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The Chief Rlapk of Success of the State -Tournament Was in Its Fine Spirit of Good Sportsmanship W1K Wuiin "The Feast of the Lanterns" at'the Elsinore Today and Monday Is a Production of iGreat' Merit WEATHER FORECAST: Unsettled with occasional rains; moderate . temperature; fresh and strong southerly winds on coast. Maximum yesterday, 53; minimum, 46; First Section-Pages I to 8 JTitee Secdbhs 24 Pages river, 5;. rainfall, .1; atmosphere, cloudy; wind, south. SEVENTY-SIXTH YEAB SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNINGj MARCH 13, 1927 c PRICE FIVE CENTS ML TWO COIICTS RETAKEN, ONE HURTIN FIGHT Policeman Shot in Pistol i Battle With Men Fleeing . From Death Cell THREE STILL HOLD JAIL Women Taken in Connection With Spe'ta.'lar Wreak Staged in. Kat-Iy Morning at .Toilet, III. JOLIET, Ill.j March 13. (AP) A warrant charging Edward F. Gibbons with aiding the escape of the three Mexican convicts from the county jail here yesterday morning was issued r early today on complaint of Sheriff Albert A. E. Markgraf. Gibbons was one of the special guards on duty at the time the convicts sawed their way to freedom. Gibbons was arrested when he came to the jail at midnight to report for duty. State's Attorney Rehn took charge of the investi gation and went into conference Kith Gibbons. CHICAGO, March 12. (AP) Three of the six convicts who were to be . hanged at JoIIet jail for playing a . deputy warden during a prison break, had the blood of another officer on their heads to iiight as a sequence of their sec ond break frmo confinement early today. Leo" Grant, 'ft Chicago police man, died tonight of wounds from .bullets fired byVtoae of the three Mexican who had sawed their way from the Jollet Jail, overpowered the guards and fled Chicago-ward . j-tn, oni of the ; guajd-as host age, -c"- ' . Officer Grant, dying, identified Robert Torre ias the man who shot him. , . The other three," Americans, fell Victims of a miscarriage of an (Cotinol oa page 5.) HAITI WILL BAR AMERICAN SOLON SENATOR , KtXG , REFUSED EN'. TRANCE TO ISLAND NATION nte Department t'llsuceessful in Intercessions Made In His " Ik-half WASHINGTON, March 12 (By AP) Informed that Senator King, democrat. Utah, had been barred from Haiti, which he had planned to visit to observe conditions, the state department interceded in his ht half but without success. Resenting King's, views on the administration of public affairs in Haiti, President Borno today ad vised the Haitian minister here that he considered the Utah sen ator "undesirable," and that ac cess to Haitian territory- had been forbidden him. Mr. King sailed frpm New York last Saturday to visit Porto Rico, Haiti and other places in that region which are closely linked to the United States. He is not a member of the senate foreign re lations committee, although he has taken a deep interest in foreign affairs. , ; : , Inquiries at the state department tonight elicited the Information that on learning of President Bor- no's action, John H. Russell, Am erican high commissioner in Haiti, had been instructed to nse his good offices in an effort to persuade President Borno to permit Mr. King to visit the island. It was said, however, that' Bor no had declined to alter his po sition, and under -the circumstan ces there was nothing further the department saw that 1t could do in the Utah senator's behalf. Senator King, who is now tour Ing the West Indies to survey con- ditions in Porto Rico, tne virgin .-islands and Haiti, has persistently attacked the policy of the - Amer ican government In the Haitian re- public, and has sought the with drawal of marines from the island The Haitian government-based iU refusal to let him enter that coun try on this attitude. In a statement ( received today by the J reoublic's -' legation here from Camilla Leon," the JIalttan minister of foreign affairs, Haiti notified the Utah senator, . "that it considers him as an undesirable and the access ot the territory of Haiti is forbidden to him- BLUE LAWS HOLD CAROLINA TIGHT KTATK TO SiKNI QUI FT Sl .V DAY, X( GOLF ALLOWEI Gasoline Cannot lie Sold On Holy Day, Motorists Fill Their Tanks Karly COLUMBIA, S. C. Mar. 12. (AP) The quiet of a-blue law Sunday for the third successive week will prevail over South Caro lina tomorrow. Governor Richards having issued another ultimatum today to stop golf playing and the sale of gasoline in the state fti compliance with a century old statute. Motorists who failed to fill their gasoline tanks tonight will be un able to indulge in Sunday auto mobile jaunts and all golfers playing tomorrow will Ik? subject f.o arrest. The state executive, declaring that he was going to stop Sunday golf playing until "the supreme court or some other authority says it is legal." instructed state constables to go to ail golf clubs to see that the law is enforced. At the fashionable winter re sort of Aiken, however, the gov ernor's orders probably will not be enforced as a temporary court in junction, issued on the petition of a number of northern visitors, prohibits stopping of golf play. The Injunction is returnable March 19 and Attorney General Daniel said today he was prepared to resist an effort to have it made permanent. After a eonference;with Gover nor Richards, state officials of the Standard Oil company announced that all its filling stations in the state would he closed tomorrow. Governor Richards, however, has given permission for the sale of gasoline in cases of "necessity and mercy, the emergency to be decid ed by officers of the law." BABY FARM SUSPECTED Body Of Child In Trunk Sought In Connection With Case LOS AGELJ,' Mar., 12. (AP) Kern vpunty authorities today were asked by the sheriff's office here to search a residence at Oildale. near Bakersfield, for a trunk relieved possiDiy to con tain the body of an infant hidden In connection with alleged "baby farm" under investigation in Los Angeles county. The trunk was declared by deputy sheriffs to be long to Mrs. Minnie Williams Fobs, known also as Foster, Williams and Hines. She was arrested here recently on a charge of trying to buy a baby to carry out an alleged hoax. to gain sympathy of a justice court on a charge of passing a check without funds. Investigation of what deputies declare was wholesale barter in babies by Mrs. Foss followed her arrest. CONSTRUCTION PICKS UR March Itttilding Aggregate Ts In creased by Several Permits Building activity in Salem in March, which got off to a poor start the first week, picked up rapidly in the week just ended, when 24 permits for a total of $74,500 were issued. This brings the total for the month up to $9 2, 050. This is lower than the Feb ruary average, but if last week's record is kept up, March will ex ceed the previous record month. Only one permit for a building costing over $10,000 is included in the week's total, and since seve ral large permits are expected to be issued this month, the remain ing two and two-thirds weeks will probably see additional increase. LONG-LOST BODY FOUND River Tragedy Revealed When Youth's Corpse Drifts In ASTORIA, March 12 (AP) Another .river tragedy was re vealed and a mystery of 33 days standing was solved today when the body . of . Edward Furney, 23 year old Astoria youth, was cast ashore at the local port docks. Furneys body was discovered by his small half brother, Thomas Nizlch, who, with other members of the family, have made a con stant patrol of the waterfront-in hope that the body would be found. ' Furney disappeared under, mys terious circumstances February 8 after, he told friends that he was going to Youngs Bay to look after set nets. f ;' ,. , ' FIRE DAMAGES SHIP LOS ANGELES, March 12 (AP) Fire aboard the steamer Waimea here today caused damage of approximately $2000 to interior fittings of the vessel. " The Wai mea, owned by the Los Angeles Steamship company, has been used at intervals in y motion c picture work,- J j . i - . HOOVER UTS SHIPiliEll 5T.1IEIE Secretary Tells of Proposed Channel in Speech to New England Men PROJECT HELD FEASIBLE Canadian and American Commis sion of Fngiitwrs Favor Plan; Two :ttions Would Have to Cooperate NEW HAVEN.-Conn., March 12 (AP)- A shipway between the Atlantic and the Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence river would open the whole of the mid-continent to international trade, substantially increase the returns from farming by lowering transportation costs, and benefit the industrial east by power creation. Secretary Hoover told a gathering of New -England business men here tonight in an address before the New Haven chamber of commerce. Since the Canadian and American commis sion of engineers last fall pro nounced the canal construction feasible, he said, a strong tide of sentiment for immediate construc tion has gotten under way in both Canada and the United States. There may be difficulties in the way of putting a plan into effect for opening the Great Lakes, the commerce department head said, but in spite of obstacles inherent in international agreement, in the disposal of power rights, the long record of successful cooperation between the United States and Canada left him "hopeful of an agreement on the subject. "The construction would remove fCoatia4 f 8.) PAPER CONTRACT HUGE Crown-Willamette Get 150,000, OOO Order From Hearst SAN FRANCISCO, March 12 (AP) A contract believed to cover the largest tonnage of news print ever sold on the Pacific coast in one transaction was today closed between William Randolph Hearst and the Crown-W.illamette Paper company, according to an announcement issued by Archie B. Martin, executive vice president of the paper company. The total in volved in the transaction is said to be in excess of $150,00j0,000, covering newsprint to be furnished Hearst Pacific coast publications for a period of 10 years beginning January 1, 1927. ..k ) tie Yum JTftvP MihMylr BLIZZARD RAGES OVER MiD-W EST KANSAS MAN DEAD, ROADS ' llLOCKFl, TRAINS rtALTKD School Teacher Ixvses Life When IMHotl From Friend In Snowstorm KANSAS CITY, Mar. 12. AP) One death, . disrupted train service, blocked highways, and marooned motor cars were check ed up today to the March blizzard which raged over eastern Colo rado and western Nebraska and western Kansas yesterday and to day. Ira Vowel, school teaclger at Rrester, Kas., lost his life. When the school bus became stuck'in a snowdrift yesterday Vowel and the school coach started to walk and became seperated in the blinding snow. A searching party found the teacher lying in a snowdrift. Way. Colo., experienced its worst blizzard since. 1914. The wind piled drifts 14 feet deep in places. Forty eight school children were marooned in the town when school buses were abandoned. Colorado Springs was cut off from all points by drifts and rail road tracks eastward into Kansas and Nebraska were blocked with the worst drift in 10 years. Colby, Kas., was almost entirely cut off from communication by the storm, described there as the worst in years. Overland busses and many auto mobiles were reported stuck fast in drifts. Train service into Kansas City from the west was disrupted, all trains being from four to more than nine hours late. EUGENE WOMAN KILLED Mrs. Jean Stamper Is Thrown Against Pole As Car Slides EUGENE, Mar. 12. (AP) Mrs. Jean Stamper, a waitress,, was killed in an automobile acci dent on the highway north of Eugene early today. She was thrown out of -wear driven by Jesse Pittman as jt ran off the highway and Into a ditch. She struck a telephone pole and the blow caused death, according to the physicians who performed an autopsy on her body. Pittman is being held in the county jail. SCHOOL HEAD RESIGNS Eugene Principal Quits As Result Of Stndent Troubles EUGENE, Ore., Mar. 12. (AP) John G. Swan today resigned as principal of the Eugene high school to take effect at the end of the present school year. Trouble between students and faculty has marked Mr. Swan's administration since he assumed the position last September. WAITING AT THE CHURCH SALEM GTS TWO ON STATE QUINT iWTFfcY, DRAGER nOSf?N BY TOURNEY OFFICt ALS Homer nnt Eberhart of Fngenc, Anderson of Medford, Rest of Team All-Tournament Quintet Forward, Duffey, Salem. Forward, Horner, Eugene. Center, Eberhart, Kugene Cuard, Anderson. Medford. (iuard, Drager, Salem. Second Team Forward, Makinen, Astoria. Forward, Melvin, Medford. Center, Laing, Medford. C.uard. Olinger, Salem. Guard, Page, Tillamook. Honorable Mention Forwards:. Scales, Franklin; Holden, Tillamook; Siegmund, Sa lem; Norberg, Marshfield. Center: Lyman, La Grande; Marian. Tillamook. Guards: Colbert, Eugene; Lewis Eugene. Two Salem players, two from Eugene and one from Medford high earned places on the all-state tournament team selected after the final game by Ralph Coleman and A. L. French, who officiated in all of the games, after securing the opinions of a majority of the high school coaches and of sev eral leading basketball authorities of the state who were present. Duffey of Salem and Eberhart of Eugene were selected by. prac tically everyone who was called upon to make a choice, but some gave Eberhart a forward berth and picked Laing of Medford for center. Anderson of Medford was almost unanimously picked for one guard, but there was a diver gence of opinion on the other. Drager got a majority of the votes. ' Picking an all-tournament team was more than usually difficult this year because of the numerous stars who appeared anions theJSQ players who took part. Some of them shone brilliantly In one or (Continnad on page 6.) SIREN'S ALARM FALSE Salem Residents Brought Up Standing by Screaming Cars Urban folks were brought up standing, as it were, last night when police equipment went howl ing and screaming out South Com mercial streets apparently on the trail of a bold, bad member of society. Final explanation of this fc ray of authority, however, leves the expecting public with nothing more than .the mere rumor that a certain stolen car belonging to an Albany resident was presum ably identified near the southern limits of Salem. EUGENE VICTOR IN FINAL ME T0U11ENT Medford High School Five Wins Consolation Series and Gets Prize SALEM HIGH LOSES 25-19 Twenty-Five Hundred People Wit ness Concluding Games of . Serb's; Iandreth Pre sents Trophies Basketball of a brilliancy that has never been equaled in an Ore gon high school tournament, won for Eugene high the 1927 state cl'ampionship; yet it was consist ency more than brilliancy that made the victory possible. Eugene defeated Salem high by 25 to 19. by playing the same steady, accu rate game throughout, amassing enough points to render futile Sa lem's spectacular finish. Salem scored two more points than Eugene in the second half, but the team from the university city had virtually clinched the vic tory in the second quarter. The score at half time was 13 to 5. for Eugene. Twenty-five hundred people wit r.essed the final game, setting a new record for attendance at an indoor athletic contest in Salem. It was the first time in three years that Salem high had failed to win the title, and there were many tear-stained eyes among the local team's partisans as well as some among the players them selves, after the game ended. Be it said to the credit of the Salem crowd that It supported the red and black team to the last second (Continue oh page 0.) TWO PAINFULLY INJURED Brabec Car Tangles With That Of Canallan Near Halsey Mrs. I. J. Brabec, 1405 D street, and Mrs. A. L. Blampied, 160 West Lafelle street, were painfully injured yesterday morning when the automobile driven by I. J. Brabec was struck by -a machine driven by W. E. Anderson of Al berta, Canada. Brabec was driving south on the Pacific highway about a mile north of Halsey when he met a wagon going north. He contends that he was traveling at a moder ate rate of speed and that Ander son attempted to pass the wagon, but changed his mind and applied the brakes. The wet pavement caused him to skid directly in front of the approaching salem car, badly damaging both. Mrs. Brabec was badly bruised about the head, receiving a black eye, and Irs. Blampied received bruises and lacerations. BERGMAN GETS 13 YEARS Florence Rank, President Is Sen t diced on Two Counts EUGENE, March, 12. (AP) Henry Bergsnan, Florence bank president, who had pleaded guilty to embezzlement and making loans when the bank's reserve was impaired, was Sentenced by Judge Skipworth of circuit court today to serve 10 years in the state pris on on the first named count and three years on tiie second. It In expected that Bergman will not be taken to Salem until Monday, it jivbs atated at the sheriff's office. KING ALFONSO BETTER Spanfth Ruler Recovering ' From ' Recent Attack of Grlppo ! MADfttD, March l-.-TAP) -Furtner Improvement; In the con dition ot Kins Alfonso ' was -an nounced this Serening The king became (111 with the fcrfppe early this week. l V " "The.' congested - spot has ; dis appeared and his condition Is im proved," says the communique. "His temperature) tras only four tenths of a degree above normial at 2: SO pjih." ' MEXICAN TROOPS BATTLE Total of 48 Casaltiea Reported In Jalisco I ageenaent , - MEXICO CTTf, March It. (AP)--Forty-two rebels knd six federal , soldiers "were killed in ; a sanguinary bat tip , at Los Altos, Jalisco, says & rjeport from , Gen eral Fferrelia, c&Ief "ot military operations, to th&twar .'department. LOCAL MAN SHOT IN LINN COUNTY LYONS SCENE OF mTNTLAT BY MRS. ANNA FULLEST Condition of Victim Doubtful at Early Hour; Physicians to Operate The condition of F. E. Fal len, shot last night by. hfe wife, , was reported at 3:30 o'clock thfc morning to. bo very bad. Whether he wilt live or not in doubirul. The bullet lodged in his intestines, according to Dr. Charles Brewer, who flnlslHl operating just after ! o'clock. E. H- Fullen, 38, was shot and seriously wounded last night, at Lyons, in Li on county, by his wife, Anna. Mrs. Fullen shot her hus band with a small caliber revol ver, the, bullet striking in his stomach. Fullen was brought to Salem by Dr. Charles H. Brewer of Stay ton, who was called immediately after the shooting. Physicians were preparing to operate on him at an early hour this morning and could give no statement as to his condition. The shooting occurred in the kitchen of Henry. Croisan's home at Lyons, where Mrs." Fullen was employed as a domestic. The pair had been living apart for some time, and Fullen had gone to visit his 6-year-old son, living with Mrs. Fullen. The child's birthday was yesterday. No details could be learned of the reason for the shooting. The two were conversing in the kitchen of the Croisan home, with mem bers of the Crofsan family pres ent. There was no altercation be tween the two, as far as could be learned. Mrs. Fullen went Into the pantry, where the revolver was kept, returned,, and shot her hus band once. Bystanders disarmed her before she conld shoot again. Mrs. Fullen was brought to Sa lem and locked in the county jail early today. She will be turned over" to LinnT county authorities. according to Sheriff O. D. Bower. Sheriff Bower questioned Mrs. Fullen, but she would make no (Continued oa ptff 3.) BANDIT SUSPECTS HELD Man Vho Blew Up Fay Car Re ported Caught; Auto Found PITTSBURGH, March 12. (By AP.) The arrest of two suspects and the finding of the automobile In which the nine bandits escaped with $104,u00 , after blowing Up an armored py car ot the Pitts burgh Terminal Coal company, yesterday, was reported tonight by county detectives. The bandits' machine Was found on Ginger Hill, rear Bentleyrllle, Pr. The sus pects were arrested in a nearby farm house. Offfcers armed with riot guns were stationed at the farm house in, the belief that four men who left the place shortly before the detectives arrived, would return The bandits' car bore Penhsyl vania license plates reported by the detectives to have been stoien from a machine owned by J.;A, Glllmore ot Monongahela City, Pa Police a'tlemnted to find Tiillmore but relatives waid .he' had been away for several days. OREGON'S CATTLE HIGH A. ,' - Dairy Stock Here Unusually Free of Tuberculosis Signs ' ' .With less than ono.prer .ceht of the dairy cattle in Oregon reictirg to the tuberculin tesv this Mate ranks first among the states west of the Mississippi river in this re spect, accrodrag to Dr. W, II Lytle, stale veterinarian. A re pdrt just 'compiled by Dr. Lytic shows t&at. ot atotai , ot 3 3 e, 3 7 cattle tested during 1925 and 1926 only 3130 reacted as tuber cutar, 827 were classed as sus pects and-; 332,886 Raised. . Four counties In the state -Tniamodk Clatsop,. Polk and Josephine are listed as free territory with lew than one-halt of one per cent re &clors. ' Kevp'n other coiift tle Are expected bo quality , ot accredita tion ihls.year. These include Mar lob, Clackamas Lane,", Douglas, Lincoln, Jackson and - Benton. WILLV ELECTRIFY VIMT ,-.. 1 . .. Project Adds GreaUy To Efficiency - , '" Of Stayton Crusher . ;- Proposed; eleetrifientionr of. the Stayton rock crushing . plant at a cost ot $8,000 has been announced by, the county. court,- in the be lief that such an improvement will pajr f or t Itself in - to, yearn through savings in operating, ex penses. . '- ,-, ' PLflRSSUBJEGI DF.BIC GOUBTS Republican Committee Offi cial Says East, Mid-West Don't Know , THIRD TERM DOUBTFUL Xo Of McXarj-li.mgcn Rill Cuteso Of Mtfrh li Usslon l- i Effect On. Party's Nfomi- V nation Xext 'Year , , j PORTLAND, Mar.;i2-.APJ-i' The question whether Calvin Cooltdge desires the 'republican, nomination . for president' in- 1928 Is the leading point of ;eonJectfe in national political circles, Ralph E. Williams, vice chairman of thw republican national ,, committee, said here today on his return,from a visit of two months in. tfreTeast;' No one, he believes, knows defi nitely whether the president. wauls anoiner term, or wneiner tne ex ecutive' himself has made-up bis mind on the matter. "You hear little or no talk lit the east and middle west about K third term,' " Mr. Williams nald. "That phrase, is rarely ;usedr but you do hear , on every . hand ' th inquiry as - to whether . Cooltdgo will run again. No emphasis, Ik laid on a 'third vterm'; as it haa been on occasions in the west.',' The republican national ; com- mitte will not .meet until next December, ' when it will coavena at Washington, D. C. to designate the time and place for holding the nominating Convention In June. 1928. Chicago. San. Francisco Detroit. Cleveland and St. Louis are all applicants for the national convention, : Williams said. . ' Sine th Veto or the MeVarv. Haugen till by President 'C6o'lIdge. at tit Li. j. . - t m Increased attention has been given, to its possible effect on the next republican presidential nomina tion, and the veto has had the t-e- sult of exciting booms.' ' The question whether Coottdge will be a candidate will remain unsolved; probably, until immedi ately before the convention, "wn liams said today. t) 'y : -. '!:': ;Smce the Veto of thV W cVlary Haugen bill he stock bt Ldwden and Dawes has gone up materially In the affected 'districts." Williams declared. "Vice President Dawea (Gcntinncd oa pK 4.) cbMi for' m AttlhJG LAWS INCREASED EinHTT-TAVO ' llMPlJbTKD IS HKN'ATTff n:CKl Vtt (r2.t,650 8qim'. erfogTapheTS iibtVtt As Chle OerW Ad tlA More V Oowipcn'sArlon When aU of the, hills. for. the late legislative session have been presented and'. paid it will be found that the sesstoh Vas by far the most .expensive in the history of the 'state. To date, according to records in the office of Secre tary 61 State Koxer,' legislaltve bills have been fcaid to the amouht of $107723.'97. , Thri anion ot des "not 'include the t bills ' for Prtntfas: Vhe nis and calendars. the bbusA ih'd teenat'A tnnmkldi thft sessron laws, the icost, ot torfect- ing and "eaniiig Vhe house? and senate Journals and various ether! Items -Which. It Is expected will dp to . between $140,000 ''''and I H 5.0 00 as compared t $ 1 2 1 , 891.11 "for the sessfon Vf IMS. ' The $5 per diy expense hilbV ance which the legislators toted to Ihem8elva ' accounts ; In " Itself for! an item, df $20,310 four of the' legislators . having refused to ac- cept this money -In addition, to theh-, regular mileage' vand- pet diem pay. .Stenographic and clerij hire aiscf cost more by' approil ately $7,300 at the last sessron than it; did 'In1 the. 1925 sesfcfoB. In the Benate a total ottS clerUs slenotfaphers, dodrkeepers, piinr" and other functionaries were etni ployed at a total cost of $2 3,(50 J Two years ago there were 78 era- ployees with a payroll of $19,212.1 The. house payroll shows a tota' Of 144 employees receiving tM a of $34,598.50 for, their setvi.e as comfiaHd to 12S'etaployees 'inc. an4 expense 'of $30,829 Xor'lhi 192$ seSBloh. v ' ' ; ( . : Stenographers te fiiem-bers' o the 'senate in. addition to t! ,? l, regular, "cow pen. at ion of,' day fof the 47 days of the ." . - 11 1 x . (Cootiniiad on psft i) V :...::