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t - -I FiqSTSECflON Pages 1 to 8 THREE SECTIONS, 1 24 SALEM. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1926 PRICE FIVE CENTS Might ...4 . -!. ' -wr Kite - cptrpwflv otvmif vtii j V''-' 1 ! 1 ' 1 11 1 .. , . 1 1 .... . , , . . , , 1 ... - - ft '" SRM -snft hep SPiUISiSEO .-if.'. structure f or culJi)U)ertx Would Cost 32,500; Culvert $5,000 'JYip UNIT PUfi ASKgD aty CkancU;tp Rccetye r?tltipn to CtoatUwlFiq; CiMar i . Neu' Project It plans brought oat-lntbe re- , port of the special bridge com '.vlttee read to the city xonlng and : ptatnlng 5mml8l6n Satardaj 'night ate carried through, a bridge costing J8T.851 wfll spattlhe Mm stream where it Is crossed by South Liberty street, and will open Liberty street from the nortb kbA to the south end of the cltyjCost of the bridge proper Is-estimated I to be approximately 182,00. A ; cnlrert oyer the milK stream, ac cording to tbe estimate, will cost a little orer f S.).0. Such a bridge .as tbat recom mended , by the . committee woald exiena irom ueueTue street to . Mill-street. .From Mill street to Ttade street, a. fill would be used. This plan Is called. two-unit plan. The first unit la the .bridge span, and the second unit Is' the,!!! ' A petition will be submitted to the city council when it. meets on Monday night seeking' permission to continue with, the fill between Trade and Mill streets,, it was re realed by members o-the Liberty street property owners special committee present at the meeting. Insthis petition H is understood, the fcouacll will also be asked to sanction jthe construction of the talo4.ut&$lnlTO - - It Va!be original intention to make the fill, 99 feet wide to allow for the laying of the Btreet and adjoining sidewalks.; It was brought out at the meeting, how ever, that perhaps a 65-foot fill wonld be best. This would pro Tide for the street, and owners of property along the fill might want to build their basements to the street line, and bridge the side walks. .The zoning commlssjoji wlll Re commend to the 'city council that the . fill I be "carried through- and that the bridge plans be , consid ered a part of a comprehensiye bridge program for, Sale nuA It Is not the intention to con sider the Liberty street bridge as a separate issue, but as part of the complete bridge program. All bridges will be unif orpa it tho .ad vice of the commlaeion is heeded. (CoUnd a ( 4.) QUEEN OF MAY HAS BOB : X i : W. U. STUDENTS BREAK J'RE CEDENT IN CHOICE Willamette university, for the first time in its history, is to-have a May queen whqse bair has been bobbed. Myrtle Jensen of Salem has been k elected by th,e student body tor the hbnor V Althong'h bobbed hah has long since ceased to be peculiarity at the university,, a certain antipathy against the combination pf isbrupt locks and the atatellness' of a queen has existed: anUjIjthls year. Such antipathy was dealt a se vere blow .when the students nom inated! for the. office this spring two girls wtth bobbed? hair and I onlv one with hair unshort. Com plete disappearance of the. preju dice Is evidenced In the vote for rniMfi which was won bv Miss Jensen by , a large margin. I Jessie Pybns and Haxel Maim strom ' wfll'ervB malda for Queen Myrtle.' JH WJM the only one of the trio whose hail has not been bobbed. " (fOUNTESS BIDS ADIEU JvTFB OF BUD FISHER HAYS SHE WILL NEVER RETURN NEWIi Aprll S-Saylng he we' ''neVer. neverr.rethrn. the coWm AediU Debeaumont wife of Harry IBud) Fisher, sail ed for Paris today on the Majest tic. . She was accompanied only y. ner eigui year, uiv wt m t Plorro Debeaumont. . Asked If his wife's departure nvorce. tun cAXiaesii 'bis wife was going abroad to visit 'ela tires and that he intended to ?JJow8p3. : They .were ist October 21, onpoara tne ijev- Oreg on Traffic Laws tead T. A. Raffcrty, Chief Inspector for State Traffic Department, - HetDrs From National Safety Conference Called ! Washington by Cbolidge Oregon is, far in advance pf the, eastern states with relation to motor vehicle legislation, according to f.A. Raf f erty. chief inspector for the state traffic department, who returned here Saturday from Washington where he 'attended the safety conference called by :Isideijt.Coolidge. JEn route home from Washington Mr; Raf ferty spent a few davs at Harri3burtr. Pa.. Baltimore, , Md., Trenton, N. J., Jackson, Mjch and, other cities where he surveyed traffic conditions. While in Michigan CHILD HEALTH WORKERS Or COUNTY WILL MEET CQURTE3CAY INTirnPlE. NEW YQRKrCIXir. TOJSIPEAK Al Interested in Juyenile Health Are Invited to Attend on Tuesday ; .The, first meeting of the county wide organization of the Marion county child health demonstration will be held at the Chamber of Commerce next Tuesday evening, April 6; a, Ss .clock. A All communities in the country tare expected to -send in not only their delegates, but all in the com munity or chol district 'who are in.terested,In child health work. , ' '. .Courtenay pinwiddie pf New KTork City, director of all the Child Health-Demonstrations for the Commonwealth Fund, is visit ing in Salem and will speak at the meeting. . y Dr. Waller H. prown, director of the demonstration for Marlon county, . wm ' tell of the newly formed county health unit.' Dr. Douglas, who has just ' " " recently been appointed', county " health of- Hcer will b pretent. Miss Elnora Tpmpson . wOl. tell -.of the health work which has been done'.in the county during the past year. At this meeting Tuesday even ing, all communities in. the coun ty are urged to be present, as there . will come . up. for discussion the matter of health work for in dividual communities. Marion county is one of the four fortunate counties in the United States that have been selected by the Commonwealth Fund of New rYork City for health demonstra tion work during a period of five years. Salem and Marion county were selected over 27 competitors on the Pacific coast through the efforts of the Salem Chamber of Commerce, ; s , T. H. Hics, as chairman of the county t coo&cil jot organizations, will preside. Mrs. Roy Burton of Salem 1. secretary RdADHOUSE -RIJ LING SET ARE REALLY ,pANCE HALLS, JUDXJE SATS tS OPINION PORTLAND, April 3.V(By As socjaed Press.) rPresiding Judge Stevenson of the circuit court held in an opinion today that so-called L road, bo uses Jn Multnomah county are really dance oalls . wltnm the meaning of the law, and that as such they are subject to county dance hall regulations. Judge Stevenson's opinion 'was. given i in :.a .motion for directed Ijerdict- of net guilty to thj case ot tne state against roaanouse pro prietors, and jneans simply that this stage of , the proceedings that the cases; will npw go to'jirial on their merljtj. .i-iX -v Circuit Judge Skipworth of Eu gene held recently that roadhouses did not come jritbjn.thp purview of the danc&hall code.' t ;: - The opinion by Judger Stevenson was occasioned by the arrest of rferry rfau '3:xm; buu pthieroperfetprs";f taverns along b.wais M citj-'s, environs, on a charge, of operating dance halls without licenses.. fc APEIAN HOAX IS 'BARED APRrL T9h WPXoBETRAXS " JfEW DC..ar3TERY JNEW,LCDCW,-Conn.,AprU 3. (By, Assocjated Press. ) North Stoningtoa's .ow i Xamous "ape man" s misjtwr ihW Jbwi solved. The Mape-man" has been captured, and'- found to be nothing Jaut - a dnnimyrand.th,e jprlglnator of the achewehaifos8ed.-x-- x - This was the result of a state police Investigation announced to day to Sergeant Clifford Gorgas of the proton, barracks, :r The ape-man dummT was found near the- homo-pt thef Miner4 slsr ters, Muriel and Mildred, and was constructed, Miss M.ur lei Miner ad mitted, to scare away visitors not wanted. Directed to Haystack Rock by Miss Miner, the state po liceman found the dummy: wrap ped Itt a sheet with a large April Fool sign hanging from it.'rit was then., the staie.noHce.xep,ojitated that Miss Muriel Miner' confessed States Is Rep he was taken tnrpugn tne new state penitentiary .which is now. in course of construction. v- "I conrider the national safety and traffic conference held reef nt ly in Washington," read a state ment given out by Mr. Raffe "as of vital Importance not to the motor vehicle deiar administrative officials ani n vehicle law enforcement ifficor. but to the millions of motor ve hicle operators as well. "The conference was attended by more than 1400 delegates rep resenting a . large number of Btates. The Oregon delegation con sisted of six men representing the state, city of Portland, Oregon branch of the American Automo bile association and the - North western branch of the National Safety council. The Oregon del egates participated in all of the discussions and' made a com-oend-able showing. - "The conference formulated a model for a uniform vehicle code and laid the foundation for Its ultimate enactment by the several states. This code is equally fair to the administrative officials and the public. When enacted by the several states, which I predict will be within less than four years, the motorist of one state need have no Ifear when operating in another state just so long as he keeps in mind the requirements of the laws in effect in his home state. "While in the east I took oc- casion to visit the motor vehicle traffic departments of- seven states. In every instance, I found llhe application of the law to be in the hands, of nnUormed trained state forces. In practically all cases they were under the,direc- (Continaed n pag a.) WOODBURY IS TO SPEAK IXTT3L1TE OF EMERSON MAKE EUGENE TALKS TO EUGENE, April 3. (By Asso ciated Press.) Charles J. Wood bury, sole survivor among the in timate friends of Ralph Waldj Emerson, will arrive in Eugene to morrow afternoon, it was an nounced at the University of Ore gon today. Mr. Wocdhury, who is a noted lecturer, wIJL spaek be fore a number of crganlzations while in Eugene. Mr. Woodbury, although 70 years old, makes an annual ' lecture lour orer . the United States. : FOR DRY FIGH Open Hearing on Prohibition Question Is to Open in Senate Monday SHARP LINES ARE DRAWN vtets yfei Six iays to Present Views, With Dry Side Ap ering Last; Inter ruptions Banned WASHINGTON, April 3. (By Associated Press.) Sharp lines for the impending battle between tho wets and the drys have been drawn by the senate judiciary sub committee. ChairmA Means announced to day that beginning Monday the wets would have six days for. the presentation of their case without interruption from the drys except such cross examination as might be conducted 'by members of the committee. The aame will hold true when the drys are presenting their case week after next. After the two sides hare had their days in court, the commit tee itself maV decide to hold a (Continued on page 3)' JETTE CASE SPEEDS UP DISPOSAL OF PRELIMINARIES COMPLETED RAPIDLY -arivsted Wednesday night, ar- i xaignea in tne justice court and bound over to the grand jury on Frulay, and indicted by the grand Jury on Ssturday, Arthur Jette of t,,tstEporirtSTi6,W - awalfig - - trial1 on cnarge of . possession of a JtilL Ball of SI 00 a has been fur nished. The disposal of the pre UmJcarifeS 1 tne trial were made in what is beliored to have been rccord time. Jette was arristed late Wed nesday by Federal, ' state ' and county agents, l.nl by William S. Level's, stata prohibtion commis slcner. Aa SO gallon still, near ly. 3.00 pints of moonshine whis key, and about 200 gallons of mash; n-ere discovered" by the raiders. The still was located in the Jette house, not 100 feet from the road. The only other .report return ed by the grand jury was a not true tfu for George Peters, who had been held on a charge of contributing to the 'delinquency of a minor. UNLOAD QR SINK! LAST GIFT CALL NEARS, WIN YOUR AUTQM0BILE VOTE LIST WILL BE CHANGED LAST TIME TUESDAY Contestants Should Confer With Contest Chief All Misunder standing . . HONOR ROLL TODAY 1 May Young" 2 Mrs. li. S. Crowther 3 Mildred Nash Leader of whole contest Mrs. Bernlce Feller (By Auto Contest Editor) Some candidates are so busy planning, excuses they overlook real issues likely story for fail ure height of ambition end only six days away any one can win. In six days what will your ex cuse be for not winning? Then the final count begins and one of the greatest contests for sub scriptions and valuable prizes wfll go down in history as the most squarely fought battle of ballots ever conducted. Six days more and the winners will be made and I he losers will be the busiest Duncn or people you ever saw hunting up excuses why they did not win. Yet, in Industry there is pleas ure. The winners will feel that they are already repaid for the time they have spent in the inter ests of the contest. The winners of the autos will have made a big salary in the course of the time the contest has run. The dinners of the other prizes will receive no small reward. However, the win ners of any one of tho prizes Is .just as much in doubt today, six days before the end of the oon- test, as it was 10 weeks ago. In the winning class a goo. fin al sprint by any one of tne can didates would land the auto or the other prizes for any one of them as compared . with the post tlons of their competitors. Surely this is the most surprising and at the same time interesting con test it has ever been the pleasure of the contest editor to become associated with. After becoming acquainted with all the different candidates, (Ea (Continued on page 3) VICTORIA SOME BETTER PRINCESS IS SLIGHTLY IM PROVED,. BULLETIN SAYS LONDON, Aprfl 3. (By Asso ciated press.) A bulletin issued tonight on the condition of Prin cess "- Victoria, sister of King George, reported that she passed a less disturbed day and that her condition was slightly more fa vorable. The princess is suffering from influenzal pneumonia. The Prince of Wales is report ed tonight to be making con tinued progress in his recovery from a recent aural operation. UP TO COUNCIL Wheeled Boots" May Ne- cessitate Turning Street Into Open Air Rink HAZARD OF LIFE FEARED Suggestion That Center From Commercial to State Hospit al Be Open-Air-Rink Considered. Skating will undergo the care ful and expert attention of the city's aldermen when the council meets Monday night. Considerable concern has been voiced throughout the city at the hit and miss method in which skating is being carried on In practically every street in the city. Skating seems to be more pop ular than ever. The usual quota of grammar school kiddies have donned the ball-bearing boots. .The Junior high school and the senior high school students have become fond of the pastime, and Willamette university students add to the total. Skating among the grammar school youngsters and those of high school age has been a mat ter to be met yearly. But this season is the first in several years in which university students have adopted the fad. Some of the college boys and co-eds have discovered that skates provide a simple, swift and inex pensive means of transportation between chapel and sorority and fraternity houses. Streets in front of some of the fraternities have been turned into temporary rinks. Because of the inadvisability of mixing skate and auto traffic, the city fathers are beset with the (Cb&tiaaed oa. pr 4.) ACCIDENT TOLL LEAPS 113 CRASHES SATURDAY ON STREETS OP PORTLAND PORTLAND, April 3. Wet streets were responsible for an ex ceedingly large number of auto mobile accidents today. At nine o'clock tonight there had been 113 accidents involving damage to machines reported for the day, and several had gone to hospitals as a result of smashups. G. B. Evans, an employe of the Shell Oil cbmpany received in juries which may prove fatal when his machine ran off the road not far from his Linnton home and turned over on him. The bright headlights of an automobile approaching In the op posite direction blinded him and he lost control Of his machine. ms condition was. saw by nospitai attendants to .Be 'serious and be had not regained consciousness at a late hour. '.i H14 arm was bro ken, his scalp torn open for six inches, and he sustained a possi ble fracture of the skull. FOUR INJURED IN WRECK LOSS OF CONTROL -PLUNGES CAR OVER EMBANKMENT THE DALLES, 'Ore.. April 3,-1 (By Associated Press.) Four per sons are ;in ' The Dalles hospital with serious Injuries as a result of a wreck this afternoon In which a car driven by Mrs. Willis Ashley went over the new Tygh grade, 30 miles south ot The Dalles. Willis Ashley suffered a fractured skull and other injuries. - Mrs. Ashley may have - a broken back. W. R. McMurray has a dislocated shoulder and possible internal In juries. Mrs. McMurray has a scalp wound and ; severe bruises. All are . from - Portland. The car" went ' over - the grade when - Mrs. Ashley who .was un accustomed to driving the vehicle, lost control. The party was en route to Bend! ' JEFFRIES TO FISH BIERE . EUGENE. Ore, -April 3. AP) James J. Jeffries, ex-heavy weight world's champion f Iguier iq coming to Eugene to fish In (he McKenzIe and Willamette rivprs some ..time s this summer. ,ccord-ing- to word received by friends here todajr. 1 PHILIPPINE QUESTION IS AGAIN TOPIC OF DEBATES j " " ' ; 1 MUCH DISCUSSION AitOUSED FOLLOWING APPOINTMENT Commission to Investigate Island Conditions Leads to Specula- ; V tlons WASHINGTON, April 3. (By Associated Press.) What to do the Philliplnes has become once more a much discussed ques tion in Washington. Revitalized by President Cool id ge's unexpected appointment of a special commissioner to investi gate conditions In the islands, the old fighting IsBue of the post Spanish war days provided fuel today for an hour's debate in the senate, prompted a proposal for a congressional inquiry, and led to all sorts of conjectures among officials and politicians. The president's selection yes terday of Carmi. A. Thompson of Ohio to make his inquiry in the islands was variously described in the day's discussions as a wise and essential step, a reflection on Governor Leonard Wood,, an effort to give support to what General Wood has done, a move in the in terest of Ohio rubber concerns to eplloit the islands and an attempt to remove Mr. Thompson as a fac tor in the 1926 Ohio campaign. The proposal for a congression al investigation was made by Sen ator Harrison, democrat, Mississ ippi who asked in a resolution that two senators and two repre sentatives make a non-partisan in quiry as a basis for future legis lation. The resolution did not reach a vote. While speculation over the Thompson appointment was run ning its uneven course. Secretary Davis of the war department who as the titular guardian over the islands was planning a trip there this summer to survey conditions held his plans in abeyance while he waited for further information from the White House. The ap pointment yesterday tumbled out from an empty sky and when ap parently neither Mr. Davis nor others in the department who deal with the islands affairs have a notion just what sort of inquiry Mr. Thompson will conduct. A White House spokesman said yesterday that a thorough inspec tion trip to the Philippines might take the secretary away from his post for a long period, but M Davis still may find it adsable for him fo take the trip unless the president's personal commission er expects to include in his inspec tion all the military, posts in the Islands. In the senate debate today Sen ator Harrison made a point of Mr. Thompson's announcement, imme diately after his appointment, that Ibe journey (would "make it im possible for him to be a candidate (Oantinned on p> 4 CHAPMAN PLEA REFUSEQ REPRIEVE TO CONDEMNED i MAN DENIED BY GOVERNOR STATE PRISON, Wethersfleld, Conn., April! 3. (By Associated ress.) Governor Trumbull an nounced tonight he would ' not grant Gerald Chapman another reprieve." His decision was made known shortly after Judge Newell Jennings, trial judge in the Chapman murder case called at his home InjPlanvllle to recom mend this course. I A hearing! on Chapman's peti tion to the board of pardons for commutation lot his death sentence to life: imprisonment, probably Will be heard Monday morning at the state prison. Chapman will be given a chance to appear be fore the board in person, if it con venes and give his own reasons as to why he thinks - his sentence should be commuted. It is ab solutely Chapman's - last -hope to escape the gallows Monday night for .the : murder ': pf i Patrolman James Skelly of New Britain. r TAKES ASHLAND POSITION t ,v-r'-.-: : ASTORIA f EDUCATOR TO IN STRUCT AT NORMAL SCHOOL I PORTLAND April 3. (By As sjciated Press.) A C. " Strange,' fprmer superintendent of school i Astoria, has resigned as execu tive . secretary of i the Portland Americanization council to become an instructor; in the Ashland nor mal school. He has gone to Eu gene . ta be Jfith his family until next , month when summer schoo term opens at: Ashland. TO REDUCE AUTO FEB -'- . - ' I PORTLAND. April 3. (AP)- The Automobile entrance fee. to Crater lake national park will be reduced from! $ 2. 5 0 to 1 1 It was announced Washington today bir.DJrectorMather pf the jnaion al park bureau, according to a special apatca to. uie. yreqmj EASTER FACES APRIL SHQWEH Slightly Dainpenel., Spirits .Evidenped J)y Purchasers of Spring Togs FARMERS ARE JOYFUL! .f ; ,' 'it Saturday's Rainfall,: First In Weeks,' Much Needed ; Bloro ' Is Declared in. Prospect . . - ,.fo Today .-J... ;"-'.; With the spirit of Easter some what dampened ' from a material, standpoint, and with the' feminine population . of the .city undecided -whether or not to brave the ele ments Jn its Easter millinery; aQd its jsprlngt'me coats,, the .weather man last night was a man of chas- . tened spirit. Persistent malign- lngs and numerous barbed thrusts from recent H"Spring" togs", specu lators had wrought havoc with' hja. otherwise e p, u a b 1 e disposition. His oply champions . were . the farmers to whom yesterday's rain was a God-send. ;B.ut there aje not many, wpmen-farners,' Saturday's rain, a steady driz zle. Interspersed; with occasional showers, amounted Vt6 . 34 5 of an inchi and was the first In several weeks, following the dry est March since 1898. -During last month only .06 of an inch; of rain was registered In the gauge of the lo cal bureau. ' ' ' ' " , Prospects for today are not bright. "Unsettled with occasion al rains," the local observer mut tered sourly, qualifying that de claratipn .with the lnformatioa that southeast winds were to .be . looked for and that storm clouds, were pushing their way oyer th southeastern horizon. . ' Despite the indifferent weather, Salem has entered. Into the Joyfbl. spirit of ' Easter and all Salem churches wjll have ' special ; ser vices for the day, commemorating Christ" arisen. -lHany churches . will JxaVe to offer appropriate, mu- . sical selections . for the occasion " and Jn keeping. with religious and traditional observance, : ' ' The. religious atmosphere, how-, ever, will doubtless' nptlprove ; a foil to' ward off mean.ihlnga that, will be said about the' weather man. '. ' , " " " " , ' " ' ' , BEND, Or., April S. .(By As sociated Press.) Having enjoyed an almost snowless winter, Bend tonight faced the prospect of a white Easter. " Snow began falling about 10 o'clock after alight, fain-j fall earlier in 3 the evening. -Tho ' - :- ' .. - ' i I (Oootiaaed n pkfa'S) -' - BASiEB ALL OR SHOWERS? IF J.'PLUTIU8 'IS DECENT, i" SEASON WILL OPEN i ; I ;- -;; j;;..-1 j : f vEvprythlng ' Is Jn readiness for the game this afternoon 'between the Salem , Senators and the Se attle Indians. The Stage la set. Now all that remains is ' the con- . duct; of one J. Pluviuv ' : ' . Should that gentleman seefit to '.abstain from the use of his sprinkling can, and observe Easter Sunday by enjoying a peaceful nap,? then the umpire will march out; onto the field- to receive wtho,,t flrBt repartee of the season. A j The Indians arrived In the city Saturday afternoon and spent the evening 'enjoying:" the various amusement places pf Salem,, which had been .thrown open to them. lhx Washington fiiTbb Cummins railroad consoli dation bill was reported to tta senate. ; ' -; , - ' Demand for'an investigation of the Philllppines was msde, in tta - senate, r it .-'?';..,"'.;- .. 'ii-;.; .. j , The state department - began preparation of a note declining It a . League of Nations' Invitation, to a world c6urt conference. -n.-; -r , . . ' : The American Association for the .Advancement ,of : Atheisra ought a court injunction to pre vent paymeJ3t- 4 of 4 -government chaplain's salaries. The Interstate comnerce eon mlsslon" sei 3Jay 19' for argu ments of thenatlon's freJLt rata structure and western roada" re- uc?i for Increases, - , i.