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Newspaper Page TextOKtGON ASHICULTUHAL COLlfGf Capital ffi 23 1925 CITY EDITION I CLOUDY TODAY In west portion. Pair In east portion to night and Sunday. Moderate tempera ture, light southerly winds. Local: Max., 59; mln., 30: rain, non river, 4,1; attnoa., totgy; wind south. Dally average nl paid circulation for noma cna itoruary 19, 12 6811 Average dally distribution 7261. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 69 SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1925 nnliri irnnrp r'PMTS 'N TKA1NS AN U NEWS rKIUill lntVji LiiJlNlO STANDS 'IVB CENTS fUl LfU MM. (nlTr'lriT MUM SUICIDE TRIED BY WOMAN CUTS THROAT WHEN ARREST ATTEMPTED Mrs. G. Gamble Grabs and Weilds Razor When Of ficers Seek to Examine Her For Sanity. In a fit of insane frenzy, Mrs. C. Gamble, 64, attempted to com mit fmiehlo this morning at 758 North Commercial street in the presence of Deputy Sheriffs Bert Smith and Roy liremmer, who had appeared to apprehend her on a warrant for examination a to her sanity. Sho cut her throat and slashed both wrists with a razor bfT3 tho officers could seize her and overpower ner. The injuries will not prove fatal, according lo present belief. Airs. Gamble 1 deaf and her talk i mostly gibberish, according to the officers. Because of her deafness Deputy Sheriff Smith handed her a note advising her to put on hJ' coat and hat. Quick as a flash the voman turned, seiz ed a razor lying on a nearby table, and endeavored to kill herself. Xho woman, who owns a little home near the state fairgrounds, left her home there about two weeks ago, declaring that a groc er In tho vicinity was endeavoring to lake her life. Last night she telephoned to the polico station that a couple in an apartment adjoining the one she had taken temporarily after leav In? her home, were endeavoring to kill their baby. An Investigation disclosed the fuet that the couple has no baby and that the report was based on an insane delusion After he. suicld il attempt today the woman was rushed to the stile hospital for treatment. The sanity examination will b conductca there The woman is said to have a daughter at Cottage Grove, Ore gon. Tho Capital Journal today wa In retci.pt of a letter signed "That Old Woman," 758 North Commer cial street, evidently written by Mrs. Gamble. In tho letter she declares that her llfo is in danger and Is "not safe a single night." The letter Is long and of a ramb ling nature. Sheriff K. A. Cook of Scott coun ty, Kansas, arrived here today to tako back to his state Moses Hind alia Will Johnson, who is held in the Marlon county Jail and who Is wanted In Scott City, Kansas, on a chnree of bigamy. An extriil tlon hearing will bo held In the office of Governor Pierce at 2 o'clock this afteinoon. According to the requisition brought here by Sheriff Cook, Hind ha a wife living with her father at Stella, Mo., who he mar ried December 25. 1912. By hU first wife he has four children, the youngest of whom Is not yet a month old. Recently, after working In the harvest fields of Kansas and malt Ing various other movements, he went to Healy, Kansas, whore he Joined. Goldlna Wallace. 2 years old. whom Sheriff Cook describes as "one of the finest girls In our country." Hind had met her dur ing the harvest season. They wen! to Scott City where they were mar lied by a probate Judge November 20 last, goon afterward they left for Oregon and were traced to Sa lern. When Hind was arrested by Mar Ion county officers he, his wife an.l her stater were living on South 19;h street, and Hind was taking a course In automobile me chanics In Portland. The Salem wife claim that she dll not know Hind had another wife Her mother signed the complaint ag.dnM Hind. Oxford Wins Meet Londou. March 21. (By Asso ciated Press.) Oxford won the annual track meet with Cam bridge today, six events to five. WHERE 60 tit ssr'i Ws 1 First wired photo of the fearful toll taken by the tornado thnt swept five stntcs and dashed a tliouinndl liunian beings to death. The picture above shows a room of the Longfellow school lit Murplisboro In wlricli 60 children were burned to death. Photo copyright Internal lonnl N'ewsrcel. 01 A 1 THREATENED Coal Famine and Renewal of Diphtheria Edidemic Feared; Fuel Situation Real Serious. Nome, Alaska, March 21. (By Associated Pret.) Nome was threatened with two crisises today, a coal famine and a threatened re newal of a diphtheria epidemic which took a toll of six lives from the time of the outbreak in the middle of January to the lifting of the quarantine a month ago. The city council purchased fifty to no of coal, tho mat of the spare uel In town, from the United States signal corps radio station yesterday and apportioned 11 in one to six sacks. This must 1W until June when the next coal ship arives. Sudden prosperity of the natives, who purchased coal trom the proceeds of their rich fox catches, and failure ot the coal .-hip Apollo, due to storms, to ar rive last fail caused the shortage The nearest forest Is 70 miles in land with no trails connecting it All beach wood for 30 miles up ind dowa the coast has been ex- liauste.1. A white child, tho daughter of Herman Eeeausky, formerly of Se attle, was the diphtheria patient reportel yesterday. Nearly all the Nome diphtheria patients have re coered. Dr. Curtis Welch sole physician of Nome, on receiving word of Mre thr-jat epidemic and possible diphtheria cases among residents (f Buckland river, sent a ship ment of rnti-toxin by dog team By EARTHQUAKE Quebec, March 21. An Intense earthquake shock was felt here this morning. Houses were shak en but no serious damage or fatal ities wera reported. The shock occurred between 10:24 and 10:26 o'clock. Follow tog the earthquake tremors of February 28 there were recurrent flktnrhaiices for several days In this district. Today's ehork lat ed onlv five to ten seconds, de pending upon the locality. Telephone communication wttii L'alestnaul. Murray Bay, St. Sim ecu and other places in Charle voix county as well as points In the Saguenay district, was inter ruptcd. CHILDREN PERISHED Claims Shepherd Had Control Over McClintock Will Chicago, March 21. (By Asso ciated Press.) Testimony that William D. Shepherd, under in dictment charged with the murder iy typhoid inoculation of his fos ter son, William N. McClintock, orphan millionaire, had said-, he would have McClintock's will drawn to suit himself was given y C. C. Fairman, indicted with shepherd, at a hail hearing today. Falman said Shepherd had r.greed to give him $100,000 when he completed "a big deal" which the witness said Shepherd told m he was working on. He said this "bit; deal" was admitted by Shepherd to relate to the McClin tock estate. Faiman, president of the Nation 1 University of Sciences, admit ted that he knew of no witnesses who had heard conversations he he alleged he and Shepherd had had abou-t typnoid germs and about the McClintock will. MINERS MAY BE ALIVE, IS BELIEF Fairmont, V. Va., March 21. il esc ue work at the wrecked shaft of mine No, 41 ol the Bethlehem Mines corporation at Harracksville : was speeded up this morning in the nope that 22 of the 33 workmen : iinpriHoni'd by an explosion last Tuesday might still be alive. Eleven bodies bad been found by S o'clock. William Berry, a rescue fore-! man for the mines organization upon emerging from the shall t-sid that be had pentrated one ol its arms for a distance of 400 fe't and had found that the force of the blast had not reached that far. It Is believed that 22 of the imprisoned miners are in that aim and sine all are seasoned min workers, Berry believed, he said, that they might have escaped the blast and bairiraded themselv against gas and other d:.ngi s which folowed. However, William Wringman, 0 veteran inspector for the Virginia department of mines, entered the .haft after Berry's announcement rnd penetrated it, he eaid, for 2000 feet. He expressed doubt up on emerting thut any of the Im prisoned men still live Mine officials said today that check revealed that only 33 min ers were caught In the blast and nut 34 as was at first believed. IN TORNADO WRECKED SCHOOL He said Shepherd had In one conversation referred to young McClintock and Mies Isabel Pope, his fi.incee, .intending to marry soon. That was In the full of 1923, according to Falman, who said Shepherd referred to Mc Clintock's approaching his major ity he was 21 years old a year aco. Falman asset ted that he said to Shepherd that such a marriage would "leave him. out," but that Shepherd said be would have Mc Clintock draw a will. The wit ness said he then said "that the girl must be taken care of or it would cause talk," and that Shep herd said "some of those typhoid cultures could be used.' Faiman had previously stated ttiat he had given Shepherd three tubes of baccillf. These tubes he had obtained in the Chicago (Continued on Page Seven) EXTORTION LAID 10 According to advices from Oak and, California, citations have been Issued by the prosecuting at torney there to H. L. Purdy, for merly district manager of the Na tional Securities company of San !oe; A. F. March, Mountain View. Cal., and Sherwood !rover of Oak land to appear March 28 and show cause why extortion warrants should not be issued against them. It Is stated that the action Is tak en in connection with re-organiza tion of the Kings Food Products; company by Ladd & Tilton bank of Portland. At about the same time Mrs Madge MfClintork filed suit Id .ircul court In Portland to recov er $5100 from Ladd & Tilton bank because of the bank's partic ipation In the affairs of the Ktng company. Similar suits represent, .ng 40 utorkhold'-rs "already were cn tile in the circuit court of that ounty. One suit is on file here, brought by the Kev. and Mrs. H. I). Cham bers to 1 erover money from the company for stock purchased In fraudulent practices being alleged. The suit In Oakland 1 under tood to involve California, stock- n older only, large blocks ot stock eing sold in that state or re organization of the company. STOCK SALES ARE ENJOINED Drive To Sell Bank Shares of Ford of Canada Is Halted; First Brought To Light Here. lNew lurk, March 21. A tern rorary injunction restraining th sale ot bunk Bhureg of the Ford Motor company of Canada, Ltd has been issued against the Con tinental company and Marshall & company of this city. State Attor ney t.enerui uttinger announced tojlay. In asking the injunction from the state supreme court th attorney general's office asserted that bet en 5000 and 10,000 per :,nrw had bought the shares under the Impression that they were buying Kcrd Motor company stock Ford stock, according to the at torney general, was purchased in the open market and banking shares were issued against It to bt sold to the public at a rate which 1 rough t the price of the stuck above market value. The Ford company of Canada has denied any interest In (he bankers share el itti t'k. More than fifty let tcrs to Henry Ford asking about ytock wore introduced as evidence. A permanent injunction will be sought.' The operations of stork sales men In Melting bank shares secured by b ord Motor of Canada stoc first came to the attention of fed eral and state officials, it Is be lieved, wiien stock a let men of th company came to Salem. Local lutomoblle men took up the matter with the Ford company I Detroit and were Informed tha the sLi'Tk offered for sale was no lock ot the Ford Motor company Also persons who had receive matter through the mall advertis ing the galea and soliciting the! nreslm-'ntn sent the advertisin matter to State Coropration Com iiiisisoner W. K. t.Tews. Commie iioner Crews Issued a statement uutlonfrig the ptmiic against th nvestment and alno sent copies 01 letters and of the advertising mat ter to thi po-stal authorities. vahcouverTotelT AGAIN SELLING BEER Vancouver, H. C, Mnr. 21. ElKhte1!! Yanroiivpr hotIa toiloy began th aale of bepr by the KlBa. Nut all the hotels were ready lo hesin enle of the bever age at 10 o'clork, the afhedtlled opening time, due to delay In ob taining lliemioa and In the deliv ery of the beer but the majority wera open by noon. A number of other hotcli were expected to re ceive Mcenaes today. COURT ISSUES HEW MARKET ROADS ED 1 CT Sections Seeking New Highways Must Supply Free Rights - of - Way ; Competition Is Keen. Any aectioh seeking a market oad from the county court niusl nreaent the right ot way free to he court, with al curved, angles ud chunges provided tor it lliey want lo have bucu a roXU estab lished. Tula is the ultimatum ol' he court this year, according to County Commissioner Smith, who eclures that competition for es tablishment ot market roads is bo keen, it ia not neceasury for the court to expend its market road money in buying righto of way, raiglueuing out curves and tor damages, when the money can all be ueed on the roads proper. ' If a road jright of wuy cannol be presented to us clean and free rom entanglements there is no necessity for establishing the road there at this time. There are too many demands for these roads and too many roads that are needed which are offered free of such en tanglements." Commissioners bmith and Por ter and Deputy Hoadmaster Johu- son yesterday Inspected a number ot routes that have put in their bide for market road preferment this year. Notable among tnose visiteu are two competing for the honor of being selected as the cutoff be tween Turner and the 1'acific highway. The court has stated definitely that such a cutoff will be installed and paved this year, but has riven no indiculion us to which route it will select. The two routes before the court are known as me name uieeu route and a road a little further couth. The members of the court went ovir both of the .routes in their car yesterday without chains and without getting stuck In the mud. In a place or two one or more of the iiarty had to get out and shove a bit, ant overv. ise there were not casualties reported Despite the fact that a thorough xaminotion was made of both hese routes members of the party would give no Inkling on their re urn as to whlcn one wouiu ui the nrolahle selection. The party also travelea over uic road from lluena Vista to Jeffer- pon. a older ior a marci nnrf the route from Jertcrson to Marlon, which will no cnangeu tliiti vear to provide for th ellmi nation of grade crossings with the sulHtitutiuti of an overhead. Itiilii were opened hy the coun tv court today for 4000 yardB ot crushed road, and its hauling for mad work through district wo. n ihe district running from the Sil- erton city limits tit Hllver urcen falls. It Is the plan of the coun ty court to have this rond In an year shape by fall. The main vork to bo done Is on the section where the good road ends on inio Silver Creek Kalis, but there arc a few intermediate strips to be till ed In, all of which are inciunen n the bids submitted today. STATE BE IN PORTLAND The mate banking department which for many ye.im ha oc:u pled offl'.-eji on tho third door of the state capltol will next Tuesday be tranHferrej to I'ortlnnd where ntlU t-n have beon anani(d In the Henry building. Frank O. Itrain well, state superintendent of banks la head of the department. Kin ployes of the department, nnld from examiner in the field, num ber about half a dJfn. The nulte of offires now occu nd by th banking department will be uttllied by some other Ftate department. The transfer f the department to I'ortlnnd Is neceiixltiited mainly by the con Ren tion In the state house, which will be made worse by legislation enact ed at the 192 session. A bill wait contemplated to provide for ft new orrico build mir on me bum rrr'unds but because of the state' financial condition woe not punhed by those favoring- It. Students Rush Cuban Capital; Eight Injured Havana, Cuba, March 21. Eight atudenta and three police men were Injured today when several hundrad students gathered in front of the presidential palace aa a protest against fines given three students as a result ot ar. rests in connection -with a pro clamation against the Hay Quezada treaty celebration last Wednesday. The students attempted to rush the palace, police said. IN TRIP FUND Cash on Hand at Noon Runs to Total of $1523 Dance Proceeds to be Used for Incidentals. MON'F.Y si us itim:i Capllnl Journal $ 25.00 lft. 00 fi.ou 15.00 25.00 5.00 25.00 10.00 25.00 25.00 25.00 15.00 10.00 15.00 Ilimklfift c Uoneris Irle Slim t'n Cherry City Hakhur Co First Ntil iiMiul Hunk John I'arrur livny Hello Marion Creamery .......... illshop Cloihlni; Co l M. ir' try - Frank Myers White HoiiHf ItcMtiiiinutt Koynl Ciilelei'in O, K. Itui bor Shop Nevivi.iry of Male's orrice tto.oo II lull School OrKiuiiui- lioiiw 250.00 William Ilcll 5 00 V. S. Notional Hank 60.00 Central I'liarinacy A. 00 Hunk of Commerce 5.00 l'u.il II. W.i 1 1 ii ee 25.00 Uuhl iiml Hil-h 50.00 I. H. Silillll 10.00 T riiiliial t are 25.00 F.Iks Cluh 40.20 Milh-i-H 25.00 Sliipli 's .. 15. OU f.UMiull - Itohh Studio 25.00 lr. C. A. Douil.s 5.00 lr. Frank Hrou il.... 1.00 CIkiml W idler 2.00 II. C Itiil - 2.50 Fry'M llmjr Kintv 10.00 llnl(-Vs merry 5.01 V. Scli.d ft.00 SueoloNky HrotherM 5.00 C. .1. Ilrlrr Co. 5.00 Dim Ijiiiiueiilli-rt; 2.50 I. A. While & Son 10.00 Crouit Drnir Co i.00 iVriiiLit.il Itilliiiid 4Hm 5.00 Kennel h Hroun 5.00 Tvih HavlcM 2.50 .1. A. Sitmlcrsoli 1.50 Kirhy Itoss 6.00 Mark I 'on ls oi l.oO lllxli Sclicol Much inc. Shop 8.00 A. V. Fa Hev 5.00 W. 11. Lorkrlt ft.00 Mr, lleiltfill ft. 00 Mili Heauiy I'iiiloo ... 5.00 Mi- liCim Hrlle Tartar ft. 00 T. A. liUwlry 15.00 loV4lov lUtd K4I1C....H '5.00 lliinniiili Jruclry 5.00 Marlon Anlo Co In. 00 Mivllat.ci.us 205.00 liiir Sale 100.00 Hiwnrii Mt'inlN'rH (idcdKt'dj 119.50 Total ..$152:1.70 With a margin of approximately 200 yet to be covered before the Salem high hoot basketball team could be uxMin d of its trip to Chi cago to enter the national tourna- (Contlnued on I 'age Heven) $200 NEEDED Offer to Underwrite Inter-State Debate Next Year Reported Announcement has been made l:y Principal J. C. Nelson of the high school that the contemplated It.ter-clty debate between high echools teams of Salem, Mans., aini Salem, Or, has been abandoned for this yeir, negotiations to be re sumed next year on the basis of a debute In Kalem, Mass., In l!t2G. the third centenulal year for thut o i ty and a return debate In Salem. Oieron, the following year. With Ihe announcement. Pro fessor Neisnn stated that a Salem. Or., citizen, upon condition that bis name be not revealed, has agreed to underwrite the plan tn the extent of $1000, providing the debates are put off until next year jnd the year succeeding. Ucal high school authorities hare agreed to this plan and be lieve there Is no question but that the trancontincntal debates will STORM TOTAL NOW STANDS AT 822 LIVES Burial of Dead Proceeds Rapidly With Brief Ceremony; Call Issued For Physicians. fny Associated Pre0 The known and eetimated dead from Wedneeilay'a tornado and h tor in which dipped into eections of five etatee. stood at 822 short ly Derore noon today. This total included five additional death reported from Griffin, Ind.. one more from Princeton, Ind.. and ecven more from Murphytboro. 'Ihe number of injured etill hovered around 3000. Durial of the dead was pro ceeding rapidly in all sections, with brief ceremonies. Some com munitics plan memorial eervicea later. Ministers are remaining constantly on duty. There are et ill some unidentified dead, with more bodice probably yet to be found. More Doctors Needed Organized reacue and rellet work wae methodically In oper ation throughout the devastated regions. An immediate need of enrgeone for tho southern Illinois field ' prompted the etate health direc tor to appeal to county niedioal societies for help. He aleo request ed supplies of anti-toxin for gan grene which has appeared among the wounded. The departments field director reported 738 sur gical cases in this zone. Heavy contributions of money and supplies continued to pour in from sourcos nil over the Unit ed Stntes. Property loes In all devastated (Continue! on Pace Eight) TO TAKE PLACE OF SVVARTZ SOUGHT Petition was filed In probate to day asking; for the appointment of a new administrator of the estate of H. H. Keunzll, to replace Fred Swarlz, his brother-in-law, who was killed by dynamite on his ranch last week. By another coincidence. In a chain of colnci. dences which has marked the kill ings of the brother-in-laws, the application came on the day on, which the final account of Swarts was to have been up for final hear ing before the court. On the death of Kcunzli. who was found with a bullet hole la h Is head Kehru try 25, 19 3.4. Swartz was named as administra tor. The find account shows about $1688.63 In cash on hand belonging to the estate, all of the assets of the estate having been converted by Swartz Into cash. (Continued on Page Seven) he arranged. In event they re. tttated Professor Nelson, this wilt 1 c tho greatest distance that two high school trams have ever trav eled to participate In debates. Sulci high school team, as Oie son's champion high school debat ers for hi year, are compelled to prepare for their national tryouts, which Is another reason for It be ing deemed wise to postpone the long distance affair for another year. It Is estimated the cost of the two trips will be in the neighbor hood of $2000 and the $1000 jiHurante-'d by the unnamed local citizen will cover Oregon's share rd the coat. The unknown donor of the $1000 declared that under no con ditions does he wish his name to be known, Intimating that If ef forts are made to establish hie identity he may call off his offer.