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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1926)
is 1 ' -r 1 snvEimrixTH year SALEM, 'OREGON;:THURS3AY:3aORN PRICE FIVE CENTS M 1 t I I ' - J t III. 1 ' A ' A. f jr- . V : - i . -. 4 -J '. iiiA IUIHL : UPS2,314,7D0 tlarion County Levy Placet! at 51 ,869,966 for Polk County S565.1 14 - TOTAL1 IS $44,975,048 High. . School 'Tuition, Alarkei Koads, Bond and Interest Be- ' ' demptlon Items' Included y v in Increase . Despite political promises ;of tax ' reduction i and a-statewide : clamor t or term)aatlon - 'oCgor ernraent fads, a snmmarr of the taxes levied In the tate of Oregon : for the -"year 1 9 2 tif based ' "on the tax rolls for 1925, showed a total of 144,795,048.10 or approximate ly 12,314,700 in excess: of 'the i amonat lerled In the. year y' 19 2 5 Dased .en the tax 1 rolls for 1924. The levy for 19 25 was , 142,660, 3 3 8.6 S. ' ' . The state tax for 'the year 1928 la approximately ''$291,000 less than in, the year ! 1 9 2 5, while the county "layy was redoced from 43.836,298.26 In 1925 to $3,540, S96.15 in 1926. The state tax JeTled 4n A 9 25 -was Jt 7.4 9 2,761.47 -as against $7,200,830.79 for the year;l926.viv -.V7.;" 1. ?- Total tax leTy f or Marlon coun ty for the year 1926 la $1,869,966 and for Polk county, $565,114.52. Comparisons of other tax levies tor the years. 19 2 5 and 1926 fol low: ft " County school '. and school 11--Irary For 1925, $3,015,585.82; ':or 1926. ?3,079, 417,89. , y . 1 High school tuition -For 1925, ,'$793,118.62; for 1926. $869,087.- . 'XdrAiZ; for 1926. $10,692,- .862.8 7, " ' ' ! . ' General roads For 1925. $3, '164,861.42; for 1926, $3,090,330, 18. -' . - " . Special roads For 1925, $1,- 2,26,542.18; for 1926, $1,368,137. 8. Market roads, (county lery) iFor 1925. $1481.598.47; for J 926, $1,214,844.12. . .. Bond Interest and redemption Tor 1925. 81,451.237.28; for 1926. $2,177,076.97. . Special , cities and towns for '-1925. $7,713,371.09; for 1926. .$$.195.337.02. : Irrigation and . drainare For (CoBtiaoad a pc .) 'OREGON BOOT' IS SHOWN DAUGHTER OP , ORIGINATOR . . HERE AFTER 87 YEARS . - f. t Mrs. R.r'H. H'ort6n, nee . Miss . Jlinlne Lelnlnger, : : whose ' father ' ' desixned the famous Oregon boot, - arrlred here 4 Wednesday u from - Ixs Angeles4 td tlslt with old-time friends after ; an absence of snore than 37 years. ' " ' Mrs. Norton Tislted the state I penitentiary Wednesday where . the warden showed her the origi , ' ; sal 'Oregon boot which was the i product of her father's labor Mrs. t . - ' Norton told the warden that she ! i remembered - clearly her father -Bitting by a. store in the lobby of 'tb old Chemeketa hotel and working: on the heary steel boot. ' The boot .contained 1 an intricate : lock, - which, when . placed ' on the " foot ot a 'prisoner, made hi ea ; cape i Impossible.'; The boot' has fbeen usedonly, a few.,,ltmea durr t Ing the past few- years. . Mrs. Norton spent her girlhood f daya In Salem. .She "la Visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. Cook i fatten. r&Jl'V- Vcdac5dayi; crliinrrton '1 Additional testimony in the far- !ff commission lnrestlgatlon , was peard by a senate 'committee - L . .' senators announced bp- p"- - s 40 adjournment until farm r legislation is enacted. ; Jw?-riv A postal fraud order was issued gainst Charles Ponzi, the .pro rioter, for his Florida land 'oper ations.' h- - i 'i ;. ', : f : : f . : , .- 7 . ; : Presidential authority to seize nd operate coal mines in an em ergency war farored by the sen ate labor committee. . ' President . Cool Id ge signed the t!ctt ;.esTecn?"!t .-rattflca-tlon;"; the senate approTed the Yanaerbnt SbUt Tab Papiers imperiled Brrak Impends Between tCornelins VanderbOi, Jr., Head of newspapers, and' FamUy;; Withdrawal of Support ' . . . ' ! . Said to" Hare Occurred : NEW YorkMpiril 2S(Bf Associated Press.)A break Deiween iorneuus vanderbilt Jr controlling the Vanderbilt hewspapers,-Inc4 and the Vanderbilt family was made known today when ? Dudley Field rMalone announced he had . been retained by Cornelius Id take care of his interest. The Van derbilt .newspapers include publications in ' San Francisco. Los Ansreles and Miami, Fla. ; i Mr. Malone said that the Vanderbilt family had with drawn its support after putting more than a million dollars DEBATERS SENT EAST AFTER DEMONSTRATION ROTARIANS MAKE -up. purse fOR SPEXDIXG MONEY llOO Students Present as Squad . Leaves on Journey to Atlantic Coast - Eleven hundred students gi-.J-ered at the Oregon Electric depot at 4 o'clock yesterday ; afternoon to bid a last farewell to the, group of four who are Journeying, to Sa lem, Mass ;to : meet ".the high school team of f that 4 city , in the first high : school crosa-cohtinent interscholastic debate ever held.' As the, train's bell gave .the warning to clear the way. students gave last . . rousing cheers j to the four who 1 stood on - the c.observa- tion platform. , , x ; Handkerchief swere waved, last words of advice, serious and hum orous, were shouted, and the de baters responded to the cheers and the waving of the handkerchiefs until the train screeched; past the Salem highrchoor and ToUed over the Mill creek bridge and out of sight. At last, before. most of the city waa hardly assured that the de batewould materialize, the debat ers were off- Margaret. Pro, Gay- nelle Beckett and HOmer Richards, the debaters.! amfleliwpnderingly as if not fully realizing the trip before them. By their, side stood Hazel Brown, Instructor of Eng lish' at ihe "hlgK scnool.ho-'TB'Tcn companying them as chaperone. When the train had disappeared. (Con tinned ot p 2.) OREGON JEWELERS ELECT A." A. KERNE OF SALE5I AGAIN PLACED IN OFFICE : LONG VIEW, Wash., April 28---C A.P.) - Officers were chosen here today by the Oregon retail jewel ers association which has been in joint session here with the Wash ington jewelers association. .The Oregon officers are: President, W. H. Saxton, Portland; first irice president. W. F. Bertrand, Marsh- field; second vice president, R. JJl Warren, Corvallis: third vice pres ident. Miss Georgia Eckstrom. As toria; secretary treasurer A. A. Keene," Salem. Members. of ex ecutive" committee who with of ficers will serve are: F. A. eit kemper, Portland, and F. . M. French, Albany. Miss Eckstrom is the first woman to be elected as an officer of the association. The joint meeting went on record In ' favor . of establishment of an horological school at Oregon Agri cultural , : college. Each state will have a separate convention .. next year, the interstate conventions to take place only every two or three years. ' LOUIS . WQLFARD DIES MONIA; HIi FEWDAx8 ' "SIL.VERTON. Aoril 28. Louis J.kWolfard, one of the most Influ ential ot this . city's businessmen, died : tonight of ' pneumonia, fol- 1 V ... . . . towing illness issung since rri day. . " ' He was a member f Elks, the chamber of commerce, Silrerton Rod & Gun club, and manager of the J. Wolfard'& Co. department atore. He Is jBurvired by, his wife. Maud; hia father, Johh; three sis ters. Mrs.1 M'J. Van rvaikenburg of Silverton. , Mrs., Roy" Clarke of Portland. Mrs. U Aldrlch of Sa lem, and one. brother,' Archie, of Portland. ' : . - , i He was one 'of the most highly esteemed of the younger businafis men and was born here 41 years ago. vJV.LT:.22S strXwI hats in VOGUE - i ' ' -, tORTINDERS To!n6li AN--. XUAli PARADE ON FRIDAY . .1 PORTLAND. April 28.- (By Associated Press.) Friday V has been officially designated as straw hat day in Porttand. SA. i parade through the downtown section will be the feature of the occas ion. - Mayor George X. JJaker and Chief of Police " Jenkins' will be Looms; into the newspaper properties, al though Mr. Malone asserted that this money potentially belonged to Cornelius by right of inheritance. Mr. Malone said an inrestment of $300,000 additional was need ed to put the properties on, a pay ing basis. A statement,' Issued by Mr. Malone, who-was retained in association with Clarence Darrow, read in part as follows:, : "Mr. Vanderbilfs family hare recently assumed the ; right to cease further financial aid to his newspapers, an . assumption -of right with which Cornelius Van derbilt Jr., is at Tariance. -Mr. Vanderbilt ba in addition to his right of inheritance from his' par ents, his pafVimony of $1,500,000, which he stands ready to pledge. If ' necessary, to aara the. enter prise. , " The organization ; has been completely re-organized in the last year, and a half. The num ber of stockholders has been re duced to 5,000. ?An expert placed in charge of, the re-organlzation reports that with $300,000 the newspapers can in six months.be put on a paying basis with flowing profits and vastly-increased circulation. -Clarence Darrow, and I, representing Mr. Vanderbilt hare been study ing all ' the 'circumstances of the situation and we feel that it will be little short of tragic not to be Contiaaod on psf 3.) diliiiivrAN dies by ;gas S3IOTHERED JX .... HOPELESS DEBT, TAKES OWN LIFE SAN FRANCISCO. April 28 (By Associated Press. Baldwin Wood, attorney ahd clubman, side stepped the backfire of a host of poor investments totaling approxi mately $600,000 by asphyxiating himself in a humble lodging house in San Jose, south of -here, his body being found today after the police broke down the door of his room.. . ? vSmothered . in apparently- hope less debt' and 'with two warrants Lout for, him,- charging the illegal phypothecation. of securities in a public utility corporation. Wood, who had been missing, retired to bis room , early last' night, locked the door, placed the tube from an open gas jet ia his mouth and lay down on his bed to die. He was found today, partially disrobed. ANOTHER SILEE1EETS DEATH QUERIES ..... . Chicago Police Get no Infor ; mation in Xluest of Assas sination Data WALL OF SILENCE LOOMS Query Into Killing of Voung State's Attorney Is Yet En tile; Machine O d a Pumps Fatal Fire CHIC AG O, April 28,- ( By As sociated Press. ) The same wall of silence which has foiled -ef tofts of 6,000 peace officers in Chicago to , solve 87 ' gang and rum slay ings during the . lait three years tonight nullified a day .of inveati- gation Into the assassination last night - of Assistant ; State's 'Attor ney William H. McSwiggen, 16, the "hanging prosecutor," -James J. Doherty, a beer 1 boss. . ahd Thomas Duffy, a saloon keeper.: McSwiggen, with ' a record seven death penalty verdicts1 In eleven months, and his strangely assorted companions, were riding In an automobile past a saloon in Cicero, a suburb when ' from-an automobile driven alongside' a ma chine gun belched its fatal fire. At least one, and probably two other men, accompanied them. but they as well as the slayers could not be found today. Neither could the motive for the attack be isolated from a crowd of -supposi tions. Two tablecloths, similar to those used in a saloon In front jof which the men were snot, , ana five fedora hats, abandoned in the car of the slain men not far from the scene p$fejtojggfe (Continued on page 2.)- .' FOUR KILLED IN CRASH ANOTHER MAY DIE, RESULT OF TRAIN-AUTO WRECK WILMINGTON, Dela., April 28. (Associated Press) Four mem bers of one family were killed and a fifth probably fatally injured when their automobile was crush ed by a train on the Delaware di vision of the Pennsylvania railroad at Felton tonight. The dead are Mr. and Mrs. Wil bur B Fried el and their daughters Ruth 17, and Grace 13. A son, Wilbur, 18, left at home by his parents to attend home duties is the sole survivor of the family. CIRCE WHO CHANGES MEN (ILLEISMSS APPEflLMAY 2S State Supreme Court to Hear Appeal of .Torn Murray, Kelley and Willos PEN- ESCAPE REVIEWED Final Determination of Fate of Three Convicts Is to Be Placed In Hands of Court May 25 Another chapter will be written in the case of Tom Murray, Ells worth 'Kelley and James Willos. convicts under sentence of death rbr the part they - played in the prison break of August 12, 1925, when -arguments on their 'appeal to the supreme - court of Oregon will be heard on May 25. The date was set yesterday. The three men are now in solitary confine ment in specially guarded cells in the state penitentiary. Tom Murray, fl 2-year-old des perado, together with Willos .and Kelley and Bert Oregon Jones, shot their way out of the prison, killing two guards, Josn Sweeney and Milton Holman. Lute Savage, another guard, was seriously wounded. Jones was killed by a shot from a guard's rifle as he was leaping over the wall to-freedom Following a ten-day period of (Continued on page 6.) FUEL PORTAGE NEEDED DETROrTER SAD3 UNABLE TO CARRY GREAT QUANTITY 3tntB i ANKSrAIaska, April "i i. (By Associated Press.) It was authoritatively stated here today that the Detroiter, a three-engined airplane of an Arctic expedition led' by Capt. George H. Wilkins, has to date been unable to carry a fuel load sufficient to fly to and from Point Barrow, 520 miles due north of Fairbanks. The plane, Monday started for its northern supply base but turned back when one of its motors failed. ' . Transportation of fuel by air plane from Fairbanks to Barrow, from where the Detroiter and the Alaskan, a single enginef machine, are to fly into the Arctic wastes, has proved impracticable, it was said. Shipping of supplies rby steamer through Bering strait and around the northern tip ot Alaska in the Arctic ocean was suggested. This trip is 'possible only in sum mer. INTO SWINE 17 in Family, All Held State Institution Wards Equivalent to Famous "Jukes" and ."Nam" Heredity Cases v Seen in Oregon Illustration With Mother, Father . ; " and 15 Children Confined A baby was born in the state hospital (asylum) yesterday, to an inmate mother in that institution The mother has been an inmate for tfiree months. The father was an inmate of that institution; sent over from the, penitentiary : He died there recently. ' That makes ' two members of that family. j . :ff This is the fifteenth child. That makes 17 in the family All the children are in institutions. They are in the asylum the Oregon penitentiary, Oregon state training school, Oregon girls' Industrial school,, the Ore gon state institution for the feeble minded. The balance of the 15 are in state institutions in Wash ington and Idaho. But this story Is not going to be repeated,, or it Is not going down to future generations in geometric increases, as far as the members of that family are concerned in Oregon. In the, case of the moth er, with six years of child bear ing age (she 4 is. '42) , the state -board of eugenic , has taken action. i Her children will remain 15. She may call, the baby of yesterday Omega. And, before they shall" go but Into society, the board of eugenics will have taken action as to the balance of the family in Oregon Institutions. So will end that family; unless Washington and Idaho; which states are not as far advanced as Oregon in this field, may permit new starts tor other families of 17, with geometric progression for future years. The name of the Oregon family Is not given. .It" would not be fair to relatives, if there are any. The matter of relatives is being inves tigated. There may be a chance to invoke the law. of Mendel. This Oregon case may go down in his tory, like,. the famous "Jukes" family of rural New York. Or the Nam family- In New York and Minnesota, or the "Tribe of Ish ael'" of central ; Indiana, or the Edwards family, with its two branches; one producing thou sands ot incompetents and dere licts, the other producing some of th'gfestfiwMtca 'wometf -in the history of the United State's. Students of civic 'sociology will be given all the facts that can be gathered about Mhe Oregon case of a family of 17 all born into a state of incompetency. Every state in the Union, and every civilized country, is looking to Oregon in respect to her exper iments in stamping out the breed (Continued on page 3.) FOREST FIRE IS CHECKED TEN ACRES OF PINE SWEPT OVER IN BEND DISTRICT BEND, Or April 28. (By Aa- sociated Press) Central Oregon's first real forest fire of this season which swept through ten acres of yellow pine near Pringle Falls were reported under control, to day. It is thought to have been' started by a careless fisherman. . Forest lookouts have not yet been sent to the various stations but it is expected that if the un usually warm weather continues Some of the lookouts' will be sent out soon. . ' ' EUGENE, Apr.Il 2$, (By Asso-' elated Press.) Sixty-five acres of forest land was : burned over " by a forest fire near Tunnel No. 1 on the Natron extension of the Southern Pacific above Oakrldge yesterday according . to word re ceived at the office of the Cascade national forest today. Tho fire spread to national, forest land be fore being controlled. TIMBER SALE SETS MARK i AT YELLOW PINE f BD3 FOR 1729 PER THOUSAND KLAMATH FALLS, April 28. (By Associated Press.) All pre vious marks were . beaten today when W. P. Robinson of Grants Pass bid $7.29 per .thousand for 62 million feet of yellow pine in the Modoc Point unit, Klamath In dian reservation. . ' ' ... .-J. i Previous high mark in 1924 was ret. by the Ewauna Box' company which bid 6.67 per thousand on the Long Prairie unit. There were 11 other bidders. . - IRVING -BERLIN 'HAPPY C03IPOSER AND WD7E WILL REMAIN ABROAD LONGER NEW YORK,1. April 28. (By Associated Press.) Irviag Berlin and fhi3 wif e, the former EIH4 Mackay, do not. plan to return to the United States this fall; accord, in to George Gersh wyh,-compos- er,' who returned today on the Homeric. -JyiU-"h . Tlie' Berlins arerery happy, he said, adding that he was fre quently In their company while In - i BUTLER DECLARES LAW rfAS BEEN FAILURE PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA HITS ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE Senators and Representatives De clared on Payroll' of , i. Society ;. NEW YORK, April 28. -By Associated Press'.)- Nicholas Mur ray Butler, president of Columbia university, declared tonight that the Anti-Saloon league was "the most pernicious enemy of the republic that has been produced in my Ufa time." . Mr. Butler, speaking at the an sung by j Miss Beulah Fanning, club, Bald that the league has United States senators and repre sentatives on Its "payroll the 135,000,000 they boasted about the' other day in Washington " and paid their expenses in trans porting them about the country to speak in favor of prohibition. He said that if such a thing were done by the steel corpora tions or j by banking interests "there wjould be a hue and cry that would reach high heaven." ; Mr. Butler, who previously has denied the' efficacy of the prohi bition amendment, came out to night flatly for it8 repeal. ; , He said it cannot be enforced without TiolaUng the bill, of cightsythavonatitution andnitat4 utes as old as the hills. 4 "The eighteenth amendment," he said, 'jis invalid and outside ef the scope ot the amending power of the . American congress, the courts simply refused to say so, leaving it a political question and one that the- people must get out of the constitution or pay the penalty." j ,';''U' He urged- the amendment's re peal so that each state might then take up the question and settle it locally, j DICK WICK HALL IS DEAD ' . -i - WELL KNOWN HItMORlST WAS Author of "salome sunm LOS ANGELES, April 28 (By Associated Press.) . XHck- VWick Hall of Salome, Ariz., well known humorist,! died in 'a hospital here today after an illness of two weeks. He had been newspaper man, mining man and real estate dealer in Arizona for 26 years.; He became , known nationally about three years ago with the, public.a-i' tion ot bis humorous column, the 'Salome Sun," wrhich had been started by 1 him c two years ' previ- ousir as a smaii mimeograpn aneet to advertise a new Arizona high way. i . '-- u . - His first Arizona - venture .'waa the publication of the "Arizona Graphic" iat Phoenix and later he went to Wlckenbufg, Ariz., where he published a newspaper, and first obtained, the name "Dick Wick," hia given name originally being Deforest, Later he made Dick Wick Hall hia regal name. , LAD ISj KiLLEP BY AUTO PORTLAND ' BOY, 1 6, DEES; DRIVER O FCAR IS HELD M PORTLAND. April , 28. (By Associated Press.) Bobby Warni dahUviged fire, fwaa fatally In jured today when struck by. ari automobile- driven by 1 Max 'Benst ton, automobile ' salesman, whlU playinrii front of his home. ; ) , " -The Had ? died of I -Iractured skull after being taken to a hos pitaL ..Bens ton was . arrested oii a ' charge - of "Involuntary ' manf slaughter ' -.'... , TWENTY: DIE jfl MONTH FATALITIES SET RECORD ExI r Twenty persons subject, to prc4 tectlon under the workmen's com! pensatlon act were J killed daring the -presqnt month, according to reports received at - the offices the -state industrial accident com? mission, i This 13 tho largest numr ber of. fatalities reported to thf commission in any single month DrV Official vTemperature in ; Sa ! lem Bureau Is Placed i . at 93 Degrees all Marks shattered Protracted Continuation of Abnor mal Heat Would Work v Hardship on Farmers, la BeUef r'7n. ; t-i . "All existing 'heat Tecords! for Aprll.' ln the history of the Salem weather bureau, were broken here Wednesday , when , the mercury en thel ' official . station t thermometer -reached i 93 degrees, two points , higher" than was registered, Tues day. '. Downtown , thermometers registered higher "-temperaUirea than the official reading,, some of them reaching 96 degrees.. The standard readings taken by, the weather bureau in Salem are meas ured on a thermometer located on the j banks of the Willamette,' with the, result that higher readings are taken in the downtown section. The minimum ' temperature '.. for Wednesday was 51 degrees. Little prospect of relief in the immediate ' future ia ' seen.. ...All points in Oregon are reporting record - breaking , temperatures. Grants Pass reported the highest reading of the state,' with a tem perature of 98 degrees. Corvallis experienced a" heat of 91 degrees. That a protracted continuation of tjhe abnormally seyere . temper atures will work .a great. hardship oh farmers waa pointed out yes terday by agriculturists. Consid erable anxiety Js felt for the crops it txjeiaf doesnot .tall'. within" the week. ' The Quality bf , small imlt will be gteatly, impaired," farmers declare, if the hot weather con tinues. : .V...;.;i.'J;- 'Ai ' PORTLAND, April 28. With an official maximum' temperature of 91 degrees at 5 o'clock this after noon, Portland sweltered througl the second hottest April day is weather bureau records.: The' re cord of 93 was registered yester day The hottest point in ' the stata today was Grants Pass whers a reading of 98 was reported. No immediate prospect of relief (Continued on 3.) MITCHELL VISiTS OREGON GRANTS PASS CAVE31EN TO FETE FORMER AIR CHIEF b GRANTS PASS, Or.J April. 28.--( By Associated Press.) Col. William- A. Mitchell, formerly pr its American air service, will be feted at a Iupcheon in,' this city Satur day jnopn; :The invitatldn .was ex- ' tended by Cavemen, local foster organization, and the Am erican Legion. , , ,-r'i::-.- The Mitchell party will be taken " from; a train at Hornbrook. CaL, : and j brought over the 'Siskiyous to this city, where an ; initiation ceremonial will be staged br the Cavemen, making the former army officer an hohorary member of the Cavemen. The Mitchell party will ; be piit back on tha train at Rose- burgj. ThU will be Mitchell's only j stop I between San Francisco and 1 Portland. QUADRUPLETS ARRIVE NELLIE, POLICE CAT, BACK ON SERGEANT'S DESK Police 'r officers ? at " the local station are rejoicing over the arrival of. quadru pleta to Nel lie the cat 'who meowed tier way Into the atation about a month ago,-and -has made her home there ever since.. . - - For days -and weeks Nellie made the police desk? her, per sonal rest room. Then she dis appeared. ; . ' .. '7 TnejaynIghtT?rpTid meow, informed officers that? a, new joy? had entered her life. Offi cers' fluffed up some eld ear talos in a closet adjoiainT the rooin next to theeity.racorder'a office. . Nellie proceeded .tc!'w. and appeared soon witi a hit' tea in her mouth. he rcj-it- ; ed Ihe proceedings rxnVA L.cr 42- tire family . ;waa" f'czi la-' :gether. . ' S -NellJe had crV - - t t ferK when .the ol... r$ . thetr review ot.tl - . NeUie, hy tie .-;y, l!v s : somely-on r rl" i wlches, cockl.s allotted her lunches. frcr.i tho c! Ml i o-t ni ?Xr2Wil" ylii Clin il 4 einc jju48 J,?! . V? " . j- --"fnrtirrfiiiMniai'jj) j '""' "" ""' "" '