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I CIRCULATION Daily average lor June, 6,169. Member Audit Bureau ol Circulation. Member Associated PressFull leased wire service. , . THE WEATHER Washington and OregonTonight and Tuesday fair; moderate westerly winds. ' Local: No rainfall: westerly wind! clear; maximum, 77; minimum, 48; river, minus 1.2 feet and falling. ON TRAINS AND NRVVS STANDS FIVE) C Hi NTS FORTY-FOURTH YEAR NO. 174. SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1922. PRICE TWO CENTS n r-3 n PAN mm 1W UJJbil li I jvl a MM Oil DATA SEIZED LOS ANGELES IN EVIDENCE Assistant Prosecutor Tur ney Submits Papers Bearing on Raids found In raid on Grand Goblin MEDFORD, Or., July 24. The pedal session ot the grand jury, called to Investigate the series ot night riding outrages in Jackson county last spring, and other al leged activities ot the Ku Klux Klan in this section convened at Jacksonville, and adjourned at noon to meet in the federal build ing in this city. The investiga tion is in charge of Assistant At torney General Liljeqvist. Depu ty District Attorney Raymond Turney of Los Angeles was called as the first witness, his testimony being in regard to the document- nry evidence seiaed in the Los An geles raid, and having to do with . local and' state conditions. The grand Jury is composed of six men and one woman. One woman, Mrs. Mary Bene dict, will sit with six men to near, such evidence as the law officers! of the state may lay before them. With her will be Paul B. Pearce, Charles Lindsay, Delbert A. Lyons, James W. Smylle, Frank Silva and Lester Layton, all more or less well known residents ot Jackson eounty. I Before thiB Investigatory body L. A. Liljeqvist. assistant attorney general of Oregon, will present the evidence and ask for indictments to be returned against those who are touched by - the .evidence he brings forth. , - Story of Outrages. In March last, so the story goes. George Burr, a negro bootblack of (Continued on page four) Y THOUSAND ACRES OF PUGET FORESTS AFLAME Olympia, Wash. July 24- Two forest fire1, reports of a serious na ture have been received from Grays Harbor county by State Forester JPred E. Pape. A blaze in the works of the Walker Brothers Lumber company, wKch has been under con trol for. some time, suddenly broke away under a high wind and spre: to the Humptullps company works. An unofficial report said that the Humptulips company had lost its camp and a large number of logs, j The fire hag been partly checked, tt is taid. , " .. . The Wynoche timber company rth of Montesano Is reported to have lot heavily when a fire burn ed through four million feet of cut log.i. The actual .damage has not been estimated. More than ten thousand acres lwve been burned over and one fire has enveloped almost four thousand acres in Northeastern Stevens eounty, according To John T, Ral- tn, secretary of the Stevens coun ty timber protective association who was here to confer with Mr. Pape today. The situation is the worst ever experienced in that part f the country, Mr. Raftis said, and efforts to check the flames' have most cases been rendered futile. The general situation today was viewed by Mr. Pape as showing im provement, but rain is being anxiously awaited. STEWART IS OUT OH BAIL; UP TBOBROW Edward Stewart, of route 2, ar rested by Deputy Sheriff Walter Barber, Chief of Police Moffitt and Patrolman George White Saturday light on a charge of possessing liquor, was released this morning under bail of $23 when be was rratgned i,efore judge G. E. Un rnh la the justice court. Stewart was granted 24 hours n which to plead to the charge. The officers said they found a gal lon of moonshine liquor in his au tomobile which was parked near .the Dreamland rink. Cash Wheat Drops From 1 to 11 Cents In Kansas City Market Kansas City, July 24. Cash wheat continued its heavy de cline today, falling one to 11 cents. Market men attributed the decrease to the increased receipts brought about by the winter wheat movement Just getting under way. Nine hun dred and thirty-one cars of wheat were received at the Kansas City market today against 660 cars at Chicago. PHEZ Cp REHE NG IS ,M $300,000 Suit Against Growers Begins; Court Rules Out Records Of Previous Case. Rehearing of the case of the Phez company against the Salem Fruit union and its members In dividually, which involves over 100 loganberry growers of this vicinity and the sum of approxi mately -1300.000 for alleged breach of contrat in the delivery of berries to the plaint4ff during the years of 1919, 1920 and 1921, began in the circuit court this morning before Judges George G. Bingham and Percy Kelly, sitting en banc. .-.'" The court room was packed with growers and the plaintiff be gan the case by calling witnesses to establish the ability of the The company-to pay for the ber ries dufing the years in which the contract was" in effect. The important action of the court, however, was the sustain ing an objection of the ' defend ants' to the introduction of the record of the previous hearing into the present ease. While at torneys for the plaintiff held that the growers were held by the de cree ot the court to the testimony given in the previous case, the court held that, as pointea our by the attorneys for the growers, that in the present case there would, be many growers wno would testify who had not been (Continued on Page Five.) LIQUOR SMUGGLING CONTROLLED BY TRUSI Seattle, Wash., July 24 -Liquor smuggling operations between Canada and the United States are controlled by "trusts" and the small liquor runner and bootleg ger, especially in the Pacific northwest, win soon oe oi iuc past, collector of customs Millart T. Hartson declared today on his palnrn from an inspection trip. "Profitable liquor smuggling," Mr. Hartson said, "now requires big capital, and men with large financial resources are gaining control of the game. From all In dications, smuggling is on .the decrease in Puget Sound waters as far as the number of men en gaged In the business is concerns INVENTOWuSELE - DEAD AT HONOLULU Honolulu, July 24 (Correspon dence of the Associated Press) M.nel Jfunei. inventor of tne Uku- a:a . hid home here of tiawH", Lt " ,., aM heart disease after V'B , T..,ral belief, the eonirary i e - Ukelele was known to the Hawai ian only after the advent of the white man. Nunez brn vi vc.ipm. in 1S43 and came to the islands in 1878 L Th fol lowing year he fasluonea a -euitar-like instrument with a cigar P a . fw Ktrinirs. It was from D"Tr.V" I-kulele of today evolved. Muskogee. Okla., July 2. Complaint that railroads L were selling coal con- neto dealers and announce. ment that tbey nau v . uinna coal to repien r heir'ady exhausted stocks was made here today oy r"al retailers. One dealer charged that two carloads ot fuel had been confiscated. ADOPT PLAN F0RC0NIR0L OF RAIL COAL Operators from Six States Agree With Hoover's Plan to Maintain Prices And Distribute Coal Washington, July 24. Opera tors from the producing districts of six. states In conference today with Secretary Hoover agreed In principle with the administra tion's plan for maintaining prices and Insuring fuel distribution during the strike emergency. The operators, it was stated aft er the conference this morning. had agreed to the general propos-" als as outlined by Secretary Hoover, subject to the approval of their respective districts, but had raised some objections to the legal features of the scheme. ' The legal phases were given the ap proval of the department of jus tice in an opinion sent to Secre tary Hoover by Attorney General Daugherty, while the conference was in session. ' Emergency Control. . Efforts ot the drafting commit tee, it was learned, were to be aimed at framing a scheme for emergency coal control which would not run counter to the Jaw relating to monopolies and con spiracies In restraint ot trade. Non-union operators attending the conference were Inclined to attach only one condition to their agreement to maintain the fair prices previously fixed and that a requirement that the government use every effort to get them rail road service. It Is conceded that tv. price "Stales set offer reason able profits to all of the producers in the non-union districts even though some buyers under the pressure of imminent shortage have been bidding up the market levels and urging upon the pro ducers cash offers far above tne Hoover scales. The producers asserted that if their mines could not be kept In operation, however, because of the railroads in the non-union dis tricts where the railroad strike has been aimed at coal production were unable to keep trains mov ing, allowing shutdowns and re sumptions will increase the costs of their operations, destroy the morale of their mining forces and make It necessary for them to sell their coal at a higher figure than the level now voluntarily fixed. Chicago, July 24. (By Associ ated Press.) The railroad strike entered the new week today drift ing. . ,.' The last announcement of the governmental agencies seeking to bring about a resumption of work by the striking shopmen, clerks, oilers and groups of maintenance of ways workers, having been that of the federal railroad labor board to the effect that the board con templeted no further move at pres; ent, left the country waiting for something to happen. The silence of federal officials following last week's conference in Washington and Chicago was interpreted to reveal an Inclina tion on the part ot-the adminis tration to let the situation drift a tew days, pending the outcome of efforts to relieve the coal pinch in the realm ot transportation. Should the new effort to secure coal for essential Industries ac complish its purpose it Is consid ered not improbable by those In close touch with the railroad situ- (Continued on page four) COLUMBIA HIGHWAY FIRE UMDER CONTROL Portland, Or., July 24. Reports from forest and city officials to day Indicates that the Herman reek fire skirting the Columbia river highway is partly under con trol, that the Herman creek ranger station on the highway neaa quartere of the fighters is now from dancer, and that Port land's water reserve is safe, being on an miles from the sun J e w nearest blaze. r.,rn N. D.. July 24. Truck mail service on six branches of the Great Northern railway effective today was enonunced by Hoy Dal i.. M.f nf the Fargo dUtrict railway mail service. "The Modern Ku Klux Klah" I M r" ! Si'' forth the Ku Klux program as defined by the "Emperor" himself and during the week he will present the ritaul, passwords and. other data. POSSIBILITIES OF : MOTION PICTURES TOLD BY HAYS Los Angeles, July 4 Will tt. Hays, president of the mouon pic ture producers and distributors of America, signalised, his first ap pearance here in Los Angeles, the home of a large motion picture, col- ony, by speaking before the cham ber of commerce and leading motion picture men. He said he had come to visualize the industry as a great three-fold instrument for good, be cause there were three things it could do as no other industry could do them. 'It could." he eaid, "fill a neces sity, the necessity for entertain ment." "In tha second place, it can and Will instruct which is a most prec ious power.- "In the third place, it can ao more than any otner agciitioo unite the peoples of the world, to bring understanding nor only De- tween man and man, but between nation and nation than which no greater thing can be done." He discussed the organization of the association which, he heads and said its objects were to establish and maintain the highest possible moral aiid artistic standards, and to develop the educational as well as the entertainment value and the general usefulness of the motion picture. 'This plan," he said, "create no super-court autocratically to pass upon pictures or do many of the other things which have been sug gested." "We have no great program or reform,' I am a tenderfoot in the motion picture business but I am learning something every day and doing the best I can. I mean to be of some aervice in developing the plans and executing the purposes moving in the direction of our great objective. ,, OLOOH CONTEST ANSWER TUESDAY Answer to the Hall election contest suit will be tiled In the circuit court of this county to morrow, according to Roy F. Shields, one of the attorneys for Governor Ben Olcott, this morn ing. Mr. Shields had nothing to say as to what would be contain ed In the allegations or tne gov ernor. It is believed that testimony in the case will begin a few days after the filing of the answer and that the case will not be complet ed within less than eight weeks. LEGAL TEKDERS DO HOT iCLUOE NARCOTICS Tacoma, Wash., July 24. Nar- cortics are not "legal tenaer for all debts, private and public" as Louis Burns of Hoqulam learnea to his sortow today from -the lips of Judge Edward E. Cushmaa ol the United States district court. Burns explained to the court that five bindles ot opium on his per sons when he was arrested, had been received in payment tor a debt. He got a year and a day in Leavenworth federal penitentiary ihle E mis This is the eighth installment of the book written by Henry P. Fry exposing the real character and sinister pur pose, of the Ku Klux Klan. In the previous chapters, the history of the order was related, Mr. Fry describing how he Came to join the Klan under a misapprehension and his ex periences as a Kleagle. Discovering the real aims of the mercenary promoters of the order, Mr. Fry withdrew and wrote a scathing letter to the "Emperor," to which the latter never replied. In it he concisely set forth the menace of the order to Ameri can institutions. v , Mr. Fry next described the "Invisible Empire" and its incorporators. Saturday to told of the organization and the nmf its realized in the promotion. In today's issue, he sets MOCNSHiNE KILLING OFF SIBERIAN ESKMQES Nome, Alaska, July 24i The northeastern Siberian coast from Anadyr north to the Arctic is in a state of chaos as a result of the manufacture by the Eskimos of raw alcohol, which they drink as fast as It can be made, according to 4 special dispatch from the SI berlau correspondent ot the Nome Nugget. The whole section Is a vast dls tillery," says the correspondent, who adds that 76 children have died recently from lack ot food ami medical attention and' that th6 older natives are "drinking fighting and killing each other in the Hudson Bay company steamer Bay Chimo left Nome last nlftht for Anadyr, carrying mis cellaneous supplies, including medicines L $IVEN BIRTHDAY E Washington, July 24. Much preferring a bone if the truth were known jaaaie uu, i president dog received a birthday cate today from h'w old man at Toledo along with a letter telling ot the continued good conduct of the family. Packed in a box Bhaped line a regulation doghouse, the cane, made ot dog biscuit material, suit able tor a high brow dog s diges tion, was delivered to tne wnne House by express messengers. laddie Boy's birthday is Wed nesday. The cake will not be opened until then, meanwhile In vitations will go to some oi cau dle Boy's friends of equal serial rank to hop over and have a bite. There were snap shots, too, or Laddie Boy's motner; nis sisier T.1L who is getting along toward her high school days; his broth er '-Bob, who has a job In New York, and little Dick, tne oany born after Champion's Tlntorn Tip Top, Laddie Boy's' oia man, sent his favorite offspring as friend and pal of the president. Tha olcture Laddie Boy seemed to like best was that ot his daddy an upstanding old gent built on the Laddie Boy lines, ana ior whom at night he some times whines. M1YFIELD LEADS IN TEXAS PRIMARIES Dallas, Texas, July 24. The lead of James E. Ferguson over Senator Culberson for second place on the democratic ticket for United States senator stood at about 8000 at noon today, accord ing to figures complied oy tne Texas election bureau. Earl B. Mayfield continued in lirst piace. The vote, incomplete, irom j counties was Mayfield 103,606; B-.i-.ri.son 77.893; Culberson u,- 703: Thomas 66,320; Ousley 39,- 251; and Henry 2,774. Twenty four counties were reported com oiete. A total of 261 counties are to report. Robert L. Henry, one ot the sen atorial candidates openly espoused the Ku Klux Klan In Ills "cam natirn. but the other candidates were non-committal on that question. ADDIE BOY IS BY OLD MAN SPOKANE ROB B Spokifne, Wash., July 24. Burglars broke open eighty vaults on six floors ot the Paulsen build ing here Saturday night and stole in excess ot $100,000, it was learned this morning. This lg the largest burglary ever committed in Spokane, according to the po- lino Thai hnlinvn the rohberv was , - the work ot professionals. . Although vaults on each ot the six floors were equipped with different combinations, the burg lars worked the combinations and gained entrance without making any unusual noise or without breaking a lock. Once Inside the vault, according to the police, the individual compartments were opened wtih passkeys. The time of the robbery Is placed at Saturday night because an elevator operator went to the building early yesterday morning and found the tumblers in the front door lock out of place when he attempted to Insert his key. He said he took his knife, straight ened up the tumblers and opened the door. He did not go into the building where he would have dis covered the robbery, he said. It Is believed the burglars began their operations on the eleventh floor of the building, later open ing the vaults on the ninth, eighth, fifth, tourth and third flooVt. The manager of the building declared that the only master key in existence is in the vaults of the Fidelity National bank. He said this key was never taken out ex cept by Mr. Paulsen, owner of the building, or himself. The robbers escaped with bonds, jewelry and cash, most of the ten ents of the building being the vic tims. The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company was one of the heaviest losers, it was said, although the extent of Its loss will not be known until the manager of the company returns to the.city. WAPATO PROJECT RIGHTS CONFIRMED Spokane, "Wash. July 24 Hold ing that farmers "adjacent to the Wapato irrigation project were not deprived of any water rights end that they had no action against the government, federal Judge P. H. Eudkin has dismissed the case or Honors Jensen, Maude Bolin, Josephine Parker and others of the Toppenieh district, against the United States. The case has been pending since 1918. The plaintiffs had sought to restrain L. M. Hart, supervising engineer of the Wnpato district end also asked judgenynt of $14 000. In the building of the Wapato pro ject, it is said, the engineers obli- eated some of the existing aitcnes by building new ditches across them. The plaintiffs eoinpiainca their water rights were abridged by this action. Tlille"Knocks 24th Homer Philadelphia, Pa., July 24 Clarence "Tillie" Walker of the Athletics, today hit his 2th home run of the season in the third inn ing of the Philadelphia-Washington game off Ertckson. 10 one was on base. 80 VAULTS SECURE $100,000 09 ' iiT, a rf0( HEIK PROMISED BY EMPEROR SIMMONS 1EH MEN ENOUGH ENROLLED When organizing period become surcharged with shrieks of enemies of real Americanism as these forces feel the tightening grip of tk Klan around them and realize they are whipped." "Klan Shall Form a Ring of Scheme We the Ku Klux Klan, We the Invisible Empire, Rally to Aid the Faltering Hands of Our Low and to Protect Our Homes, Our Lives, Our People and Our Nation's Future Against a Wave of Living Hell" By HENRY P. FRY, (Copyright 1922 by Small, Maynard & Co.; Published bf arrange, ment with author and publisher.) HAS THE "INVISIBLE EMPIRE" A PROGRAM? According to its "Emperor" it not only has a program, but at the proper time it will put it forth. He made a state ment which was printed in the Searchlight on July 2, 1921 : "I am not at all surprised, but of course gratified. , I have ed that if God gave me strength and men' with which to lay before America the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, that it would sweep the nation as nothing of the kind has ever done. "The Ku Klux Klan has not started to work. The enemies of the organization have been howling and backbiting and snapping at everything they could see or hear, and lying slanders have been spread broadcast about the organiza tion and leaders and proposed work and present activity. "For the edification of those who do not know allow me to sav that the Ku Klux Klan and may not do so for a year. the present time anu we do not intend to start definite activity until we have sufficiently organized to make sure success. ' "To those who love fireworks rhetorical and otherwise -allow me to suggest that they wait quietly until the Ku Klux Klajt passes through its organizing period and actual ly starts work. The attacks that have so far been launched will appear significant when the atmosphere sbecomes sur charged with the shrieks of the enemies of law and order, constitutional principles, and real Americanism, as these forces feel the tightening grip of the Klan around them and they come to the realization that they are whipped. 1 SEIZED RECORDS N Medford, Or., July 24. Ray mond I. Turney, deputy prosecut ing attorney of Los Angeles, ar rived here Sunday to attend the session of the grand Jury that is to convene Monday to investigate the Jackson county night rider cases. Turney brings evidence regard ing the membership and activities of the Ku Klux Klan In Oregon, as it appeared in the office of Grand Goblin Coburn when raided fol lowing the inglewood, Cal., shoot ing. ' Turney is a native of lk City, Or., and has resided In Los An geles for 20 years. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Doran, who -was subpenaed to ap pear here Monday, has been ex cused owing to pressure of busi ness in the prosezutor's office ol Los Angeles county. The hammer murder and the cases against al leged members ot the kfca set tor trial August 7 are among the cases in Los Angeles that prevented Prosecutor Doran from coming here. The lists, of the Oregon Klan that came into possession ot the Los Angeles authorities are lieves to be Incomplete. ne- Horne Evade Issue- London, July 24. (By Associ ated Press.) Asked in the house ot commons this afternoon wheth er Great Britain had offered to cancel France's debt If she would reduce ber claims for reparations from Germany, Sir Robert Home, chancelolr of the exchequer, re plied that it was Ill-advised to re ply In newspaper reports. mam r fern? passes "atmosphere will Steel To Throttle Every Devil's at the progress of the work, never for one moment doubt have not yet starter to work We are merely organizing at "It will bo then, and not till then, that the real anathemas will be hurled at the orniization and ill leaders but it will have as lit tle weight and do as little harm as all the lies that have been spread broadcast up to the present time. "And those who have deliberately maligned and slandered us are go ing to wake some day to a very unpleasant situation. We are keep ing records and making plans. The day of our activity has not arriv ed." This intemperate language of Simmons was even exceeded at a meeting held on the night of Aug ust 25, 1021, in Philadelphia, which was reported in a press telegram as follows: ''A narrow pathway leading to a woodland glade, and every fifty feet a masked end white-robed sen tinel. Within the little elearing an (Continued on page four) PLAN ATTACH ON FREAK FISH BILL Portland, July 24 Declaring that the proposed constitutional amend ment filed with the secretary of state to be passed upon by the voters next November, which would do away with traps, wheels and seinj for salmon fishing in the Col umbia river, would give gill Betters a monopoly and would cripple the sta-te fish hatcheries, Master Pish Warden Carl U. Shoemaker start ed for Salera at noon today to file an argument against the amend ment. Shoemaker in the argument charg ed that "an attempt had been made to hold up" the fishing and can nery interests in connection with the filing of the initiative amend ment. The argument is to be print ed in the voters pamphlet.