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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1922)
udge'L ocatcs Blonus und L 3 andis Adv atnoustcs jrromee i i . . There Is no substitute for CIRCULATION pally average tor September 6119. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. Member Associated Press Full leased tire service. FORTY-FOURTH -YEAR NO. 248. rpp fl fo)r Kluxers In Umatilla County Campaign to Control Organization of : Ecpnblican Party and Dictate Politics , By Harry N. Grain. While "Three Fingered Jack Godwin was first to. launch the Ku Kluxers on their boycott game In Pendleton and Umatilla county; lie cannot claim the credit for all of this kind of "100 per cent Americanism" that has been prac- ticed since the entrance of the klan into that section of the state, Boycotts have been the rule rather than the exception In Pendleton for the past year, The Tribune, which I have al ready said was the bitterest en emy of the nightshirt brigade In Umatilla county, has been on the Man's blacklist for more than year. The ink was hardly dry on the first editions of that newspa per in which the klan was attack ed before threats began to pour into the office from all sources. Anonamous telephone calls, de souncing the editor as the cham pion of the Catholics and a hire ling of Rome, were almost an hourly occurence in the Tribune office tor days. Several large ad vertising accounts of firms 'that lad already been Ku Kluxed, and several smaller ones, were with drawn from the paper and. as If by a single act, the subscriptions cl all of the klansmen were can celled. The loss in total clrcula tion, however, was negligible. For each lost subscriber the Tribune's circulation records showed an in crease of one in the street and I news stands sales. The Kluxers 'started to buy their papers on the street corner or at the cigar stands, By Christinas of last year the boycott on the Tribune had set ij j . . ... ucu uown into a siege,' with the klan concentrating its fire on mer chants who had refused to join toe movement to silence the naner. i Threats of boycott were made and in some instances carried into ef fect against merchants who ner- fstea in advertising in the Tri bune. The methods used to line P one baker, who always had been an advertiser In the paper and wtl0 tlatly refused t0 be a Party to the bovenft even nf tor . log threatened by the klansmen, Is but one of a dozen instances of the "etnods used by the Kiuxera. when the refusal of the individual .Wansmen to patronize his shop Mi failed to force him into line tee Koo Koos sought to reach him i""uugn another channel. Traf- "c uificer Turner, a member of be state traffic squad and a tansman, was gent to interview i least three different grocery ffien, carrying to them the klan's Muest that they all call upon the "ser in question and demand that r" cease advertising in the Tri fivto oMose their business. It is I" be said to the credit of these f aree merchants that they refused "aooe parties to- the conspir acy. In Pendleton the boycott was hi ,uT every conceivable purpose '-' wan; to force men to Join, comDel employers to hire help PProved by the klan, to destroy "PPoaUmn and to force compliance ""a whatever whim might find with the leaders of the Ku 'ui organization. It is safe to ert that fully as many men "ed the klan by reason of im tiH.. V exDressed threats as af itdarmselves rder Wit,,-- 8 8 COmmiinltv fontlnns - 1 J u alonir uomg Dusiness andth and anti-k'an lines, W. 8ame conlUion prevails in o.f'lot Rock Athena and ounty "Mailer towns In the ln,Enters into Politics. -e opening of the prl- uedon Page Eight.) aarid Oct. lg. Severe rain. "ras are raelnc Ihrniirhnnl " i-ft i I an , owfc ""dation . damae trom ln ectlong rePrted from many '!!lra disDatca says numer- ii n C4 nian u&o.iucu lucre y cattle washed away. LEGION VOTES SOLIDLY FOR BONUS BILL Convention Goes on Re cord to Continue Fight for Adjusted Compen sation. Convention Hall, New Orleans. La., Oct. 18. (By Associated Press. JDemand for a roll call that the "world may know w-ere we stand on the bonus a -9 u" followed a vivavoce affirtt S-e report of a resolution com which declared the LeKioi 1 "continue the fight for the latlon until it is enacted into h a divt.tnn .,11 k . mander MacNider, resulted in a nouncement that the vote wt unanimpus. One delegate wht voted "no" by mistake cried orft his apology when hundreds of delegates yelled out "who is he?" Kenesaw M. Landis, commis sioner of baseball former federal district judge in Chicago and avowed friend of service men, to day told the American Legion con vention that the Legion's stand on adjusted compensation was based on justice. Major J. B. B. Cohen, head of the British delegation to the re cent convention of the inter-allied veterans, told of the activities of the British Legion. After Commissioner Landis speech, the convention session ad journed and the veterans left for the annual Legion parade at 2 o'clock. The report of the committee of national legislation, demanding passage of a bonus law as against a pension system, was read by John Thomas Taylor, its chair man. "Exposure of war profiteers," was declared another duty(of the Legion in Mr. Taylor's report, which was adopted In its entirety; Greetings from the British Le gion signed by the Prince of Wales and General Haig, commander in chief of the British army, -were brought by Major Cohen, member of the British parliament. The assembly arose to its feet with a roar when Judge Landis reached the platform. "One reason I am glad to be here today," said Mr. Landis, "is to (Continued on Page Five.) CITY LEADERS EC.0EC. At the luncheon today noon at the Marion hotel of the Rotary club the program was given over to the Chamber of Commerce with the president of the organization, C. Perry, in charge. Mr. Perry called for short talks. Henry Mor ris, and R. 'O. Snelling, the two colonels in the drive for member ship, C. P. Bishop, Fred Steusloff and William Hamilton, former presidents of the club under the name of the commercial club Frank Deckebach and Charles Knowland. Each of the speakers urged full cooperation from every member of the Rotary club. Frank Deck ebach struck a key note when he said that the business men of Sa lem would apreciate the. Chamber of Commerce more if It could be disbanded. He also said that the very ones who are indifferent would be among those clamoring for the reinstatement and offerin j aid. Mr. Knowland complimented the work of the club and among other things said that many of the city's enterprises were the' di rect result of its work. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Anderson t rural route No. 2 were Salem vis itors Wednesday. They brought with them as samples of the beautiful climate and fertile soil. branch containing large rip Himalaya blackberries and a box of ripe strawberries. From the blackberry bush they have sold 12 worth ol berries this season. PRAIS 4 ' . . . ' era 0 c O Sweet Babykins Wrote Mrs. Mills To Slain Pastor New, Brunswick, Oct. 18. A second series of the letters de clared to have been written by Mrs. Eleanor Mills, choir leader and wife of the church sexton, to the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, was made public today by the aut horities as they continued their efforts to solve the mystery of the slaying of the couple September 14. TJnaddressed and unsigned, the letters are filled with terms of en- rarment " lnf.m tne m.mls.l 8 Je"rre? l.as ' .aaoDle Da i ney speaK ot a ove nest' ot a woman's dream of "true 'J' !nd desCri?.? th,e y.arled TZ .l (T '0V7,,1OY' lni wlthut .the t ions." . itc'"-a "uul lUB iB" lul" t , . . r (i T ."Dearest, deareet boy. Wasn't I t?PPy to find a sweet note, for I lnt' expect you would risk leav- one for me yesterday? Such ious eclairs! y darling, how well you seem "I am tired want to lie and rest for hours. Oh, you sweet adorable babykins of man." "I'd build a waiting love nest. People would mean nothing. I had rather watch the bugs and ants as they crawl along. Don't you love to watch an ant as it creeps along, honey?" T T Washington, Oct. 18. (By As sociated Press.) A protest against continued seizure of Brit ish vessels by prohibition agents operating outside the three mile limit was presented to the state department today on behalf "of the British government. The British complaint is under stood to have been based princi pally on the case of the schooner Emerald, of Canadian registry which is said in advices reaching British officials to have been searched on Monday by the Amer ican prohibition navy off the New Jersey ' coast, more than 8 miles from land. When President Harding's cabinet recently decided that pro hibition enforcement against ships should stop at the three mile limit except in the case of vessels in communication with the shore by use ot their small boats, their embassy officials are said to have gained the impression that no more foreign ships outside this limit were to be molested until the whole question had been set tled in the courts. . In the case of the Emerald, it is held by the- British that there was a clear violation of the new enforcement policy. BULGARIAN TOWN A REFUGEE CENTER Phillipotis, Bulgaria, Oct. 18. (By the Associated Press.) With In the last six days this city has become a great refugee center. The flood of exiles from eastern Thrace suddenly began last Friday and since then the' stream has been continuous. The arrivals are principally Ar menians iwho fled at the first news of the impending return of the Turks. Many were robbed en route by Thracian bandits. COUPLE SUED FOR $396.91 Suit to collect $386.91, alleged to be owed five Salem stores by E. L. Ritter and Ethel M. Ritter, was instituted in the Marlon county circuit court yesterday afternoon. The various amounts alleged due are as follows : Roth com pany, 11: C. M. Eppley, $59.65; William Gahledorf, $69.49; Elean or Briggs, $10, and Miller Mer cantile company, $1J3.86. PROTES SEIZURE OF SHIPS OUTS DE LI I I ri SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, QO PO VII "And, darling sweetheart, I love for our love to be the truest ideal as pure as we can make it, for then It is truest to nature." "I know I'm a crazy cat. Char lotte talks then Don asks ques tions, then annoys, so how can I write?" ' ' "Darling mine, didn't you feel me purring blissfully contented? And close to you, too?" "My sweetheart, trueheart, I could crush you. Oh, I am wild tonight." "One time I told you I hated your work hated your parish. I guess it is because I am jealous ol it must it come first in your life. Not because of its conventions, but because you love it so. Oh, I know it because you are true priest born for it." "I have the gratest of all bless ings a noble man's deep, true, eternal love, and my heart Is his my life is his all I have Is his. I am his forever." "I will hate the winter nights. When I dream of curling up In a chair with you oh, what dreams I have. Will it ever be?" "I am holding my sweet baby kin's face In my hands and look ing deep Into his heart and read ing there the message that makes me live gives me strength and life." . BANDITS SECURE Chicago, Oct. 18. Max Moser, New York jewelry salesman, who told the police last night that he had been robbed of $300,000 worth of unset diamonds, was questioned again today at the de tective bureau, where he was held until morning while police Inves tigated his story. Moser said he was leaving the Congress hotel on Michigan boule vard with Charles G. Morris, rep resentative of the New York Life Insurance company, when three bandits jumped on the running road of Morris' automobile, made Morris give up the whel, .which was taken by one of the robbers, whose own car, waiting across the street and driven by a fourth ban dit, followed. Outside the downtown district, the bandits stopped, Moser said, and took the pouch containing the diamonds, declaring they had fol lowed him from St. Louis to obtain the stones. The robbers then cut the ignition wires on Morris' car, locked it, took the key and drove away in the other car, according to Moser. , After a dinner with Morris and several other diamond salesmen Moser met a woman at the Black- stone hotel. The police were look ing for the woman today. New York, Oct 18. Max Mos er, New York jewel salesman, re ported robbed last night in Chi cago, carried unset diamonds val ued by thre firms he renresented here at about $150,000. ASSENGER SHOOTS ASTORIA JIT DRIVER Astoria, Or., Oct. 18. W. N. Ford of Astoria, for hire automo bile driver, is in a hospital here dangerously wounded today, as a result of a shooting on the Colum bia river highway about ten miles east of Astoria last night. Ford said a man whom be did not know engaged him for a trip to Svensen. Near that place, according to Ford, the passenger drew a revol ver and pressed it against the driver, saying: "We'll settle mat ters right now." Ford declared that despite the threatening pistol, he drew his own weapon and pulled the trig ger, but the cartridge did not ex plode. The man thea fired two shots, one wounding Ford. Sher iffs officers today were trying to find trace of the stranger. I 300,000 GEMS FROM SALESMEN "W ""V . I IK PEACE HINGESUPON Bins Change in Cabinet Likely to Upset Conference France and Italy Also Have Political Turmoil. London, Oct. "18. (By Associ ated ; Press.) The British politi cal lever has reached Its height and Indications are that the max imum temperature will -be main tained for some days. Everybody is guesssing as to when the crisis will pass and what turn it will take, but the future remains ob scure pending tomorrow's union ist meeting at the Carlton club, v Premier to Resign One anti-coalition newspaper, the Daily Mail, today attributes to Prime Minister Lloyd George the definite statement that he will resign from office if the unionist meeting declares against Austen Chamberlain, whose out spoken adhesion to the premier has aroused strong opposition in the party ranks. Mr. Lloyd George 's stateme it is said to have been , made at a private meeting laBt night of the liberal ministers and under secre taries. None of the other papers professes to know exactly what passed at the meeting, although all agree that Lloyd George re ceived cordial support, Allied closely to the ministerial crisis here and that Impending in Paris is the question of the gen eral Ne'ar Eastern peace confer ence, which it is felt must be postponed until the situation in London an l Rome are settled. Remarking upon this conting ency, the diplomatic expert of the Daily Telegraph writes: "The disadvantages of post ponement might, however, be com pensated in some measure if a postponement which will carry the conference well beyond the com ing American elections should enable the Washington adminis tration to ascertain the real strength of public feeling In the United States concerning Amer ican-participation that within certain- limits in the proposed Near Eastern settlement.'' FRUITMEN BLAME : GREAT NORTHERN Wenatchee, Wash., Oct. 18. From 3000 to 5000 cars are need ed here within the next two weeks to move part of the north central Washington apple crop, according to the views of apple growers and shippers expressed at a meeting here last night. Warehouses here and all over the district are filled to capacity and only one-half the crop is gone. Yesterday 350 cars were ordered for the district &no less than 75 were delivered. That the Great Northern is fail ing this year and has failed in past years to give reasonable service to the Wenatchee district, and has been negligent and has caused and now is again causing great loss to the producers and all other classes of population of the district, were charges by shippers and growers at the meeting. POSTPONE CONFERENCE UPON ALLIED DEBTS r. Paris, Oct. 18. (By Associated Press.) The postponment of the proposed conference at Brussels on reparations and lnter-allied debts, the date has been for De cember is foreseen in well inform ed quarters here. The British gov ernment Is urging delay. OFFICERS HERE SEEK AUTO Officers of the sheriff's office and . the police department were today on the lookout for an elder ly man and woman who, accord ing to the Portland police, were believed to have stolen an automo bile In the metropolis. The man and woman were thought to have headed toward Salem yesterday. 1922 urn FORFUTURE Harding Declares Farmer Will be Among the First to Profit Under New Era of Prosperity. Washington, Oct. 18. Belief that the farmer will be among the first to get substantial recogni tion in a "new era activity and prosperity," now on the way was expressed by President Harding in a letter written to Secretary Wal lace and made public today at the White House. It was for warded to the secretary to be read today at a meeting of re publicans at Washington court house, Ohio. 'Agriculture production Is very nearly restored, taking the world as a whole but agricultural prices are so low that it is apparent to all of us that the farmer is not being compensated," the presi dent said. ' 'The Washington ad ministration has recognized this condition and has- done every thing in its power to restore a normal balance between prices and costs of production." Trend Is For Betterment The executive further declared a great deal already had been ac complished toward that end and added that the trend was "strong ly toward better conditions for the farmer." The farmer was described by the president as "captain of in dustry," the letter adding that elimination of competition among farmers would be imposssible without sacrifice of that individ ualism'' that still keeps the farm the real reservoir from which the nation draws sq many of the fin est elements of its citizenship." The president took occasion also to deplore any movement by the farmers looking .toward de crease of production and said the natural result of such a move ment would be famine prices. He commended Mr. Wallace for the administration of the department of agriculture and said the de partment "In the last two years had rendered a particularly not able service along a somewhat new line." Need Fanners' Products The president declared "it would be a calamity if the farmers should unite in such a diminution of production as would force famine prices or something ap proximate to them. The world can get along without a good many other things, but It cannot get along without the products of the farm. "It is rather a striking fact that among the world's industries, that of agriculture has been most rapidly rehabilitated since the war. The crop statistics of the world for the past two seasons are proof of this. We may attribute it to that very individualism and self sufficiency of the farmer, to which I have referred." Mystery Surrounds Wreck A short distance east of the state hospital, on Center street, a badly wrecked touring car was yesterday evening lying upside down. Who was driving the ma chine when the accident occurred yesterday afternoon and whether or not he was Injured are facts which have not been learned. According to ithe (automdbile records the car was licensed to M. Nichols, of route 6, Salem. Persons who arrived at the scene of the accident shortly after it occurred found no one near the wreck. No Injured person, had been received at the local hos pitals and the driver had made no report to the police today. Churchill Develops Appendicitis. London, Oct. 18. Winston Spencer Churchill, secretary for the colonies, who was taken 111 Monday, has developed appendici tis, it was announced today. It was said to be too early for the doctors to decide definitely as to the necessity for an operation. PRESIDENT OPTIMISTIC PRICE TWO CENTS PEPA li Woman's Daughter Demands Arrests It was due to the appeal of Miss Charlotte Mills, fifteen, direct to Governor Edwards that the New Jersey State officials were spurred to action In the sensational double murder ot Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and his choir leader, Mrs. Eleanor R., Mills, Charlotte's mother. E FOR SCHOOL BILL About 125 Salem people met last night in the I. O. O. F. hall under the auspices of the Ku Klux Klan and listened to D. C. Lewis candidate to the legislature from Multnomah county with the sup port of the Federated Patriotic societies, .argue in favor of the Compulsory school bill. Mr. Lewis, who while a legis lator, fathered a bill to move the state capital to Portland, said that to be invited to the Capital City and to speak on a topic of such import while within the shadow of the dome, "and that's about as close as I want to be right now," was a great pleasure. He declared that taxes would be reduced instead of increased by the passing of the bill. He said that in Portland alone there was over a million dollars worth of Parochial school property which was. not being taxed and should the school bill pass the property would become taxable and the state would be richer by that amount. His talk was confined to the evils of the parochial schools. Only ones were other private schools attacked. Following Mr. Lewis' talk the chairman of the evening an nounced that the Orange lodge which was responsible for the speaker's presence, had gone to considerable expense and several men would pass the hat, altho most of the audience were present through printed invitations. Dr. James Lisle spoke briefly declared that in the public schools the foundation of any religion, to love man and respect authority, Is taught. Dr. W. T. Millikin, pastor of the First Baptist church, gave he closing talk of the evening and after advancing his argu ments in favor of the bill read the standards of the Orange lodge. NEED RELIGION IN SCHOOLS SAYS ELLIOTT Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 18. The most necessary change to be wrought in American popular edu cation into all the public schools of religious and ethical instruc tion, President Emeritus Charles W. Elliott of Harvard said in an address yesterday. Dr. Elliott said: "I imagine that agreement may possibly be reached among all the religions represented in this coun try as to fundamental principles which could be Introduced Into every American school. And that I believe the most necessary thing to be wrought in American popu lar education." I ;' MJ j . ' 'if' i GRANG ORATORS THE WEATHER OREGON: Tonight and Thursday fair east, probably rain west portion; mod erate winds, mostly southerly. Local: Rainfall .01 Inch; max. 67; min. 50; cloudy; southwest winds. ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS FIVE CENTS 3 U fwawlsl House of Ex-Convict in Which They Hid Sur rounded and Men Give up Without a Fight. Los Angeles, Cal Oct. 18. The three jailbreakers, Herbert Wilson, former evangelist-mall bandit and convicted murderer, Adam Blaszyk, convicted murd erer, and Guidox Spignola, con victed robber were recaptured here today after 24 hours liberty. They were taken without a strug gle In the home of an ex-convict. The fugitives were taken in a house not far from where the automobile which they stole was abandoned. Information of their presence there was obtained early today by a deputy sheriff, and Sheriff William' I. Traeger and a posse of deputies surrounded the residence and effected the capture with the same suddenness that the trio had surprised the jallera in their liberty break yesterday morning. Investigation was started by the district attorney's office, cooperat ing, with the sheriff, into charges that $50,000 was spent by Wilson in connection wtih his trial and particularly In connection with the attempted jail break last April. Story of Escape. ! Wilson talked freely of move ments of the trio after escaping from the jail yesterday morning. how they hid in a chicken coop all day with two men who were in the automobile they seized immediate ly after escape, and then left the two men and went to Garwood's house. They went to bed at 9 o'clock and lights were unscrew ed from sockets so that in event ot officers entering the place at lilght they would have to work in the dark or with flashlights. He awakened at 5 o'clock, Wil son said and plans were to leave soon after in an effort to get out of town. Fearing out the window, Wilson said, he noticed , a number of men, evidently armed, lurking in the shadows. He watched un til daylight, he said, and then aft er viewing all the men, decided It would not be worth while to en gage in a gun battle with such odds against him. The capture resulted from the i use of plans Wilson had formulat- i ed for concealment after the at tempted break last April, which was frustrated by sheriff's depu ties and in which Herbert Cox, partner of Wilson was killed. Wilson was convicted of murder 1 as a result. The trio was captured In the place where they had planned to bide last April. Sheriff Traeger learned in April that Wilson planned to use the home of Tom Garwood, reg istered in police records and known as a pal of Wilson. Im mediately after the escape yes terday morning the sheriff placed the Garwood home under surveil lance. The reward came early to day when watchers saw three men slink into the home. The sheriff was notified and a heavy posse rushed there, surrounding the place. The same mysterious sang froid of the former evangelist as ex hibited since he was known to (Continued on page five) I nom Ontario, Or., Oct. 18. Two children ot John Driskoll, a rancher living three miles east ot here, are dead, and Mrs. Driskoll, , their mother, is in a serious con dition today after having been taken from an irrigation canal last night. Snow in Northern New York Watertown, N. Y., Oct. 18. Snow fell today throughout north, era New York. 0) Jl W BIRDS SURRENDER TO SHERIFF iM0 UIVIMI1 unuvmo HER 10 BABES
