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Newspaper Page Text-- - , ...... . ' J. - ' : SEVENTY.FIFTH YEAB. SALEM, OREGON- SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1925 PRICE FIVE CENTS GENERAL HORSE PLAY AT WILLAMETTE AIRED HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER LA SALLE STREET WOLF) VALfc-EY CREAMERYMEN t- STATE SCORES IB CONTROL BEING. SOUGHT TAKEN TO CELL TO DIE BAND AGAINST THIEVES ..' ' 'v'5t..-.-'' - r !---: - 'IS DELEGATES TO SPELL DISASTER ONE IS SUSPENDED AND AN OTHER OX PROBATION , PORTLAND HOUSEWIVES DE- FINANCE j KING BROUGHT TO MUTUAL PROTECTION TOPIC SIRE NEW STATE BOARD PRISON ON. STRETCHER ; AT SALEM MEETING i GAME POSTPONED ON ACCOUNT OF 'DELUGE COMPETmDN SAID TIL OF IlUf J:' n Will Attend General Executive Meeting to Be Held Next Year :, nm rinir mill POPKVFD President of Reed CoDege, Port land,' Talks lust Ntght; Thirty' third Annual Session Near , i Ing dose ' i ! Delegates to the general execu tive meeting In 1926 were elected at the Friday meting of the Wom an's Foreign Missionary confer t-aco, Columbia nrer branch, in o 3rd annual session at the First Slelhodist church. Mrs. W. H. Forsythe. of Yakima, Wash., was ciiouen for the Columbia rirsr branch with Mrs. H. V. Carpenter, PiUhaan. WashM alternate. From the Idaho branca Mrs. M. L.. Hst iland. Twin Falls, will be the del c sate with Mrs. H. W. Parker, 1 Grande, alternate.' The dele gates are elected a year in ad vance. Sirs. Nelson Will3, Tacoma Wash.: and Mrs. F. E. Dodds. of Worrie V Montana, will attend the general riexecutive session at Kansas City, illolhla tall. ' f-- -J Norman F. Coleman,: president " f Reed Cortege, Portland, deliver , ed the main address last night, dwelling upon the missionary sit uation in the Orient and the rela tion; of the white man's . religion fth that of the Orient and of the missionary endeavors In foreign 1 com-tries. Dr. Coleman has made a personal study of conditions in the Orient. The spirit of brother hood must replace the spirit of raeitl arrogance; he said. Afternoon derotionals jwere Jed by Mrs. W. H. Forsythe with H memorial service.' Mrs. C. W. Aid rich ; reported on the junior work. 'Which now. has 4240 mem bers. Work of the home base was explained by Mrs.? Jesse E. Davis. Mrs. Walter Gill, In the annual report .on finances, reported $59, 4 G1T.4 9 f eneral receipts and.; dis bursements: of ,$55,074.98 to Af rica. China, Central Europe, In dia, Jarian, Korea, Malaysia" and 1 the Philippine Islands. . Miss Flor ence Hooper delivered the main address of the session., havine as I lier topic "Royal Roads and Some fS v .-Who Tread Them." The roads. T i she- said, were courage, pioneering, 1 yJu- elf-forf etfulness and increasing VJ Other Teports were giren by Mlsa Hngh , Cummings, Standard Bearers; Mrs. John West, , supplies arid money for , the Goyarat con ference and Mrs. F. A. Gniler, P.ellingham. Wash., on - Christian stewardship. Miss Florence Say les. who told of missionary work Jn Cbina. 4 Miss Ruth Warner de scribed missionary work in Sonth America. ; An instrumental solo was orfered by Miss Louke Find-ley;-'.' K " 'i. ,. ' r Roy. Thomas Acheson. pastor of the Jason Lee Memorial church; cohduct-'d the morning derotion als. These were followed? by an address by Miss Louise 'Godfrey, of India. Mrs. F. A; Searvlc, Scat tl'i. reported for the Norwegian Danish auxiliaries while. Mrs. C. Li BoTard, Helena, Mont., report ed for her jstate. Mrs. H, , W. Parker, La Grande, recently of Boise, Idaho parrish, told of con ditions la her part of the state and Idaho. '-. -.- - ' . j "A Study in Brack and White.' was the topic of Miss Maud Cone. Ji'jm f roJi Africa on tick leare. Mrs; C. W. Hnett, Oresham. hmi r.h play upon the imagina- 4 1 . m, - - m U. . 1 ' I. " autuence; on an A" Airship view" of foreign lands. ft --'jrAt paul Edwards, wife, of the -, -k pasior or bunnyslde chcrch. Pr.rt- land, :ca the "quiet hour." Musical: numbers during xhe morning session Included ' a vocal solo bv Mrs. Clyde Williamson Albany, accompanied by Mrc. G V. Fallis. wife of the Methodist pastor, also of Albany. Miss Hel en Johnson, of" the ; Sunnyside church pf Portland, sang, accom panied by Miss,, Dorothy t Bar her. Canas, Wash. Both n stodr-nts at- Willamette university. Toui g people's night will he ob rerved today, with roll call,' songs and : stunts at 51 30 Vcloct, with Mrs. Hugh Cummings , presiding. The conference will close Sun TAX LET HIGHER V7.A.LLA1 WALLA, ,Wash.. Oct. 3 . The cou n ty , ; commisg ion e re this afternoon formally , adopted the county4 budget for the year 1925., The total tax. levy for the county will be-' 9,7 3 mills as com- part'd with 9.22 mills last year, ' This does hot" Include the state levy, the county assessor :now be ing occupied In working on these figures, Group Ousted From City Library and Restriction Made at State Ruilding General horse play on the' part of Willamette university students has resulted in a group of them being ousted Iron the city library, all students being requested to sit at a special table in he supreme court library, in the suspension of one student, the placing on proba tion or another and the possible placing on probation of three others for conduct in the univer sity library. - ; " It seemf that a general good time was planned at the university the other evening, with the pro gram consisting of roping Dr. F. G: Franklin, university - librarian, in his office. At the recent recep tion of the YWCA-YMCA held in the library, a piano was moved in to assist In the program. Accord ing to the report, the piano was also used in the program of the evening ln question, being used as an anchor; for a rope whose other end- was tied to the knob of the door of Dr. Franklin's office in such a manner as to make impos sible the opening of the door in the ordinary way. Dr. Franklin unscrewed the door from the in side, jerking the-door open and tearing the outside knob tied to the rope. I He thereupon declared that the library would be closed for the remainder of the evening. It Is not quite clear Just how the names of . those implicated were obtained, but because of the episode, Cornelius Bateson, step son of W.'i C. Culberfeon, Portland hotel many and associate editor of the Willamette publication, the Collegian,; as well as interclass ri valry chairman, was" suspended from school for two weeks, accord ing to the report. It was said last spring that he was to be placed on probation? for an escapade Involv ing the return of some university girls to Lausanne hall, the girls' dormitory, at an early hour of the morning, j t Warreh Day, president of" the student ibody, whose father, J. W. Day, is on the Willamette board of tmsteesv Is alsormpllcatedi , Kenneth McCormick, who has been identified t with religious work on I the campus, Is also In volved. His father is a professor 'in the Kimball school of theology. Loyal i Warner. Salem TMCA worker, and manager of this year's WallulahL and ; Bruce Spaulding, whose father is a Methodist minis ter, are also said to be itxea up in the affair. Shortly after this occurence and on the same evening, a group of Willamette students made such a riot in? the city library that the librarian! in charge, was compelled to ask the .Willamette students to leave the building. She called Dr. Carl G. j Doney, president of the Institution, informing him that if such conditions should continue. the WillameXte students would not be allowfed to use the city library after 6 o'clock in the evening.: Dr. Doney, It is, reported, gave the li brarian Specific authority to phone the police station if such an afrair should recurr, and to have the stu dents taken Into custody. - I - - - WRONG MEN ARE HELD MISTAKE IS MADE IN ENDEAV- OR; TO FIND KUiLERS YAKIMA, Oct. 9. Two men were arrested by mistake in El lensburg this morning for the murdeV of Thomas Dovery, Kelso editor; accoding to the story'they told here Friday. Merril A. Craker and William Wilson, the two men temporarily detained, were re leased when: the Ellensburg police judge recognized Craker as a for mer police officer of Pasco. The two men. were taken from a load of apples to Easton where they were met by Mrs. Crakerr who was on ihef way back from Seat tie. Mrs. Ciaker,, who was taken into custody- with her husband, claims she. is a niece of Jesse James, fa mous bandit of the mi'ddlewest several ' yesrs ago. ; DUCKS AND GEESE DYING i -i - - . - . i UNIDENTIFIED MALADY RE SULTS IN DEATH .TO FOWLS. KLAMATH FALLS. Or., Oct. .. (By jAssociated Pre.) Thous ands of ducks and geese lie :dead in Tula Lake as a result of a strange malady, believed induced either, by alkali water or by rank, stagnant ponds, U became known to-iayi To cope with the situation the United States biological sur rey has been notified and will con duct an examination to determine what is the cause of the wholesale deaths in the ranks of thousands upon (housings gi gacio birds. Jupiter Pluvius Obliges Se: nes Management to issue Ram Tickets NEEDED REST PROVIDED Both Camps Take Advantage of Delay; Blaege Will Be in Line . Up in Today's Game, Is Said WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. (By Associated Press. ) Rain drops, curved .across the landscape by that ; 'familiar old veteran, J. Plu vius,5 silenced the batteries of world series forces today and put oft until torr arrow tne renewal of hostilities between the deadlocked Washington Senators and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Th finwnnnur started at 8 o'clock this morning.' It kept up almost continually until noon when a deen sea conference, par ticipated in by Commissioner Lan- dls, ! President Griffith of the Washington club and Manager Bill McKechnie of the pirates, conclud ed that the field at Griffith stadi um was In no condition for cham pionship combat. , Then iust to play a prank on the thousands of capital rooters disap pointed in their hopes of seeing the first game on home soil. Old Sol checked the watery attack and gave a balmy finish to the afternoon. The chief encourage ment in" this, however, was the nrosnect that tomorrow and the following two days would provide suitable weather for the play to go on tender its delayed schedule. The washout provided an unex pected and yet needed reBt for most of : them In the warring camDS. " desDlte the impatient de- Sire of the competitors to keep in stride, but it. was especially a blessine In disguise to Bucky' Har ris and his gallant champions. The Senators came back to their home port with ranks somewhat shattered and shaken in sustain ing Iheii first defeat of the series in the second game yesterday ana todsr'a rest oresented an opportu nity to consolidate their lines once more. It not only provided an in terval which will permit the two Washington sharp shooters, Johnson and Coveleski to come back to the firing line earlier than had been hoped, -but It also was expected to assure the return to the llneuD of Ossle Biuege, cm liant third baseman, who was laid low by one of Aldridge's fast ones yesterday. 'Biuege tonight was prpnounced entirely out of danger of any ill effects of the blow that struck him down and cast an added bit of gloom over the Senator game in the midst of defeat. An X-ray of the third Backer's head revealed ' (Continue nn pg S) MORE Original Members Named in Pro- posca constitutional Amena ment Is Filed I Here Establishment of f an Oregon Water and Power board through an amendment to the; constitution Is sought by the Housewives Council, 'Inc.;. of Portland J and Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state,1 requested to give it title and place it on the ballot at the; next general election. Members of th council signing the petition are Josephine M. Othus, president; Clara Mil Si- monton, director and Mary A. Dean, chairman of the legislative committee, all of Portland. 11 The proposed amendment would give the board power! over the de velopment and distribution of wa ter for domestic purposes. It also prorides that no plant shall be purchased for a consideration of more than $500,000! without the proposal being approved at a gen eral election. Bonds of the State of Oregon not to exceed five per cent of the assessed valuation, payable in cot more than 50 years. are to be issued to carry out the provisions of the amendment The board is given power to issue and sell interest bearing public certifi cates for the construction of ac quisition of any public utility au thorized under the I amendment Rates of service shall be estab lished by the board. Revenues are to revert to the state treasury 'Continued on ptgt 8) MANY AUTOS LICENSED INCREASE OF 21,004 ' OVER 1921 PERIOD SHOWN The total number of motor ve hicles, passenger cars, commercial cars (less than one-ton capacity), busses, stages, ambulances1 and hearses, trucks and trailers, regis tered by the department of the secretary of state for the period of January 1 to September 15, 1925, inclusive, was 204,354, an increase of 21,004 oter the corres ponding period of 1924. Of these 16,004 were trucks Hand tralhrs,f &8 compared to 14,268 for 1924, and 188,350 were Of vehicles of the former group of classification, an increase of 19,263 over the registrations for the like ! period of 1924. The total number of motorcy cles registered for the January to, September 15 period of 1925 was 2,429, which was 228 less than the same period of 192 4; the 1925 chauffeur registrations num bered 13,738. which was 581, which was but three short of the number registered for the 1924 period. The total number of mo tor vehicle operators registered to September 15, 1925, was 353, 740. Since these licenses are not required to be renewed under the law the number given is cumula tive since the law went into effect, July 1, 1920. I TROllBLE AT THE MOORING Lart Desperate Stand By Attorneys Is Unavailing; Career ' Notorious , CHICAGO.-Oct. (By Asso ciated Press.) John W- Worth ington, "the wolf . of La Salle street," who yesterday -came back to Chicago to die, tonight was on his way to the i Atlanta -penitentiary. The "wolf" Whose career in frenzied finance netted him a for tune and impoverished thousands of investors of moderate means. was taken from the federal build ing to the railroad station on a stretcher and started for the pris on to serve a two year's sentence for using the mails in a scheme to defraud. As he was being tak en to the train, his attorneys made a last desperate effort to save him from tse penitentiary. They sept a telegram to Attorney Gen eral Sargent at Washington ap pealing to him "In the -name of humanity" to delay the removal off Worthington because it might caiise his death, an appeal that had been successful in the, fed eral courts once before. No re plf had been received when the train left with the prisoner in charge of deputy United States marshals.! Worthington, accompanied by his daughter Alice, came back to Chicago yesterday from Mexico whence he fled from Los Angeles last summer. He summoned his attorneys and announced he had returned to the scene of his fin ancial operations to make hla will, to - make peace with the govern ment and to die. :. This morning his attorneys ap peared before Federal Judge Adkm C. Cliffe and asked for a stay of execution from thirty to sixty days to allow Worthington to arrange his affairs because of -the condition of his health. jtnatead deputy marshals were dispatched to his hotel, carried Worthington forth on a stretcher ann brought him to the federal building where orders were issued to wiurx mm lur ausuw iiuuicu lately. i Worthington's attorneys said tsfcn ; his -wilL he -disposed - ef about $2,000,000 bequeathing most of it to two daughters. Des pondent creditors, who believed him penniless, were heartened by the reports of his will and began considering whether they might not recover some of their losses. One of them buried to court and instituted a claim against Worthington for FloTida Road and Bridge bonds stolen from him and .which a former employe of the "wolf" tried to dispose of. GRAIN CROP LARGER SPOKANE, Oct. 9. (By Asso ciated Press.) Spring grain yields ner acre considerably above the acre yields of last year and equal to or greater than the 10-year average for the statet of Washing ton are forecast. MAST Sproule Says Southern Pa cific May Build ITrans continental Route PROJECT IS CONDITIONAL Work Will Not Be Started, Direc tor of Finance Declares, if Or egon Trunk Invades Field PORTLAND, Ore. Oct. 9 (By Associated Pre3.) fA transconti nental lihe to the east will be pro vided by the Southern Pacific com pany, declares its president, Wil liam Sproule, testifying today be fore Charles D. Mahaffie, director of finance of the Interstate com merce commission, provided there is no competition in the Southern Pacific territory which the Oregon Trunk has asked permission to en ter. "Competition, however, would be disastrous," he said. "It is fine in theory- but in practice it spells ruin and this is shown not only in the .railroad business1 but in tVe lumber manufacturing business and other similar enterprises in all sections of the United States. "When the market is good, all of the mills commence to cut and the market is glutted. Then the price falls and business slumps There is no business for any of them. The same would be true if the Oregon Trunk were allowed to make its extensions,; because the Klamath basin will net provide for many years enough : business for more than one carrier. "Plans of the Southern Pacific will give Portland and Oregon a new transcontinental line to the east, so located On the one. hand as to serve the greatest agricultural and timber sections of Oregon, and on the other hand, provide a mid continental route fixing these sections direct service to the ma jor part of the United States." The Union Pacific system lent its support to the Southern Pacific company's projects when Carl R. Gray; president, sent a message which M r7 proaY read, pledging the Union .Pacific to cooperate with the Southern Pacific in pro viding cars for the! new service, The Union Pacific and allied lines, with a total of .61.240 miles of track, will assist the Southern Pa cific in getting all of the cars nec essary for the state, said the mes sage. .' ' The Klamath Falls project was planned 20 years ago, said Mr. Sproule, and the time has come when a new main line east is need ed to take care ot the growing business of the country. Threat ened entrance of the northern lines into the territory had noth ing to do with the prosecution of the work, he said, j FOG HAMPERS! SHIPPING TWO VESSELS COLLIDE; ONE GROUNDS IN HEAVY MIST PORT ANGELES, Wash., Oct. 8. (By Associated Press.) The steamship Texan, which . collided this afternoon with the Admiral Dewey "in . the; Strait of Juan de Fhca three 'miles eas"t of Dunge ness, arrived here tonight. T Be sides some scraped paint and one rivet cat off, the vessel was un damaged, if-. Tom Duffy, pilot aboard, the Texan, said the steamer's engines were gofng full speed astern wheff the Dewey scrapd the side of the ship. He said- the impact was so light that it could nffc be felt from the bridge of the Texan. Duffy Bald that visibility Was limited to 50 feet because of a! heavy fog. VICTORIA, B. C:, Oct. 9. (By Associated Press.) ---The Canadian Pacific Steamship princess Kath leen went ashore In Victoria:, har bor this afternoon ja few minutes arter; casting off for Seattle in one of th heaviest fogs1 in years. The vessel pulled .herself off five min utes (later and returned here for an examination. The extent of her damage was undetermined at an early hour tonlght.l The Princess Kathleen plies between Victoria and Vancouver and- Seattle. , . MONDAY NOT HOLIDAY PIERCE WILL NOT ISSUE: ANY PROCLAMATION ' ! 1 Columbus -dy will not be pro claimed a legal hotiday. Governor PJerce said today. ; The attorney general refused to render a de cision, holding that it was outside his Jurisdiction as state business is riot concerned, j The::: statute lists legal holidays; in Oregon and designates Coiurabhs dav. October 12, as a "public'1 holiday Re ouest that a, proclamation , be Is sued declaring holiday was made by the PprtUnd clearing house, : Cooperative Association to Re main With Northwest Group " Another Year ' . Members of the Capital City C1 operative Creamery held a lunch eon Friday noon ' at which there was a meeting of the board of director. There "were also sev eral vi&ltinr representatives of outside creameries who gathered for the purpose of talking over the matter of mutual protection from butter thieves that have shown up in the Willamette valley lately. General routine business was' dis pensed with at the meeting of the directors. H is at this time of the year that notice has to. be given to the North Pacific cooperative creamery asso ciation as to whether or not the local company means to stav in the association during the coming year. The local company intends to stay in 'the association for an other year, according to word re ceived from its office. All the creameries are toSetay in the as sociation, and it i highly prb- abin that four others will Join. . he highest average scores In all butter contests for butter ex hibitions in Oregon, Washington una (.aliiornia during the last eight months have been made by members of the association, it was rt.waled at the office of the co operative creamery ,.nvjany, Members of L the association won first r nd second prizes at the Ore gon state fa?r. Average scoies t:ade.by the members of the ae .sociaticn were two points higher than those made by outside com panies. It was a member of the atsotiitlon also that Made the highest Oregon score at th-! na tional ' buttermakers' convention. First places were aTao taken by associ-u.'on members is the Wash iagten -and California state fairs. The average scores of the :tsso ci.itibn members has been raised during the laet eight months from SJvj. to 93.- MOTOR RECEIPTS HEAVY STATE COLLECTS $3,05l77.Sf DURING YEAR Net receipts from motor ve- mcie, motorcycle, dealer, chauf feur and operator registration fees collected r.by the department pf secretary of state for the annual period September 16, 1924 to Sep tmber 15, 1925, inclusive amount ed to 15,0 or. 377.59. Of this amount $1,262,844.40 was ap portioned among the several coun ties of the state, being, in accord ance with the law, one-fourth of the net receipts apportioned Upon the basis of the number of regis trations within such counties, on March, 15 and. September 15, and $3,788,5.13.19 was credited to the state highway fund. The total nft receipts for the September 16, 1923 to September 16. 1-924 period Was $4,559,744.73 of which the counties'-share, upon the one-fourth basis, was $1,139. 93648 and that apportioned to the highway fund was $3,419, 808.55. ' ' Marion , county contributed $313,706.56 and received in re turn one-fourth," or $78,426.64. From the county the state highway- fund received 02 S5,2 7 9.9 2. SAYRE'S NAME URGED HARVARD MAN, WANTED FOR UNIVERSITY HEAD Pressure is being , brought to bear upon the board of regents of the University of Oregon to consider, the name of Francis B. Sayre, son-in-law .of the late Pres ident WoodrOw Wilson, as presi dent of the university to fill the vacancy created .by the death of P. L. Campbell. Sayre; professor of international law, at Harvard, is said to be unaware that friends are urging his name upon the boards . GRID MATCHES LISTED TWO CONFERENCE OA ME 8 SCHEDULED FOR TOtAY , SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 9 ..-(By Associated Press).---Two confer ence games and an inter-sectional clash top the list of - football games scheduled for the Pacific coast tomorrow. The' Universities of Utah and Sonthrn, California will meet at Los Angeles. In- the; conference engagements, Oregon and Idaho line up at Eugene, ; Ore., while Washington entertains Montana at Seattle. - . .. '-. k-At Berkeley; the University of California is to face its first real test of the season against the strong San Francisco Olympic team. ' : '. : ' - 'rr'kk.y? v ':';:" Stanford is expected to have a fairly" easy time with Occidental college, in their, game at Pslo Alto. New Era Statement Is Intro duced as Evidence? Re volver Is Identified ' DEFENSE IS OVER-RULED Links in Chain Being Tightened; Eye Witness and Others Give Mach Damaging - 1 Testimony' The state scored twp , decisive points, yesterday in the Murray trial. The first, when the writ ten and signed statement made by the three convicts at the New- man home In New Era, wag in troduced In evidence over the ob jection of the defense, and the second, when Mortis W. Miller, ' principal keeper at the state pri son, ihdentified the revolver used ' by Murray In the escape, as be longing to him. , These two links in the chain' of evidence, being wrought about the escaped con vict accused of killing John Sweeney, a guard, are declared to be the strongest yet forged by the state. : , ? Charles L- Newman was called to the witness stand late In the afternoon, and identified the writ , ten and signed statement made by Murray, Keiley and Willos. The account was written by Newman himself, and was dictated by Mur ray, the witness declared. In every instance in the narrative, where j. the first person 'L" was used.' "ewman said, it referred to Mur ray. - The entire document was read aloud to the jury by John Carson, district attorney. It contained several statements, evidently dam aging the cause of the defense, and was introduced ; as evidence and read after the defense had filed objection, but was over ruled by the court, "I took two revolvers," Mar? ray is said to v hare dictated , to Newman, "a .38 Colt and .32 .20 Smith and Wesson . . . . ... I threw Willos the .38 Coif Probably the. most '"damaging statement occurs "farther; down the narrative. ' The escape, from the turnkey's office Is described, after which the three convicts took refuge behind an oak tree in the prison yard, not; far from tower one. During this time, the guard in the tower was firing at them, and the convicts, were shooting' into .the tower; ' . i Murray, dictating the state ment, said: "As it was his life or ours, I shot him in the head with the pistol, the .3 2-.20, and he fell dead. I then ran up the "steps.: I called to Lute Savage to ' come over as we wanted to use him, -but he did not come. I took a shot at him with my pistol. 1 " f I District Attorney Carson of fered the statement ? to" Newman and asked : him ' to identify " the handwTitlng.' It is my" hand WTiting," Newman d eeiared. "While at rny house, Keiley, pro posed writing a narrative of ihe escape, and made several attempts offering the result to me to read. It ws a jumbled affair; and' I proposed that I should write it for them. ' Murray dictated it to me, word for word. When it waa fJn inshed, each of the three convicts signed it and. attached, their fin-; ger prints." Newman identified the signatures as welt as the fin ger prints, and declared, they were made: in his presence. ' The de-. fense had previously objected to permitting the statement being offered in the court. records, de claring it was not competent and was irrelevant. . . Morris W Miller, the principal (Contlnoad Q pm S) ' TANGLED KIN IRKS k - ' . INVOLVED RELATIONSHIP IS AIRED IN COURTS . CHICAGO, Oct, 9-( By As sociated 4 Press.). Mrs.; Anna Shunk, : 2fr, summoned into court today by Iter husband, John. 50,; for going out wights, complained that , her relatives were so much related .that re lief in the form of diversion, was necessary. . s -My mother ran away, from my father .- Ja Germany find came to America, wiib. Skunk, she said. " adopted rat broth er, Edward, 14. J and became his mother. " Then y; mother died, and I rao to America and married ity tp father, and we had a. son, John, 10.- -? v ''So 'i-. I am - my elder - son's mother and sister, my husband Is tny etep father. ad hlso ihe grandfather of his younger "sooi the' sons are -hair brolherj:,. tat the older in 4hs uaclc of the yo'jRger." ! " ' : ' ' ' : ; The court wrote it all down on' a place of paper and took the case under advisement.