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. . 4 f FIRST-SECTION gages jl to flf THREE SECTIONS - 24 Pages 1 r . SEVENTH-SIXTH YEAR. SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 11, 1926 1 01 riTtf PRICE FIVE CENTS .' CCVcSTCUTDFF Browning, Faiiy Prinbe,; MSrries Cinderella Girl New York Real Estate Operator, 51, Weds Child 15, Follow ing His Second Romance With "Cinderella Girls;" , Huge Mansion Is Leased ' . SIDE ENDS' Long Illness Fatat to Plant ;Vizard Jim -. LIFE REIIO SPECIAL VOTE GfllESlOll IT IfJS SUPPORT LIQUOR DEBATE t Li i s 4VJ IV State Hlahway Commission Endorses FroAOed Sal-1 moh River Route ! SEEK PLAHE OH BALLOT Special Meeting V Held , Saturday Favors Construction Illfil wajr to Cut Beach V Ifetanc ' Polfe counts was the bntt of de nunciations at the hearing of tbe state highway commission held in New CJrande Ronde Saturday. The matter for consideration was the cretlom f of a ' superroad district extending from, Grande Honde to Salmon RiTer. . " Four counties aro affected Lincoln, Yamhill," Tillamook and Polk. Every one of them but Polk county, it would seem, favor heartily- the building of a. road from Grande Roude to Otis. This road, proponents of the measure argued, would establish e great tourists road and would benefit Salem and Portland; shortening the distance from Portland to Newport' by 37 miles and making' Devils Lake Salem's closest resort. Large delegations from each of four counties asembled at Grande Ronde, inflating the population of that town to proportions seldom seen. Members o f the state high--way commission present were H. B. Van Duzer and W. H. Malone, commissioners,'. an4 Roy A. Klein, state highway eogineed. William Duby, chairman was "in eastern Oregon fcind Van Duer served as chainnair of the hearing. . Aftf 511 arguments pro and con TSjMpm sounded, the commission approved ol' the road district as submitted, only eliminating four sections in Lincoln county and 27 sections ta Polk county. Reasons for eliminating these sections was given that they are in other watep sheds than the water shed of the Salmon river. These sections are n the southeast portion of the district. 4 Polk countyrs attitude on the matter waa severely - censured toy C M. Warren, resident of Rose Lodge and' former commissioner of Lincoln county. "I have worked on this project for seven years," he said- "We have asked the cooperation of Yamhill, Lincoln, Tillamook and Polk countiesMU but pplk were willing to help get through the project. Polk even refused to send a delegate to the meeting we held. "The road will hneflt Portland, ttrniamBtta : Mllav and T.lnrnln lUBlUUbVV - 1 county, as it will shorten the dis l tance from Oregon's, two largest t cities to Toledo, Lincoln's seat. " f pblk county has- built leas J roads than ani other county. In fact, she has built hardly any standard roads that have been ap I proved by the highway commis- t (C?ntinna os VZ 8 Saturday In Washington nahatA'nn th Brookhart-Steck con test continued in :th senate. Commissioner Burke defended his administration of Indian bu Teau 'affairs. , I ; . Nine bid for. Muscle Shoals were received by the congressional fommittee. . .". News gathering and . dissemin ation werer d iscussed at the . Pan American congress of Journalists. t :-..:MlH ' f Can.ada'8 methods of handling the liquor situation waa explained at the senate prohibition hearing. " A nation wide! reduction in freight rates on eotton was sought py the Arkansas common growers' Cooperative association. Trfwee bouse rivers and harbors eon-fnittee members' criticized the proposal of i ail-American ' canal fiaVer and the Illinois river im- friVement. - " i Demand was made, for Secretary iardlne's posUlpnt on. farn relief s the house agriculture commit fee neared the dose of its - hear- . inga. A '"'V: ' .V.'.: rC The senate Immigration com mittee rejected i 7 bills t6 extend quota exemptions, then approved a measure" to gve' war Yeterafas COLD SPRINGS, N. Y., April 10. (By Associated Press: Edward M. Browninff, wealthy 51 year old real estate oper ator, was married today to Frances (Peaches") Heenan,.15, his second "Ciriderella girl." i Browning,1 Miss Heenan, her parents, William B. aid Mrs. Caroline Heerian, accompanied by three men and two women, appeared this afternoon at the plumbing shop of Gilbert For man, town clerk of the township of Philipstown, Putnam county. At their request he issued a marriage license fori Salmon River Road Proposed new highway, cutting 28 miles of the distance from Sa lem to the beaches, would run west from Sheridan io New Grande Ronde, slanting south to' Otis; on the Roosevelt Highway. SECOND FLIGHT IS MADE TO FROZEN ARCTIC ZONE WILKIXS HOPS OFF IN AT TEMPT TO AID COMRADES 1 1 age Cargo of Supplies for Smith. Party s Carried in Airplane FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 10. (AP) On a second trip to Point Barrow, Alaska, Captain George Hubert Wilkins and Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson hopped off here at 9:30 this morning in the plane called the Alaskan. On the previous flight of the Alaskan, leaving here March 31 and returning Tuesday Eielson, aviator and Wilkins, Arctic expe dition leader, flew beyond Bar row,5 135 miles north over the Ice penetrating further in that region than any human being is known to have done before. One object, of the flight started today is to succor Alexander Malcom Smith, reported in distress on the tun dra sloping from ithe Brooks range to the Arctic. In the 4100 pound cargo lifted by the Alaskan, most of it gasoline, were 300 pounds of dried salmon and tallow to feed the dogs with which Smith and a party were trying to carry overland to Barrow from the Alas ka railroad, when they encounter ed starvation. Some other provisions for Smith and ' his ' companions, ' including Earl RoBsman, " photographer of the. Wilkins expedition, were car ried. The load was 800 pounds more than that lifted March 31 and taken td Barrow. The ' plane ran the full length of the' aviation fiehi, of the Fair banks Airplane corporation before leaving the ground. Then Eielson described a wide circle, attaining altitude before he took his course northwestward to Barrow Difficulty in finding Smith's camp .was anticipated. '"Wilkins said his plan was to descend close to the earth in making, the search. When Smith- is seen the provis ions are to be dropped' from the plane. Smith's position is almost on a line between here and Barrow.- . "": -v- ' " ' ' '" ESCAPES FROM PRISON JERRY lUCHARDSOX, LIFE TERMER, LEAVES FARM Jerry Richardson, serving a life term in the state penitentiary here for a statutory offense com mitted h in Laser county, escaped from . the prison; farm Saturday. Richardson; : was received ' atf the penitentiary .February 20, 1920, and had been . a . trusty for , more than five years. 1 He ls4t years of age. 1 , V Richardson is the first convict who has made his - escape r, from the . prison rsince Warden Linte assumed the xaanagexoent of the lastitttUoa foui-moatfe. a$cu.-.. browning ana me gin aiier iwr and Mrs. Heenan had signed the papers necessary for the marriage of their daughter, who waa too young to be married without par ental consent. Browning gave his age as 51, his residence as New York city, and said he had been married once before. Miss Heenan gave her age as 15 and her resi dence as Cold Springp. After obtaining the. license the party went to the home of Justice of the Peace Roy W. Christian, of Cold Springs, who married them. According- to Town Clerk For man. Miss Heenan had. been, living here for the past three or four days. It was learned that Brown ing had taken a year's lease on one of the largest homes in town, a 15-room building on a two-acre estate owned by a woman ow liv ing in California. The clerk said- Browning had expressed the intention of living in the house with his wife.. Fore man in his capacity as plumber re ceived the contract to repair the plumbing in the leased home, but said he did not .know until he issued the marriage license that the place was to be occupied by Browning and his youthful bride. Browning's engagement to Miss Heenan was confirmed by his retary on March 31 when it was first learned that he had been see ing the girl frequently. He re fused at that time -either to con firm or deny it. v Miss Heenan, however, an nounced their engagement April 2, and said they would be married after her 16th birthday in June. .Several HtaYestlgaiJ6n:rweT start ed. The Children's Society began an inquiry Into ' Browning's ; relai- tions with the Phi Lambda TaM sorority,- to which. Miss Heenan belonged. , - At the-same time the police were investigating an attack on the girl March 27 when her face and neck were burned by acid thrown upon her as she slept iri her mother's apartment. They were unable io discover who threw the acid. The' society for the prevention of cruelty to children ordered Mrs. Heenan and her daughter to ap pear in children's court in an in vestigation of the fitness of Mrs. Heenan as a guardian for the girl. The case was adjourned for one week on the presentation of a doc tor's certificate that Miss Heenan was unable to leave her room be- (Continue OB page 3) WHICHEVER WAY SHE Purchase of Site for New School to Serve South Salem Is Issue TAX RATE NOT AFFECTED Poll Will Open In Associated Oil Company Office at 2 and Close at 7 O'CIock on Monday Shall the school board be auth orized to buy for $19,500, 13 and a third acres of land, known as the Tuxedo Park site, between south Church and south Capitol streets and Howard and Oxford streets, on which to construct the proposed new school for south Salem? That is the issue to be decided at the special election to be held tomorrow afternoon in the Asso ciated .Oil company's office in the Marion hotel from 2 till 7 o'clock. No new tax is proposed. No new bond Issue is involved. Regardless of how ballots are cast voters should understand the proposal does not authorize the issuance of additional bonds, an assumption that might be drawn from casual consideration. This proposed new building was see-TProvided for in the $500,000 bonds' voted three years ago. The bonds, authorized by that vote,' have all been issued, and the mon ey expended for school buildings and addition in other parts of the city, excepting $180,000 and of this sum $125,000 has been set aside, under that authority, for a pew junior high school building to accommodate the southern part of the city. The question at issue at tomor row's election, therefore,' is, shall the school board be authorized to use $19,250 of this $125,000 to buy the Tuxedo Park site, leaving $195,750 with which to construct the proposed new building? By voting to allow the purchase of thi3 proposed site, citizens are not voting to increase taxes, or to issue bonds, but to grant permis sion for the use of money already on. hand to be used for that speci fied purpose Selection of the proposed site came following careful consider ation on the part of school board and residents of the district the new school will serve. Members of the school board favor pur chase of this site. The residents (Continued on page S) JUMPS, SHE'S GOING TO HAVE LOTS OF COMPANY Week's Testimony Conclud ed Before Senate Commit tee; Canadians' Heard DRYS WILL OPEN MONDAY Women Members of Law Enforce ment Conference to Be Called to Stand; Drys- to Answer Thrusts WASHINGTON. April 10, (By Associated Press.) A week's drive against the Volstead act be fore a senate committee was wound up today by the wets with the testimony of former Canadian officials as to improved conditions In provinces in which have turned away from prohibition and with further demands of labor leaders for legalized beer. . Although the wets still have eleven hours of actual hearing time remaining in which to com plete their case, they consented to give way Monday to the drys who desire to put on the stand a num. ber of women in attendance at the women's national law enforcement conference which opens here to morrow. The wets will resume their pre sentation Tuesday and when they are through, probably the last part of the week; the drys will reply to the barrage their oppon ents have laid down. Although lacking much of the spectacular which has accom panied attacks on, the Volstead act during the week, the testi mony of the Canadians regarding theoperations of laws for govern ment control of liquor distribu tion in the provinces of Quebec and Manitoba challenged the close attention of the committee. Sir William Stavert, of Montreal, a former member of the Quebec liquor commission declared that province had banished the boot legger by returning to restricted license and had increased temper ance. Describing conditions in Mani toba since prohibition was voted out, Francis William Russell, pres-dent of the moderation league -fof that province, said there was an increasing purchase of beer and wine and a falling off in hard liquor consumption. Asserting that there never had been such a crime wave as that experienced during prohibition. (Continued on pag 6 ) J "(WW W.WWMIHD I- II. - V.- - 4. . .. T r- - - t - - . - v 5 Luther Burbank. world-famed li,' in Santa Rosa at 12:13 o'clock this morning.j This picture of-him in his gardens is. believed to have been the last taken before his, fatal illness. The gardens have been usejd by hinx for experimentation for 50 years. His modest home is see MARCH POLICE REPORT SHOWS LOW DRUNK LIST TRAFFIC . VIOLATIOX FIXES . . NET-$272 JX PERIOD Total ' Fines Assessed During the Month Listed at $1,107; 269 Complaints There was less drunkenness in Salem in March than in either of the other two months of the year, it is indicated in the report of the month- as compiled by Frank Mia to, "chief of police. There were 17 arrests made for drunkenness in March. Eighteen arrests for the same offense were made ija January and 20 arrests of such nature were made in Febru ary. Total amount of fines imposed for March' was $1167. Of this, $272 came in from fines for traffic violations. There were 269 com plaints and reports on the police blotter. The total number of ac cidents reported was 110. Fol lowing are the details of the re port: Number of arrests an felony charges, 4; drunkenness, 17; for possession of intoxicating liquor, 7; traffic , violations, 99; miscel laneous arrests, 24; total number of arests, 151; number of days in jail sentences, 45; meals served to prisoners, 253; number given beds 77; ; burglaries reported, 2; re ports of " larceny, 10; number of autos stolen, 3 ; number recovered. 3; bicycles stolen, 3; number re-1 covered 3; total number of offl-: cers' special reports, 50. LIQUOR CASE' DISMISSED JUDGE KELLY UPHOLDS MO TION OF FORMER JEOPARDY Lester Dixon, ; John Andrews and Henry Johnson, three men ar rested ln'oonnection with" the raid on the huge Mount Angel still on April 28 of Jast year, ;were freed in the circuit iourt,r Saturday on a charge of manufacture of liquor. Circuit i Judge ,-Percy R. i Kelly signed ; the I order dismissing the case t when. . a motion of former jeopardy -was! filed. . The - three -men had previously been .convicted on a chaVge of possession of a still and Jndge Kelly's ruling rwaa that they . had been! in former Jeopardy for the offense for Which (hey were being tried yesterday... On . the ;, posses sion pt a: still, charge, Dixon and Andrews were sentenced to pay a fine of $500 each, and Johnson was fined .$250,; All ..were sen-; fenced Q 30- days in jalL The case Is now on appeal to the supreme court, - J " - I approve of the action of the district attorney in bringing this case, regardless ot he outcome' jHdge-KeUy said.. Vlt was emi nently proper that the matter Je brought before. the-court." ; i YOUTH IMJURED BY AUTO . - T , ' : . EUGENE BOY IV HOSPITAL JN .; SERIOUS CONPUIOX EUGENE. April' 10. (By As sociated ': Press. ) Gilbert t Barber, 15, son of ,Jir. apd Mrs. Hi A. Barber, who reside near here, was struek down by an automobile on the streets of this: city and Is in a dangerous condition at the Pa cific "Christian c hospital tonight. IP - :i. - V. - 1 i . s , horticulturist," died at his' home n in the background HAWAIIA N s Q pATER AGAIN ERUPTING; QUAKES FELT i . ' , 1 MAUNA 5IXA SENDING .FOUN- TAINS OF LAVA FROM PIT liTierd (ilow Surrounds Entire Country; Tidal Waves Hit ! East Coast IIILO, T. H., April 10. (AP) The volcano Mauna Loa began erupting early today. The flow oif lava appears to be concentrat ed three miles southwest of the sjummit, fountain shooting terminating In one big from which lava is in the air. I The outbreak began at 3 a. m Professor; Thomas A. Jaggar, Jr., la charge of the Hawaiian vol c4no observatory, described it as cf sting a weird, uncanny glow oyer the countryside with a lane of fountains formed along the crest of the 'mountain in a great crescent. Proceeding the erup tion, several earthquakes rocked the island of Hawaii with tidal waves on j its eastern side.. Professor Jaggar estimated that the point of eruption -was 12,000 f$et above sea level. The sum mit of Miuna Loa is 13,675 feet. Jaggar said, he would ' not . be sarprised if Kilauea, largest ac tive volcano in the world, began erupting, j although its activity did not necessarily follow. It isj 3J miles on an airline from Mauna Loa, and also on the island of Hawaii. 1 For three years Mauna Loa has given signs of coming to life, Jiggar said, . A message ' reports Mauna Loa erupting on the Kona slide, down its .western slope." V j There .iras a' four foot tidal wave at'llilo. . i r ' ' '- TWO OTHER VICTIMS DIE FOUR KILLED, IS RESULT OF TRAIN-AUTO CRASH i. . EUGENE, April 10. (By As sociated Pjress.) No funeral ar rangements had ' been made to night for J:he four victims of the; nerth bound Shasta, 'who-' were kflled when a sedan in which they were ridiijg , was struck4 by 7 the train at jCottage' Grove V Friday nfghL Mrs. S. B. Kerp,:, $5 'and Ms. Ella hortridge, who died in stantly ujnder . the ' wheels ,r of Shasta, wfre pioners of. this sec tion. Mrst Chester Smith, and hef six year old daughter Geneva, died at a , local, hospital . early today. Rv. Chester Smith husband 'and father of the latter, who drove the sejdan, has been informed of their deaths: Ie is expected to recover. MARCH FIRE LOSS HIGH tAta L 225,OpO fntCLUSIVE QI? PORTLAND LOSS" gon, exclusive of Portland, for the month of March aggregated 225, 0S1 according to a report prepared here Saturday by Will Moore, state r . v f - ml . i f iuo luaraai. iure were m, uiu i of 84 fires-. reported, "--i of which ighlted from "an -undetf" ortgiiu 1" ? . ' " (The most disastrous fire Klamath county where a r destroyed with a loss of 1 t '! 'I v " i ? , I - - r , 4JI i mr m Distinguished Scientist- M Want World Dies at 12:30 This Morning : ,.,.4. LONG ILLNESS IS FATAL1 Nervous Exhaustion Complicated fV By Heart Attack; Wife and Relatives Are at I. - .. .Bedside - " SANTA ROSA, CaL, April 11 KBy Associated Press.) JLuther Burhank, noted horticulturist died at j liis home 'here this, morning after an. illness of two yeeks.: 1 ;The endlcame at 12; 13. a. m. The ; end came quietly - after a two weeks struggle against death, which did not grow hopeless until yesterday. The aged scientist pu up ja valiant battle and was victor ious in several cases when gastro intestinal complications and ' hi coughing ,' tested his - failing strength. " ,..-'. ,', , A : few weeks ago Burbank , created comment throughput the ountry by declaring that "as a scientist I cannot help - but f eel that all religions are on a totter ing! foundation." lie also repeat ed former, assertions that' he .was "an infidel in the true sense of. the word." ' ' ' : . :" " , Most of the comment, was In opposition to the 'horticulturist's , statement, a group of Chicago clergymen branding his remarks as "unscientific" and "nonsense," while Chauneey M- Depew, in New, York, said he regretted "sincerely1, that such a prominent man as Mr. Burbank should adopt this attl- -tude, -"tf'hr'fti eorary Iff fha seat!-" ment of ninety-nine per cent ot Wie American people today. ? ' ; Appearing: in the pulpit of the First Congregational; church In San Francisco,; Burbank declared he had "nominated" himself an "infidel" so as to cause people to think. .- , . "I reiterate; The religion; oi most people is what they would like to believe, not what they 'd? believe and: very few stop to ex amine its fpundation," he said. 1 "The Idea i that a - good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. The ravings of Insanity; superstl- tion gone to seed. I don't want to have anything to dp with such ' a God. I am a lover of meaand Christ as a man and his, -work, and all things that help, humanity but, nevertheless, just as he. was an infidel then, I am an lnfidef today. "I 'prefer and claim the right to worship the infinite everlasting almighty God pf this vast unjversa. , as revealed to us. gradually" step by step by the demonstrable trnths of our savior science,- - "Do yp'u ,4hlnk Christ pr Mo-, hammed, Confuclous, Baal or even the gods Of ancient .mythology are dead T Not so. Do you thiak Per- icjes, .Marcus Aurellua,. Moses, ' Shakespeare, Spinoza,:. Aristotle, (Coatian oa par t) PIONEER WOMAN SSES MRS. EDITH ORR mES AT HER , HOME IN1 "HfluDFORD .'MEDFORO, Ore,, April '1 0. ;( By! Associated Press.) Mrs.' Edith' Orr, a pioneer of southern Oregon and one -of tlT5 first, resi dents 7 of this": city died at. her home today. ' With her husband, the late Eugene M. Orr, she was the original 'owner of the Bear Creek, Klamath and Del Rio or chards, three of the largest fruit tracts in' southern Oregon. Bu3r LotO Arid Acrch'- Prtent , indicate. r: t to this form of real t t-ia as the most promlsic; ia- n vestment right now. ' j. It 'yon believe in Ealem's futare you can make your Judgment pay rich divi dends by in vestic i lem real estate toiar, ..- . , ' . : .See the; Classified .sc' pf today's State -r, -tiojl two, paes G pt I T. r- . II . !