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FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 63
SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1925
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Athletic Boards of State
Sanction Idea of Hold
ing Championship Se
rhs Here.
k -ud lor a Pacific cuuot high
tiuuui basketball tournament to
be held in Salem were announced
ttiki morning by Couch Guy Kath
bun o Willamette university.
State high school athletic boards
vt Washington, Idaho and Oregon
have given their official sanction
ut the idea and will present invita
tions to winners of the state tour
naments at Boise, Seattle and Sa
lem tonight. California has no
state tournament, and the cham
pionship there is not so eay to
determine. Hathbuu has request'
ed the California state board to
recommend some high school team
to a logical contender for the Pa
citic coast championship. A
strong possibility is seen that the
school may be Piedmont high
school of 0la.
Under present plans the games
will extend over three evenings,
one game being played each night,
expenses of all visiting teams will
be played in full, regardless of
whether or not enough money Is
taken in at the door to meet the
bill. A number of local business
n;en have signified their willing
ness to underwrite the tournu
ment.
No reports have reached Salem
as to which teams are most likely
to represent Washington and Ida
ho. Urogo n will be rep rescn t ed
by one of the four teams, Salem,
Franklin, McMinnville and Eu
gene, who enter the semi-finals
this afternoon.
Foreseeing the possibility that
a California team may not enter,
tentative plans are already under
way by local authorities to hold
the meet without a southern team
The remaining thre teams may be
represented, determining the
championship only between the
three. Montana, Nevada or some
other state may be asked to send
a team. Two teams from each of
the three northwest states may he
invited. Probably these would he
the winners and runners up in the
Btate tournaments.
The dates of the tournament
have not been definitely settled,
but will probably be some time
during the week of March 22 to
28. The local tourney will be
c scheduled that in case any of
the coast teams care to enter the
national tournament at Chicago
they will have time to do so. The
national meet is slated to begin
April 5.
RETURNED TODAY
BY
Five true bills of Indictment
and two not true bills were re
turned by the Marion county
grand jury In Its report to Judge
Percy R. Kelly today. The indict
ments were:
William R. Smith, for assault
with a dangerous weapon on the
person of John Larson. -
Albert Arthur Kieber, for the
unlawful possession of a still.
Glenn Berg, for larceny of
chickens and meat.
J. At Walker, for lareenyof
wood.
Emile Van Damme, for non
upport. The not true bills were returned
In favor of Donald Severence,
who was charged with uttering a
forged instrument, and Lee Ruffe,
who was accused of burglary not
In a dwelling.
Judge Kelly sentenced Russell
Crossan to serve thirty days in the
C'MT'ity tni for unln f':l
of liquor.
On motion of District Attorney
Carson Judge Kelly continued the
present grand Jury over Into an.
other term, and It will be recon
vened in about a week.
Wa.hlnMnn, Mar. 14 Wilder S
Metoalf of Lawrence, Kan., will
he nominated today by Prwlrt-st
Cooliiltre as commissioner ot the
bureau of pennons.
SALEM
IKE OF
RSCl ORPHAN
HEiK SOUGH!
Habeas' Corpus Action
Begun To Free Shep
herd, Foster-Father of
McClintock,
Chicago, March 14. A habeas
corpus action wafl begun . today
seeking the release oi William D.
Shepherd, foster father and heir
of McClintock, rich orphan, in
connection with whose Shepherd
has been held in custody by the
state's attorney.
Chicago, March 14. William
l. Shepherd will remain in the
technical custody of the stale's at.
torney until 2 p. m. Wednesday,
while Statea Attorney H. E.
Crowe continues his investigation
of the death of William U. Mc
Clintock, rich orphan and foster
son of Shepherd, whose heir Shep
herd is by a will now being con
tested. By agreement of Shep
herd's counsel and the state's at
torney hearing of a writ of habeas
corpus In his behalf was continued
until that time.
Information the state's attorney
has obtained in investigating the
death of young William McCMn
tuck will be placed before the
srand jury Monday, two assistants
of Robert K. Crowe, the county
prosecutor, told Judge Jacob Hop
kins today.
Mr. Shepherd was taken into
custody early today on a forthwith
subpoena.
Faiman Questioned.
Dr. Faiman, who also was Keld
for further questioning and who
wad scheduled to nearly 36 hours
ut steady examination before he
told his etory, said Shepherd nau
nosed as a lawyer seeking informa
tion on germs in defense of a cli
ent accused of administering them
Later Shspherd had given him $50
tor a letter he had written to the
bChool inquiring about bacterid
ugy courses, Faiman said.
Beyond asking If they had a
warrant, Shepherd offered no re
sistance to detectives who went to
his home. Mrs. Shepherd became
nysterical and declared "this -'i
persecution."
She was calm several hours lat-
':t when brought to the state's at
torney's office and -told assistant
state's atorneys that ' if they real
fzed how much 1 lived Billy Mc
Clintock the case would have been
drooped."
During the questioning of
Shepherd, state's attorneys and
police rounded up a number of
w itnesses who had been promi
nent in testifying before the coro
ner's inquest into McClintock's
death. They sought Dr. Fosberg,
who told the coroner's Jury that
he had been consulted by Shep
herd about affects of germs on
subtle poieons and probability of
I heir detection in an autopsy, an.1
John P. Marchland, former agent
f Faiman who told of the letter
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Philip Made Minister
Washington, Mar. 14 Hoffman
Philip of New oYrk was named to
day by President Coolidge as mln
inter to Persli.
Woman Wins Fight
To Save Old Oak
Tree In Highway
Ella Kinney, of Brooks, for the
rest of her life, may llo In her bed
room at night and watch the moon
come up through the branches ot
the old oak tree In the middle ot
the road in front of her home.
The woodmen. In the guise of
County Judge Hunt and County
Commissioner Smith, have made
up their minds to spare the tree.
When the road Is Improved It will
be so graded as to avoid the
ancient oak and still leave room
for Miss Finney to plant a little
flower bed around Its base, as she
wishes to do. .
Miss Tlnney's fight for the
guardian oak which seemed a
losing one for a while has been
turned Into victory. -
Yesterday afternoon Judge and
Mrs. Hunt, with two girl friends
ot the family, took a drive Into
the country to look at the oak.
Kills Four Children
With Axe, Hacks
Self But Will Live
Hntisna Cily, Mo., War. 14
Maurh-o L. Gibson, of
Pmtlier 11111. Mo., near North
Kaunas City, killed bis four
children with au axe early
Uxlny while Ills wife wan In
Another iart of the house
ami then hacked himself with
titc axe, and later slushed his
wrists. lie Is exnceUHl to
live. No rrnson lias heen ax
slgncd for the quadruple
killing.
E
Washington, Mar. 1 4 While
awaiting more complete and au
thentic advices concerning the dis
armament situation abroad, Presi
dent Coolidge believes recent de
velopments thcro as already Indi
cated have opened the way to a
more definite approach to the pro
ject of another arms limitation con
ference to be entered by the Unit
ed States.
As soon as more definite advices
are In hund as to the effect of re
cent developments In Geneva con
cerning the league of nations dis
armament and security protocol.
t he president purposes to give
close attention to the matter in
conference with Secretary Kellogg.
Any atep approaching a formal
presentation of the conference idea
to the nations Interested, however,
will await a survey of the situa
tion on the basis of more authen
tic advices to bo received through
official channels.
Am there has been no actual ftp
proach to any of the powers on the
subject and the conferences plan
ned by the president with his sec
retary of stat will, In fact, be the
initial move in getting the many
preliminaries attending the pro
ject under wny.
While it wili be for thee dis
cussions to determlno the plnn of
nroccduro Mr. Coolidge nt this
timo. favors a simultaneous ap
proach the various powers.
STOLE THE TIRES
OFF AUTOMOBILE
Romeo Gouley, who lives on the
Pacific highway a mile north of
Brooks, reported to the sheriff's
office that shortly after 1 o'clock
this morning, thieves broke Into
his garage by pulling the hasp on
the. lock and stripped his Hudson
car.
They took a rear wheel, equip
ped with a Kelly-Springfield tire,
a nearly new Revere tire from the
front wheel, an a. & M. spotlight,
a large Hudson jack, a wheel pull
er, a green checkered robe of In
dian design, and a motometer. The
motomet?r wouldn't work. The
rear wheel is marked as It is heav
ily scored around the inside on the
spokes, the scoring being filled
with putty.
Gouley states he knows that the
robbery happened about 1 o'clock
:w a ncignbor, kept up with a 8ck
haby, heard the car at about that
time. After It started from neat
the garage, the neighbor stated,
the ear wont south at great speed.
As they sat In the car viewing the
tree a alight figure stepped up
from the roadside. It looked up
appealingly Into the eyes of Judge
Hunt.
"You're not going to cut down
my tree, are you Judge?" queried
the figure. It was Miss Finney.
The Judge didn't say much, but
this morning he was mapping out
on paper with Commissioner
Smith Just how he had It achemed
out that the tree could be saved.
Just how much Mrs. Hunt fig
ured In the final decision has not
been told. But It Is a safe guess
the judge was told a few things on
the ride borne.
Anyway the tree Is to be saved.
For 60 years, says Miss Finney, It
has been her one unfailing friend.
And the wind will atlll whisper to
Its branches when ber funeral
passes out from her gate and un
derneath the spreading limbs.
i i
SENATE ROW WARREN TO
BREAKS OVER:
MEN CASE
Bedlam Breaks . Lose
When Kentuckian Calls
A Senator Malicious
And Wicked Liar.
Washington, March 14. The
row over Senator Couzens' charges
against the treasury department
threw the senate into bedlam to
day and before order had been re
stored personal motives had been
impunged; Bizzling allegations of
misconduct bad been hurled across
the chamber and finally one sena
tor had sought to apply to another
the epithet of "wnrul, malicious,
wicked liar."
It was Senator Ernst of Ken
tucky who brought the battle of
words to its climax by inquiring
whethe- he could call another sen
ator a "liar" under the senate
rules, but in the confusion that
followed he never had an oppor
tunity to explain to whom he- re
t erred.
The Kentucky senator had open.
ed the argument with an attack
on Senator Couzens who, he said,
had been prompted by "personal
animus" against Secretary Mellon.
Senator Couzens replied with a
reference that Senator Ernst In
terpreted as an accusation that he
had helped pilfer certain Import
ant records of. the committee.
Then Senator Glass of Virginia, a
former democratic secretary of the
treasury, assailed both Senator
Ernst and Secretary Mellon in a
speech loaded with biting jibes at
the republicans.
Just as Senator Glass conelud-
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WITH RIFLES IN
GOTHAM JAILED
New York, March 14. Bomb
squad agents last night arrested
three niea whom they found with
rifles at the Ukraine society head
quarters. Later the agents seized
50 rifles and 25 sabres at head
quarters of the communist or
workers party headquarters.
The men arrested in the Ukraine
society raid were Sol Zalon, Henry
WinograpU and Auron Efmen.
They wera under command ot Abe
Burman. who police said was a
former soldier.
In night court the prisoners
said their drill was merely a re
I1 ear sal for a scene at Madison
Square Garden today when com
munists will celebrate the annl
versary of the Paris commune in
1872.
Winograph and his aids were
charged with violation of an ordi
nance which prohibits citizens
carrying or possessing weapons.
"There'j a lot more to this than
appears on the surface." was all
that Captain James Geegan of the
bomb squad would say about the
raid. The magistrate held three
of the prisoners In $10,000 bail
each.
Durman, who authorities learn
ed. Is a naturalized citizen, was
not I.eld.
REPORTED DEATH OF
CONDIT "EXAGGERATED"
President John H. McNary, of
the bar association, this morning
issued a notice to all of the law
yers of the association to assemble
at the court room in the court
house to make arrangements foi
the funeral of A. O. Condit, local
uttorncy, who has been seriously
ill.
Lawyers while struck with sur
prise made arrangements to at
r.nd the meeting when they dis
covered It had been called off.
Mr Condit was not dead.
"Like the report of the death
of Mark Twain, ' said one Iocs
iittorney today, "the reports seem
to have been grossly exaggerated.
Lean-no Council Adjourns
Geneva, Mar. 14 (By Associat
ed Press) The council of the lea
gue of nations completed its March
session in.l adjourned late today.
It next meeting wilt be held In
June.
GET RECESS
APPOINTMENT
Coolidge Insists Upon
Choice For Attorney
General Defies Senate
Which Delays Vote.
Washington, March 14. An
nouncement was made today at
he White House that President
Coolidge will offer Charles B.
Warren of Michigan a recess ap
pointment as attorney general If
Lis nomination of the post la not
confirmed by the senate.
The following statement was is
sued by Secretary Sanders on be
half of the president:
' lot withstanding various re
ports and rumors the president is
making every possible effort to se
cure the confirmation of Mr. War
ren. As the tife is very short
and to accommodate the senate be
has consulted certain men and cer-
tuln senators as to what course
hl'vuld be pursued In case Mr.
Warren is not confirmed.
'He has decided on no other ap
pointment. He will offer him a
recess appointment. He hopes,
however, that the unbroken prac
tice of three generations of per
mitting the president to choose his
own cabinet will not now be
changed and that the opposition
to Mr. Warren upon further con
nldorntion will be withdrawn In
order that the country will have
the benefit of his excellent quali
ties and the president may be un
hampered in choosing his own
method of executing the laws."
Washington, Mar. 14 Convtnc
ed that a secrnnd rejection of the
nomination of Charles C. Warren
to e attorney general is inevitable,
administration leaders In the son-
ate today asked for time and gave
some indications of resigning their
last hope of victory.
Some of them believed that
President Coolidge himself had be
come convinced Mr. Warren never
could be confirmed and was cast
ing nbout for another to nominate
In his place.
The White House, Itself, how
ever, gave nu sign that the fight
had been abandoned, official there
indicating on the contrary that
the president remained determined
to wase a war to the finish with
his opponents in the senate.
POLICE SEEK
E
LOST ON TRAIN
Minneapolis, Minn., March 14
Police of three cities today
sought a 21-year-old Minneapolis
woman who ten days ago helped
her husband into a berth aboard a
Pullman en route to Chicago, kiss
ed him good night and said:
"I'll be back in just a minute,
and disappeared, leaving no trace
of her whereabouts.
From Chicago by way of Kau
Claire, Wis., H. B. Cunningham
came here to ask police to help
trace the woman, Mrs. Harry
Fleck, whose husband. Is seriously
1:1 in Chicago.
Eau Claire police found tha
the womm dropped from the Chi
cago train there March 7, at 2
m. but were tinablet o determine
where she went after that.
train passed through Kau Claire
at 8 a. m. bound for Minneapolis
and police sought to question Its
crew for possible clues.
Fleck, 22 years old, had just
taken a position In Chicago and
was on his way to begin work
when Mrs. Fleck disappeared. Lit-
fie could be learned of the Fleck
here today. Inquiries failed to re-
va ltd their former residence and
Cunningham could not be located
Mrs. Fleck's parents are Mr. and
Mrw. J. Ueed of Missoula. Mont.
AIKEN ELECTED AS
PRESIDENT OF EDITORS
Eugene, Or.. Mar. 14. George
K. Aiken, publisher ot the Ontario
Argue, was elected president of
the Oregon Newspaper conference
at tha meeting here today, Oeorge
8. Turnbull. of the faculty of the
University of Oregon achool of
Journalism, was re-elected secrS'
tary.
DEATH
AROUSES SUSPICION
Noted Football Critic
Found Dead In Bed
From Hearts Disease
.Wa-lfei? C atrip..
New York, Walter Camp, noted
football coach and critic, died to
day. He died of heart failure In the
lotel Belmont.
Mr. Camp nttended a meeting
of the football roles commlttre
Inst night, leaving nbout midnight
and returning to his room nt the
hotel Belmont. He apparently wn
In good health when he retired.
hotel attaches said.
When the rulea committee ns-
Heniblod this morning in the ho
tel Pennsylvania the members de
layed opening their meeting pond-'
ing Camp's arrival. W hen some
time had elapsed and he had not
appeared. Bill Roper, Princeton
coach, was delegated by the com
mittee to look for Camp at the
Belmont Koper went to the fam
ous coach's room and getting no
response had the door opened.
Camp was lying dead on his ned.
Arrangements for the funeral
probably will b made later to
day after thi arrival ot Mrs. Camp
who was in Atlantic City this
morning.
Members of the rules commit
ire shocked by the news, adjourn
ed their meeting immediately. K
K. Hall, the committee chairman
said that Camp had appeared in
the best of health and in excellent
spirit at last night's at-sslon.
whlrh adjourned about midnight
Mr. Hall said that Camp's fail
ure to appear this morning caused
him sopie worry and that at about
10.30 o'clock he delegated one
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Merlin, March 13. Princes:
Hermoine, wif i of former Emperor
William, is in a Berlin sanitarium
under treatment for rheumat ism
Drainage District to
Await For New Law
Before
Decision on tho matter of the
drainage district In southeast Sa
lem' will await the conclusion of
the 10 day period for the new law
to go Into effect which attempts
to validate the governor's signa
ture on the petition as representa
tive of tho board ot control.
While the court has made no
announcement to this effect, the
fnct ha b-ien learned from a re
liable source.
It la stated that the very Intro
duction of the bill In the legisla
ture providing fnr such validation
was a tarft admission on the part
of proponents of the district that
there was a whr-lennme doubt as
to Its validity as It orlglnully ap
peared on the petition. This being
OF RANCHER
Fred Swartz Killed by
His Ranch Involved In Neighborhood Feud
and Implicated In Keunzli Murder Case
Had Neighbor Arrested
His body badly mantrled and
12 miles south of Salem, was
explosion on his ranch early this morning.
As a result of the killing all facts surrounding a long
standing feud in the community nrnhahlv will hp niroH t
coroner's inquest which District Attorney Carson stated to
day would be set in motion in the near future.
The death of Swartz, while on the face of it was purely
accidental, gives rise to conjectures which make a careful
investigation of all possible circumstances surrounding it
imperative.
NEW ORDER OF
KU KLUX KLAN
Improved Order of Klansmen
filed articles ot Incorporation to
day wtih the state corporation de
partment. The Incoroprators are
Harold Mulbar, Jack Mantor, C. C.
Karris, UiMur lVar, H. H. Petty
grove and Hoy S. Glenn. Head
quarters will be In Portland. Jack
Mantor was formerly deputy war
den of the etato penitentiary. Ab-
ets are said to be less than f 100.
The organization proposes "to
associate white mule Protestants
together in educational, religious
ui'd charitable objects for mutual
benefit and the public good."
Other articles filed today were:
Modoc Pine company, Portland;
incorporators, L. II. Menefee, V.
I't'Ueach, P. L. Menefee; capital,
$100,000.
Roseway Community club, Port
land; Incorporators, Bradley Sizer.
W. 1. Cameron, J. A. Vaillancourt.
Linoln Realty company, Port
land! incorporators, George C. Ul-
rlch, Frank C. Watkins, M. Pallay,
Harold A. Wormser; capital
?5000.
Under the blue sky act the fol
lowing permits were issued:
Interstate Securities company,
Portland; to sell stock In the sum
f $20,000 and 200 shares ot non
rar value stock.
Articles of incorporation wen
filed today wtfh the state corpora
tlon department by the Bush Col
lege Community club of Polk
'ounty, Just across the river from
Salem. The Incorporators are Al
H. Stelner, U. J. Lehman, V. C
Kwing, John Schlndler nnd Kmnin
McCarter.
CONFIDENCE VOTED IN
PREMIER MUSSOLINI
Rome, M:ir. 14 ( Hy Associated
I'ri'SH) Tho chamber of deputies
Kave tlio Kovernnient of Premier
Miuwollnl two votes of confidence
today. Supporting tho Rovern-
ment's Internal policy the chamber
voted 21T, to 12. while the sectmd
voto on the colonial policy was 21
to U,.
Validation
the case tho court figures that to
approve the district plans now
would mer-rly be Inviting litigation
which would vlttunlly own re
nullification of such action.
It la not to be taken that the
court will finally approve the dis
trlrt, even with the law becoming
effective, although K Is known the-
court would like to sanction the
prayer ot the petitioners it It
could be done legally and in such
a manner as not to harm parties
not benefitted to any great extent.
Even with the law effective th
query remains as to whther the
legislature hns the power to vail
date the signature ot the governor
In such fa."hln.
Whatever happens It seema Ilk
ly that litigation will follow.
Premature Blast On
torn. Frpri Swart Aft rnn'Tio
killed bv a Dremature rlvnnmita
His death will automatically re. .
mlt In quashing criminal proceed-
1UK8 againot Ueorge Slaughter, it
neighbor, charged by Swartz, as
mute prosecutor and by an In
ictment by the grand jury, with
ntlmaciea with the wife ot
Swartz.
It ateo brings prominently again
nto the public mind the (act that
Swartz himself had been changed
uy private investigators before ths
county court and in a letter to ths
governor with being respousilila
tor the death of his brother-in-law
uifih Keunzli. Keunzli was found
dead in his barn, a little over a
yiar ago, with a bullet wound in
he top of his head, in a nlaca
which made ntilcide seemingly
highly Improbable.
Although Swartz had charged
n criminal proceedings that his
wife hud been unduly Intimate
vlth Slaughter, nevertheless the
couple had been living together
:igain After an alleged separation.
incidentally District Attorney
Larson stated today that an exain-
llatlon would be made at once ot
fuses which Swartz used in his
lynumitiug work to look into the
notkiihility of a defective fuse hav-
ng beju substituted for a good
one.
Accj ding to the story of
Swartz' wife, Swartz prepared
some fuses last night for his
dynamiting operations. He asked
his wife this morning to milk the
cows as ho wanted to get at his
blasting early before traffic be-
uue too heavy on the highway.
Tho blasting work Swartz was
currying on was near the highway
niong tue lence. as a result he
lad prepared his fuses especially.
placing them on sticks about (our
feet long, prepared with a cap and
using fuses not over (ive inches
leng. He bored a hole under tha
stump which be wished to blast.
Set off th-. fuse and shoved it in
the hole, running (or cover.
The reason for the short fuse
wus to protect trnrflc along the
highway. Ho would wait until
the road was clear in each direc
tion and touch off the fuse. This,
he figured gave him time to reach
safety, but would cause an explo
sion before an automobile had a
nance to run into danger.
Fuse Defective.
Apparently one of the fuses was
defective, or he was unable to
.lump In time, as the dynamite
blast hit him squarely In the stom
ach, tearing the lower part of his
trunk to shreds, and badly man-
ling his right hip. Pierce of his
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KILE HI
A protect mane by the high
s' honl of Crabtree, Linn county,
;:gnlnit the Ames-Davis Memorial
l'ih school of AiimHvllIe, charging
the Anmsville school with us inn
two ineligible players in h:kPt
liall gaiue.4 played with the Gates
high school on February 27 were
sustained by the iHanl of control
uf the state high school athletic
association here today. It wa al
leged that one ineligible player
was iifit'1 on the boys' team and
another on the glrl team of the
Aiimsvllle team. Irregularity in
attendance and fallur to maintain
passing grades were the bus's of
the charge.
The board or control which
Neard the witnesses in the ca
were O. A, Hruune, superintend
ent of the Ashland r hunts presi
dent of the board; J. O. McLaugh
lin, super intendent of the Corral
I srhonls. secretary, and Austfi
landreth, prinrlrnt of Pendletnr
high achool, tice-presldent