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! - -- - . - ; - - - . - . - - ' . I . . .. BEVENTY-FOURni "raAB; . ' IMi: . : ' .1 i i SAIM,OREGON,i SUNDAY MORNjNG. AUGUSTjtitei j rRICK'FIVE CENTO. " MARION BANKS STATE SCOUTS VII STORIES I OF j MORE THAN i MILL TfilP, T STATE'S MONEYS P7 MVii! iHttlHI l!! LlrULLLl ILIb MKW, tALVtb AWU ; AlKMIItLLb m mm a w i h m m n v - h ii m w a. mm U U J v -n Tl V . m. I Bit H M W S v mm TEST ION HLAUHtU UfUN bUrrUH I LU BY HAY BURNS lW! FIRE ni rnnrnnnT i nnnn nnnii n l " HMD LUUUUIUII UunI ill Hi (I ITi ii IvlUrdljlul m "-u 'V-' u" ' VIM.. UVUJLJtil TiiSAL- prosecution Ridicules "Child ish! Phantasy"! Theory Built Up By Defense of Leopold and Loeb ' CROWE CASTS SHADOW ON ALIENIST'S STORY Attorney Wants to Know if Boys are Different From Other Criminals CHICAGO. Aub. 2. (By The Associated Press) Tie prosecu tion today ridiculed the "childish phantasy" theory builtj up by the defense through examination of Its rirst alienist. . Dr. William White. Washington. D. C. as the explanation of the kidnaping and slaying of Robert Franks by Na than Leopold, Jr.. and Richard Loeb. The. rstate hinted that the youthful intellectual giants had hoodwinked the distinguished psy chaiatrist and finally it attacked the credibility of the eminent spe cialist. . Original Report Refused the effort by Robert E. Crowe, state's attorney to have produced the original report made to it by Dr. White. The superintendent of the federal hospital for the Insane sat on the witness stand flushed and apparently angered - at Mr. Crowe's remarks to Judge John R. Caverly that he wished to show that the witness first had con eluded that the boys were insane and then, for his fee of $250 a day; had sworn that they were nnlr "muntallv clcfr." 'At the end of the , short court session, the record showed Mr. Crows as satis fied to let reiusai or. me report TiAllV fAli Mr. Crowe in attacking the 'childish phantasy" theory brought from Dr.. White an "I don't know" when he was asked if the admittedly high intellects , of the youthful defendants at any . time coula have stopped the plan alienist had testified originated in their emotions., May Have Fooled Doctors Hinting at the possibility that Babe" and "Dickie" had fooled the doctors, Mr. Crowe asked If he had .believed all that the boys told him despite their known pro- penalty fdr falsehood. The wit-j ' ness testified that he had not be- j lieved all of Loeb's foolishness" but he thought that Leopold had been frank. . . The youths "intellectually knew that murder was proscribed by the , law," the doctor testified, but "had no moral attitude to give them the feeling that they were dolag wrong." ' Mr. Crowe, however, forced the admission that in trying to pro tect the name of girl friends and In Loeb's trying to keep secret for the protection of his father, an admission that he and Leopold had planned to kill the. grandson of ti la father's hiiRinea associate Jlh- lius Rosen wald the youths had been actuated by a concern "not possible in the child of five." j Crowe Questions Doctor :j Again Mr. Crowe asked: "You have called Loeb a child of five emotionally; how do "you account for the fact that for a pari Ol IU1B liiue no iuuiu ij aside this characteristic, pursue his university studies ana appear so normal to everybody that even his immediate family was startled vben nis crime, was iieucu uuu him. Will you explain how such an emotional' Infantile character could be so normal in all his hu man contracts." 5 ' i "Unfortunately that is common experience with people - of this type," replied Dr. White. "These (Continued from page 7) THE WEATHER OREGON Fair Sunday except cloudy - on the coast t In the morning; moderate tempera ture; m d e r a t e northwest . winds. ' ;J-: i j '-I,,!. LOCAL WEATHER ; , (Saturday) ' Maximum. temperature, 78. Minimum temperature, 51. -River, - 2.3; stationary. Rainfall, none. , ' Atmosphere, partially : cloudy. WIndi southwest. - Total on Deposit Is 8,034,400 of Which Mult nomah County Has 53,222,131; Remainder of $3,842,000 Is Scattered Through Other 34 Counties, Says Myers' Report Of the $8,034,400 of state f und& on deposit in banks of the state on July 31, Marion-county institutions held $1,021,-. 900, Multnomah county $3,222,131 and the balance of $3, 842,000 was held in various banks in the 34 other counties of the state according to a report submitted by Jefferson Myers, state treasurer. In addition there was $51,631.10 on active accounts. During June and July the office of the state treasurer purchased a total of $141,500 in bonds for the World War veterans' state aid sinking fund. "L i ' ' Marion county banks, and the WORLD FLIERS ARE SEPARATED Eric Nelson Makes Iceland in Fog I Other Two Planes Turn Back KIRKWALL, Scotland, Aug. 2. (By The Associated Press.) The American team of round-the-world" fliers ; tonight finds itself divided Lieutenant Eric Nelson spending the night at Hoefn Hornaf jord, Iceland, the first stop of their trans-Atlantic route, and Lieutenant Lowell H- Smith and his colleague. Lieutenant Leigh Wade, with their mechanics, still at Houton bay, i Kirkwall, forced to return by the enemy of alrM men fog. -, , The two pairs of aviators turned back from their attempt to make Iceland after covering , about 30 miles. But f Lieutenant Nelson pushed through a hole in the fog from an altitude of 3000 feet, to a clear level under the fog, and Smith and Wade heard of him again only In reports from the 'destrdjfers Billingsley fand Reid and the cruiser Raleigh, announc ing his spectacular flight into Ice land waters. i i Nelson Reaches Iceland HORNAFJORD, Iceland, Aug. 2. (By The Associated Press); Lieutenant Eric; Nelson and Lieu tenant John Harding Jr., his toe- (Continued on page 7.) Portland Makes One-Way .Traffic Successful Thing PORTLAND, j Ore., Aug. 2 One way traffic inaugurated on a number of Portland's principal streets yesterday began function in earnest today, and in the opin ion of traffic officers will result in the elimination of a large amount of congestion in the down town streets during the rush hours. I , ! Police reported few infractions of the new regulations. PHOU mm City Health!: Officer Takes Action Following Discov ery; of Sewerage r Swimming in the playground pool on Mill? creek near North Fourteenth was prohibited Satur day upon order of Dr. William .B Mott, city health officer, following the discovery of sewerage Just above the pool. Warnings are given by Dr. Mott that the creek is not In a sanitary condition from the playground pool to the river The presence of sewage was dis covered by Batty Cooper, sanitary inspector, r Immediate steps will be taken to remedy the situation Reports-of several cases of the infection, said to nave been traced to the swimming pool are report ed In ' the city. While Dr. Mott has not been called by any of the cases, he held that it was possible that the i boys became Infected while swimming, but doubted ' If the water was polluted, to such an extent. It is, however, a carrier of typhoid germs, and because of this was placed under ban -for the w POOL or DOCTOR amounts deposited In each, were as follows: ' i , -: . I Aiimsville State, $8500; Aurora State. 429.000; First National of Aurora. $26,000; First State Donald, f $8000; Gervais State, $7000; $tate Bank of Hubbard, $13,000; Oregon State, Jefferson, $10,000; Mill City State. $14,000; Monitor State, $12,800; Bank of Mt. Angel; $6800; First National. Mt. Angel, $6000; Salem Bank of Commerce, $275,000; United States National. Salem, $300,000; First National. Salem. $275,000; State" Bank of St. Paul, $4000! State-Bank of Scotts Mills. $6800; Coolidge & McClaine Bankers. Sll vert,on, $4500; Frist National. Silverton, $18,500; First National, Stayton,; S5000: Turner State; $9500; Bank of Wood bum. $50,- 000; First National, Woodburn, $22,500. Exclusive of Multnomah and Marion F counties, the following amounts were on deposit in the 34 other counties of the state: Baker. $77.000; 'Benton, $112:- 000; Clackamas, $188,500; Clat sop, $330,000; Columbia, $69, 000; Crook. $17,500; Coos, $804, 500; Curry, $22,000; Deschutes, $85,000; Douglas, $174,000; Gil liam, $42,000; Grant, $6000; Harneyil- $17,000; Hood River, $106,000; Jackson, $210,000; Jefferson, $20,000; Josephine, $86,000; Klamath, $39,500; Lake, $34,000; Lane, $232,500; Linn, $226,500: Lincoln. $26,000: Malheur, $82,500; Morrow, $16,- 500;- Polk, $47,500; Sherman, $8000;; Tillamook, $35,000; lima- Ulla, $400,000; Union, $70,000; WalloWa, $46,000; Wasco. $109.i 000; Washington. $186,000; Wheeler, $9000, and Yamhill, $407,500. DEED SEASON TO ! DEPID ON PROBE Governor Will Not Close Forests Until Board Meets Next Friday Governor Pierce will not issue a proclamation closing the forests o deer hunters prior to a careful consideration of the , question which will be given at a meeting of the state game commission, for est service men and the governor on August 8, he said Saturday. "The matter is that which must be determined only after the most careful investigations." he said. I have not given the subject much thought at ;, present, oher than we must conserve and : pro tect the forests and at the same time must give due consideration to the hunters." Owing to1 the extreme dry, con ditlons of the forests at present it is possible that the forests will be closed to hunters this season unless there is a hard rain. : The Question will probably be decided definitely at the meeting Friday. German Delegation to Leave for London Monday ; BERLIN, Aug- 2. (By the As sociated Press).- Official an nouncement was ? made, tonight that the German delegation will start for London Monday. It will be composed of -Chan cellor " Marx, i Foreign - Minister Streseroann, Finance Minister Luther and Herr '-Von Schubert, foreign office commissioner.' : Representatives of Prussia and Bavaria, together with a number of . experts, will accompany, the delegation. , i ; . In all the party, with its clerl cal force, will comprise 40 per New Era in Allied Diplomacy Dawns on Conference for Adjustment of German Re parations ARRIVAL OF GERMANS AWAITED FOR FINISH Delegates Characterize Ne gotiations as Most Suc cessful Since War LONDOX, Aug. 2. (By the AP) A new era in allied diplomacy dawned today when the Inter allied conference, with the United States tofflcially "represented by Ambassador Kellogg, reached a full agreement on the program for making the Dawes reparation plan effective. After 18 days and a good part of many nights spent at the ; British foreign office In Downing street, the :parleys have terminated . successfully, so far as their inter-allied aspect ta con cerned.; The conference now be comes an international one. To Quit En of Week , With the arrival ; of German representatives in response to th.? invitation dispatched this after noon by Premier MacDonald, the inter-allied formula for launching the new scheme $o obtain war compensation from -Germany will be reviewed and the' Berlin emis saries will be asked to agree to it. Final adjournment Is expected the end of next week, j , The . delegates tonight charac terized j the negotiations as the most successful of ! all the Kuro- pean conferences held since the great war, and many of them ex pressed appreciation of the assist ance of the American, i delegate and observers. Conference ft access "The conference, has been a won derful success so far," said Am- oassador Kellogg to the Associ ated Press. "It has taken a good deal of time, but there was a vast amount of ground, to be covered. Everyone was determined to ac complish the task, and I think we have done it. The program "we have adopted is the only one we will take up with ; the Germans next week." ' Coolidge Completes His First Year as President WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. President Coolidge today com pleted j his first year in office. sticking to bis desk through most of the; day as he has throughout the entire period. ' President Harding died a year ago today, at San Francisco and Mr. Coolidge, then vice president, took the oath of Toff ice early-the next morning at his father's home in Plymouth, Vermont. He came immediately to Washington. William Lane to Sell Salt Lake;; Buy Vernon SEATTLE. Aug 2. William Lane, j owner of the Saft Lake baseball club, plans td purchase the Vernon baseball cub from Eddie! .Meier for approximately $175,000 and a group of Salt Lake capitalists will buy the Bees at a figure considerably under that sum, according to Lane, who Is here during the Seattle-Salt Lake series. EXCURSION TO CLEAR LAKE T SHOWS GREAT POSSIBILITY FOR WATER, POWER DEVELOPMENT By CHAS. J. LISLE. Salem sent no official, but sev eral private delegates to the Pure Water League excursion to Clear lake Thursday and Friday. ' They returned late Friday night after a strenuous two days of sight-seeing and investigation. , The general object of the ex cursion was to see the project that has been outlined1 for all the im portant Willamette'ralley towns Salem, Albany, Corvallis and Eu gene; to join in a super corporation for pure water and for electrical development. The water filings have been made on the stream issuing from Clear, lake, enough to cover all city require ments for the next century may be, j All that remains is to give the legal authority and make the plans and' put up about seven mil lion dollars to go to work. - Clear lake lies at an elevation Executive Council of A. F. of L. Moves to Give I the In dependent Ticket its Full Backing ENDORSEMENT HELD TO BE FOLLOWING POLICY Gompers Declares Practice Was Started in Cam. i paign Before 1906 ATLANTIC CITY, N- J., Aug. 2. The i candidacies of La,' Follette and : Wheeler were endorsed today by the executive council j of the American Federation of Labor by the adoption, almost without re vision, 'of the report of the federa tion's national non-partisan poli tical campaign committee. Not until, tomorrow will the text of the report and the resolution pe available to the press. f- S Heaiis of the AF of L refused tonight to make any comment, as to the! nature of either document and asked newspapermen: to avoid speculation. Debate on the politi cal question occupied ail of a special session of the- council this atternoon. The formulation of an official ' attitude toward the ' ob servance of . national defense day, September 12, was deferred until Monday. j Mr, j Gompers tonight made an official statement concerning the action' of the executive council. : x-"Every angle of the; national political situation was gone into," he said. "There was no hesita tion. It was all clear Speaking. The report of the American Fed eration of Labor's ; non-partisan political :. .committee - which i- we adopted conforms to what has been the practice with uS in every national, state and local cam paign since 1906." ! j ; 1 Other officials of tho American Federation of Labor would vouch safe only sufficient information to assure those, who had predicted the endorsement of the La Fol lette -'Wheeler candidacies that they had not gone amiss in their predictions. 1 The resolutions pass ed by the executive council were decidedly favorable to La Follette and Wheeler, was the only elabo ration of thts statement! of assur ance. ! ;vl DETECTIVES TALK , TO SUSPECTED MAN W. McCann, Local Resident, Never Connected; With ; Gratke Murder , After a courteous and careful questioning of W. McCann at his boarding house nere Saturday, In spectors Tackaberry and Phillips, of the Portland police department, returned home when f jthey had convinced themselves that there was positively no connection be tween McCann and the murderer of Martha Gratke, 15, who was killed in Portland on April 22. The detectives were iunable' to find Mr. McCann in the morning, as he was engaged on: a. job' of (Continued on page 2) of about 3100 feet, well up in the Cascade1 range almost due east of Albany. It is what its name Indi cates,, a "clear" lake; tha water is almostt as limpid as so much air. It is fabulously deep; it has stone walls, free of , sediment of any; kind, and viewed by itself Jt should be an. ideal 'water source. Flowing about 225 .cubic feet per second even now, at the lowest season of the year, it has been estimated to have fenough water for l.OOO'.OOO. people, whereas the four cities now have about 50,000 or a little more. Just what power cottld be reasonably developed de pends upon the plan of utilization: but! not far from 2800 feet of vertical fall should be available If It 1 were all taken up. 4 ! 5 . ; Figures .were quoted . rhow!T the development of the ..water sup- ( Continued on page 6.) Flames Thought to Cigarette Cause $1500 Loss to Farmer Near Hopmere Residence ple See the Red Glow Fire, believed to . have little used end of the building, destroyed; the main barn on the Homer Gouley place near. Hopmere at 9 :30 o'clock last night. Three calves, three tons of hay aiid all of the own er's harness were consumed in the blaze, j I Prompt action upon the part of neighbors prevented the fire from spreading to the residence. Mr.! Gouley carried but 'very little insurance on his property. - -j ' The red glow in the sky brought numerous inquiries to the Statesman off ice regarding the cause and location of the conflagration. , t -:. - ! f- Earlier in the: night a small brush fire occured near Hol man's spring, on the Salem-Dallas road. REED SCORES ST Opposition to Defense Day lis Characterized as a Serious Blunder KANSAS CITY, Aug. 2. Re fusal of Governor Bryan " of Ne braska and other state officials to cooperate in the national defense day program as announced by President Cooliage was character ized as a serious blunder by Uni ted State Senator James A. Reed, democratic of Missouri, in a state ment issued here tonight. The senator said he would prefer to ac cept the judgment - of General Pershing to that "'of "Governor Bryan, et al, to any military maneuver. ' . i- Mr. Reed said it would appear to the onlooker individual that "pre-war pacifism had joined hands with political pettifoggery." He declared that the "real sower of the seeds of war is the creature who goes about crying r 'Peace! Peace!' when there is no peace," and that the pretense that pre paredness will create a lust for blood is "the limit of absurdity." Simple Services Honor Memory of Pres Harding MARION. Ohio. Aug. 2. Sim plicity marked ! the first anniver sary of the death of the late Pres ident Warren G. Harding in this, his home town. Always avoiding ostentatious ceremony while he lived, his wishes were being followed after death. No public ceremony had been arranged other than the lay ing of a wreath at his tomb in the cemetery here." The wreath sent by President Coolidge i was to be placed without' pomp. ARMORY PACKED Br Final Services Will Be Held Tonight By Uldine Mabelle Utley Final services of the 11-day campaign conducted at - the Arr mory by Miss Uldine Mabell Utley, 12-year-old evangelist, will : be held Sunday night at 7:45 o'clock. The meetings : have been accord ed a wonderful reception here and have resulted in numerous conver sions. A special service will be held Sundav afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. . , , The Armory, with a capacity of nearly 2500, was packed for the healing services last night and many were turned away. The prayer room across the hail was filled -and nearly 20 were at the altar Children's services were held .during th afternoon, with many consecrations. Miss Utley will' hold, a non-denominational meetings at the Silverton high school; auditorium Vonday night, after which she will leave for Eugene, .where she will hold a. two weeks campaign beginning August-10, BRYAN 1 YOUNG EVANGELIST Have Originated from Is Saved; Salem Peo in Sky started from Eugene I Fisherman Runs Across Unconscious Body " Near River i - EUGENEj Ore., Aug. 2. Stark naked with the exception of one shoe and some shreds of under clothing, aj woman whose only Identification was to be found in the name Vj, Granger written on a corset nearby, was found lying face downward on a gravel bar about a mile from Junction" City this afternoon. - ;." The , woman -was discovered by William , Kuddlespn, a fisherman who was casting down the Willa mette riverj He sent for the sher iff and a. doctor. Dr. H. w; Hicks of Junction' City responded and together they took the woman to town, from! where Sheriff Frank Taylor had! them take her to the county hospital at Springfield. The woman was badly bruised about the arms and legs and also showed marks about the throat as if she had been choked.. She was not wholly unconscious but seem ed in a jdaze and unable to talk! Investigation showed only a few pieces of clothing nearby but a packetbookj with a. little money and identifying papers was picked up in the! brush hot over; 150 yards from; the har. The sheriff refrains from, disclosing the name found in the wallet Until the own er can be questioned. 1 SCHOOL INTEREST FUNDS ALLOTTED Marion County, With 15,311 Children, Will Receive $25,701.72 Marion jcounty has 1T,311 ; of the 238,S6 persons in the state between the ages of four and 20 and will receive $25,701.72 of the total allotment of $391,363.04, ac cording to; the annual apportion ment of accumulated interest on the irreducible school fund. The per capita 'amount is $1.64. s Multnomah county heads the list with 71,154 children, and an allotment jot $116,692.56. Mar ion county is second with Clacka mas county third with 13.416 children Snd $22,002.24, Lane county is fourth with "12,623 chil dren and $20,701.72. Polk coun ty had 5136 children and an allot ment of $8,432.04, according to the report Jefferson county is at the bottom of the list with 793 children and an allotment of $1,- 300.52. 1 . j Other counties and. the number of children in each are Baker, 5394; Benton. 4777; - Clatsop, 6641; Columbia, 5637; . Coos. 8696; Crpok. 927; Curry, j 1051; Deschutes 3596; Douglas. ;66 21; Gilliam. 1137; Grant. 1584; Har ney. 1108; Hood River. 3138; Jackson, 7335; Josephine., 2756; Klamath. 41C0; Lake. 1100; Lin coln. 22S7; Linn. 7585; Malheur, 3367; Morrow, 1747; ' Sherman, f'74 5 Tfllimook, 3241; Umatilla, 7370; Union, 6154; Wallowa, 2896; Wasco, 3890; Washington, 8944; Wheeler, 925,- and Yamhill, 6165. : NUDEiiN IS Lieut. Harding Writes Moth er of Sights! and Exper iences On Long and Peril ous Journey ! ; HAD ENGINE TROUBLE OVER AN ARID DESERT Liberty Motor Continues to Run in Spite of a Smashed Cylinder LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2. (By the Associated Press) Coincident with the arrival in Iceland todav of Lieut. Eric Nelson and his com panion. Lieut. John Hardinr. Jr.. American army around the world fliers, in advance, of Lieuts. Smith . and Wade, flying- the other two planes, a vivid chapter of their flight over the tropical deserts was revealed here. llrg. Roberta Chase Harding of Beverly Hills, mother of Lieutenant Harding, gave to the Associated Press a letter from her son from Pera Palace hotel. Constantinople. He graphically describes -a. serious engine acci dent high above the arid Sind des ert.; ' j:i; "I..-. Observations Related The picture is all the more vivid, being observations in the air of what American army authorities in examining Lieutenant Harding, said was the most perfect visioned eyes they had ever examined.' The letter in part follows:; "Reached Constantinople last evening after a wonderful trip from Calcutta. Good weather and lots of work, too 14 to 16 hours a day of real labor and I'm simply at a loss to describe the sights, scenes, anUqultyj etc., of It all. Vast expanses of sand hot as "blazes, camel caravans every- . where Arabs and burros, and miles and miles of desert country. Old biblical, historical towns, thousands of years old, with their quaint natives, costumes and cus toms. And in every place we go there are charming British and American people. "Shall never forget my charm ing hosts In Karachi; they did everything for my comfort In their palatial home. i "So much for that we are go ing to finish- if we can only con tinue the grind 14 to 16 hours every day of hard work. Exhaust Valve Breaks We arrived here yesterday (July 10) from Alleppo, Syria, and will be off in the morning for Bucharest, Rumania. This Is a wonderful city and so different from the little desert villages be- tween Calcutta and here, except the city of Karachi., Speaking of Karachi shall relate a little of our experiences ovef the Sind des- rrt I when our eneine s acted un. She -cut up, but, ah, how much respect I tor.: have for a Liberty mo- "Without a moment's notice, when about 55 mijes north of Kar achi, over the desert, an exhaust valve guide broke, causing the valve to drop inside tb cylinder. This In turn broke up the piston and caused the connecting rod to break. Got a 'kick put of seeing pieces of metal and piston rings fly out of the exhaust pipe and .see streams of blue smoke fly out. "The reason for the uneasiness (Continued on page 2) CHIXAMAX XKARLV MEETS death is si:mo- COMEDY . One special guard alarmed and fired his revolver, several policemen "were excited and one Chinaman almost met his death in a serio-comedy staged in the business section recently. Following the robbery of Miller's store,' a guard was placed on the rcpf at night lest the burglar remember that he had forgotten! something that he had overlooked and return.- For several tnights all went well and the guard was able to sleep without being disturbed. But one night he saw a strange shape on a nearby building roof, and when he received no response to his calls, fired his revolver at the figure. The bullet spattered close to the figure and one badly scared Chinaman gave himself up without further argument. The .Chinaman in question was employed as a cook In a noodle house and had stepped out on the root for some fresh air. - Kt present. i . ' i( '. sons. -