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Newspaper Page TextWARREN ARPOINTMEftsr IS AGAIN REJECTED 'fa v,co pr CITY EDITION Dally average net paid circulation for month end Kshruary 21, 1824 6811 Average daily distribution 7261. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 64 rvi UUL EFF0RISI)t BY ODOUDGE Senate Again Refuses To Ratify Selection of President For Attorney General; Vote 46-39. Washington, March 16. The senate today rejteted for a second time the nomination of Charles 13. Warren to be attorney general. The vote was 4li to 39 as com pared with the tie vote, 40 to 40, t'U which the nomination was first rejected last Tuesday. Every one of the 39 senators voting I'jr confirmation were re publicans. The opposition was a combination of democrat and re publican insurgents. President Cool id ge has an nounced be will offer Mr, Warren a recet-s appointment but the nom inee has not indicated whether he- will accept. Senate Roll Call The roll cull follows: For confirmation: Republicans Bingham. Butler, Cameron, Copper, Cummins, Cur tis. Dale, Denecn, DuPont, Ernst, 'Fcrnald, Fcss, Gillett, (loff, Good inK. Hale, Harreld. Jones of Wash ington, Keyes, Lenrott, McKiuley, McLean, McNary, Means, Mctcall. Moses, Oddie, Pepper, Pine, Sack ett, Schall, Shortridge, Smoot, Spencer, Stan field, Wadswurth. Watson. Weller and Willis 39. Again confirmation: Republicans Borah, Brookhart, Couzens. Frazler, Howell, John em, Ladd, LaFollette, Norbeck and Norris 10. Democrats Ashurst, Bayard, Mcas?, Uratton. Broussard, Bruce, Caraway, Copeland, Dill, Edwards Ferris, Fletcher, George, (Jerry, Class. Harris, Harrison. Heflin, Kendrick, King, McKellnr, May field, Ncely, Ralston, Kandsell Reed of Missouri. Robinson, Shen- (Continued on Paso Four) Ml Ml I ILUSI nua FLAY IN CHIOAG Local hlvh school basketball authorities received a telegraphic conuminicatinn from Chicago this morning. Inviting the Sulcm team to that city to participate in the nntlr.nal tournament to be hop! there from March 31 to April 4. The invitation came by virtue of the Salem team's win over Frank lin In the finals of the Mate tourna ment held in the Willamette gym nasium last week. It was Indicated in the message that in case Salem did not see fit to accept, Frank 'In h.uh would be 'r.vitcl. h:ph school authorities are doubtful over the possibility of nendinir the team on the trip. The cot nf sndtng the Med ford team to Chicago a year nso is said to have been J2fOo. The cost of send ing a team from Salem would be practfcnliy the same, and nobody can see lust where $2500 Is to be had for the purpore. In Medford the money was put up by business men of the city. ST. PAUL STOCKS AT LOWEST EBB New York. Mar. 16 Report that the St. Paul railways financial difficulties were approaching a crisis which would, result in an onrly ree?ierhtn or reorganiza tion caused heavy aell'ng on the road's securities today, carrying the stock ix.-ues and several of the bond to record low level. Liquidation n' the stock de prived th common to 71 and the pryfe re,! ta 13 14 . ci.erklng an ea-ly u "A aril movi-Mnt in the rp"-i of ths nrirKt. The selling n1o surm.t to thet P.i il hni. driving the four of 1 9 2 T down to th' lr previous re. -or I low of .13 nnd h In-.-ing -ecwVons o? a t o'nt or s UNAVAILING BANKACCQUNT In tnanr nf the o:t fic'i-jtr 5TAIE DENIED USE OF FALL'S Court Bars Records For mer Secretary's Depos its As Evidence In Oil Lease Annulment Suit. Cheyenne, Wyo., Mar. 16. (By Associated Press) Evidence In tended to reveal the secrets of the bank accounts of Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior was barred from the record of the Teapot Dome lease annulment suit here today. The ruling barring the evi dence, handed dowu by Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy, depriv es -the government of its only known means of attempting to prove an exchange of liberty bonda between Fail and Harry F. Sinclair, whose Mammoth Oil company was given U14 lease on the big Wyoming oil reserve. State's Case Upset Judge Kennedy in his decision referred to the matter in ques tion as involving something of unusual importance to the cane but as the matter stands, it is manifestly Incompetent and will be barred until such time as It is shown to be competent. Judge Kennedys ruling left the government's case up in the air so completely that a recess of ten minutes was allowed. After recess Attorney Roberts of government counsel announced that he would reverse the proced ure previously followed in an at tempt to show the alleged passage of bonds between Sinclair and Fall by tracing the bonds from Sinclair to Fall Instead of from the former secretary, to the head of the Mammoth Oil company. The court had warned Roberts that he was approaching the mat ter from the "back door." In a lengthy prelude to his de cision the federal judge quoted from rulings on (similar procedure made by the eighth, second and fourth federal circuit courts of apl peals, laying particular stress on precedent upheld by the eighth circuit under which jurisdiction the Cheyenne court falls. ROBINSON LOSES SUIT F0RS125.0C London, Mar. 16. CharUs K. Robimson, the former bookmaker who sued the Midland bank for $125,000 on account of an alleged settlement with Rjah Sir Hari Singh, has lost the appeal he took from the 'judgment of the court finding in favor of the bank. Robinson's effort to upset the judgment was today dismis sed in the court of appeals. The Robinfon appeal was an other of the many echoes of the sensational trial last year which Involved an alleged blackmailing plot acainst the Indian potentate, (With Mrs. Robinson, wife of the bookmaker, playing a prominent part in the testimony. William Cooper Hobbs. the solicitor's clerk, tried on the charge of ac cepting checks for 150,000 pounds sterling In connection with the aliened blackmailing plot was found guilty lat week on conwpi racy to defraud and sentenced to two years at hard labor. Although the Rohinron suit was decided In favor of the bank, the Robinsons were found not to have a part in the blafi;rrn!ling conspiracy. GERMANY OPPOSES" JOINING NATION'S LEAGUE ated Press) A Ilavas agmcy dis patch from Geneva this afternoon ays: 'The Havas correspondent Is In a portion to state that the Ger. man representatives on the Sarre and Danxlg questions, who are at tending the council session here imde It known to Germany that U would be to Germany's interest dfrr loncer her entrance Into !e'-!Tue of nations.'' Head - In Parking Plan to Go Before Council Tonight Two parking ordinances will j be Introduced at the city council meeting tonight, according to City Attorney Chris KoVitz, one providing for two hour parking, instead of the present one hour law, and the other providing for1 "head lnM parking as well as a1 two hour limit. Considerable sentiment has been worked up in the city, it is understood, in favor of the head in parking, and It 1b said this will be highly acceptable to the city police department. One ar gument made in favor of that method is that it would make pos sible the parking of many more care to the block for the reason that by the backing in method many drivers take up much more TODAY LAST FOR FILING INCOME TAX STATEMENTS Washington, Mar. 16. The In come tax penalty clause falls at the stroke of midnight today on the heads of all who have not by then filed due returns for 1924. The calendar has done its part this year, however, in providing against operation of the clauee by supplying an extra day's grace for filing returns, since March 15, the final day fixed by law, fell on Sunday. Treasury officials, meanwhile, were speeding preparations today to undertake an immediate analy sis, on the basis of the returns, of the results ot the new revenue law with its reduced tax rates. They hoped to have the compila tions ready by the end ot this week. With a sharp reduction In the total of taxes due from the ma jority of the tax payers made cer tain by the new two per cent rate on small incomes and the one quarter reduction in net taxes al lowed on earned incomes of $10, 000 and below, treasury officials were uncertain in their specula tions an to how far this might be offset by increased returns from the higher brackets. Cheer for the dark hours of reckoning today fs held out in n statement by Chairman Green ot the house ways and means com mittee, in which he sees a "fav orable outlook" for a reduction of $300,000,000 in the nation's tax es for the fiscal year of 1926. PRGBE Washington, March 16. Con gross cannot collect by access to books and papers through a fed eral investigating bc;dy all the in formation it desire for considera tion in th- formulation of a legis lative policy, tht supreme coun r.eld today. The court sustained a decision of the lower court In three cas-s from Maryland, brought by tht government against Hammond Snyder & company, the Baltimore Grain company and H. C. Jonefi onipany. VOLSTEAD LAW CASES IS STATE COURT SCOPE Washington, March 16. Per sons charged with violating the ol:.tead act can be tried in state 'xurt, the supreme court declared tody in BUlMtanee, dismissing for want or jurisdiction a case brought from Ihtmholt county, California, by A. H. Rambini and iradorc Maffia. Driver Die at Wheel. San Francisco. Cal., March 16. A bus driver died at the wheel of I Is machine after he sen.cd on ap proaching attaek of heart trouble, drove his cor off the highway near 1.0s Angeles i.nd brought It to a top before the spark of life left Mm. The dead driver was George D. Bower. SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1925 space than Is necessary In pink ing their cars. Collisions In back ing away from the curb it i be lieved, can be very easily avoid cd, and at the outset it is doubt ful if any more collision's would occur than under the present sys tem. The head in system is used In a number of cities in the state and reports received from theaa places indicate that It is entire! satis factory. The unusual width of Sa lem streets will be an argument in favor of the system here. Both ordinances will bo Intro duced for first reading and the council can take its choice of the two. It is not likely that either wil) go to third reading and final passage tonight under cuupension of the rules. Chicago, March 16. (By Asso ciated Press.) C. C. Falman, head of a school of science, under .severe interrogation today broke down and admitted that William D. Shepherd, held in custody in connection with the death of Will iam McClintock, Shepherd's rich foster-son, had promised him $20.-! 000 to "keep his mouth shut." 1 Fairman previously had told that Shepherd had taken a course in bacteriology at his school, the National University ot Sciences, and after the brief course of a few 'Jays, three test tubes, at least one containing typhoid baccilll, had disappeared. He said Shepherd had written him. Young Mc Clintock died of twphokl fever. The announcement came from Assistant State's Attorney Joseph Savage, while the grand jury was ilea ring witnesses, Mr. Savage a i il r a i m a 11 s admission wis heard by two detectives and him self. km Portland, Mar. - 16 - Cuniad P. Olscn, widely known attorney, w.ns arrested In a raid on 270 I'ark street Paturd.'iy night, along with another man and a woman. Ho cave the name of "John C. Wil.son," 41. s.ilisman, and posted $100 i.n;i. "I was fit the hHise on legal lnt.sincfw," Olson tid a reporter to d.iy. . "I had not been drinking and I was, not nerved with any thing to drink there. "I had Ror.e to the house be cause I h.itl bt'i-n told that I could find a wit tiers I have been looking for. I did get information con cernln:; Ma w hereabouts and ex pect to locate him this week." flffton said he expected to appear 'n municipal court, where the case is expected to come up late thla afternoon and explain his position. Olson Is i fomirr t:ite supreme Judse, ex-state senator ami the man who codified the Oregon law He was prrsfilpnt of the now de funct State liank of Portland. A wire was received early thl afternoon from Piedmont high school a. Oakland. ( alif irnia, ac cepting the invitation mender? by tiny llathhun, athletic director at WillaniPtle university, to play i.i Salem in an interstate tourna ment to be held In Salem some- t m next werk. With the acoept rnce of the California school the probability looms that only rnr team will be entered from each state. Thme will be: Salem, Ore gon; Yakima, WMngton; PJpd mont. California; Moscow or Ru pert, Idaho. SAKS SHEPHERD OFFERED $20,000 FOR HIS SILENCE WLACCEPIS COURT HEARS SCHOOL BILL ARGUMENTS Suit In Defense of Oregon Compulsory School Law Heard By Federal Sup reme Court Today. "Washington, Mar. 16 The com pulsory education law of Oregon, requiring that after September of next year all children between the agta of 8 and 16 years, with a few cvyeiUlons, shall attend public schools, was reached In the su preme court today for oral argu ment In, two cases brought by the t?fnT6 to have set aside tho injunc tion of the fed e nil district court against its enforcement. Although it v-as thought the etys might not bring a sweeping 'Tfi.nlon from the court on tho con stitutional right of states to con trol the education of children with In their borders, the controversy has attracted wide attention in cducation.il and religious circles. The array of counsel brought into court Include former Senator (Continued on Page Six) An importing atsemblage of the 1 oya who like to violate the prohi bition law will take place in po lice court at 2 o'clock this after noon If the schedule works out 36 hooked at the police station. s Harold Meeke, route 4, Salem, was nrreyled by Officer Hickman, Saturday night, on State street tor driving his car while iutoxi ct.td and was released Sunday on ?50 bail. Ivan Meeka nnd Thomas I,. Davidson also were arrested by Hickman on btate street, Satur day night for being drunk and M celts was released Sunday on $10 oail. C. A. Myers of Jefferson fur nished most of the entertainment tor the officers. He is said to havf objected to accompanying Officer Hickman to tlte station when ar rested Saturday night on High stret. He resisted being "frisked" at headquarters and it was nece .it.ry to "hog tie, him, to use the ;anguoge of one of the officer; nnd carry him into the hoosgow He tfcas released Sunday when li mit up $0 bull. H. Lavenko, accused of driving I. is rar while intoxicated, drov liis automobile over the cttrh into Wilson park while coming off Winter street from the south, nnd va arretted by Officer Kdwards John Man kin was arrested by r.d wants at State and Winter for be in? drunk. On Sunday, Halph Taylor of Mi0 Jefferson street, was arrest "d by otiicer cutler for poser-sion -f liClUOr. CALL TO EXPLAIN Cleveland, Ohio. March 16. Rabbi Sclomnn Goldman, spiritual director of the Jewish ( enter con j egatfon, indicated last night trat he will ignore a summons to appear Tuesday before a commit tee of the union orthodox rabbis of America to answer charges of "in .r.ig:iruting changes and modlfica t'.onn in ritual and custom and with preaching liberal views." Die complaint arises from .mnll group of his congregation objecting principally to the sea ing of men and women In the same pew. Jtnhbi Coldman asserted that he recognized the union of orthodox rablil. If Rabbi floMmftn does not an wer the summons the only rem rdy will be the courts. A. A. Katx Nader of the movenvnt to hnve P.ahbl Goldman appear before th committee, declared. Big Contracts For Airplanes Are Awarded Washington, Mar. 16. Con- tracts totalling more than II.- 000,000 for new type, of aircraft developed hy the Curtlaa company of New York and the DoiiKlaw company of California, were awarded today by the army air eervlce. The machines are new observa tion types which have been ap proved by the army air service as replacements for tne war ouni "DH'" type. An award of $70, 000 was given the Curtiss com pany for development of the new machine and the Douulase com pany received an award of $60,- j for a similar work on its production. Awards were made on the basis of tests at McCook field, Dayton, Ohio. Ten machines were ordered from the Curtiss company at an estimated cost of (250.000 and 75 at an estimated cost of J8S3, 000 from the Douglass company. Minneapolis, March 19. A re port by the district office here of the United States Veterans Bureau declaring that Arthur Frazler, mystery man of the world war. Is dead, was on the way to the veterans' bureau headquarters at Washington today. His brother. Earl Frazler of Lookout, S. D., was at Rochester, Minn., checking up delaile of the case in the Interest of his parents, who contend that a man known ns Arthur Lopez Is Arthur Frnzior. although Lopez has confessed to department of Justice officials that he is not Frazler and then repudiated the confession. More than a score of former members of D company, the old national guard unit of Rochester, of which Arthur was a member. met at Rochester yesterday and Lopez talked about days spent over there" with most of his former "buddies who said after the meeting they were convinced that Lopez is Frazler. Lopez related incidents that oc cut rod in various camps and bat tle zones in France and recalled names of persons with whom he was associated. He also identified photographs of camp scenes and former comrades nnd told of num erous happenings In connection with each to the astonishment of some of those present who had doubled that lie was Frazier. Michael Padrfcn Dead Havana, Cuba, Mai rli Hi. Mi ( hue! C. Pa rid en, widely known New York, who is said to hav been an Intimate friend of Tim Sullivan of New York and John L Snli van, the pugilist, died yester day in a hospital here. Silverton Bad Check Artist Took Bank at Its Word, Letter Shows "You will f'nd everyone of us Inking a genuine personal interest in helping you get more out of your account than you put into it whenever you give us the oppor tunity." This fs an excerpt from a letter f( nnd in the pocket of Eddie Run ning, criminal with a pedigree, brought ha k from Olympla, Sat itrduy night by Deputy Sheriff llurkha t, and held In jail here to explain about 92uu worth of tvor(hls checks he Is alleged to 'iavn p.TSfcd In Silverton. The letter in question was writ ten to Running after he had open id an account In a Silverton bank and wai writtrn by the bank. Uunntng apparently took the hnntv at Its word, and got about more out of his accouut than he put int it, if all reports as to his Silverfm activities are true. That Running had set out In life to be a master criminal Is In dicated by the following record: Received at Monroe reforma tory, Washington, in 1914, on a fent'nee nf from 1 to 5 year3. ( barge grand larceny. PRICE THREE CENTS $?AZ&lNht2 $8$ DENNISTOUN ACCIDENTAL CLAIMSWIFE DEATH LOOMS UNFAITHFUL AS VERDICT Defendant Takes Stand In Society Scandal Case Asserting Wife Con fessed To Misconduct. London, March 1G. The crowd of fushiuuuble folk und people in urdiuury life who daily crowd the court room to watch the progress of tho Uemiistuun triul had an other big moment today when Lieutenant Colonel Ian Ownslow Oennlstuuu took the stand in hi own defense ugulnsl the allega tions of his former wife that he encouraged her intimacy with Sir John Cowans, late quartermutter general ot the liritish army, to further his own military ambi tions. Colonel Denuistoun's testimony has bet'ii eagerly awaited, as here tofore the defense had not intro duced any direct evidence giving1 his side ol the Cowan's affair. before the defendant was call ed, Hannah Parker, his former wife's maid, testified that Mrs. Dcunistoun told her the night be fore the marriage of her ex husband to the Dowager Countess ot Carnarvon : "1 am glad they are going to Its married tomorrow. Now 1 can put the screw on." The maid added that her mis tress, wuo always had confided in her voluntarily und without pry ing on her part, had spent hours sorting Colonel Denuistoun's let ters, vvhu h she intended to use ('tiring tho trial. Mrs. Dennistoun told tho m aid she h a d bee n through "a terrible ordeal,' the maid declared. "She said it was n dreadful thing to use letters against anyone who had loved you," the maid tes tified. "She also told me that al i hough she had married Colonel Dennistoun, she had never loved Mm." The w i t n ess said her m i st ress had told her that Colonel Dennis tcun owed her lots of money and that she was forced to use the let ti-rs to get It back. TRAIN HITS AUTO; 2 DEAD Seattle. Wa.-d... March !. Two i.ersons v ere killed lust nip lit v. hen tho automobile in which they were riding was struck and demolish' d by a northbound Chi cago. Milwaukee & St. Paul pas senger train at Algona crossing. Hi mile.-f south of Seattle. The dead are: Finest Lappeu bust-h, a resident of HucUley employe of the lluekh-y Transfer company and driver of the auto mobile, nnd P. kealon. JO, a rest dent oT llarwood. i ThO bodies were found K.O feel from the scene of the accident.. Received at Washington peni tential - ot Walla W-"-. in 19Hi on a sen te tire of from 1 to 1 ;i years. Charge, grand larency. Served SO days In 1920 In i county jail, plae not known Ch trge larceny. Kcreiv.'d nt Walla Walla again in October, 1920, on a sentence of from 2 to 10 years on another lor ceny charge. He was paroled De cember I, 1922, from this rharee. and released from his parole De cember 18, 1924. He worked around Hebo for n time after coming to Oregon and went to Silverton, where be wot employed at the Benson pheasant form, At this time he opened an active account In the Silverton brink, and cashed quite a number of perfectly good checks there he- fore going on his rampage which broimht him back to jail here. From the experience Wash in i; ton has had with him. Deputy Sheriff Burkbart found no trouble In getting him back here. Extra dition pipers were issued with all expedition. RAIN FORECAST For the afternoon and tonight; Tuesday cloudy; moderate temperature, strong uulh. shifting to NV winds tonight. IJocal: Max., 57; win., 43; rain. .05: river, I S. stationary; atmos , part clouoy wlnd. south. Widow of Farmer Killed By Premature Dyna mite Explosion Weeps While Telling Story. A coroner's fnqulry Into the death by dynamite explosion of Fred Swartz, on the Swartz farm. Gouth of Salem last Saturday, was held today at the office of Coroner Rigrion, but had not been com pleted at 2:30 o'clock. From the tind of evidence up to that time it was the opinion of observers that the jury will bring in a ver dict of accidental death. Both Mrs. Swartz and their young son, Edwin, were among those on the stand and both testi fied that Swartz was in the habit of using a short fuse so that traf ric would not be held up on the highway waiting for the explo sions. E. B. Gabriel, a powder man, testified that the length of fuse used by Swartz as exhibited i:t the inquest would be unsafo. Karl Monson, truck driver for the Maricn Creamery company. first on the scene after Mrs. wartz at the time of Swartz' tii-ath, was heard this afternoon and told of the condition of the body. Deputy Sheriff Bert Smith w,ii also called tU'.ft afternoon. Edna L. Swartz, widow of the dead man. broke down on the wit ness slam! and wept several times during her questioning by District Attorney Carson. Her narrative, brought out largely by question ing from the district attorney, ran about as follows: That on Saturday morning she and her husband arose together about 6 o'clock. Though the morn ing was foggy and a wind blowing Swar'z told his wife that he in tended to blast some more stumps and she cotitd do the milking. They went to tho barn together, she to milk and he to pick up his blasting paraphernalia. He had blasted stumps about a week he fore, and also about a week before had arranged the caps and fuses. The dynamite used was govern, ment powder secured through the United Slates National bank, soma time in the early part of the win ter. She described how he pre pared the explosives and me ot fuses six or seven Inches long, lie bored a hole In the ground, she slated, poured water into it, lighted the fuse with a match while bidding the stick carrying the fuse in his hand. "I nm going down now" were liis last words to iter at the barn. She went on with the milking when she beard (he explosion. The explosion soundtd unusual to j (Continued on I'.ifcL' l-'lvet LOSE 13300 SOU Pnrtlaiul, M ir. IS F?df rat Judifo ul vert mi today banded down a default decree In favor of Durham and Pates, who lihelej the sfeaiuliont Relief for 13300 for raiMnjj the craft when It waa sunk by co nt Siilcm la'-l IH-reiiilv r, Durham and Hat alle.ud in their complaint th.it tho ovnciii pur posely allmvfd 'ho i raft to Kin!-. An eleventh hour action was tak en by the owners to delay Judg ment In the suit but tot was thrown out. Jtldgrw.ty. Johnson and Montgomery, attorney for the boat raisers?, auk -d a court decree fettlrg a date f ir sale of the steinier nt pu'df.- auction. $100,000 BOOZE ROBBERY REVEALED BY PROBE Frankfurt, Ky.. Mar. is A llq.;or robbery extending over pei lo'l of scleral months and in volving whkkey woiih apptoxl mntcly 1 100,000 nt bootleg ptlces. earns to light today. Sixteen men are understood ' hive ben In dicted by a fedt.-nl gran J Jury and nine are said to have been arretted.