DIESTIGAT1
BY Hi JURY
DRISTOii
Surveillance Case Against
, Fail and Sinclair Vir-
I tually Rested ij
r ilia UKr.liUr SiAlLSAn, OAJUEuU, UfiIViUllt ww, ' ' - - 3
QUIZ LASTS TWO WEEKS
Other Burn 'Men Stand by Em
ployer la Testimony Given In
CoTernment Probe of Tam
' . pering Charges ' 'if
WASHINGTON, t Not. 15
(AP) -Any Lope that government
counsel may hare had that' there
would be further' defections from
the ranks of the Burns detective
apparently were dissipated today
as the Sinclair-Fall oil trial iarr
snrvelllance case practically f was
restea before the grand Jury after
more than two weeks of inquiry.
For more than an hour. Assist
ant District Attorney Burklnahaw
hammered away at Charles G.
Ruddy, . who directed the opera
tions of the men shadowing the
Teapot Dome v trial Jurors, but
there was no Indication that he
had r succeeded In obtaining" any
corroboration of the startling
story of William J. McMullin, a
former Burns man. about the fab
rication of reports so that the de
fense might more for a mistrial If
that, coarse should hare been
found necessary. . . .
Contempt Probe jOrdered
Coincident with the near-completion
of -the gorernment's case
Justice Frederick L. Siddons, who!
presided at the Fall-Sinclair crim
inal "conspiracy 'hearing. Issued an
order appointing three members of
the Washington bar to make an
Investigation to'determine wheth
er there had been a criminal con
tempt of the District of Columbia
supreme court In connection with
the bit trlaL
. This inquiry probably will be di
rected largely to charges of J. Ray
Akers, former street ear conduct
or and Donald K. King, a news
paper reporter, ; that Edward J.
Kid well, Jr.. Juror number 1 1, dis
cussed the trial freely and stated
that1 he would be disappointed If
he did not come ont or the case
with an automobile "as long as
this block,"
GIRILGAINS RESPONSIBItlTEAlU
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wbich he- B-eceived. ; $20,000 n
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Herald he acquired a half in
terest In the Grays Harbor Trans
portation company in February of
19 J d for 131,000 of which he
paid Jie.OOO in cash. Of this
$18,000 his father In law, A. K.
Wade, a state timber cruiser,
gave him : $6,000 while Frank:
Burrows, former deputy United
States marshal loaned him $3,000
and the remaining $7,000 was de
rived from the profits and sale of
a chicken ranch. " !
The witness said he sold the'
chicken ranch for $20,000 to Earl
W. Labreck of Montesano in May,
1928, after having originally pur-'
chased it for $8,500 In 192 It i
He obtained the chicken ranch
by trading in his home for $1,600
on the deal paying $1900 la cash
and theest on notes, he said. .
Jones, Labreck and Burrows all
took : the stand to substantiate
Gibson's story and Langhorne an
nounced that the records of the
state land commissioner would be
Introduced . tomorrow morning to
show that Wade was financially
able to give his son in law the
money It claims.
G1E PROTECTION
i URGED BY GROUP
Association , Scheduled Jo
Hold Meeting in Port
i f Jand On Thursday
. fS'Mexico, Mo. 7 claims to have
si : r
one of the' youngest presidents of f
Business and IToiessional woman's ciuds m tne unnea oiaies. oto
is Almeda Hill, 81, a high school graduate at the age of i7.1h
holds a responsibje position with A public ntijity company.
SID
CLUB MEETS FRIDAV
GOOD PROGRAM ARRANGED
FOR FRUITLAD FOLK
FBUITLAND,' Nor. 15 (Spec
ial) An exceptionally good pro
gram will be given at the Fruit-
land; school house Friday nfght
when the Frultland Community
, club' holds its opening meeting.
After the program refreshments
will be served ? - r
Mrs; Peter Egler la seriously 111
with- an attack of acute indiges
tion.. . ' -
-i The Montgomery famUy has re
. turned from Yakima, Washington,
whee they picked apples. They
" Ve ported that the apples weren't
as good as last year.
Albert Gerlg motored to Port
land, recently to visit friends and
relatives. He had a very good
trip.. :v
Bank Cashier Admits Part
In Misapplying Finances
PORTLAND, Nov. 15. (AP)
Guilt as to his part In wilfully
misapplying and abstracting funds
from the defunct Bank of Kenton
was admitted by R. R. Thatcher,
cashier, r when he entered, a plea
of guilty in circuit court today. He
will be sentenced November 29.
The charge to which Thatcher
pleaded wae one for which he was
Jointly ladlcted with J. V. Burke.
president.' .The count specified
one instance of the payment of a
check for $5,000 drawn .by . the
United Meat' company which was
laid to have previously had a large
overdraft In the Bank of Kenton
The check was reported covered
by false entries in the books of
Ike bank, , v - . :
Prisoner Makes Getaway
I From Sheriff, Portland
. PORTLAND, NOV..1S.- (AP)
John Ehreurelcn, 30, auas Good
man.'belnjc brought to the Mult
nomah county Jail by Sheriff Tay
lor, 'of. Lane, county, to serve a li
quor violation sentence, eacaped
late" today wben Taylor turned to
ting the jail elevator bell on the
first floor of the courthouse.
The nr!soEer dropped a big suit
case, he wa carrying, Taylor told
Sheriff Hurlbert, and ran Into the
hair and out across; Fifth street
entrance." Taylor gave chase, but
fnoxin, ti shnot hAcaata of the
crowds, he soon lost track of his
man after following him up Mam
,! A reward of $50 was
' posted for Ehrenrelch tonight.
JLRS1IFIEXD SCHOOLS CLOSE
T.IARSIIFIELD, Nov. 14. (AP)
All schools of this city were today
ordered closed for two weeks due
fi tt3 prevalence of infantile par-
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Fltrfnore i Theater
For those who have a liking for
farce comedy of an especially high
order, "Breakfast " at Sunrise,"
which shows at the Elsinore today
with the ever-popular Constancefday.
Talmadge In the starring role, is
highly recommended.
The director. Mai St. Clair, had
an extremely difficult task in mak
ing the production. Less adroit
handling would have bungled the
story. ' - " . ' 1
"Breakfast at Sunrise" fully
lives up to the boast of its produc
ers -It is one of the merriest and
most humorous of the photoplays
made by Miss I Talmadge and
should set a standard for all farc
es to come. "'
The film Is exceptionally well
acted. Don AlTarado, the leading
man opposite the star, is a new
2omer - worth watching. That
hardy perennial, Bryant Wash
burn, accomplished a sophistica
tion In his unsympathetic role that
should add new laurels to his four
teen years: of 'picture acting.
Others in the cast who did notable
work are Alice White, Marie
Dressier, Paulette Duval, Burr
Mcintosh, -David Mir and Albert
Gran. -
Tom. Dempsey, Wilfred North,
William Wilson, Violet Palmer
and Rodney Hildebrant. Howjard
Bretherton directed. The Bush
Leaguer" comes to the Capitol to-.
Portlander Drinks, Then
Sets Many Conflagrations
PORTLAND. Nov. 15. (AP)
Raymond Whltcomb, 2C, commer
cial photographer, was eaid today
by police to : have confessed set
ting several fire here, two of
which were in the historic Ladd
and Dolph - homes. "It was Just
the crazy way I get when I drink,
that's all." police quoted Whit
comb as saying. "I had no malice
against anyone." -
The Dolph fire was set. yester
day, police say, and resulted in
damage of 1800. ."I have no idea
why I did it and I get no pleasure
out -of it as I did not even watch
the fires,' Whitcomb declared.
PORTLAND. Nov. 15. (AP) -Partial
restoration of "the balance
of nature," upset by the" machina
tions of white men, is jhe object!
of the Western Food and Game
Fish Protective association,, im
portant committees of which will
confer in f Portland Thursday. The
association's particular present
object, as explained' by Hugh , C
Blltchell, director of hatcheries of
the fish c6mmission of Oregon. Is
the protection of Columbia river
fish from death in -Irrigation
ditches.": - . " ;
Rapid Increase In the number of
Irrigation ditches flowing out of
the upper , reaches of the Colum
bia has brought the situation to
head, Mitchell said. These ditches
are not screened to prevent the en
trance of fish; fish enter them and
eventually - are thrown out onto
the land, or perish as the water
recedes at the end of each irriga
tion season.
Blue back salmon have practic
ally disappeared from the Colum
bia because of man's interference
with their Ingress to their habitu
al spawning grounds, the hatch
ery man said. Blue backs spawn
only in lakes. Wallowa lake,- the
Redflsh lakes in Idaho, Payette
lake, Idaho, the Cleelum lakes and
STRIKERS APPEAL
: CASE BEFORE CAE
Lake Wenatchee in Washington
were favorite spawning place be
fore Irrigation and power dams In
the connecting streams stopped
the fish In their spawning runs.
The Okanagan lakes of -a British
Columbia are among the only
ones to which the entrance of the
blue hacks has not been stopped
"Alteratloa of tributary streams
has destroyed one third of the
spawning salmon grounds former
ly connected with the Columbia,'
Mitchell declared. - "The salmon
must migrate or they will be ex
terminated. And this association
has been formed to do something
about It." ,
The association plans first to
get the; United States government
to screen the intakes of irrigation
ditches and build passage ways at
dams, on government projects;
protection of . fish from other
ditches and from power develop
ment 1 Interference with their ha
bits, will come later.
The committees to meet here
Thursday are composed of the fol
lowing:' .
' F. P, Kendall," Portland, can
manufacturer: W. A. Tyler, Aa-i
toria, banker; W. S. Hamilton, As
toria,1 fish packer, representing the
food fish interests of Oregon; W.
R. Wallace, Eugene, sporting
goods dealer; T. E. Daniels, Med-
ford, Insurance man, representing
Oregon game fish interests; Har
old Synneetvedt, Kalama,"Wash
fish packer; A. L. Gile, Chinook,
Wash., fish packer; F. A. Twit
chellj Seattle, fish packer repre
senting Washington food .fish in
terests: Louis K. Lear, Seattle,
member King county game com
mission, and J. A. Louden, Yaki
ma, chairman Yakima County
Game commission, representing
Washington game fish interests.
II1LIST FORCE
C1I OES OFFEfiSE
Nanking Troops Capture
v Other Towns Following
, Fall of Hankow
PEKING, Nov. 15.-r(AP) The
collapse of Hankow before the
drive of the Nanking nationalist
armies has been followed by a re
sumption of the Nanking offensive
against the" northern government
of Marshal Chang Tsolln, and the'
Nanking troops have been march-;
Ing. northward ' rapidly until they
are; now on the Hwai river.
Even northern dispatches from
Tsinanfu admit that the Nanking
troops have occupied the town of
Linhwaikwan in rthe province of
Anhwei, but claim that the troops
of the northern General Sun
Chuan-fang repulsed an effort of
the Nanking forces to cross the
river at Pengpu and Hwaiyuan.
Although the northern General
Tsung Chang is hard pressed on
the Shantung-Honan border, he is
rushing . reinforcements to 'Gen
eral Sun's aid.
It is jrecalled here that the
Hwai river war line was designat
ed during the nationalists spring
drive on Peking- as the point at
which a nationalist crossing would
be the signal for the British lega
tion at Peking to prepare for the
evacuation of its nationals to th
sea. At the present time, how
ever, there la no evidence that for
eigners here, feel the same uneasi
ness that was felt last spring.
Corporation' of Speed
Craft Formed, San Pedro
SAN PEDRO, Nov. 15 (AP) .
Owners of 15 speed "boats opera
ted aa water taxis in the harbor
here announced today that -the
craft would be merged Into one
corporation to be known as the:
H-10 Water Taxi company. Own
ers of boats will exchange their
vessels for stock in the corpora
tion. The change wiU be effec
tive January 1. - '
New York university thinks it
might beat Notre Dame. And wo
thought a university was made up
of educated people!
The World And All
f3V CHARLES B. PR ISCOLL
Capitol Theater
A far greater percentage of pro-1
fessional baseball players rise
from the sand-lots than do from'
the colleges and ; high schools of
the country. Or so Monte Blue,
star of Warner Bros.' production
of "The Bush Leaguer," was told'
by Manager Reichow of the mil-l
lion dollar Wrlgley Ball Park In
Los Angeles before starting the
filming of the picture.
"It is the boy who plays on the
sand-lots day -after day for sheer
love of the sport who develops in
to the highly specialized profes
sional, although there have been
some notable exceptions," said he.
i In "The Bush i Leaguer" Monte
appears as a' gas-station-tender,
who spends his time between cus
tomers and the neighboring sand-
lot and on Sundays pitches for his
home town team. A scout from
Los Angeles offers him a job and
seeing a chance to make the
proper contacts for the promotion
of a gas " pump which he has in
rented, he accepts. : It is not long
till he finds that professional base
ball, must be taken as a serious
business and that not only the fu
ture of. his invention but his suc
cess in love depends upon his
playing the game In deadly earn
est. :-:'r: j . ." ,
Featured in his support are Le
ila Hyams and Clyde Cook. Others
in the cast are William Demarest.
Richard Tucker; Bud Marshall,
Coming direct from a highly
successful season as a headline at
traction on the Pantages Circuit,
Marjah, world-famous mystic, has
been secured at the Capitol thea
ter, for today.
visiting the northwest for a
short rest, Marjah has been in
duced to appear in a few of the
leading cities of the northwest
under the management of G. Rich
ard Eckman of Seattle -before re
turning to the east to fulfill a
fourth season as a headline attrac
tion in big time vaudeville.
Presenting the highest salaried
and best known psychic act in this
country, Marjaa has amazed ; his
audiences in America . with his
wonderful mental, powers. Marjah
toured the larger cities, of conti
nental Europe and England before
being secured by a leading vaude
ville circuit to come to this coun
try a few years ago. He is one of
the best known mental scientists
in the world and has the endorse
ment of Sir Oliver Lodge and A.
Conan Doyle. Marjah, born In In
dia of English parentage, received
his early education in that land of
strange cults and completed his
schooling with three years at Ox
ford and England. A graduate
physician and thoroughly educated
man, Marjah has studied and ap
peared In mental science work for
a number of years, abandoning; his
studies to serve as an officer in
the British army and then going
on the stage following the World
war.
The entertainment feature of
Marjahs performances is beyond
ciiucism ana tne seemingly 5 un
canny replies to the problems pre
sented him are astounding. ' The
rapidness with which he works is
unusual in itself. With an intel
ligent, cooperative audience. he(
bas been known to answer nearly
American Federation of Lab
or Votes To Demand Im
mediate Probe
two hundred Questions within i a
half hour performance.
While here Marjah will appear
at both matinee and evening: per
formances at the Capitol. In ad
dition he is offering a special
ladles' only matinee today in or
der ; to -afford local - women a
chance to ask questions that they
feel too -personal to submit at
regular performance. Each lady
attending this matinee will be
granted a private interview with
Marjah. v Marjah is also giving a
few private interviews to people
attending the regular : perform
ances. '
PITTSBURGH. Nov. 15. (AP)
TV A m An aA4 Siva f S v ftf
" a nq nuici ivau a' cuctauvu v
"Labor, through Its officers and
the heads of national and interna
tional unions affiliated with it, to
day voted unanimously to lay be
fore President Coolidee the cause
of ISO, 000 striking miners in cen
tral and western Pennsylvania and
Ohio and to demand from Govern
or John S. Fisher an immediate In
vestigation into charges of mis
uses of power by agencies of the
state government against 85,000
mine workers in the two Pennsyl
vania districts. Forty five thou-i
sand miners are on strike in Ohio
William Green, president of the
national labor federation, was
named to head the two commit
tees directed to call upon Presi
dent Coolidge and Governor
Fisher.
Members of the executive coun
cil of the labor federation and
John J. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, were di
rected "to confer with the chief
executive of our nation and such
other officials of our national gov
ernment aa the executive council
may determine to lay before them
the facts of this situation in order
that the intolerable .and repre
hensible conditions in Pennsyl
vania may be speedily corrected."
The original text of the report
was later amended to include the
Ohio situation.
i President Green and a special
committee were directed to visit
Governor Fisher personally "to
demand an immediate and impar
tial investigation "- of all that is
charged against the state govern
ment and to secure from him not
only the assurance but the actual
enforcement of equality before the
law and a full, complete and Im
mediate manifestation of interest
and activity In behalf of human
relations and human liberties of
the citizens of the state."
Flying Straight Up
From time to time we hear of
various projects connected with
the building of an airplane that
will rise vertically from the ground
and will descend vertically and at
controlled speed' from the air.
None of us, I suppose, has any
doubt whatever that such a plane
will be built. The only question
Involved concerns when it will be
built.
Hundreds of inventors and en
gineers, the world around, are at
work on this problem of the hel
icopter or hovering device. Sever
al fairly successful machines have
been launched, with great secrecy.
and there Is a widespread belief
that the British army may even
now have a helicopter that Is al
most at the practical stage.
The Curtiss company is now en
gaged. In preliminary work on an
airplane, that is designed to rise
vertically. This plane will have
no motors for forward propul
sion, but will merely climb and
glide and climb and glide again.
It will not make the distance
across the continent so rapidly as
the present type of plane but may
be it will be so much less liable
to accident that there will be a de
mand for It, even though It pokes
along at sixty to seventy miles an
hour.
Sheriff Under Indictment
Proclaims Own Innocence
TACOMA Novj 15 (AP) The assets were .borne out br the fn-
aerense In the Grays Harbor li
quor conspiracy jrlal scored heav
ily this afternoon .through the te
Uxnony of Its principal defendant,
former Sheriff Elmer Gibson, who
detained his financial transactions
tor the last ten years and showed
that his present assets total but
127.000, all of It derived from
legitimate sources.
The government, in its much
anticipated cross examination , of
Gibson failed to show that any of
the alleged flood of ooze-protection
gold - passed through hfe
hands or that he had derived any
income except from the sources he
indicated. ; ', :Vi ul:
Instead of lasting for two hours
the' cross examination of Gibson
cons tuned scarcely 30 minutes,
when Assistant ; District Attorney
Anthony Savage-. -dismissed him '
with bis story unshaken. j
' Gibson denied every incriminat
ing bit of evidence against him j
from the government - witnesses;
gel fcb testLncay rcsarams &,
come tax statements In the pos
session of the government. x i- ,
The government apfearea to
have trapped Gibson when Savage
asked him: ;: :;; ; .' - : f: .
"Did yon not invest $25,000 In
the motor freight business i last
May?"
I did," said Gibson.
The courtroom was hushed at
what appeared to be a fatal ad
mission. Then Maurice Lang
horne took his client on re-direct
examination . and . revealed ,' the
source of the money he had paid
for the freight line and how Mrs.
Gibson had taken In - board ers
while Gibson accumulated!: the
money for the first Investment he
made. - . : : :Jf:M :
In revealing his ; transactions
Gibson eaid that the "purchase
price for the Puget Sound Motor
Freight company came from the
sale of his interest in the Grays
Harbor Trr asportation company
to J. L. Johns of Olyrapla, in No
vember 1 9 2 5, for 1 4 0, 0 0 0, 0 1
CHICAGO IGY GRIP
MIDDLE WEST SECTION GETS
, TASTE OF WINTER
Of course somebody will have a
plane soon that will rise and
augnt vertically, and also will go
forward at high speed. While we
await the appearance of this phe
nomenon, aviation is growing as
no other transportation Industry
in the history of the world ever
grew.
And here is a lesson for cities.
The towns that get themselves ad
justed to the new transportation
first will have a tremendous ad
vantage. If I were to name the
features of a city containing the
greatest promise for future com
mercial greatness, I would place a
perfect airport first.
A perfect airport, of course,
should be close to the heart of the
city. It should be large, and it
can't be too large. It should offer
ever facility for airplane servic
ing, and It .should be perfectly
lighted.
The perfect airport should have
a mooring mast for ' airships
There are very few of these moor
ing masts in North America now,
and the inland city that puts one
on its airport before its neigh
bors set around to the considera
tion: Of such a project will have
a publicity asset that will be worth
more than five hundred parades
and four hundred booklets issued
by the chamber of commerce.
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Friday Evening: Nov. 25th
Salem Artist Series
Presents
Edward Johnson
WORLD'S GREATEST TENOR
The Second Concert of the Series
Mary Lewis
January 26th
LONDON STRING:
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MARCH 22ND
Adult Season Tickets 94.50
Student Season Tickets 93.00 .
Single Admissions $2.50, $2:00, S 1.50
Phone or Mall Your Order Now
Were going to be flying straight
up soon. Meantime, aviation
will go ahead, and the wise city
will adjust itself to tight. There
are some excellent airports in this
country now, but many more are
needed. What American city, for
instance, will be to' the airplane
industry what Detroit is to the
automobile business? The lists are
still open.
"I AIN'T NO BOY"
HARK1SBUKG, Pa. "Boy,
take off that cap," eaid Judge W.
M. Hargeet, interrupting a case
and turning to a witness near the
bar. "I ain't no boy," replied a
little colored girl pulling off the
cap; and displaying a boyish bob.
She; then sat down again and re
placed the cap. Deliberately and
pensively the judge wiped his
spectacles. -
NOW
AND
FRID.
TODAY
AND
FRID.
and!
i CHICAGO, Nov. 15. (AP) A
foretaste of winter rushed down!
on the middle West today, disrupt-!
Ing traffic and closing schools In j
Wisconsin, with .Its snowfall; Its:
storm damaging docks, and "en
dangering shipping on 'Lake Su-j
perlor. ; ' . "
Rainfall turned to .snow
storm, forecast several , times by
federal 'meteorologists during .the!
past two weeks, swept 'serosa .the)
prairie states and into the Great'
Lakes' region. . -
IrOnwood, Michigan, was almost
snowbound, and Ishpeming, Mich.,!
and Ashland and Superior, .Wis.,
were shovelling away drifts three
fcand four feet deep. -
At Bayfield; Wis., Ctfequamegon
Bay, an arm of Superior, the Btorm
tore away part of hte city docks,
wrecked a fishing company's dock,
and washed out a section of a log-;
ging, railroad in the worst storm
since 1905. ' .
Fear is felt for the'safety of the
steamer Buttferfleld, ' bound "for
Ashland from Port Arthur, Ont.;
Several ore boats caught In the
kliziard are believed to have tak
en refuge among the Apostle Isl
ands,' j
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