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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST f. 1025 EJSEf IS BIB : FIB 0MB QDUTS All -Fighters Signing With ;vDem'ps'ey 'Before Wills' I'T Match Are Banned ' NEW YORK, Aug: 4.- Th6 bars . . rr ineiigioiuty, lowered against -Jack Denmsev far hi allerprf dila tory tactics In signing for a title match with Harry wills, were re 'mrorced by an added harried to ffay when the New York state ath letic commission ruled It would suspend 'any -boxer who -meets Eempsey before ..the., champion dsns articles of agreement and hosts a suitable forfeit for a match with Wills. i Flaying Dempsey's letter wrlt lag tactics as an Intentional eva sion of the Wills Issue. Chairman J'imeg Parley said the commission would "wash Us hands" of the 'whole situation until such a time P the champion or his legitimate Manager binds a match with Wills tfith a certified 'bond. "We cannot suspend Dempsey," declared Chairman Farley,' "as he feolds no license with this commis sion." We cannot declare the title .Tftcant because ; we .. haven't the Tower, but he is already on the ipejigible; list and will, remain so UJitil he signs for the Wills match ,lf we could declare the title Va cant we would. - .':lr:t ' 1.1 "We received his letter by air .. lane mail today but will Ignore 'li. .We will "answer neither his ltter nor hf litest wire. We are iot concerned with his personal -X fairs, but he Agreed to ! fight 'SViUs,' and -until -he takes some tjeps to bind this, match his status "With us wilt remain 'the saroe-- r-aroely. Ineligible. i HflH jh c "nowever. ,we have taken ' an additional jttep" to bring Dempsey fr terms, Anr boxer who fights tlempsey before the champion def initely binds himself to a match With Wills, will he promptly: bus trended ori declared ineligible by this commission..'' ;s;v;v.;.;.i;..pj .4 ""Thl$ ruling likely will be et- . Active in states where a working agreement exists; with this board JJassachuHetts, Connecticut and ..Pennsylvania fill have a working .agreement jith us." , Mickey Walker, '.world's weRer ' -weight chanifpion.f whose (tactics .in evading a match with Dave Shade, p'aces f jlnim in a ; similar trotegory with Dempsey, was not 'disciplined by the commission- to- day, desfcite; advance reports to the ontratr Walker's signed ,; agreement Uia( he will meet Shade on orbeforei Augusts stilt pn file with the commission, and the board ruled' that It would tak nn .Action' against, Walker until the expiration-- of the time limit for tthis mnch.:,-1 . . . r ..CHAMP: JbCKEY RESIGNS "VA ;PARK ONETIME' LEAD ;u' ' KlU HAH QVIT SADDLE f ciNClNNATt Aug. .By '-M-oclatcd .Press. ) Jockey Ivan iParke, at one tlme leading Amen ' icarf'rjder of thoroughored racers, lias rettred; It w,is learned here late today, -when Parke announced ' he was returning to his home at ' JJeclo, Idaho,' -where he has ;purf --chaaed a ranch." '''-.' V-1 "'. The ' little rider, ; who tor two years ted all Jockeys In this coun try' in the number of winner rid- "Chosen for First Attempt to Fly From U. S. to Hawaii Without Stop ! i r : t i' i t , ' .- .',.- ' ...'..(? ,rco UU; , j in w f in i . i iiMPsaWHsjsjwsjsjsjsjsaBa I 1 tr tj r; -3 t'.; ! f:?t? s tlrcr.:-?e. BASEBALL Bj Aftoriatd I'rs Pacific' . ' Seattle 6; Oakland 5. Salt Lake 6; Lo3, Angeles 1. San Francisco 9; Sacramento 0. Only three coast games played. ' American1 - - -' ' Philadelphia 9; Chicago 3. Washington 5; Detroit 2,,-' St. Louis 10;,, Boston 7. ! . New York 4; Cleveland 11 "' ' National " St. Louis 4i New' York 2. ' Philadelphia 8; : Pittsburgh 4. -Chicago 5; Rrooklyrt 2.- j OOnly : turee .'National league games. ' - . den; came here6 today Crom -Sara toga and announced tiVjw&s going to forsake the saddle. Increasing weight; was given as the reason for this decision. Lw'ir: t . ,. ,,' . f Parke, who Is- 19 years age. la under contract to James Rowe chief trainer for Harry Payne Whitney 1 l 1" - v CHANNEL SWIM IS LOST CIRL GIVES UP tVITHIX SHORT DISTAXCK OP KIIOHU DOVER, England, Aug. 4. (By Associated Press. Mlle Sion. the French girr swimmer, failed tonight In her effort to swim the English channel.-. Shewas within mile and'al Quarteit of, Dovej when she gave tip. Mile. Sion' was overcome by the low temperature of the water. :She was taken aboard the eiicorting tug; which turned about and start ed back for France. Although she failed in her ef fort, Mile. Sion set a: record for wtmen swimmers in the channel as the nearest one of the several members of her sex who have at tempted the feat has come to the English shore was five miles. Weather and water' conditions were favorable when Mile." Sion took her plunge at Cape Gri3-Nez at S: 10 o'clock this morningT , The sea, was unusually" calm. By mid-afternoon she had reached a point approximately' half way across the waterway, and early in the evening had thrashed her ay to within a point, five miles from the pier at Dover. The sea still remained calm, but adverse 'tides were holding back the swimmer. The .final effort brought her to within a mile and- a quarter of Dover, but' the TBshinsr tide and the coldness of the; water forced her to give up... She was pulled aboard- the y accompanying "tug which did not com into the pier here-, -but -put about, -and-r started back for France.-; . .,' -i VV I Mlleu Sionr left the water at 9i 0- ir."Tn."aTIng '"been '. swfm mingfor 13 hours and 30 minutes This , is a record : for submersion by women. . BODLOGNE. Aug. 4. (By As iociated Press. )-r-Tho British Col onel cieberg .'started from ,Capr Oris Ner at 8:25. p.-m. to swin the English channel. He will at tempt to lower the record .of En rique Tlrabocbl. who crossed thf channel In "1923 "ln.16 hours ', 3 minutes. , ; , ' G-RER. WIVS" MATCH; KANSAS CITY,; KANS.; Aug 4. -(By Associated ; Press. Harry Greb, middleweight.' cham p'ph of .the world, . knocked, out Ed Smith of Neodesha, Kans., i tne rourtn rouna or a scneauied 10-found bout here .tonight. it. ra tiers are prejrarirj tcale tie Crst at-' :1Z l;!rr:;a California ar.J Hawaii ia a rcn- rt Ittn clc::n t Cr it: thrte nary j!;-.;s At t:p: (L U r.) LtezU. What Are McGratv's Thoughts As He Reads About Rube's Work? ;X:: " J , vf . i i 1 j i ' I - ' : i 1 -4v4to ' I. . I : :; : v - - "v, -. , : i ? '"-''"' , ,".-''.1 . 5. ' - 'V : ' :- l -.v ; ;' .V : - 'V 1 V .JohnTHcGrajrls fighting wilbhisback to the wall to hold the .National league championship that has been his for four years. Lack of consistant pitching 'has hit his team hard. Meanwhile Rube Walbcrg, cast off by the Giants as a lad with no future, is unow one of Connie Mack's pitching "stars! : . STRIBLING DEFEATS; LEE t VTLANTA ROXKRGKTMKXOTK-! OVT.IN ; SKt'ONl) i:ouni - ; SALT LAKE CITY,. Utah. Aug. 4.(By Associated PreBS.) Will iam L. "Young" Stribling of At lanta, Ca knocked out Johnny Lee of Chicago, in , the second i-ound ". of a schexluled 10 "round i&at here tonight. Stribling weigh ed -,1 7 V4,,AOd. Lee 1 9 S.lA ... . 4 k Lee went down for the count of nine in the firit round and a long ooerful. right1 at , the beKmninz it the second ended the affair. . An. i thfi- senvl final windup Frankie Buffington of Salt Lake, won a decision over Babe Stribl-jng.- young; Stribling's brother, in six rounds. - The decision was unpopular:- - V ' ; GODFREY BEATS HERMAN A' IX; I tO . HEAVYWKKaiX WIXS TECHNICAL K O IX THIRD j VERNON. Cal, Xug. 4. (By Associated Press.). George. God frey, ; negro heavyweight, won a technical knockout over Tiny Her man in the third round of a sched uledjlO-round bout here tonight t was Godfrey's fight all the .way, Herman hitting - the canvas five times before his seconds threw in the towel. . . 1 BREMERTON IS FAVORED REAR ADMIRAL DECLARES PO SITION' KEY TO DEFENSE ; SEATTLE, Aug. .4 .-if By Asso ciaWd Press.) Rw'al AdmirarLuf- ther E. Gregory, chief of the bu reau of yards and docks, declared here today , that "the Bremerton navy yard is the key position in a scheme of national defeuae."' Bremerton is, across Puget Sound from Seattle. .. Admiral Gregory has been making his annual tour of . Inspection of the navy yards of the1 country. He .announced that he was going to Change his resi dence from Washington, D. C, to Seattle. - ' , . r-5 (7i August 8, the Lone Star Service Station No. 2,' located at 2035 Fairgrounds road at the intersection of Capitol street, will open for business, and on Saturday and Sunday, August 8 and 9, by buying $1 worth or raore you will receive a coupon good for 2 gallons of gas free, and cn Sunday in addition to this each lady driver purchasing $1 worth will receive a ' lb. box of choco lates. Come early and avoid the rush. Station crens REGULATION I S ASKED IUXKKRS FAVOR DRAWING 11 ' K laws for - control.' ! J SEATTLE, Aug. 4. (Dy Asso- elated Press). Rankers of eleven Pacific coast and Rocky Mountain states meeting here today In their third regional trust company con-1 ference under the auspices of the trust company division of - the American .Bankers'. aasociaiion, asked to be placed under state regnlation. L. H. Rosebury, lce i president of the Security Trust i Savings bank of Los Angeles, made the proposal and it was welcomed by 100 trust; officers C assembled for the first of a two days': ses sion. Rosejaury said: "Let us take part in the framing and revision of laws regulating ourselves. By voluntarily placing ourselves un- der wise public regulation we Willi accomplish two purposes." , One ' would ..be Ho 'avoid future ill conceived and unjust restric tive laws," that might be placed upon the statute " books, he said. The . second would, be, to keep "within bounds' an: organization doing a trust business which might be inclined to depart from sate and conservative principles. FLOOD DANGER GREATER HE.WV I)OWMoriM MEXAO IXG TEXAS TOWNS EL PASO. Texas, Ang. 4. (By AsHOclated Press.) Dispatches to the EI Paso Times from Duran. N. M., says that flood warnings to farmers in lower; valleys of the Pecos river and the Rio Grande! are being sent out Jxscause of a heavy downpour which fell over central New Mexico' tonight- Reports Indicate the storm at tained cloudburst proportion from the Sandiago on the north to the Fria Cristobal and San Andrea ranges on the south. ' ureeKs were turned into ram paging rivers. Heavy rains on the western slope of the . Chupadrea Mesa and Oscura mountains and unusual floods " coming down ths sides of Sanies peak' presage an other rise In the lower Rio Grande. DEWPSEVTOMEET WILLS f .'EXT YEAH Fitzsimmons Declares "He Has Contract for Fight. ; on July 4 Next ' LOS ANGELES, Aug., 4. By Associated Press.) - Floyd Fiti siminons. fight promoter who yes terday failed to get Jack "Demp fey'a signature to a bout with tiarry ureo m September, an nounced tonight ' after a confer ence with the champion that as a result of Dempsey's banishment by the New York boxing commis sion, the heavyweight champion had agreed to fight Harry Wills for him "somewhere near Chlca go" next July 4. ' The match, of conrse. depends "on Wills' willingness to meet the champion at Fitzsimmons terms, the latter explained, adding that he had wired the negro's mana ger. Paddy Mullins, and hoped to hear from him tomorrow. Pending conclusion of negotia tions with Mullins, Fitzsimmons' aecitnea to reveal the details of i the offer accepted by Demnsev. except to say the champion was entirely satisfied with the finan cial features of it. : Fitzsimmons' announcement Ts supported by a similar one from Rob Roy Benton. Dempsey's presn rgent. who added that his dis tinguished client was "throneh with the New York commission." "Since the commission did not even have the courtesy to reply to uempsey'a telegram and letter." he said, "the champion is through trying to deal with it." Denton stated that if for any reason Wills refused to fight 'for y itr.simmohs. Dempsey need not find time hanging heavy on, his hands, since he today had received an offer of $7,500 a week for a 30-week appearance In vaudeville. DARR0W REJECTS FEE "XO MONEY TAKRX FOR PART IS K VOLITION' TRIAL NEW YORK. Aug. 4.-(By As sociated Press). Clarence Dar- I row, chief defense counsel in the Scopes' trial at Dayton. Tenn. to- I rta nntiflail t V a rivil I tk..ii.. union, which financed the trial. I that he did not desire to be relm- bursed for his expenses. I "I .don't want you to think about my expenses." he wrote. "I could afford it and 'I never got more for mv imnev." ' I , Mr. Da r row expressed his belief that the trial was of rreat educa- tional value. Heavy expenses In bringing wit nesses to Dayton have made ne cessary continuance of Its drive for funds, the union announced. As a result of requests f:"om abroad and all sections of the United States the high lights of the trial will be published in book form by the union under the snp ervision ot Arthur Garfield l!ayei,rat? ImPartIn to. his pupils! of se counsel. iach know,ed hay been of defense ' To be tired is a blessing In din - guise, : .'.,' , " A. tricky device . hangs itself, sooner or later. . HE' LITTLE . - iC HERBERT I lyl 0 ' -' BRENON ! f. l -'""""'"" raopuCTioit, Vi A ' c X' . with j A I ALICE JOYCE V M BRIAN i EVOLUTlOrJ BATTLE f :0VJ QUIETED DQWiJ Injunction Is Sought to Pre sent Enforcement of Tenn " " -1 essee Statute CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.. Aug 4. (By Associated Tress). With the fanfare of oratory now but a peg in the Tennessee evolutionary history, the battle against the anti-evolution law dissolved ' here today. Into a simple determination of the constitutional questions In volved... . ; The . filing of a petition with John T. Scopes as plaintiff with the clerk' of the southern division of the eastern district of Tennessee federal court, seeking a temporary order enjoining state authorities from further enforcement of the anti-evolution law marked the first step. ' , ' - - Even as this brief formality gave .voice to a plea from the youthful teacher "and all others similarly situated., another bill already had been drawn to give vent to" a similar prayer for in- j auction from Robert P. Wilson and four other taxpayers of Rhea county. Filing of the second was delayed until after affidavits could be received from the four addi tional petitioners The bill filed by Dr. John R. Neat, chief of defense counsel for John Thomas Scopes, convicted at Dayton several weeks ago for vio lation of the teaching statute, named as defendants Governor Austen Peay, Attorney General Frank Thompson and Solicitor General A. T. Stewart of the Rhea county circuit. j . It detailed the expense and ef forts gone to by the petitioner to procure an education In which scientific subjects predominated, i Allegations of the petition con tended that 'the theory of evolu tion Is a central feature of science as taught today throughout the world. It Is a feature and an integral-part of scientific instruc tion in every echool, college and university. . j ' It is an Inseparable feature of the modern science oFiooMgy, bi ology.' medicine, anatomy, embryo ology, 'geology and chemistry. Your "petitioner could hot honest ly, conscientiously or efficiently fulfill the duties to which he had been appointed, to which he ha3 undertaken as an Instructor j of science and ignore and fall to ex pound the theory of evolution as an integral factor and inseparable feature of. all- modern science. ; - "Your petitioner further alleges that the theory .of evolution denies and to in conflict with the etory of divine creation of man as taught in the Bible and your petitioner further alleges that it Is not part cf.hU duty aa instructor, in science to concern himself with anything except the conscientious and accu- acnievea oy mankind In the var- ' ious fields covered by his duties 1 ... iMtmr mnA in , nn1 thnrfa mrm oarnoallw hnf I beriously received by respectable land conscientious workers in the field of science." i New Today The boo'.: sensation if the year, pro duced .by the director-genius- who inailt "Peter Pan." No need to aay more! TcJay Thursday OILffillllQM : SLATED BY SETJATE Comprehensive Investigation i to Be Carried on by Pub-. i ! lie Lands Bureau i WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. (By Associated Press.) The senate public lands committee has decid ed ,to enter upon a sweeping in vestigation of all matters affecting the administration . of .the public lands Including oil. Beginning at Suit .Lake City August 26. the committee will conduct. a ser.es of hearings in practically every public land state In ;the west. Its Itinerary" an nounced today, calls for hearings at Helena, Mont.. August 31; Mis soula. Mont;. September 1;. Yaki ma, Wash., September 2; Seattle, September. 4 and 5; Portland. Oie., September 7.. and Pendle ton, Ore.. September 20; Baker. Ore., September 11, and Boise, Idabo. September 12' and 14. Its program for holding hearings in California. New Mexico, Colorado, ana Wyoming is not to te an nounced until after it reaches salt Lake City, ' Starting on an Investigation of (razing in the public domain, the committee has decided that its au thority to broad enough to include all public lands and it will go thoroughly into mining. Indian af fairs, timber ' matters, proposed legislation tor the disposition ol public lands, forest retierves. rec lamation projects, power slies and the national parks, j Committees from the American wool growers and the national livestock associations meeting in Salt. Lake City. August 24. will ap pear before the committee at the opening hearing. ; With the .public lands 'totaling 420.000,000 acres of which 97 per rent are In 11 western states, most of ! the committee expressed the opinion today that congress should regulate its administration by laws ingtead of by rules made by the Interior department. More than one third of the area of some of the western states con sists of reserved public lands waich will never come Into private own ership. Since much of this is in national parks, its management of these .will be closely studied. Plans for Inquiry Into oil ma's ters were announced by Senator Walsh of Montana shortly before hla departure for Europe. The committee he said, expects' to hold meetings after his return from the west to go Into the administration of the Salt Creek oil fields near Teapot Dome, with particular at tention to the entry of the Mid west Oil company into those fields. BAR HEADS ELECTED . SEATTLE, Aug. 4. J. A. Cole man of Everett was. elected presi dent and W. J. Millard of Olympia secretary of the Washington state ff N (LURRY.! Matinee Only a , r Starting Tonight , (Wednesday) MILTON sal mi DORIS ICENYON Phillis Haver .May Allbon in ' Wutin A l'rmi tlif Novrl Tiin - ' INTEKPHLTEirS llil Ccncdy Nc.vi ... i : 1 bar association at the closing e--tlon of Its. 37th annual contention here today. Dix H. Rowland of Tacoma, Arthur W. Davis of Spo kane, and Millard were named delegate to the American liar as sociation convention. " r 3sGitGn!jusii Hot Springs Marion County, Ovegoa HEALTH AND PLEASURE III -SORT Open fader New Management Hot mloeral water baths; hoi mineral mud La I lit ami matnral hot mineral vapor hatha, Breitenbush Is famous for Its hot arsenic spring and unusual variation of other mineral con tent. These waters are excep tionally beneficial to rheuma 1 1 s m , neuritis, constipation,' skin and blood diseases. - Womlcrfal scenery; fine fish ing; trail hiking ami mountain Climbing; good arronunoua tlong; excel lr at meals; reason able rates. trarlioa, vUl set tata nun, taka traia fraat KIU City. ' Tar rnrther ParUcalan, Writs . M. 1. IIRCCKMAX Maiuftr Dreitcnbuxh Hot Springs I !- it, Oregon addsnj For picnic lunches, dinners or after theatre suppers, ; BLITZ acrved coU, is a wonder ful help to any. meal! In bott!et on Draught Anyxekertl PORTi.Avn miFWivrt rn ayfU 1 M j - ! ,7tr :the r Spice7 Snow j3 i ' I n Vi 71. fa rf K trs.. fc hU
