from the other pocket of his coat. The still con sisted of a small water, glass and a handkerchief badly stained from Usage in tne distilling process. Munro said he would pour some of the contents of the can into his luinkerehief. and then by pressure foree the liquid portion of the semi-solid into the glass. That was all. Munro was his own dis tiller", dispenser and customer. Munro's bill fold contained a reg istration card for a local hop yard. He arrived in the city early Tues day evening. ' iMOl'Ef ASHESS.O. S. Shipping Board Steamer? Strikes Rock and Sends Out Distress Sianals SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 28 The steamship Hoven is sinking Off the coast of San Benito island; according to radio advices receiv ed by the Federal Telegraph com pany at 12.02 a. m.. Latest advices indicate that the vessel ; struck a submerged rock: Her longitude ws given as 116.45 and her latitude was 29.47. It is hot known as yet whether ny ves sel has responded to the Hovens call for assistance. y ; The steamer Cor into, a Pacific mail vessel, is only 103 miles from where1 the Hoven struck the sub merged rock. She has asked the Hovenj for instructions as to whe ther to stand by to give assistance. The Hoven has not yet replied. The island near where - the acci dent happened is off the coast of Lower California. - - LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29.-The shipping; board tanker' Hoven "hit a rock" and is "sinking oH San Benito island" according, to an S. O. S. received by the Federal Telegraph company here at 11:55 o'clock last night. ! Th Hoven left Los Angeles harbor Monday for New York, carrying ,70,000 barrels of crude oil. This was the, first word re ceived from her. here since-her de parture.' ,' The Federal Telegraph company officials said at 12:20 hls morn ing they had as yet been unable to locate any vessel in the vicinity of the Hoven to ask to go to her assistance. '."':-'-- SMITH'S BAIL IS fixed ran Hedlund Boys Say Mother and Defendant Lived in Same Seattle House Mrs. Adrienne Hedlund of Salem, aged 15 and 13 years, offered vbe forej United States Commissioner Frazer in Portland Monday after noon added to admissions of Mrs. Hedlund and Robert Smith, also of Salem, resulted in Smith being bound over to; await the federal grand jury' on a charge of violat ing ihe Mann white slave act. '. Bail of Smith was Bet at S1000 and jMrs. Hedlund will be required to testify against Smith. , Smith was arrested after John Hedlund, husband or the mate rial witness, had complained to federal authorities that Smith took Mrs. Hedlund and her two sou4 ; to Seattle,'. In violation of the Mann act. , v ,V ;-' Hedlund was. called as a gov ernment witness Monday but of fered, no additional evidence to add r to the admissions made by Mrs.' Hedlund and Smith. The two; boys testified to the fact that their mother and, Hedlund lived at the jsame apartment In Seattle but could, not recall-any Immoral. acts thee. '..'... Ft RUSSIA SAID TO RECOVERY Communism Described as Dead and Brighter Pros pects for Future Seen in Final f Relief Report- - MILLIONS ARE SAVED BY AID OF AMERICA Administration Sends Huge Amount of Supplies for Those in Need WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.. Communism In Russia is dead and Russia Is on. the road to re covery. Colonel William E. Has kell, who was in charge of Ameri can relief administration activi ties there, said: in a final report today to Herbert Hoover, secre tary of commerce' and chairman of the relief administration. Not only did : American aid, amount ing fo; $60,000,000 during the last two yearB, save millions of lives In Russia, said Colonel Has kell, ' but it. helped to stimulate Russian ; recovery, and more valu able than all, spread a lasting In heritance for America In goodwill of the Slav races. Many Supplies Furnished ' "In the battle against these epidemics the. American relief ad ministration furnished supplies to over 15,000 hospitals and insti tutions and organized the lnocu lation and vaccination of over 7,000,000 individuals. , Its sys tematic i campaign of sanitation stamped out the most dangerous center of contagion in the world. "From seed imported about 8,000,000 acres of land were sown. The worst of .the famine was over a year , ago but since that time the American relief ad' ministration has continued to feed, clothe and give medical service to an average of 2,000,000 children unt?l they were past danger ' and to provide food and clothing for over 1,000,000 teach era and professional people as supplementary service." iWork Summarized Colonel ' Haskell's report sum marized the two years' work of the relief administration and praised the American and Rus sian agents for the duty they per formed and Secretary Hoover's conception and administration of the. relief program. "During this period," said the report,' "a little under a million tons of food, seed, clothing and medical . supplies have been bought in the United States by the American relief -administra tion requiring about 250 voyages of American, ships. These sup plies amounted to 60.000 carloads oh the Russian railways. ' Their distribution was accomplished through the organization of 35, 000. different' stations at the worst period when we were feed ing nearly 11,000,000 men, won men and children daily. Not only would; these millions have died without this relief, but eves larger! numbers would have per ished from the cesspool of con tagious disease which was then raging In every direction." f open Linn is 1 Some Talk Heard of Chang ing Name - of Popular ; . i Street to Broadway ; It Is understood that an effort is to be made to open Liberty street between Trade and Mill streets. Liberty is, now paved on both sides of this one block and a bridge would leave little more to be done to make that one of the most useful as well as attractive streets in the city. It is argued that if this one block were opened much; of the traffic that now al most j congests South Commercial street would veer off to the east one block and swing down Liber ty. There is also some talk of asking the city to change the name' of Liberty to Broadway. ' APPLE CROP HEAVY WALLA WALLA, Wash., Aug. 28 Approximately 2400 carloads of apples will be chipped out of Walla Walla county this year, ac cording to information gleaned by railroad men. . " NOW PETITIONED BEETLE BITES WERE THOUGHT MURDER CLEW - I - Foul Play Suggested By Blood on Dead Man's Head; Heart Attack Cause GREAT FALLS.,Mont.. Asg. 28 Bites of , beetles that swarmed over the prostrate form of James Oliver, old-time' resident of Cas cade county, while he. was dying this morning of a heart attack so covered his head with blood that it was suspected when the body was first found that he bad met with foul play but it was es tablished at a post mortem exam ination by Coroner L. R. McBur ney tonight that death was due wholly to natural causes. Oliver's body was found near a mina shaft on this ranch three miles from Sand Coulee, with the hands crossed on the breast and the head and face showing distinct traces of blood. A trickle of blood apparently having emerged from one ear gave rise to the be lief that the skull had been frac tured. Oliver Was last seen alive Monday afternoon when be com plained of a headache. Oliver was 66 years of age and had been a resident .of Cascade county for more than 30 years. The body was brought to l Great Palls this afternoon. Parker - Claims 1 Injustice Done, But Hopes He Will Remain Courageous "Two lead pencils and the am bitions of a judge will be- the cause, of . my death. I am guilty of manslaughter in one of the lesser degrees but the imposition of a first degree murder penalty upon me is a miscarriage of jus tice, as I shot Sherif f Dunlap only after he fired upon me." In these words,' George Parker, awaiting his execution Friday , at the penitentiary, outlines his present situation, as he believes it, following conviction for the murder of ; Sheriff Dunlap, of Linn county. "Life is replete wltti Ufa. If the trial judge had not been eager to ascend tQ the supreme court he would have denied the appeals of the bloodthirsty mob and would have admitted my cap as evi dence, i If my cap had been ad mitted T as evidence chemists would have found that the bullet hole in that garment was made by a slug from Dun lap's gun, - "With state's witnesses my tes timony agreed that two shots had been -fired. I fired the last of the two shots fired in the car. Two Blunders, Assertion "Here are two" more 'ifs. If Dunlap had searched Johnson and myself he would not have com mitted his second great blunder. If Dunlap had, not used the lan , . (Continued on page 5) , , Will Determine Coast Pro duction for Five Years; No Car Shortage. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 28.- A survey by the department of commerce to determine the fruit production in Washington, Ore gon and California for five years and what proportion of the output will be shipped by rail and water respectively has been begun by ST. S. Gregg, chief of the transporta tion division of the department. he tpday told the Seattle Chamber of Commerce at a meeting attend ed by representatives of rail and steamship lines. Mr. Gregg said that there was little danger of a car shortage this er, because all elements concern ett had -made enormous efforts to provide refrigrators following a transportation famine last season and because there is no shopmen's strike as there was then. The survey was ordered by Her bert Hoover, secretary of the de partment, on information gather ed while he was on the coast in July accompanying the late Pres ident Harding : to Alaska, Mr, Gregg reported. The Information gathered will be laid before com mittees In each of the three states Such committees hare been organ ized in California and Oregon and Mr, Gregg Is proceeding to create one. In Washington, . STORy TOLD BEGIN DfJ SURVEY wm is SEATS WIOFJOy , COIRHf Irish Free State Election Lacks. Contest Except fcr National University SerJs National Win All PHILIP C0SGR0VE , CHOSEN FOR DUBLI.'J Republicans Claim Full Veto , Claim Small Po!l Fa vorable to Cause DUBLIN, . Aug. 28. (By the Associated Press). The results of the general elections officially and semiofficially announced up t'o 11 o'clock ' tonight give thai government 16 seats and the Re publicans 4.! The farmers party is credited with 2, the independ ents with 3 and labor 1. With the exception of the na tional university contest no (elec tion results or figures have ytt been- officially declared In tto general polling- for members of the Dall Eireann throughout the Irish Free State. It is, therefore, still Impossible to make any esti mate of the eventual strength of the respective -partis in teh Dall. Nevertheless, . there are Indica tions of the possibility of the op posing parties being returned ia more equally balanced-strength than had been expected . and it may be said that the Republican? are tonight showing greater, con fidence in the 'results than ttt government party. : " Government Men Chosen -For the national university t: government candidates secure I all -three seats." They were Tro fessor John McNeil, minister cf edacatlon; Professor Michaf l Hayes, speaker of the last Dall, and Professor McGinnis. According to the first prefer ence votes which became known today. President William T. Cos grave in Kllkenney and Carlow headed the poll and Becured elec tion. Under the proportion:! representative system, no actual polling figures are announced for several days, but in certain. cas; i the votes on first preference suf ficient to insure election are known and ' are' announced ia that way. -Countess Elected President Cosgrave's brother, Philip Cosgravev governor c Mount Joy prison. Is elected for Dublin city, south. General Richard Mulcahy; minister of da fence, on the first poll In the north city, eecured a quota and a surplus large enough, when dis tributed, to carry the other -gov-ernment ' candidates with him. Alderman Alfred Byrne, nt present acting as deputy lord mayor of Dublin, standing as en Independent, obtained a quota ia the same division. In the sout'i city. Countess Markievics revert I her last year's defeat, wfc'Ia Aiken, the. much-wanted chief of staff of the Republicans who for a long time had been "on tLa run." also won a seat in the Dan. It is considered remarkable that he stood third, on the poll, as La was mainly responsible for V irregulars' decision jto dump, in stead of surrendering, their arma. Small roll FVfetara . Another feature of the elec tions was the small poll through out the country which the Repub licans count as extremely favor able to their cause as they clairi to- have polled practically their full strength. It is everywhere admitted that the poll has sot averaged 70 per cent for tbo whole country and the Frta Staters certainly expected heavier balloting. Not Indian Prince But Son Who Dies Enrcu'.o LONDON, Aug. 28. A dispatch to Reuter's from Flushing says it was hot the Maharaja Gaekwar ot uaroaa, the richest prince of In dia who died on board a tr:' . near Flushing last night whila t his way to the: Holland city tat the Maharaja's son, Jalsingh Rao, who was educated at Harvard University. The dispatch says' the rv!sta' in announcing the Maharajv.j death evidently was due to t' habit of his son traveling as t Maharajai The correspond rt r -calls that similar confusion ; vailed when another son 'of t Maharaja died, . , ,