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There is no substitute for CIRCULATION Dally average for September 6119.' Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. Member Associated Press Full leased sire service FORTY-FOURTH YEAR NO. 247. V I OJ J - -- LuhJ Hmt . w it .... Gan ipitalizes Factional iscord and Hatred id tides Ao Power On Crest imulated Anti-Eefoim intiment In ?endelton By Harry N. Crain. Vhereas the political power of Ku Klux Klan in Clatsop nty is on the decline, in Pen on and Umatilla county the ights of the Knightie are still ctioning effectively as a politi- organization in that section ol state. They gave majorities, jiluralities to all of their in ied candidates in the primary test of last spring, and are en fig into the general election paign on a still wider scale, f the discord and strife stirred in the community by the klan a need be said it has been illy a repetition of the social : civic destruction wrought by Kluxers wherever they go 'ing from a factional cliqm radicals led by a rabid A. P. A. i. met secretly in an old hall on iKi street, the klan has grown :i county-wide organization em .uing some 800 members and I! iinlaining extensive quarters Wl ih the insignia of the invisible t'l, jure emblazoned on seven large V I lows overlooking the main t. . Editor Wouldn't "Klux." l or their present plight the d rjeoule of Pendleton and v '.ity have T. A. Rogers, kleagle er the reign of L. B. Conway Iting kleagle of the icaJin 01 son, to thank. Rogers cropped the train in Pendleton in Sew ber, 1921, and established h douarters at the Pendleto jl. His first organization work v among the radical Masons of county, one of whom is now Cyclops of the Pendleton wan lie officials and prominent inesa men. He was meeting a considerable success and lit opposition up to the time he (jited the membershiD of Harry Suck, editor of the Pendleton ssune. Kuck's answer to Rogers' $tent invitation to join was an I attack through the columns he Tribune on the klan, its ifiples and practices. From 4 time to this the history of the ' Kluxers in Umatilla county 'been the history of a bitter le between the. champions of isiblo government and the Tri- I as the mouthpiece of saner lent in the community, bincident with opening attacK the organization by the Tri- the klan began a mushroom th, which, if one is to thor lily understand, must be view In the light of what had gone re the coming of the pillovy- fraternity. Paper's Enemies Enrolled, he Tribune had at the time it fed after the klan a host of Jiies, won through consistent j? signing against alleged graft corruption in public office, jcially in the law enforcement lilies of city and county gov nent, where Chief of Police ilia" Taylor and some of his tenants had been charged with 'I iring with men engaged in jit liquor traffic. Other at S on the county court, alleg v graft in distribution of the Continued on Page Seven.) IKS AGAIN FIRE I UPON U. S. DESTROYER itylene, Oct. 17. (By Associ ; Press) Dr. Mabel Elliott of ton Harbor, Mich, whp has director of medical work for refugees on this inland off Smyrna coast, will leave this I for Athens, having been in ? by the American relief com e to become medical direct or the entire refugee area. ,on her return Sunday from 3, Dr. Elliott said she had Lieutenant Commander Her A. Ellis of the American de er at Macleish. 'he Turks had again fired on lestroyer at Iverly and a ri ullet came within a few feet nnmander Ellis," she said. 1 1 1 , v llm n.,....r ,m r ..... f. ri-M(tj1r--1r-T!,-,, mrr--imMM .,, , iWM i,,,,in,t.-,,iBiii'.i;.iii.rM''i)rr-----'Yi vr-t 1--H mnrnir-r-- Tir-f-mri--tV ,.. TY.r . - . ... Lt ... A ... . 71DIP D MD UIU uurni CZ, BURNED IN HANGERS First Dirigible To . ke Transcontinental; ,' ht Destroyed in T ' gj Crew Narrowly I Ipe. San Antonio, Texas, 0 The army dirigible C-2 1 cently completed a transo re- al flight and had reached ana An tonio on its way back to Washing ton, was burned early this morn ing while being taken from its hangar at Brooks field prepara tory to a flight over the city. Sev eral of the crew were hurt, one seriously. . The dirigible caught on the frame work of the hangar as it was being taken out. The bag split and the gas ignited. In the car of the dirigible at the time wore members, of the crew and several passengers. They escaped death, but first reports said sev eral were burned seriously and one had an arm broken. The diri gible was destroyed by the flames. Those injured when the C-2 fell here today and burned are: Major John Thompson, head quarters Fort Sam Houston, wrist broken; Sergeant August D. Al- brecht and Sergeant, Harry Biles, both of the ship's crew, both have a fractured leg; Ben Baines, news paperman of San Antonio, broken arm and possible internal injuries Major II. H. Strauss, command er of tle craft, was slightly hurt, one of his legs being wrenched. He is able to be up and is making a detailed report to commanding of ficers here. Just how the accident occurred has not been learned. The big ship was being taken out of nan gar. The wind caught it and threw it up against one of the big doors at the entrance Passengers heard the hissing of the gas and a few moments later the gas, for some unknown reason, Decame ignited, going up m a flash. The bag burned and the car dropped to the ground, throwing the passengers to the concrete floor. .Police ambulances and emer gency cars and physicians rushed to the scene. MANY ADMITTED TO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Last Sunday at one of the largest communion services in the history of the First Presbyterian church, Ward Willis Long, min ister, the following named per sons were admitted to its member ship: Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brim, route 3; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ben- ner acd sons Estel and Moody; Mrs. John Haines, 1360 South Commercial street; Dr. 0. H. Kent and wife and son, Kenneth Wil- iam, and daughters, Margaret Elizabeth and Dorothy Pordyce 787 Cross street; Mrs. Viola Price Franklin, 1355 Ferry street; Mrs Angeline Allen and Miss Florence Allen, 145 North 14th street; Mrs. Emily Adair, 444 South High street: Miss Florence Ellen Beardsley, route 2, Salem; Mrs. Margaret I. Richards and Miss Eva Richards. 103 9 Union street; Miss Mary E. Bariball, 1964 N. 4th street; Dr. D. F. Lane, 1155 Court street; Mrs. Mary Yockey and Miss Helen Yockey; Mrs. Hedwig Moll, route 1, Salem; Mrs. Jennie Fer guson and Miss Mary Ferguson, route 1, Salem; Miss Alma M. Bur dick, 665 N. Winter street; Mr. and Mrs. 6. W. Millie, 475 North Capitol streets Dr. L. -O. Clement and Mrs. Clement and son, isors and Henry, 910 North Capitol street; Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Hager, route 5, Salem; Mr. and Mrs Wal ter D. Pueh and daughters, Kath- erine and Mildred Fuga, 451 North 18th street. The church plans a reception on Thursday erening of this week to all members who have united wtth the church since April 1 of this year. The program will begin at 7:30. Light refreshments will be served br the Ladies Aid society of the church. i i I J f Li 1 L 1 i.M...rJ sua L-J V Destroyed By 7 Photograph shows the U. S. Army blimp C-2, a 192-foot dirigible, the first to cross the American continent, hovering over the Presidio, San Francisco, at completion of flight, which- it made from Washington in sixty-two hours. Federal Council of Churches In America Oppose Ku Kluxers Washington, Oct. 17. City, na tional and world problems, accord ing to an announcement by the federal council of church of Christ in America, were considered at a conference of the allied Christian societies which began here today. The societies, all of which are en gaged in -community work, dis cussed problems growing out of the war. The delegates were addressed at the White House this afternoon by President Harding. The council, representing twen ty million Protestants yesterday went on record as opposing such masked organizations as the Ku Klux Klan. The administrative committo of the council passed resolutions denouncing organiza tions whose, members were "mask ed, oath-bound and unknown and whose activities have the effect of arousing religious prejudice and racial antipathies." The Rev. Samuel M, Cavert, one of the gen eral secretaries of the council, Girl Forfeits $100,000 . By Marrying Before She Reaches Age of 30 Chicago, Oct. 17. Her fath- er's promise of $100,000 if sh9 remained unmarried until she was thirty was an inducement to Josephine Kryl for six years, but six veara remained when she met Paul Taylor White, a music com- poser of Boston. A message sijgn- josephine) wll0 nad signed con ed "Mrs. Paul Taylor White" an- tracts for European appearances nounced that Josephine had brok- this winter with various sympho en her pact with her father. orchestras said she had an ap- . Six years ago, Josephine, taen 18, was a promising violin stu- dent under the tutelage of Ysaye and her sister, Marie, then 16,1 was an accomplished pianist, Their father, Bohumir Kryl, him- self a noted musician had great ambitions for careers for his Five hundred dolllars, alleged due him for prunes which, he claims, were delivered by him to the Salem King's Food Products company, is asked from the com pany in a complaint filed in the circuit here this morning by R. A. McFarlane. Mr. McFarlane claims h en tered into . a contract with the company on July 6, 19ZZ. He says he agreed to deliver his en tire crop, approximately 20 tons, at $40 a ton and that he com plied. The company, he alleges, paid him only $100 and the re mainder, he sets forth, of about $500, has never been paid al though demand was made; KINGS PRODUCTS COMPANY IS SUED SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, Fire Today ,isM:' :''. . & : mi Dirigible' 'C-2.' said the administrative committee had the Ku Klux Klan in mind in passing the resolution. In making the resolution public Mr. Cavert said: "This-action was taken as a result of, statements made from time to time that the Ku Klux Klan and other masked and secret bqdies are acting in be half of the Protestant churches of the United States. While the Ku Klux, Klan is not mentioned by name in the statement, members of the administrative committee had it in mind in particular. "The motives of the Ku Klux Klan and similar organizations may be of tfie highest, but mem bers of the administrative commit tee believe their methods are not only wrong but also dangerous from every standpoint. Action by the committee is significant when it is realized that 30 great com munions with more than 20,000,- 000 members are affiliated with the federal council." daughters, so great that he exact- ed the same promise from each to remain single until 30 when $100,000 each would be their re- ward. The rule was so rigid that no young men were to be entertain ed in t.hfl Krvl hnfrie. Last week liuiu imeu u w i Lai a, ueuui auu leit. the Kryl residence. Her message Irom Boston was the first word her father received since. He told Marie if she contem- plated association with any of the young men of . her acquaintance, the, rule governing the Kryl par- lor would be cancelled. EL New York, Oct. 17 Oscar Mar telliere, real estate and insurance broker who was shot five times by Mrs. Paulette Saludes, a French woman yesterday, died today in the Beekman street hospital. The shooting occurred in Martelllere's downtown office. ' Mrs. Saludes, who made unsuc cessful efforts to end her own life by jumping from the window of a lawyers office where she hurried after shooting Martelliere, i3 un der arrest. Martelllere's widow told police that Mrs. Saludes told her several days ago she loved Martelliere and that he had promised to mar ry her if -he could get a divorce VOMAN SHOOTS AN OVED REFUGEES IN FLIGHT FU ADRIANOPLE 30,000 From Eastern Thrace Pass Through City Turkish Prom ises Disbelieved. Adrianople, Oct. 17. (By, As sociated PreES) Thirty thousand Greeks and Armenians have passed from this city to the west since Sunday, and the road be tween here and the Maritiza river is an unbroken line of men, wo men, children with ox carts, cat tle and camels. Through a steady downpour of rain they are plodding toward their unknown destinations, driv en forward by the nameless fear which has gripped the whole pop ulace of eastern Thrace since the government's bulletins were post ed on Saturday, announcing the terms of the Mudania armistice, which provide for occupation of the province by the Turks within 45 days. Everybody Fleeing The members of the allied mis sions stationed 'here declare the extent of the refugee exodus in dicates that the Turks upon their entry v!',' Jind eastern Thrace al most uninhabited. The procession has been order ly, but the misery of the. refugees is already extreme, and pneumo nia will claim many victims if the present inclement weather continues. When, on Saturday, the Greek civil authorities attempted to re assure the people by stating that the Turkish gendarmerie would not arrive for 15 days, the Chris tian inhabitants simply refused to believe them. Nearly all the Chris tians in Adrianople gathered up all they could carry, either on their backs or on ox carts, and as soon s possible were off. Meanwhile from the country side a similar exodns is under way and every road leading to the Maritiza is jammed with human ity, cattle and wagons. This whole flood converges upon a single road as it approaches the Kara gatch bridge across the Maritiza. To Neutral Territory The refugees believe that if they can reach Karagatch they will be safe from the Turks. This small village, which is just across the boundary, will be in neutral territory until the peace confer ence decides its fate. Although the railway is moving a considerable number of refu gees westward from Karagatch, the station there is becoming the center of a vast concentration camp. The rain has flooded . all parts of the village. Many cattle have been drowned by the quick ly rising Maritiza on the west bank of which thousands of refu gees are impeded. I Raphael Eonham, Portland, lm- migraton officer for the Oregon district, speaking at the luncheon of the Kfwanis club this noon at the Marion hotel said, "Aliens are now permitted to be in the United States by grace. By a law which was enacted in 1917 it is possible to deport any criminal or insane person who has been in the country less than five years without taking out citizenship pa pers." During the course of his talk he emphasized the need for strin gent immigration laws. In 1914, the last year in which .immi grants were not kept out by laws, there were 1,280,414. By means of limiting the number allowed to ester and making more strin gent laws such as requiring that every person entering be able to read ia some language, that num ber has been cut to about one tenth,, Mr. Bonham said. The official in closing said. "A race will eventually perish which cannot absorb its immigrants." 1AM TALKS I RATI 1922 Vacuum Oil Company Declares 300 Percent Dividend in Stock New York, Oct. 17 Direc tors of the. Vacuum Oil com pany, one of the Standard Oil group, today called a meeting of stockholders for December 20 to vote a proposal to In crease the capital stock from $15,000,000 to $75,000,000 and to change its par value from $100 a share to $25 a share. If the proposal is ap proved a 300 per cent stock dividend will be declared. E Ml T IN THE 3010 SIZE Denial that the Oregon Growers Cooperative association is oversold on its orders for prunes generally, and admission that the association is short of its orders in some sizes. notably 30-40s, was made this morning by M. J. Newhouse. "The Oregon Growers report no overselling from the standpoint of entire tonnage," said Mr. New- house. "Especially fine dry weath er is saving Oregon's large -crop. Due to extreme heat during the first week in September, following a week of rain, the ends of the prunes shrivelled up, causing premature- ripening. As the bloom ing season was two weeks late the entire growing season was consid erably reduced and the crop is about ten points short in sizes. This is leading to a shortage of thirties. A normal percentage ol forties is reported. The trade real izing this shortage of thirties is now adjusting itself to the condi tion." Despite the statement of Mr Newhouse the fact remains that a large percentage of the member growers of the association admit that their Vrops fell from 25 to 40 per cent of the estimates upon which the association's early sales were based, and that the shortage is more marked in the 40-50 sizes than in the smaller grades. Independent growers, who were first refused entrance into the as sociation's pool and then invited to sign up their prune crops with out advantage of the higher mar ket quotations or the 2 cent ad vance for picking and drying mon ey, are now being sought by the association with offers of the high er quotations and the 2 cent ad vance, or on an equal footing with regular members. ALLIES GUARD F00CH0W, CHINA Amoy, Oct. 17. -'(By Associated Press.) American, "British and Japanese marines are guarding foreign interests at Foochow, cap ital of Fukien province, where a recent upheaval resulted in the flight of Governor Li Hao-Chi and all other officials representing the Peking government, according to an official report received here to day. Southern forces are in complete control .of the capital, but the riv er is under control of . the navy, whose status in the fight between the northern and southern fac tions has not yet been definitely determined. . . In the meantime the only offi cial being recognized by the for eign consulates is A'dmiral Sah Chen Ping, a former minister of the navy and acting premier. A strong movement recently develop ed to make Admiral Sah civil gov ernor of Fukien. About 3000 defeated northern troops have surrendered their arms to the navy and are being transported to Shanghai. A force of about 4000 northern Chinese are reported surrounded at Shiu-kow. DENY SHORTAG OF PRUNES EXE E NTERESTS PRICE TWO CENTS NEXTOF 1 GETS BONUS NOT ESTATE In Event of Death, Claim Of Ex-Service Man Re verts to Family Says Supreme Court. In the event of the death of an ex-service man who was en titled to the benefits, of the Ore gon bonus law his claim reverts to his next of kin in the order named in the statutes and not to his estate, according to an opin ion handed down by the supreme court this morning. The opinion, written-by Justice Rand, was bas ed upon the suit brought by Mar garet Crane, as administratrix of the estate of Fred H. Crane, de ceased, fl to compel payment of Crane's bonus claim to his estate. In affirming the judgment of Judge Kelly of the Marion coun ty circuit court Justice Rand holds that Mrs. Crane is entitled to the bonus payment as Crane's widow but not as the administra trix of his estate. The only other opinion coming down this morning was one by Justice McBride affirming the judgment of Judge Walter H. Ev ans of the Multnomah county cir cuit court in the case of Frank B. Ford vs Rose E. Graham involv ing a suit to foreclose a mortgage. Husted Walters under sentence of death for murder was granted until November 6 to file a print ed brief in support of his motion for a rehearing of his appeal. The court in a recent optfiTon affirm ed the decree of the lower court sentencing Walters to death. AURORA CORPSE IDENTIFIED AS The body, of a man found Sun day, October 1, several miles north of Aurora in a clump of bushes about 30 feet off the Butteville road, was yesterday identified by Dr. John C. Evans, assistant super intendent of the State Hospital by means of clothing and the teeth as Milton E. Jlearn, 65, who was committed to the hospital from this county June 25 of this year and and took French leave on July 9. Coroner RIgdon who in vestigated the case statted that the body had been there about three months which further strengthened the belief that the Identification is correct. The clothing worn by the man was the same as is issued to the inmates of the hospital. The most positive proof was that the teeth corresponded with the record made by the hospital dentist. Hearn was committed to the hospital from Lane county, Octob er 15, J920, and being released as cured on October 17, 1921. Disposition of th body which has been held at Aurora since it was found, is being withheld pending word from the man's guardian, Mrs. E. Hannlgan, of Eugene. GREEK ROYALISTS TO OPPOSE REPUBLIC Athens, Oct. 17. (By Associ ated Press) The campaign to make Greece a republic, launched directly after the return from Paris of the new foreign minister, Nicholas Politis, prominent Ven ifcelista, has strongly aroused the monarchist newspapers. Nea Himera declares that In Us judgment the Greek people will overwhelmingly oppose the idea of a a republic at the coming elections, and that a any rate they would distrust a republic, presided over by M. Venizelos. We no sooner settle the troubles with our own miners than our tranquillity is threatened by that Asia Minor. ASYLUM ESCAPE THE WEATHER OREGON: Tonight and Wednesday fair east, unsettled and occasionally threatening west portion. Local: Max. 55; mtn. 60; cloudy; southwest wind; river 1.9 ft. : ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS FIVE CENTS 3 JAIL GUARDS Wilson, Former Evangel- ist, Leads Trio of Des peradoes in Dawn Jail Break at Los Angeles. Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 17. The title of "master criminal" bestowed by federal and local in vestigators on Herbert Wilson, formerly evangelist, and con victed murderer was insured to day, when he broke from the county jail with another convicted murderer and a third man sen. tenced to the penitentiary for an ?18,000 robbery. The jair break, passing with the swiftness and surety of the crimes for which the trio were convicted, occurred shortly before 7 o'clock, evident ly following out carefully mapped plans by the convicts. . The three escaped convicts are: Herbert Wilson of London, OnU, captured last year by federal authorities for alleged complicity in postal and store robberies ag gregating more than a milllion dollars and later convicted of the murder of his companion,- Her bert Cox, slain on the bridge of sighs at the county jail here when Wilson attempted to escape last April. Adam Ward of Los Angeles, alias Blaszky, convicted and sentenced to San Quentin one to fifty years for th murcher of Mary. W. Wheelock, an aged wo man who was strangled to death here. Guido Spignola, alias Albert Verner, alias George Gatlo, ar rested in Seattle and convicted here on the charge of robbery from thd Standard Oil of $83,000. They caused a jailer to open their cell door at 6:45 o'clock this morning, leaped upon him, taking his keys and pistol. An other jailer fled .before them and in the main corridor, two floors below, their cell flqor, they at tacked the night turnkey, beating him down and opening the front doors, escaped after locking them behind, Purrier's injuries . necessitated the taking of three stitches in hia head. Many times since Wilson's (Continued on Page Seven.) BALLOT TITLE SOVIET BILL The ballot title for the propos ed "State government reorganiza tion and proportionate occupation al representation amendment" has been prepared by Attorney Gen eral Van Winkle. The proposed amendment is being sponsored by the Peoples Power League of Ore gon for a place on the 1924 bal lot. Its purpose as set forth in the ballot title is "to reorganize stats government, vesting chief con trol iii legislature of only one house elected in proportion to registered voters' occupations without political designation; representatives' terms four years; salaries $500 annually; represent atives to elect governor from their own members with power to re call him; district attorneys, sher iffs and other peace officers Sub ject to governor's orders for law enforcement; any representative authorized to question state offi cers in legislature during ses sion; representatives elected by first, second and other choices by proportional representation meth od of single transferable vote; board created to make laws gov erning first election of represent atives." Judge Percy Kelly today al lowed W. E. Savage judgment In the sum of (165.13, with interest, alleged due from Robert C. Wy gant on a promissory note. CRIMINALS OVERPOWER PREPARED FOR Is I J