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Newspaper Page TextMa 21 :J25 CITY EDITION Dally average nt paid circulation foi month end February 21, 192S FAIR TODAY Except cloudy near tne cout tonight and Tuesday. Continued oil. hevy frusta in the interior; moderate SB wind Local: Max. 59: mln.. II: rain, none, river, J.8: atmos., clear; wind, north. 6811 Average dally distribution TIM. Mfmhfr Audit Bureau of Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 70 SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1925 PRICE THREE CENTS S&SSttg" rvi Ml U V IS. K ARMED F, KILLS SEtr Argument Over Load of Hay Supposed to Have Led To Fatal Shooting: Near Miles City, Mont Miles City, Mont., March 23. John W. Kemp, 05, and his eon, James Kemp, 30, are dead as the result of a shooting affray that took place about 12 miles south of Mizpah on the Powder river near here, and J. W. Stacey, 45, a one armed man, is a suicide, having shot himself after killing the two Kemps. The if fair took place during Saturday forenoon, ae far as could be learned, the bodies being found on the Stacey place Sunday noon Stacey was a bachelor and is be lieved to have gotten into an argu ments with the Kemps, who an larently had gone to his place to get a loi'd of hay. roruanu, .Mar. 23 with ap proximately 1000 delegates and visitors ulreaJy on hand and more coming, the 12th annual conven tion of district No. 1,N Internation al Rotary opened today following a Sunday spent in entertainment. John R. lientley, director of ihe International was ths principal speaker on the morning program, extending to delegates an invita tion to the International conven tion cf Rotary in Cleveland. Ohio, and giving an outline of the his tory cf tne organization. K District Governor. Frank C. Rigg., of Portland made his re port this morning and organiza tion business was transacted. E. N. Klynn, d ist rict governor from St. Paul, Minn., and II. P. Irvine, of Portland, are to speak this af ternoon. Tonight there will be a reception and a program of enter tainnent at the municipal audi toriuni. Approximately SO members of tha Salem Rotary club, many of them with their wive, went to Portland today to attend the dis trict Rotary convention. They will attend the banquet at the Multnomah hotel tonight, and the prcgram to be given following the banquet. A minstrel shw, given by the Salem club, wlil bo the first num ber of tonight's program. It will be directed by Dan Langenberg, Balem rotarian. The local rotarians began leav ing fcr Portland yesterday after soon some taking their automobiles there and assisting In the enter tainment of delegates coming frm more distant points. A few visit ing rotarians even found th?ir way to Salem. Fred Thielson has charge of taking the local delegation to Port land, and was in Portland early tnia morning Eric Butler, secre tary of the Salem club, was ulso there early today. Tom Kay, president. left fcr Portland this afternoon, taking several mem bers with him. 500 VENIREMEN E Chattanooga, Tenn.. March 23 rive hundred veniremen,' three l.undred more than the mumi number summoned, were called tn me county court today for the iriai ot w. H. Bennett and Mrs Mae Bennett. Indicted et murdering Miss Augusta Hoff man, aunt of Bennett. Bennett Is railway official of Rome, Geor gia. Elements of mystery as to the illeged crime were to be explained t the trial. Mr. and Mrs. Ben nett wc-e indicted on a charge ot murder in September, 12. fol lowing the discovery of bones said to 'ave been those of a woman under the bouse they occupied during their residence of more than fouryara In Chattn ora. I SLAYER 0 BASKETBALL TRIP DAMAGESARE AWARDED N Mis, Waterhouse Granted 12,075 Pounds Asked of Lady Wilson-Barker In Society Scandal. London, Mar. 23 The Jury which has be?n hearing the cnae of Mis. Muriel Waterhouse against Lady Wilson-Barker to recover 12 075 pounds which the plaintiff claimed the defendant had extort ed from Alfred Fnuicls Water- houss, husband of the plaintiff, now deceased, brought in a ver dict this afternoon In favor of Mrs. Waterhouse It found that R. i. Sheldon, named as an al leged party to the extortion, had not conspired with Lady Wiluon Karker. On receiving the verdict the court entered judgment for the entire amount claimed with costs against Sir David Wilson-Barker, who has been made a co-defend ant with his wife on tho ground of his legal liability for her acts. After the addresses to the Jury by counsel, the, court In Burning up declared itself strongly regard ing cases of this nature, which the judge said convey "a wholly false and misleading Impression of what English social and family life w." "I hope," he added, "that you will dispose of this case at once so that it may be buried and for gotten and not reopened before the official referee." In the trial of the case It was alleged that Lady Wilson-Barker had gained the affection of Wat- erhuuae's aged mother many years ago and then had become involv ed in an intrigue with the son whom she Liter told her la Lion had been discovered and the dis- i coverer had threatened to tell her husband unless given large sums of money. In this wr-.y. It was charged, she had extorted more th.m 10,000 pounds sterling from her wealthy lover, which Mrs, Waterhouse sued to recover. T HUSBAND'S WILL Washington, March 23. Coun set for Mrs. Samuel J. Campers lias announced that her suit con testing the will ot her late hat bund, which leaves her the mini r.ium dower right of one-third un der the District or Columbia law would be withdrawn In court her, tomorrow. In her suit, filed short' iy after the death of the labor leader last December, Mrs. Gomji ers ask?d that a previous wil s'gned by Mr. Gompers immediate Iy after their marriage several years ago and leaving her the en tire etate valued at ahotrt 140. 000 be admitted to probate instead ot tne last will. In the latter. Mr. Gompera stipulated that his widow rnouiu innerit the minimum pro- vinea oy tne law. Mrs. Gompers charged In her suit that Samuel Compels, one of tne the'e sons, who together with two grand children are left the balance ot the estate, exerted un due influence on his father In onnectlon with tne drawing up of tne last win. The latter was dated :Tist a few days before Mr. Gomp ers lert an ni3 trij to Mexico City, during which he suffered the Ill ness that caused his doiith a few hye later a' San Antonio, Texa. DRINKS PINT OF BOOZE; WINS BET; NOW CORPSE Yonkw-rs, X. V.March 23. After winning a bet that he could Jrink a pint of whiskey without topping. Barney Willip-ns. was found dead In the yard of hi? '.ome her .! today. J la old Powers s storekeeper, who was alleged to tare given William the whiskey, and Mrs. Williams were held as sterfat witnesses. LONDON CAS SUCCESSOR TO KIRKPATRICK v,v '.I Dr. Fred C. Taylor mt Slavs City, appointed paator of Flnrt Method I t EptNeopal rhareh of Salem. L VISIT UMATILLA WATER PROJECT i no l matiiia reclamation pro ject at Ilermiston wl'l tomorrow be visited by a special adjustment committee cmposod of Dr. John A. Widtsoe, who is president of the Univeisity of Utah; Unruh Weiss, representing tha federal reclama tion service, and W. A. Delz.')!, private secretary to Governor Pierce, who will represent the state of Oregon. in. Wtdtsoe Is chairman of the committee. An investigation and hearing to be conducted at Hermiston will be under a congressional act of Inst December looking to relief to set tlers on federal projects in the methods of making payments, al so covering the wining out of de linquent tax obligations. The in vestigating committee will h?.ve au thority to ina'fe recommendations to the secretary of the interior and he is empowered by not of con gress to make the readjustments accordingly. Extensions in the time for making payments 4nd reductions in the amounts of pay ment nr posteble under the act. it is satii. Later a similar invest igition will be made cf the Klamath pro ject but the date for this has not yet been fixed. Thomas A. Camp bell, former governor of Arizona, is chairman of the committee that will investigate in Klnmnth coun ty. Mr. Detzt'll will al-so act on that committee. teackehWpOpiT founoafter search Newport, Or., March 23. After u search since Saturday noon by Mizens of the community. Miss Fannie 1'ratt, teacher of the .school at Slltlz, and Miss Ger aldine Townsend, one of her pu pils, weto found .Sunday afternoon six miles above the Indian agency here tiiey had taken refuge after becoming lust In the timbered mountains. Mits Pratt was ex 1'itusted. Mise Pratt and Miss Townsend ifcft Saturday morning for a day's muting in the mountains. After rating their lunth in the wouds they became lost in their attempt to return home and tramped over tne mountains until overtaken by night. Miss Pratt was overcome, and they wore compelled to spend the night in tho woods. When they failed to return the whole com munity took up the search. WIFE WALKS IN SLEEP; ' KILLED FOB BURGLAR P;tt:ntz. Kan.. March Jt3. Ten childien were made motner kfis early today when Antone Be iello of rspaldn. near here, shot and kille.l his wife as she walked in her sl?'p. lie thought she wa n Intruder. Peru Flood Damaged. Buenos Aires, March 3. La Xacfon'g Lima correspondent says severe dimage was caused in Peru hy the rc?cnt ralna and conseauent ovrfiowlng of river . A report In dicate that railway traffic to the interior will bt Interrupted for a moni a. THREESOVIET LEADERS DIE IN AIRORASH High Russian Officials Killed When Military Plane Catches Fire and Crashes To Earth. Moscow, March 23. A Renter dispatch says five soviet govern ment officials were killed when a military airplane flying from Tif- tis to bucnum caught fire in mid air and crashed. The later message stated three i'i the killed were government officials and the two others pilots 01 the machine. The three officials killed were M. Miassnikoff, member of the presidium ot the central executive commutes of the Union of Soviet Republics, member of the military i evolutionary council and vice president of the council of peoples' commissar; M. Mugillevskl, presi dent of the extraordinary trans- caucasion commission, and M Atarbakoff, representative of the fosts and telegraphs commission. The trans-Caucasian officials were on their way to the soviet congress convened at Suchum. A period of four days mourning has been proclaimed, the messages added, in all the Caucasian repub lics. FACES CHARGE; JAILED Charged v;ith wielding a heavv i iuo on aged John Anderson, rcsi dent of the Broadacrcs district James Make, aleo resident of that district, was brought to the coun iy jail here from Woodhurn to- Gay by Constable Miller of that city. As a result ot the clubbing anegeu to nave been given by Itakc, Anuerson suffered two brok en ribs, it is stated, and was fur thcr wounded by Rake, it Is (harged, when Rake slnshed him with a knife on a leg near the hip. ine cause far the row between the two men is not known hy offi cers hers. None of the story came out in juetice court at Woodhurn as Take waived examination and was placed under $5000 bond and held to the grand jury charged ivith assault with Intent to kill. The alleged assault Is said to nave occurred Saturday afternoon at 6 or 1 o clock on the Anderson place. Fro i latest word received ther. ip no danger of Anderson having ,-reeiveu fatal Injuries. ED St.nc treasurer Kay said todav that the withdrawal of abunt $1,750,000 of st.ite funds from Oregon banks for the payment of interest on bonds and the retire ment cf bonds April 1 will be main Iy from Portlnnd nnd westorn Oregon bank. Withdrawals from eastern Oregon binks will be very light duo to strln rent i iMndal conditions In that part of the Ftate and the fict that many eastern Or?on banks have an added bur den In assisting farmers to fin- tnce. the resecding of crops nn a renult of the fretzo of the past winter. Mr. Kay s'lld th.it applications of the farmers for loans from the state fur reseeding purposes are lighter than expected under the relief act of the 1923 legislature, totaling only about $300,000 to date. This Is due largely. U Is said, to thrj explication In obtain-: ing the loans. Jt la necessary for; the farmers to give the state first I mortgage on the growing crops and ! to do this they have to obtain ra-j less of other mortgages and! Ilfns, whlrh is being dona through the local banks. I !il76 NEEDED F fl Report That Full Amount Raised False and Makes Work of Securing Con tributions Hard. MONEY Sl'BSCKlHKD Capital Journal $ 25.00 Hawkins & Kobcris 15.00 I'ricc Shoe Co.. 5.00 Clieiry Hy Hultlnj; Co 15.00 Plrxt National lUiliL 25.00 John Fiirmr 5.00 firny Belle 25.00 Marion Creamery 10.00 BUI top ( b'lliing Co 25.00 P. M. (injury 25.00 Frank Myer 25.00 White House KcMnuruiit 15.00 Ituyal (iifoifilu 10.00 O. K. Itai hcr Shop 15.00 Socreury or Stale's orfict) 60.00 High School Organiza tions 250.0(1 William Hell 5.00 V. S. Nuilonal Hank 60.00 Ceujrnl I'luirmncy 5.00 Hauk of Commerce fi.OO Puill H. W-illare 25.00 Larid and Hur-li 50.00 I. it. Smith . 10.00 lYritiimil Cafo 25.00 KIKs Club 40.2(1 Millers 25.00 Shipley's 15.00 Bunnell M Itol.Ii Stutliu 25.00 lr. c. .A. Houiis 5.00 li l innk llrivii...... 1.00 Clin. Ucllrr 2.00 II. Itdnii( 2.50 Fry's Drue Store. 10.00 Ruslck's I.HM-cry 5.00 O. J. Scliel 5.00 Socolor-ky Urol hers ...... S.00 C J. llrk'r Co. i... 5.4)U Hnti Ijinenbt-rg 2.50 1. A. White & Son 10.00 Crown Di hj; Co 6.00 Tcmiln;il Hilhiinl Himuu 5.00 KcnncHi lu-itun 5.00 Tom HjivIch 9. A. Sniidi'rMin .. 7.50 Kirby Itoss .. 5.t Mitrk INml-on j.o llltli Slmid MiH-liiiK' Shop 8.00 A. IV Farley 5.00 W. It. Lockctt 5.00 Mr. Ilea Km 5,00 Mils! He.-uity I'urlors... 6.00 Miss Ix'im llrlle Tartrir 5. 00 T. A. lJltsh'y J5.00 I'owcroy uiid Kceiie 5.00 Mailman Jcnclry 5.00 Mnrioii Auto Co... m. 10.00 It. Shiinks b.oo O. F. Oidcii 2.00 Fred Slltes l.oo Archie Unit j.nu . II. Pmtl j. 00 J'l. F Smllli 1.00 Tmunlewmi flarlH-r Shop 1.00 us 1'olalls 2.00 Mi i(-r 5.00 I. NnHlrmm .50 Lowi-ll hile 2.00 tt. M. Iind 2.00 Jt. A. Harris 2.50 Win. Fv.iiim 6.00 Honr.iflo Motor Co. ... 6.00 Pacifio I rult Co. 6. 00 Ira iJirgriiMn 2. (to J. H. Nan email 10.00 Siiik'Mili Hianuitic wly 50.00 Inf Side 274.30 Klwiniis Meniriers ... (plfilgefl) 110.00 Hk'ks-Chalten 50.M John Scliiiffi-r 5.00 Total.. . $1521.50 One hundred anil seventy six aoiiaxs yet to go. This is th,; sum and substance of tho situation of tho drive for $1700 for tho "On to Chicago" fund of tho Salem hitrh school basketball team. A complete re port, Riven out mis noon, inciuditiK everything derlnltMy on hand, stnt ed that exactly $1524. & had been rnlHPd at that hour. 'Tho harden thing we have to contend with now," was the ntnte- ment. made at high school th morning, "is the fact tha many peoplo believe the drive has al ready gone ovi r, and are lettlnif uown on us. ' The fart of the mat ter U that prospects for the trip were actually lens bright today man Saturday, oecauxe of run.ors of a prematurely optimistic na ture having been allowed to get Into circulation. Homo sources that had been counted on. and ha I been used in compilations, failed to materialize purely nn arcount of the erroneous Impression. Although slowly, money was still coming In this morning. A representative of Hickx- Ohattln Kngraving company of luruann orrered fiQ in a tele phonic rnmmuntration with Prin cipal Nlson this morning. The (Continued on Pact Hevtn) RECHECKO ID SHOWS FUND SHORTIBOATS USED Youthful Gang of Petty Thieves is Rounded Up Here After a quiet Investigation of nearly a week Mrs. Nona White,. county Juvenile officer, and Of ficer Hickman of the Salem police department today practically com pletcd the rounding up of an or ganized gang of boys and young men who for months are said to have been committing thefts in the city. The thefts have been mainly bicycle and automobile accessories, though considerable quantities of milk have been stolen. The names 01 six hove had been listed this afternoon who have been involved In the bicycle and accessories thefts, while another bigger list contains the names of those who have been stealing milk. Many of the youngsters are school boye ot Salem but some are youths beyond the school age who are working about the city. At the police station today arc half a dozen bicycles and a nlle of accessories that have been re Cleveland, Ohio. March 23. Protection against what they termed "vicious defamation of spiritualism," was registered by spiritualists, mediums and Inter ested persons here last night. The meeting null was Inadequate to accommjjate the large crowd. Wo know that communication with the dead has been scientific lly proved," E. S. West of Daven port, Iowa, declared, defending tin sweetest, truerf, most beautiful religion under tiod." he urged the audience to organize to tigii! for their religious liberty as guaran teed by the constitution. The meeting was the outgrowth or activities of a prominent nine cian who prosecuted1 a spiritualist wnose seance here he exposed with a r'.ashllght. West charac terized tha magician as an ignor nt intruder into the sacred pre cincts of our religion. The meeting opened severjl hours after the muglcian's depar turo from Cleveland. OF Hot Springs, 8. D.. March 23. Chemists at the state university at Vermillion have found poison In the stomach of Key. Hubert K. Varleton, pastor of the commun ity church here. It wae announced here today, lie was found dcml the morning of January lust in mysterious circumstances. The body was discovered by members of the minister's family near his automobile in the family garage, wheic he had fallen, sup posedly from heart failue. .The local autopsy showed no evidence of heart disease and the Htomach was sent to the state uni versity for analysis. Dr. Tarleton was a very popular and successful pantor. Officialu here said tho findings at the umverstly would lead to a further .nveHtkution of his dealh. AMONIA AND MUSTARD OIL FOIL BANK ROBBERY Cuod Thunder, Minn, March 23. A gallon bottle of oil of mustard and Hnnionia cached between the vsults ot the State Hank of (lood Thunder frustrated attempts of f.everal men to rob It early today. When the robbers set off a charge of high explosives agalnit the vault door the blast shattered ihe bottlo containing the mixture and the fumes prevented entrance tn the vault. The explosion caused 12f,00 damage to the bank. K. H. MorelocK, cashier of the hank, said the mustard and am ironia combination was "a little aventlon of my own." SPIRITUALISTS STANFIELDAND ASK PROTECTION M'NARY PLAN TO AGAINST EXPOSE HOLD HEARINGS covered by the officers. Other loot la believed to be hidden about the city. Information now In the hands of the authorities Indicates that members of the gang have not operated Indeuendcntlv. but that the campaign of thievery has oeen an organized one. ine oincers are Inclined to place much of the responsibility ior ine delinquency of the young sters upon their parents, who, it is said have not exercised the proper control over the young sters. llieycles that havo been stolen by the gang have been dieinem bered or repainted, parts of some bicycles transferred to other bi cjt-ieo anu omcr means used to uisguise tne vehicles. ueports of accessories and bi cycles stolen have come In almost uauy at the police station and most ot the thefts are attributed 10 ine gang. p.ot many sales of the parts have been made by the uojs 11 is Delleved. Washington, March 23. Plan! for two senate committer ,.,,. duct hearings in the went ,l,,,i the congressional recess were out- inea louay to rresidellt Coolldge by Senators MeNary and Stanfleld republicans. Oregon. Beginning early In September ' imuiic lanus committee In tends to study public land prob lems in Montana, Idaho. Washing. ton, Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico anu Arizona. During October the Irrlo-nllm. aid reclamation committee will noiuing hearings at several point: along the Coolradn river in mine what should be done by the government toward ilevelmimeni ii power and ror flood protection and Irrigation on that waterway. special attention will ho paid to tne proposed Doulder riinvnn ln, rrojecti pershinWdTrIct TACNA-ARICA ELECTION wasnington, Marc h 23. Cen- rai j-crslilng has been annointeil 'o supervise the Tacna-Arica pleb- ii-cite. The White House todov an nounced his selection as head of the commission which Is to over- cc the election under the recent Chilean-Peruvian a r b I t r at I o n ward. Jack Johnson Arrested, naiikegun. III.. March 23 lack Johnson. 41i. Chic formerly world heavvwelL-ln nn- e.illst. wis arrested here yesterday uurKca wun speeding 40 miles an hour. He furnished bonds for hlu ippenrance hero April 2 and nro- eeiled to Milwaukee. Alva 0. Condit Dead; Long Illness is Fatal To Salem Attorney After a severe Illness nt many weeks, Alva O. Condit died Sun day morning while confined by the malady from which he was suffering at the St. Vincent hos pital, Portland. Or. to which in stitution he had gone to seek re lief three weeks previously. lie leaves to mourn hie passing hla widow,. Lillian Condit. former- y Lillian Worth, residing at the family home on Oak street, and also 8. J. Condit and H. II. Con dit, two brothers who are resi dent of Marlon county. Air. londit comes ot pioneer parentnge and was born on a farm near Aumsvllle, April 2S. 1862. He epent hit entire life Marlon county, graduating from the public schools and later finishing hla education tn the! 10 CARRY ON RELIEF IRK Din of Saws and Ham mers Heard as Task of. Rehabilitating Destroy ed Area Is Commenced. Chicago. Mar. 23. (n a elated Press) Din of saw and hammer furnished the itnmi...i note in the tornado stricken dis- inei. oi me middle west today a rehabilitation work henn oughly organized. At the sama time re-survey of the litter of ruined towns, deaths of In and re-checks of casualty totals Increased the death list by mr than a score and added millions to early estimates of tho total damage. Additions to the death !ntl all from Illinois, placed H at 8211 at noon. Most of the new name resulted rrom deaths of Injured, although a dozen were added to the list from Bush. III., through a revised report from the towns one physician, .who fixed ths Bush list at twenty, of deaths of six of Murphysboros injured and iour or west f rankforts wero reported and the McLeansboro to tal or rorty was reduced to 33 by re-ciiec. , . Property Damaere Grows ' The early estimates of 13.00(1.. 000 damago at Murphysboro, cen ter of devastation were doubled after a re-survey of the ruins. Helicf workers In the southern Indiana storm field went grimlv ahead with their duties, getting about in skiffs in some places be cause of flood .waters from lha Wabash and Black rivers. Insurance companies estimated the property damage in southern Indiana at 13.000.000 and tha policies held by the victims at 1. 000.000. Ited Cross workers discovered hundreds ot persona Injured by the tornado who had never reported the fact. Some ot these were found to be in a ser ious condition. Too dazed, or too busy to pay attention to their own Ills at first, they applied for treatment after the early excite ment was dispelled. STOCK PRICES SUFFER SLUMP New York, Mur. 23. Stock prices collapsed to the lowest lev els of the year today under ths weight of an enormous voluraa of selling orders, many popular Issues showing net losses of 3 to to points around noon with no effective buying power in sight. DEPUTY SHERIFF ALSO BOOTLEGGER IS CLAIM Los Angeles, (u!.. March 23. A. Urown played the dual role f deputy constable and bootleg ger in ilclvrdore. a suburb, and onfisrate the wares of other Itauor ellcrs in order to supply his own clients, according tn sheriff's men who brought him to the county fail here yesterday on a liouor ending charge. it- University of Oregon, of which Institution he was a graduate with the class of ISS4. In 1891 he was admitted to ths bar and has been actively engag ed tn law prartice at Salem for more than 32 yeare, being for ths past six years associated with Ronald C. Clover. From hla youth if:. Condit had taken an active part In civic, po litical, educational and religious affairs. He taught school for a number of years and In lRa was elected to the office of county treasurer of Marion county, on the republican ticket, and waa re elected to succeed himself. Later he served a the deputy to tha late James O. McCain, then aerr- (Continued on Page Haven)