Circulation
Average for 1920, 5250
Population of Salem 1900. 4258:
1910, 14,094; .1920, 17,679
Marion County 1920. 47,177;
Folk county, 14,181
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The Weather
OREGON: Tonight and Friday
(air; moderate northwesterly
winds.
LOCAL: Rainfall .14; south
erly winds; maximum 68, mini
mum 48, set 52; river 1.8 feet and
stationary.
Salem, Oregon, Thursday, June 16, 1921
H BiM ihh Sy aj 9l3 flIi
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Price Three Cents on tram J and news
rnce j iuee taenia stands five obnis
Cherry Crop to be
Near 3,000,000
Pounds Estimate
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AUGHT
Bulletins
San Francisco, June 16. Refined cane sugar at the re
fineries reached a new low level today, $6.15 a hundred
weight being the quotation, a drop of 25 cents. Today's re
fined beet sugar quotation is $5.95.
Washington, June 16. Conferences between the senate
and house on the naval appropriation bill ended today in a
deadlock and the four hundred and ninety four million dollar
bill, with the Borah disarmament conference amendment was
Three and a Half to Four Cents Predicted As taken ba to the house for action.
PrW Tn VifiW nf fl-liit.t.erl finnrlitinr, nf I The conferees agreed to await action by the house.
era Markets; Royal Annes to Comprise Two-
Thirds of Total Production In Salem Area
Unless the rain damage is excessive this year, there will
be approximately 3,000,000 pounds of cherries within haul
ing distance of Salem.
For these the growers will be paid about 3'2 or 4 cents
rr nound $120,000, approximately.
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These price estimates, although 'smaller than those of i company De increasea irom severuy-iwo numou uu.i wm
The conferees agreed to strike out an amendment of five
hundred thousand dollars for a new pier (number four) at
the Bremerton, Wash., navy yard but agreed to retain ninety
thousand dollars for a rifle range at the Bremeton yard, a
senate amendment.
New York, June 16. Directors of the Louisville and Nash
ville Railroad company today voted that the stock of the
many growers and a blow to the hopes of others are, never
theless, set forth by a fruit exprt who is in close touch with
the local situation and a careful student of crops and markets
throughout the United States. His opinions are based on a
study of the situation as a whole
Why but 3 M or 4 cents I
Situation Explained.
Should the Salem market for
cherries prove to be unsatisfactory
to the cherry men hereabout,
growers naturally would turn to
other markets in the hope of re
ceiving better prices. What of the
eastern states, which are clamor
ing for fresh cherries?
The answer is that the eastern
states aren't wanting cherries
not now. True, they were a short
while ago. But the cherry men of
California have rather ruined that
market for the Oregon growers.
East Is Supplied.
California cherry men failed to
get what they wanted from the
California cauners for their fruit.
As a result, hundred of cars of
California cherries began to move
eastward and the eastern markets
were heavily supplied with fresh
cherries. Oregon growers, it is con
tended, must turn elsewhere in the
disposition of their fruit.
Local cauners are unable to say
In what manner the cherries are to
be handled this year. They are
unable to guess at what proportion
will be barreled, for this is diffi
cult to determine early in the sea
ton. Crop Is Lighter.
Although this year's cherry
crop is somewhat lighter than that
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than the average year. Last sea-
ion's crop was exceptionally large.
but the rain damage was heavy
last year and nearly 2 per cent of
the cherries was wasted. Should
tbe weather be favorable, this
Tear's crop may compare very fav
orbly with that of last season.
Of the 15U0 tons in this vicin
ity, approximately a thousand tons
will be Royal Annes, and they ap
Par to be of excellent quality.
Thousands of pounds will be
Picked from "door yard" trees
bich are not considered in the
Whcial reports of cherry acreage.
nyof these trees will yield 600
700 pounds.
ussi year the Salem canneries
ch handled about 50 tons of
'terries daily, and it is believed
take cane of at least that
TOBtity this season.
Shrine Plans
Hospital For
Crippled Kids
imp hi! nHrerl nnd twentv five million dollars. It also was
decided to issue to stockholders a stock dividend of as much
of the proposed increase of fifty-three million dollars as the
interstate commerce commission might authorize.
Stillman Centers
Case On Relations
Of Wife and Guide
Poughkeepsie. N. Y., June 16.
Counsel for James A. Stillman
centered his court fight for
divorce today upon testimony re
garding the relations of Mrs.
Stillman with Fred Beauvais, the
part Indian guide named by the
New York banker as co-respondent.
Shortly afternoon they sur
prised Mrs. Stillman and her at
torneys by producing four wit
nesses said to have come from
Canada. Three of these were
women. Presumably they were to
tell of relations between defend
ant and Beauvais at the Stillman
camp near Three Rivers, Quebec.
They were expected to go on the
stand later today.
When the morning session op
ened, Bernard Kelly, former sup
erintendent of the Stillman
estate In the Pocantico Hills and
his wife, Irene Helly, were taken
into the building where the hear
ings were held. Kelley's previous
testimony concerned his reading
of a letter alleged to have been
written to Mrs. Stillman by
Beauvais.
Bernard Kelly, it Is understood,
admitted on cross-examination to
day that he willfully evaded
answering a question yesterday
as to his knowledge of the where
abouts of Mary Kelly, the maid
who is charged by Mrs. Stillman's
lawyers with having stolen uw
letters alleged to have been writ
ten to Mrs. Stillman by Beauvais.
Todav it was learned that Kei
ly told where Mary Kelly was liv
ing and explained that he had
visited her several times recently.
Efforts to call her as a witness
probably will be made by the
defense.
Big Army Bus
Wrecked; One
Dead, 12 Hurt
Tacoma, Wash., June 16. Pri
vate Arthur L. Havaux died this
morning at Camp Lewis from in
juries received at midnight when
an army bus crashed into a stone
bastion at the camp entrance.
There were thirty soldiers in the
car and 12 are injured. Havaux
died from internal injuries. He
was a member of the 57th coast
artillery. Private Henry Allen
Hibbs of the same organization is
believed fatally hurt.
The soldiers were returning
from a picnic and the bus was un
able to make the turn into camp.
The car was completely demolish
ed by the impact. Private Kckles
Still, driver of the bus, is being
held pending a military investiga
tion that has been ordered.
Twilight Ball
Game Tonight
Tonight the American
and the State House
Labor Urges
Senate Probe
Of lockout'
Denver, Colo., June 16. The
American Federation of Labor to
day, by resolution called upon the
United States senate to adopt the
LaFollette bill providing for a fed
eral investigation of the nation
wide "lockout" of seamen.
The resolution, introduced by
the International Seamen's union
declared that "a combination of
Legion' European and American ship own-
ided ny tne luuku
Moine. Iowa, June 16.
Pcr.Ui CO'.lnctl Anriont Ara
es of the Mystic
1 v
" Order. Nob)
dWi,'...! . - .--
j. . . di a secrei session
. .ish a hosnltal In st iswnul
Will jk.r.,m mthismo
bats on Willamette f.eld at thwarting the
o'clock to fight off the '7!t American people in their legiti
a mutual tie-game earlier In tne , , p-rp0M t0 share
season. The Y. M. C. A. is sched- 0Tf!-Seas commerce, and, in
uled to play toe
Rapid Rise
Of Mason
Is Ended
Illinois Congressman,
Who Started Career
As School Teacher In
Iowa, Dead
Washington, June 16. Repre
sentative W. E. Mason, 70, of Illi
nois, died here today from heart
trouble.
Although Representative Mason
had been suffering from a heart
attack for several days his condi
tion yesterday was reported as
showing improvement and death
came unexpectedly after a sudden
release. He formerly was a mem
ber of the senate.
Started as Teacher.
Chicago, June 16. From school
teacher in a small Iowa town to
representative and senator In both
the state legislature of Illinois and
the national congress, was the rec
ord of William Ernest Mason, who
died in Washington today.
He was born in Frankllnville.
N. Y., and when he was eight years
old, he moved with his parents to.
Bentonport, Iowa, where he re
ceived his preliminary education
at the Bentonsport academy.
When sixteen years old he be
gan teaching school in Bentons
port. loiter he began the study of
law. Moving to Chicago he was
admitted to the bar in 1872, and
was identified with the legal pro
fession here for more than forty
years. In 173 he was married to
Edith White of Ucs Moines.
In 1879 he was elected to the
general assembly; to congress in
1890; was defeated for re-election
in 1892 and was elected United
States senator In 1897. In 1816
he was elected representative at
large from Illinois.
Soft Drinks
Slump To 5
Cents Here
In one of his recently pro-
hnilH.nir for America a sea ' . .
championship. " D,ndinf! t0 the American sea W youini. inoma. a. union
Throwing their hat into me - - put tne query.
. .... . . mr?t mem- ooiru. . . -what in coke?"
iixt .t nnT ai me ia" poriTentio-i aaopiec !--,
o to the crippled children I v- . ci Fairies team are lae """J ,, ..;,., ' And one Salem drink merchant
l'- n ui iu .j c-- ,i,,:inn calling i .
out for the city championsnip. . tj Uon in-n conditions in this morning came dsck wun tne
twins challenged the American ' mjI,R o th SOillK answer:
three-game sen- "rive cents wun war cu. .
has acceptea. mg, u a fact. A most soothing re-
The first game will o peia.cu penditures in the Interest ot minder, coniecuoneniy speaming.
morrow on the Willamette f:eld hTgr.rii(. marriage bid. defeat- that the war is over, was felt by
Members of the Eagles team - cIectioni were local soft drinkers today when
Blumburg. p. . . dollars for a they saw the annnuncetnei ,-
cio'jsly made by one thirst
Five Die
In Train
Wreck
Cloudburst Believed
Responsible; Bag
gage and Chair Cars
Drop From Bridge
Omaha, Neb., June 16. Five
persons are known to have been
killed and thirty-three injured, a
number seriously, when a Chicago
& Northwestern passenger train
from Lander, Wyo., to Omaha was
wrecked last night by the collapse
of a bridge over a creek near
Whitney, Neb.
The dead, according to advices
from Chadron, which Is about 20
miles from the scene of the wreck,
are:
Robert Scot, Chadron, baggage
man; F. M. Stewart, Gordon, Neb.,
Frank Bosner, Lander, Wyo.; C. M.
Buck of Grand Island, Neb., and.
F. B. Skiler of Chadron.
Either a cloudburst or heavy
upstream pressure in tHte creek
caused the bridge to give way,
General Superintendent Dickinson
Ipf the Northwestern lines here
Isaid, adding that there had been
no high water there this season.
The engine cleared the bridge, but
the baggage and mail cars plunged
into the bank while the chair car
was thrown into the water. Re
ports here said the Injured as giv
en by Mr. Dickinson included:
Charles Duntzo, Cheyenne,
Wyo., head bruised; Elmer B.
Smith, Portland, Or., body and leg
bruised.
Wrecking crews were sent from
Casper, Wyo., and Chadron, Neb.,
and it was predicted by Mr. Dick
inson that the line would be clear
ed by early tonight.
A. Rouseville of Chicago, assist
ant chief maintenance engineer
.for the Northwestern, was among
the Pullman passengers on the
train and assisted in the first re
lief work.
All of the dead and injured.
Chadron advices said, were found
in the smoker and baggage cars:
fan. America, it became
toia? A site for the bos
K , . a!i eady been purchased
fcof one hundred and fifty
hilars.
jt,,. 'oe '-ailUhzBent of a
"pital in St. Louis,
tla, SfTenth member uirn-
itr J?5'ority rePrt- ! -
Tk, Tn wa accepted.
WfPP"?d children' hoaplt
as indorsed at the
NrJJT:iT? ' at
Legion to
which the latter
ed at the recent
limited to a few
- ,,r,v,r and for hotel bills tp
" ,, . I V. . amnn, dm that .
ail ui quvucuiuA .
Pi jctirally worthless fire
i
Or. -n.
bun
tt Project
re Is one mil-
"d dollars araJl-
Saranick. lb: Ashby. 2b:
Parker, ss; Pitts. If; Elliott,
O'Mallery, rf; Race, utility.
dollars for
hotel bills
a am traveling
.!. .h. nald out of her own
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to Ur. uwens- real " 1 .......
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-hn has riiei a ,
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Oakburg. Ib: Wood. 2b; Laut. ss
n..Ktr if- Patterson, cf; Ham
mond, rf; uUlities. Fraine
Members of the Legion team rew - he meaJurei ch1M oda of various kinds. The
are: Peannine. c: ets, v- rover- droD in prica. however, baa not
GUI
State Weaves
Chain Around
Lyda Southward
Twin Falls, Idaho, June 16.
Revealing progressive links In
the chain of evidence upon which
the state expects to convict Mrs.
Yyde Southard of the murder of
Edward F. Meyer, her fourth
husband, Prosecuting Attorney
Frank L. Stephan, at the outset
of the preliminary examination
before Probate Judge O. P. Du
vall here this niorning Introduc
ed testimony of H. Granville
Haight, manager of Blue Lakaa
ranch, where Meyer was employ
ed, to the effect that Mrs. South
ard, a fortnight after her mar
riage to Meyer, came to make
her home with him and Intro
duced the use of a type of poiR
on fly paper, alleged to Have
been used in causing Meyer's
sleath. Two days later Haight
testified, on August 26, 1920,
M r was stricken and died Sep
tember 7 at a hospital here where
be was taken, Halgbt stated, over
the objection of Mrs. Southard
who he said, declared she would
"rather have him here where I
can take care of him."
Mrs. Gardner
Glad Husband
Is Captured
Napa, Cal., June 16. Mrs.
Roy Gardner said she was glad
that her husband had been
captured, because it would
mean he would have no more
opportunity vir committing
crime or shooting anyone.
"I am glad to know he still
loves me, but tell him to say
I did not give him that gun
because I didn't," she said on
being told that her husband
wanted word sent to her that
he still loved her. "I don't
want suspicion cast on me be
cause I never have been Im
plicated In any of his crimes.
"I don't want him to betray
a friend, however."
Autos May
Go Back On
Tax Lists
Creation of Poll Tax
Also Considered As
Means of Lessening
Property Levies
Restoration of the automobile
to the personal property list for
taxation purpose and creation of a
poll tax similar to that in effect in
the state of Washington, are two
of the straws at which the tax in
vestigation commission will clutch
In its effort to dig real property
out from under the load with
which It Is burdened under the
present system of taxation In this
state.
At least such was the Indication
in an Informal discussion of the
task that has been laid out for the
members of this commission crea
ted by the last legislature at Its
first mecttng here Wednesday.
Among other problems with
which the commisison will grapple
In the next few months prelimi
nary to the compilation of Its re
port and recommendations to the
legislature of 1923, as Indicated by
the discussion at today's session
are:
Revision of tbe method for tax
ing public service corporations.
Taxation of timber lands and
cut over lands.
A uniform basis for the assess
ment of all taxable property
throughout the state.
Today's session was limited to
organization .of the commission
and Informal discussion of the tank
at htnd. In order to expedite mat
ters sub-committees were named to
consider various phases Of the tax
ation problem to report at the next
meeting in Portland, probably on
July 2. These committees are:
Walter M. Pierce and Coe A. Mc
Kenna, farm lands and city prop
erty. C. 8. Chapman and Charles A
Brand, timber lands and hortlcul
tural lands.
3b;
cf;
ing these facts, with the secre
tary of state offlca.
as yet
city.
become general over the
Barber to Retain
Insurance Job
Governor Says
A- C. Barber will be reappoint
ed as state Insurance commission
er at tbe expiration of his present
f-rm June 30, next, according to
j announcement by Governor Olcott
i this morning. Barber was ap-
pointed to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Harvey Wells
1 as insurance commissioner August
II, 1919 Prior to that time he wa
for several years deputy insurance
I commissioner.
School Budget
Is Favored By
Local Ministers
Following a discussion of the
school budget by members of the
school board and teachers, the
ministerial association this morn
ing approved of the budget by
resolution urging Its adoption.
Within a week or two Sunday
meetings will be given In the
park in the afternoon by tbe Sa
lem ministerial association in co
operation with tbe Y. M. C. A. of
this city, according to the plans
of the association who appointed
a committee to get tbe work un
der way. It is tbe same plan that
Is followed In Portland by the two
orj&nliations there, wbo conduct
meetings regularly In tbe parks.
A popular song service, mus
ical numbers and a short address
by different members of the as
sociation will make up tbe pro-rruu.
Bandit Captured
By Centralia Cop
In Room at Hotel
Bandaged Face Leads To Arrest On Suspicion
and Identification; Chatty and Affable,
Prisoner Tells Details of Chase from Time of
Escape; Left Castle Rock on Train Tuesday
"What'll I Do Next?
50 Years," Is Answer
Admits Presence In Royal Restaurant; Denies
He Stole Chickens or Milked Cows; Lost Gun
Early In Game; Never In Kelso; Sends Love
to Wife and Insists He Played Fair
Centralia, Wash., June 16 Roy Gardner, fugitive bandit
for whom a posse has been searching Cowlitz county, Wash.,
was captured in Centralia shortly before noon today by
Patrolman Louis Sonny. At the city jail where he was taken,
Gardner admitted his identity.
Gardner's face was heavily bandaged to make it appear
that he had been in an accident. Sonny, noting that the
man's general build was similar to that of Gardner as carried
in descriptions sent out by postoffice department agents,
"took a long chance" he said, and arrested him.
Poliseman Sonny first saw, which he later escaped, pulled
Gardner early this morning, in to Caselt Rock Tuesday
He had a bandage about his evening and made up his mind
face. Sonny watched him pur- that there was his chance to
chase a newspaper and walk i 'make my getaway."
to a park to read it. The pa- Nearly Touched "Dicks"
tpolman was suspicious, and "The engineer got down out
walked toward Gardner. He f his cab to oil his engine,
looked him squarely in the and two special officers came
eye. forward and talked to the en-
"It immediately flashed in- frineer. They then walked
to the man that the man was back along the train with
Gardner," Sonny said. :him.
Sonny then went in search "I made a rush for the
of Chief of Police Hughes to tender and crawled under
lell him of his suspicions. He neath," said Gardner. "Just
was unable to find the chief, as I crawled under, the of
He then saw Gardner go to,ficers came back. They were
the Oxford hotel, where he. within three feet of me. I
had moved from the Dale thought I was gone, but they
hotel. Sonny called theididn't see me."
proprietor of the Oxford, Portland, Ore., June 16. In
Marion Howell, and the two an interview with the Port
went to the suspect's room. land Telegram by long dis
Gardner, wT.n accosted in tance telephone, Gardner ex
his room, declared he was plained his movements from
from Tacoma, and said he had the time he escaped from a
been badly injured in a gaso-, train at Sastle Rock, Waah-,
line explosion
"You're the man I'm look
ing for," Sonny said, as he
began to remove the bandage,
last Saturday mroninc. :ifp
Molding up his two guards, to
the time of his arrest. He de
clared he had boarded a train
"Be careful, my eye is aw-! at the Castle Rock depot the
fully sore," Gardner said.
Sonny removed the band
age and found no nijuries to
the face.
Gardner then was placed
under arrest. He was indig
nant, and asked if Sonny was
jnder bond.
I'll sue the city for false ar
rest," he declared
Sonny said that Gardner
seemed so earnest that for a
minute he almost believed he
was making a mistake. How
ever he searched him and
took him to jail. Gardner was
unarmed.
He then acknowledged his
identity.
He had.$15 on his person.
He said he obtained only $42
from the officers when he
escaped at Castle Rock
Gardner talked freely. He
ate dinner in his cell and then
night following his aDoear-
ance at the Royal restaurant
Tuesday morning.
Cha.se Too Short
"It was a good chase, while
it lasted," said Garner, "only
it was too short.
"I'd like to have kept it up
for a couple of months, at
least.
Asked what he was going
to do next, Gardner replied
.heerily :
"Fifty years at McNeil
I'm done with the escape."
"Just get word to my wife
that I love her still.
"I'm going to take my
medicine now ; go to McNeil
tomorrow, I guess.
"And say, just say so the
people will know, that I al
ways played square.
"Played Fair." He Savs
I never hurt a man in my
had his picture taken in com-ilife and I never will
nany with Sonny. Gardner j "Why man, you know I
declared that Mulhall, the took off the Oregon boot from
United States marshal from Mulhall and that other of
whom he escaped was one of ficer when they said they
the nerviest men he ever hurt 'em. I took 'em off, then
"stuck up" and that he was a jumped off the train,
"nice fellow." "I can't tell you where I got
'They (the guards) treated ,the gun that I had when I
me fine," Gardner declared, jescaped that would be telliu'
Yesterd: morning Gard-,you know,
ner bought a suit of clothes I "You don't blame me, do
at The Golden Rule store here. you ?
The bandages were bought at "You know I play square.
a local drug store. , "And I'm through abso-
Gardner said he was lying tely," continued Gardner,
in the brush close to the en-i "I was never more than a