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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1924)
EIGHTEEN PAGES TODAY Early Shopping Saves late Hopping Avoid t!.o Rush and Worry of Lata Shopping;. Merchants' Are Announcing Many Suggestion Suitable fur' Christina Gifts- Read the Aili. rri- A ti r -lT- OREGON Fair weather xne v veaxner and moderate temperature: moderate iwinda. Satnrday-Max. 69; Min. 43: River 16 ft.: Rain. fall .15;! Atmosphere Clear; Wind northwest. 3 SEVENTH-FOURTH YEAR SAJEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 1924 PRICE FIVE CENTS mm ND ASKS FULL APQLOGY FROM EGYPT Death of British Official fin , Cario I Demands Repara tion, f High Commissioner SLAYERS MUST RECEIVE .PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME Great Britain Requires Com , pensation of 500,000 Pounds JFrom Egypt CARIO, Nov. 22. (By As sociated Press.) -7-Only wait ing until I the body of Major General Lee Stack, the sirdar who was assassinated yester day, hadij been committed to the graved Lord Allenby, Brit ish high commssioner in Egypt, this afternoon called Upon Premier Zagloul Pasha and presented a note from the British , government demand ing complete " Satisfaction "fdr the. sirdar's assassination, the crime being a culmination of a large'nilmber of anti-British outrages committed in Cairo during the past three years. ! ) The "note which calls for a reply within 24 hours, de manded aj full apology from the Egyptian f government punishment , of the criminals without respect to position, compensation of 500,000 pounds, and several other de mands which, while not modi fying the; political relations between Egypt and Great Britain will tend to consoli date and guarantee the rights and .privileges Great Britain claims in her relations with that country particularly her refusal m uia&e uujr concession .w j&igjp tian claims to control of the gov ernment of Sudan. : There is no apprehension that the Egyptian government will at tempt to withhold the satisfaction England demands, but there are ample forces, both naval and mili tary, within 24 hours' sail of Egypt should they become neces; Bary. It is! believed the first ef fect of the; British note may be the definite resignation of Premier Zagloul. . DRY SQUAD SEIZES DISTILUOG PUBIS Stills, Mash, Liquor, Auto . mobiles and Boats are Grabbed in October WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. Seiz ure of property valued at $616. 315, was reported by the prohibi tion bureau during the month of October. f r? This sum represented the value of 710,442 gallons of spirits, 309, 078. gallons of mash and pomace, is Qisuiiers, zas suns, zou sun worms, 3,301 fermenters. 314 au tomobiles and four boats and launches. - -, Confiscation has taken place of whole distilling plants and sales also have been made after they had been removed to places of supposed safety. Still worms were especially difficult of location, the report said,' because owing to their high cost' they are carefully protected and hidden by boot leggers. ARREST SUSPECT If BANK ROQDERY Man Held in Connection With -Looting I of Metolius ; Bank; $2,000 Loss THE DALLES, Or., Not- 22. William Gottj a resident of Sha niko, was arrested In The Dalles this afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Coleman, andflodged in the coun ty; jail as a suspect in the Metolius fcank robbery j of last Wednesday, in which cash! estimated at $2,000 was stolen. Gott was arrested on telephone advices from Sheriff Chrisman who had been at Sha niko on the trail of the robber, who disappeared after having been traced by Jefferson county authorities in an airplane almost to Maupin." Gott denied connec tion with the crime. Salem Churches Will Observe Thanksgiving Special Thanksgiving services will be held in five churches of Salem the morning of Thanksgiv ing day at 10:30 o'clock in ac cordance with the plans of the Salem Ministerial association ' of grouping the city into sections and each division holding its own Thanksgiving service. These churches' are; the Free Methodist for the north side, with Rev- Hlalne Kirkpatrick of the First Methodist Episconal church delivering the address; The Cen tral Congregational for the east side, with Rev. Ward Willis Long oi tne fresDyterian church deliv ering the mains address; Leslie Methodist for the south side, with Rev. M. C. Clarke of the Market County Prosecutor Reviews Problems; Alienist Pres ent at Conference -L COLtTMBUS, Ohio. Nov. 22. Admission that the death of Mrs. Addle Sheatsley. 50. whose body practically cremated was found by I her husband, Rev. C. V. Sheats ley m tne lurnace ; of their home In the exclusive Bexley district Mon day, still presents a baffline MV3-' tery, was made today by County x-rosecutor John R. King. 'He expressed confidence, however. that the case eventually will be solved. J i ' . ' The admission was made fol lowing a conference at which Mr. King reviewed the case with those who are working with him in the attempt to establish definitely how Mrs. Sheatsley came to her death and how her body came to be In the furnace. Dr. R, C. i Stabell, an alienist, was present at the con ference. It was the first time Mr. King had consulted an alien ist In connection with the case. The prosecutor said no signifi cnace could be attached to his presence and that he merely wants an alienist to be familiar with de tails xf-the case. : :- - Back Yard 1 ' f . (This is the first article of during the i whole plantation niation and hints for Salem The Planting Seasons There Is a proper time to plant each variety of plant used In the home 'landscape 'and flower gar dens. Frequently the amateur gardener allows this, most favor able time to slip by and as a re sult either loses a year's time or else plants at a season unfavor able to best results. Our first , ar ticle will deal; with the proper season for planting. : . Most of the plants t which pro duce early spring flowers should be planted in October and nearly November. The ; sooner that one plants Iris, peony, tulips, narcis sus, crocus, hyacinths and lilies the better. , . . No garden is complete without a selection of iris and peonies. One has a wonderful range of col ors and shapes and varieties in each of these plants to select from. Plant peonies two to three inches deep where 1 drainage is good. Plant iris , shallow so that the crowns are just covered. As a general rule plant bulbs two and a half times as deep as the bulb itself is lone, i F0I11CEISE TO BE SOLVED voiu vvuum iveacn x aau ritruss utcan Is Estimate for Pack Here in 1925 Ambitions Reporter Wears Out His Pencil Then Bets Marion County Students .That His Figures are Correct I The pack of the canneries of Marion county for 1925 will prob ably, show about 900,000 cases. Let's take it at 900,000. It takes 1000 cases to fill a freight car. IThe railroad men estimate 80 cars to the mile. Then here is a question for Marion county school pupils: How long a train would that make? The reporter says about 11 and a fourth miles; from Salem's sub urbs to the suburbs of Woodburn. Is that right? , i Then taking the "quart 'sire" cans, 24 cans to the case, this would make over 20,000,090 cans. Let's take 20,000,000 in round numbers. These cans are a little more than four and three-quarters inches tall. Let's take four and three-quarters.! The reporter says these cans, end for end. would reach 1499 miles about half way across the United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Is the re porter right? i r Then these cases are sixteen and a half inches the long way. The reporter says the cases turned end to end would! make a line that would reach 234 and a third miles. Is the reporter right? Then the cases are twelve and a fourth by nine and a half by sixteen and a half Inches in size. How many cubic feet would the With Special Service Street Free Methodist. delivering the sermon; and the First Pres byterian church for the central part of the city, with Rev. H. F. Pemberton of the Leslie Methodist officiating, ! ; The German Methodist. 'Bap tist, Menoniteg and the HathGiiy Reformed people will have an union service in which the several ministers will take part. The ser vice will be In German, at ; the Bethany Reformed church, corner of Capitol and Marion. The serr vices being at 10:30 o'clock with Rev. M. Denny, In charge. ; . J Nearly all of the churches will have special musical programs for these services. ' California Showman Kil ed in Office; Slayer Surren tiers to Police LOS ANGELES. Nov. 22. Jeal ousy caused Zane R. Southern, 1 27 year old chauffeur, to kill Rudolph E. Mack. 50 years old, managed- of the Golden State Vaudeville ex change, in Mack's office here to day. While Southern's wife;, a stenographer employed . by Mack, and five men were in the actprs employment agency, manager's' of fice. Southern entered and fired three bullets into Mack's bodyj. , Southern commanded the wit nesses to line np with their faces toward the wall. He then jfan from, the room, down three flights of stairs and out to the street In tersection where he announced to the traffic officer on duty that he had slain a man. "I just killed the man Who wrecked my home." Southern said, according to the officer as he-handed over a revolver, ij . . j Mrs. Southern, an attractive blonde 19 years old, told detec tives she had met Mack while a cafe entertainer.. He offered her a job in his office and she accept ed It. She said she has not been living wtth her husband. '.! i Horticulture " i '! " SSXBE- -mi 11,1 I, , i ,. nj.,,,. a series to be ran nx-h Sunday whi, giving valuable infotv home owners and others.) J ueciauous shrubbery can be planted any time that the leaves are off the plants, usually from November first until about April first. Fall planting gives best re sults whenever the season is such that . the bushes . lose their., leaves before the ground becomes so muddy as to interfere with plant ing. Where planting cannot be done in the fall the earlier in the spring the better Evergreen shrubs can be han dled through a longer season than can the deciduous bushes, they are always dug with a for ball of dirt around their roots, held in place with burlap. -Where; the roots of an evergreen are exposed to the air as are ordinary trees or shrubs, in transplanting! the leaves will usually shed off, some times killing the plant. In plant ing this type of shrub always leave the burlap on the plant as it comes from the nursery sol that the dirt will not be disturbed. Shade trees and fruit and nut trees are planted any time that (Continued en pS 4) 900,000 cases make? The (repor ter says 999,900 cubic feet. Is that correct? That many cubic feet would make a pile of cans how large? The reporter says they would make a pile of cases more than six times as big as the Masonic temple building in Salem, j Is the reporter correct? . . Perhaps there are other ways to visualize and illustrate the im mensity of the Marion county pack in tin cans of her fruits and veg etables for the markets jof the world. Do the public school pupils school pupils know of some other ways? Will the teachers please ask them. I - . Remember, too, that Marion county fruits and vegetables go to market in numerous other ways. They go fresh. They go In .the dried form. ; They go in barrels; many car loads of them. They go in the form of jellies and jams and vinegar, and In bottles. The above questions are sub mitted with the idea of having the boys and girls of Marion jcounty form ideas of what a great coun try they have as their heritage, with Its possibilities only bo far hinted i at its land 'only fairly scratched; its potential wealth only touched around the edges. ; R ly HUSBID OREGON .KS 1 AGGIES; SCORE' IS 7-3 i 3 t University of Oretjtin Eleven Defeats Agricultural Col lege Team in Annual Foot ball Classic EUGENE TEAM SCORES ON TWO 15-YD. PASSES Aggies Open With Rush and i Score Three Points in First Qudrier ' BELL FIELD. Corvallis. Ore., Nov. 22. (By Associat ed Press.) University of Ore gon defeated the Oregon Ag gies in. their annual game for the state championship here today, 7 to 3. Two completed passes in the third period each good for 15 yards gave Oregon her touchdown, Reed kicking goal. The last pass was from Anderson to Mautz, the Ore gon quarterback catching the Aggies, napping. The Aggies opened with a rush and scored three points in the first quarter on a place kick by Schulmerich from the 34 yard line. After that the ball zig-zaged up and down the field with the Aggies holding a slight advantage. Near the end of the first half, Oregon fumbled on her own 7 yard line, the Aggies recovering, but on the next play Schulrrierich fumbled and Oregon again got the ball and Anderson punted out of danger. In. the last quarter, Tebb of tne Aggies on a hidden ball play, circled right end for .36 w - tContinned a part ) .-. Local Auxiliary of Veterans of Foreign Wars Is Formed in Salem I-. -: - The Veterans of Foreign Wars put on their second ceremonial last night at the I.p.O.F. hall and held one of the best meeting of the year. Full attendance was on hand when a class of 13 ex-service men were given degree work. The initiation was held by the Portland Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who came nearly 100 strong for the Salem meeting. Johnnie Walker, state comman der of the Veterans organization gave the principal address of the meeting and he put across the message of the true spirit of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The men initiates into the or ganization last night were Elmer Ross, Frank Kirckland, W. B. Cain, Frank Prince, F. B. Bar rick, Ralph Blivens, Tom Curry. George Feller, O. S. Olsen, E. E. Deffenbanck, Carl Gabrielson. . H. A. Dennison, and David Hazelman. The organizing of an auxiliary was the most important measure Introduced last night. 14 charter members organised thV Salem auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Mrs. Edward Rowland was elec ted president of the newly formed auxiliary at the meeting held last night at the I. O. O. F. hall, senior vice-president; Mrs. George Lewis, Junior vice-president, Mrs. Bryan Conley; treasurer, Mrs. H. Carver. Three trustees were elected for the ensuing term and are Mrs. Bolton Hamble, Mrs. C. Hawley, and Mrs. E. Kirkland. Mrs. O. S. Olsen was elected chaplain and Mrs. Roy Remington, secretary; conductor, Mrs. F. Kirkland; patriotic instructor, Mrs. Chitty. Mrs. Carle Abrams is to serve as guard. Installing officer from the Port land post of the Veterans of Fore Butler, officiating, Ida McCrad lgn Wars the Mesdames Ida L. dock, Alice B. Wineland. Margret Reed, Rose Bailley, Bernlce Carl son. Mary E. Reel, and Emma Shields. Willamette Loses to Pacific University FOREST GROVE, Or.. Nov. 22- Pacific university defeated Willamette university football team here today by a score of 26 to 0, Pacific scored three touch downs for a total of 19 points in the first period and another touchdown in the third period netted the remaining points. FRO T7OOTBALL TRAIN I FOLLOWING GAME Special With SlOO Passenger '.Ife- railed After Michigan-Iowa . , Ciame; None Hurt ; -1 v . ; . : . , - , DETRG iJ-fV qv Michi gan centralfootball: special train of nine coaches and Pullmans re turning rom Ann Arbor to De troit with. 300 persons vwho bad attended the Michigan-Iowa foot ball game, Twent, into a ditch near Spring Wella. a suburb, - at 7 o'clock tonight. So far as known no one was Injured, although all coaches left the track, three turn ing over on their sides, j M. D. Strickman; fireman, Jack son, and 'II. W. Culp, brakeman, Detroit, were treated at the hos pital for minor burns. They said they believed few, if any, persons had been hurt. ? i Railroad officials who ! held an investigation said the train 'was traveling at . moderate speed. They were ; unable to, tell what caused the wreck, which occurred near a culvert recently completed. The train as composed of two cars chartered "by the Detroit; athletic; club, two by the Detroit club, two by the Detroit University club and three day coaches. . :; ; Tracks were torn up for a dis tance, of 50 feet. Doctors, nurses and first aid equipment iere hurried to the scene of thewreck, but were not needed. ' . Railroad officials said that the fact that' the coaches and Pull mans were' of steel construction accounts - for there , being: no list of dead or Injured. Sensational Developments in Alleged Liquor Conspir ;acy in Seattle . i .: SEATTLE, Nov. 22. tciimax- Ing nearly, a week of sensational developments in an alleged Pa cific northwest liquor ring con spiracy folowlng the arrest Tues day of Roy Olmsted. 'I termed King of the Coast rum smug glers' his wife and 16 guests In their 'palatial home here, Jerry L: Finch, attorney ior Olmsted, and his co-defendants were accused in sworn affidavits by federal prohi- bition agents with being i actively Involved In liquor deals. This was disclosed today when Finch ap peared in federal court and asked for an order directing that docks seized Friday as impounded in the federal, court until final . hearing on the matter. He also petitioned for a writ , of certiorari declaring that no liquor was found in his office and directing Commission er Elliott to submit his files and proceedings to the higher court for review" as to ' their legality. Both pleas were denied, j Theory That Mars Has Life Is Strengthened SAN FRANCISCO.' Nov. 21. An interpretation of the recent observations.; of Mars when the planet was at its closest point to the earth "strengthens the prob ability that Mars is fitted to sup port life," said Robert G. Aitken, astronomer at Lick observatory of the University of California in lecture here tonight. COURT WRIT DISMISSED, BATTLESHIP WASHINGTON TOWED TO SEA FOR DESTRUCTION AT TARGET PRACTICE ; ri!-:wH--Sir1 ' -i.'.; - vS. V-r.:h . -..7; k.- - v ; itSfe ' StS-, ..... -11 ft In accordance with Uie terms of the naval disarmament conference the . partly completed battleship Washington has been scrapped off the Virginia Capes, i The giant vessel, on which .$30,000,000 had already been spent, was used for target and bombing- practice. This II HELD BY POLICE SAYS HE IS B1DII Gives Name of Ray Daute mont: States He Partici pated in Siskiyou Robbery and Murders OFFICERS HOLD MAN FOR OREGON POLICE Authorities Doubt Man's Statements; Reward Total ing $14,400 Offered McALESTER, Okla., Nov. 22. A man giving his name as Ray Dautemont and who police said confessed to having participated . with two of his brothers in the holdup of a Southern Pacific train at Sis kiyou, Ore., on October 11; 1923, in which three trainmen were killed, was arrested here today and is. being held for Oregon authorities. The man's arrest resulted from his al leged attempt to cash a worth less check. He is said to be wanted for similar offenses in Little Rock, Ark. ; Arkansas City, Kansas, and several oth er cities. His aliases, police say, include J. W. Porter, R Smith and J. B. McAlester. While his fingerprints were being taken in connection with the check charge,' the man, police said, expressed fear that his identity as . D'Autremont would be discovered and made a clean breast of his connec tion with the train robbery. He wanted local officers to get the reward offered for his ar rest he said- Rewards aggregating $14,400 are on the heads of the three D'Autremont- brothers, Ray, Roy and Hugh who are alleged to have engineered the holdup. The man under arrest here is better known as "Nick," police said. Doubt Story ' Police said tosight that they gave little credence to Daute mont's story of his connection with the robbery lit said that he would- be held until some word had been .received from the Ore gon authorities whom they have wired for confirmation of his sto ry, vr ,1 . :. . , , - Police chief McCuIly said that a photograph of the Roy ; Daute mont wanted in connection with the affair did not resemble the man held here enough that posi tive identification could be made. EUCiEXE BANDIT ESCAPES EUGENE, Or., Nov 22. An unmasked bandit at noon today held up the American Railway Express company office here on the Southern Pacific station grounds and got $85 while . the platform outside was being used by the usual noon time crowd. He escaped- photograph, shows the Washington being towed from'the navy yard at Philadelphia after the dismissal of the injunction suit brought by William B. Shearer of New York, who alleged 'that the co-signers of the ' disarmament agreement; had not lived up to their guarantees TT EARST OFFERS " TO RAISE GIFT TO GOLDEN REAR ; . ' .;:.! California University May Get Million' lollarH From Wealthy Publisher BERKELEY, Cal.. Nov. 22. William Randolph Hearst, publish er, plans to increase from $350, 000 to $1,000,000 his gift to the University of California for the reconstruction- of Hearst-hall, de stroyed by. fire two years ago, said an announcement today by Presi dent W. V. Campbell of the uni versity. The hall originally-was a gift of Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, mother of the publisher, and It is as a memorial to her that Mr, Hearst is financing its reconstruc tion. , - .; Three are Killed When Plane Falls; Gas Gone GREENFIELD, III., Nov. 22 inree men were killed when an airplane from St. Louis fell Into a back yard garden two . blocks from,Jhe town square here late this .afternoon. An examination revealed . that the gasoline , tank was empty and it .was believed thethe accidental descent was caused by the lack of fuel. v The victims were George Wal ker, 43, a newspaperman of Jer seyville, HI., and two fliers from St. Louis reported to be H. G. Tilley, 22, and Ole Hagen, 25. The machine was flying low, approximately 100 feet, witnesses said, when it took a sudden nose dive.- One of the men was seen to leap from the machine before it. struck the ground, but he was pinioned by the wreckage. , 1" ' 1 ' Arrangements of Mrs. Hard ing's Funeral 6om plet edj Interment Monday . ....... - MARION. Ohio., Nov. 22. Final arrangements were completed to-f day fpr the burial of Mrs. Florence Kling Harding here Monday after, noon. Her body lies in state here tonight and- may be viewed jby friends until noon Monday. : 'r Hundreds! of telegrams of sym pathy 'continued: to arrive today for relatives of the late president's widow, many of them expressing praise at the gallant fight she put up to, ward : off the hand. . of. the grim reaper. . . v George B. Christian, Jr., sec retary to President Harding and a close friend of MrsV Harding, .an nounced the order of burial serv ices. . . - . The war department today or dered 100 , troops and officers to augment the regular detachment on guard duty at the president's tomb during Mrs. Harding's funer al services. ; They will arrive in Marion from Fort Hayes, Colum bus, Ohio. , ' - U. of W. Victors Over Washington State ' 1 - STADIUM, SEATTLE. Nov. -22. (By The Associated Press.).r A 14 to 0 victory here today oyer Washington State college gave the University .of Washington the unofficial . intercollegiate state football championship f6r 1924. On a field that was rapidly 'dried by. drains and became firm before . the game . was over the Huskies kept, the Cougars on the defensive for all except brief per iods. The -contest was witnessed by 10,000 persons. and . that the destruction of the ship would be a wanton, waste of public funds. The insert shows (left to rightl, U. Attorney Pey ton uordon and Asslstat Attorney Vernon E.- West, who successfully defended J"the suit brought by Shearer against 'Secretary of ihe 'Xavy Wilbur. 1 IS ' M YEAR'S EXt Fully 10,000 Persons Scs Corn Show and Industrial Exhibit;More Room Need ed Next Year mini 1 1 1 n ruuLiu Huunumui.i URGED BY OFFICIALS Building of This Kind lit Offers Only Solution it it Is 'Relieved What was undoubtedly the finest exposition of its kind ever held in Salem came to a close last night when the Armory doors swung shut on the second annual ' Marion County Corn Show and Indus trial Exhibit. Fully 10,000 people had attended . during the three'days of the exhibi tion, and throughout tha whole time there was a packed nouse. . When ' the doors otjck c 1 Thursday afterhoon there -wl ; a J)ig crowd on hand, and during- the evening; the sarr;.; thing could be said of the peo ple in attendarice. It wr,i true of Friday afternoon anJ evening and the record v.r. j broken Saturday when duri::- the afternoon and evening 5,000 people crowded the J Armory. Caps are Distributed. The Buttercup Ice Cream company gave away during Saturday afternoon and even ing about 5,000 brightly col ored . paper caps, and their stock was exhausted durirr the early part of the evening. , It Is becoming a problem c what to do with the growing corn had to turned down this ,yai 500 people attended the exhibition when it was held in the cluli rooms of the Salem Chamber . ci Commerce with only two com munities showing. During t!. exposition of 1923 when the In dustrial exhibits were added to tha show about 5,000 people attended. At this time four communities exhibited their wares at the Ar mory. . Auditorium Xeded The climax - came, however, during the 1924 exposition when 10,000 people crowded the aisle of the exhibits. With the rani 1 development and increasing in terest In the exposition it is a dif ficult problem u secure sufficient space for the community and in dustrial exhibits. The only solu tion to the problem is the cons truction of a public auditorium. Several industrial applications has, to be turned down this year on account of the lack of space at the Armory and those who wero able to place an. exhibit were well pleased with the showing. Ever one is satisfied with the resulU 1 obtained and several have mada reservations for the coming year. More Xex Vrtw this year expects to be on hand for the 1925 exposition. In add i- uuu 10 mis numuer iour or ma communities' have asked for space. ; In commenting upon the ex cellency of the Marlon county corn show and industrial exhibit. Pror essor C. L. Long, member of the extension department of O. A. C, stated, that Marlon county had one of the most, favorable corn shows and the people were not r?re ciative of the fact until they had viewed other expositions of thU' kind and saw the exhibits. DR.1C.UIEH besigis mm. Will Remain With the First Coniii (rational Church : ;.; Till March First Dr. W. C. Kantner hns rrslgnpi the pastorate of the Fitt Congre gational church of Salem. There was an official meeting of the' church on Thursday even ing, at. which the resignation wa- accepted, conditioned upon Dr. Kantner remaining as pastor till the first of March, at which tinif he will have rounded out a service of full fifty years in the mini try, two periods of which have beo; with the Salem church. A committee was appointed at the official meeting to act ii choosing a. new pastor. Following Is the committee: F. E. Nor. Albert II. Gllle, Win. Fleming. Mrs. Alice H.Didd and Mrs. i;. J, Hendricks. 1 RECORD CFiOL'J TT