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Newspaper Page TextIE - i THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 18, 1928 Iff The Oregon Statesman Iatued Daily Eiropt afondaT Vj THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPACT 21 & SoulH Conacre!! fttraet. Salaam OrefOB R. J. BanJricka -lii 8. McSharrr -'i KaiB o. Curtis - 2 cUr D. Carlaoa - lia B jarh . - fcaaagar Manarnc Editor OHj Editor Pporu Eiitor Society EJ I jt Ralph K. K!elmc. Adertiin Maaaaar I.lojd r.. 9tifflr - - Supar'rataaiiaat W. H. Henaerseu, C:rcu!tion Maoafar E. A. fUiolea L.i0Btock ikditar W. C. Coaaar - Paulttr S4iU ill i r f .1 ; j Baaiaeaa Offie . M MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PKEtS T Aortatl fraa it i. tat . mutird ta th utt fat nuDHcalioa f all iapt:aai rredltad to it or But ;heri crdiL4 1a taia 9&rt aad alaa ta lacat awa pnbl hd korcin. . I BUSIifESS OFFICES: swmbar SalacWd Otajon Naipajr iv.c i.- twit Rfffwruimi-Do-.y stypaa. !:.. Pariland. a. ur iy B a. . San titaci.ee. 8--i 3 df.; ?-t a. wiaxa w, w Turk, r l V. slit SL; Ch ca.o lUrnu Bi AWeiaty Editor . .21 ir SSI .10 TELEPHONE ."' ip. 2 or ice Jtth Dtpaitm.nt Crcam:. B Ottn-4 Eaterod at the Pi Om? m Sairm. Or.cor.. f.d - mavtar. IVbruury IS, 192.H ror ice Kingdom of heaven is us a man traveling Into a far country, who called his own ervant. and delivered tmtj them his goods. And unto one he gave live talents, to another two. and to another one; to every man ac-ording to hl.t several ability; and straightway took his journey. Matt. ::.:14 and 10. (ACTIVITIES AT THE PRISON The OUTER GATE By OCTAVUS ROY COHEN CXJTTEAX. FXESa ASSX Iaa. There were 680 prisoners in the Oregon .state penitentiary yesterday AH at work but 39. Those not at work were accounted for like this: 12 in the hospital, 10 in correction cells, 2 isolation cases, 2 in con demned cells, and 11 women unemployed. There are 12 women. One was employed. They will al be employed soon, in knitting operations, for which arrange ments are being made. jt The men are employed in the state flax plant, the state lime plant, tailor shop, shoe making shop, in the barns, in the machine shop, the laundry, in farming and gardening and stock and poultry breeding operations, in the kitchens and bakery, etc., etc. Not a man is idle, excepting as indicated in the third para graph above. And this is by no means the busy season for work at that institution, which has become an industrial institution. The busv times will come with the retting and ff drying of the flax crop of last year, and in the handling of ''A the crop that will come from the farms this year. V f There is a good deal of road work going on now. By the I courtesy of the heads of the state highway department, the - road system of the prison lands has been scientifically laid out, the proper drainage plans provided, and the grading planned, and this work is being carried forward, with the use of a rock crusher that was recovered from a junk pile and thoroughly repaired and put in working order And, for the first time in its history, that institution will be provided with a good road system. It is being taken up out of the mud of the rainy season and out of the dust of the dry season. i the flax industry is taking place e prison, where ten flax pulling 4 A remarkable in thQnachin nes iuiingbuilt )machines hade here will be at least 50 per cent .ilcient and more durable than the old machines that iere made in Canada, because there, are a number of im provements and Yelinements, and because better materials are being put into the new machines throughout And this is being done primarily in order that the state may have more efficient and durable machines for its own list; in pulling the flax of the growers But even so, some of the new machines will be sold to large growers; as many as they want to buy, and the price will be only $1600, against the $2250 price that the largest number of the, old machines cost. There is every indication that the time is coming, and that it will not be a long time, either, when the making of flax pulling machines will be a very important industry at the prison. Almost as a mere incident of the operations of the state flax plant, there is thus being developed machine shop activities that will likely in time include a number of other 'vrfarompetitive lines that will help in making the institu- f l . a- 0rrfAi4in re f rt t-V nrtinf if is ron T"ir4 1 v t rr1- CHAMPOEG HIGHWAY WOULD PAY As a retort to a remark of another speaker, George Vick at the Salem Y. M. C. A. forum meeting last night, made a l $ide reply like' this : L vw.th state ol Oregon, would build the Champoeg highway jfvf 2m tot Pbttland, and make it a wide highway, in fL r - 'jsneed as fast as their drivers liked ' So that thv iaigtit cover the distance between the capita and the metropolis in 40 minutes And would charge a toll of a dollar a car each way, enough autos would use this highway to pay the cost of it, and the bridge across the Willamette near Champoeg, in two years The distance saved, according to those who have been ad vocating the construction of the Champoeg highway, would cut the mileage between Salem and Portland to about 40 miles. It is easy to see that if there were no limit in the speed, some autos would take less time than 40 minutes to make the time. I Rr thP wav. this brines up the fact that Salem ougTit to torin-ibestir herself in regard to the proposed centenary 1 1 !on in 1QOV in commemoration of the coming of the mtionaries to SaVem in 1834, to start tne marcn oi cnuu- i.3 -tSa.Oreiron Country. r--vhould:liave committees at work now, making definite plans for this great comiqg event. There were at least 1000 people in the Salem Y. M. C. A. building last night. There were three basket bail games. There was a party of narly 100 Campfire girls. There was a rehearsal of the women's gym exhibition. There was a Chemawa Indian musical program-the girls' glee club and the boys' glee club. The men and women members had their social swim. There were handball games, and basket ball notice in the auxiliary gym. And a lot of other activities. Not a dull moment. Not a square foot of space from top to Attorn of the building unused. What kind of a town would Salem be without the activities of the Salem Y. M.7 Refuse To Show Hickman Film in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 17. m diJi ' iaMmi nfctnra tltld msB. coiirkted kidnaper and slay M,wUl not f shown to theater roers here, booktn scents an nounced today. The agents said a Los Angeles motion picture Bales man bad made unsuccessful efforts Chapter 30 BOB laughed softly. "I'm all right. Todd. What makes you think I'm not?" "Didn't say I thought so. I just wondered." "Why?" "Well, bein' your buddle an' harin' knowed you pretty good down yonder, I wondered whai was brewin'. Seems like we ain't had a good heart-to-heart talk for a thunderin' long time. Just sort of wanted to know bow things stood." "I'm here. Ask me." "We--ll. first of all you don't hate Peter Borden like you did." The lad's face purpled in the larkness. His Toice was quiet nd convincing. "I loathe him! That hatred is part of me. I don't think I'll ever get oer it." Todd felt an exaltation. "But you ain't aimln to do him no ham. are you? "What can I do? I was willing to steal from him but what's the use. when he'll give me anything want? It would be rotten to 'jeat hlrii up: he's an old man. and just fool enough, to take it with tut whininjr. And then " Bob closed his lips sharply. "Then what?" "Lola has been very nice to me I've got to consider her." 'Sure you do. Son. Sure you lo. That's what I wanted to find Dut. Point Is, if you had a gooa square chance to even things ur with Borden, would you do it- would you let your friendship for his daughter prevent?" Rob did not immediately an twer. He had threshed out tne l nest ion a thousand times, and never to his own satisfaction. "I think." he said slowly, "that I'd do it. I'd like to see that man suffer. God knows I would. But here isn't any way " "Reckon there ain't. But let's talk of something else. Golly 3oy! It's been a long time since ve spilled a real lot of words to ach other. How you gittin long at the office?" "Fine. Al Greeory says I'm ?ood. Wants me to start read- iir law." "Why not?" "I think I shall. But I don'i ike Gregory." "They say he'll be governo: ome day." I know. But he's crooked as a nake. Just like a snake. Car iiody is crooked too; but every body knows it and he laughs 'em down and dares 'em to come aftei im. Al Gregory is mushy aiouther and scary. He won t ake his chances in the open. Be- ween you and me, I think a amned sight more of the yeggs tnd stick-up men I talk to every ay than I do of that golden haired, big-voiced, cheap pollti ian. You'd rather see a man be an honest crook, eh?" "Yes. Do his stuff and take is chances. But not hide behind wme one else." They talked of things in gen ?ral, Todd studiously avoiding any reference to Kathleen. He was afraid that he might blunder It was late when they separat ed. Todd's brain was more active than it had been in years. H sensed things that he had not yet analyzed, and one of them wa that If the day of Bob's revenge on Peter Borden was delayed too long it would never come. Bob alked loudly of his hatred, but he was undeniably softening. Todd Shannon loved the boy He loved Kathleen even more And in his simole. heavy way. he believed that they would be happy with each other. It behooved him. therefore, to io what he could to remove al) possibility of a marriage between Terry yand Lois Borden. And the surest method for achieving that ?nd would be to help Bob crush Peter Borden. Todd knew that Lois would never forgive. The following morning he was standing in the .lobby of the big crffice building when the immacu late little figure of John Carmody shoved throurh the door. Todd stepped forward. "Just a minute. Mr. Carmody." "Yes, Shannon: what is it?" "I waited down here for you didn't want Kathleen to see us talkin'. Might want to know what about." He cleared his throat. "Remember what we were disenssin' the other day?" Carmody appeared bewildered. 'What?" "Bob Terry "and old man Bor den." "Oh. that? Yes. indeed." "I been doin a heap of thinkin'. Mr. Carmody. And l ve una or decided this away: If things slide very long. Bob ain't gonna want o slough that bimbo. He s gittin soft. Dunno why but there s some reason. Riitht now he's ready. It seems like if you could think of something, something that ain't gonna get Bob into a am. You know you're deTer. Somethin that'll make old Bor den squirm. Yon do that, and I'll see to it that Bob does what you advise. That is. if it ain't put off too long. How about it?" We-ell " Carmody. Inwardly exultant, seemed undecided. "It sounds Ilk a very good Idea. I'll see what I can find out. You'll hear from me perhaps." And on the way up In the ele vator, Carmody thin lips expanded.. tim. film In Kaa Franciecol "Thinrs. are dovetalllnr. he IV fMV - 7 1 " - , , I ter than that monstrousidiot sus pects." Bob Terry was dated. All eve ning he had chatted with Lois Borden about nothing in particu lar, yet all evening he had been conscious of a tenne undercurrent. Lois Borden was in love with him. Humble and modest as he was. there was no escaping that fact once his eyss had been npened to the possibility. And Bob was merely human. A man is in a difficult position when he. realizes that a girl- young, beautiful and possessed of all that makes lite worth whil Is in love with him. He is natural ly flattered and instinctively re sponsive. But Bob tried to be loyal to Kathleen in his thoughts. All evening long he had been telling himself doggedly that Kathleen was his type and Lois was not. He reminded himself time and again that he was pledged to Kathleen Yet every so often his eyes would wander to the slim, golden crea ture at his side and his heart would quicken with the know ledge that she was his for the asking. His emotions were natural Perhaps, under other circum stances, his mind might not have wandered from Kathleen. But first from one source, and then from another, had come assuranc as that this exquisite girl was of fering herself to him. The old halo had returned to romanticize her with this difference: that now she was obtainable, whereas before she had been a distant star to be worshiped Impersonally. He didn't know his own feel ings. He wondered whether he Icared for Lois or whether he was merely dazzled. Things had hap pened too quickly for Bob. Dur ing his three years of torture ir the state penitentiary he had learned to think slowly. There were so pitifully few things hap pening in a penitentiary which re quired quick thinking: the daily rind In the mills the clackety clack of the shuttles, day In and jay out: the spinning of cottor md the manufacture of cottor. jhirts; the heavy, stolid, good na tured company of Todd Shannon he sulky, subdued companion ship of convicted criminals All through the evening Bob and Lois had talked in generali ties. Nothing of particular im portance had been said, yet each was conscious that they had skirt d the pool of the personal. And ?ach knew that the other knew it Kathleen hovered always in th background big black eyes filled with quiet reproach. The en trance of Peter Borden was a re lief. Borden was nervous. Under hi irm he carried a brief case. He nodded to Bob and went inline iiately in the library, where he opened the brief case and spread out on the table a shesf of papers iberally covered with figures There was something else in the brief case an unpretentious pack et which Borden took to the wal safe. Then he went back to his fig ures again, alter spinning the antiquated dial of the safe. It was Saturday night: a night when all the city was downtown an pleasure bent. Moving picture theaters were doing a land office business, the vaudeville bouses jwere crammed, the edifice which housed the city s stock company lid not have a vacant seat. Out an the river, the amusement park recently opened, was jammed wrth revelers who shouted with glee as :hey plunged the dips of the roller "oaster or came near breaking their backs on other riding de vices. But on this Saturday night s man and a girl sat together and talked of nothing meaning much: an elderly man studied the tabulations of a business report and worried about the futur and in her lonely room another girl brooded by the window and wondered and wondered I.ols eyes sought the stern, set face of her father. Borden had not been himself recently. He was reserved and preoccupied She knew that things had not been going well at the plant. There had been frequent meetings of the board of directors, and more than one clash between her father and Jonas Merriwether. She made an excuse and went to him, running her long slender fin gers through his thinuing hair. "Don't you ever rest. Dad?" He smiled wanly. "Not just now. Girl." "But you should. That horrid plant: Don't you know that Mon day is Labor Day and everybody is forgetting work until Tues day?" Borden sighed. "That's the ad vantage of being a simple la borer." "But surely you're not going to sit up again tonight nntU two o'clock?" "No. I promise." (To be Continued.) TWENTY-FIVE YEABS AGO o o (From columns of The Statesman Feb. 19. 1003) NEW YORK Robert Peary has announced he will make another; trip to reach the North Pole. Will H. Parry, founder of the Capital Journal, and city editor of the Statesman 15 year ago. now a business man tf Seattle, was here yesterday. The Chemawa Indian girls de feated the O. A. C. women 8 to 6 at basketball and now claim the state title. Thousands of people are com ing from the storm-swept and frozen East to the mild climate of Oregon and Washington. s Bits For Breakfast 2 DEFENDANTS FOUND GUILTY AT PORTLAND Con ti sued from pafe 1.) . cult court. "I hope there will he no dem onstration or manifestation of ap proval or disapproval." said Fed eral Judge Bean as he glanced with apparent surprise at the large crowd massed into the ema.ll courtroom. At the counsel table sat Olmstead. stolid and deter mined, gazing straight ahead Absently he tapped on the table top with his fingers. Back of the table sat Wheeler, slumped down In his chair, his hands folded in hie lap. There was only a slight stir in the courtroom as the verdict wa read. There was no change to be noted in Olmstead. He re mained calm, his face stern Wheeler recoiled slightly as the word "guilty" was intoned and blinked rapidly at times. "No. I have nothing to say." was the etatement of each defend ant as he left the courtroom. "The government is well satis fied with the verdict." said George Neuner, United States dis trict attorney, who prosecuted the oase. He told newspapermen lie was leaving immediately for San Diego where his mother, Mrs. Mar garet Neuner. 74, was near death in a hcepital. The t rial of Olmstead and Wheeler resulted directly from lie closing of the Northwestern National bank here in March. 1927, following a run on the bank 'aused by rumors of insecure .redits. A federal grand jury in July reported cut a true bill charging the two with conspiracy and violation of the national bank ing act and the misapplication of approximately $800. OuO in funds and credits of the bank. During the trial it was estab lished by the prosecution that Wheeler had drawn checks on eastern banks where he had no credit, deposited the checks in the Northwestern National here, and then drew from the mythical Northwestern fund to pay other debts. The checks deposited with the Northwestern bore the initial ed endorsement of Olmstead. The total amount of checks put through on eastern banks be tween March 29. 1926. and March 1. 1927, was estimated at more than $13,000,000. Of this amount J796.514.45 was lost to the Northwestern National, the gov ernment contended. Trial of the case began in Fed eral Judge Bean's court en Janu ary 23. Everybody works but father S V And father works, too. at the Oregon state penitentiary. With 6S0 inmates, only 39 idle yester day, and 11 of them women and 12 in hospital. S The $3 license fee would amount to repudiation': and Ore gon is uot that kind of a state. S "m A Salem man says he learned that when Lindbergh made his famous flight to Paris, as he passed over Kngland the rods and bolts of the Spirit of St. Louis seemed to loosen up but as he neared Scotland they all tightened up. Next! S That's an idea worth consider ing building the Champoeg high way and making It wide and charging Jl toll each way. and letting the speeders jo to it; thu? letting them pay th? ost of the highway. Letting them make the time between Salem and Portland, over the 40 mlie stretch. In 4 0 minutes or less. "- Old Champoeg is going to come in for a lot of attention when we celebrate the centenary of the coming of the missionaries, in 19,14. The Champoeg highway should be finished before 1934. THE MORNING ARGUMENT AUNT HET Br Robmrt Qsillea fjnjFj jfff Jane POOR PA Dy Claade Calla is too stylish to have children, but I reckon it's for the best. She's so skinny a baby in her lap would think it was bein' rode on a rail." iCopyrifht 19J. i-uM!ir Synd eata., "That agent seemed to lov children an" he was so fond of o it , that I just couldn't refuse him aa order." :r;il-nt. 102. PuT,!ihr Sjntci , CHICAGO HAS NEW SCARE Home of Municipal Judge Bombed by Bandits I.at Night CHICAGO. Feb. 1. (APt The home and undertaking estab lishment of Municipal Judge John V. Sbarbaro was bombed last uight. Judge Sharbaro. alone in the second floor living quarters, was thrown from bed. The front of the building was wrecked. Judge Sbarbaro said the damage would total $10,000. -The hombinb followed within three weeks similar attacks upon the homes of City Comptroller Fitzmorris and Dr. William H. Ueid. political associate of Mayor rhompso n. tide of clothing left, and by three scars. According to records in the sher iffs ofrico Froelich died at sea enroute from Havana to Honolulu, aboard a Panama-raciuc line. Wireless instructions from rel nttvea in Honolulu ordered dis posal of the remains at sea and the body was lowered over the side in an airtight coffin off the California coast June 19. The casket was picked up, afloat June 20. by Ventura fisher men who brought it ashore here and notified the sheriff. Official photographs were t a k eln, al means of identification noted, and oa June 25 the body was wrapped in a blanket, weighted, taken out nine miles into the Santa Barbara channel and for the second time consigned to the deep. rAV0RS IRRIGATION BILL Sciiiitf ('omniitte lU-porw favor ably on Measure WASHINGTON. Feb. 17. (AP) -Adoption by the federal govern ment of tho Columbia Hiver basin rrigation project, one of the larg st reclamation developments in he world, was recommended to iay by the senate irrigation com- ,!iittee in favorably reporting the Jones-Dill bill. Cost of constructing the project, vhich embraces 3.000,000 acres f land in southeastern Washing on. is placed at $300,000,000. A otal of 1.SS3.000 acres would be irrigated and made into valuable "arm lands and the remaining 1, 117.000 acres would be used as :razing lands. At the same time the commit ee reported favorably on the Mc- 'ary bill providing for government adoption of the eschutes project in Oregon which calls for the con struction of a dam at Benham Kails on the Deschutes river. Both measures were approved over the opposition of Secretary Work of the interior department.; who has expressed opposition to the adoption by the government of reclamation projects of this char acter at this time. Read the Classified Ads RUNAWAYS TAKLN PORTLAND, Ore.. Feb. 17 -(AP) Marion Klliott. 16, an 1 William Elliott, 16, and William Litke. 16. said to be runaways from Grants Pass, Ore., were ia ken into custody by police tod.iv at the home of Mrs. Sarah Truut OBITUARY McCorkle Ann McCorkle, wife of the la -William J. McCorkle, died today at the residence of her daughter Mrs. A. D. Hale at Claxter, at tin age of 92 years, 11 months si:,, is also survived by two sons. George W. and William E. Irons of Idaho. 13 grand children, l great grandchildren and eUl.t great great grandchildren. Fun eral services will be held at th Hayesville church Monday at with interment in the Jeffer-...i cemetery. Webb's parlors in charge. Becke & Hendricks 189 N. Hish St Telephone 11 IDENTIFY 'FLYER'S' BODY Corpse Found on Beach at Ven tura Always Buried Twice PRISONER FREED AT LAST Authorities Finally Convinced .4r thur Gibson Not John Meek MARYSYILLE. Cal.. Feb. 17. AP) Arthur Gibsou. who has been held in jail here after lie was Identified by a woman as John Meek, wanted for the mur der of John Ansil at Klamath Falls. Ore., probably will be lib erated tomorrow. Sheriff C. J. McCoy said tonight. Gibson denied that his name was "Meek" when he was con fronted by Mrs. Marjorie Httnsak- er Butts, who said he was Meek, a man she had known in school! days. A telegram was received to night by Sheriff McSoy from Bar ney Chambers, the storekeeper at Klamath Falls who had employed Ansil. Chambers had offered $1,000 of the $2100 for the arrest of Meek. Chambers' wire said: "The man you have under ar rest as Arthur Gibson is not John Meek." VENTURA. Cal.. Feb. 17. AP) The body found on the beach here yesterday and believed to be that of one of the missing Dole flight aviators late today was identified as that of Henry Froe lich of Honolulu, who had been twice buried at sea. Deputy sheriffs identified the remains by a necktie, the only ar- MOONSHINER JAILED PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 17. (AP) H. D. Masters of Klamath Falls was sentenced to three months in jail by Federal Judge McNary today. Manufacture and possession of moonshine was the charge. FREE VOTING BALLOT This ballot is good for 200 votes for the candidate in The Oregon Statesman Subscription Campaign, whose name is written on it. Do not fold. Trim. 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