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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1926)
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A1- though there was some last min ute bickering orer .legislation In the senate, the wind was'deroid of these exciting picturesque inci dents which frequently mark, the close of congressional sessions, Wearing a frock coat and a high hat, despite the sweltering heat. President Coolidge motored to the capitol an hour before adjourn nient. z ' ' '. - ; He went to the room reserred tor him off the senate lobby, and surrounded by cabinet officials, . bureau chiefs and' :White House A officials signed a batch of bills r snacted at the last minute. While the president was so en gsged. unsuccessful efforts were being made in the senate to get action on seteral proposals, among them s, resolution to limit senator ial campaign funds and. a request from the campaign funds commit tee for instructions to the depart ment of justice to look Into the testimony offered v before It by , Magistrate Frank X. .O'Connor of Philadelphia. Meanwhile the house was Indulging In a round of po litical speech making. Represent tire Tilson, the republican leader, reviewing the session, compliment ed congress for its accomplish ment. The minority floor leader, Gar rett of Tennessee, responded that the democratic party, was willing to go to the country . in the fall elections on the record of congress, and predicted that it would wrest congressional control from the re publicans. Speaker Longworth rounded out , the session with a brief speech, ' thanking members for the courtesies shown him. He was speaking when a o'clock, the pre-arranged hour was reached. and it was a minute later before he gare his gavel a final 'bang. There was scarcely more than s quorum on the house floor, and as the session ended, members rose and safig a Terse of the Star Spangled Qanner, led by a marine - trumpeter with t the crowded gal leries Joining in the singing. The wise c-f Representative Lin th leu m, democrat, Maryland, at this point. . ua furled - a large American flag and- wared it from the speaker's gallery. ,In the senate,' during the clos ing moments. Senator Cameron, republican, Arizona, held the floor , n. spite of the pleading of other t senators who wanted a vote on several pending proposals. He dis cussed the Colorado river develop- ' meat aad the Verdi irrigation con- k troversy and still was talking when Yice .. President Dawes de clared the senate adjourned until $ November 10. On that date In ad - tvnee of the December session tit i I (OoaUaasd oa psgs t.) : Saturday In Wasnlnston " Congress adjourned ' for the simmer. . " "The Campaign funds investiga tion went ahead. ; ' t Wlth, the radio control bill in a conference deadlock, congress en acted temporary legislation. - ! . - ..-.-. ' -Action , on the move of Senator Neely, West Virginia, to curb cam paign .expenditures - was .twiee blocked in the senate. 4A ' ' The senate failed to act on the nominations of Edgar B. Brossard and Sherman Lowell to the tariff commission, ' ."..'i Two ! . measures v by Senator Walsh, "democrat, Montana, to ex pedite legal action in the teapot dome cases wexe yenactedL . - ... J?orris, republican,. Nebraska, resigned as agriculture 'Committee y cbalraan; ' ' McNzry ' republican. Drones Election Requiem Militant Spirit of Comiiur Norris as Agricultoral WASHINGTON, July 3. (By Associated Press.) The buzz of the campaign bee sounded a droning-requiem over the dead session of congress tonight as senators and representatives-turned homeward after seven busy months iii Washing ton. With the opening season for fence-patching and , vote harvesting reduced to four swift months by the lingering tenure of legislative duty in. the national capital, politics has become a personal matter to the half thousand agents of Jthe people who sit in senate and house and recent developments i s out in the" country have not help SEATTLE, Wikh. Mr. Berth K. Lsndes . ba be- ecm tfcia city' mayor vith what U probably a world 'a record minimum of foas and ! ceremony. She allowed her self to be shot by tbe i net capable aewipaper and aioTie photofra pberi, aha id Bonniired her poli cle and plaa cl immediate action to the City Comm eil and went ' .;:.:. i aCRTHA CANOES directly to her deak and sot to work. That wn all there was to it. "Kindly emit fireweriM" ia er motto. 1 SAX , FRANCISCO. ; William B. Leeds, Jr paid 58 to talk with his wile. , She is ia thejr irame fct Oyster Bar. L-onc Islaad, and he here ia San Francisco. ' .TThat if he is - a multi millionaire f ; Mow many men would PAT to hear their wires 4alk ! BCDAPEST, " Hungary. George 14"dneck- has beaten the world's rec ord, for fsstinf. He lired in a class cars tor fifty days without food. Aad on the last day became enrs-ed to a beaatifal .HaoKarisB ' actress. She teev denbtless is not exactly a domestic sort f perse n and George's, demonstra tion that food and cooklngl meant little to him most bsts too straight to her heart. ' So the moral seems to be : Whoa 70 lore a lady whe doesn't know a frying- pan from a coffoo pot, rise above it. 'You can't cook t Ah, bnt dearest, what of it f ! See. I 'can go fifty .days without a thing: to eat." CHA&LOTTE. N. C. IA war Umo impulse on the part cf Admiral Newton A. MeCully, U. 8. is being pro longed: into a mat ter of great happi ness for all con eeroeoV At the time "of the Rus sian Revolution he adopted 7 Bus sian children and entered on the enterprise of bringing them up as his own. 'ic kolai. the eldest, is finishing his first ' year at Staantra Military Academy. 1 where W is establishing a brilliant record. The other rouns : aTXCKOZJkJ Rnssiana are pror- ,. J.--1- 'J, 1 1 ( ' q.Btlly worthy as investments in hvmanity. - RVE HERO MEDALS GIVEN i , - PBIXEVIIXE . WOMANlS CXTJB- AGE WINS RECOGNITIOX ; SAN FRANCISCO. July 3. (By Associated Press.) T. , if.- Delury, district manager of tha - Paciflo Telephone & Telegraph compaky, today, aonouhced the award of ,f fre Theodore . . N.' Vail 'medals for "noteworthy public service. ;The winners follow: t Arne Nick Spanv San Francisco, cable splicer. ;who saved woman from bleeding; to death; Miss Klsle R; Augusting, substitute night Operator- in Prlneville, Ore4 heroine In a fire; Morton 8. Martin, equip ment - engineer, . Sacramento, who rescued a drowning man; William Nev., saved life of automo bile accident -victim, and Earr M. Glover, district plant chief, Chico, Calif., who ' resuscitated It wo em feJ MmTtA. ifCT lr Fray 'j. Folio wiru? Resignation of Committee Chairman, Farm Relief Is Issue L 4. ed to answer some; of the perti nent questions that are in their minds. "''.!'' . Even before the session ended today the militant spirit of the coming fray filtered into discus sion on the floor of (both senate and house, and the senate was treated to a first class sensation by receiving unexpectedly the res ignation of Senator George Nor ris. the republican insurgent from Nebraska, as chairman of -the powerful committee Ion agricul ture. The veteran Nebraskan said he merely, wanted to retire to devote more attention to pend ing legislation, but his announce ment started a flurry ! of political guessing , throughout ; the corri dors of tbe capitol. J Often unfriendly, to the Cool idge administration. .'Norris re cently announced his support of William B. Wilson, the democrat ic nominee for. senator la Penn sylvania. Throughout the fight over farm relief, he stood with the McNary-Hau gen -bloc against the president. There was much f OnntlnnMi mn nm 1) MINERS CRUSHED IN FALL SKVlV .rltflfbN!liiraii'p' HTJin T-i.KTrM " . : - WHEX BOOP( DBOrB WltrKES BARB,Penn., July 3 tfly Associated' Press) ;--Seven miners were killed late' today ahd eight Others injured some serious ly in a. root fall at the Beach. Or chard mine of the Glen Aldan coal company. Four bodies were re covered tonight,' DRY AGENT FOUND DRUNK .. .. . ' i . ENTERS PLEA OF (GUILTY AND PAYS $100 FtXE t ROSEBtJRG. Ore.. July .--tBy Associated Press. -Special Pro hibition Agent W. McMIlls, working as a 'special ofTicer on a. commission from Governor Pierce, was fined 10p-here today on a charge of being Intoxicated on a public highway, :.:vi : : I 'fLjZpss 1 1 i . -w--- " . . . -r fifffl ffe-; -,U ... '' .-ins v-' - -y 1 ..; . - : I QUIT, SAYS . DRY CHIEF HAY "GovemJTieht Doesn'sTry to Enforce Prohibition," Is Declaration RESIGNATION PRESENTED Administrator! for Western Penn sylvania, Believes in Dry. Country, But Tells i Andrews He's Thru . WASHINGTON. July 3. (By Associated Press.) Convinced that "there Isn't any intenticn on the part of the United States to enforce the eighteenth amendment Edgar R. Ray prohibition admin istrator for western Pennsylvania, with headquarters at Pittsburgh, today tendered his resignation to Assistant Secretary Andrews, in charge of prohibition enforcement. Mr. Ray made public this letter, which he said he had presented to General Andrews: "After talking with you today I am satisfied; there isn't any in tention on the part of the United States government to enforce the eighteenth amendment of its con stitution and I do- not care to .be identified with the work any long er and you will please consider this my resignation to take effect at your earliest convenience. The Pittsburgh administrator, who was at the treasury with Thomas J. Cavanaugh, acting pro hibition 'administrator for . Nev Jersey, on -wa A ytnnrosiM T3tsntlwo stlo "If - , t i-"- A t ' . imin i ii 71 t nn niir.inirci riui z Ti jkt inn would, be accepted when General Andrews returns from his forth coming European trip. Coincident with announcement of his resigna tion : letter, Mr. Ray Issued J,hls statement: ' "The eighteenth amendment to the I constitutlo-n of the United States of America was never In- (Contianod oa pago 4.) SUBWAY STRIKE AVERTED i ..- - - HIGHER WAGE DEMAND WILL BE MET BXj ARBITRATION NEW TORKj July 3. (By A. P.) i-Threatened subway strike, scheduled for midnight Monday, was Averted tonight when a meet ing of 400 motormen and switch men I voted to allow the transit commission to arbitrate their de mand for higher wages. IN THE SWEET BY AND BY IIMULD FORCE BALLOT Housewives Council Initia ' tive Measure Rejected by Sam Kozer MANDAMUS SUIT IS SEEN Interesting Controversy Develops Over Number of Signatures Required to Place on Fall Ballot Secretary of State Kozer yester day afternoon formally rejected the Initiative petitions filed by the Housewives council of Portland In support of the water and power board development measure as not containing a sufficient number of signatures to entitle the measure to a place on the November bal lot. In a letter to Mrs. Josephine Othus of Portland, president of the Housewives' council, tbe sec retary of state explains that his check of the petitions rereals only 13,773 verified signatures, where as according to the opinion of At torney General Van Winkle, a minimum of 14,550 are necessary to plaoe a measure on the ballot. Computation ' of signatures ne cessary to an initiative petition is based on the vote cast for supreme court justices at the previous gen- Ml fc WW WWSi "sny-.aaXJ 4 tF a T eliwtiuutsiwisyeh'e' 1 9t -election there were three candidates' for tne two seats on the supreme bench to be filled at that time this fact leading to some confu sion in computing the total vote cast for this office as contemplated under the initiative and referen dum act. The attorney general in his computation has taken the vote received by all three candidates and divided the result by two as being the most reasonable figure The Housewives' council has no tified Kozer that his rejection of their petitions would result in the Institution of mandamus proceed ings to compel the inclusion of their measure on the November ballot. They base their claim to recognition of their measure on the contention that eight per cent of the vote received by the high candidate Is sufficient, under the law. The sponsors of the rejected measure have ten days in which to file their mandamus proceed ings under the law. Fugitives Ditch Vehicle Near Hopewell, Then Flee Possee of Guards Beat Brush in Renewed Man Bunt FolloV ing Sheriff Hooker's Discovery; Escapes Believed Hiding in Polk County Hills First positive tip to aid man hunters in tracking down the! four convicts who Friday afternoon placed a ladder against the penitentiary walls, cut barbed wire entanglements and escaped under the noses of prison guards, came late last night; when the Ford touring car used in the first stage of the dash for liberty was discovered in the brush at the side of a little frequented road about a mile north of Hopewell. Sheriff Hooker, of Polk county, immediately reported the discovery to Warden Lillie who sent posses of guards into the adjoining hills to spend the night beating the brush and searching every possible hiding place, on the theory that at -least two of the four fugitives would be found there. Leaving what had appeared until this discovery, a clueless trail, prison officials spent a fruitless day in a futile attempt to check up on rumors, from all parts of the state, that the fleeing men had been seen, but those responsible for the rumors failed to identify the men when confronted with their pictures. W. Ws. Casoh, R. F. Ochs and W. B. Cyrus, state prison guards .who are held responsible for the escape, were dis charged immediately, but; all three volunteered to aid in theJiunt. PORTLAND, July 3- (By Associated Press.) Portland police officials admitted tonight that the four convicts who escaped from the state penitentiary yesterday made a clear getaway. Although two supposedly reliable leads had been followed here and in Washington nothing definite had been heard or seen of the convicts . since 4 o'clock yesterday after noon when two men believed to be two of the prisoners, commandeered the taxi cab of Ursel Hadley at Oregon City, drove it to Clackamas and abandoned it. J A group of deputy sheriffs from the Multnomah county sheriff's office hurried to Beaver-.- 't ton this morning in answer to tel ephone calls from an unknown person who said that three men, resemblln the escaped convicts, were loitering to the ; woods near the Wessinger home near Beaver ton. The Informant was too excited to give his name or to give defin ite instructions and the deputies after a search of several hours returned to the city without hav- ine located the suspicious char acters. 8hortly after this call was received, a conductor on the.Spo- kane, Portland and Seattle rail way who gave the name of Burt appeared at local police headquar ters with the information that three men, believed to be three of the escaped convicts, had left Van couver. Wash., on a freight train at 5: 30 this morning and had traveled east to Cooks, where they were thrown off the train by brakemen. A Spokane, Portland and Seattle passenger train on which Burt is conductor, picked the .men up at Cooks and took them back to Cas cades, which, is opposite Cascade Locks on the Columbia river. The three men paid for their tickets en the train, according to Burt. When he noticed that they wore tan shoes, blue overalls and shirts resembling prison shirts, Burt came to Portland immediately (Continued oa paa .) ATTEND EUROPEAN MEET HARRY STONE TX STUDY "Y WORK IN FINLAND Harry Stone, secretary of. the Portland YMCA, and well known In Salem, is on his way to Europe to attena tne iMvA world con ference at Hellnsfors, Finland. Mr. Stone" has been: attending several conventions in the east, two at Atlantic City, and another at Bronxville. N. Y. He left New York" "June 2 2 on the liner" Boren- garia. v . The convention at Helsingf ors win have delegates from S 5 conn" tries present. ' ;Mr.: Stone- is the delegate from the northwests -The main topics lor; discussion t, the conierence, .which is primarily in terested ih boys' .work, are racial relationships, ' mixed activities' tot boys and girls, and the changing types: pt physical and recreational programs. -i. .hj -ij- BATTERED 4 BODY F0UHD SEWED IN SHEET,. 4 POLICE " HUNT FOR RIURDERER" SAN FRANISGO: July 3.r-(By Associated:. Press.) -Battered be yond identification and sewed in a sheet, the body, of a young woman was found today in a lonely ravine known as CMalley's Gulch, about 12 miles south of here cm the Sa- llda Beach highway : J The body was found by pat, Mor- rlsey," a rancher, . The .body had apparently been : thrown from an automobUe asJt was , about 30 feet below, the level of the rc&dv Way.;. '4.. -,r j .The . woman ; was about R. feet' ilx Inches In! ielffht.' r weighed about 1 3 5 pounds, and had bobbed ; chestnut - brown - hair, I She had been dead about- 24 'hourg whea fouad,'. : ', . r ; . VrHERE DO CROWDS COME FROM? CHECK UP MADE LICENSE PLATES OF VISITING CABS XDKSTIFIED Survey Shows Majority . of Bar gain Day Customers From' Out of Town Where do the. big crowds come from that swarmed the streets o Salem? To find the answer to this question a Statesman report er decided ' to check them up by means of their automobiles. A number of cars were picked at random from the long rows that lined all the. 'downtown streets. , The license numbers were re corded from all of; them, and the uwuer was xouna irom ine cor responding license number in the record book. Out of a total 73 cars checked 4 1 .were from ': other places than Salem. Eight of these were from Portland, many from Silvertoh and others from valley towns. Among; cars checked were those owned by C. ft. Gillam of Amity, O. P. Marquis ' of Independence, J. R Payne of Lyons, Dee Wright of Elkton, L. E. Molish of Port land. Harry Porter of Canbv. N. ft. Wallace of Prlneville, Thomas Paul' of Grande Ronde, W. L. Soehren of Dallas, Sam Stimmell (OoBtianfed paf a.) DEMOCRATS ELECT HEAD LUNSFORD MADE XJHAIRMAN FOR MARION COUNTY Lewis Lunsford was elected chairman of the democratic party's central committee for Marion county at Its meeting - yesterday. Other officers' elected ;are W. ,W. Elder, , vice chairman ; . Kenneth Bayne, .secretary; George A. Cod ding, state committeeman. f A resolution' was . drawn up .en dorsing . the whole Democratic ticket, both state and county. A motion 'Was "made to draw up a resolution of condolence -X to .the family pf the JLate W-'ja. Downing bya' committee consisting of B. S. Martin. S.j F;Parker and P.' L. Frazier.- l BOYS PR0VE4PBE:UGS ;. , -r : - y , YOUTHS AGKD' 7 AND' 10 CON- FESS BURNING HOME." ASTORIA.vOreJ July' 5 -4 tBv Associated Press) Two small boys aged 1 and 10, Whose names were not .made public are reoort-1 ed v or -Chief- of Police. Charles Surphy and Fire CWef jGene Buss g; Xo have confessed ; yesterday that thejr had set nre to the home of Dr C. O. .Stevens. 'located f in jhe east of the city, Friday after- noouvana later started a aire ;ia thej woodshed of jthe Ben ' Ekos home aearby;-:?":;".;;, 'The Stevens home was damaged to tbe extent of about 11.000. but no -damage was 'done to tne none lW AUTOS FILL HIGHWAYS Thousands Celebrate. Hofi day by. Trips to Beaches and Mountains 'r ROAD-CAUTION PURGED Sunday to Be Silent, Police Lift Bars for Celebration July 8,' . Rockets Must Fall in Iflllamette. Thousands . of Salem residents attracted' by ' promises of fine weather and the certainty of triple holiday.' left the 'city . yes terday for mountains, beaches and resorts, leaving behind only those who seek quiet and rest. With ' city , police ; ' cautioning against accident from 'unexpected explosion of - fireworks, - parents were requested to prevent deaths of children by fire which have too frequently turned th holiday Into a tragic occasion. No fireworks can . be shot off Sunday. ' police ' orders . declare, : Monday Is open for the noisy, cel ebration, though skyrockets must only be shot off on the banks of the river where their shafts win fall into the stream, ; . ; .. Lists of accidents beginning, to ome In over the wires Indicate that the number of cars on the highways necessitates more pre caution than usual and gave rise to the belief that the crash total for the triple holiday will be long and,. possibly,. tragic..... K PORTLAND. July SBy Asso elated Prcs). Mrs. Ida Nelson, 86, of 2,000 Capitol Hill. alem, was jMrtuIy " injured when the automobile in which she and her husband were riding collided with a machine driven by J. J. Gilbert here today, " Mrs, Nelson sustained a possible ; fracture of : the skull ana serious glass, cuts about tbe head. . " . OLYMPIA; Wash., Jnly 3 (By Associated press). Ray Hen dricks, one year old, is in St. Peter's hospital here in a serious condition ) as a result ; 6f in Juris received when a "car. driven by Miss Harriett' Vanderwall of 1661 Clarendon avenue,-Portland, 'was' rammed in the side today n the Paciflo highway at 4he Junction of the Union Mills. road,' by. a car driven by. John B. Lewis of Elms'. The child - was a passenger In (0atinue4 ", on. pars 8.) -.: GRAND JURY WILL QUjZ WILL LAUNCH INVESTIGATION OF KA5IBOURIS DEATH Four mextr arrested FQen prohl-. bitlon agents raided the Brown farm near Broadacres, where John Kambouriswas.,kWled isy Officer C. C. McBride, were- indicted by the Marion county grand jury, ac cording to report made yester day. The 'men are Joe Brown,, Christ Angelas, JJm Angelus and Bill ; Brown. - The charge against ; them' Is unlawfully selling intoxt- 4 eating liquor.- - : 1 No renort .. was made oy pine grand Jury on the killing of moon , shiners by the omcer, conirarx o expectations.;. .Whether the Jury will investigate this is not Known. It will reconvene Wednesday. ' - Harold B. Looney. prominent farmer' of 'Jefferson, and Frank McGrath" were ! indicted on 'a ' charge of -unlawfully selling intox icating liquof. Indictments were made against Chris iMtener for in- , cest, Lewis sGarrlson of Salem foe polygamy -A not true om was to turned in. the ease .of , L. P. Miller charged, with 'non-support tot a . min;or:chiid.v,4K:-,'-v;v;vvv;u' STUDEfiTsiARir iriiunHD BUS PLUNGES FROM HIGHWAY -,INT9 BARABOO IUVI. It . -BARABOO, W1S.J' July 3. (By AP.) Twenty-fie persons, most of them- students of the University of Wisconsin, and others, 'dele gates to the: national ccaveat! on of Sigma Kappa sorority,, were In jured about midnight when. a ilai-ison-bus left the .hlKhway near Baraboo apd plunged down a bank at 'the edge lor the, Baraboo.rivtf; The party was. returning. from aa excursion to The Dells. - HEATWAVE TAKES fllhllE Ltutevi'r:LE: ktL July 3 fry Associated PressT.; ICentue&y held fa toe' grip ora'teat wava . galh; to day for the'third'.os.s ecu- tive day while the casta toll frr-i prostrations ' mounted to t:r; a. Temperatures above the century reading were reported frcn :-. j of coanuultlca ia tta itate.