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it ... i" '4 S SEVENTY-SIXTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1926 PRICE FIVE CENTS' IBM Rescuers; TH SHOCKS v id .... i Wpmeri Crry Wet and Dry War to White Houset I Q "" f Pj ; 1 One Mirier Found Alive If 7 f 1 , Present Confusing ' System tlust .Be Junked jiioW, or Remain,. Is Claim : ACCURATE CHECK-UP DUE .r, .. - few Insurance Blap ' Would be Rendered TJselesa ilj System Changed Later, Brings Issue to Head - With the alternative, of rennm bertng houses in Salem's residen tlal distrlet within the immediate future, ? or - all owing the present, ehaotie, method o; house designa tion td-eontinue in force for a long period of years, residents yester day- were endorsing5 the proposal to inaugurate 'an. Intelligent . sys tem, treaght forward at the cfty council;. meeting Monday. Necessity; for Immediate action la seen by the fact' that an accu rate check and! tabulation of the number of every house in the city Is about to be made to furnish data for an Insurance map which furn ishes the basis of insurance rec ords.. - , ,.-, .v , . ;.. For a period of J 1 years Salem has found iti insurance may un changed, and In that - time - new sections and . blocks , hare been opened up, throwing the old system-of numbering lata the classi- . llcation of antiquated relics of the past. Af::-:-' :,--'.'y.J' , William H. Schaeffer, insurance surreyor representing the Sanborn Map company, of San Francisco, points .but the futility of accurate ly' checking up on the .houses , in , 'the city in case their numbers are ft-jj changed In the near future, - rttult that tn newaaade ij;thareby.rendefe4:fantt q" fcAdtonce -; expected to see serrice for a period of some 20 years, and should not be drawn unless it is to remain accurate for some time' ' ' Under the 2 present system of numbering, no great confusion is found within the business district. North and South , Commercial street, .-and Church street, are de - k dared to be in good condition. As : one goes east, howerer, the present house designations becomes laugh- i East of Twelfth -street; -where the first house should be 1200, the number is 1100.. Going fur ther east a, person would come to . the 2.000 block. Continuing, one block further east one discorers the 1900 block when, the 2100 WILLIAM ftf MUrtffflY Dlfe VQUTLAKD TttAXh JtjLS '- . PORTLAKD. caprfl 0.-By Associated Press.) William" Mc Murray, for many years general , passenger agent In - Portland for the Union pacific systemrdied at his home here lata this' afternoon after a lonr lUnessv , 7- . .. Last week be tendered Ills resig nation on account of fllhelth. , Mr. McMurray was born in Ire land ln 18 CO and 1&1S87 came to the United States and entered the serrice; of the Southern Paci fic as a shipping clerk in San Francisco. In recent years ; was Influential In starting the, growing of flax in the Willamett ralley. Tuesday--. In VVarhiatca Reconsideration -'f the senate protest over the Dollar, ship Md was blocked ; by- Senator DU1.' , t -..-':: 'jw Indications were 'A given - thkt President Coolidge opposed - fed eral r isorshio of 2 motion r plo turesi n an ' Medical association astQ.- supreme' court to re movet -V strlcUont ; on physicians ' Churchmen and Jaity continued their 'testimony favoring prohibi tion before the senate liquor com mittee. ,-. . ' . . i ' Federal financing or five west, enT' reclamatioj; -projects Jwaa re jected in .house consideration of the Interior snpply.bill. ,. " ? ' . - Opportunity tor the house - to rote on both the Uaugea and Tin- :her farm relief bills was decmea Calls of Entombed Men Grow Weaker; Crews Striving Fran- i ticalty , to Remove Debris From Passage ; Groans Heard as Second Slide Occurs ; v . -- V - v .-..,-.. . a . - . . SACRAMEKtK;;CaL, ADril 20. (By Associated Press,) Rescuers when but. a short distance from the imprisoned workmen - In f the Feather river power company's i tunnel at Backs Mountain, were 3riveh back five feet at 10 o'clock to night by a small slide that occurred in-the tunnel, said a dis patch to the Sacramento Union. lAfewseconds before the.slide occjirred the workers heard groans believed to be those tf several men. QTJINCY, Cal., April 20. DEBATERS START WEST OPi THURSDAY MORNING CROSS - CONTINENT CLASH ' ' DATE NEARING RAPIDLY Announcement of Chaperone to . y 'Accompany Locals Expect "? ' ' 'ed Tomorrow At 4 Salenu . ; JVIass., tomorrow morning,, the team of high school debaters who will debate the high school team in this city will board train, for the west, ii Such announcement, . made Tuesday,' brings home with clarity the 'fact that the cross-continent debate is only two weeks and two days in the distance. Tomorrow : night the ; debaters will arrive in New York. They will reach -Washington. D. C, Fri day morning, and will leave the nation's j capital Saturday . after noon. ' At 9 o'clock Sunday morn ing they , will arrive, in Chicago. ' They will leave Chicago at mid night, :rriv!ag ' in Denver, Colo rado, i Tuesday 4, morning. , They will arrive in San Francisco Sat urday afternoon. May) 1. -Then, at 7:40 p. m. Monday,, they will leave the" Golden Gate for Salem, Oregon,, t arriving - here at : 3 oclock Tuesday evening, . May 4. ' Ample provisions . are ' being made by j- the Chamber : 6t ; Com merce and by the various service clubs of this ; city t ta -ahow the Salemites of the Atlantic coast every hospitality. . ' . Plans announced .Tuesday re veal that the local end of the ' rv ' (Coatlr.Bd b pas S. HEART ATTACK IS FATAL ItoRY i KILMER, 60, FOUND .'. DEAD IN HOTEL. BOOH Wedged between the dresser and a trunk in a local hotel room, the body of, Henry Kilmer. 60. was found, early Tuesday morning, aft er he had been dead for at least 12 . hours. Death is thought to have been due to a heart attack. Kilmer had bjeen In 111 health since nis arrival at the hotel on April 4, those who, knew him here say. When' he failed to appear at the accustomed time Tuesday morn ing, hotel attendants investigated and finding the door locked. looked .over f the transom. The body was doubled oyer, indicating that the man had .been Tstooptng oyervfo3r semetuing'.Qn the floor when e alckjanj ; ; -jrne aeaa man nas a son Uving in Portland,! and v.he -has bneen hoti- tled. hAit autopsy. will heheld by Lloyd -Tr- Rigdon, county coroner, this morning.' . , . Artillery unit raised COAST ORGANTZATIok PCT OJC REGTMENTAIi STATUS The Oregon Coast artillery has "been advanced to a regimental status, according to a telegram re ceived kt. the offices of the adju tant general Tuesday. The new order, haa resulted In several pro motions, among; Oregon officers. . Major Duncan Ferguson,. Jr.1, wa promoted to ihe rank: Of lieutenant-colonel and assigned to the command of, the -coast artillery of Oregon. ' ..He la located at Marsh field. , , :. ;-Xv :,; S; Captain 1 Clyde ;Ai Malone of Ashland v was promo tedU to major and. assigned to the first battalion of ' the -coast artillery. .Captain Clarence , Collins of Albany - also was promoted . to major and has been assigned ' to command ; the second battalion. ; , , . . KILLED :IN( AUTO WRECK CAR V CRASHES ;J3fTO S GUARD , RAILING ON HIGHWAY LONGVIEW, April JO. (By, Associated Press.) C. V. Peter son,. 41, conductor on a'Longview Portland "and? Noilhern ', -railway work: train, was .killed'.whett- Jiis automobile struck a railing along the Pacific ; highway five miles north jot' Castle Rock. The accl-: dent la unexplained Peterson was returning home alone, from- a. fish ing trip.: It is believed he puf- :r:3 tv?7j't : .... (By Associated Press.) After being buried with flve.fellow, work ers for three days beneath a slide in the . Feather .'river x tunnel , on Bucks mountain, Thomas McDer mott was rescued alive and appar ently uninjured at titH o'clock to night. t Rescue workers entertain d hopes of reaching the other men within few hours. .'MeDeriott was rushed to a nearby bunkhouse where ne was put to bed in; care of a nurse. ; His life, had;-been saved by, timbers which protected him from the slides ivv 1 The rescue crews hearing voices in the slide late this afternoon and this evening .were able to distin guish the voice of James McBrlde. They had not been able to locate him In the debris, and the digging operations were necessarily Blowed down to prevent possibility of striking the buried men. i The voice of James McBrlde, Im prisoned in the tunnel, was grow ing weaker tonight, the rescuers said. ; His , voice ' was still heard, but so muffled and subdued that it was diffcult to ascertain its loca tion, r Earlier In the day,, when the faint "yoo hoo". was heard In the shaft by A. C. Richardson, . member , of the wrecking- Arm ' handling the tunnel work,, which halted rescue operations for a moment while he (Comtiatiad on par 8) HERRIN ELECTION QUIET NO UPRISINGS ' MAR BALLOT f IXQ IN ILLIXOIS TOWN HERRIN. IltrAprff ?0.--(A.P.) -In one of the 'most peaceful elections ever to he .held , In this faction-torn city, ' three ahti-klan and . one klan . : candidate were elected to aldermahlc offices to day. . ..- Infantry of the lUonols national guard with drawn :. bayonets, guarded each of the four polling places but tonight not a single untoward Incident was reported as a result of the day's polling. Completion of the Herrin city council, as a result of today's election will be klan tomorrow votes; antl-klah. including Mayor McCormack six votes. One seat will be vacant due to the death of AIdermanmSisemore, klan leader, one of the six men killed in' last Tuesday's clash here. "..Previously the councilmen had been divided four klan and as many antl-klans. . POLITICS ROCK IS Terrific Quakes Shake KIN auea District;; iJelrtipt idg Mkuria Loa :REW OUTBREAK -FEAHED Lava Moving Towards llamtog Pit, Geologist ; Declares Shock indicates; , Blaona Flow Subsides iHILO. T. II.. Anril SO.-TBy As sociated . Press.) Terrific ;,earth o. aakes shook the district of . KiJ auea. the famous volcano, an an nex, on the 4 ;00 0-foot --level ot Mauna Loa, which has 'been , in eruption for a week past, at 5:10 this afternoon. They caused "enor mous avalanches in ; Halemaumau (pit of everlasting Are) which is nearly always active following an eruption on Mauna Loa. . Guests in Volcano House on the mountain, were badly frightened. Prof. T, A. Jaggar, director of the observatory, says the tilt of the quake indicates moving lava to ward the pit. " KNA, T. H., April 20. (AP.) The wrath of the Goddess -Pele, apparently appeased by. the sacri fice of the ancient village of Hoop uloa, the lava flow from Mauna Loa - today - was a rapidly cooling fire-studded mass. It was more than sufficient, however, to block movement of automobiles over the government road . which it had burled deep in slag where It cross ed to the sea. : , A glowing sky before dawn neat the source of, the flow threatened further activity othe goddeBs;of the volcano, but Islanders . gener ally, believed that. Pejee had, tern porarily vented her displeasure.' Excursionists from other islands to view the. river of Are warmed their feet .on lava 20 feet deep, sniffed the all-pervading sulphur fumes, and departed. The fate of ten or fifteen fam ilies who lost their homes at Hoop uloa has not been determined. Some refugees are housed at , the village of Milolii; others in tem porary shacks north of the flow. The sky continued cloudy, with smoke and steam from the cooling rock stream making the air murky. Occasionally the sUn sent a beam through the darkened day. .HOTEL MEN MEET EUREKA, Cal., April 20. The owners and managers of the prin cipal hotels and . resorts in nor thern California and southern Ore gon met here today to discuss ways and means of stimulating tourist travel over the-. Redwood highway. MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS! I I vs - i i i il l j vV -x X, (w. - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 mm t-'-r 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 nil 1 1 infti y-sfe -JtfWwr A i-11 W'a-iflW -I j J White House is one of battlegrounds! In. wet and dry war raging from the "Women's Law Enforcement League" Is seen calling on Mr. about stricter enforcement Tot Volstead -Set. In the group are Mrs. H. W. Peabody (left of. president), of Boston, national chairman: Mrs. William L. Darby, (right of president), of Washington.. D. C,, and other leaders in the organization. "SNAP OUT. OF SLUMP" SPEC KEENE'S SLOGAN FAVORITISM TO PLAY NO PART IN TEAM SELECTION Spring Football Practice: to Start May 24, Summer Work Is Outlined A hearty endeavor will be made to help Willamette university "snap out of her athletic slump" next fall, according to Spec Keene, newly elected director of athletics for the university. He addressed approximately 30 seniors and ath letes at Eaton Hall Tuesday night. Spec is to be boss. Only in this way can his work be effective, he declares. Spec asked the athletes for cooperation and declared that strict - discipline, : will. . be, main talned. f He will take charge of athletics and of physical education, consid ering them on an equal basis. On the athletic field there are to be no fraternity cliques or clashes. Men will be chosen for the team on the basis of merit alone. . t Starting May 24 Keene will hold two weks- spring football practice. During the summer va cation, athletes will be detailed work to do to keep them in train ing for the fall's football. Each football 'man will be required to take and use a football during the summer. DIES' IN FLAMES WHITINGS, N. J., April 20. (AP.) Harry Orsley, aged 65, of Forked River, tonight was report ed burned to death when a forest fire overtook his motor truck. WETS. DRVS CLASH IN LIQUOR DEBATE Stormy Session Held by Sen ate Committee; Postpone ment Overruled WASHINGTON, April 20. (By Associated Press) Stormy scenes and some startling revelations re garding dry law enforcement marked the sessions today of the senate prohibition committee. As the drys approached the con clusion of the presentation of their case there was a frequent out cropping of an under-Burface bit terness with. Senator Reed, dem ocrat, Missouri; the one wet on the committee of five, standing as the central figure in the contro rersy. Outvoted continuously by his dry colleagues. Senator Reed took to the senate floor his fight for postponement of the bearings un til after the vote tomorrow on the Italian debt settlement but with out avail. Returning then to the commit tee room, the Missourian again facedbjections by those in charge of the case for the drys to the consuming time with which cross examination of their witnesses and finally objections were raised by members of the committee to certain lines of cross examination.' Senator Reed then was cross questioning Fredrick C. C. Baird, prohibition administrator for the western Pennsylvania district who disclosed that while now on the federal payroll at 1500 a month, he still , is drawing his regular salary as traffic director ot,ihe Bessemer & Lake Erie railroad, a subsidiary of the United States Steel corporation. Mr. Baird said he- had been recommended for the federal position by Judge Elbert (Ooatinued a pr TEXAS IS STORMSWEPT TWO CHILDREN KILLED AND PROPERTY DESTROYED DALLAS, Texas, April 20. (By Associated Press) A violent wind and rain storm stretching across a wide area of southwest Texas to day and tonight took the lives of two children, caused property damage, -wrecked a freight train, and left 7 ' streams flooding the countryside. ; Two international bridges at Eagle Pass on the r Rio ; Grande were swept . away in i a . 10-foot rise within - 30 minutes H while flood conditions, were in prospect further upstate tonight as a gen eral , four-inch " rain fed the streams. t .r-:'' J tk Susie Wilson, 4, and Rosie Wil son, , :were drowned, .on -a;jranch in the Sweetwater section, after water ? sweeping'1 down a Gulch drove them and their mother front a storm cellar. One of the girls was drowned in - her . mother's arms, while the body of the other was found today half a mile away. AUTO THIEVES TAKEN ASHLAND. April 19. (AP.) Everett-Rhodes, 16, of Los An geles, was shot in the left leg, and with three companions, captured tonight after a chase by city and state police a fewi miles south of Ashland, .' The- four- youths were held on charges of auto stealing! ,". Forestry of ficials - plant 150, 000 pine sedjlnea on Joha Day in Washington IsA. delegation Coolidge to urge him to . .bring TINY (FILIPINO FIGHTER DIES FOLLOWING BATTLE SENCIO,! LITTLE FLYWEIGHT, VICTIM OP BLOWS Cerebral Hemorrhage Causes Death; Gruelling Punish ment Taken MILWAUKEE, April 20.- (By Associated Press. ) Clever Senclo the battling mite from the Phillip pines liesj dead tonight, the victim of gruell ng punishment adminis tered by Bud Taylor, Terre Haute, Ind., aspirant to the bantamweight championship in their furious 10 round cc ntest fought here last night. j Sencio died.' alone In his hotel room, from cerebral hemorrhage as the "result of the, bout. The little Filipino flyweight was still on his fet . when -the bell ended the contest, but in need of sup port to help him from the ring. He was immediately , taken .to a hotel, where physicians said his condition! was not alarming, and his handlers, thus assured left him to Eleep. i A window washer, looking Into Sencio's rooms a few hours later, found him lying dead in his bed in a pool of blood. No legal action will be taken against Taylor, District Attorney Eugene jWlngert said. He de clared ti?at boxing was legal In Wisconsin, that all the rules of the law had been complied with, that both boxers had been pro nounced (physically fit by physi cians examining them for the ath letic commission and that "Sen cio's death was Just , one of those unfortunate things that may hap penJnanjr'sport:";:' . ., s The tragic ending of, last nights bout was the ' second & fatality among Taylor's opponents, in the ring.. Fankle ''.iTerome , a i New York bantamweight died two days after. his! contest with r Taylor" In New York a year ago. Jerome at that time was knocked down, his head crashing against the floor of the riBg with such force that a hemorrhage developed. Frank Churchill, Sencio's man ager, aald today that.he will im mediately give up managing, box ers, as . encio'a death was the third tragic . ending to Filipino ' -j h - . ; ; CCqaUnoed n Vf 4.) ! EU GEN GU N HERS SCORE HIGH SCHOOL TEAM MAKES i , NEAIt-PERFECT 8CORB ' 'BUG EN E, Or., April 20. (By AP.) Eugene high school rifle team today ahot almost a perfect score, ; 24 f of a, possible 2S0,on the indoor gallery range against Company C, 1 6 2nd infantry, the local national guard; unit. - The troopers scored 232. .Those on the high school team .and their re spective scores follow: .Wilbur 5 0 ; Brechtel 5 0 ; Jeff eries 60; KnoWles 49, and Skeythe,49. ,,. WlLLSELL OREGON LfNE BIDS TO jBE ADVERTISED FjOR i" J ORIENTAL FREIGHTERS " I WASHINGTON, April 20-(By AP.)Tbe shipping board decided today to sell-the Oregon-Oriental line operating but of Portland, to the Orient, and directed. President Crowley. 4f the emergency fleet corporation to . advertise f or,bIds. The 'Oregon . Oriental line is a Weight; . service operated " for,, the shipping , dard by the Columbian Pacific Shipping company. fThe date for receiving bids on lie reiftkera gsi tstz i- CJash Restricted to! Mayor ; ality and Four Council fnen; filings Show .i.:- CANDIDATES ! LIST SHORT Last Chance for City Declarations County - Records Continue Open to Candidates for One Bfore Day Personnel of the city, adminis tration for the. nexwo years will be definitely determined Nat the primaries on May 21, It "was re vealed last night when time for : filing declarations of . candidacy ' closed, showing that ifc ho 'instance have more than two persons Tea- tered the race: for, the Same office I. in the city government. . ' t ; Candidates as' shown "on;, the books of M. Poulsen, city recorder, include the following; - For" mayor T. A. Livesfey and Earl-Race. ; ! ; :r, 1 For recorderMark Poulsen.' For treasurer C O. Rice; For alderman, - ward 1 L.1".J. r Slmeral, R, A. Harris;, ward ,2, W. W. Rosebraugh; ward 3,Baal V. Johnson, , C.f S. Parker; ward 4, Sr E. Purvlhe; ward 5,-B.1 F. Brunk, Orville4 Oglesby;'- ward , . Watson Townsend,. Chris J. Kow-: its, and. ward 7 H, M. Hawkins. r ; With time for, filing closed, op- position in 1 the coming city eleo tion has developed pnly over the future mayor, and aldermen from ward 1, Ward 3, ward 6 and ward 6, no new candidate havings do- -clared for the office of , city re corder or that efeity treasurer . Had three eandldatea declared f Or any of the city offices, the- f ay primaries would have served only -aa an elimination conteat thevflnal decision of ; the,-people being .ex pressed at the general election la November- v . y Campaignlag during , the : next -. month will center primarily about the 'office of mayor, with the -expectation that councilmen will be alllgned to soma extent- with pna ' of the two factiohSr winning', of beingLdef eated with their candi date. ; .:t While declarations for city offi ces closed last x night candidate for county offices have "one. more day In which to.have their. names placed upon the official, tallof.;' On this list, 1 . republicans and two democrats!: have filed for the officer, of -precinct .committeemen ' for Salem, and the . ist 1 for', the ; t -county 4s as yet;iacompletr ' . ' ; up tut jiastiAiga7nere-.were two candidate for count edntmii-' 1 sioner f or Maj-ipn CQfi7kvk JEt Smith of Sti PauI," incumbeet:and John M. Watson of Turner,.,. Z;-, ' Three men have declared for the.. -mb ' m . j . 'SHI i 'w. ' XT' ruTn IDIf SAatk f.nmrnaiL - ciai, for, Salem districtr-Webb Hasklns. f or SUverton; and W. C. Miller lor,, Woodbnxn GORTMAKER BREAKS ARM FALLS AGAINST BfACHIXE, IB : BUSHED, TO r HOSPITAL Henry Gorfmakeri employed! WT the Oregon, luip fe ?aper. company plant, vwaa injured late Tuesday afternoon,, when . he fell .against one. of the machines and suffered . a broken rm;;. itiz':.'.' He was, given, Immediate, first -aid, treatenintand was rushed iby the Golden ..Ambulance o'taV local hospital where he received atten tion. L X-ray plcture4 ,wero taken, , bit hospital yauthof Itlea atatad'" they : elieed no other? Injuries VEOfl IS'HURT4im7RECK; t SO SERXOrS INJTJRx RECEIV ED. PnXSXCLlXS BAV- ..-..4- rj 1 '"r- $ -.- . 'j, i- ' " PORTLAND, AprU 20. By - ; Associated Press.) JobEi B. Taon, . former sUte . highway, , eommis ' sioner suffered cuts about ,t , head today .when, his automobile -. was struck . by ..another-, raacfcf s 5 Physicians said, ha aa not terl- BUTCHEKJOPISJUriEll PORTLAKD K: WIFE KILLER 13 SENTENCED TO, PEATII - , PORTLAND, 'April 29. (0y A. p.y John -Butchck; "convicted of sJayiBg his wife - with .a small ax , at their home January ! 11, was KPtitenced today to fee tacged tt the state penitentiary Friday, Je 4 Motion for a new trial W3 1 - river, .