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Newspaper Page Text1 1 CITY EDITION Dally averag nt paJd circulation for month ending March It, 125. RAIN TONIGHT And Sunday; fresh t oitrong southeast winds reaching gala for along coast. Local Max., IS; mtn., 4f: rain, river, ft. 4; atmos., cloudy; wind, south east. 6719 Averse dally distribution T059. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation!. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 93 SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1925. DDtf'P THDPP f'l?MT 0 TRAIN8 AND SEWS 1 IWUU AUltuu vu..fcj STANDS FIVB CENTS U KU 1 1RGANIZE LINEN MILL Workers To Canvass City Thoroughly During Next Week and Report Daily At Luncheons. While the outlook Is bright, ac tion has not been fast enough In putt In? over tho proposed linen mill for Salein. Aa a result a com plete reorganization of the plan for the drive will be effected next week, and starting with Monday's luncheon at noon, regular noon day luncheons will be held dally for workers in the big drive. By Saturday noon. It is confidently predicted, the workers will lay the bacon on the luncheon table In the shape of a full subscription list fur Salem's quota. "The money is here sand the spirit Is here," declared one of the lend ers today. "All we have to do is to get them together, and the deed Is done." Pick Own Prospects Work so far h;is been on the so called "block" plan, a committee of workers being aligned to each block to work that particular block. The system has not prov ed effective. A team or two, go ing out and merely skimming the urface, have had remarkable re sults. Other blocks have not been (Continued on Page Nine) IE Hanford, Cal.. April IS. Fred W. Mille, foreman of the ranch of Mrs. Jennie Laura Brown, near Hanford, was arrested at 10:30 o'clock last night at the ranch on a warrant charging murder as the result of the violent death of Leo Camp, wealthy young rancher whose body was found at the base of a wlnmill on the Brown ranch, December 17, 124. The arrest was made as the re sult of an indictment voted by the Kings county grand jury, which also named J. H. Tipton, uncle of Mrs. Brown, who is now under ar rest In San Francisco charged with .the same murder. A coroner's jury returned a ver dict of accidental death In the Camp case last December after hearing testimony of Mills and Tipton. Tipton, Mills testified, came running out from behind a windmill and said that Camp had been Injured in a fall. Mills, who was then visiting the Brown ranch, aided Tipton In caring for the Injured man. Mrs. Brown, foster mother of Camp, was named as the chief beneficiary of Camp's $200,000 es tate under the terms of hie will. A third arrest in the case was made at 3 o'clock this morning, when Robert McCamlsh. 18-year-olj nephew"of Mrs. Brown, was taken into custody on an Indict ment charging murder In connec tion with the death of Camp. DRIVE PLAN Mother of Newsboys Passes Away at 82; Is Mourned by 4000 Mrs. Sarah J. Farr, nationally known as "Mother" to newsbva of Minneapolis and other eastern cities, who visited her son Wm. H. Farr of Turne- a year ago, died at .Minneapolut April 7 from a stroke of paralysis, aged &2. Mr. Fair who was boin In Marengr, 111., came to Minne: po ll Ir. I8n aid for more than 40 ye-trt looked after the welfve of newsboy, for whom sh j founded a club, whtoh has numbered -rore thin 4000 newsboys in Its mem bership many of them now prom inent Ir. civic and bnstn--s life. Hh mad her -horn a club house for. the city or.dilns and until her deith keot up her Interest In boy welfare werk. Commenting upon he.- de.ith. the Minneapolis Journal editorially TROOPS RULE BULGARIA 10 STEMREVOLT Death List of Cathedral Bomb Outrage Now 160; Communists Exe cuted During Night London, April 18. (By Assoc . ated Press.) The death liet fro the bomb ou trace in the Sv Krai cathedral at Sofia, Thursd: has reached 160 including f mem be re of the Bulgarian par C ment it was stated iff official C patches received litre today. 'l.5' of the wouuded are expecte? die. Sofia, Bulgaria. April 18. (By Associated Press The Bulgarian government Is taking extraordi nary measures to prevent any fur ther development of the terroristic! campaign marked by the attempt against King Boris and the bomb ing of the Sveti Krai cathedral with a loes of over 150 lives. Largo numbers of communists and extremists have beeu arretted and H is reported that a number of communists were executed dur ing the night. Having proclaimed martial law yesterday, the government now rave ordered a house to house search. Street traffic Is prohibit ed and. patrols of soldiers and po lice pass incessantly. The city Is :n mourning and all the stores are closed. The possibility of an uprising is discounted but further outrages against person i and property are not unlikely ond the authorities are taking all possible precau tions. Two boxeo of cxplosivesinnd au tomatic pistols arc reported to have been found at' the Koslenctz station on the Paris-Constantinople railroad route. It is be lieved they were to have been used in destroying a big bridge nearby. KLAMATH 10 GET Washington, April IS. Plans of construction of three new In dian hospitals and an additfon to a fourth was announced today by the interior department. They will bo built under super vision of the bureau of Indian af fairs during the next fiscal year on the reservation at Klamath, Or., Fort Pe:k, Mont., Pyramid Lake, Nevada, and Fort Lapwai, Idaho. The Klamath reservation will have a forty-bed general hospital to Kt $25,000; Kort Peck a 24- bed general institution, costing $20,000; Pyramid Lake a new hospital and rehabilitation of an existing one, and Fort Lapwai will get an additional structure to care for 50 patients. An appropriation of $30,000 Is available for the Pyramid Lake enlargements, but the Indian bu reau does not contemplate starting erection of the new building until the present hospital has been thor oughly remodelled. any: "Til.? dnth of 'Mother Farr' taken from Minneapolis one of those sincere friends of hummlty of wbopt the world can never have enough. For 40 j-rars, th welfare of the wtrklng boy was her great passion. To generation after gen eration of newsboys she minUter ed. More than 4000 of these itoya many of them now successful bul news men were memb-m of Xhn eltih she founded, and wfre male better cttrxer through hr direct personal effort. It In difficult to overestimite 'he satisfaction that must hav "Keen 9ir& Jackson Farr"-, as through the years sh. watched "her boy develop Into mined members of the community. She knew the true seeret of gum Ine uplift the helping of the ad to hrlp thstmsehei. She knew how to mak them want to succeed." Conference Draws Older Girls Here; 500 are Expected Delegated for the Oregon state conference of older girls were still arriving in Salem today, and It was expected that the 600 mark in attendance would be passed be fore the day was over. Over 400 had registered by last night. Rev. J. J. Evans of Salem last night gave the address of welcome. Governor Pierce will address x e conference tomorrow after i xn. At last night's meeting reports ere made to the conference by liss Bernice Cofer of Portland, a Jnfleld college student, and by diss Ruth Ross of Salem, a stu lent of Willamette university. The two young women were sent as delegates to a national older girls' conference at Geneva a year ago. When they made their reports they appeared In full camp re galia, including white knickers and white blouses. Th Indian tnue Idea has been carried out with delegates at the present convention. The girls have been divided Into six tribes, with a feather of a different color to represent each tribe. Each girl wears a feather in her hair. Lectures on personal hygiene occupied most of the day today. The lectures were given by Mrs. Alta Lewis Stevens of the Oregon IN ARCTIC FLIGHT Washington. April IS. Lieu tenant A. M. Schur of Portland, Or., and Chief wontswain Earl Eber of San Diego, Cal., were se lected by the navy department to day to accompany Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd of Winchester, Va., on the MacMil lnn Arctic expedition this sum mer. The three officers and three en listed men will comprise the fly ing personnel of the expedition. Andrew N. Nold of Nappanee, Ind., and Nels P. Sorenson of Me nominee, Mich., chief machinist's mates, have been selected as two of the enlisted men. Portland, Or., April 18. Lieu tenant Meinrad A. Schur is one of five sons of Peter A. Sehur of Portland. He enlisted In the navy in 1912 when about 18 yeara of age. During the war he served as instructor In aviation. He was one of three navy aviators to fly from San Diego, Cal., to Panama and return without accident. Lieutenant Schur was born at Myrtle Point, Or., and came with his family to Portland in 1905. Major Joseph Schur, of the head quarters staff Oregon national guard. Is a brother. One brother. Corporal Frank Schur was killed in battle while serving with the American army In the Argonne. Lieutenant Schur was' married to Miss Virginia Baines of San Diego, Cal. CHURCH CLOSED T New York, April 18 Tilshop Montgomery Crown, convicted of heresy it Cleveland Inst f nil, has been forbidden by Itlshop William T. Manning of the Episcopal dio cese of New York to preach to morrw at St. M-trk's-In-the-Hou-werle. Blfllion Manning alrt) haa cen sured thi re?tor of St. Xfark's. the Rer. Dr. William NDrnnn Guthtle, for bavin? extended an Invitation to the former bishop. Bishop Brown was trl ?d on charges of heresy by a hoard of blhop4 and convlc'ed. The con viction waa sufttnhted hv the cctirt of review of the chureh. Bishop Canning rulej that he shjll not speak, or of fir late In any parish or mission within the New York rtio- ce. Tho rillng vu made known last night, when two otters, one to the rtor of fit. 31 irk s the other to BHrhoo Brown, wen maSe pa bile by Dr. Mnmr. In the letter addr'! to Mm, Dr. Guthrie wn aeeiieri of acting "In open contempt mn4 deftanee" of the authority and law of the church. Personal Hygiene society. . For lecture purposes all delegates were divided Into two groups, the divid ing line being, drawn at the age of 18. Miss Oral Henthorn has been giving a series on "The Life of Christ," In four chapters. Election of state officers for the coming year will be made tonight. Previous to the assembly at which election are made, banquets wilt be held at the Christian, Congre gational and Methodist churches, the delegates being divided into three groups for the banquets. Devotional service will be held at 6:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. The services will be In charge of a Japanese girl, whose theme will be "Who Are My Brethren." The last number of the confer ence will be a dramatic reading, "The Bridge of the Gods," by Mrs. J. E. Ferguson. The conference c losses tomorrow afternoon. Members of the Salem Boy Scouts and Pioneer clubs have been assisting the girls In find ing the homee where arrange ments have been made to enter tain them. Mrs. Jean M. Johnson of Port land, general secretary of the Ore gon Council of Religious Educa tion, is director of the conference. 10 IRE BOUND John Belton and Bert Peary, two more of the 10 men accused recently of contributing to the delinquency of a minor girl, were bound over to the grand jury yes terday by Justice of the Peace Small under bonds of $500 .each which have been furnished. A new development in the case yesterday was that the Bush pas ture wae used as a place for cach ing liquor eo that it might be con venient at mo3t any time of 'night. A loganberry patch east of Salem and Painters' woods are other places that have been mentioned in the various hearings as plaeen for hiding liquor. KLAMATH FALLS Klamath Falls, Ore., April 18. Klamath Falls this morning was covered with a two inch fall of snow, and snow Is still falling, ac companied by a brisk wind. A sudden drop of temperature dur ing the night brought a return of chilling, wintry weather. Bend, Ore., April 18. A wet slushy snow fell in Bend during the early morning hours but had nearly all melted by 8 o'clock ex cept In a few sheltered spots. The snow turned to a cold rain which continued Intermittantly. A fall tn temperature together was accompanied by a stiff wind, Medrord, Ore., April 18. A cold rain driven by a hard wind swept over the Rogue river valley today with the prediction that It woujd continue for the next 24 hours. During the last four days. there hare been typical April showers, which have been of great benefit to the fruit and grain. SHS GLEE CLUBS Forest Grove. Or.. Anrll 18 Cups were awarded last night as first prizes to organ ltt!on com pet I ns; In the annual Interstate high , school musts .tournament nere. ' The 45 schools represented were divided Into classes. Among the cups awarded were: Class A. mix ed rhoruaes, Salem; class B, Mc Mlnnrtlle. Kmall mixed choruses. cIoas A. totem. GlrbV glee clubs, flans A, Salem; claas B, Forent drove; class C, Park Hose, Portisnd. , FORMER KLAN GOVERNMENT $2,200TAKEN DRAGON HELD ECONOMY IS f BY EMPLOYEE FORIRDER HEL1V1TAL fefj AIHAi Failure To Provide Medi cal Attention For Girl Attacked By Stephen son Indictment Basis. Indianapolis, ind., April 18. D. - C. 'Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, and companions, Earl Klnick and Earl Gentry, were Indicted on a charge of firet degree murder today by the Marion county grand jury, which has been investigating the death last Tuesday of Miss Madge Oberholuer of Indianapolis. The murder charge ie based on the allegation that the three men failed to provide medical attention for Mies Obcrholtzer after she had taken poison at Hammond, Ind., following an attack which she de clared ' was made on her by Stephenson. Judge James A. Collins of cir cuit court, announced that tho three men would not be admitted to bail. Stephenson was Indicted recent ly on five charges based on his al leged mistreatment of Mies Ober holtter. These charges were as sault and battery with Intent to kill, assault and battery with In tent to rape, malicious mayhem, kidnaping and conspiracy to com mit a felony Klinck and Gentry, former res idents of Evansvlile, Ind., were Indicted Jointly with Stephenson on the latter charge. Stephenson has been at liberty on $25,000 bond and and Klinck and Gentry on bonds of $5000 each. ST. T STATE CHARGES St. PshI, Neb.. April 18. (By Associated Press) County Attor ney Dofcrey of St. Paul, Howard county, announced today that Mrs. Emmanuel Sorenson, 25, wife of a section foreman, had been charged with the fatal poisoning of eight persons, Including three of her own children, her first bus- band, his mother and three other children. She is mentally Ir responsible, he said, and will be taken to the state Insane asylum as soon as possible. The deaths charged to Mrs. Sorenson are as follows: Joe Weldam, her first husband, died September, 1920; P. A. weldam, baby, date of death not given; Mrs. Weldam, mother of Joe Weldam, who died shortly after Joe's death; Viola Cooper, died July 31, 1918; Clifford Coop er, died August 20, 1922. A. Sor enson, baby, died February 13, 1923; Ituth Brock, a baby, died February 20r 1923. Others who suffered from con vulsions and who are also believed to have been victims from poison adminiAtwed by Mrs. Sorenson In clude another Sorenson child and Wetzel Cpoper of Daneborg. They were 111 coring October, 1920. mrs. cSningTamIs hld for grand jury Crown Point, Ind.. April 18. (By A!- -.,aled Press) Mrs. Anna Cunningham of Gary, Ind., widow, who ha conre'sed that she killed thre of her children by poison, wan arraigned before Justice of the Pear'!. II. Kemp in her Jnfl cell today n she lay on a cot and was botiad ovr to the criminal court of liko county without ball on the charge of first degree mur der. formeOemberIf , ' legislature dear Eiir.ti.. Or., Apr. 1. J. M Shelley, pioneer of Oregon ind a member of the atate leirlftlftture in 10, alert tiere today. Ha wil born May 22, 1 K 42. anil mored to Plearant till), near Kugen In IMS, lih hi parent. ' He waa one of the leadera n tha fljrht tn free Oregon of the li quor traffic. Coolidge Says Saving and vi. - I Efficiency In Public V sf' J Affairs Inspirational ' t. r '' j To Private Business. Washington, April 18 Presl ment Coo lid Re In a radio ad drew delivered today on the occnidon of the openin? of the Women s World's Fair In Chicago, said an advantage to be gained from gov ernment economy nnd efficiency is the inspiration they provide for pursuit of euch methods in btml- newt nnd in the home. I 'If the people," asserted the president, "In the dally mnnage-1 ment of their modest domestic af- fairs, note that the great Interest of their R-ivernments and of their semi-public Institutions are dealt with in a spirit of laxity and a mood of carelessness, they find lit tle Insitiration to upply better methoda In the management of their own concerns. The great business operations which lire con stantly under the public eye ouht to be handled so as to make them an example In sound procedure. Time. For Kconomy Tho Importance of sound busi ness methods was never so great as It is. today. It Is partleulaily true th.it government business should bo placed on a bn.sis of rigid economy. "In our mode.n society, public arid private- savings are quickly trans.imt'Vl Into cnplt.il available for production. The increased p-o duction makes goods more plenti- f Continued on PnKe Ten) E S. A. Pease of Jefferson, for many yeara manager of the flour ing mills there, has been placed under $250 'londs on a charge of possession of a still and held for trial. It Is ch.trged that the still n question was found hi a shed on his premises. Not long ago Peas.! watt fined for possession of three gallons of liquor. Th2 arrest of Pease Is alleged to Itc in connection with the arrest of Joe Policy, who was brought hack here from Bend, Pulley, it being alleged was connected with operation of the aamo still thut Pease is charged with possessing. Roy Wells, recently arrested In the north end of the county, a Mo is said to have been involved in the same deal. Wells was arrest ed on another liquor charge and fined $500 and sent to Jul for six months. Whether action will be taken on expiration of his jail sen tenco nn this other charge is not known. A warrant was out for his arrest in connection with th Jefferson still when he was ar rested for th i charge on which h it now serving a Jail sentence. BROOKLYN BALL New York. April 18 Chfirlen H. Ebbetj. preftiden: of the Brooklyn National )ea?iii laeha11 club died here at six oVIork this morning, Ife w:is 61 ye ir old. pffith en me quietly. Mr. Kb- hets had fiilUn Into n deti sl i nt 11 o'ctork last night nnd did n t wake during; the nlxbt. No one waa at the beilulde at the time of his death, hut a few minute after be had died, the nurw ntt ndlrg him r-nterc I tha room. Heart failure, fr.rni which he had be;n a sufferer fo many years, overcame a brave fight by the hineh'.ll mairrvite to continue in the game whlrh he had helped to make nationally popular thru his long connection with the lirnokl n club. Mr. Kbbet Hist broke Into the gime In as bookkeeper for the old Ilronktyn club. Hlep by fup h rote, filling various offices, until In IHtS he Lecnme president f the club. M. Paul Falnlcve I Witnesses Say Fee Paid to Senator Was for Service In Defense of Receiver ship, Not Influence. Great Falls, Mont., April 18. Further attempts to connect Sena tor 11, K. Wheeler wtili proceed ings before the Interior depart ment In behalf of Gordon Cadip- bell, Montana oil operator, were made in the trial here today by the government, which culled three witnesses to the stand, L. C. Stcven-ou of Great Falls, a former associate of Campbell, who later became his rival as an oil operator In the Montana oil fields, was the firu witness. Ho was perm I led to Identify copies of the petition for a receiv ership which he filed against Gordon Campbell. Kevin syndicate No. 1, but was barred from an swering other questions ubout it because of objections by Senator Thomas J. Wuhh, chief of defense counsel. Senator Wilder Is charged with having wrongfully used his influ ence before tho interior depart ment tn prosecuting oil prospect ing applications for Campbell. K. M. Harvey, u stockholder In the Campbell ryniiicato. testified he had prottrd aguinst the pay ment by the syu ideate of a fee of (10.000 to Wilder to act uh at torney for the syndicate, main taining it wns too high- He de clared, however, that the employ ment of the senutor was to defend the receivership and had no con. nection with government permits. Referring t the condition of titles of the Campbell company to cert)1. in holdings in tho Moiitun i fields. District Attorney John L. Slattery asked: "What did Sena tor Wilder nay, If anything n to (Continued on Page Nine) PIERCE TO TALK Governor Pierce Is to be the speaker at the next meeting of the chamber of commerce. At that time he la expected to tell some inside dope on what happened during the last legislature. It i figured there Is enough of the indde dope that has not been told, and that the governor knows enough of it to make a very In teretlng meeting, Indeed, if he will only tell it. Manager Wllwin Is figuring on curiosity on that score alone being strong enough to bring out a bumper attend ance At the same time the linen mill project will be a center of in terest, so It is figured there Is enough on tap to make this one of the big luncheons of the year. An interdiction has been , plac ed on the governor forbidding him mentioning - white faced calve so he ran devote hit" entire time to tie topic In band. Aifn Win Attain. Syracuse. N. V.. April 18 The d bating lean, of Oregon Agricul tural college won the decision over the Syracuse university debaters last night. The question was "Itesolred, That congress should have power by two-thirds vote to overrule decisions of the Tnlled States mipren.e court declaring arts of con grew unconstitutional." Oregon took the affirmative WHEELER NO N Sarah Chamberlain, Sten ographer, Confesses She Took Funds En trusted To Her Care. A signed statement by Sarah B. Chamberlain, stenographer at the Salem Indian Training school at Chemawa. that she has appropri ated to her own use over $2,200 from funds belonging to the pu pils of the school, has led to hex suspension from employment at the Institution, and ber accounts are now being audited by H. W. Camp, an accountant of tbe Fed eral Indian service. Mrs. Cham berlain's statement has been for warded to the Indian office at Washington. Unconfirmed reports state that Mrs. Chamberlain's defalcation! will run In excess of $4,000. Tho shortage was first detected by another employe of the school, and following this Mrs. Chamber lain admitted her defalcations to -this employe, and later signed the statement. When the shortage was made known to Superintend ent Harwood Hall he Immediately telegraphed the Indian service to send an auditor to check the records. Defalcations Recent Mrs. Chamberlain has been con nected with the Chemawa school about nine years. In her state ment she mentions no specific period over which the defalcations have taken place. Mr. Hall said today he believed they did not be gin until some time lust fall, and Mr. Camp said be thought they had been going on for about six months. He added, however, that he is now checking back over a period of one year. Whether the misappropriations go back even rContinued on Page Ten, BUS BILL BALLOT TITLE ALTERED BY COURT ORDER Modifying the ballot title ns prepared fur tbe bus bill referen dum petitions by Attorney fiencitil Van Winkle, but not grant Inn In full the demand of the petitioners for nn alteration of the title, Juda MeMahnn today handed down mt order In the appeal of the Lane and Marlon county courts from the Van Winkle ballot title to the cir cuit court. Tho two county courts averred that the ballot title as prepared by Van WinkU stated that the act levies t ixts on buJu-s, whereas, ac cording to their petition, it ' lui pofwn charges." The MeMahnn or der makes it read: "levy license tnxes." Another contention of the coun ty co iris was that the Van Win It la title did not how thut the act ap plies only to common carriers. Tl.e order ot JwU'e .Mi Mr.hnn brings that on: clearly. Th: bus LIU pixse.l ty the re cent Icttintriture Is beln" referend ed by the. bus linen and it was tha ballot title to tbe referendum pe titions thnt was in centroversy. OF LAND OFFICE Washington, April 1H. Prot 'sta againHt the reduction in public land offices In Oregon and South Dakota wire lodged with Presi dent CoColldge ny representatives of those states. Senators Mt-N'ary and Stanfledl and Representative SninU repub licans of Oregon, asked that the proposed elimination of two of thi seren offices in Oregon be recon sidered. Senator Xorbeck, repub lican. South . Dakota , likewise urged that all thre of the offices In that state be retained whereas. It la prMpaeJ to have only one office there. Th president took the reque3t under a.viemcnt.