Circulation
Average 'or 1920, 5250
population of Salem 1900, 4258:
1910, 14,094; 1920, 17,79
jlarlon County 1920, 47,177;
Polk county, 14,181
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The Weather
OREGON: Tonight and Wed
nesday, generally cloudy, moder
ate westerly winds.
LOCAL: Rainfall .02; souther
ly winds; cloudy; maximum 82,
minimum 58, set 81; river 1.4
feet and falling.
Price Three Cents
ok nusi Aim mew
Matt H B M am , , , . .. WAjrai, rly, omo,
RQMPT ACTION SAVES CAMPER FROM DEATH
andling of Cherries
And Berries, Problem
Cents
Paid for
Cherries
st of Crop Sold
Today; Grocers Buy
! Fruit But Find JNo
Demand Here.
j owners in Salem are this year
heed with a situation nevci uuc
Uralleled in the history oi me
tmmiinity. Within the next week
konery officials must make tneir
fcitlal moves to cope with a prob
lem, the like of which they have
lerer had to meet before.
Briefly, the situation is this:
ror tne "rsl l""e mm
Unnerles opened their doors, the
berry and loganberry crops are
lobe dumped at tne planus re
viving rooms at practically tne
ame time. Both crops must be
kindled at once. Logan Derries
tnd cherries this year are ripening
lynchronisticalty.
I Salem fruit men are not at
(inpting to explain the horticul-
;urtl phenomena. They don't know
nhat brought it about, but they
we preparing to deal with its re-
kultant effects. Usually, as esry-
oiy knows, the cherries are near
r ill in the cans or barrels before
(he loganberries are removed from
heir vines.
This year it is entirely different,
nd in consequence the local can-
series may begin to operate two
ihitts early next week. By next
Holiday morning, it is believed,
loth loganberries and cherries will
i brought to the local plants in
page quantities and it will be ut
terly impossible to handle them
I during an eight -hour day." And
lever before have Salem fruit can
ters been required to employ two
shifts of workers.
The loganberry crop, experts
wlmate, will approximate
Facing Six Murder
Charges, Woman Is
Without Emotion
aeMElF aBSPJ WffasV ' ,'sBisssbsSIsm
Alleged Bluebeardess Accused of Bringing
About Deaths of Four Husbands, Little
Daughter and Her Brother-in-Law To Be
Tried in Idaho Court '
Twin Falls, Idaho, June 21. Hardin, Mont., October 22, 1918.
tons this year, and there will be
Itbout 1500 tons of cherries. Dis
pwition "of the two crops at the
ttlme will work a severe hard-
pbip on the Kalem canneries, man
ners said this afternoon.
Due to the fact that it rained
ittirday. and that but few straw-
were picked Sunday, ves-
Iterday was a comparatively light
J at the plant, but today the
Wrt was back to normal.
Since students in the local nnh-
lit schools have been dismissed for
tke summer, the labor situation at
"e canneries has been greatly im
proved and the berries are being
ouned as quickly as they are
feked. The most recent pickings
" Wilson berries, it is said, are
"ite small compared to the earlier
Hekings.
What manner of woman is the al
leged Bluebeardess, Mrs. Lyda Eva
Southard, accused of having
caused the death of four husbands,
a brother-in-law and her baby?
Instead of these pictures, the
one presented by Mrs. Southard is
a slender, colorless little woman,
well under five feet two inches
tall, with gray eyes that look one
full in the face when she speaks.
5300 Mrs. Southard fs petite, dainty,
Bargain Day's
Savings to Pay
Expenses; Plan
"T 001 let the ovlnn hlAh
Ito Win reali,., t , ,
. uu uiirsain uay in
Jmy 1, pay for your expen-j
' ' city on that date?
JT the suggestion today
' tne committee in charge
annual event, when dis
22 lh matter bf handling
- viuwus. inousanas
l,U of nearby towns are to
r!!mtd 10 Sa,em JJy I
r fcul uu"er me auspices or
I. aesi Business Man'.
tlaim. already assured of
cmtittued on p ,
Harlan C. Lewis of Billings,
Mont., the third husband whom
she married in Denver in 1919,
and who died July 6. 1919.
Edward Meyer, fourth husband,
a Twin Falls rancher, who she mar
ried secretly August 10, 1920, and
who died September 7. 1920.
An infant daughter born to her
self and Dooley, which died shortly
after the father's death.
ft.
ae wanted tn Tmr nt
He's Still Pirlinff
ft
m Son. d H' C' Lockhart,
siwtaii onunercial street, that
I cyew v try out" one of his
LtttoT'tcrda- became so at-
. iujni mat he's still
ttfct: h' neyer returned
Pi tnC lore' secording to
-w, 5 report to the po-
' Herein v
Bji e saia
"i nr. .
I aj
was about
ighed about 150
beard. Police
with hands that a lady of quality
might envy for their shapely
slenderness, and with a smile that
grows in friendliness and warmth
as she talks she is about the last
person one would select as a possi
ble wholesale murderess.
Mrs. Southard is peculiarly
emotionless. Mrs. V. H. Ormsby,
who as matron, was her constant
companion for two weeks on the
long trip here from Honolulu,
where she was arrested, declared
that not once during that period
did she display emotion. She has
registered sadness and gladness in
discussion of but two topics since
her arrival.
It was when she spoke of little
Lorraine Marie, her baby by her
first husband, It. C. Dooley, a Mis
sourian, that Mrs. Southard mani
fociorf her first real emotion. Her
Hps trembled, and
ing tears welled up in her eyes as
she repeated the baby's name a
time or two. The temporary wav
ering, however, immediately gave
place to the calm which has mark
ed her attitude and behavior since
her arrest weeks ago.
It was during the discussion of
her present husband. Paul Vincent
Southard, a U. S. navy petty offi
?r, who was ea route from Hono
lulu here to be with her during her
trouble, that Mrs. Southard ais
played gladness.
"I met him in San Pedro; I was
lonesome, and he was. too, and we
Just took to each other from the
start," was the account Mrs.
Southard gave of her meeting with
her present husband, who is stand
ing by her loyally in the present
trouble.
Southard, who is two years
younger than his wife, has a splen
did record of nine years' service m
the navy. He served overseas dur
ing the war and is due for promo
tion next spring, according to his
"Following are Mrs. Southard's
alleged victims:
Robert C. Dooley of Keytesville.
Mo , her first husband whom she
married in 1912 as Lyda True
blood and who died in Twin Fall?
October 1. 1915.
Edward Dooley, brother of the
first husband, who died in August.
1915, in Twin Falls.
William G. McHaffie. the second
husband, a restaurant mn of
t-i- w.iio whom she married in
Pullman
Company
Loses Out
Wage Cut Denied and
2 Crops
Ripening
At Once
Canners Face Unusual
Situation; Double
Shifts May Be Used
To Save Fruit
The Oregon Packing company
today bought the verst cherrlen o
be sold in the Salem district. The
price paid was four cents. Reports
circulated yesterday and today
that certain Salem plants were
purchasing loganberries were flat
ly denied by every cannery man
ager in the city.
With full crews working at atl
local plants, the strawberry run,
which is to be finished this week,
will be well handled with little
difficulty, but serious problems
face the canners next week when
both the cherry ..and loganberry
crops are to appear.
Cherries were in the Salem
stores this morning but, dealers
said, there was no demand for
them locally. The average house
wife, it was pointed out, has a
tree within shouting distance of
her door and does not need to
make her way storeward when she
wishes cherries. Retailers, It Is
understood, also were paying four
cents for those cherries which they
bsught.
Unless the rain damage proves
to be excessive, the cherries will
be unusually good this year and
the crop will favorably compare
with last year's yield when the
tonnage was exceptionally heavy.
Canners are as yet unable to
say what disposition will be made
of the bulk of the cherries. A large
quantity of them will be barreled,
it is believed, but what the per
centage will be they cannot f,tate.
Stage Set For ,
Junior Tourney
Championship
Champions of the city in the two
junior classes will be decided on
the courts of the Salem Tennis as
sociation near the state hospital,
tomorrow and Thursday. Prises
have been DUt up by the different
Employers Are Told ' sporting goods houses of the city
1 , TT I and will be awarded to the win-
To Leai wim union
Representatives
Chicago, June 21. The Pull
man company lost its open shop
fieht before the United States la-
traces of burn-,bor DOard today when the board
upheld the contention of union
leaders that the company had not
obeyed "the letter and spirit" of
the transportation act when it
conferred with its employes in
mass meetings.
The board threw out the com
pany's petition for a cut in the
wages of its shop employes and in
structed it to go back and meet the
"duly elected representatives" of
the employes.
NewGenerator
Is Installed
By Power Co.
ners lu both
Sixteen entries have been made,
but the books will be open until 9
o'clock tomorrow morning.
Those who have entered in the
class for boys of 16 and 16 years
of age are: Paul Ehmer, Bruce
Spaulding, Howard Henderickson,
Lewis West, Joseph Nunn, Roy
Okerberg, Clifford Hulsey, Dennis
Heenan, Bert Randall.
Those when ave entered In the
class for boys under 14 years of
age are: James Fargom. Jerome
Hansen, Louis Updegraff, Robert
Kamsden, Howard Walters, Wll
lard Kappahan and Floyd Eckley.
Frank WUlman will have charge
of the tournament and umpire the
games.
Consolidation
Turned Down
By 3 Districts
Juices of Clover
And A Ifalfa Held
Tuberculosis Cure
Washington, June 21. The
juices of alfalfa and clover are
aiding to destroy the tuberculosis
germ, Dr. Hyman Ltschner of San
Diego, Cat, declared today at the
convention of the American In
stitute of Homeopathy. Both
grasses. Dr. Lischner said, are
being used effectively In the dyn
aamotberaphtc treatment of form
er service men at the Alpine sani
tarium with which he is connect
ed. Use of the grass juice has aided
i
materially in progress made
against the disease, he said, adding
that he believed medical science
was pushing back the tuberculosis
plague. Three theraphies dyn
amo, physic and psycho constit
ute the basis of treatment, Dr.
Lischner said. The first calls for
well selected food, the second util
izes energies, rays and vibrations
and the last calls for cheerful sur
roundings and a healthy mental
state.
Federal Control
of Nation's Timber
Industry Urged
Chicago, June 21. Government
control, through the forest service,
of the lumber industry and a tax
on all lumber cut, to go directly
into reforestation, was urged by
former Congressman Martin L.
Davey of Kent, Ohio, before the
Chicago Rotary club today. Amer
ica must awake to the serious sit
uation she faces, Mr. Davey de
clared, and stoppage of wasteful
methods in cutting timber and re
forestation were the solution of
the problem.
Merchants
Battle For
12 Inches
Final disposition of a recently
adopted ordinance which provides
that local merchants shall be en
titled to no space in front of their
shopwindows for the exploitation
of their wares, will probably be
made at the next meeting of the
city council. A dozen aldermen,
three attorneys and several score
laymen argued pro and con on the
Bill's advantages, shortcomings
and general features when the
council held its regular meeting
last night.
Twelve inches of space the
amount sought by a number of Sa
lem merchants who presented a
petition to the council caused the
three attorneys, Guy Smith, E. M.
Page and P. J. Kunts, to take the
floor and exhaustively treat with
ordinance's evils. These 12 Inches,
formerly used for display purposes,
are denied by the ordance which
was Introduced at a recent meet
ing by Alderman Joseph Baum
gartner. Fight Looms.
That a number of local business
men Intended to make a fight for
the 12-inch space was evidenced
not only by the appearance of the
lawyers, but by the petition which
carried the signatures of 61 deal
ers. A motion made by Alderman
Schunke, however, that enforce
ment of the ordinance be suspend
ed until the next meeting when an
attempt will be made to repeal It,
was voted down by the council.
lue ...er.-u.uu.. ...wh.., """(Judge Percy Kelly of department
ueen rspurreu iu uciiuu in me ui -
rest yesterday of Max Solof and
Fraud.Case
Centers On
Land Value
District Attorney Trys
to Prove Durdall
Made False State
ment As To Wealth
Stove Explosion
Wraps Tourist In
Gasoline Flames
Witnesses Rescue P. B. Conklin, of Los An
geles, by Prompt Action at Auto Camp
Grounds This Morning; Recovery of Victim
Expected by Hospital Authorities
Excess Levy
For Schools
Budget Lost
The prdposed Salem public
school budget, calling for an ex
cess levy of 1 mills, or $18,
000 In excess of the six per cent
tax limitation law, was rejected
by the electorate yesterday eve
ning by a majority 01 :08 votes.
Four hundred eighty six votes
were cast against the proposed
budget, and 278 persons voted tor
it. The board will now have but
$107,000 on which to operate.
L. J. Slmeral and Dr. H. H.
OUnger were elected to member
ship on the school board. They
were unopposed.
Hawley Case Is
Again Before
Supreme Court
The domestic difficulties of
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An. unsigned statement of his I " Z.1 . . , . . .
lOreson C ty are being alrfld aualn
assets and liabilities, and teatl- today ia arsuments befora the su
mony of the value of the land on'preme court, the case being up
which he was able to get a loan Ion appeal by Margaret Hawley
of $1500 on February 23, from 'rom tbe decree of the CUck
k. .t a. ... v, . . . mas county circuit court.
the United States National bank, , . ' , " ' .
Evidence In the case lntroduc
of Salem were the salient ftk- ed before the supreme oourt in
tures in the trial of C. Burton eludes 14 43 typewritten pages of
Durdall, former proprietor of the ' testimony, much of it too sordid
Farmers Cash store, and indicted 1 for publication, numerous let
by the gTand jury on June 4 for ters, telegrams and photographs
obtaining money under false pre-
tautest, being heard today before
Ray L
j No. 1 of the circuit court.
Taking the stand in his own
and a torn night gown.
Judge Wallace McCamant of
Portland and. Chris Schuebel ot
Oregon City are appearing as at
torneys for Mrs. Hawley who
division
tbe court that he had estimated j of the Hawley property, custody
the vaule of the 880 acres which 0f the child and an allowsnce
he had set down In his statement for Its maintenance. The defend
to the bank as worth $25 pernt. Willard Hawley, la present
acre, on what land adjoining hlsled by Harrison Allen, Portland
I.' 1.
1 Kh o!f 111 ninrnlntr lnrH.I! tl ...... . A . At ...
- , L . . , . ,1 ,,,1,1, ,,:,,, . ..... wiu Bitna It uci-icc ui uiiuiin
ing wares on the sidewalk. Both
men were arrested by Officer
Birchett.
Taxi Problem Ahead.
Ann! hp.r n.lpxtinn which tin-
doubtedly, will come before the wa beiug held for, which he said attorney.
.1 II. n.il macllnr k..ll"" luriuer siaieu mai
do with a i.roDosed oarklnit deDotlhe had cwe1 the banK money
for local motor busses. A petition ever since ne naa Deen in busl
signed by 57 State street tenants' ln Salem, which was about
requesting that the aldermen take
some action in removing tbe chauf
feurs from State street was re
ferred to the ordinance committee
and will be reported
weeks.
Resolutions asking for bids for ing to
improvement work on Capitol county
two years.
Assessor Testifies
District Attorney ('arson yes
terday afternoon sought to es-
on In two tablish the worth of the land as
I below five dollars an acre by call-
the stand, Hiram Wade,
of Toledo, Or..
County League
Is Organized
To Enforce Law
With the old Salem Law En
forcement league as a nucleus, the
formation of the Marlon County
Reform league was effected last
street oeiween snipping ana Maai- wno stated that be had made a
son streets, on North Fourth be- recent visit to the property and
tween Market and Hood streets, that be estimated the value be-
and on Cottage street between D cause of Its roughness, at $2 50 nlght at a meeting of the old body
and Market strets were adopted pr acre. Wade's testimony was The ileT, Thomas Acheson. presl
last night bids for asphalt which followed by F. W. Chamber, also . dent of the former organization
P. B. Conklin of Los Angeles
probably owes his life to the
prompt action of two men in neigh
boring camps when they succeeded
ln extinguishing flames that were
rapidly enveloping him following
this morning about 11 o'clock at
the explosion of a small gas stove
the Salem auto camp grounds.
Gasoline flew all over Mr. Conklin,
and Immediately turst into flames,
but the two men rushed to bis as
sistance and smothered the tire
with a sheet of canvas and a
heavy comforter.
The victim was badly burned
about the face, hands and on one
leg, but as near as could be deter
mined early this afternoon the
wounds are only on tbe surface, ac
cording to reports from the Salem
Deaconess hospital, where he was
taken Immediately following the
accident.
Mrs. Conklin, who with her hus
band, is on her way to Portland
from tbe southern city, was boil
ing clothes over the stove when
tbe accident happened, according
to her account of the affair. Sud
denly, without apparent cause the
stove buret, blowing out one end
of the gasoline tank, and spraying
Mr. Conklin with the fuel which
sprang Into flame. Although she
was near by, she was unharmed by
the flames.
Mr. Conklin sprang away from
the stove immediately, and accord
ing to witnesses succeeded ln re
moving his coat as be ran. F. J.
Phillips, a neighboring camper, on
seeing the burning man, ran to
his rescue with a canvas tarpaulin,
throwing it around the biasing
man. Robert James Reed, another
camper, also ran to his assistance
with a heavy comforter, which was
more effective In stopping the
flames than the stiff tarpaulin.
The glasses of the victim, which
were afterwards found near the
spot, were probably instrumental
In saving his eyes from being de
stroyed by the direct blast of flame
from the stove. His eyes are
swollen, however and further de
velopments may show that they
are more seriously Injured than Is
supposed. According to tbe hos
pital atendauta, It will be neces
sary for Mr. Conklin to remain
here 10 days at the least calcula
tion to be properly treated.
Mr. and Mrs. Conklin were mo
toring from Los Angeles to Port
land, stopping here only last night.
r. J. Phillips, who left soon after
the accident, was here with his
family from Colorade and camped
near the Conklin automobile. Mr.
Reed, tbe other man who aided la
the rescue, is on his way to Cali
fornia from Portland, having been
in Salem since Sunday morning.
were reaa were reierreo 10 tne 0f Toledo, and employed in the
street committee which was given county engineer's office, who
power to act. Bids received fromliUted that the value cf the Dur-
was
dall property In bis opinion
worth five dollars an sere.
D. W. Eyre, president of the
United States National bank was
called to the stand late yesterday
Consolidation of tie three
tbe Warren Construction company
and from the L. O. lierrold com
pany of Salem for the paving work
on North Summer street from Mar
ket street to tbe Fairgrounds road,
were else referred to the street
committee.
Otter Is Riled.
iw "'" lof laud at $25 per acre
OVrOlU "I KIVIBI UIUI C I
resolutions last night brought
Councilman F. L. Utter out of bis'
chair to deliver an Indignation,
speech.
wish to say, Mr. Mayor, that!
when Mr. Wenderotb retires from
Bible School
Jumps to 453
Enrollment
was named head of the new group
A new constitution extending
the scope of operations to Include
all Marion county was adopted,
election of officials according to
tbe new agreement being made.
A maturity of the work of the
league will be done by a county j rollment has reached 4S1
elected from the various surpassing the number at
With (1 mors students begin
ning work today In the dally va
cations! bible school the total en-
tar
first
afternoon, and testified that he
made the loan to Durdall on his ! local organisations of tbe county , expected by those back of the
representation of tbe (80 aca 1 which will soon be formed. Ac-
movement. According to Alpheus
who has the work In
ordlng to President Acbeeon, the ; Gillette,
league has made no movement for, charge, six extra teachers will be-r-ja
state wide organization, but he gin In the various schools tomor-
At a cost of $10,500 and dou-
. .. ... of the olant
Dims iu w-"- I , r..r.,i. p.,. unlrn in this body he will have
VI IUC BC U JJ I wa i ) - i " w -
t .... .-a u.n.i.r ... nirn ibe record or laying more pave-
down yesterday by the property
owners there, aceoraing 10 in
formation received at tbe office
'of the county school superintend
ent this morning.
While Gervais voted to take
hor wrrk on tbe erection
fourth gas generator of the Port
M Railway Light ft Power com
.... t the foot of Chemeketa
R 4 - " ,
,i-.f hs been rommeir.fd.
Wil'i.m Hamilton, manager for
the company, stated this morning,
that with this new equipment tbe
Denies Statement
"Didn't you say to Mrs. Du
dall, that If the note could be j expressed his willingness to co
fixed up. the prosecution of the operate with any outside body that
defendant could . be fixed ap. 1 would be organized for the same
too?" aaked Attorney Wlnslow of purpose
th banker.
.... : ,
plant will furnish lne ,lT i tb two districts In. Parkersrllle
. .,iHltional 50.000 cubic leei or
Ika nrniwwlllAii 9
pH a
day which is twice the ca
pacity of the plant four
. ihinr to witness the, '-
voted against the proposition 25
to 1 and Manning 12 to t
.. -t..i
work of erection is
m Mr Hamilton stated. The Ira
- MmutlT ol
prove" ; . , renlaced by a
v, - orx is uuiu6 I .
If a hair is pulled
person's head by the
saent and getting more worthless,
paper for the city than any other;
san who ever served on this coun
cil,'' Dr Utter remarked.
"That .i tbe gentlemaa's pru i
lege." Mayor Halvorsen answered
"Tea. I know It." Dr. Utter re
"No. I did not
Eyre.
"Had you known that Durdall's
ststement was untrue, would yon
have made the loan?" aaked Car
son of the witness.
"I think not."
Dr. William Wells of Portland
tamed, "but it's sesioas business, testified mat imraau s general
nevertheless, and I'm getting sick health was bad when he left for
J course of time.
c( ,t itne seutn ana was arrested in
Want V. 8. 8. OrccM. jRoeebarg. presumably on his way
Fourth street sidewalk lines In California, ln April. Durdall,
it of a weald be changed by 12 residents however, stated oa the witness
root. It ks of tbe street who last night filed a stand this morning that he had
a la the j petition easbodyleg that resjuest, BO intention of going tefjallfor
j iContiaued oa Page Five.) jaia.
flatly denied! Man Charged With
Reckless Driving
Pays Fine of $10
A. J. Mitchell was arrested by
Officer White. He was charged
with driving his automobile in a
reckless meaner Yeeterday he ap
peared before .Police Judge Earl
Race. He pleaded guilty.
"Ten dollars," said the judge.
Mr. Mitchell paid his fine. Ac
cording to tbe officer. Mr Mitchell
drove his automobile over the bar
ricade and lanterns t tbe corner
row to meet the needs of the add
ed numbers.
The enrollment by schools to
day was: Jason Lee Methodist
72: Baptist 81: First Methodist
110: Court street Christian 141.
Invitation Sent
U. S. by League
Is Lost In Mail
Geneva, June 21. The invita
tion of the league of nations ask
ing the United Slates to partici
pate In tbe "white slave" confer
ence here In Jaly has gone astray
between the league offices in this)
city and Washington. The league
has a Swiss postal receipt for the
regular letter containing tbe invl-
of State and High si eta where tation but the letter nerer reached
improvements are eeiag made
! the American capital.
iL lor him.
June. 1917, and who died
in
installation.