..t .' civ i .t -s ---V i S jyENTYyFIFTHi YEAR SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, MORNING, MARCH 26, 1926 PRICE FIVE CENTS TOROiD HITS TEXAS VILLAGE One KHlerJ,i Eight Injured When Twsterp Sweeps" 4 Jhroui OItrictr - - SCHOOL AOHRdEBO " . - i . 1 300 Little Boys I and . Girls Are 'Bravery hd Calmness S , of Blaster ORANGE. Texas. March 25- .IBy AMateduEressO-r-Xen sa U iweixe ouwejua.were tooced Xrom coatTol. one 4Ue taken , and eight . persons., injured- byn a tornado jihicJiiwcpt suddenly -and without warning through the Tillage of Orangefleld and the oil fields seven miles west here today.! A path about 'a half mile in width was Oeared of derricks y the wind, and when the equipment went, the ' Sowing wells: ran wild, j- ; Glenn Koemin, 24, t drUer's helper, was killed. ; - , ; v - Property Joss was estimated at S 1,0 00.0 00. It was confined prin cipally to 125 wrecked' oil derricks. The tornado lasted only a few seconds, and Was followed by a heavy rain and strong wind. -The oil spouting from the uncontrol led wells was blown long distances and coated the field. The. path of the storm was through the cen ter of the field. iWreekSe I was piled .Into the Jhighway and the wire service was broken for several hours. The principal -damage to the village of Orangefleld was in unroofed bqild ings. ,- J j . ; -K'-. ! ' TheXrangefteld schoolhouse. at ' tended by 8 00 children, .was dam aeed by one wall being torn loose. The ..children were in. the auditor tarn and listened quietly to re marks by the principal. Pi N. Pow ell, while the howling wind. tore at tbfc .brick structure. .None of tlvJipU was hurt. ! - 'Hi V Jamieson of San .Antonjo, an Wtov related after the storm' passed how he raced ahead of the tornado for 15 miles. He saw it near- Beaumont jrhile.Jooking.for 1 a landing field. He 'got to the ground and his passenger, Mrs. Stella Johnsons had Just stepped from the machine -when the mrind picked it up and dashed it to bits. Neither JamieBOn .nor .Mrs. iJohn son was hurt.': s'-: ! Communication has been restor ed to an almost normal basisa gain tonight and work of renairinr the damage to oil well equipment was well under way A modest, gray haired .school teacher of yesterday is the hero of this section of Texas today. Supt. P. N. J?owuof the oil field school at', Orangeheld - -had just lined up his, 3 00 charges. this morning when "he4 heard the .omi nous roar and sow the approach ing funnel-shaped cloud .which; meant to him a jtorpado. tixhe children were ready to march into the building. Quickly the order went forth that all were to march ,to the auditorium instead of ;to tneir separate rooms. : - Patting on their heads the .white (Contiao4 OS PI fi ) FOREST. FIRE .REPORTED , r. , . t . , u , - r- - - - JVESTERN DOUGLAS COTTNT. : BLAZE 3IAKES UIiD WAY 1 lJUGENB, Or.', March 25.--By 'Associated Press.) rA . forest Jire Is burning, between Elkton , and Scottsburg, ' in ? western f .Douglas county, according-, to report re-: celved at the, office of the Siuslaw national forest today. 'While the fire was not 1& the national forest, word has been sent by Supervisor Shelley to the neatest natrolmen requesting him to 'Inquire f into it ana u ine oiaze ppejars o oe sen oas. to take, steps to check it. . The humidity of fhe atmosphere yesterday w,as not fs lew as it has been during the wfekthe reading showing 6jK i pet fept today. It has been dpwp asiow as 28 during ' U6 WeeK. . ,.- f j-..-., l ' : C T SHEEP .'SHEARING BEGINS CENTRAL' OREGON OUTFITS ARB TO START MONDAY BEND, Ka rch 2 5 ( By Associ ated Press.)- Sheen shearing will start iMonday In he central Ore-, ton v intry. according ! to 'L. W. Pranli .of the Franks brothers srtari -goutfit. The nrst snear intfiviU (be $n Crook county and it pt expected that jshearing win C9nip'iejunmt least June zo. Salem flitr Schools : "r Leta Marshall , -' 1 1 . v ' Leta Marshall, teacher .of the fourth grade at Grant, elementary AchooL tTwo years .with, Salem school system. ! Over nine' Tears leaching experience. Attended 'four years at Tabor college' of ya. Etndlad at Peru1 state nor-. Ll.xJ .ICehraska and at Eor.-a ..fconsj-a of California.- Isrc 't Tanzer ! Jury Dismissed !: J r After Six-Hour Debate! No Conclusion Arrived at in Liquor Trial in Recorder's Court ; 5f City Officials CaUecTto Stand-Tiiae Element Ptoys v ""'I' J":--'f Important iPart. in 4Case ' -'Alter . having delirated on -the case for over, six, hours, JuryiDen;in the city .court Thursday decided they could j&ot agree xn'the case of John.Tanzer, who had received trial on a charge of driving-while-under the influence of intoxicating liquor. - 4 1 1 " i . " - . Jc'-? ?When the first ballot .was taken, the vote stood ,three for conviction and three for acquittal " -pSVhen the last -ballot -was taken, about 10:45 o'clockv the vote still stood three for con- jiction and three f or acquittal. Vnless the case is dismissed or otherwise disposed of, the : i ' ' I trial will bare to be held orer. CANDIDATE - 2? Blark A.' Paulson Mark A: Paulson, of Silverton, has filed as a candidate for re- nublican nomination for state rep resentative and jis meeting .with considerable encouragement. Mr. Paulson is well qualified. .He Is a graduate with the degree of master of arts from the Univer sity of .Qregen end has taught school several years.' ne nas Berved two terms as city recorder at Silverton, "having' practiced law there for several years. ' - : 1 BOSSIAfi 'Rt;FUdEE AID pRgJgrlATIJUPf DR. WARNEjR TELLS OPWORJK Udone,irotangel Need of Ycnt)latlon and Jresh Milk tressed in PbyeK claa's -Tallc Z' Dr. Estella Ford Warner, con nected with the .MArJon'.cpunty child .health demonstration, ad dressed members ,pf . the , Marion Polk conntv - realtors' asaocUtlon at their luncheon Thursday, tell ing them or cer ; six momns uiv in 'Archangel, Jtuasia. a lew months after the armistice had been signed. , Six American women, including Dr. Warner, were sent to Arch angel to care for -2000 refugee girls,., who were corralled in tnat city. The ety - was rso ongeieq that the houses were comman deer ed tor .the Russian goverh- ment. And families that had .been used to iivingm seven, ana eigne rooms' were . crowded -into , one .or two rooms. ' f : 1 1 As for the refugee girls, they were divided into groups of four and five and each group allotted a single room. There were jno. libraries Jn. the city, and no means el entertain ment for the girls except one theater, : and that in poor ehape. So the six American women or ganlzed a club for the girls. The thing the girls wanted most was to nearn, English. . . . Classes in typing, sewing, mil linery, first aid, home nursing, Russian stenography, Russian, French, and infant care were con ducted, i It was the first time the girls had been organized for In struction. The ! boys had organ ized Instruction I before that, but the gins had been neslected. Later . Dr. -Warner was made (Cos tinned a par 4.) .." t" PERVERT IS SENTENCED COBURG r MAN! 3IUST SERVE , PRISON TERM OK.IO YEARS EUClENE, Or.i March 25. (By Associated -Press. )-r-N.? II. -Fair, 45, "of Coburg was sentenced by Jude J. W. Hamilton of circuit court here todays to serve 10 years in the etate penitentiary, having been convicted by ajury of crim inally attacking two young 'girls of -that place. - 4 f: '-s ' - ' " ' 7 ' ' i :- CQ?lNjERj)REnS CAMPAIGN TOUIA BE REPUBLICAN CIIU ,CUIT fJtXURT JUDGE 1; .The: formal declaration of Ros- wellju Conner or AicMinnviue as a candidate for the republican nomination for Judge. of the cir cuit court for the 12th judicial district; comprising, Polk andYm-- Litl 'counties, was filed -wUa- bcc ret-nr? cf tat9 I'o'cr t-c- Tnrrs- r 1 ''; :,:.-A' 1 v; . . f Whether or not Jt new trial is ;to I be held is not yet -determined. QiTicer Warren Edwards was the first f witness called 4byj the city. He testified that he arrested Tan ser for speeding. Thenwhen he had stopped him, and confronted him, he smeued extract ,ot some ..sort -on his J)rcath. He swpre on the stand that Tanzer was under . the influence ' Hf v intoxicating liquor. .: ! VwHe found a bottle of extract in Taizws pocket, he said. The bot tle was introduced as evidence at the trial. Objectinn was voiced by Don Miles, attorney for the de fendant, on the grounds that the bottle was not sealed; that the bottle was full, and that it is not unlawful merlly to possess a bot tle of ordinary extract. ; Finally the objection was overruled by Judge Poulsen, whd held that the members , of the Jury should be proper Judges as to 4he Import ance of such evidence. . , Pierce Wright, who was serving as desk sergeant at the, time Tan zer was brought to the station by Officer Edwards, was t he next wit ness called. lie testified that Tau ter at the t time specified. , was noticeably -under ; the influence of intoxicating, liquor." 1 Testimony,! the officers would indicate that the arrest was made not later than ' 10:30 vo'clock 5 on the evening of Pehruaryilf.iiBttt Jun Sing, proprietor of the Shang hai restaurant and first witness for the defense, declared that Tanzer had been in his place until about 10:30. He declared that Tanzer to his knowledge was not drunk at that time. . i ' .- Dora How and Edna Nickelson, waitresses at the Shanghai. also testified that up to the time Tanzer had left the restaurant at about 10:30, no liquor could be smelled OJLjiis breath, Althonih .neither was clear 4n .explaining ihow- they happened tp remember it was on ContiSMd 0Sbs S.) 4s REGENTS r&lEET DURHAM : . . IDAHO PRESIDENT IS NOT YET MOSCOW, Idaho, March 25.- 4By : Associated JBrese. .com mittee of the faculty ind regents of the JtJnivertitr.Pt Oregon was in conference Jiere .today with Dr. II. A.,- uonam. Dresident ' oz the' University of iiahb; i concerning filling the vacancy, at the head of the Oregon institution. Dr. Upham said he had not been offered the place, but that the committee Js considering prospects for the presidency ' ? . wT in 'II I --mill i I V " 1 - " "" ' ' ' , j II .IM - - - - . 'nrrail 'Em to -Salem" Cara- ivan Will Join in Annual - 'Spring Festival ROUTE WILL 8E MARKED Earliest . Dote $n .History Set for Inspection -of Flowers i, Record Crowd Is Foreseen f Blossom . day will be this Sunday. Such was the aouncement made Thursday.morki- ing by Harley O. White, King Bif 9 otfihe -Cherrians. 'Decision was made when - those laminar wptn thn sitiintlnn . nrndlcted . with cer tainty that the ' blossoms "In aad i- about Salem . will be ,in gTeatestl profusion Sunday. "Trail 'em lo Salem!" Once again the familiar cry Ba sounded, beckoning people from all over tne state to witness tu city in its greatest splendor. So popular has become Blossom day that each year the number of out side people coming here for . Its observance has noticeably increas ed. , : Incidentally, this is the earliest Blossom day has been held since the first .time . it was observed. Mildness of the winter and of the spring: is said to be the cause of the .early . blossomings i Yet , in spite of the early date, those fWhose opinions, are .consid ered authoritative, hold that the blossoms will be out. in greater abundance than at any. previous Blossom flay celebration. j 1 Cherrians have had printed sev eral thousand . cards issuing wl- j . MIL come -10 iu xesnyiiK. incise cards will be sent out this morn ing and will reach people in ill parts of the state. If the exceptionally good weat th- (Continued on paf 8) 'jCANDY KID?WEAKENING N. T. GANG LEADER PLEADS FOR WIFE'S RELEASE NEW YORK. March 25. (By Associated Press.) Richard Reese .Whitemore, the "Candy Kid" who led a million dollar crime ring of ten men that con sidered jnurder a part of its rou tine' work,' today showed first signs of weakening and offered to .make a complete confession- if the police would release his wife, "The Tiger Girl." She is under Indictment - for complicity in a triespf robberies. The of fe followed an hour's nlesdins.by his father, who came here from Baltimore to offer what fcep he could to the youthful criminal and to urge him to give the police "a true record of his activities. .-jxne : ;pnresston or Antnony Paladino, t giving a detailed ac count -of .operations of the gang was ;announced by the district at torney's office. 'THEBIG BOOB!" observed Autos '1 i 1 ' .: ; 0 j - . A v . - j s . f i ,-.' i : . .... t , ,;. - .. I : 4. v I t v V 1 i T5...-.- -.-.--::--'.-...:.. ::s-:v - ? . : r , X : JaMMMMMWPSVMSjllMMaSSeWHS Heavy snow .forced use of sleighs in the procession from the Coolidge homestead in Plymouth, Vt.,,to the last resting place of the president's father in the little hill cemetery nearby. Inset photo shows President and Mrs. Coolidge as the tery. Wide World photo, from the Central Press Association. the Coolidge funeral to-reach Salem. SPECIAL VOTE OFFER TO END ON SATURDAY EI1FORTS EXPENDED NOW TO BRING GREATEST RESULTS Competition Increases as Candi date? See Close of Contest Within Sight .HONOR ROLL TppAT 1. -May Ypung. 2 Mrs. H. -B. Havre. 3 E: J. Potts. By Auto Contest Editor ' ,With but a few -hours in which to, enter 'subscriptions in the Ore gon Statesman great automobile prize campaign and secure the maximum .votes allowed in this period, una wun Dut a lew days - j until tne race nnauy comes to a close, candidates are straining every nerve in their final efforts for supremacy as the end looms in sight. The beautiful automobiles, fully equipped and ready to take a de lightful spin, stand waiting for 1-their owners. If they could talk. those big cars would undoubtedly say, "Look at me; am I not a mighty fine , and costly prize, well worth every effort it takes to win me?" A bis $115.00 automobile is truly a wonderful prize for a few weeks of hard work, and when it is taken into consideration that the value of the three cars, wash ing machine and other prize to be awarded is over $3,000.00. it is not strange that the live ones are speeding, up their pace and pre- (oatinnd os pagt .4) Missing at -Coolidge Funeral MOTOR i THOn UNCOVERED Woman Held as Leader; Second Suspect, "Under Guard," Escapes YREKA, Cal., March 25. (By Associated Press). With thear rest of Mrs. E. L. Weston, local officers believe they have in cus tody Jthe leaders! a jing. of.AUto; mobile 'and service stations rob bers which - operated in ' three states and. obtained about $100, 000 in loot. . Another woman suspected as having been one of the ring lead ers, Mrs. Faye McCrossin, was arrested at Klamath Falls, Ore., but , later was reported to have escaped. r Mrs. Ct E. Weston, another sup posed member of the gang, is be ing held at Stockton, and officers said they expected , the arrest shortly of her brother-in-law, E. L. Weston, husband of the woman held here. . , i ; Authorities declare the women in the ring posed as motion pic ture actresses and -the men as mining promoters to cover' up the gang's activities. KLAMATH FALLS. Ore., March 25. (By Associated Press). Escape of Mrs. Faye McCrossin, alleged bandit band member, from under the noses of sheriff's depu ties here, is without explanation. Charles E. Morrell of the Cali fornia state department of identi fication wired here Tuesday night Informing Sheriff Burt Hawkins they held ' warrants for Mrs. Mc Crossin's arrest and asking she be placed in Jail here. Instead, Hawkins placed two deputies over The woman as guard in the house she was occupying. Wednesday morning, when Cali fornia authorities arrived - and went to the house, they . found State Prohibition Agents. L. L. McBrlde and W. Bennett seated in the TTont room, .acting as guards. Mrs. McCrossin was not in the house and neither McBrlde: nor Bennett could say how she es caped. : - ; . V . - A side window jn the .woman's bedroom was found partly open. Sheriff Hawkins declines to state why he did not arrest- Mrs. Mc Crossin and put ; her in jail as requested. . THREE HURT ; IN 4JELEE FRACAS -IN GHETTO PARTICI PATED IN BY STRIKERS NEW? i OkIC March r 25. (By Associated press.) -Three men were stabbed and four shots were fired in a . general fight -la the Ghetto today when 15 striking fur workers raided the home of WU liam Levy, 55; who they charged was secretly doing., his work ,at home Instead of cooperating with them. BUTTERFLIES INVADING CLOUD OF INSECTS STORMING CALIFORNIA CITY PALO ALTO, Cal., March 25.! ly Associated Press.) A cloud i (By of butterflies, tinseled like a bank of sunset mist, Is moving north ward over the peninsula in a flut tering -migration to no one knows whererr Nothing, like It has been seen la .this region before. I Automobile windshields are be ln? l icared by the tiny travelers, f'l r'whrtTri Fon.to t3,c tb? procession reached the ceme This is the first picture of "SHOWDOWN" DEMANDED IN MYSTERY DEATH CASE GRAND JURY MAY BE CALLED IN TAYLOR MURDER . Either Return Indictments or Pat Stop to Repeated Ques tionings, Plea ; LOS ANGELES, March 5. (By Associated Press.) The Los Angeles Times says that District Attorney Asa Keyes on his return to Los Angeles, faces an explana tion to the county grand Jury of his trip east on what was pur ported to have been a new In vestigation?-into the- murder here for years ago of William Desmond Taylor, noted film director.' If the trip seems to have been justified, .the newspaper 1 con tinues, .the grand Jury - will re view new evidence obtained by Keyes with a view of bringing in dictments or ending once .and for all the .investigation which -has bobbed up continually .for a period of four years. . r The Times says that demands have been . made from a number of sources for a "showdown" to put a stop to the repeated ques tioning ot prominent witnesses jn ine unsolved case. -...' -; Buron Fitts, chief .deputy dis trict - attorney, who announced yesterday ; that two entirely new witnesses had been -questioned as a result of information gathered by Keyes in the east said today that the investigation locally had been completed. "I . .have gone Into several phases of the case and .will turn Lover what I have obtained to Mr. Keyes when he gets back, " he said. . , i. Keyes is expected to - return some time next week. . LUMBER MILL IS BURNED FIRE LOSS IN' TACOMA ' COM. , PANY PLACED AT.S50.00O TACOMA. Wash., March. 25. (By Associated Press. ) Damajre estimated at $50,000 resulted to night from a fire' in the mill of the .Dempsey Lumber company here. A large sorting shed and 500,000 feet of lumber were de stroyed. s -(i.;.- r- -jut available apparatus . was called out to - fight the "flames, wnicn threatened other industrial plants.for a,time.' ;: OREGON PIONEER PASSES : '. .-. ' :-- g . MRS. MARY E. VINCENT FOR3I- ERLY.LTV'ED IN ALBANY SPOKANE, Wash., March 25. (By Associated - Press.) Mrs Mary . E. : Vincent who came west oy ox team in 1814, died at her home, here today aged 83. She had resided in Albany, Ore., and Waltsburg, Wash.,1 before coming to Spokane. . PASS SAND ISLAND BILL SENATE ' COMMITTEE FAVORS RECONVEYINO TITLE WASHINGTON,. March 25. (By Associated Press.) Among measures favorably reported today by the senate public lands; com mittee was a senate bill to recon vey to the Stats of Oregon title to Sand Island, near the mouth of the Columbia river, with the right re- rved to, the government to use tLe Iand fo' nxUItary purposes. ; Youx: SAN FRANCISCO, March S.- Elton Gray and Edward Taylor, both 19, were arrested on a ranch near -Rewdood-i City, San Mateo county,' Col.,' today on. .a! warrant frov r v or.. cv . 1 USE FIBRED Of $40,000 Asked at Elec tion, Only $3,000 to go for Salaries .: $10,000 FOR REPAIRS Maintenance Demands Funds; Fa vorable Action Would Raise 13,4 Mill Present Tax - 1 ' . . .to 15J Mills- t . ''. ' With no contradiction of the fact that Oregon pays its teachers less than any other important state of the union, and that teach ers, on the average,, ere paid Jess in Salem than teachers in any city of size ,in the state, voters, next Monday, will have opportun ity to grant 0,000 for use of the city public sqhool system. Thirty thousand dollars will be used, if granted, to provide " an approximate Increase of 10 per cent in the salaries of teachers. principals, supervisors. Janitors and other employes of the system. Ten thousand dollars, if grant ed, will be used for maintenance of present school equipment, item ized as follows: for material and supplies, $2,400; for maintenance and repairs, $5,600; for Insurance and Interest on warrants, $2,000. This Item has nothing to do .with increased salaries for teachers and merely provides money needed to get maximum returns from in vestments already made. - If the $40,000 asked at the coming election is granted, Just how much will the tax paid by the individual citizen be Increased? In the year 1 9 25-19 2 S tax mill- age for the district was 50.6, .in cluding state, county, city, city school, county school and library fund. In this 50.6 mlllage, ,13.4 mills were, included for support of the . city schools. . .Jf the proposal to gTant $40,000 for use of Salem schools is carried at the polls, approximately . 2H mills will be added to the district school taxi-;, For the Yea"r132C 1927, 15.9 . mills would be set aside for. city school use. Your city school tax is now 13.4 mills. It would then be 15.9 mills. - Elementary mathematics will .show you that the increase resulting ,,Xrom Monday's election would 'be only slishtly less ;than 18 per Cent. ....... That 18 ,per cent Is not an in crease in your total tax, but an 18 per cent Increase in the 13.4 mills assessed for school purposes. , what.aoea.that mean In dollars and cents? ' . (Continued oa par S) DAR SESSION CONVEf.'SS, MRS. SEYJIOUR JONES, SALE3I, JlliAIiS CONFERENCE PORTLAND, Or., March 25. (By Associated Press.) The an nual convention of the Oregon Daughters of the Revolution was opened here today with approx imately 80 delegates present. The session was presided ovex ,uy Mrt. Semour Jones of Salenv Etate regent..''"'; ' V.:..;-.. r-Mw ;f - The election of officers,; will be held on Saturday, the last day of the convention, after the nominat ing committee makes its rerort. Mrs. J. A. Buchanan of Astoria, is chairman of the nominating com mittee. ; , V . ; " In -her 'message ;as head of the jBtate". organization, Mrs. Jones urged the daughters to be as rood Americans as they ask aliens to" be. She urged the need cf a 'spirit of service as well as era c respect for, the Ideals of the an cestors who fought In the Arr-ri-can revolution.- . :W "S : Thursday In WasHnritcn : The senate took op the Ital settlement. . i " - Deportation hills were taken by the house immigration conr . tip ' Income tax -collections for first quarter were .estimate I $435,000,000. i r The bouse commerce cor. slon decided to begin coal Icz Uon -hearings Tuesday. The corn belt sar; ; crc- was again urged beft-.o tLa i .agriculture committee, j ' Senator Borah declared fc the war claims of Anc:; f zens against Great Drilali France would be paid. - The senate elections c:r: voted 10 to 1 for the rr : :i: Senator Erookhart, rc4l Iowa. Articles of Iinreachr: 1 r Tedcral Judje CcDrr"1 ' . were reported to tta l:z t i''Th 'senate s f,:-: I t. . rn-'t -cf ' tt9 - Et