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l . i - v.- K 1 ,1 SEVENTY-SIXTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, . JUNE 1 1, 1926 WEEKLY EDITION j PRICE FIVE CENTS 5 RURAL RELIEF JILL DEBUTED McNary Measure Held j Boon to British Interests, , Says Ohio Man f v 7k Volstead law scored SM n . V. f I T 1 I A to Charge That Dry Law ' Wrecked the Bop Industry 1 1 WASldNGTON. June 9. -(By Associated Press,) Farm rellet legislation today was again the focus for sharp congressional de- . - i i . - i k n i? I oaie Climaifu u tuaffies m iuo W senate that the McNary bill, which fPI is similar to the Haugen proposal lB rejected by. the. house, favored IV British interests, am ... . Assailing the McJMary measure, Senator Fess, republican, Ohio, declared it would "sovietize the great agricultural. Industry" -and transfer Great - Britain's unem ployment problem to - the United States. Sir Joslah Stamp, the. British economist, who endorsed the prin- inlA of thL bill thronzh-' Vice President Dawes favored the aJhieasure. Senator Fess said, be cause it would insure a cheap food! supply to Great Britain. -The bill , would set up a soviet, the Ohio !j senator declared r by creating a board selected by the industry to I control prices of commodities pro- duced by it ' In the house the debate ranged i over -a wide field. Including pro- f hibition, the Iowa primary and foreign debts. The ills of the farms were charged to the Volstead apt; by Representative Schaefer, republi can, Wisconsin, who declared It virtually had destroyed. the-farmers' market for grain, especially barley. -. ' He was challenged by Repre sentative Williamson, republican, St'iakota, who said produc tions barley had increased since prohibition. Murders of Osage Indians . Bared m Oklahoma Court Ernest Burkhart, Nephew of W. K. Hale, "King of the Osage Hills",, Enters Plea of Guilty to Charge of Killing Rancher Conspiracy Suspected by Officers PAWHUSKA, Okla., June 9. (By Associated Press.) Months of investigation by department of justice agents and state officials into a series of mysterious murders in the Osage Indian country of Oklahoma bore fruit today when Ernest Burkhart, nephew of W. K. Hale, "king of the Osage hills," pleaded guilty in state district court here to a charge of murder. Burkhart, who had been on trial for more than two weeks, suddenly dismissed his attorneys and pleaded guilty to jbl of killing W. E. Smith, a i STUDENTS STAGE RIOT; POLICE THROW BOMBS OFFICERS UNABLE TO QUIET MILLING MASS Trouble Starts When Firemen At tempt to Extinguish Blair . Tower Blaze PRINCETON. N. J., June 9. (By Associated Press.) Two thousand Princeton students in riot on the campus were dispersed with tear bombs, tonight after the mob had attempted to. take three prisoners from the police. The riot occurred when firemen attempted to extinguish a blaze the students started on top. of Blair tower.. When the fireman' arrived, a large crowd gathered and at tempted to "mob" them. Police were called and four bombs were thrown into the milling mass, the crowd scattered!, but re-gathered at police headquarters and shouted demands for release of the prison ers. At a late hour the crowd was spread from the police station to Lincoln highway, tying up traffie on the road. , Several .members of the senior council vainly exhorted the mob to scatter. No injuries were reported. WASHINGTON. June 9. (By .( Associated Press.) Spring wheat Vnnl(t(nn rn TnnR 1 Wt the lOW- est on record , for that date and It the composite condition of all ps for which Teports have been received was eight per cent below Jthe 10 year June 1, average, the BeDartment of agriculture an- ' nnnnroH tnriav in its monthly re port. Rather large crop of ap ples, peaches and pears were in dicated, however. "This is the poorest; June -1 showing in 16 years or more! the department commented In sum marizing crop conditions. "It is t '".Continued fM P 8-1. FIRES UNDErV ScbNTROL MUX BATTLE WITH FLAMES IX DESCHUTES COUXTx PORTLAND. Jme 9 (By As- sociated Press) Most of the large 'fires of the past few days have been fairly well brought under control and fire hazards through out the northwest have been re lieved by higher humidity and In creased winds, the forest patrol association here reports. A large fire in the Deschutes region was brought under control .Tuesday after the blaze had dan ieid cnnsliier!! Ma alinil nf Trnii Ti C trees. Two loeeinjr fires near Vernonia were reported under atrol with little o no damage: Wednesday In Washington Appropriation of $375,000 to re pair me wnue House was asaea of congress. uepanraent of agriculture je- ported the condition of spring w uea v on June i, as the poorest jn recora. Inquiry into paign expenditures commenced be- igro suaiB committee With GOV' ernpE l'incnot on the stand. Presidential nfnhfhlTlAn f der was upheld by the senate Ju I dietary committee; .its non-use for V. . prtseai was lnaicated. : " r - ' Over the Georgia senatorial pro- msi rresiaeni cooildge nominated WUlUwa J TlJao as th new f ad- era juage in that etate. MAN SUICIDES IN JAIL CARDS ( INDICATE VICTDI IS MEMBER . OF EAGLES BEND; Or.. June 9. (By AP.) IL..Hallbttrc. held in .the jdtyvjall pending a hearing on an insanity charge, committed suicide just be fore 5 o'clock: tonight. Cards In his pockets had identified him, ac cording to the officers who had picked him up early this morning under the impression that he was intoxicated. ... He was-a member of the Eagles lodge of Spokane, ac cording to cedentials In his pock ets, officers said.' Liquor party blamed GRANTS PASS WOMAN DRUNK, NOT DRUGGED rancher. He will be sentenced on June 21. The clearing up of this case, authorities declare, strengthens their theory of the existence of a huge conspiracy whlcch involved the killing of rich Osage Indians for their property. Smith's mur der has been linked with a series of other slaylngs. Burkhart issued' a statement in which he accused his uncle, Hale, being the leader of a plot to slay Smith. He said that he assisted Hale in finding an assassin to blow up the Smith home. Smith, his Indian wife, Rita, and a white girl were killed in an explosion in March, 1923. A part of the alleged murder conspiracy, the authorities con tend, involved the killing of the late Lizzie Q., rich Osage Indian. Her estate was. estimated at $2, 000,000. There were three daugh ters, Rita Smith, Anna Brown and Mollie Burkhart, wife of Ernest. Anna Brown .was Bhot in May, 1921, and Byron Burkhart, Ern est's brother, is out on bond pend ing trial for her murder. Kelsey Morrison, one of the wit nesses in Ernest's trial, admitted on the witness stand that be shot Anna Brown after a party in which she became so intoxicated that she was almost unconscious. He declared ' that Burkhart held her in a sitting position while he shot her in the head. He declared he used a gun furn ished by Hale, and that Hale had hired him to kill her. Hale and John Ramsey, another alleged accomplice, are held in jail awaiting trial here for the mur der of Smith. They will be brought to trial 'tn federal, diatxict court at Guthrie soon for the slaying ef Henry Roan, an Indian, on whose life Hale had taken out a $25,000 insurance policy. ELECTION COST s JOLTS CAPITAL Pinchot Admits Large Ex penditures in Recent Pri mary Campaign PEPPER ALSO ON STAND Evidence Before Committee Indi cated that Defeated Can didate Spent More Than 9104,000 TRAFFIC PROBLEMS UP TRAFFIC COPS GATHER HERE FOR ANNUAL MEETING ROSEBURG. Or., June 9. (By AP.) District Attorney Cordon today announced that Mrs. Carl Johnson, of Grants Pass and her companion, Dick Whitworth of Medford, admitted to him that they had been on a liquor party from May 30 until Monday night, following whlcch the woman was found li a hotel here. Cordon said Whitworth admitted that he had taken the woman on several trips during the week and a half, and that she became ill w hen they reached here. PERCY KANE IS FREED ACCUSED MAN GIVES ALIBI AND IS RELEASED FOREST GROVE, Ore., June 9 (By Associated Press) Having been, cleared of any connection with a dynamite explosion which Sunday wrecked the home in which his divorced wife was stay ing here, Percy Cane was free to day. Cane established an alibi In proving that he was at a party four miles away when the explo sion occurred. Officers are Inves tigating other leads in the case. STAGES REPLACE MOTOR aitto SERVICE, STARTS BE TWEEN MARION CO. POINTS to establish. automobUe stage ser- . . TIFMAKttra fit VCe Dei wee 11 u v.. u Paul, hy way of West Woodbura, -jo. tn notice filed in the aivi uiub ttm thA- nabHc service com- mission nere. a bb" w- o.otinr between Woodburn ana St. Paul will be discontinued. AGED MAN IS STRICKEN W. T. PERKINS IS RUSHED TO - PORTLAND MUrA juj x PORTLAND, June 9. soclated PTesa.)"---W. 'T father or W H. Perkfc tor of the Ashland was removed to a" be today-affertafftroni 1 -(By JAs- il- -8 re Ik- Discussion of interstate traffic problems featured the first day's sessions of the annual conference of Oregon stae traffic officers here yesterday. The conference will, close tonight following a ban quet. Washington officials in atend- ance at the conference Included Charles R. Maybury, head of the division of licenses; William Cole, chief of the state highway patrol. and J. D. McDougall, chief, of the state motor vehicle division. WASHINGTON, June 9. (By Associated Press.) Intimate de tails of expenditures and political strategy fn the Pennsylvania pri mary lasf month were bared today at the opening sessions of the sen ate campaign investigation com mittee. Governor Pinchot and his state wide treasurer P. S. Stahlnecker, presented statements showing an outlay of $164,893 in behalf of the governor's unsuccessful candi dacy for the senatorial nomina tion. This was in addition to col lections by comity committees, which Stahlnecker estimated not to exceed $30,000. Turning from the Pinchot ex penditures, Stahlnecker told the committee he had received reports that $500,000 had been fixed as the budget of Senator Pepper's or ganization in Pittsburgh for use in x western Pennsylvania. . The witness said his informant was Representative Morin, west ern manager for Representative Vare the successful senatorial can- (Contiaiwa par 6.) POLICE COMB PORTLAND D'ATJTREMQNT BOYS IN S ING, OFFICERS DECLARE SANDY, Ore., June 9 (By .As sociated Press) Officers tonight were investigating reports that two of the three D'Autremont brothers wanted in connection with the holdup and robbery of a Southern Pacific train near Ash land, Ore., several years ago, were seen in a local restaurant Monday night. Upon receiving pictures of the fugitives, the postmaster took them to the restaurant and told the proprietor to watch for them. The latter immediately declared that two of the men had eaten in his place Monday night and ap peared anxious to keep in such a position that they would not be seen from the street. Other per sons who were in the eating place at htat time identified the pic tures. PEBIPL1 THOUGHT BEST i 1 I Adult School for Blind in i Portland to Receive Consideration SOCIAL WORKERS BUSY x Proposal by State Treasurer to ' Pay. Blind Monthly. Pension, V 'Indorsed by Special V Committee PORTLAND, June 9. (By As sociated Press.) Recommenda tions regarding state provision for the adult blind will be turned over to the legislative committee of the social, workers' association of Ore-gonl-for study and action, a special committee working on the recom mendations decided today. The recommendations Included one endorsing the suggestions of a 'pension system for Indigent blind made by State Treasures- Kay in a talk on the employment in stitution for the adult blind at a meeting last week. Thomas B. Kay, state treasurer, hast said repeatedly that the oper ation of the state employment in stitution for the adult blind is too y, and. that the state would be er off financially to pension all ons eligible for admission. r. Ka? based this statement on act&al figures obtained at the in stitution showing -he monthly pay roll maintenance costs, wages paid to- ihe inmates and receipts from the' workshop. These figures shewed that it would be cheaper to pay to persons eligible to enter the school a maximum of $30 a athTAhan to maintain "them in 1b. Institution. - '" - The Oregon employment institu tion for the adult blind was estab lished a number of years ago by a vote of the people of the state. It is supported by millage tax the same as the University of Oregon, agricultural college and state nor mal schools. The plant is one of the largest and most modern of the state institutions. In event it should be decided to abolish the institution the plant would not be a loss to the state in that it could be used to good ad vantage by some agency engaged in caring for child wards. It. was said that Governor Pierce end Secretary of State Kozer also recognize the enormous expense attached to the conduct of the in stitution, and probably would join with State Treasurer Kay in any reasonable move looking to the care' of the adult blind through more economic methods. WAY DOWN EAST - - - ---lifAinv,:. "" "'" t Wife Tells Strange Story Of Desire to Retain Love 1 Mrs. Lina Buchanan, Fearing Loss of Husband, Represents as His Own New Born Baby Boy of Which She Was-Not Mother Expose Delayed More Than Two Years SPAN OF LIFE i i MRS. RUTH BRYAN OWEN DE FEATED ON LATE RETURNS PORTLAND, June 9. (By Associated! Press.) Mrs. Lina L." Buchanan, about 43, formerly of Raymond Wash., told on the witness stand in circuit court todky the story of how, to hold her husband's love and to satisfy his desire for a male child, she represented as his own a new born baby boy of which she was not the mother, and kept hijm in-ignorance, of the true identity of the little stranger for imore; than two years. j When he learned that the child was not his own, the hus band, Charles E. Buchanan, ac cording to the records in the case. I or no oaisio fHT-srrr filed suit against Mrs. Buchanan. OCHHO UHinj VHIIIHUt Tz frr?- see? in belated returns proprietor of a maternity hospital here, for $25,000 damages, alleg ing that they had conspired to de ceive him and had wounded his pride and feelings in the amount asked. ' Later Mrs. Buchanan filed a de murrer on the ground that a hus band could not make his wife a defendant in 'such an action. The court upheld the demurrer. When the case came to trial today she was called as a witness for her husband. She ' told of her fear that her husband's love was slipping from her and said that in the winter of 1922 she told him their wish for a baby was soon .to be realized. She came to Portland and conferred with Dr. Spencer, she said, and at his suggestion she advertised through the "personal" columns of the newspapers for a new born baby boy. A Portland couple an swered the advertisement, she said, and on February 19, 1923, delivered a baby to her. She then went to the hospital operated by Mrs.' Spauiding and the next morn ing the latter telephoned to Bu chanan in Raymond of the arrival of a son. Mrs. Buchanan said all went well until May, 1925, when her i-.usband was told by a man whose name he did not remember, to look carefully into the parentage of the Buchanan child. An investigation followed and resulted in the filing of the suit. HELP'OrLfduOB CHARGE LOOXEY AXD McGRATH BOUND OVER TO GRAND JURY Harold iooney, rancher of Jef ferson, and a member of a promin ent pioneer family of that district, and Frank McGrath, an employe on the Looney farm, waived pre liminary hearing in the justice court here Wednesday afternoon and were bound over to the Mar ion county grand jury on charges of possession and sale of intoxi cating liquor. Looney and McGrath were ar rested Monday night by county deputy sheriffs and members of the state prohibition squad, after officers say, they had purchased liquor from the men. Both Looney and McGrath were released on bonds of $1000 each. ISIIRFJ1G Medical College Dean Rapa Fads Which Tend to Retard Sciertce DEATH RATE IS LOWER POKER DIVIDES PROPERTY GAME DECIDES DIVISION COUPLE'S PROPERTY OP SAN FRANCISCO, June 9. (By Associated Press.) A win ning poker hand was given a legal rating in the superior court here today. Several weeks ago Edward A. Wright and his wife, Mrs. Mary P. Wright, decided that they were good friends but poor soul mates. They played a series of poker hands to decide which way the community property should Bo. Mrs. Wright won the family percolator and her wedding ring. Wright won the family automo bile. Today Mrs. Wright obtained an interlocutory decree of divorce. The court recognised the property division as It had been determined by the' poker series. PIGEON RACE DATE SET BIRDS TO BE RELEASED IN SALEM JUNE 26 SAN FRANCISCO June 9. (By Associated Press;) Some 550 birds will take off from Sa lem,' Ore., in a 600-mile dash down the coast on June 26 when the bay cities' B 00-mile club holds its annual homing pigeon race. It is a championship affair open to all fanciers. The first eight birds to arrive at their home. lofts will divide , prize money totaling ap proximately $1,000. SANFORD B. DOLE DIES EARLY PRESIDENT OP HAWAII DEAD AT HONOLULU ' HONOLULU, Jun .r (By A: P.) Sanford B. Bole, president of the republic of: Hawaii at the time of -' Its annexation by ' the United States, died here today. . Dancan U. Fletcher Leads Nearest Opponent by More Tha 13,000 Votes JACKSONVILLE. Fla., June 9, ( By Associated Press. ) Con gressman W. J. Sears, incumbent, took a lead of 4?" X votes over Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the late William Jenniugs Bryan, in the race for the' democratic nom ination, for election to congress from the fourth Florida district after a day of suspense in which one, candidate first had a lead and then the other.: It was belated returns from Monroe county, a Sears 3tronghold, that turned the tide definitely for Sears. The city of Key West turned In 1584 for Sears and 429 for Mrs. Owen at a time when Mrs. Owen had a mar gin of 100 votes ;or so. The count with 14 small scattered precincts missing from 336 in the district, shpws sears 20,136; Mrs. Owen, 19,665. The battle which raged along the Florida east coast in the primary campaign brought out the largest vote the fourth, district ever has cast in an off-year demo cratic primary election. Senator Duncan U. Fletcher had a lead of 16,472 votes over Jerry W. Carter, state hotel commission er, in their race for the nomina tion for United! States senator. John Van Valzah, Daytona" Beach, trailed with 2164 votes. The vote, witfc several precincts missing was: Fletcher, 37,892; Carter, 21,41.0; Van Valzah. 2164. Incomplete returns from the third congressional district indi- (Cantinaadj on paf 8.) AUTO WRECK IS FATAL WINLOCK MAN KILLED WHEN CAR OVERTURNS CORVALL1S, !Ore., June 9 (By Associated Press) Steve Brown of Winlock, Wash., was killed al most instantly last night, when an automobile in which he was riding with two companions, Jacob Irv ing and Arthur Sorenson, also of Winlock went over the grade at the western approach of the Wren bridge on the j Corvallis-Newport highway, one mile west of Wren. Irving who was; driving the auto mobile escaped without Injury, while Sorenson ; was bruised- about the face and head. . MAN SLIDES TO SAFETY RALPH WILLLAMS TRAPPED IN PORTLAND HOME PORTLAND, i June 9 (By As sociated Press) Using a rope made from bed j coverings, Ralph Williams, slid to safety today when a fire in bis two story house shut off bis escape to the stair way. Trapped in an upstairs bed room, Williams hastily tied sev eral sheets together, fastened one end to the bedpost and slid to the ground. Battalion Chief Roberts fighting, the fire, narrowly escap ed death when! a chimney collap sed throwing a shower of bricks near him. NEW ROOF; IS ORDERED MONEY TO IMPROVE CAPITAL QUARTERS VOTED WASHINGTON. June 9. (By AP.) Long delayed repairing of the White House, including the construction of i a new ro6f, was recommended to congress today, by the budget bureau with the- ap proval et President Coolidge ander a program to be carried out next summer at an; estimated cost of $375,000. HEAD INJURY IS FATAL YOUTH DIES,! RESULT OP BE ING HIT AT BALL GAME : WALLA WALLA, Wash. June 9. ( By Associated Press. ) Hit on the head by a pitched ban In a game played,: here last night In a twilight league series. Robert Summers aged. 19, died early this morning from; the - Injury. His skull was fractured. Research tali Held Necessary to Ob Best Results La Battling Against Body Ailments The purpose of medical set enca is to prolong life and to re lieve suffering. ' It is this and nothing more." Such was. th declaration made Wednesday noon) by Dr R. B. DilUhunt of Portland before the members of the Salem Rotary club. Dr. Dillehunt is dean jot the university of Oregon! medical schooland head surgeon for the Shriner's hospital In Port land. "The average length of life has! Increased ten years in the past 20 years," he continued. - "Thias is due to the fact that the death rate among the newly born has; been reduced. Experimental research 14 necessary. In fact, I am inclined to believe It is the chief activity: of medical science. "I am convinced that the func tion Of research alone justifies) the investment made in the uni versity of Oregon medical school, Through research in labora tories by men devoting their whold time to It and without much; pay either diphtheria haa: become a curable and preventable) disease whereas not long ago ft meant almost certain death. . It was sot the superiority , ot , American engineers that'ttad possible the Panama canal, I ant told the French plan' was - much simpler and' much more feasible. But the French engineers conld not live in the Isthmus country. American doctors were sent dow there1, and by research found thai" the great part of malady among the men was due to malaria. This they corrected and the Canal was made possible. "Practically every one killed In the Spaniah-Amsrican war lost his life because-sbf typhoid. Now, be cause of research, the disease Is curable and preventable. "The whole coast of South Car ollni and Florida was recently in a plight. ' The children were all slcki A group of medical men wenjt down there and established laboratories. They discovered -that! a bug was bnrled. in the soil. -The children would go barefooted and the bugs would burrow-; tn - ! ( .. ''I (Cob tinned. a pf 3.) THREE HELD BY COURT l ... TIMBER IS CUT UNLAWFULLY WARRANTS INDICATE ' 1 f - - PORTLAND, June 9-(By As sociated Press.) Charges of hav ing unlawfully cut 9,840,000 feet of timber from government lands were filed in federal court here today against Norris R. Went worjth of Bay City, Mich,, L. J. Weatworth. of Portland, and T. J. Seufert, of Eugene. Ore., form er dflicera of. the Coast Range Lumber company, now defunct.' Norris R. Wentworth was pres ident of the company against which Involuntary bankruptcy proceedings were filed here July 31.1925. . 1! I.i' i v f ..t CAiYIP LANDS SET ASIDE TRACT OF 40 ACRES RESERV- IN DOUGLAS COUNTY ED WASHINGTON, June ( Br Associated Peas.) -- Reservation of a tract of 40 acres of pnblie lands In Douglas county Oregon, to be used as a fire warden camp was! authorized In an executive or der! issued today. : "the area Is so. located as to be especially advantageous should a forest fire occur In the 'vicinity. LARGE TUSK IS FOUND I ; ; CONDON MUSEUM IS ASKED TO EXAMINE FIND I PILOT ROCK. Ot June 9-A; tusk six feet : long, 1$ laches in diameter and resembling old Ivory hast been unearthed near nere 'by , Vtcjtor Bracher, hardware dealer. It was buried. In 1 J feet of volcanic ashj soil aad is believed to be an elephant's tusk; Bracher1; has asked the Condosi museum at Ku- -gene to examine his find. - t. 1 ' J L-JJJ- . . .'