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fefe ft SEVENTY-FIFTII YEAR PRICE FIVE CENTS SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1925 1r i r-f A. rf wwwm o) V r fj RJl-lj JVj u VJ z I "" fc. w OREGON TUXES IE TOPICS AT MEETING Governor Pierce Declares Demand for.SchooIs and ' Roads Prevents Cut BUDGET IS SAID SLICED Reduction of Two Million Made During1 Last Year; Fewer Schools and Less Road - j Impossible CHINESE TONGS CLAIM VICTIMS: WAR I OPENED DOORWAYS HOLD DEATH FOR RIVAL 'CLAN MEMBER Tong Hatchet and Gun Men Pre pare for Killings In Many - i Eastern Cities ! II TO ItTLAND, Ore., Au g. 2 3.- (By Associated Press ). Careful scrutiny of all proposed govern "mental expenses before the obli gations are; incurred 1s the sole hope for the curtailment" of taxa tion in the opinion of a majority of, the delegates attending "the western states taxpayers conf er k ecre which opened its two day ses- .S-; sion here today. '. ? tViV : The budget system or the fore casting of expenses and then the frigid adherence to the accepted program will assure progress and efficiency in the handling of pub lic funds and reduce to a mini- H " governmental purposes, several conference. j . ; . The conference was opened by Paul B. McKee of Medford, Ore., president U)f the conference who introduced Governor; Pierce of Oregon, .j .' i L .; Governor Pierce, after extend ing an official welcome to - the visiting delegates, launched vigor ously into the subject of tax re duction. The unwillingness of the people to say "stop!" in the mat- NEW YORK, Aug. 25. (By As sociated Press.) The pistol shots which early j today struck down three men, two of them Chinese in Boston, echoed half way across the United States "as Chinese long men, after a six months peace, re newed their warfare. j II. Yen-Ung, a Hip Sing man; Yee Yip, a member of the On Leong tong, and Joseph D. Crow ley, a bystander, were wounded in the burst of gunfire in Boston's uAinaiown. 1 ee Yip,; wno was most Beriously injured,' disappear ed after the shooting but was later found and; taken to a hospital Almost immediately rafter the Boston outbreak Ho Kee, a mem ber, of the rival On Leong tong here, waa found dead oh a cobbled Chinatown street with three bul lets in his back. It is believed be Was a; victim of Hip Sing revenge. I In Pittsburgh, Shing Sun, , laundryman, was killed and short ly afterward Low Suey in Minne apolis, was slain. In ! St. Louis, Long Chopey, former "king of Chinatown there," was seriously wounded, by enemy tongmen, and in scores of other cities where the great, Chinese tongs have outposts police found the tong hatchet men preparing for their battle News of the Boston; attack spread over the country as quickly as telegraph wires could carry it Yee Yip was obscure, but he was a member of the Hip Sing tong, and the shots which felled him, de stroyed the gossamer threads hold ing together the armistice arrang ed sis months ago between the Hip Sing and the On Leong tongs. Warned, by ..code, messages, the ter of rbuildlng more schools or providing for higher education in gunmen of the rival tongs slipped jnore of the school and hr devel- fromdim doorways toavenge the it oping uignwuyB, wits aacnueu ujr I Governor Pierce as the reason for U high taxes and their -tendency to " increase rather than to lessen. . "The people are not willing to nay 'stop!' 1 declared , Governor Pierce in his address to the con ' Terence. , "The public demands more and more in the way of L..1iAntif lvA In f Vi a WOW nf tlf0fl. Ifwavs and' so lone as this demand " J5 CTident 11 w111 be Impossible t0 llL'-yf "reduce taxes." The Oregon governor, hurllnf a challenge at the delegates to tho "HELL SHIPS" conference, oemanaea 10 Know who would take the floor and ad vocate the curtailment of educa tion or the abandonment of high way development. . "Fewer schools?" the governor challenged. "More children every year to educate, and the people demanding the extension of higher learning .in the public schools makes it impossible to cut down counta held over frorHhepeace conference I last March. The new outburst followed by only a few hours the burial of Lee Kue Ting, the foremost citizen of New York's Chinatown, who was most influential in arranging the truce; Members of both tongs sat side by aide in his funeral cortege as; all Chinatown paid last re spectg to him. - PROBED RUMORS OP ILL-TREATMENT . ON BOARD INVESTIGATED MURRAV visited BY HIS PAREHTS Father Appears Reconciled to Son's Fate But Will Stand By Until End GROWER OBTAINS SO POUNDS OK OIL FROM AN ACRE Ten - Acres Planted; Peppermint Oil Now Selling at $11.30 Per Pound RANKS WRITE LETTERS One WouM Sent Convict Back to Farm; Governor's Committee Apparently Ends Investigation Though apparently reconciled to the probable fate of their son, Mr. and Mrs. James Murray of Fort Blakely, Wash., will not de sert Tom Murray, convict facing death on the gallows for his par ticipation in the killing of two guards during an escape from the penitentiary: August 12. The parents of the desperado, accom panied by a daughter, were grant ed two interviews with their son yesterday and left late in the af ternoon by automobile for their home. - 'Tom was not a tad boy and never been in trouble until the Florence bank robbery, "Mr. Mur ray said. "He attended school un til he was 11 years old and was a bright boy. One day he and companion were throwing" rocks at a squirrel in a tree and one of the stones rebounded and struck him on his forehead. You can still see the scar, "Tom went to work, in the ship yards while too young and receiv ed too much money. I believe that' the injury to his head had much to do with his falling in with evil companions. v We would have attempted to have him com inltted to the state hospital after new. Wood debt and. to settle aL'1 we.oeirevea e might straighten up in the prison Mr. Murray said he could trace back the family history directly Tor 100 years and no one had ever been in trouble. His tone indicat ed that he held little hope that his son might escape death by banging but remarked that "while there is life there is hope." The last 37 years has. been spent raising his family of five children on a farm on an island near Seat ORTUNE BEING MADE IN, MINT BY LABISH FARMER THREE MEN FRUSTRATED IN ATTEMPT TO ENTER DAIRY Shot by Officer Wintersteen Bring Answering Volley From Prowling Trio The Slogan man of The States man has two items for Thursday's paper that will, not keep for even one day. So they are appropriat ed, as follows: E. C. Naftziger, about ten miles north of Salem, his postoffice ad dress being Gervais, Route 1, put out ten acres of mint in April. He is now harvesting his peppermint oil, and it is going 80 pounds to the acre. He brought a sample of the mint to the Statesman office yesterday. ; It may be seen here. The land is Lake Lablsh beaver- dam. : ' He has sold the peppermint oil for Sll. 50 a pound. The reader may figure that up. The Slogan man makes it $9200 for the ten acres -v And Mr. Naftziger has the hay left; the mint hay. And it is good bay for hig stock. He has some fine stock too. He has also some red clover seed to thresh, and' he will be In luck with that, this year, with the high prices ruling. Manning & Moisan got from their still, a few miles southeast of Brooks, on Lake Labjsh. on Saturday last, 110 pounds of pep permint oil. They think that is a world record. Dan J. Fry paid $11.05 for the first lot of peppermint oil, from the cooperative association. He has paid $11.50 for a second lot and Mr." Naftziger's lot is included in this, i I The second item is about red clover seed. A grower near Sa lem yesterday sold 200 bushels of red clover seed for 26 cents ponnd;Jt being very-finer" This seed came from 50 acres of land that is, it made four bushels, or (Continatd on pact 2) 31 USING MAN nELD WALLACE, Idaho. Aug. 25. James B. Scoles, mining man of Mullan, was arrested here today on a charge of assaulting a 14 year-old Wardner girl. He was arrested after the prosecutor had obtained a signed statement from the girl. Bond was set at $2,500 EGGS AND POLICEMAN DUEL ON SALEM STREET 5 IP S KELLEY ACKNOWLEDGES DEFEAT IN HIS QUEST Ml ii HISSING SHOTGUN NOT LOCAT ED BY CONVICT Young Oakland Nurse Is De clared to Be Victim ot Gruesome Assault Officers Led to Place Where Cap tives were bound; Murray's DlricFowMl .Nearly a dozen shots were ex changed between Officer A. Win tersteen and three men attempt- ng to burglarize the Fairmount Dairy station at 910 South Com mercial shortly after 2 o'clock Tuesday morning. No casualties arc reported. 1 According to Officer Winter deen. he' was about a block and saw three men cross Kearney, pausing near the dairy to watch one of the truck drivers leave. His suspicions were aroused when tools were dropped. When hie command to halt was not obeyed and they started to run, the officer opened fire with the artillery while the frustrated robbers reolied. Police reserves were summoned by Officer Wintersteen who uaed the dairy telephone. Officers Ed wards, Victor, Olson and James responded to the alarm. Officer Wintersteen. after telephoning for assistance, saw one of the men across the street and fired anoth er shot. The trio were last seen going south. The tools carried by the prowl ers, dropped when halted by the officer, consisted of two small crowbars of the "Jimmie" type, and la Bhort-handled sledge. These reported stolen from a tool at the J. Fisher home, Oak onth Commercial. . e safe at the dairy contained $75. SECRET GLUSS TO DISAPPEAR Seven Organizations Affect ed by Ruling of Scnool Bsard Last Night TWO PHYSICIANS SOUGHT Woman Doctor and Man Wanted For Questioning;" Portions Of Head of Girl Victim Are Found Ifamb XIurIM at Meeting Without Warming;, Controversy f Four Years Standing TbotEaded were houas and P Tri about ; GERMANS LAUDS TALKS : BERLIN The German press makes favorable mention of a erlsa'of illustrated lectures given throughout Germany by George F. Bauer, of the American Na tional automobile chamber ot commerce. He spoke on "High ways, the Production of Safety Campaigns." MRS. GIBXEY DIES ! NOME, Alaska, Aug. 25. (By the Associated Press.) Mrs. Bar ney Cibney, wife of Barney Glb ney, pioneer salmon and hotel man who died here a month ago, died here tonight. Mrs. Gibney leaves a daughter who Is in a parochial school in Seattle. (Continued n page 2) GAS PRICE- CUT IN EAST COMPETITIVE VAB CAUSES MOTORISTS TO REJOICE : SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 25. (By Associated Press.)- The state labor commission today began an invitation into what are described as "hell ships- of the Alaska fish ing fleet, now returning to San Francisco-from the northern Sal mon ; canneries. The commission is investigating ship hands' com plaints that - they were virtually "shanghaied" on the fishing ves- eels . and .held prisoners under guard.". Persons attending today's hearing before State Labor Com missioner Matthewson " included cannery laborers from the Star of England, Star of Iceland, and Star NEW YORK, Aug. 25 By the Associated Press.) Gasoline prices tumbled In many Atlantic j of Holland, all of the Alaska Pack- seaboard 1 and middle western I ers' association. states ' today, giving widespread joy to motorists. A general reduc tion of one half cent a gallon by the Standard Oil company ot New Jersey was the fourth to be ini tiated bv that company this month and it brought the tank wagon quotations In Its territory to 16 and 17 cents a gallon.. The Gul Refining company the Sinclair Oil and Refining company and other competitors met the cut, ' In New York City, Yonkers and points in 1 Lone Island, a cut of - In connection with the investi gation; the commission is inspect ing the books of Young & Mayer, who the laborers complain, signed them for fishing trips nad then forced them to buy clothing from their , store at exorbitant prices, threatening to hold back ; their wages if they refused to buy. The firm's books were turned over to the commission today. Affidavits charging illicit sale of liquor and drugs on the vessel were sworn to by 60 members ot three cents a gallon by the Tide-1 the crew on the Star of Holland yesterday and filed with the de partment of Justice. water Oil Sales corporation and the Gulf ReHnlng company, brought the tank wagon quotation to 17c a gallon. ' ! A price of 16 to 18 cents pre vailed in, most upstate cities and in New England. The same level was OLD LINE IS USED SOUTHAMPTON. ; Having abandoned; this port nearly 50 established In Pennsylvania I years ago because ot lack ot ac- and Delaware through a one cent commodatlon,' the Peninsular and cut bv Atlantic refininar comnany. Oriental1 Steamship company in-! Competitive conditions in the I tends using it again for almost all middlewest which caused thelits services. The authorities take standard oil of Indiana to lower j this as a compliment to their ef its gasoline price two cents a gal-1 forts ot late years to make South- Ion, also forced the Sinclair cor-1 ampton the chief passenger port poration to make a similar cut. of the United Kingdom. GERMAN PUBLISHER DIES YOUNG STRIBLING WINS EL PASO, j Texas, Aug. 25. (By Associated Press.) Young I MTJNICII. Lothar Meggendor- Stribling knocked out Red Fitz- fer, founder of the humorous Simmons of San Francisco in the weekly, Meggendorfer Blaetter, j third round of a scheduled 12 died recently. " He wan 77 years round bout at Fort Bliss tonight loll. i l . , THE COAL DUST TWINS! . (WHEN IT COMES TO "CLEANING UP" THEY'RE THERE AND OVER) L r r 7vi fK i sr . e.Bf r ,-m - . u m -v m jw a sua r m i -x sx t i 'iii m ' irs m ? : f nrti M -h. who always . XYMKrftr; ' J SYXks XU. IW'LttA IPAys For! ? hi IV X , ilM rm IV '-hV.X- v-X-i Ti .! f : - 1 r i I I S i ' f f ft iw. " --av I av r w I ti - Ill I I t ii I . I. - . - - i - ' -- - i i mil t OAKLAND, CaU Aug. 25 (By the Associated Press.) With the partial draining today ot the El Cerrlto river swamp, a few miles north of this city and the discov err ot additional portions of a human head Identified as Mrs. J J. (Bessie) Loren, Oakland nurse. the search for the suspected per petrators of Contra Costa county's second murder mystery within the month switched today to San Francisco. Two San Francisco physicians. one a man and the other a woman. were being sought for question ing. The woman physician, bar red from practice several years ago was missing from her apart ments here. She is said to have quitted her offices early last week. The telephone had been discon nected. No trace has been found ot the man physician sought. The names of both are being withheld. Discovery of a third section ot human scalp and the finding of a third section cf a black walsus hide traveling bag, constitute the results of today's search of the rwamn. A. woman's ear, two sec tions of scalp with long, blonde hair attached and a lower Jaw bone previously were picked up near tne same spot. K man's leather belt with the letter "E" on the buckle; two sections of the same black bag and a blood stained newspaper comprise the balance ot the exhibits thus far. Mrs. Loren was reported miss ing on August 19. She registered at a San Francisco hotel on Aug ust 17 as "Mrs. J. Loran. Seattle. After three hours of fruitless search, Ellsworth Kelley, one of three convicts who made a sue-1 i tiary August 12. admitted UU AUllUri IS UritArtU I tU Tuesday afternoon that he was contused and could not find the shotgun he Is said to have hidtn beseath a log the night of the escape. The shotgun, officers say. is the one with which J. 1L Hoi man,' guard, was killed. Kelley was handcuffed and In charge of Captain W. E. Golden and Jack Edwards, guards. He lead the officers straight to a place four miles east ot the Wil- lard school where the convicts bad tied Z. J. Zlnn, taxi driver and C. V. Ivltta, state hospital attend ant, whv were ' kidnapped. The place was some distance from the road and surrounded with dense brush with over hanging boughs, Here the officers found strips of shirts, some of them prison manu facture and a portion of a silk shirt evidently belonging to Ivltts, bits of shoe strings and portions of suspenders. The dirk which Murray is said to have brandished In intimidating ssveral unarmed guards, was also found. All social organizations ot the senior and junior high schools of a secret or semi-secret nature were abolished la an order of the Salem school board Ust night which au thorized suspension or axpalalon as the penalty lor failure of say student to comply with the edict. The order was embodied la a reso lution which received the unani mous vote of the board and which was passed Immediately alter- It had been presented. The resolution orders that tas' superintendent and principals be and are hereby directed. Instruct ed, and authorised to make sad enforce such rules and regulations .The shotgun, hidden after dark, las may be necessary for the aboll- re mains In the woods as far as the official party is concerned. Kelley appeared sincere In his ef fort to locate the weapon, but af ter several hills had been climbed and Innumerable logs Inspected, he was forced to admit trat the gun might have been hidden "over the next hill. all of which looked alike to him. -Three -tfjys Are estimated for the examination ot witnesses be fore the special grand Jury which eonvtnes at 10 o'clock this morn ing. An effort will be made by District Attorney Carson to have it report Friday afternoon. Separ ate indictments ot first degree murder will be asked for Tom Murray, Ellsworth Kelley and James WHIos tor the killing of both J. M. Hoi man and John Sweeney. tlon of these organizations." At least seven organisations, and pos sibly others, will come under the ban ordered by the board includ ing the J. C. K. O., K. C, Friar, Phoenix, T. N. T.. and T. A. clubs. according to Superinteadtat George W. Hag. Four of these are girls' and three bora' organi zation. Ther J. CT. beys, was formed in HIS. The bomb was exploded last night without warning culminat ing more than four years of con troversy over the continuance ct the organisations. The - subject was introduced by Superintendent Hug who declared that the Intense feeling aroused last year over tt questions had temporarily sab- tided and that now would be tb auspicious time for the board t Besides the two guards Kelley reconsider the question. was accompanied by Sheriff Oscar Wash.,' and checked out on the ID. Bower, District Attorney Car- nigm oi August js. investigators son and several newspapermen. leamea. cne spent Wednesday af- teraoon August 19. with her mother. Mrs. W. T. Ferguson of 0REQ0N PIONEER CALLED waaiana. inat was tne last Mrs. Ferguson saw of her daughter alive. Identification ot portions or the body found as those of Mrs. Loren was made today by her brother. William Ferguson of Oakland. Relatives of Mrs. Loren dls-l MTCS. F. A. WHITE CAME FIRST WAGON TRAIN IN PENDLETON, Ore.. Aug. 25. Mrs. F. A. White. S4, of Hermls- ton, who crossed the plains in the first wagon train to come to Ore- claimed knowledge of any trouble OB ol1 '"t night at her home. In which the missing nurse might have been involved. r ' . ir. rergusoa is quoted st temng under Sheriff W. M. Veale of Contra Costa county that her daughter parted from her with the expressed Intention of calling up- (Catiira4 par X) Mrs. White wss one of a group ct pioneers that aided In unveil ing a monument to pioneers at Emigrant Springs In 1923 when tne late presiaent Harding was present. She was one of the guests who had dinner with the president on July 3 at the cele bration held on the Blue moun tains, r UUfiOCni OtAUfi kHUb banks of the Missouri river while FIN A L PROGRAM BRINGS LARGE CROWD TO PARK One of the most successful con cert seasons ot the Cherrian band was brought to a close last night rlth the finest program offered this year. A large and apprecla live crowd filled Wlllsoa park for the final program. ' special request numoers were offered by Director Oscar Steel I hammer with Oscar Gingrich ap pearing In three splendid vocal selections which offered a pleasing variety In theme. The concerts this season were held on the scheduled . Tuesday and Friday nights without a miss on account ot inclement weather. In the past it has been necessary several times, because of weather or special attractions, to play one or more postponed Concerts at the close of the season. her parents were en route to the west. . Marcus Whitman, the mission ary. was a member ot the party The Lennox family settled first at Oregon City. Mrs. White's husband was an Indian fighter and was known in later years as -Uncle Billy White. He served for a time under Phil Sheridan. Mrs. Whits was the mother of 13 children, of whom the follow ing' survive: Mrs; A. A. Hammer of Seattle; Mrs. W. E. Eates of Wenatchee: Millard White. Port land; L. O. White, Hermiston, and Mrs. J. Means ot 8tanfield A number of grandchildren and great grandchildren also survive, A znoUoa was xirst mads In structing a special commutes com posed ot Chairman H. IL OUagtr, and Directors P. M. Gregory and Frank Keer to draw up a resola- tloa to be presented at the next meeting of the board offering raeh an edict, but this action was later withdrawn in favor of a motion to adjourn for ten minutes to give the committee time to draw up tte resolution for Immediate action. The second action also nulltned a previous motion calling a vre-' clal board meeting for next Tues day night at which time Principal J. C. Nelson ot the senior high school and the principals of the junior high schools would ba. In structed to be present for the purpose of "discussing methods oC enforcement" of a prohibitive or-' der. - . : , ' The resolution passed last ciat follows: i "Whereas, The school law cf Oregon make it an effects sutiect to expulsion or suspension for say public school rtndeuta such ti NEWS POLICY UNCHANGED CHICAGO. Aug. 25, By the Associated Press.) The Chicago Dally News "one of the largest and most successful newspapers on the continent will be continued under its present policy and management under provisions of the will of the late Victor Fremont Lawson. owner and publisher", opened to day. RAISE PER CAPITA TAX LABOR COUNCIL SEEKING TWO CENT INCREASE : An Increase In the per capita tax from 5 to 7 cents per mem oer per monin is proposea in an amendement to the constitution cf the Salem Trades and Labor rcan- Jcil. The raise. It waa" announce J last night, is necessary to finance the present needs of the organiza tion. All active locals afflllatM with me centra boar wM r.ol!i of ! others the proposed change and delegates expected to attend the text r-ilar meeting of Us cccsc.'L FRUITUAN FILES - SUIT RANCHETl RESENTS ACTION OP STATE IN SPRAYING SPOKANE, Aug. 25. (Tr J. soclated Press.) Another o.j-ur la the refusal of D. E. La kin. s fruit grower cf the Fpoktr. ley. to array his arria t. or permit the state to do fa. written here today vbf .i t fld suit la the superior court U-r fJO. 000 damages ar,lnt Frak U Nlelsen. district stxte l:ortIc"Br Ist on allegatioss ct t'e arrest. After Mr. LaV.Ia fcj j iefced to epray his tres ;th as oil trepara- , Hon early lau pri-r. fc rouht eu!t to prevent the Mate from do- s in5 so. After tVe lime far usitc the oil. t; ray taj parsed, toe ac- Uca a'drcppe.i. bot ,B srasca 1'r. N'.e'sofl broke a lock ca " Mr. Lalln i crtlzri an! hd ib tree srrajel ith s lead eolation. It was r.ft a croBil-hed, however, until af:er iir. Ijkla and t tad tea attested on a ctirzf cf reals s officer.- The aetian Clad today Is a st r o o' this Incident, .