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WW STATS LIBRARY NOV a There U no substitute tor ll J ; .. J f CIRCULATION - Oantmfian (11 A i P Dally averao mi Audit Bureau of Circulation. HOUivm - Member Associated Press Full wire service. FORTY-FOURTH YEAR NO. 259. 0) t I ' ii Three Jackson County Men Are Victims of Assaults it Bight Mobs fearing Regalia of Kluxers By Harry N. Craln it membership and Incidental irtft nuiDOses fulfilled by the Win of religious propaganda, iln klan In Medford cast about for I program or action wmcu woiuu iulflll the desire of lto radical jnembership to be a moving factor jn the community, and to this end the kluxers adopted a schedule of action which has since been the principal factor In discrediting m Invisible empire In the public '8 In Oregon. They adopted policy of seeking to rectify the emonal grievances of Individual tasmen by direct action, even to ill extent of violating the law and setting up mob rule -In the Itlnce of constitutional Justice, To the program of avenging the alleged wrongs suffered by klux- rj at the hands of "aliens'' to the invisible empire, the klan also look upon Itself the task of regu jating public moTals and conduct Ind ignored entirely the exlstance M the regular law enforcement ifllcers. This attitude was direct ly responsible lor the -three night tiding outrages which have been hid to the klan, and out of which lave since grown the specific In dictment of six ku kluxers and fc "John Doe" Indictment of jBxteen others by the circuit court irand jury investigating the law Jessness upon orders from Cover- ior Olcott. ' . Negro First Victim The first of these outrages, the isault upon George Arthur Burr, fegro, was the direct result of a jcsire on the part of the klans- iw to try out their newly secured fcgalia. This much has been ad mitted by certain of the kluxers f to have since quit the order. It Ins also the first step of the fuights of the Knightle to rectify jlleged Infractions of the liquor ps la Jackson county. I Burr, who had been serving a U sentence for having liquor In I's possession, was released from fe county jail Just after the din Hour on the evening of well 13. Aocording to Sheriff jwnu be should have been re- Pea during the afternon, and I las not been made at all clear py the Jailer, who has since fen Indicted as one of tha Der- f as believed implicated in the as- to Burr was met at the door f jail by unknown men and P whisked away Into the coun ty In an automobile. Several f w out from the city this party s met by a group ot men wear- SB? ih. 1,1- .. . i aim regalia and Burr was lifted to a point near the Call T'' nne, where the hanging fv waa held. The negro was r na stood beneath a tree, - "um oi wnicn a rope was wn. With the noose around neck Burr was charged with r-siramcked In bozo and I havin been Intimate with W women- He was - then 1,;.UJUP until his toes Just it i i 6rrand and strangled w Waa "early suffocated. fimauy hig tormentors de ntlnued on page five) PTE STREET OPEN TODAY Vg?- Bilngsley, manager of j otreet Hallway com- w. announced today that State amcades w, e taken J, ,tr lu,s aiternoon. While i eet car comnanv wa no v. 4,,evn "a tracks, traffic on htZ 7 8 been obstructed for it"1T an4 street cars run- AlU fr.!,.be3r0nd HlKh Btr8et Mr;1 ng weat Luture Slat treet na iS clflc depot car vlu irofBUUand ?! J , Dror'i wedding pres- C' 0f Bu.d.7. iTJ nnln9 0 Reuss, will i2?'m ,6t 00 brll H i?f7 Palr of ear rings, the it. . eosUng 800,000,000 to the newapape. v. leased First Ten Monf J of 1922 Show Great ; lain Over Last ,Year; p Dwell ings Are Eted. f During the first ten months of this year Salem spent nearly a million dollars i $927,875 In building operations. "During im thought by city officials to have been a good year only M83.420 Was spent Consider the month of October which closes today. This year during the 1 days Salem spent $107,850 for building. During cne same period last year $30,910 was spent less than one-third as much. "These figures are highly In aicatlve of Salem's forward strides," eity officials declared this morning. Aimosi twice as many new dwellings have been built during the first ten months of this year as were erected during the same period last year. Two hundred and nineteen have gone up dur ing 1922 whjlle only 123 were built In 1921. This year they rep resent an outlay of $635,150 Last year only $316,000 was spent cor new houses. The larger structures erected this year Include the Capital Ice &btorage company's plant, which oost $15,000: the Klnes Yjod Products addition1 at J25.000: Schindler Brothers' milk depot at io,uoo; the Starr cannery at $75,000; the Episcopal church at $18,000; theOld People's home at $50,000; the Deaconess hospital addition at $15,000; the new Bligh building, costing $20,000, and the Webb & Clough building at $20,000. During the present month. which is fairly late for building operations, permits" to erect 20 new dwellings the coBt of which will approximate $61,000 were Issued by Mark Poulsen, deputy city recorder. The most expensive will cost $6500 .and the cheapest was $1000. Figures show, according to Mr. Poulsen, that this year has been by far the biggest In building op erations that the city of Salem has even seen. With the Salem paner mill said to be contemplating a permit for many thousands of dol lars in the near future, It Is be lieved that the million dollar mark may possibly be reached by the first of the year. 1 CITY SPENDS NEAR MILLION FOR BUI11G Kaiser's Bride-to-be Marrying Sure of London, Oct. SI. Princess Hermine ot Reuss thinks her fi ance, the former German kaiser. Is one of the most generous, kind hearted men that ever lived and that she is sure she Is going to be the happiest woman In the world after their marriage next Sunday. That, at least, la what she told the correspondent of the Daily Ex press today. I know I love the kaiser," she said. "Surely he is not so rich that It can be said I am marrying him for his money." The princess said that a lot of other women were anxious for the heart of the former German em peror and described how mad some of them were wtlh envy and Jeal ousy when her engagement to William got nosed around the world by telegraph., and cable. "They did their best to kinder. our engagement by intrigue," she said. "I had hard fight. All of my friends and ao-called friends had their own. plans." The princes told the eorre- pondent that the house at Doom was being conducted along rery jcoaomical lines. Indeed, she ex ILT) Z3 " A'E " mgRf.", THE I The Marlon County Moral Im provement league, composed of the several churches of Salem and vl clnlty and kindred associations such as Y. M. C. A., W. C. T. tJ. T. W. C. A., Salvation Army .and Brotherhoods met Monday evening at the First Presbyterian church in this city for the purpose of con sldering men and measures to be Toted on November 7 next, and to determine the attitude of the league with reference to the Issues in the forthcoming election. rne league went on record as favoring the amendment proposed to the city charter of Salem' make the office ot city marshal appointive rather than elective, on the ground that If that official should be held directly responsive to the mayor and council of the city of Salem Instead of to the electorate at large more efficient law enforcement could be secured. Reports had reached the mem bers of the league concerning the activity of persons engaged in the illicit manufacture, sale and use of Intoxicating liquors and this special feature of the organiza tion's work will be in charge of a special committee. Strong reso lutions were passed condemning gambling and law enforcement de manded. Endorsements for candidates were not made public. For Love Happiness former cmperor'a table were occa sionally so scanty that they almost looked beggarly. Nevertheless, the princess declared she would adnere to the strict principles of economy which have been in force since the former kaiser took up his resi dence in Holland. "Do you think you will miss vour Sllesian home!" she was asked. "Oh no," said the princess. have signed an agreement with the kaiser allowing me to stay twice a year for eight weeks at Sabor and my other estates In order to keep In touch with my children, who are going to remain in Germany. Besides, I have to manage the estates because they are to be kept separate from the Imperial property. As a matter oi iaci, me eco nomic arrangement for the mar rlaee at first frightened Some people, but now everything Is set tleand nobody will complain." The princess said all of the for mer kaiser's children were going to attend the wedding. Field Mar shal Von Hindenburg and General Ludendorft kave not been lnrltea, MORAL LEAGUE FAVORS POLICE AMENDMEN she declared, J 1 SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3L 1 OUOHTTO KhOW HCWTO INCONSISTENT WALTER TO PROSECUTE US FRAUDS Robert F. McGulre and Wilbur Henderson, Portland attorneys, were designated today by Attor ney General Van Winkle as special assistants to conduct the grand Jury probe Into alleged frauds In connection with bonus appraisal? in Deschutes county. The ap pointments were made upon th recommendation of the state bonus commission which has re quested the attorney . general to take charge of the grand Jury In vestigations and which will de fray the expenses of the attorney general's office In conducting the probe which Involves alleged pad ding of real estate values by H. J Overturf and O. B. Hardy, former mnmbBrs of the bonus board ot annraisers for Deschutes county. The attorney general's offiot waa directed Dy uovernor uitun to conduct the grand Jury investl gatlon Into the Deschutes county situation Monday following thf adoption of resolutions urging such a move by the bonus com mission In session here Saturday- Governor Olcott, It is Btated did not attend the meeting ot the com mission at which the resolution were adopted. OREGlPlD "From the standpoint of econ omy alone we think that the pav ing of Oregon's highways is a suc cess." Ray Kline, secretary of the hlehwav deoartment said this noon at the luncheon of the Kl wanls club. "It Is a fair estimate that a car traveling over paved roads can operate at about five cents a mile less than over unim proved roads." Mr. Kline by means of a map pointed out the different parts of the state where the roads were Improved and where they were being worked on at the present time. Approximately $35,000,000 of bonds have been let out since 1917, he said. Before the passage of the bill allowing such a course to be taken Mr. Kline said that many people wondered how they could be paid for without adding enormously to the taxes. "As a matter of fact' he said, - "the money from the tax on motor ve hicles and the gasoline tax Is paying for It." Last year there was over four million dollars added to the fund by this source. In showing the rapid progress made In Oregon In road improve ment, Mr. Kline said that in 1913 there were but two miles of paved roads outside of Incorporated cit ies. Dick" Barton, accompanied by Miss Kathleen. LaRaut at the pi ano, sang. Dr. W. W. Long won the attendance prize which was given by Thomas Roberts. Villa la to start a bank, al though he has bad mora experi ence in the collection than In the loan department. ROADS A SUCCESS THREE ARE DEAD FOUR INJURE IS New Orleans, La., Oct. 81 Three.dead, four seriously injured and two slightly hurt, was the toll taken In a rear end railroad wreck early today, when the fast Sunset express, iiew uneans-San Fran- jisco? soutnern Pacific passenger train No. 109 tore Into the Worth in carnival snow, 35-ear train, en route from New Orleans to New iberia, La. The dead are: Homer V. Jones, Will C. Jones, brothers, and R. L. Metcalf, all iircus folk. The conductor and brakeman of the train were reported missing. The injured also were members if the circus. Those on the pas senger train escaped Injury. The wreck occurred near Ade line; La., between Franklin end New, Iberia. Both trains were proceeding westward on a portion of the road that is double tracked. The locomotive of the passenger train plowed through two of the deepers on the rear end of the cir cus train before it was brought to i standstill The dead and Injured were taken to Patterson, La. Passengers on the 8unset Ex press aided tne train crews in shopping , open portions of the Pullmans where other circus folk were trapped and crying out for rescue, as lire was ieareu. aw were believed rescued. According to the survivors, the circus train was-ordered to allow ar freight trairi going east to pass. The brakeman lighted his red Hares and went back to the circus train. When the Sunset Express pulled in behind, the engineer saw the flares and stopped his train until they. ded. down and then pro ceeded. He did not see the rear end lights of the circus train until almost on top of it, it is claimed, as his eyes were unuuou uj - . . i. f i .i ,i i. ii,. searlight of the locomotive pulling the freight train. LEW PL ! WORLD REVOLT Petrograd, Oct. 31. (By Asso ciated Press) The important topiq of unifying the program of tha communistic parties through out the world will come before the third Internationale for the flrat time when that organization opens "Its convention here No vember 4. Chief among the topics to be discussed will be the perspective of a world revolution. Premier Lenin a of soviet Russia will make report on this subject as will Leon Trotzky, minister of war and marine, Clara Zetkln, a Ger man socialist. The congress. Its members as sort, will have a greater represen tation of delegates from foreign countries than any previous gath ering of the Internationale. UN UNSET WRECK ANNING 1922 STOLE LOVE Hammer Murderess Says Mrs. Meadows Attempt ed to Destroy Husband's Confidence. Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 81. What she will tell the Jury if she takes the stand in her own defense during her trial for the slaying of Mrs. Alberta Tremalne Meadows was outlined fn an interview here by Mrs. Clara Phillips, alleged hammer murderess." Mrs. Meadows not only stole the love of Armour L. Phillips, bin at tempted to destroy his confidence In his wife by repeating neighbor hood gossip, Mrs. PhlllTps claimed. Says Repeated Stories. Last May or June I went to Mount Baldy with a family of five people," she explained. "When 1 came back my husband accused mt of going to the mountains with another man. I was later Inform ed that Alberta A. Meadows had told him this. "My husband began acting ter ribly. I tried to overcome it but couldn't. Only those who have suffered as I did can understand I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep.' It was about this time, Mrs. Phillips said, that she met Mrs. Peggy Caffee, the states' star wit ness In the present trial. Mrs. Caffee and she talked over their "trouble at home" together, and went to Long Beach, she Bald, to visit a friend, whom Mrs. Caffee had asked for advice on her own marital difficulties. Planned to Slope When we got back, to town and the three of us were in the ma chine, we did not know where we were going. It was my plan to find out what had been going on between Alberta and my husband. As for having a fight with Alber ta or as far having anything harmful in mind, it was never dreamed of. If anything of that sort had been thought of, certain ly I would not have taken anyone with me." During the drive to the lonely hillside road where Mrs. Meadows was beaten to death, "Alberta told me more than I knew until after wards," said Mrs. Phillips. "They had planned to go away together. I felt hurt. I really can't explain how I felt beyond that point. Only married folk In this circumstance can under stand." El Paso, Texas, Oct. SI. Fran cisco Villa, Canuito farmer and former rebel chief, was shot and slightly wounded while trying to put down an uprising on his ranch headed by Jesus Lopez, aged fa ther of the late Martin Lopez, tor years Villa's right hand man, ac cording to reports in anti-Obregon circles in El Paso today. SMS II 0 HUSBAND Civil War Near In Kansas Due to Klan Asserts Governor Great Bend, Kan., Oct. 31. One pistol shot could produce a state of civil war In Kansas similar to that in Ireland, according to Gov ernor Henry J. Allen, who con tinued bis attacks on the Ku Klux Klan here yesterday. His speech was a part ot a series of political addresses he is making in a pre election tour of the state, but the latter portion of it was devoted to a scathing denunciation of religi ous bigotry ana community hatred. The governor denounced certain types of Catholic and members of the klan in th same breath, tell ing them they should be ashamed of themselves. After drawing a comparison be tween the conditions In Kansas and those In Ireland, and telling ot requests his office had received PRICE TWO CENTS V ,7 Farmers Friend Pierce Proved Ho Friend of Local Flax Farmers Is Walter M. Pierce a friend of the farmer I Investigators declare that Plerce'e record In the legisla ture Indicates that he has but little use for the flax farmer. The records show this: In 1917 there were some de ficiency claims at tiA state flax plant. To cover thorn, so the iflax farmer might, be paid, house bill 54 was Introduced in th 1917 session providing for the payment of $8214. S3 "for sundry claims for flux straw furnlfihed the state during the year 1918, with Interest," , The senate Journal covering the session of 1917 exrlins the disposition ot house bill 611 as follows: "On passage of bill all voted yea except Dlmlck, Pierce, nay two." TO London, Oct. 81. (By Associ ated Press) An amicable settle ment In the question ot the Am erican consulate at Newcastle, England, which was closed by or der of the American government last August, is in "a fair way pf being reached," It wag intimated in British official quarters today Although no official statement is forthcoming, the impression was given that the consulate would soon be reopened. The idea advanced here was that the British charges against Fred C. Slater who was consul at Newcastle, regarding alleged dis crimination against British ship ping Interests would be with drawn, and that tht United States would make concessions by ap pointing other consular officials to replace Consul Slater and Vice Consul Russell M. Brooks. Russell M. Brooks, vice consul at Newcastle, England, a former student at Willamette university and a son of Mrs. Mildred Brooks Marlon county recorder, Is at present In London, his mother said this afternoon. No Indication of what the Unit ed States government expects to do regarding the Newcastle prob lem was present In the last lettej received from him under date of October 9, Mrs. Brooks said. He Is simply biding his time pending receipt of Instructions from Wash Ington. MINCE PIES BRING DRY LAW ATTACK Chicago, Oct. 81. In a new at tack on the Volstead act by the old Victory Distillery, Judge George T. Page, in federal dis trict court, ha been asked to re store mince pies to their pre-pro-hlbitlon standing when brandy sauce was a legitimate ingredient. from men to be allowed to arm to defend themselves, "because they were frightened," the governor asked, "do you want turned loose in this state the horrors ot a civil war? God forbid such a war, and yet what can you suggest to the negroes of the state, in some com munities ot which there are thousands, when the old Ku Klux Klan that terrified them 65 years ago is again riding at night! Can you expect them not to tak any mean whatever to protect them selves?" "You Catholics should quit say ing no man may hold an office by your suffrage unless he Is a Cath olic. It isn't worthy ot you. It Isn't worthy of an American or the American, history. Let's get on the basis ot honor, love and decency," CONSULATE AT NEWCASTLE REOPEN SOON THE WEATHER OREGON: Tonight and Wednesday oc casional rain; moderate to fresh, south westerly winds. Local: Rainfall .63 Inch; max. 60; mln. 41; cloudy; rlyer 1.1 It. STANDS FIVE CENTS rz3 3 FOR RELIEF Telephone Company Peti tions for Injunction To Prevent Reduced Rates Commission Endorsed. Portland, Or., Oct. SI. Petition for an injunction restraining the state public service commission from putting into effect an order for reduced telephone rates issued yesterday, was filed in the federal district court here today by the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company. " The petition says the order, which was to have gone into effeot December 1, affects 19,000 sub scribers throughout the state, and would cut $200,000 a year from the revenues of the company, pre venting it from earning more than 1.5 per cent on its Investment in this state. The rate reduction ordered by the commission average from 7 to 25 per cent, affecting principally users of ten-party and four-party residence and business telephones. In an order handed down by the state public service commis sion at Portland yesterday after noon, telephone rates throughout Oregon are reduced from 7 to 25 per ,cent on certain classes of ser vice, pending such period as shall be found necessary by the com mission to obtain Information by a thorough Investigation, on which to base a permanent rate schedule on all classes of service furnished by the Pacific Tele phone & Telegraph company. The temporary order was sign ed by Newton McCoy, chairman, and T.' M. Kerrigan, commission er. The third member of the regu latory body, H.' H. Corey, wrote a dissenting opinion in which he refused to "dignify these remarks ( (of the other two commission ers) by calling the same an or der." Order in Effect December 1 The new rate schedule has been ordered to become effective from and after December 1, 1922. In ordering the temporary re duction the commission divided the state into six groups. Group No. 1 comprises certain classes ot service furnished in the city ot Portland. Groups 2, 3, 4 and 5 affect all towns and communities outside of Portland In the state that have a minimum population of a cer tain number, though this number is not stated in the order. Other Charges Reduced In these groups the business suburban ten party lines is re duced from $3.50 to $3.25. For residence service, four party, cod ringing lines, the rate Is cut from $2.25 to $1.75 a month; on su burban ten party lines from $2.60 to $2 a month. In the sixth group, Including all places that are not listed In any of the other men toned groups the charge on business service, code ringing suburban ten party lines is reduced from $3.50 to $3.25 a month; on residence serv ice, code ringing four party lines from $2 to $1.60 a month; on su burban ten party, code ringing lines for residences, from $2.50 to $2 a month. ANDY GUMP TO TALK HERE Andrew Gump, independent candidate tor congress, will deliv er an address in the veterans room at the Salem armory at t o'clock tomorrow night, it was an nounced this afternoon. Mr. Gump, it was said, wilUdlscuBs th tax problem Hal Wiggins, traffic man for' the Salem chamber pf commerce, also will appear, it was an nounced. Th program has ban arranged exclusively for MartoA Post No. 61, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Th program is in charg of a committee composed of Allan Jones, George Wlllett and William Wallace Smith. APPEAL TO U. S. COURT plained, the.meabj ae( upoa tnei
