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SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1924 PRICE FIVE CENTS I t ; v .7 j HOMGUEST r OF NEWS MEN f Tells Correspondents That , He Feels I American Peo- pie Wan t Government Fundamentals Maintained DAUGHERTY TELLS WHY HE REFUSES TO SPEAK First Told Reporters About Crime Now Says He Is Accused of Ail Kinds nroittvnprt' : irH.nL o conviction mat tne American peo ple look to the executive, judicial and-legislative" branches ' of the government to abide by the fun damental purposes for which each was created was expressed by President Coolldge in"! an address tonight at the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents' association. .? , Speaking informally to the men who .daily, report events at the White House, the president said: "I suppose that the American people ate conscious that we hate a constitution of the United States and I know that the,y are attached to the defense and maintenance of that. great institution. ' ?'They know that we have a government that is made up of ,three branches: -The executive . .wnose amies ic is to eniorce ana maintain. the laws;, the Judiciary, - that interprets the law, and administers- Justice between man -?and man, and the congress ,or the legislative branch, which is sup posed, under: the constitution, to .be engaged in legislation.. ' f 5 "I think, the American people i Mprove heartily of that kind of ' f 'constitutional y- government r .that they want lU.njJa$4laediri -its fundamentals."' ; ,' ';-.' v i Attorney General Daugherty also was a guest at the dinner and in ( an address made reference to the move to compel his retirement from the cabinet!! ; "It isn't much to fit up an of flee," Mr. ... Daugherty declared. "It isn't much when you live the span of life men .ought to live to give Up your life, but to give up your honor is another question." , The attorney; general declared: "When I am here as attorney general having ' to do more than any other enforcing officer in the cabinet with the enforcement of the law, J answered all the ques tions of all the correspondents. although then, as you .remember. practically all'-inquiries made of 7. " r the attorney general turned to crime." j Now recently I have re- fused to haveanytblng to say for . v Jt j Vwith great accuracy that I have i un m riiMiu ii a l a iimwu iNi'iivfrmi Xo rhtrrM1ilh alt h rrimp. ever committed, and I ant inclined not to be quite so communicative." IS WASHINGTON,,- March 8. The hoiiti'adirtiirnH lat inrlav with- :out reaching a final vote on the Muscle Shoals question. - j i RepresenUtiveMcKenzie.repub- lican Illinois, author of the nend- ;ing bill which would authorize ac- eeptance- off Henry ford's Ibffer, announced that he would attempt . v - xr"w ' 4 Adjournment waa taken shortly after the. adoptloa of an "amend- t meat which would enable the gov- ernment to recover, the Muscle OK 1. rnm f VnrA ft ho failed to make ifood on his con- 1 - - tract in any parUcular.; ThUr am- endmeht; the first of Importance to , be approved,, was roted with the consent ofIr. McKenzie. fi All other amendmentraeslgned i. -u l 11. rCfrfi of the proposed Ford contract; were , 'rejected. THE WEATHER 3REGON: 1 Rain west, fair east portion Sunday: moderate ; southwesterly winds. LOCAt WEATHER ' . .(Friday) ; ilaximum temperature, 64. i Minimum temperature, 33. River, 2.9; falling... . Rainfall 01. ' r v , i Atmosphere, cloudy, ; v s"WInd,'. SOUth. A :; MUSCLE SIIDA VOTE riOT REACHED SATURDAY IN WASHINGTON The house adjourned without reaching a final vote on the Mc Kenzie bill which would authorize acceptance of Henry Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals.- An independent move was start ed in the house by Representative Porter, republican, Pennsylvania, to reduce the Income taxes paya bles this year. The raUroad shopmen's strike of July if 1922. cost the lives of 19 persons by violence and as sault by strikers, Attorney Gene ral Daugherty declared in a re port "to congress. A full cash payment adoption provision proposed for the sol diers" bonus bill was rejected by the house ways and means com mittee which decided to limit pay meats to. paid up life insurance. ' j The department of justice de clined, in response to a house re solution, to disclose the names of the two representatives referred to in the Chicago grand jury re port concerning misuse of in fluence.. s 1 Witnesses subpoenaed by the senate Daupherty investigating committee, it was announced, will be asffed about alleged activities of American oil interests in pro tecting the present revolution in Mexico. ! L Leonard Wood. Jr., was sub poenaed by the senate Daugherty investigating committee for ques tioning concerning a report of a deal involving a cabinet appoint ment at the 1920 republican na tional convention. ' Senator Curtis of Kansas, ap pearing voluntarily before the senate oil committee, denied some of the statements previously made by Ira E. Bennett of the Wash ington Post, and ihe committee also heard 'additional employes of E. B. McLean and E. S. Rochester of the department of justice. Former Tacoma Woman Alleged to Have Made Admission PORTLAND, Me., March 8.-r- Mrs. Nettie MacLean, of Tacoma, Wash., has admitted that, she killed her infant daughter by mothering the child with a pillow I of a tintol In Ttrnnawiflr on the mprnlng of February 28, County J Attorney Clement F. Robinson an- Inounced here tonight. Mrs. Mac f an fcwfHd. Kenneth "SS .vacian or lacouia. ouw- doin colle sophomore are held on 5arSes ol mansiaugnter. The admission, the county at torney said1, was made to Mrs Roberta Read, of the state board of charities and correction and to( others. According to the county attorney's statement, Mrs. Mac Lean said she later bifried the child's body in the snow, but af terwards reclaimed it, changed its wet clothing tor dry, and carried U in her ms ttom Brunswick to Portland, zo mues. J ; ! . . BULN&vilk. iue warm o Kenneth R. MacLeap, Bowdoln ce sophomore, and tils wtie pleaded l W"lJ ,7, today in connection with the deatn nf their one-year-old daughter, be- Ilieved to have been smothered at U hotel here 10 days ago . sooia af- ter narrivi oi Tacoma. VaMa Hearing was V '"Z I PS 11 R A WIS IUUUU, uw ordered to furnish bail for their J i a a . n a v ,tatti nr appearance " Uie "uper.or ; taKen wx9 " , " aV";o arrangemn -7-" " give bail., $20,000 for MacLean land 110.000 tor 1S wue. Lean will not : return to coUege. Mrs' MacLean and her mother. Mrs. Oscar Volk, plan to retnrn to Tacoma tonight. It was tnougnt the child's body wouia oe sem there at the same time. Alexander MacLean said his son probably would itay In this Ticmuy 1 week, then leave for Tacoma. Bail for .MacLean was. given u, Henry P. . MtHill and ,w aner Parker of, the: Portland Rotary Clab. The student s iamer i, past president of the Tacoma Ro tary club. Bail for Mrs. MacLean riven by Howard D. Ferris. acting for porUaad-Elks, and Mrs. ryr n Read. Mrs. MacLean's SMOTHERED CHILD . Uther i nemher -ot thaEIk1:-' OUTLINE IRK FOR BIG PROBE OF DAUGHERTY Shipment of Arms to Mexico ! to Be One of First Points Special Committee Will Consider WOOD AND HARDING'S CAMPAIGNS ARE ISSUES Investigations to Be Pressed Whether or Not Attorney General Resigns WASHINGTON. March S. Wliile awaiting development in connection with the expected re signation of Attorney General Daupherfy the special senate com mittee appointed to investigate him today disclosed some out lines of the many sided inquiry to begin next week. As indicated for the first time these include: Charges that former Secretary Fall and the "lloheny and Sinclair oil interests aided the De la Iluerta revolutionists in Mexico through the shipment of arms and ammunition from the United States. Charges that department of justice secret agents on the Mexi can border, were called off by Washington when attempting to break up gun running in violation of neutrality laws. Camjaignft Are Issues Phases of the Leonard Wood and Harding campaigns of 1920 in connection with possible oil in fluences. The charges of attempted bri bery or Mr. Daugherty and New York federal authorities in con nection with yesterday's indict ments of Gaston B. Means, a former- .deprtnet"-i)f MJU'attWu agent, and Thomas B Felder, as- Birciaie 01 Air. uaugnerty in the Charles W. Morse pardon case. Witnesses expected to testify along these lines of Inquiry al ready have been subpoenaed, it was disclosed by Senator Brook- hart, republican, Iowa, chairman of the committee, and Senator Wheger, democrat. Montana, ac tive manager of the Daugherty InquifV. Among those called are Means, Leonard Wood, Jr., son of General AVood, Mr. Harding's op ponent for the- 1920 republican presidential nomination, and for mer department of justice agents having knowledge of the charges in connection with the Mexican revolution. In addition Senator Wheeler said that a half dozen prominent Ohio politicians who originally backed General Wood iprobably wou;d be subpoenaed later. Taking of testimony by the committee" will begin early next week, probably mi the Mexican gun running affair. That the senate investigation is to be pressed whether Mr. Daugh erty is in or out of the cabinet is clearly indicated by senators be hind it. With the commijtee actively making preparations for the in vestigation, the situation as to Mr. Daugherty's cabinet tenure today outwardly was unchanged. Mr. Daugherty today spent much of his tune at his office.' ' T ECTED House Ways and Means Committee Turns Down Proposal, 13 to 12 nwm . j WASHINGTON. March 8. Thej house ways and means committee rejected today a proposal to make full cash payments an option of the soldier bonus bill and directed a sub-committee to draft a meas ure providing for paid up lite in surance policies with an option of cash payments to veterans not en titled, to more than $50. The motion to provide for full cash payments of adjusted com pensation, made by, Representative Crowther, republican. New York, was lost 13 to 12, the 11 demo crats of he committee support ing Mr. Crowther. proponents ot the proposal im mediately served notice that they floor of the house and seek amend-; wouldJ carry their fight to' the ment of the bill when it is report ed to include this provision. FULL CASH PAH BONUS IS REJ (Continued m page 6). OREGON TEAM WINS DEBATE WITH U OF C j Popular Verdict of Radio Au dience Gives Oregon 1420 to 680 PORTLAND, Ore.. March S. Walter D. Malcolm and Joseph A. Frazier, composing a debating team of the University of Oregon, won 1,420 to 680. the popular verdict of listeners-in on their radio debate of February 29 last with Howard Cherniss-and Ray mond Sanders, representing the University of California. The votes, sent to the two sta tions from which the debate was broadcast,! were tabulated today and the result was announced. The subject debated was: "Re solved, That the Rok peace plan should be adopted," with Califor nia upholding the affirmative and Oregon the negative. The California debaters spoke from station KLX. the Oakland Tribune, and the Oregon debaters from KGW, the Oregon iati in I'oi-tland. Banquet for Visiting Girls Last Night Convention Ends Today Hefcn Campbell, Salem high school girl. was. chosen president of the state girl reserves yesterday at the annual winter conference. Mar jot ie Cram of Portland is the retiring president. More than 170 high school girl3 from over the state were in at tendance at the conference which will close today. Special church Kervices will be held this morn ing at the First Presbyterian "hurch with Rev. Ward Willis Long in charge. The girls will enter the church in a body singing their national hymn just follow ing the prelude. The sermon topic will be' "Kingdom Trail Blaiers." heir advisors and the secretaries from the different YWCA asso ciations which v.'cre in attendance were present at a fellowship ban quet last night at the Gray Belle. Hundreds passing the glass front of the new dining room during dinner hour were attracted by the .voices ringing out in the Girl Re serve songs. Miss Helen E. Price, national YWCA secretary in charge of Girl Reserve work in the Pacific re gion, said last night that the Sa lem conference is the best she has so far attended and is remarkable especially for the fact that so many advisors are present and for tbo high standard of the delegates sent from the various clubs throughout the state. The delegates took lunch to gether yesterday at the YWCA cafeteria and were guests' at a university YWCA tea at Society rall at 4 o'clock yesterday. A conference of secretaries and advisors and girls work commit tee women was held yesterday af ternoon when Prof. W. H. Hert zog addressed them on the Girl Reserves and the community in terests. The advisors and secre taries will meet this morning for breakfast together at the Sp.i. Salem Fruit Growers to Remain With Association Fresh fruit growers of the Sa lem district who are members of the Oregon Growers Cooperative association voted to remain in the association this year after discuss ing and discarding several plans at a meeting held at the chamber of commerce auditorium Saturday afternoon. The meeting was at tended by approximately 125 grow ers. Independent growers were given permission, to handle their own produce under certain con ditions laid down by "the manage ment. Sentiment for a cooperative can nery was strong, though such a cannery is not being considered this year. For the purpose of working out plans for a coopera tive cannery in the future the fol lowing committee was appointed: C. A. Miller. Fred Ewing, Adolph Carpenter, C. A. Ratcliffe and Ar thur Cummlngs. Little optimism for a good crop of loganberries this year is held by the growers, who reported that in general the berries were " se verely damaged by the freeze dur ing the winter. . Many of the grow ers present reported that they would not even attempt to train the vines this season. PLANS CHANGED WASHINGTON, March 8. The house census committee has aban- Idoned plans to reapportion the membership of the -house. . Li CAMPBELL HEADS S I Community Builders WSEA H G H ! N G t DR. O. L. SCOTT, TWO of the "busiest professional men in the city of Salem are Dr. O. L. Scott and Dr. Harry Bernard Scofield, chiropractors, who have offices )n the United States National bank building. Dr. Scott is the pioneer member of the firm, though he is still a young man, while Dr. Scofield is comparatively a newcomer' in Salem. Dr. Scofield is a native of South Dakota. He came to Salem in 1908. and in 1921 he attend ed the Palmer school of chiropractic at Daven port, Iowa, and for a time after his graduation he practiced at. Pierre, S. Dak. His . hobby is baseball. ? Dr. Scott is- a real Oregon pioneer. His father came to Marion county at the close of the Civil war, and settled at Scott's Mills, to which place he gave the name. His mother's family came here in 1852 almost .70 years ago. , Dr. Scott was one of the early converts to the profession of healing by mechanical adjustment; he graduated from the Palmer school at Daven port. Iowa, in 1910 the whole science dates back only 25 years! He has no other equipment but his X-ray machine with which to photo graph his patients for careful, accurate study of their ailments; and his charts and his hands and his experience. Yet he had the privilege of serving as instruc tor for Dr. Alfred Walton, M. D. (Harvard, SALEM HiBH GETS DEBATING TITLE Affirmative Team Wins Unanimously While Neg ative Loses 2 to 1 By obtaining a unanimous de cision at Albany last night. Salem high school clinched the district high school debate championship by a 4 to 2 decision in the dual debates. The vote here was' 2 to 1 In favor of Albany. The question for artrnment last night was: "Resolved, That the severance tax should be made an issue of state and local taxation." Those participating In the two debates were: At Salem Elisabeth Fairchild and Homer Richairds, negative; Dan Poling, and Wayne Huber of Albany, affirmative . At Albany Benoit McCroskey and Edward Tibbets, affirmative", of Salem; Wilma Rohrabaugh and Josephine Ralston of Albany, neg ative. Judges were Professors Butler, Bowling and Dodds of. the Mon mouth normal school. Ralph Bail ey,' Salem high school debater at the University of Oregon, who is home recovering from a recent op eration; was chairman Albany hd nearly as many peo ple at the debate last night as Sa lem. DR. H.RRY 1879), who later turned his back on his own medical lore and sat at the feet of the teachers of the new science. Dr. Scott" and Dr. Scofield have the.trublime courage of their convictions that this science is sufficient for most human ills. , It does not dose or bake or electrjfy them, to palliate or narcotize them for temporary relief. Jt goes to the seat of the trouble; which it claims is mostly nerves. A nerveless body, or portion of the body, is weak ened by the loss of sensation and 'motion; paralysis, or decay, or a lowered health condi tion that make the affected parts a prey to every ill that can reach them for an attack, follow in evitably this loss of nerve control. Germs and aches, and every damning pain, attack the crippled portion of the body. There is only one way out restore the mechanism to proper adjustment, and health is Inevitable. Dr. Scott and Dr. Scofield have made a notable success in their profession. Their offices in the United States National Bank Imilding are usually almost like a voting booth on election day for people believe in what they have proven to them of this theory in shirtsleeves. If people flock to this latest health road, and go away smiling and cured, it is because it has made good; they care not how, or why, but they know the effects, and are glad. iMcNEIL ISLAND CONVICT VISITS WITH FATHER Nation-Wide Search Ends Within Walls of Federal Prison TACOMA Wash., March 8 Al bert Wicks," a prisoner at McNeil island federal penitentiary is on board a train today speeding to the bedside of his father who has an estate worth approximately $50,000 which, as his last request, he wishes bestowed upon his only child. The father's home is at Leeds. Utah. A nation-wide search tor Wicks, j anj (ne locomotive of Santa Fe conducted at his father's request, j passenger train No- 42, north discovered his serving a term of j bound, to crash over a 16 foot three years which will expire next August. Wicke, according to Cap tain C. W. nrr ot the Salvation army, who is the penitentiary chap lain, has not seep his father since he was a boy. Captain Durr aide in locating Wicks inside the pris on walls, and he obtained permis sion for the prisoner to. make the trip to his father's bedside- Wicks is being accompanied to Utah by W. J. Hanager. chief clerk of the penitentiary. RAIL HEAD KILLED NEW YORK, March 8. Alfred H. Smith, president of the New York Central railroad was killed late today when he was thrown from a' horse in Central Park. V ! II - BERNARD SCOFZELD , -p 1 Santa Fe Passenger I rai n Goes Over Embankment -One Man Killed CONGRESS JUNCTION. Ariz. March S. Posses of special offi cers and Indian trailers today pen etrated the desert and mountain wastes of this region ia search of vandals who last night remov- jed a portion of the railroad track near here and caused two cars embankment. Seven men, fire Mexicans and two Indians, are reported to be under arrest in connection with the wreck, while authorities are seeking one more man,- Investi gators are working on the theory that the wreck was caused by a band of men who attempted to hold up the train and rob the passengers but who became fright ened and fled when the locomo tive, instead ot merely derailing, plunged over the embankment. A baggage car and smoker roll ed over the embankment after the engine. . Engineer James Taraey received Injuries of which he died soon' after, and Fireman Charles Taylor was seriously Injured. Pull man cars carrying many passen gers remained on the track. None of the passengers were hart. TRACK REMOVED BY V1DAIS IN DESERT Entombed Worjcers at Cas tle Gate, Utah Mine, May Be Reached Within Short Time Hope Expressed ONE RESCUER IS DEAD; SMOKE HINDERS OTHERS If Barricade Was Erected By Miners After Explosion, All May Be Saved SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 9- Three bodies have been taken from the Utah Fuel company mine at Castle Gate up to 1:30 o'clock thi9 morning and rescue crews ex- ppct to have more in . the course of au hour, according to long dto- t-'iHo advices reaching this city The bodies were not Identified. ' CASTLB GATE, Utah, March 9 Rescue crews have penetrated the workings of Utah Fuel com pany mine No. 2, a distance of 2500 feet or more in the main haulage way and have found pure air. according to a. bulletin Issued by the company at 12:05 this morning, , . There was no Indica tion of fire and no. bodies found. the bulletin said. The rescue crews hpp'e to reach .the men .be fore morning. . ' - l w k CASTLE ROCK; Utah. March I. Rescue teams have been able to penetrate the main drift of ' the Utah Fuel mine No.. 2 for, a -distance: of 1500 feet,' it was announce ed at 10 o'clock tonight' No bod ies were found. Neither was there any evidence that anyone remain ed alive id the m me." Another crew penetrated the es cape-way for something over .1000 feet without discovering any bodies. CASTLE ROCK. Utah. March t 1&T The Associated Press)- ' With one rescuer dead and gat -and smoke blasting the efforts ol various relief crews, the fate ot approximately 175 men entombed this morning in a triple explosion In the -Utah Fuel company ; mine ' was still unknown tonight and an-, other 12 hours was expected to elapse before definite information could be gained. I .. - Barricade Hope ; t , The only hope for the entomb-" ed miners was that those who were not killed directly 7 by the , blast - were able to erect , a t barricade quickly enough to block the dead ly fumes which were permeating the mine and have been pouring out of the entrances tor hours. , Some hope was expressed for those fortunate enough to be near the first aid station which is located -about 3000 feet from the mouth of the main tunnel- -, To add to the tragedy, most of the men entombed are married , and only two weeks ago, with times slack and orders scarce, the company cut down the working force by laying off single men ot men who had no dependents , George Wilson, superintendent ot the company, was the first known victim. f He was asphyxiat ed this afternoon while - leading a rescue crew Into the mine.' Five 1 01 Uis comrades ; were overcame., . h t were revived by .-first aw ! workers. Wilson was ' picked up j about 500. feet from the main en- 1 1 r.-i rwf List Missing . No official list of the men en tombed could be obtained as the rack upon which the brass identi fication checks were placed hy the miners as they entered the. mine was wrecked by the explosion. ;v Destruction of the fan has hin dered rescue work materially bat this is expected to be In operation tomorrow and rescuers, hope that the blasts from the fan wilt be. sufficient to clear the mine " of ranch . of j its gases, v . j v, - -1 The first explosion occurred be tween 8:15 and :30;o;ct6ck this morning. It was .violent,, accord ing to people who were on the out side, and .was immediately-follow- 1 ed by another destructive .blast. ' Twenty minutes later a, third fol lowed. 2 "';f 1 . Nurses and doctors arrited.frpm Salt Lake City by a special train at 3 o'clock. . Tonlgbt nine res cue cars are en route from Dawl , son, Butte and Phoenix. The res cue force at the mine is made up of volunteers from ;rarious other mines , In the", district. The red cross ; is rushing aid to the fam ilies 'of the entombed miners and other organizations and lodges are ' preparing to help care for the suf- - ferers,, 4 3