The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, March 07, 1925, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text1 Service We guarantee our delivery service. If the carrier fails to bring your Statesman pHo-a 583 and our messenger will make delivery. ..w JU . .Pair without change in temperature J , moderate northerly winds.. Friday Max. .52; Min. SI; River 3.8 railing; Rainfall none; Atmosphere clear; Wind north - . I- it- PRICE FIVE CENTS snvrarry-rouiiTii yeab ! -i H i ( I ilOThlORfiFT DEFEASE LOSE IB M TESTS ' Officers Admit Defeat in Demonstrations ADnroxi mating Battle Conditions; nanes victors M L 0 1 1 II f I rft( r I ruin uuiiiicndTH l iu r nu TARGETS; LIGHTS FAIL Illumination Devices Unable to Pick Up Planes Within . J Their Range FORTRESS MONROE. Va.. Mar. I 6. -Officer nf thn anM.nfrornrt . I I defenses here' admitted defeat to ll night in teats participated In' by $ Langley field aviators to demon 1 t strate- the effectiveness of their weapons. -The demonstration wag I ctiia.u&rru ujr iud war ueyarimeui as an outgrowth of the recent air 1 power controversy at Washington 1 when, witnesses told the house air I craft investigating committee thai I onti-aircraft guns had given avi- I ators during, the war little cause for apprehension. ; Argument Is Ended 4 I i u tests were wuuciteu uy Y"fV members of congress and high A, XN array and navy officials and offi tSiera including Brir. Gen. Mitchell. assistant chief of the army air service whose; open and vigorous disagreement with' aviation poli cies of the two I departments gave , rise to the recent controvery and found a sequel in the announce ment at Washington that Lieut. Col. James E. Fechet would suc ceed, him in his present position April 27, when his term of office expires. , During the tests today anti aircraft three-inch guns failed to score a single actual hit on sleeve targets towed by army airplanes and tonight anti-aircraft illumin- ation devices failed to pick up any the aircraft flying in. the dark ness overhead until the machines had revealed their , positions by dropping burning flares. ' ; . ' Defeat Admitted Officers of the aTitl-alrcTaft de fenses conceded frankly that the airplanes ' all ' were " within the range of the searchlights when finally picked out by the lights, and also , that the targets were within range of the three-inch Viuns when the firing test took place. In the night problem, five pow erful searchlights were switched on at full power, sufficient to send a beam of light 19,000 feet into the 'air, but were unable to find the aircraft as they flew at ranges less than half that distance. Genera) Mitchell was on hand throughout the tests to cheer on the fliers. He appeared enthusi astic over the selection of. Lieut. Col. Fechet, declaring "they could not have selected a better man Jor the job.". f-.':iKV. " "As for me;": he : added, "of course, I shall carryon. Ihope to be assigned to duty with head quarters in Chicago,' hut am will ing to go wherever I may be or dered." j ? . ; I -'. D EARLY HUG 'f;G. L. Snook Arrested;' Dep uty Sheriff and Fire . ' A man giving the name of G. L Snook was arrested this morning at about 3 o'clock while he was prowling around a house at 1230 ' N. Rjimmer street. Paul Dutrls and another man "saw him, 'and before he could get away, covered him with' guns, and notified the policej ',-," According to the police. Snook ' had been at Salem for about two years, and lUtes at 1370 .N. Cot tage street. He is said to be a jrojectionist at a local theater. Two large bunches of keys of all descriptions were found togetner -with a deputy sheriffs baU-efroni Clackamas county. A f ircman's! badge from the Oregon City fire fdepartmenrwas lso in ' his pocket, w - v -''). ""- Tne police describe the man as tumlne their opinion , tie fact ma a- 5 : 1 K poslo. - II. U w Parachutes Save Lives 1 of Two Aviators When Ships Crash SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 6. For the first time in the his tory of aviation, according to lo cal army aviators, parachutes to day saved the lives of two fliers, who crashed in mid-air. The pilots were Lieutenant C. D. McAllister and Cadet . Charles A. Undberg, students of the advanced flying school at Kelly field. The student pilots were flying In a nine-ship formation' at the time of the accident. . ? The pursuit formation was gain ing battle experience by attacking a DH-4B observation plane flown by First Lieutenant , Russel L. Maughan, j several ; hundred feet above the clouds at an altitude of 5000 feet. .j ,'. , The pursuit fliers came down from above in diving attack, three ships attacking in V-shaped for ELEBCIPS IDE 10 Pill First Week of Camp Ground Season Finds Many Re turning From South Eleven motorists made use of the Salem auto camp during the first week of the 1925 season. Most of them were returning home from California where they had been spending the winter. : The first night when the camp was opened two automobile par ties were registered, while the second, night one party was regis tered. However,! the succeeding night six autos were accommodat ed, while last night four parties were cared for.' One man has sig nified his , Intention or remaining in Salem for a week and has en gaged temporary quarters. , - - Many applications fer quarters have been made, but due to the lack of stoves in the tents, the campers did mot decide to, move in. , . Practically everything is getting fixed up for the rush of tourists' later in - the season. The camp grounds have been whipped into shape, the stoves repaired, the fences repaired, the tents stretched and many other details necessary for the care of the camp grounds have been performed.: ? At this time, however, nothing has been done on the proposed community house. Construction plans are to be decided later. Thi house will be used to display the products of the Willamette valley, to house an information booth and other affairs. I 1IUGIIEH IS FETED WASHINGTON, March 6. A surprise farewell party was given Charles Evans. Hughes , as he boarded a train late today to leave Washington, where he has served tour years as secretary of state. TiMSTH y-wmm case Nationally Known Warden's Testimony Closes Civil Service Hearing ... , . COLORADO 1 SPRINGS. .Colo.. March 6. (By the AP.T- The testimony of Thomas J. Tynan. nationally known road building warden of the'Colorado peniten tiary, on his trial of malfeasance in office, brought by former Gov ernor Sweet and the abrupt with drawal from the Inquiry of the complainant and his 'counsel, to day virtually brought to a close the bearing before the state civil service' commission ; that had been in progress for a month. When Warden tTynan took the witness stand in his own defense he faced? an. empty table-: that, until today had been occupied by Sweet and his two. attorneys. F. S. Caldwell and Ernest ,MorrIs. The charges against Tynan were based on a-survey of the prison by Thomas Mott ; Osborne, formed Sing Sing warden; v j At the opening of today's ses sion the complainant withdrew from the trial, refusal by the com mission to hear . his statement re garding its action Thursday In excluding Morris from further par ticipation in the proceedings. In his statement, given to the press,- Sweet declared that the commission had; not given bis charges a fair hearing and that Assistant Attorney General. Nagle, who is advising the commission, had 'been prejudicial and errone ous ra many f his rulings. in Clouds mation. The first and second for mations had pulled away and the third formation with Cadet P. R Love in the lead, dived for the at tack. As Cadet Love pulled away from the slower observation ship, Cadet Lin d berg passed almost di rectly beneath while Lieutenant McAllister attacked from the west side at the same time. The ships came together as the pilots began to regain altitude approximately 200 yards in front of Lietuenant Maughan's Diane. Cadet Lindberg was the first to clear, the falling ships. The pilots fell for several hundred feet before they pulled the rip cords of their parachutes. The chutes opened out and a mo ment later the wrecked ships shot by them. Upon reaching the ground the planes burst into flames and were destroyed. BUYS FJEWSITE High Tension Switching Sta tion Will Be Installed in West Salem Soon ; A piece of property in West Salem has been purchased by the Portland Electric Power company and will be used for the installa tion of a high tension switching station, according to the an nouncement of W. M. Hamilton, manager of the Salem department. With the proposed changes and the installation of the big trans formers to convert power over In West Salem for the city use of Salem, instead of using the sub station of the main power line. This substation will be transferred to the new location and the space used - by additions to the steam plant. ; , The . 60-cycIe, 600,000 volt trangnt iasiaa JinealeadiBginto Salem, including one from the hy dro-electric plant at Oregon City and one at.Estacada, one from the Portland steam plants and one from the 2500 kilowatt 1 steam plant in Salem. All of the arter ies will head up at the West Salem station in the near future. In addition the company is to ( Continued on pga 8) FLEGTRIC 1 What Hath God roug-ht" Making Possible of Four years ago when President Harding was Inaugurated it was five days before the Pacific north west had pictures of ' the great event. When President Wilson for the second time took the oath of office it was seven days before a photograph reached this section. The inauguration photographs from which the cuts herewith were made were transmitted from Washington to San Francisco by wire. iMatrices were at ouce made there and. .these-were dispatched to Salem by the first mail. -Except for some kind of a fumble, they.', would have ' arrived - here Thursday night, and appeared in yesterday's paper. Such arrange ments had been made. The Port land OTegonian did' get .Its copies Thursday, night, and had the cuts in their paper of yesterday, j - By the time of the next inaugu . rVio 'Tnefifo Tiff nf'ministpriric th nath rif office to" toi: oa llarch 4. s.The ph6to?raph was transnutted over the STOKES TRIfiL BRUJCS CLASH OF ATTORNEYS Trial Judge Launches Bitter Attack on State Prosecu 1 tor for Line of Cross Ex ; amination STATE HAS DESTROYED CASE, JUDGE DECLARES W. E. D. Stokes, Aged Mil ' lionaire, Undergoes Caus tic Questioning CHICAGO. March C. Less than two hours after it had begun its cross examination : of W. E. D. Stokes, wealthy New York apart ment hotel owner, charged with conspiracy to defame his wife, the prosecution was warned by Judge W. X. Gemmill that: it probably had destroyed its case. The court was so emphatic in his denunciation of the methods of , Milton D. Smith, assistant state's attorney, that after warn ing the prosecutor that a court review would probably throw out a conviction of Mr. Stokes, he ad ded he was not certain but that the trend of the cross examina tion transgressed so far he him self would have to reverse a jury verdict against the aged million aire.. .- Questions Are Fired . Without producing the postal cards for the trial records, Mr. Smith in a roaring voice demand ed '- Mr. Stokes give a "yes" or "no" answer as to whether he had sent missives to Mrs. Stokes, the Stokes children, Muriel and Jim my, and Mr3. Arthur Scott Miller, Mrs. Stokes mother, denouncing his wife for alleged association with negro men ' With hands clenching the arms of the witness eland. Mr. Stokes Strained forward ; and' "hurled an equally wrathful "I never did as Mr. Smith read each postal. Judge Gemmill stopped the reading, terming it "very Improper." ! A few minutes later Mr. Smith asked: 3 "Didn't notorious ..woman visit your apartment at the Ansonia hotel and was not that why Mrs. (Con tinned on pas 6) ration it is likely that this sys tem will have been extended so that newspapers in Portland and Salem and other northwest coast cities will be able to print the in auguration pictures the day of the event. - How It Is Done ; : (The telephone people have furnished the following matter on the "Transmission of Pictures Over Telephone Lines:") i The purpose of the present test is to demonstrate the capabilities over transcontinental distances of a new system or-electrically trans mitting pictures devised iy the Bell Telephone engineers. Four cities are connected, together,. for the purposes of this test, the ar rangements being such that. pic tures will be sent from! Washing ton, D. C, to New. York, Chicago and San Francisco simultaneously. i- :.:- ' ' 1 y - ' '' , . y ' . ' GOP G011ID RPII For First Time in Two Years ! Republicans Able to Swing ; Working Majority in Sen ate DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION DECLARED ONLY NOMINAL Bourbons Decide in Con 3 f erence Not to Use Ob structive Tactics WASHINGTON. March 6. The republicans, commanding a work ing majority in the senate for the first time in two years, proceeded today to reorganize that body with precision and dispatch. I They were given the support of re of the four senators they fejtve dismissed from their coun cils, and had only nominal oppo sition from the democrats who. in a, conference earlier in the day. decided against the employment of any obstructive tactics. I ' Assignments Held Over i ? Although action on the assign ments of senators to the standing committees went over until to morrow through an agreement be tween the republicans and demo crats, senate approval was given tf a, resolution creating an extra place on committees so that reg ular republicans can be appointed toMhe places made vacant by the removal of the insurgents; from their Dresent committee ranks. jOpposition to the enlargement off the committees was voiced by Senator Norris, , republican, Ne braska, and there is prospect that the determination of the majority organization to remove Senators La Follette, Wisconsin, and Ladd ot North Dakota from their com m t tee chairmanships, and Sena- 108 Fra2lerandBrookTiart"from their committee rank will become the subject of some debate. Program Is Secure Administration leaders say, and those in opposition agree, that the program will! go through, since the democrats have no desire that the question of committee chair manships shall become the sub- C Contlnned on pge C) in the New; Miracle The length of the' telephone line between Washington and San Francisco via New York is about 3600. miles, the greatest distance over which pictures have ever been transmitted electrically and the transmission time is only seven minutes. This system of transmitting pic tures electrically was first pub licly tested in essentially its pres ent form in May, 1924. The pres ent demonstration is in anticipa tion of the opening of a trans continental picture transmission service shortly to be announced by the American . Telephone and Tel egraph company. The system is a development of the ...elrgineers of the American TeleiAoae and Telegraph company and the Bell, Telephone Labora- ( Continued ' m -page 8) President Coolidze at the Capi- telephone lines. 1 UPPER HOUSE Path of Black Gold Sweeps Entire Town; Everything Must Go CHEYENNE. Wyo.. March 6. The town of Lavoye was literally wiped oft the map of Wyoming today and its 1500 residents de prived of their homes by a ruling of Federal Judge T. Blake Ken nedy who ordered that the entire village and its populace must be movd in order to make a clear path for a giant of Industry pe troleum.' ; - Public buildings, business hous es, horaea -everything -must go, for Judge Kennedy decreed that the Ohio Oil company, which leas ed the land on which the town ia located from the government for oil development is entitled to full possession within 60 days from to day. On April '21.. 1924, he held that the town had been establish ed without legal basis but did not provide For enforcement of a re moval order. - Today's decision means that if any sign of the town is. left in 60 days those responsible will be sub ject to ' citation for contempt of court. : Lavoye is a modern incarna tion of the typical boom mining SEPJATE TO ACT Debate on Confirmation of Charles B. Warren Is Now Expected WASHINGTON, March ft. En dorsed for a second time by the judiciary committee, the nomina tion of Charles B. Warren of Michigan to be attorney genenral, wilV be called up tomorrow in the senate with every prospect that it will be confirmed after some de bate.: . . The first move of opponents will be to force consideration in open, execntiTe- seeaioiv.but they were dubious tonight of success. Called in special session, the ju diciary committee today ordered a favorable report on the nomina tion which was re-submitted to the senate yesterday by President Coolidge. Only one democrat. Overman, North - Carolina, was present and on the previous occa sion be voted for a favorable re port. ' . ' This report was submitted to the senate laer in executive ses sion and Chairman. Cummins ask ed unanimous 'consent that the nominatlo be made the unfinished busiess of the senate and that it be held on the calendar without Interruption until disposed of, Sen ators Reed, democrat, Missouri, Walsh, democrat, Montana, and others opposing confirmation, said they bad no intention of unneces sarily delaying action, and as a result therequest was. withdraw. ATM Political Circles Stirred at the Difficulties Confront ing Premier PARIS. March 6. (By the As sociated Press). Premier Herriot was regarded inr political circles here tonight . as ' confronting the most difficult crisis of his career as head of the! government. He is facing., the all important question of a security, pact and the entire nation is awaiting him. V -Foreign Minister Skrzynsky of Poland, in a talk with the. premier today, said Poland would not con sent to. a revision of the treaty of Versailles, v In addition," Foreign Secretary- Chamberlain of Jreat "Britain, who- arrived - here this afternoon, presents another, prob lem. It Is assumed Mr. Chamber lain .will advocate a favorable con sideration Of the German plao for a gnaranteedTpact which, will ex pressly "Exclude, the lattefs, fron tier with Poland from the security it. Is supposed to. provideV.- Secre tary,, Cbamberlain, in the. opinion of the Paris press Is going to tln- eva to give the- finishing blow to the-league protocol which was. M. Herriot's greatest hope, snOB THDSF SKXTKXCED YAKIMA, March 6. After pleading guilty to stealing 209 pairs' of shoes from -a shoe store here, Neraon Reynolds, negro, was today sentenced to 18 months in prison. Oil fill! CRISIS OFlTIOfl town of the old west: - Prosperity has been general since the town was established in 1920 and the hundreds of men employed In the breathless rush,; for oil spent, as freely as they earned.' Lavoye is located in the heart of the big Salt creek oil field. It puffed up between patches of alka li and Sage brush almost over night, 4 0 miles north of Casper when oil drilling demanded hun dreds of men in that vicinity. In 1922 it took on another spurt of growing which continued, until 1923, and it still Is the same bustl ing village, having one large mer cantile establishment, three week ly newspapers, numerous moving picture theaters, automobile agen cies and other institutions of .work and play which fortune seekers de mand. r ..,.,.. .;:. .vv Like the mushroom town that it is, its buildings are flimsy hastily thrown together shacks for the most part and can be easily demolished. It, is expected that the business interests of the town will .be transferred mostly to Salt creek, a neighboring oil town. , , ACTION IS 01 Legal Steps Finally Taken in Oil Scandal. After Many Postponements CHEYENNE, , Wyo., March 6. Steps to take- the legal measure ments of the Teapot Dome scan dal actually got under way here today after a delay of more than five months,, during which there were repeated postponements be cause of the failure of the govern ment to round up its witnesses and depositions. The first material step was made when-O wen sJ. " Rdberts rnd Atlee Pomerene, special govern ment counsel, . received ' advices from El Paso, Texas, that a sub poena had been served there on Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior,. who was held respon sible for leasing the great naval oil, reserve in , Salt. Creek, Wyo., to the Mammoth oil company, one of the Harry F. Sinclair interests. The subpoena served on Fall makes- it mandatory for him to appear, as a witness, counsel said. The government's lineup on wit nesses was further settled with an announcement from Paris that II. M. Blackmer and James E. O'Neil, American oil men, whose testi mony the government sought in its effort to prove fraud 'in ex ecution of the Teapot lease, had refused to. testify when called be fore a French tribunal. This was taken to mean that the trial here will be without evidence of any kind from Blackmer and O'Neil. The : government now has 47 witnesses on its list. Harry F. Sinclair, head nt the Mammoth company, will arrive here tonight. He has reserved 40 rooms in the leading hotel: in , Cheyenne ,to quarter his entourage. : WHEAT SUFFERS -. S Most Violent Decline Since Last Summer Is Record ed; Selling Is Fast , CHICAGO, March 6. Wheat suffered its most violent setback in price today since last summer when 2 a bushel and above be gan to dazzle the speculative world. An extreme break of 12fcc today to $1.80 for the May deliv ery accompanied selling reaching far Into million sof bushels that many traders regarded as the end of the scare opinions about; a dearth of bread material this season.. - r, - . Notwithstanding such end of the season opinions, denials were issued, this evening that any -- of the wheat held by some of the largest American owners had been Jhrown overboard In the semi panic which today followed reports of - unusually heavy shipments ; of wheat- from the southern hemis phere. The market effect of these reports had. been dramatically em phasized by word - of widespread rains over the drought stricken crops of India and by forecasts of rain and snow for the dry por tions of the winter wheat belt! in this country; Hff ETB nrri nniTPiin II DEMOTED; 10 BilSEEO Assistant Chief of Army Air Service to Leave Office cn April 27 When His Term Expires r JAMES E. FECHET TO RECEIVE APPOINTMENT Mitchell Loses itank tof Briga dier General; Change Was Expected WASHINGTON, Match 6. Brigadier General WHHam Mitch ell, center of the recent contro versy over air power, will be suc ceeded -as assistant chief of the army air service by Lieutenant Colonel James E. Fechet on April 27, when his term of office ex pires. The assignment, announc ed today and bearing out expecta tions that such a change would be effected, carries 'With it the rank of Brigadier General and General Mitchell will revert to hia own rank as colonel after that date. ." , . Statement Made , Commenting on the appointment at Norfolk where he had gone to witness an anti-aircraft gun de monstration near Fortress Monroe arranged by the war department as an outgrowth of the aircraft controversy, General Mitchell as serted; v "He is a good . man. I shall abide by the department's orders." Immediately after the nomina tion had been announced earlier in the day. General Mitchell's, of fice here had made public a state ment he had prepared in advance, reiterating . his position with re spect to unified control of the government's air services and other points on which he has beea is 'open-disagreement with hlf superiors. " " Recommendation Made The war secretary's, statement announcing that he had recom mended Lieutenant Colonel Fechet for the appointment to the presi dent which was regarded as prac tically the same as an actual order of- assignment, although senato confirmation is required, made so other comment, saying that Gen eral Mitchell's future assignment had not been determined.. .: Lieutenant Colonel Fechet, like General, Mitchell, rose from tho ranks. He served many years In the cavalry before he was. trans ferred : to the aviation service of the signal corps, In 1917 after the outbreak of the world war, when he became a qualified pilot. :. He is now in command of the air service) advance flying school, Kelly field, Texas.. - .Lieutenant Colonel. Fechet has something of a reputation in army Continued on ) S) FRIDAY IN WASHINGTON : President Coolidge met .with" his reconstructed cabinet for the first time. - ' Senator RoMnson of Arkansas was again named democratic lead er of the senate. Navy department announced yards where authorized naval building will take place. ! The new senate was organized with Senator Moses, New Hamp shire, as president pro tempore. i -. ' Republican senate leaders adont- ed a plan to deprive La Follette senators of the committee rank. William' Burgess.' tariff com mission memter of Pennsylvania. advised the president he- wished to retire. . : . - ; i Lieutenant Colonel James E. Fecht was nominated as assistant chief of the army air service to succeed Brigadier General Mitch ell.- - - " - ; . , Alfred P. Dennll. Marylan ? ' was nominated as a member of the tariff commission to succeed David J. Lewis of Maryland. . President Coolidsre and nthcr high government officials attended memorial services for the iat President Ebert of Germany. t . . . m. - ' Another faydrabla report on thi nomination of Charles D. Warren as attorney general was crderej by the'senate jn3ieiary tcr .lit??