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The . New Oregon States- Is adding from 20 to lOO new, subscribers every day to an already large sub scription list. "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shell Aac'1 ! tfc Tint Statea Muck 28, 1851. SEVENTY-EIGHTH YEAR Salem, Oregon Wednesday Morning, November tl$ 1928 PRICE FIVE CENTS LEGION SEEKS LABOR'S HELP TO CURB WARS President of Veterans' Or ganization Addresses Federation Meet Preparation Advocated Pend ing Working Out of Better Methods - NEW ORLEANS, Not. , 20 (AP) Union of. labor nd the le gion to support legislation to pre vent war was urged today by Paul V. McNutt, national commander, of the American Legion, in an ad dress before the annual conventon of the Amercan Federaton of La bor. "Shoulder to shoulder, labor and the legion can to this service together for our country,'1 he ex claimed amid applause from the labor leaders. Appealing for labor support for universal draft legislation backed by the legion, McNutt said it would be a "service for all, creat ing an equal responsibility in cit izenship, eliminating the slacker, elimjihating privilege, profit and plunder when the emergency arises." War Irofitcers Roundly Criticized Declaring that at the close of the world war "a new million aire's mansion could be checked against every white cross and star on the battlefields," he asserted that the legion was convinced that the "greatest insurance for per manent peace is the taking of pro fit out of war." Commander McNutt declared that a "better method than war must be found for settling inter national disputes. Such a method must be practical and must be ac cepted by all nations. Until such a method is found and accepted this nation must provide an de quate defense. "We of the legion who have ex perienced the horrors of unpre paredness in war have in our hearts but one reason for dtmand ing an adequate protection for our country. That reason la peace." "We are preparing for war be cause that is what the army ex ists for. If war comes that war is the. -country's .war .and-not the army's war. The army is merely the weapon of the country in en forcing its will." AS FLOODS RECEDE KANSAS CITY, Nov. 20. (AP) As the flood waters of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma continued to recede today, two more dead were added to the toll of flood victims and reports of suffering and devastation wrought by the high water stimulated re lief activities in the three states. The finding today of the body of Charles Culbertson, farm hand, who disappeared while do. ing rescue work at Winfield, Kans., and the drowning late this afternoon of James Darden, 57, Liberal, Mo., while removing de bris from a railroad bridge over the Neosho river near Chetopa, brought to 16 the known death toll. Bodies of two victims of the flood of the Marais Des Cygnc-s river were recovered at Ottawa. Kans., late today. As the waters of the swollen river receded reiief workers found the bodies of Dr. J. Ward Smith, a retired dentist, and Mercene Jones, 12, aughter of Mrs. C. C. Jones. Mrs. Jones, her two daughters. Dr. Smith and Dr. Ralph Shiras drowned Saturday vhen a motor boat capsized in a hirlpooL Right to Water At Breitenbush Being Disputed Testimony was taken by the state engineer here Tuesday on the application of Mark S. Sk'.ff for permission to appropriate water from the Breitenbush Hot Springs for medicinal and bathing pur poses. The application was opposed by the Breitenbush Mineral Springs company, F. A. Bruckman and Bruckman and Joseph M. Healey. It was alleged that the water was not subject to appropriation for the reason that the entire flow of the springs is now used by the Breitenbush Mineral Springs com pany. An engineer for the engineering department reported adversely to the application. Logger's Skull And Arm Injured An unidentified logger sus tained an injured . skull and a broken left arm in an accident near Stayton Tuesday afternoon. He was rushed to Salem in the Golden ambulance and placed aboard a north bound Southern Pacific train. In Portland he war to be assigned to the St. Vincent's hospital. E DEAD FOUND Hoover Plans Off Lower Itinerary Honduras and Salvador Add ed to List; Panama Will be Admitted ON BOARD USS MARYLAND EN ROUTE TO AMAPALA. Hon duras. Nov. 20. (AP) Herbert Hoover intends to engage in his favorite sport of fishing tomorrow morning on the sea off Cap San Lucan. the extreme southern tip of lower California. During the day the Maryland was speeded up two knots so that it was clearing the calm seas at 17 knots in order that the president elect may not lose any time on his good will mission to Latin Amer ica by bis deep sea . fishing. The waters off the Cape abound in large fish. After the battleship lays to. Mr. Hoover with other members of the party will put off in the admiral's barge for the fishing grounds. It is probable, in event of suitable weather conditions, that they will keep their lines out most of the morning. Mr. Hoover was up early this morning. He walked the quarter deck at a brisk pace in the bright sunshine before go ing in for breakfas. Later he discussed with Ambassador Henry P. Fletcher the details of their itinerary. Later it was announced that the president-elect would visit both Honduras and Salvador before Nicaragua and that the contem plated stop at the Panama canal will be omitted to give greater time for the acceptance of the many invitations from republics of the southern continent. The itinerary as determined goes no CHAMBEflLAIitf FACES CAUSTIC CRITICISM British Foreign Secretary to be Greeted by Opponents in Entjland LONDON. Nov. 20. (AP) Sir Austin Chamberlain, British foreign secretary, who sailed from Quebec for England on Saturday probably will need all the health restored him by California sun shine and bracing Canadian breezes to weather the criticism awaiting him in Great Britain be cause of his part in the abortive Anglo-French naval pact. The pact itself is dead, parlia ment buried it with a formal de bate on November 13 but its mem ory remains as one of the most crushing blows to recent British diplomacy. The ghost of the fias co may haunt Sir Austen through out his political career, and his return to the foreign office may signal a new attack upon the Stanley Baldwin government. Sir Austen is certain to be called upon for his story of the pact negotiations. A question in the House of Commons can revive the issue any time, and with a general . election coming, labor and liberal opposition will use ev ery opportunity for criticism of the conduct of foreign affairs by Mr. Baldwin's colleagues. COSTS 51337 HERE Kenneth Bayne, chairman of the Marion county democratic cen tral committee, expended in be half of Alfred E. Smith during the recent campaign the amount of $1397.97, according to an expense account filed in the state depart ment Tuesday. Other expense ac counts filed Tuesday follow: II. D. Norton, democrat, for judge of the circuit court, 1st district, $280; Howard K. Zlm merman, republican, f0r circuit judge for the 20th district. r397.62; William H. Bennett. In dependent, for representative, 6th district. J 18.75; Louis L. Knapp, republican, for representative, 6th district, $10. SO; L. E. Wilkes, re publican, for representative, 15th district, $25. Anna L. Wells, democrat, for representative, 15th district, $25.05; Al Price, democrat, for riMrseniaure join district. $22.50; John L. Foote, republi can, ror district attorney Colum bia county. $35.60; Georee W. Miller and J. C. Stnrgill. chairman and secretary of Baker county re publican central committee, in support of republican candidates, 9b.. Women Enters Not Guilty Plea To Death Charge PORTLAND, Ore., Not. 20. (AP) Doreene de Selvo, 32, en tered a plea of not guilty to a first degree murder charge here today in connection with the fatal shoot ing of Gilbert Pinto of San Fran cisco, on November 8. : The . shoot Ins; took., place aboard the Mat son liner Malolo as the ship was tied in the Portland harbor. Pin to was a member of the crew. ' After her arrest the woman told police Pinto had reconsidered his -jromise, of marriage to her and told her he never wanted to see SMITHS GiPM her again. .. -.. ... ...... to Fish California; is Changed farther than Chile, the southern most of the western countries of South America. The Maryland is expected to drop anchor in the Gulf of Fon seca early next Sunday morning. From there both Amapala, Hon. duras, and La Union. Salvador, will be visited. The ship will next visit Corinto, Nicaragua and Pun ta Arenas. Costa Rica and is scheduled to reach Ecuador on November 30. Valparaiso, where Mr. Hoover will leave the Mary land and journey to Buenos Aires by the Trans-Andean railway, is expected to be reached on 'Decem ber 7. CREW OF VESTRIS DESCRIBES LEAKS Saloon Mate and Waiter Tell How No Attention Paid to Conditions NEW YORK, Nov. 20. (AP) A saloon mate and a waiter from the crew of the steamer Vestris terrified today at the federal in qui:y into the sinking of the ship with the loss of more than 100 lives, that It always leaked at ports and dcors when there was heavy weather and that nothing was ever done about stopping the flow of water. Previous witnesses have testi fied that on its last trip, sea water poured into the Vestris through these ports and doors so fast that the combined efforts of the steam pumps and bucket brigades of sea- jmen could not keep up with it. The testimony of the saloon mate and waiter came only an hour or two after two inspectors of the United States steamboat inspections service of the depart ment of commerce had testified at a separate inquiry going forward in the Customs House that they had inspected the Vestris a few days before it sailed and found it sea worthy in all respects. The inspector of hulls mention ed in particular the ports and doors through which other per sons say the sea poured in streams, and said he had found them fit. . One of today's witnesses who told of the leakage, which both asserted occurred whenever the ship' struck a storm,, said he had reported, the defects in writing, telling the land officials of the line that the ports and doors need ed to be re-rubbered. The other said he had made no reports as the leaks were a matter of com mon knowledge. Both said that no repairs had been made prior to the last voyage of the Vestris. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. (AP) The attempt of Senator Borah of Idaho to collect funds by voluntary subscription to pay back the $160,000 contribution of Har ry F. Sinclair to the republican campaign deficit of 1920, was de finitely abandoned today, and the Senator began returning about $8,000 so far received. Senator Borah, who took a lead ing role in the recent campaign of Herbert Hoover, said however, he had not abandoned the idea of "purging" the Sinclair contribu tion from the party. The sugges tion has been made that the pros Dectlve campaign surplus of the party for this year be applied to paying off Sinclair's contribution. The senator seems to be agreeable to this prosposal. The return of the $8,000 is proving quite a task for the Ida hoan. He received these contribu tions during the last year from about 340 persons. Records were kent and the money deposited in a bank. Added what he was doing with the interest collected on tne money, the senator smiled and replied. "I can say I am not charging anything for my services." Inspectors Deny Being Drunk At Vestris Inquiry NEW YORK, Nov. 20. (AP) An accusation that two govern ment Inspectors were Intoxicated when they examined and passed the liner Vestris five days before she sank with a loss of more than 100 lives was read today at a de partment of commerce inquiry; and immediately drew a shouted denial from Captain Edward Keene, one of the examining of ficers. Both Keane and his assist ant said they had found the Ves tris seaworthy. Salvation Army Head is Better v LONDON, Nov. 20 (AP) ; General . Bramwell Booth had a quiet day and showed slight: Im provement tonight. The Medical Bulletin issued by the headquar ters of the Salvation Army . said however, that the aged command er was not yet out of danger. BORAH Si H MONEY IRE CHARGES ARE HURLED AT INDIAN BUREAU Senatorial Investigating Committee Bares Addi tional Scandal Gross Mistreatment of Gov ernment Wards Sworn to by Witnesses SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20. (AP) Additional charges of maladministration were laid against the federal Indian bureau today during the second meeting of the senatorial committee which is investigating the alleged mis treatment of the California In dians.. Witnesses supported the testi mony given at yesterday's hear ing that the Indians were "liv ing like animals on the edges of forests and desert and on the verge of starvation." Mrs. Daniel E. Robertson, for mer matron of the Tuma Indian reservation school, testified that the 160 girls and boys In the school were half-starved, being fed on "weevil-inrested beans and bread made from bad flour." Gross Neglect of Children Described She testified that there were 12 dairy cows on the reservation but that none of the milk was ever given to the Indian children. "It was fed to the hogs," she asserted. Professor Thomas F. Sanford of the Universi- of California and Mrs. Sanford testified to what they called "a typical case" while they were motoring in the Nav ajo reservation last summer, Mrs. Sanford eaw an Indian woman give birth to a child under dis tressing circumstances in a shack without medical aid, she testified. Before they could get the reserva tion physician to aid the woman both she and the baby died, Mrs. Sanford said. Stephen Knight and William Benson, Indians from Ukiah, said that their people in the north western part of the state were im poverished, that much of the land given them was unfit for agricul ture that they lived in hovels without floors, that they had dif ficulty in getting work and that there was no money for the old people of the tribe. PERU PREPARES TO LIMA, Peru, Nov. 20. (AP) Not only the government but the people of Peru are partici pating in preparations for welcom ing Herbert Hoover, whose pres ence in this hemisphere is held to mark the beginning of a new age in the history of inter-American relations. Today the whole government met in the historic hall of the for eign office palace to pay tribute to the author of the famous Mon roe Doctrine at the unveiling of a portrait of President James Mon roe. Among the special celebrations in the course of Mr. Hoover's vis it will be- the exhibition of an au tographed letter written by George Washington, the father of Amer ican Independence. It is owned by a Lima resident of Anglo-Saxon antecedents In whose family it has been an inheritance for gen erations. The letter is dated Feb ruary 15, 1774. Compromise Offer Upon Warmsprings Project Rejected Representatives of the Warm springs : irrigation district and members of the bondholders com mittee, at a conference with the state reclamation commission here Monday, were uanble to reach an agreement regarding the reorgan ization or the project and the mat ter was left up to the reclama tion commission for arbitration. The district had submitted a counter proposal for the settle ment of a debt exceeding $2,200,- 000. The district offered $400, 000 in cash and $400,000 in re funding bonds. This offer was refused by the bondholders committee, which in turn, r offered to accept a settle ment on a basis of $500,000 in cash and $500,000 in refunding bonds. - State Engineer Luper was in structed to prepare a report and recommendations within the next 10 days. This report will be pre sented to the reclamation com mission. L " i Murderer Given v Prison Sentence ASTORIA, Ore , Nov. 20. ( AP -f Frank Hathaway, Joh n Dayli Fish I Buyer, convicted here Friday "of murdering his wife in Uielr houseboat home on John Day river last July, was sentenced tc life imprisonment; today in circui court- It is thought improbable that an appeal will be asked. WaCOME HOOVER Farm Bloc to Tty Liberty Party Move 1 X . -3 1 fimPSTEABJ McMASTER ' ' r BROOKHART Minnesota 7 - - - . 'VTSSouth Dakota NORBECK Iowa 1 ; - v 1 South Dakota 1 lj-l I) NORMS tVV, fV ' ' ' 1 HOWELL Nebraska Nebraska JV DILL Washington vti I A Kt nl ';r 1 WALSH Massachusetts With all members of the Progressive bloc in th e senate emerging from the elections undefeated, and with others of Progressive tendencies retaining office. Progressive leaders have been planning a program to initiate a liberal party movement throug'i the reorganization of the Democratic party. Sena tor Hendrik Shipfrtead, Farmer. Laborite from Minn eota, will have a key position in the new organiza tion, it is said, by virtue of bis strength in his own state, where he piled up a majority of 800,000 while the state was voting for Hoover. Senator Norris, however, remains the leader of the group. A conference of Progressives before BO FIEI KILLS THREE. HURTS 1W0 Football Star's Wife Attacked an? Btrnck in Face WitaHaichet v OMAHA, Nebr., Not, 20., (API Two hundred policemen and officers and as many citizens were on watch In all parts of the city tonight seeking trace of a maniac hatchet slayer who the police are convinced is responsi ble for the death of three persons and the wounding of two, one proboably fatally. Not since Frank Carter, the sniper, terrorised the city several years ago with his silencer-automatic rifle, has Interest and ex citement been so tense. Carter shot several persons to death. The latest victims i of the hatchet maniac" were revealed early this morning when Mrs. Harold Stribling, wife of a former high school football star, was at tacked and struck in the face with the hatchet. She was taken cap tive by him and led to a lonely spot, in a swamp not far from their home in Iowa, just across the state line. ' Stribling, struck first by the fiend, is not expected to live. His skull was crushed. Leaving the wife in the swamp the man, described by Mrs. Strib ling as a negro of light complex ion, about 21 years of age, disap peared. Her face, bleeding from wounds, Mrs. Stribling wandered to a street Intersection and there met a policeman who summoned aid. Rewards offered now (total $1, 000 for his capture. j Motorship Runs On Rocks, Crew Flees to Shore VANCOUVER, B. C, Nov. 20. -(AP) Driven' on the rocks at Point Upwood south end of Tex- ada Island,' in Georgia Strait. early today, the coastal motorship Arran Firth was reported in a precarious condition. A tugboat was standing by the crew of the stranded vessel escaped to shore. The steamer had general cargo for Rivers Inlet, B. C. The Arran Firth is owned by Frank Waterhouse and company of Canada, Limited, with fflcers in Vancouver. ' She Is 1 38 feet long. Gene's Name Is Now Listed In 4 '-.'!, Social Register NEW YORK. Nov. 20. (AP) The name of Gene Tanney, re tired heavyweight boxlageham- p'rfn appears in the latest, edition of , - - -ocial register, listed under h ' -i'.idpn name of his Wife, the fo'tner fHss Mary J. R. Lauder. , The listing which follows the israe of 'Tnnney's mother-in-law, s entered in the register as: "Miss Lauden Mary Jj R. (late Jeorge, Jr. ) married ait : Rome, Tutrney,- Mr." James J., October Z." FRAZIER LaFOLLETTE NYE North Dakota Wisconsin North Dakota the convening of congress is being Jim Reed s Last Stand Promises Stormy Session Valedictory of Disappointed Solon Will Reflect Sor row at Loss Br CHARLES P. STEWART Wiihinrton Correspondent For Central Pmi and The Statesman ww WASHINGTON. Nov. 20. Jim Reed's wind-up series of performances in the sen ate this winter will be worth com ing miles to see and hear. It undoubt edly will be the Missouri states man's valedic tory, and no b o d y who knows Jim Reed makes any question that it will be red hot. Jim probably is the worst disap pointed solon who ever ar- JAMES A.EEEO rived at the end of his term. He is not the type of individual to be chastened by it. Any set-back in his fortunes simply makes Jim Reed as mad as a hornet. His set-backs since last June have been the most hu miliating in his career. It is a fair conclusion that he is corres pondingly sore. In fact, it is cer tain. He has proved it by things he has said. Defeat Robbed In Being beaten for the presiden tial nomination is not a uniquely painful experience for a public man, to be sure. It happens to quite a bunch of them every four yeara Jim, however, assuredly did have . defeat rubbed in. He not only was beater; he was beaten ignominiously. He wanted that nomination so badly that he stretched the rules of the game pret.y far He ap pealed for help to various old en emies who gave him a certain amount of encouragement for awhile, building up his hopes until he , really thought his chances were pretty good, and then threw him down. -The senator is fast Bearing 70. Indeed, he will.be past 70. before his state has another senatorshlp t offer, and ' even then Harry Ha wee, who occupies that partic ular seat now, is sure to. want It again. A come-back at 70-odd is pretty unlikely. All in all, we can take it tor granted that Senator Reed has a lot of venom in his system, even for him, and the three months' of the-winter session of congress' will be" his last opportunity to bite any body, in an official capacity. BRIDGE TOLL ABOLISHED OLYMPIC, Wash., Nov. 20. ( AP) An agreement for taking over the Interstate bridge across the Columbia river at Vancouver, from Multnomah and Clark" coun ties was reached here today by the Oregon and Washington state highway commissions. planned. WOMAN ATTEMPTS FUMING COLUDO Man and Wife on Voyage Down Stream in Scow of Own Construction GRAND CANYON. Aril., Nov. 20. (AP) The foaming Colora do river, whose muddy, turbulent waters have wrapped in tragedy many times the efforts of man to conquer it by boat Is being dared for the first time by a woman as a "vacation" frolic. Somewhere between Needles, Calif., and here, Mrs. Glen R. Hyde of Hansen, Idaho, and her husband, are crouching in a home made scow as they tumble over dangerous rapids down the twist ing river. Their journey is over what is known as the "inland wat er route." They first launched their scow at Green River, Utah. Never before has a woman at tempted to triumph over the long stretch of the Colorado, one of the most difficult and dangerous upon the continent. The adventure, undertaken as a part of the couple's vacation, also will set another record if it Is suc cessful. All previous expeditions have lined their boats down the more dangerous passages, while the Hyde scow is without aid oth er than that its two passengers can render. The scow is constructed of two by four planks and is double bot tomed. Huge sweeps at stern and bow guide it, the river's current supplying its motive power. 3 School Girls Leave Class To Seek Adventure GRANTS PASS. Ore., Nov. 20. -(AP) Letha Munkers. Phyllis Daniels and Era Mcintosh, all 14- year-old Wolf Creek high school girls, were found hiking along the highway six miles from home to day after having been missing since yesterday morning. The girls, who started for school yesterday morning and did not report, state that they went for a hike In the mountains near their home and had stayed out all night, building a huge fire to keep warm. - The girls were found by Sheriff. W. 14. Hayes of'Josephine county" who hds joined In trie search in which the whole of the Wolf Creek community had taken part ; The girls had their lunches with., which they had started to day and regarded the whole mat ter as a holiday hike. Their mothers. welcomed them home to day with open arms. Whiskey Causes Death of Child LOS v ANGELES. . Nov. 20. (AP) -Acute alcoholism was the canse of death of two-year-old Francisco Snares yesterday ac cording to an autopsy today. . The child's, parents returned home to find the baby with a half empty whiskey bottle at -its side. .The tot; died at a hospital, after emer. gency treatment failed.. . - KEVES' DEPUTY IS INSPIRATIOf BEHIND CHARGE Testimony Made Public Up on Arraignment of Dis trict Attorney Insincere Prosecution in Ju lian Case Said to Have - Netted Profit LOS ANGELES. Nov. 20.. (AP) Testimony which plumbed the depths of the administration of the Los Angeles county district attorney's office under the vet eran prosecutor Asa Keyes, taken secretly by a grand jury, was, re leased today at the arraignment of Keyes on bribery charges whirhj grew out of the investigation. Harold L. Davis, chief deputy under Keyes at the time of th prosecution of the leaders of th Julian Petroleum company finan cial fiasco, told the jury that Iter broke with Keyes because of what he described as "insincere prose cution" of the Julian defendants, all of whom were acquitted after trial in state courts. Four of the promoters of the oil company later were convicted in federal court on charges of using the mail lo defraud. The information revealed that Davis voluntarily appeared beforw the grand jury to testify concern ing his break with Keyes, and that he denied charges made by Milton Pike and Joseph Sherman, work men in the Getroff Tailor shop, that he was to "get a cut" of the money paid in "fixing" the Jul ian cases. Pike and Sherman testified re garding frequent conversations which they alleged led to a "pay off" between Keyes and their em ployer, Ben Getzoff, who they des cribed as the "fixer" representee Ed and Jack Rosenburg, indicted in the $4,000,000 debacle of the oil firm. The workmen in th tail or shop read from a diary wbicn they kept, and told the jury that they quarreled with Getxoff his son Dave because he abusive language and cheated them out of wages. Liquor parties with Kcyca Getzoff and Reimer present in thm Spring street tailor shop were des cribed by the workmen. Keyes was in court today for ar raignment on a bribery and cn- spiracy in office charge today. arraignment was set over ft days upon the request of Key. PLAIUS FIXED FO POPULATION COOT WASHNGTON, Nov. 20. (AP) -When the population of the cit ies of the United States is eat Crated in the 315th census- arations for taking which In 19M are now well advanced the total Will disclose the number of swr- Sons living in each metropolitan 1 district as well as within city wa its. W. M. Steuart, director of tne census bureau, describing today in his annual report the plans for the 1920 enumeration, explained that every city of over 50,000 pec ulation would be studied with re ference to the adjacent, densely populated territory outside of ita boundaries. The census will in clude the total population of each district, he added, as well as for the inhabitants within the actual city limits. Youngster Saves Lives of Seven EDMONTON, Alta.. 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