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Newspaper Page Textt'jTAUW OREGON SALEM The most desirable home city in lio northwest. Business streets, 99 feet wide. - Rosea blooming 10 months tn the year. There are many homes and building sites listed in the classified columns of this paper. Own Your Own Home. .iJVMULvl Unsettled, probably:, rata; mm cooler In the interior; fresh west and northwest "winds. -Prlday Max.. -63;-min 3S driver; 2., falling; rainfall, .03; atmosphere, cloudy; wind, northeast. ' - , ' . "' SEVENTY-FOUfcTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 28, 1925 PRICE FIVE CENTS - i'Jr 7t GE OIL GOiiFTIOC Candtdate tor. Vice President :on Independent Ticket, Is Indicated by Grand Jury for Conspiracy ; ' fflVESTIGATION OF OIL LEASE BRINGS CHARGES Illegal Use of Government Oil :'; "XahBeclareH. to "Be" i .Uncovered '. v CHAR d m ? .1 WASHINGTON, March 27. Senator, .Wheeler . of Montana, in- dependent vice presidential candi 71 date last fall; Edwin S. Booth, j former solicitor for the interior r-V department, and Gordan Campbell, rj -'a" Montana oil operator, were by a grand jury here today with conspiracy to obtain illegal ' use and possession of government oil land. - - - . . . . . The grand Jury, which has bad before It for two months an inves tigation of the granting of oil land leases to Campbell and Ms assist ants, terminated, its proceedings by the action Just after Assistant Attorney General Donovan and special government counsel had summed upT, the testimony at a brief morning session. .j . Senator Walsh of Montana, at torney for Mr. Wheeler, arranged for. arraignment and placing' of 1 1,0 0 0 ? bond, .for bia client .while the defendant -senator Issued ' n statement exBressias: surprise that f an indictment had been found and predicting that ' "when the case Comes to trial, the public will .be convinced of my complete inno- ! cence." . Neither of the other de- fendants were in the city. Mr. i Booth, like Senator Wheeler, ap- pea red s witness-before the grand r Jury early in its proceedings and .- waived immunity. . - , . Senator i Wheeler's statement further declared that the "grand I jury had been permitted to take a i recess of . four weeks which is, to say the least, an almost unheard of I . proceeding," after its examination I of witnesses .had been concluded, I and that this action had convinced ' him no indictment was to be : brought. He said the only evi dence brought to his attention when he went before the grand jury as a witness, "was the same as the ' evidence presented to the Borah ; committee . which Investi gated the charges against me." The committee's report to the senate on this investigation exon erated Senator Wheeler. The ,full charge on which the indictment was . based was set I forth in a 29-page document pre ! sented by the jury. Campbell, It said, induced! various persons to ' enter claims for lease of govern ment land, the leases , on which we're to bo assigned to himself for the benefit of the .three , men charged , with conspiracy ? A ser ies of "overt acts" specified as 4 part ot the alleged. -conspiracy re i flate chiefly 'to a lease granted -in the name of- James A. McGowan who was described as a conspira tor also, but was allowed to testi fy before the jury and was not in dicted. : f, -v -; ,;';- : To "Our "Readers The Statesman carriers will call to make their monthly col lections today. - . Tour newspaper boy Is just starting In business for himself.' This is his first effort to )earn business and his success or failure depends to a consider-' able extent on your good will and cooperation. A pleasant smile and a cheery. word, will encourage your boy and help him make a success of this, his first venture In business life. He will appreciate It and ebow his good will in any , way ; he can. 5 x 1 If your subscription is al ready ' paid, ignore v this notice and accept our thanks., . STATESMAN PUBLISHTNG CO. NOTICE Linen iMill Promotion Campaign The linen - factory promotion campaign - undertaken -by Salem citizens is to continue and reports will he made at a future meeting; according to the -decision -reached last night. ; The main auditorium of the Chamber of Commerce was packed last night. r. e R. M. Sanson, ; linen expert AniX manufacturer of Toronto, Canada-, and Lockport. N. Y4 explained the advantages of the Willamette val iey m uiuuing ,tne 1 nax grown here and converting it Into fin ished goods. With the 'establish ment of ;a factory, rf ully 5,000 additional-acres of land would have, to he put to work at growing flax, he said. -. ... 4,: v , .The linen -expert went into-the. details of ; -the new plant here. which Included cost of produc tion,, cost, of erecting a. factory, markets, for the finished product, amount of imported, goods, and the 1 possible output of a mill In this vicinity. .. . 1 . , ' ! i .The. proposed 4 mill must cause more flax to be grown la this vi cinity, was the declaration of the speaker. A mill costing about $600,000 would utilize the product! -1 Rail-Wafer Charges on Wool Argued Before Interstate .j . Commission PORTLAND, Or., March 27.7 Bern Levyy of San Francisco, as- sistant general frelglt agent for the -Santa Fe railroad, testifying before ' Chairman Campbell of the interstate commerce commission here today, declared that inter- coastal steamship lines .that ply through the Panama canal and al ready registered -as a eerious men' ace to transcontinental railroads, would probably wax fatter still at the expense of the rail carriers if the combination rail-water rate on wool from interior. points to Bos ton were,granted.' j "Our chief 5 j apprehension in case this rate would be put into effect," Baid Mr, Levy, 'is. that It would ; arm : our competitors, the intercoastal steamship lines. We would be carrying traffic to them by hauling wool from the Interior to the ports for j loading on , the steamers for the haul to the east "The effect would be to. make them stronger, with improved ser vice , and .facilities, .so that they would be placed In a position .to take still more "of our tonnage westbound , M well as western wool sent east to market." POLILS STRESSES Few Content With. Drifting Life .White; Others Have; ;Ambitioh-He Says "Gypsy-like 'many people are content to live In a tent, a shack or a wagon. . They just like that kind of a life, v They -have 'no hisrh- er ambition. Others are ambitious to live in elegant ."houses,! or to build skyscrapers; , Exactly so you constantly j find some .people who were tramps and Vgypsiesin character. Others are noble and pledged to build elegantly and to erect . eternal i structures hn tops touch the ethereal blue." This paragraph Introduced last night's sermon of the Bevi .Chas2 Poling at; the First . Presbyterian Church: . ii . ui c 2 ? "The contractor knows the most important thing . about- his i great building is : its sure foundation. Character building, too, depends upon Its foundation ttones,! con tinued Mr. Poling. "Knowledre. faith and Jove lie as the.only sate foundation on. . which character can be built. Ton can't build with out anyone or all of these. You are absolutely certain to go wrong by fliEaii IS i'lTllED Stimulated , Sanson Last Night of 5,000 acres of :flax. he said. This would care for about 400 spindleB and Z00 looms, which would be used In manufacturing "bread and butter". lines of linens. of eoursefiner lines of goods could- be led up to, lut the chief product -of the new mill Would have to be -the simpler makes of linens, which 'Would find a ready market The new mill would give em ployment to about -260 persons in the vicinity, .with additional -'per sons to be employed In the scutch ing mills that must necessarily be operated in connectipu with the mill. Fully 85 i per ' cent:, of the labor would be done hy women. Cost of the new plant was given by Mr.. Sanson as about $600,000, who .. had secured figures from various firms In the east. The larger Dortlon of 'that sum coins Into spinning machinery. 'most of which would have to be" secured in a foreign market. ? ' ? .It is. absolutely necessary that the mill be established .. in community in ' order ' that this the (Centtnaed en pc S) lfH Marion County Health'Asso- .ciation Re-Elects Mrs. J. A. Carspn Presidentj ntinl. a d MnrHsntXIri. citlsens gathered at the-Chamber of . Commerce Friday for the fourth annual -meeting of the Marion County Health association and late in -the afternoon closed one of the most outstanding meet- inga of the organization. . : . j- Mrs. John A. Carson was re- elected president. Mrs. C iW. Keeee. of -SilTertoB - first -rice president; Mrs. II. Overton, of Wondbtirn wnnH vln nreal1ntr I Miss Elizabeth Putnam, secretary, and Mrs. F. A. Elliott,; treasurer. Heads of various committees were also selected and Include Mrs. E. E. Fisher, supplies; Gladys Steele, nurse; "Mr..W. H. Byrd, publicity; Mrs. Fred H. Thompson,, educa tion, and Mrs. Mason Bishop, spe- cial school committee.. Officers of the; finance committee will be named later.- ? - . j - S . Representatives from ; the var ious - communities in the associa tion are Mrs. K. E- Fisher. Salem; Mrs. A. Lemon, ; Sllverton; Mrs. II. Overton, Woodburn; Mrs. W. W, Allen.. Mill City; Mts. O. . V. White, , Stayton and Mrs. J. O. Fontaine, Jefferson. . '. v Dr. . Walter IL Browm director of the Marlon county health dem onstration, was the . .principal USBSS LGILES 'jiiii Many Objectives Are En- J I ; a 1 1 . .1! .!.. , r i uuiseu ai lYieeung ot 'Club at Noon Friday uiamanun 01 me present irai- fic regulations of the city, and the objectives of the Salem Lions den took nn the n.fn orti t thejime of. the Friday noon meet- Ins, at-thMarion hotel. . j ri The objectives of the Lions club were hc endorsement of the two- hourparklng law, the taking up pi the matter of discussing the head-in "parking ordinance, the EFT RIG SUCCESS 1 ,i , f mh nitiii turning in the street, only at ln- ar tn Beryl G. capuin Gll tarsections. the rreatfnr nf son appeared on the deck. He boulevard tn i rntiif tnm.ii.l traffic, creating of a safety rone near the Parrish school, to lend aid to the Boy Scout work, and to deck as ne stepped from the corn cooperate in ? the matter of retting panionway. - - V- 1; an iraprovea roae to isuver creeai failsJ . ; ; ; - I JL committee of Lions, headed by 1 Newell . Williams and Lions Giese; Orr, Baker and Mott was I apof.ki ted to-consider the parking j ordinance. filledSHl IRDER TRIAL Three Women and Nine Men .Comprise Body That Will Cast Verdict in Dorothy Ellingson Case GIRL STRIVES HARD TO ' HOLD SELF IN CHECK Defendant Faints Twice in Courtroom as Tension Is Relieved ' SAN FJtANCISCO, March . 27. i After flvedays of patient effort a jury had. been -completed this eTe,nlD to decide the fate of 16- worldly wise child of jazz, charged with" .the murder of her mother, who was shot fatally in the bed room of their home last January after a quarrel over the girl's con duct With the selection of the jury and two alternates. Judge Harold Louderback '- adjourned court un til Monday morning when opening statements will be made and evi dence presented ' Three Women Drawn The Jury finally sworn in after monotonous days of questioning challenging and excusing, contains nine men and three women.-Both of the alternates are women. Most Of the men and women are of mid dle age or elderly. ' One of the lueu Miwiaan, msmeu ana lue 'a,er f yo"B d, is youth- UI " avinnuice. me women on tbe 3ury are mothers. One of thfm has two girfa and a boy; the """" lw" youHS wn muu5 ine maie -jurors are a rwwrea Brocer, a motor iranspori upenuuraaem. iwo coniraetors, painter, a dook aeiier a ciera, a carpenter, a retired storekeeper oeerai are tne ratners of grown cniiaren. Trial to Go On . . Attorneys on both eides denied that there is - any basis for 'the report published here today to the effect that a plea of guilty to some degree of . crime might suddenly end the trial. Counsel said-theywere prepar- W5 to o ahead with the case and anticipated no compromise. Earl Ellingson. 'brother of Dorothy, may be the first witness called by the prosecution. He dis covered the body of hid mother (OoetlMtd n pax 8) Murder of Captain and Son Declared 1- Witnessed; .Trial .'Date Is Set VICTORIA. Ba, March 27 O wen B. . Baker.. and. Harry. F,. So- wash were committed for trial here today on a charge of murder ing Captain William Glllis and his son, William, aboard the liquor- laden schooner Bervl O at Rirtnpv island, BC. - September - The trial has -been set for the next assizes in May. '' Stromkins confessed par i'."Ki"i. crown WUO: P t- preitm- ,nary nearmS this,morning when Baker and Sowashvfocuscdltheir OB aim v1 ne was-reiaung indents of the liquor hijacking, "suriea tnisartemoonnhat after said 4e aw Sowash, who had fol- lowed the youth, from, below, kill nim y anocKing mm aown on tne uu"ou J4ju uaihc(, i mieu Stromkins. asserted. "Bak- er tfien shook .hands' with Sowash While I did not see Baker kill Captain Glllis. Baker latertold me he had. to-liaot'the..old-inan be- cause he was too strong for him." j HIJfiCKERSilRE HELD KILLERS BODIES 11(1 Mother of I Youthful Million aire, land Dr. Oscar Olson J Said Not. to Have Died Natural Deaths CHEMISTS TO DETERMINE rncacntOC Ur DAU I CnlA! Remains Are Declared to Be in an 'Unusual State of Preservation ' u CHICAOO. March 27. From the grave In which It had laia for 15 years the -body of Mrs. Km ma Nelson McClintock, mother of the late William Nelson McClintock, youthful millionaire,- was taken today for a belated autopsy. , Like wise the body of Dr. "Oscar Olson, brother i or Harry Olson, chief justice of the municipal court, was exhumed after a three ' year's In terment. . ... X To Examine Bodies ' Both will be examined by coro ner's chemists to determine, if possible, the cause of their deaths. Justice Olson has claimed that they followed closely the associa tions of two persons with William li-F1? rt' " rhoie viw ' wta guardian 'lot aQd chief .beneficiary of theboy's $X000,QOfll esUte.:v Dri -COm' body was reported to -be in good condition. That of Mrs. McClin tock was "pronounced in "extreme- SliJ5!; " eoroner's physician, said that a complete chemical analysis of the organs ot her body would take at least a-month.' i : : - : Itesults ln Doubt ,T Both Mrs. McClintock and r. Olson died of heart disease, a pre liminary.examinatioa of .their bod- : ies showed, according to a state ment by Coroner Oscar 'Wolff. So far as it Is possible to determine now. the Statement Said, the state ments made by physicians at tbe time that Mrs. McClintock and Ol son died 'are borne out.. Crowe Asks Permit f Coroner Wolff -ordered their disenterments yesterday on appli- cation of State's Attorney Robert I E. Crowe. -Fromt time to time, suggestions -that criminal -agencies j were employed in the deaths, of! Mrs. McClintock and. Dr. Olson were made by Justice Olson. , I , .Shepherd, . .lawyers said they I welcomed this, the latest step In j the investigation of young Me- j Clintock'a death. teresponsibn. Ity for which Rbepherd has beert j cnarged in a grand - jury indict- ment. Plans for Summer Months .Outlined By Fred A. Wil liams, President At the regular .monthly meet ing 01 jne satem bnrtne ciun a lar reaching program full, of interest r.-Th oul"nraior ine next few months.. , , , ,. t win pass through Salem, during th .ttmi.i Knight Templars . at Seattle 'and the national 5hrine . convention at Los Angeles this coming summer." said President Fred A. Williams. "There are 200 Shrlners within mv .vsr uhvu uu sua a uuuuiuft country. " Some; will travel 'win 'travel by auto and - some by train "but we can sell Raletn fo these visitors for mnch or tittle. I FROM GRAVES FOR AUTDPSV sll52lTlr coui mm ULUU ilL ilU IIVL according to the efforts exerted J bleachers have been removed, gir by the nobles of this vicinity.v ,ng Iot of floor space. It is planned to hold several j get together" meetings -for the nobles and their families, the first Monday when all of the men will one being just after Easter, in or- be back in town and able to re der to urge the Importance of the Port for practice. , , opportunity- at ' hand and foster Coach, Guy L. Rathbun will take greater cooperation. - - 1 - More definite and detailed plans j will he announced very shortly. Sweepihgl PmiHe Fi re Leaves Charred Ruins of Midwestern Ranches SIOUX FALLS, -S. D., March 27.--(By The" Associated Press.) Prairie fires which swept west ern south Dakota yesterday , and last nUbt ; , were brought under control today after having left In. their wake miles of blackened prairies with . smouldering ruins of ranch homes and j haystack here and. there. . .. .F.ires in" ihe northern part of the state subsided late in a dimin- chCck the flames along the South Dakota-Nebraska border on the Rosebud.!. Indian reservation. ,Tlie lotal damage caused by the spec- tacular' blazes will not be large it waa indicated today.. The country through which the flames raced is sparsely settled with only small farm and ranch buildings in wide- ly separated reas, one fire which Raveled for, 20 miles along a .10 mile front on the Bennett-Wash aba'ugh county line, caused no damage " except . to haystacks, no farm buildings being' in its. path. No reports Of death in the fire have been verified" though many llllRW Total Amount Due on Prin- cipal and Interest April 1 Over 32,000,000 Probably what ' is ' the largest arrant in the history of the state was issued Friday by Sam -A. Ko- xer, secretary of state, for 2,- 173,852.50. This is to cover Sl,- 286,000 -of principal and 887 52.50 interest on road bonds payable April 1, 1925. .Of the amount of principal paid 1 1,000, 000 is to be refunded on April 1 by a recent $1,000,000 issue of bonds by the state., I The secretary of state also Is sued his warrant for $440,500 to cover the interest on $20,000,000 of World War Veterans' state aid bonds which ' becomes payable April 1, 1925. This makes a grand total of $2,614,352.50 due on ac- count of principal and interest on pond Issues of the state as of April 1, 1925. Warrants have also been issued in favor of 'the county treasurers or tne various counties of the state, distributing one-fourth of the motor vehicle license fees on account of the distribution made as of March 15, 1925, which em- braces the receipts - from such sources from September 15, 1924, to March lg, 1925. Moneys remitted to the various TRACK WORKOUTS Willamette Athletes Call Halt in Training; Will Turn out, v Monday v a Tha wiliTneH nw.eo. Und baseball squade were unable Mo workout on:the field yesterday of . ' , -w v. iwu buu vuiu niuu. j(tt..j ... .. . . . . . ditloned and it was feared that the V?.?? drp nQm ,rms ana me 1 , " " oiaer lorma 01 nut oscles 'tht are common -daring 1 T J parc 01 ine training sea- ; A number of the ment went through a light workout is- the ymnas,um which Is in rerv rood fape for such work since the : 11 tn weather permits the squad wrk,wllt. : beght in earnest next charge of the baseball men :Ma Coach. -Lestle Sparks will handle the track squad fire fighters were severely burned by the flames, several beink taken to hospitals for. treatment. Live stock generally wa protected from the fires. - v...... . Out of the blaze-swept area came several stories today of des perate efforts made to save vil lages - and homes ' from the lire. At Wakpala, northern South Da kota, townspeople checked the fire at the very outskirts of the vil lage. - Similar successful efforts were made at a number -of small inland towns in the Hosebud res ervation. 'y There were two separate series of fires. 1 One . swept down from North Dakota and into Corson, S. D-, while the other sprang up in Wassabaugh and Mellette coun ties and. driven by the heavy wind moved down into Todd and Ben nett counties before being checked. Several smaller independent blazes started both east and west of the .Missouri ver, but the dam age 'was ! confined to prairie land and hay stacks.l East of the river fires were checked near Alexan dria, Virgil and Miller. 1 Monoply of Transportation in , Oregon Is Charged at - - Open Hearing - WASHINGTON, Man 7. Final arguments over the demand of the Oregon public service, com mission that , the railroads serving that state be required to build more than 400 miles of a new line in the eastern half of the etate be gan today before . the interstate commerce commission. ; K W. P. Ellis, attorney , for the state commission opened with the declaration that Oregon was1 suf ferlng from railroad wonopoly its transportation facilities being di vided . between ; the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific systems and that the transportation busi nesS. actual and potential in the territory to be ppened would justi fy the construction. His stand was J ; . (Oontiamed aa-vaxa 2) Mir'i Light Heavyweight . Champ . ueis Newspaper uecision Over Middleweight ST. PAUL, Minn., March -27.- (By. .Associated Pr&es.) -Gene Tunney of New York American light heavyweight champion' de feated Harry Greb of Pittsburgh. former holder of the title, and. pres ent world's Wlddlewelght chamn- lon In a ten round no-decision con test here tonight. Greb began to show a flash of his old time speed , in the ninth, reaching .Tunney. with wild . lefts and right swings to the head while Tunney-'continued his - smashing -body attack in the tenth they started off - by an exchanee of punches to the head In the center of the ring. Tunney piled into Greb forcing him to break ground. tiarry scored a half dozen times wlth,a tantalizing -left with Tun ney countering! with punches I to the body that mad Greb hang on whenever they clinched. ...-' When they came up for 'the eighth, Greb fell into a clinch and wrestled Tunney into the ropes, causing the "referee to caution him. Gene took Greb with three short right uppercuts and a mo ment later chased him into the ropes puttingTover a right and left to the head. Greb immediately went on the, defensive5 to escape Tunney'e savage attack. Tunney won because of -his smashing body attack forcing the Fittsburger to wince and break ground under a terrific bombard ment of short rights and lefts. iili CLOSE CFIFTII Bf IV FS Uf.liL.IUf XILLSTRiii'GER OFFERED RIDE SEATTLE Newspaper Account of Dis covery of Skeleton Leads Oregon Prison Inmates to Clear U pi Mystery CRIME COMMITTED YEAR AGO IN MAY Robbery JMotive of Pair Now Serving Five -Years for Jackson Burglary . JACKSON VI LLE, Or., March 27 Arniond B. lorner and . James Mack,' sentenced to the penitentiary from Jackson coun ty December C last, for burg laryt are believed by author ities here to bo the men who, according to a Salem dispatch, confessed to the killing of an unidentified man near Che halis. Wash, last May.' ; A newspaper story ot the finding of.a, skeleton of a murdered man near Chehall8, Wash., caused two inmates of the.penitentiary to con fess voluntarily to Warden A. M. Dalrym pie Friday that they were guilty of the crime. Relief from an accusing conscience was given as their reason. - Warden Dalrym- Pie is withholding their names. . One of the men wrote a note td the warden Thursday night; In closing the clipping that told of Deputy Sheriff Joe Coleman find ing -the skeleton while fishing along ;Tllton river about 28 miles east of Chehalis, Sunday. The press account stated that a bullet hole was found through the right temple, down . through the neck. It was buried in a shallow grave and covered with brush. Nothing found on the body gave any clew to its Identity and reports of any missing . persons in' the neighbor hood were lacking. The man ap parently had been between 35 and 40 years old. " Interview Requested "I am writing these few lines under a verry-straineous condition but T trust that you will advice us in the verry best of your know-. Jedge,". the letter from one of the Inen read. saw la a newspaper Monaay night a itiem 6r which I am enclosing with this. I pre sume you think us verry foolish - lor saying anything about a han- pening souch as this as it was no well concealed. But I can not stand the strain it has upon my mina so and ,1 have rnmo tn the conclusion that we want to confess and pay the penalty what ever it might be. .So we'll tell vou to have a private interview with you, and you oniy." This request was granted and - -Cetinued b rX 2 FRIDAY IN WASHINGTON The Shipping board held hear ings on bids for five large shlD3 In the Pacific trade. President Coolidge appointed a commission to study the question disposing of Muscle Shoals. f . . m m - Former Governor Morrow nrihn Panama canal zone was aonointP.T as American 'member of the Tac- na-a.rica boundary commission. . , - Secretary Wrilbur ordered n 11 rf martial' proceedings aeainct o number of officers as a result of a liquor raid on the transport Beau fort. .' " - "Senator Wheeler of rn Edwin S! Booth, f. " V: tt"J ' or tne interior denartm,nt , Gordon Campbell oil land operatnr were:lndlcted by .federal arani Ui jr. ...... ' ; , . Senator Couzena n'f m,,.,... denied that other former ' " rYti stock holders of ithe I V - company had Sisned . permit recorUeration nr . assessments