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V ISSUED TUESDAYS :B AND FRIDAYS THE TWICE-A-WEEK STATESMAN , V TOENTY-SIXTII YEAR SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING. MAY 11, 1926 FIRST SECTION FOUR PAGES Sit WATER BUS FEE ISSUE Would Quell Strikers Amundsen Airship's Course From Russia to North Pole Oi - r-t- - T SULLEfJ WATCH IRKS STRIKE II I PRI UlKiMII - 1 ; I , : : i . . "i . . '. " f 1 1 i i f. ill ill n ii t ii r UP T C GALLED 1 " i i ii i V lit 1 V f 1 1 , p I Both Sides Continue to Avoid Semblance of Concession in Crisis I fctJOD IS TRANSPORTED ported ; triJce is unabat ed," Word Issued by ; , the Government LONDON. May 10. (By Asso ciated Press.) In the words of the British government itself "the general strike as a -whole con tinues unabated throughout the country." In making this an nouncement,' ' the - government adds: ' I'The success of the authorities In maintaining i the feeding and vital services of the people must not obscure this grave fact or the Increasingly wasteful consequence td all classes." ... " 1 ; Well . guarded ' lorries loaded with: food supplies continued to pass through the street of London tonight; " trains moved -more free ly. The striking 'Workmen con tinued to obey their. leaders and disorders of any kind were few. On the side of labor, the gen eral council of the trades union congress issued the 'following mes sage, which appeared In the Brit ish workers,' headed fall's welL" "We are entering the second 1 $ week of the general stoppage In 'support of the miner (workers against an .attack on them stand' o t9 1 1 f a hv tha inal nwn arm f V Nothing could be more wonderful I Jf than the magnificent response of - . millions of workers to the call of I their leaders. v l "From every town and city in the country reports are pouring Ipto the general council, headquar ters stating that all ranks are solid and that the working men and women are resolute in their determination to resist the unjust attack p.n the mining community, fTH general council's message at Yiik opening of the second week -isrvK - - -V -;- "Stand firm, be loyal to Instruc tions and trust your leaders. Noth ing thus far has developed rela tive to calling out labor's second line of defense," comprising gas, I electrical and general utility work-: ' ers, but in the meantime, the t$ , council has sought tha services of J thearlimentary labor party to iV direct meetings all over the coun- l v try for the purpose of holding the ' strikers together. "'. 1 ! There is no sign of the king's I havingany intention to mediate in. the present situation,' He is constantly in communication with certain ministers of the crown. and is remaining at Buckingham yr palace to keep in close touch with f : The government has command VCi deeded all newsprint except that V a 1re8ent ,n tne hands of publish- J , era; - i uis is iur iue yui puso ui r Wm- m maVlnr partiln that (ha nffi. cial government strike prgan, the British Gazette, may have a suffi cient supply for its ever-increasing circulation. The official newspa er of ' the strikers,; the . British Worker, "may suffer' on "this ac count and1 may even have td dis appear from the streets. The house of commons, the government- was .sharply denounced for this actino, as well as for its failure to publish in its newspaper the peace appeal of the archbishop et Canterbury. George Lansbury, Jaborite for poplar, entered a strong protest against "the intro- JCoatinoed on pte 8.) SERiOUS CHARGE FACED TWO SALEM YOUTHS RELEAS ' ED ON 1,000 BAIL r Thomas Duffy, IT, and John George, 18, Salem youths, secretly Indicted by the - Marion county grand jury on Saturday, were ar rested Monday on charges of crim inal assault, as a result,. of their alleged relations with a 19 year old Salem girl. Bail of $ 1 ,0 0 0 was- furnished for- each of the youths. 1 The attack Is said to have taken place south of Salem on the night of April 4. when, according. to the complaint, the, .girl . mentioned in the case, and another, were in the, com pany of the s two-' young men. The Salem girl only was attacked, according to officers & The; other girL a resident of Turner, will ap- pearas a witness in tue case. I -r.. Monday; In Washington President Cool id ge was .Invited to. the .annual' meeting; of goverT nors. L Agreement on' the naval supply bill was . reached by ; senate and house conterees.- ; - House and senate - held night sessions' to speed tip their legis lative programs : Interests opposing acceptance of the Dollar ship bid were heard by 1&9 etnat? cocjmercg csuEjiUee, . . . -.--- - '-mm-vmZi "II ' ' V. , I i - f I. t . J i v v-' - f .... SliiiK:::: j tr g - t i i i i Sir William Joynson-Hicks. home minister for , England, has stated that, if necessary, the arm ed forces . of Great Britian will be used to provide the "vital ser vices on which England relies for maintenance," should : the strik ers refuse. high school students Dominate '27 officers VICTORIOUS DEBATERS ARE i PRAISED BY FELLOWS Goat Skin Souvenir Presented to Student President as . Memento Members of the debating teams that defeated the teams of Sa lem, Mass., in the cross-continental debate last Friday evening were highly commended at . the meeting of the Salem high school student, body Monday. Harold Tomlinson, captajn of the team that debated here, pre sented to Cecil Edwards as repre sentative of the student body the goat skin souvenir given- the school by the invading ; debaters. He remarked that while the. team failed, to get the eastern Salem's witch. It did get its goat, '. J. - C. Nelson, principal of 5 tne high 8choolJS Orlando . Horning, coach of debate, and MrtTTIbbets, father af Edgar Tibbets wh: de bated here two years ago, 'v ad dressed the students relative to the .debate. The students voted to send letters of appreciation to the merchants -and civic clubs whose support made the intersec tional debate possible. In the nomination for officers for the coming year, the student body nominated only one each for the following offices, automatical ly electing them unanimously. Pauline Findley, secretary;, Donald Blake, manager of the Clarion annual and Clarion pa per; Scotty Farr, sergeant at arms; Maxine Glover, song lead er, and Donald Poujade, forensic manager. Nominations for the other of fices follow: For president, Howard Kurtz, Kenneth Allen and Robert Drag- er; vice president, Rosalie Jones and Elizabeth Wechter; editor of Clarion 'annual, Hugh Adams and Donald Deckebach; editor of Clarion paper, Bob Bishop and French Hageman; yell leader, William Verbick and Brick Head ricks; athletic manager, Hugh Adams and Harold Olinger. The election will be held on ThursUSy, May 20. BANKERS TO MEET TODAY 150 WILL GATHER FOR GROUP TWO CONFERENCE More than 150 bankers will spend , today in Salem attending the annual meeting of group No. zt of the Oretron state . bankers association. Counties that will be represeniea ai xne meeting in clude Benton, Lincoln, Linn, Polk and Marion..; The nrincinal sneakers at the meeting will include Car S. Dak- an, professor of finance, oi tne University of Washington ; Bert Hanev. Portland: Olaf A; Hough- um. Eugene ? A. A.; Schramm, Cor vallis; William Barnett, San Francisco and Carlos l G. Close, Portland. - ; . , A bananet following the busi ness session will be featured by an, address by. Irving E. Vimns. president of the state chamber of commerce."-" i"' t ' Women visitors will be enter tained, at the beautiful home ' of Mrs. T. A. Livesley. LIST MAY COURT JURORS SIX WOMEN APPEAR FOR CIR CUIT COURT SERVICE : ' -!iL s - 1 ' . . !. ' . 'i The names of six women appear on the list of jurors who will serve on the circuit court cases coming np during the May term. The complete list, ' after four of the original 31 had claimed ex emptions, follows:- ; - ;W. D. Evans, Elsie M. Tate, E. R. English Frank iOsborne, A. :B. Myers, Daniel Donahue, H. S. Pol- sal; Charles F. Vick, F. E. Loose, Li C Brotherton, Maude Farlow, C. G. -Henderson, Charles F. Heln, ir. It. Bomhoff, J IU Dunlap, J, W. Carson. Belle Comfort h. Thoa. Lauderback. Harvey.-Walker,, C, W. Pugh; LL W. Durant; W.. K. Bnrghardt: Gracia ' V; ' Ohmart. Alice H. Dodd. Albert Seitzinger. Geneva M. Pettyjohn and Joseph r ax Mayor Calls Special Meeting to Rejponsider Action, Signature Held $25 LICENSE ATTACKED Passage of Ordinance By Narrow Margin Held to Warrant Spe cial Meeting Called for Tonight Mayor J. B. Giesy has called a special meeting of the city council this evening at 7:30 o'clock for a general discussion of the street bus problem. Mayor Giesy has asked that all the councilmen be present as he hopes to have the full sentiment of the council Voiced. - "There i has been some adverse criticism of the ordinance that was passed at the last meeting of the council," Mayor Giesy ex plained. ' "The ordinance was passed by the votes of eight coun cilmen, or barely enough to make it binding. "Although I have no desire to act against the council or against the Southern Pacific company, I have not yet signed the measure because I want the matter to be given all due consideration." If the mayor tails to sign the ordinance or to veto it by Thurs day, it will automatically become valid. t One of the chief objections be ing raised to the ordinance as it now reads is that it calls for a reduction in license fee from $50 to $25 per year. It is the conten tion of some aldermen that this is a direct ' violation of the street railway company's franchise. The charter specifically calls for a $50 annual fee per street car. The annual fee for motor vehicles used in carrying passengers for fares is $25. It was on the basis of this latter' provision;" that -the ordinance recently adopted speci fied the annual fee for the street buses should be. $ 2 JL. X- ", S But because of the provision in the original franchise coupled with the fact that officials of the company have declared they do not wish to change the franchise in any way except to substitute the buses for the street cars, some councilmen still believe that the fee should remain at $50. A representative taxpayer at the council meeting during which the ordinance was passed called attention to the tact that the street railway, company will not be paying for the upkeep of its road beds while using buses, while it paved and maintained its share of the streets over which its street cars passed. He declared it would only be fair for the annual fee to remain at $50. No objection has been raised against changing from-street cars to street buses. What opposition was manifested at first has ap parently died out. Councilmep and other citizens seem to be taking Continued on page 3.) oN&y'llNw mmm British. Li - : , i -v ' - - " t r Above Is seen the' course laid out by Ronald Amandscn for liis airplane whir!) is rxpertetl to leave from Spitsbergen today. The map also Indicates tiie route taken by IA. Com. Byrd, U. S. -N., in his plane flight to the pole Sunday. Ho left ifroin -and return ed to Spitzbergen. . AMUNDSEN IS READY FOR FLIGHT TO NORTH POLE EXPECTED DIRIGIBLE WILL LEAVE ON JOURNEY TODAY Weather Conditions Said Ideal for Amundsen-Ellsworth- Expe dition OSLO, Norway, May 10. (By Associated Press.) Advices from King's Bay report that active preparations were under way to day for the start of the dirigible Norge of the Amundsen-Ellsworth expedition for the North Pole. Weather conditions were good and it was understood that the dirig ible would begin her periolus jour ney possibly some time tonight. NEW YORK, May 10. (By As sociated Press.)- Captain George H. Wilkins, commander of the Detroit-Arctic expedition, has Com pleted the establishment of his base at Point Barrow, Alaska, the North American: Newspaper Alli ance announced tdday. Captain WflMttewllinop' off sooironB flight over the unexplored Arctic ice paths in search of new lands for the United States. Captain Wilkins radioed the following message today to Com mander Byrd, who flew to the north pole yesterday: "Heartiest congratulations on your achievement." WOULD APPOINT CONSUL NICARAGUAN ) REVOLUTION ISTS SEEK RECOGNITION MANAGUA, Nicaragua, May 10. ( By Associated Press. ) Fer nando Larios, leader of the liberal revolutionists who have estab lished headquarters at Bluefields, is reported to be appointing con suls to represent the revolution ists in United States. The BlUefields branch of the National Bank! of Nicaragua, which it is alleged was looted of $161,000 by the revolutionists was reopened today. CASTLES IN THE AIR Tom Murray, 23, Takes Own Life in Death Cell Hailed as Oregon Desperado, Young KiHer Presents Different Spectacle in Death; Note Is Left Absolving Com panions of Part in Prison Escape Tom Murray, 23, smiling, carefree, shrewd; a bandit and desperado and up6n his own confession, a killer, paid the supreme penalty in a death-cell in murderer's row in the Oregon state penitentiary late Sunday night. Tom Murray died, -but he snatched his life from the official hangman. Choosing the slow death by strangulation rather than to present himself on the legal gallows, Murray took his own life in his closely guarded cell. He knotted a bedsheet about his neck, tied the improvised rope to a pipe running across the ceiling of his cell and jumped from his cot. That step from his cot hurled Murray into eternity from the seeming eter nity of life in a prison cell. His body was discovered shortly after 11 o'clock Sunday night, all life extinct. : Tom Murray, in life" always a braggart,, glorying in whatever notoriety he could gather to him self and thriving on the adulation of his companions and in the comiseration of a certain class of a sentimental public; Tom Mur ray, the killer and the desperado, presented a .different spectacle in death. In death his spirit was broken. The guiding sense of mastery that Murray liked to af fect was gone. In death Murray became a youth, a youth who had taken his own life because he was in -trouble There was none of the super-bandit imagery. In looking at him in death, specta tors felt slightly abashed that they, too, had once regarded him as a leader among desperadoes. Before taking his life Murray wrote a note, pencilled on the back of an oil painting drawn for him by James Willos, one of his companions in the prison break of August 12, the result of which led to the sentencing of Murray, Willos and Ellsworth Keltey to death on the gallows. The note read: "Before going south with what money I have on the books please pay the paper man what I owe him. Mail two letters if you want to, one to the folks and the other to Attorney Robinson of the Portland News. "I killed Sweeney. Jones kill ed Holman. Kelley and Wfllos shot no one or even at anyone." Murray was fully dressed with the expedition of shoes and coat at the time he committed suicide. Officers at the prison said it was apparent that the convict took every precaution to avoid detec tion, and so timed his act that the guard would not return to his cell for more than 30 minutes. lie was last heard shortly after 9:30 o'clock when hg yelled "good night" to Ellsworth Kelley and James Willos who occupied cells a short distance down the corridor. The rope with which Murray hanged himself was made from a bed sheet which was wrapped with a ;hoe string. The convict placed the noose about his neck, tied the other end to a steam pipe near the top of his cell and then jii4nped from his cot which was three feet above the floor. When found by guards his feet were touching the floor. Physicians said he died from strangulation. Attorney Robinson, who was mentioned in Murray's farewell note, was said to be Charles Rob- inson ot Astoria, wno uus uuku writing a -series of articles for the Portland News. It was said that Robinson's stories appealed strongly to Murray and a number of them were found in his cell last night. A telegram announc ing that Murray had committed suicide was sent to his parents early yesterday. Murray was received- at the pen itentiary here on December 31. 1923, to serve two terms of 10 years each. One charge was that of robbing the state bank at Flor ence, Lane county, while the other was being armed with a danger ous weapon. Murray previously safved time In San Quentin for the crime of larceny. He escaped trom tne Oregon state penitentiary on three differ ent occasions. The first time he left by-way of the flume which passes through the prison yards, but was captured a short time later and returned to the institu tion. His second escape occurred in March, 1924, when he and four other,sconvicts made their way out of the administration building through a basement window, dashed over the wall and com mandeered an automobile In which they drove to a point near the state training school for. '--boys Murray was later captured near (Continued on page 3.) HANGS SELF IN ASYLUM CHARLES 1IAGK VSES SHEET TO TAKE OWN. LIFE Charles Hage, patient at the Oregon state hospital, ; committed suicide, late Sunday night' by bang ing .himself with a rope made from a bed sheet. : He was 53 years of age and was committed to the hospital last Thursday from Oregon City, e was previously an inmate of the institution but es caped nearly four years ago. Thorn a Hage, a brother of the dead man, resides at Oregon City. It was Baid that the body would be Bent there for burial . PLANE PILOTED BY BYRD FLOWN OVER NORTH POLE AMERICAN CROSSES ARCTIC ZONE IN RECORD TIME 15 Hours, 30 Mniutes Elapses On Trip; Congratulations Received NEW YORK, N. Y., May 10.- (By Associated Press.) An air plane has flown over the North pole for the first time. The second -successful polar ex nedition. like the first, was American, led ; by a man of. the American navy, as was the first trans-Atlantic airplane flight. Lieutenant Commander Rich- Emperor Yoshihito of Japan suf miral Robert E. Peary, tne honor of having led the only expeditions over the top of the world. Com mander Byrd sailed over the North pole yesterday in an American built plane, the first of nine Arc tic expeditions this season to achieve its goal. - Radio and cable brought back to the New Ybrk Times and St. Louis Post Dispatch news that the Byrd expedition had made In 15 hours and 30 minutes yesterday a trip that took Admiral Peary eight months by ship and dog sled. The objective was achieed in 33 days after the expedition sailed from New York for Kings Bay Spitzber gen. Peary was out of contact with civilization, 429 days. WASHINGTON, May 10. (By Associated Press.) The polar flight of Lieutenant .Commander Byrd was praised today in the senate and drew applause from the floor and gallery. - Senator Bingham, renublican,- ard Evelyn Byrd shares, with Ad ploit, declaring it was "one of the most daring ventures the world has seen to venture 1600 miles in the Arctic ) wastes, daring al most certain death." Senator Dill, democrat of Wash ington, interrupted to ask: "How many! more times is the navy going to send our young men to face almost certain death?" The Connecticut senator who had referred to the naval aviator in presenting (the conference rer port on the. jclvil aviation hill pointed out, in reply, that his flight was notj undertaken by the navy. i , , 20 AUTOS LOST IN FIRE PORTLAND GARAGE DESTROY ED; DAMAGE IS 332.00Q PORTLAND j May 10.-(By Associated Press) Fire which broke out on fhe fourth floor of the Portland garage here early today from ani undetermined ori gin caused damage estimated at $32,000. Twenty automobiles stored, in the parage were de stroyed. Ray pish'er, fireman was overcome by smoke as he reached the fourth floor on an outside'fire escape and probably would have fallen to the street below it a com panion had not sized his uncon scious form. About 80 guests of an adjoining hotel were routed from their rocjms when the fire threatened to! spread to that structure. f j Why jpf British Strike; Men Involved The labor junheaval in (treat Britain Involves .2,525.000 workers , in most of the princi- ' pal industries -of ; the country.. Against these the government -can at need muster the 500,000 men in the j army, navy, air force and militia and the 75,-' 000 volunteef-s In Admiral Vis count JeHicoe's Organization for the i Maintenance of- Sup-.J plies. j - The trades affected1 by the strike the General Council of - - the Tradea Ionian Congress has " designated which are to: QQit work and the number, in each, are: . . . ' j ' ':' . ? ; Miners . . . j . ; . .1,120,000' Railwayman , 410,000 - Railway clerks , . ., 60,000 . Builders . L ."V. . . .x 800.O0O - Transport Workers 330,000 - Seamen .. ..... . CO.OOO , ; Printers . i 120,000 Ironworkers . .."i. 100,000 Test Shovis Liquid Pure on Reaching Customers, Servjce to Improve COMMISSION SATISFIED Company Ready and Willing to Rush New 12-Inch Main, and Force Pump,- ,looster Pnmp" Assured Officials of the Salem Water company are ready and willing to dd anything within reason for the improvement of service, according to testimony given by C. A. Park, president j of the corporation, and Paul Wallace, at a hearing held, .in the offices of the public serv ice commission, here Monday. The hearing Was ordered by the public service commission following re ceipt of jcomplaints that the serv ice was not adequate 'to meet the demands ot the public. Mr. Prk testified that the com pany already had taken steps to construct a 12-inch main south on Winter street, from a main now in place ion Mill street. Assurance also was given the commission that a booster pump was to be in stalled on the island at the crib, and that within a short time both suction knd force pumps would be in operation. These improve ments, oupled with other plans for expansion adopted by the com pany, Will go a long way toward improving the present service, of ficials qf the corporation testified. The Attitude of the water com pany officials was that of cooper ation, and all questions propound ed by tjhe commission's engineers were answered without hesitation. As a result of the assurance that better service would be forthcom ing It was decided to leave the In vestigaUon open pending further probe by representatives of the water company, the public service commission and the city- Mem-, bers of; the commission predicted that the complaints' would be ad justed Satisfactorily. ie--.- C. it. Beebe, engineer for the . commission, testified that despite that the Salem Water company has a jdaily pumpage of approxi mately 9,616,000 gallons and a consumption of between 5,000.000 and 6,000,000 gallons there is still a shortage. Responsibility for this situation was attributed ossre ly to af faulty distribution system. It was Mr. Beebe's opinion that the installation of pressure pumps at the ntake in place of the pres ent suction equipment, would pre vent the contamination of water by leaking pipes. Officials of the company assured the commission that stfeps to this end already had been tken. Reports submitted at the meeting indicated thatin or der toj Insure a supply of water free from contamination here it .is necessary to use chlorine. ,It was pointed out that while Alteration, clears Ithe water it does not re move fli8ease. - Six . samples of water jtaken at different times , during! the past few months were introduced in. evidence at the hearing, showing that .drinking water here Is healthful. Considerable testimony : was ' given in connection rWlth .the con dition jot the water, here a few -weeks jago when it was badly dls-. colored, and ,had . a disagreeable . taste. , , , x ...... Commenting on .the 'condition of the water at that time Mr. Beebe testified that just prior to the IOob timed on pf 8.) APRIL FIRE LOSS IS HIGH TOTAL SET AT S4 14,523, EX CLUSIVE OF PORTLAND ! ' Firelosses in the state of Oregon xclusif e of Portland during the month lof April aggregated $414, 525.41J according to a report pre pared here Monday by Will Moore, state fire marshal.1 There, were a total of 58 fires reported. . xne most Disastrous nre was at Pendleton where a packing plant was destroyed with a loss of ap- was of jan incendiary origin. . - The difficulty Is the result of '-a long drawn. out dispute In the coal industry. The owners con- : tended the Industry could not afford present wages : unless houraj of work were lengthened. - The government has been pay- . '. Ing ai subsidy to make up the" existing scale, but this was dis continued May 1. The-owners-' refused to pay ' more and the strike was called Saturday. . " The government takes the attitude that the men's position is a' challenge to -British free- , 'donuj . It Is prepared to use troops to keep order and volun- v tary aid to" transport the neces- sarles of life. .. - :"Thb unions say they have jbeen foTced into their present position A; J.! Cook, the roin- ers! secretary, issued a. slogan for the strike as follows: "Not a penny off wajres, cot a r-: