1924
FARM BUREAU OFFERED GRAIN ELEVATORS
CITY EDITION
Dally average net paid circulation lur
month ending June 30, 1924
6221
Average dally distribution 6,674.
Member Audit Bureau of Circulations.
THE WEATHEK
OREGON: Fair tonight and Tuesday:
moderate temperature; gentle to moder
ate northwesterly winds.
Local: Max. 81; mln. 45; no rainfall;
river -2.0 feet.
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FORTY-SIXTH YEAR No. 174
SALEM, OREGON, . MONDAY, JULY 21, 1924
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10 FARMERS
B6 Companies Offer 1062
Elevators In Northwest
Including: Terminals In
Minnesota and Duluth.
Minneapolis, Winn., July 21
Thirty-six grain companies of the
Bfirtuwcat today offered to sell
their entire holdings, including
lot! 2 country elevators In Minneso
ta, North and South Dakota and
Montana to l.ho American Farm
Jjureau federation.
The offer was made in a letter
to O. A. Brafute, president of the
farm bureau federation and one of
the leaders in the new grain hand
ling company recently Incorporated
in Illinois to take over five of the
largest grain firms in Chicago.
Those holdings also Include 22
terminal elevators in Minneapolis
and 12 In Duluth, with tho total
elevator capacity approximating
65,000,000 bushels according to the
grain companies announcement.
Representatives of all 36 coun
ties, many of them with head
quarters here, signed tho letter,
which also went to tho board of
directors of the farm bureau fed
eration. Chicago, July 21 Officials of
the American Farm Bureau fed
eration Informally expressed grati
fication today when appraised of
Minneapolis reports of an offer
from leading grain companies for
the turning over of the marketing
facilities in northwestern states,
but stated they wore unprepared
to issue any official comment on
the transaction.
It was Indicated a statement
would bo issued later.
Chicago, July 21. The offer
of northwestern grain interest to
sell widespread marketing facili
ties to tho American farm bureau
federation will be placed before
the board of directors of the re
cently organized grain sales cor
poration here tomorrow, it was
officially announced today by O.
E. Bradfute, president of the
farm bureau federation.
HAIRY APE MAY BE
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
Kelso, Wash., July 21. Fear3
that explorers searching for moun
tain devils" In the Spirit lako re
gion might Injure her husband
were epressed in a letter received
by the Kelso police today from a
woman of Hermiston, Oregon, who
signed her name as "Mrs. Toad
Waterman Horse.'
The letter follows:
"Mr. Police, Kelso: I hear you
are going to look for my man in
the Spirit lake country. Now don't
hurt my man. His name is 'Toad
Waterman Horse, and ho keeps
me in Hermieton, Or. You will
known him for he looks liko the
Standard Oil company. (Signed)
Mrs. Toad Waterman Horse."
The characters used in the let
ter indicated, according to the po
lice, that the writer was an in
dian.
WHEELER'S CHOICE NOT
WORRYING DEMOCRATS
Chicago, July 21. The addition
of the name of Senator Burton K.
Wheeler of Montana to the La
FoIlette ticket "does not worry
democrats George E. Brennan
Illinois national committeeman,
Baid today in commenting upon
the Wheeler acceptance.
He had just returned from
conference wtih party leaders In
New York.
"Nobody knows anything about
him except that he was indicted
in Montana for something or oth
er," Brennan said in reference to
Senator Wheeler's nomination fo:
the vice-presidency.
Chlstlania The International
Federation of University Women
will hold a congress here from July
23 to Augst 1, at the invitation of
the four Norse branches of the
Union of University Women. Eigh
teen subdivisions of the associa
tlon will be represented at the con
gress, and of the 400 delegates to
attend About 200 are expected from
the United States.
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Strongheart, C h Mi' of
Yakimas Gives Address.
Concert Artists To Be
Heard Tonight.
TONIGHT
Concert recital, Aiilt Con
cert Artists.
TOMOKKOW
Musical entertainment,
Ralston Knlcrtalncrs. Three,
dainty maids featuring songs
and Hlories of the "Sixties."
Address, "tiettliig by Your
Hoodou," Sam Gm'IuvclI,
professional "peptmnist."
Kvenlng Musical enter
tainment. Ralston entertain
ers. Address, "Sour Grain's,"
Kdward Amherst. Ott, famous
author and lecturer.
With striking impersonation of
the great emancipator during the
dark duys of the Civil war, and
also of those with whom he canu
into contact, the greatest contri
bution to dramatic literature o;
the age, "The Groat Commoner,'
was presented Saturday evening ai
the Chautauqua tent to an audi
ence that taxed the capacity of the
covering so that a number were
force! to remain standing.
In this play the pages of history
were turned hack more than half
a century to the time that the na
tional was in the throes of tho
great Civil var. Throughout the
play ran a very clever love story
The rather awkward physique of
Lincoln covering the heart of t
great man with its love for his fel
low being, was ably played by
Jack Martin.
Plnv a Success.
The part of General U. S. Grant
was played by Lawrence Goss in a
remarkable portrayal of the lead
er of tho union forces.
(Continued on Pago Three)
IN ALL AQUATIC
OL
Lea Tourelles, France, July 21.
(By Associated Press) The
complete standing in the point
scoring by nations In the aquatic
Olympic competition is as fol
lows: United States 217 points. Swed
en 58. Groat Britain 38. France
17, Belgium 13. Japan 8. Den
mark 8. Hungary 5. New Zea
land 2. Switzerland 2. Holland 2.
Czecho Slovakia 2.
The American swimmers hung
up a record Breaking triumpn,
overwhelming all rivals by tak
ing first places in 13 ot 17 events
and scoring 217 points against
58 by Sweden, their nearest com.
petltor. The Americans scored
more points than ever fell to any
country at any Olympic meet In
the history ot the game.
In the grand finish yesterday
two world's records were broken
and another equalled, new marks
being set for the 100 meter back
stroke for women and the 800
meter men's relay, while the rec
ord made by Marie Schen Wehse-
lau of Honolulu in the 100 me
ter free style was equalled by
Ethel Lackle of Chicago.
FIRPO AND COMPANIONS
HELD AT ELLIS ISLAND
New York, July 21. Luis Angel
Firpo, Argentine heavyweight, a
woman named Blanca Lourdes
listed as the fighter's stenogra
pher, and two other members of
his parly wero held by immigra
tion authorities upon arrival from
Argentina today, their passpor'e
had been insufficiently vised.'
Firpo and his companions who
arrived on the steamer American
Legion this morning were ordered
sent to Ellis island. In addition
to the boxer and the Lourdes wom
an, those detained wore Edourd
Cahone, Flrpo's secretary, and
Miguel Ferrar, a sparring partner.
Pierce Summons
Officers Twice On
Visits by Qaartiers
Two hurried calls that brought
officers out to search through tha
neighborhood were sent to police
headquarters Sunday night by
La Rondo M. Pierce, late special
investigator for Governor Pierce
and former assistant to dry com
missioner Cleaver. Pierce re
ported that his premises had
been invaded by Dolly and Wil-I
Ham (Bill) Quartier, Portlandersj
with whom Pierce was recently in-;
volved in an affair which was
recently aired in a Portland police
court. On neither trip to the
Pierce home were officers able to
find the visitors. Dolly, known as
Queen of the Bootleggers, was
formerly paroled to Pierce.
According to the story told by
Pierce, Mrs. Quartier came to the
door of his home about eleven
o'clock and asked for him. His
mother, who answered the knock
at the door, went into the house
to call him and from an upstairs
window, Pierce saw tho Portland
woman run back to the sidewalk
where Bill Quartier is said to have
been standing under a tree. Fear
ing that the visitors meant to at
tack him as they recently did in
Portland, in vengeance for his
moonshine investigations In his
recent service under George Cleav
er, state prohibition enforcement
head, Pierce immediately called
the police. Two officers answered
tho call but by tho time that they
arrived tho visitors had left the
premises and they returned to the
station. Pierce told the officers
NOW CERTAINTY
London, July 21. American
assistance In necessary measures
for tho economic rehabilitation of
Europe may be counted upon,
Secretary Hughes of the American
state department said hero to
night, speaking at the pilgrims
dinner.
"It does not matter that this
aid is not given by the govern
ment," Mr. Hughes continued.
"I may give It as my conviction
that had wo attempted to make
America's contribution to the
recent plan of adjustment of a
governmental matter, we should
have been involved In a hopeless
debate and there would have been
no adequate action.
"We should have been beset
with demands, objections, Instruc
tions. This Is not the way to make
an American contribution to
economic revival.
"You have the Dawes plans and
you have had the participation of
American exports with the liberty
of constiuctive effort, which was
essential because it was under
taken in the only way In which
succcsb was possible. When you
deal with economic rehabilitation
you doubtless have in mind such
contribution aa American may be
able to give in disinterested ad
vice. CONTRACT LET FOR
NEW PORTLAND BRIDGE
Portland, Or., July 21. Formil
award of the contract for the con
struction of a new bridge to re
place the Burnslde bridge was
made today by the county com
missioners to the Pacific Bridge
company, of which C. F. Swige'l
is president. The amount Is
300,173. The contractors an-
announced mat tno
would be closed within two or
three days,' and that two ot the
piers for thp'ticw structure would
be In before high water In the
fall. V-' '
Five Children Burn to Dciith
Sharon, Pa., July 21 Trapped
In their second story home near
Sandy Lake, 21 miles from here,
five children of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Hedgolin, ranging In age from 9
months to I years were burned to
death when the nome was destroy
ed by fire early today.
that the Quartiers have several
times sought to attack him since
the difficulty in Portland.
Pierce is said to have urged one
)f the officers to stay In order to
arrest the pair if they returned.
Following tho departure of the
officers Pierce kept watch from a
front upstairs window. About ten
minutes later, according to his
story, the two returned and for a
while conversed under a tree at
the left of the house. Mr. Quar
tier then went to the side of tho
house where he hid in the grass
while Mrs. Quartier approached
tho house from the front. Pierce
again called the police and the
two officers again searched for
the prowlers. The spot light
which was played upon the lawn
from the police car before they
got out to investigate frightened
the undesirod pair away, accord
ing to Pierce.
Tracks through the tall grass
were found this morning where
someone had evidently walked last
night.
Chief of Police Minto declared
this morning that Mrs. Quartier
had entered police headquarters
several days ago and complained
that Pierce had possession of
photographs which rightly be
longed to her and asked" police
assistance in obtaining them,
Minto told her that the district
attorney would be the only one
who could help her with such a
difficulty. She did not, however,
seek his aid, according to District
Attorney John A. Carson.
TO
UPON U. S. LAWS
London, July 21. Secretary
Hughes, speaking today at wel
coming exercises for the American
Bar association at Westminster
hall declared tho American dele
gates had come to England re
joicing In amity which had be
come a fixed habit of two peoples
intent upon cooperation in the In
terest of peace.
"Of all international contacts'
he said, "none could be happier
than this. We have no political
ends to serve. No difference to
compose, no policies to advance
except the highest of all the
policy of understanding and good
will. The fact that we are here is
more eloquent than anything we
can say. We come to tighten the
bonds of friendship."
On Common Law
The secretary devoted a large
portion of his address to the birth
and progress of tho common law.
He gave an outline of Its part in
the American theory of govern
ment and talked at length of the
working out In practico of tho
parts the courts were assigned in
protecting the rights of the in
dividual as Bet forth In the con
stitution. The common law was treasured
as a part of our birthright and in
heritance. Tho ten talents that
we thus received have been em
ployed so profitably that we are
almost overcome by tho wealth
that has flowed from the invest
ment. The commonwealths In our
union of states, each sovereign
within its sphero are producing
laws at a rate which has filled us
with anxiety lest no one should be
able to know the law. Tho fertil
ity of the legislative soil is our
despair. Our lady of the common
law has had an embarrassing
progeny. Courts are pouring out
decisions in such numbers that
only the makers of encyclopedias
can keep track of them.
Essential Unity
"It Is, of course, inevitable
that, with the legislatures and
courts of 48 states constantly
legislating we should not have
only multiplicity and diversities
of laws.
R. Norris Williams II and Mrs.
George Wightman ot the Unileil
States today won tho Olympic
mixed doubles, defeating Vincent
Richards and Mrs. Marion Z. Jea
sup also of the United States, 6-2,
6-3.
LAFOLLETTE
E
L
OF UK
Workers Likely To Be
Asked To Contribute
' Days Pay Each Vigor
ous Appeal Planned.
Washington, July 21. Organ!
zation of two committees which
will play their several parts in
coming presidential campaign ie
engaging the attention of those
directing the LaPoliette-Wheeler
candidacies.' One, to be composed
of 11 members will have gener
al charge of the campaign; the
other will handle finances.
The campaign committee will
have Representative John M
Nelson of Wisconsin as chairman
with headquarters In Chicago.
Five members will be selected by
Senators LaFoIlette and Wheeler
and the others will represent the
conference of progressive politic
al action,, which endorsed their
candidacies.
Tho finance committee likewise
will be made up of two sections.
Indications are that Attorney
General Ekern of Wisconsin, wH
head one section nnrt that Alex
ander Knlin and Henry H. Rosen
feld of New York will be In
charge of the other.
Two Millions Souriit.
Members of tho finance com
mittee selected by the conference
officials will devote their ener
gies to raising of a campaign
fund to contributions of cam
paigns of individuals. The other'
grjup will seek aid from the pub-'
lie generally. All of the money
will be turned over to the N-lson !
campaign committee for expen-j
dlture.
Various methods of raisWib
funds, among them a proposal to
call on organized workers to con-1
tribute part or nil of a day's pny,
are under consideration but a def
inite program has not been work- ;
ed out.
Thoee In charge of tho cam
paign are generally of the opin
ion that at least $2,000,000 will
be needed, and that this should
be raided through small contribu
tions.
With no immediate campaign
ing in eight, Senntor LaFoIlette
and his running mate continued
in formal conference today with
enh other and with various ad
visers. A month or more probab
ly will elapse before either does
any extensive epeechmaking.
Appeal to Tf.
It Is planned to mnko a rig
orous appeal for votes In the east
In the early stages of the cam
paign. Senator LaFoIlette prob
ably will speak in New York
city and perhaps at one or two
other point east of Chicago.
Tentative plans also call for an
invasion by Senator Wheeler of
Massachusetts, industrial sections
of New England and such states
as Pennsylvania and Ohio before
ho swings westward on an extens
ive fpeechmaking tour.
CHALLENGES M'NARY TO
DEBATE WITH MILLER
Portland, July 21 A series of
debates, five in western Oregon
and fivo In the eastern part of the
state between United States Sena
tor Charles L. McNnry and Milton
A. Miller, the democratic senator
ial nominee- Ib suggested In a let
ter from Dr. C. J. Smith, chair
man of the democratic state cen
tral committee to Senator I. L.
Patterson, republican Btatc chair
man. WOOD MANUFACTURING
COMPANY INCORPORATES
Tho Salem Wood Manufacturing
company with capitalization of
$12,000 has filed artifles of Incor
poration with Ihc county clerk. In
corporators are Walter T. Nelson,
Waltir It. Adlard, Bessie I. Bar
rett and Harry K. Barrett.
The company has been l'n opera
tion for some time. Its efforts be
ing exclusively devoted bo far to
making paper slugs, the small
wooden endg upon which paper Is
rolled, those being manufactured
for the paper mill here. The com
pany, however, plans to branch out
and make numerous other articles
when It has the necessary machin
ery Installed.
EDSCOUPL
FATE OF SLAYERS
RESTS WITH COURT
AFTER A HEARING
I RICHARD JOF-& tTATC Jitft3T IEOPCBP.
Story of Crime
And Confessions
By Rich Youths
Chicago, July 21. Nathan Leo
pold Jr., and Richard Locb, con
fessed slayers of 14-ycar-old Rob
ert Franks are both minors, sous
of millionaires of standing and
graduate students, distinguished
by their attainments. At tho time
of the slaying Leopold was 20 and
Locb 19.
Probably none of Leopold's ac
quaintances except Loeb, connect
ed the slaying May .21 which
shocked 'the country, and which,
according to the boy's confession
was premeditated, with the pre
cocious ornithologist, who had cn
gaged the confidence of the llttls
Kirtland warbler, a bird so shy a-j
to have been supposed extinct, so
successfully that it perched on his
shoulder and ate rrom his hand
while a thousand feet of moving
picture film were unrolled. Ac
cording to Locb, though this de
tail Leopold disputed, it was the
same hand that struck Franks
from behind with a chisel bound
with tape, afterward strangling
him.
The grandfathers of both Na
than and Richard wero amonij
those, who, like Carl Schurz, canu
to this country from Germany be
cause of the failure of the revolu
tion of 1848. Tho Leopold family
HISTORIC SCOTT TRAIL
OVER CASCADES REOPENED
Eugene, July 21 Government
forest trail makers are working on
tho re-opcnlng of tho historic Scott
Trail, route tnken by hundreds of
early settlers of the western Ore
gon district c rousing tho Cn senile
mountain summit following their
long Journey across the plains, ac
cording to an announcement today
by Nelson K. ManDuff, supervisor
of the Cascade nnlional forest. The
original trail crossed tho summit
about three miles south of the
present McKcnzie pass.
EWAUNA BOX COMPANY
GETS KLAMATH TIMBER
Washington. July 21 The Inter
ior department todny awarded to
the Kwauna Box company of
Klamath Falls, O-SJfon, a contract
for cutting 35,OQb,uao feet of tim
ber on 4500 ndjitod of unallotted
land in the Long Prnlrfo unit of
tho Klnmath Indian reservation.
Prices to be paid arc $11.87 n thous
and feet for yellow pine, $4 for
Douglas fir, and intense cedar,
and $1 for other species, the high
est ever paid for this class of tim
ber In Oregon. Tho receipts will
go to the Indians.
You get cheerfulness out of
life In proportion no you put
cheerfulness in.
?f1 flflfl TTW
has been in Chicago since 1867
Albort Locb, father ot Richard,
was born in Chicago in 1863.
Nathan Leopold Sr., whoso fortune
grew as the city grew, was former
ly engaged in lane transportation
and Is now a paper manufacturer.
Albert Loeb, son ot a small shoo
merchant, taught evening school,
practiced law nnd eventually bo
came vice-president of the Scar.-?,
Roebuck mull order company of
which Julius Rosenwald is presi
dent. His brother, Jacob Loeb,
was president of tho Chicago
board ot education from 1816 un-
til 1919. His wife, Richard'?
mother, who was Anna Bonne, has
been active In welfare work.
Both families worship at Sinn!
temple of which tho late Rabbi
Em 11 Q. Hlrsch was pastor. Like
thorn, the family of the boys vic
tim, Robert Franks, is of Hebrew
decent, although not holding to
the Jewish faith,
Robert failed to reach homo aft
er school May 21. The next day
a letter and messages by telephone
called upon his father, Jacob
Franks, president of the Rockford
Watch company, a neighbor ,)f
Loeb and Leopold, for $10,000
ransom. The messages stated that
tho boy had been kidnaped but
Continued on Pago Seven.)
T
TUESDAY NIGHT
Popular numbers, solos by Oscar
B. Gingrich and an unusually at
tractive program of classical num
bers feature tho band concert pro
gram announced for tomorrow
night by Oscar Steelhnmmer, di
rector. The concerts this season
consistently havo been setting new
records for attendance. Tho pro
gram follows:
March, "Olympic Hippodrome"..
Alexander
Overture, "Jolly Robbers".. ..Hnppn
Waltz, "Brides and Butterflies"
Morel
Popular Numbers
Vocal Solo, (a) "Old Black Joe,"
(b) "Are You I-onely?"
Osenr M. Gingrich.
Selection from Verdi's Opera
"Macbeth" Arr. by Clnu;
Serenade, "A Panning Fancy"..
Jewell
Selection, "Newly Weds"....0'Hara
March, "From Tropic to Tropic"
Alexander
"Star Spangled Banner"
Most people would succeed In
smnlt things If they wero not
troubled with great ambitious.
Plea Changed By Attor
neys For Defense Who
Admit Facts As Print
ed Asks To Offer Evi
dence as to Mental Con
dition of Young Men
By Alienists.
Chicago, 111., July 21. Fate
of Nathan Leopold, Jr., and
.Richard Loeb, indicted for the
kidnaping and murder of 14
year old Robert Franks was
rested today "in the mercy of
the court."
This resulted from a plea
of "guilty" made today in
court by Clarence S. Darrow,
chief counsel for the boys, and
affirmed by them "after they
had been duly warned by the
court of the consequences of
this plea."
The degree of punishment,
which may vary from an inde
terminate period sentence, through
life sentence in the penitentiary,
incarceration in an asylum or
death would be determined after
hearing which Is to start Wednes
day morning at 10 o'clock.
In entering tho pleas of guilty,
Attorney Darrow said that the de
fense admitted the correctness of
the facts, "substantially as print
ed In the newspapers." Ho asked
permission of the court, however,
"to offer evidence na to tho mental
condition of the young men and
their dogreo of responsibility."
Tho defense was willing to sub
mit tho question to a joint confer
ence of alienists employed by the
state and defense but Robert
Crowe, state's attorney, objected
to this, saying
State Claims Sanitv.
"Tho stato is in position to show
that these boys are not only guilty
of the facts which they here admit
but that beyond any reasonable
doubt, they are sane and fully
cognizant of the consequenceb of
those nets."
Attorney Crowe declared In a
public stntemont issued nfter the
proceedings that no would "insist
on tho extreme penalty' for both
defendants.
Judge John R. Caverly agreed
with the attorney's, therefore, to
hear audi evidence, both as to
facts and mental responsibility as
the two sides might wish to prc-
(Continued on Page Five.)
Los Angeles, Cnl., July 21.
Jack Dempsey's famous right arm,
the one that has contributed so
heavily to his world heavyweight
pugilistic crown, is out of com
mission following an automobile
accident Inst night according to
attending physicians.
The fighter's list of Injuries,
received In the automobile smnnh
up near Snn Jnnn Capistrnno,
south nf here, include: dislocated
right elbow; strained' ligaments In
neck; abrnslons on right knee;
cut on scalp.
Dompsry will bo confined to his
room for several days, the physic
ians said.
The champion Admits that he
escaped death, 'by a miracle,"
when his henvy sedan, carrying
himself nnd two or three friends,
was s(d(wiprd by n speeding
motorist, who kept going nfter ho
had tilted the Dempsey car from
the highway into the ditch.
"It was winner's luck, that's
all," IJampsey remarked.
Tho party in tho wrecked auto
mobile including a man and
woman who gnvo their names as
"Mr. and Mrs. Lee" wero taken
to tho Santa Ana hospital and
later came on to Los Angelee
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