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JUL 3 i 1322
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THE WEATHER
Washington and Oregon Tonight and
Sunday fair; moderate westerly winds.
Local No rainfall; maximum, 78; min
imum, 52; river, minus 1.3 feet and sta
tionary; northerly winds; cloudy.
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SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY- 29, 1922.
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Personal Financial Gain
Is Charged by New
York Herald.
Washington, July 2. By a
Kite of 26 to 24 the senate ap
troved today the committee
unendment imposing duties on
woolen cloth for men's suitings.
Seven republicans voted against
the amendment and .three demo
crats supported It.
The republicans were Borah, Cap
per, Cummins, Kellogg, Lenroot,
Kelson and Wadsworth, and the
democrats Brousard,, Kendrick and
BaiMdell.
The duties as agroed upon are 26
Ktna a pound and 40 percent ad
Ttlorem on such, . cloth valued at
lot more than 60 cents a pound; 40
ti and 50 percent ad valorem
I that valued at from 60 to 80
ats a pound; 49 cents a pound
ind 50 percent ad valorem on that
valued at more than 80 cents a
pound. Under an amendment by
Senator Lenroot which was approv
ed, the 49 cents a pound compensa
tory duty would apply only on the
woolen content of the cloth.
Investigation of ' charges that
certain senators are interested fi-
Viuclally in the 'rates of duties
proposed In particular -schedules
of the pending tariff bill was pro
posed in a resolution Introduced
today by Senator Caraway, demo
crat, Arkansas.
Probe Is Requested. -'
The Inquiry would be conducted
by the Judiciary committee, which
would be Instructed to report to
the senate within ten days. Also
th committee would inquire Into
charges that senators, In the lag
of the resolution, are or were fi
nancially Interested in the pass
age or extension of the so-called
emergency tariff." .
Senator Caraway read from an
idltorial of the New York Herald,
charging that certain Bee a tors
were interested In the production
of wool and immediately was in
terrupted successively by all of
the senators mentioned in the edi
torial, wtih a resulting running
cross fire of debate which waxed
warm at times.
Gooding Denies It.
Senator Gooding, Idaho, chair
man of the republican agriculture
tariff bloc, said Senator Caraway
(Continued o-n Page Seven.)
Omaha, Neb.f July 29. Heavy
hins throughout .Nebraska last
sight caused considerable damage,
It was Indicated In reports re
wired here today. At Pilger over
flow from a creek Inundated the
town forcing residents to seek
!Kh ground for shelter. In Oma
sa a heavy downpour was accom
nied by a severe electric storm.
. Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the
Missouri river from Omaha, was
k darkness as a result of the light
ower plant being put out of com
mission. Denver. July 29. Waters of
Cherry creek and South Platte
Ter, which flow through resi
dential partg of Denver, were back
w normal today following heavy
m yesterday and last night
n'ch caused the streams to over
new and flood a large number of
"omes and highways and swept
j"'t several bridges. Authorities
jfy are attempting to -determine
" smount of damage which Is
believed to be great.
Several hundred motorists re
ding tram the frontier days
"lebration at Cheyenne were re
jd to be safe today after be-
delayed several hours Iat
'Sat sg the result of flooding ol
"ds aorta.
EAVY RAINS
FLOOD NEBRASKA
DOING
DAMAGE
Vice President Agrees
To Visit Salem During
Trip to Pacific Coast
Washington, July 29. Vice
President Coolldge left Friday
for Boston and Saturday leaves
Boston for his western trip,
which will take him to Port
land for a visit of four days, ar
riving August 12. Before leav
ing he promised Senator Mc
Nary to Include Salem In his
Itinerary. . - .
I
PREFEtNCE
FORI JIMS
DEBITORS
Supreme ( Cdurt Holds
That Savings Accounts
In Defunct State Bank
Of Portland Be Paid,
As the result of an opinion hand'
ea down by the Oregon supreme
court today, savings depositors in
tne defunct State Bank of Portland
are to ,be paid in full, while the
amount to be received by commer
cial depositors will depend on ad
justments to be made later..
In the case, in which C. R. Up
ham, Mary Steelhammer and
Grace A. Doxsie are appellants and
if rank u. Bramwell, state super
intendent of banks, is defendant,
the decrees of Judge Robert Tuck
er, of the Multnomah circuit court,
are affirmed. The opinion was
written by Justice McCourt.
12,500 Depositors Involved.
Approximately 12,500 depos
itors were involved In the caw.
"Savings assets shall be applied
exclusively to the satisfaction ol'
savings depositors, and until
their claims are paid In full, sav
ings depositors shall share ratably
wtih commercial depositors in the
distribution of all other assets and
resources of the bank," the opin
ion points out.
Assets of .the insolvent bank
show approximately $400,000 In
each of the commercial and sav
ings departments.
The statute, Justice McCourt
contends, evinces a purpose to
furnish greater securtiy to savings
depositors than to other depositors
and to favor savings depositors
over commercial depositors in the
event of Insolvency,
The opinion adds that "in a pre
ceding part of that section of the
statute It is declared that savings
depositors shall have an exclusive
prior lien upon all the assets, In
eluding cash, of the savings de
partment, from which their claims
shall first be paid. This language
implies that savings depositors
have other claims on the assets of
an Insolvent bank."
LIGHT VOTE IN
RECALL ELECTION
JACKSON COUNTY
Medford. Or., July 29., Jack
son county's recall campaign, one
of the bitterest campaigns ever
fought out In southern Oregon,
came to a close last night with a
mass meeting of Medford citizens
opposed to the recall of Sheriff
Terrill, and today both factions
are busy getting their supporters
out to the polls. The Ku Klux
Klan was the main issue, charges
being made by the supporters of
Terrill that his opponent D. M.
Lowe was a member or tee sian,
while Lowe made
an affidavit
yesterday he
is not" a member
nf the klan
immediately counter-
ed by affidavits from former, mem
bers of the klan that be "was" a
member, with the people dividing
as to the truth of the affidavits
largely by their partisan sympa
thies. At noon today a light vote
reported in all parts of the coun
ty but It is believed a very heavy
ote will be registered before the
oils close at eight tonight.
CITY BREAKS
II RECORDS
FOR BIDING
1200 Per Cent Increase
Over July 1921 Shown
Here This Month; 27
New Homes Erected.
An. Increase of more than 1200
per cent by far the largest gain
In building activities ever record
ed in the history of Salem is
shown In this month's construe
toin work over that of July, 1921.
This month's building work
also was nearly twice as heavy as
it was during June of this year.
$137,950 Is Expended.
During the first 28 days of this
month $137,950 was spent for
buildings. Last month, a record
breaker itself, there was but $76,-
820 expended, while in July, 1921
the records show that only $11,
050 went for construction of
buildings.
City officials were themselves
astounded when they saw the tig'
ures, complied this morning by
Mark Poulsen, deputy city record
er. '
Work Is General.
The huge Increase in building
expenditures Is not the result of
the erection of a few larger .struc
tures the figures - show that
building activity here Is more
general than It has been for
some time. Dwellings are chiefly
being built and these are under
way in every corner of the city.
During the 28 days of this
month 27 new dwellings were put
under construction at a total cost
of $82,350," at an average cost of
$3,050. During July, 1921, there
were but four new homes built, at
a cost of $7400. This month there
was also an apartment house start
ed, costing $30,000 and a new
chuch costing $18,000.
LID CLAMPED
ON TIBER BELT
TO CHECH FIRES
Olympia, Wash., July 29. Gov
ernor Louis P. Hart clamped the
lid tighter today on any activities
that might result in fire In the
"storm zone" of the Olympic
peninsula, placing a ban on ev
erything from blasting powder to
matches. The new regulations
took effect at noon today.
The rules provide that it shall
be unlawful In this area to oper
ate steam driven engines, to use
any powder for blasting purpos
es, to discharge any fire arm or
to use matches or any other form
of ignition outside of a building
or legally designated camp site.
Ctate Forester Fred E. Pape
said general conditions are bet
ter over the state today, all old
fires being surrounded and no
new ones reported. The Little
Rock fire in this county broke
away into green nmuer yemer
day but appeared to be checked
today.
OBENCHAIN JURY
UNABLETO AGREE
Los Angeles, Cal July 29.
Another effort at reaching a ver
dict was to be begun at 9: SO
o'clock this morning by the Jury
in the second trial of Mrs. Mada
lynne Obenchain fdr the murder
of her sweetheart, J. Belton Ken
nedy, a young broker, at Beverly
Glen, August 5, 1921.
The five men and seven women
who, at 10 o'clock last night re
tired to rooms prepared for them
Immediately above the court room
where the trial was held, were re
ported at the time to stand to 6
on a verdict.
While the Jury was deliberating
Mrs. Obenchain declared she was
confident of ar-quittal. but thst
the strain was sever.
Eamonn DeVaSera
Seen Carrying Rifle ?
Looks Pale and Worn
Dublin-, July 29. (By As
sociated Press.) Travelers In
Dublin - today who said they
saw Eamon DeValera at Clon
mel early this week declared
he was carrying a rifle and
that he looked worn and hag
gard. Today's national army
communique announces that
Freestate troops captured the
village of Bruree, two miles
from Kllmallock.
Erma Austin, Who Drop
ped From Sight Wednes
day, Cuts Wrist and
Drinks Poison.
A second chapter to the some
what dramatic career of pretty
Miss Erma Austin, 15, who dis
appeared from her home here last
Wednesday, was added this morn
ing when she attempted to com
mit suicide by cutting her left
wrist with a razor and by swat
lowing a quantity of poison.
Physicans said this afternoon
she will recover. '
- Wants to Get Well-
"I was Just tired of the way
things have been going," Miss
Austin told officers. She added
however, that she wants to get
well and that the differences
which, she said, had existed be
tween her and her mother, have
now been straightened out.
Police said that interference
from neighbors, who talked to
Miss Austin this morning, appear
ed to precipitate the trouble. Of
ficers explained that three persons
talked to her and that, immediate
ly afterward, she rushed to the
bathroom, lockeu the door and
slashed her wrist.
Miss Austin, who is the daugh
ter of Mrs. E. C. Lucas, 214 South
Fourteenth St., first came to the
attention of police when she dis
appeared from her home Wednes
day. Friday she was found at
local hotel and was returned to
her mother. -
Police say Miss . Austin told
them she had wanted to go out
and that permission to do so had
been refused her. She was former
ly employed at a local cannery.
JAIV1ES M, BROWN
VALLEY PIONEER
DEAD, SILVERTON
Silverton July 29 (Special)
James M. Brown, a pioneer tf '46,
died at his home in Silverton yes
terday, and with his death is xnark-
d the passing of another whose
name has been identified with Ore
gon, its history and development.
Mr. Brown had epent the greater
part of his life in ttilverton, and
was quite widely known through
out the Willamette valley.
At the time of his death he was
seventy-ight years old. He was
seventy-eigh years old. He crossed
the plains with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. James Brown, when he was
two years old, the family coming
from Lincoln county, Missouri.
Mr. Brown's father was the first
Oregon resident to aid In promot
ing the fruit industry here, having
the distinction of establishing the
first cannery.
The son began his business career
at the age of sixteen 1888 when
he went into the merchaotile busi
es in Silverton. Later he bought
plotted and sold one of the princi
pal additions to Pilverton.
In 1S71 he married Miss Harriett
Dudley, who died we years later.
Mr. Brown's second marriage took
place on March 7f 1873, to Miss
Edna J. Eastman. The latter sur
vives him, as does slso two child
ren, a eoa Percy Brown manager
f the loeai telephone branch in
Silverton. sad a daughter, Mrs.
Hobert Lowb of Portland.
PRETTY IE
1 5, ATTEMPTS
SUICIDE HERE
I Em
t r. : : : i -
"The Modern
sion,
1 :
; Monday the analyzing and dissecting of the Ku Klux Klan
oath will be completed and Tuesday the ceremonials will be
taken-up.
Negro Victim of
Klan Arrives to
Tell of
Medford, Or., July 29. Al
though there was no session of
the grand jury investigating Ku
Klux activities here today, great
interest was arouBed by the ar
rival pt Arthur Burr, colored, one
of the principal witnesses for the
state, who "disappeared" yester
day while en route from Modesto,
Cal., to this city. Burr Is closely
guarded by federal agents, and no
explanation of his disappearance
has yet been made public.
S. B. Sandlfer, state dry en
forcement officer, another Im
portant witness and also report
ed missing, arrived in Medford
this morning from Woodruff
Meadows where he has spent two
weeks' vacation. Sandifer denied
he had tried to "escape the grand
jury' Investigation, said he was
read vt at anv time to tell all he
knows about "fhe alleged outrages
in southern Oregon, and that he
did liojt know he was wanted un
til he: arrived In this city.
Great care Is being exercised
to keep the members of the grand
FIRST CALL ON
IRKING TIES
Washington, July 29 All produc-
nig coal mines or tne country win
be, (riven first call on railroad coal
cars as soon as the organization of
the administration's emergency fuel
control machine is completed, It was
announced today by secretary Hoov
er, chairman of the federal coal
distribntion committee.
The priorities on cars to produc
ing mines will be passed upon by
the distribution committee, Mr.
Hoover said, so that all coal may
be Obtained under the fair prices
agreed npon to prevent profiteer
ing. The commerce secretary said
would then be up to too states
maintain prices . within their
boundaries by the prevention of re-
sale-s and profiteering.
Mr. Hoover plans to make public
soon proposals being sent to all of
the statas for the organization of
local fuel eontrol bodies. The fed
eral plan, he added, contemplates
that each state shall take the en
tire responsibility for distribution
and prices within its ounaaries
while the federal government will
sea to it that the states get coal
from th operators at fair prices
The eemmerce sccre(ary in this
connection stated that Henry B.
Spencer, the administrative member
the president s committee it to
be known as the federal fuel distri
butor aad not as an administrtor,
as he explained was officially an
nounced yesterday by the depart
ment through a typographical slip.
T. E. McClain, a Jitney driv
er, was arrested here this morn
ing by Police Sergeant Birtchet
and was charged with cutting a
corner. MeClaln was cited to ap
pear In police court before Judge
Karl Race Monday. -
CARS GIVEN TO
Ku Klux Klan"
The Capital Journal today pre
sents another installment of the
"The Modern Ku Klux Klan" by
Henry P. Fry, author of the New
York World expose that caused
the congressional investigation
of the order.
ms Mr. Fry in previous chapters
i1, detailed how he joined the Ku
,1,1 Klux Klan under a misapprehen
became a Kieagie, was man-
1 J : .1 4-UA Anl oima
.. Eiliiil lUBiuueu, uistuveicu u xecu amia
i!nd purposes of the organizers,
liiilaand resigned in disgust.
Hanging
Jury from all outside Influence
over the week end, the adjourn
ment today being necessitated by
the fact that one of the jurymen
is a Beventh Day Adyentiat.
Burr Is the one remaining wit
ness of major importance who has
not told his story, to the special
grand Jury now sLttlng to Investi
gate the klan outrages of March
last. He was taken out Into the
base hills of the Elskiyous, strung
up. by the neck three times, re
volver shots were scattered about
his dangling feet and he was told
to go away and keep going. He
did. The next morning a Medford
citizen met another who had
driven In from the south and
asked him If he "had seen a nig
ger headed south with his tongue
hanging out a foot." Burr's neck
was badly scarred by the ropq with
which he had been hanged, and
he -was about the "scairtest" In
dividual that had crossed the Cali
fornia line Bince the days when
Jacksonville and her vlgilants
were In their prime.
The Dallas, Or., July 29. The
state bonus commission was criti
cized as being over-conservative
in a report by the state aid com
mittee ef the Oregon department
of the American Legion, read at
the Legion convention here today.
Lyman Rice of Pendleton and
Arthur Spencer were compliment
ed for their work in connection
with the bonus conimisslon. The
convention adopted a resolution
asking the legislature to author
ize an Increase from 13000 to
$4000 in state bonus loans.
Seaside was chosen for the next
convention. Officers were to be
elected late today.
The convention adopted the
welfare committee's report which
recommended that Fort Stevens be
at once, made Into a neuro
psychiatry training center; that
Brigadier General C. E. Sawyer
be removed from the federal hos
pitalization board; that the Uni
ted States hospital board be de
centralized; that a tubercular san
itarium be acquired near the chief
Portland city limits (but not In
town) and that the government
buy the Hahnemann hospital.
UNKNOWN MAN DEAD
AT THE PALLAS CEPOT
The Dalles, Or., July 29. The
body of a man about 35 years or
age, dressed In a brown check suit
and overalls, found on the railway
tracks near 'the depot at Big Ed
dy last night, has no Identifica
tion marks except parts of several
letters mailed at Wenatchee,
Washington, from Lee William
son, 603 First street, the coro
ner's office announced today. The
man was believed to have been
crushed by a freight train.
LEGION WANTS
BIGGER BONUS
AMICE ID GREED OF
SYSTEM SHOI IN OATH
TO PAY ALL
Members Swear to Pay Promptly all Demands Made
Td Defray Expenses of Klan and Order When
Same are Called for. Anyone Taking Obligation
Gives Simmons a Blank Check on his life, His
Liberty of Thought and His Entire Action.
Joiners Agree To Hold Every
and the Slightest Deviation From Absolute Obedience
and Loyalty to Emperor Would Mean That the Offender
Had Broken His Oath More Citizens Wanted Becauso
More Citizens Mean More Money
By HENRY P. FRY,
(Copyright 1022 by Small, Maynard & Co.; Published by arrange
meat with author and publisher.)
For the benefit of those who cannot readily see the danger
in such an obligation as the oath of the "Invisible Empire,".
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and why it does not belong in
the class of obligations assumed by men who join real
fraternal orders, let us carefully analyze certain clauses.
"If in the presence of God and man, most solemnly pledge, promiso,
and swear, unconditionally( that I will faithfully obey the C'onstitutioa
and laws; . and w will willingly conform to all regulations, usages, nni)
requirements of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which do now exist
or which may be hereafter enacted; and will render at all times loyal
respect and steadfast support to the Imperial Authority of same; and
will heartily heed all official mandates, decrees, edicts, rulings, and in
structions of the Imperiad Wizard thoroof. I will yield prompt response
to all summonses, I having knowledge of eamo, Providence alone pre
venting. , t
ILLEGAL VOTING
CHARGE AGAINST
SALEM CITIZENS
Portland, July 29. Late yes
terday afternoon Charles Hall's
attorneys In the recount of the
primary election ballots served
Olcott's legal representatives with
a list of individuals in Marlon
county who are charged with vot
ing Illegally. The program calls
for Laving these people called to
the witness stand. The best
known name on the list of those
alleged to have voted Illegally Is
that of George Putnam, editor of
the Salem Capital Journal.
In general, the charges made
by the Hall people are that votes
were cast by non-cltlzens; that
votes were cast by citizens who
were not registered; that voters
voted in precincts in which they
were not registered; that persons
were permitted to change their
registration to the republican par
ty from other parties. In the list
of Marlon county residents alleg
ed to have voted illegally. Hall's
lawyers bave not specified in
what respect the vote was illegal.
Most of the names are those of
residents of Mount Angel, St.
Faul and Sublimity, in which sec
tions Hall received very few votes
and Olcott very many.
As Jay Bowerman, for Olcott,
and W. S. U'Ren, for Hall, figure
the procedure, the court will ap
point someone as a teller and
there will be a teller for Hall and
Olcott, thus three tally sheets will
be kept.
It is the tentative plan to open
the ballot boxes In Marlon county
in the disputed precincts, Monday
morning.
Portland, Or., July 21. The
federated shop crafts In Portland
and eastern Oregon cities affected
by the temporary Injunction
against picketing Union Pacific
system shops granted in federal
court Tuesday, were today given
by Federal Judge Bean until Sep
tember 1, to show why the order
should not be made permanent.
ASSESSMENTS
Interest of Order Paramount
l Until I had resigned as Kleogls
I had nover been able to see a copy
of the constitution and laws. This
was in the possession, of the Kag
KIcnrrlo of Tennessee, who stated
that ho had had great difficulty
In securing It, and had been com
polled to give a very rigid receipt
for Its care and custody. The or
ganization was evidently afraid to
allow this booklet to get into gen
eral circulation among members,
for the simple reason that its gen
eral perusal would have shown ths
members the truth. They would
have discovered that the organiza
tion -was a "one-man" affair, wiih
"Kinpcror" Simmons in practice!
control, with a life-time easy job,
living on ''Easy Street" as a re
sult of money that came into the
organization from the public. They
would also have found that they
were members of a military organ
ization, and that the "Emperor"
was the Commander-in-chief,
Obedience to the "Imperial Au
thority" means obedience to "Em
peror" Simmons.
This first section binds a "citi
zen" to obey "unconditionally"
laws he has never seen and is not
permitted to see, and also to obey
all laws that may be enacted la
the future regardless of whether he
approves of the laws or not. Any .
(Continued on page eight)
TEXAS KLUXERS TO
AID CALIFORNIANS
Los Angeles, July 29. H. C.
McCall, head of the Ku Klux
Klan in Texas has arrived In Los
Angeles to consult with O. W.
Price, King Kleagle in California,
it Is said, on the defense of 17
men who will go to trial her
August 7 on charges of participat
ing In the Englewood raid early
in April.
The raid resulted In the death
of one member of a band of ICO
men who visited the bonded
winery of Fidel and MathUs
Elduayen at Englewood and ths
wounding of two others. The
man killed was M. B. Mother, a
constable. He and ths others
were said to have been masked.