PRICLl FIVE CENTS OREGDfj CITIES " - V f -" ' - i Downfall Laid to Attempt to Best Restaurant Owner BATTER SHJPS DF DRY FORCE TO BE TIKEO ISO Failure to Return Tray Leads Police to Discover Large Qaan . tity of California Moonshine; Two Men and Two Women From Sacramento Landed in Jail II I k i . ifli :s' .i 3. l. .i .. . :( ' mm m . m i'i s-' m rvi ' rvi n w nil iiiv .... m. i m v w . -w l . t v . j btUhtit li LtS ubakctches.Mark - . piSESil LIBERTY SPAN -" . STDTPQnifin SiinriQirFaQfiifA 1 ,,,l,ujhy ,UIU1 tlul-M.1 1 V" nccipr pni ULUIIIL I UtyL Distress Calls from !Mihe Storm Tossed Vessels I -HURRICANE- IS UNABATED Gales Lose kittle ot.F&tfclty Al. though Destruction jNoti mm , r t pcnou, 4 ouip paster NEW YORK. Jin. 30 -(By As- iclated, Press.) The paw jot the Atlantic's week -long gale has now slapped at nine more shlps Bend ing theto Tt'eilngl ands calling for .help- "One, a sailing shipv was toeing towed t6 pert tonlgh with 'her sails go&e and her sides; badly battered. Two other sailing snips hore to nntil the sterol letr them alone. Another, was drifting with the wind, a fifth, a, Qelrman tag, was being sought fn reply to her QSn jSUli, janotherl had. patched her. injuries and was limping into vtu . rne crew oi suu another a little schooner, had been trans t erred to another ihfn J A mrTinnn- er and k nm - "f as crew of the schooner -as idrift 'ti'llfeooatsv f'- 'V ' - Though tie ton of storm joday did not compare with its destruc tion of the freighters Laristan and Antlnoe earlier In the jweek, re ports xrom the ships in distress v said tne hurricane had lost! little of its ferocity. The President, Rooseyelt,! with ftescned crew of 25 men! froict the Antinoe aboard,; ' was i near in g Qneenstown tonight ; where, re ports said, a tremendous oration ras awaiting them..1.; I Two ships put out to sea iagaln f rom ; Kew ?Xt2B5rhBjCuniarder Aquitanla and the trench 1 liner SYance. , Both are going balt in to the storm area through which they battled only a few jday4 ago. Half a - dozen In-bound ! ships re ported they would be delayed The flre-masted schooner Bright of Georgetown, Me. cried for help today when she was 120 miles off Ambrose light, and the coast guard cutter i Seneca went to her! aid. All her wnches had been smashed thai the nori low- in by the high seas, so crew could neither raise r her sails. The winds had Strip ped, her sails away, and shel was drifting helpless when the 'Seneca took" her in tow. The snips which, hove to TiWere the jted Cross liner Rosalind Xrom St. Johns, N. F., and the City of Melbourne from Calcutta. Both are bound for Halifax. I ( f A German ship, glTihg her name as the Caulus. but believed tlo be the tngtPaurus, sent, eutj an! SOS giving her poslton about 1 100 miles off the tip of i the J Spanish le . said the ' storm peninsula. ; She was unabated. No ship Giulus appears in shipping registers. ; The Caurus is owned by the DeutSche Werks company, and her home port Is! Kiel. H J j f The : steamship . America picked crew of the four-master Tif ton of up the Captain and three ot the Boston;, which had turned orer in tne gaie on tne jrioriaa coast. : The America reported the re lett in fcndur- mafnder of the crew was lifeboats. ' The tugboat ance was wrecked six m Iles out, CsatiaBM psx - t STEP UP, flDDL CANDIDATES : READY FOR UQXS OLD lEIXJpY An old fiddlers' contest jat Ae; Salem armory oa February $ was made' cerUln yesterday iy the prompt response of mien igile with tbe,bowr and long I in ;heir memories f the j"ongs sen lored before TTflns penta sras born. ; ' . 1 Lou Lunsford, chairman tot Ae committee, announced " tne following entries for prlsi flddl sng honors to be awarded by rerdict of the audience : f B.a. Pruitt, John Oudeans. V." C. Mathes, G. V.'. llllli Clar ence Blakeley, Villlam C;al4r. T. t. Stalcup, W. S. Slfijmo, t. M.'Grore, JTD. MiyesJ O. A.' Sanders and W. F. CoopeK Efn Iries are still open nd.the try is ' "step np fiddler!'.; ' j An old fashioned dance will bllow the contest, ThO public s inrited, : Profits will jo jto :he - Lions " ctarlty; fund, and iweet rr enjorics ot a happy eye ling will remain with j those reseat. - ' . ' ' ; Ether .Med ' With State House Reporter to'Comjnehl Freely on ileri Wh6 MoVe Hu-ousii tbe News Series Wffl 5pntiptre Throughoat Coming Campaign I - - . . , c - - - : fSX:-ty,?-c . : .Editorial Note: With this issue, the, Sunday Statesman begins a series of weeldy political articles which will 'contintre until the coming campaign has been settled at th6 polls. They reveal insight into the ppHt'ical situation and contain pointed comments on tne activities tne news. By State House Reporter ; , Whether governor Pierce will seek reelection or will enter .the contest for. United States senator at the primary elction next May, is the question that has 'caused considerable specu lation in local political ; circles during the past week; The fernor has refused to discuss nis future political aspir aficms otBerrthah istalihg that he would inaVe Ws? formal iannouncetnentin due time. - ; M' . CIps'e political friends of the governor said, however, that from what hey had been able to learn the 'executiv is well DR. EPLEY URGES BOYS JCHORUS TO MEW, RALLY - - . I ALL WHO EVER SANG ASKED TO ttETCttN okCH MORE Fred J. Tooze to Address Group at YMCA Meeting on Tliursday Dr. H. C. Epley, director of the Salem Boys Chorus "since its cre ation. Is urging; aU the boys In the city who were ever in the thoru3 to report at the next meeting to be held Tuesday night at -the YMCA, aad to practice for a grand concert; as a feature of the! dedi cation of the new building. . gome men are also needed for the concert, ;ln which Dr. Epley hopes' to , hare more Voices; than in any . concert ever given by a local organisation. Men are! need ed to nil in the tenor and bass sections, in order to round oiit the roices of the boys, which arejmost ly soprano; j At the Tuesday meeting Of the Chorus,' the boys will be given a banquet In the dining trooih " of tne imva. irrea jr. , iooze can didate or . the Republican, nomi natfo'npr. state 'superlntehdent of public instruction, will be tJval principal' speaker. One of the ' objectives of the organization for "the past several years has .been a new building for the local YMCA. The boys have the satisfaction f knowing! they were the first i to pledge money for the f erection of the : building that is rapidly neaiing comple tlpn now. ? -First pledging was made jthree years ago. No definite suni was set, but already the hoys have tnmed in. through concert j pro fits "and fees, oyer $500v tojward the new building ' ; ; f - Part of this money raised by the boys VjU beusedo, buy a new piano for the new building. The piano will be placed .In the lecture rooms on the second floor, and will toe used by the chorus at the rehearsals. , Every year for- the past j fire years there "have neen between 250 and 300 boys injthe chorus. Each year a certain number of boys, reaching the age at, which their voices change,, have natur ally dropped out of the chords. SIX iEj KILLED BY GAS FATHER AND FIVE CHXLDRKX DIE; TWO OTHERS ILL CLEVELAND, Ohio. Jan, I 30. (By the Associated Press) (-The mvatri6ns illness ' here vesterday of seven members of the family of Arthur 1 i Fulvi, 33,. a machinist, which resulted in the death of the father and five children, was due to monoxide gas. "according to the report of "jcbemls'ts, wno $ jamlned the bodies today. - t The body of the father and those of four children were found In the .home ' yesteriday 'afternoon by police who had been called, by a neighbor whose attention had been aroused by Mrs. FuItI. faint, from r the gas effects, tapping on a window. " " The: 'list ; ot dead was : increased to six today .when Jeano, ged three, sept, to he -hospital iwith her mother, passed away. DOLLAR .BIDS FDB .L HE ONLY OXE'BID IS ; RECEIYED '-: FOR ORIENTAL S1ID7S WASHINGTON Jan. C( the Associated Press)--Only U bid was f received today by j one the of San Francisco, was not fh finpri first ions set forth iAWWW. p'Wn w ; ii . ia an advertisement calling for bids. Ills offer was for $500,000 for each of the fire ships with a guarantee to maintain the serylce shipping board for the sale or the. I Admiral Oriental line running: out J1 j 'jy-tin f- f'v of men constantly. featuring in satisfied with the office he now holds and , .has no ..desire to enter the senatorial contest. In ccramenting pa the, political status of the governor, one of his appointees said : . . t'Yotl may rest assured that Governor Pierce will be a candi date for re-election. The report that he is considering the advisa bility of entering the contest for United SUtes. senator is' all bunk." Thomas B. Kay, state treasurer, has let it be known? that he will expose any attempt on the part of state officials or employes who attempt to carry oh i any part of their campaign prior, to the 1926 elections at the expense of the tax payers. In previous campaigns several office seekers seeking re election were reported to have utilized the services pttate em ployes in sending out letters, and made frequent trips to the rural districts in automobiles maintain ed by the taxpayers. Every effort will be made to prevent thiB prac tice in the future, Mr; Kay said. : John H. C ark in of Med ford, member of the legislature" and prominent in the affairs of Jack son county, will be a candidate foi re-election at the; primary contesU in May. It successful In his cam paign Mr. Carkin probably wil be a camdJdtft.forpakex-AfJjM.JJ;"'3 fuw house.' MrrCarklnspeiit two dayt TwpPW- " in Salem last, week; attending . a meeting of the, sale tax investigat ing committee ahdy conferring with state officials. Despite many Queries received here during the past few weeks, Sam a! Kozer, secretary of state, still maintains a sphinx-like atti tude with relation to hia political aspirations and has made no defi nite announcement as to whether he will enter the contest for gov ernor at the primary election. It Is no secret here.5 however, that Mr. Kozer is cbnsidering the advisability of throwing his hat In the ting 'and there 'are many itate officials 'add employes who believe that his formal announce ment will t be Issued within the next two weeks. Mr. Koser recently subscribed Cmtinqd .n pgt J.) Secretary Andrews Declares Splendid Progress Has Been Made in Field TAKE IMPORTANT STEPS Closer SapeVvision of Alcohol Manufacture Is One Reason ; for Success . Head - of Bureau States WASHINGTON. Jan. 30. (By the Associated Press) With three j quarters of his first year as head" of the prohibition en forcement corps behind him. As sistant Secretary Andrews of the treasury declared today that "splendid : progress has been made" in enforcement, and that the reconstructed administrative machine now Is "in a position to operate effectively." The assistant secretary feelp that the tnost important stride? have been ! accomplished In es tablishing a closer supervision of alcohol. i He asserted a fifty per cent re duction had been made in the number of permits for independ ent denaturing plants since Sep tember 1. jln New York alone he declared thirteen out' of 15 such permits have been withdrawn af a result of a "generally closer scrutiny" of such plants, and pro hibition administrator Foster hap submitted figures showings re duction of 30.0,000 gallons a month in the amount withdrawn there in the last four months. "I . i The 24 new federal administra tors have now "set both feet on the ground! and Mr. Andrews be lieves there will be steady irc rress Id curbing the sources, o SPANS ATLANTIC OCEAN FRANCO REACHES ARGENTINE IN FLIGHT FROM SPAIN FERNANDO'. DE NOROHN ISLAND, Brazil. Jan. 30. (By Associated Press.) After a con tinuous flight ot approximately 15 hours, the Spanish seaplane Plus Ultra, in command of the noted air pilot Franco, completed the longest and most perilous stage of its flight from Spain to Argentina, South America, coming down in the sea off this island at 8 o'clock this evening.j Commander Franco at first girdled the island in search ot a good landing spot, but found none because of the heavy surf. He again flew out to sea and alighted there. SMOKING OUT THE VARMINT! '' ' '.5 i - ... Construction of Bridge Over Creek at Liberty Street Urged CITIZENS MEET MONDAY Advantages of Concrete Over Steel Frame to Be Thrashed Out Along With Pro posed Finance Shall Salem have a bridge over :he Mill Creek oh South Liberty itreet, thus opening up clear xcross the city the one street that is destined to become the big msiness street of Salem? This is the question that will be discussed at a special meeting if owners of property on South Liberty street. The meeting will be held in the rooms of the Salem Chamber of Commerce and will start promptly at 7:30. All who tire interested in seeing Liberty street opened up are urged to be present to discuss the proposition of putting in the bridge. It is generally conceded throughout the city that there should be a bridge connecting Lib arty street in the, amnapirtofoao erty street in South Salem. But it is also conceded that Salem should launch a complete program of building concrete bridges. Whether or not the Liberty street ' bridge is more important than the others seems to be the principal lsBue at the present ime. Those really acquainted with the tfVidge situation of Sa- 3m do not hesitate in stating: that Khet. Liberty street - bridge ia the iost important one up lor con ideraion. I Besides .there are bridges else where. Those interested believe 'X 13 mor urgent to create the -Liberty street bridge than it Is to enovate the other bridges. One objection jto building the liberty street bridge has been :hat it wUr cost too much. There, is a steep 'grade; on what would be the south approach of the bridge. It is claimed that the bridge, in order to meet this grade, would have to rise higher than any other bridge in Salem. ' But after making a survey of the situation, a : group of men vitally interested in the matter have formed the opinion that the bridge would have to be no .high er than the bridge on South Com- 'ContlBoad en pif S.) Every one knows that it is well-high impossible to get the best of a restaurant man. There are, 'at a rough estimate, something like 3863 alleged jokes built around that very prop osition.' Some of the jokes, of course, are better than others. But Louis Garcia, "his wife, sister and uncle," failed to heed the time honored proposition.' They dared; they lost, and they were all hustled off to the city jail with 21 bottles of ripe California moonshine. Friday evening the quartet oacramenio. iney remea rooms at a home in East Salem, register ing under the names of "Louis Garcia and wife and sister and Jncle." The "uncle's" name Is OBe Alvidres. The women gave the names of Lupla and Hazel Garcia. They are all ot Mexican lineage. Friday afternoon one of the men went to a focal restaurant, ordered a large dinner for four, displayed a large roll of. bills, paid for the .dinner, and took it out on a tray. The owner of the restaurant, himself, carefully placed the tray on the rear seat of the car and the provider drove away. Hours passed. The caterer be came anxious. Several more hours fled by and his anxiety left him he became downright worried. In summing the matter up, he real ized clearly that the hungry one had made a very substantial prof it in his deal, besides satisfying the Inner man. After paying something over five dollars for the meal he still had approximate ly 315 in china and silver ser vice clearly a master business stroke. Looking at it from all angles, the restaurant man con cluded'' he had been "slickered" that someone had put spine thing over on him with'no small amount of success. And restaurant men despise that sort of thing. The city police were finally not ified of ' the loss after the cafe owner had relinquished all his faith in he human race. As a starting point," he remembered the make of tie car, that it bore a California license Jlate and, that there was a roll of blankets in the rear. " Pol1ce4mmedlateLy began checking - on California license plates?"', : ' Just before the department was TiOtlfled. Officer Putnam "in North 3alem spied a car parked under an arc-light. He i Investigated and found nobody there. Working on the suspicion that the car had been stolen and abandnoed, he jot ted down the license number and went through it with a flashlight. There was nothing in it to arouse comment. ' As he 'concluded bis search, two men and two women came around the corner, from the general di rection of a string of boxcars where a number of. Mexican sec tion men are living. He questioned hem and was told that they owned the car and had been visiting some (Continaed oa pse 7.) OLD TIMERS WILL PLAY EUGENE TO HAVE FIDDLER'S CONTEST FEB. SO EUGENE, Ore., Jan. 30. (By the Associated -Press) Three listradivarius violins,-v the com bined ages of which reach gO 7 ears,: will be played in an ''old lme';t;; fiddlers ; contest here February 20, when local, civic and fraternal organizations give a ben efit "dance at the "arinorjr f ot "the children's farm home at.Corval ftt? Two 61 the instruments were brought across the. plains in the early days. A. T. G root of Eu gene, owns the oldest, made in 1711. James Bakr Jias one made In 1724 and F. H. Wotring has entered Ithe contest with, a violin made by the Itilian in 173f; a year, hefore; his .death. The con test Is statewide. (J . KLAMATH HIT CBYI SNOW KMAIJ BLIZZARD . STRIKES SOUTHERN OltEGOX ' ,"I:jV "' KLAMATH FALLS,' Ore., Jan. 3r.(fiy the Associated Press) A heavy snow : fall started here early this evening apd gave prom ise bit',' failing ' t6 a depth "of sev eral inches ' betoje morning. - A miniature bilziar was " reported raging on the mountains ' a '. "few miles west pi this cityand auto ists reaehlag here from" the Pacif ic! highway reported having dU ff eulty in maklngHhe trip. " CAREY -IS ETifRANT PORTLAND J tlx; KNOT TO RTJ3C FOR U. S. SENATOR FORTLAiND. Ore . Jan. 30. (By Associated press) Jadge , C-'-li. Care, in a statement today an nounced thit after-careful v con sideration of str??cstiofl3 "f by friends that he enter the race for the - republican .nomination for United States senator he had de Cia?4 Pot t3. "fcet into ttfcttr hit Salem on their way from BARBARA LA MARR. FILM ACTRESS, blEAT HOME LONG ILLNESS PROVES FATAL TO STAR OF PICTURES Complications Following Nervous Breakdown Given as Cause ' of Death . ALTADENA, CaL. Jan. 30. (By the Associated Press) Bar bara La Marr, motion picture. act ress died at her home here this afternoon Miss La Marr's death resulted from complications fol lowing a nervous breakdown sev eral months ago. her, father, W. W. Watson said. Her death came unexpectedly and until yesterday she seemed rapidly Improving. Thursday she was able to leave the home for the first time In many weeks.- Miss La Marr's breakdown was in July while she was completing three pictures in New York. She returned to Hollywood to - make the fourth and it was while she was engaged fn this last October that she Suffered a second col lapse. While Miss La Marr's con dition became worse yesterday, it did not seem critical, her father said, until three .o'clock , this, af ternoon. She died about an hour later. . Barbara La 'Marr, whose real name-was originally R eat ha Wat son, was born In Yakima, Wash., July 28, 1896, her father said, and attended schools there and in Portland and Fresno. I At eight She was a member of a theatrical company in Taeoina and later was with a Spokane company. i The young girl's first husband was Jack Lytell, an Arizona ranch er who, she said. Pulled Tier Trpm a horse one day and hurried her (Continued on page T.) ' , .' QUALIFIES STATEMENT JrCASIATpECLARES HE.IIAS BEEN MISINTERPRETED . WASHINGTON,. Jan. 30. (By the Associated ,Prees ) Wa.U lace McCainant of Oregon, whose nomination as a federal circuit judge is under fire in the; senate, declared today that aU he intend- ed to imply 'by his statement-yesterday that Theodore Roosevelt was "not a good American" was that the former president had ad vocated "an Un-American doc trine." "" ' ' '" - - "I am bound to think recall of judicial decision subversive of the constitution and an un-American doctrine," he safd. "That is all ;. t ; intended to imply In "my testimony lefore the Judiciary committee." ... The juristwho is serving - on thV, 'bench , ' in the Ninth circuit court under a recess appointment said he- expressed his admiration fdr,itl,doSevelt and .addedthat he had "rendered public service of a high character." ' POLAR FLItSHT PLANNED MILLIONAIRE ARE v TO FIN ANCE ARCTIC FLIGHT wlsHlNGTON.Jan. 30. (By Associated Press. ) Convinced by hia -experience 'as, commander ;of the navy section of the MacMilian expedition last summer that ex ploration of the Arctic by aircraft is practical. Lien tenant Command er Richard "E. Byird, yetlred, la "to lead an Independent expedition in to those "regions thlk year for scientific observations and possibly a flight to the pole"1; ' Officially the navy is not. to be connected f jwlth" thW - expedition, which is to be financed Yvith the aid ot wtnent Americas, among whom are Joan D. Rockefeller, Jr., yine'ent Astor and Edsel Ford. y, 5 v. .' .t- , , ; .' ' , .,, ,, , . , - FILM PEOPLE WED - RIVERSIDE. Cal.. Jan. 30 Alma Rubens and Rlcardo Cortez. motion picture stars, were married here today. A justice of the peace tied -the nuptial knot. It was the third matrimonial Venture of the actress and the rst' for Cortex. Each age was given as 2 years.' i - "i. ; ' ,. GRAIN SIAIlKElf APPROVED SEATTLE, Jan.- 20. (By the Assoclaterd Press) Establishment of a IgTafn futures market In Fe-: attle -was authorized by Secretary of Agriculture Jnr.l!nr. in a Velar rrap received iiy tlay, - V Mayor J. B.lGiesy Elected President of League of Cities of Oregon SELF REGULATION ASKED Would Revamp State Constitution to Insure Each Town Oppor tunity to iScercIse Own Government . - r m - . - -......... i; - , PORTLAND. Or - Jan. 30. (By Associated ress.)--Cities of Oregon want mob borne rule and they propose to j-evamp the state constitution so there will be no opportunity for the legislature to take away the rights of the citie.n to regulate Jheir own affairs, It was indicated hire today at the meeting of the league: of Oregon cities at which 25 towns were represented. I" Oregon cities iixe also determ ined to take steps that will pre vent the pollution of the streams ot the state and greeted their city engineers to cooperate in every study that will isslst jto find the best method ot dplng It. . City and gofernment health authorities told -ithe- titles that there was no tinfe to lose in pre paring to take care of, the pollu tion of the streams that the Wil lamette ; river rapidly is reaching its capacity as an open jsewer, and that, sewage disposal plants must be provided'. Taey also notified the cities that tjhey would hold each city responsible for its share of the condition and! suggested that all- sewers epnstructed here after be so designated that they can be connected ip to such plants without any,waste of public fund3. s- Salem- was chofcen f or the next meeting, which win be neia m November or December ; at the call of the executive! committee and which will have a program to pre sent to the legisiture In January. This will he a special meeting and the regular January meeting may consider matters! that may come (Continued In ! .) CANDIDATES LISTED LIST OF CONTEST ANTS AP PEAR Di AUTO SECTION By Auto Contest Editor ' For the , first "time today ap pear the names- of candidates who have either nominated themselves or a friend. ; . '" T It has been wjth a great deal ot. din'culty and? hard L work on the part of the .Contest Editor that the great "nJuAber of nom inations which have been re ceived were finally counted and placed to the credit of the pro per candidates. v j j If by mistake-.! have not en-, -iered your namej I would deem It' a pleasure If you would call me at 106 andjlet me know, as sometimes an- error is made unintentionally, f s 1 Of course, not all the nom- inations which have been re-? ceived "show on tits list. A few nominations camfe fn' today and last evening, Joq late ,tp. enable us to get them on the list. How ever, " these " latej- nominations vm be "added to ihe list just a3 fast as possiblef i The people whose names ap pear on this list . now stand ready to be vote4 on by the en tire . public. If your "j favorite candidate's name does not ap pear on this listbe sure to fill out the nomination blank and send his or herf name to the Contest Editor of The States man, without delay, i This big contest will jaot close until April 10, find you have! ample time to enter. Let me see you, for it will mean a Very "great deal to you. On another page! of this paper you will find a page ad. givizr all details , of .this contest. -1 Read it carefully. Don't for get that the contest office will be kept oprn eacti evening until 8:30 p. ci. ,As t already been explained, tlia votrs arc counted sach evening for the list the tol-f lowing day, therefore the bal lot3 that you cafet throughout the day will not Jappear 1n tha paper to your crvdit until the day'following. - Tbf oast ii Hst startinR off 'All ihave an equal cha'neo to Vm." : ;It ; only takciS a few shcii hours fcikth d& i th'i p'acr to get your frfh lin-1 np f your support. trr nJ "If r-asi not riir'i