j f. 1 i ' i ' - . 3 i i t" i J' 1 v ' V':- . ! SEVENTY-FOtJRTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 3, 1924 price five ce:;:.: A, i i Clothing Comes in for HATIll RECENT PHOTOGRAPH OF PRINCE OF WALES TAKEN ON HIS RANCH IN WESTERN CANADA Discussion During Trial OF Ill of Roland R. Pothier 4 11 DEIiEO Rlouse of Major Cronkhite. Killed Six Years Ago, Is Men tioned Freely in Attempt to Convict Accused Man of Murder ' A SEEM!;. liBOUiij: : .- T -Jt V .1 i. I, i i r- .. Carter; Mudray and Colburn, IT IIIIILX . . All PinjAat Willi uuier o mucins, Leave By Automobile for Kansas 1 1 LINEUP IS WEAKENED FOR TRIP TO SEATTLE Locals' Only Hope Is to Keep Down Score of Sundodg. ers, Says Coaqhl ! Willamette university : athletic given a severe jolt prospect were yesterday when fire football play er, Including one mairbelng de pended upon to star In the basket ball season, were found ineligible and left college for the year. The 'five were Carter, ''Big Bill" Mud ray, Colburn, All played in The men left Heaaton and Mast, the Oregon game, by automobile for their former home In Kansas, for, unable to play football, t$iey were desirous of getting back" to ihe middle west before cold weather set in. ! . Carter Good Flayer 1 Carter was the gentleman who fought, dodged and ran' 60 yards for a touchdown against the Uni versity of Oregon football' team last Saturday! j That his run, was rnled out because of interference upon the part of a teammate does not detract from the brilliance Of his performance. V y ! At the Alpha Pel Delta fratern ity, where Colburn. Carter and Mudray are aid to have lived, it was decided after a lengthy con- f erence among the various fratern ity brothers last night that no one knewwhere the jneit were, or even if they had left college for are. An effort to ascertain more Information wis made from one of the sororities. None of the girl knew anything about the boys, but one stated that she "understood: it was being kept quiet in football circles.' i Lose Not Felt, Says Coach J Before leaving for Portland last night Coach Rathbun admitted that "one or two of the boys had been found Ineligible but that their loss would not be felt." Coach Rathbun would not give any names, but said "Big BUI" Mud ray would be unable to make the trip, as he had some sort ' of ; in fection, "poison oak, presumably, as he had been out to' the golf course.".. ' V -j .''?" i y Walte received another injury to his knee ast night but wiH make the trip north. The remain der of the team will join 'Coach Rathbun today. f i I t ItemphlU Also Gone Still another player, Hemphill, will be absent from the line-up Saturday, and1 according to rumor, perhaps the remainder of the sea son. Hemphill, who was injured In the Oregon game, and ! would have been unable to practice with the team for at least a week, left for Berkeley, Cal., early this week where he was called by the serl ona condition of his mother It Is not known; whether or not he will return to the campus, though this is anticipated. V I " I , With the Sundodgers recognized as one of the best college teams on the coast, the Bearcats' only hope is to try and hold the score as low 4 possible. Coach Rath bun said. The team is weakened by bruises and injuries and the I loss of the players through In eligibility, :i Willamette LJntup ' '.'"' Hen who are making the trip are Isham ; (captain), Cramer. Waite, Booth. Fletcher and Post In the backfleld poBltlonn;' Pas- nacht, Hartley, Stolzheise, Sher wood, Huston, Malstrom, Robert son, FIndley, Bateson ahd-W6od worth, linemen. , i THE WEATHER I OREGON: Unsettled, probably, rain; strong northwesterly winds. LOCAL WEATHER (Thnrsday) Maximum temperature, 68. Minimum temperature, 51. River, 1.7; risifag. , Atmosphere, loady. Wind, south. ; t ? TACOMA. Wash., Oct. 2. The blouse of Major Alexander P. Cronkite; destroyed five years ago, was the cettter of Interest for much of the time In federal court today where Roland R. Pothier is on trial for the alleged murder of the major on October 25. 1918. at Camp Lewis. Witnesses brought out that the bullet hole In the blouse was unmarked by pdwder burns as would be expected If the major was killed by a revolver in his own hand as the defense maintains. It was also disclosed that there was a slight stain on the sleeve, which might have been a powder burn and which, according to the testimony of Major Henry Tucker, of Philadelphia, physician, prov ed conclusively the theory of ac cidental death. This was Tucker's statement at the time of the mil itary board of Inquiry into Cron kfte's death and was called to' his IE ii VI Price of Wheat Reaches New High Record Exceeds $1.50 a Bushel ; CHICAGO, Oct. 2. It was a red letter day for higher prices of farm produce today. The star role was taken by wheat, which over topped $1.50 a bushel, and reached $1.51; for May delivery, a rec ord unequalled since 1921. ' Crowd for First Day Unof- ficially Estimated at Twelve Thousand DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. 2. (By The Associated Press.) Marked by close' finishes' and 1 enlivened with the antics of daring stunt fliers, the first day's program of the International air races was presented at Wilbur Wright field today before a crowd estimated unofficially at 12,000." l ' Charles S. Jones of Garden Cty, L. I., was the winning pilot of the dayi coming out ahead In two races, each carrying' a' $,1000 prize. He easily outdistanced competing ' planes in the' central labor union trophy race 'and was adjudged the winner of the "on to Dayton" race, scoring 239 points. In the central labor union trophy event, he flew a Curtis speed of 125 miles an hour. Of first interest probably among the three races on today's pro gram was that for the Liberty En gine builders' trophy, which brought; 11 evenly matched ships Into competition. AH were driven by 400 horsepower Liberty motors and all Were De Haviland specials, 48 and; 4 B 4 B 1. Lieutenant R. G. Drake, keeping almost an even 130 miles an hour gait, came in first. . I" . Spectators were given a real thrill in today's stunt program. They saw three airplanes, tied to gether with a cord, circle the field and maneuver without breaking the cord. . u. Kenneil-EIlis Moves Into Oregon' Building Four 1 Rooms Occupied t The Salem branch of the Kennel-Ellis portrait studios opened for business this week. Their studio' here is located on the fourth floor of the Oregon build ing, the complete equipment oc cupying four rooms. The studio will be under the personal direction of Earl Kennel, artist photographer. Mr. Kennel was connected with the motion picture' Industry before coming to the Willamette - Valley, having acted In the capacity" of camera man and director of lighting In a namcer 61 Hollywood studios. CHICAGO !H GOES Oil RAH 1 j RAGES '; AT OAYTOFJ . I raswBS 0 BUS ESS attention by Maurise A. Lang home, defense attorney on" cross examination this afternoon. In response to questions he de clared that : he had no grounds upon which to change his state ment at ; that time Which was to the Effect that' the powder burns on the 'Inner surface of the right sleeve in line with where the muz zle of the gun ,) would have been proved, that the gun 'was held In the major's right hand and Is'ab sodutely confirmatory evidence of the position of the gun." 5 The alleged powder- burn, however,- was a faint stain which was not revealed until close scrutiny of the blouse had been made, Tucker said' on the stand during direct examination by James W. Osborne of New York,- assistant to the United States attorney gen eral, who is prosecuting the case for the government. ' TIMES ARE GOOD SMS II. S. REPORT Department of Agriculture Issues Statement Show ing Conditions i . j 7 WASHINGTON. Oct. 2. The department of agriculture f made public today a report' from A. B. Genung, agricultural economist of the department, declaring that agriculture is swinging' toward par and that not In five years has the United States presented, so nearly a picture of balanced prosperity as now. The report was made after he had returned from a tour of the leading agricultural ; sections of the country. - ' ' " wo into th onth. this fall and you .will be impressed with its prosperity.", Mr. Genung. said "Last year went a long way to wipe out the pressing burden of Indebtedness. Another cotton crop bringing $1,500,000,000 cash, plus a fairly good season for - truck crops, potatoes, ' rice and small fruits, will put the south Into a very comfortable position, t Gen eral sentiment throughout the reg ion is distinctly optimistic. "The Pacific coast has been ser w . . . lousiy nurt by drought and to a lesser degree by frosts and ' the foot and mouth disease. However, the-coast 'taken altogether, pro duces a tremendous1 diversity of things and It will never be with out an income. It may not be wide of the mark to say that the coast country is in just fair con dition this fall, but on the whole, does not seem in quite so good snape as one year ago." i rraisTn AT WILLAMETTE Structure With Seating Ca. pacity of 3000 to Be Built at Once Work is to start this morning on the first unit of a plan which Is to make Sweetland field a piace for Willamette university ana baiem to be proud of. ' . So Coach Rathbun Informed the student body at their meeting yes terday morning.. It has long been felt that the field needed Improve ment and last spring the student body voted $1,000 to be expended on it. During the summer1 Inter est was aroused and sufficient funds pledged to guarantee the construction of a new grandstand with a seating capacity of ,3,000. Ground Is to be broken for; this immediately . -' Subscriptions by A. N. Bush and the Spaulding Lumber company, besides a number of smaller sub scriptions secured by. Dr. H.' H Oltag-er, f aur Wallace and Curtis Cross have made this possible. Tentative plans for the future Include paving and planking space back of the mill stream, improve ment of the ' present grandstand. and new tennis courts. 1 WINS ISO MILE RACE FRESNO.' Cal., Oct. 2. -E a r 1 Cooper driving a masterly race, won the 150 mile Raisin Day clas sic here this afternoon with Ben nett Hill second and .Tommy Mil ton third. 'The time was one hour 25 minutes and 13 seconds, a new track record. Ban 1 Johnson, President of American League, De clares; Baseball Must Be Kept Free of Scandal ; MUST KEEP NATIONAL! -GAME CLEAN, CLAIM Hint Is Thrown Out That the World's Series Should - Not Be Held! t CHICAGO. Oct. 2. (By th A. P.) Federal investigation to', rid baseball of its alleged i crooked ness will be demanded by Presi dent Ban Johnson of the Ameri can leagueas a result of the scan dal Involving Jimmy 0'Connel. Giant outfielder, expelled from the game! after confessing that he had offered a $500 bribe to Heine Sand, Philadelphia infielder, to throw last Saturday's game. ; Cozy Dolan. Giant coach also was expelled i as a result of the Giant outfielder's confession. ' President Johnson, i declaring that baseball Is the national game, said tonight that it must be pro tected byiithe government, and that the present Investigation may represent 'a point of "covering up," which he said, the American league would not condone nor ac cept. .'."I" " .j ".. ' -:r:'A ")L will insist upon an Investiga tion by the federal judiciary also that we may ; know all the facts and bring j to the surface the in dividuals who: have been guilty of this great ; misconduct and are a positive menace to . the Integrity of baseball,"! President , Johnson said. - j, ; The American league executive declared that in view of published statements' the world series be- (weenOhalGiants and Washington should "? have been '.- inYmediately declared off. He said that from all accounts it would appear that the "American league had been handed a championship club to compete with; which la tainted in all things jthai It represents." ' President Johnson revealed that Commissioner: Landis, whose In vestigation of the attempted brib ery, resulted in O'Conn ell's and Dolan's expulsion, had not' advised him of any of the developments-, nor communicated with him in re gard to Ihef' scandal, although Johnson, together with President Heydler of the National league and Landis form the baseball ad visory council. Various Interests Combine to Fight Efforts of Railroad to Increase Tariff The shipping interests of Salem were appealed to a week ago to help frustate the effort of the rail roads increasing their high rates on refrigerators cars. At that time there wag not much information at hand. I The Produce News, a reliable fruit publication, sent the wire, but jwas acting for a com mittee of Los Angeles : business men.' The committee was ap pointed at a . local mass meeting of Los Angeles vegetable shippers to . protest; the proposed increase of icing charges on vegetables. A number of wires were sent out by this committee Including one to the Pacific Homestead of Salem. The Salem chamber of com merce! and other shippers at once signified their desire to help. This increase of rates affects California most because ; they ship the most, but it affects the other sates equally in proportion i to their shipments Oregon, Washington and Idaho are vitally concerned and everywhere there has. been surprise expressed that the rail roads should attempt at this time to raIse,rates",""'"""""T v -"- The Lof Angeles committe now strengthened by the support from four states will make a man size fight against; this increase of ra tes. It will practically ruin what is just coming to be a profitable business in Oregon and. the north west generally. - This committee is .waiting advices from Chicago regarding! the increase of rates on lettuce, j It is also understood 1E0PP0SED (Cootlaoea en yg 4) ; t i ' -. i - - ; III - - V 1 : f :- jt &:!;::j.:::;b?;:??;::.4 - IE HARTWIG TO KEEP OFFICE President of Federation !of Labpr Nominated for j Re-election ! ' EUGENE, Ore., Oct. 2. Otto Hartwig, president of the Oregon State Federation of Labor, will be reelected to that office, the federation In its closing; session ..... fc.-.E , .. j. I here today .having renominated him, unopposed, for the mail bal loting that will select officers. I C. U. Taylor, vice president, was also nominated unopposed. E. C. Stack, secretary-treasurer; will have competition in Lynn Padrfck, Portland carpenter. Marshfield was selected as the 1925 convention city; r Nominations were made for the executive board, and delegates! to the Grange and Farmers' union conventions in Oregon next year. Otto Hartwig was ! named f rater mi delegate to the Washington st ite federation convention1 next year. . , . -' j -.- . j. l A resolution deploring the ill n ss of President P. L. Campbell ojj the University of .Oregon was also passed. President Campbell, wno was to have 'been one Of the speakers, was classed as a cham pion of the Interests of the co'm tojon , people. . v . .. . THREE STUOBUTS Some Citizens Believe Haz ing Is Matter for Police j To Adjust i Until such time as the school board hears their cases, three Sa lem high school students, ' John Drjager, . Donald Kelly and .Vernon Perry, have beenij suspended 'by Gorge W. Hug; superintendent; of schools, for participating . in te hazing of Harry Minto and: Jack Spong. ' . 1 .- ." - M - f ' , : The trio admitted their portion of the affair but refused to dis close the identity I of their : comt rades. As it is not until October 14 that the school board holds -its next regular meeting, it is expect ed that a special meeting Of the board will be called at an early date, probably next Tuesday nignt. iJust vl-hy young Minto. and Spong should be singled .out for the hazing has not been learned, btjt because Minto in particular had not registered for the year and consequently was not a stu dent in the high school at the tiiie several persons yesterday stited that it was their belief that the Matter was one for police ac ton and not under the Jurisdiction of; the school authorities. ;; Both Superintendent Hug and members of the school board irer iterated their standi yesterday that the practicing of hazing in the pablic schools must cease and that if I necessary to eliminate dradtic action might be taken. 1 f ; 1 NELSOX MAKES DENIAL! fCHlCAGO. Oct. 2. John, ?M. Nelson," national campaign man ager for the La Follette-Wheeler ticket denied today that any com bination existed between the "in dependent forces . and the -democratic party! to throw the presiden tial election into the house. i ABE SUSPEIiiD ; : I ! IS SOMEWHAT OF A DIAMOND FAN HIMSELF President Coolidge Takes Keen interest in Washing ton's Baseball Battle WASHINGTON.: Oct. 2. Pres ident Cbolidge who yesterday led in the welcome home celebration for the team again showed that he couldn't quite k'eep his mind al together on the government's bus iness, by f contributing to a fund that is being raised for a testimon ial to be presented to Walter John son Just before he starts to pitch the opening game,; , ; ' The present aleo let it be known that he expected to toss the first ball' in' the series. :' t i : , V. ' ' Hi IS DONE IT Meeting of Iowa State1 Re publican Committee Ad--jo urns Till Today . DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 2. (By the AP.) Members of the republican state central committee held a four-hour session here this afternoon' and adjourned until to morrow morning without taking any action upon the alleged af front by Senator Smith W. Brook hart, republican of this state, who in a letter to National Chairman Butler- asked that Charles G. Dawes be requested to withdraw as thai party's vice presidential standard bearer, j ' . "Whatever action the commit tee will take i on the Brookhart matter at tomorrow 8 meeting can not be predicted at this time," de clared State Chairman B. B. Burn quest, ; following today's confer ence.' ; ; Senator Brookhart is scheduled to deliver the opening speech of his campaign ' for re-election at Emmetsburg, Iowa.' . ' This speech has . been heralded" as the one - Jn which the junior senator from Iowa will make pub lic his views on. the national tick. etS. ' ij - ' ; j .'; "- ; . Shortly before adjournment of the central committee's meeting this afternoon the state head quarters issued a statement an nouncing six speaking engage ments in Iowa . for Charles G; Dawes, the republican candidate for sviice president, who was the target' for Brookhart's attack on Tuesday night. General Dawes delivered several ; speeches from the rear platform of his special train today en route from Chicago to Kansas Clty..t He did not men tion Senator Brookhart by name in any of today's speeches, but he saidT that he had "fired into a flock of political pee-wlts out here and some of the wounded birds "are fluttering; perhaps you can identify them." La Follette Club Is -' i Formed at Willamette Politics Is beginning to attract the attention of students at Wil lamette university and already txro parties have organized campus clubs. With a following of 15 stud ents the La Follette for President club was organized Thursday. Dan Taylor is chairman and Hugh Bell secretary. iThe chairman declared last night that there was a large following among the students and that more would join in a few days. v - ' ; " The Coolidga champions were organized a few days ago and' It is expected the Davis' cohorts .will be massed In the near future. BOU BROOKHftRT :' ii v. ... General Offensive Launched Desperate Effort to Take " . Shanghai ' .y- - SHANGHAI, Oct. 3. (By the Associated - Press). - Chi Shieh Yuan, the tuchun of Kiangsu, Will open a general offensive on all fronts tomorrow In his effort to secure 'possession of Shanghai,' ac cording to a telegram received by the Chekiang headquarters at Lungwha. :-. The telegram' stated that: Chi had, so notified the Peking gov ernment, with which he is allied in the present civil war. The fighting has; subsided Jnto.lessia engagements . in the Sungkiang district, 28 miles southwest of Shanghai, where the main engage ment is expected, and in the sectors- west '-ofhere.- yr-l--AV' The ' Liingwha headquarters claim that Chi was obliged to move his headquarters from Quin san, directly west of Shanghai, to Soochow on the Shanghai-Nanking railway further eastward in con sequence Of the mutiny ot'the two battalions returning f r6m the Ihing sector south of the railway. The soldiers have been looting and terrorizing the inhabitants in the Liang and Keintan districts west and northwest of Tai lake. - State of Wyoming Loses : Governor By Sickness ' CHEYENNE, -Wyo.,- Oct. 2. Secretary of State Frank E. Lucas today became governor of Wyo ming, succeeding to t,he office through the death of Governor William B. Ross early today. Gov- ernor Ross underwent an bpera tion for appendicitis last Wednes day. The operation, apparently was successful but complications developing brought an end to the executive at 3:15 o'clock this morning, i : y . CLASH AT TAMPICO TAMPICO, Oct. 2. (A.j Several workme nhave been killed in a clash between strikers and soldiers guarding the property of the Mexican ; Gulf Oil company. The strike at this plant has been in progress for some time and" a gen eral strike has been declared, v I0THER1IVE STARTS TODAY Fifth Assembly of the League of Nations Ig Considered a Succecr Definite Progress Believed Made Toward World Pc-c 2 Resolution Recommending Protocol to All Ci-t: : Unaniirously Adopted GENEVA, Oct. 2 . ( By the As sociated Press )l The fifth assem bly of the league of nations ended its labors today by unanimously adopting a resolution recommend ing that all states accept the pro tocol of arbitration and security. Apart from the elaboration of the protocol for the peaceful set tlement of international disputes, the outstanding feature of the session was the insistence of the delegates that, economic problems, popularly regarded as belonging exclusively to the domestic Juris diction 'of states, must be solved on an international basis if all causes of war would really be re-: moved. : This insistence was voiced by ' several speakers, , especially those representing France; - It is implied in the protocol Itself and for a time dominated the discus sions Of the European Jurists as they strove to . fashion ' a pact! William M. Butler, Chairr.r "national. Commutes f G. 0 P.; Accuses Two C posing Parties COMBINE ESPECIALLY - in west, state::: Decisive Victory fcr R:r cans IsPedicted D::p ; Their Handicap WASHINGTON, Oct.' 2. A c litloa' between democratic ar. ! I Follette forces, partlculirlj western states, with the evi: purpose of forcing the elect! a president la congress, was t ' ed here today by William M. I ler, chairman 'of the rej u ". national committee. ?.ir. T said that the logical out: event the election was thrown congress, would be the elect! : a president by .the senate, this reason, he continued, he he considered Charles W. T: democratic candidate for president, perhaps the inc.: portant opponent of Pre ; Coolidge. The- chairman, however, ; dieted a decisive election of republican ticket November 4, ' Confers With Coolla Mr. Butler, with S&nator Cormick, Illinois, conferred " President Coolidge at l'unchec. day at the i White House. Butler said he went over tts eral political situation with president and reiterated- th did not believe Mr. Qocli: changed his plans to remain t White House throughout the t paign -' ' The chairman did not "zo r fically lata the evidence Said he had received of a r tlon. It was more or lesi c surface, ' he safdi and was e i .. in the east In some sectloLs well as In the west. - Characterizing Mr.' Bryan presidential candidate, Mr. EatI ranked Senator ; La Follette r -to the democratic vice preside - nominee as the strongest oj:j. of the president, and John ' Davis, democratic nominee li:t. Claimti Strength Gula The committee chairman enthusiastic over what he t scribed as an Improvement la' f party's situation in some c ! t states in the northwest, and e that there was a "marked rr slon noticeable' in the LaToIIi;; movement In several states." i Likewise, Mr. Butler sail ,:. were under way to intensify V republican campaign between r and election. The character t record of President Coolidsa, " said, would be emphasized, c this, he declared, was the ca. issue of the campaign alos? : the' proposal to limit the jov; of the supreme court wtl": ' said President3 Coolldse . ' -not sanction. . Mr. Butler said he - had I .' rumors that if the election v. . . thrown Into the house eo"? -publicans would vote for Davij . they. saw an election there was r otherwise possible, and the tion of Mr. Bryan appeared lii: by the senate. which would not unduly alara t: nations which Jealously guard tl doctrine of states rights. The idea behind the moverae as j explained to Hhe Associat Press correspondent by the Jar: tonight, is that the1 league cf r tions, having decided to c all war, mast logically tura . attention to all possible causi.r conflict and endeavor to eri; " them. Fed by the growlns t. ... of ' internationalism, as a ce ment to nationalism and ' t sovereignty,' the Jurists cct that world opinion now tir: that certain' vital problems ing the world as a whole tmmigration and equitable c:. . button t)f raw materials, c longer be left to the exclusl v 2 . trol of any state or ' states ' must be examined with a tI the trouble settlement to th " interests: of all -so that ec: causes of war may te ell:.-' ..'": " tr i ! 5.- , 5 '