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Cqps& poiem 'Legion is Brum orpo Boing- to Sllarolliifleld VjetftiGhdov For-Mo Section One .,-v Pages 1 to 6 Three Stiom Twentytipo Pages SEVENTY-SIXTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1, 1926 PRICE FIVE CENTS BARON IS HELD IN DEATH PACT Wife Committed Suicide Fri day by Plunging From 18th Floor of Hotel HAD SUICIDE AGREEMENT P..iron Royce-CJarrett Attempting Death by Hanging When Ar rested; Expresses Deep Regret MIAMI, Fla.. July 31. (By As pofiateil Press). Baron Royce Carreit was taken in custory in a thicket a hundred yards from the arch creek railroad station tonight for questioning in connection with rlie suicide of his wife, the Baron oss Royce-Garrett, -who Friday ii iKlit leaped to death from the l.xth floor of the Everglades hotel liere. Police who arrested the baron said he was attempting to hang himself with a small piece of t wine. Baron Itoyce-G arret t said he read last night in an;early edition of the Miami Herald that an un identified woman had leaped to death from the Everglades hotel tower. He said he knew when he read the article that the woman was his wife. The baron's only expression con cerning his wife was of disap pointment that she had not kept an agreement made seven years ago with him that they would "die together." Baroness Royce - Garrett, the baron told questioners, asked him to leave their apartments in Coral Gables early Friday morning and not to return-home until the last -trolley car had "run on the Coral Gables interurban line. "She told me to be sure and buy the paper too, before I came home," the baron said. Baron Royce-Garrett bought the newspaper and discov ered his wife was dead. He said he then walked on his crutches to Coral Gables, a distance of five miles, and sat in front of the An tilla hotel until daybreak - specu lating on methods of killing him self. He did not return to his appointment. At daybreak, the baron said, he obtained a ride from a passing motorist and alighted in down town Miami, where he procured a bit of twine, such as used in tying express packages. With this con cealed in his pocket, he boarded a bus bound for Arch creek, ten (Con tinned on paffa 8.) FLIERS KILLED IN CRASH TWO DIE WHEN SEAPLANE PA 1X8 INTO HARBOR VINEYARD HAVE N, Mass., July 31. (By Associated Press). Lieutenant Howard Folk Coun cill. USN, and his mechanic were killed- here today when a .naval seaplane plunged into the harbor. The body of the aviation machin- i or s :9r4n. t XT isi male, . l. uiuuciio ut. iwi - vnan Park. Ga., was recovered shortly after the crash. The plane, which was of the amphibian type, left Washington this morning for Chatham, Mass., carrying three men. It landed here about noon to enable Captain E. S. Land of Washington to visit his family at Vineyard Haven. Late in the afternoon Lieutenant Councill and his mechanic took off to fly to Newport, R. I., for oil and fuel. JAXI SERVICE CURTAILED IORTLAND WAGE WAR CON TIM ES; MANAGERS AGREE PORTLAND, July. 31. (By Associated Press.) Taxicab ser vice here tonight was still cur tailed as the result of the drivers going on strike last Thursday Boon after they had held an open air meeting on a vacant lot and bad deserted their cabs as they stood on the streets. Managers of the taxicab com panies assert that they are will ing to meet "requests" o'f the drivers for a six day week, 10 hour day and a salary of $75 a month plus 10 per cent of the re ceipts, but they will not sign con tracts to that - effect, believing theft vnrd anffintnt F. M. Fobs, orealdent of the newly organized taxicab drivers union, said that out of 150 taxicab drivers in the city 140 had joined 5 thw-' union.'- There- have -'been-: -no' ' jtloa of ajojr kind reported, Oregon's Fame as Host Lives, Delegate States "Fine Convention, But Not Eoual to Portland's Last Year,' Says W. I. Needhajn, Salem's Official Delegate Back From Chicago Entertainment given ihe Elks at their 192G annual con vention in Chicago couldn't hold a candle to that given them in Portland at the 1925 convention, according to W. I. Need ham, who, with Mrs. Needham, has just returned from the meet. He was the Salem lodge's official delegate. "The other Elks I met who were present at the Portland convention last year all said the same thing, even those from the East," said Mr. Needham. "Many of them spoke of the wonderful entertainment given them by the people of Port- SHALL VK JOIN THE LADIES? LONDON With the evidence before him that modern woman, emancipated from complex and heavy clothing, is not only happier but healthier, one of London's foremost tailors has decided that mere man, up to now forced to suffer heavy garments no matter what the weather, must emerge from the tyranny of heavy wool clothes and blossom out in clothes as light and healthful as a flap- per's. To this end he has created a number of new fabrics, designed new styles and adapted time-honored ones to the cause of sartori ally emapcipated man. Color and individuality are now the first requisite of the well-dressed male. His sweltering, tradition - bonnd days are over .... And about the time man gets well used to dress ing in light things, the ladies will revert to their ancient multiplicity of smothering clothes. PIONEER CHICAGO Charles Dickinson is 76 years old, but he believes that is a fitting age at which to take up some thing new, an age for pioneer ing. So he has interested him self in commer c i a 1 aviation, formed aline working be tween Chicago and Minneapo lis and landed the air contract for service be tween the two cities "I'm not particularly in- CHfcV thC CNSOH terested in whether or not the service turn in a profit," says Mrs. Dickinson, "but I do believe there is a need for someone to pioneer in the transportation of mail by air." He makes frequent flights over his route, piloted by his aerial post- I men. well, well: BRADFORD, Eng. The Arch bishop of York, Dr. Cosmo Lang, announces with conviction that "Mrs. Grundy is dead." The rev erend gentleman comes to the de fense of the flapper saying that, although she may be silly and wil- I ful, she lives in and creates a bracing atmosphere of freedom. Whatever her shortcomings, they cannot be righted by "Mrs. Grundy." whose decease the arch bishop does not lament. . . . Mrs. Grundy, when interviewed, said that the report of her demise was somewhat exaggerated. She plans a busy season in New York. JUNGLE STUFF NEW YORK Diana Strickland, whose exploits as a big game hunter and explorer, are equalled by those of few women is quot ed as saying that much that we so-c ailed "civilized" folk consider mod ern and fitting is really Just so, much jungle stuff. Bobbed hair is a hark back to the sav ages far from the outposts of clvilii ation. A n. H nrenent- - s - c X r , DIANA SR-CKXAHO day room dancing, not to mention the music, is distinctly'an adaptation from the life and man ners. of the hinterland of heathen dom. The Hon. Mrs. Strickland has spent nmcfctiine in the thick est iof4 the African jungles; 'she speaks with kut&firjty' J'-J It was i certainly a good advertisement for ! the state." A big S". 000,000 Elks memori al temple was dedicated at the convention, according to Mr. Need ham. It will house the offices of the grand .exalted ruler and secre tary, and is the permanent prop erty of the national lodge, the Chicago lodge having no authoriiy over it. The building was com pleted just before the convention. , A., , , M. . .... ,, beaut if ill effects of the building, .... x, .... . ,. said .Mr. Needham. It has (ire- .... . . . cian architecture throughout, and ...... . , , is built in the shape of a circle with a wing on each side. It is about 150 feet long, with many columns and arches which give an imposing effect, both inside and out. "It has a round table in the main hall about- 10 feet in di ameter which took C00 workmen 9 0 days to build. I know that is hard to believe, but one would be convinced by seeing the table. It is entirely covered with beautiful inlaid work." ' ! Mr. and Mrs. Needham went to the convention in a special car with the other Oregon delegates, 25 in all. They went by wav of (Continued on para 6.) PLANE FALLS, 3 BURNED AVIATORS LOSE LIVES FOL LOWING AIR EXPLOSION PITTSBURGH, July 31. (By Associated Press). Three aviat ors, testing a new plane, were killed at the McKeesport airport late today when ths machine took fire in the air and crashed to the ground. The dead: S. Russell Mcllvain, 27; Dora. 22, and Allyn W James Shaf- fer. 22. The plane, owned by Dom and piloted by Mcllvain, dipped several times as it neared the ground for a landing, and spectators said there was a slight explosion. This was followed by a burst of flame that enveloped the craft and it fell to the fild from a height of about 75 feet. The fall broke the gasoline tank and flames shot 30 feet into the air. Before fire fighting apparatus could be brought into play, the machine had been completely de stroyed and the men's bodies burned. NO WONDER ITS HARD lcnd and Oregon last year S State Game Warden An nounces Bill Will Be Sub mitted to Legislature RADICAL CHANGES URGED Sport smen ami Deputy tJiinie Warden Make Woposal; :trt Day Season son Phea sant: Suggested PORTLAND, July 31. (By As sociated Press. - Proposed Ore gon law changes received from i sportsmen and deputy game ward- i 1 ' . T .i ens at the request of the state . . ... ... game commission and which will I .... . . , , i probably be incorporated in a bill ! - r , . I ... I H. . . 1 . r . . I . ...... flA (1 lC SUUIIIIlieu 17 Uir lir.M ' ' ' Kon legislature ere announced today by state game warden E. K. Averill. f One of the most interesting of the proposed changes is a sugges tion to establish a 3 0-day open season on China pheasants with a two day open season each week during Oiat period. probably Wednesday and .Sunday. A proposal to limit the deer catch has been received, the sug- i (Continued on pr 3 ' CUMMINS' WORK LAUDED U BODY WILL LIEjlN STATE UN - DER CAPITOL DOME DES MOINES. Iowa. July 31. ; (By Associated Press.) The Iowa j state capitol, from-which the fame of Albert B. Cummins first spread j as ho headed the state govern- J ment yearn aj?o. will be the scene ! tomorrow- of one of. the final public j tributes to the ma!n who has been i acclaimed Iowa's Outstanding con- j tribution to the service of the na tion. With the body of the dead states man lying in state at the scene of his early triumphs in political life, thousands o? his associates and admirers will file through the marble corridors tin pay him their last respects and' to record the sorrow that has gripped the com monwealth. At 9 o'clock tomorrow morning the senator's body will be placed in the rotunda where national guardsmen will hold watch over it until 5 p. ni., as the line of mourners passes, j Then the body will be escorted to the home of Mrs. Hollis Rawson, the senator's daughter with whom he lived when he was in Des Moines, -for the funeral services, Monday afternoon. CHANGE A N GIE LIS TO GET GOOD MEN TO RUN FOR PUBLIC OFFICE! OREGON TITLE IS LEGION AtM State Champion Drum Corps Prepares to Meet Chal lenging Units SALEM SPECIAL TO LEAVE Thirl y-I'ive Men to March in I'ni fonu :ts Capital Post Itep-rpi-esentatives, Kto, Will Depart Approximately 130 Legion mem bers will leave Salem in a special tr-iin Wednesday evening en ro-ite to the siate convention opening in Marshiield on August C, when the stale champion drum corps will compete with 10 or 12 similar units from other portions of Ore gon in an attempt to capture 1!2 on vent ion honors. Special low fares have been ar ranged, and the Legion pullmans will be halted in the convention city, providing accommodations for all who go, reducing expenses materially. Tho3e who have been to previous conventions in Marsh- j field and North Bend speak highly j of hospitality extended, and local officers predict the number mak- ing the trip will be increased by the time the snecial rolls. ! Capital Post No. 9 drum corps I has repeatedly brought state at- jt ntion by its performances, and I a repetition of last year's winning i; confidently expected. Thirty f.e men will march in competi tion. It) alternates being included on the trip. Members l.pon whose perform n? ce success will depend include buglers Frank Whittemore, Frank (Continued on pt 3.) CONVICTS IN BULL PEN WALLACE AND FOSTER CON FINED FOLLOWING ESCAPE Joe Wallace and Charles Fos ter, convicts who escaped from the prison here a week ago, have been sentenced to the peniten tiary "bull pen" for a period of six months, prison officials an nounced Saturday. Wallace and Foster were captured near Klam ath Falls when they were attempt ing to steal some gasoline for the prison car in which they escaped. Both were trusties, Wallace serving a life sentence for mur der, and Foster sentenced to four years for burglary. Wallace had charge of the prison garage and Foster was chef in Warden J. W. Lillie's home. CLEVER - Don Upjohn POLICE GUARD Scene The Capital Journal office. Time -Friday. Without warning', the temporary society editor who had replaced Miss Rosalia Keber, on vacation, is rushed to the hospital. Endeavors to locate Miss Keber, actual society editor, are fruitless. r Who could be secured to continue the work left undone? The Capital Journal found itself badly crippled. Miss Audred Bunch, society editor of Trie Statesman hears i the phone rin. She is told of newspaper woman whose pending operation has left the Cap ital Journal's society desk vacant, and the paper crippled. Will she come over and help the Capital Journal out? In loyalty to her stricken friend, and in keeping with the finest ethics of news work, Miss Bunch goes to the. Capital Journal, edits the Capital Journal's society page, reporting for duty at 7 :30 in the morning, doing a day's work, leaving at night only to come to her desk in The Statesman office and undertake another full day's work, editing the society columns of The Statesman. Days pass and this young news paper woman continues to do double duty. OSS Miss Audred Bunch left The Statesman office last night, on doctor's orders, to avoid breakdown from overwork. The case of fatigued nerves was brought on by increased strain in aiding a crippled Capital Journal out of its difficulty, earlier in the week. Don Upjohn, respected, known generally as a newspaper man of parts, writer of that usually genial column "Sips for Supper;" last night used the following cheap journalistic trick, at the expense of a woman writer, who as yet had not rested from double duty incurred in taking a desk near his in the Capital Journal office, to help the paper by which he is em ployed, out of a hole: "In the corner (of The Statesman office) sits a female. It is Audred Bunch, society editor. She wrings her hands in anguish, moaning. At first her words are not intelligible, and then she can be heard murmuring 'O, Rosalia, Rosalia.' " As the cause of her anguish, Mr. Upjphn insinuates she had no Capital Journal, and therefore could clip no newjfrom Rosalia Keber's society columns. Rather a cheap, journalistic trick, Don, don't you think? As you read this Sunday morning, you won't feel very proud of your conception of common decency in news work as applied to yourself and the girl who recently worked at a desk near yours. You knew, though you would not say, last night's Journal carried many stories printed in yesterday morning's States man your paper's society columns were full of them. You aren't very proud of that, eh, Don? Your friends in Salem didn't expect that from you! BOYS, AT YMCA CAMP, FIND NEW NAMES GOOD INDIAN TITLKS POPULAR AS ACTIVITIES START Swimming Races and Basehnll Attract Much Interest as Boys Compete First full accounts of activities at the summer YMCA camp reac hed Salem yesterday in an ex clusive story written for this paper. It follows: By Horace Stewart Today was Friday. It is just after breakfast so 1 feel pretty good. The rest of the gang aren't throu-gh yet, so I can write in peace and not in pieces. Air. went is the editor of a camp paper. It is called the "Tomahawk." No-Tail (Mr. Bent) is the editor in chief. He lias chosen the name of our camp. It is to be "Camp Ohiyesa," which means "The Winner." Bol) Boardman has been named Mazahanska (Song Iron). I guess they mean his height (and nose). Mr. Bateham has been named No-da-ne-na, or Make Big Medi cine. He has been digging roots for braves with the "tummy ache." Yesterday we had some swim ming races. They were divided into three classes, small, medium. and big guys. Philip Dodge won (Continue a paf 2.) SHIP RUSHES TO RESCUE JAPANESE SHIPS HELPLESS IN PACIFIC STORM VICTORIA, B. C. July 31.- (By Associated Press.) The Pa cific Salvage company's powerful steamer Salvage King left here today and will attempt to reach the Japanese steamer Yonan Mini which was reported helpless in heavy seas in the North Pacific It will take the salvage steamer approximately five days to make the trip. " The Yonan Maru departed from Yokohama for Portland July 16 to load for the return to Japanese ports. She' is "a carrier of 5,179 tons, net register and consigned to the Genera Steamship corpora tion. J. C. Settle, manager of the Portland office of the corporation was Informed today that the Yo jin Mani and Yogen Maru who? are nearby had been advised of the ac cident and of -assistance being re quired; " ''" ""I: ' the sudden illness of a beloved MARION MACK, COOGAN'S LEADING LADY VISITS OFFICIAL DELEGATION AC COMPANIES STAR TO CITY "Made- in -Oregon" Product and Unique Parchment to Bring Comment By Audred Bunch A few favored Salem citizens had the pleasure of meeting none other than Buster Keaton's lead ing lady, Marion Mack, formerly a Mack Sennett bathing beauty, from 2 to 3 o'clock yesterday af ternoon at the capital, building. . Miss Mack, in private life Mrs. Lewman, entered the governor's office yesterday afternoon simply clad in black lustrous satin, belt ed high, and worn with a magnifi cent white fox fur and wide-brimmed white velour hat. It was in the interest of a "made-in-Oregon" project which will attract nation wide interest; and will do much toward putting the Oregon industry in the lime light that Miss Marion Mack, who iA playing the lead opposite Bus ter Keaton in "The General" which is being filmed in Cottage Grove, came, yesterday, to Salem. Miss Mack has discovered' that in the neighborhood of Coos Bay, Oregon, that MyrUewood grows. The ' MyrUewood sometimes call ed "Holy .Wood" grows only in the Holy Land and in this partic ular section of Oregon. With a humanitarian objective. Miss Mack has had engraved a parchment, Which is framed in this rare MyrUewood, a most beautiful and very valuable pro duct of the forests. From this wood, with elaborate 'care, a large frame has been prepared by Oerd- ing Brothers of Coquille, Oregon, which encompasses! this specially prepared parchment. ' Miss .Mack will soon send this most unique document framed in this Holy Wood to Hollywood and on its' Journey' it will" visit the capital of every sta te in the TJn ion. j On the parchment spaces have been, provided for the sig natures of each governor and sec retary of ' state, spaces 'for ' the great seal of each 'stated and a larger space for the great seal of the United States, and the signa tures of the'president and secre tary of state.-, . f The , inscription on the parch ment, which . has been signed by Marlon Mack, tells its own ftory: 1 "Trt ihm President of lh TTnlt- CoUsat4 1.) Few Disorders Result From Closing of Catholic Build- inno In Maviaa uiyo in mcAibu BISHOPS URGE CALMNESS Church Lraders Ask Members ta Shun Violence and Work by Ijtwful Means to Amend Constitution ' MEXICO CITY. July 31. (By Associated Press.) Policemen standing, guard outside the great Catholic cathedral in Mexico City and the other churches of th country', and the saddened faces of worshippers who streamed throughout the day into the holy edifices to pray, despite the ab cense of! officiating clergymen, were the only outward signs that the government's new religious regulations had gone into effect, Apparently the Catholics wero obeying the admonition of the pastoral letter Issued by the Mex ican episcopacy to remain calm and continue their religious de votions. It was in accordance with thin pastoral letter, signed by the eight archbishops and 29 bishops of Mexico as a protest against the religious regulations that the priests withdrew from their sev eral churches "today. All the churches were comfort ably crowded with 'thousands at prayer, while here and there out side quiet groups stood talking. But no large assemblies could be seen, no congestion, nothing re motely approaching the scenes of the past fortnight when anxious crowds pressed aboutthe churches and shrines eager to perform their. drew, to have their children bap tized or' confirmed, or to go through the marriage ceremony. With rare exceptions, no priests were seen today. ' ' '- Many of them were busily en gaged in completing inventories ( Continued from pig s.) BERGMAN IS RECOVERING HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUCTOR I ABLE TO LEAVE HOSPITAL) E. E. Bergman, instructor at the senior high sckool here, who was found unconscious on a coun try road near Salem Thursday, is reported to be much "improved. He was taken to his' home from the Willamette sanitarium, where he was first treated. He Will be able to be about In a few more days, it is reported. : Mr. Bergman suffered from- a breakdown brought about by over- work and heat. He became dazed while working Thursday, and aet out" for his home, but . lost con-, sclonsness. - He' apparently wan dered out of town and fell. lie was found there later. - 11 . Elsinore Wins Praise 'IS EXCELLED BY NONE KAYS MARIQN MACK Marlon Mack, leading woman in the Buster Keaton moving picture company which is now filming r'The General," a civil war picture at Cottage Grove, yesterday lauded the Elsinore theater as one of the most at tractive playhouses anywhere in the west. Miss v Mack, who, when not engaged in pictures is known as Mrs.l Jwyn, was escorted through the Elsinore, by George Guthrie, Its owner, and was accompanied bjr her hus band and a party of friends. "Ohl isn't thit wonderful." exclaimed Miss Mack as she viewed the interior of the thea ter, ft have traveled extensive ly, and have had the pleasure of Inspecting many of the lead ing playhouses on' the Pacific coast and in the middle west. None of them exceed the Elsi nore for beauty and general arrangement.';; H'MIss Mack congratulated Mr; Guthrie, and wished him all the prosperity in the world. : ; ;; Before leaving Cottage Grove for.' her ,.home Hat Hollywood Miss 'Mack; expects to - spend ,'a day in Salem visiting the state Institutions. "During her stsy here yesterday she - had. her photograph..' taken with. Gov ernor Pierce, Secretary of State Koer and Mayor John - Giesy, - V. F.. . . ...