Better Itomw" Pae In 8an-; ( 3 J i ft 'f X flY KY IU'm iiY ifCfTCVCVClf'KV'CKy Where -will you spend yoar va- dr Statesman 1 always of in- I f l I I i 1 I flX UVJ IJ'l I AVA 1 j " 1 T I I I I I ' I r-VvI I l llll llll ration? See Sundays StateHtnau - home. ., ! - - U UjX ... I J SEVENTY-FOURTH YEAR . ' M SALEMr OREGONSATURDAYMORNINGi AUGUST 2, 1924 j PRICE FIVE CENTS. mwm,m"i'""mmmmmm"""'?"''""m"m"'"'m" FREJ BY ALLIED MEET .Complete Agreement Is Reached at Conference on Administration of the Dawes Reparation Report GERMAN TO BE ASKED TO LONDON FOR PARLEY Minister Expected to Delay for a Talk-With Secre- tary Hughes 1 i : LONDON. Aug. 1. (By Asso clated Plress.) rWlth the excep tion of ofrie point, this relating to reparation transfers from Ger many, . the Interallied conference this, afternoon reached complete agreement on how the "Dawes plan should be made operative. Tills one outstanding difficulty It Is said will be cleared away to night and the allied plenipo tentiaries Jnave been summoned to sit In plenary session, at the Brit ish i foreign office in Downing street at 11:30 o'clock tomorrow morning to pass, judgment on the committee's reports which . are to be embodied in a protocol for sig nature by. the Germans, j " MacDoaald - Invites . Germans. ; Tomorrow Ramsay Aiacuonaia, the British premier, as chairman, trill extend an invitation to the Germans to come to London as soon as possible. The ; mission from -Berlin, -. however, is not ex pected to arrive before Monday and possibly Tuesday it is antici pated that Dr. i Schlumann, ; the nAmtfi LfnMlrn . Tn in 1 at AY .-will . H lay its departure until he has bad an opportunity to talk ; with Charles E. Hughes, the American secretary of state, who Is to spend Sunday in the German capital. 'AitnougniBe aeiegate to tne conference are worn out by reason of long . hours they hare j worked during the last few days, they do not begrudge the Germans an ex tra day, for high authorities here believe Mr.. Hughes will give the Germans , words of advice about the attitude ; they should take when they appear at the; confer ence table to discuss the methods the conference has adopted for Inaugurating a new reparation era. High authorities here ; express the belief that the Germans will be warned to do nothing in Lon don to obstruct the . .conference, adjournment of which is expected to take place next week. 7 Arbitration -Move-Wins. The magic wand of arbitration held in the hands of the French and waved over the conference table yesterday and today has wrought wonders for . Interallied diplomacy. Differences which last week threatened to break up the parleys have disappeared and even among the allied delegations there are expression of I surprise and wonderment that pie task which for, days seemed to be Impossible baa been accomplished. The American delegates, official and unofficial observers, including Owen D. Young and James A. Lo gan, Jr., tonight expressed the opinion that the conference reeults are sound economically and fi nanciallyand that the Dawes plan will be put to work without, loss pt any of Its effectiveness. . Herriot'g Position Safe. j From all Quarters there come the highest tributes to the con ciliatory attitude taken ; by the French delegation' Premier Her riot's principle for arbitrator differences which may arise, has carried the day. Nearly , every point in the proposals he submitt ed Wednesday afternoon has been altered but not to an extent that the French preraief has j endang ered his political position at home or that credit can be detracted from the French efforts to bring the conference -to -a -successful ' (Continued on page 2) THE WEATHER ..OREGON Cloudy in west gen ; erally fair in east portion Sat-' unlay; slight change in tern t perature; moderate westerly' winds. i: LOCAL WEATHER (Friday) I Maximum temperature.. 74. Minimum temperature,! 69. River, 2.3 ; . stationary. Rainfall, none. Atmosphere, cloudy. Wind, northwest. CITIES CLEANED BY PROHIBITION, I SAYS BRITISHER Educator Avers There is More Bootlegging in New Zea land Than U. S. SEATTLE. Wash.. Aug. 1. Cleanliness of American cities and absence of external evils of pro hibition are the most obvious changes in the United States since the adoption of the 18th amend ment, according to George Fowlds, president of Auckland University and, former minister of education and public health in New Zealand who is here as special commission er for the Rotary International of New-Zealand. . : j i . ' "I have made four trips to the United States before prohibition and , four since.f said President Fowlds. ."I find jthere is less filth, degradation and! poverty existing in American cities on this last trip. I "In New Zealand, where saloons are licensed, but the sale of liquor is prohibited Jon j Sundays after 6 o'clock at night, and to drunkards, there is more, bootlegging than in the United States." Coolidge Assures, Bryan That Merely Military are to Participate LINCOLN. Neb., Aug. 1. (By the AP.) National. plans for De fense day, September 12, do not contemplate "disruption, of busi ness in any way,'. President Cool- Idge advised C.W.. Bryan, gover nor of Nebraska and democratic vice presidential. nominee who ob jects to acceptance in full of the government's plan for the day. Mr. Coolidge" s telegram to the governor was in answer to one the governor, sent to the chief execu tive. Both were' made public, here today by the governor. "Kindly advise me." said the Nebraska executive's : missive, "whether it is your desire that the plans and suggestions of general defense day be carried out on na tional defense ! day or whether national test day plans be con fined to demonstrations on the part of military forces and patri otic societies as originally under stood, In which j the state of Ne braska is officially keeping." - "The plans for patriotic demon strations are dependent upon state and local desires," says the an swering telegram. II British to Make Last Attempt to Reach Agreement on New Dispute LONDON, Aug. 1. (By The Associated . Press. ) The govern ment has decided to make a last attempt to obtain a settlement. of the Irish boundary dispute, by con sent and in the event of 'failure by next Thursday, j when perliament is scheduled to rise for the sum mer recess, it will introduce a bill which will set up the. boundary commission, as j provided by the Anglo-Irish treaty and give it power to function without the usual government consent. J. P. Thomas, the colonial sec retary announced, in the house of commons today f that this course will be ; followed "regardless of consequences," which means that the government, will treat the bill as a question of confidence and that if the bill is thrown out by the house of lords, it will dossolve parliament and appeal to the country. 1 Washington ? Modifies California Quarantine t , " . ' -OLYMPIAN Wash., Aug. 1. A modification ? of a quarantine I against California was. made ef fective today by Director F. H. Floyd of the. state department of agriculture. Fruits and vege tables originating in areas free from the foot, and mouth epizootic will be admitted if accompanied by a certificate "of the United States department of agriculture and shipped ; in new containers without fumigation. The order also admits horses and pet ani mals, not of j the cloven-hoofed variety, if properly fumigated. IflfloOESTED mil BDU DRY I1S1P IS UP AIRMAN FALtS SSoSoR Mail Pilot Crashes to Ground in Flames as He Attempts to Drop Flowers Into Open Grave TRAGEDY ATTENDS THE FUNERAL OF COMRADE Charred Remains Found rNear Scene of Wreck; 1 Ceremony Procedes - RENO, ; Nev., Aug. 1. Flying low to drop flowers on the grave of a former mechanic at the Reno air mail field, William F. Blanch field, mail pilot,! crashed to his death here this afternoon as a group of mourners stood . waiting for the tribute from the skies. The plane. burst into flames on hitting the, ground. A residence near where It fell was destroyed. Crash .Break Silence As the of ficiating minister - at the services quoted: "For, inasr much. as it hath. pleased the Al mighty God in His infinite wisdom to take out of the worlds the soul of our beloved brother, we there fore commit, his. body to the grave earth unto earth, ashes unto ashes, dust unto dust!" the roar Of a plane partially drowned the words. .Blanchfield flew over the open grave,, preparing to drop the wreath. The minister paused, waiting for the flier to swing back. A crash broke into the silence of the. mourners. They raised their , eyes from the open . grave, with its flag-draped coffin, and saw the flames from Blanch field's plane as it crashed. A number of women fainted, a few rushed to the scene of the ac cident, but the services continued. Charred Remains Found No flowers were dropped Into the gravel of Samuel J. Gerrans, the mechanic. A salute was fired by uniformed veterans of the World war and the mourners and others participating in the services went to Blanchfield's bier. As they looked at the charred remains the purr of a second plane was heard, j Pilot Claire K. Vancey with the west bound mail for San Francisco.' circled over the grave and the bier three times, in ac cordance with the traditions of the service. 1 Blanchfield was on the Reno Elko run; of the air mail service. He entered the service Jan. 3, 121. He had been flying for 10 years. 1 The dead pilot was a vete ran of the World war. MR FA'DH VISIT r PARIS, Aug. 1. The members of the American Bar association ended their official visit to Paris today. v : i : ' TOURISTS AT CAMP GROUNDS CROWD 1923 SEASON FIGURES AND PROMISETO SET RECORD I Within the next two or three weeks automobile tourists stop ping over night at the Salem auto camp grounds this year will have exceeded the number stopping overtnight during the entire 1923 season, according to figures com piled by T. G. Albert, superinten dent of the grounds. Since the camp was opened March 1 ' there have been 3277 machines regis tered, against 4300 for the whole of the season1 last year. During the month of July a to tal of 1459 automobiles were registered in comparison with the 1014 registered in July, 1923, Averaging four passengers to the automobile, this means that a to tal of 14,106 visitors' have stopped over night so far this season, of which 5836 were In July. . Each month this year surpassed the figures of the corresponding month last year. In June this year there were 842 machines reg istered in comparison with 758 for June, 1923; May saw 571 thia year against; 320 last year; April found 281 tourist visitors in - Sa lem against 97 for the correspond ing month in 1923. These figures hardly afford ,' a fair , comparison,' however,, for r the 'camp grounds were open but two weeks" in April, 1923. There were 124 machines registered in March, but '.the camp grounds were closed .the entire month of March In 1923. Easterners are . beginning to come In rapidly now. according to Mr. Albert, . and scarcely .a , night passes but aome driver from the CHINAMAN HAS TREASURE ISLE; TO HELP POOR Former Seattle Merchant Oriental to Be Satisfied With Humble Home SEATTLE, Aug. 1. An Idea of real enjoyment for a wealthy Chi nese was revealed here today , on the return of Jim Wong, a pioneer Seattle merchant, .from , his rich gold mine on Chicagoff island, off southern Alaska, where he said he had "enough gold ore blocked otf to make him a millionaire three times over." "I am going to buy ten acres of garden land," replied Wong when asked what he intended to do with his money.- "I will plant three acres of alfalfa for my cow, raise chickens and vegetables, giving the later to 'the poor." Auto Demolished After Leav- in Highway South of Town. Early Friday , Miss Emma M. Hocken berry, 19. of Fresno, Cal., was killed and her father, M, B. Hockenberry, in jured when the : automobile ; in which they were riding plunged fron the .pacific highway about three miles south of Salem early Friday ; morning. The; machine was badly wrecked . after it had turned completely pver and lodged against a post. 1 Mr. Hockenberry, was unable to account for the accident, but as the accident occurred after the driver had been at the wheel for hours and on a curve at the bot tom of a depression in the high way, it is believed that he fell asieep for. a short time. . The father. and daughter were on their way to Portland to visit Mrs."Hockenberry,lwife and moth er, and other relatives. Upon rem edying word of the accident Mrs. Hockenberry and H. J. Hot: ken berry of Portland,: grandfather of the dead girl, came to Salem. The injured man was able to leave the hospital . and return to Portland with his father. and -wife. H..J. Hockenberry was . superintendent of schools in eastern Oregon. Miss Hockenberry wag a, student at the California state college at Fresnoj The remajns will be sent to Portland for burial. No in quest .will " be held, It .was an nounced by Lloyd fRigdon, coro ner. j Rome -Bakeries are to - Make War Bread Again ROME, Aug. . 1. Beginning Sunday, all bakeries in Rome will again bake war bread. It will be called "popular" , bread and . sold at one lire, twenty Isentisimi per kilogram, while the price of the regular bread ..will : be raised to two lire .per j kilogram. The in crease in the price of wheat is re sponsible. v other side of the Rocky mountains rolls his machine through the gates and asks for directions to a camping place for the night. ' More women are touring by themselves this year than ever be fore, according to Mr..HAlbert. A party of three women from Cali fornia were in the camp last night; last week there were four women from New j York, with no man In the party. Other parties are regular callers at the camp ground. When the women see the tent houses they are not content to pitch their own tents, which they are highly capable of doing without assistance,! but demand the key and move In. The de mand for these tent houses has been so great that the original colony of six has 'been increased to 16 at present. - These were the tourists that stopped at the Salem -auto camp alone, i Many have -heard of the Lone Star camp, on North Capitol, and spend the night there. Others drive across the river and pitch their tents at the West Salem auto camp. ! Neither of these ' were available last . year. Others . are camped at favorable .sites on either side of Salem, private camps along the highway. Taking these Into consideration, .with 14.108 stopping at the Salem camp, it is safe to assume that the popula tion of the city haa actually been doubled by a temporary class of residents since the open road. has again- sounded its "call, and thou sands have packed up and bit the highway for the season. tBmn..M.iaaBaaa I . . r : 1 SET FOR THE Endorsement of La Follette , and Wheeler Appears to Be Assured at Executive Meeting ., j NOT TO BE BOUND TO ANY POLITICAL PARTY fiompers Flays Foster- for Associations With Com munistic Doctrines ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. l. (By The Associated Press.) Endorsement of the La Foliette Wheelerj candidacy by the, Ameri can Federation of Labor appeared certain tonight at the close of the first day of the annual session of the federation's executive coun cil. jThese were the developments: Samuel Com per a, president of the American Federation of Labor and chairman of the council, authoriz ed an aide to state that he, Mr, Gompers would not lead any oppo sition to La Follette and Wheeler that might develop at these ses sions. , j ; )l Stand Behind Gompers ; Members, of .the .council, while they stood behind . Mr. '' Gompers' declaration , of yesterday that the federation would maintain its tra ditional non-partisanship in the 1924 campaign declared they coulid properly -endorse La, Fol lette and Wheeler as long as the endorsement was confined to con ditions and refrained from pledg ing fealty to any national political party. ' ; It, was disclosed that the, report of the national political com paign committee of the federation of labor on major party platforms. Conti-'jd on page 6.) i Will Spend $12,000; Permits for July Amount! to $92,700 July witnessed - nearly 30 per cent more building activities this year 'than last, according to Mar ten Poulsen, city recorder, who re ports a total of. 192,700 represent ed by 33 permits issued during the month, bringing the total to 81, 368.100 for the first seven months of 1924. But Mr. Poulsen's figures do not: tell the entire, story, for since he compiled his figures Thursday, an additional $23,050 worth of permits have been issued from his office, to be counted inf on the August totals. j Leading the list of permits Is sued in the last two days is the $12,000 permit taken out by John Palmer for the construction of a court type apartment ,to be located at 935-41-47-53-59 and 965 Mill street, in the University addition. The contractor campus for the apartment will be L. G. Bulgin. Other permits taken out were by Guy L. Rathbun, coach at Wil-. lamette university, dwelling at 735 North Capitol, to cost $5550; John Williamson, dwelling at 1275 Erixon. $3000; W. M.f Fuson. dwelling, 1385 Jefferson, $2000 and to Senora F. Corner,! to alter and repair a store building at 22 South Winter at a cost of $500. -tf SALEM IS ID HAVE D OIL ACTIVITY And Perhaps Also a New Mining Excitement,; Very ! Close to the City - A reliable California oil well been just drilling concern, that has very successful, that has brought in a big flowing well in that state, is to bore fori oil right close to Salem ; and also; prospect for a, paying gold mine. ; This-company has been quietly making oil leases in the. neighbor hood 'of East Independence, nine (Continued on -page 6.) THIRD T1CKLT in iEWfiH FRANK'S BOY SLAYERS I FIND AMUSEMENT IN MURDER TRIAL 1 1 I This photo made in the courtroom in Chicago of Judge Caverly is of the slayers of! little Robert Franks. ' The testimony almost furnished amusement for the killers who laughed during the testi mony. At the left is Nathan Leopold, Jr., and at the right," Richard Loeb. Leopold, having looked forward to the trial as an intellec tual treat, is said to be wearying o f the procedings. Testimony tending to show lack of mental responsibility i on the part of the defendants was yesterday admitted by the court. IRIOMK ITS I HIDING Anniversary of 'Death of Former President Is to ' Be Commemorated ! MARIOX, Ohio, Aug. 1. Com memorating the first . anniversary of the death of the late President Warren G. Harding, the people of Marion will tomorrow bow their heads in prayer , for their distin guished townsman. One year ago tomorrow President Harding died unexpectedly in the Palace hotel at San Francisco, j ! Appropriate exercises will mark the occasion. A wreath will be placed ' on the Harding tomb in the Marion ' cemetery. Soldiers have kept constant guard at the tomb since his body was placed within. I The wreathto be placed on :the tomb was sent by President Cool idge today. In keeping with Mr. Harding's dislike for ostentatious ceremonies the j. services will, be simple. FLIERS PREPARE Flight to Start Today if the Weather Is Favorable Near Iceland ; KIRKWALL, Orkney Islands, Scotland, Aug. 2. (Ry the. AP.) The. United States world fliers left here .today for Iceland. They took off from 1 lout on bay for the 5CO-mile trip. at H:JO a. m. KIRKWALL. Scotland, Aug. 1. (By Associated Press.) it was believed tonight" that Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith, Lieutenant Leigh Wade and Lieutenant Erik Nel son, the American army world circling aviators, would be able to hop off from Houton bay early tomorrow morning for their flight to Iceland. Weather cocditions over the route to le traversed were reported tonight as getting better. Reports were received from the torpedo boat destroyers Reld and Billingsley, lying at their stations between the Orkney islands and Iceland, indicating a general clearing up of the fog which has prevailed during the past three days and held the fliers here. The aviators had . a conference this evening at which it was de cided to start for Hoefn Horna f jord at 7 o'clock, unless later weather conditions are received, making a start impracticable. With favorable wind. Lieutenant Smith believes he and his fellow airmen will be able to reach their first scheduled mid-atlantic . stop in seven ;hours, without flying over the - Faroe Islands, as : they had planned to do in the event of fog covers the more -southerly route. COOLIOGK STUDIES REPORT , WASHINGTON. Aug.il. Presi dent Coolidga expects some time will be required to digest the re uurts submitted to ' him .by ma jority, and minority groaps of the tariff commission on the-Investigation of augar-duties,- . : ' I Water Reserve for WiNam. ette Cities at Clear Lake Also Advocated: . FISH LAKE RANGER STA TION, Santiam National Forest, Ore., Aug. 1. Three .measures, one increasing the gasoline tax one cent per gallon, the second setting aside the water in the Clear Lake district for use of Willamette val ley towns and the. third providing for joint incorporation of 1-valley cities asi a water district, will be recommended by Governor Pierce in his message to the 1925 legislature, lie said today. ThiE decision was; the outcome of a trip of nearly 100 Willamette val ley men to Clear Lake in the in terest of obiaining a better watei supply for the central Willamettt valley cities; The governor,' mem bers jof " the; highway commission and engineering department and various branches of: the state gov ernment accompanied the party.. According; to estimates, it would be possible to build a system cov ering the "Willamette valley from Salem to Eugene ata cost of $9, 500,000 using steel pipe. A total of 125 miles of pipeline would have to be laid. " The cities; possibly to be includ ed "In the plan were Albany, "Aums ville. Brownsville, Coburg, Corval lis, Eugene? Simblimity.; Turner, Philomath Independence, West Sa lem, Salem: Halsey Harrisburg, Jefferson, Lebanon, Junction Ciiy and Springfield. Argentine iFlier Reaches Bounder Abbas on Flight BUNDER; ABBAS, Persia, Aug. 1. Major Zanni,' the Argentine military aviator who is attempting a round the world flight along the route mapped out by the British aviator, -A. (Stuart MacLaren;; ar rived here today from Baara, Irak. Since . Wednesday Major Zanni has flown from Aleppo, Syria. He reached Bagdad at noon yesterday, taking the air again four hours later for Basra. --:: AS GUARD LEAVES Prison Truck Stopped for Re pairs in Salem and Pair Disappears ' i . - v;;h Taking: advantage of the ab sence of a guard -for a few min utes when he stepped into a gar age, two convicts who ;were em ployed in hauling flax from the warehouse j at RIckreall ; iq the state prison, escaped in the . heart of the cityjabout 11 o'clock' Fri day morning. The convicts were Davis Pehwell and Fred Howard, short termers. Charles ' McKInley, . th gnard, stopped at i a garage , on - Center ' 11 (Continued from page 6.) PIERCE FAVORS 6AS0LINETAX WO TRUSTIES RUN COMPOSED OF Devilish Ingenuity" to Pro duce Kidnaping Said By Alienist to Be Product of Union of Two Minds NEITHER CAPABLE OF THE CRIME IF ALOfJE Defense Gains Right to Enter Testimony on Mental Responsibility CHICAGO, Aug. 1. (By the Associated Press).-! dual per sonality composed of Nathan Leo pold Jr and Richard Loeb worked with "almost, devilish ingenuity" to produce the kidnapping and murder of Robert Franks, accord ing to Dr. William A. White'who testified for the defense today be fore Judge John R. Vaverly. . "Loeb considered the crime as an intellectual feat," said White "Loeb fell into the nlan .h emotional, premium this relation ship offered. Kach Needed Other "I cannot see how 'Babt' would have entered into tho alnt inn He had no , criminalistic tenden cies. 'Dickie' bad these tenden cies but would not have function ed to this extent by himself.". The witJK-s pjerured the two youths as Use vitims of., phan tasies with Loeb WH under Jheir influence and sinking lower ail wie ume, out with Leopold battl ing them behind a self imposed uarnea or tntellectuality. He said ail, had not been happy in the relationship as each had considered killing the other. He was Dermltted hi iu fc.ua mentality of the student defend- lntS HlDfJi fha rr.4- l.j . . - uau uerrujea abjections by Robert E- Crowe, -Jtate's attorney, to the considera-' :ion of any such subject as a miti-' nation tn niinlsliniii DeciHiou Far Reaching The decision was far reachinj m that it admitted alienists' ob nervations for that purpose foi probably the first time in Illinois courts. It permitted the defense' show-after a plea of. guilty, 'mental disease short of legal in ;anity, as a circumstance to be considered in fixing the penaUy for a crime. Dr. White was on the stand all day long, and was being cross, examined when adjournment came. Next on the defense list Is Dr., William Healy a Chicago ex pert. ; ; Alienist Presents Analysis - An exhaustive analysis of char acter was presented by Dr. White for the information of the court. At the outset Mn Crowu interject ed numerous objections. But'with ew; exceptions the judge allowed the defense to procted along its own iinesj stopping the witness only when he thought Dr. White vhis straying from the circum stances of the present case into the realm of academic discussion The witness reached his obser vations on the dual personality of. the defendants aftr a long re view of the life h if tory of each. He referred to Lc b as "Efickie" and to Leopold as "Babe" ex plaining that he fell into the habit of applying the dinutive to the former and that Leopold has then insisted upon l.fing called by-his college nicknan.d. I "Emotionally the boys are in an infantile state," said Dr- White. fLoeb Is about four or five years; old in that re spect and Leopold not more than from five to seven; Had Inferiority- Complexes "Both, too, started with a feel ing of inferiority, but while Dickie succumbed to this and developed anti-social, tendencies. Babe de fended himself by consciously building up a feeling oi intellect ual superiority. - fortified -by a philosphy of mechanism in which there was no God and emotion was stifled " j - The big lid".!.1 of the case as to which boy rtctu.Uly stunned and. strangled yoiriK fh'r-inks was not solved by tht,i ..-tor. Mr. Crowe asked him about it on cross exami nation ifdt the expert said he had not taken up that aspect of the dime with his subjects. "It really made no difference as to" their guilt." : he explained. '.'Who - do you think killed Franks." persisted Mr. Crowe. Thinks Loeb Did Killing , "It must have , been Dickie, saldiDr.-Wlilte.- j Loeb visibly gulped when thi9 came ont. lie leaned forward and (Continued on page 2, m