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SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON,4 SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1925 i PRICE FIVE CENTS NEARLY 300 DIPLOMAS ARE PRESENTED! TODAY SHEPHERD DEFENSE: TINY ACTIVE OBJECTS 20TH CENTJJ R Y PI RATES ANNUAL S.S. PICNIC ! SIMM UPHELD li DEMANDING ATTENTION ARE SENTENCED TO HANG PLANS ARE COMPLETE WOn BY EXPLORERS COUNSEL OPEN CASE oil suit wm EIGHTH GRADE GRADUATES OF COUNTY GATHERING PLANT OR ANIMAL ORIGIN HIJACKERS MUST PAY PEN EVERYTHING IS IN READINESS NOW BEING DEBATED ALTY FOR MURDER AT FAIR GROUNDS f 1 SJlLEMTOBEIIOuT TO150IIWO0DW1EFJ Local Lodge Will Hold Giant State-Wide Initiation Here on June 27 Sto r y of Amundsen-EIIs-WOrth Expedition Is Tolcf f By Party Journalist WEEKS ON ICE SEVERE Hardships and Suffering Under gone by ' Polar Explorers ; t Ellsworth, American, Is , ( Hero of Trip OSLO, June 19. (By Associat ed Press. The Dagbladat, in its , noon edition today, printed a non- . copyright story outlining some of the experiences of the 'Amundsen north pole expedition. The news paper said the story was based on '. messages from the expedition's '.Journalist. : K; "."-:!' "In narrating their story on ar riving at King's bay," says the Dagbladet, "the fliers, all of whom looked worn and thin from suf fering, said their weeks upon the - ice was, like a fight with death. '.Amundsen: will later narrate this. Now he mentions that mem bers of the expedition were separ ated for a while and that Leif , Dietrichsen (Norwegian pilot of one of the planes) and Oskar Om- dahl (Norwegian mechanician! i v, noiar nnd were lust ICH IU 1UO " M. . v - saved from drowning by Lincoln Ellsworth. Meanwhile Amundsen and Hjalmar Nisser-Larsen lor wegian plane pilot) were on the other side of the plane. They heard them scream, but were un able to help, as thin ice prevented using the canvas boat.' ; Regarding the picking up of the members of the expedition by the fishing boat; Sjoeliv. .which brought them to King's bay, the Dagbladefs story says: ..j. "Th. fishine boat Sjoeliv is a small cutter of 12 tons with a crew of nine men. - er capvajn is Nils Wollan. The vessel had had a poor eaten and was hunting for a wounded walrus. When, off Huggle bay, on the north side of Spitsbergen, the crew heard mo tors purring ana aiscucu lirplane ten kilometers away; "They at. first thought it was an irplane from the patrol expe dition, but when it neared they immediately recognized. Amundsen In spite of bis long beard. "The explorers all quickly got aboard the Sjoeliv and crowded into the small berths. "There was not much food foT seal, beef, cider tv, hawser towing the SHU C66a- plane broke once, but a new one ' held. , . . . As Amundsen was told that the patrol expedition , was ready to leave King's bay, he decided to make for King's bay as . fast as possible and leave the plane Wollan says this was the greaiesi catch he had made in his 15 years experience In the regions." The Dagbladet also prints, the following account of the arrival of the expedition in King's bay with out claim of copyright: "When it was rumored at King's bay that the Heimdal (the Nor wegian government's Amundsen relief ship) was to clear for Dane island at 10 o'clock in the eve ning, many people went tothep to watch her departure .The mid night sun's rays penetrated the light clouds. "Out In the f lord, a small vessel was noted making for King's bay with manjr persons on deck. Aboard the Heimdal the Rob by (another relief expedition ves- HEW HEAT RECORD IS SET 3LXI.OP DEGREES IS Setting a record for heat this year, the thermometer touched 88 degrees Friday, and remained there for three hours, giving-Sa-i.m- Aftnio the first intimation that summer is here. The pre vious high mark was set si month when: a temperature of 87 i was registered. The minimum for ''. yesterday was 52. With the change in weather con ditions, Salem business offices are preparing for the Is it warm enough for you today" pest. Var ious forms of extermination of the critter have been passed on and approved. With prospects of ': a perfect week-end, from a meteorological point of view, iundreds" of pic nickers are planning trips. "Ex cursions to fishing streams and watering places will be made by many Salem people. Reports of large catches of fish are coming in from the mountain streams. YAKIMA, June 19. Today was the hottest day of the year here, with the thermometer registering &5 degres late this afternoon. Increase of CO Over Last- Year Is Shown; i Program i Will Re Held In Salem The Marion county eighth grade commencement exercises will be held this afternoon at ',2 o'clock in the Salem high school auditor ium. It is expected that approxi mately 300 children will be pres ent to receive diplomas,, jj Mary L. Fulkerson, county school superin tendent, will make ; the presenta tions, j a.-- -1 i j.ri ; j f For the past I four years, the group .commencement! has been held in Salem, with! a large num ber of the schools. in the county sending their eighth grade gradu ates here to receive jthfir certifi cates. In some schools,! in distant sections of the countyj however, private graduation i (exercises are held. I ti This . year I a total j of; over SO 0 eighth grade diplomas lhave been issued by the school; superintend ent's office. This is an increase of about 60 over j last'j jjear. ' j II. F. Durham; principal of the J. L. Parrish junior high school. will ' speak Ion ''Why Everybody Should Be Educated."; j The invo cation will be read by ;Rev. T. C Taylor, pastor of the First Metho dist church of Salem.' !j Miss Lena Belle , Tartar will lead ;in the na tlonal anthem, accompanied by the Salem high school orchestra. Piano selections by Claudia Lewis, and violin selections by jWJma Cours ey and Margaret Kaster : will be heard. Thelma Davis will sing. The presentation! ' of diplomas will be made by Mary L. Fulker son, county school superintendent TERRITORY TO BE HELD M'MIIXAN TOLD TC PLANT U. 1 j S. FLAG AT- POLE I !1 SOUTHPORT, 1 Me.; June 1 9.- ( By Associated Press. )i Governor Ralph O. Brewster; f; Maine to night authorized Donald B. Mac Millan, who sails , for j the Arctic tomorrow, j to ' claim! any territory he may discover inj thie polar re gions for the State! of; Maine. He made this announcement at a dinner in honor of; tlhe explorer which was attended by many per sons prominent in state and na tional affairs. ; f j : : ; Governor Brewster himself ar ranged for the dinner jand in view of the recent press i dispatches an nouncing ward the Canada's attitude to- United States in the matter of claiming any territory discovered by. the MacMillan ex pedition, his announcement was heralded with keen interest ; "By the well settled principles of' International: law,'!' said Gov ernor Brewster, ''disebvery is the primary incident In a claim for any, land,) If question shall arise as to its title ampiie 'constitutional provision is made for its determin ation, by the constitution. DRUG VESSEL VANISHES SHIP WITH CARGO; OF f I.OOO, OOO IX NAR(X)TICS GONE ! VANCOUVER, B- C June 19. Wholesale narcotic drug trafrick ers, baffled by strict guard on the Atlantic coast, are turning their attention te the Pacific, Vancouver police and customs officials de clared today. Three weeks ago a ship said to be carrying a narcotic cargo valued at $1,000,000 ap peared off the west Coast of Van couver.. Island and suddenly van ished, 'officers revealed, jit has not been established whether, or not the cargo was landed and a close watch has been detailed to cover the whole cbast linej i Men believed to be agents of an eastern Canadian drug ring are under surveillance. It was said, i PATIENT TOO TALKATIVE MOTORIST REFUSES TO LET INMATE RIDE IN CAR M .. Because Oscar Johnson, 42, 1 a patient at the state hospital, ailed to keep his' identity to himself he lost out on a ride to Portland Fri day, according to word received from a tourist by Dr. R." E. Lee Steiner, s superintendent of the state hospital, j i Johnson was walking up the highway near Woodburn when he was given a ride by a passing mo torist. He told who he was and from whence he had come. The result was that ! Johnson found himself on foot ion the highway again. ; i j ! . Johnson was & - dining, room trusty and harmlcssi He Is 5 feet 5 Inches tall, weighs 140 pounds and has blue eyes.; He was re ceived from Astoria, Defendant Himself Is Ex pected to Take Witness Stand on Monday FOUR. WITNESSES CALLED State Rests Following Cross-Ex- amlnation of Faiman; De- ' fense Tries to Incrim inate Witness CHICAGO, June lf. (By As sociated Press.) The defense of William Darling Shepherd began presenting its case today with the expressed ''intention to climax it Monday v h the testimony of the defendant himself. Pour defense witnesses were called before an early adjourn ment v.n taken to permit the trial judge, Thomas' J.. Lynch, to attend a meeting of the Cook county judges, at which he was elected chief Justice. ; : J The state rested its case shortly after noon with the completion of frnsa examination of Charles C. Faiman. upon whose direct testi mony the state relies to establish the corous delicti. He testified giving Shepherd typhoid baccili. later learned thev were wanted to slao William Nelson McClintock and exacted a promise of $100,000 from the defendant. Faiman, un der cross examination admitted he was 'mixed up in numerous accu sations involving Shepherd - and that he had made several false statements. Though the defense attempted tn make him annear ludicrous.! he had not retracted any statements incriminating Shepherd when he left the stand. J Arthur T- Conway defense wit ness who admitted he had served a penitentiary sentence, testified Faiman's reputation for veracity was very bad. Two others attacked the story of Faiman and of John P. March and. former representative of Fal man's school, that Shepherd had written a letter to the school in nnli-tnsr iihnii t a pnn rn in criminal bacteriology. Their story was re futed bv Miss Eva Peterson. Shep herd's stenographer, and Miss Isa- bell Anderson, formerly employed by Stoll and Shepherd, the firm of which the defendant formerly was a member. The statement of Miss Isabelle Pope, finances of Billy , McClin- tock, that Shepherd had told her he had studied "typhoid and germs' was refuted by W. J. Mit chell, a court reporter at the cor oner's inquest, l "In any part of her testimony at the Inquest did she use- the word (Continued on pace 4) A MUCH NEEDED "BULL" IN. THE Experts at OAO Admit They Are Uaffled; Discovered on Fair-. : view Property, - Contenders to the fame of the jumping Mexican beans are on ex hibition at the Fitts market. Resembling the mustard seed In size and general appearance, the tiny objects are nervous, roll around and bob up into the air at will. Samples sent to OAC were returned without word of their origin or geneology and the spe cialists admit that they are baffiea. Samples have been forwarded to Portland. Whether animal or plant is de batable, but under a microscope the objects appear to toe small eggs. Each lies dormant lor a very short time then all at once it becomes agitated and hops Into the air for perhaps half an inch. The objects were found on the ground in a small wooded tract an the farm of Mrs. T. A. - Ditmar, near Fairview, who discovered them about four days ago. i So far nothing has happened to the objects. If eggs they have hot yet hatched and if plant, no one has planted them to learn What fruit, if any, they bear. The tiny spheres are on a plate in the window at the market and attract the attention of passersby. SALEM POST WINS $150 AWARDED FIRST IN PORT- j LAXDyFESTlVAI EVENT; ( Though it proved, to be a long, long trail and a warm one, the drum and bugle corps of Capitol post No. 9, American legion, hiked it inrougn to nrst place and a cash prize of $150 in competition with i eeven other legion drum corps" at the Rose festival In Port land Friday. McMinnville was second and Hood River third. Capitol post entered 28 music ians in the event, with Karl Hing es as drum major. Cheered with the heavy purse, which was badly needed to help finance the trip to the state convention at Prinevllle next week, the local post expects to take another first prize In east ern Oregon. JEFFERSON MAN INJURED RALPH WALLING RECEIVES BROKEN BACK IN FALL : Ralph WalKng. of Jefferson, re ceived a broken back Friday when he fell from a box car at the Hill- man Fuel company yards. Wall ing was taken to the Salem hos pital. A medical examination re vealed that two bones in his back were broken. He has been placed in a plaster cast and unless com plications develop, has an excel I lent chance to recover., Attack on the Liquor Vessel and Fatal Shooting Brings Death Sentence . VICTORIA. B. C. June 19. Pirates of the latest type hijack ers -Owen B. Baker and Harry F. Sowash, who In the final hours of a trial that opened Monday desert ed one another and each told a story to save his own life, were convicted in an hour here today, They were forthwith sentenced to hang September 4 for attacking the rUm runner Beryl G, in the night, beating, and shooting the crew of two to death, and sinking the bodies in Haro strait, near Victoria, just this side of tho Am erican boundary. The bodies of the victims, Wil liam G. Gillis and, his son, Wil liam E., were hot recovered, and one lone witness, Paul Stromkins, boatman of this city, who turned crown's evidence and obtained l's- mlssal ot a murder charge against himself, assured the jury that the Gillises had been slain in a sur prise attack before the Beryl G was looted of hor $35,000 liquor cargo and turned adrift. Justice Morrison's charge to the Jury warned them against "senti mental rubbish." He remarked that bootleggers Baker and So- wash, former convicts, admitted that they had engaged extensively in the liquor traffic from British Columbia to the United States "are men who violate the laws of their own country and of any other country involved." He .ex horted the deliberators to "be cold blooded." r . SHIP ACTION URGED SAN FRANCISCO, June 19 (By Associated Press.) The ship ping strike. ; which has tied up some coastal and river steamers at Shanghai and has so seriously in jured business generally that the Chinese chamber of commerce there has proposed that it be called off, has now spread to' the British colony of Hong Kong in the south,' stopping the regular service between, that port Canton and-Maco. . , t THOUSANDS SEE PAGEANT , PORTLAND, June 19. Port land's Rose festival closed here tonight with a final production of the allegorical pageant Rosa ria," before an audience of several thousand j persons. In the after noon thousands of persons crowd ed the down town streets to wit ness" the "Merrykhana" parade. SNORES COST $10 , SALT LAKE CITY, June 19. Attorney William Newton went to sleep and snored in City Judge Galen S. Young's court today and was bailed for contempt. A fine of $10 was assessed. Mr. Newton was waiting for a case, in which he was counsel, to be called when he dozed off. CHINA SHOP 100 CAMPS WILL VISIT Membership of Salem Camp Now 825; Entertainment Last Night Much Enjoyed By Candidates? . Preliminary plans were complet ed at a meeting of . the Salem camp of Woodman ot the -World last night for the entertainment of 100 camps bringing between 1000 and 1500 delegates to a state-wide initiation to be held at the sta dium at the state fairgrounds Sat urday, June 27.' The visitors will be the guests of. the local camp. In addition to the large delega tion, head camp officers rrom the nine western states having head quarters in Denver are expected to be present. . Thirty-one applications, for membership were acted upon last night, bringing the total number ot new members to 175 during the last three months. The member ship of the Salem camp is now 825. Following the regular business session, the Neighbors of Wood craft were, invited, for a social hour and entertainment. Selections by the Circle, including vocal and in strumental; were given -while sev eral readings were offered. Two short plays i were presented by a group from the St. Paul Episcopal church. . These wene: "Ain't Women Wonderful, and "Consid-! erable Courtship." The uniformed drill team from the Neighbors of Woodcraft gave an excellent exhibition. They wore their new uniforms for the first time and wil appear in Portland next week at the head camp ses sion. . r- AMOTHER REVENUE CUT GROSS, EARNINGS TAX RE CEIPTS SLASHED $40,000 Estimated receipts of $80,000 per biennium for the public serv Ice commission from the gross earnings tax on public utilities and railroads .was cut nearly In two Friday by am opinion of I. II. Van Winkle, attorney general, who holds that the tax applies only to purely intrastate business and that any Income of the utilities from In terstate business in Oregon can not be taxed. To attempt to col lect such a4 tax, it is held, would be in violation to the federal con stitution. I' The public service commission has collected $26,051 to date but it so happens that only a small portion of this will be refunded under the ruling of the attorney general. THREE DEATH TRIES FAIL HOMESICK GIRL : ATTEMPTS SUICIDE FOR THREE DAYS SEATTLE. June 19 Miss Tina Fleming walked Into her home at Nlpawin, Sask.. Wednesday nleht with pistol wounds in her head and her side below the heart and said that she had failed to kill her self in three trys. stated a Cana dian Press dispatch received here today from1 Saskatoon. Sask. Miss-Fleming, declared she de cided to shoot herself Tuesday mgnt because she had not heard from her people In'. Scotland for long time. She walked into a field ninety yards distant, she asserted ana snot herself In the side. She lay unconscious until morning when she came to nii immDtisfat shot herself in the head, the wounaea gin continued. A rain revived her-Wednesday night, she 6ald, and she tried to shoot her self thrice more but the gun would not discharge and she went hom A doctor stated that she might re cover. t MATTRESS FACTORY BURNS , . SEATTLE, June 19. -Fire be- uevea to have started from a spark in a. silk picking machine did about $78,000 damage to the plant of the , Western Mattress company, here tonight, officials the company estimated., - POULTRY HEAD NA3D3I) of YAKIMA. Wash.. June 19: - E. Mitchell of Spokane has been appointed superintendent of the poultry department of the Wash ington state fair for this fall and C. A. Greenfield of Butte. Mont has consented to serve as poultry judge, according to A. E. Lawson secretary. Representatives of Every. District. In County Are Expected to Bo Present With representatives from every district In the county Invited to be , present, the annual Marion County Sunday school picnic will be held today at the Fairgrounds.! Registrations will open at 10 o'clock. Dr. Fred E. Brown will preside at the meeting, with Fred Lpckley, of Portland, the prin cipal speaker of the day; Fred De Vries, of Pratum has charge of the program. Although no parade will be held this year, other features are sched uled which, will compensate for the elimination of that event. Children's games will be held in the afternoon, under ihd direction of iBob Boardman and Mary Find- ley. ,,Ben Kimler and H. E. Bar rett will officiate at the games fori the older people. Lunch will be held at 12 o'clock, after which, the program will be offered. Talks from workers. prominent in child: welfare in the county will .be given, and- prob lems, concerning the child and the church will be discussed. A record attendance is expected this .year, according to the number who have filed their intention qf being present. Favorable weather conditions will permit holding al the games and events out of doors. RAIL BRANCH IS PLANNED SOUTHERN PACIFIC TO. BUILD IN KLAMATH FALLS ..( SAN FRANCISCO, June 19. (By .Associated Press.) The Southern Pacific company, today forwarded to the, interstate com merce commission an application on behalf of the Central Paciflo railway, a proprietary company, for authority to construct and ex tend' a line of railroad from a noint of connection with the ex isting line at Klamath Falls, Ore., about 40 miles in a southeasterly direction through Merrill and near Malm. Ore.v-to CornelT." Call it was announced by .Yillim Sproule, president of the Southern Pacific. i ma is another step in the Southern Pacific company's devel opment program," Mrs. Sproule said, "which was stopped by law salts involving the Central Pa cific, compelling the company to hold in abeyance its plans which are the construction of a standard 'gauge railroad connection to the Klamath1 Falls region and the Cen. tral Pacific mainline across Ne vada so as to provide a direct rail route between the. northwest and the inter-mountain region, and also between Southern Oregon and the. east with such branches and feeders aa may be neceesarv to give service to the public? ' Rights of way for about 20 miles of (the proposed route, already ac quired in the' name of. the Modoc Northern Railway company, have been transferred to, the Central Pacific, it was stated. 1 y , BRYAN GIVES STATEMENT FREE SPEECH NOT DISCUSSED IN EVOLUTION TRIAL ATLANTA, Ga., June 19. The state of Tennessee expects to sus tain the law prohibiting the teach ing of evolution In public schools of the state and- is prepared to meet any attacks that may be made against it, William Jennings Bryan said in a statement to news papermen here today, after a con sultation with attorneys for "the prosecution of John T. Scopes for violation of the law As the consultation was being concluded, newespapermen. who had been excluded, were called in to the room and Mr. Bryan issued a formal statement. Mr.' Bryan defined the state ment as an elaborate "attemnt to say nothing," and other attorneys tor iub owie agreea wiiD nim that plans of the prosecution could not kbe revealed now. Mr. Bryan defined the case, as one In which only the right of the state to control the schools it cre ates and supports, and .the right of parents to guide the religious welfare of their children, while- in school were involved. "The mistaken idea that the right of free speech and religious liberty was Involved has been con celved," he said. "These, how ever,. have nothing to do with the case. I would defend the Indivi dual right to free speech and lib erty of conscience against any, as sault in any state in the union. "The recent decision In the Ore gon school cases would seem' affirm both the right of the state to control the schools it creates and the right of parents to euard the, religious welfare of their chil dren while In school. "If the people are not to. con Itrol the schools, who shall?" United States District Judgo Declares. Teapot Dome Lease Is Legal GOVERNMENT TO APPEAL Every Act In Process Completely Upheld in Court; -Charges Y Against Fall Lost in Decision; V CHENEY. Wash- June 19 Teapot Dome rightfully belongs to Hiirrr V: Sinclair's Uammonth OH company, T. Blake Kennedy, Unit ed States , district attorney, . an nounced after tho decision that an ppeal would be taken.. Judge Kennedy's . decision con tained the following rulings: That the executive order signed May 31, 1921, by President Ilard-ina- transferrins, the naval oil re serves from the jurisdiction of tho navy department to that. of the in terior, department, was legal and not obtained from the chief execu tive by fraud. . . ' That an act of congress of June . 1920, under which the lease and other negotiations were consum mated, clothed' the secretary of the navy with full power to do every thing that was done In negotiating the naval oil leases. That the "loan" of $25,000 by Sinclair to Fall in June, 1923, was a "suspicious circumstance," but that the. ready explanation eiven by Sinclair's attorney, J. W. Zevley to a senate Investigating commit tee and the lack of evidence that any attempt at secrecy was made over the transaction gave it the badge of a legitimate transaction. ; inai me government s allega tions of fraud had not been sus tained. : That . the "collateral transactions" involved in the case -the mysterious high financing carried on by the Continental Trading company of Toronto head ed by IL a. Osier, with certain American oil companies, including the Midwest Oil company, the Sin clair crude oil purchasing ". com pany, the Prairie Oil company and A. E. Humphreys, independent op erator, could not, from the evi dence, be stamped judicially as evidence ot conspiracy involving Fall. That in carrying out the provi sions of the act ot June 1920, then secretary of the navy, Edwin Denby, didTiot usurp the Dowers of congress as alleged by the eov- ernment That the evidence introduced re garding Fall's hank accounts , in the government's attempt to prove conspiracy and. fraud did not link the former Interior secretary with any unlawful dealings with Sin clair. ( .This evidence was stricken from the record. ' That congress may delegate how to executive branches of the gov ernment to. handle government property "in an unrestricted way, and in accordance with a vested discretion." - ? That Former Secretary Denby, Former Assistant : Secretary ot Navy Roosevelt. -Rea- a rfm i t K. Robison, chief of navy engineer ing, who acted as Dpnby's agent; E. C. Finney, former assistant sec retary of the Interior and H. Fos ter Bain and A. W. Ambrose of the federal bureau of mines "must be considered; as . absolved from any incriminating fault as to trad ulent motive", to their actions In connection wlththe negotiations, PRESCRIPTIONS FORGED PERMITS FOR OBTAINING NAIJ : . , COTICS SAD FALSE ,. .. '. YAKIMA, June 19 Federal agent and Yakima police today revealed an unsuccessful plan for the wholesale forgery of narcotics prescriptions in the Yakima valley when Tom J. Cronfn, alleged nar cotics addict, pleaded guilty be fore C. P. Rorberg; United States commissioner, to a charge of vio lating the Harrison narcotics act. Cronin'a bail bond was fixed at $1,800, and he was remanded to the county Jail. Police said that they began investigation of the case-a month ago when the arrest ed Cronin and found In his podket 60 ' undated prescriptions presum ably signed by a physician in Prosser. Federal agents were called In and Investigation proved the prescriptions were forged, 'of ficers said. . A . j KEX REttlVD DIES. " TEXARKANA. Texas. June 10. Mrs. , Rebecca Turner NorwooJ. 93, granddaughter of Franc! ? Scott - Key,-, author V;f f : '? Spangled Eanner, del Lc: t.- -.