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Newspaper Page TextC apital Ajomr -1 .inFiwrr CITY EDITION Tatly average net paid circulation for month ending January Si, 1926 RAIN TONIGHT And Thursday. No change In tempera ture. Freeh to strong eoutheeaat galea aJong the cout. . Local: Mas., 61; mln., 41; rntn, .AT; river, T.S, rising; at num.. cloudy, wind, south 6548 Avorage dally distribution 1071. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 48 SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1924 DDIfiD TDDrP ON TRAINS AND NEWS VJAJI-VAU 8TAP INU8 FIVB CENT i a uiba FOUND DEAD IN HIS ROOM United States Senator and Republican Party Lead er Dies At Hotel From Hearts Disease. Washington, 1'eb. 25. Senator Medil! McCo.mick of Illinois was found dead in his Hamilton hotel a: rtment hre today under cir cumstancea which led physicians to disagree as to the cause of death. The doctor who made the flrdt bTaminatiou of the body issued a certificate giving Internal hem orrbage as the cause of death, bui the coroner later held that the senator had been a victim of heart d.sea&e. The coroner'e verdict was that death had resulted from niyocar- dias and acue cardiac dilation. He . declared that blood about the mottth came from a cut on the chin Which, he said probably bad been reopened by a fall just be fore the senator suffered a heart attack. Dr. Noble P. Barnes, who had made the preliminary examination had given the cause of death as gastric hemorrhage. The cut on the senator's chin, apparently the result of a mishap while shaving, was plastered over with tape when his colleagues last law him alive at yesterday & sen ate session. Doth agreed that the death was due to natural causes, and that the senator had passed away almost without warning while he was alone in his apartment. The body, clothed in pajamas was found in ued. One hand (Continued on Page Seven) $11,000 CASH FOR nmi ii Present indications are that the Washington school, which - has been out of use during the pres ent school year, will be sold to Thomas E. Cole of Salem for the lum of (11,000. At the meeting of the school board last night bide on the building were opened and Mr. Cole's offer proved to the only one received. Final action on the lale was deferred until Thursday oon. Report brought to the meeting showed that the building is de teriorating rapidly. The roof has evcrat large leaks. A number of the windows a c broken; electric corde have been jerked from their lockets; the floor Is nearly worn through in a number of places. Board members stated that to keep the building from deteriorating more rapidly than ever it would be necessary to open it for public use, nl it could not be made fit to use without repairs amounting to up wards of $10,000. The site will not be necessary tor future school buildings, mem bers of the board stated, the con tested dtet.icts being elsewhere. "It would be hard to get pupils lor six full grades in a school lo cated there," said Superintendent Hug. The tvo portable school buildings now located on the Washngton school property were Included in the offer made by Mr. Cole. "I think they just want to get a unanimous vote of the board, ' was the opinion expressed by Cole after the meeting. Curtis Cross, one member of the board, was ab sent last night because of Illness. "If they voted the proposition throughout withiut everybody be ing here lot of people might ob ject," said Cole. No opposition to the sale developed from any, mem ber of the bourd who was present. Democrats Carnr Chicago. Chicago, Feb. 25. The demo cratic city administration here has been given renewed life as a result of the aldermanic contests, which returned 27 democrats In 36 cnuncilmen elected yesterday. Included among candidates for 14 seats to be f.ilcd at a run off elec tion April 7. are 13 more demo crats, ton of thm present council members. U.S. FLAGSHIP JPHILIPPINES U ; I S. Huron On Reef :f Malampaga Sound, Island of rale wan, 200 Miles Front Manila. Manila, Feb. 25 (By Associat ed I'ress.) Tho U. S. S. Huron, flagship of the American fleet In Asiatic waters, is aground off Mal ampaya aound, Island of Palawan, 200 miles southeast of Manila, radiogram received here today said Advice 3 from the Huron said the craft was "resting easy,' and probably would bi pulled out of danger and re-floated by three navy tugs which left Manila fo the scene. The tugs will not reach the Huron until tomorrow, how ever. The Huron left Manila yesterday cn route to Java. The flagship probably will returo to Manila as a result of the accident. Admiral Thomas Washington, commander of the Asiatic fleet, left for Java about a week ago aboard the General Alava. L C. E. Spence, Btate market agent, was the recipient of a sharp lashing for hie political activities at the last election under hou-se concurrent resolution No. 16, ln troduced this morning. The reso lution was introduced by Repre sentatives Roberts, Miller and Mann, Senators liltner and Cars- ner, who signed themselves "wheat raisers and republicans. Pointing oat that in the federal service it is a misdemeanor for a public servant under civil service to take part In political cam paigns, the resolution declares that Spence should be censored by the etate, although there is no law to touch him. Spence Is charged with expend ing his activities "in an effort to split the vote so as to defeat a candidate (Coolidge) who later was demonstrated to be not only the ideal candidate, but the idol of the republican and democratic form of government. The docu mcnt also asks that the house and senate go on record to "unalter ably and equivocally oppose, up braid and condemn said market agent for the part played by him in said late campaign. Further be Is resolved, eays the lesotution, "that this legislature hereby goes on record as unalter ably opposed to appointees of the state in the future, taking any ultra-active part in politics other than he would be permitted to take, were he under United States :ivil service." Norfolk. Va.. Feb. 25. A raid ing a party of marines boarded th navy transport Beaufort when sh docked here last night from th West Indies and seized several hundred gallons of liquor. Some or the liquors, the raiders sold wa taken from the staterooms of officers ranking In rank from pay clerks to lieutenants. Th raid was conducted under direction of Captain Wilbert Smith, assistant commandant of the naval base here. Orders for the action were issued by Rear Ad miral Roger Welles, commandan of the fifth naval district. Washington, eb. 25. VloU tions of the law as well as of navy regulations apparently are In volved In the case of the navy transport Beaufort which trans ported liquor Into Hampton Roads, it was pointed out here today. It was said that those foun tuilty might be tried either by federal court for violating prohl hition laws or by court martial, Illinois U. S. Senator Found Dead In Hotel Room At Washington Bill PUT TO SLEEP BY SENATE The motion picture censorship bill sponsored by the house com mittee on health and public mor als was killed in the senate today by lndiflnite postponement. Tho senate judiciary committee return ed a divided report on the bill. A majority against It and minority for it. The bill was killed, how ever, in motion of Senator Banks that it be Indefinitely postponed The vote was: For Indefinite postponement Banks, Butler, Carsner, Clark, Davis, Dennis, Hall, Hare, Joseph Klepper, Magladry, Miller, Ritner, Staples, Strayer, Upton. Moser. Against Beals, Brown, Cor- bett, Dunn. Eddy, Fisk. Garland. Johnson, Kinney, LaFollett, Tay lor, Tooze, Zimmerman. EMPIRE POLICY is n Washington, Feb. 25. T.ewif? S. Gannett, associate editor of Th3 Nation, in New York, charg ed before a senate committee to day that without knowledge of the American people or the con sent of congress the United St a tea has been committed by bankers' loans and financial contracts to a ""policy of empire that han brought 10 South American re publics almost under complete domination of our government, The committee has under consid- ation a resolution by Senator La dd, republican. North Dakota that would prevent any American military intervention in South or Central American republics. In six of these republics, Gnn nett, declared. United Stales troops are maintained. He oubmit ted loan contracts which he said committed the United States to the policy to which he referred. Clean Opt Texas Prison Austin, Texas, Feb. 25. (By Associated- Press. The majority report of the joint pt'ison investi gating committees demanding by name -Agnation of approximate ly 25 prison officials and employes was adopted today by the house, 93 to 12. Kurds Kill Turks Having No Longer Armenian Victims London. Feb. 25. Details re garding the outbreak in Kurdis tan, reported from Constantino ple have thus far been insuffi cient to establish whether a ser ious revolt against Turkish rule is In progress or whether as offi cially reported at Angora, . the trouble i merely local. Sheik 8ald, leader of an Im portant Dervish organization with ramifications In Persia. Khaiva and Bhorkah is named as the head of the uprising, whicU is reported from Constantinople to have among Its ainwi the estab lishment of an independent Kurd ish state and tb restoration of BILLSECURES RIGHTOFWAY Preferred Status On Pri ority List For Capper Haugen Bill Measure Before House. Washington, Feb. 25. Under a re-arrangement of the senate leg islative prog rati lor the remaining week of the session legislation em bodying the principal recommend ation of the president's agricultur al conference the Capper-Haugen co-operative marketing bill has been given preferred status on a prioi'ty list of less than a dozen measures. Decision to place the co-opera tive bill behind the general omul- ' us pension measure, which hau right of way after disposal of the pending banking legislation, was reached yesterday by the repub lican steering committee. The ac tion was taken after Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, charac terized the Capper-Haughen bill a "make-ehift" had again de manded an extra session of con gress to consider a program of fa- aid. The farm bill was placed on the list where action or the legislation by the house'' could be awaited, leaders explained, with the Idea oi expediting final action by substi tuting the house measure for that pending in the senate. The Haughen bill was again before the huose today for action under n special rule adopted last week. When the rivers and harbors authorization bill, fourth on the senate list, is taken up, propo nents of the Cape Cod canal pur chase bill and the Gooding long and short measure will attempt to use it as a vehicle for putting these bills through as riders. Other measures In the priority list of the senate include the de ficiency appropriation now under consideration in the houBe and the naval omnibus bill. Names were yesterday forward ed from Willamette university to headquarters of Beta Chi Alpha, national fraternity of college an nual staffs, a chapter of which Is being established at the local school. The chapter at Willam ette In the only chapter In Oregon. Schools who have chapters A num ber of rated schools belong to the fraternity. Including the universit ies of Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Ne braska, California, Southern Cali fornia, Minnesota and others. Wil lamette students who are to be come members Include the follow ing: Clarence Oliver, Anne Silver, Junnlta Henry, George Atkinson, Joe Nunn, Ruth Hewitt, Huth Wechter, Genevieve Thompson, Richard Btls&s, Hollls Vlck and Loynl Warner. Professor Horace Willlston is to be faculty member. A certain number from the stnff of the Wallulah, the Willamette annual, will be chosen each year for membership In the fraternity. Initiation ceremonies for the local chapter will be held within a few week. the caliphate. Sheik Said Is said to have Imued a proclamation de claring hts intention of making one of the late Sultan Abdul Hamid's eons king of Kurdistan. The Insurrection, first reportu of which were received a week ago afTer to roughly the region formerly known as Armenia, and the Times, In Its comment today, remarks: "Ai the Kurds who Inhabit it have no longer any -Armenians to kill, they ar. killing Turks in stead." It is reported Turkey Is prepar ing military operations against the troublesome Kurds. four Time Caught Robbing Train Passengers Albany, N, Y Feb. 25. A man Relieved to be Richard Palmer, I who escaped from Sun Qucntin penitentiary in 1923, was arrested. here today chirged with rohhing sleeping Pullman pusdengers on the Twentieth Century Limited. The prisoner said he was Hurry A. Hillman of New York. Richard Palmer, "high class burglar," is credited with four es capes, two from &un Quentin and two from prison guards who were sent after him. Palmer was sentenced to serve five years in prison from San Francisco in April, 1919, after bavtiie perpetrated a number of clever burglaries. He escaped on August 31, 1919, while employed in the administration building of tin state prison here. He war. captured In New York and a guard IN COUNTY II Four men were conducted to the county jail from justice court this morning, after Justice Brazier C. Small had imposed jail sentences ranging from three months to six months on charges of illegal sale of liquor. Forrest Brown drew the highest number, six months in jail nd 20Q fine. Mr. Brown will not be In strange surroundings when .he enters the jail, for he has served several months there before this, according to the sheriff's record. Mr. Brown entered a plea of guilty. J. H. Henderson came next In line, with a jail sentence of five months and a fine of $200. "Best part of tho summer,'' murmercd Henderson grimly, as the sentence was pronounced. He at first enterd a plea of not guil ty, but on demand of the district attorney for immediate trial, and a conference with his legal ad visor, Mr. Henderson changed his plea to guilty and received sentence. W. W. Downing ran against a Jail sentence of three months and a tint of, $100, as a culmination of What he claims Is his first offense With, Intoxicating liquor. Frank. Wewens, the Junior mem ber of the group, was given a Jail sentence of two months, and escapwl a fine In view of his youth! and of the nature of the case. Divorce complaints continue to roll in on the county clerk. Hose Lang declares in her com plaint against Fred W. Lang that they were married In January, 1 $'22, and he deserted her in June of that year. That he told her he married her only as business proposition, that he was sulky " constantly nagged her, and was "niggardly, stingy and pernicious. This case comes over from Polk county on change of venue. Mm Hill who I seeking a divorce from Harry Hill states her hus band is an able bodied man, em. ployed as an asylum attendant earning $60 a month and she wants $35 a month as temporary and permanent alimony. She wants the first two years of it lumped and $420 paid her at once, and be a lien on real prop erty he owns In Salem. They were married In Buffalo, N. Y., in 190O. and have one child. She charges cruelty, that he bas kicked her and struck her, that he threatened to shoot her If she left him and that he objects to her relatives visiting tbem. Snow at Klamath Klamath Falls, Or., Feb. 25. After several days of sunshine, winter descended upon Klamath Falls at 10 o'clock this morning when a light snow began falling Indications were that It would not bt a beavv snowfall. Escape sent after him. The guard return ed alone, Palmer naving leaped from the speeding train some where in Iowa. He was recaptured and return ed to San Quentin, but on the night of February 23, 1923, with two other prisoners he escaped. He worked this escape through a clever ruse. A fourth conspirator disguised as a clergyman attempt ed to walk out of the prison gates. He had little hope of escape, but his attempt drew attention away from Palmer and the other two conspirators, and they scampered over the wal! to freedom. He was again recaptured In New York and once more a guard was sent after him, but Palmer slipped off he chains and irons somewhere Wyoming and leap ed from ths speeding train to freedom. Washington, Feb. 2 Formal request of the new Honduran gov ernment for the purchase of 3,000 American military rifles, 2,000,-1 000 rounds of small arms ammuni tion and 20 machine guns has been approved by the Btate department and is before Secretury Weeks, who will work out the terms of the sale. The. negotiations are being conducted by Minister Designate Bogram in behalf of the Hondur an government. As In the negoti ations with the Mexican and Cub an authorities, when they pur chased arms and munitions from the United States army. Secretary weeks will arrange a cash pay ment plan beforo delivery Is authorized. Honduras wants the equipment for its troops and under assurances given the Washington authorities, it win uo employed not only in the support of regular constitu tional government but to aid In the protection of foreign lives and property. Need for the "arms was held to be acute. The rifles are to be expected to be of the Enfield type, manu factured during ilic war and now held in reserve. JOSEPH'S RIDICULE KILLS AUTO RE-REGISTRATION Senator J scph ridiculed out of court last niKbt Senator Johnson's bill providing for a re-rcgitttrution or automobile operators every three years, increasing the fee and providing for a certificate as to character from some police officii' or sheriff when applying for a 11 cense. Johnson raid the measure would produce revenue amounting to about $300,000 every three years. Joseph's attack centered on the proviison requiring a certificate of character. DisruHsion of this bill was tjie nol?fvit session the senate has yet bad. MUNITIONS FROM UNITED STATES Red Cross Drive In Salem Collects Reports of the recent Red CroM drive, recently completed in Salem indicate th.it the sum of approxi mately $2200 wiw raised in the city. The announcement of the sum was m.ide thin morning by Tero IMckn, who hnd charge of the drive. There may be a variation of a few dol lars one way or the other from the amount announced, be Indicated, a ff-w of the city districts not be ing reported tin yet. - Mo,-e than twice as much van subscribed in the recent campaign than In either of the cnmpnlKnit held d tiring the pt two years. Kach of the liuit two campaign re nutted In less than a thousand dol lar being mined. "This $2200 Is as much at we can reasonably expect," said Mr. i AST MINUTE SCRAMBLE ON F0RARM0R1ES Gist of Bills For Military Structures Delay Ad journment Which May Be Tomorrow. It appeared this forenoon that adjournment of the legislature sine die may be delayed by a grist o: armory bills which their spon sors may attempt to railroad through the two nouses. All armory measures were dis approved by the ways and means committee. This morning the sen ate military affairs committee in troduced a bill to appropriate $30,000 fjr the state's share for an armory at Cottage Grove. Sen a tor Magladry got the bill read i second time by suspension of t! rules and attempted to get it read a third time in the same manner and placed on final passage. This was blocked, however, and the bill tabled until afternoon. While the bill was under dis cussion word came that another armory bill had passed the house Inasmuch as talf a dozen armory measures were before tbe ways and means committee a rush of the measures in the form ,iew bills Is expected. , Senator - Dennis, however, said no bill would be in troduced tor an armory at La urnnue, aitnougn that city was rciven priority by the military af tuirs committee. Grasping the famouB psycho logical moment, Representative drahnm of Washington county this morning succcded in having house bill 31, providing for an armory appropriation for Forest Grove, taken from the table and passed. The bill, along with several oth ers seeking armory appropriations nad reposed on the table, appar ently given up on account of the recommendation of the ways And (Continued on I'ntfe Heven) HOUSE ADOPTS CONFERENCE BILL ON POSTAL PAY Washington, Feb. 26 The con ference report on the postal pay and rate increase bill was adopted today by the house. Senate concurrence In necctwary beforo the measure can go to the president. As revamped by the conferees, the bill in estimated to ralwe about $60,00.00 In revenue annually to off. set In part at outgo of $86,000, 000 Increased salaries. Representative Bell, democrat, Georglu, one of the houe confer oe, sought to have the proposal committed to conference with In structloiifl to the house manager? to reduce tho two cent service charge on parcel post puckaKen to one cent. His motion was reject ed, 65 to 2T.X. Tho houo then adopted the con ferenrc report by the overwhelm ing votf (if 370 to 8. $2200 for Budget Hicks thi morning. Approximate !y a quarter of the sum will be sent to niikmal headquarters, h Indicate!, the remainder being kept for Red Crow work In and near Salf-m. Report of the result of the tirive In Marlon and Polk counties are ft 111 incomplete, leu than a quarter of the dlstrU-tn having re ported, according to K. T. Rime. who has charge of the drive ip the two counties. Reports from IS II -vcrton Indicate that over 160 was raised there, he elated. Monmouth hne raised approximately $12S Jffferson haa reported upwards of $.15. No report are yet available from the remainder of the dlatrct in the ten it cry covered by the drive. CIGARETTE LIMITATION ATTEMPTED Senate Seeks To Cut Tax On Other Forms of To bacco Revenue Bills Hold Up Session. (By Harry N. Craln) The legislature Is mopping us tmlay with the Tlew in mind oi bringing the thirty third biennial eemion to close late tonight. Of sometime tomorrow. They may succeed, and again, they may not. l'robably not. Enactment of the revenue pro. duclng bills is all that remain! and, while that may appear on the surface to be a simple matter. cut and dried, after the perform ance or the house yesterday after noon, the situation may easily re solve itself into another deadlock. The senate is not nearly so docils as to the ukaso of the governor regarding tax matters as the house has suddenly become, and there is no assurance that the senators are going to accept with out question the tobacco tax, or the bill to require all fee collect ing boards and commissions to turn over to tho general fund 10 per cent of their collections. There Is going to be a deter mined effort made in the eenats to make the tobacco tax apply only to cigarettes, principally upon the ground that a 10 per cent tax on cigars would prove ft nuisance and be hard to enforce, but also because estimates mads after a cose check of the cigar ette business in the state reveal that a tax on these smokes alone would yield better than JS00.000 some claiming as high as $1,- 300,000. Figures compiled from the In ternal revenue reports indicats that a 10 per cent tax on cigar ettes sold in Oregon would yield around 1600.000 annually, oi (Continued on rage Five) USE DEFEATS The house this morning killed u nat? bill 227, by Senator Klepper calling for the holding of a con stltutional convention, Representa tive Cm kin of Jackson county, gave tho principal argument for tho measure, ealling attention to many antiquated and obsolete provisions in tlio constitution and the need of other provisions not Incorpor ated. The bou;e ulso voted down senate bill 143, by Senator Gar land, Appropriating money for A I in Ada A. Dunlup, widow of the murdered nheiiff of Linn county. Srnnto bill 41, by Senator Upton. providing for establishment of ft tuberculosis hospitol In eastern Oregon and appropriation of $100, 000 to pay fur tame was passed Tho houe alKo acted favorably on senate bill 225, by Senator Up ton, amending the law pertaining to tho n-glbtratton of assistant pharmacists. Hou&o bills passed during th morning session Included: No. 383 exempting from the def inition of "motor busses" for hire care and taxics operating within the limits of a corporate city. No. 3S2 taking buf&cs and for hire cars operated within the lim its of a corpoiate city from under the control of the public servlc com ml ion. The houe nlso adopted the ma jority favorable report on senate bill 172 strengthening the tire prf vcntlon codo of the state. SAYS AMERICAN PUBLIC IN FOOLS PARADISE Chicago, Feb. 24 The American public Is living In a "fools para dise' and needs to step aside and take stock of Itself, the Right Rev. James Wise, bishop of Kansas, de clared at the lenten service oC the church club of Chicago -here today. lnt offers the Individual an op portunity to ' sec himself aa other, see him." Jttshop Wise said CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION BILL