Circulation average 'or 1920. 51E KEEtlo of Salem 100. 4I 1910 H.094; 192. 17'679 M,rion County 1920. 47.1"! Polk county. 14,18 Member of Audit Bureau of Circa- Utiion. Associated Pres. PuU Uased Wire A 77i2 trWier ournal OREGON: Tonight and Tues day generally cloudy, moderate westerly wlnda. LOCAL: Maximum 99, minimum 66; river 1.3 feet, falling. t tOO Murder Solved Report Suspect Captured In Nevada is nem Slayer of Los Angeles Insurance Man i Angeles, Aug. 8. Arthur C. Burch, arrested at Las Vegas, Kev., in connection with the shoot lllg of John B. Kennedy, arrived Here shortly after 10 a. m. today in custody Deputy Sheriff Joseph Nolan. He was taken to the office of District Attorney Lee Woolwine lo be questioned. Um Vegas, Nev., Aug. 8. The mystery of the slaying of John Kennedy, insurance broker, at Los Angeles Friday night was "vir tually solved," Deputy Sheriff. Joseph Nolan declared before leav- 1 tog here last night with Arthur C. Burch, taken into custody here in connection with the case. Nolan Kid he had reached this conclus ion after several hours of conver sion with Burch, but was not ready to make public the solution he claimed to have worked out. The deputy said he would pro- t ceed straight to Los Angeles with Butch and would seek to arrange a ' meeting between the latter and Mrs, Madelynne Obenchain, who vu wtih Kennedy when the shot nu fired which ended his life in front of his summer cottage at j Beverly Hills, Los Angeles suburb. I Statements Conflict. Nolan declared there was a number of conflicting statements to be taken up when Los Angeles was reached. Mrs. Obenchain was said to have denied she visited Burch in the rooms he occupied in Los Angeles overlooking Ken nedy's office. Burch, according to Nolan, said Mrs. Obenchain had tisited him in disguise. The question of the weapon nsed also played a prominent fig ure, according to Nolan. It had been established, according to in vestigators, a shotgun was em ployed. Efforts were being made in Los Angeles to trace the gun. Buch was questioned, Nolan said, about a parcel he was alleged toiave been seen carrying. Then, the deputy said, questions and an swers ran like this: "What did you do with the fjun?" "What gun?" "The gun you had wrapped jvith newspaper." "I had no gun wrapped with newspaper." "Well, what did you do with 'he paper?" Pleads Innocence. I threw it away in the Wilshire district (a Los Angeles residential section)." Nolan said this was an "incon sistency" to which he attached im portance. Burch said he was returning ".muaniy to Los Angeles Ware this thing." to , Shot Gun Is Sought. Angeles, Cal., Aug. 8. Dis very of the shotgun, with which "I" B. Kennedy is believed to "-ontinued nn Pairp Vivo - jilted Yar-no. FORTY- State School Fund Apportionment Cut By Interest Default Inability of t. . , , - ''uicra ui central Oregon to meet thei. erest payment on loans froni t 1?' scht01 fun this year in thT reflec,e on a reduction th. Z "r capiu apportionment to y of the state as 5mE2 today by state Treas- Tb apportionment as announ fy on the basis of $1.74 SSTZ Ch"d of 5Cho1 ae in the JWagainn a per capital ,p- T2fir?.tof ,! 0i last year. I apportionment at this IS"" 1384.985 0 as VJ ln 1920 and '" ! in l$n. Merial increase la the u!IT his alsoac ta measure for the reduc Nucleus of Comet Seen Near Sun Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 8. A star like object, more brilliant than Venus and believed to be the nucleus of a comet, was seen with the naked eye by five per sons at the Lick Observatory in California yesterday. A telegram announcing the discovery of the object, which was but a short distance from the sun, was re ceived at the Harvard observa tory today from W. W. Campbell, director of Lick Observatory. Yesterday's observations were made just before sunset and Har vard official expressed Interest as to what would be shown by fur ther study of the object tonight. The telegram said "Star like object, certainly brighter than Venus, three degrees east, one degree south of sun, seen seven minutes before and at sunset by naked eye. Five observers. Set behind low cloud. Unquestion ably celestial object. Chances favor nucleus of bright comet, less favorably Nova." Salem Man Survivor Of Wreck Son of Willamette Uni versity Professor Safe Says Wire to Parents Received Today Frank M. Erickson Jr., son of Frank. M. Erickson, professor of education at Willamette univer sity, first listed as among those unaccounted for in the wreck of the steamer Alaska, has informed his parents by wire that he is sate and well at Eureka. He says that the people of Eureka are doing everything in their power to re lieve distress and need among the survivors and those wishing to continue their journey are being sent to their destinations by the steamship company. Erickson was graduated from the University of Idaho in June and was on his way to Berkeley, where he will enter the University of California to do graduate work on a teaching fellowship. Previous to his departure for the south on the Alaska he visited with his par ents for several weeks. Seeks Girl Companion. Walla Walla. Wash., Aug. 8. Hope for Minnie Kan, missing Walla Walla girl aboard the ill fated Alaska which sunk Satur dav nicht. was practically aban doned by her father, Louis Kan, merchant, this morning upon re ceipt of a telegram from Frank M. Erickson, supposed to be one of the survivors and a companion of Miss Kan's on the vessel. "Last saw Minnie two minutes after boat struck. Tried to get her life pre server. Some say she was saved but haven't located her so far. Do ing my best to locate." The number of drug items now on the market is 45,900. tion in the per capita apportion ment. The census roll this year as supplied by State Superintend ent of Schools Churchill shows a total of 22,288 children of school age within the state as compared with 213.894 ln 1920, 209,613 In 1919 and 206,684 in 1918. Marion county with 14,065 chil dren of school age shares in the apportionment to the extent of $24,469.59. Multnomah county with 63,571 names on the school census roll leads the list with $110,597.06 while Clackamw county is third on the list with 12.040 school children and re ceives $20,946 53 from the fund this year. Polk county with 525" children receives $9145. . ram hill with 6635 children secured $11,543.2$. SEVEN UV Sinn Fein Prisoners AreFreed Members of Irish Par liament Are Released From Interment At Camp Today Belfast, Aug. 8. Fourteen Sinn Fein members of parliament who have been in confinement In the Ballyminlar internment camp were released today. It is announced by Desmond Fitzgerald, Sinn Fein minister of propaganda, that all the Irish re publican parliament members will reports themselves at the Mansion House upon their arrival in Dub lin. London, Aug. 8 While no defi nite pronouncement could be ob tained this forenoon regarding the case of John G. McKeown, member of the Irish republican parliament, the impression was given in offi cial circles here that he would be released with the other Sinn Fein members who have been in prison. It was intimated that the decis ion to retain him in prison as an nounced Saturday came from Dub lin Castle and was not the ruling of the British cabinet which had not rendered a decision in the matter. Official opinion seems to be that McKeown should be hanged but that in the interest of peace the premier may release him. Ship's Search For Survivors Is Unfruit! San Francisco, Aug. 8. The steam schooner Wahkeena, one of the ships that responded to the Alaska's distress signals Saturday night, reported by wireless to her owners here today that she cruised in the vicinity of the wreck for ten hours and departed at ten a. m. Sunday for this port without having picked up any survivors. Officials of the San Francisco and Portland Steamship company own ore nt thp Alaska, had honed that the Wahkeena may have rescued! some of the survivors. In his message to the C. R. Mc Cormick company, owners of the Wahkeena, Captain Johansen said: "Departed from Blunts reef at ten a. m. yesterday, Sunday, and cruised around for ten hours in the fog but was unable to pick up anything." Spurgin Hiding Under Alias of Scott In Mexico Chihuahua City, Mex., Aug. 8. Warren C. Spurgin, missing Chi cago banker, is hiding not far from this city and going by the name of W. C. Scott, will fight any movement made to extradite him, and if apprehended will appeal to authorities for permission to re main in Mexico as a permanent resident, according to men who are keeping ln touch with him. M. E. Clinton, a discharged sol dier, who is said to have helped ar range the trip into Mexico for the fugitive banker, said today Spur gin intended to make a trip to Mexico City. Local authorities seem to be willing for Spurgin to sojourn in the neighboring territory. How ever, Chief of Police Hermosillo has promised to hold him should he reappear in this city. A number of American detec tives are here looking for Spurgin and Spurgin has been told of their presence and furnished with their descriptions. It ts said. Train connections are bad, auto mobile service between the small towns is worse and accommoda tion for an American traveler are almost impossible. Hence, It is said, persons seeking Spurgln s apprehension are losing interest on account of the small reward". A Oerman scientist has devised j f .blr hrcld dlreet- proccw - i ly from grain without grinug it j Into flour. I Salem, Oregon, Monday, August 8, 1921 Hubbard I Drowned Ted Pickell, en RonUj To Join Father, Is Victim of Wreck of Steamer Alaska En route to Los Angeles to make his home with his father. Elsworth Pickejl. after he had protested against making the trip by water and requested that he be allowed to go by train, Ted Els worth Pickell, IS, of Hubbard, lost bis life when the Steamer Alaska was sunk on the northern Califor nia coast Saturday night. Press dispatches today verified the re port that young Pickell was :i;ncng those drowned. According to the lad's Mater, Mrs. L. S. Crawford of Hubbard, with whom he has been living, the boy celebrated his fifteenth birth day aboard the ship which carried him to his death, Saturday. Mrs. Crawford this morning re ceived a letter from young Pickell, written aboard the Alaska and mailed at Astoria. Portland, Or., Aug. 8. Rela tives in Portland of Mrs. Wilter L. Johnson, wife of Walter L. Johnson, grocery salesman of Olympia, Wash., received tele graphic advice from Eureka, Cal., today that the body of Mrs. John son had been recovered, but her husband was still missing. lioth were reported among the missing. Mrs. Johnson was Miss Piuline Benham, a graduate nurso. The Johnsons were on fheir way to San Francisco, where they ex pected to reside. Portland, Or., Aug. 8. Kenneth F. Bonnywell, a passenger on ihe steamship Alaska and not reported among the survivors, today tele graphed his brotiier-;ii-iaw, Henry Wagner of Portland, from Eureka, Cal., announcing his safety. Seattle, Wash., Aug. S. Mrs. Belle Sellers of Oakland, Cal., who has been carried on the list of those missing in the wreck of the Alaska, is safe and on her way home, according to a telegram re ceived from her by E. A. Webster of Seattle today. McKeown Freed With Other Irish London, Aug. 8. John J. Mc Keown, member of the Irish re publican parliament, whose case at first was made an exception when it was decided to free the imprisoned members of the Irish republican parliament, has been liberated, it was announced here tonight. A&nitEmmigrants Under a Bond Washington, August 8. Im migrants ln excess of July and August quotas now held at var ious ports, will be admitted under personal bond and charged to the years totals. Commissioner, Gen eral Husband of the Immigration bureau announced today. The order was issued after a confer ence with ship line represent atives. Serious Accident Is Barely Avoided Forced to drive hts auto upon the walk which runs across the bridge on Capitol street t avctd being struck by two racing care headed towards town yesterday morning, Walter Ienr ,i Celt tbe sidewalk starting to give way and tacked oft in tl-at to bit one of tb' ears. damage wis done, however. Lemon was dririsg rnrtb whvn th rar.'ng t tr in Me rear endci :; tc pass '.l:? o:l( are swung cu' inn. is r i m otter driver were ua i r.ws. lot Angeles, Cel., Aug. S. The condition of Julian Biting, actor, whose serious Illness follow Ing an operation for append id Ua Youth slightly improved early today, ft was stated at the hospital where he waa being treated. 0 The Dead Passengers: Thomas Johnson, Brooklyn N.Y. J. C. Jackway, Oakland . P. Ickall, Los Angeles A. M. Hutchinson, San Fran cisco - S. Kumazawa, steerage Mrs. Walter L. Johnson, Portland g' W. Oliver, San Jose, Cal Chief Steward Charles Heane Steward F. H. King Frank Comm, Winnipeg, Can. Ralph J. Mockett. seaman. Bed Cliff, Colo. i Larson, engineer. Port- bad Deckhand (name unknown) Baldwin, bell boy, Oakland Waiter (name unknown) Seaman known as "the janitor" Survivors San Francisco, Aug. 8. An un official list of known surviving passengers of the steamer Alaska, with their addresses, so far as ob tainable, compiled here today from various sources, follows: Ulrs. M. J. Albers, Toledo, Or. Dorothy Anderson. Miss E. Bradley, Hammett, Ida. M. B. Anders C. Bailey, Pocatello, Idaho A. E. Bailey, Pocatello Elma Bonn Freida Bohn Mrs. L- M. Blestrom, Portland Clara Beckwith Mayme Baker K. F. Bonnewell, Portland N. Bass, San Francisco Mrs. B. Cole, Portland Helen E. Carlson, Portland Miss Ida Carlston, St. Paul, Minn. J. R. Clark, Portland C. Cunningham, Portland B. J. Doherty, Portland R. Davis, Seattle Frona Erker, San Diego Frank Erker Frank Erickson H. A. Franklin, Seattle Mrs. M. Fellers Mr. and Mrs. George Goodell, Spokane F. C. Germano, Portland George Glenn C. Herlow, San Francisco Louis Horrowlts C. A. Huff, Jr., Portland Miss Mabel Isndberg Miss Isabel Jackway, Oakland Mrs. T. Johnston, Brooklyn Mrs. J. C. Jackway, Oakland H. M. Jensen, apcouver, Wh. O. L. Kerlin A. Knuth, Portland Martha Knudsen Margaret Knuth, Portland H. S. Laughlln, San Francisco Mrs. C. Lange and baby, Port land J. H. Mose, Spokane Mrs. F. Mophir C. F. Monke, Portland Miss H. B. McFarland. Portland Joseph Nagy, Portland W. B. Neiswender, Topeka, Kan Margaret Nichols, Dayton, Wn. Mrs. J. E. Nichols, Dayton, Wn. Ed Ostliff and wife, Tacoma G. Phillips and wife O. W. Putnam, San Francisco FIorenj O'Brien, Portland W. O. Ross, San Francisco Miss Anita Rost, San Fran cisco Harold Behave, wife and baby, Spokane. Mrs. J. Summercamp, Welser, Idaho Mrs. J. Stone, Toledo, Ohio M H. Springstead and wife F. J. Richards, Portland Miss Betty Banders Evelyn Shipley, Portland Miss N. Seyder H. W. Dwyer, LaGrande, Or. S. Sea r beck J. W. Skaglund and wife, Oma ha H. Skell O. d. Hoopler O. F. Tevlln and wife, Indian ajtolle A. E. Welch, St. Louis Y. Wyxanaky and wife, Port land. Mrs. R. S. Whitford. Portland L N. Waggoner and wife, Spo kane C. Wright and wife, New York Miss A. C. Quortent C. L. Vllelm. Portland t. N. White, Portland Mrs, A. E. Welsh. Portland Lew White. Dululh. Minn. T. V. Yanney, Portland Flora Winn. Hamftiett. Idaho Mrs. D. Welde. Hayward. Cal. Mrs. r. Ylander. Gemellus Miss Ida Ylander, Cornelius. Or. : B. Welt George Owen, Oregon City Miss H. S. McFarland. Ada Smith C. b Serwyu $1 J. Homer, Oregon City ES LOST Purser's Check Slow; 30 Are Still Missing; 1 7 Identified Babe Ruth Hits Two Home Buns Season Total 41 New York, Aug. 8. Babe Ruth clouted two homers today off Chicago pitchers, running his season's total to 41. His first circuit wallop came in the third Inning 3f the first game of the double 4c header with the White Sox. & His second came in the open- Us 4c Ing inning of the second 4c game with no one on. 4c 4c 4c fll-Fated Captain Lived at Tacoma Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 8. Cap tain Harry Hobey of the ill-fated S. S. Alaska, had his land home in Tacoma for 25 years, it was learned today. He lived with Mr. and Mrs. Carl Jorgensen when oft duty. He was here last July. He had no living relatives, Mr, Jor gensen said today. He came from Wales in 1895, and the last of his family there died several years ago. If the body Is recovered Mr. Jorgensen will claim it and the burial will be here. Captain Hobey had an Interest In a single mill here and main tained an automobile for use when he was off the sea. The captain often Bald he ex pected to perish at sea, Mrs. Jor gensen said today. "He. had a horror of the water and could not swim," she said. "He often said that be would maintain the traditions of his calling and bravely go down with his ship if a disaster should occur while he was skipper of a vessel." The exact age of the captain is not known, but he was between 46 and 50 years. He had been captain of numerous coast vessels. Eliminate Tax On Soft Drinks Washington, Aug. 8. Elimin ation of the tax on soft drinks and ice cream and the so-called lux ury tax on wearing apparel Is understood to have been agreed upon today by republican mem bers of the house ways and means committee, meeting nl executive session. It also was reported that there had been an agreement to cut in half the ten per cent tax on sporting goods and materials. Woman Accused In Mail Robberies New York, Aug. 8. Miss Caro line Hess was held ln $11,600 ball by Federal Commissioner Hitchcock today charged with un lawfully concealing records of mall robberies under Investigation at Chicago. She was said to be secretary to Arthur M. Goldsmith, recently arrested here ln the round up of alleged mail robbers Yesterday Was Hottest of Year Yesterday was the hottest day of the year, the temperature reaching a maximum of 99 with a j ml a tin um of SI, and Increase of . four degrees over Saturday. No rain haa fallen on the Paci fic, coast for sometime, and very litle throughout tbe United Slates , A little rain waa reported on Hel ena, Montana, and in tbe extreme middle west in Tennessee snd Kentucky, during the latter part of last Price Three Record Lost and Identification of Dead Moves, Slowly and Names of Some Victims May Never Be Known; Oil Smeared Bodies Slip From Hands of Rescuers to Watery Graves Eureka, Cal., Aug. 8. While the list of dead and missing resulting from the wreck of the steamer Alaska is placed unofficially today at 47 persona, the actual number of lives lost may never be known, as the purser's records went down with the steamer Saturday night. AH that is definitely known of the lost is that seventeen bodies are here in the city morgue. E. E. Morgan, purser of the Alaska, said today that to the best of his recollection his records showed that the vessel left Astoria last Friday night with 132 passengers and a crew of 82, making a total of 214 persons on board. As there are known to be 167 survivors, 97 passengers and 70 of the crew, the list of missing and dead is placed at 47. Deducting the 17 dead there are still to be accounted for thirty persons, fwenty-seven at least of whom were passengers. A body at the Eureka morgue was identified this morning as Mrs. J. W. Oliver, wife of a San Jose, Cel., furniture dealer. Her husband is among the passengon not yet acounted for. The cumber of bodies recovered remains at 17. J. C. Jackay of Oakland, Cal., a passenger, also was identified among the dead. Two bodies re main wholly unidentified, Oid Hinders Rescue. Many of the bodies were so smeared with oil they had to wash ed with gasoline before identifica tion could be made, B. danders, coroner's deputy said today. Oil from tbe sinking ship satu rated the clothing of many per sons flouderlng In the water, ac cording to accounts today, and caused the death of some who world-be d9G$r 3CMo,: 0O,7; slipped from the arms of their would-be rescuers back into Ihe water. A patrol along the Jieach from Eureka forty miles to Blunt's reef was started today ln the search for the missing bodies. 47 Listed Missing. Eureka, Cal., Aug. 8. Forty seven names from the passenger and crew of the steamer Alaska were definitely posted today aa missing. This number includes 17 j known dead, representing bodlesj at the Eureka morgue, some ot which have not been identified. When the Alaska foundered Sat urday night at Blunt reef, forty miles from here, she had aboard 132 passengers and carried a crew of 82. Of the passengers, revised lists today placed the missing or dead at 15. Twelve members of the crew are dead or missing. An Inquest will be held here late today. Many of the survivors left Eu reka last night for San Francisco. Neighborhood Row Is Aired In Court; Peace Is Declared "The sins of the fathers shall be visited on their children." Some thing like that entered into thr case of Frederick We bests r and Dallas Smith, 10 and 13 years old, which waa beard this morning be fore Judge William Busbey of the Juvenile court. It seemed that the whole neigh borhood where tbe parents of the two buys lived was giving for a good old row. But matters tuno to a head the other day when Dal las met Frederick in the Webester loganberry patch, hit him on the mouth and skipped. And that Un't all Dallas and Frederick had fought at school, and evidently Frederick had got tbe worst of It. Frederick was laying for Delia with three other boys, according to what Dallas told tbe Judge. It developed In the course of the testimony that Frederick' dad bad borrowed a saw from Dallas' dad and instead of, returning It had loaned it to some ons else. Then Dallas' dad had borrowtl a pump from Mr. Webester .'.r asd returned It. Then a single 'rs; had been missing from the Webester Cents gw teajuu akd mws STANDS TIV OK1 Others loft this morning and about the only ones remaining are those ill and ln hospitals. Engine Crew Sticks. Heroic efforts of the engine room crew prevented a panic when the Alaska foundered, First Offi cer W. E. McCitntoek of Alameda, Cal., said today. Electric lights aboard the steamer burned until (Continued on Page Four.) Boy Injured In Auto Accident Injuries sustained by James Kruger of Buffalo, N. Y., 14-year-old boy who was brought to a local hospital Saturday evening after his leg had been run over In an auto accident on the Pacific Highway about six miles north of Salem, were reported today to be of no consequence. The knee bad been bruised badly and doctors were in doubt for some time as to the extent of the injuries. The accident occurred when a auto, driven by Mrs. B. L. Darby of Salem, according to police re ports, struck tbe truck owned by which was standing at tbe time Henry Kreuger, the lad's father, and knocked It several feet ahead. Kreuger was repairing his lights at the time, according to a state ment to the police. The Salem car included W. T. Grear of West Salem, who was slightly bruised. Catholic Bishop Dead. Brentwood, N. Y. , Aug. I. Bishop Charles Edward McDon nell, 17, head of the Roman Cath olic diocese of Brooklyn, died shortly before noon at the convent of the sisters of be. Joseph. place and somebody bad hid It be hind a telephone poet where "Dad" Webester couldn't find It, and "Dad" was damaged to the extent of having to borrow anothor single tree from a neighbor. Shortly after Dallas and Freder ick had had the fight In tbe oga berry pateh, Smith Sr. and Webe ster Sr. met in the road and talked about the fight and the pump, and the saw, and some posts and some business between Smith and the Phea farm people and Smith f.r, had called Webester Sr. "a liar.' Then Webester Br. went to the county Judge and petitioned the court to cite Dallas Smltn for be ing a bad boy who didn't mind bis parenta, "Well, I'm willing to shake hands with Smith," said Webester when the whole thing waa thresh ed out and Judge Bushey had said that his court was no place to set tie the row, "If he will keep hie boy away from my hey," "Well, now look a-here, 1 began Smith. "Aw shake hands," laln-raaie4 Webester, They shook.