Circulation
The Weather
Mg. for 1923. 5250
' ution of Salem 1909, 4258;
T"VnU i M 094; 1920. 17.679
'oy?1'. 47:i77: Polk
'county. 14,181
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ORRGOX: Tonight ami Thurs
day rain; strong southerly wind
LOCAL: Hanlfall. 1.29; sonthcr
ly winds : raining; maximum S2,
minimum 39, set 52; river 4.2 feet
and rising.
Leased Wire.
Price Three Cents 3E
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, March 16, 1921
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Mar. 16- Balloting In
, ...nmiinn strike vole
nna i " 1
cnniovpH began
.n.u .numbers of the
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L-....A Meat Cutters and
l i n-urn vntin-. (IT
mtn on a strike, ten
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Thieves Roh Pnnb
0 ry Dollar;
$20,000 Is Loot
Uniontown, Kan., March 16.-The State Bank at Union
town was robbed early today of virtually every dollar of cash
and securities. The robbers gathered the loot into harrs ar,rl
escaped northward in a motor car. Officials of the bank said
V A Is-ton lvUl. 1 1 . . .
w ivim pxuuauiy wouia amount to about $20,000
Insured Youth's
Double Murdered;
Mother, Son Held
Huns Given
Seven Days
rT T XV 1 m I resulted in
lo Pay Debt
i'The body
Paris, Mar. 16. The allied rep
arations commission, in its note to
Germany demanding fulfillment ..f
article 286 of the peace treaty, no
li lied the Uorman government it
nmut nnu nnc . , I I i . . , , 1 -l-a
leHcendei upon ! before March 23, it was announced
l.ii An the South Side hist todav.
Hw AemaTA tO VOtfi be- i Tbo mrmw Use A.mt.Jl ;
.pistPnt that the ballot the Hank of Krance, Bank of Ens
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vh Mar. 16. HalloTs
here todny for the refnr-
. j.in., if n Rtrike iH tj
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K ..inr, io nntihlp tn in-
or buiwii ---
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iihe men contend is na-
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nnd or the federal reserve banl
i the United
(told.
Warsaw, Ind., March 16. De
velopments at a coroner's inquest
last night and investigations by
detectives in the case of the youth
found fatally injured on a rail
road crossing near here Saturday.
the arrests of Mrs.
ker, and her son, Virgil.
The body was identified as that
of LeRoy Lovett of Elkhart, Ind.,
and a verdict that Lovett had been
murdered by an unknown person
was returned.
Mrs. Dacker's arrest followed
her repudiation of her identifica
tion of ie body, which she and
others of her family had main
tained was that of Lovett, whom
ha mm i il shp kfiw well. The two
uciui rt tiei t ua n k i n 1 "
States, Germany uvaBythn were called doubles because
Virgil Decker was arreted in
Marion, Ind., last night.
Virgil Decker was known to
have been insured for $19,000,
some of the policies containing
clauses providing for double in
demnity in event of accidental
death, bringing the policies to
$34,000 payable to his brother
Fred.
Invfxstip'sitinn indirated that
Lovett was murdered and his body
placed on the track to cover up
Pavements
pavements caused by the
rains are held responsible
auiomoDlle collisions iiiiiwi
nere vesterday in which
cars were smashed to some
when one driven by R. E.
E. Balschweird of Scio. The
were travelinc on State be-
Hirti anil Thnreh
inn tn .1 t ha tin Mpo n 1 '4
iuuiij; in UJiij.ir. ivir. .jiim
fiu tnuT an aereenienL ji.tu
Legislation
Priority Is
Big Issue
Harding To Confer
With Leaders In
Congress On Tariff
and Tax Revision
Washington, Mar.
for tariff or internal
16. Priority
Four Are
Held For
Swindle
Etheridge, His Wife,
Morris and Pratt
Indicted by Grand
Jury
Portland, Or., Mar. 16. Four
indictments, charging misappro
priation of a total of 2bsf,tt9,
were served today on persona fig
uring in the collapse of the bond
house of Morris Brothers, Inc.
Those accused by the grand Jury
were: John Etheridge, former
president of the wrecked bond
house.
Mrs. Stella Etheridge, his wife.
Fred S. Morris, founder of the
concern.
Forbes B. Pratt, secretary.
All the charges read "larceny
by embezzlement. "
Etheridge is implicated in each
of the four indictments, Murnii is
named in two of them, and Mrs.
I I li.iH.1 i.iiil Prutl ill mm eneil.
One indictment charges Ether
idge and Morris with embezzle
ment of $1UO,000 which was plac
ed on deposit at a Forest drove,
Or., bank and immediately turned
Aver to Morris indirectly bv means
of payment to Miss Henrietta Mor
ris, sister of Fred Morris.
Etheridge, Morris and Pratt
were indicted in a second true bill
charging they engineered a deal
whereby $25,000 in stock of the
Rogue River Water company, the
property of Morris Brothers, Inc.,
was turned over to Miss Morris in
February 1919 for $1.
A third indictment against Eth
eridge concerns alleged duplica
tion of asseta.
Etheridge and Mrs. Etheridge
were accused of embezzlement of
an additional $100,000 in bonds.
These bonds, the grand Jury as
serts, Etheridge took from the as
sets of che firm, placing 125,000 of
them in a safety deposit bo nere
Latest Photograph of
Mrs. Hamon and Child
w'km Wmi j&EBb?
Judge Preparing
Charges to Jury ;
Arguments Begin
Conviction Means Death Sentence, Prison
Term or Minimum Fine of $1.00; Threats
Made Against Principals and Attorneys In
volved; Refuses to Eliminate Arguments
Ardmore, Okla., March 16. Introduction of testimony in
the trial of Clara Smith Hamon for the alleged murder of
Colonel Jake L. Hamon, republican national committee iaan
from Oklahoma and millionaire oil and railroad man, ended
at 10:23 o'clock this morning and court was recessed until
3 p. m., to permit Judge Thomas W. Champion to prepare his
introductions to the jury.
Each side was allotted five hours for arguments, and it
was said that if the court had prepared his charge by the
time court reconvenes they will be gotten under way
immediately.
Death Ends
Effort to Dig
Own Grave
Hazleton, Pa., Mar. 16. Death
from a paralytic stroke yesterday
prevented Frank Marterllli from
completing thed lgglng of his own
grave, it became known today.
Friends said he often expressed
fer he would not live much longer
and two days before he died he be
gan digging the grave.
Hamon's Letters
Are Admitted As
Evidence In Case
the crime
Yonth Denies Guilt
Marion, Ind., Mar. 16. VirgJl
Decker, held here in connection
with thi Wnrsnw death mvsterv.
today implicated another man, ac-i an(j $75,000 in a box at Tacoma.
cording to Sheriff Fowler. lne
man's identity, however, was not i
disclosed.
Decker, the sheriff said, told of
hiring an automobile with Lovett I
and the third nerson and going to
tax revision ' Fred Decker's farm near Atwood.
legislation at the special session or
SI Hill ns
am A ww AMAVf
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Of Abdication
ens. i:,f i r. u ne- rnns :in-
tin fni, n.l f inn frti rPlllirtS
en in t h. n imt states itiai
considering abdicating in
fhfsson. Prince George.
let me have peace," Con
f exclaimed when asked if
imiis were irue. l nave nu
Or any one else."
congress still WU an open question
today and probably will be the sub
ject of conferences to be held with
in the next few days by President
Harding with congressional leaders.
Prospective fiscal legislation was
discussed hv Mr. Hardinc vesterdav
with Chairman Penrose of the sen
ate finance committee, and Chair
man Fordney of the house ways
and means committee.
The two chairmen laid before the
president the results of the preced
ing day's meeting of the republi
can members of their committees
with Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon.
The definite results of the White
House conference were said by the
chairmen to have been the obtain
ing of presidential approval for the
proposal to enact as soon as possi
ble after convening of the special
session April 11 of anti-dumping
and American valuation of imports
lgesilation.
Both Senator Penrose and Rep
resentative Fordney expect to con
fer with Mr. Harding before the
end of the week and in the me
Thev then went to a summer cab
in on the Tippecanoe river, near
the farm, he is alleged to have
said.
After more than an hour of
I questioning Sheriff Fowler said he
I had obtained little Information
from Decker, who appeared evas
ive and gave confusing answers.
"It appears that some one is
trying to accuse me of taking some
body out and killing him," said
Decker. "I would not do anything
like that."
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uaath nere
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uernoon at 4 o clock, Rob-
fn. Salem youth, is at the
w Biunai luiu in a
Portland Woman
Who Knew Twain
Called by Death
Portland, Or., Mar. 16 4rs.
Nina Iarowe, who was in the party
with Mark Twain on the tour on
which he wrote "Innocents
Abroad," is dend here today after
an illness of four week. For 1C
years she was a dancing t ach r
here and before that was on the
stage in New York ind Ne-.v Eng
land as Miss Helen Temple. As a
girl she crossed the plains with an
immigrant train and locate 1 with
ho- riiirents at Nevada City. In Ne
vada she was married to a lawyer
named Larowe.
Mathews Rejects
Offer of Coaching
Job at Washington
Refusing an offer which would
better him considerably in a fi
nancial way and connect him with
time the president is expected to the
athletic department of one of
call in other members of the two
committees to reecive views as to
whether tariff or tax revision
should he eiven Drecedence, The
majority of the two committees are
known to favor taking up the tariff
first.
Camouflage Used
To Induce Hen
To Mother Chick
the largest colleges on - -
" . r. T M.illlOU'ti fn r
coast, Coacn . -
the past six years director of ath
letics at Willamette university, to
day declined an offer to become
varsity baseball coacn a..u
or 0f freshman football at the
Fniversity of wasnms'-
The offer of the v. asm..,.
ea oy i -
.1 a reee i v
nonuuu . .
from Coach Bagshaw ot me football mi'erial.
" !. ' J ' - -
tie institution, several days
a... i. .. mt until today that he
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finally decided to reject the offer.
In his letter to Bagshaw today
Mathews said that he could not
accept the proffered position be
cause of plans for the develop
ment of athletics at Willamette
which he has started and which
he feels bound to see put thru to
their conclusion.
As freshman footb.nl rvich at
Washington, Coach Mathews would
have the handling of around 125
the high school stars of -he slate
of Washington and to him ,d
.. ,.,.ii of develops ; the fu-
taii
Strike Ties
Up Mines;
3000 Out
Seattle, Wash., Mar. 16. Be
tween 2000 and 3000 soft coal min
ers, employed in commercial mines
of the state were idle toduy as a
result of their refusal to accept
wage cuts average 23 per cent made
elective by operators at midnight
Operators announced that the
mines would remain closed until
settlement of the controversy.
Sixteen companies joined in tne
shut down, the list Including all
but one of the larger commercial
companies operating in the west
side of the state ana one company
operating on the east side. Rail
road mines were not affected.
SOOO Men Idle.
Operators today claimed that
3000 men were Idle. At state head
quarters of the United Mine Work
en of America, however, it was
said that not more than 2000 men
were thrown out of work by the
shutdown, which union officials
Vermed a lockout. There are about
4000 union miners In the state, the
Officials declared, of whom about
half are working in railroad mines.
Fuel dealers said that Heat lie.
ftMkan, ,md other larger cities
which depend In part on the prod
uct of Washington mines for their
fuel supply, would experience a coal
shortage within the next two weeks
Fnion officials said the men
would not return to work pending
a national settlement of the dispute.
Mulberry, Kan., Mar. 16 Mrs
George Brown, a chicken fancier.
resorted to camouflage successfully
when one of her hens retuseo to
adopt an incubator chick. The hen
L-,.,1 Httla one fl flnffv white ball
ai hh i - -
critical was treated to a coat of black shoe
li.r.iinh and the foster mother then
Kho has been n ssoctureil . received it cordially.
local , mi I
ui i ne.- r:i . nerame e'ii-i
1 while at his room in the
hotel Tneudu, nir-ht and
iu me nospiT-il a snon
9t- H;"d his operation been
tvn V , .
---- nuuis longer me case
save heen fatal rw w r-ari-
been fatal rir v Carl
I the attending physician,
r exneetea . ..- u
Espee Reduces
Wages In South
Extennsion of
Occupied Zone
ue arrived nere
.v inat thtTr coming iav
the rinrnn.ttnii of
Largely as the result of tne e.
fons of four powerful speakers
headed by Walter A. Denton of
Salem, who addressed the 2nd
district conference of Rotarjan,
New Orleans, La, Mar. M Jja "ded at ""tu'r. perform
nouncement was made here tcda , wiU pernapS p ,
that effective April 14 there would greattr work th the )
be a reduction of ot ,inkl' ' the northwest thn at an) u
the past
Rotarians, Led By
Denton, of Salem,
Plan for Boy Work
Seen In The
Crimelight
Ardmore, Okla.
Champion In the
Smith Hamon, oi
with the murder
Kansas City, Mo., Mar. 16.
Denzel Chester was arraigned
today in the crimlnil court
here on a charge of tlr.it de
gree murder In connection with
the killing of Miss Florence
Barton, society girl, who was
shot to death on a country r uid
last fall while motoring with
her fiance.
Manila, Mar, 16 Arguments
were completed todav In the
trial of seventy-seven Filipino
constabulary soldiers on
charges of murder In connec
tion with riots here December
15, In which eleven persons
were killed. The case was tak
efl under advisement.
Portland, Or., Mar. 1 John
Levis, charged with Involun
tary manslaughter following
the death of his wife, Nellie,
during an argument In their
rooms December 12, was ac
quitted today.
Selection
Of Harvey
Approved
London. Mar. 16. The British
government today gave formal ap
proval to the appointment of Col
Oeorge Harvey as United Htalen
ambassador to Oreat Britain to suc
ceed John W. Davis.
Mexican Military Draft.
Torreon. Coahulla, Mexico, Mar
in The military authorities of
this xone have been Informed that
obligatory military service will lie
enforced In Mexico. This move
! said tn have the sanetion of ticn-
erals Obregon, Calles and Estrada
Mar. 16. Judge
trial of Clara
i trial charged
of Colonel Jake
L Hamon today ruled in admiss
ible as evidence a number of let
ters Hamon had written to the de
fendant. The defense had an ex
ception noted and formally rested,
i h. Htate i . . if, nresentation of
Its rebuttal testimony by introduc
ing Sam Blair, a newspaper man,
who obtained an Interview with
Clara Hamon at Chihuahua City,
Mexico.
Claimed Will Hidden.
tie Hnid he naw flora Ilailinn first
on the night of December 18, 1920,
and saw her twice later.
Asked regarding any statement
the defendant may have made re
garding a will left by Hamon, Hlnir
testified Clara said she believed
there was a will and that it was
being kept hidden until ufter she
ould be tried.
S. P. Freeling. state attorney
general in charge of the prosecu
tion, offered as part of the trial
record a copy of a newspaper con
taining Blair's report. The defense
objected and was sustained.
Erwln C. Ilanlels, a Denlson,
Texas, Chauffeur said he had driven
Clara Hamon from Denlson to Dal
las and that on the trip he had seen
a pistol in the defendant's hand
bag.
The court will charge the Jury
on three points: murder, which,
unon conviction, would carry a sen
tence of death or life imprisonment;
first degree manslaughter, the sen
tence for which upon conviction,
would be from four years to llfo
Imprisonment; and second degree
manslaughter, with a minimum fine
of $1.00.
Attorney General Freeling, In
charge of the prosecution, said that
H. H. Brown, special prosecutor,
would make the opening argument
and that he would close for the
state.
Threats Are Heard.
There were numerous report
about the county building this
morning of threats made against
state counsel and Jurors should a
verdict of guilty he returned
against Clara Hamon. Sheriff Buck
Ciirretf said, however, that HO suen
reports had reached him with one
exception, that of a letter written
to a member of the defense counsel
In which a warning was given of
possible violence to the defendant
should she be acquitted.
H. H. Brown, special prosecutor,
said threats had been made against
him but he would not go Into de
tail. Death Perfnlty Not Attke.
W. P. McLean of Fort Worth,
Texas, said that the defense h ad
submitted a proposal to the state
counsel to permit the case to go to
the Jury without arguments Im
mediately after the Judge reads his
charge but that the state had de
clined. Attorney fleneral Freeling point
ed out that In his opening statement
he had not referred lo a death pen
alty should Clara Hamon be found
guilty, and said he would ask a
penalty which the Jurors "In their
Judgment find fit." He said he
would not change from that In hie
argument.
Inhumanity And
Neglect Charged
To Lane Officers
Wage Scale of Four L
Workers Will Stand
Thyc Is Win, ii e.
Portland, fir., MK 1'.. Ted
Thye. claimant of the MiMtaeM tght
wrestling title of the irid. made
gbort work of Ralph :irant of I'oll
aian. Wash., here lat nigh? when
Be won his match in two Height
falls.
. 1 ill.
ed employes and eierici, " "T
tion workers and a re-urn to the
working condition of Decern!.' M.
1917. by the Southern Pacifi; lines
in T.niiisiana and Texas.
Conferences with n.ployes to , acteriled
a . .ho red:l-..ons were
I rangec las required jv the tracer-
tation act.
i -fumed
Salem WW". ; m battle
here this morning from Rattle
,.re oud in u."-
ronton. His speech
was char-
direct, elo
verbal kick
forceful.
I quent possessing
few seconds after
-. i Uo tartan. 22 of
nenr"
hooi were accompanied by th-
wives, attended the conference
from this city. A total of 101
men and 8 women attended the
meeting.
E. L Skeel, Seattle attorney,
waT chosen as district governor for
in. vear. He succeed
in-. . ,.
Nelson Pike, of Portland.
The Yakima organisation regis-(
tered every one of its 0 members.
Beilingham was given a silver eup
nted the mo
hoosted all unbelievers to his jdea ,ne conference. ;
(UAi . rt-H after n-
" Rehearsal Held
By Salem Band
Outlook Bright
The Sa'em band held first r
hsil of th' ear in !!' city hall
, ht ,i '! M- ai'.ership of
,. S'eelfiam im:, diieetor. ,
, , i .- v u. Land will be
hotter than e.ei.' Mr Sieelham
inv-i sa.u - .
"Along wiih cor eteran players, we
Iu,.e runs' 'f members
ide within
All of the
which o taken tne -
id this afternoon, and
n-Miamette ealWF.I!"-?. the universe tn
lnt."::..of a receiv- I want -, wi4i a credit to
ito ;np nun"'' - , i iujr, lH-nion r -
mm. r nt.-rT COmPii'.'
I rfHne of canneries
throughout the
Much road work has begun In the
itaxy roads within
tie h Id In V, il'a
v ia June. Mr
ed.
h' Id r gularly
first concert
n nark some
Steelhammer
Portland. Or., Mar. It. There
will be no change in the present
minimum basic wage of $3 60 a day
of the Uoyal Legion of Loggers and
Lumbermen, according to a resolu
tion adopted by the board of di
rectors who have been in session
here two days. The board which
consists of one employer and one
employe from each of the twelve
districts in the northwest discussed
the lumber situation in an effort to
bring the industry back to normal
basis.
On charges of violation of rules,
in that they paid employes leaf
than the minimum wage prescribed
by the legion, the Hidalgo Lumber
sc Box company of Anacortes.
Wash., and the Defiance Lumber
company of Tacoma mere expelled
from rt-emberj'hip In the organlx.i
was anneau.ied Delegates
announced that they had made f
forts to restore contract scales in
both plants, but without svail, and
the penalty therefore was inflicted.
Henry George Deppe. sixty-two,
father of two grown-up daughters,
will save the f od name of hla
family so he aays by wedding a
French matron beloved by his son.
and wboee home his son disrupted.
Charging Inhumanity to those
Lane county officials responsibli
for his alleged maltreatment dut
Ing his 42 days as a prisoner In the
county Jail at Kugene, Ed Craw
ford of Portland yesterday appear
ed before Judge Uuruh In the Jus
tice court and asked If there wa
some fund from which he ,nilgh:
borrow money with which to return
to his home.
Crawford said that when he first
was Incarcerated in the Kugene J ill
charged with adultery a charge
which was later withdrawn he
hud In his tiossesslon $157. After
buying his own meals and paying
doctor bills necesmrlly incurred, h,-
left the basllle, he says, witn 4t.
cents.
After learning that there Is no
fund here from which he might he
helped. Crawford refused to seel;
assistance from the Salvation Army
or the Bed Cross.
Charily Is Refused.
"I am not asking charity." he
said. "I have not yet recovered
from my illness, and I can't walk
lo Portland All I wish to do Is to
borrow enough money to get home
And when I again get on my n et i
intend to show up the Lane county
officials ."
According to Judge Unruh, here
are a few of Crawford's allegations
That he was a victim of circum
stance and, after 42 days in Jail,
was released by the district attor
ney because of an Insufficiency of
evidence.
That he was seriously 111 while It.
the Kugene Jail, and that th onl
medical treatment he was allowed
was paid for by himself.
OH Meal Daily, Allowed.
That he was given but one meal
a day.
That fpeclslly prepared food
made neceseary by his illne
paid for by himself
all his money was spent while In
the Kugene Jail.
A little money which his wife
had permlted him to get as far as
Halem. Mr. Crawford stated. Mrs.
Crawford now Is waiting him In
Portland.
Aid of Denby
Is Asked for
Arrested Lad
Telegrams exhaustively deallttaT
with the case of David R, Morton,
alleged deserter from the United
States navy, who was today taken
to Bremerton for trial tv Ch-lf of
Police Moffltt, were Issl nljrht sent
both to Kdwin Denby secretary of
the navy, and Assistant rkevctary
Koosevelt. In which they are niked
to assist the arcused youlh In t V-
ry way possible.
Morton was arrested Sunday
night on his recently purchased 20-
acre farm near Marion. Me imme
diately admitted his ghllt and ap
peared to be glad h, had been ap
prehended Morton was mil 1 14
about one month ago to Miss Grara
lieorge. formerly a Marlon scktisst
teacher. Morton s father and bro
ther are both Baptist minister of
Texas.
f-gg Weighs Fle Owner-.
I ton. Mar 1 Sergeant Au
nt, Augusta, of the Mattapan po
lice station is a proud officer. CM
vuu. i . w
wa, I going to his hen coops recently ha
... the It, ef a'l
' . ' It eleheii a traction tlfiurr
Mr Crawford sanl tnst local ooc i ..,
tor. informed Mm he should now , five ounce, whlcn the
undergoing treatment. This he ." I. "- Kj!f
say. be cannot now aTTord b-w . H.d i.e.. produced this large eg.
er' The assets are ciif ci
the liabilities $1,240,000.
" toward Essen.
hRhur. four mllM