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Newspaper Page TextMAS 28 1925 LIBRARY Capital CITY EDITION Piny a vera ni p&ia circulation tor UNSETTLED TONIGHT And Saturday; probably local rains cooler In the Interior Saturday: fresh a. hitting to w and N.W. wind. Local: Max. i; mln.. 18; river, t i: rain, none; atmua, pirt cloudy: wind l n ft h aaelt. von rvoruary jl, 1926 ma! 6811 Averts dally distribution 7111. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation!. F0RTY-SEVENTH YEAR No- 74 SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1925 PRTr THR mm . rHlNa ANt NEW. m mm sm r TT. : innoa iscnio stands fivb cent- TOW (EM frr?m lj-w. u uu u ... U U U 13 U U LZD UJ I I MM! MM. a am V aT aaa aa" WnfctLtK ANU Is Salem Satisfied With Third Kate Amusements and Willing to Allow Real Stan of Theatrical World to Drop City from Itineraries, Relegating It To Troupe Catergory of Tank Town? (By Harry N. Crain.) Is Sai?m to be classified among in0 tariK towns ' ol the theatrical circuits? Something over two months ago a certain r.opular slapstick comedy Dainstoi Miiiie troupe came to S-i Ivm. it played to a capacity bouse at highway prices, consider ing the class of the production. It was cheap comedy, cheaply staged r.d poorly acted. The curtain fell upon each act with a thunder o applause. About the same time a minstrel troupe teased a hatful of money out of 3a lu mi tea with a mediocre attraction. Real Shows Ipnored Last night "The Chimes of Nor mandy, one oi America's mot tuneful and amusing comic opera, v.uh prcsente 1 as the opening num her uf a .three-day engagement ot the Brandon Light Opera company at the Grand theater. The ad mission prices were the name as those charged for the other shows the lowest asked by any reputable company that has appeared here bince pre-war days. It was the same old "Chimes of .Normandy" that has been endear ed to th?ater-gois of three gen erations by scores of successful (Continued on Page Seven) FEE ACT TO BE TRIED Pendleton, Or., March 27. De cision was made here last night a a meeting of the Umatilla county nen ana game protective assoeia lion to invoke the referendum on the law ihat provides for the tak Ing of 10 per cent of the f unite of 40 state commissions for the use of the state's general fund. The vote on the motion to invoke the referendum was 47 to 66. The state game commisson is one of the commissions affected by the law and the cost to sportsmen is cett mated at about $35,000 an Dually, according to data supplied ai me meeting. ASSOCIATES ARE INDICTEL Montana Senator, Former Interior Department Solicitor and Operator Face Charges. CLERK ARRESTED J. H. Tanzer said to be a clerk In a local mercantile establish ment and who lives at 1930 West Nob Hill, was arrested last night on a charge of assault and battery. It being t-pecifically charged that fce molested a young woman. According to the police the woman pnd Tanzer .who were not acquainted, left a street car at the same time. Tanzer 1b said to hav walked with her c short distance and then to have molested her. From the woman's home a descrip tion of the man was telephoned to the police and Tanzer was later i arrested on Miller street. Tanzer Is a married man. He will be ar raigned .n justice court this after noon. It is also likely that Tan rev will be examined as to his sanity. His father was committed to the asylum under similar c.: n n sta rices. Washington, March 27. Sena tor Uurton K. Wheeler of Mon tana, Gordon Campbell and Edwin Uooth were indicted here todav oy a fedora', grand jury on con piracy charges. Mr. Campbell Is an oil land on erator in Montana. Mr. Uooth is former solicitor of the interior department. The indictment Is the second re turned against Wheeler and t. amplxdl, they havinir been in dieted in Montana on charges in volvtng allegations that Mr. Wheeler improperly represented i'ampbell before a government de- rtment. The new indictments were based on charges relating to the securing or oil laud permits in .Montana, ann relate to transac- lon alleged to have taken nlacc while Uooth was In the interior department. After a telephone conference with Senator Walsh, an counsel for Wheeler, United States Dis trict Attorney Gordon announc d he would fix bail at $1000 in the case of each defendant. S tor Walsh Indicated his client would report to the .district at torney's office tomorrow in or der to comply with bail require ments. Booth and Campbell will be permitted to arrange Tail in th 3 cities where they reside. The Montana indictment which was returned several momhfl ago, lso related to land permits but he specific charge made in that stance was that after his elec- ion to the senate Mr. Wheeler Il legally accepted a fee for acting as counsel for Campbell in prac tice before the interior depart ment. The Indictment returned here today charges that Senator Wheel er, Uooth and Campbell conspired with James A. MacOowan who testified before the grand Jury and was not indicted. It is charged that continuously from April l, 1920 to January, 1924, the accused were In conspir acy to defraud the United State out of the use and possession of 10,000 acres In the county of Toole .Montana. Campbell, the Indictment sold, conspired to procure various citi zens of the United States to make application for permits to prospect nose lands. ISmith Changes find When Jury Ready For Case fter the morning had been - it In selecting a Jury and part iha afternoon used In swearing 2 the iu'y. with the Jury all set I ready to go. Fighting Bill tth, notorious character of the rtrton country, auddenly chang ed his mind in circuit court yes terday afternoon and changed his plea of not guilty to one of auiltv. His sentence will be Imposed next Saturday morning. Smith was charged with assault ing one Harry Larson with a clui Smith has a long record as a tru culent, rootin. tootin' high falut- in', rip roaring fighting man. Re pore nas It that he himself has been shot four different times by as many different irate individuals whom Smith had peeved, and would be difficult to tell the story oi now many encounters fistic and otherwise Smith has engaged in. lr an reports are true. OLSON BY IS EXHUMED FOR AUTOPSY TO BE EXTENDED ROBBERS GET PAYROLL OF $5000 JIT SPOKANE Spokane, "Wash., March 27. To men. armed with eawed-off stiotgune. held up an employe of Armour 6 company, meat packer, in an outlying district here thle forenoon and escaped with a pay mil of f 1000. a report to the po lice sain1. Spokane, Wash., Mar ouncemcnt that nn i tin? been f llC't with ttie interstate conimerre conn;. isin for a certi ficate of public convenien -c and necessity for the construe tiun of 143 miles of new railroad lo cen tral ana southern Oregon was made here last r.lcht b Robert K. Strahorn. prrshlor.t of the Oregon. California anj K :uprn railway. Mr. Strahorn nnr.ounrcif that an plication tor the extension of the lines of the railroad was ma-le March 19, roliowm? a nicetinc of tne board of directors of the rail way held In Portland. He inld the estimated cos? of the construc tion will bo approximately 4, o00.0')u. Application was made for the construction of the following lines: I'rom the Sprjgtie river tormlnu of iho road in a iteneral northerly direcllon to Silver Lake, Oregon, a distance of 63 miles. This Is a part of the main line from Klam ath Falls to Bend, Oreirt from Mile post No. 43 on the same line in a northerly direction point on Williamson river, a distance of IS miles. From the SprcKue river ter minus In a Kc-nera! southeasterly direction to Lakev'ear, orecon, a distnnce of (6 miles. Mr. Strahorn aald that ea.-Iv tr tenrlon of the lines la planned and that beftinnine of construction now await only thj (ranting of necessary ruth's. Portland, Or.. Mar. 27. Work is to be ruehed on the Redwood nignway in Josephine countv on tne Oregon Caves road this summer, the state hlehwav com. mission decided today. The com mission made an agreement with the Josephine county court bv wnicn tne program in that coun ty Is to be completed within throe years. The county pledged through Judge Pollock, to secure needed right of way on both roads, and to turn over annually to the commission $20,000 to be expended on the roads. The commission decided name the 14 acre park on top of Blue mountain Emigrant park. In honor of the pioneers who gave tnat name to the springs at this point on the Old Oregon Trail. A large delegation appeared in oenau ot Lincoln county, urging tne commission to press the con atruction of the Koosevelt high way, the delegation asked that work he done this year on the three mile section between New port and Agate Beach, which Is now a plank road. At IJie-TrroFhing session the tol lowing Diets on road work were awarded: Harrisburg Junction Cltv 6cc Hon of Pacific highway, 4.2 miles or concrete paving, to Oeorge W. Head, Eugene, J 105,207.25. Unity-Beam creek section of John Day highway in Baker and Malheur counties, 12.4 miles o( grading to K. L. fioulter, Port Angeles, Wash. J172.891. Missouri Bend section of Als highway in Benton and Lincoln counties, 8.2 miles of stone sur facing to Cummings and Wright, .Mc.viinnvnie, 4N, 255. Lava Butte. La Pine section of the Fremont trail The Dalles-Cal ifornla highway in Deschutes county, 19.24 miles of stone sur facing, to fi. M. McDowell and company, Portland, 142.430. Emigrant hill section of Old Oregon Trail in Umatilla county. 12 6 miles of road bed widening, to Swnrtley Brothers, CorvallM, S5,01S. ,f icntion L ! H R 1 N FR S PLAN ACTIVE SEASON Remains To Be Examined For Traces of Poison In Connection With Shepherd Case. Chicago, Mar. 27 (By Associat ed t'reas.) A second exhumation :n connection with the Mcclln rock death mysteries was made when the body of Dr. OBear Olson who died three years ago was rait, ed from the grave today for an autopsy and coroner's inquest. A third exhumation was to be made later and the body of Mrs. f.mnia Nelson McCllntock. who died 10 years ago, was to be rais ed. These bodies are to be submit ted to the same chemical tests for evidences of poison or other causes of unnatural death as In the case of William Nelson McCllntock, the orphan millionaire, who it ii charged in an Indictment was mur dered by William D. Shepherd the youth's foster father and heir by a will, and by C. C. Faimnn neaa or a school of science with the inoculation of typhoid germs. mrs. ilccilntoclc, mother of the youth, was a widow and asked Shepherd and his wife to live with ner and her son. When she died sne left the boy In their care. PRAIRIE FIRE LOSSES NEAR ONE MILLION Flames SweeDine- Dnhnia Plains Die Out As Wind Subsides; No Loss of Life Confirmed. Valentine. Nh vtn. i T.. ..... . ' ' associated Press) A defi nite check up of the ravages of the prairie fires which have been raging over north central Ne braska and across the line In the vicinity of the Rosebud Indian reservation In South Dakota since oi vteiinesuay showed that .itj i-ia iusi. no mnina destroyed but that property dam- ... ",m,,,nl"s to approximately 11,000,000 was caused. Lions On Record Favoring Plan of Head-On Parking STATE'S RAILWAY PLEA IS HEARD "At the regular monthly meet ing of the Salem Shrine club a-.t nk'ht a far reaching program full of interest and activity was out lined tor the next few months," said President Fred A. Williams today. More than 10,000 Shriners will pass through Salem during the national conclave of the Knight Templars at Seattle, and the national Shrine convention a Von Angeles this coming sum mer. "There are 200 Shriner with In the city of Salem and sur rounding country. Some will travel by auto and some will travel by train, but we can evil Salem to these visitor for much or little, according to the efforts exerted by the nobles of this vi cinity. ' it ie planned to hold several "5t to gether" meetings for the nobles and their families, the first one helng Just after Easter. In order to urge the imnnrt.nce of the opportunity at hand ami foeter greater cooperation. More definite and detailed plans will be announced ehortlr. ' Washington, Mar. 27 Argu ments upon the contention of the stale of Oregon that railroads serv ng it should tie required to con struct extensive mileage thniimh Is central and eastern portions was presented todav before th nterstate commerce commission.' W. P. Kllis, attorney for the Ore gon public service commission, ex plained the demand of the state that a new cross-line of railroad running from east to west through Us southern section together with north and south extensions should he built, lie declared the Inter state commerce commission hail no power to enforce such ; qulrement. tne southern Pacific controls ransportatlon In half of Oregon the Union Pacific controls It n the otner half," Mr. Kill re- lied, "it is that situation which seek to have met by this an llcatlon." Mr. bins argued that national ilitnry Interests reuuired th noun and south construction thru ne state east- of the Cascade range. Commissioner Ksch .'...tkf.l there were not Indisn reserva- ons under federal control which ignt need the transportation In e territory and the attorney n. several. various other representatives of nterests In the territory ore to bo heard. Including A. t). Hoem-er f..r ho Union Pacific, and it. C. liev for the Southern Pacific. Preliminary proceedings hefnro he commission have resulted In tho report l;y its examiner that the new construction should be order ed and that the commission's pow rs will enable it to cnfrce erders iL'llnt the railroad. valentine. Neb.. Mnr 9t n Associated Press) After r'mmii.. an estimated loss of $1,000,000 or nuy ians and ranchers property, virtually all -of the prairie tires which have ravaged norm central Nebraska and the southern section of South Dako ta were extinguished early today according to a survey made this noon. No loss of life was sustain ed as far as known, although many ranchers were forced to flee before the flames. Several smaller fires are known to be present northwest of here but ranchers reported they were being extinguished rapidly with out considerable loss. Death Reports Groundless Enrlier reports that a school teacher and two children were burned to death in -hi house near here were found to be groundless, the survey showed The closest call tho fire made was when It gutted a school house six miles southwest nr Crookston, which Is several miles west ot Here. The teacher and 12 pupils saw the flames approach ing ana were taken to snfotv "mi an nour nerore the stm ture was destroyed. Ranchers this mornlnir ed that the fire had burned over an area of 200 miles, to in some places, so miles wide. The dam ago to the hay land, it Is esllmat eu, amounts to at least fl acre. It is the general view here General sentiment In favor of the head-In parking system for the city of 3alem was expressed at closed meeting ot the Salem Lions club this noon. "You will find that there are at least as many ac cidents under the back-in system us under the head-in system," de clared Newlll Williams, who has been a traffic officer on the Pa cific highway, "A comparison of the statistics at Salem with those of other cities, where the head-in ystcra is used, shows that the rat of accidents at Salem Is fully as :ngn. The tendency under the back n system Is for the drivers of curs lo start at a considerably higher rate of Breed, he suited, with the result that there ie more danger of collisions. . "At tho present time, under prew cnt parking laws, there are an average ot two cars a month drive into streets cars.iit the corner of State and Liberty streets. It may seem that there would be a natur al tendency to have fewer acci dents If the curs neaded out from the curb, but that fart does not hear tile theory out. It seems to be a psychological condition that a driver backing out from the curb will watch much more care fully where he Is going, and will not move nearly so fast." He insisted that he had no per sonal preference In the matter. "The officer's duty la merely enforce the laws as they are." said. Further reasons given In favor of the proposed change were that more cars can be parked to toe block with the heads toward the curb, and that most other cities have the head-In system. "If we are to have a two-hour parking limitation in Salem.'- Bald Will lams, "we will need to park the cars as closely together as pos sible." Under the heud-out system there is considerably more ten dency to double park, he main tained, which keeps the traffic of ficers busy. It is a nuisance for tourists who are passing through a numher of cities to c.rme into contact with 'afferent systems of parking. It gets them confused and we ought to do our best to conform It the systems of other cull's for tha eason. ' Several other members of th club apol.e, most of them backin he slund taken by Williams. Th matter was referred to a commit tee ot five, headed by Williams. The club took definite, action I avor of the proposed change from a one-hour to a two-hour parking limitation. Various other mat ters of civic welfare were referrei to committee and will be definita- y acted on at a later date. TO DENNISTOUN ( Continued on I'age Konr MEET WEDNESDAY The county clerk announce to. flay tnatjhe Ki-am! jury hn heen caned to reconvene on Welnenday mornlnir. April 1 at 10 o'clork. It 1a expected at this nekton the cawe of C. W. Thompson, firmer cannier m the treiinurer'n office, will be up for conlderatin. Thopmon im out on bond under a L"'"'" navm embezzled Mate iunu while employed In the tre urer'e office. OF E LEGAL POINTS Mormw oil Commliteloit Washington. Ma'. 17 Korm.r uovernor Morrow of the Panama canal mone was today appointed by r'"""i cooiidge as American member of the Tacna-Arlca bound ary commixalon. Cheyenne. Wyo , March 27. (By Associated Press. ) Posses H)n of leapot Dome hinged on icgai 110..HS today and rested in tue diMTction of Federal Judge T. make Kmedy before whom the lease annulment suit of the gov ernment artainst liarrv F. Kin iairs .iiammoin uu company was completed here yesterday. The decision of Judge Kennedy will deteimine whether Sinclair obtained the lease on the Wvum ug naval oil reserve as a result or conspiracy and fraud, as the government alleged, or whether1 tile .Mammoth Oil company ohtaln- u the grant because It submitted the best t::d and because the gov- uient was forced by act of con gress to develop the oil field, as the defense contended. At least thirty days will elapse before Judge Kennedy will have ail the documents of the case In his hands, and until then he prob ably will not make a dedaioa. Thle Is the result of an agreement between counsel yesterday under whlcH the rovernment Is given 15 days In vhich to flic a brief of th case and the defense a similar englh of time In which to reply lo the pl-.:ntlff'a brief. Paris, March 27. A suit foi breach oi proniiee and defuuiatio jf choi'iu-ter against Lieutenan Colonel Inn Dennistoun, defendan in t lie sensational Londun. trial just ended, will he filed in London soon by an American woman wh now is in the L'liilert Slates, it wa announced today by Dudley Field .Malonc, who will represent th plaintiff. Mr. Malone declared that th evidence would include "u hull dred odd letters in Colonel Dennis. toun's hand, many ot which con tain highly derisive allusions Lady Carnarvon. Lady Carnar von is Colonel Dennistoun's pres ent wife. The letters are said to nave been written over a consider able period of time. The breach of promise suit leged t.) be based upon letters written after Colonel Dennistoun divorce and prior to his marriage to the dowager countess t'arnur- ien. I ne defamation charges, it said, will not he based on tint evidence presenlnl during the re out ixinuon trial and Mr. Malone aid that his client could not be identified with nny woman men "ii'-u iiiiring tnese nroreed hits ..laione Is going to London nex tveek to arrange throuuh his l.on rion colleagues for the filing of tne suit. 10 FRANKLIN TEAM DEPARTS Portland, Or., March 27. The basketball team of Franklin high school of Portland. Including eight player pnd Captain Cotton Meek left here today for Chicago, where Ihe playera represent this city in the hatlinal Inters liolastlc basket ball toitnnment sponsored by the I nlverslu of Chicago April 1 to Ten bids were received bv the state highway commission In Portland yesterday on the work of construcllon on the proposed new overhead crossing on the roail between Jefferson and Ma rlon, and while figures are Just tentative, Roadmaster Culver, who was at the meeting with Judge Hunt, figure Engstrnm and company of Portland landed the Job. At first It was thought Pierce and company was the lowest bidder, but Culver has fig ured out that the Engstrom bid amount lo IUVfiS 25, as against u bid of !902 60 for Pierce and company. Engstrom shaded Its nearmt competition about $0. One Salem man bid on the Job. this being Kred Erlxon. who nut In a price of $10.(53. to. The highway commission la due to figure out the totals on the various bids and to submit themj iv in county court wnicn in MEET AT PASCO rortland. Or.. Mar. 271 Plane tor tne annual meeting of the ' lumhia basin irrigation league were made today at a meeting ot the hoard of directors here. I'ae Wanh where the anuiitl meetings have been held for the pat three years, wae selected for the meeting phice on invitation of the chamber of commerce of that city. The date for holding the meet ing wa referred to President Hervey Lindley, Seattle, and th executive committee who will confer with United 8(ate Seua tors sunfipld and McNary. as it ie the wish of the hoard that these two senators ahall be at the meeting. invitatione also will he ex tended to the secretary of the in enor, the executives of tha Unit ed State reclamation bureau, the governors of Oregon, Washing ton, Idaho and Montana, and e n ators and representatives of the four states and the presidi-n of the railroads crossing the project. llie meeting will lat but one day with morning, nfterno in and evening sessions, instead of two days as in former years. Effort will be made to have he annual gathering one of the most widely attended In the ii tory of the league. There w.'Il be niiirli important burdnem to ran sad and rfnme vital question-; relative t the development of the project will he nettled. SSAULT CHARGED TO OFFICER BY FOULKES rortland. Or.. March 27. Kdtrar tlanehard. patrolman, today cepted service of a warrant charg- n g ass.uilt and battery resulting ruin an attack he Is a cued to ave made upon David Foiilkes in a raid which was made bv Mistake on the Foulltes home Sat- rday. Hla attorney, Milton K. 'pp'i asked that arraignment made Tuesday. Klepper said he would appeal o the civil serv ce board in an attempt to over Aliyor Bakers dta-liarae of laiii'hnrl from the polire force. 3 WOMEN IN PANEL TO TRY MORDER CASE EHingson Girl Crumples Into Arms of Police Officer At Close of Morning Session. San Francisco. Cal.. Marc . 27 A Jury of niue men and three women was chosen todav to deter. mine the fate of 16-year-old Doro thy Kllingeon charged with mur der for killing her mother in tha bedroom of their house last Janu ary after a quarrel over the girl'a uiad pursuit ot pleasure. Sun Francisco. Cal.. March 97 Dorothy Kllingson, the lO-year-old jazx gin on triul for murder fop hooting her mother after a quar el over parties and Joy rides, col apsed in the court room tminv oftcr the session had been ad. ourned for the noon recess. The girl hud borne un culmlv during the morning. Just before adjournment her attorneys, ques tioning a prospective Juror, had used these phrases: Anna Llllngson, the dead woman,' "the sanity of the girl trial, ' and "the nosslhllltv bat she did not shoot this worn. an but lied about It and confessed to shield -omeone else." Tha lri seamed to brace herself. Site bit her lip as If fighting back tha swoon tliut crept over her. with the court at recess and tha crowd streaming out she started for the back entrance but crum pled into the arms ot two hoIIca. men who car.-ied her into the Jury room. Later she was revived and was able to walk, supported, to 10 couuty Jail infirmary. The girl has not interrupted iny sessions of the trial hm !, tainted after each adjournment. The attorneys considered it lilA. ly that the Jury would be com pleted early this afternoon. tne trial entered a second defl. Ite stage here today when the de mise nud prosecution set them. elves to the selection of tha welfth juror. The defense yesterday Indicated was satisfied with the Jury aa stood and It was exnected that oday the big battle which will enter around the pallid, breaking ' wnu is accused of shooting er mother to death will be con- ntratcd on tho long fight to de. tcrmine the degree of her mental responsibility. Public Interest In the trial la nubatcd and early this mornlnir he corridors of the ball or n.. ce were packed. Ihe defendant, definite the col- pses which have marked her ap arance In court, apparently waa letcrmliied to survive the ordeal. FOR ADMITTING SUGAR PRICE CUT 30 CENTS san Francisco, Mar. 27 The price or sugar to wholesalers at he refineries dropped 30 cents a undred pounds today bringing the new cane base to $ 25 and the new beet base to C.05. Fort Worth 114111k ltohb.il Fort Wertn. Texas. Mar. 27 Two men held up the Polytechnic ate bank her tod.iy and escaped Washington, Mar. 27. Re sponsibility for the presence In this country of .Mrs. Pshnah Chaplin, mother of Charlie Chan- lln, the film star, was placed to day hy Secretary Davis on tha last democratic administration. The secretary presented thle aspect of the case in a letter to Rev. W. A. "Uillv" Sunday, re vivalist, who Joined In tho re quest that Mrs. Chaplin bo per mitted to remain In this country for another year to receive fur ther treatment for the mental disorder from which she Is suf fering. Mr. Davis wrote that ha would consider the case from tha humanitarian standpoint, at tha same time keeping the "depart ment's purullar interests In tha case in mind." After negotiations for Mrs. Chaplin's entrance Into the Unit ed Slates had continued for two years, Mr. Davis said Secretary Colby of the elate department oq March 3. 1921, cabled her author ity In London to sail for the Unit ed States, guaranteeing her ad mission. When Mrs. Chaplin ar rived, on March 2. 1921. three weeks after Secretary Davia took office under the republican ad ministration, succeeding that of Presitlent Wilson, he approved tn between ..i)ui and $7eoe In her admission he said, under Ihe currency. The ci.hler was locked cabled guarantee for a period ol turn win award the contract. n th vault. lone year for treatment.