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Newspaper Page TextOREGON WAR 12 1325 A TT - C apital CITY EDITION FAIR TONIGHT and Thursday; freezing temperature to night In the east and central portion, a en tie variable win da. Local: Max., (7; mln., 32; rain, trace river, rising; atmos., part cloudy, wind, southwest. LIBRAE Daily average net paid circulation (or month end February 28, 125 nl paid i id February 6811 mat Average daily distribution 7-61. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 60 SALEM. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1925 PRICE THREE CENTS &ASlNhttu Ml JV BOARD TURNS DOWN SINGLE BID FOR SUE Washington School Block Controversy Aired At Meeting; Board Frowns On Park Plan. A single bid of $11,(300, offered for the Washington school grounds, was unanimously reject ed by the Salem school board at its meeting lost night. The bid was made by Homer Smith in be half ot Kay and Smith. Two mem bers of the board Cross and Gregory were absent. The bidder agreed to remove the building. A number of Salem citizens were present at the meeting, and discmsed pro and con the matter of Belling or retaining the proper ty. None of those present was in favor of accepting the particular bid which was before the board, the bid being described by some an "ridiculously low." The majority of those present were not in favor of disposing ot the property at all. Among those speaking were F. J. Lafky, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Fry, Ger trude J. M. Page, Thomas E. Cou' and Ilurlle I. Moore. Wonlrl lose bv Sale The principal arguments pre sented in lavor ot the district's re taining the property were that it might be needed later for a school Bite; that it would make a good park and playground, much necd- ( Continue 1 on Page Six) PLANS ARE LAID W M. Hamilton, chairman, P. E. Fullerton and William McGil chriet Jr., all former heads ot the Cherrians., were named as a com mittee last night by King Bing Perry to have charge of Blossom day features this year, with C. S. Hamilton, chairman, O. L. Fisher and K. B. Kugej as another com mittee to have charge of the rout ing. Naming of the date has been left to the discretion of the flr.it named committee. The rout j to be covered by the thousands of visitors coming will be plainly signed and as it look? now no Cberrians will be left etnndlne at the corners through the day as in the past to direct in quirers. M. L. Meyers told the Cherrinns last night about Hawaii. Miss Melba Davenport, accompanied by Miss Mary Findley, Bang a number of solos lor the Cherrlans. DALLAS 10 PAVE Dallas, Mar. 11 The laying of two additional blocks of hard sur face street cn Lyle street came beforo tha city council Monday night at an adjourned gcsslon with out opposition The council au thorlzed the work and advertised for bids. The bids will be opened on Mon day. March 23, at nn adjourned meeting of the council. The type of street Is the rame as that laid last summer and will be from curb to curb. The improvement of this street will be especially advantage ous to workmen nnd others at the machine shops and mill. Tho council also authorized the Improvement of the block on the wc.it end of Washington street with macadam and curbs. shahhoTkIshipped back to erin by order Boston, Mnw., Mar. 11 More than one thousand package of ihamrocks Intended to brighten Boston homes on St. Patrick's day were ordered sent bark to Ire land today by representatives of the department ot agriculture. The action was taken under the regu lation which prohibits the Impor tation of live plants because of the danger of peat. In one box Inspectors found a small bottle of Irish whiskey with a note reading: 'Thi will keep the shamrock fresh, so St. Patrick said." ( ? ards at en Sleep; Are Fired Three guards at the state peni tentiary have been discharged in the last week for sleeping at their posts, Warden Dalrymple said to day. All were on night shifts. Guards when on duty are re quired by the prison rules to punch a dial every half hour, which registers In the turnkeys office and indicates whether the man is on the Job. The posts oc cupied by the three guards bad been skipping one or two of the half hour intervals on several nights recently, and upon inves tigation they were found napping In their chairs. All of those discharged live In Salem. Two have been replaced by C. A. Baker and I. W. Hub bard, also Salem men, the former having previous experience as a guard at the prison. The third man needed to fill a vacancy will probably be employed today. ELECT REGISTER New York, March 11. The name of Mrs. Alice Beatrice Ithinelander, former waitress and housemaid who Is being sued by her husband, Leonard Kip Rhine lander, for annulment of their marriage on the grounds that she is a negro, appears in the March supplement to the Social Register, a directory to the city's socially elect, it became known today. The entry appears as "Rhine- lander, Mrs. Leonard Kip (Philip) Jones Mrs. Alice B., married Octo ber 14, at New Kochellc, N. Y." Shortly after the marriage of Rhineiander to Miss Jones, it be came known that a census taker had place Rhlnelander's bride In his records as a "mulatto." The couple separated shortly thereafter, and in his annulment suit, Rhineiander alleged that the bridge had deceived him about her race. Names which have disappeared from the Social Register in recent years include MUlicent Rogers who married Count Ludwig Salm Hoogstraetcn, Mrs. James A, Still man and Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes. WRECKS HOUSES Indiun.ipolts, Ind., Mar. 11 In diana an J southeastern Illinois to day were taking stock ot the dam' axe done by the severe wind, hail and rain storm which swept over these states yesterday and last nlRht and caua;;! property damage estimated at mire than a half mil tlon dollars. Several persons were injured, none of them seriously. The storm apparently struck in Edgar county, Illinois, and then moved eastward in the general di rection of Torre Haute, Ind., un roofed houses, blowing down trees and barns. Telephone and tele graph and rail service was lm paired- In Edgar county, where the dam age was estimated at $75,000 about a dozen homes and the Methodist church were leveled. Then houses were destroyed near Tarls. 111. At Terre Haute, Ind., the storm blew down several houses and un roofed several buildings, causing damage estimated at more than $50,000. At Rochester, Ind., where the storm assumed proportions bordering on a tornado, numerous barns wro razel and the grand stand at the county fair groundj demolished and many trees unroot cd. Many other towns reported houses and barns unroofed. NEGRO CADDIE'SHEAD USED AS TEE; MAY DIE Pensacola, Fla., March 11- Use of his head as a ice sent Johnnie Gates, 15-year-old negro caddy at the Jensacola Country club, to the hospital with a fractured skull. Play was dull on the course and Johnny was taking a nap. A fel low caddy placed a ball on his head and after taking a couple of healthy swings drove. He missed the ball. Doctors today despair of saving Johnnie's life. MRS. STOKES TAKES STAND mm Sweeping Dental of All Allegations of Intimacy With Other Men Made In Chicago Court. Chicago, March 11. Mrs. Helen Ullwood stokes ot Denver was calUd to the witness ataud thi morning in the trial ot her hue band, W. K. D. Stokes, charged wtth condjtiracy to defame her. Her appearance on the stand marked a departure under the 1111. nois statut j which prohibited a wife testifying against her hus band. Judge W. N. Gemmill ruled that her testimony should he cir cumscribed that it would not be evidence against her husband, but rather a deteuse of attacks on her good name. Denies Sharinc Berth. Mrs. Stokes denied testimony of the two sleeping car conductors that she had shared on one occa sion a berth, and on another a compartment witn a young man en routo from Denver o Chicago or in the opposite direction. She also denied statements of Mr. Stokes as to occurrences in their New York home New Year's eve, 1919, when Mr. Stokes testi fied she twice appeared partly dw- rob-d before her cousin, Hal Billig or unicago, which, the aged de fendant testified, was followed by their final separation January 1, 1919. Mrs. Stokee sara that she never had ridden on a train with any (Continued on Page Klve) IN LONG BATTLE Austin, Texas, March 11. James E. Ferguson has virtually won his long fight tor vindication from the legielattve court ot im peachment which seven years ago removed lum from the governor's chair and deprived him of the right of ever holding a state of fice. By a vote of SO to 53, the house of representatives lost night pass ed to third reading, the bill al ready passed by the senate, grant ing legislative amnesty to tile de posed chief executive. Ferguson's removal from office in 1917, followed is conviction on several counts ot malfeasance in office, the principal charge against mm being that of misap plication of public funds. fallTIedTp for sinclair Cheyenne. Wyo., Mar. 11 Al bert B. Kail, former secretary of the interior, intimated a week be fore he leaped tho Teapot Dome naval ol! reserve tu the Mam moth Oil company, a Harry F. Sin clair concern that he would give preference to Sinclair m the nego tiations. According to a deposition rend In the leae concellatlon trial here. Tho deposition, by James L. Beatty, president of the Texas Oil company declared that Fall told him (Beatty) that an applicant prepared to settle questions of title to the reserve lands would receive preference In the lease negotiations and hat Sinclair then was in pos session of conveyance of some adverse claims ETHEL BARRYMORE IN CRITICAL CONDITION Kansas City. Mo., March 11. Miss Kthel Barrymore, tho actress. Ill with arthritis at a hotel here reported as in a serious con dition today. . The actress, who was stricken Monday, was reported resting com fortably yesterday but today h.-r manager announced she was "very ill." The week's engagement of MI Barrymore In "The Second Mrs. Tanquerajr" has been cancelled. Ice Pick Suicide h Morris Ketch um Parker, weal thy vice-president of the Equitable Trust Co. of New York, ended his life in a room In the University club In that city by stabbing him self Just under the heart with an ice pick. The only explanation of fered was ill health. DANZIG IS LIKE KEG OF POWDER Paris, March 11. "Danzig Is like a powder magazine," says the correspondent of Le Journal, who with the representative of Le Matin, went to the free city to Investigate the dlfficuiies between It and Poland. "The day Europe blows up, it will be because Danzig has ex ploded" the correspondent con tinues. "Two Prussian artillery men await, one at Koenigsberg and the other at Berlin, fuse in hand, ready to act when the time comes." Le Journal and Le Matin cor respondent arrive at the same con clusion, that Is, that the free city of Danzig Is neither free nor neutral, and is preparing an army to aid Germany In wresting the corridor from Poland. Le Journal correspondent says that Instead of the expected few hundred po lice, he round in Danzig 3,000. all former officers or noncommis sioned men, while from twenty to thirty thousand German officers and non-commissioned men "cam ouflaged as police for function aries are preparing dynamite to blow up the treaty of Versailles and again unchain war In Europe." La Hatin's representative says that Danzig with Its German population of a third of a million can arm 60,000 men at first call. He adds that the city is a regular arsenal of rifles and machine guns. This correspondent quotes a socalled secret report to the senate by Major Wagner, chief of this veritable army, and who is cam ouflaged before the curious as an inspector of customs to show that a Danzig army Is prepared to take over the defense of the corridor against Poland after the Germans from both sides have pinched It off and forced the Poles to retire. SCHOOL BILL CASE TO BE ARGUED SOON, IS REPORT Attorney General Van Winkle today received a letter from hi? nssffltai Willis S. Moore, who Is in Washington. D. C, to. appear before the United Stales ?,( court In the parochial and private ithool bill cane, that the cane will probably be arui d tho latter pari ;f this week. Moore Is re-prosf-nt-n? tlu attorn. y cenTiI'i ofiiee. while George E. Chamberlain rep resc. Governor Pierce, and Stii-f-y Myers dislrict ntt'rny f-.r Mtiltnn.-nnh cm-nt v. r i-. pp' himself. Van Winkle, Pierce and Myers were nil named an d'-f.!::i f-.nts in the enso. Multnomah Auditor Bead Portland, Or., Mar. 11. Rim ini B. Martin, serrlnir, his fourth term aa county auditor of Multno mah county, died at hto home here today, following an lllnww of several month?, lie waa firs; elected in November, 1910. The county commfiwloners will name a aucretvor to aerya until the next general election. LEASE CASE Senator Tells of Efforts Made To Pry Cloak of Secrecy From Opera tions of Secretary Fall. Cheyenne, Wyo., Mar. 11. (By Associated Press) How the rush of independent oil opera tore to Wyoming's representatives in con gross caused United States Sen ator John B. Kendrick and Rep resentative Frank W. Mondell to pry under the alleged cloak of eecrecy concerning the secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall's negotiations for leasing the Tea pot Dome naval oil reserve, was told in deposition and testimony today in the government's euit for cancellation of the lease. Senator Kendrick taking the stand as a government witness, declared that on April 7, 1922, the day on which the lease to the Mammoth Oil company was exe cuted he received a request from Leslie D. Miller, Cheyenne Ail man, that his application for a lease on port of the dome be con sidered. Senator Kendrick test! tied that he transferred the re quest to the department ot the interior through hjs secretary. W. A. Anderson; that on April 10 three days after the lease was ex ecuted to the Mammoth company he obtained Information from H. Fuster Bain, director of the bu reau of mines, on the govern ment's proposal to lease the navy oil field; that on or after April (Continued on Page .Seven) STATE TO CALL IN DEPOSITORIES State Treasurer Kaywlll thin week officially notify Oregon hank holding etate deposits that it will be ncceesary for the etate to draw from the banka between 25 and 30 per cent of alt etate money on deposit, or a total with drawal of about $1,750,000. The money 1 to be used for the pay ment In New York on April 1 of interest on etate bonds aBKreRat ing Jl, 82.1. 000 on the retirement of etate highway bonds In the sum of 11.300,000. Of the latter amount, however. $1,000,000 will be refunded by the substitution of state bonds on which the etate will have to pay only 4 1-2 per cent lntiTit as against D 1-2 per cent paid now, thereby saving 1 1-4 per cent Interest. The Interest payment of $1, 325,000 will be on both highway and veterans' etate aid bonds. State Treasurer Kay saya that because many banks In the state, especially in eastern Oregon, are hard pressed for money at the present time, the withdrawal of $1,750,000,000 will work some thing of a hardship on them, but that the withdrawal cannot be avoided. His notification In ample time prior to the withdrawal date is to enable the banks to meet the situation. WASHOUT BLOCKS TRAIN SERVICE AT MARSHFIELD Kugtne. Or.. Mar-h 11. Train irvice on the Coos Hay brunch of the Southern Pacific railway Is tempyrarily crippled because of a washout of 175 feet of tresti' work on tho track at llaueer, six milt from North Head, according to word rtarhinar here today. A crew hns gone to the scene of action to aid in repair. ng the track and trestle. Trains are being run to the scene of the washout and patwen ;;ers, linkage and frelnht are transferred across the water. coqlidgeTelects" TWO FOREIGN ENVOYS Wahlicton,' March 11. Prcsl dnt Cool I dice today nominated ''harks C. Kberhardt of Kansas to ' minister to Nicaragua and fieorpe T. Rummrrlln of Louisiana tv be minister to Honduras. Board's Probe of Secret Societies Mere Formality A complete, up to date report on the secret society situation In Sa-; lem high school was read by Sup-1 erlntcndent Hug at the meeting of the Salem school board last nlKht. Seven boys, members of high school organizations, were present to hear the report. A number of others were peeping In through the window from the hall. The re port deait most completely with the co-called social clubs of the school, 8 being composed of boys and 4 of girls. The fact was brought out that of the J. C, K. O. and Friars clubs, the Friars are the only ones having an advisor from the faculty of the high school. The K. O. club, however, meets at the home of J. C. Perry and under his supervision, and no objection was raised to Us prac tice. Garnet Harra, chemistry in ARRIVE IN CITY The Astoria high school basket ball t-'ana, the first to arrive in Salem for the state tournament to be held In the Willamette gymnas ium, reported last night. After defeat': g Rainier high school In Portland, Monday n Ik lit, the team; remained there until yesterday afternoon, starting for Salem at that time. Coach Taylor of Pen dleton arrived with bis team lute this morning. Arrangements have been com pleted with locat hotels to take care ot the players as they arrive, j A tew teams were expected in the! city this afternoon. The last will: have reported Uy tomorrow night, when the first round of the meet will be staged, although six of the teams will not play until Friday. Headquarters for the teams will be as follows: Hligh hotel As toria, McMinnville, Wallowa; Termir al hotel Eugene, Arugo and Hood Itiver; Marion hotel Franklin, Medford and Pendleton. The Astoria team will work out on the Willamette floor tonight. M. V. Nelson, coach ot the Astoria team, this morning expressed re gret that Medford and Franklin should have drawn each other as opponents for the first round, dating that the game might easily be the best of tin tournament nnd that both of the thorns deserved to be left in until at least the semi finals. "I would almost be will ing to meet one of them with my team to relieve the situation," be stated. Tho Arago team, from the southern Oregon coast district, now at Corvallls. A tournament a In progress there under the uspices of the Oregon Agricultur al college. A number of amateur teams from various sections of the northwest are participating In the meet there, although none of those ligiiile for the stute htgn school tourney has entered. FIREBUG'S CASE Portland, Ore., March 11. Charges against Chester C. Uuch tel, fireman-firebug, are being heard by the county grand Jury. Buchtel confessed setting sixty three fires during two years, but evidence concerning only three or four, In which evidence to cor roborate his confession has been obtained, will be presented. The district attorney's office has decided to leave the matter of an examination for sanity entirely to the defense. The defense Is expected to wait until after an Indictment has been returned before asking for an ex. amlnatlon by alienists, and Buch tel e family has announced they want the former fireman kept In custody until his case Is properly disposed of. If ho In indicted and ft sanity board holds him sane, he Is then expected to go to trial on ft de fense of Insanity, the merits of which must finally be decided by the Jury. BRAND JURY GETS structor, is faculty advisor for the Friars. The T. A., Phoenix, K. C. and T. N. T. clubs were all reported to have faculty advisors. A re quest from the head of one girls' club that the amount of money eacn organization spends In a sin gle year be limited, was incorpor ated Into the report. Actual dues wero reported to range from one dollar a semester to the same amount a month. According to the report the J. C. club has tho heaviest dues, theirs being one dol lar a month. The fact that the same club has a clubhouse of Its own, meeting there once a week, often without supervision, was en tered into the report Tho report stated that in many (Continued on Papo Four) JAPANESE SHIP Victoria. B. C. Mar. 11. With distress signals flying the Japa nese steamer Hokuyo Maru lay one mile due west of Tatoosh to day In danger of running on the rocks of the Little Inn, said wire less reports received here. The Pacific Salvage company dis patched the salvage steamer Tees to her assistance. Another message from Tatoonh island, which Is In the Pacific ocean at the south side of the en trance of the Strait of Junn De l-'uca, said that the name of the vessel had been deciphered as Ho kuyo Maru. and that the vessel was a mile west of Tatoosh Island. Code flags flown by the ship read: 'My rudder is broken. I can't stcor. Vessel zlg-zaggmg under own power. Tho Canadian fisheries patrol steamer Thiepval, from lia infield, on the west coast of Vancouver island, nnd the American coaet Kiiard cutter Snohomish, from Port Angeles, on the south side of tno strait wero reported hurrying to fuccor the Hokuyo. The Hokuyo, under charter to J. W. Al'en. Inc., Seattle, is bound from Mllke, Japan, to Vancouver, H. C, and drays Harbor. Wash., to load a full cargo of lumber for Japan. Allen snld he "had a mes sage indicating that the Hokuyo would have to be towed to Van couver. AUTO ACCIDENT Charging that us the result of a collision between a car driven Uy her husband nnd a car driven by Kobe rt Johnson, Augusta All- p irt alleges that she has suffered partial paralysis In one of her limbs, and has been unable to walk, and has been compelled t" remain In bed since the time of the accident February 8, suffering with a bruised back and Injured spinal cord. She asks for $3 9.') general damages and J105 speclaJ damages In a complaint tiled In circuit court. The accident, she states. ourred at Center and Capitol streets. The car In which she wu riding with her husband, Normal Allport, she alleges, was thrown (In feet by the Impact when It was hit by Johnson's car. She states she is employed at the Kay woolen mill and has lost 30 days service at $3.50 a day. She declares her liu.ihaml was driving their car In a careful and prudent manner when tho accident occurred. ROSS OUT SINCE JAN. 10 VAN WINKLE HOLDS In an opinion tt; Secretary of State Kozer, Attorney Genera Van Winkle boldd that Dr. Thomas Hoss of Portland ceased to be a member ot the state fish commis sion on January 10, tho date of the governor s letter to Hons not! fyli him of his removal for cause It oxer asked the attorney general whether he was to audit claims learlng tb j signature ot John C Watch, whom the governor ap pointed as Boss' successor. NOMINATION IMPOSSIBLE SAYCHIEFS Senate Leaders Inform President Nomination Cannot Be Confirmed And Suggests Others Washington, Mar. 11 President Coolidge was advised today by re publican leaders in the senate not rc-subnilt the nomination of Charles B- Warren of Michigan to be attorney general, because It -could not be confirmed. Indications that a new' nam might be sent to the senate reviv ed discussion among senators as to the possibility of confirming such a selection, should It be made from among the list of men who were under consideration when Mr. Warren was chosen. These Included Arthur P. Hugg, chief Justice of the Massachusetts su preme court; Governor Groesbi-ck ot Michigan and others. McCa mailt Mentioned A new name which appeared to day In speculation over the vaottnt post was that of Judge Wallace McCamant of Portland, Ore., whops selection Is said to havA been urg ed vigorously upon the Whits House. It was Judge McCamunt who presented the plans of the re publican leaders at the Chicago convention In 1920 by placing the name of Calvin Coolidge in nom ination for vice-president nnd stampeding tho convention to him. Chairman Cummins of the Ju diciary con-mittee, who had charge of the Warren nomination in the penntc was the first to present his views to the president today. Luter Senators Watson of Indiana, Moses of New Hampshire, Reed of Pennsylvania and Wadswojth of New York, discursed the situation at an hour's conference with the president. Ihe senators said alter wards that Mr. Coolidge offered no comment. Tho senate's rejection of the nomination of Warren yesterday was featured by the dramatic ef forts of republicans to overturn a lie vote on confirmation has left the question of filling that office developed In uncertainty. I Continued on Pn'ge Seven) SHOOT AMERICAN Athens, Mar. 11. (By Associ ated Press) Dr. John Logan of Gainesville) Ga., was shot thru the right lung yesterday noon by bandits who were holding up the automobile in which he and three other Americans, all students ot the American school ot archae ology, were traveling In south era Kpiriis, Greece. The wounded man's condition is considered serious but not necessarily fatal. Dr. Jese Mar den of Boston, the Near East re lief organisation's medical direc tor left Athens tonight by steam er to attend Dr. Logan, who has been removed to Arata. Dr. Logans companions escap ed injury. They were Chnrlea Alexander Robinson of Peekskitt. N. Y; Helen Virginia Ilroo of Portland, Maine, and Dorothy Cox, a Bryn Mawr student of New York. SEATTLE TURNS DOWN CITY MANAGER PLAN Seultle. Wash., March 1 1. Ue turns today confirmed defeat in a popular election here yesterday of d proposal to supplant the mayor ot Seattle with a manager chosen by the council. Mrs. Henry Landes. wife of the dean ot science of the University ot Washington, who once while acting mayor re placed Police Chief Severyns, aa appointee of Mayor Brown, wlta herself, and In another absence of the mayor from the city started ft movement to ctuo slaughter by automobiles, was re-elected to tho councl'. The city manager proposal re ceived 22,470 votes to 26,941 agains' It. Mrs. Landes ran third to K. L. Blaine, also re-elected, rnd fo. mer Councilman Oliver T. Krickson. three seats being filled. The voter authorised Issue o $2,250,000 bonds to build school houses.