Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, October 18, 1922, Image 1

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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
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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.
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uedon Page Eight.)
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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
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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." .
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."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?"
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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
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SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18,
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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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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
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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)
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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.
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