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Newspaper Page TextMAR 21 1925 A k R Y CITY EDITION Dally average net paid circulation for month and February 21, 1925 FAIR TONIGHT Saturday cloudy; rfctn In extreme west portion, gentle variable winds, becoming fresh eoutherly Saturday, ma! 6811 Local: Max., 87; mln., 44; rain, .13; river, 1.3, rising, atmor., cloudy; wind, south. . . .. - - Average dally distribution 7261. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No 68 SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1925 DDII'P rrnoPP nPMTI! ON THA1NS AND NBWI I IVIVjU xuikuu wuniu STANDS F1VB CENTS (7 uvl mm -1 Hnrtfltjr mi nil FALL FEARED OPINION ON 001 LEASE Witness Says Secretary Kept Negotiations In Dark To Prevent Any Interference. Cheyenne, Wyo., March 20 (By Associated Press.) Fear that some government law clerk would render an adverse opinion of the legality of the Teapot Dome lease negotiations and block execution of his plans caused Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior, to withhold papers regarding the transactions from the office of the attorney, H. Foster Bain, head of the bureau of mines, said In his deposition read in the Teapot trial here today. Dr. n.iin denoted that Fall said "There are two types of lawyers one is the lawyer who tries to find a way to do thins, the other is the lay who tries to find objee tions. It is a matter of knowledge and experience that the govern ment was filled with the second type of lawyers." Dr. Bain further declared Fall aid that "the general amount of grief that conies to any man when he tries to do anything for the government was such that practi cally all the lawyers In the gov ernment service were hunting the most minute, fly sacked, techni cal objections to do anything." Dr. Bain further quoted Fall as saying tint "thcro was substan tially no chance that the attorney genor.il himself would render the opinion, but that in a sort of mill there tho Lord only knows who It would come before it would eventually become a law clerk aomo one not at all Interested In getting anything done, but who was simply interested only in writ Ing an opinion that anybody could even find fault with." Cheyenne, Wyo., March 20. (By Associated Press.) Hear Ad miral Julian L. Latimer, Judge ad vocate general of the navy, will arrive here today bearing a re sponse fram Secretary of the Navy Wilbur to a subpoena for records from the navy office, asked by the defense in the Teapot Dome lease annulment suit on trial here. Secrets of the national defense situation as it wan in 1921 are in Tolved in the move, according to Martin W. Littleton of defense (Continued on Page Nine) Murphysboro, 111., Mar. 20. (By Associated Press) Murphy boro's tornado death list rose to 165 today with 24 bodies re maining unidentified. Streets still were littered with the storm's de bris despite the efforts of hun dreds of men who labored to make them passable. It was reported that am put a tions on 35 persons were fount necessary here last night when an augmented relief expedition found time to get to men and wo men who had suffered, splintered - limbs which might have been saved with prompt attention be tame so badly infected that oper ations were necessary. Hundreds of men and women could be seen bent over like gleaners as they prowled through the debris of their homes which once had covered the now bare two square miles swept by the tornado. I HINDER REtlEF Grlffli, Ind., March 0. (By Associated Press.) Flood waters frnm tan Wabash river today threatened to add to the handicap of relief workers here as they dug into the mass of bricks, wood, plaster and furniture in search of I crsons unaccounted for from Wednesday's tornado. The river has reached the dan cer line. TRIP T ;Yed Edison Tho engagement of Miss Anna Marie Osterhout, daughter of Pro fessor and -Mrs. William J. Oster hout, of Harvard university, to Theodore Miller Edison, son of the famous inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, has been announced. The wedding will take place In April in the Appleton Chapel at Harvard Miss Osterhout Is a student at Vassar college, while young Edi son 1a a graduate of the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology. 20 PRISONERS IN UL a 1 1 f i With 20 prisoners now Iu the county jail additions are expected today and tomorrow which will well tho population still higher About 23 prisoners are considered a full house. Deputy Sheriff Burkhart is ex pected bad: from Bend tonight with Joe Policy, charged with pos session of a still. Polley has been looked for every since Deputies Bremmer and Smith hauled a still out of a house at Jefferson which had been rented by Polley, but va eated by him before the still wa located. In addition it is expected Wal ter Sinclair will be back here from Toledo, Ohio, In custody of a man from the state fire marshal's of fice, probably, tomorrow or next day. Sinclair is to be tried on a charge of burning insured proper ty. He was indicted over a year ago wi'.h his father-in-law, named Muson, for burning two trucks at i lumber camp near Fairfield. Ma son pleaded gi'.il.j and was parol ed, binciair was permitted to go to his notel over night and dis appeared. It is probable that Moses Hifffl alias Vlliam Johnson, may move out of the Jail in a day or two, Habeas oorpus proceedings begun by Hind, who Is wanted in Kansas on a charge of bigamy, have been held up for a few days pending arr.val of an officer from Kansas Hind was arrested on March 5. and Is now on his 15th day In jail awaitinr; arrival of an officer from Kansas. The Kansas sheriff wired last Sunday that an officer had started, and unless something unforeseen has overtaken him should have been here by now. At longest calculations he should get here some time today, officers figure. . Hind started habeas cor :?us proceedings based on the un warranted length of time he has been held In Jail awaiting the ar rival of the Kansas officer. Since the telegram last Sunday no word has been received here from that officer. It Is charged that Hind has a wife In Ft. Scott, Kansas, and an ',-th?8 'me here. BIG GRANDSTAND AT VANCOUVER BORNEO Vancouver, B. C, Mar. 20 The erandwtand of HnJtlnen Park, a horse race track, was destroyed here tod.'.y by fire. Tho 1ob was estimated at be tween J90.000 and 1100.000. . The structure was Injured for $.10,000. Plans will be made Immediately to rebuild the grandstand, racing officials announced. Police sain an auto was seer, driving from the grounds at a hlrh rata of speed at the time the blase was discovered. FUND $1362 RAISED TO SEND TEAM TO BIG MEET Merchants and Others Re spond Liberally To Call To Finance Basketball Tourney Jaunt. money spbschibed Capital Journal $ 25.00 Hawkins & Huberts 15.00 Price Shoe Co 5.00 Cherry city Bilking Co 15.00 Flrt-t National Bank 25.00 John Farrar 5.00 Cirny lie He 25.00 Marlon Creamery n 10.00 Blvhop Clothing Co. 25.00 P. M. Gregory 25.00 Frank Myers 25.O0 White House Itestiiurnnt 15.00 lloyal Cafeteria 10.00 0. K. Barber Shop. 15.00 Secretary or Mule's Wllcc 50.00 High School Orgnnlzn tions 250.G0 William Bell 5.00 V. S. National Hunk CO. 00 Central Pharmacy 5,00 Hank of Commerce...... 5.00 Paul B. W.illaec 25.00 Ind! niiil lluh ...... 50.00 1. It. Smith 10.00 Terminal Cnfe 25.00 Kiwanis Club Member, ilo.00 Klks Club ..... 40.2 G .Millers .. 25.00 Shipley's 15.00 Total $ 005.20 Dance Tickets Out 357.50 Tag Sale (olimiiK !).... 100.00 Grand Total ..$1362.70 The trip of the Salem hfeh school basketball team to Chicago ij cuter :ne i2& national higli school basketball tournament at that city, ar first believed by manv to be a mere dream, began to as sume the proportions of a defi nite reality today. Students anJ townspeople have rallied to the support cf the red and black in a manner to convince the most -keptioal that the team haR their hearty support, and if the drive continues hi accordance with f resent indications there Is no doubt but that the local team will enter tha Chicago meet. ' $900 Cash Fledged The official sum of money act ually on band now stands at i fraction over $900 without count ing some odds and ends that were gathered up today, or any of the money raised by the high school students through the sale of tickets for their dance next week, without counting the mon ey raised inside the service clubs. The Salem Lions club this noon took action similar to that taken by the Kiwanie club early in the week. A committee was appoint ed for the purpose of soliciting money rrom among the Lions. "I think it will be over by Sat urday night," was the statement made this noon by Harry Levy chairman of the Kiwanis com mittee, who made a ehort speech before the Lions this noon. "We might not get another opportuni ty like this for a long time to come, and we don't want to pass it up. The Iviwanis club mem bers had subscribed $110 up to noon and expect to raise a total of $350. Tags will he sold on the streets of the city tomorrow by high (Continued on Page Nine) 2 KILLED IN DUEL Sleelville Mo., March 20. Two oi five men who attempted to hold up the Farmers hank at Steelvlllr today were killed, two wounded and a fifth escaped when a citi zens' posse previously informed that a holdup was contemplated, engaged th robbers In a pistol duel. One citizen was wounded. Eliot 61 Yearn Old. Cambridge. Mass., March 20. Dr. Charles Eliot, president emeri tus of Harvard univerffty, observ ed his 91st birthday quietly today r.i his home here. Hundreds of telegrams were received from all parts of the country and the world conveying greetings. NEAR GOAL OF French Deputies Fight With Fists On Chamber Floor Paris. Mar. 20 (By Asso ciated Press) Free for oil fist f I Klits, such as probably had never before been seen In the chamber of deputies broke up- this afternoon's session. The disturbance arose af ter Premier Her riot. In de fending t lie government's policy In religious matters, lia.l said: "Wo accept and welcome Christianity lu Its pure forms but not the Christianity of bankers." FEE FOR DEFENSE OF An effort is underway by cer tain attorneys to establish a cus tom long in disuse in this county to secure a fee paid by the county for attorneys defending criminals under appointment of the court The plan Is now said to be under way growing out of an ap pointment recently made by Jus tice of the Peace Brazier Small of Donald W. Miles as attorney for George Hunt, alleged va grant. It is stated that as a test of the situation a claim will be pre sented to the county by Miles for services as Hunt's council in the sum of $50. In a number of counties iu the state such fees are paid. In Polk county it has been the practice in many cases to pay $50, the fee, however, always being fixed by the circuit judge and the county court. It Is understood in Lane county there has been a practice of paying a fee of $10 In such cases, and various fees are paid In other counties. It was a practice many years ago in this county for the circuit judge to fix such a fee for law yers defending indigent defend ants in criminal trials under court appointment, until CJeorge H. Burnett, when he became cir cult Judge, put a stop to it. He assumed the position that an at torney was an officer of the court and it was his duty to ac cept such a defense and handle it when court appointment was made. Attorneys are watching devel opments In the present attempt with Interest. T E Brook3, March 20. Excitement began to brew in Brooks, Thurs day evening when Mrs. Fred Ratchelor called Clyde Harris to inform him that she had run into a burglar in James Fruit's house where she had gone to Investigate i tip phoned from Mr. rrult, wh l.ves in Salem. With James Vibbert and Ray CozH, Mr. Harris went to invest! gate. The place had been ran sacked, but no one was found un til laer when Ed Kennedy and Merle Fruit, who had arrived from Salem and made a thorough search of the premises. They found C. Reilly hiding In the barn, anil also found a lot of the plunder taken from the Fruit nouse, with some other that wa l-robably taken elsewhere. Later Kellly confessed to the robbery. Iteilly was taken to the county Jt.il yesterday. He Is said to have been formerly confined In a Cali fornia in-ane hoMptal and will h examined here as to h's sanity. NEBRASKA SOLDNS PASS "PINT OF LIQUOR" BILL Omaha. Neb., March 20. In ten dtys Nebraska will be drier than the l rl c it bone dry state In th union, state officials predicted to .lay. The prediction was based on the effect of the celebrated "pint of liquor law" which, having panse'l the Nebraska legislature, is de clared by its supporters, as certain r f the governor s signature. L'nder provisions of the bill possession of more than a pint of liquor will he prima facie evidenci that Its posrssor in a bootlegger. STORM AREA HASASPECT i- OF FUNERAL Full Realization of Ex tent of Disaster Comes To Survivors As They Start To Bury Dead. Murphysboro. III., Mar. 20 Southern Illinois presented a fun eral aspect today. With the ce.sation of firsC fren zied efforts to relieve the suffer ing, to count the dead and to esti mate damagj yesterday that fol lowed the m ist disastrous torna do recorded In this section, organ ized relief work went forward quietly. West Frankfort's loss of life numbers approximately 125 dead with about SO Identified. Benton, McLennsboro, Logan, Pairish, Murphysboro and DeSoto today shared a common sorrow. each having suffered heavy losses in the ranks of its citlz?.is. Babies Arc Victims DeSoto, perhaps, sustained tho most tragi: loss, It being estimat ed that one third of Its dead were children under three years of age. Seven persons weer killed, sixty more or less seriously Injured. eight ur accounted for and 150 made homeless In Bush, 111. The tale of tho heroic work of rescue was only begun. Visitors and relief workers from tho out sido world gazed upon a sceno of appalling destruction at Murphs- boro. virtually the entire north ern section of the town, the Indus trial center and the western sec tion, tho best residential district, lay in ruins. The banks of the Big Muddy river ore littered with debris. The streets of the city are crowded with homeless people. Plauis for burial of the dead were being completed. The list of known dead here has climbed to 175, It was announc ed by authorities. Tho injured are placed at more than 400. Kentucky Buries Dead Louisville, Ky., Mar. 20 Ken tucky. with a tornado casualty list of 18 dead and 131 Injured, today faced the task of bur vine and holding final rites over the dead, No estimates of the damage caus ed by Wednesday's storm was avail able. That the wind was of power and of enormous lifting force, was evi denced by Louisville's outlying dis trlcts when pieces of broken furni ture were found scattered upon the ground, carried over Into Ken tuesy across the mile wide Ohio rh cr from In.ilana. Itcseiio Work Unshed Indianapolis, Ind., Mar. 20 Rescue workers continued today in their search of the ruins In the storm torn sections of Sou thcro Indiana for bodies of victims re ported to have perished In the tor nado of 'Wednesday which took a toll of more than 100 lives there Forty-one bodies have been re covered at Griffin. Ind., where from 50 to 121 persons nro said to have been klil d whllo at Princeton, where twenty are known to have perished, all of the bodies have been recovered as were the bodiei of twenty known victims at Owtm vllle. Threo were killed at Kliza beth and their bodies recovered Continued on Pap;B Eleven) TAYLOR TO TEST SEARCH HITS Ralnh Tavlor was arrested by f (instable Deloug today on a charge of unlawful possession or liquor and will he tried In Justice court. He will urge us a d'-fene I lie recent supreme court opinion in the M 'Daniel rase from Benton ounty In which It whs held that police officer had no legal right to search a man Tor liquor with out a warrant or prior to his ar itst. Taylor rlatms this was the pro cedure of a police officer who ar rested hlin last Sunday, The case was first flb-d in the city court, but a warrant was later Issued from the justice court which auto matically transferred the casa to Ibal court. Finds Tomb Richer Than Tut's DI3 A. L According to Egyptologists, Ur. tleorge A. It isner, professor oi Egyptology at Harvard University and director of the Harvard-Boston Museum Egyptian Expedition, has unearthed an ancient tomb near the Clisa pyramids that will prove richer, both In lore and treasure, than that of King Tut-Ankh-Amen. It is 1,700 years older than that of Tut-Ankh-Amen, and may be that of King Seneferu or some member of his royal family. Fury of Tornado Graphically Told By Gorham Victim Gorham, 111., Mar. 20. (By Associated Press) Wednesday! was a dark and gtoomy day at Gorham. It rained all morning. The air was heavy. No wind stir red the countryside. In the after noon it rained harder and the day grew black. Huge hail stones pelted down. Then came the tor nado like a huge wall of Hinoke. A tncieand things filled the air. There were boards, stoves, poles, cans, garments, sides of houses and even living beings. A cow was picked up by the wind and hurled into a restaurant A baby blown front Its mother's arms. Mm. Judith Cox, wife of a Mis souri Pacific workman, was iu a GASOLINE PIE The attempt to cut the price of gasoline one cent which was sturt rd by the tlencrai company eirly in the week has resulted In failure and the price Is back where it was before VI cents at the Associ ated. Shell, General and L'nion oil t.rv Ice stations and dealers. Tito threo companies met the cut Wednesday by lowering their prices a cent. Yesterday t lie As sociated and Pnion prices came l ack to the 22 Vi -cent price and thin morning W. K. Speck, the General oil distributor, followed m:lt, Seattle, Wash., March 20. A reduction of one cent a gallon on gasoline made here Tuesday by threi big companies was cancelled today, putting the price bak to 0 cent?". ALBANY HOTEL OWNER DEAD Albany, Or., Mar. 20 F. T. MittHiier, proprietor of the Al bany hotel, died of heart trouble here thi morning. Ho was form erly proprietor of the Conradlne hotel In Portland, until he came to Albany a year ago. Kirn horn At Spoktuio Hpoknne, Wnsh., Mar. 20 The body of .Mm. Robert fltiahorn ar rived here today from Kan Fran cIpo on board a private car, ac- eoriiftnlcl by her hodiand, Kurv eral service will hn held here to morrow. Mrn. St i a horn, wife of the railroad builder, died bun-lay at San Francisco. $17001577 ALREADY E3tEISiTER.Avai.' restaurant visiting Miss Mary Clark and Miss Lulu Morschen rose when the sky suddenly dark ened. "It began to rain and 1 thought I would go home," Mrs. Cox related. "I opened the door and saw a great wall that seem ed to he smoke, driving in front of it white billows that looked like steam. "There was a deep roar like a train, but many, many t"iice loud er. " 'It's a cyclone I cried, 'and it's here. "The air was full of everything boards, branches of trees, pans, stoves, all churning around to- (Continued on Page Nine) DAVIS HOLDS CHAPLIN CASE IN ABEYANCE Washington, Mar. 20. Secre tary Davis today took under fur ther advisement the application r Mrs. Hannah Chaplin of Los Angeles, Cal., mother of Charles Chaplin, tho film actor for per mission to remain In this country until March 26, 11)26. Juneau, Alaska, March 20. I he motorship Oregon, seized hen yesterday when federal officers found Intoxicants aboard, was pro ceeding today to 'JVnakee, 75 miles away, under guard put aboard by the I'nited States customs. She Is to be hark before Monday, when her niastf r, Jonn B. Edwards; steward, Norman Baher, and mess boy, go to trial for possession of liquor. Four of the crew pleaded guilty e-.tfrday and were fined 120 . a h. Seattl", Wash.. March 20. Th Oregon Is a wooden vessel of 1224 tons plying vit h cannery sup plies and men between Seattle and smilhensteri' Alaska. She left here here March R. I. A. It. 0n-n fiction Astoria, Mar. 20 With mor th.m fifty delftcatp In attendance from over the ntnte. In addition to tho Axtorla chapter, the Oregon coi.fetence of the Daughter of th' American Involution opt-ned with a general business seasion, IDENTIFIED N MORGUES Tetanus Sets In To Add To Suffering of Long Neglected Injured; Anti-Toxin Is Rushed. Chicago, March 20. (By Associated Press) The first direct report from one of the Illinois rural sections visited by Wednesday's tornado and storm added 28 to the casual ties and put the total known and estimated dead" in five states at 827. As the efforts of rescuer and relief workers in the more devastated cities became or ganized it permitted them to look among the by-ways where it was thought many additional bodies will be found. The number of injured still stood at approximately 3,000. Those who had been made homeless increased by scores as reports dealing with this feature of the catastrophe be gan to arrive. (By Associated Pretjs.) Reports at noon today showed S15 dead. lujuriea to about 3000. Associated Press casualty Hat totaled 577 identified dead. Kentucky and Tennessee strick en areas virtually cleaned up. Burials being made both states. A few hamlets in Missouri yet unreported. Casualty list at 15 1'ead. Dead at Murphysboro, 111,, climbing to previous estimates. One hundred and Beventy-tlva U now n. West Frankfort, 111., deaths In creased to 110. Deaths In other Illinois cities unchanged In num bers. Buried in urnuna. All bodies recovered at Prince Ion, Ind., and most of them at Uwcnsville. Passable roads mak ing rescue and relief work mora expeditious. Property loss Indiana towns estimated three to four mil lion dollars. Devastated regions turning to plans and means of burying their (Continued on Page Ten) BODIES OF THE I.'.. 1 t Al V' tr.-Al. OA ii.. a i ., iPnu i ad ditional bodies were removed this morning from mine No. 41 of the Bethlehem Mines corporation at llarackville, where 34 men were entombed Tuesday night when an xploBion occurred. The three bodies taken from tho mine this morning were badly burned from the fire that followed the blast. Two other bodies had been removed last night. BILL PROPOSING TAIL LIGHTS FORCQWS DEAD Lincoln, Neb.. March 20. The Mrown "tail lights for cows" bill which would have requited the displaying of red lights both, Id front and behind all cattle driven, cr allowed to roam around on public highways between the I; ours of 7 p. m. and 5 a. m., wae killed by the house roads and oridges committee last night. BRITISH PHOHIS UNITE TO ABOLISH LIQUOR London, Maren 20. A new Movement to make Great Britain Iry Is reported by the Dally Ex oicss. A secret conference of 117 dclegat". representing 37 prohl b 'Hon and temperance organiza tions, was held at Hoddesdon, the paper says, resulting In a decision to bury all differences and present a solid front to the enemy.