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THREE SECTIONS 20 pages SECTION ONE PAGES! to 8' IGMU FLUE (ilE rnvENTY-nrra year. SALE1T, OBEGON, SUNDAy MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1925 PPJCE FIVE CENTS n ' Ppi v'i v v o ri' 1 : ID I1 ill I f '. y 7 L, 0;. ! 1 W L: : 7'V 7 ARE KILLED .'CLOUDBURST Wenatchee Is Hit by Rushing lojrent of Water; Many Are Missing DEATH TOLL MAY: MOUNT Thrf Story , Building : Carried ; Cp,Fet by Flood; Passen- Traln - Narrowly ' Escape. Wreck WENATCHEE. Wash., Sept. 5 '(By" Associated Press.) Seven known dead., three injured " and ten unaccounted for was the toll taken when.,, without warning cloudburst swept" down Spring water canyon anij; flooded . the South Wenatchee Great Northern railway terminal at 4:15 o'clock thi' afternoon. The rushing tor rent smashed five houses to kind ling wood and the Springwater hotel, a three-story frame struc ture, was hurled 60 feet across the main street by the force of the flood. Of the seven bodies taken from the wreckage, four had been iden tified early tonlghtr They were Prank Petty, brakeman: Mrs. STRONG PLEA MADE FOR, WORLD COURT ENTRANCE CHESTER II. ROWELL WILL BE i 'ANSWERED BIT BORAH. i.. . j. . -1 hi ii - i - . - - , i Great ; International Question la "' Placed Before ) Audience -by Speaker ttDflTCHEll HERMIT. IS KILLED AFTER TAKING LIFE OF. SHERIFF RECLUSE FIGHTS DISPOSSES SION FROM LITTLE CABIN Air Service' Flayed Severely For ActiQns;' War Debart- M'ment.Defie4: LEWISTON, Idaho, Sept. 6.- (By . Associated Press), Of V re markable interest was, a meeting J ; a ! 1 IV. opening of the debate of the inter- INCOMPETENCY CHARGED court, with an address by a rep resentative of the American peace I Former Head of;.AlrTXt(Dl vision Declare. Administration of Naval A(r Affairs Ijs Dismasting;.;. award. Chester H. Rowell. of Call' fornia, who is to be answered on Sunday night by. Senator Borah, of Idaho, speaking in the same place. The large audience, Heard t a strong argumentative plea for thei r SAI, ANTONIO. Texas, Sept. American participation - In the I (By The Associated -Press) world court, the gradual develop-1 Declaring defiance of. the war de ment and growth, "of .? which was l partment,. Colonel . W illiam Mit iracea oy we..-speaaerr wno ire-icneii toaay oroppea anoiper oomo quently - referred to- his distin-linto air service, circles and then euislied opponent: seated upon the 1 departed by airplane, ' for some same,ilaUorni. : referred tol tarpon fishing at Ar'ansaa Pass, the subject as the one great inter-j He spent ;'the afternoon prepar national, quesuon Deiore -":ilnjc av-fiflhinr trin Sundav American people; and to the court as an Institution that had. been established with American ap nroval and In - accordance: with morning and refused further to comment on' his statement! in de nunciation of the practices and systems obtaining in the adminis American principles; and now anP-jtration of national air defense by norteri hv Dress, nubile ana an peace . organizations,... those, who oppose, participation standing al most alone. - :- j.-" He reviewed the nature of the court and' the manner of electing HOPE IS HELD OUT THAT THE FLIERS MAY YET BE FOUND Mountaineer Refuse to Move His House to Blake Way for New Highway Domlck MacDonald. Mrs. Cleve- its members, of the; qualifications or judges, oi wnat u is asea w do, of the "bugaboo" of entangle ment which; its opponents offer, of the arguments in its favor and of the objections that have been raised against it. In closing, he paid his respects to the two lead ing opponents, Senators Borah and Hiram Johnson, Baying: .y,. .-"They are fcrllliant leafiers'Tjet haps the two most skilledlor this m t..tu. ..-i- I fv nf nnnnnitln'B. tT tne senate. cover; the missing. " It Is thought j They nave witn tnem oniy a, smaii i j.ihii rllutu ; I it t ncur that at least eight bodies were In! minority or the senators but un land and Margaret Smythe about 10 years old. - ' ' -"" ""' Those Injured were Esther Han son, 9; Mildred Hanson, 7; Doro thy Hanson, 6; Paul Hanson, 4; Esther Palmer, four months;. Ed ward; Ross and Pearl Ross, all of 'Wenatchee.' ? - ;. ;;; r - ; At- 9 oclock this eyenlng 100 rescue workers,' beaded ;br' doc tors, firemen and, police, officials. the war and navy .departments In commenting onv: the fatal wreck of the Shenandoah and the failure of the Hawaiian ilight with its possible los of life, Col onel Mitchell said: "These accidents are the direct result of the incompetency, crimi nal negligence and almost treason able administration of national defense - by these two v depart ments." .y . Colonel Mitchell's- view ..' were set forth in a written statement covering 17 typewritten , pages. filled with biUnsarcasm- and (Coatia4 a paf't) the wreckage. Miss L. iL Lovegrore, a clerk In th roundhouse at the terminal, probably averted . "k wreck "when she notified the station to stop the iVsenger train No. 4 Just as the waters swept a mass of tangled learns over the tracks. J The train was stopped barely in time to avoid a seemingly certain ' crash. ' ' .. ;' . ... : ;v Little groups of laborers hud dled together in silence tinder the red glare of torches this evening. der the peculiar constitution of the senate, that minority, under their resourceful leadership, may succeed.-; M ' "They cast their V9tes and wield their great power to turn this nation backward, when its' known will is to go forward. Those votes are in their power to cast, beyond our power to prevent. All we can do, ia to make it-clear to ,them and to the world, that those votes are not ouf voice that we follow not their, lone voices, in the wild erness of doubt but the ripened ONE KILLED, "TWO INJURED WHEN CAR LEAVES GRADE They, were anxiously a waiting, the I opinion. of mankind; and that we recovery of musing wives or little are willing to accept for ourselves ehfldren. Meanwhile the workers j What the rest of the world ha al- LEAVENWORTH. Wash.. Sept. 5. William V Crosby, ' mechanic. was killed and Howard Blanken ship, mechanic, and William Har ris; store manager; were seriously injured when an automobile, driv en by Crosby went off the' road north of Dryden early today. " " The men, who " were employed here," were thrown into an irriga tion ditch. Crosby's body floated several miles down stream before it was recovered. r SANTA CRUZ. Cal Set. .5. (By the Associated Press.) De clining to be dispossessed of his on room cabin, which blocked the path of a, new road, because he had studied sea currents and knew that all of Captain Kidd's treasures were burled there." Paul Woodside. Aptos Beach rec luse, today killed Under-Sheriff R. II. Roundtree and wounded Sher iff H. V. Trafton. . Woodside died from a bullet in his 'head fired by Sheriff Trafton after the of ficer, had been shot by Woodside Roundtree died from two bullet wounds in the' abdomen, inflicted by Woodside, with a pistol he seiied from Sheriff Traton's pock et as the two officers struggled to handcuff' him. Woodside then turned the gun on Crafton. shoot ing him beow the heart, but the sheriff, despite his wound, took the gun from Woodside and sent a bullet into his head Workmen building a roadway for a real estate subdivision were driven off this morning by Wood side with a gun. Soon afternoon Trafton ; and . Roundtree reached Aptos, a few miles from here and found Woodside seated at a table in his one room cabin a shotgun in his hands. You can kill me if you want but a hundred men will be out to string you up," the sheriff told him. The two officers held the recluse in conversation or a mo ment and then jumped on him, taking his shotgun away. They had succeeded in putting a hand cuff on one WTiat when he rrab- l. 1 1 i m . . " . K yu a pwioi irom Traiton's pocket and began shooting- at his cap tors. . ' ' ' Ronndtree died a few minutes after he was shot. Woodside's death was about an hour later. At1 the hospital a .38 caliber bullet1 was taken from Sherlft Traftoa's body close to his kidney. Woodside is believed to have been mentally unbalanced. After he had received the bullet wound In the head which proved fatal an hour later he was seen fumbling in his pocket, from which a stick of dynamite with a fuse attached was removed. The warrant for Woodside's ar- ISLANDS ARE SEARCHED FOR MISSING AVIATORS All Ramon Investigated; Fate of . Crew of P-N-9 Is Still Ia Doubt XM1 TO BE OFFICERS AND CREW OF LOST DIRIGIBLE LAUDED IT NAVAL BOARD PRAISES BRAV ERY OF SHIP'S FORCE HONOLULU. Sept. . 5. (By the Associated Press.) The fourth day: since the disappearance. somewhere in the boundless Paci fic," of the navy seaplane PN9 No. 1, and its crew of. five assed to day, but the officers and men still continued their weary, search for the plane or its wreckage. ' j Operations tonight were center ing off the island of Nlihau, one of must northerly of the Hawilan group. .This , was on the theory that the plane, if It alighted safe ly on the water after running out of gasoline last Tuesday while uying from San , Francisco to Honolulu might have at that time been oa the north base course. It would then have drifted to -the northwest. , - . Officers of the air station- at Pearl Harbor still . clung to ' the hope that the five aviators would be rescued despite their hundred hour battle with the waves Officers pointed out that the sealane was stocked 'with suffi cient water to keep, the five men alive indefinitely. and that i they could if necessary survive without food for several , days. ' The situ ation was compared with. that of Lieutenant Locatelll in 1924. when he drifted several days ton the Atlantic between Iceland and Greenland until found, by an American naval vessel. An offer of the Japanese fisher- .men's association to send severs fast fishing sampans to aid in the search, which was placed before J the naval officers today, was re jected "with, profuse thanks. Severe Disciplinary Action Is Expected As Result of - Statements Fault Not la Construction or Op eration, Head of Station 1 Declare - ' EXPERT IKES EIlflTIIS - waf 4 explained that there are al Movement to Follow EatablUhed Military Practice; Officials Say Investigation Imminent t CALDWELL. Ohio. Sept, 5. (By Associated Press.) 'Carry on" was the tenor of the official FORMAL! "INQUIRY - MADE .tt?.m"t .' b6lf"d.0.l InTe- uituua miu IDS WrVCK OI IBf BITJ dirigible Shenandoah. Issued 'to night by CapL George Washing ton Steele. Jr..1 commandant of the Lakehunt, N. J-. naval air station, "The navy department will need the support of the country and the press to carry on at Lake- hurst." said the statement. "Cap tain Lansdowne and his officers and men gave their lives for the cause. Let the country give Us support to the navy department and their sacrifice may not be in vain." The battle with the elements early Thursday morning which left the once proud "Daughter of the Stars" broken and scattered over the terrain of the Allegheny foothills and which brought death to 14 members of the gallant crew was declared by Captain Steele as constituting an epic In. the annals or aviation. I am sure every thing was done that could have bfen done by the officers and crew. That she met disaster I be- WASHINQTON, Sept. 4. (By Associated Press.) The consen sus tonight among the tew war department officials available over the week end was that the charges In the statement by Colonel Wil liam Mitchell in San Antonio were of such a serious nature that disciplinary action against him no longer could be avoided, provided the statement was officially .sub stantiated.' It was taken, for granted that steps would be taken Immediately to establish the facts reported in press advices from Texas, in the absence of any state ment to the contrary by depart ment officers here. Result of Psychologist's Test Shows .Convict's Mind On Par. With Average : FOUR CQNVICTS QUIZZED Kelley Found Kqmal to High School Graduate; WIDoa Below Norma); Lloyd Above Average Major General John L. Hlnes. chief of staff, and acting secre-l llev was no fault of her constrnc- tary of war In the absence of As-1 tion or of her, operators." t sistant Secretary Dwight Davis. I The issuance of the statement conferred late .tday with, Major I marked only the slightest pause in Tom Murray, convict-slayer of the Oregon state prison, possesses mental alertness equal to that of the average college graduate, and with proper training would be qualified in personality and will as the executive of a large bad ness firm, according to One An derson, criminologist connected with Northwestern university, wfcq. Thursday and Friday gave mental tests to the three convicts at the prison now awaiting trial for the murder of two p rosin guards la- tne break of August IX. The testa were made for the sumose of furnishing information of the re salts to Governor Pierce. ' Saturday the same tAta wer given to William R. Lloyd, con fessed slayer of Clinton I. Baun. It independence taxi driver Prof. General DennlsE. Noun, deputy line inquiry being conducted along I Frank M. Eric k son. Instructor' la chief of stalL Both oliicers ae-iiwo separate unes oy the navy i mental measurements at Wlllam dined to say whether any decision I department. Captain Steele and concerning Colonel Mitchell's fut-1 Commander Jacob H. Klein-and ure had been reached as a result! their fellow officials Immediately of their meetinr. I or P tneir worg again. Rear f twi u ri.d to nstnrn I Admiral c, W. Dyson, inspector otrlf nt week from Forest Hills. a i vy department ette university, assisted In making the examinations. . Using the army alpha test. forms number i and T. which place ths mental age of a person of ordinary -or average Islelli- ready so many fast ships and air- the Davis cup tennis matches. It lanes engaged in the search that was regarded as probable that in use of the sampans would only be the meantime. Major General Er- an unnecessary expense to the nest Hlnes. commanding . ths Japanese. The fishermen promised eighth corps area at San Antonio their cooeration ia reporting un-1 would be In accord to obtain from N.Y.. where he went to of lle bureau of engln- jence at 14 years, the examiners r."' '""'"J " a-irouad that Tom Murray had men- ;,uui I laiuy or is.6 years, uausnally usual lights or wreckage. FISHERMEN ASK INCREASE NEW WEST- MINISTER. B. C. Sept. 6 Demanding an increase in prices protected by canneries for fish. 1.00 Fraier river fish ermen presented an ultimatum following a mass meeting here to day.: The fishermen are demand- Col. Mitchell a statement as to the authenticity of the. press reports! It has been the time-honored practice of ' ths war department. In dealing with problems such as ly. He will report directly to Sec retary of the Navy Wilbur. His pecia observation is to bo con centrated on possible weakness In the construction of materials of the wrecked dirigible It was definitely established In the investigation made today that the airship buckled amidships by the farce of the gsle and broke t A A t M - SSi Qt by,"-'hack salmon, six cents a pound "m, Mortan' ot the forcohee,anI 25 cenu apiece for iContinnxi on v,r ? ' ' chum salmon. THE COMBINATION ere making every ' effort to re cover more bodies which are be lieved to'lie under the , wreckage and water. At a late hour this afternoon six feet of water was stUl sweeping over, the. terminal yards and on Into the Columbia river, f l ; " ; " More than 60 yards of the Great Northern main' " I!n wn washed out by the flood down the PRISONS OVERCROWDED canyon and railway officials said ready- accepted from as a World I court, where :we - can settle our I differences by the orderly adju- ditioa of the law instead of by the ! wrangling, the brawllngs, and the eventual violence wmch are its only, alternatiyes, whetherf be- i tween men or between nations." tonight that it. will be impossi- " bit to repair the tracks until Mon day at least, i The'; east bound train was delayed here tonight. The water was four feet deep just ! (Continued oa pass S) CAPACITY OF FEDERAL IXSTT- TUTIOXS IS STRAINED v LYNCHING; ft I LLOYD TO REMAIN IN MTJLT- TACOMA, Wash., .Sept, 4. (By! Associated Press ) .-Congress Mil ton Shreve of Erie, Penn and I S TALKtU j district. New York, members of a! house subcommittee on; appropria tions, arrived, here ' today ' to in spect the McNeil Island federal penitentiary. f,: ; '(.-, .-, ; They were met here by Finch R. Archer, warden of the peni tentiary, who will take them to tne island prison Sunday. 'We found thej Leavenworth prison greatly overcrowded on our Fear that friends of G. F. Baun, murdered Independence taxi driv er and World war veteran,; might take the law Into their own hands and cheat the gallows at the state prison of its rightful prey, caused th Polk county, officials to piace.n.t tl . ,f . WJ R, Lloyd, confessed slayer of S ?t? T the taxi driver, in the Multnomah county ! jail for safe keeping. Joe Helgerson. Polk county district at torney, said yesterday. . , " i "Sayr It a good hard wind came long or thre husky men leaned against our county jail the build ing would fall over," Helgerson declared., "We are ,not able" to keep it desperate character in the jail, - let. alone keep1 anyone from tearing it to pieces -fronv the outside.:- "7 ,-- , Jr " - . jr,W- ' A 13-page confession, replete .'with details of the crime, wag ob tained, from Lloyd, the district at torney said. ' .'. . ;5 Z' -r; ' , Since the apprehension of the ex-convict an kiile,r there, have been persistent rumors that should he be returned to Dallas Baun had derstood by our committee that all the government's prisons, have more Inmates than they can care for properly said Representative Shreve on his arrival here. "The object of our tour is to make a special study of the conditions for the purpose of recommending con struction of an additional prison at some other point or enlarge ment of the present institutions." Mr. Shreve attributes the pres ent conditions to criminal legisla tion enacted during the past few " DISASTER BLAME PLACED FREDRICHSHAFEN,. Germany, Sept. 8. (By, Assotiatedl Press.) Reports from America that sufficient friends to save the state eiht tet Tal Were removed tU cost of a trial, and a short ,rom.tll, Sbnandoah is rejarded trial before" "judge lynch" has t the Zeppelin works here as a heen'discTissea. - - lexical exiransa'crtia crater. m - cm . j ; . ., ; fm .-., -bin are presented by the latest Mit- nto two sections, on stian tr-. cheipronouncement, to aetermme ballooning over a hazardous and tacts in tne case oy oiuciai circuitous course to a hillside rest- tlgaUon and then proceed along inif Uce 12 mne. tha lines Uld down la army regula- settling more Immediately to the "one. (ground. Further breakinr no of Colonel Mitchell has been called the portion which dropped more upon several times lately to ex-1 directly to the ground waa caused plain statements attributed to by the contact it could not aviod him. Secretary Weeks directed I with high tree tops. Come of these smaller fragments (CaUa4 o pr 2) I we lodged In the branche of trees that covered the stones. MURDER. CHARGE FILED CapUia Steele's statement, the I first formal pronouncement by a SLAYER OF OFFICER IS NOWnaT official concerning the wreck IN HOSPITAL: MAY DIE I "Id: "Tne cause or the disaster is TACOMA, Sept. 5. Should W11-TT apparently due. to the effect liam Charles, 27, slayer of Dollar La plant, marshal of Eatonvllle, win his battle with death at the county hospital here, he will live only to face trial on a charge of first degree murder, which was filed against him here today. Friday Charles appeared at the home of a relative in an intoxicat ed condition and when Marshal Laplant attempted to arrest him. tired a fatal shot at the officer. Laplant returned the fire; sending a bullet into the base of his as sailant's brain. Attendants st the of forces which the alrshlir was unable to withstand. I have sailed with Capuin Lansdown and I know. how careful a navigator he was." ! i CHURCH DISTRICT MOVED i t METHODIST' EPISCOPAL DIS- ! TRICTS REORGANIZED high; Ellsworth Kelley. 17 years, above average; James Wlllos, 11 years, or below average, and Wil liam Lloyd 1C.9 years. Estimates were made of both the mental and emotional responses of th men. "Murray's mentality could be compared, to that of Leopold, If such a comcarison could ) made," Anderson declared. "He has an lndoralnable will, aa af Ca ble disposition, and rapid mental response." His emotional resoons- es were described as "Intermit tent." rapid with some emotiots. but less so with others. Murray exhibited aa aptitude for mathe matics and In all comparktlvily simple problems made no errors.1 ins reasoning was shown to be above average, vwith a record of six errors out of some 80 ques tions requiring reasoning. Ia sew quired knowledge, he rated far above the average high school graduate, although he has had but a year and a half of high school work- Kelley is described by Anderson as having slow mental reactions knd deliberate but active emotion al responses. He exhibited an ability to fixate his attention over a long period with increasing ef fectiveness, although the usual tendency U for decreased effective ness, over a period of time. Ills answers- to Questions, revealed moderstely well developed erao- hospital reported this evening that, the injured man's condition was critical and that no change in his condition had taken place during the day. Marshal Laplant died this morn ing at 5 o'clock with a bullet wound in the lungs. He had serv ed as. marshal for only four days, having taken office September 1. SPOKANE. Sept, 5w (By the Associated Press.) Reorganixa tion of the districts In the Pacific northwest conference of the Meth- Eatonvmeiodlst Episcopal church south, ef- RUTH. WILL PLAY AGAIN BANISHED PLATER IS TO AP- . PEAR IN LINEUP SOON NEW .YORK. Sept, S. (By Associated Press.) Reinstate ment of Babe Ruth for the New York Yankees series next week with the Red Sox was expected by the exiled home run. king tonight, after Manager Miller Huggins had announced be would take the sus pended outfielder with the team to Boston, tomorrow. Declaring he had privately accepted Ruth's apology for criticism of his man agerial ability. Huggins said he had' made up his mind to put Babe back in the lineup, but declined to ssy wnsl day tbe restatement would take effect,. fected at today's sestloa of the annual meeting, transferred the eastern Oregon churches from the Inland Empire district to the Port ias d district and combined the Montana district "with the Inland Empire churches. Rr. J. M- Dills is presiding elder of the In- isna empire cistrict. but a new elder will be chosn for the Port land district. Rev. J, C. Jones hav- ing been placed on1 the . retired ministers list at his own request. The conference will, close San- day evening with the assignment of ministers. (CtU4 par 4) L . " EARTH SHOCK RECORDED SHARP QUAKE RECORDED 3Y GEORGETOWN; INSTRUMENT WASHINGTON. Sept, S. Er Associated Jr ess) "A very sharp earthquake" was recorded be tween 1141 a. n. and .2:30 p. n. today os the . aeismograph at Georgetown university. rather Tondorf, seismologist, said tte maximum disturb see was record ed" between 1J:1$ o'clock sad 12:18 o'clock. He estimated tbe distance at 5.50 miles frc-i Washington, bat was usable to determine the direction. FREE QUESTION.; COUPON The Great Koran, actentlfie mind rcadlag wizard, who apr at the Bllgh thia weHr, ThrongU sporfal trrsnrmrDt with Th Stateem&n, Koran has wnd'-rtakrn to atuwer all questions nt to him care of Tti KLatnuuan frw of charge. 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