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Circulation Arerasre for 1920, 6M pooulatlon of Salsm 10. 5:' 1910 14,094; 1920, 17.679 Marion County 1920. 47.177J Polk county, 14.181 Member of Audit Bureau of Circa. latiion. Associated Press Tall Leased Wire C a p 1 1 aJJou iii a I snaaaMBBBa The Weather OREGON: Tonight and Wed nesday fair, moderate westerly winds. LOCAL: Maximum 90, minimum 54; no rainfall. River 1.3 feet, stationary. -No. 189 ALLIES Alaska Doomed By Fate Mariners Say Ill-Fated Craft Was Marked Ship; Search for Bod ies Is Continued Eureka, Cal., Aug. 9. The oil waked and wreckage-strewn beach line from Cape Mendocino to Eureka, a distance of forty lies, Is being patrolled by fisher men and many other searchers to dy in the hope that the sea will give up more bodies of the wreck ed steamer Alaska. Significant bit) of flotsam have been coming is for many hours, mostly cloth ing and other personal articles. The sweep of the current against the Mendocino light already has brought one body ashore at that point. Portents of Disaster Paseugers and crew members said today that the Alaska car ried portents of disaster with her. The first omen came when she Jammed her berth while getting under way at Astoria last Friday, damaging the pier dolphins and frightening timid passengers Throughout Friday night she cruised through thick weather, nunding her siren frequently and picking up every warning signal along the coast line. For some reason that has not lully developed there was change In her plan of navigation Satur daj night. An hour before she itruelt the captain, according to I. McClintock, first officer, orderid a seaward course of more Hun Iwo points, or a approxi mately twenty miles. Thereafter McClintock said, she cruised full ipeed ahead and soundings were dispensed with, although the weather was thick. According to McClintock the lead was not weighed until the Alaska skim med over the submerged portion of the reef and impaled herself on the Jagged rocks. Tried To Save Babe An outstanding tragedy of the wreck, which came to light to day was the frantic, but futile, effort of Lew White of Seattle to we the baby boy of Mrs. Char lotte White of Portland. The Whites were no' related. Seeing Mrs. White struggling to Pot her boy in a lifeboat, White 'ed the infant and himself Bade the attempt. The boat slip ped from one davit but held fast " the other and White and many there were plunged into the sea, ! mass of drifting wreckage lear nt? the baby from him as he t down. Both mother and baby were lost. Scenes on Wreck inree girl companions, Miss oDrothy Anderson and Miss Mar tha Knutson of Waseca, Minn.. m Mis, Heien c,arlln of Port end, clung together and murmur- it-ontmued on Page Five.) jtThird Year- Body Found InTrunk Identified By Neices As Mrs. Mahoney's cattle. Wash , Aug. 9. Posi-1 ceipt of definite Information that ,lT identification of a naked, rau- trunk, believed to contain Mrs '"ted body founi in a lrunk ,n Mahoney's body, had been thrown Lake Uni , I into Lake Union from a skiff by -M Uaio, here yesterday as that man answerinK Mr. llaaoney's vie at. Manoney. missing d -my Seattle woTian. was made J Mr C. Hewitt of Wenatfl.ee. ash.. , ! . . .. - ui me Mctim, po of the announced md.. .J" Mahoney. husband of otssing woman, was r-moved 7- ..ury cell in the coun f jail me booy disrcv- He ha, been hel l f.,r nearly ""HUMS on Charrec nf fir., terror.-1 - ai'iM-j -.uub-.:..ii wi;n an w w mud -- - , ",c"' o-nar on a s-afe aZTT" """anient o-der on wif. i-. 1 maintains by bis L t" al!e,!el iraudulent istrtt J V10' f the adinin 2" her property. the trBk containing bbbbbbt v atjfeh at i v uiniinate.1 a doJ, ' d;o'1 lhat "a V,, "n'n-. Fhonly Pft,r HeeTT , '"a'' a cation-; k iliT,. '' -1 'borer a u '""T nnoun.-rl re- REFUSE TO ORDER Search for Supposed Reveals Nothing Search for the body of an uni dentified man, reported by Lee Nelson, street corner preacher, to have drowned himself in the Wil lamette river between the inter county and railroad bridges, on the west side, about 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, have ho far been unavailing, although J. B. Jacobs, West Salem grappler, searched the river in the vicinity of the supposed drowning last night and today. Nelson, who was visiting with men in the hobo camp on the bank of the river at the west end of the inter-county bridge yesterday aft ernoon says that he was sitting where he could get a good view cf the river and that he saw a man wade out into the stream and dive under the water. After waiting for several sec onds for the man to come up Nel son remarked to his companions, "That's a long-winded guy." Sheriff Waits In State House ' To Nab Governor Springfield, 111., Aug. 9. Sheriff Mester and sev- eral deputies went to the state house today for the ex- pressed intention of arrest- ing Governor Len Small, re- i cently indicted on charges of embezzlement during his j term as state treasurer. They waited on the lower floor ! for the governor to appear. ifr'The governor yesterday de- j clared he would protest j against arrest and indicated he would start legal action against the sheriff and his i bondsmen if the arrest was 1 made. s! President . Receives Box Of Logans Thanking him for his kindness, Frank H. Jory K. F. D. 4, Salem, received a letter from the White house, signed by one of the chief clerks, stating that the logan-1 berries shipped President Harding sometime ago had been received in good condition. The berries were wrapped care fully in waxed paper and amoun ted to about four cartoons. Thty !were shipped by the Drager fruit company and were carefully sel ected for the chief executive's palate. Crane Arrives at Reval, Russia Riga, Aug. 9. A message re ceived here today by the Ameri can Red Cross from Reval. Es thonia, says that Charles R. Crane, former United States minister to China and four associates arriv ed at Reval last night on their wav from China to the United States. escription. Mahbney is 38 years old. Mrs. Mahoney was 67. They had been married a little over a month when Mrs. Mahoney disappeared about April IS. Even before Mrs. Mahoney ? disappearance, police officers were trailing Mahoney. it became known today. "When James Mahoney, J8. marrjed Kate Moores, 67. we watched." Deputy Prosecuting At torney T. H. Patterson said today "A detective became suspicion of the affair, and his suspicion re sulted in the check which lei to the discovery that Mrs. Mahon-jy was missing.'' be declared. When Maboaey was told that the body of his wife had been found, he declined to mike any statement. Later be is iuowd aa having remarked to a reporter: "Adt way. tbey can t do auy more than hang me." Body of Suicide Asked what he meant, Nelson replied that he had seen a man go under the water two or three min utes before and had not seen him come up. None of his companions had seen the man in the water. Members of the hobo colony, after looking for the man and find ing a pair of badly worn shoes and blue shirt lying on the bank of the river, as well as fresh tracks lead ing into the water, reported the matter to the police. Chief of Po lice Moffitt's investigation threw no further light on the case, other than that members of the hobo colony had seen a man come to the river bank near the spot of the supposed tragedy earlier in the day, but had paid little attention to him or his actions. The case waB turned over to Coroner Lloyd Rigdon, under whose direction a search tor the body w; instigated. Released Americans at Jambury Washington, Aug. 9. The state department was informed today by its representatives at Riga and Re val that Americans who have been incarcerated at Moscow were on their way to the frontier yester day. They are expected to arrive at Jamburg this afternoon. Riga, Aug. 9. On the eve of the arrival of representatives of the American relief administratioa and soviet Russia to discuss Amer ican relief plans, the soviet gov ernment today issued statistics tending to show a greater effort to combat hunger than in other famine years. According to these statistics, so viet relief is progressing welt und claims are made that It is potf?!- ble, with limited facilities, to transport food. From June 2fl to July 20, it is claimed 50,000 peas ants, who have been forced to live on grass, have officially migrated to fruitful Siberia by the Moscow Kazan railway, while 41,000 al ready have been transported on the Volga river. Salem Man. 84, Struck By Car Today Is Hurt A deep gash cut over his left eye, Zedikiah Craven, 84 years of age, was taken to a local doctor's office this morning about 11 o'clock after he had been knock ed -o the pavement and injured by an automobile driven by Al Hill, of Butte, Montana. Mr. Craven resides at 144 N. Front Btreet. Eye witnesses said that the ac cident, which occurred as Mr. Craven essayed to cross the in tersection of Court and Commer cial street, could not have been avoided by the driver. Craven, they said, apparently became con fused and dashed back in front of the oncoming car after he had been well clear of the machine. Struck on the hip he was bowled to the street. He sustained sev eral bruises. Mr. Craven insisted that he did not see the approaching auto mobile. A tire was knocked off the car. Mr Hill had been moving west on Court street and had turned south on Commercial when the accident occurred. Brooks Woman Arrested By Sheriff Bower Wanted by Portland police on a charge of larceny by bailee. Marie Thiel of Brooks was arrested this morning by Sheriff O. D. Bower, and will be taken to Portland this afteraoo by the local police ma tron. The Portland police notified to sheriff here regarding the woman by mall. She was not confined ia tbe county jail because of the lack of aceoodatl!. Nothing w koowa as to tbe conditions of the charges preferred against her by the Portland officials, I Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, August 9, 1921 Proclaims Blind Love for Broker Mrs. Madelynne Oben-: chain Says She Does Not Care What Hap pens to Her Los Angeles, Cal., Aim. 9. M u.i.... oh.h.in .tin claims to have been the fiancee of ..by the Calfornia Packing corpo. John Helton Kennedy, slain brok- i'atlon. weie being turned down er, today proclaimed her love for by independent grow- Kennedy and declared she "didn't f1"8 m tne Dallas ""strict, accord care what happened." ng to, reliable reports received It was the first time since she , here tody and the Kroner, are was taken into custody as a ma-;holdln out for 10 cent terial witness-in the case that iwhlch anticipate will be Mrs. Obenchain had been permit- I forthcoming within a few days ted t talk to newsnanermen and when the canners are expected to it was her first coherent account nf thi lHlllntr nf IfpnnnHv tn front of his Beverly Hills cottage last Friday night. "You know that in all proba bility you will be indicted for murder?" the young woman was asked. With her hand pressed to her heart Bhe answered: "I don't care what they do. I don't care what happens to me. I thought too much of Mr. Kenne dy and was too much shaken by the loss of him to think about myself." Mrs. Obenchain said she had not known until she read the newspapers that she was under SUSpicion. "It was staggering," she said, amounts, it is now estimated that "to think I had been fooled this the yleI(1 o: young orchards, esti way but it is a matter of entire mated at 50 per cent of norma, indifference to me what they do, earlier in the season, will not ha or how they twist my statements" Mrs. Obenchain repeated her initial statement mat sne saw two men in some bushes near the cot tage at the time of the shooting, adding that she believed they were "foreigners." She said that after the first' shot she screamed and Kennedy I cried out: "Good night Madelynne." Then a second shot was fired, the men fled and she ran to Ken nedy, took bis hand and said: "Belton, speak to me, for God's sake, speak to me." Finding he was dead she ran for help, she said. Other features' of the Interview were questions which Mrs. Oben chain declined to answer, for ex ample: "Did you or Kennedy have any foreknowledge, fear or premoni tion that he was to be murder ed?" "I would not answer that." "Did Arthur C. Burch, who is detained here in connection with this case, have authority from you to use the name 'Mr. Oben chain' when he rented an automo bile the night of the murder?" "I would not give any answer that would reflect on Mr. Burch." Mrs. Obenchain said it was true she bad summoned Burch to Los Angeles from the east, but said it was only through a natural desire to have a friend visit this city. "My ;'.rd for Mr. Burch w'as entirely platonic," she said. She denied she visited Burch ia his room in a local hotel although investigators declared she had been identified as a woman seea there with Burch. Burch this morning refused to (see newspapermen. He had a con ference with John M. Curran, a Los Angeles attorney. Thieves Steal Starter From Car In Night To have the starter, pressure , ...v.. .,i sauce ana u iuuc vuwc ,wreu . . hia pir narked almost under the window near Which a member. ...... v....hlrf ... Rlftoninr tut1 Ul n " . ntrht is the experience reported : to police this morning by A. Cop ley, 905 North Fifth street Mr. Copley said tbat be parked the car last night la a vacant lot ( adjoin ii ? his home ana jusi op posite a window under which a visiting friend slept. This morn ing the car was still there, as was a wrench which the thieves bad used to disconnect the starter. E. v Van Dorn, who parked his car in front of his borne at Lin coln and Reservoir streets last night, alsc reported tbe theft of two tires from the machines some time daring the sight. The ens was jacked up and tbe tires re amed front wheels. MORE Refuse To Sell Prunes At 8 Cents Dallas Growers Reject ftffpr ftf Pnlifn-nij, I VL VctlllUIlUd. PaCkerS and Want 10 Cents for 30 40's Offers t eight cents for 30-40 i"'"' ' l"l "ew prune crop maue fenter tne mrket several or large produceds haye anin that their picks will go to the canneries at $1.50 per bushel if the bidding reaches that figure. The prices offered by the Cali fornia corporation range from 8 cents down. Seven and three quarters cents are bid for 40-45s, 7H cents for 40-50s, 5 Vb cents for 40-50c, 5H cents for 50-55s and 3 cents tor 55-60c, ths report Staies. Advances have been made to all of the big independent bidders without success. . But few prunes will be avail able at any price the growers sav. for tne prolonged drouth is caus- Hne tne fruit tn rirnn In lnrp-o over 25 percent and that of the old Qrchards (rom 15 percent to 'nothing Announcement was also mad today that the last of the hold over prunes for last year in the Dallas area, owned by a pool com poled cf Ralph Riggs, Dr. Mark niui n a storhnotr ley & Schaefer and other large independent growers, have been Bold The pr(ce for tne pruneg which ranged from 40-50s to small er sizes, was from 4 cents down Offers of 6 cents for the few 40-50 sizes left are being freely made. Henderson Held For Slaying Wife Portland, Or., Aug. 9. Mrs. Gertrude Henderson, 31, mother of tUxee children, died early today from knife wounds inflicted by her divorced husband, Joseph Hender- son, 36, who attacked her at her home Monday. Henderson is in a hospital suffering tom self-inflicted wounds. Physicians say he will recover. . After attacking his wife, who had obtained a divorce from bin on June 15 last, Henderson fled ( the home of his mother where he hid in a chicken house. When po lice officers surfounded his hiding place and demanded his surrender, Henderson shot himself in the right eye and also attempted to sever an artery in bis left wrist. A complaint of first degree mur der has been filed against Hender son by Walter H. Evans, dtslric t attorney Special Tram for Elk Convention Portland, Or., Aug. 9. Special I trains bearing delegations of Elks to the annual convention of the state association to he held at kgy, r(K..iTed n honorable dis arsofleld, August 18. 19 and 2 charge after the armUl,ce. and will be run from Salem, Eugene. 1 j-,., h. w, , ,, Mtdford, Roseburg, Albany, Mc- Minnville and other cities. It was announced today by James E. ., . i...mi.,i' chairman ..f of tbe ' ' ' wneral committee A feature of thi feature of the entertainment ., , . program win oe me battle of ths Argonne" staged by Marsh field post, American Legion. Four torpedo boats will be in Marsh field harbor during tbe conven- tlon and the sailors will partlci- yesterday with Nick F. Freynick. Bate In the water sports. arrested in connection with allegs- tions of embesxlement of $15t,000 D-ftUfl nf ZJ-rr o n from Armour and company at T0De 01 flW I Kansas City, wbers it is said ha Regime Underway was employed as a bookkeeper. Hew York. Aug. 9 The com- A week ago Trsynick came here Slttee appointed by the last lefts-! to join tbe local baseball club as tntore headed by Senator Schuyler pitcher. According to the de ft. Meyer to investigate ths city tectives rreynlck snd three other administration today began Its men are alleged to be Implicated syualic hearings and summoned j In tbe speculation which were sn Mayor John F. Hylan as the first i covered about s week ago when WllEf TROOPS TO SILESIA Lost Spouse Among Dead Fro m Wreck Eureka, Cal., Aug. 9. Eight years ago Frank King left his Eureka home to seek work elsewhere and in a short time letters stopped coming to his wife, Minnie A. Kin. Throueh the vears she waited, believing that some flay he would, return, f inal- ly he came back, one of the Alaska's dead. His body was brought to Eureka, where it was identified by a local man who formerly worked with him. King was a steward on the lost vessel. Check Shows 20 Persons Are Missing San Francisco, Aug. 9. Twen ty passengers of the lost steamer Alaska remained on a revised list of missing issued here today by the San Francisco & Portland Steamship company, which owned the vessel. No change was report ed in the total of eighteen known dead, whose bodies have been re covered. The company's list of missing follows: Alma Averill. Garfield. Wash. Geonte W. Busweil. Portland. Carl Berch, San Francisco. Mrs. H. W. Dyer, La Grande, Or. George Edwards, Portland. E. Fernerold, San Francisco, Gustan Miss Ruth Host, Portland. W. L. Johnson. Olympia. Wash. Miss Minnie Kan. Walla Walla, Wash. J. A. Mortte. J. W. Oliver, San Jose. Cal. W. A Sues. Miss B, Vipe, Portland. Miss V. Walden. Amanda Wentrom. Steerage. C. H. Oiten, Portland. Charles Macrnison. John Nelson. Company officials said they were preparing a list of the miss ing members of the crew. Deserted To Fight In France And Wants Bonus ThSt rather than remain in the ! Pacific Northwest in a home guard regiment during the war he deserted and enlisted in a regl ment of the Marine Corps which went overseas, confessing to his actions after he reached the fir ing line, being charged with desertion In court martial pro ceedlng, which were Instituted against him, and having these charges removed by gallantry in action, In which he won the Dis tinguished Service Cross and the Croix de Guerre, is the remark able story of an Oregon soldier, told In a letter received by Adju tant General George A. White, to day. The soldier in question has written to enquire about the eligi bility for the benefits under the recent State Aid act, for ex-service man. While General White refused to define the status of this soldier, function of the bonus commission officially, saying that, "it was a as a whole to pass upon tbe ellgl bility of applicants, and not of Individual members," he has written a personal letter to this soldier, stating that in his person- ,', h. (. .,ihi The of the city of Portland. Stole $156,000 From Armour Co. Rheburne. Minn., Aug. 9 Two Chicago detectives left here late 'Freynick left Kansas City. Price Three Compromise Split Of Territory Will Bisect Plebiscite Supreme Council, With British Voting Solid, Denies French Proposal to Reinforce Gar rison to Keep Peace Between Germans and Polish Insurgents Paris, Aug. 9. The allied supreme council decided today not to send reinforcements to the allied troops in Upper Silesia. When the question came up as to the sending of additional French troops as reinforcements the British delegation voted against such action. A compromise partition of Upper Silesia has been agreed upon, bisecting the Silesian plebiscite area. Paris, Aug. 9. rremler Brland of France and Mr. Lloyd-George, prime minister of England, have decided at a private meeting upon a compromise partition of Upper Silesia, it was declared here today on good authority. The compromise boundary line is understood to have been drawn approximately as follows: Beginning west of Pless on the Vistula river and running west of Gleiwits, west of Tost and Gross Strehlltz north to between Rosen berg and Kreuzberg and thence to the frontier o'f northern Upper Si lesia. This line, while by no means a straight Isne, approximately bisects the SllesiVn plebiscite area. The reputed agreement must be form ally ratified by the supreme coun cil. No Keinforoementi. It was upon the private settle ment being reached, it is under stood, that the council decided not to send reinforcements to Upper SHesIa at present, the British and Italian delegations voting against the sending of French troops for this purpose as France had desir ed. The convtgHsm of General Le rond, of France, head of the com mission, was that trouble mlght occur even if there were an im mediate decision. The British and Italian view prevailed and the council decided against the sending of reinforce ments for the time being. The new line Ib accepted In prln ciple as more nearly representing the real meaning of the plebiscite1 'uic man .riiuifiiK previously proi puieu. me airieion aiso spins tuc disputed Industrial district. British Position Stated. At the opening of the session Mr. Lloyd-George took occasion to declare the position of the British government upon what he called the menacing problem to the peace of Europe. Silesia, he said, had belonged to the German race tor 700 years a part of that per- lod to Austria, but for 177 vears to Prussia and the British gov ernment would not consent to aiiy division not based equitably upon the votes of the Poles and tbe Ger mans In tbe disputed region. The British prime minister said In substance that the British gov ernment keenly sympathised with the French desire for safety, know ing that France had suffered in two wars. That security, how ever, he declared, ought to rest up on the moderation with which the victors used their power and upon equity In apportioning Silesia. The, British empire, the prime minister declared, would never be dragged 'into another war caused by op- pressive use of superior force or mlddlewelghts. Fire Near Dallas Still Unchecked; Crops In Danger Dalla. Or., Aug. . Fire start ing from .a bonfire on tbe place of Mr. Boise of Salem, three and a bait miles northwest of Dallas, In tbe Pioneer district, shortly after noon yesterday completely destroy ed the farm house and barn of John Ha knt on the old Charles Ouy place, damaged tbe home of John Guy to the extent of tl00 and bad burned over several hun dred acres of slashings and small timber up to noon today. Firs Warden W. V. Fuller and a force of nearly 100 men have ben MKhtfog tbe blaze and be lieve they have it under control ar.lssn s strong counter wind de-j velops during ths afternoon. At noon today ths crop on 'hrl Cents OJC T RAIJJ J AMD NEWS STANDS F I V S tU I the abuse of justice In a time of triumph. All Asperity Vanishes. Paris, Aug. 9. With today's meeting of the allied supreme council here to consider the Up per Silesian question, all asperity between the French and British delegations over the Silesian boun darq apparently had disappeared. Both sides were agreed that the unity of the allied powers cannot be wrecked over a matter to rela tively unimportant. Mr. Lloyd George, the British prime minister, is quoted as hav ing remarked that the mere pre sence of the American ambassador. Colonel George Harvey, has had a stabilizing effect, It being felt that he brought with blm a calm out side view that tended to soften the sharpness of the controversy. Explains Events Paris, Aug 9. General Lerond, head of the Inter-allied commission for Upper Silesia, appeared before the supreme allied council here to day to explain events leading up to the Korfanty Insurrection there last spring. He was bitterly at tacked by Germany for his alleged failure to foresee the attempt by the Poles to take over a large part of the Upper Silesian plebis cite area and there were hints that he did not taSte proper meas ures to meet the situation when It developed. Brigadier General H. T. Allen, commander in chief of the Amer ican army of occupation In Ger many, was called before the sup reme council immediately after It opened thlB mornlng.g 8e81lloa Federal Probe of Alaska Wreck San Francisco, Aug. 9. The United States government will in- vestigate the circumstances sui funding the wreck Saturday night off the California coast of the steamer Alaska, which found- 1 ..-...! 1,1 ... . .. bodies had been recovered today. Agents for Frank H. Turner, United States inspector of hull, and John Dolan, inspector of boilers, today were summoning witnesses and, an announcement said the hearing would be held ni later than tomorrow. Turner and Dolan will sit jointly at the hear ing. Jersey City, N. J., Aug. t. MIks Gibbons, of St. Paul is matched against Jeff Smith, of Bayonne, In a scheduled twelve round bout here tonight. Both are Mark Blodgett place was report il as being in immediate danger an I the fire fighters were cooeentrat ing their efforts on the flames In the slashings and timber near bis fields. A fairly strong wind yesterday aided the fighters by retarding the flames from the large dry brufch and grain field areas bordering on the fire area. Back fires started soon after the flames had been dis covered held back the fire snd en abled tbe men to extinguish the one on tbe Guy home. Tbe de struction of the Hackelt place is blamed to flying embers, as the house and barn were behind ths line of back fires. mm