EMiy Quitadlay, tke XTJorBd'o greatest SyangeltQt9 at Qaie'm Ofoawtawey&a ite-ToinfliglldZ i ! ""l'ENTY-SIXTH YEAR" SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1926 PRICE FIVElENTS 9 75 2? r DENY RAILROAD RATE INCREASE Interstate Commerce Com mission Denies Petition of Western Carriers BLANKET INCREASE HIT CommiAtiioB Declares Western Conditions Not Warrant Boost In Rates on the Products of Farm WASHINGTON. July 16. (iiy Associated Press.) Declaring that no financial emergency exist ed in the western district as a -whole, the interstate commerce commission today denied the ap plication of the railroads in that territory for a blanket increase of B per cent in freight rates. It also denied the petition of security holders of northwestern carriers for an additional 15 per cent horizontal increase in rates in western trunk line territory, and held the earnings of railroads in the west had not been gneh as to warrant at this time a general downward revision of rates on farm products, including live stock. The commission admitted, how ever, there were many inequalities jn the rates structures In certain sections of the west which should be corrected and said its conclu sions were without prejudice t the determination of issues in its general investigation of the conn trjfreight rates as ordered by cyf.ess. Tkisile fuller Information was safa to be necessary before any action could be taken as to irates on agricultural products, Which it was specifically required to inves tigate under terms of the Hoch Smith resolutions, the commission suggested that , the roads, in pro posing rate changes to Improve earnings or rectify inequalities, should ask no advances in rates on farm products except where particular changes need adjust ment to remove inconsistencies or where it had been shown that products are not affected by de pression. Carriers in the west, the com mission said, appear to be both financially and physically sound" although it was added that certain of the important carriers in the northwestern region and in west ern trunk line territory were not yielding 5.75 per cent, the figure held by it to be a fair return, upon any rail bases that could reason ably be adopted in advance of final determination of present values for rate-making purposes. The least favorable conditions, as far as carrier revenues were concerned, the commission said, appeared to exist in western trunk line territory. It was added, how ever, tha.inthe entire .western district conditions had recently shown an improved tendency." Provisions in section 15a of the transportation act, directing the commission to Initiate, modify, establish or adjust rates so that carriers may earn a fair return were described as not relieving the railroads from the primary duty of -initiating" rates. That func tion, the commission said, belongs to management and not to regu lation. "It is the right and the duty of the carriers," It asserted, "to take the steps necessary to correct im proper rate relations as they may be found to exist and to supply revenue deficiencies by initiating changes in rates." "Not only did the carriers fail to present evidence with respect to the need for changes in. iadl- utracts were awarded for carara marble crosses over erican graves in Europe. Illness prevented serving of campaign investigations subpoena on Senator McKinley, republican, Illinois. . Interstate commerce commlsion rejected blanket applications for increases In western freight rates. Secretary Mellon declared "no other creditor" had accorded France such generous debt settle ment terms as America. . Financial". reorganisation plans of the Boston and Maine railroad were approved by - the interstate fcpmmerce e2mmleoju - ;---- Friday In Washington -- .. - - ' ru-i -i - -i - .ri. . -.i-i.ri.i- - - i- f4 Am Defense Denies Violence In Eviction of Japanese Orientals Were Induced to Leave Peacefully, Witnesses De clare, in Contradiction to Testimony Given by Japanese at Hearing in Federal Court PORTLAND, July 16. (By Associated Press.) Witness es testifying for the defense today in the federal court hear? ing of the damage suits resulting frpm the eviction of Japan ese mill workers f roin Toledo, Or., emphatically declared that the deportation had not been marked by violence on the part of whites. Previously Japanese witnesses had testified that they and their countrymen had been beaten, dragged from their homes on the property of the Pacific Spruce corporation, and loaded into motor trucks OTHERWISE O. K. LONDON". Dr. Henry Coward, di rector of the Sheffield Musical Union and one of the best known musicians in England, does not like jazs.- He never did and it is extremely doubtful if he ever will. As wave j after wave of thm American Jazz-mania, has swept over Fngland he has noted down the indictments against it. They are, in the order of their appearance: the tunes are worthless and jingly, fhythtns are jerky, muted trumpets are blatant, the brasses hoot, th e saxes am usually out of tune, the banjos insist on plonc plonginir, tormentfd kitchen ntensils are seldom musical and, finally, jazz means eeaselesa commotion, atavistic tendencies and grotesque howling". Aside from that it is an admirable art. B&OADEB V AS SAB. POUQHKEEP8IE, N. Y. Vassar, for long years highly renowned as a school for women, has opened its gates this summer to men. And 'this is the idea. Courses in the fine art of set- tang up and maintaining; saccessful homes are being given. Obviously both men and women are interested in the matter. The major consideration of the course ia "euthenics," or the science of environmental development of the individual .... The men are being housed in what, ordinarily, are the the alumnae houses. MORE HEAT CHICAGO. A truckload of grape juice left Paw Paw, Mich., a few days ago and travelled through the heat to Chicago. Here Federal agents nabbed the barrels and found, of all things, grape wine. "It's not the humidity; it's the heat," the driver explained. The agents are skeptical. Miracles are illegal, anyway. j BAPTISTS NAME LEADER P. O. LEARY IS NAMED; O. P. COSHOW BOARD MEMBER McMINNVILLE, Ore., July 16. (By Associated Press). P. G. Leary of Portland was elected president of the Oregon Baptist convention at the closing session here today. Rev. W. H. Robins of Pendleton was nmed vice president. Prof. E. S. Gardener of McMinnville, historical; secretary, Rev. C. S. Tunnell of Portland, recording secretary, and W. O. Sims of Portland, treasurer. Leary, in accepting the position, urged the church to greater ef forts next year. "I am a funda mentalist first, last and all the time," lie said, "but II am not a theologian. The Baptists are all working to the same purpose." The board of managers execu tive committee of the i state con vention elected "for three years was O. P. Coshow, Salem; A. B. Bennett, Hood River; Rev. C C. Hessemer. Portland; D. C. La tourette, Oregon City; Rev. W. E. Henry. McMinnville, and Rev. V. A. Vincent, Newberg. f STURGEON TAKEN IN NET i . TONE-FOOT FISH BECOMES EN TANGLED IN CRAB NET NEWPORT, Ore., July 16.- ( By .Associated Press. ) As ;T F. W 11 kins raised his crab net today he was surprised to see his boat swiftly goin gto sea. AT large fish had nosed into the net for bait and had become entangled. Mr. Wilklns lost his oars and called for help Mr. Wilklns" son -came to the rescue. : After considerable gaffing the- two landed a sturgeon ' A SOT IMC ftto?r fWt &BS. ' which took them to Corvallis. Inducing the Japanese to leave Toledo was a business proposition with the white citizens of the town, declared A. M. Wirfs an employe of the spruce corporation who occupied the stand during a large part of the afternoon. He said the crowd of whites who went to the Japanese quarter on July 25, 1925, intended merely to talk with the Japanese interpreter and to explain that the people of Lin coln county did not welcome the Orientals. The witness declared repeatedly that the whites contemplated no violence and that the leader had pleaded against the carrying of guns on the mission. Wirfs said that the crowd was greeted by company officials at the mill and ordered to leave. Several mill employes who had been deputized were present and one of them, a man named Martin, pulled out a gun, Wirfs said. The witness quoted Martin as saying: "Stop or I'll have to kill somebody. I'm a deputy and its my duty; I'd be doing," and continued: "One of our men took his gun away and when Martin loosed the gun he hit somebody. He seemed to want a fight and he got all he wanted." The Americans knocked at the doors of the Japanese houses, then peered into windows and motioned the occupants to come out, Wirfs testified. He said the whites talked to the Japanese and the latter replied with something to (Continued an Daga 8.) 3 FATALITIES REPORTED G. E. BAIREY DEATH LISTED AMONG ACCIDENTS There were three fatalities in Oregon due to industrial accidents during the week ending July 15, according to a report prepared by the state industrial accident com mission here yesterday. The victims were Fred Peter steiner, Bray Hill, planer feeder; George E. Bairey, Salem, driver, and Edgar S. Berry, Vernonia, un decker. Of the total of S57 accidents reported during the week 707 were subject to the provisions of the workmen's compensation law, 134 were fro.m firms and corpor ations that have rejected the act, and 16 were from public utilities not entitled to state protection. STAYTDN ILL IS DESTROYED Salem Equipment Makes a Speedy Run on Report of Flax Fields Burning PHELPS PLANT BURNED Stayton Woodworking Company Lows Said $4500; Firemen confine Blaze to One Building A red glow in the sky and a tip that flax fields in the Stayton dis trict were burning sent the big pumper of the Salem fire depart ment out over the! road last night on a fast run that was halted at Turner when the Salem men were notified that the tire was under control. The blaze that brought the call for aid from Salem resulted in the destruction of the Phelps Manufacturing company shop at Stayton, with a loss of approxi mately $4500. The fire is thought to have started from a dust ex plosion in the wodd-working de partment. The blaze was confined to the one building and did not spread. Reports that flax fields were in danger were in error. The building was owned by O. B. Philps and housed machinery for the manufacture of chairs adn tables. Woodworking equip- ( Continued on page 8.) BOYS BAND WINS PRAISE FATHER FLANIGAN'S ORGANI ZATION PLAYS HERE A troupe of talented youths from Father Flanigan'a Boys' Home -near Omaha won the ap proval of two audiences in Salem Friday when theyapeared at the St. Joseph's auditorium on Che meketa street under the auspices of the local council of the Knights of Columbus. The boys, 13 in number, rang ing in age from 9 to 13 years, ap peared before a large audience at the auditorium in a rapid fire musical comedy which greatly strengthend their claim to the "greatest boys' show on earth." Bill King, a colored ; boy, put on a Charleston exhibiton when would relegate a majority! of dancehall exponents of the etercise to the foot of the class. The entire troupe of orphan boys displayed phenomenal talent and their performance gave evid dence of skilled and careful train ing, j MONEY TALKS! "LIGHTNIN'" PRAISED, SUNDAY HERE TONIGHT LAUGHTER AND PATHOS MIX GLE AS DRAMA UNROLLS narmony Girls and Famous Evan gelist Listed as Today's Attraction TODAY AT CHAUTAUQUA Forenoon Junior Chautauqua. Afternoon Harmony Girls wilf give a popular entertainment of cos tumed songs. Evening Billy. Sunday, noted evange list, will speak. ', Persons wiio attended the Chan tauqua last night came away say ing that it was the best perform ance given during the week so far. The Herbert Sprague players appeared in "Lightnin ", a recent Broadway success. "Lightnin " Bill Jones, the principal character of the play, is a humorous old man who goes through many troubles, matri r onial and otherwise, before he ends up as victor over his adversi ties. Herbert Sprague, who -took this part, kept the audience in a gale of laughter most of the time, but it was mixed with consider able pathos. The plot deals with a corrupt company which attempts to get possession of a hotel owned by "Lightnin " and to do this it finally gets his wife to sue him for divorce by means of the per suasions of Raymond Thomas, the president, a part taken by A. H. Mayberry. During the trial the villainy of Thomas is discovered, however, and Mrs. Jones decides she does not want the divorce. Thomas fails to get possession of the hotel. The play, while it is a comedy that has a laugh in almost every (Continued on par 6) WOMAN SHOOTSHUSBAND POWER EXECUTIVE SERIOUS LY INJURED BY SHOT ROSEBURG. Ore., July 16.- (By Associated Press) W. Frank Shelley, superintendent of the Umpqua division of the California- Oregon Power company, was shot and seriously injured tonight by his wife, Winnogen Shelley, ac cording to a report received by police. Shelley was rushed to a hospital where physicians said he had a chance for recovery. The shooting was said to have culminated a period of domestic trouble. Shelley filed a salt for divorce early this year and his wife filed a counter suit. After a hearing, the circuit court decided that neither party had sufficient grounds for a decree. The couple had been living together recently. " """" MARKET FACTS TO BE TALKED Farmers, Consumers to Plan Initial Steps at Meet ing Next Week EUGENE EXPERTS COMING Watson Town send Asks Experts to Give Salem Benefit of Exper ience, Chamber Will Call Conference A meeting at which farmers and consumers will have a chance to discuss establishment of a public market for Salem, and at which i the public market master of Eu gene and Eugene Chadwick, sec- pretary of the Eugene chamber of commerce will tell in detail of their market, its operation and success, will be called next week, it was learned yesterday. Watson Townsend, cnairman of the mayor's committee of inves tigation, has issued invitations to the Eugene men, and the meeting will be called by the Salem cham ber of commerce as soon as the market experts state what day they can come to Salem. The meeting will be next week. Following this paper's inquir ies into the demand for a public market here, replies received from Marion and Polk county farmers showed them unanimous in their interest to see the public sales place established, many re plies requesting that a public meeting be held in order that both farmers and consumers could tall the matter over. In keeping with this demand, the meeting has been tentatively scheduled', and the Eugene' men are expected to throw much light on local problems by telling of their experience in bnilding up a successful market. It is understood that the Eugene market is very favorably situated. now containing from 15 to 20 booths of approximately 6 by 10 feet in size, accupied by farmers offering produce for sale. Rentals for these booths vary from 25 to 75 cents per day. Location of the Salem market is the problem which will demand most attention, local men feel, and the investigators are intent on spending enough time in study to secure a spot which will virtually Insure the success of the project by being handy for both purch asers and sellers of food stuffs. From information derived by this' paper, the meeting, when call ed, will be largel yattended by farmers who have expressed dis tinct desire to place their produce directly before the public. THREE KILLED JN STORM TORNADO SWEEPS WISCONSIN CITY; MANY INJURED , ASHLAND, Wis., July lo. (By Associated Press.) Three persons are known to have been killed, two were seriously injured and many others were reported slightly injured near here tonight when a tornado struck this vicin ity. "A road patroller who climbed over trees which blocked the high way for three miles said a large number of persons are injurted at and near Upson, 16 miles south of here. MOOSE JAW Sask. July 16. (By Associated Press.) A cy clone and hail "storm which struck Expanse, S4 'miles southwest of here, destroyed 7000 acres of crops. It was learned tonight when communication to Expanse was restored after being Interrupted 24 hours. Property damage was said to run into thousands of dollars. Telephone and telegraph poles were leveled and scattered. SUSPECT IS RELEASED MURDER OF KELSO EDITOR IS, AS YET UNSOLVED " PORTLAND. July 16V (ByAs sociated Press.) After being de tained all day by the Sheriff's of fice here on suspicion that he was one of the men wanted in connec tion with the murder last year of Thomas Dovery, Kelso editor, M. Wtnanat was released trora custody late today, Kelso officers who came to Portland , to identity, him said lie was not the man trajed w DELANEY WINS DECISION IN TERRIFIC TITLE BOUt FLASHING, SMASHING FINISH DEFEATS BERLENBACH Now Champ Gets Tremendous Oration Following History- . i Making Fight EBBETTS FIELD, New York, July 16. (By the Associated Press.) Jack Delaney took, the light heavyweight championship of the world tonight from Paul F-erlenbach in a flashing, smashing finish that swept his foe before him in the last five rounds. The French-Canadian challeng 3T from Bridgeport, Conn., lifted the title with a victory that was us spectacular as it was decisive. He carried off the unanimous verdict of the referee and judges, besides being given a wide mar gin on points by the big majority ringside critics. A capacity crowd of 45,000 paid approximately $1 7 5,0 00 to witness the spectacle. They hailed the new champion with a terrific ova tion. Delaney turned the tables on Derlenbach In a manner that up set all pre-battle predictions and he did it in spite of having frac tured a small bone in bis left thumb in the second round of the tight. It wasn't until the oiein hud gone to their dressing rooms that .Delaney's injury became known. There was no evidence of its handicapping him in the ring, for his left was used with consistent and smashing effect throughout the last five rounds. , Delaney's hardest blows failed to knock Berlenbach off his feet, out in at least three of the clos ing five round?, right uppercuts to the body and lpft hooks to the jaw had the champion a bit groggy. One of Delaney's smash es to the pit of the stomach in the 11th round really turned fhe tide in the challenger's favor, giving him an advantage which he was quick to follow up. j . Again in the 14th round, with the crowd yelling for a knockout, Delaney nailed Berlenbach on the point of the jaw with a ewishing right. The champion sagged it Jj is knees, for a moment and then grasped for the" ropes," and fell into a clinch to save himself from further punishment. Up to the 11th round there was Mttle or nothing to choose be tween them in a battle which found neither giving much ground swapping blows on nearly an rven basis. Delaney had dropped f. nr straight rounds and seemed wilting, under the champion's per sistent rushes, when he opened up a furious drive In the 11th. From that round on the challenger took on new life. Where he had ap peared tired he now was the pic- ( Con tinned en par 8.) FIVE KILLED ON TRACKS ANOTHER DYING, RESULT OP. TRAIN-AUTO SMASHUP BUFFALO, N. Y., July 16.-1 (By Associated Press). FIve pejr4 sons were killed and another probably fatally hurt when a Buf falo, Rochester and Pittsburgh passenger train struck an auto mobile at a grade crossing south: of Lackawanna tonight. The au tomobile is said to have stalled on the railroad tracks. The dead are: Mrs. Anna JablowskI and her' sixteen year old son, John. Joseph Dylong, Mrs. Eva March-i inkowski, all of Lackawanna, and) Louis Wolpa of Buffalo, the auto- mobile driver. John Storscz, Lackawanna, was reported dying. ' $2,000,000 IS NEEDED APPROXIMATELY 1,000 SATO MEN TO GET HELP It will require aproximately $2, 000.000 in addition to funds now obligated under the state bonds law to comply with the recent ruling of the state supreme court that members of the student, army training corps were members of the United States army during the world-war and are ; entitled to benefits nnder the loan provision of the act. It was. estimated that, more than 1,000 members of the stu dent army training corps would be eligible for loans under the state relief act. - CONVICT MAKES ESCAPE ED WELSH, BOOTLEGGER, DE PARTS FROM PRISON FARM Ed Welsh, a convict, escaped from the state penitentiary farm here Friday evening, it was an nounced by prison I officials last night! He was employed on the farm, -''r ''l;.,-y' '.."Jr.'.;:-" ;":.;,! Welsh , was sentenced . tq serve one year la the: penitentiary on a charge of booUegglng. He was committed from Umatilla county sad. had served three months of his sentence, - EHS ARE HIT BY HE Evangelist Strikes Back at Those Attacking Story of Kidnaping TWO REPLIES ARE MADE 136 Converts Received, and Bine Sedan Not Hen, Evangelist , -Declare in Answer to ' Witnesses i ; LOS ANQELE3. July 1C (By Associated Press). -Aimee Semple Mcpherson, whose story of kid- between May 18 and June 23, was attacked By five witnesses testl- -fying at the grand Jury investlga- tion yesterday, struck back two ways at her attackers today. Angelus temple, the evangelist's headquarters, opened the day. with the announcement that de spite the hullabaloo and contro versy over their leader's kidnap ing narrative, there had been more than five thousand persons at the MePherson revival meeting last night and that 136 converts had yielded to the "altar call." 1 Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother of Mrs. MePherson, . commented cryptically and biblically on the adverse grand Jury testimony of yesterday with the remark: "The fires of hell are : burning and they must burn 'themselves out but we are' not afraid." This . was the temple's only statement concerning yesterday's evidence that Mrs. MePherson had been seen in two places after she had been reported drowned and before she - turned nn at Aena Prieta, Mexico, with the tale of fkldnapraTHfid Imprisonment. The "second and legal barrage came from Arthur Veitch, attor ney for the evangelist, who pro duced an affidavit made ty Mrs. G- R. Humphrey that ' hers - was the "blue sedan which news papermen and Dollce had traced. along- the Mexican border In the -belief that Mrs. MePherson had traveled in it prior to her arrivals at Douglas fro mpolnts south in the Mexican desert-June 2S. The affidavit Immediately be came the object of scrutiny - and ' ' attack by newspaper investigators who had been on the "blue sedan" trail. They said the machine was not of the tame make as the car . which mev uau men BeeKioK, ... iim license number did not tally with that .of the "blue sedan" sought, and that its movements, as re ported by Mrs. Humphrey did not correspond with the movements of the car which bad excited suspi cion along-the Internationa) boundary,1;'-. , ' I'":: J Kenneth ' Ormisfonr"'Mrs. ' 7Sfe-" Pherson's former radio - operator and friend, whose name has been' Jinked "intermittently With ' the evangelist's disappearance, still ramiilnMl : wnM'irted' " tndftV. ; ' ' rTa was reported to be In North Caro (Oonttanad oa pass S.1 KNIGHTON CONFERS HERE BOARD SCHOOL PROPOSITION BEING CONSIDERED J. S. Knighton of Portland, a member of the architects firm of Knighton and Howell,, was in Sa lem yesterday conferring with. Dr. H. II. Olinger, chairman of the school board r on. matters pertain ing to the. drawing of plans for the new Tuxedo- park junior high school. - .The school board ' voted at Its last meeting to ask the firm of which. Knighton is a member to combine with the firm of Freeman and , Struble, local architect In preparing the plans. . It is under stood that- Freeman and Struble have agreed to this comblnatid n, but the hoard has been awaiting word from Knighton and Howell as to whether it will be willing to enter the combination. Cars driven by P. M. Gregory and S. C.;;Kightlinger collided ; at the : corner of Sooth Commercial and Owen streets; Wednesday, ac cording to a report turned ia at local police headquarters yester day. No details of the acc!3?r.t were siren. AGGUS Today's Reasons7 For ' Driving y - .V::y'Garefuny.:-i: LI