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SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR
S DISCUSSED
BEFORE CROWD
Interest and Enthusiasm
Shewn at Grand ITheatre
Last Night Indicate Mill is
Assured Fact
s
PROMINENT MEN ARE .
HEARD ON SUBJECThvUl enteria plea 6t guilty, as he
'r r i i Procont
From Many Points 01
Willamette Valley
i i
The linen mill is an assured
fact, judging ; from the interest j
shown last night at the a mass J
meeting, i Delegations from Sil
erton, Albany, ' Stay ton, Dallas,
and ' many other : nearby 5 points
crowded -the Qrand theater to
hear. the general discussion of the
proposed $640,000 linen mill.
T. B. Kay, state treasurer and
Salem business man; John H.
McNary, prominent attorney; It.
Snelling, business man; J:, H.
Mulcahy, assistant freight traffic
J'X manager of the Southern Pacific
, lines: T. A. Livesley, : successful
t-Y hop grower, and Charles -P. . Ar-
cherd, implement dealer, explain-
ed the advantages that would arise
' from the establishment of -the mill
here. T. M. Hicks, president of
the Salem Chamber bf Commerce;
presided at the meeting. ? ,lr '
The whole evening was devoted
io aiscussion or tne linen ana nasi
problem by men who have devoted
their life to the . study of these
problems
3IcXary Satisfied : I
I have come to; the conclusion 1
er discussing and studying the i
linen mill proposition tljat it Is a
sare invesiment ana i am going
to fnTst in it myself ; J wlUwadr
vise my friends to tnvst in it
because; I think-it Is. one of the
best investments that Salem has
had an opportunity to see," de-l
clared John H. McNary.. I
"It is the forerunner jot the de-
relopment of a great industry ip
me wiiiameiie Taney. ine oia i
i industries -are wearing-' out and
. new ones must be secured. It
4 ,M1 moo C.I.J
it i oioer ininK. x nave uvea ail m v
life in Salem and never hefore
have I -seen Salem have such an
.opportunity for an investment.
"Flax growing In Oregon is no
longer an experiment," he con-
eluded. V, "The product Raised here
Is equal to 'any product grown
elsewhere, it has been ; tested by
actual manufacturing methods.
We are in a country without com-j
petition, protected by a tariff, and I
.i ia .at io ay u ouicrn v"
become the Belfast of America
- Kay Gives Talk
T. B Kay, state treasurer, who
has made an -exhaustive study of
'fontinuad on f U D
IS SEEK AID
Loan of Three Million Dol
lars Asked; Secretary
Work Hears P
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., April
1.0. With an urgentcplea to Pres
ident Coolidge for aidj members
of the tribal council of the Klam
ath Indians today appeared before
Hubert Work, secretary' nf the in-1
terior, In an effort to rin his in
fluence toward getting a 3,000,-
.rinr in ff , I
0J)0 government loan.
As spokesman for the Klamath
HI
FROM
vf.au U1 ie ana 12th grades to the present
council, told of the hardships ofk,- . - - 1, . p .
m r.4. hiSh school course, which at the
annear trt w tHi
ti- '
n.. if . J u,.
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Z lZ tTmS ryW WUld
; LtLT P. J lfe g?rn"
rrt A i f '8H!r-ar
XJ L'VuI9
ICi,.iVu u v.iuea-jat
. jlv !
Levi Walker, college graduate
ana one of the leaders on the
reservation, then urged that the
government be more liberal In Its
allowances to the Indians in turn-
" i" money irora me saieiproval
oi , ineir timoer. ' , J-
ai me present time we are get- 80 carries educational faculties for
ting but about $200 a' year for Chilocco boarding school Jn Okla
each Indian," he said. "This is In- 'noma. 'near Arkansas Citv. Kannas.
sufficient - to keep US. We feel
that the government should make
fi more. liberal allowance," .
TlioitfipsoiK Reindicted,
td Plead This Mdrnirig;
Others Appear in Court
Clarence W.Tb6mps6n, arrest
ed on a second charge of misap
propriating public; money, was
arraigned jin circuit court yester
flay afternoon following Ian indict
ment for diverting S3. 00o; from
the state treasury while he was
employed there as teller, for his
pergonal se
Thompson asked to be allowed
until (today to plead, and his case
will be heard at 1 0 o'clock this
court;' It 1 13 nbt believed that he
Indicted on , the first charge a-
week" ago, - Thompson ..pleaded
court to having taken $931. He
was sentenced to two years in
state j prison, : but was granted a
parote irom me oencn py juage
Kelly, immediately after' the
case jwas j so disposed, a further
shortage j was discovered, which
EXPEDITIDITD
IS
Donald
MacMiilian, Plans
ne Trip to Frozen!
Airpl;
Northern Zone
CHICAGO. April 10. -(By the
Associate Press.) Navy, plans
for cooperation In the ninth ex-
peditIon into the Arctic ione of
ponald B. MacMillan next Jijne
have
beea completed except that
Ueiection bf the personnel has hot
been
completed, according to Eu
F, McDonald, Jr; .of Chi-
VtA't4n VAtUnnl A
rene
cago
sociatIon j of Broadcftsterg .1 . who
returned today from Washington
where hej represented Mr. Mae-
Millan. The explorer wFb? here
tomorrow for a conference with
McDottaldL !'.
Thft MkedltIo will 'leave ns-
trm mm Mr UnnnniM ani a
at vth nrpiHn4 with on n.
vance plane ba&a at the northern
tip 0f Axel Heibergland. U the Ice
neTmi even: farther tt increase
the range of the plane by use of
which It Is hoped; to do in days
more than has been accomplished
only i through months of arduous
toiUt I ' :.i-' :.yyr' ---:
Each of the three airplanes wilt
be equipped with cameras capable
of mapping 750 mile of shore at
a width of 10 miles and' with this
ald it ls expected that new landi
Will be put on world map and
mucn of I the vast unknown area
hptwp ih iwi-Mii .n r
north poje iwfll , eliminated,
Rndin histnrv iii mm, ma2
said Mr. McDonald, wHo was pos
itive; in his' assertion j that radio
reports of the e-xpedlnonls' prog
ress would fee sent. ba6k daily on
a wave length of .28 meterg for
general i dissemination by the
United State's navy and the, Na
tional ' Geographic societyi - ifnder
the auspices of 'which the expe
dition will . operate
Chemavya Will Offer College
rreparato ry Wo rk to
btudents in Future ' F
The rliPmiM
. . i f
school will have a change in-the
course or study, according I to
Harwoodj Hall, superintendent of
the school, and win add the 1 1th
The school will be standardized
and' the ; indastrial"; codrses Ih-
'?aed. which win enable the
school to! prepare the students for
and university work; as
wel1 as normaI work. The change
wm addlfewmdreStQdents. but
n -not fchng the teaching staff
te presettt time.
'The Cheaawa -Indian school,
through Hbe -efforts tf Mr. Hall
.hd othe civic nmnttinn. hv
been working for boom time to get
the Increase In the course at the
school and to secure federal ap-
I These two ! schools ; wilt be ahle
to give full high school training
j2 ihe Btusnis enrolled.
ARCTIC
AM
! nr ! nTifimnniir
! ; : f i - -. i 1
ea : ji ! r :; i j
Is declared to have been traced
to Thompson. He was again ar
rested and lodged In .the county
Jail, upon a complaint signed by
John H. Carson, district attorney,
after state, officials had refused
to act. ' . " - ; ; '
Acting qn indictments returned
by the grand Jury, Bert Foltz was
sentenced Friday to f ive; years in
state prison for burglary In the
Goodwinjstore on the Fairgrounds
road, Albert F. Winkleback,
charged with forgery, , will plead
In circuit j court today. Eddie
Running, entering- a plea of guilty
to obtaining goods under false
pretences, will be sentenced at 10
o'clock this morning; ? as I will
Wong Sam, ; charged with posses
sion I of opium. : ' is H " ;
A ne.w indictment was returned
yesterday against M. J. Shanafelt,
declared to have passed a num
ber bf worthless checks on Salem
merchants.
RESTS AT SEA
Magnificent Concentration
of Battle Craft to Play
I 'War Game
SAN FRANCISCO, Aprif 10.
(By The Associated Press. The
ships of ' the 'grand fleet of . the
United States rode at anchor to
day in San Francisco, bay under a
leaden sky and in a rainstorm. ' '
Admiral S. ; S. Roblson will di
rect! the operations of the attempt
to ""Recapture ' the island territory
of Hawaii, which is assumed to be
in the hands of an 'enemy" to
be composed of the troops of the"
Hawaiian department of the army.
the Hawaiian national guard and
the vessels. of the 14th naval dis
trict at Honolulu reinforced by an
air squadron from the fleet force.
j "Radio silence,"- unuer which
all wireless apparatus aboard the
vessels Is sealed, will 'be maintain
ed from the moment that the an
chors are weighed. It was announc
ed. This is done In order that the
enemy -may not pick up messages
from the fleet and thus ascertain
its position
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1Y QUEEN fiflED
BY STUDENT BODY
Mtss Lucia Lucile Card
Highly; Honored by;.. Will
amette University
aiiss L,ucla Lucile Card was
elected May queen at the special
eiecUbn , held at ' Willamette uni
versity yesterday. The maids of
honor will be Miss Elizabeth Mc
Clure and Miss Jennelle Vahde-
vort. The election as May aueen
fa-one 6f the highest 'socTal lionors
that can be conferred at Willam
ette university, and there is
school tradition that "the queen
must be chosen from the girls of
the Senior class. ' ' I "
;It is" Interesting to note that the
queen abd her .iualdi of honor all
wear their hair long, and Inquiry
fails to bring to : light a single
Willamette May queen who had
bobbed hair.
This year's queenVlMlss Card
who is from Dallas, is a member
of the Delta Phi sorority and of.
the Philodoslan Literary society
Miss McClure, maid of honor, who
is from r Portland, Is a member
of the Chrestomathian Literary
society and the A Lausanne Hal
elubf The other niaid, Itffsa Van
devort, who Is from Salem,! Is
member of the 'Beta Chi sorority
and the Adalante Literary society.
The May day program atWIl
lamette will be one of the; most
complete that has ever been given
here, if the plans of Manager
Ellis and his committees are a sue
cess, so that Queen Lucia and her
maids .will be assured of. an ex
tensive kingdom, over which to
reign. ',". V
AHMT MAN" PIES
SEATTLE, April ? 10. Staff
Captain Libbie' McAbee, .65, 'who
has been engaged in Saltation
Army work in the United State
and the Hawaiian Islands for
years, ied..here'. tday.' L. M. M
Abee of Portland, H Miss Mc-
AVee'e feather, ' -
GREAT AHA
SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL ill, 1925
IHERRIDT LO
SES
FIGHT: FREICH
CABINET OUtTS
Twice Defeated in -Three
Days of Senate Squabble,
Premier ' and Ministers
Give Resignation "
LACK OF CONFIDENCE!
DISPLAYED IN SENATE
Chamber to Continue Business
Until Successors Are
I Appointed ' -
PARIS, April 10. (By The As
sociated Press.) -The cabinet .of
Edoard Herriot resigned L-aight,
Defeated twice within three days
n the senate,:' M. Herriot and his
ministers quickly decided ..there
was no alternative but to resign.
When a vote of lack of confidence,
156 to 132, wa3 announced, the
cabinet repaired: immediately to
the foreign office where the for
mal letter of the ministrys resig
nation' was idraf ted. -v
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President Confers ,
From the foreign of flee-the de
feated ministers headed, by M. Her-
iot went , to the Elysee palace,
where theyi fcr'jrtTed'at 10 :1 0 in.
and were immediately admitted to
the office of Presidept Doumergue.
Herriot placed the resignation In
the hands of the chief executive
who accepted It and the retirement
of the cabinet thereupon became
official. ; H 1'
As is Usual however, IM. Dou
mergue requested the ministers to
continue to transact the; business
of their respective departments
untu tneir 'successors were ap
pointed. . I 1 ! ." .: . I. '
n Appointment Delayed ;
It was said tonight that M. Dou
mergue would! be unable to decide
before Sunday ion the man whb
will be offered the premiership,
since besides consulting with the
party group leaders of both houses
of parliament he intends to discuss
the situation with various officials
notably - former premier Briand,
Louis Loucheur, former ; minister
of commerce, and Jules Steeg, for
mer minister; of the interior. "The
presidents of the senate' and. the
chamber of deputies also will be
consulted, k ;
Speculation Itifo
There is much speculation over
who will succeed M. Herriot. The
men whose nimes were mentioned
most, , prominently ; tonight are
Paul Painleve, president of the
chamber of deputies, Anatole De
Monzie, minister of finance in the
Herriot government, and former
Premier Briand
In the opinion, of political ob
servers, M. Painleve would not
survive long as Premier and would
merely pave the way for a return
td office of M. Herriot with a bet
ter selected ministry,
M. De Monzie, who has rained
much political credit by his frank
handling of tbef inancjal situation
would, in the view of politicans,
find less opposition in -the senate
than any ether member of the left.
M. Brland,j at least for the pres
ent, would have difficulty in se-
curing a renaDie majority in the
chamber.
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Stanford Educator Declares
Intelligence Tests Dispell
Old Theory
SPOKANE, April 10. Results
of. Intelligence tests ' conducted' 'ii,
schools refute the ordinary beliefs
that the pre;cocIous child is one
sided br likely to become a dull
ard In later life, ' Dr. Lewis M.
Terman of, Stanford university,
nationallyknbwn authority on ed
ucation arid ; psychdio'gy, declared
in n address. on ' "The ftfental and
Physical Traits of Gifted. Child
ren," before the 27th annual con
vention of the Inland Empire Ed
ucation association here today.
Dr. Terman said tests' showed
gifted children stayed bright and"
went through universities with
high scholastic records.' Another
belief that the gifted; boy Is a
"slysywaf "dispelled, bjr" the Stan
ford educator, . who declared the
gifted boy 1'more masculine
and 1tuoVemaiure In his play In-
PRECOCIOUS
(,'OTU
1
teresi? than the ordinarjr boy'
BAlLlSDENlED
TRIAL SOUGHT
;-. I. i tl ;
Surjreme Court Blocks At
tempts of Alleged, Slayer!
of round Millionaire to be
Released
IMMPniATF TRI&I l5
ASKED BY ATTORNEYS
Sufficient Mercury Declared
Found in Bodies ltd Have
. paused Death
i CHICAGO, April .10.
Today
was a day; of il-luck for WJlliam
Darling Shepherd, who Is held in
Jail here f or .the. 'murder! bf this
youthful ward,! William f Nelson
McCHntock, millionaire! orphan.
The supreme court' at Springfield
denied a motion for a writ of ha
beas : corpus to release Shepherd
on bond, blocking the fourth and
probably .the last attempt
attorneys to effect h;ii
of his
release
pending trial. i: His counsel
an
trial nounced that an immediate:
will be sought, ji
: Poison Is Found
Dr. William ID. McNally,
coro-
ner's chemist previously had an
nounced that sufficient mercury
had been I found , in thevtal or
gans of Mrs. Emma Nelson Mc
CHntock. .mother of thef young
millionaire, to have i caused her
death. The possible; implication
of Shepherd In this death Was be
ing studied by i authorities while
chemists continued an j examina
tion . of tiie vital organs jofj Dr.
Oscar Olson, the McCHntock's fam
ily physician, who died three iyears
ago, Mrs. jMcCHntock having aiea
16 vears lasro while her son died
aaet.peceiiiber.ij I i j. As..r
l p.wiunnrn uiicvvrrru
New evidence; which the author
ities eaid tended to establish a
connection between Shepherd and
the death of Mrs. McClibtock was
received durihg the day when Dr.
George Fbsberg; the tirst person
to dlnclose that Shepherd had
made a study off deadly drugs and
poisons, appeared' at the office of
Justice Harry Olson, who insti-
gated the
investigation which re-
suited in
Shepherd's indictment,
and amended his former; state
ments. Shepherd, he said, had
befcdn his j interview with Dr.jFos
berg by asking particularlyj about
action Of f bichloride of mercury
and the length of time after death
that It might I still be detected.
tw r.KW. ooU Vio rhlied ! that
it could fee detected almost' any
time after! death, and i Shepherd
then started to Inquiry afeout other
poisons., . I -. " r:v j ' j I j
Commenting on the findings or
the coroner's chemist whoi exam
ined the feody of Mrs. M-cClintock.
Shepherd's counsel Issued a 8;tate-
meni asserting ; iuai. wiuyu
. ' : . it . I , I. 6 .
eard to what was found jin) the
bodies of either Mrs. McCHntock
or Dr. Olson, there wals nothing
to connect - (Shepherd I with;" the
death of either. He addedj it was
merely another ruse to poison the
mind of the nubile against Shep
herd in 4 contest, of the vlll of
young Mcblintock ln whichjhe left
Shepherd his estate except for an
annuity of $8,000 to jMiss Isa-
belle Pope, his fiancee, who wait
ed to marry him wnen ne oiea.
FOB SMITE
: DIES IN
I ur.ian Uil. Nurin, Known
Throughout Country, Uies
in Los Angeles j
' j -j i ' j
Information of the death of Lu
r'kn l: Nunri. brother of J. J
Nflnn. Balem man. was received
here yesterday In a letter f rm L.oa
Angeles. I The deceased was noiea
ihrniie-hmit the United States for
his oioneer work in the hydro-elec
trie field
ana an engineer ana utr-
veloper.
He was a man of 'wealth
and devoted much of iit for the
education of young men.j His phil
anthropies reached Into the I mil
lions. I i
" Miss Ellen Nunn of fealem' is a
sister of the deceased and has re
sided with her brother f-i J4 Nunn
who attended the funeral in Lo3
Angelea..! ,-: i : - I ! !
i The center of the great tfork of
the deceased was in Salt Lake but
his home was in southern Califor
nia
Mr. Nunn was Identified with
several industrial and ; business
projects, in, thj TJUb country
sum
400 Picked Men
Raid on Uriirwotia ol
Denver; City Searched
DENVER, Colo., April 10.
Launching a general offensive
against all sections of Denver's
underworld. 50 squads or detec
tives and prohibition officers late
tonight had arrested apprpximate-
Z Tl T,
i extensive raid3 in the history of
the city. :
The raiders, led personally fey
Major Ben Stapleton, swept sim
ultaneously through notorious dis
tricts extending from north Den
ver to the fashionable .Capitol Hill
district on the east side. Numer
ous alleged liquor : law violators
were caught In the official net, and
great quantities of liquor were
seized. !
The raiders swooped down upon
scores of restaurants, pool halls,
rooming houses and cigar stores,
all of which had been card-index
ed as suspicious places in a three
month's investigation preceding
tonight's raids. i
One hundred..and . fifty picked
members of the pity detective force
and many members of the Ameri-
Foiir Million Dollars Bequea
thed to Adopted Girl by
I in riaie rung
i
MINEOLA, N. T.," April 40.
Joy Louise Leeds, 12 years ago
foundling, today learned that
she is one of the country's weal
thiest ; children, Warner M.
Leeds,! who made a fortune in tin
plate production and who, child
less had adopted Joy Loiilse, 12
years ago. whenshe.was a year
old, j left her thef bulk of his .es
tate, estimated at more than $4,-
000,000.
Available data of the estates, of
rich children in the United States
show the Leed3' heiress to be far
richer than any of her contempor
aries. Gloria Caruso received half
of her father's $3,000,000 estate
and half of his posthumus phon
ograph royalties estimated at
$225,000 a year. Each of the sev
en grandchildren of the late Sen
ator William A. Clark received
11,000,000 at birth. The sixth,
John Jacob Astor, , whose father
died In the Titanic disaster; Inher
ited something like $3,500,000.
RIOTERS IMHE
hostile ins
Syrian Mobs Attempt to
Keach tan of Balfour;
Troops Called Out
DAMASCUS, Syria. April 10.
(By The Associated Press.) The
authorities had a strenuous time
yesterday in putting down the
demonstration of that portion of
the populace which desired to
show its hostility over a visit to
Damascus of the tEarl of Balfour,
growing out of his activities to
ward; the founding of a national
Jewish homeland in Palestine.
; Having reached positions almost
in front of the hotel where Lord
Balfour was staying, the mob,' es
timated at about 000 was driven
hither and thither by the police.
only to form again and attempt
further demonstrations. In the
first stages of the rioting only the
police intervened but . finding
themselves unable to cope jwith
the situation they called mounted
troops and armored cars into play.
After having several times been
dispersed by the police, they made
a' mass attack:. against the cordon
thrown about the hotel.
For the first time the police re
sorted to their firearms,' but shot
in the air over, the heads of the
demonstrators. The rioters refus
ed, to yield and seized the street
cars and took coverjn them. ' The
gendarmerie charged repeatedly
and finally drove the crowds half
way to Municipality square wftere
hand-to-hand fighting ensued.
CIItltCH CHAKGE FACED
INDEPENDENCE, Mo.. April
l y. uenjamin , McGulre, pre
siding bishop of the Reorganized
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints stood: up before the
conference all afternoon today
?5Srt?5 a fctarp of trea?jnt
FORTUNE LEFT
TO FOUNDLING
Stage
can legion aided the federal offi
cers It was announced.
Among the raiding officers also
were national guardsmen, deputy
sheriffs, the city attorney's staff
and the diserict attorney's staff."
The entire corps of officers met
at a church in a residence section
and then separated into separate
squads to carry on the raids.
No police officers participated,
and officials said that the raid 3
began without thel knowledge of
the chief of police or the "city vice
raiding squad.
One fashionable -downtown res
taurant was locked up by the of
ficers until they satisfied them
selves. as to whether patrons were
drinking liquor. Several flask tot
ers were Bent to headquarters.
Inmates of apparently "respec
table rooming houses and. hotels,
including many women, scrambled
through skylights and out onto
roofs In! efforts to escape the raid
ers, In spite", of threats of being
shot. However, due to the clock
like precision of the raid, few es
caped. , ' ;
PACKIiJG UNION
CASE DEBUTED
Merger of. Armour-Morris
Plants Argued Before
Secretary Jardirie "
WASHINGTON, April jLQ. An
swering the contention bf packers
in the Armour-Morris merger con-j
troyersy that a monopoly was im-!
possible s in : the packing industry,
W. X..' Fisher, chief ; counsel for
the government, argued today that
the "vital thing is the preserva
tion; of competition in reality.'
j Tfee packers'i attorney, he told
Secretary Jardine, who is conduct
ing ! the hearing preparatory to
ruling on the question whether the
merger violates ' the packers and
stockyards act, have admitted that
they meant a 100 per cent monop
oly, which they described as the
only kind; that could be made ef
fective. I I ' - " '
The tendency of modern Indus-
trialism, he declared, ! is toward
centralized control and "he pre
dicted; that, unless this Is curbed
the government will have to step
in and fix prices. . ' ;
Secretary. Jardine alioted tne
entire time : of today's hearing to
the government's attorney. He
plana to close the hearing tomor
row and take the ease; under ad
visement, i 5 He can either exon
erate? the packers or issue a rule
against the merger. Which would
send, the question to the supreme
court for final settlement.
'HODS STAGE FUST
Committee Appointed to
Draw Up Resolution in
Regard to Street Use
Stiff bidding marked the Aus
tralian auction held at the Lions
cub Friday noon at the Marion
hotel for the purpose of securing
funds to send 'a delegate to the
international convention at Cedar
Point, la. in June. ; This was the
second of a series of auctions to be
staged this year.
In the' bidding Lion Neer, dis
trict governor of Oregon, Lion
Giese, Lion Rottle, Lion, Omv and
others 1 were : successful, r Rufe
White acted as auctioneer.
A committee was appointed" by
the Lions to draw up a resolution
to express a sentiment in regard to
the use ofthe street Intersection
at Court: and Water by a corpor
ation. Application was recently
made by the firm to secure art
tlon upon the street for building
purposes. Lions Ely, Giese and
Orr, ;were appointed to serve up6fi
the committee and to make 4 re
port at the next meeting.
EXCTtOACn.MEXT FEARED
BALTIMORE, Md., April 10.
America's $100,000 wood distil
lation Industry is threatened with
extinction by German chemistry,
It was .declared today - at the
meeting of the American Cheml
?al society Jctp,
D
PRICE FIVE CENTS
HEfiEHTS K
J. A. CHURCHILL
IS PRESET
State Superintendent o f
Schools Going to Ashland
Normal; Contract Begins
January 1, 1926
EDUCATIONAL CAREER ! .
IN STATE EXCELLENT
Oregon is Able to Advance
Under His Direction Dur
ing Last 12 Years
J. A. Churchill, state superin
tendent bf schools for the last 12
years, wa3 elected first president
of the new Southern Oregon nor-
J. A. CHURCHILL, Salem
mal school at Ashland at a meet
ing of the board of regents here .
Friday afternoon. He will be giv
en a four-year contract, beginning
January 1, 1926.
Mr. Churchill is one of theibesb
known and well-informed educa
tionalists of the state. He wai
first appointed to the otfice oi
state superintendent of schools by
Governor Oswald West in 1913.
The following year he was elected
to the office for four years and
was re-elected in 1918 and again
in 1922. His present term would
expire January 1, 1927.
The board of regents announced
that an architect bad been; en
gaged for plans for the new school
and that a site would be selected
later this month. The money for
the re-establishment of the South
ern Oregon normal school was ap
propriated by the 1925 legisla
ture and amounts to $175,000.
Mr. Churchill obtained his early
schooling in Ohio and was grad
uated from the Ohio Northern
university in civil engineering,
later, obtaining his masters' de
gree from that V institution. ! He
also holds a masters' degree from
the University of Oregon. Upon
coming to Oregon he was elected
city superintendent of schools at
Baker, a position he held for 22
years or until he was appointed to
his present office.
Educational development in Ore
gon began with Mr. Churchill's
taking the position as superin
tendent of public instruction.
Among the outstanding accom-1
plishments of his 12 years la of-
(Continned oa page 4)
FRIDAY
IN WASHINGTON
Several hundred pre-Easter va
cationists were greeted by the
president.
Secretary Jardine heard further
arguments of the Armour-Morris
merger.
Reiterated reports that Secre
tary Weeks would resign led to
a denial at the White House.
Funds voted by congress ia x-
ep-tceg8 of fcudget fisures for th
national guard were released ly
President Coolidge.
Chairman Madden of the 1 o: -
appropriations committee had en
actment 'by the next con tc t r ?
a bill reducing; taxes by CC ! -000.000,
Reports that the WasM
government was, aLnnl .;:- -.
cent; develop 'frits airVt:-erican-heid-nu
ro:: .
sla were "antV-.rita'i;