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Newspaper Page TextSALEM, OftEGON, WE DN EST) AY .MORNING, JUNE 17, 1925 PRICE FIVE CENTS ATTACK UBIIEO AGAIKST SHJflTDfl SCHOOL BUDGET GIVES STANDING OF DISTRICT POLICE SEEK HEW ; ieiEiNMun FOUR DEAF STUDENTS WILL STUDY IN EAST CONGRESS GENEROUS WITH AID FOR STATE SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR CHINESE SITUATION IS " WORRYING US 0FFICALS HUB! IMGl CRASHES: ES BT RECEIPTS ARE $647,099 AND EXPENSES $646,910 FN USUAL RECORD ESTABLISH ED BY STATE SCHOOL HALF OF LAND ALREADY UN DEU FEDERAL CONTROL HOPE HELD THAT "AMERICANS WILL NOT RE THREATENED BREAKING OF WILL TO DE ATTEMPTED Isabeile: Pope Young Mc clintock's Sweetheart,' 1 Makes Admission A, hi Legality of Deals' Place On Fish Commission is Ques tioned by Kozer OPINION BEING SOUGHT 1 Secretary of State Writes Attor- ney General Regarding the Validity ofClaimes pre . fwntetl i i i . Question, of the legality of the appointment of A. Q. Beale to the fish commission by Oovernor Wal ter M. "Pierce on June 1 to succeed F, P. Kendall, of Portland, is rais ed by Secretary of State Kozer who has written the attorney general for an opinion. ."The records and files of the office of the secretary of state show that A- O. Deals, of Tilla mook county, was duly elected state senator from the 24th dis trict in the November 1924 elec tion and that on November 29, 1924, a certificate of election wm issued." the letter reads. "On February 20, 1925, said A. G. Beala received from the state a warrant for $171.30 in payment for services and mileage as a mem ber of the 33rd legislative assem bly. : . 1 - ' -'It is provided in Sec. 10 of Art. 2, that 'So person holding a lucra tive office or appointment under the United States or under this state shall be eligible to a seat in the legislative assembly; nor shall any person hold more than one lucrative office at the same time except as in this constitution ex pressly, permitted' I Further, un der Sec. 1, Art. Zi 'the powers of the government shall be ; divided into three separate departments legislative, -executive and' Judicial ; and no person charged with offi cial duties under one of these de partments shaH exercise any of the functions of another, except as is expressly provided." J 'Members of the fish commission receive no compensation for ser vices except a per diem of $5 for each member for every day in ac tual attendance at meetings of the commission or in execution of the duties of their position, It is point ed out by Secretary of State Ko-l zer. In no Instance, under the law shall any member of the fish com nikeion receive as salary or per diem a sum in excess of $200 in any one year, and the members of the commission shall be : allowed necessary traveling expenses, j i Secretary of State Kozer asks for a ruling on the duties of his office In regard to payment upon presentation 'of claims Incurred and approved by the fish commis sion yhere the name of A. G." Deals may appear or in the event a claim is presented by Senator Beals for per diem either in attendance at meetings or execution of the du ties of his office. : i CAILLAUX 70 GET ACTION FRENCH MINISTER OF FIANCE WILL FORCE APPROVAL :t PARIS, June 16 (By The As sociated Press) M. Caillaux, min ister finance informed the finance committee ot (he chamber of de puties today he was willing to fight the financial economic bat tle along his own lines if it took all summer. He neld out the threat of an uninterrupted session of parliament throughout the tor rid summer months ! unless i the ouagei was voiea oeiore me end, of June and his bill for the j; restoration oi me rencn irea Ji sury, included additional taxation of 3,000,000,000 franca was pass . ed. M. Caillaux intimated plainly that unless the chamber was dis posed to give the government Its confidence, he would give some . one elre the opportunity to work out France's financial salvation. MEXICO REMAINS FIRM CHANGE OF POLICY IS DENIED ; j. I JBY PRESIDENT CALLES , MEXICO CITY, June 16 (By The Associated Press). President . Calles in a statement Issued this evening said that Mexico would not modify her agrarian policy. : The statement was Issued to deny reports that Mexico intended to change these I policies because of JIl rwpnt ttalomfiiit nf 'Scrctrv : p'f State Kellogg"!' i ii t ' Hi , : "Modification of our agrarian policy," said the ; statement, 'would Imply repudiation of prin . ciples heretofore stated, as well as treason to their supporters.: The government's agrarian policy" is fcantloned by law and besides its satisfied the people's aspirations' Ten Percent of Remaining Indebt edness Is Now Being Paid ! Off Eat h Year The budget for ' school district No. 24 for 1924-25, compiled by W. H. Burghardt, clerk shows ex penditures of $646,910.63 and re ceipts amounting to $647,099.51 with a current indebtedness ot $3500 against $33,000 at the close of school a year ago. Amounts borrowed and later paid back swelled the, sums involved. Bonded Indebtedness of the dis trict at present is $384,650. Otfly $320,000 of the $500,000 bond is sued authorized two years ago has been expended leaving $180,000 that can be used .by the board without a new isue. The money spent was divided between the ad dition to the high school, $160, OOO and the new J. L. Parrish Junior high school, opened last fall, at a cost of $220,000. Ten percent of the indebtedness is being paid off at the rate of $22,000 on the Parrish building and $10,000 on the high school annex. In addition $10,000 Is be ing paid annually on old bonds, amounting to j approximately $100,000 at present. Excluding payments for borrow ed money, the total expenditures for educational purposes in Salem during the school year which Just closed amounted-to $449,785.63. The schools completed a highly satisfactory -year .with many sig nal honors won by students in a variety of activities, both scholas tic and athletic, j . CRIME SAID ADMITTED 4 WITNESS DECLARES DEFEND ANT CONFESSED MURDER TACOMA, Juni 16. (By Asso ciated Presa.) Lupori, coun tryman and former friend to Gino Spadoni on the witness stand In superior court this afternoon tes tified that on the day following the murder of -Harry Hellen on March 11, 1921, Spadoni admitted to him that he filled Hallen for discharging him (from hig job at the Griffin wheel; works, of which Hallen was assistant superintend ent. .The trial Of Spadoni on a charge of first degree murder for the Hallen crime! was begun yes Teats. terday by Covnoij On crose examination. Attorney S. A. Gagliardl, ho is defending Spadoni attempted to lay a foun dation to impeach Luponi as a wit- ness and also Detective E. J. Nix of the local police department who the stand. Nix preceded him on was In charge of he Investigation of the. Hallen murder from the time it occurred until Spadoni was taken Into custody in San Fran cisco early in the jspring. Following Lupqri on the stand was Camilla Lnpori, his wife, whose testimony in part tended to corroborate that given by her hus band.' ; ' , y' : Thomas F. Reagan, San Fran cisco police officer who arrested Spadoni in the hair city on a tel egraphed warrant) from Tacoma, was called to the tand and Iden tified a bowie knife, revolver. snotgnn, several leans of black powder and boxea of cartridges Spadoni's pos- mat were found In session ' at the arrested. ftime he was TRIP TO POL STARTED M'MILLAN GIVE FAREWELL BY NAVY SECRETARY j BOSTON, June 16. (By Asso ciated Press.) A word of fare well from Secretary of the Navy Wilbur to Commander Donald B. MacMillan who will set out from Boston tomorrow ; for Wiscasset, Me.- on the. first leg cf his ninth Journey Into the Arctic regions, was transmitted to the explorer tbday by Theodore D. Robinson, assistant secretary of the navy. It was: : " J j ,; 1 "Goodbye; good luck", and come back sa'tly." : OfLjf:,.. ,r;"" :. I As principal speaker at a lunch eon tendered to MacMulan by the Boston City club, I the assistant Secretary of the navy sald the MacMillan expedition had "fired his Imagination.0 "Most people think that the navy is a war institution only, but It is -something more" he said. "The navy is a - guarantee of a step' forward ; In every direction. We do not feel that we have sacri ficed : any of - our . personnel, ; for J Commander MacMillan has a fine record as a leader and a splen did knowledge of conditions in the Arctic "regions. I f We expect suc cess and a safe return for the en tire party, bat if they do not come back the navy will find them, with luck." - . meatfis of Other Women 'As sociates oemg investi gated by Officials WOMAN IS MENTIONED Female Accomplice to Wife Mur der Hinted at in Testimony; Young Is Now Indicted For Death ; I LOS ANGELES. June 16 Hy The Associated Press) A young and handsome woman, thought to be an accomplice to the murder of Mrs. Grace Young, widow of the late Patr :t Grogan, millionaire "olive king," to which her hus band, Dr. Thomas W. Young, den tist, confessed; a small for tune i.i bonds and jewels and an investigation Into alleged deaths of other women with whom Young Is said to have been associated, fcubstantited the angles on the prime on which investigators worked on the crime here today. While the tangled skein was be ing traced out, county grand jury Indicted Young for the murder of his wife, February 21, last, charg ing him with asphyxiating her with a lethal gas, dumping the body in a cistern beneath, their Beverly Glen cabin home and later sealing the crypt with .concrete, unwittingly mixed -by. the dead woman's 18 year old son, Patrick Grogan, Jr., heir to the Grogan fortune. . The accused man appeared for arrangement maintaining the calm attitude which marked his confes sion, identification of the woman's body and appearance before the grand jury, although he did not (Continued on pace 7) SUBMARINES DISPATCHED FLEET OF 16 CRAFT MAY BE SENT TO CHINESE WATERS ' HONOLULU, June 16. (By The Associated Press). The naYy submarine tender Beaver and 16 submarines Sailed today for Man ila to take the places of vessels which recently have left the Philippine Islands either for the mainland of the rmited States or for oriental stations. While officers admitted that the vessels might be dispatched to Chinese ports as the result of anti-foreign uprisings in China, it was said the future movements of the submarines would not be de termined until their arrival at Manila and then upon conditions as they then obtain in China. " - ' " ' ' J ' ' I i I (laT t wave i ZE REALBaalT ; Hir Five Oregon ian Will be Enrolled on Gallaudet College Ros ter in Fall Establishing what is declared to be an unusual record, four mem bers of the graduating class of eight at the state deaf school took, the entrance examination for Gallaudet college -In Washington, D. C., and all four were successful in , having their names enrolled for, the coming term. Oregon al ready has one student at the school, the ' only college for the deaf iu the world, and which of fers a five-year college course. Those gaining admittance to the. university are Hilda" Hughes of Salem, Theodore Brkkley of Brooks. Alice Campbell and Lois. Palmer, both of Portland. According to O. L- Mclntyre. superintendent of the deaf school, the; Oregon institution has set a record which is seldom equaled by any other state. Gallaudet col lege has an enrollment of approxi mately 200 students, or an aver age of about four for each state, leaving out of consideration the inequality of the division-of pop ulation. With five students from Oregon, this ranks as one of the highest in the education of the deaf. ' .; ' ' Under a new statute passed ly the last legislature, the state of Oregon appropriated $400 for the expense- of each student going to Gallaudet college for higher studies. SOIL PHYSICS DISCUSSED SCIENTISTS MEET IN PORT j LAND CONVENTION TODAY ( PORTLAND, June 16 The summer session of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in conjunction with the ninth annual convention ot the Pacific division of the organiza tion open formally hero tomorrow. Several hundred delegates, prom inent in scientific realms will at tend. ..- ; TiTe western society of soil man agement and plant nutrition held its- sessions .today bot-tnls was I ' I , i . . i omy a preliminary Bea&iuu uuu ia In advance of the scheduled busi ness. ' Sessioas opened with fne presentation of a series of seven papers dealing with soil physics. Nine papers on the subject of plant nutrition comprised .the af ternoon program. The annual banquet and business meeting of the society was held lonight. WHITNEY LEADS RACE NEWARK, N. J., June 16 Re out of 2.776 in the state for tne turns from 1,6"7 2 election districts republican nomination for gover nor give: Doremus 25.442T; Mc pran 56,213; Whitney 72,567. WE'RE FROM MISSOURI! Senator McNary Says Oregon Conld Forego Appropriation if Tax Possible While congress was generous in the amount appropriated to assist in the development of Oregon, this was no more than right for nearly one-half of tba area of the state is controlled by the government which deprives the' state of any revenue from I taxation. United States Senator Charles L. McNary said Tuesday, Senator MeNary has just returned, from Washing ton, D. Q. "It the people of Oregon could tax its largest ' land owner, the federal government, in my opinion they would be willing to forego the aid they now; receive, which Is tar less than the state and coun ties would receive if the land was under private ownership and, of course, subject to the .burden of taxation," Senator McNary stated. Failure of the government to proceed with the submarine base at Tongue Point has not been fair to Clatsop county. Senator Mc Nary said. Continuous appeals to the navy department will, eventu ally, bring about the proposed construction, he believes. Clatsop county provided $100,000 for the base with the understanding that the government would spend in excess of $1,000,000 on the de velopment. Vice President Dawes is given credit for being sincere in his ef forts to have the senate revise its rules, but says that the senate has what is being sought, namely, a rule wbic,h ; does suppress debate when -once invoked. There can be no great issue created' out of bis desire to modify the rules. Sena tor McNary said. WRECK DELAYS TRAIN CRACK LIMITED DERAILED BY BROKEN WHEELS . HARRISBURG, Pa June 16.- A cylinder head, blown from the locomotive of the Broadway 11m- l ited westbound Pennsylvania rail road express tonight derailed the pony wheels of the Quaker City express, : eastbound, as the fliers were passing each other at Shaw nee, two miles east of Lewiston. The cylinder head struck tho pony wheels and forced them from the track, bnt the driving wheels of the Quaker City's en glne were not derailed. The fen der of the locomotive, however, dropped to the roadbed and tore into the ties between the rails The Quaker City express was de layed more than two hours until a wrecking crew repaired the damage. The Broadway limited was held up I for more, than an hour until a new" engine arrived ESTATE WILL BE SPLIT Legacy Left to William Shepherd by" "Millionaire Orphan Is ' to be Contested in Court , by Heirs . CHICAGO. June- 16. (By the Associated Press.) William Darl ing Shepherd's trial for the mur der of William Nelson McCljntock. Is the precursor of a suit to break the youth's will which made Shep herd -a millionaire. Miss Isa belle Pope, who was affianced to the "orphan millionaire," admitted on cross examination today. The slender, young . brunette, who waited with a marriage license while "Billy" died, testi fied she had agreed with Iowa, cousins of the boy's mother to' divide the estate 50-50 In the event the will were broken. -V Mrs.. Julie Shepherd, for 16 years young McClintock's foster mother was considered In the agreement. Miss Pope naively ad mitted, because it was not believed that she was "implicated in this." The portion which would be set aside for the woman who mother ed the boy but was not mentioned in his will would be a tenth, of $100,000. Except, for an $8,000 annuity to Miss Pope, the entire estate was willed to Shepherd. Completing her direct testimony Miss Pope talked again of Ithe change in the Shepherds' attitude toward, her after they learned of her engagement tq be married to "Billy." told of Shepherd having informed her he had studied about "typhoid and germs," an testi fied of others in the party at which young McCHntock Is held by the defense to have eaten typhoid-carrying oysters, suffered no ill effects. , -. Upon -roe examination the young woman identified passages in numerous letters she had writ ten, to "Billy" in which she said that she was enjoying visits with the Shepherds and that they were "darling" to her. Later Miss Pope admitted the Shepherds had remarked that up on her marriage to "Billy" they would gain a daughter, and not lose a son; that Mrs. Shepherd had telephoned her an acknowl edgement of the betrothal an nouncement. : William Scott Stewart, chief of defense counsel, sought to show Miss Pope testified at the inquest that Shepherd had talked only of his study of typhoid and that his interest in typhoid had been aroused by the participation of his brother, a physician in the typhoid epidemic, during the Spanish-American war. - During the reading of portions of her love letters to Billy. Miss Pope was near tears this after noon, but regained her composure and continued to answer questions In a smooth, low tone. ; MACCABEE TOUR TO END LADIES AND KNIGHTS GATHER IN SALEM JUNE SO The conclusion of the great Mac cabee Auto campaign for Oregon will be held at the , state fair grounds in Salem on Saturday, June 20, when Ladies and Sir Knights will gather from all over Oregon in a big picnic and public initiation. A class of 50 candi dates will receive the full degree work exemplified by the teams of Tents No. 1 and No. 17 or Port land. Over 20 of the candidates will be furnished by Santiam Tent No. 90 or Mill City. I The lunch will be served at 6 p. m. and is free to all in attend ance and wilt- be held over for those unable to arrive early. At 7 p.m. a parade led by the state training school band will be given over the leading streets of Salem and will be participated in by the degree teams and the lady guards from Portland followed by the at tendant autos. . At 8:$0 the Ini tiation will be held open to all in attendance and the degrees will be conferred in the very beet pos sible manner in the spacious audi torium of the stadium. Preceding the degree work the Rose City Guards will give their famous drill which was one of the outstanding features of the recent state vention of the ladles In Portland. woman vmm VOTES LOWELL, Mass., June 16 Mrs, Edith Nourse- Rogers, .widow ot John Jacob- Rogers, was over whelmingly nominated to succeed him In congress In a spetial pri mary' election neld today.-' Not to Chinee Embassy is Not Now Contemplated by US Department WASHINGTON. June le.' (By Associated Press.) -Continued un easiness over the security of for eigners in China was manifest la the summary of official advice made public at the etate depart ment today but no case of an at tack on American citizens has yet been reported requiring action by the Washington authorities. , On the contrary a report from Charge Mayer at Peking that rep resentatives of Chinese student groups had requested American assistance in seeing that Justice was done in that case, inclined of ficials to 1 Increased hopefulness that the anti-foreign outbreak would not develop into a move ment which threatened American lives. There was no word avail able here to show the Chinese sit uation had engaged the" attention of the cabinet extensively at its meeting today. It was said at the department that no note to the Chinese provisional government In Peking was contemplated. In the absence of direct word from cab inet circles, however, a telegram made public by Chairman Borah of the senate foreign -relations committee, declaring he favored "withdrawal of extra territorial rights in China as epeedily as prac ticable" took on special signifi cance. - ;The telegram which was a reply to a -protest from an American cit izen whose name the senator did not disclose stated that, serious as the situation in Cbin might be, it did not arise from "acts or prom ises of the United States," and that he ea w no reason-why the Washington government should be drawn into controversies of other powers or with the Chinese auth orities or people. Mr. Borah's attitude was regard ed in some quarters as represent ing the views of the, administra tion. . ' State department officials were disinclined to comment on the sen ator's views aa to-extra territor iality in the absence of more com plete understanding which he in tended to suggest. It la recalled, however, that Jacob Gould Schurman, in an ad dress some months ago to an Am erican commercial body In Tien tsin, while he was minister to China, drew critical rejoiners from certain American groups in China by urging that ICj should be pos sible to relinquish special rights if that nation adopted a modern ized Judicial code which foreign ers could understand. ! 1 - ' The chief difficulty about the present Chinese situation,! other than the menace of a "possible event pressing against foreigners, is that the student movement for revoking the special treatyrights iof j foreigners is not based on a Constructive campaign of stabiliza tion of government and legal prac tices. GANGSTERS OPEN : WAR OFFICER IS FIKED ON IN COR RIDOR OP CITY HALL CHICAGO. June 16. (By The Associated Press), Warfara" be tween Chicago gangsters and Chi cago policemen which started last week with the' shooting of five policemen, tonight was ; carried into the city hall when an un identified man ' appeared ,at the office of Robert E. Crowe, state's attorney, and fired pointblank at Sergeant Elbert Curran, attached to the State's attorney's staff. Curran was sot nit and the man escaped after ' Curran liad fired several shots at him as he fled. , y:t . ;? ; v;-:m i A few minutes afterward, every door In the county, building was guarded ; and for an hour gun squads searched the building for the man. f Yesterday Sergeant' Curran re ceived a telephone' call from a. man who, in broken Englisn, said Sergeant William Sweeney; -the policeman who shot and killed Micnale Genna; notorious gang ster, last Saturday , after GeonaV gang nad shot two policemen and wounded a third, would b killed tomorrow. ... HI A Y DEPORT CHINESE 25 SAILOIS QUESTIONED BY i EkOnGRATIOX OlI IC'URS' ! it , 4i TACOMA, June 16. Twenty- five Chinese ''sailors Trnm the coh-'steamei?Clty,otVancoHTerare iri the city Jail tonight awaiting de cision irom Immigration authori ties on their status" after attempt ing to leave the ship today." " They declared that they 'bad 'signed for 1 8 months and that they wonid not go: back to the ship unless . their monthly salary of $12 In Ameri can .money 'was Increased. Four Passenger Co ach e's; .Filled With Immigrants : ! Pile Up in Divide 1 SLIDE COVERS TRACKS Passengers on Way to Visit Xatlve . Land Meet Death in Terrible Smashup; Cars ; Telru.opel HACKETTSTOWNV N. J.. June 16.-- (B The Associated Press). Thirty five are dead, 33 Id a critical condition and at least. 35 more are suffering from Injuries received early today when four cars and " the engine of a seven car special train on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad were derailed and piled up on one another at -Rockport Sag, two miles 'west of here. ".. One hundred and eighty two persons, immigrants of a former day, who, had become prosperous In the great corn belt, on their way to visit home lands across the sea, were on the train. A violent thunderstorm washed gravel over the tracks at the Rockport crossing into which, the train plunged, as it gained momenv turn for -the rise ahead. Two day coaches and a Pull man were piled up on top of the engine as it toppled over when it struck a- switch after, plowing over ties. One other Pullman car was derailed and three remained upright. . By automobile, special train and ambulance the Injured were takoa to hospitals at EaBton, Penn., Philipsburg, Mprristown and Dov er, N. - J. The -homes of all except the train crew are In Chicago and vi cinity. Awakened by the crash, Mrs. I Duncan Dunn, who live! about' 500 yards distant, commu nicated with Hackettstown over badly crippled wires, arousing physicians who in turn sent emer gehcy calls to surrounding hos pitals. ; Jr E ASTON, penn., June 16. (By The Associated Press). Two sep arate investigations were under way tonightmto the wreck of the Deleware, Lackawanna & Western railroad near Hackettstown today, causing 35 deaths. Coroner WIN liaml Fisher of Philipsburg em panelled a jury and Immediately started holding an inquest while the second investigation was start ed by Prosecutor C. Smith, Jr., ot Philipsburg. Mr. Smith said ha would await the report of his in vestigators and that If it was shown that there was no criminal negligence no action would bs taken by his office. . -The wreck-occurred at the far A of the New Jersey game commis sion about three miles from. Hack-, ettstown on the Rockport-Beattys-town.road. . It is said to have been caused by. a slide of gravel -and: clay : washed down from the hill sides during a severe thunder storm on the railroad track near a switch point, ' When the . giant locomotive drawing 10 steel cars struck the debris, the pony wheels jumped the Vails and ran over the ties for about 200 feet. , Then they en countered the frog of a cross over switch and the engine continued to rumble along. Three hundred feet farther on the locomotive left the rails and fell over on Its side. Three cars following were smash-: ed up. Aa the locomotive boiler ripped, steam rushed oat of the fissure and into a wrecked car that lay atop it. It was in this car that most of the passengers received" their serious or fatal injuries. MAY AID CAMP LEWIS APPROPRIATION OF SIX 3IIL LION DOLLARS EXPECTED SEATTLE, June 6. Camp Lewis would be alloted approxi mately, $6, 0Q0.00O if a new array housing bill under consideration by congress is passed Brigadier General Albert C. Dalton declared here today. ; "Camp Lewis . will probably be the largest army post inthe Unit ed States under, the new housing plan now' before congress," gen eral Dalton said. The-fem Involves a. total appropriation of $80,000, 000 he said, ' - General -Dalton Inspected -'the camp earlier in the day. CANTONESE ARE VICTOHS -CANTON, June. 16 Fitting between the victorious Cantonese troops and the defeated Yunnan-' ese. who were forced to give up possession of the city has come to an end but looting continues.