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THE TWICE-A-WEEK I Utfl t LA ii7Vy fTft Jl . ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 19; 1926 SECOND SECTION SIX PAGES STATESMAN 'VSi " VMPjilP Ul GfUU I fcMlUKW. "" yTttTT7TT!rMMMM"MMMMMM ; ; . i . .! ... .1 i i , ,, , i , i i e fffl Ml frfirvrai , Iv J ...... 1 . l ' w 1 : : .2 - """In '! YfOHTUMEN STUDY PRISON Governor Escorts TOO Pro gressive Club Members Thrdugh Institutions TOUR IS ENTHUSIASTIC Following Lunch, Party Inspects Miles Linen Mill Where They See Fiber Being Converted About a hundred members of 1- - a . .1 if t club of ybrtland arrived at the peniter Aty yesterday at 11 o'clock for ah inspection of the institution, with especial regard for the industries, and more par ticularly the flax industry. They were met by Governor Pierce; who showed them through, assisted by the prison officials and some Sa lem business representatives. They Were first takes to the warehouses containing hundreds of tons jjax ready for threshing and fljj'aw ready for retting. They wfc tf3aken through the warehouse where thousands of bushels of flax seed is stored, ready for sale to the oil mills and to be recleaned for planting, .with the recleanlng process going on 24 hours a day. Also they saw there the stored hemp that has : been brdken ready for sale, and the up holstering flax tow that is being sold to the furniture factories, and the bolls that are takes by feed manufacturers for making dairy feed, and the grinding of the flax ed for the use of the druggists (Continued on ok fa s) ORBES VISITS PRISON AWAITIXG COMMITMENT PA PfeRS, SEES FUTURE HOME LEAVENWORTH, Kan., March 18. (By Associated i Press.) Charles R. Forbes, former direc tor of the United States veterans bureau, got lrts first peep of prison life today when he entered the federal penitentiary here as a visitor only. He, is awaiting com mitment papers that wlll admit him to the institution for a term of two years, following conviction for conspiracy' tb defraud the gov ernment in the letting of contracts for veterans hospitals. For half an hour Forbes, ac companied by a newspaper man, conversed with Wardea W. I. Bid die and was shown about his fu ture temporary home. ; "I shall do my best to obey every rule of the institution," he told the warden, "and I do .not ex- rj v: l iir m nuunu any imura urer iither prisoners. It I am assigned 4j to shoveling coal. I shall not make (JcL. the slightest complaint: I am will r jrng to do anything you may re- T. ...... fe. MUUC. 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AMERICA'S POSITION IS DISCUSSED BY COUNCIL RELATION OF UNITED STATES TO COURT IS DEBATED Difficulties Raised by Senate Are Attacked; Council to Meet May 17 GENEVA, March 18. (By As sociated Press.) The council of the league of nations, before ad journing its March session this evening, took definite action with regard to America's relation to the permanent court of international justice and disarmament. On the recommendation of Sir Austen Chamberlain, British foreign sec retary, the council, boldly attack ing the difficulties raised by the senate's reservations to the ad herence of the United States to the court, decided to convoke del egates of all the governments now members of the court, as well as representatives of the Washington" government for a conference to be held September 1 at Geneva. This conference will attempt to frame a special agreement on Jthe American reservations which is expected to amount to amendment of the court statutes. As for the disarmament studies to be undertaken by the league. the council quickly cleared the decks of all misunderstandings created by Russia's threat not to participate unless the meetings are held outsid of Switzerland. This was done by definitely de ciding that the first meeting oJ the preparatory commission on the disarmament conference in .which the United States will bo repre sented will be held at Geneva on May 17. At the name time the cduncil addressed a courteous but explicit communication to Moscow, (Continued ob page 2) SEWAGE POISONS FISH QUALITY OF FISH IS . SAID MATKRIAL.LY LOWERED VANCOUVER, R. C.,' March 18 ( Ry Associated Press.) Arthur T, Wright of Seaside. Or., declared here today that the disposing Of sewage into the Colnmbia river and its tributaries had materially lowered the quality of salmon in Oregon waters. "When it weems almost too late," he said, "the city of Port land is Betting out to find some means of disposing' of its sewage instead of permitting- it to drain fato the "Willamette river, from which i( poisons, the Asking waters Of the Columbia, - British. 'Colum bia, cities .eventually will find that free disposal of filth In even tide 'water Is detrimental; not only' to fish life, but to the health of the -CQQjattXiity - l , 1 - ) Colonel John C. Coolidge Passes Seventy Five Where Is Response From First Query Reveals One Who Has Taken The Statesman for 72 Years. Can You Pass That Record? Anniversary Comes Soon Where is the Statesman's oldest reader? Some days ago in announcing the Diamond Jubilee Num ber of the Oregon Statesman, 28, that question was asked. More are again wanted. On March 28, 1851, ,the first published. That first paper is still preserved. It has been photographed and will appear in the 75th anniversary number. Which family carl, count FEW MORE HOURS LEFT IN RADIO GIFT TEST KIJZAIIKTH WKU'H LEADS EXTIRK CONTEST TODAY Day Remaining in Third Rig Vote Offer Limited, Efforts Counting HONOR ROLL TODAY 1. Helen Phillips. 2. May Young. 3. Mrs. B. iZ. Crowthcr. Elizabeth Welch leads the whole race today. Uy Aulo foment Editor Candidates today aro working with might and main as the end of tho radio contest comes in sight. ; Saturday night at fe:30 is the rajcftil iiour. Ono should not rest, One should. not hesitate there was a time worth real money tb you, it is tho time between now and Saturday. Consider ngain seriously that tlic value of the three biggest prtxes run into hundreds of dol lars; And the next award after the big cars is i-omething a house wife would bf glad to have, and tljat hi a Ifaag electric wash- Who's Who Saleni Public; Schools I., ''"IEfe3EyTIiQ' ' ' ' , ; May Rollter' . , May Bollier, teacher, of English at Parrisb junior high -school. .Six years, in Salem school system, with 11 years', teaching experience. Graduate of Oregon. state normal schooL' Summer ' achb6t at " Mon mouth, Students afe fond of her work, . . - ' r Years Old; Oldest Reader? to be issued on Sunday, March Many replies were received. issue of The Statesman was the greatest number of years during which this paper has come into its home? Honors eo far go to Mrs. E. N, Eandcdort, 267 South Church street. She came to Oregon in 1S52. She is now almost ninety yearn old. She has read the Statesman for 72 years. Can anyone beat that record? A most interesting statement cotnos from the Brunk family. Four generations have read The Statesman, continuously delivered j to the same house at Brunk's cor I ncr. Polk county. Those four gen erations are represented by the late Harrison Brunk, pioneer of 184 9, Thomas W. Brunk. Earl Brunk and Leona Brunk. Iinriion Brunk came to Oregon STUDEnlTSJON VACATION - , - 9 ' WINTER", TERM TESTS . COM PLETED; anoo (ioi.NO home j im lVNt. or., Aiarcii l. uy term examinations at the Univer sity of Oregon coded today and the 2500 or more out of town students will leave for their homes to-morrow, it was announced. Spe cial trains will be run to Ihb north oh both the Southern Pacific and Oregon EleetHe Tailways. FOX TERR10R HOMELESS 1IUMAXH S'KJIETV SKEKINO OWNER FOR BTRATKR TKKi Homeless? Such Is the plight of tho sleek Httlo fox terriW. temporary guott of t ino SaJcin" officers, of tho llu ctano socictj . ; : It is not as if Be Were a worth less cur unworthy of his scraps. For he is hoqsebrea... His body U black h heail brbwhr hs breasj and" one ot-ihla J&releg, white,, j A. jjtaurilr companion, and true for the person rhd will, promise to ioteY honor, and keep him in seraps. IV there Is one seeking such a companion, he IS urged to I ' ! - - ' - STONE & HUE TO ABE OF 1 Rock Discovered Near Van couver Carries Strange Drawings of Animals AfcCHEOLOGrSTS PUZZLED Crnde Carvings May Upset Present Theories of Age of Man, Scientists Say; Mon sters Pictured Central Press Af.noriat.ion VANCOUVER, B. C, March 18. -Crude petroglyphs which may antedate all other such rock draw ings ever discovered, on the North American continent , have been found on a great rock, which was located in the Crowe Bar district of the north Fraser river and lwhich has been ! brought to this city. Archeologists are excited over the find but frankly puzzled at the age and meaning of the pictures. Six months ago the boulder on which these petroglyphs were found was lying in an oozy mud bank on the upper reaches of the (Contird on page 2) AUTO TITLE LAW IS HIT REPEAL WILL BE SOUGHT AT ELECTION IX NOVEMBER Repeal of the motor vehicle cer tificate of title law enacted at the 1925 session of the legislature will be sought at the general election in November through, an initiative measure filed In the offices of the secretary of state here Thursday. The measure has been referred to the attorney general for ballot title. - Tho bill was filed by the Oregon Automotive association o which Joe Dunn of Portland is president. It was indicated that an initia tive measure also will be filed later for the repeal of that section of the motor vehicle lighting law which provides that lights shall be adjusted under state regulation, and that they shall be dimmed on wet pavement. THE Ar ovu k 'yv. - ' European -.&aPbk 3':' - rjf" :-T2r President's Father, 81, Dies After Long Illness Colonel Coolidare Passes Away Very Quietly at Home in Ver mont; Executive Loses in Hopeless Race With Death to Be at Father's Bedside PLYMOUTH, Vt., March 18. (By Associated Press.) Colonel John C. Coolidge, father of the president, died at 10:41 o'clock tonight. A brief bulletin brought from the white farmhouse by Angus MacAuley, said: "Colonel Coolidge passed away very quietly at 10:41 o'clock." The president, speeding northward on a special train to the bedside of his dying father, lost in a hopeless race with death. The president's train was due to reach Woodstock, 13 miles from here at 6 o'clock to morrow morning. Word of the death of Colonel Coolidge was flashed immediately to the exe cutive's offices in Washington to be relayed to the president's train en route to Vermont. The president's father, who was within two weeks of his 81st birthday, had been sinking grad ually since he suffered a severe heart attack a year ago. At that time, his physician. Dr. Albert M. Cram, of Bridgewater. said his pa tient was at the point of death. His pulse rate reached 140. A remarkable physique coupled with an iron will carried Colonel Coolidge through to a new rally for life, but lie lost strength day by day. Another severe heart at tack early today heralded the ap proaching end. 0 Throughout the day Dr. Cram, hastily summoned from his home in Bridgewater early in the morn ing, remained In the sick room. After the heart action had been restored to a more nearly normal rate, Colonel Coolidge sank into a semi-comatose condition. From time to time. Dr. Cram or Deputy Sheriff MacAuley brought reports across the way to the general store where anxious neighbors and newspaper correspondents waited. Each bulletin told the same story of slowly ebbing strength. At 10 o'clock tonight the physi cian and Mrs. May Johnson, the nurse who had been with Colonel Coolidge throughout his illness, saw that the end was at hand. The aged patient failed little by little, and at the last appeared to go to sleep. He suffered no pain. The president, kept closely in formed Of his father's condition over a special telephone circuit to the White House, left Washington for his boyhood home here when (Continued nn pr ONLY CLOUD ON THE HORIZON SPECIAL TRAIN SPEEDS PRESIDENT TO OLD HOME NATION'S LEADKR, EX ROUTE, IS TOLD OP DEATH Calvin Coolidge Makes no Com ment When Informed of Father's Ieath PRES. COOLIDGE'S TRAIN, EN ROUTE TO WOODSTOCK, Vt., New Haven, Conn., March 19. (By Associated Press.) President Coolidge learned of his father's death just before his arrival here early today (Friday). A telegram from Secretary San ders at the White House was put aboard the train at Bridgeport. It said that Dr. A. M. Cram at PIvBinnth Vi o H orl ve Art him t rt n t Colonel CoolidKe had ..pas8ed away quietly at 10:41." The message was delivered immediately to the president, who had retired to his drawing room, but had not gone to sleep. He made no comment. Mrs. Coolidge was then atak ened and advised of the news. The (Continued on page 2) THREE TICK VICTIMS PATIENTS ARE IX SERIOUS CONDITION FROM FEVER THE DALLES, Ore., March 18. (By Associated Press.) Three persons are in The Dalles hospital in a serious condition, suffering from spotted "fever due to wood tick bites, it became known today. Wilbur Buxton and C. C. Man chester of Grand Junction, Colo., and James Malarkey of Ashwood, Ore., all of whom were working on sheep ranches In Wasco coun ty, were brought to the hospital this week. SIX AND SELF Wife and Wife's Sister Killed first; Three Other Women , and Man Die 1 MAD SLAYER CORNERED Shot From Own Weapon Ends Life of Former Business Man of Stockton, Sud denly Turned Crazy . PLACERVILLE, Cal., March 18 (By Associated Press). John M. Golns, Stockton business man. who killed a man and five women in a series of shootings at Stock ton and Gait today, shot and killed himself tonight while fleeing in bis automobile from officers whd were pursuing him on the high way near El Dorado, south of here. - . f His car plunged from the moun tain grade while the officers were firing at It from their own ma chine. . . The pursuers. Captain Carel.E. Slatterback state traffic officer, and Supervisor W. S. Biggs of El Dorado county, said they heard a shot fired In or from Goin's car just before It left the road. - Biggs and Slatterback encoun tered Goins a mile west Of Ef Dorado while patrolling the high way in the manhunt. They tried to stop the car, bat Golns doubled his speed. They sounded their siren and he sped on. There followed, a desperate chase over dangerous road, but the pursuing car had greater speed than the sedan driven by Goins, and jUBt as they were over taking him the final firing and crash ended the chase. . When Coroner J B. Blair ar rived .and examined the body JX was definitely determined that Goins had killed himself by send ing a bullet through his mouth into his brain. - STOCKTON, Cal., March 18, (By Associated Press.) John M, Goins, former Southern Pacific employe and business man. of Stockton, today went to a ranch (Oontiarcd on 2) - - DOG CASE HEARING END MAX IS CHARGED WITH SET TIXG FIRE TO ANIMAL LA GRANDE, Ore., March 18. (By Associated Press.) The state today rested Its case in the trial of Jack Hilary, charged with pouring oil on a dog and then igniting it, causing the animal's death. Thursday.. In Washington President Coolidge left for Plymouth, Vermont. - Senate debate broke out freah on the League of Nations. Ratifications were exchanged on the anti-smuggling treaty with Mexico. ' The hoase agricultural commit tee pressed its study of the sur plus crop hill. - . ;. , ,', The population of the United States was estimated by the cen sus bureau at 117,135,817. The federal farm lokn board re ported agriculture to he ?-j tetter condition than a yar ago, ' ; i - .. New Jersey, textile strikers pre sented counter proposals to the" labor; dopartment for a settlenent. . . ... - r i The senate directed Setsretary Mellon to report . on expenditures from, the $20,000,000' Muscla Shoals fund.. ' ... , . Senator- Cummins, republlnn, Iowa; declared hl3 fortuues t.. ; not be coc-."-ri in f :.f i:f i I V H