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BURSTING -OF DAM FLOODS CBTY OF VALE . AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FE8 6 1925 CITY EDITION Dally average net paid circulation for month ending January i, 6548 Average dally dhitrlbutlcn 7071. Member An. Ill Bureau of Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 31 Ml) Large Irrigation Dam Bursts, Sweeping Over City With a Roar To Depth of Three Feet. Vale, Or., Feb. 5. (By Associ ated l'rrea) Flood waters which were reported to have washed out the big irrigation dam on Bully creek, 19 miles west of here, swept over Vale this morning at t o'clock with a roar, and with in an hour the entire town was under three feet of running wa ter. Boards, brush, small buildings and refuse were carried through the streets and open spaces on the crest of the flood. Store build ings and other houses were in Tadcd by silt laden waters to a depth of from a few Inches to two feet. Reports received here indicat ed that melting snow and rains np the valley filled the Irriga tion dam on Bully creek to over flowing and that the dam went out under the strain. The entire backed up water poured In a tre mm clone rush down the valley. The railroad bridge on the Vale-Burns branch of the Ore gon Short Line two miles west of Vale went out, and tne approacn ea of the highway bridge which narallels it across Bully creek were washed away, but the main span was still standing this morning. No reports of latallties had been received here this morning, but the property damage will be large. A great many sheep and cattle were reported drowned in (Continued on Page Nino) PARKING LAW 10 BE ENFORCED Orders to enforce the one hour parking limit in downtown Sjlom were issued by Cnief Frank Mluto to members of wie police force this morning. All cars parked lonecr than one hour on Commer cial street between Ferry and Chemeketa, on Liberty street be tween State and Court, on Court street between commercial and High, and on State street between Commercial and High will be tag ged, according to Chief MintJ's advices. Twenty-one cars were tagged last night for parking on the street faced by Parrish Juulcr high school, forbidden as a park Ing area by an ordinance passed by the city council last Monday night.- Fines of $1 were Imposed by City Judge Poulsen for viola lions of this ordinance, as no llgnij have yet been placed to warn motorists of this new ordinance, GRAND DUKE BORIS SPEAKSJJVER RADIO New York, Feb. 5 Many radio fan navo decided that the Grande Duke Boris may be worth adjust- In the dials la c he appears before the "miko" again. He made his radio debut at WOHU last night in a five minute talk on his Impressions of America. His impressions were mere color r-rn generalities, but what the ra dio fans talked about today were his pronunciation of the name of the at o tion as If It were the word for armed strife between na tion and his audible pauses be tween sentences prolonged ahems" like the sound of an elec tric generator. Ho expressed the opinion that the radio would make for International peace. VAMPIRES LOSES APPEAL Hanover, Germany, Feb. 5. (By Associated Press.) The court of appeals has rejected the appeal of Hana Grans, accomplice) of FrlPdrich Haarmnn. known as the "human vampire," convicted of the murder of 26 persons, roost I v young mm. Both men will be be beaded shortly. HER ILL OBI RE CITY OF VALE C apital ivso LIST TO R , UTE l..blJ Sheriff Accused of Lack of Enforcement Shows Office Batted 100 Per Cent In Liquor Cases. No comment was offered by Sheriff Oscar D. Rower today on the allegations of Prohibition Di rector George L. Cleaver before the legislative committee Investi gating- Cleaver's activities that there wero six sheriffs In the state lax In enforcement of the prohibi tion laws and that Sheriff Bower was one of them. It was simply shown that dur ing the past year Sheriff Bower and his men have seized 13 stills in the county as compared to one for which Cleaver'a men take credit, and their claim for which is considered of -doubtful validity. In connection with the seizure of this still it is remembered that sheriff's deputies started into the country after the still and their car was followed by a car containing state agents, who continued on to the scene of the raid. On their ar rival there they invited themselves into the party, stating they had seen the deputies starting out, fig ured they were on a raiding party and decided to follow along and be (Continued on Page 1-our) 1 Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 5. Tne murder of two little girls, revealed yesterday, months after their dis appearance and the murder which another little girl insists she has committed in tlie past two yeais, were occupying the attention of city and county authorities her'. today. Search lor May and Nina Mar tin, Bisters, aged 12 and 8, who wandered away from home August 23 lat with 65 cents taken from a baby sister s bank, ended y eater day when their bodies were founl in a field scarcely a mile from the stfnny front yard In which tiiey last had played with their dolls. The sisters lay huddled together in a shallow ditch under a cuvr.r ing of brush and weeds which ap parently bad concealed them fruia the view of hundreds of voluntcci searchers who months ago aide-1 police and deputy sheriffs in a supposedly minute inspection of the vicinity. Though their belies were decomposed, their torn cloth. ing indicated a struggle had pra ceded death, and the findings of a county autopsy surgeon were to the effect that the girls had been attacked and sLato, probably by strangulation. Tangible clews to the identitv of the slayer were lacking, but a dragnet was spread last night for a degenerate who last summer f.n noyed women and -grls in tbu neighborhood. He In believed to be the same man who Is sought for several recent attacks on small girls in other sections of the city This suspect is known to have en ticed his victims Into a small coupe, and one of the most definit clews on which police worked (Continued on Page Bight) HERWiG REPORTED IN COLLISION WITH TROLLEY W. J. Her wiL-. director of the stale Anti-Saloon league, last evening drove bis kutomobile Into a collision with a street cdr at the corner of State and Liberty street? according to the reports on file with the street car company. While the law requires that all automobile accidents shall be re- reported to police authorities, Mr Herwig had filed no report up to 1 o'clock th's afternoon. The st rident occurred about 9:30 o'clock. Mr. Herwig this morning de nied that he bad been Involved In any accident. BOWER GIVES 1 Fasting, Singing Adventists Await End of the World New York, Feb. 5. Pray leg, fasting and singing hymns, thir teen Seventh Day Adventists of Long Island today are awaiting the end of the world, which they think is coming tomorrow. They are led by Robert Re! tit, who calls himself the "apostle of doom." The party includes men, women and children and a family of four negroes. Most of them have sold their worldly goods, even part of their clothing and are spending the lust few days subsist ing on carrots and water. They will go to a hill top neir East Pattchogue tomorrow whence they expect to be taken in a cljud chariot to woods near San JDiegj, Cal., where they say 144.000 "brides of the lamb" will be gath ered. All other neople will oer ish, according to their predic tions. Disagreement from the head quarters of the Seventh Day Ad ventist organization In Washing T A careful survey of Salem and its environs fails to disclose any Rowenltes in this vicinity. Knal estate records do not divulge any suddeu spurt in transfers by peo ple who are endeavoring to shed themselves of worldly goods to face the great beyond tomorrow, and the society editor states ei:e has heard no parties for tonight to watch the old world out and the watch the old world and the new While Rowen.tcs in Pasadena are gathering in groups getting ready fur the vast cataclysm these declare is due to happen somet.me between midnight tonight and midnight Friday night, Salemites seem to be pursuing the even tenor of their ways, without batting so mucn as a picked eyebrow. "It would be a shame and dis grace to stage the end of the world right now as far as Salem is concerned, declares Ch3rlie Wilson, manager of the chamber of commerce. "With the outrtik ahead for the biggest fruit year in history, a new linen mill about to be constructed, the most prosper ous time in all of the town's his tory just ahead antf then to biot it all out in one blot would be .jo much. This seems to be the general opinion among Salem busing men. The only hopeful sign about the end of the world was exprujjed by one who stated It would assure an early adjournment of the legis lature. There Is nothing the bori y suf fers that the soul may not profit by. GLIMPSES ( Jf7l. py f RvNy SENATOR fsfesM t 'l'P, fO. IRRIGATION A-W jKJ; it r- II Geo flll Mtj"!tO SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1925 ton that tomorrow Is the decreed date fur the millenium has not af fected the preparations for the lit tle band. Mrs. Margaret W. Hnw en, leader of those who have flxei the date for tomorrow, was de nounced by the church leaders. It is the contention of the Adventlsl organization that the date filed by her is extremely premature. The seven plagues including the great battle of Armageddon must come before the world's doom it is maintained by the main group of Adventists. But Kefdt has made his predic tions in detail. The period of de struction, starting tomorrow mt-i-night, will last for seven day, he says, with first, disease, hailsttne and pestilence striking the earth at one time. Keidt is himself no longer a member of the Adventist church. He has sold his furniture to a sec ond hand dealer on condition that he may buy it back. BILL PUT OVER LM The opposition to Senator mi ner's bill taking the power of ap pointment of the members of the state f ieli commission out of the bands of the governor and vest ing It In the board of control took new heart this morning when it came up in its regular order on the senate calendar and Ritner, by motion, asked that It be laid over and made a special order of business for Monday af ternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The desire to further delay consideration of the measure, which has now been pending since the first day of the session although not actually Introduced until last week, is looked upon as a confession that its Mend have not yet lined up the required 20 votes to carry it over the veto In the upper house. There Is no denying that for the past day or -two opponents of the bill have been considerably worried by the confidence ' ex pressed by Us proponents, and there was openly expressed a fear that some one or two of the "no" voters had slippM Resurveying their lines just "be fore noon today, however, the opposition to the fish measure again laid claim to 1J nres def initely against the fish maure. and 12 pledged to cast negative notes on the bill to take the gam commission away from the gover nor. This same alignment, ther asserted, will hold for all of the other measures designed to ham string the executive, but tiiey re fused to reveal the names of the (Continued on Page Seven) OF LEGISLATORS BY MURRAY WADE AtwYJ HAS 1 1 B R A R y jjttd Joitair nn a PETTY GRAFT LAIDTOIITE BY GfDSTED Adjutant General Accus ed of Charging State For Auto Not Used and of Other Irregularities. Formal charges of petty graft on the part of Adjutant General George A. Whltej of the Oregon National Guard are made by Ma jor Charles E. Gjedsted, until re cently chief assistant in the adju tant general's office, when he re signed .charging his chief with Ir regularities in the conduct of the office, these charges being made by Gjedsted In an affidavit sub mitted by him to Governor Walter M. Pierce. In a letter to the governor ac companying the affidavit, Gjed sted says, "I would respectfully re quest that you require that the ad jutant general turn over in the presence of witnesses to the dis trict attorney, data books for the years 1921 and 1923, and date book for the year 1924, as these are re quires for use in substantiation of charges preferred." Specifically ' Gjedsted charges White with having filed clnims with the secretary of state on cer tain dates in 1921 for traveling expenses in connection with the use of his own liulck enr, when as a matter of fact he charges White used a Dodge car furnished to thr military department of Oregon hy (Continued on Pag? Nine, AL Washington, Feb 5 The house aircraft committee, which is con siderlng charges that army and navy officers are gagged by their superiors on questions of military policy was informed by Secretary Wilbur today that naval officers are free to express their vie wo fully. "I wieh to assure you," the secretary said, in a letter to Chairman Lam pert of the com mittee, " that they arc perfectly free to state fully and falriy all facta within their knowledge not of a confidential or secret char acter and to fully express their opinion on any matters Into which your committee desires tc inquire. What to Wear Washington, Feb. President Coolldge has referred to the In augural committee a letter from a preplexed woman asking his ad vice o? the proper dress to wear for her desired participation In the Inaugural parade. The lelVr recalled the president's empliA?. on a simple inaugural program. 0 W('f..V U.'M '.'tf..r. REP. POTTER. FORMERLY JUO& OP THE FkCWCr. Of" COUlVrESy-- AUTHOR OF 1 1 ; f J SIOEfWrE. CO Million a Day Mrs. Scott Durand, real "dirt farmer," and rich Chicago society leader, Is now "Wheat Queen," having made 11.000,000 in one day in the unprecedented rise In the price of wheat in which she was a "bull." She and her husband own a nimmenHe farm at Lake Bluff, and a mansion In Chicago. She declared nhe believed the price of wheat would go even higher. SPEED BLOC ORGANIZING TO Declaring that It is high tii:u that the legislature get down to business and give their attention to the disposal of the large 3ml of bills accumulating, certain members of the house are today agitattng'organization of a bloc to prevent adjournment tomorrow afternoon for the week. "Nearly two-thirds of the ses aion has now pawed and so fur wi have hardly got action on any of the controversial matters that an' to come up,' said one of the rep resentatives active In the move ment today. "The way things art moving now will find us going in to the final week of the ses-ilr.n with all of the 'big stuff plied up This will result In the usual elev enth hour railroading program for less spectacular proopsals and the passage of a lot of defective lawy. Two means of forcing action art under consider.' ion by those spon soring the proposed bloc; one to vote against all bills where rail roading, or rush tactics arc at tempted, and the other to Btvri pat for an extended session, or force consideratir of the neces sary appropriation bill and lnine dlate adjournment, leaving 111 political and petty proposals to rot. Leaders In the movement hop? to get the speed bloc to func tioning by tomorrow morning. BANK e ffi 1CNT V I IM THIS II DDTPl? rprr nrn prMTQ ON TRALNa AND NEWS X Ikiuu lllUiJU uuniu STAN Mil FLOOD FORCES CAVE FLOOR SPAULDING RISES, CUTS SHUTDOWN OFF ESCAPE River Nearing 20 Fool Mark With 25 In Sight If Rain Continues Steamer Ticd-Up. The Willamette river had risen to 19 feet 8 inches above normal at Salem at 2 o'clock today: an in crease of half a foot since eiiy morning. An increase of four more feet will be ' necessary to cause the paper mill to shut down, officials of the company reported. u the rain continues the river is expected to reach 25 foot level. uecause of inability to bring logs down the river safety, due to the high water, Spaulding's hi in ner mill will be forced to close down at noon tomorrow, official. )f the company stated today. Th- river will have to drop to three feet below its present level before operations can be resumed, al though the loggers state that they can bring logs down the rivcr more easily when it Is fulling than when It Is rising. The Northwestern, which ordi narily makes a run between Salem and Portland three times a week, is tied up at Its dock at the foot of Court street, and will remain there until the level of the wntor recedes severul feet. At present it Is impossible to take the boat through the locks at Oregon City. It made a trip to a farm house oa Brown's Island, some three miles up the river, yesterday, worltmei. at the dock claimed this morr.'n?;. The boat was taken across a pas ture and tied up to a tree, they said, n quantity of straw and other (Continued on Cage Seven) GORDON TALKS TO REALTORS ON Direct opposition to the child labor amendment was expressed by Herbert Gordon of Portland, state representative from Multno mah county, In a speech before the .Maiion-I'olk county realtors at their weekly luncheon thia noon. "I am opposed to the rhlld la bor amendment." ho "I am opposed to the extension of federal authority to this extent. - Further Wore, I believe that if anything the children of this generation are pampered toj much, it is injurious to al'ow a boy or girl to reach the age of IS without hiving paw ed through o-iio h.ii'dship"!." Spe:iklng in opposition to a bill now before the legislature, naid to be snonsored by the 1'ortland lltnl ty board, .Mr. Uordon stated. "The tendency today seems to be for evoryoody to want a bill to ri'gu- lato the other fellow. The demand Is for Icjs legislation, an 1 yet every one wants his own pet measures put through. Any legislation that considers the interests of otic cer tain clans of people is bad legisla tion." The MM referred to Is paid to Involve an exam In a 'Ion of all new realtors In the stute, allow ing those no.v practicing to con- tlnuo wlrhou'. examination. A mini fcer of the realtors prospnt thin noon dcclart-d that the bill Is i n fair. fjordon d.Tlarrd tint h? Reliev ed firm land will In-come more valuable. In the next few yeirs. ' The rlty has had Its .day," he ald. "Iiefar3 long thoro will be n renewed demand for fanning picji erty " SPENDS frJCENTS TD PAY ONE CENT INCOME TAX lAm Angeles, Cal., Feb. f Mario A, Tulle, clerk in a cake hop hero, spent. 10 cents in car fare to go to I lie collector of In tcrnul revenue's office to pay b r income tax which amounts U roughly one cent. "Hang up your lantern Plngnss.' said the deputy collector wr took the money, "litre is an bun est taxpayer.' THE WEATHER OREGON: Rain tonight and Friday. Moderate temperature. Fresh south westerly winds. Local: Max. 54: mln. 42: rain, 76; rlrer, 19.1, rising; atmos., cloudy. ND8 KIVB CENTS All Hope Abandoned of Rescue Other Than By Shaft From Top of Hill To Entombed Man. Cave City, Ky., Feb. 5 (By As sociated Presw) Kloyd Collins has been permanently entombed In his sand cave prbton 150 feet under ground by a rise in the floor of the, cave and all hopes of escape thru any natural passage have been abandoned. Four triiia Into the cave have convinced a geologist, coal miner and military authorities in charge of the work that their only chanc to reach Collins Is by sinking- shaft from the top of the hill and endeavoring to tunnel to the im prisoned man. Any attempt to mine into the cave probably would be fatal to Collins, it was agreed, but the plan was adopted as a last resort and Major V. II. Cheery, the govern ment agent, has been dispatched In an automobile with instructions to get mine machinery wherever any could be found. The slow rising of the floor with in the cavern began shortly after n I (I night. There had been no more rock falls or cave-ins, it was stated. The swelling apparently had lifted sol- - id rock iron, the floor to the roof of tho cavern. This action closed the passaga way for a long dis tance and may have crushed Col lins it it extended that far. Inasmuch as a considerable por. tion of the cave leading from the entrance toward the prisoner still remains undisturbed, however, be- (Continued on Page KiKht) PROSECUTION OF Portland, Or., Feb. 5. The fed eral indictment against George L, Cleaver, state prohibition couunib sloncr, in connection wtih his raid lit December on the British ste lin er London Merchant, was dismiss ed today by Federal Judge C. H. iiean, on motion of Assistant Uni ted States Attorney Allan Bynon, who said the department of justics had ordered the prosecution drop- lied. Judge Ilean, before entering the order of dismissal inquired upon wttat grounds the department of justice reached its decision not to press the caee and Hynon said It was because Cleaver had acted In good faith. The indictment charged Cleiv er wilh violation of the treaty with Great Britain regarding liq uor traffic. PAY $ FINES "A million men, a million dol lars," Is tho motto of Municipal .! inltra l'oulae.i today as he sell ball at $1 on each man brought In by timmlicrH of the police force for violating tiie oity traffic ordinance that provides for a one hour park Ir g limit In the down town sec tion of the city. Ninety ta-cs had been fixed to standing autus at 2 o'clock today, and nearly 50 men had answered the rcqii?st on the tags and ap peared at the police station. "Jlight this way, gentlemen, ' ft tho greeting K'ven by Chi-'t Frank .Mtnto, as he ushers them In to meet tho Jmlgv. ltlank checks are furnisiiej the ordinance violators. Custon.ers are treated with lh grra'.eat al rourtesy, but a sly grin quirks the coiners of Chief Minto's ni.iuth at tinis. Ilcnd, Or., Feb. b. Snow driv en by a cold wind hegan falling at 10 o'clock hut melted as fast a It tout-lied the ground or pnvpmM(, A heavy rain late yesterday aft-.T noon was followed by a noticeable drop In temperature.
