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' ' - ' " - 1 i i Head the. advertisements and you will purchase with the wisdom Salem as an Educational Center 'r Tills weeks Slogan Topic. See Thursday's paper for full Informa tion on this subject. of Solomon. i SALEM, OREGON, VVEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 23, 1924 SEVENTY-FOURTH YEAR j "L PRICE FIVE CENTS. i t V i n i v V V s I y v i: i : OY LIS HINGE LeoDOId and Loeb to Hang or Get Life Imprisonment on Dearee of "Moral .Turpitude NARY HEARING PLANS ARE COMPLETED Youths ! ADDear Today for i Hearing Preliminary to Formal Sentence t ' CHICAGO, July22. (By the Associated Press) Fixing of the degree of; "moral turpitude" nay be the legal problem by which will . be determined tbe ultimate late of Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, who kidnaped and killed young Robert Franks for ft thrill. I Upon . the development of this ; question, legal experts - say.- will binge whether they shall hang or go to the penitentiary. First steps Jn arriving at a solution of the question will ,be taken tomorrow when, the youths, who yesterday pleaded guilty will appear 4in court for; a hearing preliminary to their formal sentences. Court Enlarged The court room where will be decided the punishment to be meted out for one of the most startling and sensational crimes ' in , Chicago's history, was given wver todar to carpenters and wire men, who were busy installing benches, j telegraph circuits ana eai for i one of the largest as semblages of writers in the history of local courts. : Harassed court Attaches were kept at work issu - Jag passes and settling disputes as to. the seating arrangements. Kearly 100 press tickets were Issued. No; less than 81 witnesses will fc railed bv the state unless the court decides that he-: does hot need all this detail. The- state will also offer about 60 exhibits, ranging from a chisel with which the youth was killed and the type swriter on which the ransom de mands were written to the hotel registration cards tilled i out ; by toeb.in an effort to cover the tracks of Leopold and himself " in .pase they had to flee. Oral Testimony Today ! - The oral testimony, according to plans, will begin tomorrow with the calling to the stand jot Jacob Franks father of the mur deredboy. Today Franks ap peared before a grand jury, tn testify, regarding , a letter sent by two other youths now in custody In which' his daughter's life was threatened. In a statement to day the father of the slain boy, termed Ms wn as martyr, -declaring that he, by dying, saved the lives of five other children, Leopold and Loeb were consid ering as victims., , ;: , .After the father's testimony "WjU come 'the statement of a cor ner's physician as to the body Itself. The state expects to fol low this with testimony by hotel clerks and - bank tellers indent lfylng both (youths as imperson ating "Morton IX Ballard," In whose name a room was taken at a downtown hotel by Loeb and a bank account opened by Leop- :pw. ' ,. ; A : li--. : May Not Call Boys ' : "Whether- the boys themselves will ever take the stand Is also unsettled. By entering f guilty pleas and holding a hearing j to determine the degree of punish ment, the boys are subject to be called by the state, the defense tor by the "court Itself. The names of, 'the youths are not on the state's list of witnesses made pub lic, today, but it Is possible that the state may place them on the fctand later. The defense has not indicated its intention.. -: THE WEATHER ..OREGON Fair Wednesday; v warmer In the Interior; mod- "erate : winds. north rand northeast ' ' LOCAL WEATHER ' .-.y (Tuesday) Maximum temperature, 81. '.Minimum temperature, 50. Hlver. 2.1. stationary. Rainfall, none. Atmosphere, clear. , Wind, north. . PENNILESS GIRL NOT DAUGHTER OF MILLIONAIRE Father of Grycea Sykes Who Slept at Los Angeles Jail . Is Attorney TULSA, Okla., July 22. Cfrycea Sykes, who is reported to have ap plied at a Los Angeles police sta tion last night for a place to, sleep and to have told police that she was a daughter of a Tulsa oil mil lionaire. Is the daughter of James H. Sykes, a Tulsa attorney, accord lng to acquaintances. The Infor mants said Sykes is not a million aire nor in the pil .business. Sykes is reported to be in Ar lington. Va. It. is said the . girl became estranged from her father and left about three weeks ago, saying she was; going to New Mex ico. ' iu - ; - Attorney General to Fight Modification of Divorcing Court Decree WASHINGTON, July I 22. At torney General Stone has given instructions that any effort to modify the consent, decree taken during the .Wilson 'administration against the Big Five Chicago packers, should be "vigorously re sisted." This was made known to day in a statement which denied that the attorney general had re fused to make known his views on the subject to a recent correspon dent. ! . The department, of justice has observed bints, it was that counsel for some of trig companies planned i indicated. tht pack an "on- slaught" on the consent decree entered in the District of Colum bia supreme court by which the packing business was j . divorced from "an other lines of effort tn which the packers were engaged. Willi this knowledge, Mr. Stone Immediately ordered his. subordi nates to be prepared to fight "and to hold onto tbe ground gained unless the court reverses tbe gov ernment's contention. He has told department officials that the gov ernment's position is "perfectly obvious" and: believes . that the public interest requires; that the department fight any'' attempt to reopen the proceedings.! Record Breaking Crowd t Concert Last Night Fame of the Cherrian band and the excellent concerts that are be ing offered by Oscar Steelhammer, director, is evidently spreading, for one of the largest crowds of tbe season attended the concert in Willson park last night. The weather was ideal for! those at tending the open air program. Oscar Gingrich was again heard In several splendid vocal nnmboTs and was greatly and heartily encored.- . j ;' ' Thursday- night the Cherrian band will accompany the uni formed Cherriana to SUverton where they will appear in a pa rade and concert. ! - CALIFORNIA CATTLE Feed Shortage Will Be 20 , De- Per Cent iThis Yea dares Governor Investigations made by the live stock sanitary board and ktockmen indicate a pronounced shortage of feed, Governor Walter. M. Pierce advised G. H. Hecke, state direc tor of agriculture, Sacramento, Cal., Tuesday afternoon in request for permission to graze California cattle on Oregon pastures. - "Less than 20 per cent hay crop will be cut in parts: of j Oregon," the "telegram said. "Additional stock will endanger carrying through the winter of our Oregon range animals. I must deny your application for California cattle." An adverse report of the situa tionwas made by W.1I. Lytle un less conditions exist. In brief these wei'e ; the ownership of Ore gon ranges by ' Calif ornjlans ; . tbe cattle originating within a cone of 15 miles bf the Oregon-California line or providing that the Cal ifornia cattle had been driren from their usual pastures by f or- est fires. " - SSI DEI ED PASTURAGE 10 LECTURES PLEASE IT "Sour Grapes" and "Getting By Your Hoodoo',' are Topics Discussed By Ott and Grathwell FINAL NUMBER WILL BE OFFERED TONIGHT Masterpiece of DeHoven, "Robin Hood," Comic Op :! era, Is Fitting Close i This Afternoon 1 X Special children's after noon, "Circus Day," parade on; street to tent.. Clown en tertainment, Herbert A. ! Tay lor, clown, ventriloquist and juggler. ' !i XiKht ; "Robin-Hood," DeKoven's comera opera. May Valen tine's ; original cast of 30 people. ; 1 , Afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Night at 8 o'clock. ! Final program tonight. .Men are different, one from an other, because of the laws of heredity, according to' lEdward Amherst Ott, noted lecturer j and author, 1 who appeared on the Chautauqua program last night, giving his famous lecture of. "Sour Grapes." One of the greatest blessing to the human race is va riety, he said. : "Out of every 100 persons in America, one becomes a failure, simply because be does not know how to live," Mr. Ott said. "Per sons "who complain often visit a physician and dictate to him. Both are ; surprised when ; tney i get well." ... i . ' ;.-:". :' u Speaking about schoois, the lec (Continued on pige 3) British Flier Proceeds: To Paramashiru Island TOKIO. July 23. (By, AP.) Ai Stuart MacLaren, the British aviator and his companions who are on an around the world flight bopped off from Tokotn" bay, Uruppu island, Kurlles, at 7:40 this morning for Murakami, bay. ' .'''.- '' : ; ' I j:-':XX Murakami bay is not shown on available maps of tbe Kurile is lands. MacLaren's destination when he left Tetorofu and was forced down at Uruppu island last week was Paramashiru Island, Kurlles. : i SHERIFF REMOVES X 3 NEGRO SLAYERS Murderers of GirL Spirited Away to Prevent !Mob From LynchingThem MOUND CITY, IllJjuy 22. Three negroes held here' In con nection with the murder early this morning at Villa Rldger 111. of Daisy ; Wilson, 18-year-old girl. were taken from the Pulaski coun ty jail late tonight! by Sheriff I. J. Hudson, when crowds gather ing about the jail threatened trouble. . J . ' ir : It is believed the negroes were taken to Murphysboro. ; ;lf L Stirred by repeated assertions by J. C. Wilson, father of the slain girl, that he positively identified the negroes as his assailants,; the crowd became hostile and made a sally for the; jail. Several shots were fired but no one was Injured. SPRINGFIELD, July 22. Gov ernor Len Small tonight ordered Company -K, 130th infantry of Cairo, to mobilize Immediately: and proceed to Mound City.' ADVISERS PAIL TO AGREE WASHINGTON. July 22. Sena tor La Follette of Wisconsin and his advisers failed today to reach a final agreement on the personnel 6f the' committee which will have charge of bis presidential cam paign.? The makeup bt the com mittee, however, has been virtu ally determined, only one or two of the 11 places remaining to he filled. i : CHAUTAUQUA Getting party BROKEN UP; MEN DRAW $100 FINE Eugene Youths Arrested for Automobile Sparking; Of- fenses to Stop a -; I - . . "' EUGENE, Or., July 22.- .Pet ting parties In automobiles along the highways of Lane county are going! to 'stop, declares (Sheriff F. E. Taylor, and accordingly, two men were fined $100 each late Monday afternoon for just such an offense when baled before Jus tice Jesse G. Wells. They were taken? near this city in company with !a single girl and another man's wife. The. women were not arrested. ' ' ? PIERCE IS LAIR i . -j..-. SAYS IRATE DOLLY Mrs, Quartierj Pays Newspai per ' Offices Vjsit and : j Speaks Her Mind Not, only isj LaRonda Pierce the- biggest coward on earth but he 1s t he biggest liar also," declar ed Dolly Quartier, known as the queen' of the Portland bootleggers, after she had read an account in local i papers of an alleged noctur nal vim by she ahd William (Bill) Quarter, to the i Pierce residence. Pierce positively; identified the pair land called I the police three times', he said. ..:" . Dolly Quartier admitted being at the Pierce home, but in com pany! with another woman. She said there were: seven people in their; machine to back, up .her statement. The phonograph, now in possession of Pierce, was said to be her own and not one taken from a Margaret Donnelly, as al leged by Pierce who claimed he was holding the musical, instru ment after Quartier and the Don nelly woman had been arrested in Portland under the name .of .Mr. and ; Mrs. Watson while Dolly. Quarter was in jail. ; The visitor was quite irate when she called upon; local newspaper men; and was exceedingly explo sive fn her statements. "Bill . Quartier don't have to sneak around in the dark after La Ronda Pierce." she said. "If he wants to lick- La Ronda Pierce he can do it in the daytime, on the street, as he did before. I arri not paroled to La Ronda Pierce any more. I was; jerked out from under his parole and am now to report to Judge; pampbell." . She said that she and Bill were not near the Pierce home, as tbe two are separated pending divorce proceedings. She denied that she bad married Quartier in Salem or that ishe had ever lived here and had never camped out in the vicin ity, as has been said. World Fliers to Proceed j For Home By Greenland WASHINGTON, July 22. Ma jor General Patrick, chief of the army air service, has cabled in structions to Lieutenant Lowell Smith, commanding officer of the world flight, to start the trans Atlantic hop as; soon as supplies are distributed along the path , of the flight andnaval vessels have taken their position on the water stretches between stopping points. A statement Issued today by the army air service said "tbe flight is not expected to leave England before August 1." President to Give First At tention to Executive Duties for Summer WASHINGTON, July 22. -Par ticipation by President Coolidge in the national campaign is ex pected to be limited to less than a dozen speeches and to Involve no extended campaign tour. This announcement was made today- at the White House. De velopments doHng the campaign may;; cause an alteration in, the present plans for the president's campaign activities,-but it now is the strong belief of Mr. Coolidge as well as - William M. Butler. chairman of the republican - na tional committee-and other lead ers,! that executive - duties mnst receive .first .attention , and cam paign requirements - he relegated to a:secondary place. CAMPlie ISPEECIIES EDITOR HELD Oil CONTEMPT GIVEN PARDON Executive Clemency Disre garded By i Sheriff in New Mexico for Man Who Be rated Court GUARD MAY BE CALLED TO EFFECT RELEASE Second Jail Sentence Still Served for Declaring t "This Is No Court" EAST LAS VEGAS, N. M., July 2f.-wAt nine o'clock tonight Carl Magee, , Albuquerque editor, was still held In the San Miguel county jail despite notification of a pardon by Governor Hlnkle-on Sheriff Delgado. Notification of the pardon was made by Adjutant General Skipwith, of the Mew Mexico national guard who made an automobile trip, from Santa Fe to secure the release of Magee, who today was sentenced to three months in the county - jail by Dis trict Judge D. J. Leahy on con tempt of court charges. Sheriff Delgado' resisted the re lease of Magee oq ground that the governor had no power to pardon In the case of direct contempt. I Following Sheriff Delgado's re fusal to release Magee,' General Skipwith immediately got x into communication with the gover nor's office by long distance tele phone, seeking authorization to call upon the 12th Engineers of the national guard, near here, in summer encampment, for assist ance to release the editor. i SANTA FE, N. M., July 22. Carl C. Magee, editor of the Albu querque (New Mexico) State Tri bune, sentenced at Las Vegas to day to the county jail for contempt of court by Judge D. J. Leahy and quickly pardoned by Governor J. F. Hlnkle. "has been before Judge Leahy before on similar charges. More than a year ago, he was tried for contempt by Judge Leaby and found guilty on four counts. He was sentenced to Jail (for 90 days on each one of four counts and in addition he and bis paper fined more than $4000. At this tme the editor furnished appeal and appearance bonds amounting to $14,000 and did not go to jail pending the appeal, "Two days after being sentenced he- was par doned by Governor Hlnkle;. i At the conclusion of today's trial before Judge Leahy at Las Vegas, Magee.. was sentenced on three counts to three months in jail, the sentences to run concur rently, and committed. Two sen tiences were on contempt charges fior editorial utterances in the Tri bune,, and the third was for al leged direct contempt of : court When Magee asserted "This Is not a court." . i BELIEVED F p; stol Employed in Murder Discovered in Home N Tallies With Bullet: TACOMA, Wash., July 22. "IJhe pistol shot which Mrs. Pearl Conner is neiieved by county omc ials to have been shot: to death on the evening of May 19 in a lonely clearing of the Camp Lew is military ' reservation was dis covered this morning by. Sheriff Thomas ' Desmond j and . deputy Fred Ewen in the Conner home Prosecuting attorney J. W Sel den announced tonight. j. It is a ,35 caliber German pis tol ; and the shells In i It corres pond exactly with the' exploded shell found 10 feet from the spot a bullet , hole ' through her,; head from the i weapon in the hands Of the mnrdeded, who,1- the state alleges,' is her husband, Richard Conner. The giin has been clean ed since being used. Conner;: who has been held at Vancouver. Wash., since his ar rest last Thursday was removed to the Pierce county jail today where he is, held as a federal i i ... prisoner, following discovery by Seldon - today that the scene of the crime is a half 1 mile Inside the Camp Lewis military reserv ation from the - state's highway, along the Ro7 Boad,' COn DEATH BUN ID AMERICAN AMBASSADOR ASKED I TO BE CONFERENCE MEDIATOR I 'i ' Frank B. Frank B. Kellogg, American ambassador to England, has been called upon to play the difficult part as mediator to1 relieve the dead lock at the inter-allied conference American Hankers, have refused German loan, which is essential to Mr. iveuogg s alternative will doubtless provide the . solution. GROUND INGlfy Brazilian Forces Recapture Parts of Sao Paulo; Morale Breaking SANTOS, Brazil, July 22. (By The Associated Press)- Reliable information received to day from Sao Pan 16 is to the effect that the government forces have recaptured several outlying sections of the city from the reb els and are, bringing up heavy artillery and placing, it at stra tegic points commanding rebel strongholds. Monday night there was a brisk artillery dal between the federals and government forces, who are now surrounding the' city on three sides leaving the rebels only thfe west for retreat. ' It fs" claimed' that tbe effective marksmanship of the government gunners who are landing shells on the barracks of! the rebels. (Continued on page 2) RESIST SUBPOENAS Railroad Labor Heads May Opposq,' in Courts Efforts of Labor Board CHICAGO, July 22. (Hy the AP Morel than 90 general chair men of the! Brotherhood of Loco motive engineers and the Brother hood, of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen1 are expected to con fer here tomorrow with their na tional officers, to determine whether or not they will offer resistance through the courts, to subpoenas served upon them at the instance of the United States railroad labor board. This was learned tonight from reliable sources several hours af ter the arrival here of L. G. Grif fing, grand chief engineer of the engineers, and David B. Robert son, president of the firemen. Griff ing and Robertson conferred today with fcounsel, and Harry P. Daugherty.ljvice president of the MiEiseera. who van their chief representative , in unsuccessful wage negotiations with a commit tee representing managements of all railroads west of Chicago, BROTHERHOODS MAY ::x?V-ii'.;ix-:i - '", j n Kellogg which Is meeting in London. The to accept the Theunis dan for the operation of the Dawes report. 538, Passengers Arrive in New York With Stories of Collision TORKi July 22 Five hundred and twenty-eight women and children, passengers of the eastern -. Steamship company's sound liner Boston, which was rammed by the tanker Swft Ar row late: last night- off , Point Judith, arrived today with; dram atic stories of trieir rescue at! sea In a dense fog. 4 ' Four hundred and eighty were landed by the Priscilla, and the others by. the Providence, both of the Fall River line, which .'picked them up. from crowded life boats some time' after the crash. A few were slightly injured. The passengers,, many-of whom were jwithout shoes or stockings, seemed to take their experience cheerfully. . ?! , Several persons on the Boston said they had narrow escapes, but probably none came nearer death than S. K. Paige, Jr., of Winches ter, Mass. ; Mr. Paige wasiawak ened when the bow of the Swift Arrow crashed into his stateroom and stopped against the side of his bunk. Other passengers chopped him j" out with axes. He was slightly hurt. . ST IlilOKH SCHOOL Unfavorable Vote on Joining vvjin lyiacKamas uisincis f " 1" Defeats Plan A majority of 120 to 84 was recorded ' in Aurora : against - the proposal for a union high school with; five other Clackamas coun ty school districts at an election held from 4 o'clock; to 8 last night. Although the Clackamas districts; ; voted favorably, : the plan is defeated by virtue of the vote In Aurora. The high school was i to have been located at Oak ley hjlls, one mile from Aurora. Tn.e reason given for the unfav orable vote in Aurora wis that the town has a . fund, now i not available.; with which they aim In the near future to build a high Bchool ot their own. . AURORA IS A6A I KELLOGG PLiiiJ 1Y BE BASIS FOR SOLUTIOi! Allied Conference Turns to American Ambassador for Scheme to Break Repara tions Deadlock DELEGATES ANXIOUS. OVER LOAN GUARANTEE Independent . Action By France Mooted Question; May Cause Trouble LONDON, July 22.-(By Asso ciated Pre88.)With the . inter allied conference , on the Dawes reparation plan not yet. a week ff tllA A rrt artna n ' .mhncMin, Frank B, Kellogg, haa been caUed upon to play the delicate role ot mediator, which all the " dela tions , confidentially predicted would be his sooner or later, when the statesmen Opened their par leys here last, week. Mr. Kellogg's opportunity came this afternoon when the -French ideas of security were found to be put of harmony with the goaran teee required by American finan ciers who are expected to take' up a considerable portion of the 40. 600,000 pounds sterling -loan io Germany, with .which the Dawes plan is to be inaugurated. Agreea on Dawes Plan , ' i The situation, although tense to night, is regarded by most obeer yers as capable of amicable volu tion, through the offices of the American ambassador an4 hia eel-' leagues. On one principle all the delegations eeem Btill to 'be agreed that the i Dawes plan affords the only solution lor European ills and that the alternative Is chaos. Accordingly, the position is one of anxiety, but not of despair, and the delegations do not regard the hitch which ha occurred because of the bankers' demands for pro tection of the loan in the light ot crisis. It is emphasized that the conference, which haa made uch remarkable progress during the first eix days will yet find a way for the restoration of accord whic characterized its earlier , Importatl decision. . j i Bankm Demand Protection When it! was iinally determined at the meeting of the allied finanq ministers with the American and British hankers that the safe, guards unanimously agreed to fcy the committee on sanctions and defaults respecting the German loan were considered Insufficient 1 by the financiers. Premier Theuais of Belgium is understood to have advanced the first alternative. - M. Theunia proposed '- that a German default, which the flrtrt report stated might be adjudged by the reparations commission, could be declared by that coram la sion only after consultation with, five members of the Dawes com mittee, who would act in an ad visory capacity. Thi 1 ni; stood to have n roved whnllv n .' satisfactory to the American bank ers. Then it! was announced fhl Mr. Kellogg's alternative proposal was brought forward. Commission to Act. It wae not concerned with tie declaration of a German, default but deals entirely; with the man ner of application of sanctions -o Germany. It proposes that sane- , tions : may not be ; applied until recommendations - for ' a y default have been made by the agent cen- eral of reparations and the bond holders', trustee, and aleo by, rive members of the Dawes commtttes who would be called in.- Then t ho question of sanction's would be put. to the reparations commission and if there was a unanimous vote In favor of sanctions1 all the - allies would join in imposing them. , The hitch t comes In- the nos- sibility of the reparations cora- missionVi Tote 4 not - being ;unanU (Continued on page 8.) Bits of News From Today's Want Ads Lost "Yukon"" ring at Chau tauqua tent or on street. Val ued highly as keepsake. Re ward.' ; I-. -. i Good stepladders and porch swings for sale. ;! Home near - Hood - River to trade for acreage close to Sa lem. . ' : , . -