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Newspaper Page TextINJUNCTION TO CITY EDITION - Daily average net paia circulation for month ending March 31, 1925, 6719 Average dally distribution 70S). Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 91 (PAR)) G SKPOI Court Decides To Proceed With Motion Asking for Dismissal of Injunction Request. Washington, April 20. The injunction suit by which the Pacific Mail Steamship company ought to block sale of the ship ping Board's Orient -line to the Dollar interests was dismissed to day in the District of Columbia supreme court. Washington, April 20. The government today won its first point at the hearing on the Pacific Mail injunction suit when Justice Hitz In the supreme court of the District of Columbia decided to proceed with tho motion of gov ernment to dismiss the suit. Lengthy arguments by counsel for both sides preceded the court's initial decision in the promised legal battle growing out of the sale by the. shipping board to the Dollar interests of the five nrest- dent type ships operated on the California-Orient line. Opposing immMimte considera tion of the motion to dismiss, counsel of the Pacific Mail urged that it be combined with tho peti tion for a permanent Injunction nnd the case be proceeded with "on its merits." Meanwhile the situation was (Continued on Page Nine) F Concord, Mass., April 20 A sa lute or 150 guns ' today bexan a spectacular celebration of the 150th anniversary of the buttle of Lexington and Concord. Although lirellminary observances were held yesterday, the actual anntveteary of the battle, the main events were reserved for today. Vice-President Da wen arrange .1 to visit Concord, Lextnsrtun nnd other towns which figured In stir ring scenes of 1, '75. He planned to ride in an automobile accom panied by General Perhtn?, over the route followed on horseback by tola ancestor, William Dawes, Junior, who with Paul Revere, warned inh.ibltirts of the ap proach of tho KrltUh troops. Vice-President Dawes arrange J to greet at L?xin,rlon two horse back ri-lers Impersonating Revere nd William iMwes. At Concord the tenure was a reproduction of tho fight at the north bridge over the Concord riv er. National guai'lsmtn and mil itia marched down to the briie and drovs back th British regu-1 lam. QeNMENT IN SHIP SUIT Neighbors to Blame For Prosecution of Watts Truancy Case A letter fnm Tom Watts, Salem Height! fa-mer, written some time go to the district attorney, that he did not want his boy to "des cend to the public iwhool level" In tduc.itlon. Is one tlithg that stirred p the wrath of tho Interred In bflntrlng about prosecution of Watts, for failure to send his nine-year-o'i son to the public schools. It has been learned. The language aroused the ire of people who are sending their cMI U -n to much school- and njetid a blUerneM Into a small fowl which has h'en conducted in the ntghtHji hood. It Is st it"d This Inn;ufi7e, coupled with the tWlarntton by ne.jthhor that the Waits hav. no knowl lee of the public i-'hn-d. or what they are because their child has never at (u aprtalLMJoiir mal Yankee Tars Take Hand In Revolution Washington, Apr. 20. (Bv Associated Press)-One hundred and fifty five officers and men from the cruiser Denver of the special service squadron were landed today at Ceiba, Honduras. They are under orders to pro tect American lives and proper ty that may be endangered as a result of the revolutionary out break. Managua, Nicaragua, Apr. 20. (By Associated Press) It is reported that Honduran revolu tionists have captured Ocotepec Honduras, a village fifty miles from San Salvador, and are march ing toward Comayagua, which is thirty seven miles northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital where the situation Is reported as crit ical. STEPHENS Former Klan bragon And Associates. Accused of Girl's Murder, Arrested In Indianapolis. Indiaftapolis, Ind., April 20.' D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, was arrested today on the charge of first Ut'gree murder in connection with tne death of Miss Madgu Oberuottzer, 128, of Indianapolis. An indictment on a murder charge was returned against Stephenson by the Marion county grand jury last Saturday. Earl Klinck and Karl Genlry, former residents of Evanavlile, Ind., both indicted with Stephen son on the murder charge were taken into custody with him. All were taken to the county jail. Judge James A. Collins of crim inal court iu issuing capiases for their arrest announced they would not be admitted to bail. Stephenson, Klinck and Gentry wero arrested in the office of Eph Inman, their attorney. They had been missing since the return of the murder indictments Saturday Stephenson told newspapermen he had been in the southern part oi the slate on a fishing trip and that the fish "were biting fine." Stephenson had been at liberty under $25,000 bond provided M lowing bis arrest several days ao on indictments charging him with attacking Miss Oberhoitzer. Miss Obernottzer died last Tues day. In ante-morten statements alleged to have been given her parents she told of taking poison at a Hammond, Ind., hotel after she had teen attacked by Stephen ion while on a train en route to Hammond and again In the hotel Date for Stephenson's trial in In dictments charging the attack has ;iot been set. Soviet Decline Geneva, April ;,. t By Assort ted Press.) Soviet Russia has refused to participate In the forth coming conference on control of the traffic In arms. tended the.n, ha! considerable to do with puhlif prosecutl in, It Is stated. County Supj-inttindc-nt Fulker ron gave he. veniifi of the Watts caie to 1.iv, st .v Ing th-it she had no knowle-l9 of the fa;t lh;.t the boy was suffering from a phjj. aj disability, until s'le rei the state ment of the parent in the Capital Journal on Sat u id iv nigh. 'We want the nubile to under stand th.-i: this office Is not res ponsible for bringing up this cae for promcutim, stved Mrs t'ul k e rs j n. W h en ea ee.i of 1 1 u.-uiry are reported In ther- Is nothing to do but to c imply with the U. "V.e were fAreful. een after this cise wit report el In. to Mao Jle thn affair as delicately an pos sible snd 1 persnniUr, not offi- (Continued on Page Seven) DEN ED BAIL rvi UUL ONEIIDOF MILL STOCK SUBSCRIBED Unofficial Estimates Put Subscriptions To Linen Plant To Date At Over Hundred Thousand. The general belief around headquarters is that $100,000 or more of the $300,000 needed for Salem's quota to put over the new linen mill has been subscrib ed, or at least promised, but ab sence of 'definite reports from workers make it impossible jus at present to give an accurate line on the subscriptions. A resume, however, of reports received from various workers in an unofficial way make it seem certain that tho $100,000 mark in the march toward the goal ha been reached. Not all of this is yet on the dotted line, but virtu ally so, as it includes some prom ises from leading citizens whose words are as good as their signed subscription blanks, and the sis- natures aro considered merely a formality. In addition It include! some subscriptions which have been made, which are good for from two to three and even five times tho amount offered if the situation becomes so tense that the additional subscriptions are needed. For instance one prominent lo cal citizen who has stated he will come in for $5000, has supple mented It with the statement that this probably will not be the lim it of his subscription and that he may come in for $10,000 or even $25,000 if it is found such action is necessary to get the plant here. Other citizens have made similar assertions. Riddle brothers of Monmouth, flax growers themselves, have sub scribed for $5250 and It Is prob able more growers will come in A carpenter came in for $200 worth of stock. And many other email subscriptions of this nature have been reported. With the reorganized plan now functioning it is expected this week will see the proposition go over as a definite success. The hope is t Set Salem's share over before any other town interested has returned its quota. GAR OPENS 34TH Washington, April 20 Opening the .1 4t n continent nl congrese of the Daughter.? of the American revolution hro today, Mrs. An thony Wayne Cook, president ireneral. In her annual message, urged an?w that Ita members work solidly with tho forces of the na tlon that arc building for main tenance of a "respectable, a hardt nd a free people." Only thus, she said, can the nation fulfill the heritage of its forefathers who fought it Lexington. tenance of a "respectable, a harJy delegatos t V l?nin recommit ment to a nationat poilcy of safe guard against "aggr xwl jn by help lug to support and maintain land ca and air forces for our reason able protection." and rlU support of tho .matlKvatlon laws. Upwards of 6000 delegniea and alternates aro enrolled for th con gress which will heir an ad Irem tonight by Prtld.nt Ccoillge. OREGON BANK CASE IS ADVANCED ON DOCKET Washington. April 20 The su preme eo u rt t r do y a 4 va nee il for hearing on November 5 the roue brought by the fupertntendfnt of banks for Oroeon to determine whether the V'nlted State Fidel ity and f )ua rarity Trut company was entitle,! to priority In the set tlement nf the affa'ri of in lnnlr ent state bank. Tne Oiurnn'y com pany as surety for tne faihd ha oh. had paid the gove:nment the amount of Indfnns fnuJs on de- pftnlt in the bank. The lnnolvent state b-tnk Involv ed was the Klrwt State and Riving tank of Klanath Kulls. HALT SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1925 PIERCE LAYS CLAIM TO TAX E Admits Promise, Ofi De nicd, to Cut Taxes Half; Says Repeal of Income Tax Blocked Fulfillment A claim that direct property taxes for state purposes would have been reduced by one-half un der his administration if the state income tax had not been repealed was advanced by Governor Walter Pierce in an address 'before the Sa lem chamber of commerce here this noon. "In 1922 the tax was 9 mills, or the highest direct levy of any state In the union except Nevada." said Pierce. "The levy has been reduced until for this year It is 7 mills. For next year it will 7 mills, and would have been 4U, making good my promise to cut taxes in half, if the income tax had only stayed." Lecislatiirs. Hoc Tied. He indicated that many statets of the union are pratcically abol ishing direct otate taxes. Penn sylvania and California have no direct tak for state purposes, and seven other states, not mentioned (Continued on Page Seven) 10 Paris, April 20. (By Associat ed Press.) The Bulgarian gov ernment has asked the allied coun cil of ambaasadora for permission to add 10.000 men to Its mllltla. Tho request follows the dis orders attributed to communists Including the attack on King Boris and the bomulng of the Sofia ca thedral with the loss of 10o lives Sofia. April 20. (By Associat ed Press.) Nlkoff, said by Bul garian police to have placed the infernal machine which killed more than ltiO persons in the Svetl Krai cathedral Thursday was cor nered by the police today and when he resisted was shot and killed. Nikoff, a former officer In the engineer corps was aub-chlof of the Sofia communist executive central committee. Tho leaders of the various par ties summoned by General Voul- koff, have given the war minister assurances of their support in his endeavors to maintain order In the face of the terroristic cam paign ascribed to the communist Among the latrot arrota waR that of a man wearing an army offler'a uniform and oarrylng a document f Ivlng the composition of a revolutionary cabinet which was to have been set up, the au thorities say, if as the plotters hoped, all the government minis ters were killed In the bomhln of tho Sveti Krai, cathedral last week. Investigation of the cathedral ruins indicated that an infernal machine was placed nn tho roof several days before the outrage and that It must have weighed from 40 to 50 pounds. UNIFORM NAMESTOR . HIGHWAYSARE SOUGHT Washington, Apr. 20. The Joint board on Interstate high way rompoAed of state and fed eral highway officials meetfhir here today discussed th feasibil ity nf adopting a uniform system for designating the main high ways of the country In in effort to avoid duplication of routes. It vm brought out that one road In the west, 1S09 miles Ion; had IS different names. An ef fort will b marie to retain the names of soma of the principal highways, such as the Lincoln highway, but the board express- en approval of abandoning cer tain names of roads which are only links of some national high way. ' PL SHIP HI CONFESSED SLAYER OF 1 St. Paul Woman who Gave Poison To Seven Not To Face Charge of Murder Says Prosecution. St. Paul. Nob., April 20. Mrs. Delia Sorenscn of Dannehrog. u small town near here, who con fessed to County Attorney Dobry and newspaper men Sunday she had poisoned eight persons, seven of whom had died, will be taken to tne etaie insane asylum at Hast ings today in accordance with a ruling by the Howard countv in sanity board. No formal charges win oe meu and no prosecution will be carried out against the woman, authorities announced. Dobry announced last niubl that an investigation had shown that Mrs, Sorensen was mentally unbalanced and that she would bo placed In the state insane asvlum. If she should he released from the Institution "within two or three years," the states attoney said. the murder charges could bo re vived. The investigation into the ser ies of deaths extending over a period of seven years, which led to Mrs. horensen S arrest Saturday. and subsequently her confession. was started three weeks ago fol lowing the serious illness of two small children, to whom Mrs. Sorensen. is alleged to have given some poisoned cookies. Killed Own Children. In her signed confession yester day, Mis. Sorensen related how she had killed two of her own children, a -baby, Deloris, and her three-year-old daughter, Minnie; tho former because her "crying and fleeting" irritated anil the latter because she was ill with St. Vitus' dance, and I could do nothing lor her." I wanted to relieve her suf fering." she said. Her husband. Joseph Weldam, she said she pois oned after a quarrel between the couple. Mrs. Wlllielm William. Mrs. Sorenserfs aged mother-in-law, died of poison, anministered by the accused woman, according to ncr confession. In the summer of 920. "She was iconic and child ish and a burden un my hands; 1 wanted to get her ont of the way," the confession continued. Two children of Mrs. Wetzled Cooper, Mrs. florensen's sister-in- law, were slain because, Mrs. Sorensen auld, she had "offended their aunt ny gossiping" about her. The first of these, a little (Continue! on Page Eight) E Portland. April 20 A ult mobile accident f.itRlitifa in Oregon and south western Washington totalled five over the week-end. Mi. (leorge II. SwinHieart, 35 of Jtla?k Ilutle, Oregon, w.is kill of Cuttnss CJrove ewerved' to avoid whon a car driven by C. H. Busne of oCtt.igo Orove swerved to avoid hitting a t-uefc. Joh.i Morris, nine, w.n killed at Mnmiifleld Inat night whon thrown from a bike tinder the whc! of an ftiitomebll- The accident v.a attributed to poor vision on ac count of n driving rain. Mn. Bllwi f;ldttln w u klllfd In PortVml yeete-Jiy in i traffic cridnt. Ceorve I. Withrnw, 'on la nil. wan klll'-d lute H-iturrity when an aut i.nobile left a road near K,1-ihtpno( Ore. Mr. va CfM.cIwin was killed Sunday near Wa hugul. Wanh.. when an auto left the road and plunged Into the WaHunugjI i ?r ASTORIA STORE IS BURNED toi l.v nr.! JO The liellar and Kotiul! mer'n etithing tor w.i burn1 out mrl? tody. A ean, MIm Iligr"m, " wax slightly Injured when he )ump-d from a eeron:! rtory w.nlow cf the IHale ro.intnr hou above a por- tl of the irtorn. The Mlre io.kof h utore wa defrayed or badly ilun.e.. 0 AN .SAbJE REFUSED ffl i Slayer and Informer fegl SAYS WHEELER Mrs. Anna Cunningham, con feflfwd iolatn?r of threo rhildrcn. and he cousin, iirn, Dorothy Will lam, who atari?! poM.?o on their Investigation of the murders. REMIT ON TAXES Uend, Or., Apr. 20. The Des chutes county court voted Satur day to remit tho Interest and pen alty on delinquent taxes under the provisions of the law enacted by the last session of the legisla ture. The votP of the court was divided. Judge R. W. Sawyer, vot ing no and Commissioners Scdge wlrk and Joe Innls voting in the affirmative. Tho vote followed a public hear Ing at which a number of farm ers and business men spoke. II was said that while the law was passed to help farmers who had suffered from crop failures Des chutes county farmers had not suffered from crop failure. In answer to a question as to what had i:-n done by other counties. Judge Sawyer said that Harney and Crook county courts had accepted the right to remit the taxes while Jefferson county had turned It down. METHODISTSlEFUSE TO CONDEMN KU KLUX North A damn, Mas.. Apr. 2". A condemnation of the Ku Klux Klan wan eliminated from the report nf the committee the tate of the nation at the clone of the Troy ennfrrenre of the Methodist Kpiacopal church today by a vote of 66 to 58. SNOW INCH DEEP AT BENO Ind. April 20 More than an Inch of onow co-ed the ground thin morning and enow -:nnl Inui d lo fnlt. The rniow followed a run lderable fall In temoei attire bui th re wj n wind. While tt: ere hn.e been flurrle of anow several lime during the net wek at n time hn the grourd bef-n whlti a It wn thin -mjrrlng While the nnw melted nn ilnv ntnw.i pnvenientu It .tvo no Indlr-ution f fumktng at once the oihr apoa. PRICE THREE CENTS ciswA nn J U UVl AGREED TO USE POLITICAL PULL Orcat Kails, Mont., April 20. (lly Associated 1'rcss) Testimony that Senator llurton K. Wheeler agreed to "fix things up in Wash ington" for his client, Gordon Campbell, Montana oil operutor. was given In tho trial of tho Mon tana senator hero toduy by L. J. Werthelmer, formerly a stock sulesiuun for Campbell. Werthelmer suld Wheeler's re mark was made during a general discussion of Campbell's oil pros pecting permits, obtained from the department of tho Interior. The government charges that Wheeler wrongfully used Ills influence be fore the Interlo. department In prosecution of Campbell's claims. Under cross-exumiiiutlun Wur thelrmer said the remarks about fixing things up" referred to the ability of Campbell to transfer ti tles to certain lands from one of his companies to another for the purpose of organizing a $10,000, 000 concern. Werthelmer declared that while he was In New York a department of Justice agent and a postofilcc inspector called on him and told Mm to go to the federal building and make an affidavit regarding Wheeler's statement about federal permits. Washington. April 20. Con versations looking to the opening tf negotiations for a settlement 'f another foreign debt have been In augurated. Secretary Mellon an nounced today Work Commences On Community House at Auto Camp Grounds Active work on construction of the new community house at the Salem camp grounds was begun this morning. The house Is to measure J4 by .1 feet. It will face west, and have a foot porch running across th't intlre front of the house. The Inside will be one large room, without partitions. A huge flreplacs will be built at the eat side of the room. Ths Inald? will bt finished In wood, It being thought Inadvisable to use plas ter. The room will bs well lighted with numerous largs windows. Ths hoim. Is locattd at the eaAt end of ths camp grounils, at ths right of ths entrancs snd Im mediately opposlts ths headquar ters home. It Is estimated that the house will seat 150 people. Speakers will bo furnished from tints lo PROBABLY RAIN ronlirhl: Tuesday nci-.illy fair with icavy frosts In ths morning; continued -ool, moderate nortnwest wind. Local: Mar.. 53: uln.. 40: rain. .!!; river, I.I; atmos, Couuy; wind, north. 3 BOOTLEGGER CAUGHT HERE AS SPEEDER Herbert Thorn Held In City Jail for Santa Bar bara Authorities ;v Also Sought as Auto Thief. Herbert Thorn, held today In the Salem city Jail, was wanted rucently in Santa Barbara, Cal., aud possibly Is atill wanted as main wltnesB for the state In a murder case. He Is also wanted there on a chargo of embezzling an automobile. Thorn and his wife. Itoso Thorn, wero picked up for speeding on South Commercial street last night by Officer Ed wards of the polico department. and tho records at the police sta tion disclosed that he was wanted on tho embezzlement charge. Thorn belongs to a well known family of Lebanon, Ore. Thorn told the story of tho mur der hero todny, but said he was giving no Information that was not already known to Santa Bar bara authorities. Partner of Hijackers Thorn, according to his own story, was acting as salesman In Santa Barbara for L. C. Buntin and Irving Hies, alias Denton, bootleggers who handled Canadian liquor. One night early last Feb ruary, says Thorn, Buntin and Denton went Into tho country about six miles to "hijack ' Wll llnm Kcefo alias Turner, another bootlegger. Whllo they were get ting his stuff Turner appenrcd and was shot dead by Denton. Denton went Into hiding and Buntin roturned to Santa Barbara whero ho sought Thorn. Informing Thorn that ho needed his assist ance. Thorn says It was not until they were on their way Into ths (Continued on Pago Nine) FROST FORECAST Portland, April 20 Frost that la likely to do aomn dnmape la pre dicted for mort of Oregon tomor row mornincr. 10. L. Well, local observer believes It will not be o bad In Portland, but the Itogua river valley, Snleni and nolnia east of the Cnacadca are likely to bo nipped to the point of eoulderablo damage, pple In the Hood riv er district are not quite eo likely to bo damaged. MMlford, Apill 20 A new rec ord for depth of anow at Crater Inks for th!i time of year was an nounced today, the total being over 17 reot. with mow trill r.llinfr. Rnln wna general throughout the valley today, the total for the month ii date beinoc 1.H2 Inches time, and crowds gathered partic ularly from aniong ths campers, to heur them. I'rograms of various' kinds will be given, snd when nothing In particular Is offered at the house It is expected that it will bs used as a general loung ing and recreation plact by ths campers. The cost will be approximately (1200. C. W. Thompson, local contractor. Is doing ths construe. (Inn. He states that It will bs fin ished in approximately thres weeks. The purpose of ths community hnuss Is to furnish an added at traction to the camp grounds, ths expectation being that camper) will bs brought to the city In greater numbers. It Is believed that many parties who would oth erwlss stop elsewhers to camn will stop at the local grounds oa account of tht house.