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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1925)
CITY EDITION Dally average net tMit) circulation for month ending March SI, 12$. FAIR TONIGHT Cooler In n't portion; Frl 1st fair, con tinued cooit heavy fro:, moderate went erly win da, Local: Max., 53; miii., 39: rain non: river, 7.4; atntc., pjrt cloudyi wind, WMt, w , . 6719 Average dally distribution 7039. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation!. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 97 SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1925 PRICE THREE CENTS S&SStfit"? r LIN MILL FUND CIS 01120,000 Solicitors Report Total of $175,130 Subscribed; Teams To Report Again Next Monday. Tali i MR a definite spurt since noon yesterday, the teams raising subscriptions for the new ftiOO,- COO linen mill at Salem today re ported over 20,000 In subscrip tions secured bince then, making a total of exactly $175,130. The teams met at the chamber of com merce rooms this noon. No gen eral meeting will be held a Ram until Monday noon, at which time it is hoped to report enough mon ey raised to pass the $200,000 mark. "I think the situation lookB very encouraging," declared Tero Hicks president of the chamber of com merce. R. O. SnelKng and a party of Salem men were scheduled to go to Albany and Corvallis this after noon, meting a party of local men at each o? the towns and getting plans underway to stage cam- ra'.-ms there. "Just as soon as Salem, Silver- ton and other valley points be come sure of raising their quotas Portland may he depended upon for her'e, sail Colonel Barnaul who was present at the luncheon 'They have definitely assured us that we may depend upon them as soon as the imposition becomes certain here. " D. N. Sanson, head of Don. hi- (Continued on Page Seven) REFORMERS SAY "Mi VIM PITV J? WWW Ull I IE New York, Apr. 23 New York Is pictured as the modern Babylon I degraded below Berlin or Paris, I In the fifty first annual report! of the New York society for the suppression of vice, made public today. Licentious and salacious matter purveyed by stage, screen and book stands is held respon sible. Tbe society advocates a stat; licensing law for theatrical pro ducers and a clarification of the act against obscene literature. It charges that the "so called dean of the theatrical profession Is the sponsor for a current play that even the blase newspaper re viewers described In a manner to leave no doubt as to Its object ionable character." "What a chorus it would be," the report asserts, "if all,, of the theatrical producers who t '3 at the present time exhibiting licen tious shows on Broadway and all the publishers of books and mag azines and pictures who are dU- seminating salacious products, were compelled to stand at the entrance of ftieir places of busi ness and cry 'unclean, unclean unclean.' " Stranger Pursued by Visionary Sleuths is Committed to Asylum Nine detectives are on the tni' of Eskil Strom In the back ground is the shadowy figure of v Los Angeles rial estate man. tr Eskll'i inside pocket are 20b worth of bonds, in bis t rouse i $1500 In bills end In the bank i (1 P'i?tt of large turns of wealth the toll frot 1-os Angeles real es tate. Tho detectives have bw-n shadowing Eskil for months. The;, fnlowed him from California to Sp attlr. and from Seattle to Portland and f-alern. - They were still n his trill las evening when K?kll was discover ed by local of (leers paring up an'' a ikd Salem street. Kurt i v. glances over lair shoulders, Ind' catrd to thi officer" tbet ther was something on Rskil's ml.l P i they picked uln op to aactrtatr t ie cia--. PASSENGERS SAY RESCUE EFFORTS UH Officers of White Sta g Liner Criticized Fo Failure To Aid Crew Sinking Freighter. New York. April 23 Passengers who arrived on the White Star lin er Homeric after seeing the Jap anese freighter, Raifuku Maru sink with Us SS officers and men, expressed widely divergent views to whether every possible ef fort had been inado by tho Hom- erlc's officers to save tlo Japanese seamen. The division among the passen gers was about equal, some pay ing that everything humanely pos sible had been done and that it ouU have been suicide to launch the Homeric's lifeboats, other stat ing that they believed some lives might have been saved had the boats been launched or rafts set adrift towards the sinking vebscl. Captain John Roberta wis given a testimonial signed by 123 of the 238 first cabin passengers. Criticism Severe Liston L. Lewis, New York at torney said: "I was not Impressed that the Homeric upheld the tra ditions of English sailors.' Amos Pinchnt, lawyer and pub licist and brothe. of Governor Ci if font Pinchot o Pennsylvania, said he"aw some of the sailors struggling in the water aftir their sh!n had foundered, and added "Numonus persons expressed an ger and regret that we dfd not stand by for a few minutes more than wo did after tho ship sank. Paul E. Albertl, grain and mar ine Insurance man said: "If rafts hud been launched from the Hom eric even without seamon on them, I believe the seas would have car ried the rafts ,lo the men. There certainly wa3 no hercic effort to rescue tho Japanesi. Among those who defended Cap tain Ruber's was tho Reverend James J. Talbott of Old St. Pat rick's cathedral, who grayed with bared head as the men were drown ed. Others Bark Officers I believe the Homeil:'s officers strove heroically to reach the sink ing ship," he said, "and that It would have been dUastrojs to risk tho lives of the liner's crew in 'ffeboats." "C.'ptaln Roberta did yvcrythlng humai.'y possible," said Everett T. Tomlinson, vice- president of Dore r.im & Co.. a Jverttelr.g agents. Another passenger said Captain Roberts "wouM have been a mur derer if he had sent tho boats out." Cantain Roberts wat nn, officer aboard ths Baltic whi-jh affected the resj.io of 1400 persons when the steamer Republic an 1 Florida collide! off New York harbor in 1909. D. A. R. ENTERTAINED BY PRESIDENT AND WIFE Washington. April 23. A re ception at tho White House by President and Mrs. Coolldge for attending delegates was Included on today's program of the annual congress of the Drunhters of the merlon n Itvnlut rcn. Thoy took him btf.re Dr. V. If. ilyitl and Ksk.I t.dd h.m tlie whole iuiid s'ory. Huw he had been n poor ea.-pi'M-v, hard working nil :iis Tfo until he invented in Loi n.rclcs real estate. The boom ; me on an 1 hi: toi l out. Will: les o." id ue7 hii troubles bean. "he detectives began to s ek him .ft. The nun. her of detectives st last mounted to nin. In addition .uKccmen, sheriff-, uhd others now .nd then joined In the hunt. Juft .vbat they wanted him for Etkll ouldn t explain. At any nts hr as taken o the state hospital to day and locked up. So detectives nsod apply. Inrhlenlally It was 'scowred that IHs $20v0 In bond "id $1500 In currency were all f ct'tlou. The man did bavs ink b-pk showing, a deposit of 12.00 at on" t'.rae, however. AMBASSADOR IN ENGLAND II " - ' T"" 0 S M. Plymouth, Eng., April 2.1. Alanson B. Houghton, newly ap pointed American ambassador to Great Britain, arrived here on the S. 3. George Washington today. He was welcomed aboard the ship by the mayor of Plymouth, accom- panyied by Lord Astor. II SAYS STEALING "I surely am going to try to break myself of that habit," was the repentant declaration of a 17' year-old Mehama boy who started to walk in from Mehama yesterday afternoon to Salem to confess the 'sheriff that he had been im plicated in a theft of tires from fuck belonging to a Mehama farmer. The habit he referred to was stealing the tires. The boy started to walk, but tho ods who protect all repentant boys worked out a strange freak of fate for him. These little gods sent Deputy Sheriff Bert Smith liuug the same road where the boy was walking. Bert drove up be hind the boy between here and dtayton, noticed his footsore gait and asked him if he didn t want to ride. The boy did. During tlu ride it came out the lad was bead ed (or the sheriff's office to con fess. ' I took those tires and couldn't sleep,' the boy told the officers. "The theft preyed on my minJ Finally I decided the only way out of the deal was to come into Salem and tell the Buerlff. I know where the tires are and will give them back." County Jud?c Hunt told the boy to go home, .iis up the ttres an .eturn them to their owner. The boy had no money, but he said he was actiualntt l with tho stage driver and would have no trouble -jetting horns. Two othe lads implicated in the tire theft have left the couu try, the boy said. "Yes sir, that habit of stealing fires is a bad one. and I surely am going to try to break myself of it, he reiterated to the judge as he left. RUSSIANS FLOCK INTO CHINA, SAYS SPEAKER Seattle, Wash.. April 23. Chin is being Invaded hr hundreds ol KuHHiane who are taking out Chi nese citizenship papers today, de clared Hev. Dcnlcl McGllllcuiliiy Cpthulic missionary from Kan ohow. pro Inco of Kiangnl, whoar. rived here yesterday on the a. President Mad:eon from Shanghai "I believe thfit this Invasion I for the purpose of aegrandizemen and other nations sluulri watc tills movement to protect their in' terets in China," eaid Father Mc 'iillicuddyp The misslomry was accom lanlcd by Kev. E. T. Sheean, dl rector of a Catholic mUsinn In th district of Jaochow. Iloth are to visit Philadelphia and then retur to their stations In China. Portl-nd Bfxer Wim Klumath Falls, Or., April ii. loecn Btramgalla. Toitland heavy weight, clipped Karl Ritchie Klamath logger, on the chin last night and the Klamuh pride wtr through for the Bight. The knnc out cam In tbe third round of Khednled 10-round bout. C0LLINS60DY IS RECOVERED FROMCAVERN Rescuers Find Only Small Rock Pinning Body Down; Deep Pit Reveal ed Just Behind Body. Cave City, Ky., April 23 iBy Associated Press) Floyd Collins body today was free from the un derground trap where he met alow death two months ago, while a na tion vainly prayed and feverishly waited for word that he had been saved alive. Tho sun rose over the cavernous hills this morning and revealed a lone guard standing at tho entrance of Sand Cave at the bottom of hose pit roate-1 the "body of the dead cave explorer, free at laitt from the rock shackle that fell on him on January 30 r.nd held him till death relieved him after 17 days of suffering. Late yesterday miners engaged in second effort to release his tody, instead of encountering a mammoth rock supposed to be innnig the body, found a stone of but 75 to let) p funds weight acroas his ankles. Morsels of food, rope, chlsiU and ha aimers carried to him dur ing the early days of his entrap ment, were found by his side. Soon afterward the miners had d tagged the body to safety at the foot of the shaft. Their efforts beat possible iieos- ter only by a te-v seconds, for al most immediately after the body had been wthdrawn, the lateral caved In and Iid a hundred feet below Into a dark pit. This sub stantiated Collins' remarks to res cuers who crawled to him in the early days of his Imprisonment that a deep pit was right behind him. BELIEF IN TALKS New York, April 23. In th robes of the bishopric, Blfthop William Montgomery Brown twice convicted by the ecclesias Ileal courts of heresy, defended his belief from the pulpit of the community church of New York last night while outside the hurch police reserves held back the overflow crowd. Bishop Brown said be was de ivering the address he had pre pared for last Sunday at St Marks-ln-the- Uouwerie. lllflhop William T. Manning of the New York Episcopal diocese Inhibited him from delivering It in an Rpia copal church of the dioceae and re strained Dr. Guthrie, rector of St Marks from permitting Hishop Urnwn to speak there. Bishop Brown explained that he had entirely abandoned super naturalistic theology and inter preted the Bible as allegorical and idealistic expression when it dealt with events unacceptable in the light of modern scientific prog re ss DEP1PSEY READY TO FIGHT WILLS New York, Apr. 21. Ja Denipacy arrived in New York this morning, ready for "a siege of motion picture work and then perhaps, a trip abroad with his wife, the former K telle Taylor who accompanied him here. The heavyweight champion looking fit and fine, said h would fight any opponent select ed by his manager J ick Kesrns IIe emphatically denied report of a rift between Kearne and him self and said the two would con tin ii to split fight purses on "fifty-fifty" basis. "I'll fight Harry Wills or soy one else, anywhere, anytime," de clared the champion. He express ed confidence that h's differences with the state boxing commission would be settled, asserting that he would rather fight In the diet where he bad so many friend- In fart said that he might ret tie In New York whn he and Dl wife returned from Europe. APRIL HEAT MARKS ARE , SHATTERED Abnormal Temperatures Reported From Nebra ka to New England; Omaha Has 89 Decrees. Indianapolis, Apr. 23 Tempera tures nearly 13 deareaa above nor mal prevailed throug'iout Indiana today. At noon the temperature here was 84 degrees, the highest of the year. . Omaha, Neb , April 23 Heavy wind and rain storms over Nebras ka last nigut and early today fol lowed the warmest day of the year In the eastern part of the Mate, the temperature rising to 89 d egr 638 Wednesday. Trees, small lull di ng3 an 1 telegraph linjs suf fered heavy damage. Columbus, Ohio, April 23 Heat with the mercury climbing steftdlly all heat records for April 23 in Columbus since had been n-oken at 3 p. :n., when the offl- ial thermometer registered S3. he last 1885 record Is 81. fit. Paul. Minn.. April 2J The l.eat wave that struck the Twin CitfM yesterday was broken with alight shower this afternoon af ter the lheromei.oi had registered degress at noon. Two deathB In Hennepin county yesterday were Urtbuted to the hen. Boston, April 2 J Boston exper ienced its warmest April 23 In 17 ears today when tho mercury IJmlwl to iO.ti degrees at 2 p. m. Chicago, Anril 23 A new heat record for this dato In Chicago see me 1 In prospect today oji the temperature mountcj to 81 at oon today, etiuullin-x tho record of 84 tin April 2J, 11)15. ELIEVED YEGG Modford. Or., prll 23. A master cracksman thought by (the sheriff's office to be Lee Dun can, ex-convict, who escaped from the Douglas county Jail at Kos burg, the first of the wek, by hit ting his keeper In the head with If acup early this morning cracked safes in the Plckard meal market and the W. II. Miller etoie at Gold Hill, securing $2.50 In pennies and ncoiable paper of the nine of about luQ. Suspicion is diturted at Duncan the jailbreaker, for the following reasons, according to the sheriffs office: He Is wanted by Jackson county authorities for the robbery of the M. H. Johnson hardware store in Gold Hill. Is believed to have two pals in that section, and Is thor oughly acquainted with the "lay' of th Ould Hill business tltsirirt and surrounding country; further he Is known to be headed south. Sharif Jonnlngs said this noon that the safecracking was one of the most thorough and workman like pieces of criminal effort he had ever aeon. The only damage, outside of the completely ruined safes, was a marred counter In th meat marlie., caused by the saw- iaj-tiiig blown agalnnt It. Tet' graphic d'-ncrlptions of Diiii can here pent out this morning to A shin rid and a'l northern ('alitor nia- points. t 2 GRAND PIANOS AND 6 MEN PLANE'S CARGO Mirnola, N. Y., April 23. A bi plane loaded with two baby grand tiiaDO-t and currying six men. left Uooatrelt field today for Wash ington. One the pianos v.as ronlgned to Mrs. Calv in ('oolidgc and was to ie delivpi-ed to hr secretary at lioilinr, fifdd at noon. The second instrument waj for a Washington piano dealer. Shepherd Trial Belaved. Chicago. April 2J. The trial of William D. Hhepherd charged with the mil trier of William N. McCI tut or k, his foster sun, by typhoid germ, Is expected to start about the middle of May, li wa indicated today. Court Biased, Says Will Purdy; Seeks Change of Venue Will E. Purdy feels that he can not secure a fair shake In Judge Kelly's court In hia damage suttUartlal trial In the tasuw involved against Walter C. Winslow and 8- K. Endicott, prominent local at torneys. He feels It in "his in most soul." He admit he be lieves that Judge Kelly ia perfectly honeer, on and off the bench, but he has been Informed that Judge Kelly has a great attachment for Win slow nnd a particular disliking- for himself, and for that rea son asks for a change of venue In his damage eult. He claims he has been damaged because, he charges, Wlr.slow said In circui court that Purdy had forged his name to a certain document. In his affidavit to support his application for a change of venue Purdy declares as follows: WHEELER AGAIN GOES ON STAND IN OWN DEFENSE Great Falls, Mont., April 23. (By Associated Press Senator Burton K. Wheeler resumed the witness stand In bis trial today to complete the story of his connec tion with Gordon Campbell, Montana oil operator for whom he la accused of Illegally appearing before the department of tbe In terior In prosecution of oil land permits. Tbe defense' has offered to rest Its case providing tho government will admit a stipulation showing that Washington telephone rec ords do not reveal that a call was made on March 13, 1923, between Edwin S. Booth, solicitor In the interior department nnd Hayes. Hayes testified that Booth called him and arranged for him to meet Senator Wheeler. Tho government thus far has been unwilling to agree to the stipulation. New York, April 23, Senator Thomas J. Wnlsh. counsel for Senator Burton K. Wheeler, who Is on trial nt Great Falls, Mont., a charge of Illegally prosecut ing oil prospecting permits, has sent a telegram to District At torney Banton here, asking that Alexander Lehman, assistunt Banton 'a staff, be permitted to go to Montana as a witness for Wheeler. 'In the Inleresls of justice. kindly release your assistant, Alexander Lehman, to attend Wheeler's trial here," read the telegram. Mr. Lehman Is HI at his home here nnd It was not announced whether he would go to Montana OF E Los Arfi ha, Cal , April 23 Freedom for ong simiiect held in t-onne :iiin with '.ho kih.utt of Mis LouJho Unternahrer at Culver City near here Tuesday night and the iiKhttMilng of ihi net of circumMan tin) evl'Jen'.o uhout the other, w.ui predicted here toil ay by officer working n tho ras Luis VaMrz, denp.lo the Mood stain ou his chithinif in Uidtevcil to be lnno:ont of the crime, tluy say. Further ovJ'.'uc-e hus be HutiuTcd concerning Ktunley Kh'iroe, acquaint inco f'f the dead woman, th orfl-'?n declared. They til that Hli.trpo has Itocn una;i it Account f'r hi in'ivenicn.s t tie , 't;lit .Mm. 1'nl Titahier was slain. The inquest .if .Mra. t'ntei natt ier' uorlv whp h was found ycter- tay morning u i'h .tkull n uwiie 1 mil a lr '. cniiipletflv fl1r)lrl. will be held tomorrow. MOTORLESS PLANE IS KEPT IN AIR 3 HOURS llr Krnn-e. April 13. Men trnniit Tiioret. ee;eimtel Krsnch flli-r. rulillihcl record In a fllKht .llh u rnolorlfss plnne. when he rei.iained In the sir three hours and thrre mlnutwi today Th former record which Thoret "stnhliehed w?s two hours and twenty-six minutes. I feel within my Inmost soul that I cannot have a fair and lm- ln this court. I believe ;ust as firmly that Judge Kelly Is honest on or off the bench, and that he would du what he thought to be honest and right as best he could, but I believe that the defendant Walter C. Winslow is In apeclnl favor with his honor and that this plaintiff la In special disfavor and it would not be fair to this plain tiff to have the Ibsucs Involved tried out before a Judge with hlc mind In that conditton." Ho ask) the trial removed to the court most c.nvenlofit for all par tie concerned. Purdy Bays he at- lompietj to serve tne motion on Winslow at his office, but Winslow icfused to accept such service. BY KLAN STARTS :e t Des Moines, Iowa, April 23. The simultaneous burning here last night of fiery crosses In vari ous parts ol the city, including he state capitui grounds, aroused n one section a number of negroes who threatened the lives of two alleged Ku Klux Klan policemen and resulted in fire alarms that kept the fire department busy an ivering calls fiftjti residents who feared burning embers, carried by high winds would cause damage uno negro was arrested. The demonstration was said to bo nn attempt by klan to arouse merest in a membershln cam pnign. crossis were burned ho flagpole of tho municipal building, wh'ch houses police headquarters, on the court house grounds, and nt practically every .tchool In the city. BY 14 INCH SNOW Butte, Mont., Apr. 2.1. Butte was under a 14 inch blanket of snow today with the storm, which stnrted la night, continuing. It was one of the heaviest snow falls on record here. Traffic In the city has been partially Inter rupted Other parts of the state reported heavy ruins which turn ed to snow at some points. Bend, Or., Apr. 23. Kighteen inches of new snow Is reported at Odell lake, according to advices received today nt the local office of the Deschutes national forest. While some of the more exposed ttpota on the south elope were entirely bare before this ui fall the snow on the ground before the last fall varied up to four feet In riVpth, according to the for estry officials. Dead Veteran's Boy To be Given Chance With Legion's Aid Through the kind orflcts of .filno Viillitint, service officer of Oregon for thn American Legion, 13 year old son of a retcrnu who was killed In Fr.ince. will be brought up under the direction of ex-service men snd given a chance hy hlfl big buddlfs. Tilth lad, with another, one of a trio who eflenped from St. Mary"? home near Portland, was picked up at Woodhurn and hrouKht here. The third lad was lost from the trio near Monitor and Is still wandering about the country as far as is known. The second Ind Is still at the Deacnneus hospital here. v The son of the dead soldier woe committed to HI. Mary's home from Klamath Falls. Th three lad tired of the discipline at the home and armed with a hack saw, a skeleton key and a firm determination to make their way In tha woald. with the aid of the hacksaw and skeleton key If nee Mary, they started up the valley REFERENDUM TO BE FILED Move To Delay Enforce ment of Revenue Meas ure Presages Special Legislative Session Soon Oscar T. Otuen, secretary ot tbe Portland Ketall Tobacco Dealers' aasociat ion, and Lawrence Mc Nary, Portland attorney, are here today making preliminary ar rangements to Invoke the referen dum on tbe tobacco tax bill enact ed by trio 1925 legislature. It was aid that the oauers will be filed with the secretary of state tomor row and request made of Attorney General Van Winnie for ballot title. While here today Olsen and Mc- Nary conferred with Secretary ot State Kozcr nnd the attorney gen eral. Ono angle of the referendum discussed was the number of namea that will oe necessary on referendum petitions pertaining to all measures on wnlch the refer endum ia t be invoked. This question wbb placed before the at torney genera several weeks ago by the secretary of stale and At torney General Van Winkle is ex pected to hand down an opinion on this today. Heretofore only about 8000 names were necessary on referen dum petitions under the law pro viding that theee should be 6 per cent of the vote e.u for justice of the supreme court In the Inst pre vious genera, election, but always heretofore it baa happened that . this vote was represented by the ballots caBt for a candidate run ning without opposition. In the last election, however, there were a republican, a democratic and an independent candidate In the run ning, and it the petitions must have 5 per cent ot the total vote cast for theee the number will be about 20,000. The tobacco tax act will be tho third measure ot the 1925 session on which the referendum Is being invoked. The other two are the do-called tithing bill requiring 4elf-sustatnlng state activities to pay Into the general state fund 10 per cent ot their financial returns, and the bus bill. Completed ref erendum petitions must be Hied by May 2K the date on which the new laws become effective or the ref erendum fails. The tobacco tax and the tithing bill were two of the revenue meas ures designed to rescue the state from a financial noie caused by a shortage of avafirble funds for the present blennium amounting to about si, 000,000. The tohaccl lax alone was variously estimated, to raise from $800,000 to $1,- 225,000 and was mainly depended on to rellcvs the state. if the rcferendums are success ful, and In view of the fact that Governor Plerco vetoed the meas ure calling for a special election next September In event ojiy ot tho revenue bills were referended, the question arises, what Is the 'tt.ite f oing to do? Some specula tion as to the probability ot a spe cial legislative session the latter part of the presmt year Is already hning heard In Snlem. After their apprehension and detention here. American Legion fficers In Portlund learned of tha plight of their dead comrade n nnd rushed their service 01- tlrer here. He spent all day tier yesterday and three telephon nils and a telecram were requir ed before the county court at Klnmati Kails, where the boy mother lives, would release the lad to tha service men. But ha was taken to Portland last night. "We are going to do our best to make the sort ot a man out nt this lad his father would like to have him be." said Valliant. a he booated the boy Into hla car. The second lad's father Uvea !n Oklahoma. What to do with this boy la mor of a problem. Th horn at Portland won't take him hack as this Is hla fourth no spa from there and he la aald to hare been a repeated trouble maker. Ill disposition eeenn to be up to th county court her. HERE FRIDAY
